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The present bank in Normangee - Normangee State Bank - was chartered in 1912. A building committee made up of J.H. Wooley, T.A. Cozart, J.C. Ford and Joe Rogers was given the charge of developing plans and instructions for a bank building, and the bank's first vice president, W.T. Hollis, purchased $6,500 in U.S. two percent bonds and deposited them with the U.S. Treasurer, as required by law to secure the bank's formation. The charter, number 10275, was issued in Washington, D.C., on October 10, 1912, authorizing the bank to begin business. The property at the northeast corner of Main and Second streets was purchased, and the bank home was completed on September 9, 1913, at a cost of about $4,300. Many banks throughout the country failed during the Depression, but the First National Bank kept its doors open. When the town's other bank, the First State Bank, failed, the First National Bank purchased the assets of the First State Bank on May 27, 1936. The liabilities purchased totaled $18,300.00.
During the late 1930s, the directors of the First National Bank were Joe Lagravier, M.L. Bennett Jr., W.L. Martin and Mrs. J.L. Wooley. Otho Youngblood was vice president and chief operating officer of the bank at that time. He was succeeded by Tom Burke in January 1943. In 1946, the directors were Jack Ellison, P.L. Westmoreland, Davis Cozart, Tommy Hill, Carl Martin, Joe Lagravier, Ray Epps, Dr. J.L. Jinkins and Mr. Burke.
Mr. Burke was killed in an automobile accident in 1954, and John R. "Bob" Hines became chief operating officer. Jack McCain was president from April 1955 to January 1961. The bank received a state charter in March 1962, and was renamed the Normangee State Bank. Walter Young was executive vice president from April 1961 to February 1962.
The Normangee State Bank took a major step forward in 1967, when it was purchased by four businessmen: Percy Westmoreland, Mac L. Bennett Jr., Royce Shaw and Doyle Reed. It has been locally owned and operated since that time. Mr. Bennett and Bill Novosad became directors, and Molly Sweeden and Sandra Shaw joined the bank staff.
The assets of the bank at that time were $1,381,074.94. A major push was begun to increase those assets to $2 million. That was accomplished on August 4, 1969. At that time, Novosad, Bennett, Westmoreland, Reed and Shaw were directors, and Rachael Bennett, Molly Bowman, Sandra Shaw and Gary Martin joined Royce Shaw as the bank employees.
The bank continued to increase its assets over the next 30 years. In 1974, they had reached almost $4.5 million, and that figure increased to over $6.5 million at the end of 1976. The next six years saw a jump to almost $15 million at the end of 1982, and six more years saw those assets increased to over $24 million. At the close of business at the end of 2000, the bank had assets of almost $45 million. It has consistently ranked among the top banks in the state among those considered solid financial institutions.
Dr. W.A. Bilsing joined the bank as a director in 1974 and Victor Hillman became a director and employee in 1976. Joel and Jake Shaw joined the employee ranks in 1982 and, along with Molly Sweeden, became directors in 1988. Royce Glen Shaw, Jr. became an employee in 1999.
In 2000, Royce Shaw turned the day-to-day operation of the bank over to his oldest son, Joel, giving him the title of executive vice president. In 2001, Royce Shaw relinquished more of the leadership of the bank to Joel, giving him the title of chief executive officer.
In the past 10 years, the bank has twice added space, remodeled both its interior and exterior, and added services to its customers. Under the leadership of the Shaw family, it has adhered to the philosophy that loans should not be made that are secured beyond a reasonable length of time. Distribute your loans rather than concentrate them in a few hands. Treat your customers liberally, bearing in mind the fact that a bank prospers as its customers prosper.
Today, the bank continues to be a vital part of the community. Directors include W. A. Bilsing, M.D., Tom G. Holmes, C. Jack Hunter, Jake Shaw, Jamie Shaw, Joel A. Shaw, Royce Shaw, Royce Glen Shaw, Jr., Dena Stewart, Molly Sweeden and Steve Tenalio. Officers and employees include Royce Shaw – Chairman of the Board, Joel A. Shaw – Chief Executive Officer, C. Jack Hunter – President, Royce Glen Shaw, Jr. – Vice President, Jake Shaw – Vice President, Cody Collins – Assistant Vice President, Dena Stewart – Cashier, Lyn Shaw – Assistant Cashier, Sonia Nava – Assistant Cashier, Lindy Kelly – Assistant Cashier, Lauri Dean – Compliance, Roselynn Parker – Loan Assistant, Mary Cox – Head Teller, Stephanie Theiss – Teller, Gloria Garcia – Teller, Katlyn Shaw – Teller, J. R. Shaw, Jr. – Teller and Cheyenne Shaw – Teller.
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Ekklēsia or Church, Does It Matter?
Ekklēsia or Assembly ("Church")
In the New Testaments of most English Bibles, the words "church" and "churches" appear a total of over one hundred times. (From now on, I will use "church" to stand for both the singular and plural.) With one exception in the King James Version (found in Acts 19:37), all of these instances of "church" are mistranslated from the Greek word ekklēsia. (Unless I am quoting a portion of Greek text, I will use the lexical form ekklēsia.) That's right, I said mistranslated. Not only that, they are a deliberate mistranslation of ekklēsia. The fact that this mistranslation is so widespread and that it is deliberate should cause us to suspect that it is important to know what ekklēsia really means. In this article, I am going to tell you the origins of the word "church" and its meaning, what ekklēsia means and how it was used in history and the Bible, what Jesus meant by His ekklēsia, why ekklēsia was deliberately mistranslated as "church", and why all of this is important.
It is generally agreed among etymologists who study the origins of words that our English word "church" comes from the Greek word kuriakos. This word is an adjective and it means belonging to or in some way related to the Lord. The word kuriakos is found twice in the Bible. It is in 1 Corinthians 11:20, where it is translated as "Lord's" in the term "the Lord's supper." And it is translated "Lord's" in the term "Lord's day" in Revelation 1:10.
So how did this adjective that means "Lord's" come to be the origin of our English noun "church"? Words are funny things. They change over time. The Online Etymological Dictionary says that kuriakos "was used of houses of Christian worship since c.300." Remember that date.
This was the time of Constantine the Great, who was emperor of the Roman Empire from A.D. 306 to 337. Up until this time, Christians were meeting in private houses. This brought the wrath of the Roman government upon them because, as Earle E. Cairns writes in Christianity Through the Centuries , "There could be no private religion…. The Christians held most of their meetings at night and in secret. To the Roman authority this could be nothing else than the hatching of a conspiracy against the safety of the state…. The secrecy of the meetings of the Christians also brought moral charges against them. Public rumor made them guilty of incest, cannibalism, and unnatural practices" (87).
The other religions of the Roman Empire had public meeting places, but the Christians met in private houses even though it brought persecution upon them. That's right, meeting in private houses brought persecution upon the Christians. Contrary to what is often assumed, Christians did not meet in private houses to hide from persecution. They met in private houses by choice, and this choice made them subject to persecution.
But then Constantine (along with Licinius) granted religious tolerance in the Edict of Milan. Not only was Christianity now tolerated, but Constantine favored it and began to build church buildings. He retained the idea that worship is public and expected Christians to follow that paradigm. "Constantine brought to Christianity a pagan notion of the sanctity of things and places" (Joan E. Taylor, Christians and the Holy Places , 308).
This erection of special buildings for Christian worship was part of what has been called the Constantinian shift that eventually, after Constantine's death, led to the uniting of church and state with the issuing of the Edict of Thessalonica. This edict was released jointly by Theodosius I, Gratian, and Valentinian II. It made the faith "which is now professed by the Pontiff Damasus and by Peter, Bishop of Alexandria [the bishops of Rome and Alexandria]" the official religion of the people under those emperors. It further said, "We authorize the followers of this law to assume the title of Catholic Christians; but as for the others, since, in our judgment they are foolish madmen, we decree that they shall be branded with the ignominious name of heretics, and shall not presume to give to their conventicles the name of churches. They will suffer in the first place the chastisement of the divine condemnation and in the second the punishment of our authority which in accordance with the will of Heaven we shall decide to inflict." So, now the tables were turned–the persecuted were now the persecutors. Or perhaps the tables were not turned. Maybe the pagans were still running things but now under the new name of Christianity, or, as they put it themselves, Catholic Christianity.
