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The Plague and the Pandemic
Neil Dhingra
Books, Commentary, Roman Catholic Church
By Neil Dhingra
Unsurprisingly, amidst this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Albert Camus' The Plague has again become popular. According to the writer Samuel Earle, in Japan more copies sold in March than during the previous 31 years, and in France "it has sometimes seemed as if La Peste itself is a vaccine." Earle recalls the early critical reception was mixed, as some readers judged Dr. Bernard Rieux's line, "The only way to fight the plague is with decency," as overly sentimental, safely apolitical. But that line, with its presently elusive "common decency" opposed to now-familiar panic and tyrannical and incompetent forms of government, as well as the absurdity of disease itself, has shown up again in newspaper and magazine articles.
With few exceptions, religion doesn't play much of a role in the recent attention given to Camus' story. Christianity may appear in subtle ways in The Plague — Camus' biographer, Robert Zaretsky notes that the village doctor in Chambon-sur-Lignon, the village that saved 3,000 Jews under the leadership of its Protestant pastor, was named Rioux — close to the name of Camus' (unbelieving) protagonist. But its main representative of Christianity is the learned Jesuit, Paneloux, who as the plague spreads throughout Oran, delivers two seemingly different sermons. Perhaps we can learn as much from Paneloux's bad sermons as we can from Rieux's "common decency," namely, about what hope means in our time of deep uncertainty and even pessimism, the result of not only disease but also political failure and systemic racism.
His first and more conventional sermon occurs before a huge, if not particularly devout, congregation — Camus says they attended with the thought, "Anyhow, it can't do any harm." Paneloux, the distinguished scholar of Augustine, begins correctly, "This calamity was not willed by God." But because of the city's religious indifference, God had visited Oran with plague to get them to return to the faith, as he had once done to Sodom and Gomorrah and — in perhaps a disconcerting tell — Job. While the people shouldn't seek infection, as had the "Christians of Abyssinia" centuries before in excess zeal, they can still perceive "the will of God in action, unfailingly transforming evil into good" with the microbe.
The sermon does not work. For some, it even confirms that "they had been sentenced, for an unknown crime, to an indeterminate period of punishment," and leads to panic. For Dr. Rieux, the sermon reflects the Jesuit's lack of acquaintance with death, a naiveté that lets him pronounce the "excellence" of suffering. Rieux also claims that Paneloux cannot even believe what he says, for otherwise he would dismiss trying to cure the sickness, now revered as providential.
Once Paneloux encounters death in particularly gruesome form, he preaches a second, less conventional sermon. He has told Rieux that he now realizes we must "love what we cannot understand." Paneloux now speaks of "we" not "you" to his congregation in a "cold silent church." He can no longer explain suffering to them. But instead he finds himself faced with a choice: to either accept everything or to deny everything. Paneloux describes this choice with paradoxical grandeur: it demands "total self-surrender," as we "aspire beyond ourselves to that high and fearful vision," hoping that truth will "flash forth from the dark cloud of seeming injustice." We are to imagine that children die, but within this horrifying picture, the touch of sublimity: their bodies are buried deep under the ageless churches where priests now speak the Word of God.
In this second sermon, Paneloux says that we must "try to do what good lay in our power," but the intensity of accepting everything may lead to heretical extremes, as a young deacon realizes: "That it's illogical for a priest to call in a doctor." As Paneloux dies, he says that priests "have given their all to God," and this means that priests "can have no friends." His is a self-destructive and lonely acceptance. His refusal of medical attention connects his second sermon to his first; Paneloux is still looking, however differently, for the sickness to be providential.
Rieux disagrees with the second sermon as much as the first, for his unceasing efforts against the plague are rooted in "fighting against creation as he found it," instead of either rationalization or acceptance of the will of a "silent" God who mysteriously presides over a world of death. But the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, who felt a closeness with Camus, also insightfully found fault with both sermons. For Merton, Paneloux is an example of constructing security upon power, which then must be justified even if entangled in human suffering. The first sermon is meant "to prove that [Paneloux's] religious establishment is right." When this explanation fails, Paneloux's choice to accept all "masks a hidden will to power under a doctrine of total submission to seemingly arbitrary decrees of God." Under the guise of humility, he choreographs "an individual drama," "a bizarre exploit of dying" that he offers to God in a desperate and self-destructive attempt to "impose his own will on God."
So, we are left at an impasse. We can adopt Rieux's "common decency," but with its rejection of the world as creation, that is, as anything beyond sheer absurdity against which we struggle like soldiers fighting "a never-ending defeat." This is life as revolt. Or we adopt either Paneloux's theodicy or his voluntarism, shiftily telling ourselves that they are not what the historian Charles Rosenberg, drawing on Camus, sees as part of the dramaturgy of every epidemic: a desire, whether expressed religiously or rationalistically, to gain some "measure of control over an intractable reality."
But Merton also sees a possibility seemingly invisible to the characters in The Plague. There is grace that leads to action, that escapes the gravity of "social justification, a logic of acceptability, an affirmation of rightness." As "purely gratuitous," it's only justified by its "own intrinsic content of love." It is the acceptance of an invitation from God that leads to hope, not in an abstraction or establishment that conceals a will to power, but in the fulfillment of God's promises in a manner unforeseen. As Werner Jeanrond writes, this hope may bring not security but a "feeling of fear and frustration in view of the unpredictability and possible upset and surprises emerging from the evolving relationship with the mysterious and radical otherness of God." Jeanrond quotes Thomas Merton:
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, nor rests in any visible end. He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.
Merton will even say, "Hope deprives us of everything that is not God," as hope in an "illusory promise" leads to despair. Jeanrond suggests that hope finds its place in our world subversively —perhaps more in the traumatic sites of damaged war memorials or a new cathedral in Coventry constructed next to its bombed-out predecessor, than in the seemingly solid and permanent monuments to a particular nation state. But Jeanrond nevertheless insists that hope is finally not in revolt or through what Merton calls Paneloux's "secret spiritual will to power." Our hope is not for the end of time, space, and language, but for their radical transformation. The new Jerusalem is recognizable as a "holy city" (Rev. 21:2), albeit without death.
Perhaps that theological position is not that far from Camus' characters, despite their words. After all, Dr. Rieux retains an inexplicable optimism about people. After the first sermon, he says, "Christians sometimes say that sort of thing without really thinking it. They're better than they seem." He's capable of friendship, being "perfectly at one" with another character during a swim, and even with nature itself — "Rieux could feel under his hand the gnarled, weather-worn visage of the rocks, and a strange happiness possessed him" — even if these moments are fleeting and outside the city. As for Paneloux, in the manuscript of the novel, he loses his faith; in the finished novel, he does not. He dies on the Feast of All Saints, holding a crucifix. He also dies after having finally expelled "the clot of matter that was choking him," and Camus tells us, "it was red," the color of power in The Plague, where judges play the "game of the red robes." Paneloux has finally expelled his spiritual will to power. Perhaps both Rieux and Paneloux's positions are finally unsustainable; we are all better than we seem, at least in the end.
I don't mean to argue for a complete harmony of positions here. But perhaps it's good for Christians to read The Plague as more than a reminder of "common decency," as important as that may be. Camus may challenge us to radical hope, which Jeanrond, here alluding to John of the Cross, says "presupposes the emptying of all claims to possession," and which may be the only lasting hope for our troubled times.
Neil Dhingra is a doctoral student in education at the University of Maryland.
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Neil Dhingra, a Roman Catholic, is a doctoral student in education at the University of Maryland.
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What a beautifully nuanced argument. Thank you for making it.


