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Numbers Chapters 17-20: Leaders' Accountability to God
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Welcome to PRS.work, a video series that helps us hear the Bible together at work. In this video you'll hear a brief introduction, a Psalm read as an opening prayer, a long passage from the Bible, and a commentary about what this means for work, workers, and the workplace. When the video ends you can discuss how this applies to your work.
Today's Public Reading of Scripture comes from the fourth book of the Bible, Numbers. The book continues the story of the Hebrew people after their exodus from slavery in Egypt. God brings them to Mt. Sinai, and he enters into a covenant with them there. Despite their rebellion, God provides a way for the people to live near his holy presence in the tabernacle.
But the people do not react with gratitude. They complain about hunger and thirst, longing to return to Egypt. Moses, too fails to acknowledge God's provision. Instead of relying on God to bring water from a stone, Moses strikes the rock with his staff.
When the people are halfway to the promised land, they become afraid that the Canaanites living there will destroy them. They start planning a mutiny to appoint a new leader and return to Egypt. God is angry with the people for their lack of faith, just as he was angry with Moses for his failure to rely on God.
In the end Moses intercedes on behalf of the people. God is faithful to his promises to Abraham, but not at the expense of his justice. God sentences Moses and the Israelites to wander in the wilderness for forty years until they die. Only their children will get to enter the promised land.
Before hearing and reading along to a dramatic recording of Numbers chapters 17-20, we will open with Psalm 101 in prayer.
A Psalm of David
I will sing of mercy and justice;
To You, O Lord, I will sing praises.
2 I will behave wisely in a perfect way.
Oh, when will You come to me?
I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
3 I will set nothing wicked before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not cling to me.
4 A perverse heart shall depart from me;
I will not know wickedness.
5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor,
Him I will destroy;
The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart,
Him I will not endure.
6 My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land,
That they may dwell with me;
He who walks in a perfect way,
He shall serve me.
7 He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house;
He who tells lies shall not continue in my presence.
8 Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
That I may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.
Numbers 17
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and get from them a rod from each father's house, all their leaders according to their fathers' houses—twelve rods. Write each man's name on his rod. 3 And you shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi. For there shall be one rod for the head of each father's house. 4 Then you shall place them in the tabernacle of meeting before the Testimony, where I meet with you. 5 And it shall be that the rod of the man whom I choose will blossom; thus I will rid Myself of the complaints of the children of Israel, which they make against you."
6 So Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and each of their leaders gave him a rod apiece, for each leader according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. 7 And Moses placed the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness.
8 Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses went into the tabernacle of witness, and behold, the rod of Aaron, of the house of Levi, had sprouted and put forth buds, had produced blossoms and yielded ripe almonds. 9 Then Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord to all the children of Israel; and they looked, and each man took his rod.
10 And the Lord said to Moses, "Bring Aaron's rod back before the Testimony, to be kept as a sign against the rebels, that you may put their complaints away from Me, lest they die." 11 Thus did Moses; just as the Lord had commanded him, so he did.
12 So the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, "Surely we die, we perish, we all perish! 13 Whoever even comes near the tabernacle of the Lord must die. Shall we all utterly die?"
Then the Lord said to Aaron: "You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear the iniquity related to the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity associated with your priesthood. 2 Also bring with you your brethren of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be joined with you and serve you while you and your sons are with you before the tabernacle of witness. 3 They shall attend to your needs and all the needs of the tabernacle; but they shall not come near the articles of the sanctuary and the altar, lest they die—they and you also. 4 They shall be joined with you and attend to the needs of the tabernacle of meeting, for all the work of the tabernacle; but an outsider shall not come near you. 5 And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the altar, that there may be no more wrath on the children of Israel. 6 Behold, I Myself have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel; they are a gift to you, given by the Lord, to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting. 7 Therefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything at the altar and behind the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood to you as a gift for service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death."
8 And the Lord spoke to Aaron: "Here, I Myself have also given you charge of My heave offerings, all the holy gifts of the children of Israel; I have given them as a portion to you and your sons, as an ordinance forever. 9 This shall be yours of the most holy things reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering and every sin offering and every trespass offering which they render to Me, shall be most holy for you and your sons. 10 In a most holy place you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.
11 "This also is yours: the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them to you, and your sons and daughters with you, as an ordinance forever. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.
