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Chicken Soup for the Shabbat Table
Improving Jewish Family Learning & Dynamics
Joel Guberman
While there are many literary sources emphasizing the institution of the family in Judaism, it is helpful to see how it is highlighted in the Tanakh. The family relationships and terminology strongly imbedded in the Tanakh form the core of the development of the Jewish people - the "Children of Israel." More than a nationality formed around a specific location and culture, the Tanakh strongly emphasizes the development of the Jewish people as a family - a people sharing not only a similar mission and message, but stemming from the same familial roots.
Using a frame of reference from research on family rituals described by Barbar Fiese, the Friday night Shabbat meal is of unique character. This family mealtime has a double significance. It is at the same time a patterned routine of weekly dinnertime, as well as a family celebration heavily weighted with specific religious rituals. The patterned routine with its familiarity and frequency supplies the family a sense of continuation by knowing what to expect and joining together on a regular basis, providing a strong sense of security and comfort. The family celebration on the other hand, acts as a source whose special rituals and set procedures create great anticipation.
One study of the positive effects of rituals focuses on the relationship of ritual to adolescent identity. This study conducted by Fiese ( 1992), indicates a strong relationship between the family's association of symbolic significance in family rituals to the adolescents general self-esteem, identity integration, and feelings of belonging with others. Interestingly, if a great disparity exists between the parent's perception of the family rituals and that of the adolescent then the adolescent is more likely to feel greater distance from other family members.
Besides the emotional and general health benefits that have been discussed regarding family rituals, there has been growing documentation of the cognitive and social benefits of family rituals. Various studies have looked into the benefits of improved vocabulary, socialization skills and the imparting of values. Perhaps the most striking piece of research, which ties all of these benefits together, is that of Bowden and Zeisz (1997). Based on this research," the Greater New Milford (Ct.) community 2000 task force on Teen and Adolescent Issues determined that the single most effective intervention for the widest variety of teen and adolescent problems was also the easiest, speediest and least expensive: The implementation of Family mealtimes." Although clearly simplistic, they showed a great deal of benefits related to the family meal. As mentioned before, besides the tremendous emotional benefits gained by family mealtime, it was shown that the single factor common to the best readers from elementary through high school, is that their families eat together at the home. These children develop more extensive vocabularies at an earlier age, are better equipped to articulate, and score two to three grade levels higher on standardized reading and language tests. The research found that the family mealtime created a sense of belonging and allowed parents to keep aware of what was going on with their children. This fact brought psychologist Michael Schwarzchild (2000) of Brookfield, Connecticut, to suggest implementing a homeroom period in the school system that would help to reduce anonymity at an attempt in trying to copy some of the benefits of family mealtime.
With this knowledge of the benefits of rituals and mealtime, we may approach the Shabbat meal with a renewed respect. Reflection on these points will hopefully increase the effort we put into the Shabbat meal while realizing the tremendous benefits that can be gained.
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Adrian Marchbank is Caldicott Guardian for Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, a large acute trust whose main hospital has around 1,000 beds and more than 10,000 staff. Since 2000 his main job at the trust has been working as a consultant heart and lung surgeon, handling a busy list of patients and undertaking clinical research. In 2012 the position of Caldicott Guardian fell vacant and Adrian was appointed after competing against other candidates. He says his enthusiasm for the Caldicott work was rooted in a personal experience at the age of 15. After his grandfather died, the local paper printed an article including the name, address and phone number of his grandmother, without seeking her consent. Her obvious distress was Adrian's introduction to issues of privacy and confidentiality. In many NHS trusts, the Caldicott Guardian role is one of the many tasks performed by the medical director or director of nursing. In Plymouth they prefer to appoint a senior clinician who is not on the board. Adrian says that works well for him: he is senior enough to carry clout, but independent enough to act from time to time as "the pebble in the shoe."
He devotes one day a week to the role, setting aside Mondays for routine Caldicott work, including meeting newly appointed doctors, nurses and other staff to induct them into the part they and their teams will play in ensuring a high standard of information governance. He makes himself available at other times, when needed, to deal with cases that are outside the routine and require his personal judgement. The trust has a Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) with whom he works very closely, and an information governance team of three, who carry out the day-to-day tasks.
However much of the work to ensure a high standard of information governance is devolved to clinicians and administrators in each of the trust's service delivery units. The trust reports more incidents to the Information Commissioner's Of ce than most – not because it breaches the data protection rules more often, but because it has a commitment to total transparency and a policy of zero blame. Adrian says: "Mistakes happen. We don't punish individuals, but when things go wrong we look at the processes." One such exercise led to the removal of fax machines from the trust.
Adrian regards the introduction of this devolved and vigilant structure as a significant achievement of the Caldicott Guardian. Individual cases are referred up to him for a judgement call on average about once a week. Serious cases, involving a significant breach of patients' confidentiality, come up perhaps once in six months. The most difficult decisions tend to involve balancing ethical and legal issues. Adrian recalls the complex factors involved in the decision to set up a data base to achieve the optimum outcome for babies requiring care. The system could only work if details about the babies could be provided in a form that might allow them to be identified. And it could only work quickly enough if this was done without waiting for the individual parents' specific consent. After canvassing the views of parents, it was decided that saving lives is more important than protecting confidentiality. The data base went ahead. Adrian is a member of the UK Caldicott Guardian Council and co-chair of the south west regional network of Caldicott Guardians.

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El Speak Now World Tour és la segona gira musical de la cantant country,Taylor Swift, en suport del seu tercer àlbum d'estudi, Speak Now. Anunciat el novembre de 2010, la gira començarà a principis de 2011 a Àsia i viatjarà a Europa i Amèrica del Nord. El grup de rock nord-americà Needtobreathe servirà com a acte d'obertura de la part nord-americana de la gira.

Antecedents
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Per a la promoció del seu àlbum actual, Swift va esmentar l'entusiasme de la seva pròxima gira. Va assenyalar la gira seria "gran" i "àmplia"
En 23 novembre de 2010, diversos mitjans de comunicació, incloent la revista Billboard va anunciar la segona gira de Swift.

D'això es dedueix la seva exitosa gira Fearless que va exercir per més de 100 dates en més de cinc països. La gira marca la primera gira de la cantant per dur a terme en els estadis de diverses parts del món.

Actes d'obertura
 The Bright
 Sezairi Sezali
 Sam Concepcion
 Needtobreathe
 Sapo Johnny
 Wonderland (band) (Dublín, Irlanda)

Llista de cançons

Referències

Gires musicals del 2011
Taylor Swift

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Quick Description: The church and its orphanage was used as a hospital subsequent to the bloody Battle of Fredericksburg.
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The present church was built in 1833. During the Battle of Fredericksburg, the sanctuary roof sustained heavy damage. Even after the repairs were made, two cannon balls were left lodged at the front of the sanctuary. The church and its orphanage were used subsequently has a hospital. Clara Barton, who later founded the Red Cross, and Walt Whitman, who came to find his brother (fortunately still alive, although wounded) served in the hospital. Reference: history portion church website link
300 George Street or 810 Princess Anne St. SW of Princess Anne and George Sts Fredericksburg, VA USA 22401
Name of War: U.S. Civil War
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III Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. gen. Sowińskiego – jedno z najstarszych warszawskich liceów, założone w 1923 roku.

Historia szkoły

Gmach szkoły i początki jej działalności
Budowę według projektu Mikołaja Tołwińskiego i jego syna Tadeusza rozpoczęto w 1914 r. Zdobyli oni za swój projekt I nagrodę konkursu architektonicznego ogłoszonego w 1912 r. W 1923 r. oddano gmach do użytku ówczesnemu I Gimnazjum Miejskiemu oraz Szkole Powszechnej, która jest obecnie Szkołą Podstawową nr 139. Przeniosła się jednak ona do przekazanej jej przez miasto nowej działki przy ul. Syreny w 1966 r. i od tego czasu gmach szkoły zajmuje tylko III Liceum Ogólnokształcące.

Budynek szkoły obecnie znajduje się na ul. Rogalińskiej 2, ale wcześniej widniała pod adresem na ul. Młynarskiej oraz Kalinki. Gmach jest aktualnie pod opieką wojewódzkiego konserwatora zabytków.

11 czerwca 1928 r. szkoła otrzymała imię gen. Józefa Sowińskiego.

II wojna światowa
W 1939 szkoła stała się schronieniem dla uchodźców z Wielkopolski, którzy sformowali 600-osobowy Ochotniczy Hufiec Pracy i brali udział w obronie Warszawy.

Kursy Przygotowawcze do egzaminu dojrzałości pozwalały na prowadzenie jawnych zajęć w szkole przez dwa lata. W styczniu 1940 działalność rozpoczęły tajne komplety z łaciny, historii i geografii Polski, które obejmowały uczniów klas I i II. W czerwcu 1940 w lokalu przedszkola mieszczącego się tuż obok szkoły odbyły się pierwsze egzaminy maturalne.