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Christina DePino began to suffer with extreme itchiness late into her pregnancy, but initially put it down to moving to a drier climate or a pregnancy symptom.
But when her scratching became so severe that her skin began to bleed, she knew there was something wrong.
At 36 weeks, the 28-year-old was diagnosed with a disorder that impairs the flow of bile from the liver, called intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy. She was warned that if she did not deliver her baby quickly, she could suffer a stillbirth.
Thankfully, just a week after being diagnosed, Christina was induced and gave birth to a healthy baby, but is now encouraging other mums to look into itchiness during pregnancy.
'My doctor explained that while not all the reasons are understood, after 37 weeks, patients with ICP are at a very high risk of having a stillborn.
Christina and her husband Aaron decided that inducing their baby was the best course of action for them, but the mum is now on a mission to try and prevent the same thing happening to another family.
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What do you think Emmett's favorite sport is?
Football. Or something really physical. I can see him watching MMA. But really anything that has competition. But definatly somthing physical.
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Wow you guys...I leave for 16 hours and look how much ou all have done...we'll have the entire lex in no time.
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My problem is, I want the "tread's first topic" to be an amazing one. I have a few but I don't know if their "first topic" material, they none have that new topic smell lol.
I want to get the new thread started off right.
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Oh but I did Caomb. I said anything physical. Including wrestling, boxing, wheelbarrel racing, all the jazz. I wanna see him play hopscotch with Alice I bet against Jasper that he does four skips.
Can you just picture Emmett playing dodge ball ?
I think that would be hysterical and there would be alot of people nursing bloody noses and welts on their heads. I would pay to see that game.


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My name is Günther Osswald, 47, a secondary school science teacher in Bavaria/Germany.
When I discovered WikiEducator in February 2007, I was full of joy, because it offered to me what I had been searching for a long time: The possibility to work "from home" for the development of education in non-industrialized countries.
Since then, I have been a passionate member of this on-line community, using the wiki for my own tuition in school, lobbying for WikiEducator and taking part in discussions in the WikiEducator mailing list.
2) a platform for educators in non-industrialized countries.
The well known example of Wikipedia shows, that community-driven grass-root projects are capable of serving the world of education even better than many costly development projects.
There is this lack of free educational materials that WE could cover more and more, step by step. And there is this need of educating the largest profession, the teachers, especially in countries where the resources of ministries of education are strictly limited. And the need of organizing educators, and strengthen their sense for community, especially for those anew in their jobs or working in remote places.
The internet provides a new and exiting medium for reaching the masses as well as reaching individuals, offering the opportunity to not only receive information, but author and share own works. It is basically democratic, what counts is active participation, the measure for success is to stand the process of peer review.
As educators we all have our implicit and explicit values we want to bring into the world, especially the dream of creating a more reasonable and peaceful mankind through good education.
Let' s get active and work for it right now, not wait for "institutions" to do for us what we could do on our own!
COL is an organization of ex-commonwealth countries with English as mother tongue or English as colonial language. WE is hosted by the Commonwealth of Learning COL, but is on his way to independence as a community driven project. In fact already now there are numerous contributions of authors that do not reside in a COL-member country. We should not expect them to write all of their texts in English, but encourage them to use the language in which they need their educational materials to be.
Nevertheless: in order to find a common denominator and not get into a Babylonian confusion of tongues, we should encourage all authors to translate their work into English too. At least to provide an acceptable machine translation.
The English translation of the materials could then be improved step by step by the community and the help of professional translators, depending on the available fundings. It will serve as the core for further translations into other languages, especially less resourced ones. As Steve Forster states on his campaign page, for cultural diversity, a multilingual approach is essential for WE.
And, to go still one step further: If WE could develop into an open platform for educational materials in even small local languages, it will add really something new to the world of OER. With better automatic translations (like Google translation or Apertium for small and related roman languages) and the process of peer to peer review, a wiki has substantial advantages to printed media.
If we want to include the masses of educators in the so called developing world, we have to go this way!
For the time being, WE has the center of his mass still in the tertiary sector, but the lower we want to go down, the more rises the issue of small local languages. In this context, I'm proud to have been able to get the SUPRA international project on the way, as we have awakened the interest of Vox Humanitatis, a new and still small but promising organization for the care of small languages.
A great topic for me is the question of how to get already existing educational resources assimilated to WE. In some of my projects (see below), I try to convince authors of high quality materials to donate their materials in CC-BY-SA for the use in WE.
1) Especially for this process, we have to facilitate the "wikification" of texts and web pages.
I'd propose to stay right with the policy, WE has had before, to see CC-BY-SA unported as leading license, welcome still more free ones and tolerate NC-restrictions only in exceptional cases.
The Department for the Didactics of Physics at the University of Munich, Prof. Dr. Wiesner & Dr. Heran-Dörr, is about to donate 1000 pages of high quality educational material for the teaching of physics in elementary schools. I asked them to do so and use WikiEducator as platform. I am trying to counsel and support.
Next steps to do for me: Introduction of the WikiMaster concept in ZUM. Completion of the copy of the on-line script Mechanics11 (see above) into ZUM.
I represent WikiEducator as "ambassador" here in my country. See my record of promotions. Example: One of the activities has been a presentation of WikiEducator at the University of Munich, "Day of the Physics Teachers"
For my posting activity in the WikiEducator mailing list see here, for the older ones in the Moodle forum there.
My big dream for my work in WikiEducator is to establish a platform for physics teachers in non-industrialized countries. A draft of this project can be found here.
I'm cooperating with council candidate Vincent Kizza in planning a virtual platform for physics teachers in Africa, called Center for innovative physics teaching in Uganda.
Status: Analysis of needs and constraints of school physics in Uganda.
GTZis the largest public development agency in Germany I've asked for the funding for the Learning4Content program.
Status: I'm waiting for an invitation for a first internal talk.
LEIFI is a well situated German site for secondary physics, developed by teachers with their students.
Next step to do for me: commence talks for release under CC-BY-SA license.
Since I was 15 years old, I have found this world we live in to be quite unjust. After my university studies, I spent 9 months teaching in the Philippines, experiencing the lack of good educators. Later I went to India, Peru and Senegal, and was deeply moved by seeing so many young intelligent people without proper possibilities of education. Recently, I have started reading research literature about open and distance learning (ODL), excited by the incredible new possibilities offered by the internet.
I feel I have collected so much experience through my work in the classroom, and I want to share them with the world!
But still more important for me is networking, building a community, as only a lively community of educators can achieve progress in the improvement of world education.
Therefore I definitely find it necessary to cooperate in the new WikiEducator council.
Please support my work for WikiEducator with your vote!
If you have any questions or critics concerning my work or candidacy, please post here!
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NIFT 2022 Eligibility Criteria
The candidates will be able to know the eligibility criteria to get Admission to the NIFT through this article. The following are the eligibility criteria of NIFT for admissions to undergraduate programs has given below.
The NIFT may provide the National Level Entrance Exam for candidates and that candidates should be eligible to fill the application form of NIFT to get admission in the NIFT. The5 application form of NIFT will be available from the month of November, so candidates can fill the application form through the official website of NIFT. Those applicants are seeking to get admission in Bachelor of Design and Bachelor of Fashion Technology programs can check the eligibility criteria of NIFT.
Reservation of Seats
The seats reserved for SC / ST / OBC (Non Creamy)/ GEN-EWS/ Person With Disability (PWD)/ Foreign Nationals / SAARC/ NRI/OCI/ State Domicilee, in each programme are as under,
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ST 7.5%
OBC (NON-CREAMY) 27%
GEN-EWS 10%
Person with Disability (PWD) 5%*
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Eligibility for Bachelor Programmes – Bachelor of Design – B.Des. (Fashion Design / Leather Design / Accessory Design / Textile Design / Knitwear Design / Fashion Communication)
The +2 level examination in the 10+2 pattern of examination of any recognized Central/ State Board of Secondary Examination, such as Central Board of Secondary Education / State Board New Delhi, and Council for Indian School of Certificate Examination, New Delhi. OR
General Certificate Education (GCE) Examination (London/Cambridge/Sri-Lanka) at the Advanced (A) level/ International Baccalaureate (IB). OR
Any Public School/Board/University Examination in India or in foreign countries recognized by the Association of Indian Universities as equivalent to 10+2 system. OR
A passing grade in the Senior Secondary School Examination conducted by the National Open School with a minimum of five subjects. OR
3 or 4-year diploma recognized by AICTE or a State Board of Technical Education.
Eligibility for Bachelor Programme – Technology- Bachelor of Fashion Technology (Apparel Production) (B.FTech.)
The +2 level examination in the 10+2 pattern of examination of any recognized Central/ State Board of Secondary Examination, such as Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, and Council for Indian School of Certificate Examination, New Delhi with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. OR
General Certificate Education (GCE) Examination (London/Cambridge/Sri- Lanka) at the advanced (A) level with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics / International Baccalaureate (IB). OR
Any Public School/Board/University Examination in India or in foreign countries recognized by the Association of Indian Universities as equivalent to 10+2 system with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. OR
A passing grade in the Senior Secondary School Examination conducted by the National Open School with a minimum of five subjects with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. OR
3 or 4-years diploma in any branch of Engineering recognized by AICTE or a State Board of Technical Education
For Master, Programmes
There is no limit of age for candidates.
Eligibility for Master Programme – Design – M.Des (Master of Design)
Undergraduate Degree from any Institute / University recognized by law in India. OR
Diploma in UG Design from NIFT/NID only.
Undergraduate Diploma of minimum three years duration from NIFT / NID.
Eligibility for Master Programme – Management – M.F.M (Master of Fashion Management)
Eligibility for Master Programme – Technology – M.F.Tech. (Master of Fashion Technology)
F.Tech. from NIFT OR
E / B.Tech. from any Institute / University recognized by law in India.
Other Important Information of NIFT Eligibility Criteria
Candidates appearing in the qualifying examination are also eligible to apply provided:
They have to produce proof of having acquired the minimum prescribed qualifications at the time of Counseling/ admission. Or
If the 12th class/final year/final semester (as the case may be) Result of the qualifying degree/certificate examination is not declared by the concerned Board/University till the date of counseling/admission, his/ her admission in such case will be strictly provisional subject to the following conditions:
The candidate will submit the final result of qualifying degree/certificate providing candidates eligibility on or before 30th September 2018 to their Campus Director / Jr. Director where the admission will be granted.
Above to prove his/her eligibility on or before 30th September 2018, whatsoever the reason may be his/her admission will be treated as null and void (canceled) and the entire fee will be forfeited. Any exception will be as per the decision of DG-NIFT, on a case by case basis.
Those candidates who are seeking provisional admission due to non-declaration of their final year/final semester/12th class (refer Annexure -I) will provide proof of having passed all papers in all the previous year's /semesters of qualifying degree examination (whichever relevant).
The candidates will also bring the date sheet /Admit card/ Principal's certificate as proof of having appeared in the qualifying exam.
Any candidate, who has not appeared for the qualifying exam before the date of Counseling/admission to NIFT, will not be eligible.
It is further clarified that provisional admission will be considered only in such cases where the result of the Final year/semester of the qualifying degree has not been declared by the concerned Board/University in its totality.
In case the Result will be declared by the concerned Board/ University but it has not been declared in a specific case, for any reason, such cases will NOT be considered under the provisional admission category.
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There is many Courses are provided by the NIFT campuses for candidates and the following are the courses of NIFT has given below such as
Des. (Fashion Design)
Des. (Leather Design)
Des. (Accessory Design)
Des. (Textile Design)
Des. (Knitwear Design)
Des. (Fashion Communication)
F.Tech. (Apparel Production)
Des. (Master of Design)
F.M.(Master of Fashion Management)
F.Tech. (Master of Fashion Technology)
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Sandhya Dhawan says:
Hello Expertise
Please suggest which subject are compulsory to clear in class 10+2 exam and how much percentage is require to get admission in
B .Des course of NIFT
Shashank pandey says:
If i will complete my 12th(private),then i eligible for nift or not??
Anshika gupta says:
Is there any advantage of having some specific subjects in 12th or any degree?

