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class ExpenseTypesController < ApplicationController
  before_action :set_expense_type, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]

  # GET /expense_types
  # GET /expense_types.json
  def index
    @expense_types = ExpenseType.all
  end

  # GET /expense_types/1
  # GET /expense_types/1.json
  def show
  end

  # GET /expense_types/new
  def new
    @expense_type = ExpenseType.new
  end

  # GET /expense_types/1/edit
  def edit
  end

  # POST /expense_types
  # POST /expense_types.json
  def create
    @expense_type = ExpenseType.new(expense_type_params)

    respond_to do |format|
      if @expense_type.save
        format.html { redirect_to @expense_type, notice: 'Expense type was successfully created.' }
        format.json { render action: 'show', status: :created, location: @expense_type }
      else
        format.html { render action: 'new' }
        format.json { render json: @expense_type.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
      end
    end
  end

  # PATCH/PUT /expense_types/1
  # PATCH/PUT /expense_types/1.json
  def update
    respond_to do |format|
      if @expense_type.update(expense_type_params)
        format.html { redirect_to @expense_type, notice: 'Expense type was successfully updated.' }
        format.json { head :no_content }
      else
        format.html { render action: 'edit' }
        format.json { render json: @expense_type.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
      end
    end
  end

  # DELETE /expense_types/1
  # DELETE /expense_types/1.json
  def destroy
    @expense_type.destroy
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html { redirect_to expense_types_url }
      format.json { head :no_content }
    end
  end

  private
    # Use callbacks to share common setup or constraints between actions.
    def set_expense_type
      @expense_type = ExpenseType.find(params[:id])
    end

    # Never trust parameters from the scary internet, only allow the white list through.
    def expense_type_params
      params.require(:expense_type).permit(:name)
    end
end

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Uncertainty remains factor in Japan
Campus leaders
"Few people and even I have a hard time understanding what a 16-meter wall of water is," said Miho Mazereeuw, a lecturer in landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Mazereeuw's group built a pavilion for the community to gather.
Justin Ide/Harvard Staff Photographer
Radiation worries, joblessness, survivor guilt tied to rise in suicides
By Judy Rakowsky Harvard Correspondent
Date September 20, 2011 June 21, 2019
Uncertainty about the long-term effects of low-level radiation and despair over the bleak employment picture in Japan are contributing to alarming rates of suicide among those affected by the cascading disasters of the March 11 earthquake, tsunami, and meltdown of a nuclear reactor, Harvard experts found on recent visits.
Yusuke Tsugawa, a researcher in general medicine at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and co-director of the Boston-Japan Medical Relief Initiative, said that the raging debate in Japan over health risks of exposure to low-level radiation over time makes it difficult for residents to move on.
"Honestly, there is a huge debate in Japan about the radiation" emitted from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor, said Tsugawa. "One group of specialists says there is no effect and another group proposes a different opinion. We have to be clear that nobody knows that influence."
Without ample evidence or an unequivocal research technique to gather it, there is no clear answer to how far away from the Fukushima plant it is safe for people to farm or even live. That uncertainty leads to despair among people who are already dislocated and unemployed.
The Fukushima prefecture saw 68 suicides in May, 19 more than in May 2010, according to a report by the national police agency. Tokyo had 325 suicides in May. Japan already leads the industrial world in suicides, and the northern part of the country where the earthquake and tsunami occurred already had the highest rates in the country. The suicides of people in their 30s have been tied to dim prospects for employment in the disaster zone, while others have taken their lives because of overwhelming survivor guilt and loss.
"I visited a lot of people in temporary housing and talked to a lot of people who lost family," said Tsugawa, who led a 15-physician team from Boston that provided care to disaster survivors. "Anything we do — have tea with them, talk to them — will be help. But we need to do better."
While in Japan, Tsugawa's group helped set up a 10-year medical assessment of a couple of thousand survivors in the region, which will examine the health implications as a result of the earthquake and tsunami. The study is being conducted by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the Department of Public Health, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine.
The Fukushima prefecture plans a separate study to investigate the impact of low-dose radiation.
"There are disasters going on in the world all the time," he said. "We are looking for better scientific evidence to address it."
Tsugawa spoke Friday at the forum: "Recovery and Reconstruction in Japan, Harvard Reports from the Field," which included a Design School lecturer who coordinated efforts to build a pavilion for the community to gather; and two undergraduates, Jun Shepard '14, and Glenn Bogardus '12, who had hands-on summer internships with aid organizations in Japan. The panel was moderated by Andrew Gordon, director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, which sponsored the presentations with the Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations.
The 9.0-earthquake and tsunami in Great Tohoku caused 15,782 deaths, and another 4,806 people are still missing, said Tsugawa. (The 2010 earthquake in Haiti was only 7.0 on the Richter scale but caused 316,000 deaths, with another 869 still missing. A poor health care system in Haiti resulted in many more deaths over time.)
While aid efforts have been significant and effective, the scale of the devastation is mind-boggling.
"Few people and even I have a hard time understanding what a 16-meter wall of water is," said Miho Mazereeuw, a lecturer in landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The destruction in some areas was 100 percent.
Mazereeuw, who is completing a book on pre-emptive disaster design that includes case studies from earthquake-prone regions, said that there has been a dramatic shift away from thinking that infrastructure — such as a high seawall — can be engineered to be adequate protection.
"You can't prevent things by management and engineering," she said. "People need to know where to evacuate, and it has to be a community-based effort."
Mazereeuw's group built a community center where dislocated residents can gather, engaging children and young adults to do the work.
Coming to grips with displacement is challenging enough. The added layer of uncertainty — over the long-term effects of radiation, the safety of food grown in the region, and prospects for agriculture and business — has been devastating. Mazereeuw said that a man involved in aquaculture asked her to do testing related to radiation at his oyster farm. He wanted to know whether he would be able to sell oysters if he rebuilt it.
"It's a big issue and there needs to be more research to come up with answers that people trust," Mazereeuw said.
Still, Mazereeuw wanted to emphasize the optimism held by those she encountered. In remarks made following the forum she wrote: "All of the people my students and I met were an inspiration. Yes, they were all aware of the challenges ahead and had many questions about what the future holds, but they were organized and already planning and figuring out ways to rebuild their lives."
Production - Ned Brown | Photography - Justin Ide | Interview - Corydon Ireland

