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De Bus was een televisieprogramma dat te zien was in Nederland en België. Het was een variant op de succesvolle realityshow Big Brother. Het eerste seizoen in het begin van 2000 was alleen in Nederland te zien bij SBS6, het tweede seizoen, in het najaar van 2000, was ook te zien op de Vlaamse zender VT4. De oorspronkelijke werktitel voor dit programma was De Gouden Kooi, wat tevens de werktitel voor Big Brother was en niet te verwarren met het latere reality-programma van John de Mol.

Programmaopzet
Vlak nadat de real life serie Big Brother was afgelopen, volgde al het volgende verwante project met deelnemers die voor de camera's lange tijd in een kleine ruimte op elkaar waren aangewezen. SBS6 zond op 14 februari 2000 de eerste aflevering uit. Aan boord van een luxe dubbeldekker van 18 meter lang, 2,5 meter breed en 4 meter hoog, bevonden zich 11 zeer uiteenlopende passagiers die gedurende 16 weken met elkaar moesten leven. Slechts af en toe mochten ze hun rijdend onderkomen verlaten, voor een opdracht om geld mee te verdienen voor het huishoudbudget, of voor de "uitbraak" waarbij twee passagiers samen 's avonds uit mochten gaan. De passagiers moesten elk een borg storten van 6000 gulden die in de jackpot zou verdwijnen, mochten ze het programma op eigen initiatief verlaten. Gedurende de tocht stemden de deelnemers zelf hun busgenoten weg, na een nominatie door de kijkers die daarvoor naar een speciaal telefoonnummer konden bellen (in Big Brother nomineerden de bewoners, waarna de kijkers iemand wegstemden). De uiteindelijke winnaar werd door de kijkers gekozen tijdens een speciale live-uitzending. De slogan van het programma was: de Bus... je zal er maar in zitten! Het was de bedoeling dat de bus gedurende zo'n honderd dagen kriskras door Nederland zou rijden, om te stoppen op spectaculaire locaties. De passagiers waren (behalve wanneer de bus onderweg was) 24 uur per dag te volgen via streaming video op internet. De Bus had een dagelijkse uitzending van een half uur, en iedere maandagavond werd een lange special uitgezonden. De presentatie was in handen van Sylvana Simons, er was een psycholoog, Bert Troost, beschikbaar voor de deelnemers en de productie werd uitgevoerd door John de Mol Produkties.

Eerste seizoen
De Bus vertrok onder grote belangstelling en de eerste uitzending trok 875.000 kijkers. Na niet al te lange tijd ontstonden er echter problemen rond het programma. Zo waren er regelmatig ruzies, gevoed door het (verbaal-)agressieve gedrag van een van de passagiers, de Bosnische Mirsad Baliç ("Šeki", uit te spreken als "Sjekkie"). Het grove taalgebruik van de passagiers leidde ook tot klachten bij SBS6, waarop de zender zich genoodzaakt zag hen hierop aan te spreken en te dreigen met maatregelen. In Den Haag stond de bus op het dak van de MegaStores in de stad, toen enkele tientallen ADO-fans door de hekken braken, bouwmaterialen gooiden en allerlei verwensingen uitten. De dag daarop werd de bus bestookt met lawinepijlen en bekogeld met stenen. De bus keerde daarom terug naar Arnhem. Ook in Alkmaar moest de Bus de stad voortijdig verlaten na door een groep jongeren bekogeld te zijn met stenen, waardoor een van de ramen sneuvelde. Door deze en andere incidenten met het publiek, werd besloten de bus op meer afgesloten of afgelegen plaatsen te laten staan, waaronder zelfs België en Duitsland.

Op 25 maart verliet Šeki plotseling onder onduidelijke omstandigheden de bus. Hij zou naar eigen zeggen geen enkel plezier meer beleven aan zijn verblijf in de bus, waar ruzies vanaf het begin schering en inslag waren. "Ik voelde het meer als een oorlog dan als een leuk experiment. Ik was gewoon met het verkeerde programma bezig. Dit past niet bij mij", aldus Šeki die na zijn gesprek met de psycholoog Bert Troost van het programma binnen een kwartier was verdwenen. Zijn 6000 gulden inleggeld ging zogenaamd in de jackpot. In een interview met de winnaar van het eerste seizoen van Big Brother, Bart Spring in 't Veld, vertelde Šeki echter dat SBS6 hem in dat gesprek had gevraagd naar zijn criminele verleden, iets dat hij ontkende te hebben. Vervolgens zou SBS6 met het verhaal zijn gekomen een anoniem telefoontje te hebben ontvangen van iemand die beweerde dat hij (Šeki) een crimineel verleden zou hebben. Daarop zou hem de keuze zijn gegeven "vrijwillig" op te stappen in ruil voor teruggave van zijn inleggeld plus een "oprotpremie" van 7000 gulden, of door een arrestatieteam uit de bus te worden gehaald, waarop Šeki er voor zou hebben gekozen om "vrijwillig" te vertrekken. Opmerkelijk is ook dat Šeki niet aanwezig was in de finale-uitzending van het programma en dat presentatrice Sylvana Simons daar niets over zei, terwijl ze wel zei waarom Bülent en Paul afwezig waren. Ook werd er tijdens de uitzending uitgebreid teruggeblikt, maar werden daarbij nauwelijks beelden van Šeki getoond.

Op 6 april ontstond er opnieuw opschudding toen bleek dat een van de andere passagiers, Jop, een strafblad had wegens mishandeling en dit verzwegen had voor de programmamakers tijdens het antecedentenonderzoek. Hij moest De Bus gedwongen verlaten, wat leidde tot een emotioneel afscheid van zijn medepassagiere Antonette, met wie hij inmiddels een relatie had opgebouwd. Deze werd na het programma voortgezet maar bleef uiteindelijk niet. Ook de andere passagiers waren emotioneel over het gedwongen vertrek van Jop, waardoor een aantal van hen zelfs voorstelde om dan allemaal maar het programma te verlaten. De week daarop stapte de van oorsprong Turkse Bülent zelf vrijwillig op. Deze Amsterdamse politieagent liet weten dat hij zijn gevoelens voor zijn medepassagiere Esmeralda niet meer in de hand had. Mogelijk speelde ook mee dat alle commotie rondom het programma schadelijk kon zijn voor zijn carrière als politieagent. Voor elke vroegtijdig vertrokken passagier (Šeki, Jop en Bülent) kwamen er twee nieuwe passagiers, waarvan de zittende passagiers er een moesten wegstemmen. Voor Šeki kwamen Nanda en Bianca, waarvan Bianca mocht blijven, voor Jop kwamen Paul en Eric, waarvan Eric mocht blijven en voor Bülent kwamen Don en Mike, waarvan Mike mocht blijven.

Uiteindelijk won op 5 juni Antonette Sterrenburg De Bus. De 24-jarige kapster uit Woudrichem ontving 1 miljoen gulden bruto voor haar verblijf van bijna vier maanden in de bus. Ze werd door de televisiekijkers verkozen boven Iwan en Tessa, nadat de andere passagiers al eerder uit de bus waren gestemd. Opvallend blijft nog altijd dat de bij het publiek zeer populaire Eric als vierde eindigde. Op internet gonsde het van geruchten dat de telling van de stemmen niet eerlijk was gebeurd.

Het geldbedrag dat de winnaar van De Bus zou krijgen zou worden bepaald door de kijkcijfers, waarbij SBS6 ervanuit ging dat zo het maximum van 1 miljoen gulden bereikt zou worden. De kijkcijfers van De Bus vielen echter het hele seizoen fors tegen, waardoor de uiteindelijke hoofdprijs ver beneden de verwachte 1 miljoen gulden zou blijven. Hierop werd besloten het bedrag op te hogen naar 1 miljoen gulden omdat de kijkcijfers zogenaamd achter waren gebleven vanwege het mooie weer. Ondanks tegenvallende kijkcijfers was het programma voor SBS6 een succes. Door het uitzenden van het programma verdubbelde de zender bijna haar marktaandeel. Ook de neveneffecten van de Bus waren groot. De titelsong van het programma 'Miles Away from Nowhere' van de Golden Earring haalde moeiteloos de hitlijsten, er verscheen een Bus-cd Hits for the Road en DJ Madman scoorde een hit met de single Sex in de Bus. Het grootste succes was weggelegd voor passagier Jop die met het nummer Jij bent de zon, dat hij in de Bus bijna elke dag voor zijn geliefde Antonette had gezongen, wekenlang de nummer 1 positie bekleedde. Naast Jop, wist ook passagier Eric na zijn vertrek uit het programma een hit te scoren. Hij werd na De Bus onder contract bij Dino records genomen en bracht een single genaamd "leven" uit. Deze haalde net zoals Jop de Top 100. Zijn hoogtepunt was een optreden in het Holland Heineken House bij de Olympische Spelen in Sydney. Echter ook van deze "artiest" is na een tijd niets meer vernomen in de hitlijsten. Ook de passagiers Šeki ("Vamos snel de bus uit" op de melodie van het nummer: "Vamos a la playa" van Righeira) en Aziz brachten een single uit. Daarnaast verschenen er diverse cd-compilaties, zoals De Feestbus met daarop nummers die door de passagiers min of meer geadopteerd werden en veelvuldig door de Bus schalden zoals Een bossie rooie rozen van Alex. Esmeralda sloeg een aanbod voor een naaktreportage in de Playboy af, maar verscheen wél met bikini aan in het blad Aktueel waarin zij ook geïnterviewd werd. Antonette opende een eigen "knipcafé" in Den Bosch, en won in 2005 de landelijke knipkampioenschappen de "Wella Trend Vison Award".