Notice a couple of the words used in the edict. "Conventicles" are private meetings not sanctioned by law. The Latin word from which this is translated in the edict is conciliabula. It has a similar meaning to the English "conventicles." So, this edict outlawed the meetings Christians had been having in their houses all along. The English translation of the edict also uses the word "churches." But the Latin word from which this was translated is ecclesiarum, a Latin derivative of ekklēsia. So, those who did not accept the bishops of Rome and Alexandria were not to call their meetings ekklēsia.
It should not be supposed that everyone fell into line. Leonard Verduin writes, "Thus, before the Constantinian change had come full circle, the death sentence had been prescribed for either holding or attending a conventicle" ( The Anatomy of A Hybrid , 99). And it is well documented that the faithful who would not give in to the institutionalized state church continued to meet privately and illegally for centuries. Of these secret assemblies, Verduin writes in another of his books that "one of the things required of a convert… was the promise not to go again into a stone-pile, a cumulus lapidum," as they called church buildings ( The Reformers and Their Stepchildren , 167).
But, for the followers of these bishops, the people who were to now be called Catholic Christians, there were official church buildings. And these buildings, as I have pointed out, were called kuriakos, "the Lord's." This was just a shortened way of expressing the idea these people had that these buildings were the Lord's house or kuriakē oikia. For, continuing with pagan notions Constantine had retained, they considered the buildings themselves to be sacred. Thus, a kuriakos, or church, was a sacred building.
Before continuing, I want to ask these questions: Was the ekklēsia that Jesus built a sacred building He built as the son of a carpenter or was it the people He called as the Son of God?
Over the years, the word "church" evolved to take on other meanings. Rather than go through a lengthy history, I will demonstrate the fact of these other meanings by simply quoting the dictionary definitions from two highly respected dictionaries, one American and the other British.
Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary defines "church" as follows:
1 : a building for public and especially Christian worship
2 : the clergy or officialdom of a religious body
3 : often capitalized : a body or organization of religious believers: as a : the whole body of Christians b : DENOMINATION (the Presbyterian church) c : CONGREGATION
4 : a public divine worship (goes to church every Sunday)
5 : the clerical profession (considered the church as a possible career)
Collins English Dictionary has this definition for "church":
1 a building designed for public forms of worship, esp Christian worship 2 an occasion of public worship 3 the clergy as distinguished from the laity 4 (usually capital) institutionalized forms of religion as a political or social force: conflict between Church and State 5 (usually capital) the collective body of all Christians 6 (often capital) a particular Christian denomination or group of Christian believers 7 (often capital) the Christian religion 8 (in Britain) the practices or doctrines of the Church of England and similar denominations
Notice that many of these definitions are in some way related to buildings, public worship, clergy, and institutionalized religion. None of these things are related to the biblical meaning of ekklēsia. They have nothing to do with the ekklēsia Jesus built.
Etymology of Ekklēsia and Use in History
The word ekklēsia is found in 116 places in the New Testament. In most English Bibles, it is translated as "church" in all of those places except three. In Acts 19:32 and 41, it is translated as "assembly" and refers to the people whom Demetrius had called together (see Acts 19:25), and in verse 39 it is also translated "assembly" and refers to a lawful assembly.
Ekklēsia is a compound word. The first part is ek. It is a preposition that means "out of," "out from," or "from." The second part of ekklēsia–klēsia–is a derivative of the Greek word kaleō. Kaleō is a verb that means "to call." So, ekklēsia is a compound of a preposition and a verb, but ekklēsia itself is a noun. In its most basic form, ekklēsia means "the called out from" or "those called out from." In other words, it refers to people called out from or out of something.
In ancient Greece, ekklēsia came to be used for the people who were called out of the community to the assembly. The Encyclopedia Britannica says,
Ecclesia, Greek ekklēsia, ("gathering of those summoned"), in ancient Greece, assembly of citizens in a city-state. Its roots lay in the Homeric agora, the meeting of the people. The Athenian Ecclesia, for which exists the most detailed record, was already functioning in Draco's day (c. 621 bc). In the course of Solon's codification of the law (c. 594 bc), the Ecclesia became coterminous with the body of male citizens 18 years of age or over and had final control over policy, including the right to hear appeals in the hēliaia (public court), take part in the election of archons (chief magistrates), and confer special privileges on individuals. In the Athens of the 5th and 4th centuries bc, the prytaneis, a committee of the Boule (council), summoned the Ecclesia both for regular meetings, held four times in each 10th of the year, and for special sessions. Aside from confirmation of magistrates, consideration of ways and means and similar fixed procedures, the agenda was fixed by the prytaneis. Since motions had to originate in the Boule, the Ecclesia could not initiate new business. After discussion open to all members, a vote was taken, usually by show of hands, a simple majority determining the result in most cases. Assemblies of this sort existed in most Greek city-states, continuing to function throughout the Hellenistic and Roman periods, though under the Roman Empire their powers gradually atrophied."
Many people make the mistake of saying that ekklēsia merely means an assembly. This is a commendable start and is worlds better than "church," but they forget that it means an assembly that has been called out from something. In ancient Greece, it was the assembly called out or summoned from the community.
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Dr. Steven Dubinett has extensive experience in academic investigation, administration, mentorship and peer review. He has received federal peer-reviewed funding for translational lung cancer research for the past 20 years. Dr. Dubinett is nationally recognized for translational research in the immunobiology of lung cancer. Building on original discoveries regarding the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of lung cancer he has developed a translational research program, which now utilizes these laboratory-based discoveries in the clinical setting. He has been involved in mentoring trainees at all levels in a peer-review funded, translational research program. Twenty of the 23 post-doctoral fellows from his research program are currently continuing in either academic or industry research careers. He has been active both within the training programs in the UCLA academic community and, nationally, in setting policy as a member of foundation and NIH training committees on training. He recently served on the NCI Translational Research Working Group and has served as a mentor for the American Association for Cancer Research grant writing workshop for the past seven years.
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Q: Using algebraic isomorphisms to define a topology if one of the algebraic objects has a topology? Given an $n$ dimensional vector space $V$, we know it is isomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^n$. Can we not use this isomorphism to define a topology on $V$?... If you want to know if a set of elements in $V$ is closed or open, just look at the image of these elements under the isomorphism; if that set is open/closed, so is its preimage.
I guess you'd have to pick a basis for $V$ first, but still.
Is this right?
In general, say we have a topological algebra $T$ and an algebra $A$, and an isomorphism between them. Can't we use the same argument above to use the topology on $T$ to define a topology on $A$? Thanks!!