12 "All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and the grain, their firstfruits which they offer to the Lord, I have given them to you. 13 Whatever first ripe fruit is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.
14 "Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.
15 "Everything that first opens the womb of all flesh, which they bring to the Lord, whether man or beast, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem. 16 And those redeemed of the devoted things you shall redeem when one month old, according to your valuation, for five shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 17 But the firstborn of a cow, the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and burn their fat as an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the Lord. 18 And their flesh shall be yours, just as the wave breast and the right thigh are yours.
19 "All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as an ordinance forever; it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord with you and your descendants with you."
20 Then the Lord said to Aaron: "You shall have no inheritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
21 "Behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work which they perform, the work of the tabernacle of meeting. 22 Hereafter the children of Israel shall not come near the tabernacle of meeting, lest they bear sin and die. 23 But the Levites shall perform the work of the tabernacle of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute forever, throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 24 For the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer up as a heave offering to the Lord, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, 'Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.' "
25 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 26 "Speak thus to the Levites, and say to them: 'When you take from the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it to the Lord, a tenth of the tithe. 27 And your heave offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor and as the fullness of the winepress. 28 Thus you shall also offer a heave offering to the Lord from all your tithes which you receive from the children of Israel, and you shall give the Lord's heave offering from it to Aaron the priest. 29 Of all your gifts you shall offer up every heave offering due to the Lord, from all the best of them, the consecrated part of them.' 30 Therefore you shall say to them: 'When you have lifted up the best of it, then the rest shall be accounted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor and as the produce of the winepress. 31 You may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your work in the tabernacle of meeting. 32 And you shall bear no sin because of it, when you have lifted up the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy gifts of the children of Israel, lest you die.' "
Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 2 "This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying: 'Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which a yoke has never come. 3 You shall give it to Eleazar the priest, that he may take it outside the camp, and it shall be slaughtered before him; 4 and Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood seven times directly in front of the tabernacle of meeting. 5 Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight: its hide, its flesh, its blood, and its offal shall be burned. 6 And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the fire burning the heifer. 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, he shall bathe in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp; the priest shall be unclean until evening. 8 And the one who burns it shall wash his clothes in water, bathe in water, and shall be unclean until evening. 9 Then a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and store them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for the water of purification; it is for purifying from sin. 10 And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. It shall be a statute forever to the children of Israel and to the stranger who dwells among them.
11 'He who touches the dead body of anyone shall be unclean seven days. 12 He shall purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean. 13 Whoever touches the body of anyone who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. That person shall be cut off from Israel. He shall be unclean, because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him; his uncleanness is still on him.
14 'This is the law when a man dies in a tent: All who come into the tent and all who are in the tent shall be unclean seven days; 15 and every open vessel, which has no cover fastened on it, is unclean. 16 Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
17 'And for an unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin, and running water shall be put on them in a vessel. 18 A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave. 19 The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, wash his clothes, and bathe in water; and at evening he shall be clean.
20 'But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean. 21 It shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water of purification shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water of purification shall be unclean until evening. 22 Whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the person who touches it shall be unclean until evening.' "
Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there and was buried there.
2 Now there was no water for the congregation; so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron. 3 And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: "If only we had died when our brethren died before the Lord! 4 Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our animals should die here? 5 And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink." 6 So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and they fell on their faces. And the glory of the Lord appeared to them.
7 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 8 "Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals." 9 So Moses took the rod from before the Lord as He commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?" 11 Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.
12 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them."
13 This was the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the Lord, and He was hallowed among them.