Verloop eerste seizoen

Deelnemers eerste seizoen

Tweede seizoen
De eerste serie van de Bus werd nog in hetzelfde jaar 2000 opgevolgd door een tweede. Hiervoor ging SBS6 een coproductie aan met de Vlaamse zender VT4. Behalve zes Nederlandse kandidaten deden er daarom ook zes Belgen mee aan het programma. De Nederlandse presentatie was dit keer in handen van Ton van Royen en de Vlaamse versie werd gedaan door Inge Moerenhout. Ad Rombouts was opnieuw de chauffeur. De passagiers kregen veel minder contact met de buitenwereld dan in het voorgaande seizoen. Bovendien bepaalden de passagiers niet meer wie de bus moest verlaten, maar de kijkers. Het tweede seizoen duurde van 4 september 2000 tot 1 januari 2001, gelijktijdig en concurrerend met de tweede versie van Big Brother. Volgens de volgers was dit echter een veel boeiender serie, omdat een aantal deelnemers bedrog en achterbakse streken in de strijd gooiden om de finale te bereiken. Koen werd berucht om zijn geheime boodschappen ("het hagelslagmysterie") en had seks met de naïeve Mariska. Nancy kreeg een waarschuwing nadat zij begon te vechten met Koen. De kijkcijfers waren echter onvoldoende om nog een derde serie te rechtvaardigen. De Vlaamse zender VT4 besloot zelfs halverwege de uitzending van de liveshow op maandag aldaar te schrappen. In de finale in een Hilversumse televisiestudio moest Sandra als eerste uitstappen. Zoe veroverde de derde plaats, en de eindstrijd ging tussen Hans en Koen. Hans won met 55% van de publieksstemmen.

Deelnemers tweede seizoen

BUSetas
In de zomer van 2001 werd de bus van De Bus gebruikt voor een spin-off van het programma: BUSetas. In BUSetas werd een groep jongeren gevolgd die in Spanje zonder geld op vakantie ging. Door middel van eenvoudige baantjes moesten ze iedere dag geld verdienen. De titel van het programma wordt gevormd door samentrekking van de woorden 'bus' en 'peseta's', de toenmalige munteenheid van Spanje. Het programma werd uitgezonden door V8.

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Thanks to the growing number of mobile devices (a group predicted to reach 1.75 Billion this year) and Google's recent crackdowns - it's no wonder that site speed is at the top of everyone's list these days. Now, if you've already delved into the challenge of getting your site to load within the Google suggested 2 seconds then you know that enemy number one is images. Well, the good news is that I've been researching and working on this issue for well over a year and as a member of SEN, you get the benefit of my late nights.
Within this article I'm going to explain the advanced strategy of combining images using CSS Sprites to dramatically cut the load time of your mobile site. Simply put, by combining some of the images displayed on a page, you can reduce the number of round trips it takes to get those images. This in turn reduces latency as well as the number of bytes that must be downloaded, which gives you a significant speed improvement - especially on mobile devices. Large Web sites such as Google and YouTube leverage this technique, especially for the numerous small images used for navigation elements.
We recently ran across a project that needed a handful of manufacturers logos on the bottom of the page. You've seen rows like this before, for example the Hibbet Sports Web site has a row of sports logos like this.


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Notre Dame: Brian Kelly Extension and The Fighting Irish in the ACC
Independent No More: Notre Dame's First ACC Game Shows Membership Could Have its Benefits
For the first time in its 133-year football history, Notre Dame played a conference football game.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — From the empty pregame parking lots to the socially distanced singing of the alma mater afterward, it was business as unusual at Notre Dame Saturday. But that's going to be football life everywhere in America in 2020. The two uniquely jarring things about the Fighting Irish season opener were these:
• The "ACC" logos painted onto the field at each 25-yard line.
• The in-game announcement that Brian Kelly and the school have agreed to a contract extension through the 2024 season.
Here we had two things truly historic, as a pair of academically elite institutions persisted in playing—and playing the parts of football factories—in a basketball conference that continues its tilt toward the gridiron.
Pat Forde/Sports Illustrated
For the first time in its 133-year football history, Notre Dame played a conference football game. The Irish defeated Duke 27-13, and at 1-0 they have the best winning percentage of any Atlantic Coast Conference member in history. This short-term marriage of convenience is off to a workable start for both parties—the independent whose schedule was collapsing after canceled seasons elsewhere, and the league that needs more football oomph.
As for Kelly: he is now positioned to be the longest tenured coach in school history. If Kelly stays through the duration of his contract that will be 15 seasons under the Golden Dome—longer than Knute Rockne (13 years), longer than Frank Leahy (11), longer than Ara Parseghian (11), longer than Lou Holtz (11).
Unlike virtually every other football power, Notre Dame hasn't had anyone who stayed multiple decades and became an institution. (Rockne comes closest, before his death in a plane crash in 1931.) This is a meat grinder of a job, and at times it appeared that Kelly was going to be one more presumptive savior consumed by the Notre Dame expectations.
But Kelly modified his approach, draining some of the anger out of his coaching style. Athletic director Jack Swarbrick stood by him through a 4-8 season. Now they remained joined at the hip—wait, make that six feet apart, masks on—for what could be the longest Irish ride ever.
"It seems appropriate that a coach who has been so willing to critically evaluate his approach to coaching and make changes when necessary is now positioned to become Notre Dame's longest serving coach," Swarbrick told Sports Illustrated Saturday. "The culture he has built in our football program is a great reflection on the university. Brian is a great coach who fits Notre Dame very well."
Kelly earned his extension with one call Saturday, a fake punt in the second quarter of a game that was going quite poorly to that point for Notre Dame. Trailing 3-0 and lucky it wasn't worse, an Irish team that had accumulated one first down and 22 total yards was facing a fourth-and-8 from its own 21-yard line.
Kelly dialed up the fake, and punter Jay Bramlett ran around left end for 14 yards. Five plays later, Notre Dame scored and took the lead for good. That took some gumption.
Kentucky's Shaedon Sharpe Can Apply for 2022 NBA Draft
Quarterbacks, New Coaches Highlight Trends Worth Watching in Wild Transfer Portal Stretch
By John Garcia Jr.
Asked his thoughts before the play, Kelly said, "I hope the heck it works. That was my thought process. It was there. We saw it on film. … We needed a little bit of momentum."
Momentum provided, Notre Dame proved itself the superior team in a rather unspectacular manner. Duke coach David Cutcliffe gave the Irish a lot of unfamiliar looks on both sides of the ball, breaking in Clemson transfer Chase Brice at quarterback and cramming the box with defenders. It took a while for Notre Dame to adjust and assert its talent advantage.
Did this look like a team capable of challenging Clemson in the ACC? Not really. But it's one game into the season after the most ridiculous off-season in history, so judging anything off of this is pretty useless. Being 1-0 in the only thing that really matters.
Asked about his team's slow start, Kelly showed some trademark edginess: "If (the reporter who asked the question) was expecting we were going to come out like a shiny new car, he's been reading the wrong internet chatter. … We had to be patient. We looked like the team we should have in the second half."
Credit Notre Dame for actually conjuring up some homefield advantage, in a season where that might be rare. The announced attendance was 10,097, and the school's media relations department said that 90% of the crowd were students. (We'd all like to see the math on that equation.) Youthful fan enthusiasm, combined with the band, actually made the place more lively than anyone expected.
"I was blown away," Kelly said. "I was expecting it to be like an intrasquad scrimmage. That was great environment. Our guys were overjoyed in the sense that it felt like a football game."
Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports
Depending what happens with the Big Ten—as of Saturday, that league's attempts to resuscitate a fall season are stronger than ever—two teams from one Power-5 conference stand a chance to make the four-team College Football Playoff. While overall strength would likely favor the Southeastern Conference, the ACC could have power at the top that gives it multiple candidates in the non-Clemson category.
Notre Dame and North Carolina are the two teams best positioned to be second playoff candidates (although Louisville and Miami cannot be disregarded). In terms of experience, the Irish are at the flush end of the spectrum in several key categories, most notably quarterback and offensive line. The depth chart the Irish put out pregame features 10 out of 11 offensive starters who are listed as juniors, seniors or graduate students, and on defense the number was nine of 11.
For years, Notre Dame has been criticized for its independent status, despite the fact that every program would trade places if it could pull it off. This season, the school had to swallow its considerable pride and sign up with the league it has been part of for several years in other sports. That could include playing a first-ever conference championship game, and it could include playing Clemson twice. (The regular-season matchup is Nov. 7 in South Bend, when weather could benefit the Irish.)
Membership could have its privileges. It is, in the end, good for Notre Dame to acknowledge that it needs somebody else in its football universe. League membership and the possibility of a 15-year head coach—nobody saw either of those things coming in South Bend.
More Notre Dame Coverage From SI.com:
Game Observations: How Did the Irish Offense Do vs. Duke?
Breaking Down Notre Dame's Defensive Effort vs. Duke
Irish Players Talk Victory Over Blue Devils
Report: NFL Fines Dak Prescott $25K for Referee Comments
The quarterback issued an apology for his comments concerning the referees on Tuesday.
USA Swimming Releases Statement on Transgender Participation
The statement comes after the NCAA announced its new transgender participation policy on Wednesday night.
Report: NWSL Players Won't Report to Clubs Without CBA
The league could have its first CBA-related work stoppage as preseason begins on Feb. 1.