Gmach szkoły został zajęty przez Niemców w marcu 1942. Ówczesna Szkoła Chemiczna została przeniesiona na ul. Chłodną 37.

W roku szkolnym 1942/43, Szkoła Chemiczna zmienia nazwę na I Obowiązkową Szkołę Zawodową Dokształcającą. Miała wówczas dwie siedziby, przy ul. Chłodnej i Żelaznej. Jawne zajęcia i tajne komplety trwały do sierpnia 1944 r.

5 sierpnia 1944 szkoła zostaje zdobyta przez brygadę SS Dirlewangera. Broniący się na tym terenie żołnierze batalionu Chrobry I wycofali się ku ul. Karolkowej.

W sumie podczas wojny świadectwa dojrzałości otrzymało ok. 60 absolwentów.

Po wojnie
W 1948 szkoła otrzymała nazwę Państwowej koedukacyjnej szkoły stopnia licealnego im. gen Sowińskiego. Obecną nazwę szkole nadano w 1965.

W tym samym roku, po remoncie zachodniego skrzydła budynku, powstała hala sportowa, a władze dzielnicy przekazały ją Międzyszkolnemu Ośrodkowi Sportowemu Wola.

W latach 1952–1955 w szkole uczył Jan Twardowski.

Absolwenci
 Sebastian Cybulski
 Jacek Fedorowicz
 Agnieszka Fitkau-Perepeczko
 Ewa Gorzelak
 Ryszard Kalpas
 Artur Kempa
 Antoni Kocjan
 Katarzyna Kwiatkowska
 Andrzej Łojszczyk
 Wiesław Michnikowski
 Bronisław Pietraszewicz
 Agata Tuszyńska
 Krzysztof Bielecki

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The $29,000 Secret That Makes This Greek Hotel So Instagrammable
By Lindsay Silberman
https://money.com/the-29000-secret-that-makes-this-greek-hotel-so-instagrammable/
Katikies Hotel Santorini pool bar
Courtesy of Katikies
On a recent trip to Santorini I was sipping a glass of rosé at Katikies, a swanky boutique hotel, when I glanced down and noticed that my sandal had created an unsightly scuff mark on the pristine white terrace. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to ask my waiter a question I'd been pondering all afternoon. "How often do you paint this place? Is it done once a season, or…?"
He laughed. "We actually repaint it every single day."
Whether you've visited Santorini or simply ogled photos of the immaculate whitewashed village in the Aegean Sea on Instagram, you've perhaps also wondered how they keep up appearances.
It turns out, for a property like Katikies, that image of perfection is the result of a carefully curated effort—and a whole lot of money. The Greek hotel spends approximately $29,392 a year on paint for its white exterior. It's not a bad investment. Katikies, which charges around $1,000 per night for one of its rooms, sees the paint as a crucial aspect of their success.
"It's the first thing you notice when you step foot on the property: the stark white steps in contrast to the bright blue sea. That moment is our opportunity to make a strong initial impression," explains Nikos Georgiadis, the hotel's Director of Sales and Marketing.
Several years ago, Katikies decided to hire a full-time painter who spends eight hours a day adding fresh coats to the hotel's 34 rooms, two pools, and various common areas. And for a small boutique that regularly operates at full occupancy, that's no easy task.
Each morning at 6 a.m., Savvas, the property's painter, receives a list from the maintenance department that details exactly what needs to be painted—and, more importantly, the specific window of time he has to complete each job, so as not to disturb hotel guests.
"The majority of the work needs to be done before everyone wakes up," says Georgiadis. "During the day it gets really tricky. He has to know exactly when a guest has checked out so he can quickly paint their room before the next guest arrives." Luckily, thanks to a combination of strong winds and sun exposure, most areas only require a two-hour drying time.
For Katikies, maintaining a flawless facade isn't just about impressing the guests who've already checked in—it's also a way to drum up new business via social media. The hotel's Instagram account has over 50,000 followers, and that's not including all the guests who posted perfect shots on their own accounts.
"Instagram has changed everything for us," says Georgiadis. "People used to book based on word of mouth, but now it's based on photos…and that's powerful." At the same time, it also means that hotels are being held to higher standards, since everything they do is on display for the world to see.
Georgiadis admits that before Instagram, big improvements would often take years to make happen. And now? "We can't afford for the hotel not to look perfect," he says. "It's really challenged us to rise to the occasion."
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We will need a customer facing OHAI for installing these. MER can work up a rough version and Creative can clean it up and polish it.
Disregard, we need the mounts before we can do the OHAI.
Not sure how deep we want to go for this OHAI. We absolutely need install instructions, but I don't know how much cura instruction we want to include. @Hob @DRobertson @mcoronado @Orias Harris and I were starting to feel out the proper division of labor between MER and marketing for generating OHAIs, but I feel like this would be a good opportunity to go over roles for OHAI development.
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@mcoronado we need to get this customer OHAI rolling and I understand that customer facing OHAIs are set up by creative with directions provided by MER or Product Planning. I will get you basic directions (probably will need copy edits) by Monday.
Once we have documentation, I can jump in and get this done if @mcoronado is not able to.
The steps regarding tool head + adapter + wiring harness should be the same for all Mini adapters and the same for all TAZ adapters. I think we can write this out to have 2 guides, one for each adapter. We'd then point them back to the Accessories and Upgrade category for installing the assembly onto their particular printer. We wouldn't touch Cura LE in these two docs.
We could open with a shot showing the adapter and a spread of the tool heads showing that this ohai can be used for any of them. We'll need a shot of each tool head with the mount installed later on, for those install OHAIs.
I do agree this would be one of the customer facing white background installs.
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As we agreed in the Planning Meeting today, MER/Planning will provide basic content of instructions with a simple/rough draft photo to show what's intended. Then Michael will be the point person within Marketing to ensure it is put into final form (both instructions, layout, as well as photos), and ensure MER/Planning reviews prior to final completion.
What date will we get the MER/Planning content?
Is the above ready to go?
As discussed in Product Planning meeting, please give feedback about clarity in directions and if you need supplementary photos to explain any step.
@mcoronado where did these go? Are they posted and ready to go?
@Orias @mcoronado these OHAIs are still not published. It looks like we've sold several of these and although tech support isn't as concerned (these are a fairly easy install) we do need these published as soon as we can. What is holding up these from going live?
@Orias @mcoronado any update on this OHAI - trying to close this out.
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Smyrna police make arrests in rental scam
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SMYRNA — The Smyrna Police Department announced Friday it has concluded a nearly nine-month investigation into a national rental theft scam centered in Smyrna that has resulted in charges against eight people.
Smyrna police arrested Verna Nowell of Smyrna Friday and charged her with racketeering, money laundering, theft of $1,500 or greater, second-degree conspiracy and falsely reporting an incident to police.
Verna Nowell
The investigation began in November 2014 after a resident in Florida reported to Smyrna Police about a possible rental theft scam involving Ms. Nowell, according to public information officer Cpl. Brandon L. Dunning of the Smyrna Special Investigations Unit.
The Floridian told officers about an advertisement for a rental house on the website trulia.com. The victim responded, and after talking to a person who identified herself as Verna Nowell agreed to send a check to Smyrna, according to police.
Detectives questioned Ms. Nowell, who originally denied any knowledge of the scam and said her identity had been stolen. Police continued with the investigation.
In January, Smyrna Police said it was contacted by a victim in Texas reporting his own home was found online at trulia.com for rent, when in fact it was not.
The Texan was able to contact the individual posting the home for rent who requested that $2,300 be sent to the owner/landlord, another Smyrna resident. Once the money was received, it was agreed that the rental agreement and keys would be mailed to him.
The victim in Texas provided the necessary information to detectives which led to the arrest of Dustin C. Brennan, 21, of Fairfield Drive, for attempted theft by false pretense.
With this new information, detectives were able to link both incidents and began an in-depth investigation into the online rental theft scam.
During January, detectives of the Smyrna Police Department received phone calls from police agencies as far away as California and Illinois reporting victims in those states who had sent money to Smyrna for what they believed to be rental properties.
More than 35 victims have been identified from around the country and more than $150,230 has changed hands, according to Cpl. Dunning.
Police determined that the center of the rental theft scam allegedly revolved around Ms. Nowell, 63, of the 300 block of Peach Circle. Along with Ms. Nowell, detectives identified several other suspects,
They include Ronald O. Miles of Smyrna; Chase Madden of Townsend, who is Ms. Nowell's grandson; Barbara McBride of Smyrna; Cory Bynaker of Smyrna; Kimberly Draper of Clayton; Shirley Watson of Townsend and Ronald D. Miles of Smyrna.
According to police, detectives learned that Ms. Nowell met subjects online via Internet dating sites who live in Lagos, Nigeria. Ms. Nowell allegedly agreed to receive money from individuals throughout the country and after taking a portion of the proceeds, she would then forward the money to Nigeria via Western Union and MoneyGram.
Police said the money was part of an elaborate online rental theft scam. Allegedly people outside the United States located either legitimate ads for rental properties or copied information from other online sources and then reposted the information on craigslist and trulia.com as if they were the landlords/owner of the properties while using their American counterpart's names. Once an unsuspecting renter contacted the seller they were advised to wire the money to one of the eight individuals uncovered in the investigation.
The money was then collected by the group up and down the state at various Western Union and MoneyGram locations in order to conceal suspicious activity. Police said the suspects were also cautious about the amount of money sent or received at each transaction and/or total amount per day sent or received. Once the money was cashed they would take a portion of the proceeds for themselves and then send the remaining money out of the country.
Police said Ms. Nowell eventually became flagged by Western Union and MoneyGram for suspicious activity. According to police that's when she recruited several associates and other family members to assist her with cashing the money orders and then resending the money overseas.
Ms. Nowell was arraigned in the Justice of the Peace Court 2 via video phone and released after posting $28,000 secured bail.
Also on Friday, officers arrested Ronald D. Miles Jr., 21, of the unit block of West Commerce St. Smyrna, for money laundering, theft of $1,500 or greater and second-degree conspiracy. He was arraigned in the Justice of the Peace Court 2 via video phone and committed to James T. Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna in default of $14,000 secured bail.
Smyrna Police Department said it has active arrest warrants pending for:
• Ronald D. Miles Sr., 48, of Smyrna.
• Chase Madden, 18, of Townsend.
• Barbara McBride, 52, of Smyrna.
• Cory Bynaker, 22, of Smyrna.
• Kimberly Draper, 37, of Clayton.
• Shirley Watson, 44, of Townsend.
Police said charges for all are for money laundering, theft $1,500 or greater and second-degree conspiracy.
For information on rental scams, Trulia recommends visiting its Rental Listings Scams information page.
Reach the Delaware State News newsroom at newsroom@newszap.com
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Phew!! That was one interesting episode of Bigg Boss 12, don't you think? Well, most of you will agree. After Jasleen Matharu refused to sacrifice all her clothes and makeup for Anup Jalota in yesterday's task, he announced to the housemates in today's episode that he wants to continue the game without his jodidaar. Jasleen's decision has surely not gone down well with her joddaar and this statement by her partner is proof. Jasleen Matharu breaks down after listening to Anup Jalota's decision and keeps no stone unturned to convince him otherwise. But Anup Jalota was adamant with his decision to continue the game as an individual. He told Jasleen that he is hurt with her "selfish" behavior, hence decided to break all ties. Dipika Kakar comes to Jasleen's rescue but none could change Anup Jalota's decision.
Saba Khan was taken hostage by team singles and Sreesanth was the one negotiating terms on the behalf of his team. Sreesanth asked Somi to destroy her clothes and get a pixie cut, so that she could save her sister. Somi successfully re-negotiates the terms with Sreesanth and is able to win back her sister. Karanvir Bohra will also demand for similar sacrifices to let go Deepak Thakur's jodidaar Urvashi Vani. Like a true partner, he sacrifices his tresses for Urvashi and wins the task.
Things turned rather bitter when Srishty Rode was negotiating deal with Shivashish Mishra. Not being able to take Shivashish's harsh words, Srishty will release his jodidaar Sourabh Mehta. Srishty also breaks down after listening to Shivashish's remark.