14 Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. "Thus says your brother Israel: 'You know all the hardship that has befallen us, 15 how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers. 16 When we cried out to the Lord, He heard our voice and sent the Angel and brought us up out of Egypt; now here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border. 17 Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells; we will go along the King's Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.' "
18 Then Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword."
19 So the children of Israel said to him, "We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more."
20 Then he said, "You shall not pass through." So Edom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand. 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.
22 Now the children of Israel, the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor. 23 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor by the border of the land of Edom, saying: 24 "Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the water of Meribah. 25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor; 26 and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; for Aaron shall be gathered to his people and die there." 27 So Moses did just as the Lord commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. 28 Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. 29 Now when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.
Now we'll take a moment to reflect silently on what we have just read and heard in Scripture.
Leaders' Accountability to God
From the Theology of Work Bible Commentary on Numbers
Moses' moment of greatest failure came amidst opposition to his leadership. The people of Israel were complaining about food and water. Moses and Aaron decided to bring the complaint to the Lord. God told them to take their staff, and in the people's presence command a rock to yield water.
"The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and your brother Aaron, and command the rock before their eyes to yield its water. Thus you shall bring water out of the rock for them; thus you shall provide drink for the congregation and their livestock." (Numbers 20:7-8)
Moses did as the Lord instructed but added two flourishes of his own. First, he rebuked the people, saying, "Listen, you rebels, shall we bring water for you out of this rock?" (Numbers 20:10). Then Moses struck the rock twice with his staff. Water poured out in abundance, but the Lord was displeased with Moses' actions.
God's punishment was harsh. "Because you did not trust in me, to show my holiness before the eyes of the Israelites, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them" (Numbers 20:12). Moses and Aaron, like all the people who had earlier rebelled against God, were not permitted to enter the Promised Land.
Scholars argue about the exact action Moses was punished for. But the text names the underlying offense, "You did not trust in me" (Numbers 20:12). Moses' leadership faltered in the crucial moment when he stopped trusting God and started acting on his own impulses.
Honoring God in leadership—as all Christian leaders in every sphere must attempt to do—is a terrifying responsibility. Whether we lead a business, a classroom, a relief organization, or a household, we must be careful not to mistake our authority for God's. What can we do to keep ourselves in obedience to God? Meeting regularly with an accountability (or "peer") group, praying daily about the tasks of leadership, keeping a weekly Sabbath to rest in God's presence, and seeking others' perspective on God's guidance are methods some leaders employ.
Even so, the task of leading firmly while remaining wholly dependent on God is beyond human capability. The Bible calls Moses, "very humble, more so than anyone else on the face of the earth" (Numbers 12:3). If the most humble man on earth could fail in this way, so can we.
By God's grace, even failures with disastrous consequences do not separate us from the ultimate fulfillment of God's promises. Moses did not enter the Promised Land, yet the New Testament declares him "faithful in all God's house" (Hebrews 3:2). Regardless of our past failure, we can all have confidence in our redemption through Christ.
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We like to thank everybody who rode, sponsored, shot photos, travelled to Gothenburg, got sweaty, froze, cheered and/or in any possible way helped Svart Katt 2009 be what it became. We didn't dare to hope that almost 70 riders would show up to race their bikes in the darkest of Gothenburg on a cold cold cold November night. The whole parking lot was filled to the rim with black dressed riders wearing corpsepaint, masks and death-like outfits – and with the sounds of death metal reverberating from the speakers, the atmosphere was nothing but undescribable.
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AppalCART makes changes, adds night routes
AppalCART announces adjustments, adds night routes
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A year after AppalCART made the biggest changes to its routes in more than a decade, the changes going into 2019 are described as "little tweaks" by Director Craig Hughes.
The big change will be the implementation of the new "Night Owl" route in the fall. Express, Gold, Orange and Pop 105 routes will now run from 10 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. on Thursdays and Fridays and from 6 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. on Saturdays.
According to Hughes, Pop 105 and Gold routes will stay the same for the night schedule while Express and Orange routes will have minor changes for the night schedule.
"It benefits the town to have routes running late," Hughes said. "People working 'til 11-12 (p.m.) have a way to get home safely and there's safe transportation for students going to Walmart who need to get back to campus."
The route changes will be implemented when the fall semester starts on Aug. 20. The program, requested by the ASU Student Government Association, is made possible by a $181,120 pilot program grant.
In Blowing Rock, the return of the school year will mean the Blowing Rock Route will change to being Saturday only from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Oct. 28.
For 2019-20, one of the bigger changes will be an extension of the Purple Route, which serves southern Boone, until 8:10 p.m. (formerly 6:02 p.m.)
"People are still coming off campus that late," Hughes said of the Purple Route changes.
