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Just kidding. It's a huge problem. Luckily, I still have a place to live and stuff and I can get groceries so I can cook meals. But, I have no disposable income right now. My bank account would argue that I never had a disposable income but YOU CAN'T TALK, CAN YOU BANK ACCOUNT?
This past weekend, one of my best friends from home came to visit. At first I thought, "This will be great! There are so many beautiful outdoor sites we can see without spending money!" And then it rained. All weekend. From Thursday night to Sunday afternoon. We're from Boston so we're used to rain... I mean, one recent June it rained EVERY SINGLE DAY. But it seriously sucked. And no, I didn't pack an umbrella! I didn't even pack a coat with a hood! I wasn't prepared... and I couldn't afford to get prepared. So, needless to say, there wasn't a whole lot of site seeing. Not even with the Oscars going on.
We did, however, stay in on Saturday night and make homemade pineapple and sweet onion pizzas while drinking homemade raspberry mojitos (I even muddled the mint and raspberries with homemade simple syrup!) and watched the Kardashians. So, I'd say that's pretty California of us.
However, we did eat some Mexican food while a mariachi band played, did a little browsing at Melrose Trading Post, rode some rides at Santa Monica Pier and drove through Beverly Hills to make ourselves feel really poor. So, basically, it was the perfect weekend that didn't require much money at all. In all honesty, I like having friends that you can just do nothing with. I didn't feel like I had to go crazy over the top to entertain her. It was the perfect little slice of home and the rain was just the perfect touch.
A disposable income would be fun right now... but if there's anything this year is teaching me, it's that spending as if you have a disposable income can get you into trouble. And if I can have fun just WALKING around a giant outdoor flea market filled with cute things that would look awesome in my apartment, then I'll be fine saving instead of spending.
Oh, who am I kidding? I need that card catalog from the 60's that someone found in the garbage and was selling for $300!!!


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February was the last month of PACT's first Texas Hold'em Poker Tournament. Winners in 1st through 7th place recieved cash awards. Jason Pryba was the grand prize winner of $1,000. Next year's tournament will start after the May Polish-American Festival. PACT will notify everyone of the starting date for the 2018-2019 tournament on our facebook page and through emails.


With more and more customers preferring to shop online, mobile strategy is becoming increasingly important. Bertrand Schmitt told Mobile World Live that, "Retailers with a clear mobile strategy are seeing this reflected in their earnings whereas those which don't are 'in big trouble.'" If you invest in a solid mobile strategy, you will see a return on your investment. Customers are expecting more from businesses every day, and you don't want to fall behind!