A: That's right, but a priori the topology could end up depending on which choice of basis you pick. That it doesn't is basically due to the fact that linear transformations $\mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}^n$ are continuous.
In other words, finite-dimensional vector spaces over $\mathbb{R}$ have a canonical topology on them; one way of characterizing this topology is that it's the unique Hausdorff topology making addition and scalar multiplication continuous (exercise). This result is very false in infinite dimensions which is why we need to study all sorts of different topological vector spaces.

A: Yes, and in fact the algebra is a red herring: we can always transport structure along arbitrary bijections.
For example:

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*If $f:A\rightarrow B$ is a bijection and $*$ is a binary operation on $A$ such that $(A,*)$ is a group, then the binary operation $\star$ on $B$ defined by $$x\star y=f(f^{-1}(x)*f^{-1}(y))$$ has the property that $(B,\star)$ is a group isomorphic to $(A,*)$ (and indeed $f$ itself provides an isomorphism between them).

*If $f:A\rightarrow B$ is a bijection and $\tau$ is a topology on $A$, then the set $$\sigma=\{\{x\in B: f^{-1}(x)\in U\}: U\in\tau\}$$ is a topology on $B$ such that $(A,\tau)\cong(B,\sigma)$ - with, again, $f$ itself providing a homeomorphism.
And so on.

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Q: extract content wherever we have div tag followed by hearder tag by using beautifulsoup I am trying to extract div tags and header tags when they are together.
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header

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list

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list

I tried solution provided in below link.
 here the header tag inside div tag...
but my requirement is div tag after header tag.
Scraping text in h3 and div tags using beautifulSoup, Python
also i tried something like this but not worked
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(page, 'lxml')

found = soup..find_all({"h3", "div"})

I need content from H3 tag and all the content inside div tag where ever these two combination exists.

A: You could use CSS selector h3:has(+div) - this will select all
 which have div immediately after it:
data = '''
header

some text here

list

list

list

This header is not selected

Beacause this is P tag, not DIV

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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(data, 'html.parser')

for h3 in soup.select('h3:has(+div)'):
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Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
May 22, 2014 3:56 pm ⋅ Don Kesterson
Monday May 19 marked the twenty-year anniversary of the passing of Jacqueline (Jackie) Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Her death was the result of cancer. Jackie was born on July 28, 1929, in Southampton, NY. The reason I'm writing about her is two-fold; first, she is one of the most interesting people of the twentieth century; and, second, I have a novel coming out soon covering the months leading up to and the assassination of one of her husbands, President John F. Kennedy.
Jackie Kennedy Onassis was born into a very wealthy Catholic family and was raised as a very privileged child. As a young girl, she learned to speak French, while involved in horsemanship and ballet. Jackie spent her junior year in high school studying abroad in Paris. When she returned to the United States, she entered George Washington University, where she earned a degree in French Literature. After college, she landed a job at The Washington Times-Herald, which required her to take photographs of Washington residents, and then tie an interview to the pictures.
Jacqueline Bouvier met her future husband, John F. Kennedy, at a dinner party in 1952, and she married him one year later.
In 1961, with the inauguration of John F. Kennedy as 35th President of the United States, she became First Lady. To this day, many consider her to be the grandest of all of the first ladies to serve in that role. Kennedy became the youngest President and defeated the seated Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Clearly, part of her elegance was critical to President Kennedy's election in one of the closest for President in US history.
In my novel about the period leading up to the Kennedy assassination, I rarely mention Mrs. Kennedy but her role in my novel was big part of the plot. I know this sounds like a conundrum, and, well, it is. There's no way to be delicate: President Kennedy fooled around, and he fooled around a lot. I mean, his affairs were the stuff of legends. It is said that, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he wanted to find someone to "relieve his stress." Condone it or not (and I don't), he saved the world from nuclear devastation and kept nuclear missiles from our very doorsteps. There is even the rumor (more than a rumor, but for now we'll leave it at that),that he was going to divorce Jackie and marry one of the women he was messin' around with, after serving out his second term in office.
Through all of this, Jacqueline Kennedy remained her dignified self. Some would say she liked the power trip and prestige, but if you study her personality, that doesn't seem to fit. I think she felt that it was important to be dignified at all times, and dignified she was. Did she love President Kennedy? Yes, I believe so. Part of her reason for staying in the marriage was that it was the thing to do in that day and time, and divorce was not a part of her Catholic upbringing.
Five years after President Kennedy's death, she married Aristotle Onassis, a Greek shipbuilder. At the time, there was a crazy rumor going around that she only married Onassis to hide former President Kennedy, who was alive but had no brain function. Personally, I believe she married Onassis to have some semblance of privacy.
The last image of Jackie Kennedy in my novel is her crawling out on the back of the Presidential Limousine, while bullets rained down, so she could retrieve part of the President's brain. Her Secret Service bodyguard had to push her back into the car and cover her body with his own. Somewhere during all of this, it is said that, when the shot from the Grassy Knoll hit President Kennedy, she exclaimed "Oh, my God! I have his brains in my hand!"
Are you aware of more former rumors about President and Mrs. JFK that have since been proven to be fact? What opinions do you have of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis?
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November 20, 2013 11:46 am ⋅ Don Kesterson
Anybody who was born before the mid-1950s has that date tattooed on their brain. We remember where we were on that day at that time.
As for me, I was in third grade at Emerson Grade School in Parkersburg, WV. I had received permission from my teacher to go down the hall to the restroom. On my way back to class, I overheard two upset teachers in the hallway talking.
"President Kennedy has been shot."
I went springing back into the classroom and made the announcement. My third grade teacher reprimanded me and put me back in the hall for telling a terrible lie.
In life, President Kennedy's legacy was no different than any other President's; there was some good and some bad. But due to Kennedy's untimely death, many look at his presidency through rose-colored glasses. However, without question, through President Kennedy's diplomacy, by giving Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev something in return for removing the missiles from Cuba, the world walked back from potential nuclear confrontation.
Many refer to that day as the day that began the end of the innocence for our society. The Warren Commission was set up to investigate and provide answers to the American public about what happened on that fateful day. How could our President be shot in broad daylight before a horrified public?
That can be explained by watching the old film from that day; an open top vehicle, people hanging out windows and on rooftops all along the way, Secret Service agents in the vehicle behind the President's Lincoln, then the slow, 120-degree turn from Houston Street onto Elm Street, and the stage was set for that ugly day. The route was changed on November 19th and published in both Dallas city newspapers to include this turn and to pass many large buildings, in order to give more people the chance to view the President.
The conclusion of the Warren Commission, consisting of high-level government officials, was that Lee Harvey Oswald was the single gunman who was able to fire three shots, and one of those bullets killed President John F. Kennedy. Their conclusion only led to more questions with many conspiracies emerging as a result. For the moment, I will sidestep all of the theories or conspiracies. Whether or not you believe them, clearly, the investigation into President John F. Kennedy's assassination was the beginning of the American public questioning the United States Government.
Still it is hard to believe that one bullet killed the President of the United States and changed society forever.
Where were you, and what were you doing on that fateful day? I would love to hear!
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William Hickson (ca 1735-) died in Tennessee. His family can be traced back to Staffordshire, England in 1040.
Joseph Hixson [Hix] and Susanna (1746-) are thought to be the couple who populated the state of Tennessee.
William Hixson (ca 1777-ca 1830) married Ingabo Hughes in 1789 in Greene Co. He died in Bledsoe Co. This family can also be traced back to Staffordshire, England.
William Albert Hixson (ca 1800-) born in Derby, England, married 1828 in Tennessee.
Tim and Nancy Hickson born about 1802 and lived in Tennessee.
Nancy Emeline Hixon (1810-1879) was born in Tennessee.
Maria Hickson was born 1818 in Tennessee.
O'Riley Hickson was born 1821 in Tennessee, the son of John Hickson.
William Hickson (1828-) and his wife, Martha (1838-) were born in Tennessee.
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First the Obama campaign, then Die Welt, and now CBS news confirms that Rush's Operation Chaos was a factor in Indiana and North Carolina.
If independents demonstrate divisions among the Democratic candidates' supporters, Republicans demonstrate yawning chasms. Few of the self-described Republicans who turned out to vote in the Democratic primaries in North Carolina and Indiana seem to actually support the candidate for whom they voted. Perhaps most intriguingly, however, is an apparent effort by Republicans to promote Clinton's candidacy when they feel Obama is the better nominee.
In each state Clinton carried the vote of Republican voters — 52 to 44 percent for Obama in Indiana, and 61 to 32 percent in North Carolina. Republicans made up only 5 percent in North Carolina's Democratic primary electorate, but made up 11 percent of the vote in the Indiana Democratic primary, enough to provide Clinton's expected margin of victory.
While taking the time to turn out and vote in the Democratic primaries, Republican voters in both states have plans to vote for McCain in November. In North Carolina, 74 percent and 76 percent of Republicans said they would vote for McCain if Clinton or Obama, respectively, were the nominee. In Indiana, 66 percent would vote for McCain against Clinton, and 61 percent would vote McCain if Obama's the nominee.
The exit polls reveal striking evidence of strategic voting by Republicans in both primaries, voting for the candidate they find least likely to win. Even though a majority of Republicans in each state voted for Clinton, they give Obama the better chance in November. In Indiana where 52 percent of Republicans supported Clinton, only 37 percent think she is more likely than Obama to win in November. In North Carolina the results were similar — while 61 percent of Republicans voted for Clinton, only 48 percent think she is the better general election candidate.