In the first year of the route overhauls, AppalCART ridership climbed by a couple thousand, Hughes said, to around 1.82 million for the 2018-19 fiscal year. Previously, ridership dropped in 2017-18 after reaching a peak of 1.9 million in 2016-17.
"We're pleased with that," Hughes said of the ridership numbers. "One of the things is that a lot of our (current) routes used to be separate routes that were combined into a single cross-town route, which cut down on some trips."
For the Express Route, the "night" schedule, which includes the Village at Meadowview and Greenway Drive, will now start at 8 p.m (formerly 6 p.m.) Also, the Express route will now serve Pride Drive and Applebee's and is extended to now end at 10 p.m. at Peacock Circle.
Hughes said the Express Route changes will help keep the buses on schedule at night, which he said was a problem in 2018-19.
Changes to the State Farm shuttle include no more Saturday service, no more Peacock Circle service and the route won't serve the Greenwood lot or Appalachian Heights.
The Wellness District route that started in 2018-19 to service the recently-completed Levine Hall of Health Sciences will cut out Blowing Rock Road and headways will be changed from 10 to 15 minutes. Hughes said the route was hard to keep on schedule in 2018-19.
Additional changes to Pop 105, Orange, Green, Red and Silver routes dealt with the extension of some routes and renaming of routes, Hughes added.
The 105 Lot Shuttle, Gold Route and Blue Route won't have any changes in 2019-20.
Altogether, Hughes said the wholesale changes implemented in 2018-19 were successful, he said.
"It definitely made a positive impact," Hughes said. "It was an adjustment at first for drivers, passengers and students."
Going forward, Hughes said there's still a need to expand routes and add more buses. At a July 23 meeting of the Watauga County Commissioners, the board approved submitting a proposal on behalf of AppalCART for 10 buses in the amount of $5 million, to the North Carolina Department of Transportation's Strategic Transportation Improvement Plan. The program identifies transportation needs that may receive state funding if approved.
"For us to get an expansion of vehicles added into our fleet, we have to go through (NCDOT's) data-driver process," Hughes said. "Hopefully the project will score high enough to get those buses."
Hughes said if approved, the buses would arrive in "two to three years."
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DeSantis takes the fight to school boards with rare endorsements
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Florida's Ron DeSantis is blazing a new trail for GOP governors — putting his muscle behind conservative school board candidates who align with his agenda.
Why it matters: School boards have become ground zero for political fights over COVID-19 restrictions, curricula involving racism and the rights of LGBTQ students and transgender athletes. DeSantis, who's running for re-election this year, is widely viewed as a rising force in the GOP and a 2024 presidential prospect.
Driving the news: DeSantis last month announced endorsements of 10 candidates for school boards across Florida. Some advocates expect more before the Aug. 23 election.
The big picture: Some other governors have waded into education-related contests — though none have matched DeSantis' engagement at the local level.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt endorsed his current head of public education Ryan Walters to be state superintendent. Walters, who heads to a primary runoff next month, advocates for removing Critical Race Theory (CRT) from school curricula. That's the first issue listed on his campaign website.
Virginia's Glenn Youngkin made so-called parental control in schools a touchstone of his winning campaign last year. As governor, he recently tried unsuccessfully to force early elections this year for all nine school board seats in Loudon County, which has been a hotbed for political wars over public school policies following a high-profile sexual assault case.
Zoom in: Groups with largely conservative views, including The 1776 Project and Moms for Liberty, are also engaged in school board contests in Florida. The country's third-most-populous state — which is also now home to former President Trump — appears to be attracting significant money and attention.
The 1776 Project, the first national PAC specifically launched to boost school board candidates opposed to CRT, plans to pour around $300,000 into races in Florida, the PAC's founder Ryan Girdusky told Axios.
By comparison, the group has spent about two-thirds of that in Texas, New York and Georgia combined. It's considering engaging in some contests in California.
Politico recently reported that dozens of committees with Florida GOP ties were putting money toward candidates who share DeSantis' views.
What they're saying: "Parents across Florida should ask school board candidates and their current school board members how they scored on the DeSantis Education Agenda," Dave Abrams, DeSantis re-election campaign senior adviser, told Axios in a statement.
Abrams added the agenda "serves as a model for the nation as Florida's school board candidates run and win."
Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice, a former school board member, told Axios that teachers' unions have long controlled school boards — but that could change because "they actually have people who are fighting against them now."
One national education leader told Axios that governors endorsing school board candidates was "out of the ordinary." The leader said the pandemic led to a surge in interest in school boards, although they've seen some of the political turmoil "settle down a little bit."
How it works: Candidates endorsed by DeSantis and described as "pro-parent" include:
April Carney, who decided to run for the Duval County school board after her kids struggled with school COVID policies. She has raised more than $74,000 already while incumbent Elizabeth Anderson has also raised over $75,000 — hefty sums for school board races.
Fred Lowry in Volusia County, who promoted QAnon conspiracy theories and questioned the reality of the pandemic.
Monica Colucci in Miami-Dade County, whose platform includes opposition to CRT and protecting "female athletes and the integrity of female sports."
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Q: onItemSelected spinner in android public class MainActivity extends Activity implements
    AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener {

