Baisakhi is one of the most energetic, full of life and vivacious festivals of all in India. It rings in the harvesting festival and is of prime importance to the farmers. Rabi crops across Punjab and Haryana are harvested on this day. It is in fact the spring harvest festival for Hindus. Not just that, Baisakhi holds a high significance amongst the Sikh community.
Baisakh month, after which this festival is named, is the first month of the Hindu calendar. Baisakhi falls on April 13 every year and on April 14 once in 36 years, as per the solar calendar. This year, it falls on April 14.
For the rest of India, this festival is very special for the vibrant festive fervour it suffuses. Bhangra, makke ki roti, sarso da saag- this is one festival which invariably tempts everyone to participate! Such is the energetic vibe of this particular culture that you naturally feel like grooving to its beats.
According to Sikhism, it was on this day in 1699 that Guru Gobind Singh, their 10th guru, founded the Khalsa Panth. Guru Gobind Singhji formed the first batch of his disciples comprising five people and named them Singhs, and administered 'amrit' to them. This group formed the martial community and also aimed at eliminating inequality in the society.
Baisakhi is celebrated as Rongali Bihu in Assam, Naba Barsha in Bengal, Puthandu in Tamil Nadu, Pooram Vishu in Kerala and Vaishakha in Bihar.
Baisakhi has an added significance in Hinduism, it was on this day in 1875 that Arya Samaj was founded.
In the villages of Punjab and Haryana, the atmosphere reverberates with vigour and energy. People shout 'Jatta aayi Baisakhi' and break into the traditional Bhangra and gidda on folk songs and to the beats of dhol.
The farmers take an early bath and then visit the Gurdwara to thank the God and pray for yet another blessed and prosperous year. Ardas and shabad kirtans take place inside the gurdwaras and Kada Prasad is then distributed among the devotees. Later on, a special Baisakhi langar is laid where the community sits together and relishes the sumptuous meal.
At lot of places in Punjab, special Baisakhi Melas arte hosted and people throng in large numbers with absolute enthusiasm. Spectacular wrestling, acrobatic, malkham, Bhangra, gidda and singing programs are organised in these melas.
The celebrations at the golden Temple in Amritsar are at crescendo and a must to participate in to bask in the true zeal of this festival.
The Sikhs also carry out processions specially assembled for Baisakhi called Nagar Kirtan under the leadership pf Panj Piaras. The bands in these processions play melodious tunes and the religious bhakti songs.
People make it a point to visit each other and greet them with homemade delicacies and mithai.
Baisakhi is the harvesting festival and also the onset of spring festival. The fields abound in mustard flowers, especially in Punjab and Haryana where this festival is celebrated with utmost gusto. So that's how the color yellow became synonymous with the festival of Baisakhi. Also, yellow also happens to be the color of spring.
Plenty of delectable, scrumptious food items are prepared on this day, especially in Punjabi and Sikh households. However, there are a few signature dishes that are must preparation on this day.
Meethe Chawal, Kadhi and Kheer are some items you'll find in every Sikh house on the day of Baisakhi. The meethe chawal are traditionally called Kesari chawal and are made with generous amounts of saffron to infuse a lovely yellow color to them, just like the happy fields during Baisakhi.
The traditional Kheer too has added amounts of kesar to it and is decorated beautifully with dry fruits and cardamom.
Punjabi kadhi has a lovely flavour of spices and is to die for, if you ask us1 this too is yellow in color. Basically, these signature food dishes directly reflect the happy feel of this high-spirited and dynamic festival!
Peachmode wishes you all a very happy, delightful Baisakhi, bubbling with happy colors of joy and prosperity! To get you more into this festival fervour, we are listing some festive wear ethnic wear for you. You can also browse through our curated festive collection.


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Q: Ionic Angular NFC Changedetection Problem I have a problem using an actual Ionic Angular in combination with NFC reader.
I can successfully read the NFC Tag with the example provided in:
https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/nfc
The Problem that i have is, that after the reading of the NFC somehow the Angular ChangeDetection is broken and the changes are not displayed. When i click on a button that does nothing, the changes are displayed.
I know i can trigger the ChangeDetection manually, which would work, but then i would have to trigger the ChangeDetection everywhere in the component, which i think should not be the case.
Does anyone have an idea what i am doing wrong?
First i thought maybe it has something to do with the observable, but i tried adding a interval observable, which works just like expected.
Template:

<ion-button (click)="startNFC()">start NFC readermode</ion-button>

<ion-button (click)="startNFCListener()">start NFC listener</ion-button>

<ion-button (click)="startInterval()">start Interval</ion-button>

<ion-button (click)="doNothing()">do nothing</ion-button>

  {{nfcReading}}
  {{nfcTag}}
  <ion-spinner *ngIf="nfcReading"> </ion-spinner>

Code:
startNFC() {
  console.log("startNFC");
  this.nfcReading = true;
  let flags = this.nfc.FLAG_READER_NFC_A | this.nfc.FLAG_READER_NFC_V;

  this.readerModeSub = this.nfc.readerMode(flags).subscribe(
  tag => {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(tag));
    this.nfcTag = this.nfc.bytesToHexString(tag.id);
    this.nfcReading = false;
    this.readerModeSub.unsubscribe();

  },
  err => {
    console.log("Error reading tag", err);
    this.nfcReading = false;
  }
);

}
doNothing() {
// this really does nothing... it is just to demonstrate that this triggers the changedetection
}

i get can see that the subsciption event is triggered in console, but it is not shown in the HTML.
When clicking the do nothing Button. The tag is shown.
I created a fresh type=angular blank project and test on a Google Pixel 3a hardware.
i have uploaded a sample project to demonstrate my problem.
https://github.com/autlunatic/Ionic-NFC-Android-Test/