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Q: Increment a counter in database SQLite I'm doing a project on estimote shoe sticker and I'm now doing database for the sticker. My issue is now how to set counter in database sqlite. Every once the sticker is picked up or clicked, in the database it will show an increment in count. I have post the codes for database and main activity below.
NearablesDemoActivity.java
 private void displayCurrentNearableInfo() {
    stickerdb = new Database_sticker(this);
    dbRow = stickerdb.getResult(currentNearable.identifier);
    dbRow.getId();
    dbRow.getIdentifier();
    count = stickerdb.getCount(currentNearable.identifier);
    dbRow.getCount();

    String desc = dbRow.getDesc().toString();
    dbRow.getCa().toString();
    dbRow.getSa().toString();
    String coo = dbRow.getCoo().toString();
    String sm = dbRow.getSm().toString();
    String price = dbRow.getPrice().toString();

    //Set the text to the TextView
    Desc.setText(desc);
    COO.setText(coo);
    SM.setText(sm);
    Price.setText("$" + price);
}

Database_sticker.java
public int getCount(String identifier) {
    String countQuery = "UPDATE" + TABLE_SRESULT + " SET " + KEY_COUNT + "=" + KEY_COUNT + "+1"
            + " WHERE " + KEY_IDENTIFIER + "='" + identifier + "'";
    SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
    Cursor cursor = db.rawQuery(countQuery, null);
    if(cursor != null && !cursor.isClosed()){
        cursor.close();
    }
    return cursor.getCount();
}

public Sresult getResult(String identifier) {
    String selectQuery = "SELECT * FROM " + TABLE_SRESULT + " WHERE " + KEY_IDENTIFIER + "='" + identifier + "'";
    SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();   //open database
    Cursor cursor = db.rawQuery(selectQuery, null);
    //looping through all rows and adding to list
    Sresult sresult = new Sresult();
    if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
        do {
            sresult.setId(Integer.parseInt(cursor.getString(0)));
            sresult.setIdentifier(cursor.getString(1));
            sresult.setDesc(cursor.getString(2));
            sresult.setSa(cursor.getString(3));
            sresult.setCa(cursor.getString(4));
            sresult.setCoo(cursor.getString(5));
            sresult.setSm(cursor.getString(6));
            sresult.setPrice(Float.parseFloat(cursor.getString(7)));
            sresult.setCount(Integer.parseInt(cursor.getString(8)));
        } while (cursor.moveToNext());
    }
    return sresult;
}

ListNearablesActivity.java
beaconManager.setNearableListener(new BeaconManager.NearableListener() {
            @Override
            public void onNearablesDiscovered(List<Nearable> nearables) {
                toolbar.setSubtitle("Found shoes: " + nearables.size());
                adapter.replaceWith(nearables);
                for (Nearable nearable : nearables) {
                    if (nearable.isMoving) {
                        try {
                            Class<?> clazz = Class.forName(getIntent().getStringExtra(EXTRAS_TARGET_ACTIVITY));
                            Intent intent = new Intent(ListNearablesActivity.this, clazz);
                            intent.putExtra(EXTRAS_NEARABLE, adapter.getItem(nearables.indexOf(nearable)));
                            startActivity(intent);
                        } //close for try
                        catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                            Log.e(TAG, "Finding class by name failed", e);
                        } //close for catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
                    }
                }
            } //for override
        });  //for beaconManager.setNearable

private AdapterView.OnItemClickListener createOnItemClickListener() {
        return new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, final int position, long id) {
                if (getIntent().getStringExtra(EXTRAS_TARGET_ACTIVITY) != null){
                    try {
                        Class<?> clazz = Class.forName(getIntent().getStringExtra(EXTRAS_TARGET_ACTIVITY));
                        Intent intent = new Intent(ListNearablesActivity.this, clazz);
                        intent.putExtra(EXTRAS_NEARABLE, adapter.getItem(position));
                        startActivity(intent);
                    } //close for try
                    catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                        Log.e(TAG, "Finding class by name failed", e);
                    } //close for catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
                } //close for getintent.getStringExtra()
            } //close for public void onitemclick
        };   //close for return new adapterview
    }  //close for private adapter

Solution
Database_sticker.java
 public int getStickerCount(String identifier) {
        String countQuery = "UPDATE " + TABLE_SRESULT + " SET " + KEY_SCOUNT + " = " + KEY_SCOUNT + "+1" + " WHERE " + KEY_IDENTIFIER + "= '" + identifier + "'";
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
        Cursor cursor = db.rawQuery(countQuery, null);
        int scount = 0;
        if (cursor.moveToFirst())
        {
            do
            {
                scount = Integer.parseInt(cursor.getString(8));
            } while(cursor.moveToNext());
        }
        return scount; }

A: For incrementing value by one in counter , you need to fire UPDATE query to Table.
Like below :
UPDATE "Your tablename"
SET "counter column name"= "counter column name"+ 1
WHERE id= "pass your reference id";

Hope it will help you.