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As of this writing, readers of The Huffington Post have been treated to not one but five hostile reviews of my book A Troublesome Inheritance. I trust that all now understand the peril of exposing their minds to the book's central ideas, which are so beguilingly subversive of the social order that none of the reviewers dared even say what they are.
The book's starting point is the abundant evidence from the genome that human evolution didn't grind to a halt thousands of years ago. Rather, evolution has proceeded vigorously throughout the recent past and almost certainly up until the present day.
If that's the case, then might that be something that historians and economists should pay attention to? Could evolution have had a role in major but still unexplained events, such as the transition from hunter-gathering to settled life some 15,000 years ago, or even those of just 250 years ago, such as the Industrial Revolution?
That's the question explored in my book. Surely it's a logical one, and one worth asking.
So why are some of its critics incoherent with rage?
Because many have been indoctrinated in the social-science creed that prohibits any role for evolution in human affairs. Social scientists believe that all differences between human groups are due to culture alone, and that to ascribe any part of these differences to genetics would lead to racism.
A major argument of my book, also ignored by all its critics, is that exploration of the human genome lends no support to racism. I was delighted with the headline of an Amazon review that complained that the book "Opens Pandora's Box But Doesn't Pull Anything Out." Understanding the human genome will not liberate the plagues of racism. Rather, it's a data trove that will shed a whole new light on our recent evolution and history. My book is an attempt to make a start on that interpretation.
The latest of its five reviews on The Huffington Post says nothing of this. The review, by Pete Shanks, simply asserts that the book has been dismissed by scientists, without offering any specific instances of scientific flaws. In fact, the book's central genetic premise, that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional, has not been challenged by any serious scientist, so far as I am aware. Shanks failed to notice, or failed to share with readers, the fact that scientists critical of my book have attacked it largely on political grounds.
Although a science writer, Shanks is at sea in assessing scientific expertise. He places excessive weight on the views of Agustín Fuentes, the author of two of the five critical reviews that have appeared on The Huffington Post. To ascertain a scientist's field of expertise, all one need do is consult their list of publications. Fuentes' primary research interest, as shown by publications on his website, is the interaction between people and monkeys at tourist sites. I don't know what the scientific merit of this project may be, but it establishes Fuentes' field of expertise as people-monkey interaction. If you seek an authoritative opinion on human statistical genetics, the principal scientific subject of my book, he would not be your go-to expert.
"This was just a bad book," Shanks says. Critics are entitled to their opinions. But shouldn't they do at least a minimum of work to earn that right? Shanks' review is based on his highly skewed summary of other people's reviews. Of what value is such an appraisal?
Still, I don't wish to disturb the impression left by the five reviews that A Troublesome Inheritance is a highly dangerous book. Every reader has the proof: It ruffles feathers and induces embarrassing lapses into rage and incoherence. It contains novel ideas disturbing to historians, economists and social scientists. It pries open Pandora's box (even if only to reveal that there's nothing in it). Anyone tempted to read the book in defiance of the critics' explicit warnings should be fully confident of their ability to think for themselves.


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Q: Angular 5 and Webpack -- Do I REALLY need it? I can't figure it out.
I use the Angular-CLI to generate my project.
when I use ng serve, it defently works great, also the ng build --prod.
Why do I need to eject or change the webpack file?
is the DEFAULT webpack configuration is enough for production ?
if not, what will I need to add for example (maybe translate (i18))?
In which way I need to treat webpack in my developing workflow ?

A: I'm currently migrating a large project from angularJS to angular 5.
And i'm facing with the dilemma whether to choose angular cli or go with plain webpack.
If your project does not need any special configurations and is generally straight forward, stick with angular cli which handles all the webpack configurations for you.
In your eyes webpack does not exist, you only have the tools and configurations given to you by angular cli team. currently they are yusing webpack, but it might change in the future.
If you suspect you might have not 'out of the box' solutions for your build process, eject your cli and start managing webpack configurations on your own.