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Share this Story: Glavin: China cornered the market on medical supplies – and it's not ending well
Glavin: China cornered the market on medical supplies – and it's not ending well
By last December, China was already the world's major producer of the ventilators and respirators that have been found in such short supply, now that COVID-19 is burning its way across the world.
Masks are seen on a production line manufacturing masks at a factory in Shanghai, China on Jan. 31, 2020. Photo by Aly Song /REUTERS
There are quite a few lessons we will all just have to wait to draw from the COVID-19 pandemic that erupted last December in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The novel coronavirus that causes the sickness is still rampaging across the face of the Earth. The economic and geopolitical shockwaves are still shattering almost everything that was commonplace and routine and familiar from the days before the plague began.
But there is a lesson that we all should have learned quite some time ago that is proving its merit and value now that we are being forced to learn it in the hard and horrific way that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is teaching it. It's that thriving liberal democracies cannot co-exist for long within a model of neoliberal globalization that admits into its embrace such a tyrannical state-capitalist monstrosity as the People's Republic of China.
Glavin: China cornered the market on medical supplies – and it's not ending well Back to video
The arrangement would end badly. It was already putrefying long before the plague began radiating outward from the offal-strewn alleys in the wild animal section of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale market in Wuhan's Jiaghan district, and outward across the province of Hubei, and then, for weeks, as a human-borne contagion undisclosed by the Chinese Communist Party, outward around the world.
For years, Canadian, American and European production was increasingly outsourced to Chinese sweatshops, and to vast factories untroubled by the inconvenience of proper trade unions. At the advent of the plague, the world had become dependent upon Beijing for a vast range of medicines and for the supply of exactly the kinds of medical equipment the world needed to defend itself against the sickness.
By last December, China was already the world's major producer of the ventilators and respirators that have been found in such short supply, now that COVID-19 is burning its way across the world. Before the outbreak in Wuhan, half the world's medical masks were already being made in China.
According to Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S. had become reliant on China for 97 per cent of its antibiotics by 2018. U.S. Commerce Department records show that China had by then captured between 70 and 95 per cent of the U.S. market for Vitamin C, ibuprofin, hydrocortisone and acetaminophen. Chinese factories had also become the United States' main source of surgical gowns, and of the equipment that measures blood oxygen levels, and of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners.
Canada will be needing millions of masks, and thousands of ventilators. We will have to hunt and scour every nook and cranny of the Earth for suppliers, but the hope is that enough factories can be built or at least retooled in Canada to keep up with the demand.
After weeks of suppressing information about the nature of the outbreak, on Jan. 23 Chinese authorities locked down Wuhan and several other cities in Hubei, and from that moment on, Beijing began to enforce official and de facto bans on the export of medical equipment.
By March 15, when the European Commission finally shut down the untrammelled export of personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies, the European Union and more than 50 countries were either banning outright or imposing strict restrictions on the export of a variety of medical equipment types and PPEs, including masks, visors, hazmat suits and gloves.
As for Canada, 10 days later Mary Ng, minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, was affixing her signature to a commitment to "maintaining open and connected supply chains." The commitment was also signed by her counterparts from Australia, Brunei, Chile, Myanmar, New Zealand and Singapore.
A tiny alliance, the ministers all pledged themselves to oppose any "trade restrictive measures on essential goods, especially medical supplies." At about the same time that Ng and the others were declaring their faith in the dead god of unrestricted trade, the Canadian firm Medicom was still producing three million medical masks a day at its Shanghai factory, but the company was prohibited from exporting masks from China to Canada.
And so it was almost poignant to see that in the $2-billion scramble Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced this week to shore up Canada's drastic shortage of the medical gear required by hospitals across the country to cope with the COVID-19 crisis, Medicom was among the firms enlisted to the cause. Based in Pointe-Claire, Que., ADM Medicom Inc. will be opening its very first permanent factory in Canada.
The USNS Comfort passes the Statue of Liberty as it enters New York Harbor during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, U.S., March 30, 2020. The United States, like other western countries, is scrambling for medical supplies. Photo by ANDREW KELLY /REUTERS
It probably didn't help that the federal government sent 16,000 tonnes of gear to China back in February. That was a lot of gear – 1,101 masks, 50,118 face shields, 36,425 medical coveralls, 200,000 pairs of gloves and so on – but a drop in Beijing's bucket. A New York Times investigation last month found that China had imported 56 million respirators and masks, just in the first week of the Wuhan shutdown.
It is not known how much of that cargo came from the massive bulk-buying campaign organized and carried out across Canada by affiliates of the United Front Work Department, the overseas propaganda and influence-peddling arm of the Chinese Communist Party.
And Canada's predicament wasn't much helped either by the Bank of China's donation of 30,000 masks and a variety of PPEs last week, which was touted by China's Embassy in Ottawa, and applauded in turn by our own foreign affairs minister, François-Phillippe Champagne. It was mostly just embarrassing. China and its various state entities are engaged in these kinds of propaganda events all over the world at the moment.
Meanwhile, the Americans are scrambling for gear, too, and it won't be fun watching Canada compete in a bidding war with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. The American medical-supply cupboards are almost bare, and FEMA has been instructed to lock down all the supply it can find, anywhere in the world.
Last Sunday, a planeload of medical equipment landed at JFK airport in New York, the pandemic's brokenhearted American epicentre. The gear came from China. The flight was the first in a month-long airlift, and it's not expected to come close to keeping up with the demand from American hospitals. But that's what globalization has come to. It's not ending well.
But it's ending.
Terry Glavin is an author and journalist.

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June Habit: Guilt free indulgence, this Ramadan.
This Ramadan, your post-iftar eating habits can either help you make massive strides towards your health goal, or it can lead to laziness, and even sickness. Take advantage of this holy month, and be good to your body and health.
If you are like me, you will crave any form of dessert after iftar. While this is normal, satisfying your sweet tooth is a dangerous game, but it is not off limits. There are several ways to enjoy a deliscious dessert without jeopardizing your overall long-term health goals.
If you make smart choices you won't have to give up sweets entirely this Ramadan.
Remember this: What one person considers "healthy", might not be suitable for another. Someone who actively avoids gluten may not be too concerned about sugar content, whereas another individual who avoids carbs might still indulge in dairy products. The goal is to pre-assess the dessert against your own health objectives.
Middle Eastern desserts are traditional in Ramadan, but, along with other sweets, they are saturated with sugar and fat. These sweets are considered empty calories because they offer very little (if any) nutritional value.
Portion Control and Total Daily Intake are your new best friends. Have one small piece of your favorite dessert to satisfy the cravings, but don't make a meal out of it. Make note of the entire sugar intake of the day, not just per-meal intake.
A small piece of dark chocolate is a great option. You can also opt for other treats with nutritional value, such as fresh fruits or Greek yogurt.
Cut your fruits into thin slices.
In serving glasses, or bowls, arrange the layers in the following order: yogurt, granola, yogurt, fruit and so on.
Top it off with a drizzle of honey, a dash of cinnamon and roasted almonds.
This delightful treat makes a great & nutritious snack filled with protein, carbs and fats and is quick to put together.
Follow the sunnah when breaking your fast by having dates and water.
Eat fruits on an empty stomach instead of after your meal.
Opt for healthier dessert options.
Engage in exercises like brisk walking.