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Major step forward in battle against Group B Strep with launch of new leaflet
The battle against group B Strep (GBS) took a huge leap forward today with the launch of a new patient leaflet which will be provided to all pregnant women for the first time.
RCOG and BSUG response to NICE guidance on transvaginal mesh repair for prolapse
This NICE IPG refers only to the use of mesh to reinforce pelvic organ prolapse repair for anterior and posterior wall prolapse. It does not refer to the use of mesh or tape for stress urinary incontinence or vaginal vault surgery which are subject
Doctors & midwives express concern as 6 in 10 pregnant women miss out on flu jab
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and Royal College of Midwives (RCM) are reminding all pregnant women to take up the offer of free flu vaccination this winter to protect themselves and their baby from complications caused
RCOG & RCM joint statement on MBBRACE-UK report on maternal deaths
New figures reveal no significant reduction in the number of women who died during or after pregnancy between 2013 and 2015, according to the latest report from MBBRACE-UK. The overall death rate in the UK is now 8.8 per 100,000.
RCOG/RCM joint response to the Maternity Safety Strategy
As leaders of the professional bodies for midwives and obstetricians, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and Royal College of Midwives (RCM) welcome this refreshed Maternity Safety Strategy and the targets and
RCOG/RCM joint statement in response to MBRRACE-UK report on stillbirths
Stillbirth and neonatal deaths have more than halved in the UK from 0.62 to 0.28 per 1,000 total births since 1993, representing a fall of around 220 intrapartum (term) deaths per year, according to new figures published today.
Stillbirth risk is doubled if pregnant women sleep on their backs in third trimester
New research published today in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology suggests that the risk of stillbirth is doubled if pregnant women sleep on their backs during the third trimester.
Inducing first-time mothers aged 35 and over earlier could reduce stillbirths
A study published in PLOS Medicine has found that inducing first-time mothers aged 35 and over at 40 weeks could reduce the risk of stillbirth and neonatal death (the death of a baby 7 days after birth), when compared to current guidelines which
Top miscarriage research priorities identified by women and health professionals
More research is needed to improve psychological and emotional support for women and their partners affected by miscarriage, reveals a survey published in BMJ Open and presented at the Association of Early Pregnancy Unit's (AEPU) annual conference
Maternity audit publishes report to help NHS services deliver improvements
The National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) today publishes a major clinical report that identifies areas of good practice and opportunities for improvement in the care of women and babies in maternity services across Britain.


As you begin to move more, you will make many mistakes on your journey. And you know what? Good. This is totally normal. Every mistake you can possibly make has been done a thousand times before. However, if we don't learn from our past or history, we are doomed to repeat those same mistakes over and over. To make progress, there are mistakes that can easily be avoided. Let's bring to light a few common gym mistakes that will derail your training and bring your gains to a halt.
"What gets measured, gets managed."Peter Drucker This is a cardinal sin within the gym. How do you know if you are making progress if you are unsure what you did last week or at which weight? To make continuous progress, write your workouts down. Track your weights, reps, sets, and even how you're feeling pre/post workout. Stop making this cardinal mistake. Write down your damn workout!
Not planning your workouts in advance (also known as programming) always leads to mediocre results because there is no direction or focus. Regularly strolling into the gym and then using whatever machine and/or weights are available will usually lead to a less than stellar workout and not be an efficient use of your most valuable asset. TIME! Plan and know what each workout will consist of, so you can be mentally prepared and take the guess work out of the equation.
Ignore the latest fitness trend or fad. Discard the "flashy" exercises and stick to the essential movement patterns: hip hinge, squat, lunge, push, pull, and carries. Just because you saw an exercise on Instagram doesn't mean you should do it. As a rule, you should stay on the same program anywhere between 6-12 weeks before changing it up. Stay on course, be patient, be consistent, and you will get great results.
To improve mobility, increase strength, and make gains in your overall conditioning, you must force change. You need to push your body to work harder than it is used to, otherwi,se it will not adapt. Progressive overload is the most basic training principle and goes hand in hand with using a training log (See # 1). Your training should be challenging yet allow enough recovery between workouts, so you can continue to increase your level of intensity.
While it is important to track your weights, beat personal records and add weight to the bar, it is more important to improve the quality of each rep. Focus on perfecting technique and mastering mechanics. If unsure, go to one of our Strength Camps sessions or hire a personal trainer.
No one can completely overhaul their life overnight. You cannot go from 0 to 100 with your fitness aspirations without causing a complete burnout. Instead, take one small step. Do something more than you were yesterday.
This is not the end all, be all list of gym mistakes. There are hundreds of thousands of different mistakes individuals make within the gym, both beginners and veterans. However, the biggest difference between beginners and veterans are beginners are discouraged by their mistakes, while the veterans use their previous experience and the wisdom of other coaches to get better. Within the fitness world, there is very little black and white, only shades of grey.


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Q: Is there a way to remove all line breaks which are in the middle of sentences? I have a lot of latex files in which line breaks have been used frequently.
The problem is that a lot of these line breaks is used to help the reader see a whole sentence of text on his screen like here:
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I would like to find a way to convert this into a sentence on only one line like here
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A: You can achieve this using latexindent.
Say you have the following file
myfile.tex
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and the YAML file
mathias.yaml
modifyLineBreaks:
    removeParagraphLineBreaks:
        all: 1

and you run the command
latexindent.pl myfile.tex  -m -l mathias.yaml

then you should receive the following output:
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latexindent.pl is customisable via the YAML interface, see the documentation for further options and examples.

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If you like offense, you will want to check out Sunday afternoon's Southern Methodist at Texas Tech game (3:30 p.m., ESPN). These are easily the two most pass-happy offenses in the nation.
It's also the debut of new Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville, who says he will keep some of former coach Mike Leach's 'Air Raid' spread offense, but certainly will integrate more of a running game to get more balance. Last season, Tech ranked 115th in the nation in rushing (84.0 yards per game) and second in passing (386.8 ypg). New offensive coordinator Neal Brown plans to use more two-back sets and to turn Tech into a more physical offensive team.
Meanwhile, Coach June Jones has resurrected the SMU program like he did at Hawaii. Last year the Mustangs were one of the nation's biggest surprises in winning eight games, the program's most since 1984. They also pulled one of the bowl shockers of 2009 in pummeling heavy favorite Nevada in the Hawaii Bowl. That's pretty amazing considering SMU was 1-11 in 2008.
TTU has won 13 games in a row in this series. The most recent was 43-7 in 2008.
QB Kyle Padron led a late-season surge for SMU last year. Padron took over as starter when Bo Levi Mitchell was injured against Houston on Oct. 24 last year. Padron went 4-1 in the regular season and was named MVP of the bowl game, passing for a school record 460 yards and two TDs in the 45-10 win over Nevada. Overall he completed 135 of his 201 passing attempts (67.2 percent) for 1,922 yards, 10 touchdowns and just four interceptions. His passer rating of 159.92 was the fifth-highest in the nation. With top receiver Emmanuel Sanders having moved on, Padron's top weapon will be WR Aldrick Robinson, who had 176 yards receiving in that bowl win. The team also has to replace RB Shawnbrey McNeal after he rushed for 1,188 yards and 12 TDs last year.
Meanwhile, Taylor Potts won a close quarterback competition against Steven Sheffield in fall camp for Texas Tech. Last season in 10 starts Potts threw 3,340 yards, completing 309 of 470 passes for 22 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. But expect to see more of RBs Baron Batch and Eric Stephens this year after they combined for just 217 carries in 2009.
SMU's defense was a bit of a problem last year, ranking 84th in total defense but it did rank in the Top 25 in the country in forcing 28 takeaways. TTU is switching to an attacking 3-4 scheme under new coordinator James Willis, the former Alabama linebackers coach.
The Red Raiders are 13.5-point favorites with an 'over/under' of 60.5. The side opened at 11.5 at most books and rose as high as 14. Approximately 70 percent of the lean is on TTU. The total was as high as 62.5 at some books. It's still the highest total on the board in Week 1.
If this were a few weeks into the regular season, I would definitely recommend the 'over'. But since it's the opener, you have to expect some rustiness – especially from a Texas Tech team with a new head coach and two new coordinators. Thus go with the 'under'.
I do like Texas Tech to win – it has won its past seven openers – but for SMU to cover as Jones no doubt has been reminding his players of the long losing streak in this series and the blowout lost just two years ago.
Allen Eastman is back with his 99 System for NFL predictions in 2010 and before he even came across this system he was considered one of the best NFL handicappers making picks against NFL point spreads in the nation – now he is even better with this wining NFL betting system. Last season the 99 System was 27-13 ATS and this system not only helped his clients make a ton of money, but also helped Eastman to third place in the prestigious Las Vegas Hilton NFL Contest.