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Extend your application's reach with a thorough understanding of modern search engine optimization (SEO). Empower search engines to index and represent your content in the best way possible! Mike North gives you all the tips and techniques you need for your site to be easily found on Google, and teach you how to take advantage of advanced features on Facebook, and Twitter to boost user engagement.
Mike talks about tips and process for brick-and-mortar businesses.
Discussing the first algorithm used by Google for search results, Mike reviews Page Rank. PageRank works by counting the number and quality of links to a page to determine a rough estimate of how the importance of a site compared to other sites of a similar nature or content. Mike answers PageRank questions from students.
Mike talks about the desire for organic, sustainable growth with SEO tactics rather than trying to subvert search engine algorithms. Gains from these furtive tactics, known as Black Hat SEO, might result in short term gains but are quickly found out and penalized with poor search engine rankings.
If your site has bad links that have been indexed by Google, Mike reviews tools and tips to eliminate these links and inform Google that you disavow them. Mike takes questions from students.
Besides organic SEO, Mike introduces buying ads on search engines as a way to drive traffic.
In this challenge, students write metadata for an example site.
Mike reviews platforms that allow developers to provide a richer context for pages. Mike demonstrates how Facebook's Open Graph protocol enables developers to integrate their pages into a limited subsection social graph to give more information as to what content can be found at a URL.
In this challenge, students add Open Graph data to pages on an example site.
To bring richer context of pages on Twitter, Mike shows how to build Twitter Cards.
In this challenge, students add Twitter metadata to pages for build Twitter Cards.
Called Rich Pins, Mike reviews the social metadata for the Pinterest social network including article and reviews pins.
In this challenge, students add Open Graph data for course data and breadcrumbs.
In this challenge, students prepare a web site for mobile fitness.
Mike introduces Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project which is a type of HTML design for fast mobile web browsing.
In this challenge, students create an application that delivers AMP for mobile devices.
Mike wraps up the Modern SEO course.


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Monday Buzz: The $70K Minimum Wage, Six Months Later
If the past six months of results are any indication, the company that set a $70,000 minimum wage may have made the right business decision. Plus: Do nine out of 10 nonprofits really fail?
By Eli Zimmerman Oct 26, 2015
Gravity Payments founder Dan Price decided in April to raise his company's minimum salary far beyond Seattle's $15 hourly wage: to $70,000 a year. That decision sparked a huge debate about whether the move would propel the credit-card-processing company to the next level or if it would drag the business down with unsustainably high salary obligations.
Six months into the experiment, how is Gravity faring? Inc. editor Paul Keegan talked with Price to find out, and his findings, though still early, indicate that the pay bump has more than paid off for the company.
"Revenue is growing at double the previous rate. Profits have also doubled," Keegan writes. "Gravity did lose a few customers: Some objected to what seemed like a political statement that put pressure on them to raise their own wages; others feared price hikes or service cutbacks. But media reports suggesting that panicked customers were fleeing have proved false. In fact, Gravity's customer retention rate rose from 91 to 95 percent in the second quarter."
The company's biggest immediate challenge, Keegan discovered, could be a legal battle between Price and his brother over ownership of the company, a battle that Keegan explores in depth here.
Litigation aside, Price's bold decision appears to be a financial victory—though, ultimately, he wants the $70,000 wage to be recognized as something other than a savvy business deal.
"I want the scorecard we have as business leaders to be not about money but about purpose, impact, and service," he told Keegan. "I want those to be the things that we judge ourselves on."
Reality Check of the Day
Are infographics dead? Critics may claim that their usefulness has vanished as the web continues to evolve, but in this post on Hootsuite's blog, writer Dara Fontein relates how you can keep your infographics relevant by focusing on data, by designing these tidbits so they're easy to share on social media, and by creating clear, uncluttered visuals.
Other Good Reads
Business is about creating beneficial partnerships, but how do you know if you're getting the most out of yours? National Retail Federation senior vice president Mike Gatti shares some tips with Entrepreneur on optimizing business-association relationships.
Advertising can be an expensive venture for nonprofits, but this coalition of agencies is changing that, one free ad at a time.
Presidential hopeful Ben Carson claimed that nine out of 10 nonprofits fail, but do the numbers support that assertion? The Washington Post dives into the facts to see just how effective nonprofits really are.
By Eli Zimmerman
Eli is studying Journalism at the University of Maryland. When not studying, he likes to relax with a nice book or a couple rounds at the local boxing gym. MORE


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Alex Bonilla, (49) accused of assault and cutting Off Wife's Lover's Penis With Scissors
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https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/...512798281.html
A Florida man is facing charges after police say he used a pair of scissors to cut off his wife's lover's penis weeks after he caught them having sex.
Alex Bonilla, 49, was arrested Sunday on multiple charges including aggravated assault, aggravated battery, burglary, false imprisonment and cruelty toward a child, according to the Gilchrist County Sheriff's Office.
According to NBC-2, the victim told his neighbor that Bonilla broke into his home armed with a gun and threatened to kill him. He said Bonilla tied him up and used scissors to cut off his penis, then left the home with the penis, the report said.
The victim's two children were in the home at the time of the incident, the report said. The victim was taken to a local hospital and was expected to be okay, the report said.
Probably South Of You
So many creepy people on fb are applauding this.
Which might be even more fucked up than one vengeful man actually doing it, because imagine how the vic & his family feel reading all the congratulatory posts
Jumaki15
Columbiana County, Ohio
Originally Posted by blighted star
In the MDS FB group?
Originally Posted by Jumaki15
Ha, haven't looked there yet, but probably. I think there were a couple on scissor dude's own page & maybe a news site or something. The whole site is so infested with rabid people that it's getting really hard to avoid the shit.
https://www.wcjb.com/content/news/Gi...512782291.html
GILCHRIST CO., Fla. (WCJB)-- UPDATE:
Neighbors in one North Central Florida city are reacting to the news of a gruesome incident that happened close to home.
An alleged affair may be the motive that led one man in Gilchrist County on Sunday to commit a crime that sounds just as painful as it might have felt. Gilchrist County sheriff's deputies say that the suspect who has since been arrested caught his wife cheating on him with the victim a few months ago. One neighbor says people in the neighborhood can not believe their ears.
"I was like you got to be kidding me, ain't no way this happened," said Dusty Joiner, neighbor.
Dusty Joiner says he and his family were headed out to Chiefland when he heard a boom -- he thought was fireworks.
"It was a big bang and I'm thinking it must be some idiots shooting fireworks or something," said Joiner.
But what it was actually a gunshot fired by 49-year-old Alex Bonilla.
Gilchrist County deputies say Bonilla entered a home on Northwest 27th Way in Bell where there were kids inside and held a man at gunpoint, tied him up, and cut off the man's penis.
When deputies found Bonilla at work later that day he said he caught his wife cheating on him with the victim in May.
"When I found out what happened over there and I saw the report and what I read, I was like oh man that guy is crazy, something is wrong with him, they need to lock that man up or something I'm glad they got him," said Joiner.
Bonilla is being held at the Gilchrist county jail and his bond is set at 1.25 million dollars.
"Even if its cheating or something on somebody you just move on with your life, it ain't no sense in killing somebody or hurting somebody," said Joiner.
The Gilchrist County Sheriff's Office issued a statement saying that the victim's family is asking for privacy and that they will not be commenting on the specifics of the injuries. However, deputies say the victim is doing medically well.
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The Gilchrist County Sheriff's Office is investigating the motive of a home invasion that left a resident mutilated Sunday morning, July 14, 2019, in the town of Bell.
Deputies arrested 49-year-old Alex Bonilla and charged him with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, burglary, cruelty to a child and other charges.
According to a press release, Bonilla broke into the home of the victim, where he held the victim at gunpoint. In the arrest affidavit, it says that two of the victim's children where inside the home at the time and witness Bonilla force the victim into his bedroom and threatened that if he resisted that he would be killed.
The victim was then tied up and his penis was cut off by Bonilla with a pair of scissors. Bonilla then ran away across the street to his home with the penis in his possession.
According to court records, responding Gilchrist County deputies surrounded Bonilla's home while one drove the victim to a local hospital.
Bonilla was not home, having gone to the Alliance Dairies in Brandford, where he works. He was arrested there.
In the affidavit, it says that Bonilla had caught the victim and Bonilla's wife having sex in May.
The motive for the crime is still under investigation. Bonilla's bond was set at $1.25 million.
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Jaws of Steel is a 1927 American silent family adventure film directed by Ray Enright and featuring dog star Rin Tin Tin and Jason Robards, Sr. Warner Bros. produced and distributed the film. Darryl Zanuck, under the alias Gregory Rogers, wrote the story.