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Figure out how much you can comfortably carry every day. For me, that's 27 pounds. I took my hunting pack to work every day for a year, walking (or running) for the bus, transferring downtown, and walking another mile each way. I didn't carry the same gear, but I learned exactly how much I could carry and how far I could go with it not be sore the next day. Take the glass, take the raingear, wear the wool clothes.
27lbs... I assume not including weaponry? Does that include glass?
BTW, I'm doing a training hike tonight and Section I of the PCT this weekend, so I'll be a little more focused on what I can cut through those trips. My pack for my training hike tonight is set up as if I were on a 2-night, 3-day scouting trip (i.e., everything but the kill kit and weapons), and I'm weighing in at 31lbs wet (all food + 1.5L water, which is a typical starting point for my hydration pack).
That's sans leatherman, extra pants (I did keep an extra shirt for some reason...), and I trimmed down the med kit from ~9oz to ~5oz.
Nice. Im still at 39 # of luxury. But would be nice to drop 10#.
"Right now, I am thinking that If my grandmother was here, she would be lecturing me about how there are poor people in Africa, that would just love to have a Ruger, I would just say "Great, granny, lets just ship all the Rugers to Africa!"
Loving life in the Great Northwest one day at a time.
It sounds like it's time to get a new gun.
BTW, I picked up some of the Allen game bags and HOLY CRAP y'all weren't lyin' about those Alaska bags being huge and heavy compared to the competition. Set of Allen bags only cost me $20 on amazon, so assuming they don't fail me, I'll likely stick with those.
Lightweight game bags were the first "lightweight" item I changed in my pack. I bought the Kuiu quarter bags a few years ago. It changed everything for me. Now I could reasonably pack enough bags to fully process an elk on the hill and stash the meat between packouts. I could also rinse them in a creek back at camp, and re use them the next day for the next animal. My pack isn't as comfy to sit on now, but I'll take that in the pounds of weight it saved and the functionality of them.
I've put 4 deer through my Allen game bags. There are a couple small holes I'm about to patch for this season but they are still kicking.
Not sure if it was addressed above, but your first aid kit is wayyyyyy too big.
Cut your toothbrush in half and drill holes in it. Don't forget whisky.
Few random thoughts on this stuff from a guy who spends 50+ days a year living out of a backpack and packing out a dozen plus animals a year. I've learned all this stuff the hard way and wish I would have had someone 15 years ago to drop some wisdom on me.
Packs: regardless of what you have, fit it properly and learn the proper way to put it on. I see so many people who bypass this step and then wonder why they get hotspots or sore shoulders. Just last night I watched a video of a couple guys hunting. These dudes LITERALLY SELL several lines of packs and both had packs way out of adjustment.
Weight: I stopped weighing my stuff years ago. Don't really care honestly. I've gone ultra light and its not for me. I pack what I want and what I need, weight be damned. I want good food, coffee, and I wanna sleep good. If that comes at a weight penalty then I'll do a few extra squats and lunges. The guy who struggles with a 50lb pack is gonna struggle with a 40lb pack. Get some weight on your back and make your lungs burn a bit before season and a few extra pounds is a non issue.
Like others have said, overall you've got a pretty good list going. With time you'll figure out what you need/don't need.
Keep the leatherman, its value for its weight is unmatched.
Bring extra bullets, incase you need to check your zero for whatever reason. I feel that bullets and gun are two things that should be classified as weightless.
Ditch the second pair of pants, those zions dry out fast and you can wear your rain pants if the zions are soaked and its too cold to walk them dry.
Ditch doubles of anything else for that short of a trip including undies.
Yeah, I'm just about settled on carrying only one pair of clothes. If it's close to freezing, I'll bring a set of socks in my sleeping bag dry-bag because I'll need them to stay warm, but otherwise I'll just carry one set.
FYI - @shallowforks sold me his Nikon ED50 which is 4oz lighter than my Bushnell and about a million times better optically (nevermind waterproof, etc.) so the spotting scope is definitely coming with.
My Exped sleeping pad never materialized due to a mistake by REI, but they gave me a discount on the next purchase so I got a Sea2Summit ultralight insulated pad for about $80. It's got a few ounces on the exped, but overall I'm super happy with the upgrade.
I dropped the $$ on a Heather's Choice dehydrated meal (about 2oz lighter the equivalent MH meal) so I'll be eating that either on my scouting/bear hunt the weekend before high buck or on the weekend of opener.
Mission: take a bear or mule deer out of ALW or GPW.
General strategy: solo rifle hunt. mix of trails and bushwhacking. Get as high as I can on the forest roads and hoof it up into the wilderness alpine/sub-alpine areas. Not likely to be more than 4-5 miles in as I would likely need to make two trips to get all the meat out. 3 nights / 4 days max.
- Anker PowerCore 13000 portable charger (I realize this is a luxury, but I use my mapping systems on my phone extensively during the hunt and my phone's battery is not in great shape).
- MSR Mugmate coffee filter -or- Dark Timber packs. Still deciding on this.
*Obviously highly dependent on the length of trip, which varies from an overnight to 2night/3day.
**May be left at home depending on the weather forecast.
Looks pretty good to me. If you haven't, print this list. When items are used, check them. Do this for the whole season. Then, scrutinize items with no checks. You're well on your way to being dialed.


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A fehértorkú létrafarkú (Amytornis  woodwardi) a madarak osztályának verébalakúak (Passeriformes) rendjébe és a tündérmadárfélék (Maluridae) családjába tartozó faj.

Rendszerezése
A fajt Ernst Hartert német ornitológus írta le 1905-ben.

Előfordulása
Ausztrália észak részén, kis területen honos. Természetes élőhelyei a szubtrópusi és trópusi száraz gyepek, sziklás környezetben. Állandó, nem vonuló faj.

Megjelenése
Testhossza 22 centiméter, testtömege 29-35 gramm.

Természetvédelmi helyzete
Az elterjedési területe nagy  kicsi, egyedszáma  10000 példány körüli és csökken. A Természetvédelmi Világszövetség Vörös listáján sebezhető fajként szerepel.