So I realized yesterday that I've remarried.
This will be news to my husband, but he needn't be concerned…I've entered into the institution (doubling down) with this institution…WVNCC, I mean. So it's not adulterous or polygamous to be married to a person and an inanimate thing, right?
After three or four years, I've come to realize that working for a college with multiple campuses requires a matrimony of sorts. Each campus has to be committed to the others. Each has to have the same values, the same philosophy about raising children, compatible views on budgeting, a shared vision for the future…and double sinks never hurt.
At the same time, each campus needs to have its own identity, its own hobbies, its own friends. Each campus needs to take care of itself…in order to be the best possible partner. I mean, my husband can tell me to exercise (please note: my husband should never tell me to exercise)…he can even buy me a maxi-climber and some fly new Under Armour HeatGear ankle crop yoga pants (that's oddly specific, isn't it…) but ultimately I need to do it myself, in the way that works best for me. The goal, and the underlying value, is the same…to be healthy and well…but if Under Armour HeatGear ankle crop yoga pants ($44.99 Amazon) don't work for me (they do)…then I have to find my means to the same end.
So we are wed, Chickens, no matter where along the river your pecking ground. Aristotle claimed "the whole to be greater than the sum of its parts"…and when each part has an opportunity to develop its unique strengths, the whole becomes that much whol-ier.
I think I prefer Aristotle's premise to Thomas Reid's "a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link" because when the weak link breaks a chain…is it really broken? Nope. It's just a shorter chain. Or two. A parting, yes. But not "until death"…quite the opposite really…a rebirth.
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On Monday, the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and Community and Technical College System announced in a news release that the deadline to apply for the West Virginia Higher Education Grant has been extended from April 15 to May 1. This grant provides eligible students with up to $2,700 per academic year to cover college expenses. Students apply for the grant by filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
This extension gives students additional time to file the FAFSA due to a technology issue at the federal level. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Data Retrieval Tool, which allows students and parents to electronically access, review and transfer tax information required for the FAFSA, is unavailable and is estimated to be down until the fall semester.
Students who need a copy of necessary 2015 tax forms to file the FAFSA can access these forms online at www.irs.gov/transcript. A hard copy can be requested by calling 1-800-908-9946 and a transcript will be delivered to the address on record within 5-10 days.
For more information, West Virginia families and students can call the HEPC and CTCS financial aid office at 888-825-5707 or visit the state's free college-planning website at www.cfwv.com.
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Get Your Game On, Chickens!!!
For many reasons, Chickens…among them…April is National Poetry Month. I know what you're thinking…SHAH! POETRY! PUH-LEEZE & NO THANK YOU!
Alas…this is why we need poetry Chickens…it reminds us that the human endeavor is, ultimately, a great mystery.
So, with you, I'd like to share the following Mary Oliver poem…one apt for us Chickens…as we travel this Northern road.