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Davis, Anthony Lead Lakers in 126-123 Overtime Win Over Hornets
By Amanda Scurlock
Lakers forwards Anthony Davis and Carmelo Anthony led the way in a 126-123 overtime win over the Charlotte Hornets, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021 (Courtesy photo)
Anthony Davis led all scorers with 32 points, 12 rebounds, five blocks and three steals, Carmelo Anthony recorded a season-high 29 points, making seven three-pointers, including a go ahead three with 2:00 left in overtime and the Los Angeles Lakers held on for a thrilling 126-123 victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Monday night at Staples Center.
The Lakers survived a late collapse in the closing moments of regulation and improved to 6-5 with the win, while the Hornets fell to 5-7 with the loss.
Davis returned to the lineup and looked like himself after leaving the last game with an illness as well as playing through a thumb injury. He helped the Lakers close the game after squandering a 14-point fourth quarter advantage and made big plays when the team needed him the most.
"He's dealing with a lot of stuff right now with his thumb and being sick, but he's playing through it," Lakers coach Frank Vogel said on Davis. "We don't win that game tonight without him having that mentality."
The star big man had six points in overtime, including converting a pair of free throws with 49.4 seconds left to give Los Angeles a three-point lead and blocked Hornets guard Terry Rozier three-point attempt with 6.2 seconds remaining before Cody Martin missed the game-tying shot for Charlotte.
"They lost 4 in a row, so they needed a win, but we needed a win most," said Davis, who stated he took chewables and drank extra fluids to get through the game. "We weren't losing this game."
"Hopefully, I feel better in the next couple days, but if not, we'll do it again!"
The Lakers won their first game without LeBron James, who missed his third straight while recovering from an abdominal strain.
Russell Westbrook recorded his 185th career triple-double and first as a Laker tallying 17 points, 12 rebounds and 14 assists, while Malik Monk and DeAndre Jordan added 10 apiece.
Rozier led Charlotte with 29 points, LaMelo Ball recorded his second career triple-double with 25 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists and Gordon Hayward added 21 points.
Los Angeles used a 22-9 run over the last 3:48 of the third quarter to take a 94-87 lead over Charlotte, as the Hornets saw the game slipping away.
Monk drained a 41-foot buzzer-beater from halfcourt to end the third and the Lakers were clicking on all cylinders before the Hornets made a run of their own.
Leading 110-99 with 5:10 remaining in the fourth, Charlotte used a 16-5 run to tie the game at 115 with a Bridges three-pointer with 23.7 seconds remaining in regulation.
Ball made five consecutive free throws late in the fourth after the Lakers were called for a delay of game, followed by Anthony and Westbrook picking up technical fouls while frustratingly arguing over foul calls.
"Like I said, we had the game under control," Davis said. "That whole — couple of techs, delay of game, he got fouled, hit two free throws, things like that — kind of let them get back into the game."
Rozier gave the Hornets a brief 121-117 lead in overtime after converting a mid-range jumper, but Davis answered with a 15-foot jumper, followed by a three by Anthony that allowed the Lakers to retake a one-point lead with two minutes remaining, securing a thrilling 126-123 win.
"I feel good. I feel in a good rhythm. I'm just taking advantage of the (position I'm in)," Anthony said.
"We're getting him as many threes as we can get him. … He's playing terrific for us on both sides of the ball," Vogel said on Anthony.
The Lakers will continue their five-game homestand hosting the Miami Heat on Wednesday, followed by the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday.
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1950: Dracula
The Theatre, St. Petersburg, Florida
An autograph signed by Bela Lugosi during the run in St. Petersburgh
Courtesy of Matt Hughes
The Evening Independent, March 16, 1950
Horror Man Here For Play
Lugosi Assails Crime Comics, Radio Dramas
By C. WINN UPCHURCH
Independent Staff Writer
Bela Lugosi makes his living as the horror man of the movies but as a father he is against crime comics, crime radio dramas and movies that deal with blood – red knives and smoking guns.
The Hollywood actor arrived in St. Petersburg Wednesday after driving here from New York with his wife – manager. The two are stopping at the Tides hotel and next week Lugosi will star in the title role of "Dracula" to be presented by the St. Petersburg Players at the South Side junior high school auditorium.
Lugosi has portrayed the role of "Dracula" some 1,000 times but there was a time when he played romantic leads. That was in his native Hungary. He came to the United States in 1920 as a "political refugee fleeing from the Reds".
Off stage and in his natural dress Lugosi does not appear to be the horror man that he is on screen or stage, a modestly dressed man, wearing white sport shoes and sporting a bow tie, he is more the typr of a retired businessman.
He has a 12-year-old son attending military school in California and Lugosi made it emphatic that his son is not allowed to read crime comics, listen to crime radio programs or see "horror" movies. "It is no good for youngsters," the man who has become famous as the scare-the-daylights-out-of-you actor explains.
Lugosi uses non make-up for his Dracula role.
"I just mug the part," he laughs.
Mr. and Mrs. Lugosi reside in Greenwich Village, New York.
He is not under contract to any of the movie studios but prefers to free lance.
"That way I can select my own roles," he says in his slight European drawl.
He is currently making a personal appearance tour and from here will return to New York where he appears on radio and television shows, one of his recent shows being the popular "Suspense" program and another a televbision appearance with Milton Berle.
Lugosi doesn't think of his screen portrayals as horror types.
"I just make funny faces," he puts it.
St. Petersburg Times, March 18, 1950
Bela Lugosi and Dracula, both of whom will be seen with the St. Petersburg Players for a week beginning tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock, are inseperable and virtually synonymous.
Never has an actor been more identified with a role and never has a role so influenced and dominated an actor's private fortunes.
How the man and role are melded into each other will be more than apparent at The Theatre, Tenth Street South and Seventeenth Avenue, where the thrilling vampire play, "Dracula," is to be shown nightly this week with matinee on Saturday at 2:30 o'clock.
For some 20 years Lugosi played all manner of character and romantic leads, including Shakespeare and Ibsen. Then in 1929, he created that strange half-human, half-bloodsucking vampire bat character of Bram Stoker's famous novel. Ever since then "Dracula" has pursued him as relentlessly as he pursued his women victims in the play.
At first the actor was grateful to "Dracula". The character lifted him from relative obscurity and made him a figure of importance on the New York stage. Within two years it elevated him to stardom in the screen.
But all that Lugosi had done before that date was forgotten. As though caught in the inexorable tentacles of an octopus, he became typed as a "horror" specialist, a master in that medium, but fit for nothing else.
Where once he had been the master of his own professional destinies, he became "Dracula's" puppet. The shadowy figure of "Dracula", more than any casting office, dictated the kind of parts he could play. To an actor accustomed to a wide variety of roles, it was an unsatisfactory situation.
As "Dracula," typifing "horror" pictures, fared, so Lugosi fared. The character made him a screen star, gave him a fine home and wealth. A few years of that and such films were banned by England. Hollywood quit making them. Lugosi, off the screen for two years, went broke, lost practically everything.
Then a small, independent exhibitor, experimenting to revive dwindling box office receipts, booked "Dracula" and "Frankenstein." Crowds stood in line until 2a.m. to see them.
Taking its cue from this, Universal put on a revival of the pictures throughout the country. When the response was equally startling, the studio cast Lugosi and Boris Karloff in "The Son of Frankenstein". Lugosi was back in pictures; "Dracula" had made him a star again.
"Dracula," which will thrill theatregoers for a week, beginning tomorrow, is the St. Petersburg Players' last attraction of the season.
'Dracula' Stars Lugosi Tonight
The St. Petersburg Players will wind up their season this week with a spine-chilling roar. "Dracula," starring the internationally famous Bela Lugosi , starts tonight for a week's run at The Theatre, Tenth Street South and Seventeenth Avenue. It is the season's last play.
The story of the creature, half-human, half-vampire who stalks women victims, has thrilled and chilled theatregoers simce it was first produced in 1929. Since its beginning, Lugosi has been as inseparably identified with "Dracula" as Crosby is with crooning. Curtain at 8:30.
That old but ever new stage play and movie,"Dracula" was given by the man who created the role, Bela Lugosi, at the South Side Junior High School, last night. He had good support from the St. Petersburg players and this was necessary to make the play the success that it was at the first performance here. "Dracula" will be given each evening this week, through Saturday with matinees Wednesday and Saturday.
Lugosi faced an almost full house, last night. Half the audience were youngsters 10 to 16 years of age and they received the thriller with wild enthusiasm and did not overlook a line. They were silent when the curtain was up, thoroughly absorbed in the drama that was presented and the star of stage and screen could not have asked for a better or more attentive audience.
Lugosi is a finished and polished actor. He plays the "vampire" role with suavity and smoothness and has a lot of personal magnatism that gets over the footlights. He has played the role 1,000 times, on the stage, and the film has been shown at least once a year in almost every city in this country ever since it was first made in 1931. It always draws, no matter how often it has been shown.
"Dracula" was made from a book written some 60 years ago. Years later it was converted into a stage play and was given first in London where it ran for three years to capacity houses. Then it was presented in New York and Lugosi, who had been trained as an actor in Hungary, was given the role of "Count Dracula." The play deals with a human vampire who sucks the blood of his victims. It is a real melodrama that has interest for adults as well as children when it is played well, as it was last night.
Lugosi is, of course, the star and is the central figure of the play. But he needs good support and got it from a good cast. The mysterious background was well built up in ther first act before Lugosi appears and the scene was well set for his appearance. The best tribute that could be paid the performance was the tense silence that prevailed through the whole play.
Bruce Blaine gave, last night, the best performance he has given this season. He played the role of the insane man who was under the domination of "Dracula." It was a difficult part to play and Blaine did it very well. Elizabeth Hargen, as "Lucy", gave a fine and sensitive performance, being especially effective in the scene where she attempts to drink the blood of her sweetheart. David Hooks, Leigh Gutteridge and Fred Scollay made the first act tensely interesting as they unfolded the plot against "Lucy." Frank Edgar as the attendant did well. Constance Kelly handled a small role convincingly.
"Dracula" is well worth seeing. A.R.D.
By NORMAN BUNIN
For ten weeks now, two acting groups have been providing St. Petersburg with stage productions in the tradition of the old stock companies. But not until Monday night has the city had an audience in that same tradition.
Several hundred children who comprised most of the audience for the St. Petersburg Players' initial presentation of "Dracula" with Bela Lugosi, gasped, screamed and applauded in a heartfelt manner their inhibited elders have long abandoned.
THE EERIE TALE of Count Dracula, the blood-sucking vampire, transported these eager young theatre-goers above and beyond the humdrum world of carping teachers and unfinished homework as few movie thrillers or other items of their weekly adventure fare could.
The adults on hand may have pretendded that it was sophistication rather than meek restraint which prevented them from joining so fully in the spirit of the evening, but the kids weren't bothered by labels. It is true that, conditioned by too many radio comics, they laughed in places the playwrite never intended them to, but the modern cynicism vanished when Lugosi unleashed his store of scare tactics.
What has been said was not intended to keep adults away from "Dracula." If they can throw one, they'll enjoy it. Certainly there is purgative value in an evening of concentrated, fast-moving horror for one who suffers from the more insidious, creeping fears of an atomic age. The play is hokum, but hokum on a grand scale.
AND LUGOSI is no mere bogey-man. He is, indeed, a fine and accomplished actor, whose playing is well worth seeing, for it is one of the few remaining examples in this country of the old European tradition – over-emphasized, drawn in sweeping melodramatic strokes, but always moving.
The visiting star has also staged the play – with lots of action, hidden doors, weird lights – all the ingredients to chill his spectators.
The local company gives him ample support.
This week's run of "Dracula" (through Saturday) is the last effort of the season by the St. Petersburg Players at South Side Junior High School. Let's hope we see them again next year.
St. Michael's Playhouse, Winooski Park, Vermont.