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További információk
Képek az interneten a fajról

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Buffalo Creek Landslide, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
In November 2016, a Discovery Channel camera crew filmed geologists from the Wyoming State Geological Survey at the site of the Buffalo Creek Landslide in the Bighorn Basin. Hunters noticed the landslide in October 2015. The video, produced and owned by Discovery Channel, can be viewed on the left. Follow the link below for an interpretation based on review of historic photographs, web sources, photographs of the slide, existing data, and local geology.
Landslide near West Fork of Buffalo Creek
Landslides in Wyoming
Landslides, also known as mass wasting, are the downward movement of rock caused by gravity and occur when a slope becomes unstable. Rock falls, debris flows, slumps, lateral spread, and creep are all types of landslides. Landslides can damage or destroy roads, pipelines, structures, and utility lines. They can also temporarily block rivers with earthen dams, which when over topped by backed up water can cause flash flooding downstream. When landslides occur in populated areas, they can cause significant damage and loss of life. Local geology, geologic structures, hydrology, and precipitation are the primary contributors to landslides. Human activities, such as road construction and surface water diversion, can also have an effect on the occurrence of landslides.
Landslides occur every year in Wyoming, however, most occur in remote areas and do no typically cause damage. The WSGS has mapped more than 30,000 landslides.
Susceptibility to Deep-seated Landslides in Wyoming, 2019
Landslide Database
Preliminary Map of Landslides in Wyoming
Types of Landslides
Topples
Rotational (slump)
Translational
Debris Flow—A mass of loose, water-laden and poorly sorted debris of fragmented rock, soil, and mud that surges down a slope in response to gravitational processes. Debris flows can be triggered by heavy rainfall, rapid snowmelt, or by other landslides.
Falls—Unexpected release of rock or coarse material from a steep slope.
Topples—Comparable to falls, but the primary motion involves forward rotation and mass movement of rock or debris out of a slope face.
Creep—Slow movement of material down a slope.
Rotational (slump)—Block of material moving down a slope along a concave surface.
Translational—Block of material moving downslope that occurs along a distinctive surface of weakness (soil horizon, bedding, or fault) or parallel to the ground surface.
Seth Wittke, seth.wittke@wyo.gov


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Conservation of Wildlife in India and Relevant Laws
Article for Blog Post Writing Competition 2011 | by Adhideb Bhattacharya & Ankit Shrivastav
May 1st, 2011 → 12:17 pm
With a land mass of the 329 million hectares and coast line of 7516 km, with oceans, lakes, rivers and mighty Himalayas and several other mountains ranges, the desert of Rajasthan, the plateaus, the wetlands and the islands of Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep, India, our beautiful country, is the home to an amazing variety of fauna and flora. There are about 75,000 species of animals, of which 340 species are mammals, 1200 birds, 420 reptiles, 140 amphibians, 2000 fishes, 50,000 insects, 4000 molluscs and several other species of vertebrates.
Need for Conservation
The gradual emergence of the human beings as the most dominant species among all other species of animals and the attempt of the human beings to set them apart from other species is the main underlying cause of the contemporary environmental disaster. The main reason behind a threat to the wildlife and the ecosystem is the constantly growing deforestation, poaching and negligence towards animals and nature.
At the present estimate, 81 species of mammals, 38 species of birds, 18 species of amphibians and reptiles considered to be endangered in India. The tiger is the largest living member of the cat family, followed by the lion and the leopard. Habitat destruction and poaching brought about a sharp decline in their number and the national census of tigers in 1972 recorded that there were just 1827 of them in our country.
With the entire gloomy picture in regard of our wildlife, India is keen to do its best to protect its wild life. Luckily, we have ability and media, vocal environmental groups, NGOs and others who would not tolerate any more interference or intuition with the vast diversity of animal wildlife.
Wildlife laws
Wildlife laws in India can be traced back to early third century BC, when Ashoka, the Emperor, codified a law for the preservation of wildlife and environment. Thereafter came several laws among which, the first codified law was the Wild Bird Protection Act, 1887, enacted by the British Government. The Government of India brought for the first time a comprehensive act, the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA), 1972, which was later amended and changes were brought in as the need arose. Furthermore, to protect the wildlife, the Government of India also became a signatory to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) since October, 1976.
Besides WPA and CITES; the Indian Penal Code, 1860; the Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.P.C), 1973; Customs Act, 1962; Indian Forest Act, 1927; Forest Conservation Act, 1981; Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 are some of the important weapons available for check and control of wildlife offences including trade.
Wild Life Protection Act (WPA), 1972 provides for the protection of Wild animals, birds and plants and for matters connected therewith or ancillary or incidental thereto. It extends to the whole of India, except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The act includes all animals like birds, mammals etc. While the act clearly defines hunting it also prohibits the usage, supply etc. of animal articles, Animal article means an article made from any captive animal or wild animal, other than vermin, and includes an article or object in which the whole or any part of such animal has been used and ivory imported into India.
Section 9 of the Act prohibits hunting of wild animals and birds specified in Schedule I, II, and III and IV, except as provided under Sections XI and XII. This classification has been made keeping in mind the significance and population of wildlife. Those highly threatened find a place in Schedule I.
As of punishment for offences, Section 51 of the Act prescribes a maximum imprisonment of six years, Rs 25,000 fine or both for hunting animals and birds specified on Schedule I.
Case Studies with respect to Wild Life Conservation:
Shahtoosh case-
The Shahtoosh wool is derived from the soft undercoat of the Tibetan Antelope (also known as Chiru), which has to be killed before its fleece is removed. Three to four Chiru have to be killed to weave only one shawl. Each shawl can cost several thousand dollars in the international market.
In 1977, the Government of India declared the Chiru as protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act of India, 1972. Killing of Chiru is also in contravention to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), of which India is also a signatory as mentioned earlier.
A PIL or Public Interest Litigation was filed in the J&K High Court seeking implementation of the provisions of their Wildlife (Protection) Act as well as CITES which prohibits the import of Shahtoosh into India. On May 1, 2000, the Honorable High Court issued a judgment forcing the government to enact and enforce its wildlife law. Finally in 2002 the manufacture of Shahtoosh shawls has finally been banned in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Project Tiger-
Project Tiger, an initiative by the Government, launched on April 1, 1973, has become one of the most successful conservation ventures in modern history. The project aims at tiger conservation in specially constituted 'tiger reserves' which are representative of various bio-geographical regions falling within India. It strives to maintain a viable tiger population in their natural environment. Today, there are 27 Project Tiger wildlife reserves in India covering an area of 37,761 km.
A 2008 census held by Government of India revealed that the tiger population had dropped to 1,411. Since then the government has pledged US$153 million to further fund the project, set-up a Tiger Protection Force to combat poachers, and fund the relocation of up to 200,000 villagers to minimize human-tiger interaction.
Project Elephant, though less known, started in 1992 and works for elephant protection in India.
Protection of Wildlife alone is not possible only by laws and Government. Despite all of these laws and efforts, destruction of wildlife, illegal trade and poaching continues. Active cooperation from the common public is also very necessary. It is now high time for us to understand the gravity of the situation and act on its behalf. And this can only be achieved by our awareness and by further stringent laws by the Government. We must not lose the national treasures in our rat race of urbanization and modernization.
Adhideb Bhattacharya & Ankit Shrivastav
Students, 4th Year, B.A.LL.B.(Hons.) ,University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun
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Anton Scherer (* 19. Juli 1922 in Obrovac (), Königreich der Serben, Kroaten und Slowenen; † 14. Januar 2015 in Graz, Österreich) war Lehrer, Literaturhistoriker und Autor.