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Home > Blog > 2017 > June
Texas Values Cheers Gov. Abbott's Signing of County Clerk Freedom Bill As 'Great First Step'
by texasvalues
Topic: Press Releases , Religious Liberty , Texas Legislature
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill Monday that includes language giving County Clerks the freedom to leave their names off marriage licenses and marriage applications.
HB 555 is a bill pertaining to marriage license applications authored by Rep. Drew Springer and was amended to include language stating that a county can "allow, but may not require" County Clerks to have their names appear on a marriage license application and the County Clerk's name may be left off the marriage license.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overruled state laws on marriage in 2015, numerous County Clerks have faced difficulty and even jail time after objecting to certain marriages on religious grounds, such as Rowan County, Ky., County Clerk Kim Davis.
"County Clerks should not go to jail because of their beliefs on marriage. There should be no religious tests to work for the government. Now this scenario will become less likely in Texas – and that's a good thing," said Jonathan Saenz, President of Texas Values. "HB 555 is a great first step, and we now hope the Texas Legislature will build on this success with specific and comprehensive religious liberty protections for our County Clerks, as well as Justices of the Peace and other magistrates. We look forward to working with the Governor on this very important religious liberty issue moving forward."
HB 555 goes into effect Sept. 1.
In the regular session, Texas Values supported and promoted SB 522 by Sen. Brian Birdwell, which gave County Clerks with religious conscience objections the right to not only refuse to sign a marriage license and leave their name off of it, but to defer all marriage license-related duties (including administering an oath, certifying the application, issuing the license, etc.) to someone else in county government anywhere in the state when necessary. Numerous County Clerks and Justices of the Peace presented testimony on this bill in legislative committees. SB 522 passed the Senate but died in the House.
With bipartisan support in the House and Senate, the HB 555 was amended to include language similar to SB 911 by Sen. Joan Huffman. Texas Values also supported SB 911 during the regular legislative session as part of an effort to address a portion of the threat under which many County Clerks and Justices of the Peace operate because of their religious beliefs on marriage.
Tags: greg abbott, HB 555, Joan Huffman, Kim Davis, SB 522, Senator Brian Birdwell


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Linhares ist eine Gemeinde (Freguesia) im portugiesischen Kreis Celorico da Beira. In ihr leben  Einwohner (Stand ). Linhares gehört zu den zwölf historischen Dörfern, den Aldeias Históricas.

Geografie
Auf etwa 800 Metern Höhe am Rand des Naturparks der Serra da Estrela gelegen, ist der Ort etwa 15 km von der Kreisstadt Celorico da Beira entfernt.

Geschichte
Vermutlich gründeten keltiberische Turdulen den Ort im 6. Jahrhundert vor Christus. Im Westgotenreich hieß er Lenio oder Leniobriga und war ein Bischofssitz. Nachdem er lange in arabischem Besitz war, eroberte König Alfons III. im Jahr 900 Linhares, das danach wieder von den Arabern zurückerobert wurde. Erst Portugals erster König, D.Afonso Henriques nahm ihnen den Ort endgültig an und gab ihm 1169 seine ersten Stadtrechte (Foral). Bereits als Linhares bekannt, von dem hier in großer Zahl angebauten und verarbeiteten Linho (dt.: Leinen), wurde das Gebiet mehrmals vom Königreich León angegriffen, jedoch ohne je dauerhaft erobert werden zu können. Angesichts der anhaltenden Invasionsgefahr baute König D.Dinis die Festung bis 1291 stark aus. Grund war die strategisch bedeutende Lage des Ortes gegen drohende Invasionen am Tal des Mondego, durch den zudem Handelswege zwischen Kastilien und Porto und Lissabon verliefen, aber auch Wege der Jakobspilger entlang den alten römischen Straßen.

1510 erneuerte König Manuel I. die Stadtrechte. 1576 wurde in der ehemaligen Pilgerherberge ein Krankenhaus der Santa Casa de Misericórdia eingerichtet, und der Ort nahm auch in kultureller Hinsicht Aufschwung. So wirkten hier u. a. Grão Vasco und der flämische Maler Frei Carlos. Nach dem Restaurationskrieg und der wiederhergestellten Unabhängigkeit des Landes 1640 nahm die Bedeutung des Ortes ab. Linhares behielt dabei, als einer der wenigen Orte der Region, die von den Lusitaniern ererbte Tradition der gemeinschaftlichen Versammlungen als Teil der örtlichen Selbstverwaltung und Allmenden bei.

Bis 1855 war Linhares Sitz eines eigenständigen Kreises, um seither zum Kreis von Celorico da Beiro zu gehören und seinen Status als Vila (Kleinstadt) zu verlieren. Der Ort verlor weiter an Bedeutung und geriet zunehmend in Vergessenheit, bis er in den 1980er Jahren unter Freunden des Paraglidings bekannt wurde. 1994 erhielt der Ort, dank seiner historischen Bedeutung und seiner vielfältigen und gut erhaltenen Bausubstanz, eine Qualifizierung als Aldeia Histórica (dt.: historisches Dorf), und wurde 1998 in das neugeschaffene Programm der Aldeias Históricas de Portugal aufgenommen. Der Fremdenverkehr hat seither an Bedeutung gewonnen, wobei er nicht auf Massentourismus, sondern auf Naturtourismus (Wandern, Paragliding u. a.) und Turismo rural ausgerichtet ist. So unterhält die Inatel hier ein Haus mit 26 Zimmern.

2011 besuchte Jancis Robinson, die bekannte britische Weinkritikerin, den Ort, und bezeichnete ihn als mystisch.

Kultur, Sport und Sehenswürdigkeiten
Unter seinen 28 denkmalgeschützten Bauwerken sind eine Reihe Herrenhäuser, Brunnenanlagen, Kirchen und frühere öffentliche Gebäude, vor allem aus dem 16. Jahrhundert und zum Teil mit manuelinischen Fenstern. Neben Bauwerken des jüdischen Lebens im Ort sind insbesondere zu nennen die Reste der römischen Straße, die romanisch-gotische Burganlage aus dem 12. Jahrhundert, und die aus dem 11. Jahrhundert stammende Gemeindekirche (Igreja Paroquial)  Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Assunção, die nach verschiedenen Erweiterungen romanische, manieristische und barocke Elemente zeigt, und in ihrem Inneren Wandgemälde und vergoldete (Talha Dorada) Altarretabel und Kassettendecken birgt.

Am Miradouro Virtual (dt.: Virtueller Aussichtspunkt) kann man neben der Aussicht auch einen virtuellen Stadtrundgang und Filme und Texte abrufen. Am Photomaton können Fotos mit virtuellen historischen Hintergrundprojektionen gemacht werden.

Es gibt hier einen Paragliding-Simulator, und eine Paragliding-Schule. Auch internationale Paragliding-Veranstaltungen finden hier statt, etwa die Paragliding World Cup Portugal 2010.

Im Festungsturm ist ein Tourismusbüro untergebracht. Verschiedene Wander- und Radwanderwege sind im Gemeindegebiet angelegt.

Weblinks

 Offizielle Website
 Website der Aldeias Históricas, mit Informationen zu Linhares (port., span., engl.)