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SDM College of Medical Sciences  is situated at Manjusreenagar in Dharwad, Karnataka, India. The college is located near to Navalur railway station in between Hubli and Dharwad. The school offers educational courses in medicine and surgery leading to MBBS degree. The college is run by SDM Educational Society, Ujire. The college was established in the year 2003.The college has a well equipped hospital attached to it.

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See also

S.D.M College of Engineering and Technology
SDM College of Dental Sciences

External links
Official Website of SDM Medical College

Medical colleges in Karnataka
Universities and colleges in Hubli-Dharwad
Universities and colleges in Dharwad
Medical colleges in Dharwad
Hospitals in Dharwad
Educational institutions established in 2003
2003 establishments in Karnataka

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Redmine es una herramienta para la gestión de proyectos, que con sus diversas funcionalidades permite a los usuarios de diferentes proyectos realizar el seguimiento y organización de los mismos. Además es posible optimizar su funcionamiento agregando funcionalidades. Incluye un sistema de seguimiento de incidentes con seguimiento de errores. Otras herramientas que incluye son calendario de actividades, diagramas de Gantt para la representación visual de la línea del tiempo de los proyectos, wiki, foro, visor del repositorio de control de versiones, RSS, control de flujo de trabajo basado en roles, integración con correo electrónico, entre otras opciones.

Está escrito usando el framework Ruby on Rails. Es software libre y de código abierto, disponible bajo la Licencia Pública General de GNU v2.

El diseño de Redmine está significativamente influenciado por Trac, otra herramienta con características similares.

Características

 Soporta múltiples proyectos.
 Soporta múltiples usuarios.
 Roles flexibles basados en control de acceso.
 Sistema de seguimiento de errores flexible.
 Diagramas de Gantt y calendario.
 Administración de noticias, documentos y archivos.
 Fuentes web y notificaciones por correo electrónico.
 Creación de peticiones por correo.
 Soporte para autenticación con LDAP.
 Autorregistro de usuarios.
 Integración SCM (Subversion, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar y Darcs).
 Soporta múltiples plataformas (GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX)
 Soporta diferentes bases de datos (MySQL, PostgreSQL y SQLite).
Extensiones

Adopción
Redmine tiene más de 30 grandes instalaciones en todo el mundo entre los que destacan Gentoo y Ruby. Pero, la versión más conocida es la Bluemine, que además mantiene el color corporativo azul.

Fork
A raíz de las preocupaciones con la forma en la que se manejaba la información y los parches en la comunidad Redmine, un grupo de desarrolladores creó una bifurcación o fork del proyecto en febrero de 2011. El fork inicialmente fue nombrado Bluemine, pero cambió a ChiliProject después. A día de hoy el proyecto ChiliProject ha sido abandonado.

Véase también
 Bugzilla
 Trac
 Mantis Bug Tracker
 Visual Planning

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Sitio web oficial
 Redmine Demo
 Instalador de Redmine

Software libre programado en Ruby
Software wiki libre
Software de administración de proyectos


I haven't been terribly good about blogging lately - with the whole trying to sell the house, work on my book, write for Exemplify, shuttle kids back and forth three times a day and such, the new thoughts haven't been coming (and when they do, I haven't had time to put them down on paper). My goal - for now, anyway, is to have a post a minimum of three times a week - Word-Filled Wednesday (which I've missed the past two weeks), Fiction Friday, and a post on Monday. Anything above that is bonus.
Every other Monday that will be my bi-monthly "Monday Manna" meme (see my tab above for more info), and I'll try to get something up the other Mondays.
This week, it's gonna be a repost - I know I have LOTS of new followers since I started, so for many of you, this is a never-seen reflection. It's one of my favorites. I originally posted it in July of LAST year. Hope you enjoy it (and hope I don't have to resort to reposts too much more in the future!).
I was doing my devotions and Bible reading this morning (and it was quiet, unlike most days - but that's totally unrelated to my thoughts) and I came across an amazingly wonderful and wonderfully amazing insight that I had to share with you all. I believe it will help me, at least, in moving forward with this book, and anything else God is leading me to do.
In my July 2 devotional from "Streams in the Desert," (why the date on the online one is January 6 is anyone's guess)I found the author's analogy to a self-opening gate especially apt.
The writer (Henry Clay Turnbull) goes on to explain that our walk with God is just like this. If we find an obstacle in our path, we are not to stop and wait for it to move. We must continue moving forward, and God will move the obstacle for us. Just like the Israelites crossing the Jordan in Joshua 3, we may have to step into the water before the obstacle will go away. Yet, if it is God's will, we will step through on dry ground.
Hope things are going well. I know what you mean about not being able to gather your thoughts. I have felt that way, too.
Praying you will be able to settle down and write, soon.
It seems as if everyone's so busy this time of year.
I loved this, Joanne. And keep plugging away. Remember, a page a day is a book a year!


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Volunteers warn against cat-hoarding after visiting horror scene
Posted by James Morgan | Apr 5, 2021 | Life, News, Top Stories
Feral cats found on a property in Grenville-sur-la-Rouge on March 29, 2021. Submitted photo.
A cat rescue organization in Grenville-sur-la-Rouge is encouraging people with numerous cats — or anyone who knows someone with numerous cats – to make sure that the situation does not get out of control after volunteers responded to a horrific call last week.
Paws R Us volunteers went to a property on Chemin Danis in the municipality on March 29 and discovered at least nine cats in the yard, in various states of health. Volunteer Natalia Czarnecka said Paws R Us responded because neighbours had complained about feral cats in the area.
Once volunteers arrived at the property, Czarnecka noticed the smell of cats was detectable from the road. The volunteers looked through the windows of the house and saw several more cats, some alive and others deceased. Many of the living cats were emaciated and some were eating the dead cats. The room was also filled with flies.
"It was a horror scene," Czarnecka said.
According to Czarnecka, the occupant of the home had been in the hospital for the past month. The Grenville-sur-la-Rouge fire department and Sûreté du Québec were contacted to secure the property.
The SPCA Laurentides-Labelle, located in Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, was contacted to assist, along with the Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pecheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec (MAPAQ). The provincial agriculture department was called to investigate, as it has responsibility over animal welfare.
Grenville-sur-la-Rouge regulates dog ownership across the municipality, but it does not regulate cats.
Czarnecka said people who own multiple cats they cannot look after need to get help before it is too late.
"We want to set an example for people if they are in a situation like that."
The investigation into the situation on chemin Danis is continuing. As of April 1, PAWS R Us volunteers were caring for six cats who had been rescued from the property, Czarnecka said. Other cats found at the site were taken care of by MAPAQ, which chose not to disclose the total number of cats found in and around the home.
Paws R Us rescued approximately 100 cats in 2020, but its capacity to respond to all situations is limited. The organization urges anyone who is aware of a cat hoarding situation to contact their local municipality or SPCA. Paws R Us can be reached at [email protected] .
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Hack & Slash: On Questions Answered, What Kind of Player to Have?
On Questions Answered, What Kind of Player to Have?
What kind of player do I want at my table?
I want a player that sings a song of his tales.
I want a player that opens the door even after being told "You didn't check it for traps, are you sure you want to open it?"
I want a player that tries to bend the rules in his favor, but can accept the word of the DM ruling.
I want a player that when presented with a problem, looks to his mind instead of his sheet.
I want a player that doesn't forget the basic abilities of his race.
I want a schemer and a planner and builder and a thinker.
I want players without cell phones or tablets. I want players who are active with their own ideas. I want them to be engaged even while other people are playing.
I want a player who doesn't complain about the rules. I need one who's mature enough to play without stupid widgets like skills and feats.
I want someone that is gonna show up - and if they won't, they'll call or write or text the day before to let me know the score.
I want someone to have some goals, and bring them to my game. I want the game to be directed by the players, not the Dungeon Master.
I want someone that bucks the walls, tries to knock anything they perceive as a train off the rails and makes the game their own.
I need a player who acts like an adult. Grown up with a collegiate degree and children doesn't stop someone from acting like a child.
Well, such players do exist, but it is in a far off land. You'll have to brave many dangers to get there.
Should be the preamble to the OSR Constitution.
Should be the preamble to any and every RPG system out there. For me especially the cell phone/tablet part. I loathe those at the table. I am guilty of checking the time on my phone but it's when people are watching YouTube or playing FarmVille that makes me want to hurl the device out the window.
I agree with most of what you wrote here, but I disagree that skills and feats are a bad thing. Feats are simply selectable class abilities, and class abilities are as much a part of any old school game as they are more recent iterations of The World's Most Popular Roleplaying Game. My own issue isn't with feats or class abilities per se, but rather the absurd number of them that d20 and similar games ladled onto classes, resulting in a game where 'tactics' was defined by power combinations rather than actual player acumen.
As far as skills go, there are plenty of old school games with skills, including 1e AD&D secondary skills, which are actually quite FATE-like in their potential breadth. I think the distinction is, do players figure out what they want to do, and then roll and appropriate skill check to resolve success or failure, or do they look at their character sheets to see if they have a skill and what to roll before thinking through the problem in front of them?
When are you starting that Google+ game?
I especially like the opening the door comment. Nothing frustrates me more than, "Oh, well I would have looked for traps!" or "Oh, my character would have thought of that!" Ugh.
This, followed closely by looking to his mind over his sheet. Sometimes I just want to say, "Guys, you know your sheets haven't changed..."