String animalList[] = {"Lion", "Tiger", "Monkey", "Elephant", "Dog", "Cat", "Camel"};

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    Spinner spin = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.animalNamesSpinner);
    spin.setOnItemSelectedListener(this);

    ArrayAdapter aa = new ArrayAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, animalList);
    aa.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);

    spin.setAdapter(aa);
}

//Performing action onItemSelected and onNothing selected
@Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int position, long id) {

    switch (position){
        case 0:
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), animalList[position], Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            startActivity(new Intent(this, Lion.class));
            break;

        case 1:
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), animalList[position], Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            startActivity(new Intent(this, Tiger.class));
            break;

    }
}

@Override
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

}

I created a spinner. when i run the app its automatically jumps to first activity (Lion.class). what i want is, after Lion be selected on spinner, it goes to that activity. how can I fix it?
i read lots of tutorials but i cant find the answer. i know it must be easy

A: Add this in onCreate()..so spinner will not automatically move to new activity in first selection.
spin.setAdapter(aa);
spin.setSelection(0, false); //add this

Now in onItemSelected() add:
 switch (position){
        case 0:
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), animalList[position], Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            startActivity(new Intent(this, Lion.class));
            break;

        case 1:
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), animalList[position], Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            startActivity(new Intent(this, Tiger.class));
            spin.setSelection(0, true);  //add this
            break;

A: you can add select item as first option as this code
public class MainActivity extends Activity implements
AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener {

String animalList[] = {"Select Item","Lion", "Tiger", "Monkey", "Elephant", "Dog", "Cat", "Camel"};

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

Spinner spin = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.animalNamesSpinner);
spin.setOnItemSelectedListener(this);

ArrayAdapter aa = new ArrayAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, animalList);
aa.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);

spin.setAdapter(aa);
}

//Performing action onItemSelected and onNothing selected
@Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int position, long id) {

switch (position){
    case 1:
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), animalList[position], Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        startActivity(new Intent(this, Lion.class));
        break;

    case 2:
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), animalList[position], Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        startActivity(new Intent(this, Tiger.class));
        break;

}
}

@Override
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

}

or add boolean flag like this code below
    public class MainActivity extends Activity implements
AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener {
boolean flag = false;
String animalList[] = {"Lion", "Tiger", "Monkey", "Elephant", "Dog", "Cat", "Camel"};

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

Spinner spin = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.animalNamesSpinner);
spin.setOnItemSelectedListener(this);

ArrayAdapter aa = new ArrayAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, animalList);
aa.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);

spin.setAdapter(aa);
}

//Performing action onItemSelected and onNothing selected
@Override
public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int position, long id) {

switch (position){
    case 0:
    if(flag){

        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), animalList[position], Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        startActivity(new Intent(this, Lion.class));
    }
           break;

    case 1:
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), animalList[position], Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        startActivity(new Intent(this, Tiger.class));
        break;

}
flag = true;
}

@Override
public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

}

becase when activity start will set a spinner in the first pstion and triger onItemSelected so using flag you can avoid frist triger