Einzelnachweise

Celorico da Beira


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Buy your holiday cookies and bakery at these sales across southeastern Wisconsin
Elaine Rewolinski
Impress your guests with fancy holiday treats. Sales of homemade cookies and bakery items are scheduled all over the Milwaukee area and beyond, but act quickly, pre-orders and payment are required for some. Here are a few, in date order:
St. Aidan's Episcopal Church: Christmas Cookie Sale, order and prepay by Dec. 1. Mixed cookies $8 a pound; decorated sugar cookies $12 per bakers dozen. Available for curbside pickup Dec. 12 at 670 E. Monroe Ave., Hartford. Call Linda, (262) 442-3364.
St. Paul Lutheran School: The eighth-grade class is selling assorted homemade Christmas cookies, order by Dec. 1. Box of assorted cookies $10 for 2 dozen. Pickup dates are Dec. 12-13. 701 Washington St. (Highway 60), Grafton. Order using online form. stpaulslutheran.net
Elmbrook Historical Society: Holiday Bake Sale, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 5; 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 6. Dousman Stagecoach Inn Museum, 1075 Pilgrim Parkway, Brookfield. elmbrookhistoricalsociety.org
Genesee Town Hall: Cookies with Santa Bake Sale, noon-4 p.m. Dec. 5. All proceeds benefit Town of Genesee Parks. S43-W31391 Highway 83, Genesee Depot.
Historic Third Ward: Cookie Sale, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 5 at the mid-block park on the 200 block of Broadway. Wear your mask and support Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southeastern Wisconsin. All cookie sales benefit a family in need this holiday season. Cash only. Live holiday entertainment by Cole Heinrich and Amanda Hull.
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church: Greek Pastry Holiday Sale, order deadline is Dec. 7. The Ladies Philoptochos Society is selling the same Greek pastries as found at Greek Fest, including, kourambiethes, koulouria, almond cookies, baklava, kataifi and diples. Pickup on Dec. 12-13 at the Cultural Center, 9400 W. Congress St., Wauwatosa. Pre-order online at: annunciation-bake-sale.square.site/
Wisconsin State Fair: Curbside chocolate cream puffs, cookies and bakery sale, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 11-12; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 13. Pre-order limited edition Cocoa Cream Puffs, peppermint brownies and chocolate chip cookies by Dec. 6, for best selection and price discount. Enter through Gate 5, at 640 S. 84th St., West Allis. Order online at: wistatefair.com/wsfp/event/cocoa-cream-puffs/
All Saints Lutheran Church: Christmas Cookie Sale & More, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Dec. 12. Cookies, chili, Christmas decorations and more. 9131 S. Howell Ave., Oak Creek. (414) 762-5111.
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 449: Cookie Walk, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Dec. 13. Proceeds fund projects benefiting veterans and military families. 3425 N. 124th St., Brookfield.
St. Mary and St. Antonious Coptic Orthodox Church: "Taste of Egypt" Christmas cookie sale with curbside pickup from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 12-13. Traditional Egyptian cookies, baklava and more. Order online and select a time for pickup. 1521 W. Drexel Ave., Oak Creek. wiscopts.net
St. Stephen Parish: Christmas Holiday Sweet Shoppe, after all masses Dec. 12 and 13. 1441 W. Oakwood Road, Oak Creek. (414) 762-0552.
If you know of other Cookie Sales that are not listed here, please contact us at jsfeat@journalsentinel.com
RELATED:Here's where you can see holiday tree lightings and displays in the Milwaukee area and southeastern Wisconsin
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The Complicated Relationship Between Latinos and the Los Angeles Dodgers
A new Smithsonian book and an upcoming exhibition, '¡Pleibol!,' recounts the singular importance of baseball in Latino history and culture
Priscilla Leiva
The meteoric rise of Fernando Valenzuela, a left-handed pitcher (above: a monument at Dodger Stadium) from the rural town of Etchohuaquila in Sonora, Mexico, won the hearts of Latina and Latino audiences Ken Lund, flickr
Since the 1970s, Los Desterrados, meaning "The Uprooted," have annually convened at their childhood stomping grounds right outside of the gates of Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium. These reunions are an opportunity for families to reminisce about the old neighborhood—these are the communities of Palo Verde, La Loma and Bishop—together known as Chavez Ravine.
The families had moved into the area in the 1910s during a time when restrictive housing covenants prevented Mexicans from living elsewhere in the city. Soon, however, with stores, a school, a church and salon, they created a self-sufficient community.
¡Pleibol! En los barrios y las grandes ligas
The extraordinary stories of Latinas and Latinos, alongside the artifacts of their remarkable lives, demonstrate the historic role baseball has played as a social and cultural force within Latino communities across the nation for over a century and how Latinos in particular have influenced and changed the game.
And by the 1950s, the people of the three established neighborhoods enjoyed a vibrant community life that included fiestas and parades. Desterrados board member Alfred Zepeda remembers having three cultures:
We had the Mexican culture that our parents brought to us from Mexico, and we spoke Spanish at home and things like that. We would go outside out in the neighborhood where we would gather with the guys, and it was a Chicano culture, which was different. They spoke half Spanish, half English and, you know, the music was rock n' roll and rhythm and blues and stuff like that. And then we walked a mile or two miles down, and then we were in the American culture. Everything would change, and we would go into a different world.
Today, they gather outside Dodger Stadium, because their homes and community are now buried beneath it. Before their neighborhoods were flattened to make way for Dodger Stadium, Mexican American youth roamed the hills of Chavez Ravine and spent their days playing games, including baseball.
A few months before the Los Angeles Dodgers broke ground for their stadium, Los Angeles sheriff's deputies forcibly evicted families from their Chavez Ravine homes with television crews broadcasting the two-hour melee across the nation. Miller/USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images
It was during the summer of 1950, when nearly 1,100 families of Chavez Ravine received notice from the Los Angeles Housing Authority that their homes would be torn down for the construction of a public housing project. The city had designated their neighborhoods as "blighted," a term used most often to condemn areas predominantly occupied by racial and ethnic minorities. When residents organized and resisted, the city of Los Angeles invoked eminent domain against them, allowing the seizure of private property for public use.
A baseball letterman sweater is held in the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Chavez Ravine resident ball player Richard Martinez lettered in the sport at Lincoln High School. NMAH
But shortly afterwards, the city scrapped the housing project, and in 1957, it negotiated a deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers to build a modern concrete stadium in Chavez Ravine at the edge of downtown Los Angeles.
Two years later and a few months before the Los Angeles Dodgers broke ground for their stadium, Los Angeles sheriff's deputies came to the home of one family, the Arechigas, to forcibly evict them. Television crews arrived and the two-hour melee was broadcasted across the nation. In one shocking scene, sheriffs carried Aurora Vargas out of her home against her will, reopening the deep wounds of racism that for some residents have reverberated over the decades.
Before their neighborhoods were flattened to make way for Dodger Stadium (above), Mexican American youth roamed the hills of Chavez Ravine and spent their days playing games, including baseball. Wikimedia Commons
Even as displaced residents were working to rebuild their lives, the Dodgers began courting Latino and Latina fans. In 1959, the team became the first to broadcast their games on the radio in Spanish, hiring Ecuadorian Jaime Jarrín as the team's radio announcer.
Jarrín's broadcasts brought the game into Latino homes throughout Southern California and northern Mexico; his dramatic play-by-play narrated every pivotal moment. By 1970, Jarrín had become the first Latino to win the industry's prestigious Golden Mic Award, and in 2018 he was inducted into the Ring of Honor at Dodger Stadium.
Complementing Jarrín's popularity was the meteoric rise of Fernando Valenzuela, a left-handed pitcher from the rural town of Etchohuaquila in Sonora, Mexico, who also won the hearts of Latina and Latino audiences.
In 1959, the team became the first to broadcast their games on the radio in Spanish, hiring Ecuadorian Jaime Jarrín as the team's radio announcer Wikimedia Commons
When Valenzuela took the mound on opening day in 1981, he caught the nation by surprise with his signature screwball pitch—which he'd learned from his Mexican American teammate Bobby Castillo—to win in a shutout against the defending division champions the Houston Astros. Valenzuela would go on to win his next seven starts. He had arrived as an unknown immigrant on the team, but he would dominate the game, inspiring LA's Latino audiences, who represented 27 percent of county's population.
Hanging on to announcer Jarrín's every word, they soon began calling their team "Los Doyers."
No one could have predicted Valenzuela's popularity and with the steady rise of "Fernandomania" creating pride, droves of Latinas and Latinos—including some of the children of Los Desterrados—came to the stadium to witness the ascension of someone like them to greatness.
When Fernando Valenzuela took the mound on opening day in 1981, he caught the nation by surprise with his signature screwball pitch. Wikimedia Commons
According to Jaime Jarrín, only eight to ten percent of the audience at Dodger Stadium were Latino before Valenzuela took the mound. Fernandomania changed the face of the stadium for decades to come. Together, Valenzuela and Jarrín transformed Latinos into Dodgers fans, and by 2015, 2.1 million of the 3.9 million fans attending Dodger games were Latino.
These layered histories have made Chavez Ravine a central site of Latino life across the region—a site of injustice that demands reflection, and in a space where they fought for pride and dignity long before the Dodgers moved west.
This essay by Priscilla Leiva, an assistant professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, was adapted from ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas by Margaret N. Salazar-Porzio and Adrian Burgos Jr. Leiva has served as advisor to the Smithsonian's upcoming exhibition, opening April 1, 2021 at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
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Posted: Wednesday 18th October 2017 in Events and Awards, News.
Are you ready to 'product cast'? Do you want to maximise the profits from your product feed?
The event will be hosted at Summit's home in central London (12 Golden Square, Soho, W1F 9JE). The Summit Square is a great place to meet like minded individuals, and network with peers over a glass of wine and some nibbles.
The event starts at 6.00pm with an hour of content from 7 – 8pm and networking until the close at 9.30pm.


Empty Plates, Empty Stomachs – food banks across the country are raising awareness about hunger in their communities.
Hunger Action Month™, which takes place each September, is a time when people all over America stand with the Feeding America nationwide network of food banks to fight hunger. Alongside all 200 Feeding America network food banks, we commemorate Hunger Action Month by spreading the word about hunger in our communities, volunteering, advocating, donating and helping raise awareness about hunger.
Check out some of the unique ways that food banks are honoring the fight across the country.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County created a Hunger Action Hero named Hope for Hunger Action Month. Through their superhero, Hope, they are reminding their community that you don't need superpowers to be someone's hero.
To see more, check out the food bank's photo album on Facebook.
Buildings all over the country are being lit up orange in support of Hunger Action Month!
Second Harvest Heartland food bank, in Maplewood, Minnesota, coordinated for 10 landmarks across the Twin Cities to be lit up orange to raise awareness for hunger.
The Greater Boston Food Bank also worked to light up several buildings in Boston.
And in Chicago, the Merchandise Mart lit up orange to commemorate Hunger Action Day.
Hurricane Irma didn't stop the Feeding South Florida food bank from telling people about hunger within their community. All month long the local community has been working extremely hard to help those struggling with hunger in Florida. To get into the Hunger Action Month spirit, they hosted a pep rally at Miami Arts Studio joined by the Miami Marlins!
The Foodlink food bank installed 156 orange plates on its front lawn, each representing 1,000 people who live within their community who face hunger. There are 156 plates for the 156,000 people in their region who often don't know when or where they will get their next meal.
Watch a time-lapse video of this being made.
It's easy for you to participate in Hunger Action Month! Tell us how you will fight to end hunger — then share with your friends and family.