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William Perry Dudley, né le  à Exeter (New Hampshire) et mort le  dans la même ville, est un architecte et paysagiste américain.

Découvrant la Touraine à l'occasion d'une convalescence pour soigner une blessure de guerre en 1918, il achète en 1922 le site castral de Montbazon (Indre-et-Loire) dont il supervise la restauration jusqu'en sa mort et où il vit de 1922 à 1939 avec sa compagne Lilian Whitteker, artiste peintre.

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William Perry Dudley naît le  à Exeter (New Hampshire) dans une famille considérée comme faisant partie de la haute bourgeoisie des environs de Boston. L'un de ses ancêtres dans la branche maternelle est John Taylor Gilman, gouverneur de l'État du Maine à la fin du  et au début du . À l'issue de ses études, il devient architecte et paysagiste, comme l'indique son passeport.

En , il s'engage comme volontaire dans un régiment de fusiliers marins et vient combattre en France. Il est blessé le  lors de la bataille de Saint-Mihiel ; sa convalescence se déroule à Chambray-lès-Tours. En 1919, il est de retour aux États-Unis et, alors qu'il est déjà marié, il rencontre à New York Lilian Whitteker, une cousine au  avec laquelle il noue une relation durable.

En 1922 il achète le site castral de Montbazon en Indre-et-Loire, qu'il a découvert pendant sa convalescence ; il s'y installe avec sa compagne tandis que sa femme reste à Exeter. William et Lilian supervisent de vastes chantiers de reconstruction et de restauration. Le couple fréquente les châtelains des environs, notamment Charles Bedaux et sa femme Fern, propriétaires du château de Candé ; François Coty, propriétaire du château d'Artigny, se semble toutefois pas faire partie de leurs relations. Grace, la femme légitime de Dudley, vient les rejoindre en 1925. Lilian Whitteker retourne alors temporairement aux États-Unis pour revenir fin 1926. Le ménage à trois dure dix ans et, en 1936,  quitte Montbazon pour aller s'installer à Vouvray où Lilian Witteker, restée amie avec elle, lui rend visite. Le couple Dudley finit par divorcer en 1938.