Cast
Rin Tin Tin as Rinty
Jason Robards, Sr. as John Warren
Helen Ferguson as Mary Warren
Mary Louise Miller as Baby Warren
Jack Curtis as Thoms Grant Taylor
Bob Perry as The Sheriff
Buck Connors as Alkali Joe

Box office
According to Warner Bros records the film earned $189,000 domestic and $83,000 foreign.

See also
List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features

Preservation status

A nitrate print of the film is archived by Filmmuseum Nederlands. The Library of Congress has a copy shown to the public in the 1990s but is incomplete missing a reel.

References

External links

Still #1 and #2 at gettyimages.com

1927 films
American silent feature films
Warner Bros. films
Films directed by Ray Enright
American black-and-white films
Transitional sound films
American adventure films
1927 adventure films
Rin Tin Tin
1920s American films
Silent adventure films
1920s English-language films

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Women are underrepresented in politics
Ethiopia was, in effect, a single party state until 1991 when EPRDF (Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front) came into power. Even after that, the state controlled all aspects of the lives of its citizens, and civil society and political opposition were not allowed to operate freely. Since becoming Prime Minister in 2018, Abiy Ahmed Ali has launched democratic reforms, including renewal of the electoral law, increasing the freedom of political parties, NGOs and media, and release of political prisoners. However, challenges still remain. With increased freedom, the control of the state has decreased which has given space for tension and even violent clashes driven by ethnic nationalism.
Over the past year, new challenges have emerged in the development of multi-party democracy, and the postponement of the 2020 elections due to the COVID-19 situation led to an unresolved conflict between Tigray Region in the north of the country and the central government. The Tigray conflict has further increased the instability of the country's political situation. However, the National Election Board of Ethiopia has announced that elections will be held in June 2021. Organising democratic and fair elections is an integral part of the development of multi-party co-operation and provides an opportunity for multi-party dialogue in which also women can equally participate.
New laws and the increase of political space have lead to a growth in the number of political parties. According to data in the end of 2020, 20 national and 34 local parties had re-registered for the elections in early June. Most of the parties are organised along ethnic lines. Although almost 40% of Members of the Parliament are women, there is a need to support civil and political rights of women and to strengthen their capacity.
Our work in Ethiopia
Demo Finland has worked in Ethiopia since 2019, together with its partner Network of Ethiopian Women's Associations (NEWA). Founded in 2003, NEWA aims to promote equality and women's rights in all areas of society. The joint project strengthens women's capacity and their political participation on a multi-party basis, and supports women's active participation in elections both as voters and as candidates on regional and national levels. The project has produced a radio program that gives voices to women in leading positions, challenging the traditional notion that only men can be leaders. The project has also provided training for social media influencers on the barriers to political participation that women face. The project maps out gender plans of different political parties and provides a material package for training female politicians. The trainings include information on electoral laws, campaign techniques and communications. The trainings will gather women in politics from different parties and allow the participants to also gain experience of multi-party cooperation.
Results of our work
The project has been well received in the political parties. In the project events, the representatives of parties have appreciated NEWA's work for gender equality and been positive towards possibilities to enhance women's participation.
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It seems that modern homes are trendy these days. And with modern homes, come equally modern gardens. But what exactly is a modern garden?
Modern garden design is the opposite of what you would imagine a bohemian wildlife-friendly garden to look like. Crisp and clean lines are key features which open up space and give it that fresh look. Modern garden designs lean more towards the minimalist, functional and sparse look with emphasis on strong structural and graphic elements. Concrete, rocks, timbers, lighting, wood are common materials that are used in a modern garden. Plants are still used, albeit minimal to leave more room for function.
Modern gardens are also easy to maintain. And that's only logical since people who opt for sleek-looking gardens tend to have less free time on their hands. This provides the perfect place to relax from a busy and hectic lifestyle.
Today, we're chatting with guest contributor Emma, who shares a detailed list of her top ten modern gardening tips. The idea of having a garden is fun, but if your place lacks in space or you just don't have the luxury of time, then this guide is for you.
A focal point is one of the most fundamental principles of designing. It's not a new idea, but it's necessary for modern gardening. Having at least one focal point is enough since you're after a minimalistic look.
An excellent focal point can be plants, statuary, a boulder, a mini waterfall, a beautiful fire pit or a pond. It can be anything as long as it serves its purpose -- to catch attention. As far as a focal point is concerned, the possibilities are just endless.
The trick to an effective focal point is placement. It's usually placed in the center to draw the eyes. The goal is to keep your garden from becoming dull and lifeless.
Raised garden beds are ideal for growing small plots of veggies and flowers. The best thing about them is that you can design them however you want.
Since the level of soil is raised, it reduces the need to bend over when tending to plants. This reduces back pain which makes them even more ideal for the elderly and people with mobility problems. Well-built beds can also allow the gardener to sit on the edge, giving the knees a rest.
Some more of their benefits are good aeration, better drainage as the soil isn't compacted, which also makes weed control much easier. They're a great space saver too!
Raised beds can be built in many places, including on top of grass, concrete, or gravel. If your garden is completely paved and all lawn has been removed, using these beds is an easy way to bring greenery back to your garden.
If budget is an issue, you can build your own raised garden beds instead of buying them. This is a great way to make your work in the garden feel that much more rewarding.
Your potential design ideas when using gravel are endless, as it comes in a variety of shapes, colours, and sizes, so you won't run out of options. With careful planning and the right plants, a gravel garden can thrive without frequent watering.
If you're looking for a maintenance-free garden, consider using gravel.
Proper lighting also plays a significant role in a modern garden, especially at night.
To figure out which kind of lights you need, you have to determine what their purpose will be. Are you planning to use them to accentuate your garden? Do you need them to emphasize your focal point? Or instead, to light the way around your garden?
These are just some of the questions that you need to answer before you begin your search. There's a lot of different types of lighting for you to choose from, depending on the theme of your garden. The most common ones are lamps, lanterns, and globe lights.
If possible, go with solar-powered lights. They're so easy to set up that you can do it yourself minus the danger of electrocution! You save a lot on your bills and ultimately, you help protect the environment.
The number of urban dwellers is steadily increasing which results in less space for everything, including gardens.
Still, space shouldn't stop us from gardening. That's probably why indoor gardening has started to gain attention. After all, growing plants, herbs, or veggies in the comfort of your home is so easy to do.
The benefits of plants are not only limited to making your home aesthetically pleasing. In fact, indoor gardening has a lot of health and social benefits that you're probably not even aware of.
Growing them in an indoor environment means less maintenance is required, you don't have to pull any weeds, and they're free from pests and diseases.
Research has shown that plants improve people's well-being and productivity levels. Our levels of empathy and compassion are also increased by tending to the needs of plants. An indoor garden can supply you with free and fresh vegetables for you to enjoy all year. Certain indoor plants help improve air quality by removing harmful chemicals, lowering the risk of respiratory illnesses.
This concept is very much similar to raised garden beds except for one main difference. That is, containers are more movable than raised beds since they're smaller in size. Pots are a favourite choice when it comes to container gardening.
Decorative - You can choose your pots to match a theme for your modern garden, or choose quirky designs to add personality.
Adding a water feature in your garden is also a hot trend these days. What's great about water gardens is that they no longer have to be installed outdoors. Customized water features have already found their way indoors too.
While the initial pond fill may require a substantial amount of water, the rest of the process is smooth sailing. It takes less water moving forward since this type of garden is self-sustaining.
A water feature adds a great touch to your garden. You can even put fish in your pond to give it a more natural look. You get yourself a lovely water garden, and you also get to have low-maintenance pets. Fish are especially fun for kids to look after.
Water also helps keep your home fresh during hot summer days, and adds humidity during the cold winter. Flowing water has been known to have healing capabilities, which is why you'd often see them in hospitals and meditation rooms.
If you want to enjoy natural beauty, a place to relax, and drown the noise of busy streets, a water garden is a must have.
Growing native plants in your garden is also an excellent idea. Native plants are those that occur naturally in a region in which they've evolved. By creating a native plant garden, you help in preserving biodiversity and it also brings heaps of benefits to you.
They also attract native animals like birds, butterflies, and beneficial insects.
A garden doesn't necessarily need exotic plants to look beautiful. Native plants are so easy to maintain, acquire and can blend well with anything.
When you just don't have a place like a yard or if indoor gardening is also not an option, vertical gardening is the way to go.
This type of gardening is ideal for people who have insufficient space, as vertical gardens grow upwards, hence the name. They usually make use of trellises and fences and you can even grow them on walls. Vertical gardening is a very clever idea which is more suited to urban areas where space is scarce.
When all other options are not viable, you'll never go wrong with synthetic turf. Admittedly, some people just can't maintain a garden no matter how minimal effort is required from them. 'So many things to do, so little time,' is more often than not, accurate.
As much as we'd like to have luscious green grass on our lawn, it can be a massive task to maintain. Mowing can already take two to three hours of your time per week. A busy person who's juggling a lot of things could make better use of this time.
Can reduce the risk of injury from slipping since they have more traction compared to natural grass.
With so many benefits for your modern garden, it's no wonder more and more people are replacing their lawns with artificial grass.
Sometimes people say the phrase, "Gardening is not for everyone." If it's coming from someone who lacks free time or has never dabbled in gardening, they can be forgiven for thinking this. However, you can prove them wrong with the tips provided in this guide. All you need are the right tools, the right plants, a creative mind and a little effort.
Till next time... create something functional and beautiful!