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Q: parsing a json file without knowing it structure using only java so I have, I doing a program that receives a string json with an unknown structure (since it's a variable each time I receive a new one) and it needs to parse the string to extract each key and its type (from its value).
I need to do this using only java (no spring) because I've seen solution using Jackson tree, but with the software I'm using it impossible
If someone could help I would appreciate it.

A: You can use JSONObject from org.json library .


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Sambhal News: The groom 'kissed' the bride on the stage, the angry girl broke the marriage, the wedding procession returned
Careful: A surprising case has come to light from Sambhal in UP. A ruckus broke out during a wedding ceremony here when the groom 'kissed' the bride on the stage. Angered by the kissing of the groom, the bride refused to perform the marriage. After this, there was a lot of tu-tu-me-me in the houses and baraatis. Angry bride called the police on the spot. After this the procession had to return without the bride.
What is the whole matter?
The case is of Sambhal district of UP. Where a 23 year old graduate bride refused to accept her marriage after being garlanded. The bride told in the case that the groom kissed her on the stage in front of 300 guests due to a bet with his friends. The bride says that after this act, I doubt the character of the boy. After the bride's call, the police reached the spot, took both the parties to the police station. Where the police tried to convince both the sides but the matter did not work out.
The bride who reached the police station told that the groom first tried to touch her wrongly on the stage, which she rejected. After this the groom kissed me in front of everyone, he didn't even care about my self respect. In such a situation, what will they do with me in future…. I am afraid of this. The bride further said that's why I have decided that I will not go with it anymore.
In this case, the bride's mother said that the groom had done such an act with my girl on the stage on the advice of his friends. So now my daughter is not ready to go with the groom. The bride's mother further said that we tried hard to convince our daughter but now she is not agreeing. The bride's mother said that we have decided that we will take a few days and wait for the matter to cool down.
Talking to our associate newspaper Times of India, station in-charge Pankaj Lavania said that technically both the people have been married. Because the incident happened after all the rituals were completed. The station in-charge said that we are currently waiting for the case to cool down.
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Memo re COVID-19 Bill Changes to EPAA and LGA
The COVID-19 pandemic has signalled a time of unprecedented uncertainty which, as we have seen over the last few weeks, has resulted in a need for government to be extremely responsive and mobile to the constantly evolving circumstances surrounding the pandemic. We have been watching the business, legal and social communities across the world implement the ever increasing social distancing measures and it is appropriate that Australia now responds to the threat.
On 24 March 2020, the NSW Parliament passed the COVID-19 Legislation Amendment (Emergency Measures) Act 2020 (NSW) (Amendments). Its purpose is to implement urgent, temporary changes to 20 NSW Acts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Amendments commenced on 25 March 2020 and included amendments to (among others) the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) (EPA Act) and the Local Government Act 1993 (NSW) (LG Act), as well as other associated Acts.
The Amendments relate to reducing the risk of transmission by limiting unnecessary human interaction, and introducing flexibility into procedures to ensure that certain functions can continue to be carried out by Local Government and businesses during the Pandemic. This will allow government, law enforcement, business and the community to respond to changing circumstances involving COVID-19 as soon as possible.
The Amendments generally will expire anywhere between 6 and 12 months from commencement.
Local Government meetings of councils and committees are not exempted from the 'Public Health (COVID-19 Gatherings) Order 2020' as 'essential gatherings", and councils must comply with restricting gatherings in indoor spaces exceeding 100 persons.
We have prepared table with the below an overview of those amendments most relevant to the area of planning, environment and local government.
New Provisions Summary/Purpose Expiry Date
EPA Act s 10.17 Enables the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces to identify development that can be carried out without the need for any approval under the Act (subject to development standards) and allow this development to integrate back into the planning system.
The Minister may only make an order if the Minister has consulted the Minister for Health and Medical Research, and the order is necessary to protect the health, safety and welfare of the members of the public during the pandemic.
While the minister must be satisfied as to the above, these new powers are nonetheless extraordinary broad. That is, the kind of development contemplated ranges from obvious public health initiatives such as building hospitals, to more remote objectives such as extending the trading hours of essential goods and services providers. Indeed, we have already seen supermarkets and pharmacies granted permission to trade 24 hours a day pursuant to these powers.
Other examples contemplated by the Attorney General during the course of the parliamentary debate include allowing the minister to:
Approve the conversion of business and buildings and land into vital services;
Transform buildings into temporary hospitals;
Transform community centres into homeless shelters; and
Convert restaurants to dark kitchens.
6 to 12 months (as prescribed by regulations)
EPA Act s 10.18 Provides that requirements for documents to be available in hard copy or for inspection in premises can be met by being available online.
For example, s 10.18 would alter the requirement of:
s 3.45(4), which, provides that copies of Development Control Plans must be available for inspection at the principle office of the relevant planning authority that prepared the plan;
s 4.58, which requires councils to keep a register of applications for development consent, determinations etc., available for public inspection at the office of the council during ordinary office hours;
s 26(1) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 (NSW) (EPA Regs), which requires that copies of contributions plans must be available for inspection and purchase from the offices of the Department; and
s 37-38 of the EPA Regs, which requires councils to make certain documents available for inspection, including its contributions plans, annual statements and its contributions register.
This measure seeks to reduce the risk of transmission by limiting unnecessary human interaction. 6 to 12 months (as prescribed by regulations)
Subordinate Legislation Act 1989 (NSW) Schedule 5 The following regulations, which were due for repeal in 2020, will now stay in force until September 2021, unless sooner repealed.
Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000;
Local Government (General) Regulation 2005;
Local Government (Manufactured Home Estates, Caravan Parks, Camping Grounds and Moveable Dwellings) Regulation 2005;
Protection of the Environment Operations (Clean Air) Regulation 2010; and
Protection of the Environment Operations (General) Regulation 2009.
Which was scheduled for automatic repeal on 1 September 2020, to stay in force until 1 March 2021.
This will ensure that Regulations do not expire and allow time for the new replacement regulations to be made. 1 March 2021 unless repealed by Parliament sooner
Local Government Act s 318B, 318B(8) Enables the Minister for Local Government to postpone the requirements relating to the holding of ordinary council elections and by-elections if the Minister believes it is reasonable to do so. According to the NSW Office of Local Government Circular 20-10, the September 2020 local government elections will be postponed to address the risks posed by the COVID-19 virus.
This measure seeks to reduce the risk of transmission by limiting unnecessary human interaction. 12 months
Local Government Act s 747A Removes the need for persons to attend council meetings, in particular by expressly providing that Councillors can fulfil meeting attendance requirements by attending remotely. The meetings may be held remotely by audio visual link or in any other manner approved by the Minister for Local Government. A Guide to Webcasting Council and Committee Meetings is contained in Circular 20-08.
Members of the public are to be given access to the meeting by webcast or in any other manner approved by the Minister. According to Circular 20-09, if councils are not able to comply with new requirements, they should advise OLG in writing so that alternative arrangements may be considered for approval.
Local Government Act s 747B Allows for the making of regulations under the LGA to modify the application of that Act for the purposes of responding to the public health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This measure ensures that the Minister for Local Government can adapt to increasing restrictions that aim to reduce the risk of transmission, providing for flexibility should the application of the Act need to change to meet such restrictions. 6 to 12 months (as prescribed by regulations)
HWL Ebsworth is here to support its valued clients during this time of unprecedented uncertainty and will be happy to assist with your legal queries in relation to the Amendments.
This article was written by John Paul Merlino, Special Counsel, James Fyfe, Graduate at Law, Jordie Petit, Graduate at Law.
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One hundred and twenty years of agriculture almost completely destroyed the natural bush of the island. However, between 1984-1994 volunteers planted on Tiritiri approx. 300 thousand trees grown from seeds found on the island. They also re-introduced local species of birds. Now Tiritiri Matangi is entirely a scientific reserve and it's one of the greatest successes in New Zealand's nature and wildlife conservation.