Leben und Werk
Scherer wurde als Ältester von acht Geschwistern in Obrovac, heute ein Stadtteil von Bačka Palanka (Plankenburg), in der Süd-Batschka geboren, wuchs aber im benachbarten Dorf Mladenovo (Bukin) auf. Er besuchte Gymnasium und Lehrerbildungsanstalt in Vrbas (Werbaß); nach Stationen in Novi Sad (Neusatz), Budapest und Wien legte er sein Abitur in Berlin ab. Er studierte Germanistik, Slawistik, Geschichte, Geographie, Philosophie, Kunstgeschichte und Volkskunde an den Universitäten Wien, Berlin, Innsbruck und Graz.

1946/1947 legte Scherer an der Grazer Universität die Lehramtsprüfung für Deutsch und Serbokroatisch ab. Daraufhin war er am "Seminar für deutsche Philologie" als Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter tätig. Von 1948 bis 1982 war er dort zum Lehrbeauftragten für Geschichte der österreichisch-südosteuropäischen Kulturbeziehungen bestellt. Im Jahr 1955 wurde er zum Doktor der Philosophie promoviert. Als Lehrbeauftragter und später Professor hat er von 1949 bis 1982 an mehreren Grazer Gymnasien gelehrt.

Zudem hat Scherer das Donauschwäbische Bibliographische Archiv in Graz geführt.

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)
 Johann Eugen Probst, Persönlichkeit, Werk und Kulturkritik eines donauschwäbisch-österreichischen Dichters, Dissertation, München 1954
 Schöpferische Donauschwaben. Selbstverlag, 1957
 Die nicht sterben wollten: donauschwäbische Literatur von Lenau bis zur Gegenwart; ein Buch vom Leben der Deutschen und ihren Nachbarn in Südosteuropa. Pannonia-Verlag, 1959
 Einführung in die Geschichte der donauschwäbischen Literatur. Selbstverlag, 1960
 Donauschwäbische Bibliographie. 1935–1955. Südostdeutschen Kulturwerk, 1966
 Donauschwäbische Bibliographie. 1955–1965. Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1974
 Südosteuropa-Dissertationen, 1918–1960: Eine Bibliographie deutscher, österreichischer und schweizerischer Hochschulschriften. Böhlau Verlag, Graz/Wien/Köln 1968
 Donauschwäbisches Ortsnamenbuch für die ehemals und teilweise noch deutsch besiedelten Orte in Ungarn, Jugoslawien ohne Slowenien sowie West-Rumänien Banat und Sathmar. Arbeitskreis donauschwäbischer Familienforscher e. V., 1980

Auszeichnungen
 Theodor-Körner-Preis, 1958
 Kulturpreis der Donauschwaben, 1958
 Goldenes Verdienstzeichen der Republik Österreich, 1966
 Ehrengabe des Dehio-Preises für Kultur und Geistesgeschichte, Eßlingen 1970
 Bürger der Stadt Graz, 1996
 Großes Ehrenzeichen des Landes Steiermark
 Pro Meritis Medaille in Silber der Universität Graz
 Silbernes Ehrenzeichen der Landeshauptstadt Graz

Literatur
 Eintrag Anton Scherer, Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrtenkalender, 12. Ausgabe N–Z und Register für 1976, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York, S. 2745–2746, oder für 1992, 16. Ausgabe S–Z, S. 3177–78.
 Ferdinand Leindl: Anton Scherer 50 Jahre alt. Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter, Nr. 21/1972, S. 160–164.
 Der Grazer Professor Anton Scherer, einer der herausragendsten donauschwäbischen Wissenschaftler der Gegenwart. Publications. l. Der Akzent. Münchner Studien, in: Donum Indogermanicum, Festgabe für Anton Scherer zum 70. Geburtstag, Heidelberg.
 Josef Schramm: Prof Dr. Anton Scherer. Persönlichkeit und Werk. Zu seinem 75. Geburtstag. Graz 1999. Donauschwäbische Beiträge 104.

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 , nach Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender von 1970.
 , nach Luzian Geier.
 Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender Online:  Eintrag Anton Scherer

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Myles Garrett And Jack Conklin Named AP 1st Team All-Pro
By Wendi Oliveros January 8, 2021 @WendiOliveros1
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The Associated Press released its 2020 All-Pro Team selections today, and the Cleveland Browns are well-represented.
Among the first team All-Pro selections are Browns' DE Myles Garrett and RT Jack Conklin.
The Browns haven't had two first team selections in the same season since 2013.
#Browns DE Myles Garrett and RT Jack Conklin have been named to the AP All-Pro Team for the 2020 season. Congrats to both!
— Cleveland Sports Talk (@CLEsportsTalk) January 8, 2021
Myles Garrett and Jack Conklin give the Browns 2 players on AP's All-Pro 1st team. First time that's happened since 2013, when Josh Gordon and Joe Thomas made it.
— Andrew Gribble (@Andrew_Gribble) January 8, 2021
Myles Garrett, DE
Garrett, in his fourth NFL season, was on pace for Defensive Player of the Year consideration before he contracted COVID-19 and missed two games.
This is Garrett's first time to be selected on the first team.
In 2018, Garrett was selected to the second team.
Through 14 games this season, Garrett has 33 solo tackles, 18 quarterback hits, and 2 fumble recoveries.
Garrett has been the undisputed leader of the defense and despite feeling some nagging effects from COVID-19 has come back and played well.
Jack Conklin, OT
This is the second time Jack Conklin earned first team honors.
The last time was in his rookie season (2016).
Conklin played four seasons in Tennessee before signing with the Browns in the 2020 offseason.
He has played in 15 games.
Conklin is dealing with a knee injury so it is not yet known if he will play in Sunday's wildcard game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
AP All-Pro second-team honors went to Browns' guards Joel Bitonio and Wyatt Teller.
#Browns G's Wyatt Teller and Joel Bitonio named to All-Pro 2nd team pic.twitter.com/5qbwPkMwOy
— MoreForYouCleveland (@MoreForYou_CLE) January 8, 2021
Joel Bitonio, G
This is the third consecutive season that Bitonio has been named to the second team.
Bitonio has been a career Cleveland Brown since being drafted in 2014.
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Wyatt Teller, G
This is Teller's first time being named an All-Pro.
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Like Conklin, his availability for the wildcard game is yet to be determined.
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Formula 1 driver George Russell's stock is rising. The 23-year-old driver – who this year helped break a two-year dry spell for Williams – saw his popularity rise in Great Britain more than any other motorsport driver.
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Q: Remember select list option for onchange Here is my code;
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  <option value="">Select Something</option>
  <option value="<?php echo site_url(); ?>">Home</option>
  <option value="<?php echo site_url(); ?>publications">Publications</option>
  <option value="<?php echo site_url(); ?>contact_us">Contact Us</option>
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When an option is selected, that page will immediately load. However, the drop-down list does not "remember" that that option was selected. The drop-down list will just default back to Select Something. How can I get the list to display what was selected instead?
Before I began using Frameworks I might have tried something like this;
<option value="<?php echo site_url(); ?>contact_us" <?php if($value == "contact_us") {echo "selected"; } ?> >Contact Us</option>
And I would have created a $value using $_REQUEST['value'] or something. But I am using the CodeIgniter framework so I don't think I can do that anymore.