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See The World Through A Child's Eyes In "Pete's Dragon"
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Walt Disney Studios' classic 1977 live-action/animated musical "Pete's Dragon" the endearing tale of a young boy and his friendship with an animated, green dragon is re-imagined for today's generation with the new family adventure bearing the same title.
In Philippine cinemas starting Sept. 07, the new "Pete's Dragon" is the adventure of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliott, who just so happens to be a dragon. The film stars Bryce Dallas Howard ("Jurassic World"), Oakes Fegley ("This is Where I Leave You"), Wes Bentley ("The Hunger Games"), Karl Urban ("Star Trek"), Oona Laurence ("Southpaw") and Oscar® winner Robert Redford ("Captain America: The Winter Soldier").
Disney had been eager for some time to introduce "Pete's Dragon" to a whole new generation of film goer's and brought on producer Jim Whitaker to shepherd the project. "There are so many people who grew up with the original film, and the idea of that movie became a leaping-off point for us," says Whitaker. "We knew that this very simple idea about a boy and his dragon still had the potential to become a really special film."
While independent filmmaker David Lowery may not have seemed the obvious choice to write and direct a new vision of a beloved Disney film, there are actually some similarities between his first feature, "Pioneer," and "Pete's Dragon." Both stories deal with a sense of belonging, and in Pete's case, a sense of family. Adds Whitaker, "There's also a purity to both films and the wonderment of seeing things through the eyes of a child, and we thought David would be able to create a new, simple, yet pure, take on the story."
As a child, Lowery was a fan of the classic Disney films ("Pinocchio" was the first film he saw in a theater), as they appealed to his sense of adventure. But Disney was not looking for the new "Pete's Dragon" to have any direct association with the original, other than the title and basic premise; They were looking for someone to come up with a totally original story and new characters.
Lowery and his writing partner, Toby Halbrooks, have always been drawn to projects that have a certain naiveté and innocence about them, and they were excited by the possibilities. "Pete's Dragon" turned out to be perfectly tailored to their sensibilities as writers. "I loved the idea of making a movie that deals with imagination and has a degree of fantasy," Lowery says, "And there was no need to even think about reinventing the wheel when that wheel functioned so perfectly well."
"There's a process to developing a movie where you go through a series of drafts, but honestly, from the first draft, actually the first 20 pages, we knew the movie was there," says Whitaker. "David was after a sense of, what he calls, 'magical realism,' and that came through because he allowed magic to seep into the script in unexpected ways."
Many of Disney's classic films like "Dumbo" and "Bambi" convey important issues to children and help prepare them with the tools and guidance to deal with those issues in their own lives. "Our story asks a fundamental question: where does one belong, "Lowery says.
With a finished screenplay in hand, Lowery began to set his sights on directing, and what he envisioned was a classic movie that would capture the feeling of what it meant to be young. "When you're 10 years old everything you do seems like an epic adventure," he says. "You don't have to be riding on the back of a dragon…just the simple act of climbing a tree is exhilarating for kids."
"Pete's Dragon" is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through Columbia Pictures.
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DoE Talks Cyber Tech as Congress Works Up Grid Modernization Bills
Energy Department (DoE) officials and energy-sector security experts briefed House members today on a range of cybersecurity initiatives and other tech advancements they could consider as Congress works to create electric grid modernization legislation. […]
Stronger Information-Sharing, Partnerships Remain Key to Electric Grid Security
A panel of Federal and non-profit witnesses said that expanding both partnerships with industry and information-sharing to further help secure the U.S. electric grid at a House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Cyber Threats hearing today.
DoE Notches Progress in Unclassified Cyber Program
The Energy Department (DoE) is making strides in its unclassified cybersecurity program, according to a DoE Inspector General (IG) semiannual report released today.
Agencies Hoarding Data, but Unsure of Plan to Share it
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GAO Flags IT and Nuclear Modernization Among DoE Priorities
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) rolled out a letter of open priority recommendations for the Energy Department (DoE), with nuclear modernization and aging legacy IT systems and cybersecurity featured among the seven major areas GAO highlighted.
OIG Audit: DoE Must Take Greater Strides to Phase Out Legacy IT
The Department of Energy (DoE) could do more to improve its identification of legacy information technology (IT) infrastructure and develop and implement plans to modernize IT systems and components, according to a March 27 DoE Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit.
NSF's R&D Budget Request Upholds White House AI, Quantum Initiatives
The National Science Foundation's (NSF's) proposed FY2020 budget features $492 million for artificial intelligence (AI) and $106 million for quantum information science (QIS) research and development (R&S) funding, despite the White House's proposed cuts to overall NSF R&D.
Trump FY2020 Budget Proposal Highlights Tech Priorities
Although the Trump administration's FY2020 budget proposal details a plan to broadly modernize the government, the fine lines in each department's proposed funding show that the White House is more specifically geared toward researching and developing artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, IT systems, and technological infrastructure.
TMF Website Shows Small Project Spend Thus Far
The Technology Modernization Fund's (TMF) website shows minimal or no spend thus far on the projects for which $89 million of funding has been awarded.
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House Energy Panel Zeroes in on the Electric Grid of the Future
Witnesses from the Federal government, academia, and the private sector zeroed in on cyber threats facing the U.S. electric grid at a House Energy subcommittee hearing Thursday afternoon. During the hearing–which largely centered around research and innovations in electric grid and energy technology–all of the witnesses stressed the importance of shoring up the U.S. electric […] […]
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Over the past few years, the department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has started using cloud computing services. Michael Giardinelli, a senior software engineer and technical team lead at PNNL, said the lab's 16 counterparts across the nation have embarked on similar cloud journeys. "A lot of them are moving in same direction as us," Giardinelli said. "One key thing is collaboration amongst labs, like when working through the power grid."
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There are many other documented incidences of animals sensing earthquakes all over the world. No one really knows how they sense an earthquake, although theories abound, from sensing vibrations, noticing changes in the Earth's electromagnetic field or smelling released subterranean gases. Some of these theories could also explain why dogs 'freak out' before avalanches, but what about human-made catastrophes? During World War II, families in Britain and Germany relied on their pets' behavior to warn them of impending air raids while the enemy planes were still hundreds of miles away! Just how did these pets know what was looming in their immediate futures?
We've all heard stories of lost dogs and cats who've travelled hundreds of miles to return home. Even more common are accounts of pets who seem to know when their people are coming home. Pet parents have told me that they just have to 'think' about their sleeping dog or cat and their companion animal will immediately awake and stare as if to ask, "Did you want something?" What can possibly explain such occurrences? Do our pets and other animals have abilities that allow them to tune into our own brainwaves or even see into the future; i.e., are they'psychic'? Or, are they just more sensitive than humans to factors and changes (visual, magnetic, aural, etc.) too subtle for humans to detect?
The fact is, there's no clear answer … it's definitely an ongoing debate, usually with devoted pet parents and 'psychically gifted' on one side, and skeptics and most scientists on the other. In the past, scientists have not provided satisfactory answers about what non-human animals know, much less how they manage 'miraculous' behaviors (e.g., how every bird in a flock is able to turn on a dime simultaneously and change course in unison). With actions so incredible they are impossible (and unproductive) to ignore, even by-the-book scientists have begun to examine new perspectives in animal kingdom consciousness.
Veterinarian Allan Schoen, DVM, wrote in Kindred Spirits that humans and other animals share an intimate connection. Schoen thinks that pets can read our moods, understand our needs, and can even communicate with us on a level that transcends body language. ESP researcher Dr. J.B. Rhine thoroughly documented the travels of a cat named Sugar, who was left behind in California when his family moved away to Oklahoma. Fourteen months later, Sugar showed up at his family's home in Oklahoma, having undertaken an extraordinary 1,500 mile trip to a place he had never been before. And biologist Rupert Sheldrake, author of Dogs That Know When Their Owner is Coming Home, has published many papers concerning the perceptive abilities of telepathy and premonition in non-human animals.
In fact, several researchers believe there is a conscious connection between humans and their companion animals, referred to as 'non-local mind', which is not limited by locality, making it possible for humans and animals to affect each other even when miles apart. This is certainly true about the emotional bond between ourselves and our four-footers, so perhaps it is not so 'far out' to think they enjoy a mental connection that seems to defy explanation. Personally, I think it is possible that we've only begun to scratch the surface of the incredible conscious abilities of animals.
What about you? Where do you fall in this debate? Have you ever experienced a psychic connection with your companion animal?
I believe animals have a sixth sense and are more sensitive to our feelings than we give them credit for. They love us unconditionally and do their best to protect us. They wait patiently for us when we leave home and try to please us when we are home. When the time comes for them to leave us they are also accepting of their fate. And sometimes the love and communication from them continues from the other side.
There's definitely something there. Whenever I come home after work, my dog Mia always receives me with a toy in her mouth for us to play fetch with. The other day, as I was getting home, I experienced a very intense abdominal pain. As I opened the front door, Mia received me as always toy in mouth. But, I basically ignored her as I made my way onto bed. She jumped on, and I grabbed the ball out of her mouth and threw it. Remarkably, she didn't go after it, but got on top of me and started licking my face. After a while, as my pain faded, she just stay in bed with me until my wife got home.
How did she know something was amiss? Don't think she understood me when I told her: "not now sweetie, daddy doesn't feel well" Nor, I would chuck it up to experience, since something like that had never happened to me before. Maybe my body sent out some sort of distress signal (probably a smell) that as our language ability evolved, we didn't need to be able to detect anymore. Whatever it is, they are definitely much more than most people give them credit for.
I have had numerous experiences where my cat and I have seemed to communicate with our minds. One cat, Mitts, was lost and it was as if I could see what she was seeing and knew where to look for her. The same thing happened when a friends dog was missing and I kept seeing her on railroad tracks even though there were no tracks near her home. Eventually the dog was found, 40 miles away walking along the railroad tracks! My cat Squeaky had gotten tangled in a plastic shopping bag handle and even though she was at the other end of the house and I was sound asleep, I woke up with a panicked feeling that something was wrong and got to her just in time! I'm a believer!
As per wayne roberts' comment, I do agree with him. It is not unusual for pets to recognize our footsteps, but I had a cat who recognize the sound of my car when I would park in the back. He would run to the window and Meow! I lost my cat of 11 years to a heart problem in Nov 2010. She was allergic to everything and I never stop trying to find solutions to keep her healthy including your food/vitamins. But when her heart muscle became flaccid, there wasn't much else I could do, but make her comfortable and treasure what time I had left.
I too believe that humans and animals have an extremely close relationship. I've enjoyed pets my entire life and have felt this psychic bond many times.
I have had many experiences through the years with my furry children, but nothing beats this one. I had a dog (Rottweiler, 9) who was healthy. I was extrememly close to this one (my husband had been sick for a long time, and almost died; and my daughter was going through terrible teenage yrs). This dog was always by my side. One night I had a terrible dream he was lying dead next to me in bed. It woke me, and I called him (he always slept in the bed). He didn't move. I touched him, and he didn't move. I jumped out of bed and turned the light on. He looked up at me, and I hugged him crying telling him, please don't leave me. Two days later he got sick, and was diagnosed with Hemolytic Anemia. We tried to treat him, but he died. I definately feel he was telling me he was going.
I agree that animals have this capability. As a pet owner for many years of both cats and dogs. One thing that sticks out for me is how whenever you are upset or depressed without outside signs like crying they will immediately calm down even the more hyper ones and look up at you with eyes to say I would take all your pain from you if I could and then bury their head in your chest or lap and give soft kisses. Another time my cat got out of my daughters window and it had been over 8 hours. I had a feeling out of the blue that she was gone and knew she was out and knew just where to find her. I also go outside a lot and no matter the door I go out she is always at the correct door when I come back in.