An Exeter man died after being punched in the face during a row over a bottle of wine, a manslaughter trial has heard.
Antony Moore, 40, was felled by a single blow from Guy Pottle, 31, outside Tesco Metro in the centre of the city.
On the first day of his trial at Exeter Crown Court the jury watched CCTV of the strike which sent Mr Moore crashing to the ground, his head hitting the concrete pavement and suffering a fractured skull.
He died nine days later in hospital from brain injuries.
Pottle, who was homeless at the time, denies manslaughter saying he acted in self defence. He told police he felt threatened by Mr Moore, who was known as 'Nobby' by his friends, and struck out 'on the spur of the moment'.
But the prosecution say he acted in anger and with a level of violence that was out of all proportion to the circumstances.
One witnessed described it as 'the baddest punch I've ever seen'.
Prosecutor Mr Peter Coombe told the jury the incident happened on June 30 this year.
He said: "The undisputed evidence of this case is that the defendant punched Mr Moore in the face, knocking him to the ground and then causing him to bang his head against the floor.
"The prosecution case is that the punch was unlawful and not in self defence. As a result of banging his head against the concrete floor Mr Moore sustained serious head injuries and nine days later died.
"The prosecution say the defendant caused those injuries as a result of punching Mr Moore and as a result he's guilty of manslaughter."
The trial has cast a light on Exeter homeless and alcohol dependant residents.
The prosecutor said many of the people involved in the trial, including the defendant, victim and witnesses, share that background.
On June 30 Mr Moore and his partner, Amy Tatum, had been to the Respect Festival in Belmore Park.
Joining the small group of friends was Pottle. Mr Moore and Pottle knew one another but were not close friends.
At about 10.40pm the group were seen on CCTV walking towards Tesco Metro in Exeter High Street. They had been drinking for most of the day.
The jury was played CCTV of events leading to the punch. Pottle can be seen drinking from a bottle of wine outside the Tesco Metro. Mr Moore snatches the bottle from him and takes a drink of it.
"Pottle snatches it back and shortly after that punches Mr Moore sending him to the ground," said the prosecutor.
Mr Moore fell backwards to the ground where he lay unconscious for some moments.
Pottle walked away after a few moments with the bottle still in his hand.
Witnesses leaving Exeter's Turtle Bay restaurant in nearby Queen Street told how they found Mr Moore in the street covered in blood with a split top lip.
His girlfriend, Amy Tatum, was kneeling close by crying. Mr Moore managed to sit up and speak briefly to paramedics who were at the scene quickly.
But after being taken to hospital he suffered a heart attack and scans revealed bleeding on his brain. Doctors performed surgery but he died nine days later on July 9.
The prosecution say the medical evidence shows the injuries sustained when he hit his head caused Mr Moore's death.
When he was interviewed the next day by police Pottle initially remained silent but later said he had feared Mr Moore was about to attack him with a knife.
Mr Coombe played the jury a second installment of CCTV taken at Sainsbury's in Sidwell Street shortly before the fatal incident. Pottle is shown trying to steal a bottle and a sandwich from the store before being confronted by the manager. The footage shows him arguing, headbutting and punching the manager.
"This was the mood Pottle was in only 20 minutes before he went on to punch Mr Moore," said the prosecutor.
The jury has to decide whether or not Pottle used reasonable force in self defence when he punched Mr Moore.
"No one is saying Pottle intended to kill," said Mr Coombe. "If he did there would be a much more serious charge of murder."
Later the jury heard from Ms Tatum who said she had told Pottle to leave after seeing him punch Mr Moore.
She said Pottle had been looking at her 'weird' way all day at the festival and believed he was 'hitting' on her.
Mr Lee Bremridge, defending, suggested to her that Mr Moore had threatened Pottle moments before he was punched saying 'I'm going to do you in'.
Ms Tatum said she did not hear those words but agreed he shouted something 'in the face' of Pottle.
Another witness, John Bradbury, told police: "There was no build up at all. He came from nowhere and banged Nobby out. It as the baddest punch I ever saw."


The Rolling Ficelle, Pollack Ficelle ($8.50). The Pollack is a nicely rounded sandwich consisting of slow-roasted pork with Swiss cheese, caramelized onions, grilled jalapeño, cilantro and lemon-garlic aioli. I loved how the tangy aioli complimented the cilantro and savory pork. The bread was really good too, with a crispy (but not hard) exterior and soft, flavorful interior. If there was any gripe it was that the meat was a little dry. But otherwise very good.
SUNdeVICH, Havana ($10). This sandwich was amazingly good, the best of the bunch. All the elements worked well together but the star, as it should be, was the roasted pork, which was among the best roasted pork I've ever had. Perfectly seasoned and in harmony with the gruyere, pickles and dijon. SUNdeVICH has a nice variety of sandwiches, and I look forward to trying some of the others.
Pepe, Pepito de Ibérico ($20). Famous chef Jose Andres made headlines when he started his D.C. food truck Pepe last summer, which offers a menu of sandwiches not dissimilar to what you can get at his Jaleo. Particular interest was generated by his audacity to offer a $20 sandwich from a food truck. The imported meats--seared ibérico pork and serrano ham--are what drives the cost. Is it worth it? It's tasty, but not $20 tasty. Served along with roasted green peppers, caramelized onion and aioli, I thought my sandwich was too greasy (take lots of napkins if you eat this on the street). Definitely not bad, but probably my least favorite of these three.
Interesting about the Jose Andres sandwich. For $20, it should be one of the most amazing sandwich experiences ever. Sorry to hear it isn't. Just goes to show that price isn't always an indicator of overall quality.
Yeah, It was a good sandwich but not the most amazing thing ever.