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Roosters Trio named in Kiwis Squad
Sun 26 Apr 2015, 07:30 PM
Sydney Roosters trio Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Sam Moa and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck have been named in the New Zealand Kiwis squad for the upcoming ANZAC Test Match against the Australia Kangaroos at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane on Friday.
Kenny-Dowall was a member of the Kiwis successful Four Nations campaign late last year, while Moa and Tuivasa-Sheck make their return to the international arena after withdrawing from last year's end-of-season internationals.
The full NZ Kiwis squad named by Head Coach Stephen Kearney for Friday's ANZAC Test is:
Jesse Bromwich (Melbourne Storm), Lewis Brown (Penrith Panthers), Greg Eastwood (Canterbury Bulldogs), Kieran Foran (Manly Sea Eagles), Tohu Harris (Melbourne Storm), Peta Hiku (Manly Sea Eagles), Shaun Johnson (NZ Warriors), Shaun Kenny-Dowall (Sydney Roosters), Thomas Leuluai (NZ Warriors), Issac Luke (South Sydney Rabbitohs), Simon Mannering (NZ Warriors), Ben Matulino (ZN Warriors), Sam Moa (Sydney Roosters), Kevin Proctor (Melbourne Storm), Matin Taupau (Wests Tigers), Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (Sydney Roosters), Manu Vatuvei (NZ Warriors) and Dallin Watene-Zelezniak (Penrith Panthers).


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Пётр Ти́тович Самохва́лов () — полковник Отдельного корпуса жандармов, участник Белого движения на Юге России.

Биография
Православный. Из крестьян Симбирской губернии.

Начальное образование получил дома. В службу вступил 30 сентября 1890 года. В 1894 году окончил Казанское пехотное юнкерское училище по 1-му разряду, откуда выпущен был подпоручиком в 40-й пехотный Колыванский полк. Произведен в поручики 1 мая 1899 года, в штабс-капитаны — 1 мая 1903 года.

12 июня 1904 года переведен в Варшавский жандармский дивизион с переименованием в штабс-ротмистры. 23 июня того же года назначен в распоряжение помощника варшавского генерал-губернатора по полицейской части. 6 декабря 1904 года произведен в ротмистры на вакансию, а 12 декабря назначен секретарем канцелярии помощника варшавского генерал-губернатора по полицейской части. 10 марта 1906 года назначен и. д. штаб-офицера для поручений при той же канцелярии. 28 марта 1907 года назначен помощником начальника Варшавского губернского жандармского управления, а 5 сентября того же года — в распоряжение варшавского обер-полицеймейстера.

С 19 апреля 1908 года был прикомандирован к Иркутскому губернскому жандармскому управлению, с 31 июля 1909 года — к Киевскому губернскому жандармскому управлению. В 1911 году производил обыск в квартире Д. Г. Богрова после покушения на Столыпина. 26 февраля 1912 года произведен в подполковники «за отличие по службе». 26 октября 1913 года назначен помощником начальника Минского губернского жандармского управления в Минском, Борисовском и Игуменском уездах, а 1 ноября 1913 года — помощником начальника Киевского губернского жандармского управления в городе Киеве.  назначен в распоряжение варшавского обер-полицеймейстера П.П. Мейера для занятия должности начальника Отделения по охране общественной безопасности и порядка в городе Варшаве,  того же года назначен на указанную должность. Был произведен в полковники.

В Гражданскую войну участвовал в Белом движении. С 1 апреля 1918 года состоял заместителем начальника секретной организации «Азбука» (псевдоним «Око»). В 1920 году был начальником армейской контрразведки Русской армии Врангеля. В эмиграции в Югославии. Был помощником начальника 3-го отделения РОВС генерала Е. К. Климовича.

Скончался в 1946 году в Белграде. Похоронен на Новом кладбище. Был женат, имел 5 детей.

Награды
 Орден Святого Станислава 3-й ст. (1905)
 Орден Святой Анны 3-й ст. (ВП 15.09.1908)
 Орден Святого Станислава 2-й ст. (ВП 22.03.1915)
 Орден Святой Анны 2-й ст. (ВП 6.12.1915)

Источники
 Список общего состава чинов Отдельного корпуса жандармов, исправлен по 1-е июля 1915 года. — Пг., 1915. — С. 182, 472.
 Волков С. В. Белое движение. Энциклопедия гражданской войны. — СПб.: «Нева», 2002.
 Тени, которые проходят / сост. Р. Г. Красюков. — СПб.: Нестор-История, 2012. — С. 666.

Выпускники Казанского военного училища
Чины Отдельного корпуса жандармов
Полковники (Российская империя)
Члены Русского общевоинского союза
Русские эмигранты первой волны в Югославии
Похороненные на Новом кладбище (Белград)
Персоналии:Русская армия Врангеля


Dave Grohl's Sound City Players side-project will play a show at the Sundance Film Festival next week… and he's revealed the all-star line-up.
The Foo Fighters man will be joined by his former Nirvana colleague Krist Novoselic at the show on January 18 in Utah. Also joining the band will be Fleetwood Mac legend Stevie Nicks, and Foos Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, Taylor Hawkins and Nate Mendel. There will be contributions from Creedence Clearwater Revival veteran John Fogerty, Rage Against The Machine's Brad Wilk and Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen.
The whole project is to accompany the screening of a documentary celebrating the Sound City studios in Los Angeles, which hosted the recording of Nirvana's Nevermind, plus albums by Neil Young, Metallica, RATM and many more. The facility closed in 2011.


Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.