"Buk-M1" SOC 9S18M1 (target detection) vehicle scans the designated zone The target acquisition information is vectored and then directed to An 9S47OM1 (command vehicle), At this point the target is unknown together with other craft in the zone being observed.
The information is processed and calculations including timing with a goal. Target is then fixed it on the radar. Now target acquisition (target capture) is performed.
With Target capture the [bombardier] team act to prepare for launch with SDA 9A310M1 (self-propelled fire vehicle) Now coordinating all the information and all the complexities of the system a manual command given by Unit command to eliminate and focus on the target(s).
CRITICAL: A BUK IS NOT LIKE A ***GRAD (Katusha); That is stand alone!
BM-27 Uragan which launch missiles anywhere on the battlefield.
The Buk simply cannot operate effectively in "Theater" standalone. Moreover to cover the distance involved on the day of MH 17 (unless the commander was pre warned) it would require a blanket of acquisition radar vehicles to cover and to observe the airspace. It has to be linked into a wider air defense system!
Failure to have enough units to do so would reduce the 4 vehicle (sometimes 6) BUK battery to an almost useless *"defence shield " However in a case of direct attack from example a ground attack fighter in line of sight there is a possibility the crew would launch a salvo as a "last resort" defense.
Important without the accurate target tracking and engagement of the SOC 9S18M1 (target detection) vehicle to provide "beyond visual range" targeting a success is very unlikely.
All evidence to hand shows that the Buk was not the system that sho down MH17 and certainly not a stand alone vehicle in the hands of an untrained crew; remembering the conflict at the time of alleged launch was just a couple of months.
While focus has been on the delivery system none appears to be ABOUT the missile. The most likely is either the 9М38 or 9М38M1 both of which detonate automatically when the distance to the target becomes smaller than a predetermined value.
The missile finds its way to the target with Semi-active radar homing (SARH) Also needed is homing method chosen was proportional navigation. This requires expertise FOR IT TO WORK it requires a signal to be sent from the SOC 9S18M1 (target detection) vehicle to illuminate opertrator to identify target and wave to reflect off the target back to the missile. The missile continues to its prey. All this has to take place in matter of moments.
However in January 2011 Ukrainian specialists then claimed the aircraft could have been destroyed by an outside explosion and also by a bomb installed between the outer fuselage and inner panels of the passenger compartment.
A single Grad is highly mobile and one cannot ignore the probability a Ukraine army "black opp' team deployed to launch missiles ( max range 20kms min 1.5 ) at Mariupol firing close to or behind front lines to implicate LNR DNR forces.


The Me to We Team is organizing a coin and Canadian Tire money drive to support families in our community who may not have a very merry Christmas without some assistance. Each day during first period, two We Team members will visit classes to collect funds. Donations will be accepted until Dec. 19 at which point members from the Me to We Team will go shopping at Canadian Tire to purchase gifts for our families in need.


In a move that could transform the professional development model of learning for Indiana CPAs, and potentially have a carryover effect for CPAs nationwide, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a new rule that approves competency-based education to count toward Indiana CPA license renewal.
This groundbreaking rule change – initially proposed by the Indiana CPA Society (INCPAS) and signed on Sept. 22 by Pence, the vice presidential running mate for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump – marks the first time in the history of the CPA profession that competency-based, and not hours-based, education has been permanently approved.
The Indiana Board of Accountancy approved the rule change on July 15.
So, how might this impact CPAs in the future?
According to INCPAS, the rule change not only paves the way for competency-based education to replace the decades-old hours-based model in Indiana, but it also could potentially open the door to national transformation. It signifies the first major change to the CPA profession's education model since it was introduced in the late 1960s.
Pence's signing brings the new rule to its last two steps before becoming official. It now will be published in the Indiana Register and then becomes effective on Oct. 22.
The rule adds two new options for obtaining the required ethics education that all licensed Indiana CPAs must get every three years. The first new option is to take a competency-based course, with completion measured by participation, not by the length of time it takes to complete. The second new option is to earn credit for experience serving in a noncompensated ethics capacity for a professional or trade organization. The traditional, four-hour classroom course will remain as the third option.
INCPAS would ultimately like to see all Indiana "CPA learning" become competency-based, said its president and CEO, Gary Bolinger, CAE.
"Competency-based courses have been proven to be more meaningful, more adaptive to a learner's needs, have much broader application, and be more engaging than traditional classroom courses," he said.
However, Indiana's complete transformation to competency-based education will not happen overnight, Bolinger cautions.
On a larger scale, Bolinger said, this watershed rule also has the potential to set the stage for national change – if state CPA societies around the country choose to follow in INCPAS's footsteps by updating their professional development offerings to include competency-based learning and pursuing regulatory changes for it to count toward CPA license renewal.
It is difficult to tell what CPA license renewal requirements could look like in each state because the CPA profession is regulated at the state level, Bolinger said, so transformation will be different from state to state.


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Bernie Sanders isn't Pro-Military…He's Undeniably, Unquestioningly Pro-Veteran.
July 3, 2015 by I love Bernie!
In a sad attempt to turn Veterans against Bernie, during Bernie's speech in Madison, WI, Governor Scott Walker's staff tweeted:
"Thousands of veterans suffered in VA scandal yet @BernieSanders downplayed it & attacked those who exposed it."
It's true that Bernie Sanders wants to cut the defense budget. He protested the Vietnam War, and he voted against going to war in Iraq…both times.
He could never be described as "pro-military", but Veterans can see he's gone to war for them advocating that we must take care of our men and women who serve after they come home.
He's undeniably, unquestionably — Pro-Veteran.
Here's Some Proof About How Veterans Really Feel About Bernie Sanders
He has fought to preserve benefits and improve care that our Veterans receive even working with Republicans in a bi-partisan deal to address the Veteran's healthcare crisis.
Bernie has ALWAYS been on the side of Veterans and has received many awards from leading Veterans' organizations.
Here are the most recent:
Veterans of Foreign Wars Congressional Award
Bernie Sanders was presented this award for his eight years of service on the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, including his time as the panel's chairman during the last session of Congress.
VFW National Commander John Stroud said that Sanders played a leading role in winning passage last year of major legislation to improve health care services at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The nation's largest service organization of combat veterans said Sanders "has been a commanding voice" fighting to preserve benefits for disabled veterans, for the proper care and treatment of women veterans, homeless veterans, for better employment opportunities and improved access to mental health programs. The VFW also lauded Sanders for increased congressional oversight that resulted in improved claims processing by the VA.
The American Legion Patriot Award
The American Legion presented its Patriot Award to Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
The citation said:
"Sanders' dedication to those who have borne the battle and their families is unquestionable. When systemic problems plaguing the Veterans Health Administration were brought to your attention, you immediately ordered hearings and introduced legislation to improve the lives of patients and those trying to access care."
Col. Arthur T. Marix Congressional Leadership Award from the Military Officers Association of America
Sanders was given this award for his leadership in a range of initiatives across the entire uniformed service community.
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U.S. 77 narrowed to one lane as crash cleanup continues
By KXII Staff
Published: Jan. 11, 2022 at 3:47 PM CST
THACKERVILLE, Okla. (KXII) - The stretch of U.S. 77, about a mile north of Thackerville will be narrowed to one lane.
The lane closure is due to an environmental clean up from an earlier crash.
Crews estimate lanes to potentially be open on Wednesday.
Drivers should expect delays.
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Just saw 'P.S. I Love You' for the nth time. Surprisingly I dint cry.Either I'm moving on very well or I'm so used to the crap that there are no more feelings left to bother me.
Is now equivalent to mine.
If I cant be your bride.
Cos love is almost like a crime.
And will find one who will care.
Trust me, I'm gonna try.
To see joy in all your days.