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'Junk DNA' affects inherited cancer risk
A person's risk of developing cancer is affected by genetic variations in regions of DNA that don't code for proteins, previously dismissed as 'junk DNA', according to new research published in the British Journal of Cancer today (Friday).
This new study shows that inherited cancer risk is not only affected by mutations in key cancer genes – known as oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes – but that variations in the DNA that controls the expression of these genes can also drive the disease.
Led by an international team of scientists, this research sheds new light on why some people develop cancer, while others don't. Understanding how non-coding DNA affects the development of this disease could one day improve genetic screening for cancer risk. And in the future, this could lead to new prevention strategies, or help doctors diagnose the disease earlier, when it is more likely to be treated successfully.
The researchers investigated 846 genetic changes within non-coding stretches of DNA, identified by previous studies as affecting cancer risk. These Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are particular positions in the human genome where a single letter of the genetic code varies between people.
Unlike mutations in coding DNA, such as BRCA, that are rare but significantly raise a person's risk of developing cancer, non-coding SNPs are relatively common in the population but only slightly increase cancer risk.
The team analysed whether there was a correlation between the presence of a particular SNP and the expression of particular genes. In total, they looked at over 6 million genetic variants across 13 different body tissues.
They found that variations in the regions that regulate the expression of oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes affect cancer risk. The study also revealed that these cancer-risk SNPs tend to be specifically located in regions that regulate the immune system and tissue-specific processes – highlighting the importance of these cellular processes to the development of cancer.
Professor John Quackenbush, lead researcher of the study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said: "What we found surprised us as it had never been reported before – our results show that small genetic variations work collectively to subtly shift the activity of genes that drive cancer. We hope that this approach could one day save lives by helping to identify people at risk of cancer, as well as other complex diseases".
The researchers' next step will be to develop AI models to better predict cancer risk. They also aim to identify 'control centres' that regulate the expression of many genes relevant to cancer development, which could be targeted by new cancer treatments.
Dr Emily Farthing, senior research information manager at Cancer Research UK, said: "While minor genetic changes only have a small impact on cancer risk, the variations analysed in this study are numerous and common in the population. This could begin to explain some of the variation in cancer incidence between individuals and families that cannot be explained through well-known cancer-risk genes or lifestyle factors alone."
For media enquiries contact Thomas Bullen in the British Journal of Cancer press office on 020 3469 5171, or out of hours on 07050 264 059.
Researchers were based at the following institutes:
Genetique Quantitative et Evolution, Le Moulon, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Universite Paris-Sud, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, AgroParisTech, Universite Paris-Saclay, France
Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), Nordic EMBL Partnership, University of Oslo, Norway
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA
About the British Journal of Cancer (BJC)
The British Journal of Cancer is editorially independent of Cancer Research UK. The BJC is one of the most-cited general cancer journals, publishing significant advances in translational and clinical cancer research. It also publishes high-quality reviews and thought-provoking comment on all aspects of cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment. The BJC is owned by Cancer Research UK and published by Springer Nature.
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Mugabe Mark II: Why Mnangagwa's rule in Zimbabwe may not last very long
Written by Politics263 on 24/01/2019
By Peter Godwin
A man shows scars sustained from beatings by soldiers during the fuel protests that rocked Zimbabwe over the past week.
Ten days ago, Zimbabwe's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, hiked the price of petrol by 250 per cent, making it the most expensive in the world. There had been an acute fuel shortage for months and this move was supposed to ease the situation — presumably by making petrol beyond the reach of most in this impoverished country.
Mnangagwa then jetted off to Russia and Kazakhstan, a warm-up tour for his gig at Davos. He left his deputy, Constantino Chiwenga (until recently head of the army), to cope with the fallout. And fallout there was. Trade unions led stay-aways in protest. This developed into the blocking of roads, looting of shops and some arson, mostly by unemployed youths — which most youths there are.
Then, under cover of a government-imposed internet blackout, the security forces were unleashed by the vice-president. Roving bands of soldiers (some of them masked, never a good sartorial sign in a soldier) went house-to-house, smashing windows, beating residents at random, stomping on their cellphones. The soldiers killed at least 12 people and wounded another 80 or so. More than 242 people were treated for bite wounds from patrol dogs. Police arrested more than 1,000, including some ten opposition MPs. Soldiers conducted acts of ritual humiliation — forcing young men to bathe in the pools of standing sewage that dot the decrepit working-class townships. And all this by the same soldiers that so many Zimbabweans lined the streets to welcome as heroes when they toppled Robert Mugabe just over a year ago. The line from that moment to this one is straight and simple and predictable.
The internal fighting in Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party that ultimately unseated him after 37 years in power wasn't primarily ideological or ethnic, it was a family feud on steroids, it pitted old against young. His wife, Grace, made a bid to succeed him. Forty-one years his junior — she was too young to have fought in the liberation war, a sine qua non for leadership for senior party leaders. Her attempt to create a dynastic succession, to emulate Eva Perón, Imelda Marcos (with whom she shared a penchant for shoes, favouring Ferragamo because her feet were 'too narrow for anything else') or Madame Mao, proved a step too far.
During his years in power, Mugabe had hollowed out Zanu-PF, reducing it to a personality cult by getting rid of anyone who challenged his authority, until he was attended only by fawning party punkah-wallahs, fanning his ego, prancing around in ludicrous regalia bearing his image, as though he were a religion.
Ultimately Grace overreached when she persuaded her increasingly enfeebled husband to fire Emmerson Mnangagwa, then his vice-president and her main rival. This was too much for the military leadership which had close ties to Mnangagwa, as he held defence and intelligence portfolios for much of his ministerial career. Make no mistake, this was a 'continuity coup', to protect the power of the party's old guard. But most Zimbabweans were so delighted to see the back of Mugabe that they celebrated anyway, even though what they were really witnessing was the renewal of the ruling party's droit de seigneur, its power to screw them at will.
Since his assent, Mnangagwa has tried to present a 'reformist' face to the world, to rebrand the party as Zanu-PF 2.0, Zanu-PF-lite, non-ideological, technocratic, managerial, open for business. He embraced the rhetoric of anti-corruption but delivered little. How could he? What, for example, of his own corruption, and that of many of his first cabinet: eight of the 22 were on the US sanctions list, united by bonds of massively corrupt self-enrichment and repressive political violence. To believe this new pitch was to fall for a Zanu-PF confidence trick.
Mnangagwa, though, has none of Mugabe's undeniable charisma. He headed the feared Central Intelligence Organisation, the CIO, at the time of the Matabeleland massacre, during which the army killed upwards of 20,000 civilians. And he rolled out the terrible reprisal campaign during the post-election violence of 2008, when thousands of opposition supporters were tortured and hundreds killed. Last week, we saw the party reverting to its violent default.
So what happens next? Rumours circulating in Harare are that Mnangagwa will be pushed aside by his deputy, General Chiwenga, who led the coup which elevated him. The truth is, Mnangagwa has never seemed entirely at ease as President. He cuts a dreary, uninspiring figure, with the heavy-lidded eyes of a somnambulist. But the time for Chiwenga's move, surely, would have been when Mnangagwa was still eating cake on a Kazakh runway? And Chiwenga is no spring chicken himself.
Another possible outcome is a Zanu-PF offer to the opposition of that increasingly common political animal, the wildebeest — a GNU. Governments of National Unity are fast becoming the stock consolation prize for African opposition parties cheated out of electoral victories. One was tried, with modest success, in Zimbabwe after the blood-doused elections of 2008. The opposition partner in that GNU, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), was ditched after one term and it may not fall for that trick again. In the meantime, Zimbabwe's economy will spiral downwards, fuelled by gathering hyperinflation. But don't waste your time waiting for Zanu-PF to be booted out at the ballot box. As Stalin was wont to say, it's not who votes that counts, it's who counts the votes. And previous electoral rigging by Zanu-PF has shown just that.
This is all part of the structural reality of southern African history. The guerrilla groups who fought settler-colonial powers for independence lack the political DNA for true democracy. Not one of them has succumbed to the ballot box.
In the meantime, Zimbabwe will continue to skitter along the bottom, except for the tiny, ruling elite who are buoyed by their looting. And its most talented sons and daughters will continue haemorrhaging into the diaspora. The size of a country's tragedy should be measured against its potential. Zimbabwe, by rights one of the wealthiest and most educated countries in Africa, is cementing its record as a tragedy of great proportion.
– The Spectator.
Peter Godwin is the author of The Fear: the Last Days of Robert Mugabe.
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In our present segment we are looking at the doctrinal viewpoint of the winner believer. When the believer has doctrinal viewpoint God's Word creates capacity for the believer to trust that God will work for them even when they don't understand exactly how and why they just understand and believe that God is always true and faithful to His Word.
All of this is possible because of Jesus' strategic victory in the angelic conflict on the cross where God made provision for the fall of mankind and every subsequent failure (sin) that was the result of the fall.
Last time we noted that because of Jesus' victory over satan on the cross the age of Israel was set aside so that God could create a royal family in association with Jesus' spiritual heritage as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
In Psa 138:2; we see that a legacy of faith (doctrine) aka spiritual heritage was also conveyed to Israel. David wrote this psalm while he was still a soldier and it reveals his doctrinal viewpoint during his spiritual advance.
v2 The Hebrew words translated "I will bow" means worship (KJV). The subject "I" that refers to David tells us that he was free to choose to worship or not to worship.
This means that no one should ever be coerced regarding their relationship with God because worship must come from one's own uncoerced free will.
Believers worship because of the capacity they have developed from learning God's Word with the result that they think on the basis of doctrinal viewpoint.
The communion service is a good example of this because the ritual in the Lord's table tests us to see how much doctrine we have in our soul regarding the symbols that represent Jesus Christ and the categories of doctrine that explain the who, what, when, where, why, and how of His victory on the cross.
So it could be translated "I myself will worship toward the temple." But we must remember that at the time that this was written there was no physical temple because it was not built until after Solomon was king.
This means that the words translated "I will bow toward your holy temple" actually refer to David worshipping toward heaven so when he worships he is not bowing his head in a building he is actually outside looking up toward heaven as he is kneeling.
This is telling us that David recognizes that God is in heaven and he is occupied with the person of the Lord Jesus Christ as He was revealed in the Old Testament and as a great soldier he has a maximum amount of God's Word of truth in his stream of consciousness regarding Jesus Christ who is the Lord of the Armies.
So when David says, "I will worship toward the temple" he is talking about the real Holy of Holies in heaven. He is anticipating the fact that according to prophecy that on the cross the veil would be ripped in half with the result that believers would reside in the Holy of Holies at the right hand of the Father.
David was looking forward to that time, and as he was looking forward to it he was recognizing that God is perfect and since God is perfect His plan must be perfect because it is impossible for a perfect God to have an imperfect plan.
David was recognizing that everything depended on who and what God is, and that God had already decreed what would be and that God's decree was perfect.
God had already made the issue clear and for David it was simply a matter of his having positive volition to God's will, purpose and plan so when David said, "I myself will worship" what he meant was "I am oriented to God's plan for my life.
What we see here is David at a time when he had maximum doctrine in his thinking with the result that he is about to enter the blessings associated with the supergrace life.
Once he recovered from his reversionism that led to the dark days of being on the run from Saul and seeking refuge from Achish the Philistine king in Gath he never had any illusions regarding the true source of his blessing so after his initial failure he passed momentum testing and become a supergrace believer.
Psa 138:2b; "and give thanks" is translated from the Hebrew verb "yadah" that means to acknowledge, give thanks, or praise. This is the Hebrew equivalent of the Greek word "homologeo."
No one acknowledges, gives thanks or praises God until they are self motivated, and there will never be any true motivation until it comes spontaneously from the inside the heart not from external pressure to conform because of some coercive external pressure or manipulation from some group or collective.
It comes spontaneously from your own soul, and if it comes from your own soul it is because you have capacity from doctrine because you kept on pressing on in your own personal doctrinal advance because you refused to give in to any pressure to stop your own personal doctrinal advance.
We see from this that worshiping God is a private individual matter that is based on private individual choices. Worshiping God is not the result of pressure from a group or a collective.
This individualism is the basis of American individualism and is why satan and his progressive pawns in education, politics and the media attack it. All forms of the "cosmic consensus" aka "group think" are demonic.
v2b the word translated "your name" literally means "your person." The Hebrew word "shem" means reputation or person. In this case it means person so the phrase "give thanks to your name" in the NASB really means to "give thanks to your person."
Ritual requires something in the soul to relate it to the reality that it actually portrays. Ritual without reality is meaningless so it is only because we have doctrine in the stream of consciousness that we love and appreciate who and what Jesus Christ is this means that we must have accurate doctrinal truth in our thinking in order to properly love and celebrate any tradition or ritual.
This is the problem in our country today. Our national traditions are disrespected because the truth they represent is no longer taught in the schools because of their focus on the demon doctrines of "cultural equality" and "political correctness."