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A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn
History : North American
A classic since its original landmark publication in 1980, Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is the first scholarly work to tell America's story from the bottom up-from the point of view of, and in the words of, America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant labourers. From Columbus to the Revolution to slavery and the Civil War-from World War II to the election of George W. Bush and the "War on Terror"-A People's History of the United States is an important and necessary contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.
A People's History of the United States ePub (Adobe DRM) can be read on any device that can open ePub (Adobe DRM) files.
Other books by Howard Zinn
Harper Perennial, November 2015
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
Routledge, August 2015
Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition
Anthony Arnove & Howard Zinn
Seven Stories Press, December 2014
A Living Spirit of Revolt: The Infrapolitics of Anarchism
¿iga Vodovnik & Ziga Vodovnik & Howard Zinn
PM Press, November 2013
Format: ePub, PDF
more eBooks by Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn on War
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
The Zinn Reader
Silencing Political Dissent
Nancy Chang & Howard Zinn
Artists in Times of War


At its core, Step Turn And Learn ™ is a simple card game. It is an introduction to logical thinking, planning, and organization.
Step Turn And Learn ™ is designed for children in Pre-K through 4th grades. It is a fantastic introduction to STEM learning for young students.
Step Turn And Learn ™ encourages a multi-intelligence approach to teaching robotics and computer programming by engaging every type of learner: kinesthetic, aural, verbal, visual, interpersonal, intrapersonal, etc.
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Robotics as a subject is rarely taught or offered to children under the age of ten, and computer programming is not usually on a student's academic radar until middle school or high school. Robotics and computer programming can be quite complex and, depending on how they are introduced, many students can be intimidated by the subjects, lose interest, or turn away even when they have interest. Waiting until a child is "old enough" to grasp fundamental robotics and programming concepts, may result in the loss of valuable time when children are curious, interested and eager to learn.
After a decade of introducing students to robotics and its many collateral disciplines in our camps, classes and programs, the curriculum developers at Robotics And Beyond designed this lower school tool as a gentle introduction to the fundamental concepts associated with robotics and computer programming.
Step Turn And Learn ™ provides students in grades PreK – 4 with an opportunity to learn, explore, and understand robotics, computers, and computer programming by actively participating in "writing" programs and carrying them out. It will take students from simple concepts to actual robotic vehicles and basic computer programs.
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TrueConf is a video conferencing vendor based out of Moscow that hasn't, in its 10-year lifespan, shied away from innovation. On the contrary, TrueConf tends to embrace new, exciting developments in video; for example, it has supported 3D video conferencing for a couple of years now, while Skype is still held back by the technical aspects of implementing 3D support.
With this in mind, it isn't too shocking that TrueConf has now fully embraced WebRTC with the latest release of TrueConf Server.
Indeed, TrueConf Server 4.1 offers full support for browser-based video broadcasting using WebRTC and the VP8 SVC video codec. Aside from being a first for TrueConf itself, this is actually the first solution to provide this sort of functionality at the enterprise level.
Support for WebRTC means that any Web browser that also supports the standard — such as the latest versions of Chrome or Firefox — can be used as a client application for video conferencing. This allows TrueConf Server users to easily use their personal PCs — or Android smartphone running the latest Chrome for Android beta — to access the solution's video broadcasting functionality.
To do this, the person hosting a video conference with TrueConf Server must simply generate a link, which can then be shared with participants, granting access to the conference from a Web browser — eliminating the need to download a client or plug-in. Since this functionality is supported by scalable video coding (SVC), the video and audio adapt according to each user's connection speed, automatically readjusting the resolution, frame rate and compressions ratio as needed.


Durham Business School is part of Durham University, and one of the longest established business schools in the UK. Together the school combines academic excellence, internationally-rated research and superb student support services to give students the very best business education. Durham's Business School's aim is to develop international business leaders able to operate in a multi-disciplinary, multicultural, global business world. The school's diversity and international standing is reflected in the student intake, with over 100 nationalities across taught programmes. The school has triple accreditation: AACSB, AMBA (Association of MBAs) and EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System). EQUIS accreditation demonstrates that the school's activities are of a very high quality, but also that the school has a very strong international dimension.


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Esperanza, An Auberge Resort Earns Top Ranking in Travel + Leisure's World's Best List
Esperanza, An Auberge Resort, an intimate beachfront escape in Cabo San Lucas, is proud to be honored in Travel + Leisure's annual 2015 T+L 500 World's Best Hotels list, a compilation of the 500 best hotels in the world. The magazine's readers rated Esperanza among the world's best as one of the Best Hotels in Mexico, with an overall score of 92.4.
Esperanza, An Auberge Resort located on a private beach in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
"We are incredibly honored that the discerning readers of Travel + Leisure continue to recognize us among the best of the best," said Marc Rodriguez, General Manager, Esperanza, An Aub
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (PRWEB) January 06, 2015
The T+L 500 List reflects the sentiments of Travel + Leisure's discriminating readers, who ranked the world's leading hotels and resorts in a variety of categories ranging from guest rooms and facilities, location, service and food, to value for money.
"There's a wealth of exceptional hotels and resorts around the world and we are incredibly honored that the discerning readers of Travel + Leisure continue to recognize us among the best of the best," said Marc Rodriguez, General Manager, Esperanza, An Auberge Resort. "This recognition is a testament to the dedication of our staff, who takes great pride in maintaining the highest level of service and amenities that our guests have come to expect."
Travel + Leisure's 2015 T+L 500 hotels represent the hotels with the highest overall scores from the 2014 World's Best Awards readers' survey and serves as a guide for travelers for where to stay in the year ahead. The 2015 T+L 500 List will be announced in the January issue of Travel + Leisure and the full list is published online at http://www.travelandleisure.com/tl500/2015.
Esperanza encompasses a 57-room resort, 60 privately owned villas, 36 private residences, a full-service spa and several signature dining outlets, located on the bluffs overlooking two private coves at Punta Ballena near Cabo San Lucas. The resort is a member of the prestigious Relais & Châteaux collection. For reservations or more information, please call toll-free 866-311-2226 or visit http://www.esperanzaresort.com. Follow Esperanza on Facebook at facebook.com/EsperanzaResort and on Twitter at @EsperanzaResort.
About Auberge Resorts Collection
Auberge Resorts Collection owns and operates a portfolio of exceptional hotels, resorts, residences and private clubs under two distinct brands: Auberge Hotels and Resorts, timeless luxury properties acclaimed for their intimate, understated elegance, and VieVage Hotels and Resorts, a new lifestyle brand that brings together contemporary themes of design, community and wellness in a fresh, active and social environment. While Auberge nurtures the individuality of each property, all share a crafted approach to luxury that is expressed through captivating design, exceptional cuisine and spas, and gracious yet unobtrusive service. Properties in the Auberge Resorts Collection include: Auberge du Soleil and Calistoga Ranch, Napa Valley, Calif.; Esperanza, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; Hotel Jerome, Aspen, Colo.; Malliouhana, Anguilla; Nanuku, Fiji; The Auberge Residences at Element 52, Telluride, Colo.; Pronghorn Resort, Bend, Ore.; VieVage, Napa Valley; and Auberge Beach Residences and Spa Fort Lauderdale, with several others in development. For more information about Auberge Resorts Collection, please visit http://www.aubergeresorts.com/. Follow Auberge Resorts Collection on Facebook at facebook.com/AubergeResorts and on Twitter at @AubergeResorts.
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View our member roster (PDF).
The Airport Advisory Board was created to support the County in their efforts to provide the best airport facilities possible while engaging in continuing efforts to enhance and improve Airport facilities, processes, and projects.


Belleten, Türk Tarih Kurumu tarafından, Ocak 1937'den bu yana dört ayda bir Türkçe olarak yayımlanmakta olan, dil ve tarih konulu makalelere yer veren bir dergidir.
Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is a collaborative, digital project created by Caroline T. Schroeder (University of the Pacific) and Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University). Our team is constantly growing.
We hope Coptic SCRIPTORIUM will serve as a model for future digital humanities projects utilizing historical corpora or corpora in languages outside of the Indo-European and Semitic language families. Read our Frequently Asked Questions for more information on the project, methodologies, and terminology.
"The blog aggregates news about publications, activities, etc. related to Arabic scholarship in the field of classics and thus seeks to provide greater access to non-Arabic scholars. The news comes mainly from Egypt without excluding other Arabic countries. It aims also at directing the attention of my Egyptian/Arabic colleagues to relevant classics materials from an Arabic context, whether this is Graeco-Arabicum or Arabico-Latinum."
"The American University in Cairo - Board of Trustees Meetings Minutes digital collection primarily includes meeting agendas and minutes, as well as additional documentation such as budgets, correspondence, reports, and memoranda. The collection includes minutes ranging from the first meeting of the Board of Trustees of Cairo Christian University on November 30, 1914 to the American University at Cairo's meeting on December 19, 1959"
"Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation recently opened its Digital Library Portal. It provides free access to a variety of materials. English and Arabic interfaces are available. The portal allows cross searching between various collections; one of these collection is the "World Collection" which is the digital embodiment of the publication, World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts (4 vols.)This section allows for browsing collections of Islamic manuscripts from all over the the world by language, subject, size and date of establishment of the collections."
World survey of Islamic manuscripts / general editor, Geoffrey Roper.
London : Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation ; Leiden : Distributed by E.J. Brill, 1991-1994.
Description : v. ; 25 cm.
"The Portal gateway to Islamic manuscripts builds upon the significant work already accomplished by the Foundation through its published catalogues. In this collection, users can currently browse and search more than 50,000 manuscript records from over 100 collections private and non private previously published by the Manuscript Centre. The new online platform facilitates the discovery of major 'hidden' Islamic manuscript collections. It covers materials from basic hand-lists to comprehensive descriptive catalogues, captured in such detail as incipit and explicit, quality of paper, ink, binding etc."
Subtitled: A quarterly journal of cultural heritage.
Project of the University of Manchester Library.
"View digital versions of Iranian newspapers and periodicals capturing key historical events as they happened.
The late 1990s/early 2000s 'reform era' of former President Mohammad Khatami."