A: This may help you:
<?php if($value == $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]) {echo "selected"; } ?>

I suggest from your code that you have some php $value-es equal to every option value. So, you can compare it with web page URI
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Louise Bours (born 23 December 1968), also known as Louise van de Bours, is a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West England region. She was elected in 2014 as a UK Independence Party candidate but resigned from the party 2018, and sat as an independent until she stood down at the 2019 election.

Background
Bours' father is Dutch. She trained as an actress and singer at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. She was also a member of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from year 2000, and a resident at the Savoy Theatre in London. She went on to appear in Brookside, Peak Practice and Band of Gold and musicals and fronted 1940s-style big bands. However, Bours has said she "retired from showbusiness" in order to concentrate on politics. Bours is a single mother to two children.

Louise Bours used her surname "van de Bours" as late as August 2013, in her LinkedIn profile discussing her musical career, but later dropped the "van de" and appeared as "Louise Bours" on UKIP's MEP party list in 2013. The tussenvoegsel in her name was allegedly more of a stage name than a legal name, according to the Huffington Post.

Political career
Bours previously served as a Conservative councillor on Congleton borough and town councils and was elected mayor in 2006. In January 2015, Bours was disqualified as a member of Congleton town council after more than six months of non-attendance. Despite receiving an £80,000 salary from the European Union following the Brexit referendum, Bours' voting record in the EU parliament dropped by 22.6% to just 43.09% overall. Only fellow UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall and three other MEPs have a lower turnout in the entire European Parliament.

In 2012, she stood as UKIP's candidate in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections for Cheshire Constabulary, coming fifth with 7.86% of the vote.

As an MEP she served as UKIP health spokesperson, and came into opposition with former leader Nigel Farage on health issues; in particular Bours supports the principle of a free NHS, the English smoking ban and plain tobacco packaging, in opposition to Farage. However, Bours has opposed EU tax increases on electronic cigarettes, describing the proposals as "an act of sheer folly". Bours also opposes the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership due to the impacts it would have on the NHS, saying in 2014 that: "TTIP is there for the benefit of one thing only — big business. I've got a message for Len McCluskey and Unite. UKIP will fight alongside you to ensure the NHS is excluded from this agreement."

Bours appeared on Question Time discussing her role as health spokesperson.

In November 2018, Bours resigned from UKIP. She sat as an independent MEP in the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group, until the 2019 EU election.

Elections
Bours previously served as councillor for Congleton borough and town councils and was elected mayor in 2006.

European Parliament elections 2014
On 25 May 2014, Bours was elected as MEP for the North West England, replacing British National Party leader Nick Griffin. She has said that she wants to "shake off the BNP in blazers thing", for UKIP and it has been claimed that she has teamed up with UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall in the north-west, which was "a particular cause of anger" within the party according to former UKIP members, who accused them of forming part of a "cosy cartel".

General election 2015
In the 2015 general election, she stood for parliament for the Knowsley constituency. Bours came second, keeping her deposit.

See also
 Euroscepticism

References

1968 births
Living people
Alumni of the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Alumni of Lancaster University
UK Independence Party councillors
UK Independence Party MEPs
MEPs for England 2014–2019
21st-century women MEPs for England
English people of Dutch descent
British actor-politicians
Conservative Party (UK) councillors
Councillors in Cheshire
Mayors of places in Cheshire
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Women councillors in England
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Q: Free reporting library for PHP without installation? Is there a good (and hopefully free?) source library to use for PHP for creating and displaying reports? I would love one that would allow the user to view it in a nice format for saving and printing (like PDF?).
Also I would prefer one that is just files, not one that needs to be installed on the server itself as some of the people I create sites for are on shared server hosts.

A: Don't know if you would call this reporting but I have found these gems over the years:

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*http://pchart.sourceforge.net/

*http://devzone.zend.com/article/4044-Dynamically-Generating-PDF-Files-with-PHP-and-Haru-

*http://phppowerpoint.codeplex.com/

*http://phpexcel.codeplex.com/

*http://sourceforge.net/projects/phprtf/

*http://www.phpconcept.net/pclzip/index.en.php

*http://www.maani.us/charts4/

*http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/

*http://code.google.com/p/ofcgwt/w/list

*http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpreports/ <-- Just found this

A: Here is a pdf generating library for PHP http://www.fpdf.org/ .