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Why some people with the smarts to succeed never DO
Life's been a long exciting trip, and its taken me to a lot of interesting places: law school at Yale with Hillary Rodham Clinton; speech writing at the White House for Richard Nixon; preparing stock prospectuses on Wall Street; and for the past 18 years, writing and acting in Hollywood.
I've watched many successful people at work and at play.—powerhouses such as Ron Perelman, billionaire owner of Revlon, and Norman Lear, one of television's greatest producers; actors such as Nicholas Cage, who's struggled to the top.
But, I also know many who haven't made it—–shining stars from my college years who sell shirts; computer hotshots who now deliver pizzas; former studio executives who peddle 900 phone numbers for modest pay; math geniuses who fix pipes in rotting apartment buildings. Like them, all too many people have the smarts to succeed but never do.
Why do some count their money while others curse their unpaid bills? Of course, luck has a role, sometimes. But, usually people make their own bad luck by regularly getting trapped in self-defeating attitudes and shoot-yourself-in-the-foot behavior.
Here are some of the worst traps. I call them the "Eight Habits of Really Unsuccessful People."
1- Delusional thinking
Unsuccessful people constantly lie to themselves about their own lives.
I once thought that people who were habitually dishonest couldn't be successful. Sadly, I've learned better. It's possible to succeed, at least financially, while being totally dishonest with others. But, it is absolutely impossible for people to be dishonest with themselves —–about where they are in life, what their prospects are for achieving their goals and where they fall short——and still go forward.
A neighbor of mine teaches art part time. Now that's not bad as a hobby, but it will never pay her enough to live the middle-class existence that she craves. Although she complains about how broke she is, she can't seem to understand why teaching part time won't pay a living wage.
2- Not producing
Again and again I've talked to people who fail to acquire any useful skill for which someone will pay real money. They don't understand the fundamental truth that human beings get paid for being able to do something.
And they don't understand a corollary truth: people get paid a lot for being able to do something that adds a lot of value. That means medicine or laws or songwriting or finance or something that will help others to get well or make money or enjoy themselves or learn something——-but, on a big scale.
If financial success is your goal, you have to produce or create something that—-in the real world, not only in your dreams—-others want. My father, who is an economist, taught me that all rewards in life accrue to either financial capital or human capital. Financial capital is often inherited. You have no control over that. But human capital——–i.e., a marketable skill ——-can be acquired only through training and effort. Unsuccessful people can spend their whole lives evading the truth.
3- Punishing friends
( Editor's note) Read first sentence slowly.
Unsuccessful people make a habit of being friendly and grateful to those who are unhelpful to them and disdainful and ungrateful to those who are kind to them. I see this with startling regularity. A dear, close friend of mine has had chance after chance in Hollywood, thanks to powerful friends at two different studios who long ago put him on the fast track to success. But, for almost 20 years now, he has disdained their company and put their friendship to the test while pursuing power players who treat him like a doormat. Not surprisingly, he remains directionless and debt-laden at age 47.
Losers take their friends for granted—at their own peril. Unless, you are a uniquely, unusually talented artist or athlete, there is no such thing as success without a network of friends and supporters. The inability to make and to keep friends is involved in every single failure I have ever witnessed.
4- Bad manners
Unsuccessful people are also, always rude. They fail to show up on time, to thank givers for gifts and to apologize for slights and wrongs.
I have fun, and enjoy it too, while I calculate how late my dinner guests will be using my success/lateness standard. A guest with a great job, really busy individual, with heavy-weight responsibilities will always be on time. While, someone with nothing to do all day will be very, very late or maybe not show at all. A guy with a low-level job that's going nowhere? Between 15 minutes and an hour late.
I can also predict when someone will complain about the food. If he's a failure, he'll have a condescending attitude and not thank me for the dinner. However, if he is successful in life, he'll be happy with almost anything and thank me most graciously for it.
One of my oldest, dearest, and first friends here in Hollywood had a promising career as a producer. As time went by, his career began to falter; and his slide down the pole was greased by his amazing lack of manners. This guy never thanked me for meals, passes to shows or introductions to potential employers. I finally did, what everyone who knows him did long ago: simply stopped doing anything for him.
When a player alienates everyone around him by rudeness, he stops being able to play. Maybe, billionaires and maharajahs can get away with being rude. For the majority of us, however, it's a guaranteed success killer.
5- Dressing for failure
Unsuccessful people habitually dress inappropriately. They arrive for job interviews without a tie or in running shoes. They come to dinner parties in jeans when everyone else is in suits. They may think that they're making a fashion statement. Actually, they're making a visual statement that they don't belong with the group where they are, and they have contempt for the people who do.
A really beautiful young woman I know was desperate for a job. I got her an interview—lunch with the head of a company—that prides itself on its family image. Incredibly, she showed up at the executive dining room in shorts, a T-shirt and high heeled sandals. From the moment she walked in, she had blotched the important interview—-and made me also look like a fool.
You can dress to show of what an outsider and a rebel you are—–that's fine for your teen-agers, rock bands, and Hell's Angels. OR, you can dress up to show you really belong, and get the job.
6- Bad attitudes.
The unsuccessful often have a sour, pessimistic outlook. They dislike their work and their world, and assume that everyone around them is dishonest or worse, stupid. They cast a dark pall over everything, and everyone around them, and by their own despair and utter hopelessness infect everything they become involved in.
They definitely also betray a lack of confidence in themselves—-a deep-rooted belief that they can't do much or do it well. This is almost always expressed, at every opportunity, to anyone who will listen. They don't seem to realize that they are advertising themselves as losers.
A friend of mine in Northern California is competent enough to complete a day's work. But, wherever she goes, she complains that the air conditioning is too cold or too hot. She bad-mouths her superiors, and their boss or the job. Nothing's right! She tells her colleagues that the work is a waste of time. Naturally, she's lost five jobs in two years time.
She can't get a new job now because she can't get a reference from anyone she was worked for. It's a chronic fate for chronic complainers.
7- Needless arguing
Unsuccessful people like to argue just for the sheer sake of argument——to stir the pot or to put the other guy off balance. People who start arguments may think that friends and colleagues will be impressed with how smart or clever they are. They couldn't be more mistaken.
Sam Rayburn, a famous Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said. "If you want to get along, go along." He indeed didn't mean you had too agree with everything anyone else suggested or said. But, he surely did mean that you can't aggravate other people endlessly and still expect them to help you.
People who get things done don't like to spend time arguing needlessly. If you pick fights, they will avoid you, and you will find yourself surrounded by other argumentative losers. And, that's a sure path to failure, guaranteed.
8- Putting first things last
Unsuccessful people cannot set priorities. In the nation's capital, where I grew up, there's a man I went to school with. He's tall. He's smart. He's handsome. His father is a big wheel. And he's miserable——stuck in a job as a manager of an apartment building. But, if an when, I suggest he study for the civil-service examination, he insists the just doesn't have time, that he's too busy, with hobbies. He's been telling me that now since 1966!
The real truth is, there's never enough time to do everything, even everything of genuine importance. Unsuccessful people , however, never quite learn that setting priorities is an iron-clad necessity. They also never seem to learn that it's not a sacrifice to give up things of lesser importance for those of greater importance. In fact, it's a bargain!
That's it!, end of sermon :-).
Maybe you've got some of these habits.
Remember—winners know they can change——and they do! [Retweet]
But then, you already knew that, right?
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"The Metropolitan Police Department is seeking the public's assistance in identifying and locating a person of interest in connection with an assault with the intent to commit first degree sexual assault while armed, which occurred in the 1100 block of Florida Avenue, NE.
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014, at approximately 11:10 pm, an adult female was walking in the 1100 block of Florida Avenue, NE, when she was approached from behind by an unknown male suspect. The suspect produced a handgun and forced the victim into a residence and attempted to sexually assault her. The suspect fled the scene on foot in an unknown direction.
The suspect is described as a black male, light complexion, slim build, 20 to 30 years of age, bald head, last seen wearing a grey hooded sweat shirt, and armed with a silver handgun.


MIO-ECSDE is a partner in the project proposal "BlueGreen Med-CS" which is in the process of securing the funds to be launched. It was labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean earlier in 2014. Through a capacity building programme and a small grants scheme, the project will enable NGOs to acquire skills in various areas of sustainable development. Throughout the process, the relevant public authorities will be constantly informed of and involved in the activities organised in order to strengthen the dialogue between CSOs and national authorities. It will eventually be implemented in Albania, Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia.


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Is your GPS navigator a friend or foe?
January 12, 2010 — 4.54pm
"Karen" is lying to you.
Perhaps lying is too strong a word; Karen just isn't taking a direct approach.
Advice check ... Many GPS users will have an "oops" story to tell. Credit:Craig Sillitoe
Follow her advice, and where does it get you? Stuck on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere.
Karen isn't real, of course, she's just a pre-recorded voice on a Global Positioning System unit.
But a surprising number of people check their common sense at the car door when they turn on their units and drive away.
"People have become over-reliant on the units and in some cases, misunderstand the rules of use," says psychologist Colin Ellard, author of the book, .
Almost anyone who has used a GPS unit - be it Garmin, Magellan, TomTom, portable or built into a car's dash - has an "oops" story to tell.
GPS can be a godsend on the family trip up the coast but from time to time can also provide inexplicably awful directions.
"I don't think there is a big learning curve. It's more often a matter of people putting blind faith into a device without doing some very, very basic double-checking," says Tim Flight, founder of the GPSReview.net website, which rates units and provides consumer forums and trend news.
"Even today when I put an address into a GPS and hit 'OK,' I still check the review function to say 'yeah, this looks reasonable."'
"It's near nothing," says Flight, who appreciates accurate directions while driving a snowy, mountainous landscape.
Recent events in the US would support his concern.
In Oregon, there were at least three incidents of motorists stranded in the drifts, most notably that of Jeramie Griffin, his companion, Megan Garrison, and their toddler.
The family, using a portable GPS Griffin received as a Christmas present, tried a "shortcut" across the Cascade Range and got stuck on a snowy local road for 24 hours before being rescued.
They carried no paper maps in the car, and their mobile phones were out of signal range.
GPS is a high-tech wonder, say experts, but they don't replace backup directions and common sense.
"There is still a lot of misconception out there as to how GPS works and what it does do," Flight says.
"A lot of people believe all of the data and maps and pictures are downloaded in real time, and as soon as a new road is created, it's automatically beamed down to their devices."
GPS was developed by the US Department of Defence. About 30 satellites - solar-powered, with backup batteries - were launched into orbit between 1978 and 1994.
Not all operate at the same time, and the satellites must be replaced when they wear out.
Using latitude, longitude and altitude as markers, signals are beamed to receiving stations on earth.
Although consumer-grade GPS signals were available under the original design, they were scrambled and therefore only accurate to within 100 meters.
"It got you in the ballpark, but not where you needed to be," says Flight, adding that today's consumer-grade signals are no longer scrambled and are "95 per cent" accurate.
But GPS is only as strong as the most reliable maps, and manufacturers say consumers should download the most recent versions at least every other year.
Sometimes, when good GPS units give bad directions, people just don't want to believe that "Karen" - or whatever name they've bestowed on their talking navigation systems - is leading them astray.
Wasting time while lost is one thing, being led into danger quite another.
In Great Britain, Robert Jones refused to change course after his GPS instructed him to drive up a cliff-side path last year.
Running into a fence stopped him from plunging 30 metres down the side, but he was convicted of "driving without due care and attention" and fined almost $US3200 ($3435).
Part of that went toward paying for the nine-hour operation to get his car removed from the cliff.
"Part of it is because of that underlying weakness many of us have, where we are all too willing to surrender to this wonderful machine," says Ellard, a professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
He says it's fine to use GPS - backed by other sources of information - but it's also important to practice "being in the here and now".
One of the concepts addressed in his book involves humans' loss of orientation skills as they moved into cities.
But even he has known the sting of GPS betrayal.
Driving back to Ontario after visiting his brother in central Ohio, he and the family decided it might be fun to follow the programmed directions.
It wasn't until some time later they realised it had been set to avoid toll roads.
"The only way to get to Canada doing that is to drive about an extra 400 miles. We realised we were being led to northern Michigan."
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