According to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, so far in 2018, 32 animals from Colorado have tested positive for rabies – mostly in skunks. Of those, 12 rabid animals were known or strongly suspected of exposing 33 domestic pets, 7 livestock animals, and 2 people. For statewide data, please visithttps://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/rabies-data.
Rabies is a viral disease in mammals that infects the brain. Rabies symptoms fall into two types: "aggressive" and "dumb." Animals with aggressive rabies are combative and have unusually aggressive behavior such as excessive biting. There is also a "dumb" form of the disease in which the animal is lethargic, weak in one or more limbs, and unable to raise its head or make sounds because its throat and neck muscles are paralyzed.
• Contact your veterinarian right away, if any of your animals are bitten or scratched by any wild animal, particularly skunks, bats, foxes or raccoons.
If you have questions about rabies call your local health department and if you live in Adams, Arapahoe or Douglas counties call Tri-County Health Department at 303-220-9200 or COHELP, the statewide public health information line at 1-877-462-2911. Additional information can also be found at the Tri- County Health Department website at www.tchd.org/rabies.


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Q: Pegar posição da arraylist que esta em foco no ViewPager Tenho uma arraylist de imagens que é mostrada em um ViewPager, até ai tudo bem, esta mostrando toda a arraylist normalmente.
Mas como faço para pegar o ViewPager que está em foco?
Ou seja pegar a posição certa da arraylist que está sendo visualizada pelo ViewPager
private class ImagePagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter {

        private ArrayList<Galeria> images;
        private LayoutInflater inflater;

        ImagePagerAdapter(ArrayList<Galeria> images) {
            this.images = images;
            inflater = getLayoutInflater();
        }

        @Override
        public void destroyItem(ViewGroup container, int position, Object object) {
            container.removeView((View) object);
        }

        @Override
        public int getCount() {
            return images.size();
        }

        @Override
        public Object instantiateItem(ViewGroup view, final int position) {
            View imageLayout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.item_pager_image, view, false);
            assert imageLayout != null;
            ImageView imageView = (ImageView) imageLayout.findViewById(R.id.image);
            final ProgressBar spinner = (ProgressBar) imageLayout.findViewById(R.id.loading);
            Log.i("POSITION",""+position);

... o resto do código não importa

A: Para pegar a posição que está sendo exibida, basta usar o método ViewPager.getCurrentItem(), ele fornece a posição referente ao item que está sendo exibido do PagerAdapter no momento.
Para acessar a imagem, basta acessar a instância do PagerAdapter, seja por uma variável local da sua Activity ou usando o ViewPager.getAdapter.

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WATERTOWN, Mass. – Senior Isaac Kohls scored 55 seconds into overtime to give Niagara a 3-2 victory over Bentley Saturday night at Ryan Arena and salvage a split of the teams' Atlantic Hockey series.
Kohls banged in a loose puck in front of the net to give the Purple Eagles the victory, their first of the season. The Falcons drop to 4-5 overall and 2-2 in AHA play with the defeat.
Prior to the OT goal, all four goals were scored in the second period. Junior Hugo Turcotte put Niagara in front just 56 seconds into the frame. That snapped a streak of four straight scoreless periods for Falcons goalie Blake Dougherty (East Amherst, N.Y./Bay State), who nonetheless played another solid game and ended with 28 saves.
But Bentley's red hot power play knotted the score at 4:12 as junior Derek Bacon (Calgary, Alberta/Okotoks) got in on the act. Senior Brett Switzer (Calgary, Alberta/Spruce Grove) set the goal up with a slap shot from the point that Niagara goalie Jackson Teichroeb saved, but Bacon was in front of the net to deposit the rebound for the goal.
After the Purple Eagles went ahead 2-1 at 15:22 on a goal by forward Keegan Harper, Bentley tied it with yet another power play goal, this time from defenseman Steve Weinstein (Los Angeles, Calif./Vernon Vipers) at 17:24. Weinstein ripped a shot from the blue line that went in over Teichroeb's glove.
Neither team scored in the third frame as Bentley held a 7-6 advantage in shots, but neither team created any significant chances.
Bentley ended the night 2-2 on the man-advantage and is a gaudy 11-20 over the last six games.
Following this series, the Falcons continue their home stretch next weekend when they host Mercyhurst for a two game set beginning Friday night.


'T' (technical) levels will sit alongside and complement the new apprenticeship standards offering an alternative to 'A' (academic). This is a good development because it could mean that, for the first time, there'll be parity of esteem between academic and technical routes into employment.
Technical education will be underpinned by 15 new occupational routes that are currently being developed. There is one for Creative and Design which is good news. There is a consultation out at the moment (closing on 25 January) and I urge you to check the Creative and Design pathway and respond.
The route includes pathways to cover occupations from blacksmith, designer to production manager, and everything in between. Some occupations will only be accessed through apprenticeships, but there will also be two-year taught courses in colleges leading to the achievement of a 'T' level.
There will be Industry Route Panels to oversee each of the 15 technical routes – the Creative and Design route panel is still in the early days of recruitment. It is important for employers in the creative industries to put themselves forward for this to ensure that technical education suits our sector's needs.
At Creative & Cultural Skills we are positive about the prospect of highly-valued technical education routes into employment in the creative industries. Sixty per cent of workers in our sector are graduates and all not the available jobs are genuinely graduate jobs requiring degrees. This cuts out a lot of talent and makes the sector much less socially diverse than it needs to be.
We want to ensure that applied general courses such as foundation courses in art and design don't get downgraded or lost altogether in the changes. Our sector relies on such courses to provide a strong foundation for HEI [in full please] applied arts courses and we wouldn't want them to be a casualty of an otherwise good reform.
Examinations are not the best way to test technical knowledge. In their enthusiasm to ensure that the 'T' levels are rigorous and hold their own with 'A' levels the temptation is to test elements of them in the same way. We would like to see appropriate assessments for technical courses like an 'end-point assessment'.
There's a proposal that 'T' level courses include a minimum of 40 days industry-based work experience in the occupational area related to the T-Level. We think this will be impossible to deliver. The creative industries are not evenly distributed across the country so how would students in rural areas access this much work experience and how much travel time and cost will it involve? How many small creative businesses could provide meaningful work experience at scale? There's a view that only actual work placements are valuable but there are many other ways of providing work experience: professional challenges involving industry experts, project working, bringing creative people into colleges to set challenging tasks. Anyone who remembers the 14-19 Creative & Media Diploma will recall that the Diploma was sound but an arbitrary requirement for schools to teach as consortia made it undeliverable. Nor can we see how colleges could cope with the administration, or how employers will deal with the paperwork (students will need to be given feedback on their work experience), health and safety issues or the need to make access adjustments.
The idea is that students taking 'T' levels can go straight into employment, including through apprenticeships, or indeed on to Higher Education (including degree apprenticeships). For this reason we don't want 'T' levels to be too narrow. Our industry thrives on people moving from job to job in a general way rather than getting more and more specialised. It would be a pity if 'T' levels are so specific that flexibility, creativity and problem-solving are missed out.
We want training providers to be able to deliver 'T' levels for our sector. This will be a challenge as there's a strong need for up-to-date industry experience to ensure relevance. We'll need more engagement between the post-16 education sector and our industry to make this work. Some colleges will conclude that there's no mileage in offering courses within the Creative and Design route if they don't have live links with industry; if so, students in their areas will miss out.
Please have a look at the Government's consultation on the 'T' level programmes and respond by 8 February. You don't have to respond to every question, just the ones that matter to you.
Pauline is CEO of Creative & Cultural Skills which is a sector support organisation for Arts Council England's Goal 4 and can provide advice on the technical education reforms and careers information advice and guidance.


Probably Healthy. Studies show that it can reduce likelihood of Cancer, Parkinson's and Type 2 Diabetes. Wide range of coffee types, result in different effects. Jitters and dependency are consensus potential downsides. Minority of people can't tolerate.
If someone is free from excessive cortisol, adrenal fatigue, mental illness, and high blood pressure then a cup of coffee can be an enjoyable beverage drank in moderation that may even have some positive health benefits due to the antioxidants found in coffee.
The bulk of the research suggests that coffee consumption is beneficial, but as always, whether it works for you depends on a whole bunch of different individual factors. Find out what considerations you should keep in mind.
I consider coffee to be a gray-area food, and by that I mean that the scientific research suggests that it's beneficial when it's well tolerated by the individual, but it's not always well tolerated.
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There are many healthful benefits with coffee and tea but do limit the coffee to two cups.