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(1) Any person (a) who imports alcoholic liquor for distribution as a wholesaler or distributes or sells alcoholic liquor at any place within the state without having first obtained a valid license to do so under the Nebraska Liquor Control Act, (b) who manufactures alcoholic liquor other than spirits within the state without having first obtained a valid license to do so under the act, (c) who makes any false statement or otherwise violates any of the provisions of the act in obtaining any license under the act, (d) who, having obtained a license under the act, violates any of the provisions of the act with respect to the manufacture, possession, distribution, or sale of alcoholic liquor or with respect to the maintenance of the licensed premises, or (e) who violates any other provision of the act for which a penalty is not otherwise provided, shall for a first offense be guilty of a Class IV misdemeanor and for a second or subsequent offense shall be guilty of a Class II misdemeanor.
(2) Any person who manufactures spirits at any place within the state without having first obtained a valid license to do so under the act shall be guilty of a Class I misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class IV felony for a second or subsequent offense.
(3) Each day any person engages in business as a manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, or bottle club in violation of the act shall constitute a separate offense.
(4) In any prosecution in which a person is charged with an offense arising out of the failure to obtain a valid license as provided in subdivision (1)(a) or (b) or subsection (2) of this section, evidence of the failure of the accused to produce such license upon demand shall constitute prima facie proof that a license has not been issued by the commission to such person.
Source:Laws 1935, c. 116, § 63, p. 409; C.S.Supp.,1941, § 53-363; R.S.1943, § 53-1,100; Laws 1945, c. 128, § 1, p. 411; Laws 1949, c. 170, § 1, p. 450; Laws 1977, LB 40, § 319; Laws 1991, LB 344, § 70; Laws 2016, LB1105, § 31; Laws 2018, LB1120, § 28.
It is a penal offense for owner and operator of a truck, who has not been designated as a carrier of alcoholic liquor or granted a permit, to transport from another state a cargo of unstamped alcoholic liquors, consigned to a bonded warehouse in this state. State v. Hyslop, 131 Neb. 681, 269 N.W. 512 (1936).


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package seedu.address.testutil;

import java.text.ParseException;

import seedu.task.commons.exceptions.IllegalValueException;
import seedu.task.model.tag.Tag;
import seedu.task.model.task.Description;
import seedu.task.model.task.DueDate;
import seedu.task.model.task.Interval;
import seedu.task.model.task.StartDate;
import seedu.task.model.task.Status;
import seedu.task.model.task.TaskColor;
import seedu.task.model.task.TimeInterval;
import seedu.task.model.task.Title;

/**
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 */
public class TaskBuilder {

    private TestTask task;

    public TaskBuilder() {
        this.task = new TestTask();
    }

    public TaskBuilder withTitle(String title) throws IllegalValueException {
        this.task.setTitle(new Title(title));
        return this;
    }

    public TaskBuilder withDescription(String description) throws IllegalValueException {
        this.task.setDescription(new Description(description));
        return this;
    }

    public TaskBuilder withStartDate(String startDate) throws IllegalValueException{
        try {
			this.task.setStartDate(new StartDate(startDate));
		} catch (ParseException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
        return this;
    }

    public TaskBuilder withDueDate(String dueDate) throws IllegalValueException {
        try {
			this.task.setDueDate(new DueDate(dueDate));
		} catch (ParseException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
        return this;
    }

    public TaskBuilder withInterval(String interval) throws IllegalValueException {
        this.task.setInterval(new Interval(interval));
        return this;
    }

    public TaskBuilder withTimeInterval(String timeInterval) throws IllegalValueException {
        this.task.setTimeInterval(new TimeInterval(timeInterval));
        return this;
    }

    public TaskBuilder withStatus(String status) throws IllegalValueException {
        this.task.setStatus(new Status(status));
        return this;
    }

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    public TaskBuilder withTaskColor(String color) throws IllegalValueException {
        this.task.setTaskColor(new TaskColor(color));
        return this;
    }

    public TaskBuilder withTags(String ... tags) throws IllegalValueException {
        for (String tag: tags) {
            task.getTags().add(new Tag(tag));
        }
        return this;
    }

    public TestTask build() {
        return this.task;
    }

}

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Q: How to add custom plugin in ckeditor4-react? I've followed the CKEditor 4 documentation on creating a basic plugin, but it doesn't seem to register in my react app. I've added the plugin file structure and added the plugin.js in node modules along with the icons. How do I pass it to config in ckeditor4-react?
import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';
import CKEditor from 'ckeditor4-react';

function App() {

  return (

Using CKEditor 4 in React

                <CKEditor
                    config={{
                      extraPlugins: "timestamp"
                    }}
                    data="
Hello from CKEditor 4!
"
                />

in plugin.js (node_modules/ckeditor4-react/plugins/timestamp/plugin.js
CKEDITOR.plugins.add( 'timestamp', {
    icons: 'timestamp',
    init: function( editor ) {
        editor.addCommand( 'insertTimestamp', {
            exec: function( editor ) {
                var now = new Date();
                editor.insertHtml( 'The current date and time is: ' + now.toString() + '' );
            }
        });
        editor.ui.addButton( 'Timestamp', {
            label: 'Insert Timestamp',
            command: 'insertTimestamp',
            toolbar: 'insert'
        });
    }
});