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Personal Liability of Company Organs for Completeness and Correctness of Information Provided to Investors - Comment on the Federal Court of Justice's Decision of June 2nd, 2008, II ZR 210/06
Juristische Rundschau, Forthcoming
CBC-RPS No. 0043
16 Pages Posted: 10 Feb 2009
See all articles by Christian Kersting
Christian Kersting
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf - Faculty of Law
Date Written: February 5, 2009
The German Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice) has recently passed a judgement in which it held board members of a company liable for oral information given to investors during a "road show". After the company had decided on an increase in its capital, the members of its managing board met with potential investors and explained the company's business plan to them. During their oral presentation they misrepresented a material fact by claiming that the company's projected liquidity for the end of 2000 was DM 40.5 million although it was - because of the costs of an already planned-for advertisement campaign - in fact only DM 20.4 million. Based on the information received, the investors subscribed shares. In May 2001 the company became insolvent.
The Bundesgerichtshof based its judgement on Sec. 280 (1), 241 (2), 311 (3) Buergerliches Gesetzbuch (German Civil Code), i.e. provisions that sanction breach of trust. In this article it is, however, argued that the Bundesgerichtshof in fact developed a new strand of prospectus liability that - a contradictio in adiecto - can be triggered by oral statements. Board members of a company who give an oral presentation to investors are liable for the completeness and correctness of the information given to the investors. This liability is not based on the board members having asked the investors to trust them personally, but rather on their status as the organs authorised to represent the company.
Note: Downloadable document is in German.
Keywords: personal liability, oral statements, board members, breach of trust, prospectus liability, Information seigenhaftung, BGH, Vorstandsmitglieder, Organmitglieder, Prospekthaftung, Sonderverbindung, Vertretereigenhaftung, Dritthaftung aus c.i.c.,Statushaftung,Vertrauensinanspruchnahme,Vertrauenshaftung
JEL Classification: G30, G31, G32, G33, G34, G35, K12, K19, K20, K22
Kersting, Christian, Personal Liability of Company Organs for Completeness and Correctness of Information Provided to Investors - Comment on the Federal Court of Justice's Decision of June 2nd, 2008, II ZR 210/06 (February 5, 2009). Juristische Rundschau, Forthcoming, CBC-RPS No. 0043, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1338139
Christian Kersting (Contact Author)
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf - Faculty of Law ( email )
Universitätsstr. 1
Düsseldorf, D-40225
0211 8111660 (Phone)