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When you rent a temporary dumpster, your aim is to fill it up and have the waste hauled away. But if you want your waste recycled, you might have to go about it in a slightly different way. Waste in the majority of temporary dumpsters is not recycled since the containers are so big and carry so much stuff.
If you're interested in recycling any waste from your endeavor, check into getting smaller containers. Many dumpster rental firms in Lexington have a broad variety of containers available, including those for recycling. All these are usually smaller than temporary dumpsters; they're the size of regular trash bins and smaller.
If you'd like to recycle, find out whether the business you're working with uses single stream recycling (you usually do not have to sort the material) or if you will need to organize the recyclable stuff into various containers (aluminum cans, cardboard, plastics, etc.) This will make a difference in the number of containers you need to rent.
Front -load and roll off dumpsters have distinct layouts that make them useful in different ways. Understanding more about them will help you select an alternative that's right for your endeavor.
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The cost to rent a dumpster in Lexington depends on several factors such as the size you need and how long you need to keep it to finish your job. Typically, you can expect to spend more money for larger dumpsters. Keeping the dumpster for a longer amount of time may also increase the cost.
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Trash removal vs dumpster rental in Lexington - Which is right for you?
When you own a project you're about to undertake at home, you may be wondering if it's better to hire someone to come haul off all your waste and junk for you, or in case you should only rent a dumpster in Lexington and load it yourself.
Renting a container is a better option in case you'd like the flexibility to load it on your own time and you do not mind doing it yourself to save on labour. Dumpsters also work well in the event you have at least seven cubic yards or more of debris. Rolloffs usually start at 10 cubic yards, so should you only have 3-4 yards of waste, you're paying for a lot more dumpster than you want.
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Older adults find connection and meaning in community, demonstrate resilience during pandemic
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Apr 30 2021
Older adults were significantly affected by isolation and stress during Oregon's initial COVID-19 lockdown last spring, but they were also able to find connection and meaning in community, new hobbies and time for themselves, a recent Oregon State University study found.
If resilience is understood as the ability to see positives in the midst of a negative situation, then many of the study's participants demonstrated resilience during that time, the researchers said.
A lot of times we think about resilience as a personality trait, and it's true that there are some qualities that may help people experience that. But in the end, resilience is something that is shared. One of the things that came out in our study was the degree to which the people-connection was really significant."
Heidi Igarashi, Study First Author and Recent Doctoral Graduate, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University
The study, published in the Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, surveyed 235 adults ages 51 to 95 about their experiences from April 28-May 4, 2020, when Oregon's statewide stay-at-home order had been in place for about a month.
The online survey asked participants about recent and ongoing difficulties in their lives caused by COVID-19, as well as recent positive experiences.
People shared experiences at the personal, interpersonal and societal levels. Personal difficulties included the stress of constant vigilance around ensuring safety in everyday activities, as well as fear of death and uncertainty about the future. Interpersonal challenges included social isolation, lack of physical contact and fear for loved ones' health. Societal stressors were centered on lack of scientific leadership and concerns for the community at large.
While 94% of participants listed difficulties, roughly 63% shared positive experiences. At the personal level, these included things like trying new projects -- gardening, cooking -- and increased gratitude for the simpler, slower pace of life. Interpersonal joys were found in new friendships or reconnecting with old friends, and in people caring for one another. At the societal level, some noted the benefit to the environment from people driving less and the sense of increased community solidarity.
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Older adults took comfort in seeing neighbors and friends taking care of each other, while simultaneously adding to community resilience by looking after friends and neighbors themselves and joining group efforts like mask-sewing drives, said co-author Carolyn Aldwin, the Jo Anne Leonard Endowed Director of the Center for Healthy Aging Research at OSU.
"It's a mistake to think of older adults as just being sort of victims during COVID," Aldwin said. "They're a lot more resilient than we think they are, and they're important for the community."
Many of the survey respondents engaged in Zoom calls with family and friends, enjoyed time spent in nature and finally finished projects that had been sitting in the closet or garage.
Retired folks had a harder time than those who are employed because the lockdown was more disruptive to their routine, including closing off regular volunteer opportunities because of older adults' high-risk status. But some respondents reported feeling relief at being able to focus on themselves for a change, with pursuits like meditation and journaling, rather than spending all their time caring for other people.
The study was conducted via internet survey, which affected response rates; the majority of participants were white, female, retired and highly educated, as opposed to the racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups that have been hardest hit by COVID-19 infections and death, the researchers said.
But Aldwin cautions against assumptions about resilience among less-advantaged groups. While they may have experienced more loss and financial distress, a key factor in resilience is being able to find purpose in life, which can occur through helping others.
"There's this meaning that's found in caregiving, a reason for living, where our study group often didn't have these demands on them, and they were feeling a lack of sense of meaning," she said. "If you're the person who's holding the family together during this crisis, that's a source of meaning. Clearly we would have seen more loss and more difficulty, but we also might have seen sources of resilience that we didn't see in the study group."
Igarashi, H., et al. (2021) Resilience in Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Socioecological Approach. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab058.
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Charlie Masceranhas (Abhishek Bachchan) plans a robbery, to fulfill his mentor, Victor Braganzaa��s (Vinod Khanna) dream. To complete the `1,000-crore heist, he recruits a team that includes Riya (Bipasha Basu), a computer hacker, Spider (Neil Nitin Mukesh), a magician, Ronnie (Bobby Deol), a con artiste, Sunny (Omi Vaidya), a make-up expert and Bilal (Sikandar Kher), an explosives expert. While their intentiona��to use the money to build an orphanagea��is noble, the robbery goes wrong. The film is a remake of the Hollywood film, The Italian Job, and even uses Mini Coopers as the English version did.
Logan (Hugh Jackman) becomes a recluse, haunted by nightmares after he kills his friend and secret love, Jean Grey. He is brought out of exile by Yukio, a messenger of businessman Yashida (Rila Fukushima) whose life Logan had saved during World War II. Yashida, now on his death bed, offers Logan mortalitya��something hea��s always wanteda��in return for Logana��s self-healing powers. Though Logan refuses the offer, Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova) introduces a mysterious element into Logana��s blood. During Yashidaa��s funeral, the Yakuza try to abduct his granddaughter. Logan saves her, but when he stops healing, he realises something is amiss. Priyanka Chopra was to play the mutant samurai, Psylocke, in the film. But her part was later written out.


Let's start with the DNR "The Au Sable River - Mio to Alcona, Status of the Fisheries Report" http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/2007-22_225164_7.pdf. If you like to fish below Mio then you really need to familiarize yourself with this document. It is the best source of information on the Big Water.
Dotson, T. 1982. Mortalities in trout caused by gear type and angler-induced stress. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 2:60-65.
Eaton, J.G., J.H. McCormick, B.E. Goodno, D.G. O'Brien, H.G. Stefany, M. Hondzo, and R.M. Scheller. 1995. A field information-based system for estimating fish temperature tolerances. Fisheries 20:10-18.
Hunsaker, D., L.F. Marnell, and F.P. Sharp. 1970. Hooking mortality of Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Progressive Fish-Culturist 32:231-235.
Klein, W.D. 1965. Mortality of rainbow trout caught on single and treble hooks and released. Progressive Fish-Culturist 27:171-172.
Wydoski, R.S. 1977. Relation of hooking mortality and sublethal hooking stress to quality fishery management. Pages 43-87 in R.A. Barnhart and T.D. Roelofs, editors. Catch-and-Release fishing as a management tool. Humbold State University, California cooperative Fishery Research Unit, Arcata.
Wehrly, K.E., L. Wang, and M. Mitro. 2007. Field-based estimates of thermal tolerance limits for trout: Incorporating exposure time and temperature fluctuation. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136:365-374.
We will add more information as we find it.
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Q: Сборка ReactJS проекта в один HTML файл через webpack Имеется проект на ReactJS с webpack в качестве сборщика.
Необходимо собрать весь проект в один html файл (не обязательно с мапами) для дальнейшего подключения в другой сервер.
Хотелось бы узнать способы/плагины такого рода сборки.
Было опробовано несколько древних плагинов, которые в силу возраста уже не запускаются с webpack 5:

*

*web-webpack-plugin;

*html-webpack-inline-source-plugin.