When we visit London we always eat i this intimate restaurant. The food never disappoints, always fresh and tasty. We have been coming here for years, this year was our 50th Anniversary so we has to visit our favourite restaurant. Staff are very friendly. Here's to the next visit.??
With accolades from Time Out and Egon Ronay, Delhi Brasserie was called 'the best restaurant in Soho' by the Evening Standard. Just along from Ronnie Scott's, elegant tall windows look out over historic Frith Street, a buzzing city location to enjoy its traditional Indian food for more than 25 years.
Delhi Brasserie's West End location makes it easy to combine with a visit to London's theatres or shops, with the chef's recommendations including lamb keema masala and fish dupiaza. Charcoal grilled trout and king prawns are among speciality tandoori dishes.
Vegetarian curries and biryani feature on the Delhi Brasserie menu, along with a tasty seafood selection. Classics like chicken saag, lamb dansak and tikka masala are all present, along with sizzling barbecued kebabs.
With a wide-ranging menu masterminded by chef Shib Nath, the Delhi Brasserie restaurant in London can create bespoke offerings for special occasions. Delhi Brasserie is a 5-minute walk from Tottenham Court Road Tube Station.
The waiter, Dell, paid attention to every detail. He recommended a selection of dishes and what sides to have with them. We started with onion bagee, then we had the butter chicken, saag paneer, two different types of naan and pilau rice. The icing on the cake was the plates were brought out hot, so when we scooped or food onto them nothing cooked down!!! I would recommend this place to everyone.
Kept waiting outside in the cold even though we were on time. Sat at the back in a small room with no atmosphere and terrible music. Average food and disappointingly mean portions. This is London. Keep up.
Adorable, quaint restaurant. Food was great, service was good and the location was perfect for dinner before a show! Will be back again.
Awful, food was not tasty, service was bad, my house is bigger then the restaurant!
If your an Indian foodie like us this definitely worth visiting. Excellent service, food and for the West End not expensive.
The food was very good, loved the tastes and at a good affordable price. We really liked the variety especially the starters. The Crab Achi was amazing, with the crab taste really coming through. Our waiter was friendly and the food came in a good time - thank you. My only criticism would be that intially we were being shown to a table upstairs for 4 people, where one of the chairs would have been nearly impossible to sit at and would have been really uncomfortable had we taken it. It needs to be a table for 2 people not 4, THank you.