En 1939, William Perry Dudley se remarie à Montbazon avec Marika Cassapoglou, une jeune Grecque. Au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il regagne Exeter où, en 1942, Anna naît de son union avec Marika. À l'exception d'un bref séjour à Montbazon en 1957 pour superviser des travaux au donjon, Dudley ne revoit plus jamais la France. En 1964, il manifeste pourtant à Lilian son intention de revenir à Montabzon, mais elle l'en dissuade en raison leurs âges respectifs ( pour lui et  pour elle).

Le , alors qu'il est en instance de divorce avec Marika, Dudley se suicide à Exeter. Par testament, il lègue le minimum légal à sa femme et le reste de sa fortune à sa fille ; le château de Montbazon doit revenir à la ville mais celle-ci, après plusieurs années de péripéties juridiques et politiques, finit par refuser le legs. La forteresse échoit donc aux héritiers naturels de Dudley, Anna mais aussi Marika, le divorce n'étant pas prononcé à la mort de Dudley. La maison natale de Dudley, à Exeter, achetée par la Société pour la préservation des antiquités de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, devient un musée ; elle est inscrite au Registre national des lieux historiques.

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En 1916 il participe à la conception des jardins à la française de Williamsburg en Virginie (États-Unis) que la famille Rockefeller souhaite restaurer.

À la forteresse de Montbazon, entre 1922 et 1957, Dudley fait reconstruire une tour du  dans la partie occidentale de l'enceinte, la tour Lilian, qu'il prolonge vers l'est d'un logis dont certaines baies sont garnies de vitraux provenant de l'atelier tourangeau Lux-Fournier ; il réaménage les accès au site, rajoute des crénelages aux tours, déblaie l'entrée des souterrains. Il fait consolider le donjon qui menace de s'écrouler, entre autres par la construction d'une ceinture intérieure en béton. Enfin, il remanie entièrement le parc du château.

Au milieu des années 1920, avec Joachim Carvallo, il redonne au manoir de Fontenay à Lignières-de-Touraine son aspect originel et y dessine un jardin médiéval. Il conçoit le portail du château de Longue-Plaine, à Sorigny.

Comme paysagiste, il adhère à la Société nationale d'horticulture de France et, en tant qu'amateur d'Histoire, il devient membre de la Société archéologique de Touraine en 1928.

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Une rue à Montbazon porte son nom.

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Décès à 73 ans

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I think we just hit the point at which we have serious disagreement. And Crossan has seriously surprised me.
I think the prehistory of Genesis 1-11 tell us much more about life in Israel/Judah than they do about the Neolithic age. My underlying assumption about the proper way to interpret the Biblical text is to try and read it through the intent of the writers/editors speaking to their time. So I don't think Genesis speaks about the Neolithic age. There may be edited memories in the Bible going back to the middle bronze age but not before. I think Crossan has overreached here.
The Cain/Abel story is about the cultural clash between the nomadic life of shepherds and the settled life of those who own land and work it. And yes there are certainly aspects of conflict between the nomads and the village people. But this reflects a time in the life of Israel, not the Neolithic age. And notice who is more acceptable to God: the nomad. Abel's sacrifice gets accepted. Thus the aspects of the story about power support the people with less power.
You name only one dichotomy in the Bible: the powerful/empire over against the powerless/justice and peace. I believe there are a lot more dichotomies. There is the inclusion/exclusion dichotomy that stretches throughout the Bible. There is a redemptive theme. There is a sin/holiness dichotomy. There is the creation/fall redemption theme. And you can't locate the dichotomies on the basis of where they are found. Leviticus should be a book about priestly power and control. But there are also themes about caring for the poor and the redistribution of land. You would think the Deuternomic editor would support the power of priest and king but all are judged by their service to YHWH. Yes a lot of the judgments about the rule of particular kings are about their supporting appropriate worship of YHWH in the temple, but there are also themes of justice. The Bible is a mixed bag, and it can't be separated easily into this author is for empire and that author is for justice.
In your primary statement you say, "The Bible is not a book about everything even God. It is to me a story of what it means to be human." I disagree. The Bible is primarily a book about God's relationship with humans or more particularly God's loving pursuit of humans who try to run away from God and God's love and God's costly pursuit to bring us back to what God intended for them in the first place. The Bible is about God's revelation of God's self to humans so that humans can be what God intended us to be. I will agree that part of what God intends for us is justice and peace. But the Bible also makes it clear that justice and peace and reconciliation between humans can only be found in reconciliation with God. Humans are unable to know what true justice and peace and reconciliation are without being reconciled to God. Our minds and lives are clouded by sin which makes us unable to find justice and peace without God.
Now, did the Church take a big step in the wrong direction when it accepted power from the Roman Empire? At the time it probably looked like a good step. The last round of persecutions was horrible and becoming the religion of the empire probably looked like a really good thing. But the Church failed to count the cost of alliance with empire. Power quickly corrupted the Church. We still struggle with seeking power from the government today. Notice the early monks saw the problem and retreated into the desert knowing that true reconciliation with God could not be found in the joining of Christianity and Empire.
Is there a lot of human injustice in the Bible? There sure is! And sometimes, because of the mores of the times, that injustice is ignored or sometimes even applauded. But the Bible is no respecter of persons. Even Moses and David get described as real humans with faults and sins. But the Bible's overriding message about human evil is that things got that way because humans decided to be in charge, to take God's place, to try and set the rules, to try and become gods.
I am very surprised to read that you believe that the Church does not talk about empire. Yes, too often in the past the Church has cooperated with empire. But there were voices down throughout history that spoke against the collusion between the Church and empire. Consider St. Francis, monks in Mexico who spoke against the treatment of natives, who even sent letters to the king of Spain! Think of the Anabaptists who spoke out against not only the Roman church but also the Swiss reformers. And there are such voices today. There have been voices throughout the history of the Church in America that spoke clearly against empire. I do so fairly regularly in sermons. If the text says it, I say it.
Crossan isn't saying something new. What concerns me, from what you have said is that Crossan seems to have separated out one theme from all the themes of the Bible and declared that the only real theme. Remember there are a lot of people across the world who look to life after death as motivation for service to God and humanity, who step out with boldness to speak against empire because we know that if we die for the faith we will immediately stand in the presence of the risen Christ. That was the motivation of the early Christians that defeated the power of the Roman Empire. That is the motivation of Christians around the world today who refuse to abandon their faith even in the face of death from evil empires.
What you have not dealt with is where the evil behind the idea of empire came from. Are humans just naturally part bad? Did God make us that way? Or did God start with a model that God's trying to improve, as the process theologians argue?
I think the Biblical story is much better than the secular and progressive attempts to explain the human condition.
In any case, I don't think a justice/injustice grid is a proper one for deciding what in the Bible is from God and what is not. What's wrong with creation/fall/redemption?
Finally, about Jack Rogers' head. He had more hair back in the late '70's but not much! I looked for a picture of Jack from those days and couldn't find one.
I don't think anyone here would disagree that there are multiple themes in the Bible, overlapping and maybe even contradictory. It is an uneven book (at least 66, comprising histories, poems, allegories, letters, prophecies, and analyses), and it is human for us to look for the unifying elements.
I can read any well-written piece of literature and find dozens if not hundreds of themes and concepts and allusions, and I don't doubt that both Bob and John do. However, it's different when one is reading a sacred text when one believes in the text and/or its subjects. That means that not all themes are equal, because the themes become consequential. For instance, in one of my favorites, Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, there are several themes: the American dream (the white frame house in an orchard that Ma Joad dreams about), the tension between powerful and powerless, the shift from the patriarchy of Pa Joad's farm to Ma Joad holding the family together during their wanderings, the Jesus Christ imagery of the preacher Jim Casey, some pretty obvious Biblical imagery involving Rosasharn (Rose of Sharon) losing her baby but nursing a dying man to health. Regardless of how prevalent each of these themes are in the work, it doesn't really matter which is the one we use as our primary lens or frame (to borrow George Lakoff) to interpret the book because while it is an important novel, it is still just a novel.
On the other hand, which recurring theme we pick to interpret the Bible has huge consequences. Arguably, there is a recurring theme of the subjugation of women (to pick an extreme example). Most modern PC(USA) Presbyterians would agree that it is not the primary (or even an appropriate) lens/frame to interpret the Bible. However, the frame that Jesus himself sets up (love God and neighbor) IS a proper way to interpret the Bible.
That leaves us with the difficult (but intellectually stimulating) job of determining which themes are useful in interpreting the Bible today.