Заранее спасибо за ответы.
Текущий полный код webpack.config.js:
const path = require('path')
const { SourceMapDevToolPlugin } = require('webpack')
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin')
const InterpolateHtmlPlugin = require('interpolate-html-plugin')

const proxy = require('./package.json').proxy

module.exports = {
    entry: './src/index.js',
    // mode: 'production',
    devtool: 'source-map',
    output: {
        path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'build'),
        filename: '[name].[contenthash:8].js',
        publicPath: '/',
    },
    performance: {
        assetFilter: (assetFilename) => !/\.map$/.test(assetFilename),
        hints: 'warning',
        maxAssetSize: 300 * 1024, // 300KB
    },
    devServer: {
        historyApiFallback: true,
        port: 3000,
        client: {
            overlay: {
                warnings: false,
            },
        },
        proxy: {
            context: ['/api'],
            target: proxy,
        },
    },
    cache: false,
    stats: 'errors-warnings',
    resolve: {
        modules: [path.join(__dirname, 'src'), 'node_modules'],
        extensions: ['', '.js', '.jsx'],
    },
    module: {
        unsafeCache: false,
        rules: [
            {
                test: /\.js$/,
                enforce: 'pre',
                use: [ 'source-map-loader' ],
            },
            {
                test: /\.m?jsx?$/i,
                exclude: /node_modules/,
                use: [ 'babel-loader' ],
            },
            {
                test: /\.css$/i,
                use: [
                    'style-loader',
                    'css-loader'
                ],
            },
        ]
    },
    plugins: [
        new InterpolateHtmlPlugin({ PUBLIC_URL: 'static' }),
        new HtmlWebpackPlugin({ template: './public/index.html' }),
        new SourceMapDevToolPlugin({ filename: 'maps/[file].map' }),
    ],
}


Ekachai Hongkangwan is an ordinary Thai activist who tries to expose the truth about some ugly things happening in Thailand. Unlike most of the stories I go online shouting about, this story may yet have a happy ending. Khun Ekachai, though constantly harassed for speaking out, is currently alive and free from jail. By publicizing his story, I hope we can increase the odds he stays that way. I want the world to know the name of Ekachai Hongkangwan BEFORE the next evil befalls him, which, of course, the junta will swear is totally unrelated to his activism.
From the self-censored articles written about the lese majesty victims and political dissidents (Ekachai Hongkangwan is both), you may get the idea that these people are out looking for trouble--"looking for lice, and then putting them on one's head" to use a Thai expression--by fighting battles they know they can never win. Having spoken to so many of the dissidents (but never Ekachai Hongkangwan), I can tell you that these dissidents are more like the person shouting "ICEBERG!! ICEBERG" as the Thai-tanic heads right towards the iceberg. And you can't shame or scare them out of shouting "ICEBERG!" because they are so worried about the ship.
So BEFORE this dissident is disappeared and tortured, or charged with another frivolous law suit, or attacked by a (another?) state-sponsored vigilante, I'd like the world to track what is happening to him, because it seems he is being targeted by the junta.


Somebody give this guy a job.
I caught a White Sox game on TV earlier this week, and I couldn't believe it.
I heard honest, thoughtful analysis from Ken Harrelson and this other guy -- his name is Steve Stone.
This guy is the best I've ever heard. Knows the game and is about three pitches ahead of the action. Can't believe he left the Cubs in 2004.
He made Harrelson better too. Players who have struggled were called out; no excuses were made. For once, I felt as if I was getting the truth, not some White Sox PR spin.
So please, will the White Sox or Cubs, I don't care which, make this guy an announcer, manager or general manager. I don't care -- maybe all three.
Work the trade wires in the morning; call a game in the afternoon, check the phones at night. I know this guy can do it.
I hope the Cubs can find some guys quick who also can still do it. I see Felix Pie is back -- I feel I should offer an opinion here, but he's been called up and back so many times, I'm going to save commentary until he either makes the team for good in 2009, or he's traded away for a Class A pitcher next year. I sense underachievement.
Nonetheless, he can only help. I see the wheels starting to come off -- no wait, they're off.
Here's the good news: Unless my math is off, the Cubs could lose every game from now until mid-September -- when Alfonso Soriano gets back -- and still pick up a game and a half on the Brewers. Yes, they're that bad. (The Brewers, that is).
I caught a bit of the Brewers game with the Rockies the other day. I'm not exaggerating when I say the entire stinky White Sox bullpen would all be aces on the Brewers staff. Yes, they're that bad (The Brewers are -- so are the Sox).
So relax -- no, wait, let's panic anyway. We're good at it.
As a release, watch the Bears game Saturday. Week 1, preseason. After 20 minutes, you'll wonder why you're watching -- yes, preseason games can be that bad.
Watch anyway. I'm looking for 1) Greg Olsen catching the ball. 2) Kyle Orton playing decent. 3) Devin Hester doing something neat.
Oh, I almost forgot. No injuries!


Superintendent Kimberly Hill updated the Board on a $374,000 safety and security grant from the Maryland Center for School Safety that will help Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) expand health services for students, implement student identification badges, broaden delivery of restorative practices, buy more school bus cameras, offer more professional development and enhance alert systems. Additionally, the Superintendent thanked outgoing Board members for their service to children.
The Board recognized golfer Bailey Davis, a sophomore at North Point High School, for winning the 2018 Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association Golf Championship: Class 3A/4A Girl's championship. She posted the lowest round of any boy or girl golfer in the championship.
CCPS TV On Air video "Bailey Davis Does It Again"
CCPS relies heavily on grant funding for instructional and special programs. On average, CCPS receives $16.8 million annually. Instructional staff provided a snapshot of how much each area receives and how CCPS uses the money. "We rely on grants to do business," Deputy Superintendent Amy Hollstein said. Instructional staff shared information on how grants fund career and technology education, teaching and staff development, student support and academic enrichment, reading literacy, English Learner programs, the Judith P. Hoyer Early Childhood Centers, special education and the NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training.
The main goal of discipline is to change student behavior and to ensure the safety of staff and students. During a presentation about discipline, staff reviewed the Code of Student Conduct and the guidelines it offers to respond to misbehavior as well as the level of responses available to principals. Additionally, the Board learned about Synergy Analytics, a new program that allows principals to use data to track incidents and particular behaviors. Staff also talked about out-of-school suspensions and provided historical data that shows a slight decline over the past several years. Additionally, staff talked about hearing dispositions and the supports offered to students, including schedule changes, restrictions, behavior and attendance agreements, Teen Court and more. Staff also discussed available options for removing students from school, such as extended suspension and 45-day placements at the Robert D. Stethem Educational Center. As part of the presentation, staff outlined the laws that govern discipline as well as the layers of support used to help students as schools address student behavior. Supports include expansion of a therapeutic intervention program, expansion of Evening High School to include opportunities for special education students, expansion of parent shadowing at schools and planning for an elementary alternative program.
Matthew Henson Middle School Principal Christina Caballero presented an in-school program called Henson Utilizing Strategies to develop Kind, Interpersonal, Engaged Students (HUSKIES) that has helped reduce out-of-school suspensions. Students are required to attend their classes in one room and must earn points in order to return to the regular classroom. Caballero said she has tried a number of things, including parent shadowing and after-school detention, but HUSKIES is producing solid results. The program provides students an opportunity to stay in school and complete their work while receiving therapeutic intervention. She quoted one seventh grader who completed the program as saying the assignment to Huskies was a more severe consequence than being suspended.
Assistant Superintendent of Fiscal Services Randy Sotomayor provided information on a five-year contract with CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield obtained through a competitive procurement process. CCPS has maintained stable premiums for employees due to its competitive procurement process and slow expenditure growth. Representatives from CareFirst and CVSHealth, which provides prescription benefits, also provided overviews.
The Board rescheduled its update on Billingsley Elementary School to the January meeting.
Three people spoke at Public Forum. Christy Wright, a parent, talked about bus safety and encouraged the Board to place monitors on buses to keep children safer. She suggested possibly recruiting community volunteers to serve as monitors. Melissa Williams, a teacher, spoke about discipline problems. She asked the Board to come up with solutions to address the small percentage of students who are causing disruption in schools. She suggested streamlining the process to place students to the alternative program at the Robert D. Stethem Educational Center and to remove limits on the days students attend classes there. Yolonda Coleman Brown, a parent, talked about suspensions and said she feels the process is backward. She questioned why she had to wait until an incident occurred to learn about free mediation services at the College of Southern Maryland and other interventions available to students. She said communication is not getting out to parents.
The Board recognized the following students for excellence in one of the school systems three focus areas: academic achievement, personal responsibility and career readiness.
Click here to learn about the students' accomplishments.
The Board honored the following exemplary employees.
Click here to learn more about the employee recognition.
Board Member Jennifer Abell suggested scheduling a discussion about a new Board retreat.
Personnel, including recommendations for 14 certificated appointments, one release without prejudice; one release with prejudice; one retirement, and one leave of absence.
Minutes, including open session and executive session.
A grading policy that requires all schools to use the same scale, 0-59, for an F grade. The policy goes into effect at the start of the second semester.
Click here to read about the new uniform grading scale.
Click here to watch the Dec. 11 Board Meeting on CCPS TV.