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AMAZING SPACE: New Hertsmere hostel set to provide much-needed service for rough sleepers
Published on: 29th December 2021 | By: News Bulletin | Category: Uncategorized
An amazing new complex-needs service for those escaping the revolving door of homelessness and rough sleeping has been launched in Hertsmere.
YMCA Borehamwood has been created in partnership with One YMCA, Hertfordshire County Council and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to provide a much-needed service for some of the most vulnerable in the community.
This bright and colourful hostel offers 24 previous rough sleepers in the community a pathway to independence with both specialist support and a safe comfortable place to call home.
Mark Turner, Director of Operations, said: "With so many awful things that have happened as a result of COVID over the past two years this is such an amazing result, and I am so proud and grateful to all of those involved in working together to deliver a service that really can help deliver an end to rough sleeping in the area."
Councillor Jean Heywood, portfolio holder for housing and transport, said: "I'm so proud that Hertsmere Borough Council is a part of this project. This scheme builds on the work we, as a council, undertook before and during the pandemic to reach out to individuals who face an uncertain future and help support them into longer-term accommodation.
"I want to thank everyone who is working so hard to support the residents at YMCA Borehamwood and help them on these first steps of a difficult journey. This scheme is already making a difference to the lives of residents, which as we approach the festive season, is the best kind of gift that can be given."
For more information, please visit oneymca.org/accommodation and follow One YMCA on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn: OneYMCA.
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Thomas Mann Biography
(German Novelist Who Won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature)
Birthday: June 6, 1875 (Gemini)
Born In: Lübeck, Germany
Thomas Mann was a Nobel Prize winning German novelist, short story writer, and philanthropist. He had to flee his country, never to return, due to the impositions on free press by Hitler. His ironic epic novels and novellas are known for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectuals. He used modernised German and Biblical stories along with the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. With the outbreak of World War II, Mann escaped to Switzerland and from there, he immigrated to the United States. He hated school and could not meet up to its requirements till the end of his schooling. According to him, education should be acquired in a free and autodidactic manner, and not under the pressures of official instruction. From the beginning of nineteenth century, his writings were translated by H T Lowe Porter. He was a member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in the novel Buddenbrooks. He wrote diaries during his lifetime, and these were kept sealed even after his death. They were unsealed almost twenty years after his death. They revealed his struggles with bisexuality, the reflections of which could be found in his writings. His older brother, Heinrich Mann, was also a radical writer.
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Also Known As: Paul Thomas Mann
Spouse/Ex-: Katia Pringsheim
father: Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann
mother: Júlia da Silva Bruhns
siblings: Carla Mann, Heinrich Mann, Julia Mann, Viktor Mann
Born Country: Germany
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Died on: August 12, 1955
place of death: Zürich, Switzerland
Ancestry: German Swiss, Portuguese German, Brazilian German, German American
Notable Alumni: Technical University Of Munich
education: Technical University Of Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University Of Munich
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Paul Thomas Mann was born on June 6, 1875 in Free City of Lübeck, German Empire. He was the second son of Thomas Johann Mann and Julia da Silva Bruhns.
His father was a senator and grain merchant who followed the Lutheran religion. His mother was a Brazilian of German and Portuguese ancestry and followed the Roman Catholic faith.
He completed his schooling from the science division of Lubeck Gymnasium School with great difficulty, and then spent time at the Ludwig Maximillians University of Munich and Technical University of Munich.
He studied history, economics, art history and literature at the university to educate himself about the happenings around, in preparation for his career in journalism.
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Mann lived the major part of his adult life in Munich. He started his career with the South German Fire Insurance Company, after the family grain business was liquidated, following his father's death.
He started his writing career when he began writing for simplicissimus. His first published work was the short story 'Little Mr.Friedemann' in 1898.
In 1901, the epic Buddenbrooks was published and gave him popular recognition. The inspiration for the story was his family. It paints the picture of the decline of a merchant family over three generations.
The tetralogy 'Joseph and his brothers' is the largest and most noteworthy of Mann's works. It is an epic novel which was written over a period of nineteen years.
In 1903, the volume of a collection of short stories 'Tristan' was published. Of this, the North-South artist's novella 'Tonio Kroger' is considered the most distinguished.
'Death in Venice', published in 1912, revealed his struggles with his bisexuality. The obsession of the character Aschenbach for the 14 year old Polish boy Tadzio was, but a personification of his frustrations.
'The Magic Mountain' in 1924 is the story of an engineering student who visits his ailing cousin. The character confronts medicine and encounters the ideological discontent of contemporary civilisation.
The novel 'Doctor Faustus' (1947) was based on the composer Adrian Leverkuhn and the corruption of the German culture, preceding the years of World War II.
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His first collection of stories 'Der Kleine Herr Friedemann' was published in 1898. The success and popularity of his first publication motivated him to write more novellas.
When in Rome, he began to write the novel 'Buddenbrooks' which was published in 1901. This is the all time favourite of the German public - even today over a million copies are in circulation.
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Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year 1929. This was in recognition of his achievement with the epic 'Buddenbrooks' and the 'The Magic Mountain'.
He was conferred with an honorary doctor's degree by the University of Bonn in 1919. His hometown honoured him with the title 'Professor' on the occasion of the city anniversary.
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He was in love with Katia Pringsheim, daughter of a wealthy, secular, Jewish family. He married her in 1905, and the couple had six children. She later joined the Lutheran church.
He travelled a lot and went to places like Spain, Warsaw and London. He was invited to be the guest of honour of the newly established PEN club in London
He was suffering from atherosclerosis and died on August 12, 1955 due to its complications, in a hospital in Zurich. He was buried in Kilchberg.
This writer was the first member to be nominated to the new literary division of the Prussian Academy of Arts.
This German writer was known for his bisexuality as much as for his literary works, and his biographers have never failed to mention this fact.
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Steven Spielberg, Javier Bardem Teaming Up For Epic Montezuma-Cortés Film, Report Says
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The epic tale of kinship and ultimate bloody collision between Aztec ruler Montezuma II and Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés could be brought to the big screen at the hands of famed director Steven Spielberg and starring Javier Bardem, according to a report.
Deadline.com is reporting that the Academy Award-winning director has set his sights on adding the project, currently titled just "Montezuma," to his growing filmography, using a nearly 50-year-old script by the late American screenwriter James Dalton Trumbo.
Steve Zaillian, who teamed up with Spielberg on the Oscar-winning "Schindler's List," is reportedly rewriting Trumbo's script.
According to the report, the film could be re-titled down the line to "Cortés," since the point of view will be from the conquistador to be played by fellow Spaniard, Bardem.
The website went on to say that the project, "considered one of the great unmade scripts in moviedom," has an illustrious history of its own.
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The original 205-page draft by Trumbo, who was part of the "Hollywood Ten" group that refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the so-called witch hunt for communists in the 50s, was conceived for actor/producer Kick Douglas in 1965 with Martin Ritt in the director's chair, but it never happened.
"Montezuma" will focus on the time when Cortés led an infiltration into Mexico in 1519 – bringing with him the lust for gold and silver, along with diseases like smallpox. He developed a relationship with the Aztec's ruler before turning the tables.
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'I' Newspaper: Joshua Bonehill Found Guilty of Harassing Liverpool Jewish MP
After all the false accusations of anti-Semitism made smear genuinely decent people, here's a story about a real anti-Semite. Yes, it's that old Nazi troll, Joshua Bonehill-Paine, the 'Founder' and wannabe fuehrer of legions of Fascist storm troopers that don't actually exist. Today's I newspaper (8 December 2016) carried a report by Emily Pennink, Anti-Semitic blogger guilty of harassing Jewish MP, that Bonehill has been found guilty of racially harassing Luciana Berger, a Jewish MP for one of the constituencies in Liverpool. The article states
A racist internet troll was found guilty yesterday of harassing the MP Luciana Berger in a series of anti-Jewish rants he sent after the jailing of a fellow far-right extremist.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, 24, wrote five hate-filled blogs about the Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree after Garron Helm was sent to prison for four weeks in October 2014. Bonehill-Paine denied racially aggravated harassment but was convicted by an Old Bailey jury.
Helm, 21, from Merseyside, had admitted posting a picture on Twitter which showed Ms Berger, 35, with holocaust-era Star of David on her forehead and the hashtag "Hitler was right". Over the next four months, Bonehill-Paine posted articles online calling her a "dominatrix" and "an evil money-grabber" with a "deep-rooted hatred of men". In one, he claimed the number of Jewish Labour MPs was a "problem".
He illustrated his posts with offensive pictures. Throughout, Bonehill-Paine, of Yeovil, Somerset, was on bail awaiting sentence for claiming on Twitter that several people were paedophiles. Giving evidence in person, Ms Berger said she felt sickened by the blogs and "very much under attack". (p. 21).
Bonehill's a weird character, who's been hauled before the beak several times for his bizarre, far-right antics. He's been arrested for trying to steal police uniforms from a police station, threatening to defecate in a supermarket, falsely accusing a pub of not serving members of the armed forces so as not to upset Muslims, and harassing a young woman when she spurned his advances. This included him sending her an Iron Cross, which he claimed had belonged to Adolf Hitler.
He's set himself up as the leader of a vast and growing Fascist party that doesn't seem to exist except in his own imagination. He gave a public speech announcing the launch of one of these shadowy parties in one of the parks in his home town of Yeovil, to a handful of people comprising a couple of police officers and a journalist. Even so, the audience massively outnumbered his Fascist legions, which consisted of precisely one person: himself. He claimed that the real meeting was being held in an undisclosed pub elsewhere in the town.
It's a moot point whether or not Bonehill himself believes the Nazi tripe he spouts. In a passage he wrote on his blog, which he has since denied, Bonehill claimed that he was only pretending to be a Nazi. It was, he claimed, an invented personality he created, inspired by David Bowie's persona of Ziggy Stardust. It was intended to deceive and upset both Nazis and anti-Nazis.
Bowie himself did seem to come dangerously close to flirting with Fascism in the 1970s. There's footage, which has been played by the Beeb on shows about the late pop idol's life, in which he states that there could only be one real choice for prime minister, and so he was putting himself forward as the Fascist candidate. But Bowie very definitely wasn't racist. His second wife, Iman, was, I believe, a Somali. The Nazis themselves hated Jazz, the ancestor of rock and roll, as Black music which corrupted Whites. And despite the homosexual undercurrent in Nazism, they hated gay men and sent them to the concentration camps. The ambiguous sexuality of the Ziggy Stardust persona would have been very definitely illegal in Nazi Germany.
It'd be good to think that if this is just a prank by Bonehill, that this time he just might take notice of where it's getting him and drop it. Unlike Bowie and Stardust, there's nothing clever or innovative about it. It's just stupid, offensive and annoying. And it's about time he realised this, and where it's getting him, and stopped it.
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Moronic Nazi Troll Joshua Bonehill charged with Hate Crime against Labour's Luciana Berger
Mike today has also put up a piece from the BBC News reporting that Joshua Bonehill-Paine has been charged with a racially or religiously aggravated hate crime for harassing Luciana Berger, the Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, and the party's shadow mental health minister by sending her hate messages via Twitter.
Mike asks the $64 million question: is this the 'moronic Nazi troll' Joshua Bonehill-Paine?
See: http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/06/23/man-charged-with-hate-crime-against-mp-luciana-berger/
Mike won't be surprised to learn that yes, I'm afraid it probably is. And it's about time this idiot was stopped for good.
Bonehill, unfortunately, has previous for this. He has been posing for years now as the Fuhrer-in-waiting of British Fascism, if only the other stormtroopers would wake up and rally to his supreme, racially-pure genius. He had his own small Fascist party going, for which he styled himself 'Founder', and was appealing to similar morons, who wanted to serve in his 'founderguard', presumably the Bonehillist version of the Liebstandarte Waffen SS, Hitler's bodyguard in the Third Reich. He also held a very small rally in a park in Trowbridge, if I recall correctly, essentially consisting of himself, in which he unanimously announced to the gentlemen of the press, who outnumbered him, that he was successfully launching a new, mass Fascist party. In a pub somewhere else, the location of which he could not reveal. He was also telling the world at one time that he was the messiah of the White race prophesied by the ancient prophet Aryanus.
In fact, it all seems to me that much of this is just extremely tasteless play-acting. Bonehill has said in one of his past blog posts that his posture as a neo-Nazi 'Founder' is all a stage persona, inspired by David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust. Basically, he's what the real racial nationalists in the far right call a 'Hollywood Nazi': somebody who merely acts the part. As for David Bowie, there's a recording of him, which every now and then gets played on various TV or radio documentaries, of the great man saying that he was putting himself forward for the 1975 elections as the Fascist candidate. In mitigation, Bowie at that time does seem to have been close to a very severe mental collapse, and nothing in his career since then suggested that he had any real sympathy for the Nazis and their ideals. This is clearly shown by his marriage. His wife, Iman, I think is Somali. Her name means 'Faith' in Arabic. If he was a genuine Nazi, he would never have married her.
Bowie as musician and actor – he was in The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Hunger and Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence – gave people a lot of pleasure with his performances. Unfortunately, this cannot be said of Bonehill, who has shown himself to be a serial nuisance instead. He has an impressive string of convictions and arrests, several for harassing people. He was sent to jail for harassing a young woman after she spurned his romantic overtures, and was also arrested for sending hate mail and harassing the staff at a pub. He has also been arrested for trying to break into a police station to steal a uniform and equipment, as well as attempting to defecate in the meat section of one of the supermarkets. He is not so much an Aryan superman, more a stupid prat.
This does not, however, make any of his daft, unpleasant and thuggish antics any better. He has still harassed and threatened people, mainly women. The tweets he sent to Berger were reported to be anti-Semitic. If so, then they were definitely not a joke. Berger's Jewish. I don't know if she's like many other British Jews in having lost family in the Holocaust, but even if she wasn't, receiving racist hate messages from a self-professed Nazi isn't remotely funny.
Looking at Bonehill's antics, the way he keeps going despite being repeated hauled up before the beak, actually makes me wonder if he really doesn't have some kind of psychological disorder. It's clear he has an obsessive, compelling need for attention, and gets perverse pleasure from seeing others upset and distressed by his Nazi posturing. He's a troll, but this has gone beyond simple trolling. Many of the idiots, who get similar kicks from being gratuitously offensive, would have given up after the first time they got sent to the slammer. That's the point at which, even to the densest troll, things have become too serious. Prison's no fun, and it's no place to try to get pleasure from offending people, not when there are hard men around you who will rape, maim and kill you for it.
But Bonehill carries on regardless, leaving me wondering if he's bonkers, or just to stupid to realise that it's long past the time he gave up all this up, and started to try, as far as his meagre powers allow, to live as a decent citizen. And I do wonder how long it will be before all this catches up with him, and he'll find himself in prison or in psychiatric care for much longer than he's used to.
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