A: You can achieve loading a custom plugin in the below way.
import CKEditor from "ckeditor4-react";

function App() {
  return (

      <CKEditor
        data="
Hello from CKEditor 4!
"
        config={{
          toolbar: [["Bold"], ["Timestamp"]],
          extraPlugins: "timestamp",
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A regular breeding species and migrant. The Alder Flycatcher was a common species during the Minnesota Breeding Bird Atlas (MNBBA).
Broadly distributed across Alaska and boreal Canada, the Alder Flycatcher's range extends south across the Great Lakes region and New England. Pockets of high breeding densities can be found in several areas, including New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Ontario, British Columbia, and northern Minnesota (Figure 1).
Long-distance migrant that winters in South America.
During the summer months the species feeds almost entirely on insects captured by fly-catching and foliage gleaning.
An open-cup nest usually placed in shrubs approximately 0.3 to 1.0 m from the ground.
Breeding distribution and relative abundance of the Alder Flycatcher in North America based on the federal Breeding Bird Survey from 2011 to 2015 (Sauer et al. 2017).
Minnesota is on the southern periphery of the Alder Flycatcher's range. The species' range is broadly understood today, but the task of summarizing its relative abundance and distribution in Minnesota since the late 1800s is akin to unraveling a mystery in species identification. When Roberts first published his account of the species in 1932, the bird was commonly known as Traill's Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii), embracing what is now recognized as two different species: the Alder Flycatcher (E. alnorum) and the Willow Flycatcher (E. traillii). Further complicating the mystery is the fact that the two species are nearly indistinguishable to the field observer. The best clues to their identification are their song and call notes (Eckert 2008). And although they occupy slightly different habitats from one another in different regions of the state, their distributions overlap. They have even been observed within hearing distance of one another on the same site.
Thinking there was only one species, Roberts (1932) described the flycatcher as a common breeding resident throughout the state, particularly in northern Minnesota. Yet for years, many field biologists recognized that the songs were different. One was usually described as a three-syllable fee-bee-o or a two-syllable fee-BEER song heard in the northern portion of the species' range; the second was frequently a two-syllable FITZ-bew heard further south. Roberts's numerous depictions of the flycatcher's song were most similar to the song heard in northern Minnesota (Zink and Fall 1981).
For years, biologists believed the two song types simply represented regional differences in a widely distributed and relatively common bird. Variations in the song, however, were not the only difference. Field observers also began to note subtle differences in their nest structure, habitat, and morphology (Aldrich 1953; Snyder 1953). The observations eventually prompted more researchers to closely examine this rather nondescript and cryptic little flycatcher.
At the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Stein (1958, 1963) led a series of extensive field studies that included observations across the continent, ranging from upstate New York to British Columbia. Although the northern and southern birds he examined looked nearly identical, even when in the hand, he found their vocalizations and general biology quite distinct. By 1973, his carefully documented evidence led the American Ornithologists' Union, the official arbiter of bird nomenclature, to declare that the Traill's Flycatcher was indeed two different species. Stein (1963) included a general range map of the two species, depicting the Alder Flycatcher as a species of the northern boreal forest and the Willow Flycatcher as a species of the Great Plains. This left state biologists and birders to sort out the finer details of each species' distribution, particularly in areas like Minnesota, where it was apparent that both species occurred.
In Minnesota, Green and Janssen (1975) described the Alder Flycatcher as a resident in the state's northern regions and the Willow Flycatcher as a resident in the western and southern regions. They noted additional field observations were necessary before their respective ranges could be clearly delineated. As Zink and Fall (1991) noted, it was generally assumed the ranges of the two species did not overlap.
Meanwhile, Robbins (1974) used his extensive field data in Wisconsin to carefully delineate the range of the two species with more precision. The outcome was the delineation of a broad region of overlap in the state where the species co-occurred. Extending from the southeast corner of the state northwest to Polk County, which borders east-central Minnesota, the area of overlap encompassed more than 20 of Wisconsin's 72 counties.
A few years later, Zink and Fall (1981) followed Robbins's (1974) lead and made the first effort to delineate the range of the two flycatchers in Minnesota. Using their own field data and records compiled from several other sources, they identified a similar zone of sympatry, where the species' ranges overlapped. Roughly contiguous to that described by Robbins, the zone stretched from the east-central counties of Anoka and Ramsey, west to Pope County in west-central Minnesota and north along the Glacial Lake Agassiz beach ridges to Canada. Included in their assessment was the identification of 11 sites where the species co-occurred. Their paper, along with Eckert's (2008), are good resources for Minnesota birders interested in learning more about the characteristics that distinguish the two species in the field.
Although the Alder Flycatcher is still best described as a species of Minnesota's northern forests, there are occasional summer reports further south. During the course of their extensive field studies, biologists with the Minnesota Biological Survey have reported a total of 1,314 breeding season locations for the Alder Flycatcher. These include four localities as far south as Brown, Dodge, Freeborn, and Mower Counties (Minnesota Department of Natural Resources 2016). Yet, despite its broad distribution, by 1998 Hertzel and Janssen had identified only 7 counties, all north of the Minnesota River, where nesting had been confirmed: Aitkin, Beltrami, Cook, Lake, Ramsey, St. Louis, and Stearns.
During the MNBBA, observers reported 2,502 Alder Flycatcher records in 29.0% (1,374/4,744) of the surveyed atlas blocks and in 37.3% (871/2,337) of the priority blocks. Breeding evidence was gathered in 26 blocks (Figures 2 and 3; Table 1). The birds were reported in 56 of Minnesota's 87 counties; 22 of the 31 counties where they did not occur were located south of the Minnesota River. Breeding evidence was gathered from 12 counties, stretching from Hennepin County north to the Canadian border. Of these, 9 were additions to the list published by Hertzel and Janssen (1998): Becker, Carlton, Hennepin, Hubbard, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Morrison, and Roseau.
The Alder Flycatcher was recorded in 13 blocks located south of the Minnesota River. With one exception in Lincoln County, all the records were in southeastern and south-central Minnesota. Because flycatchers are late migrants and are difficult to identify in the field if a full song is not heard, all atlas reports of Alder Flycatchers in the southern half of the state were carefully reviewed. At least nine reports were invalidated because they occurred in early June and were considered to be late migrants and not breeding residents at the site where they were detected.
Compared with the flycatcher's distribution delineated by Zink and Fall in 1981, the MNBBA showed that the species' breeding range appears to extend further south, with records in several counties of the Twin Cities metropolitan region and in the southeast. It is not clear if the species has actually extended its range southward or if it was simply overlooked by earlier observers. Regardless, its true breeding status in southern Minnesota remains uncertain. As noted above, reports from this region are often assumed to be late spring migrants or early fall migrants. Yet all of the southern MNBBA reports that were accepted either were reported during the second or third week of June or were accompanied by notes that supported their retention. Further survey work is certainly warranted.
Interestingly, observers for Wisconsin's first atlas (1995-2000) also documented more observations in southern Wisconsin than Robbins (1991) originally described. They attributed the difference to better coverage during the atlas than to any recent range expansion (Cutright et al. 2006). Another notable difference in the Alder Flycatcher's Minnesota breeding distribution is that the range of overlap with the Willow Flycatcher appears to be considerably wider than originally proposed by Zink and Fall (1981).
Atlas data were combined with data on habitat availability, landscape context, climate, and detectability to develop a model to predict the breeding density of Alder Flycatchers at sites throughout the state (Figure 4). Low breeding densities are predicted throughout much of the state's Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province. Although moderate to high densities are predicted throughout the Tallgrass Aspen Parklands and Laurentian Mixed Forest Provinces, the largest region with the highest predicted abundance is the Agassiz Lowlands Subsection of north-central Minnesota.
Breeding distribution of the Alder Flycatcher in Minnesota based on the Breeding Bird Atlas (2009 – 2013).
Summary statistics of observations by breeding status category for the Alder Flycatcher in Minnesota based on all blocks (each 5 km x 5 km) surveyed during the Breeding Bird Atlas (2009-2013).
Summary statistics for the Alder Flycatcher observations by breeding status category for all blocks and priority blocks (each 5 km x 5 km) surveyed during the Minnesota Breeding Bird Atlas (2009-2013).
Predicted breeding distribution (pairs per 40 hectares) of the Alder Flycatcher in Minnesota based on habitat, landscape context, and climate data gathered during the Minnesota Breeding Bird Atlas (2009-2013) using the General Linear Modeling method with an adjustment for detectability.
Generally described as a species of wet shrubby thickets, the Alder Flycatcher is frequently encountered in dense, damp lowlands located in or adjacent to streams and lakes (Figure 5). Alder, willow, bog birch and red osier dogwood are common species within its territories (Bent 1942; Lowther 1999). Not restricted entirely to wet habitats, it can be found less commonly in dense upland shrubby habitat, especially in stands of young trees and shrubs that characterize regenerating areas following harvest or other disturbances (Lowther 1999).
In Minnesota, Zink and Fall (1981) described the species' typical habitat as "dense, boggy alder (Alnus spp.) and willow (Salix spp.) thickets, often near streams." Willow Flycatchers, in contrast, were more likely to be found in scattered patches of small trees and tall shrubs embedded in open grassland habitats, as well as in low swales and along woodland edges. When both species were found on the same site they noted that the Alders were invariably found in "denser and taller vegetation with a wet boggy substrate, and Willows were either in more open vegetation (if very wet) or drier areas (if dense vegetation)." Other accounts have noted a similar separation of habitat preferences (Rodewald et al. 2016; Cutright et al. 2006).
Data collected in Minnesota's two national forests—the heart of the Alder Flycatcher's range—demonstrated its strong association with lowland shrubs as well as wet sedge meadows that are often interspersed with dense shrub thickets (Niemi et al. 2016). Its occasional use of young, regenerating stands was also apparent. Statewide data collected by the MNBBA illustrated the flycatcher's strong association with shrub wetlands as well as several other northern wetland communities (Figure 6).
Typical breeding habitat of the Alder Flycatcher in Minnesota (© Lee A. Pfannmuller).
Habitat profile for the Alder Flycatcher based on habitats within 200 m of point counts where the species was present during the Minnesota Breeding Bird Atlas (2009-2013).
Biologists have been using the federal Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data, which has been collected since 1966, to predict overall abundance of bird species. The most recent North American population estimate for the Alder Flycatcher is 130 million breeding adults (Rosenberg et al. 2016). In 2013, Minnesota was estimated to support approximately 0.8% of the North American population (Partners in Flight Science Committee 2013). Applying that percentage to the 2016 population estimate generated a statewide estimate of 1 million adults. MNBBA point count data were used to test the BBS-derived estimates and generated a slightly higher estimate of 1.4 million birds (95% confidence interval of 1.2 to 2.0 million).
Although Minnesota is located on the southern periphery of the flycatcher's breeding range, within the BBS's survey area of the United States and southern Canada, Minnesota supports pockets of very high breeding densities (Figure 1). An average of 6 birds are reported on BBS routes in the state per year. Minnesota and Maine support populations much smaller than those found in many Canadian provinces, where mean numbers ranged from a low of 11 birds per route per year in British Columbia to a high of 38 birds per route per year in Nova Scotia (Sauer et al. 2017).
Local breeding densities at various sites throughout Canada range from as low as 2.6 pairs/40 ha in Quebec to as high as 53 to 82 pairs/40 ha on sites in Ontario that were 10–19 years post logging (Lowther 1999). In the Chippewa National Forest in Minnesota, an average of 1.0 pairs/40 ha were detected; on the Superior National Forest an average of 1.4 pairs were detected (Niemi et al. 2016) Significantly higher breeding densities were found in recently harvested lowland conifer stands in the Agassiz Lowlands Ecological Subsection, where an average of 8.7 Alder Flycatcher pairs were detected per 40 ha (Bednar et al. 2016).
Across its breeding range, the Alder Flycatcher has experienced a long-term population decline that averages just under 1% per year since 1966 (Sauer et al. 2017). Range-wide populations have experienced a cumulative loss of 37% since 1970 (Rosenberg et al. 2016). The decline is not apparent in Minnesota, where populations are relatively stable or even slightly increasing (Figure 7). In Minnesota's two national forests, the population trend from 1995 through 2016 has been nonsignificant, although decreasing slightly in the Chippewa National Forest and increasing slightly in the Superior National Forest. When data from the two forests were pooled, the species shows a steady, nearly linear trend line (Figure 8). Aside from changes in the availability of suitable habitat, the factors influencing these population numbers are poorly understood and have received little attention.
Breeding population trend for the Alder Flycatcher in Minnesota for 1967–2015 based on the federal Breeding Bird Survey (Sauer et al. 2017).
8. Breeding population trends of the Alder Flycatcher in the Chippewa and Superior National Forests and the combined regional trend, 1995–2016 (Bednar et al. 2016).
Widely distributed across boreal Canada and the northern United States and with a relatively large population, the Alder Flycatcher has been assigned a moderate Continental Concern Score of 9/20 primarily because of its declining population trends (Rosenberg et al. 2016). It is not considered a priority species at either the state or federal level. Although not examined in depth, its vulnerability to climate change is considered low (North American Bird Conservation Initiative 2010). This signature species of Minnesota's northern shrub swamps likely will remain an important and abundant member of the avifauna for years to come.
Aldrich, John W. 1953. "Habits and Habitat Differences in Two Races of Traill's Flycatcher." Wilson Bulletin 65: 8–11.
American Ornithologists' Union. 1973. "Thirty-second Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds." Auk 90: 411–419.
Eckert, Kim R. 2008. "Birding by Hindsight: A Second Look at Flycatchers." Loon 80: 226–230.
Robbins, Samuel. 1974. "The Willow and Alder Flycatchers in Wisconsin: A Preliminary Description of Summer Range." Passenger Pigeon 36: 147–152.
Snyder, Lester Lynne. 1953. "On Eastern Empidonaces with Particular Reference to Variation in E. traillii." Contributions of the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology and Palaeontology 35: 1–26.
Stein, Robert Carrington. 1958. "The Behavioral, Ecological and Morphological Characteristics of Two Populations of the Alder Flycatcher, Empidonax traillii (Audubon)." New York State Museum and Science Service Bulletin, no.371. Albany: University of the State of New York, State Education Department.
Stein, Robert Carrington. 1963. "Isolating Mechanisms Between Populations of Traill's Flycatchers." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 107: 21–50.
Zink, Robert M., and Bruce A. Fall. 1981. "Breeding Distribution, Song and Habitat of the Alder Flycatcher and Willow Flycatcher in Minnesota." Loon 53: 208–214.