A: I have looked at a few in the past, here is 2 that I recall (and was able to search for quick):

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*http://www.hkvstore.com/phpreportmaker/

*http://sourceforge.net/projects/repgen/
PHP Reportmaker is pretty good. Not sure if it fits the bill of what you want tho.
Examples are here:
http://www.hkvstore.com/phpreportmaker/features.asp

A: FPDF combined with PHPMyGraph for creating bars etc.:
http://phpmygraph.abisvmm.nl/


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Megan's Man
by Purple Princess
Rated: 18+ · Book · Family · #1282013
Dedicated to my favorite avid reader, Rachel.
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Modified: August 11th, 2018 at 11:24pm
Location: Endurance Series
Genres: Family, Romance/Love, Women's
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Chapter 5--Mourning
DEX AND MEGAN STOOD side by side at Dirk's bed the following morning, their hands locked in a tight grip. It reminded Megan of their mother's death and the way they'd clung to one another so very long ago, making her legs quake where they stood. The heartache and devastating loss of fourteen years ago washed over her and held her chest in a tight grip.
However, the emotions were different now, feelings bordering on guilt, rather than sadness, and anger rather than grief. How can I feel sorry for a man who methodically broke all feelings of love and respect into little pieces?
"He looks smaller than I remember," Dex whispered.
"Years of drinking will do that."
He turned to face her, his eyes drawn together. "Was it that bad?"
Megan nodded, fighting the tears that filled her eyes. "He hates me," she sobbed, releasing the pain that had built over the years. Dex pulled her into his arms.
"Mary," Dirk muttered, then opened his eyes wider. "Dex, is that you, boy?" Tears sprang to his eyes and Megan felt a pang of jealousy, knowing that even now Dex remained his favorite.
Dex released Megan and moved closer to his father. "Yes, Pa it's me."
"I'm glad you came, been doing a lot of thinking." Dirk shifted his eyes to his daughter.
Megan wiped her tears away, sucking up her sorrow and stepped up to his bedside. "How are you feeling today, Dad?"
"Like hell."
"Are you in a lot of pain? Should I call the nurse in here?" she asked concerned.
"I've been to the other side, but I have unfinished business. I know I'm dying."
"Don't talk like that. Doctor Brown says you're doing fine," Dex scolded.
"Megan, I never meant to hurt you, Honey. I just loved your Mama so much. Every time I look at you, I see my Mary. Running away from you was easier than dealing with my loss."
The confession came full force and made her run, tears streaming down her face.
"Megan wait," Dex called.
"Let her go, son."
MEGAN WAS TOO STUNNED to speak on the drive to the house, her head still spinning.
Just before reaching home, she finally found the courage to talk. "What did Dad say to you?"
Dex sighed, "He apologized for pushing me away."
Megan nodded. "He said the same thing to me. He's called me Mary twice."
A slight smile lifted the corner of his mouth. "I'm not surprised. The resemblance is remarkable."
That should be comforting to her, but it wasn't. Megan cringed and bowed her head, knowing that because of the fact that she looked like her mother, her father ignored her.
ANNA AND ABBY CARRIED in the food as the Brady family sat down to dinner in their dining room. The gnawing in Corey's gut told him that tonight would turn into an inquest instead of a relaxing family affair. Anna had that smug look on her face, the one that said she knew something and would enjoy taunting him, twisting the knife until he begged for mercy.
"How's Dex?" Anna asked.
"Fine, he looks great, all tanned from the Florida sun," Corey said, reaching for a piping hot biscuit.
"It's a real shame what happened to Dirk," Tom, Corey's father stated. He shook his light brown head and looked across the length of the rectangular table to his wife. "I can't imagine either of us turning our backs on our boys if one of us were to pass on."
Abby gave a firm nod, her blonde bob snapping back into its perfect spot as a somber smile floated across her thin lips. "Death affects people in different ways."
"Speaking of kids," Corey began catching Anna's green eyes across the table. "When will I be an Uncle?"
Nolan laughed and grabbed Anna's hand. "We're in negotiations."
Corey sat forward, pleased that this would go better than he anticipated. If he stayed on the subject of kids, Anna would forget to dig for information. "Let me guess. Miss Fashionista has decided that her career should be the focus for the next decade."
He did love having his best friend back home, and now that she made her fashion career in Endurance, and married his brother, it just made life a little more interesting. Corey did wonder how a construction worker and fashion designer managed to have anything to talk about though, their jobs were so very different.
Anna's gaze narrowed as the playfulness drained out of her vibrant green eyes and shot daggers in his direction. Her smile faded as well, taken over by a sternness that made him look away.
"Not that it's any of your business, but I'd like to concentrate on work for one year." She turned from Corey and smiled sweetly at Nolan. "Then we can start our family." Without a second to let her announcement hang in the air, she again focused on Corey, the corner of her pink mouth rising. "What's the latest with you and Megan?"
Before he could even come up with one single word to say, all eyes turned to him. The heaviness of the silence made his heart race.
Nolan set his fork down with a clank. "I thought you weren't going to do this at dinner."
Anna shrugged, that self-satisfied smirk prominent. "I wasn't, but his blatant attempt to corner me about kids leaves him fair game. Besides, we're all family here," she said before glancing around the table and sitting back in her chair pleased.
Corey looked down at the food on his plate, grabbed the fork and began eating. He didn't have to respond. He could enjoy the creamy mashed potatoes, doused in butter and salt. He stabbed at a tender chunk of the steak, picked it up, and popped it into his mouth, and even while he did so, everyone continued to stare.
With a heavy sigh, he set the fork down. "I like her, no big deal."
His father's booming laughter made Corey wince. "Admitting that you like her makes it a big deal. Not once have you ever brought a woman here, or talked about one."
Corey looked at his dad and scowled.
"That's because he's had a thing for Megan for years," Anna interjected.
Abby gasped leaning over toward Nolan and smiled. "Tell me everything."
Nolan shook his head. "You're asking the wrong person."
Abby raised an eyebrow. "So Anna knows all of Corey's deepest, darkest secrets still?" She cocked her head, looking over at Corey. "Some things never change."
Corey yanked the napkin from his lap and tossed it on the table. "I thought this was going to be a relaxing dinner."
Abby patted his hand. "Okay, we'll stop badgering you. Dinner's getting cold anyway."
"Yeah, right," Corey stated full of disbelief. He fastened his gaze upon Anna. "When has she ever let anything go?"
Anna picked off the end of her biscuit, tossed it into her mouth, and smirked. "You know you love that about me. If it weren't for me, Megan wouldn't have come running to you with the knowledge that Nolan and I were making out at The Stix."
That memory roused a smile but seemed so very long ago.
THE PHONE RANG IN THE middle of the night, waking Megan out of a deep sleep. She reached out, groping for the phone from the table next to her bed. Retrieving it from the base, she brought it to her ear and croaked a groggy hello.
"Megan, its Dr. Brown."
She bolted upright, an instant ache in her chest. "Is something wrong?"
A quiet sigh pierced her ear, and her heart tightened making it hard to breathe.
"I'm sorry. Your father didn't make it."