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Oct 12 2020, Richard Rohr
One reason we lost interest in the concept of sin is because we usually heard it being used to judge, shame, exclude, or control others or ourselves. Seldom was the concept of sin used to bring discernment or deeper understanding, much less compassion or forgiveness, to the human situation. My conviction is that sin became a less useful idea for many of us because we needed to move around in a different field to regain our notion of the deadly nature of true evil. If we are honest and perceptive, we surely see that actual evil often seems to "dominate the very air" and is much more the norm than the exception.
I'm convinced the apostle Paul's teaching about the nature of sin reveals his spiritual genius. For him, sin is not primarily individual fault, but the negative matrix out of which both evil and enlightenment arise. Paul (or the school of Paul) wrote in Ephesians: "You were dead through the crimes and sins that used to make up your way of life, when you were living by the principles of this world, thus obeying the ruler who dominates the very air" (2:1‒2). This compact sentence seems to be pointing to at least three sources of evil, which would eventually be called the flesh, the world, and the devil in early Catholic moral theology:
1) The Flesh: "the crimes and sins that used to make up your way of life" (our personal participation in an already criminal and sinful culture);
2) The World: "living by the principles of this world" (since most cultures are based on false or superficial agreements about value, dignity, and success). By world, Paul is not referring to creation or nature, but rather what we might call the system;
3) The Devil: "the ruler who dominates the very air" (the illusions and deceits which so totally control the field of consciousness that most of us cannot see them; it is the very air we breathe). Up to now, most Christians have placed almost all of our attention on the level of the "flesh," policing sexuality and various "unclean" acts rather than addressing the more serious and pervasive forms of corporate injustice and evil. We have had almost no education in or recognition of what Paul meant by "the principles of the world" and even less on what he meant by "the ruler who dominates the very air." When we imagine the devil as a caricature of a red, horned figure, we are not taking evil seriously. The implications have been massive, blinding, and hugely destructive, both for the individual and for society.
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Networking with other individuals and organizations doing similar work and bringing such activists together to develop a deeper spiritual grounding will be part of our shared work. We share on line in monthly zoom meetings and dozens of groups have been launched, following a theme of "self organizing" groups.
Many people in our time—especially the youth—have withdrawn from institutional religion. But as Deepak Chopra has pointed out, evil has not diminished on the planet because millions have walked out of church (or the synagogue or the mosque). Evil continues to walk among us and even to take on wings it seems with the current goings on in wars, refugees from war, poverty and from climate change, extinction of species, calls to hatred and bigotry and denial of scientific facts about the demise of the planet as we know it.
The question we address might be summarized this way: How can we now build a conscious community that gives us a sense of our common sacredness and purpose?https://www.youtube.com/embed/NseROL5AdU4?start=408&feature=oembedMystics in Motion (formerly known as Worship Jam) teaching and practicing community building through circle dancing. Song they are singing is called Gathered Here. Originally posted to YouTube.
Orders arise when society's spiritual/religious and cultural needs are not being met and when religion, which tends to move and evolve very slowly, is not responding adequately or swiftly enough to changes in culture. We feel this is clearly the situation in the times we live in. Each Order has a certain charism and a particular mission about it. Ours is captured in its name, a return of the sense of the Sacred and a movement or community or Order called to bring spiritual depth and energy to the defense of Mother Earth.
Group photo of the three Co-Founders of the OSE. Photo originally posted here.
Orders respond much more swiftly to the new challenges of history than do religions themselves. OSE holds Mother Earth as the focus and the sacred container where the current spiritual adventure is to be played out rather than any particular religious institution. But this Order will draw on wisdom and practices from the many spiritual/religious traditions our species has birthed over the millennia. We are not throwing the baby out with the bathwater but taking wisdom from a burning building and re-grounding it in what truly matters—the sacredness of our lives and all lives in the sacred embrace and web of this numinous planet. With wisdom comes, play, celebration and creativity. And the passion to heal, to be instruments therefore of compassion and justice-making. Therefore love.
Adapted from: Adapted from Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, Jennifer Listug, Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action, pp.xvf.
Banner Image: Mystics in Motion in circle service. Originally posted to the Mystics in Motion website.
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Guwahati: The Opposition Congress and the AIUDF have separately requested the Assam Assembly Speaker to call a special session to discuss the concerns expressed by the people of the state on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
Assam has been on the boil for the past several days as thousands of people have come out on the streets to protest against the amended Citizenship Act.
"You must be aware of the situation in Assam following the passing of the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 by the Lok Sabha," Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Debabrata Saikia of the Congress wrote to Speaker Hiten Goswami.
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There is a possibility that the demographic pattern of Assam will be changed following the implementation of the CAA and the people will lose their right to decide their political fate in their own state, Saikia said.
Another opposition party, the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), also sought a special session of the Assembly to discuss the issue.
"Mass agitation is going on in Assam against the CAB which has been passed by both the Houses of Parliament. Our party's stand is against the CAA. We consider it will go against the interest of Assam," AIUDF Legislature Party leader Hafiz Bashir Ahmed, chief whip Mamum Imdadul Haq Choudhury and other MLAs wrote to the Speaker on Friday. (PTI)
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I have the code below but cant seem to make it get the href only(whatever is between the open " and close ") based on the hyperlink text found in the in that href.
res = requests.get(website_url)
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, 'html.parser')
temp_tag_href = soup.select_one("a[href*=some text]")
sometexthrefonly = temp_tag_href.attrs['href']

Effectively, i would like it to go through the entire html parsed in soup and only return what is between the href open " and close " because the
that hyperlink text is 'some text'.
so the steps would be:
1: parse html,
2: look at all the a hrefs tags,
3: find the href that has the hyperlink text 'some text',
4: output only what is in between the href " " (not including the
   "") for that href

Any help will greatly be appreciated!