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'IT'S RIPPED US APART'
Mum's agony as driver who left daughter, 16, dying in sister's arms in horror smash 'leaves prison' after just two years
Michelle, 40, fears her daughter's killer will be roaming their streets
Updated: 31 Jan 2019, 3:35
THE mum of a teenage girl who died in a horror smash has spoken of her devastation after learning her daughter's killer may soon be walking the streets near her home.
Michael Bowker was locked up for causing the death of 16-year-old Chloe Cockton by dangerous driving.
Chloe Cockton was killed in a car crash while Michael Bowker was drivingCredit: Focus Features
Bowker, now 21, could soon be released and walking the streets near Chloe's familyCredit: Focus Features
Chloe's older sister, Sophie, 20, was also in the car and she cradled Chloe in her arms, as she died.
Bowker, now 21, was jailed for six and half years in November 2016.
He has so far served just over two years and Chloe's family believed he would serve at least another twelve months before he was released.
But her mother, Michelle, 40, from Rochdale, has recently learned that Bowker has been moved to an open prison to apply for temporary release on licence.
She was such a bright star and she lit up every room
Michelle ConnollyChloe Cockton's mum
Michelle says: "As a family, we have suffered so much. Chloe's death ripped us apart. She had so much potential, she was such a bright star and she lit up every room. She was very intelligent and she wanted to be a barrister.
"Sophie was traumatised. She was in the car with Chloe and she held her as she died. She had serious injuries herself, but the emotional impact has been devastating for her.
"More than anything, he just does not deserve to be free. His actions cost my daughter's life and he has shown no remorse at all."
The crash happened in July 2016, just a few weeks after Chloe had sat her GCSE exams. Her results, which she never knew, were brilliant.
SCREAMING TO SLOW DOWN
Chloe and Sophie were in a Renault Clio being driven by Bowker who had offered them a lift home from a rave.
After checking he was not under the influence, they agreed.
Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court heard how the girls were screaming at him to slow down, as he overtook cars on the wrong side of the road.
A CCTV clip of the car was shown in court and clearly showed Bowker was speeding.
FLIPPED CAR
Bowker tried to drive back onto the right side of the road, but the car hit the kerb and flipped before it hit a barrier.
He pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and was jailed and banned from driving for four years.
Michelle says: "I worry constantly about Sophie because she feels it ought to have been her and not Chloe who died.
"She wishes, as the older sister, she hadn't let Chloe get in the car.
"He has ruined our lives. Yet he wants to have his freedom back. It just is not fair. I have started a petition not just for us but for all the other families devastated by road deaths."
Michael Bowker was 19 when he was locked up in November 2016 for causing the death of 16-year-old Chloe Cockton by dangerous drivingCredit: MEN Media
Chloe was killed when Bowkers car flipped over at speedCredit: Focus Features
Chloe's sister Sophie has suffered extreme emotional trauma since the incidentCredit: Focus Features
The girls were offered a lift home from a rave before the accident happenedCredit: Focus Features
Sophie cradled her sister in her arms as she diedCredit: Focus Features