Tears filled her eyes and began their slow descent down her cheeks. Her bedroom door opened, and Dex stood in the pale yellow light of the hallway. He moved into the room, sitting beside her as the mattress creaked from his weight, mimicking the cries she suppressed. He took the phone from her and finished the conversation, his soft voice fading away as memories assaulted her.
The thought of her father dying in a lonely hospital room hunched Megan over.
FOR THE NEXT TWO days, Dex and Megan went through the motions. She couldn't help the fact that seeing Dex leaning on his wife, Karen, and their two children made her heart ache even more. Megan had no one, and the worst part was that she knew it.
Joe and Corey had both been to the house to pay their respects, but the animosity between the men she couldn't deal with, so she steered clear of them both. Megan struggled with the conflicting emotions that came and went. She fought to stop the flood of tears that would leave her crying for hours. Sometimes she sat unmovingly, focused on a bare spot on the wall, her heart too raw to cope. Finding herself caught between a comforting friendship she'd grown accustomed to, still wanted, but couldn't bring herself to turn to again, and a man she loved and would do anything for, seemed to make matters worse.
In all the craziness that surrounded her, something strange happened. An unexpected person appeared on her doorstep and began helping with the housework and the funeral arrangements. Of all the people living in that town, the last person Megan expected to find supportive was Anna Brady.
Just after Dex and Megan came home from the hospital, Anna showed up with her arms full of food and a kind smile. She'd come into the house, re-heated a casserole and then cleaned the kitchen as if it were the most natural thing in the world for her to do. Before anyone could say a word, she hurried off to clean the bathrooms and the living room. In a daze from the morning's events, Megan found it hard to interfere. All she knew was that someone with a clear head needed to step in. Anna made small talk, doing her best to distract Megan from thinking about her loss, and Megan found it comforting to have someone to talk to since her friends were few and far between. Joe stepped up and became her only support system when Dex and Karen moved away, but that too was now over. She couldn't continue to burden him with her problems when she knew that he wanted more than she was able to give, so backing off was the only solution.
After the funeral, Megan waited by the door, wishing Corey would walk through it. Loneliness continued to surround her heart, even though Dex stood only a few feet away. Everything about her life seemed different somehow. Before, Megan's purpose was to take care of her father, with him gone, she had no direction in her life. For the first time ever, she only had to worry about herself, and that terrified her.
Anna moved beside her and gave Megan a reassuring squeeze on her arm. "How are you holding up?"
"Are you hungry? Can I get anything for you?"
Megan shook her head, the thought of food unappealing when her mind was elsewhere. Before she could speak, Joe came through the door with the nurse from the hospital and headed straight towards her. He looked nice in his black suit, his damp brown hair brushed neatly off to the side.
He pulled her into his arms and brushed a light kiss on her cheek. "Sorry I didn't make it to the cemetery. How are you doing, Meg?"
She looked up at him, at her friend, the man who'd been around to help her through the difficult days over the last five years and knew that she couldn't push him out of her life. She wanted his friendship, needed that lifeline because it gave her something meaningful to look forward to on a daily basis, other than work, and cleaning up after Dirk, and for that reason alone, she would not turn her back on him.
"I'm doing okay."
He smiled down at her, the affection visible, before turning to the woman beside him. "You remember Beth Lane."
Megan shook the offered hand. "Thanks for taking such good care of my father."
The red-headed nurse smiled. "I'm very sorry for your loss."
Megan loved Beth's emerald green eyes. They differed from Anna's lighter ones and held genuine warmth. She was slim and stood shoulder to shoulder with Joe. The more she looked at the two of them, the more she realized how good they looked together as if they were a couple. How do I feel about that?
Anna cleared her throat. "Hello, Joe. Beth, you look wonderful, I hardly recognized you."
Beth chuckled, "Fifty pounds will do that to a person."
Megan felt him the second he came into the house. The familiar excitement when he walked into a room raced up her spine as she turned, ready to go and greet him.
A hand on her arm prevented her from moving forward. "Ya know, yer daddy was a good man. Sure am gonna miss him," Eli Wilson said, his voice thick with sadness.
"Thank you, Eli. He was very fond of you."
"Yea, no one could out drink me like yer daddy."
The acknowledgment made her stomach queasy. "Make sure you get some food."
Megan continued walking, getting closer to Corey with every step, a smile enveloping her face as her heart hammered in her chest. "Hi," she said. Her eyes latched onto his making her breath catch, and for one brief moment, they were the only two people on the planet.
"I'm very sorry for your loss," Nolan interrupted.
Snapping her eyes to him, Megan nodded and blushed. She hadn't even realized that Nolan was standing there until he spoke.
"How are you holding up," Corey asked.
"I'm doing all right. The thought that gives me comfort is that he is finally reunited with my mom."
Corey reached out, took her hand and gave it a gentle squeeze. His touch, so strong and comforting sent heat racing up her arm. "I'm sure he is."
"Where is Anna?" Nolan asked.
"Last I saw she was back in the kitchen." Turning to Nolan she said, "She's been great to me."
"Let me know if she becomes a problem. I love her, but she can be a bit imperious." Nolan smiled and walked away.
"Is he serious?" Megan whispered.
Corey laughed, "Oh yes. Just you wait and see." The smiled left his face as their eyes locked again. "You look tired. Can I get you something to eat or drink?"
His sudden concern for her well-being made her heart soar as if it had wings and could take flight like a dove. Her stomach rumbled at the mention of food, a reminder of the lack of sustenance these last few days. "Join me?"
He nodded and waited for her to lead the way. Heading to the kitchen together, his hand rested in the middle of her back, and that simple gesture was enough to make her want more. Megan fought the urge to turn around and crawl into the comfort of his arms, to get lost with the man of her dreams. Passing Joe and Beth on the way in, she felt the heated stare Joe directed to Corey. She hoped they would keep their cool and not cause a scene. Megan smiled at both of them, and somehow, Corey and Joe seemed to brush shoulders. Cringing, Megan grabbed Corey's hand and pulled him along into the kitchen.
A vast array of lunchmeats, cheeses, bread and cold cuts lined the kitchen counter. Megan grabbed a plate and handed it to Corey, took another and made herself a sandwich. After they both filled their dishes, Megan made sure she stayed between Joe and Corey as they headed to the living room to find a place to sit down.
They ate in silence, but she couldn't understand why he was so quiet. Once she finished most of her sandwich, she turned to him. Corey gnawed his food, his focus across the house to Joe. Megan shook her head in disgust. What in the hell is wrong with the two of them? Here she was in mourning, having buried her father hours earlier, and these two were acting like jealous, possessive idiots. Anger ignited in the pit of her stomach, red-hot fury racing through her veins. There was no way she would continue to sit there and watch them act like children.
Standing, she snatched the plate from his lap, added it to the one in her hand and glared at him. "Thank you for coming." Pivoting on her heel, Megan marched away from him.
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