Soaring high over South Africa, the Drakensberg offers mountainous scenery, fresh air and some superb spots to stay at. And none better than the Mount Aux Sources Hotel. You wont be sorry.
What could possibly beat this view?
Champagne Sports Resorts is nestled in Champagne Valley in the central Burg. The Drakensburg earned its name 'Dragon Mountain' due the silhouette of the mountain being likened to a dragon. The resort is a sportsman's paradise. It is set overlooking an 18 hole championship golf course. The course is hilly and an easy course to play on according to my golf mad son. There are tennis courses, a spa, children's play area, trampoline, bowls, putt-putt, gym, outside swimming pool and gift shop. The restaurant offers a full sumptuous buffet but the price is exorbitant, it is worth considering eating there on a Thursday evening where it is possible to benefit from the resorts timeshare discount night. The poolside restaurant during the day is more reasonably priced and offers a good selection of food. This also doubles up as the resorts coffee shop serving the perfect cappuccino and the children's favourite – milkshake in a variety of flavours.
The lodges are around 10 years old thatched and large. It offers everything one requires for a holiday, with a fully equipped kitchen, TV, Open fireplace and an outside braai area with stunning views onto the mountain range. My only complaint would be the lack of proper bedding for those sleeping on the sleeper couches in the lounge.
It is a resort that is ideal for children who are old enough to take advantage of the freedom it has on offer. We went with another family and my friend and I hardly set eyes on our children when we were at the resort. The boys were off playing golf and tennis every day, stopping for a milkshake when the need arose. The girl's spent most of their time osculating between the putt-putt, children's play area and the tuck-shop arriving back with copious amounts of sherbet. Their treat was to experience their very first facial in the resident spa. My friend and I enjoyed the days relaxing on the grass area outside the lodge overlooking burg, reading, chatting and gazing across the golf course and onto the mountain view in the distance.
We ventured out a few times. One of the trips involved a delightful afternoon being entertained by the Drakensburg Boys Choir, a truly world class performance. These boys, ranging in age from 8 to 15 years old board at the 50 year old school. The show is preceded by a small tour where we got to hear anecdotes of the school's history and setting. The performance is memorable. My children initially didn't want to go and listen to choir singers, yet they had a fabulous time and are fully converted to this form of entertainment. Coming from a teenage male is something! I highly recommend booking tickets, their performances are held at the school every Wednesday during term time.
We squeezed in a visited to learn about bees and grab a cappuccino at Scrumpy Jacks. The guide taking us on the tour was recently attacked and stung by 800 African bees, all over his face and neck. He was lucky to be alive and to retell his tale. The quantity of bee venom in his system will not go away and he is living on a concoction of medicines to stay alive. We saw a working hive; purchased some honeycomb, some honey and some delicious peanut brittle made with ... you got it ... honey.
Another place that we frequented was The Bakery coffee shop which was in a delightful setting selling mouth-watering food, cakes and breads. The little shop attached, offered knickknacks for the home along the line of distressed wood in the French provincial theme. We also visited a local carpet weaving shop, with glass windows providing views of the weavers at work. It is adjacent to the Waffle Hut where you get to enjoy waffles and hot chocolate with flakes melting in them – delicious.
On route back to Johannesburg we decided to take a detour passing the natural Drakensburg Amphitheatre, which unfortunately was shrouded in cloud, and onto the Golden Gate, stopping for lunch in Clarens, the jewel of the Freestate, before winding our way home.
You don't have to leave South Africa to find "Shangrila"
The Zulus referred to the row of jagged mountain peaks that seemed to pierce the sky as,"Ukahlamba" ("barrier of the spears"). The Voortrekkers must have thought in mythical terms and imagined the "spears" to have been the spines or the teeth of a dragon as they called it, "Drakensberg" ("Dragon's Mountain"). The Drakensberg Mountain Range, the second largest on the continent of Africa, is the most salient geological feature of the Escarpment. The range wraps its serpentine body for 1000 km, from the extreme northeastern corner of the Eastern Cape to form the natural borders between Lesotho and part of the Free State with KwaZulu Natal. Most of the mountain range is managed as national parks. The area known as,"the Drakensberg" or, "the Berg", is divided into the following tourist regions: Northern, Central and Southern.
The Northern Drakensberg extends southward from Oliviershoek Pass and includes all 8,000 hectares of the Royal Natal National Park and the northern part of the Ukhahlamba Drakensberg National Park as far south as Cathedral Peak. Both parks were designated as one UNESCO World Heritage Site in recognition of: 1) the area's guardianship of 4000 years of the history of the San people preserved in the largest natural "collection" of Bushman rock paintings south of the Sahara - (it has been estimated that 20,000 individual ones are on display on the walls of some 500 different caves and overhangs) and 2) the incomparable natural beauty. The Royal Natal National Park is part of this World Heritage Site not only because of its breath-taking beauty but also because of Cannibal Cave where members of local tribes, hiding from a murderous rage of Shaka Zulu, resorted to eating human flesh to outlast his latest campaign to exterminate his competition. This Park is renown for the following major geological features: 1) The Amphitheatre - a rock wall approximately 5 km. in length that reaches 1,000 metres in height. 2) Mont-auxSources - the highest dome that rises from the relatively flat plateau of the Amphitheatre and the source of the largest river in K.Z.N.,the Tugela River, and reputably the source of the Orange and Vaal Rivers. 3) The Tugela River begins its journey as, Tugela Falls, the second highest waterfall in the world, which cascades down 947 metres for 5 different drops on its way towards the Indian Ocean. South of the Royal Natal is the heart of the entire Drakensberg, the Ukhahlamba Drakensberg National Park. Notwithstanding majestic mountains with fairy tale names like Champagne Castle, Giant's Castle and Cathedral Peak, this Park covers 243,000 hectares with: walking, hiking, biking, 4x4, horseback riding and mountain trails. High altitude grasslands abound with: rivers, lakes, streams and dams teeming with trout and other fish. Eland,oribi and baboons are regularly sighted on the steep slopes underneath the Escarpment, with occasional appearance of: blesbok, mountain reed buck and duiker. Leopards, jackals, black wildebeest and zebra share the high altitude grasslands with a recorded 24 varieties of snakes; 299 species of birds (including the black eagle and the rare bearded vulture) and 2,153 species of plants many of which are endemic and/or globally threatened. Besides the geological features already referred to in the National Parks, Northern Drakensberg has the greatest concentration of battlefields in South Africa. The Voortrekkers first encountered Zulu warriors when they left the Western Cape and crossed over to and settled in KwaZulu Natal (1836-1852). History buffs can visit war memorials to commemorate: The Battle of Blood River fought on 16th of December,1838, during the Boer-Zulu War; the Battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift fought on the 22nd of January,1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War (1879); the Battles of Laing's Nek, Ingogo River and Majuba Hill fought during the First Anglo-Boer War (1880-1881) and the Battles of Colenso, Spionkop and Tugela Heights fought during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Also on the history buff's itinerary would be the Ladysmith Siege Museum which documents the tragic loss of more than 20,000 Boer women and their children as well as uncounted 1,000's of blacks who died mainly from starvation and disease as the British Empire's prisoners of war during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
As varied as the activities are for the traveler to enjoy in the Drakensberg, so is the smorgasbord of choices for accommodation. Although most accommodation in the "Berg" consists of self-catering B&B's, lodges, inns and guest houses, choices range from: 5 star hotels and game lodges, luxury tented safari camps, or private game farms to: caravan parks, camping sites and bush back-packing. There are very popular venues in Northern Drakensberg that still offer special rates. The Cathedral Peak Hotel sometimes runs a midweek special(stay for 5 nights/pay for 4) and week specials (stay for 7 nights/pay for 5. The Drakensberg Mountain Retreat / Vergezient Lodge sometimes runs accommodation specials in the off-season.
Central Drakensberg extends southward from Cathedral Peak (3148 metres) to Champagne Castle, at 3248 metres, the highest peak in the region. This region is home to the world famous Drakensberg Boy's Choir. During the school terms the Drakensberg Boy's choir performs weekly concerts on Wednesdays at 15:30. Accommodation is available for those afficionados who would like to stay the night. Because the boys tour extensively, it is advisable to check their website for availability and directions to their 100 acre estate. For the golf enthusiast , Central Drakensbrg not only offers the most choices of the entire Berg with two 9-hole and two 18-hole courses,but also excellent accommodation at golf estates-(Check out the Gowrie Farm Golf Lodge (gowrie.co.za) Those travellers who enjoy bowls either for recreation or competition would be remiss if they did not visit the well-known and popular Nest Hotel Bowls Club. The Nest Drakensberg Resort Hotel often runs off-season specials. In addition to the majestic beauty of our Creator's handiwork, the Berg also showcases man's creativity. Central Drakensberg is the heart of the arts and craft area. The Midland's Meander is South Africa's largest and most popular arts-and-crafts route. Feel like walking for the equivalent of the distance of three marathons? That's how far one would walk if she stopped at every one of the 100 stops to browse all the shops on each of the four different converging routes for the total of 80 km! Here's an idea. Why not plan to do all of your Christmas shopping in the Natal Midlands this year? Think of the unique selection of gifts to choose from the variety of shops of: potters,weavers, wood-crafters, leather-workers, herb growers, cheese makers and even beer brewers. The more adventuresome traveler not only has some of the best walks to take, hikes to enjoy and caves to explore but also white water rafting trips, quad bike riding, off-road carting, abseiling, archery or even a "foofie" slide - all courtesy of the family owned business by the name of Four Rivers Rafting and Adventure.
Accommodation specials are available in Central Drakensberg. Heronmoor Retreat in Mooi River sometimes offers savings on mid-week stays (Sundays - Thursdays). One place to consider for an affordable yet basic family accommodation is the Threeways River Getaway in Mooi River. The Getaway offers a spartan yet family and pet-friendly self-catering venue with farm animals and special facilities for children: playground, camps, and for parents-a creche and baby sitting is available.
Check out the luxurious accommodation available in the Southern Berg. The Amazian Mountain River Lodge in the area of Underberg sometimes runs special offers - all rooms are luxury honeymoon suites! Qambathi Mountain Lodge, a mountain game lodge and private game reserve, sometimes offers special discounts off standard rates for South African citizens - ccommodation consists of only 6 suites (No children under 12 allowed). For the "huntin'-fishin'-shootin'" crowd the Sani Valley Fly-fishing and Game Lodge offers affordable accommodation (by Drakensberg standards). For the ultimate "foodie" experience, the Cleopatra Mountain Farmhouse, a "haven for food lovers" and an "intimate gourmet getaway", will cause your palate to rejoice and your taste buds to jump for joy when you are treated to nightly 6-course gourmet dinners.