A: ahmed,
So after some quick refreshers on requests and researching the BeautifulSoup library, I think you'll want something like the following:
res = requests.get(website_url)
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, 'html.parser')
link = list(filter(lambda x: x['href'] == 'some text', soup.find_all('a')))[0]
print(link['href']) # since you don't specify output to where, I'll use stdout for simplicity

As it turns out in the Beautiful Soup Documentation there is a convenient way to access whatever attributes you want from an html element using dictionary lookup syntax. You can also do all kinds of lookups using this library.
If you are doing web scraping, it may also be useful to try switching to a library that supports XPATH, which allows you to write powerful queries such as //a[@href="some text"][1] which will get you the first link with url equal to "some text"

A: this should do the work:
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

html = '''next

later

later
'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(html)

# iterate all hrefs
for a in soup.find_all('a', href=True):
    print("Next HREF: %s" % a['href'])
    if a['href'] == 'some_text':
       print("Found it!")


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"""
This module contains I/O routines for DOAS result files
"""
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from os.path import join
from os import listdir
from collections import OrderedDict as od

def get_data_dirs():
    """Get directories containing example package data

    :returns: list of package subfolders containing data files
    """
    from pydoas import _LIBDIR
    return listdir(join(_LIBDIR, "data"))

def get_data_files(which = "doasis"):
    """Get all example result files from package data"""
    from pydoas import _LIBDIR
    if which == "doasis":
        p = join(_LIBDIR, join("data", "doasis_resultfiles"))
    elif which == "fake":
        p = join(_LIBDIR, join("data", "fake_resultfiles"))
    else:
        raise ValueError("No example resultfiles available for ID %s, "
            "choose from *fake* or *doasis*")
    return listdir(p), p

def get_result_type_ids():
    """Read file import_info.txt and find all valid import types"""
    try:
        from pydoas import _LIBDIR
    except:
        raise
    with open(join(_LIBDIR, join("data", "import_info.txt"))) as f:
        types = []
        for line in f:
            spl = line.split(":", 1)
            if spl[0] == "type":
                tp = spl[1].split("#")[0].strip()
                if len(tp) > 0:
                    types.append(tp)
    return types

def import_type_exists(type_id):
    """Checks if data import type exists in import_info.txt

    :param str type_id: string ID to be searched in import_info.txt
    """
    if type_id in get_result_type_ids():
        return True
    return False

def get_import_info(resulttype="doasis"):
    """Try to load DOAS result import specification for default type

    Import specifications for a specified data type (see package data
    file "import_info.txt" for available types, use the instructions in
    this file to create your own import setup if necessary)

    :param str resulttype: name of result type (field "type" in
        "import_info.txt" file)

    """

    from pydoas import _LIBDIR
    from codecs import decode
    dat = od()
    with open(join(_LIBDIR, join("data", "import_info.txt"))) as f:
        found = 0
        for line in f:
            if "ENDTYPE" in line and found:
                print(dat)
                return dat
            spl = line.split(":", 1)
            if spl[0] == "type" and spl[1].split("#")[0].strip() ==\
                                                            resulttype:
                    found = 1
            if found:
                if not any([line[0] == x for x in["#","\n"]]):
                    k = spl[0].strip()
                    d = [x.strip() for x in spl[1].split("#")[0].split(',')]
                    if k == "time_str_formats":
                        dat[k] = d

                    elif k == "delim":
                        print(decode(d[0],"unicode-escape"))
                        #dat[k] = str(d[0].decode("unicode_escape"))
                        dat[k] = decode(d[0], "unicode-escape")
                    else:
                        try:
                            val = int(d[0])
                        except:
                            val = str(d[0])
                        dat[k] = val

    raise IOError("Info for type %s could not be found" %resulttype)

def import_info_file():
    """Return path to supplementary file import_info.txt"""
    from pydoas import _LIBDIR
    return join(_LIBDIR, join("data", "import_info.txt"))

def _fake_import_specs():
    """Returns dictionary for adding a new fake import type"""
    return od([("type", "fake"),
               ("access_type", "col_index"),
               ("file_type", "csv"),
               ("time_str_formats", "%Y%m%d%H%M"),
               ("delim", ";"),
               ("start", 0), #col num
               ("stop", 1), #col num
               ("bla" , "Blub"), #invalid (for test purpose)
               ("num_scans", 4)]) #colnum

def write_import_info_to_default_file(import_dict):
    try:
        if import_type_exists(import_dict["type"]):
            raise TypeError("Import specifications for ID %s already exists in "
                "file import_info.txt, please change ID and try again"
                %import_dict["type"])
    except KeyError:
        raise KeyError("Please specify type in dictionary")
    keys = list(get_import_info().keys())
    p = import_info_file()
    print(("Writing to %s" %p))
    with open(p, "a") as myfile:
        myfile.write("\n\nNEWTYPE\n")
        for k, v in list(import_dict.items()):
            if k in keys:
                print(("ADDING %s: %s" %(k, v)))
                if isinstance(v, list):
                    s = str(v[0])
                    for i in range(1, len(v)):
                        s += ",%s" %v[i]
                    myfile.write("%s:%s\n" %(k, s))
                else:
                    myfile.write("%s:%s\n" %(k, v))
            else:
                print(("INVALID KEY (not added) %s: %s" %(k,v)))
        myfile.write("ENDTYPE")
        myfile.close()