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Dream Deferred Becomes Fulfilling Career for Family Physician
By Cara Clark
Bill Crawford, MD was deployed to Afghanistan and Kosovo.
For most professionals, there is a prescribed career path to follow. When that leads to success, it's time to revel -- or even rest on your laurels. Not so, however, for William "Bill" Crawford, MD. When he reached the pinnacle of a legal career, he couldn't stop the niggling thought that maybe he should have been a physician.
It all went back to a dilemma he faced in college. He found science fascinating and considered medical school. Instead, the lure of the complexities of the legal field took him to Emory University School of Law, the attorney general's office, and ultimately to the Alabama Supreme Court.
With then Attorney General Bill Prior's office, Clifford litigated some of the state's most important issues at the time, including such benchmark cases as the Americans with Disabilities Act.
"We were involved in some interesting issues and were able to be part of how the state integrated itself into the national framework," Clifford said.
It was there that Clifford also met his wife, Jennifer Nalu, who was working in the white-collar crime division.
"I worked in constitutional law for a while, then with a law firm in litigation, and I paid off my student loans," Clifford said. "After working with the Supreme Court and the Alabama Supreme Court, I felt like I had accomplished my goals. I'd always wanted to be a doctor. So I started taking classes at night and on weekends just to see how I liked it."
When Clifford wasn't at the law firm, he was studying medicine -- balancing a successful career as a litigator with the drive that kept pushing him to do more.
"It just snowballed," Clifford said. "I realized I really wanted to help people. That had been my motivation all along. People change careers lots of times. I never saw it as a barrier."
Clifford earned his medical degree at UAB before completing his family medicine residencies at the Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education in Florida and at the University of Alabama program in Tuscaloosa. His goal to help people led Clifford to primary care, turning down an opportunity to go into internal medicine at Yale.
"I wanted to take care of regular people on a daily basis and get to know them," Clifford said. "That's why I'm in family medicine."
Medicine runs in Clifford's family. His father and grandfather were general surgeons. One of his sisters is in a radiology fellowship at Emory University, and the other is a nurse practitioner. There are six other physicians among the aunts and uncles in his family.
"I had always had this background and love of medicine, but when I talked about becoming a doctor, my wife wasn't very happy at first," Clifford said.
After all, he was a success in the legal field and could continue to rise in the profession. She, too, was building her career and is now a judge in the Shelby County court system.
"It was a big change," he said. "Here you are, both with established careers, and I'm going to go to medical school. Even for young doctors, being on-call is tough. My wife is the hero of it all. She's done the hardest work."
In addition to her judgeship, the two have a four-year-old daughter. It was a natural decision to remain in Birmingham, and after a residency at the Mayo Clinic, Clifford returned to practice at Grandview in Chelsea, finding fulfillment in his relationship with his patients.
It's a success story beyond what most achieve in a lifetime, but Clifford wasn't finished there. He made a commitment to his country by joining the National Guard. A captain now, he has served active duty, traveling to Afghanistan (2012-13) and Kosovo (2014-15) in service to the troops.
"Being a doctor in the army is the best job in the world," Clifford said. "You get to take care of people who love this country and who are the best and brightest. Who wouldn't want to do that?"
Just before joining Grandview, Clifford was in Kosovo on a mission with a NATO peace-keeping force. As a flight surgeon responding to emergency calls, he's a veteran of numerous missions on the army's workhorse Chinook and Blackhawk helicopters. In Afghanistan, he ran a small emergency clinic.
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Sanctions on Russia Threaten Fertilizer Production and Could Lead to Famine
Felix Abt
[Source: gisreportsonline.com]
The media are concealing an outrageous scandal in the context of the Russia sanctions—while distracting with a sideshow by spreading silly lies about Switzerland.
Does Der Spiegel, an opinion leader in much of Europe, deserve the disqualification "lying press"? Far be it from me to call mainstream journalists liars across the board, because first of all, they do not always lie, and secondly, they are much more likely to be slackers, that is, they simply do not report on things that do not suit them for ideological or other reasons.
But now Der Spiegel, which calls itself "the leading German news magazine," has taken the cake: Under the title "Treasury of the Oligarchs" an industrious Spiegel reporter reports from the Swiss cities of "Zug, Basel, Lugano and Zurich" and writes that the "evil" Russian oligarchs are being courted by Switzerland and are in protective hands there.
In doing so, he pretends to have completely missed the fact that the Swiss government had already adopted and slavishly implemented the European Union's sanctions against Russia and Russian oligarchs many weeks before his "report." The fact that the government is thus violating the Swiss constitution, which prescribes state-political neutrality and prohibits the country from participating in wars waged by foreign powers, including the economic war against Russia instigated by Washington and Brussels, does not bother Der Spiegel and the many like-minded media in Germany, Switzerland and elsewhere.
Der Spiegel advances to an inflammatory anti-Russian paper
Decades ago, Der Spiegel had the reputation of providing independent and critical information about the American empire and its lackeys in German politics. But those are bygone times.