My name is Lene Fredborg. I established DocTools in 2006 based on my strong interest in developing useful and time-saving tools for Microsoft Word.
My experience with Microsoft Word and Microsoft Visual Basic (VBA) programming has been gained through more than 25 years of working with document automation, document templates, document management, user documentation, etc. – previously in large IT companies and now in DocTools.
Read more about the MVP program.
Link to my MVP profile on Microsoft.com.
For further details about my background, please refer to my profile on LinkedIn.


Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and its Kerr-McGee unit acted with "intent to hinder" when they spun off Tronox, the paint materials company that later went bankrupt, and should pay billions of dollars in environmental cleanup costs, a judge ruled on Thursday.
The decision, which parties had been awaiting for about a year since a trial wrapped up in late 2012, drove Anadarko's shares down 9.8 percent to $75.50 in after-hours trading.
Judge Allan Gropper said damages could range between about $5 billion and more than $14 billion, in the decision handed down late Thursday afternoon in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.
Anadarko and Kerr-McGee are expected to appeal the ruling.
Tronox sued Anadarko and Kerr-McGee in 2009, arguing that the 2005 spinoff that created Tronox was fraudulent because it loaded Tronox up with environmental liabilities that made it insolvent.
Tronox, which makes titanium dioxide used in paints, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009.
When Tronox emerged from bankruptcy in 2011, a litigation trust for certain Tronox creditors took its place as the plaintiff in this case. The trust claimed that Kerr-McGee's spinoff of Tronox allowed Kerr-McGee to become more valuable to Anadarko, which acquired it in 2006.
The litigation trust represents the interests of entities that claimed health problems caused by pollution from uranium deposits, wood creosote and more. Claimants include the United States government, 11 individual states, the Navajo Nation, various environmental response trusts and trusts for individual plaintiffs.
The litigation trust, which sought $25 billion to clean up 2,000 sites in the United States, was eventually joined as a plaintiff in the lawsuit by the U.S. government.
"The defendants acted with intent to hinder and delay" Tronox creditors when they transferred out and then spun off oil and gas assets, and the transaction "was not made for reasonably equivalent value," Gropper said in a 166-page ruling.
Just how adverse a ruling it is for Anadarko and Kerr-McGee will come down to the issue of damages. While Gropper found that the trust is entitled to recover about $14.17 billion, Anadarko may be entitled to decrease the figure by roughly $9 billion for offsetting costs it may have incurred from the transaction. Overall damages could be between about $5.15 billion and $14.17 billion, plus attorneys' fees, Gropper said.
Both sides will present their cases to the judge on appropriate damage figures at a later date.
John Hueston, the trustee for the litigation trust, called the ruling a "stunning victory" for Tronox creditors and environmental claimants.
"The floor for damages is $5 billion, but we expect the court to provide well in excess of that once all is said and done," Hueston told Reuters.
Gropper waited about a year to render a ruling, longer than had been expected, perhaps because he hoped the parties would settle, Hueston said.
"Eventually I think it became clear to him that the parties were not going to settle," he said, adding that his "confidence grew over time" that the decision would fall in the trust's favor.
"I thought it indicated there would be a very thorough, thoughtful opinion," he said.
A call to a spokesman for Anadarko was not immediately returned. In an automated voice message at its public affairs office, the company said it would have a statement once it had had a chance to review the decision. A lawyer for Anadarko declined to comment.
The case is Tronox Inc et al. v. Kerr McGee Corp et al., U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, No. 09-1198.


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'use strict';

/* http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/dev_guide.e2e-testing */

describe('Login', function() {

    /**********************  CONFIGURATIONS **************************/

	var usernameField = element(by.id('username'));
	var passwordField = element(by.id('password'));
	var loggedUserInfo = element(by.id('logged_user_info'));

	beforeEach(function() {
		browser.get('app/index.html');
		login();
	});

	// Helper methods
	function login(){
		var loginButton = element(by.id('login'));
		usernameField.sendKeys(browser.params.login.username);
		passwordField.sendKeys(browser.params.login.password);
		loginButton.click();
		browser.wait(function(){
			return loggedUserInfo.isPresent();
		}, 10000);
	}
	function logout(){
		var logoutButton = element(by.id('logout'));
		logoutButton.click();
	}

	/**********************  HELPER METHODS **************************/

    /**********************  CUSTOM MATCHERS **************************/

    /**********************  TESTS  **************************/

	describe('Successful Login', function() {

		it('should login successfully', function() {
			expect(loggedUserInfo.isPresent()).toBe(true);
			logout();
		});

		it('should display user id and role after login', function() {
			expect(loggedUserInfo.getText()).toBe('Logged as user id 25 (admin)');
			logout();
		});

		it('should have username and passwords empty after logout', function() {
			logout();
			expect(usernameField.getText()).toBe('');
			expect(passwordField.getText()).toBe('');
		});
	});

	xit('should display a message after unsuccessful login', function() {
		var unsuccessfulLoginMessage = element(by.css('span', 'Invalid username and/or password'));

		element(by.id('username')).sendKeys('wrong_username');
		element(by.id('password')).sendKeys('any_password');
		element(by.id('login')).click();

		browser.wait(function(){
			return unsuccessfulLoginMessage.isPresent();
		}, 10000);

		expect(unsuccessfulLoginMessage.isPresent()).toBe(true);
	});

	xit('should not display edit buttons on project index before login', function(){});
	xit('should display edit buttons on project index after login', function(){});

	xit('should not display edit buttons on feature set index before login', function(){});
	xit('should display edit buttons on feature set index after login', function(){});

	xit('should go back to projects list after logout', function(){});

	xit('should set cookies after successful login', function(){});
	xit('should not set cookies after unsuccessful login', function(){});

	xit('should keep cookies when reloaded', function(){});

	xit('should remove cookies after logout', function(){});

	xit('should display access denied message when not logged in', function() {
		//TODO
		var unsuccessfulLoginMessage = element(by.cssContainingText('span', 'Invalid username and/or password'));

		browser.navigate().to('http://localhost:8000/app/#/componentsGlobalTemplateEdit');
		browser.wait(function(){
			return false;
		}, 10000);

		expect(unsuccessfulLoginMessage.isPresent()).toBe(true);
	});

	xit('should display first access denied but not second message after login in', function() {});

});

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