Courtney P. Willits concentrates her practice on municipal law and transactional law. Ms. Willits represents the Firm's public and private clients on a variety of matters including contracts, intergovernmental agreements, and compliance with the Freedom of Information Act and the Open Meetings Act. In addition, Ms. Willits drafts legislation and policy for local units of government and provides counsel to community colleges.
Prior to joining Del Galdo Law Group, Ms. Willits worked as a staff attorney for Alderman Edward M. Burke, the Chairman for the Chicago City Council Committee on Finance, where she drafted ordinances, resolutions, and policies for various City matters including license and consumer protection, public safety, and finance.
Ms. Willits graduated from the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, Iowa where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music and her Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing. Ms. Willits earned her Juris Doctor from the John Marshall Law School. While in law school, Ms. Willits served as a staff editor for The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law Journal and had her comment published on legal issues candidates face when using music during campaigns. Ms. Willits also worked as a teaching assistant for Lawyering Skills, and Contracts classes. Additionally, she was a recipient of the CALI Award for Excellence in Criminal Procedure, Administrative Law, Advanced Torts, and Illinois Constitutional Law.
"Candidates Shouldn't Cruz Through Political Campaigns: Why asking for permission to use music is becoming so important on the campaign trail," The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law, Vol. 16, Issue 4 (2016).


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Conférence de Elena Valussi, "the transmission of alchemical knowledge from China to Taiwan"
par Sébastien Fath | J Juin | Archives Générales | 0 commentaires
Elena Valussi (Loyola University, Chicago) donnera une conférence à l'EPHE, au France (190, av. de France, Paris 13), salle 116 le mercredi 19 juin 2013, de 10:30 à 12:30
Daoist Master Xiao Tianshi 蕭天石 and the transmission of alchemical knowledge from China to Taiwan in the 20th century
This talk discusses the life and work of Daoist Master Xiao Tianshi; specifically, I will discuss the development of his interests in Daoism during his time in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese war (1937-1948). Xiao had been an editor who worked for military newspapers. In Sichuan. he was exposed to a multiplicity of religious beliefs and practices, from Confucianism to Buddhism and Daoism, from spirit writing and the cult of Lü Dongbin, to sanjiao 三教 teachings. His years in Sichuan, and especially the last three years, spent as a governor of Guanxian 灌縣, where Qingcheng shan 青城山 is located, and his close connection to the local Daoist abbott Yi Xinying 易心瑩, were seminal for his development as an intellectual and editor and were to inspire his life-work. Once in Taiwan, he dedicated the rest of his life to explain, catalogue and make widely available the writings he had been exposed to while in Sichuan. This desire was fueled not only by his deep interest in Daoism and specifically neidan 內丹, but also, given the political situation in mainland China, by his concern for the survival of Chinese culture as a whole, and of Daoism in particular. Therefore he set off to publish the books he had been able to rescue in China, but also, exploiting his wide network of connections with other recently emigrated fellow intellectuals and Daoists, to publish a wide selection of scriptures on late imperial neidan in his opus, the Daozang Jinghua 道藏精華. This work, started in 1952, would keep him occupied for the rest of his life until his death in 1987. Xiao Tianshi and the Daozang Jinghua have not yet received the scholarly attention they deserve. Through a close study of the texts published in the Daozang Jinghua, and through a careful reading of Xiao's detailed introductions, it is possible to understand the complex web of relations of friendship and trust that Xiao developed in China and in Taiwan with fellow practitioners, as well as his deep understanding of the different lineages and currents of 20th century Daoism. The collection is not only valuable because of the texts it reproduces, that might have otherwise been lost, but also because it represents a picture of Daoism in the 20th century, at a moment of great instability and uncertainty. Also, Xiao's compendium widely distributed texts not readily available to the Daoist community of Taiwan, thereby helping Daoism and neidan to develop and flourish in new directions there.