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Kejimkujik National Park is located in the southernmost region of the Nova Scotia peninsula. The park covers an area of 156 square miles (404 sq km).
The park is comprised of two individual land areas. The first is located away from the coast and includes the Kejimkujik National Historic Site. The second area is located on the east coast facing the Atlantic Ocean.
Most national parks are focused solely on the natural facets of the area. However, like Mesa Verde in the United States, Kejimkujik incorporates a historical area as well. The park is comprised of historical features that include habitation sites, burial grounds, hunting and fishing sites, as well as petroglyphs.
The second area is a wilderness that is located along the coast. The natural facets of the area include beaches, bogs, and intertidal areas. The area is rich in vegetation with dense forests and other plant life that make it a great haven for wildlife.
The wildlife in Kejimkujik tends to have fewer of the larger mammalian species demonstrating its diversity in other areas. There are more reptilian and amphibian species in the national park than anywhere else in the Atlantic Canada side of the country.
The white-tailed deer is the largest of the mammalian species with other popular ones including beaver, porcupine, fox, snowshoe hare, and different squirrels.
Kejimkujik Highlights
One of the highlights is the diversity of interests in the park including historical facets along with amazing wilderness and diverse wildlife.
Lake Kejimikujik
Lake Kejimikujik is the largest lake in the national park and the second-largest freshwater lake in the province. It covers approximately 10.04 square miles (26 sq km) of the area with a maximum depth of 62.99 feet (19.2 m).
There are 27.96 miles (45 km) of shoreline around the lake which has many small islands scattered across it. Lake Kejimikujik is where the name of the park comes from.
Trails of Kejimkujik National Park
There are well over a dozen trails ranging from easy to difficult that may be leveraged to explore the area of Kejimkujik National Park.
Mill Falls Trail: This is one of the easy rated trails that travels 1.7 miles (2.73 km) out to a waterfall as well as other waterway views.
Kejimkujik Harbor Rocks Trail: This is another easy rated loop trail covering a distance of 3.1 miles (4.99 km) while accessing the beach and providing views of the shoreline and rocky formations that decorate the coastline.
Port Joli Head Trail: This 5.8-mile (9.33 km) loop trail is moderate rated that treks through the forest and along the coastline. The elevation gain is not that much, but the trail is rocky and less developed. The trek provides great panoramic views of the ocean and bay as well as picturesque rock formations along the coastline.
Hemlocks and Hardwoods Trail: This is a 3.1-mile (4.99) trail that much of it is boardwalk. The elevation gain is 367 feet (111.9 m) while traversing through the dense forest and along the lake shoreline. There is a chance for birdwatching and spotting wildlife or wildflowers.
Channel Lake Trail: This is a difficult rated 13.5-mile (21.73 km) loop trail that features an elevation gain of 1,030 feet (313.94 m). The loop trail spends much of the time with views out over the lake and waterways as well as time in the forest. There is a chance to see wildlife and wildflowers if it is the right season.
Kejimkujik National Park Photo Gallery
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The Drive-By Truckers have always paired incisive, thoughtful lyrics with their supercharged country-rock sound. From their 1998 debut, Gangstabilly to their latest album, 2016's American Band, the Athens, Georgia based group has resolutely charted its own path.
Hood points to a long list of titles from the Athens, Georgia-based band's back catalog. "'The Living Bubba' on our first album [1998's Gangstabilly] was about a musician dying of AIDS." He noes that some listeners classify songs as either personal or political. "Actually, the political is personal," Hood insists.
Growing up in northern Alabama in the shadows of FAME and Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, one would have expected songwriter-guitarist Patterson Hood to have absorbed the influences of country and southern soul. And indeed he has, but there's much more to his musical sensibility.
Hood concedes that name-checking those two "might seem like an odd combination," but it's one he stands by. He cites a particular song that country music giant Hall wrote in 1973, about the George McGovern campaign and the Watergate break-in. He describes "Watergate Blues" as "a kind of cautionary tale of where our country was headed. When I was writing 'What it Means' for American Band, I definitely drew on his way of telling a story." Hood also mentions the music and lyrics of Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye as sources of inspiration.
That rigor extends to songwriting, too. Hood often writes story-songs for the band that are based upon historical events. While American Band represents something of a shift to writing about present-day, the track "Ramon Casiano" has it both ways: while Hood notes that the song's lyrics "talk to the here-and-now," the story itself concerns a murder that took place in 1931. "It makes its case for things not having changed, for its own timeliness," Hood says.
Portions of this feature were published previously in the pages of Colorado Springs Independent and Chicago New City.