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One of the most outstanding and obvious characteristics of the early church, which we see recorded for us in the book of Acts, is the work or the activity of the Holy Spirit. It's a book that first of all confirms the promise Jesus made to His church about sending them the Holy Spirit; and then second, the book of Acts shows us how the Holy Spirit led the church to do what Jesus told them to do. Throughout the book of Acts we see a Spirit-led church that strives to follow the instructions that Jesus gave to His apostles and the inspired teaching that the apostles passed on to the church, as the gospel of Jesus Christ spread across the world of the first century as Jesus said it would.
So I want us to consider this morning the question of how the Spirit-led church we see and hear about in the book of Acts teaches us today to be a Spirit-led church. The Spirit-led church is not the perfect church, but it's the one who strives to follow the Spirit's leading as revealed to us through His Word. So turn with me to Acts chapter 13; and we will begin this morning with verses 1 – 3: In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. While they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.
In our study of Acts 11 last week you may remember that the church in Antioch was established by Barnabas, who then brought in Saul, and for a year they taught and discipled the many new believers who were brought into the church.
So as we look today at the first section of Acts 13, the first point I want you to consider is the ownership of missions by God's church. This church in Antioch was formed by missionaries who didn't know that this was who they were. They were just Christians who were driven out of Jerusalem because of persecution as a result of their faith in Christ; and as they fled, spread this message of Christ to people in Antioch. The point is that generally speaking everyone who is a Christian is a missionary, because all of us are responsible to spread the good news. Yet in addition to this, as we learn from our passage, the church takes ownership of missions in the sense that they specifically or officially send people out with the gospel; which is what we see in these verses.
So the first principle we see is that the Spirit-led church promotes sending people out with the gospel. This is not in lieu of believers sharing the gospel with others, but it's a direct commitment and effort to take the gospel beyond the local church and community, to places where it had not yet been. This passage is the first of Paul's missionary journeys recorded in the book of Acts, but the bigger principle we should see is that God's church is to be a mission church. The apostles and prophets in the early church understood Jesus' command to take the gospel to all people, and they believed Jesus when He said that the Old Testament Scriptures spoke about Him, thus they responded to the leading of the Spirit in their midst.
As the Psalmist says: "All the ends of the earth will turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before Him, for dominion belongs to the Lord, and He rules over the nations." The mission of the gospel is to bring people under the rule of King Jesus. So in our passage we see the church, through the leading of the Holy Spirit, for the first "official" time send people out with the gospel.
The first significant thing to see about this is that this sending out happens in the context of worship, thus I believe that one application is that true worship leads to both personal evangelism and to corporate missions. We know from verse 2 that these leaders of the church, listed in verse 1, were worshipping the Lord and fasting. Fasting is a spiritual discipline often practiced when looking for guidance; and during this particular time of worship together, the Holy Spirit gave them guidance. We don't know exactly how the Spirit spoke to them, but we do know that the early church was given apostles and prophets (some of whom were listed in verse 1) who led the church until the New Testament Scriptures were written and canonized.
We also know that in this case the Spirit made it very clear that Saul and Barnabas had a specific work to do and that the church agreed, and sent them on a mission to preach and teach. What's the principle for us? Barnabas and Saul were commissioned, based upon their calling and gifts, to take their evangelism on the road to plant churches, while the rest of the church was to stay home and also do evangelism in order to build the church. Missions is something that we all should own, because we are all called to share the gospel, but not all of us are called to go on a journey to do it. And for all of us, it's our worship of God that leads us to bear witness to Christ wherever He calls us to be.
The second significant thing I want to point out is that the Spirit leads the church through the Word in order to make wise decisions. In the early church God spoke His word through the apostles and prophets and it's in this context of the apostle's teaching and the Old Testament Scripture that the Spirit spoke to those in our passage, similar to other times in the book of Acts. The Spirit did not just arbitrarily tell them what to do, but He led them through the word that had been given.
This was part of the word of truth that was still being revealed to the church at this time. The Spirit leads the church in much the same way today, through the completed word of given to His church, not one still in process, thus we still listen to the Spirit speak to us through the word of truth given to us in the Scriptures. The inward testimony of the Spirit will not contradict or lead us away from God's outward testimony of His Word. The Spirit-led church is one that listens to the Spirit's guidance in the context of public worship, as well as private worship, being centered upon the truth of God's Word. This process is what produces the ownership of missions.
The second main point to draw from our text this morning is the outreach facilitated by God's church. In verse 4 we see this going out of Saul and Barnabas to reach people with the message of Christ. So we read beginning at verse 4: The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus. When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. John was with them as their helper. They traveled through the whole island until they came to Paphos. There they met a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus, who was an attendant of the pro-consul, Sergius Paulus. The key principle that we learn from these verses is that the Spirit-led church proclaims the truth of the gospel. The express purpose of missions is to make Christ known through proclaiming God's Word. In these few verses Luke tells us that they went to a lot of places, and picked up a helper along the way.
So how does this history lesson apply to us and our call to outreach? We can learn at least two important truths: First, God's truth is applied to the religious traditions of the day.
The Spirit led them first to the synagogues; to the religious people of these cities, in order to confront long held traditions and beliefs with the message of Christ. We know of course that going to the Jews first was the pattern set forth in Acts 1, but what we should learn is that as Christians we should not skip over people who we think, or who tell us that they already have their religion. The church's mission is to challenge all religious traditions with God's truth – big or small – locally or globally. Second, we see that God's truth is applied to the religious deception of the day. Like today, in the first century there were religious charlatans; and we meet one in this passage.
His name is Bar-Jesus or Elymas, as Luke refers to him in verse 8, because he was not a son of salvation but a son of the devil. Luke says that he is a false prophet, thus through his deception his goal was to turn people away from the truth. He is also an attendant or really the "court wizard" for this Roman leader Sergius Paulus. Earlier in the book of Acts, chapter 8, we saw Peter confront Simon the sorcerer with the truth of the gospel. Simon wanted the power of the Spirit without repentance or faith in Christ. We are again reminded that the church is faced with all types of deception and falsehood; and the Spirit leads us to unmask it through the truth of the gospel. In this case Elymas has no real or even pretend desire to believe, but definitely wanted to keep the gospel away from his boss.
There are probably a lot of reasons why Luke includes this account but one key reason leads us to a third main point, which is the opposition generated against God's church. This opposition is not new of course, but in light of this expanded mission of the church, we are being taught and reminded that the Spirit-led church perseveres through opposition to the gospel. An expanded mission and the more activity of evangelism will led to greater opposition, thus the church needs to be aware and prepared. This incident clearly illustrates for us that opposition to the church and the gospel message is not just religious or cultural, but it's truly demonic. As Paul teaches us in Ephesians 6, our battle is not just against flesh and blood, but against the principalities and powers and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
We don't have time to unpack all of what this means today, but the first application to see is the reality of spiritual warfare where God's truth is proclaimed. The point Luke is making is that Saul and Barnabas didn't pack up or give up, but confronted falsehood with truth for the sake of the gospel, and the opportunity to proclaim the gospel to Sergius. Paul didn't back down but boldly rebuked Elymas for his deception.
Luke is not teaching us that we can make people blind because they are sinful and in the way of the gospel, rather that they are already blind; and as Paul pronounces this judgment upon him, God opens the eyes of this proconsul to see. God's Word accomplishes God's purposes even through man's opposition. The church is not called today, nor should we be expected to perform miracles or healing to overcome opposition, but we are called to do it with the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. We face the same type of opposition and we are to be led by the same Spirit, thus the second application to make is the necessity of spiritual preparation to stand strong for the truths of the gospel.
The Spirit-led church are people filled with the Holy Spirit, who put on the armor of God, and listen to the Word of God, and go forth believing that the gospel is the power of God for salvation. John Macarthur said, "Leading someone to Christ is not merely an academic exercise, nor is it a matter of making a successful sales pitch. Rather, it involves all-out war against the forces of hell. Saul and Barnabas battled Bar-Jesus for the soul of Sergius Paulus." He is right; the mission of the church is a call to battle; and evangelism – whether it is locally or globally – is truly a spiritual encounter in which we are contending for one's soul. Paul and Saul won this battle because God gave them the victory. He is the winner of men's souls.
The fourth and final point I want us to briefly consider is the outcome achieved by the work of God's church. We read in verse 12: "When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was amazed at the teaching about the Lord." Certainly he was astonished at what he saw – it clearly got his attention – but he believed because of what he heard. Thus the principle that we learn is that the Spirit-led church produces fruit through the gospel.
The same result we see in our passage continues to be the result that the Spirit-led church strives for today. We work for this first of all because we know that the message of Christ triumphs over spiritual darkness and falsehoods. This is one of the clear applications to be made from our text, as well as from the many other passages of Scripture that teach us and remind us that Christ has won the victory; He is the Risen, Exalted and triumphant King. The church is now carrying out His work as we are led by His Spirit.
And second, we know that the fruit of conversion is yielded through a faithful commitment to God's truth. The Spirit-led outcome is not just more people in the church or just more people served by the church, or more laws changed because of the church, but it's primarily and ultimately souls saved by Christ through the truth of His gospel that converts, justifies, sanctifies and builds God's church to His glory.
We need to remember that although the church is not called or equipped today to perform the same works that apostles did in terms of sign gifts, we do today have the same message of the gospel and the same Holy Spirit who leads us also to go to people with the gospel; to proclaim this truth to people; to preserve through any opposition to it and to produce fruit as people come to believe it; and we keep doing it.


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class CreateBooks < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :books do |t|
      t.string :title
      t.integer :pages
      t.references :author

      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end


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