The competition sponsored and financed by the Falkland Islands government through the UK embassy in Buenos Aires is the first time it includes Argentina since for several years it has been inviting successful student candidates from Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.
"I'm currently in my last year of International Relations and have read much about the Malvinas from the Argentine perspective and I think the moment has arrived to talk with the people of the Falklands" said Nicolás interviewed by Clarin.
"I'm very much interested in diplomacy and cultural exchanges, I have been able to travel to United States and Europe, where I was hosted by different families and it was an incredible experience", adding that another reason for travelling is that he likes photography and to share pictures in social networks. "I plan to take pictures of the wildlife, but also of the people living in the Islands, their traditions and style of life".
Nicolas loves playing volley ball, works as a photographer and was one of the ten Argentine finalists, out of 300 registered, in the competition.
"Malvinas is probably the most important foreign affairs issue of Argentina, I have always been aware of this, and wanted to travel to the Islands. I love traveling whenever I can but a trip to the Islands seemed something hard to achieve given the high hosts, but I have been lucky".
The Argentine student anticipates he wants to speak to the Islanders, how they arrived and how they feel about the dispute. "I'm going with an open mind and willing to dialogue and I believe I will find the same attitude from Islanders".
As to the sovereignty conflict Nicolas argues that the Argentine claim must be accompanied by a willingness to dialogue without giving up pretensions as indicated in the Argentine Constitution in its transitory articles, and following International Law, "it's time to build bridges, not walls".
"My interest in diplomacy was born in high school where I participated in several United Nations models. Since then I knew international relations was my goal. Having to defend the position of a country with which many do not agree, made me understand the importance of cultural dialogue, to learn to listen, and to search for peaceful solutions to conflicts", underlined Nicolas.
Tags: Argentina, Falkland Islands, Falkland Islands Government, Falkland/Malvinas, Falklands Regional Student Competition, Nicolas Aguiar student.
As to the sovereignty conflict Nicolas argues that the Argentine claim must be accompanied by a willingness to dialogue without giving up pretensions as indicated in the Argentine Constitution in its transitory articles, and following International Law, "it's time to build bridges, not walls".
And Argentina's claim? What does Argentina have to put before an international court that supports her claim??
Very sensible young Nicolas. I hope you learn a lot, and are then not vilified by the loonies for exercising an intelligent approach.


This is what I infer from these and related passages. Prior to Jesus' finished work, the baptism of John was an acceptable foreshadowing. However, it was a not a baptism into the Christian faith. In some sense it was a baptism that wasn't offensive to Jews, but Christian baptism should be offensive (you know how I mean that) to Jews. You should be baptized into the entire Christian faith, which includes the Trinity and also the affirmation of the death and resurrection of Jesus. Jews might (and did) agree to John's baptism; they could never agree with a Christian baptism and remain a faithful Jew. In that way it would have been offensive.
If we agree with the WCF (in this case, I do) then we acknowledge the administrator is powerless (but not unimportant.) He does what he does for the edification and pleasure of the body and for the glory of God. However the validity of the baptism depends, humanly speaking, on the understanding (worthiness) of the candidate. In correcting Apollos' baptism there may have been some correction of the implementation and mode, but the main correction was in the lack of instruction of the candidate, some of whom had never even heard of the Holy Spirit.
You should not. The efficacy of the baptism does not depend on the administrator. 1 We all agree for many reasons that it is more than advisable for the administrator to invoke the triune God, but what is important is that the candidate acknowledges that he/she is being baptized into communion with the triune God. If the baptism is not valid because the administrator did not say the right words, we have gone past advisability and the words have taken on the power of an incantation that are necessary to conjure up the grace of God. In this view, God might be ready to dispense grace, but He is powerless until he hears the right words. May it never be.
So what about Acts 19:5 and similar passages? There are, I think, two acceptable views. One is that Acts 19:5 is descriptive and not prescriptive, while Matthew 28:19 (the Great Commission) is prescriptive. That would mean that the administrators are commanded to baptize in the name of the triune God. However, it would still not mean that a baptism where the administrator said "I baptize you in the name of the Lord Jesus" was invalid, because, again, the validity does not depend on the administrator. 1 But it might mean that the administrator will have to answer for his error. Another view is that the words used at baptism were a sort of early creed. And in the earliest baptisms, which were of Jewish converts, it may be that it seemed appropriate to emphasize the primary "new" Christian distinctive—the deity of Jesus Christ, to Jews and partially converted (to Judaism) God-fearers who already had a concept of the Father and even the Spirit. But when baptism spread to pagans it was more important to emphasize all three persons of the Godhead, since all were equally unknown.
I don't know the answer, but I know this: you are covered either way if you baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, so why not? (Not to mention the words are beautiful and edifying.) There is no reason not to baptize in the name of the trine God. The only risk I see is if you imagine you are commanding the grace of God by uttering those words, or that you are claiming that God could not have dispensed grace if other words were used.
I can't help myself. I have to represent this by a flow chart (click to enlarge).
1 Let's not introduce absurdities. We are talking about modest deviations within the orthodox practices of pastors who are attempting to honor and glorify God with reverence. If someone was baptized by being shot with a water pistol, I'd advise them to switch churches and do it again, even if as the candidate they had a proper understanding of what they were assenting to.
Have you heard, or thought on the significance of the baptisms reported as performed under the authority of the Lord Jesus by His disciples in John 3:22,26; 4:1,2?
In his work, "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah", Alfred Edersheim suggests that the Lord's authorization of those baptisms was His personal testimony to the heavenly source of "the baptism of John." He was, in effect, continuing John's work seeing that John would soon be ending his assigned ministry.
The Lord Himself, by being Himself baptized by John, and then by authorizing His disciples to baptize, was answering beforehand His later question to the Pharisees: "The baptism of John, whence was it? from Heaven, or of men?"
How does that idea strike you?
IMO, John's baptism was from Heaven, but it was no longer sufficient following Christ's finished work. You could not be baptized into the Christian faith until Christianity was "finalized" with the resurrection. And afterwards, you should be baptized into the fullness of the faith.


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In the South, film heroes are often depicted as do-gooders or messiahs of the poor and this image carries off-screen as well. As a result, film stars enter politics at the fag end of their film careers to capitalize on the popular goodwill. Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi and Tamil superstar Rajanikant have been contemplating the launch of their political outfits for a long time.
Though Hindi film stars have a wider appeal that extends over many states, they rarely perform roles similar to those Rajanikant does or the late NTR did.
Stars such as Shah Rukh Khan are typically cast in glamorous roles of the Karan Johar variety, in films mostly shot in foreign locales and with plots that no ordinary people can relate to. Further, Hindi cinema is urban-centric. Even stars such as Shah Rukh lack the iconic status or the organized fan following enjoyed by the southern super stars.
In the South, the fan clubs of the film stars readily provide them with an organization that extends over the length and breadth of their states, and which can be converted overnight into political platforms.
Bollywood film stars have rarely launched their own political outfits and have preferred to join mainstream parties. Through the years, Sunil Dutt, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Dileep Kumar and Govinda have joined the Congress, while actors such as Shatrughan Sinha, Vinod Khanna, Hema Malini and Dharmendra have joined the BJP.
While only a few of them have ventured into the hurly-burly of electoral politics, others have preferred the less risky Rajya Sabha route.
National parties consider this as a win-win situation. With the rapid decline in the quality of politicians today—their lack of appeal and their poor oratorical skills, for instance—political parties have increasingly looked towards the filmi duniya (world) to enhance their appeal.
National parties such as the Congress and the BJP stooped to such depths in the run-up to the 2004 Lok Sabha elections that they engaged in a shameful competitive farce to line up a host of even B and C grade actors from Bollywood to convince voters of their appeal.
Why on earth should the Congress party require Shakti Kapoor, Asrani or Celina Jaitley to tell the public about its virtues and why would the BJP parade Poonam Dhillon, Yukta Mookhey or Jitendra to highlight its merits?
Until 2004, the trend was to rent an actor for campaign. In 2002, Govinda was hired by the Congress to stage dance performances on the eve of the Punjab assembly polls. Amitabh Bachchan has provided his share of entertainment to the audiences in Uttar Pradesh to repeatedly help his friend Amar Singh of the Samajwadi Party.
Lately, however, parties have realized their stupidity in taking for granted the innate intelligence of the Indian voters.Be it municipal polls or Lok Sabha elections, voters prefer candidates who are accessible to them and solve their local problems.
Most Bollywood film stars fail to impress voters as they rarely nurture their constituencies after winning them. Their star status also keeps them away from the constituents.
As a result, most film stars fail to win their parliamentary seats for the second time. There are creditable exceptions to this trend, though. The late Sunil Dutt and Vinod Khanna gained widespread acceptability through their hard work and wide accessibility as they made a genuine transition to politics, while for many others, politics remained and remains an unfamiliar and uncomfortable terrain. For instance, in the current Lok Sabha, film stars Govinda and Dharmendra are finding the going tough and may not receive their party nominations to defend their seats.
Being members of national parties, Bollywood actors rarely manage to get into leadership positions and remain on the fringes.
They are not taken seriously by their own parties and often find the slight too difficult to ignore.
Despite Shah Rukh Khan's comments at the "Hindustan Times Leadership Summit" a couple of days ago that he is "selfish, materialistic, capitalistic and too good-looking to join politics"—the comments were made in a lighter vein—his long-standing friendship with the Gandhi family is an indication that he could consider joining politics later in the day.
If the Congress did not spare the likes of Shakti Kapoor, would it let go of Shah Rukh Khan, the King of Bollywood? G.V.L. Narasimha Rao is a political analyst and managing director of Development and Research Services, a research consulting firm.


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Mestieri d'Arte & Design 12
Mestieri d'Arte & Design n. 12 the magazine jointly created by Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d'Arte and Swan Group, is now out as an attachment to "Arbiter" magazine. This month's issue includes an interview to Tuscan designer Paolo Ulian; a visit to the historical Sartori's leather theatrical mask workshop; an article on master luthier Gio Batta Morassi from Cremona; a study on historical Riva 1920 company; an overview of Triennale Design Museum in Monza and many more contributions.
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Die Tenderlokomotiven KFBE 28–29, 38–39 wurden von der Lokomotivfabrik Jung als Güterzuglokomotiven für die Köln-Frechen-Benzelrather Eisenbahn (KFBE) gebaut.

Sie waren bis zum Ende des Dampflokeinsatzes in Betrieb und wurden dann ausgemustert sowie verschrottet.

Geschichte

Zwei Jahre nach der KFBE 36 beschaffte die Köln-Frechen-Benzelrather Eisenbahn eine kleinere Lokomotive für ihren umfangreichen Güterzugbetrieb im Großraum von Köln. Diese wurde als KFBE 28 bezeichnet. Die Lokomotive wurde mit einer kleineren Dampfmaschine und geringeren Wasservorräten geliefert, was bei später gefertigten Exemplaren geändert wurde.

1941 wurde eine zweite Lokomotive ausgeliefert und 1944 folgten zwei weitere, die eine größere Dampfmaschine, wesentlich mehr Wasservorräte und geringfügig weniger Kohlenvorrat hatten.

Die Lokomotiven führten den Güterverkehr auf der Klüttenbahn (Bahnstrecke Köln–Frechen) durch. Sie waren bis zum Ende des Dampfbetriebes im Einsatz.

Drei Maschinen wurden 1959/1960 abgestellt und bis 1961 verschrottet. Die zuletzt gebaute KFBE 39 wurde bis 1966 verwendet und dann ebenfalls verschrottet.

Konstruktion

Die Lokomotiven für Industriebahnen hatten ein laufachsloses Fahrwerk zur Erzielung einer hohen Reibungslast. Sie wurden mit Heißdampf betrieben. Äußerlich waren sie der verstärkten Form der ELNA 6 ähnlich. Es sind nur unvollständige technische Daten erhalten geblieben.

Die Lokomotiven hatten einen Blechrahmen. Aufgrund des Maßunterschiedes des festen Achsstandes zwischen der erstgelieferten Lokomotive sowie den folgenden war bei allen die erste Achse seitenverschiebbar, das Achsenmaß der festen Achsen der beiden Varianten jedoch unterschiedlich. Angetrieben wurde die dritte Achse. Sie besaßen eine Heusinger-Steuerung mit Kuhnscher Schleife, Müller-Schieber und mit den Lokomotiven der Deutschen Reichsbahn identische Armaturen. Alle Lager der Treib- und Kuppelstangen waren noch zweigeteilt. Alle Hilfseinrichtungen wurden nach Reichsbahnnorm ausgeführt.

Literatur

Weblinks

 Datenblatt über die Lokomotive KFBE 28 auf www.dampflokarchiv.de
 Datenblatt über die Lokomotive KFBE 29 auf www.dampflokomotivarchiv.de
 Datenblatt über die Fahrzeuge der Köln-Frechen-Benzelrather Eisenbahn mit Erwähnung der KFBE 28...39 auf Beiträge zur Lokomotiv- und Eisenbahngeschichte
 Foto der Lokomotive KFBE 28 1959 auf eisenbahnstiftung.de
 Foto der Lokomotive KFBE 29 1959 auf eisenbahnstiftung.de
 Datenblatt über die Lokomotive KFBE 38 auf www.dampflokomotivarchiv.de
 Datenblatt über die Lokomotive KFBE 39 auf www.dampflokomotivarchiv.de

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At a private assembly held inside Las Vegas' William H. "Bob" Bailey Middle School, more than 500 students gathered with Clark County School District (CCSD) staff and administration for a special video presentation to introduce the new initiative. The video recapped a day-long event that sought to remind students that they are not forgotten, they have potential and they are special, all while educating and empowering them. The day was elevated with participation from a variety of celebrities including chefs Rick Moonen and Bruce Bromberg, UFC fighter Miesha Tate, The Killers' lead singer Brandon Flowers and GRAMMY-winning band Imagine Dragons.
"With the help of Life is Beautiful, students who face daily challenges were able to enjoy this special and magical event which planted the seed of hope in so many and reminded our students of their potential," said Diane Fearon, chief executive officer of CIS of Nevada. "This event, combined with the reinforcement of the mentor relationship many students have with CIS of Nevada site coordinators at school every day provides great support and inspiration to low-income, high-risk students."
"Nevada has the lowest-rated public education in America right now," said Robert Reynolds of Reynolds Management and manager of Flowers. "That needs to change. I went to Bonanza. Brandon went to Chaparral. Like anyone who grew up here, we were happy to help."
"I knew we had to get involved in the effort as soon as Rehan and the Communities in Schools team told us the general concept of taking three at risk schools and helping turn them around," said Mac Reynolds of Reynolds Management and manager of Imagine Dragons. "Dan [Reynolds, lead singer of Imagine Dragons] and I grew up in Las Vegas and attended public schools not too different from the ones we visited. Having your own kids makes you realize just how important it is to foster an environment where they feel empowered and full of hope. This program does just that."
At Tuesday's announcement, Bailey Middle School Principal Greg Cole, along with Choudhry, addressed the students before playing a 10-minute video that captured the day and explained the process behind and importance of Our School is Beautiful.


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