The inclined reader need not be surprised if Der Spiegel, which has mutated into an anti-Russian hate sheet, has just invented the "Swiss welcome culture" for "Russia's rich, including kleptocrats and war criminals," while the Swiss government is systematically hunting down rich Russians in Switzerland.
What Der Spiegel also conceals: The lavish Russian parties at this year's World Economic Forum, to which Russians were no longer admitted, failed to materialize. Instead, Ukrainian oligarchs celebrated all the more exuberantly in Davos—despite the war in their country.
Der Spiegel speaks of the alleged "Swiss welcoming culture" and calls Switzerland the "Treasury of Russian oligarchs including kleptocrats and war criminals," despite the fact that all rich Russians are arbitrarily persecuted by the Swiss government. (Twitter screen shot by Felix Abt)
Not only neutrality, but also the humanitarian tradition of granting protection to politically persecuted persons and victims of war have been cornerstones of the Swiss Confederation for centuries. In the meantime, however, the right to asylum is increasingly abused by "do-gooders" in politics. They mainly take in economic refugees from all over the world, including radical Islamists who preach hate in Swiss mosques and collect no small amount of social welfare, costing Swiss taxpayers billions every year. This happens without consequences; instead, a real hunt has been ignited for rich foreigners who pay taxes in Switzerland not too scarce and live inconspicuously—quite contrary to Der Spiegel's claim of a fictitious "welcome culture" for the rich.
Central Switzerland, [Source: Photo by Felix Abt]
The Melnichenko case
The most famous of the hunted Putin supporters is Andrey Melnichenko, a physicist and successful self-made entrepreneur who rose from internationally decorated banker to industrialist and even built a mega-yacht that Apple founder Steve Jobs tried to buy from him. Melnichenko was born in Belarus. His mother is Ukrainian, his father Belarusian. The entrepreneur owns EuroChem, a leading global fertilizer producer, and coal companies. His companies employ 130,000 people worldwide.
Melnichenko: "We were treated like criminals because we are rich and have the wrong passport." (Die Weltwoche magazine cover. Screen shot by Felix Abt)
In an interview he told the Swiss Die Weltwoche (the only European newspaper or magazine interested in his fate): "I am being punished because I am Russian and rich." Yet he is neither an "oligarch," nor does he belong to "Putin's inner circle," as the European Union and Switzerland claim. Even his wife, a Croatian model, was sanctioned.
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he declared that the war in Ukraine was "really tragic" and called for peace. A spokesman for Melnichenko also said at the time that he had "no political connections whatsoever." His lawyers have been protesting in Brussels and Bern for months, but he and his wife have not even received a legal hearing.
European sanctions endanger fertilizer production and thus the world's food supply
In 2021 alone, his company EuroChem shipped 19.1 million tons of fertilizer, which produced 80 million tons of grain and fed 280 million people. Since he and his wife no longer have access to their company and it is being ostracized by banks, authorities and business partners due to the sanctions, fertilizer production is at risk and with it the feeding of millions of people, especially in poor countries.
Even if 15 million tons of grain, once talked about, are blocked in Ukraine, this is only a small part of the huge crop losses now caused by European sanctions against fertilizer producers. Although this is a tangible scandal, Der Spiegel and the rest of the arrogant and always moralizing mainstream do not give a damn.
Melnichenko had been living in St. Moritz, Switzerland, with his wife and children since 2009. After he was put on a European Union sanctions list following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, all his assets, houses, cars, etc., were confiscated. He and his family are not allowed to return to their home in Switzerland. The family, which is treated like criminals in the European Union and Switzerland, has since found refuge in the United Arab Emirates. The Swiss government has not even responded to his letters or those of his lawyers.
Backsliding into tribal justice
Both the European Union and Switzerland have so far cultivated civilized values such as the guarantee of property, the rule of law, the principle nulla poena sine lege (no punishment without law), the presumption of innocence and the right to defend oneself.
Of course, the perfidious media like Der Spiegel do not report on the current relapse into tribal justice, clan detention and arbitrariness. Instead, they prefer to wipe their shoes on Switzerland and brazenly lie about a non-existent "welcome culture" that supposedly welcomes and courts "Russia's rich, including kleptocrats and war criminals."
Military wars are generally limited to specific geographic areas. However, economic wars—including sanctions: the weapon of hunger—harm entire populations and can kill even more innocent people.
So, on the one hand, "oligarch" hunts are conducted on steroids while, on the other hand, the deadly European war of hunger against the poorest in the developing world is kept quiet. Of course, this fits perfectly with the European media, which like to preach from the hypocritical moral pulpit.
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National Endowment for Democracy Provided $1.2 Million to Kazakhstan to Help Spark Color Revolution Against Pro-Russian and Pro-China Regime
Jeremy Kuzmarov - January 12, 2022
New Evidence Implicates CIA, LAPD, FBI and Mafia as Plotters in Elaborate "Hit" Plan to Prevent RFK From Ever Reaching White House
Jeremy Kuzmarov - September 1, 2021
Intelligence Agencies
Star CIA Analysts Are Out of Touch With Reality When it Comes to Russia
Larry C. Johnson - November 26, 2022
The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It
Aaron Good, Ben Howard and Peter Dale Scott - September 11, 2021
Anthrax Attacks Directed Against Public Officials Following 9/11 Had all the Markings of a False Flag Operation
Graeme MacQueen - September 10, 2021
On 10th Anniversary of the U.S.-NATO Attack on Libya: Powerful Perpetrators Have Yet To Face Justice
Black Ops in Hollywood: From Censorship to Normalization
Tom Secker - March 27, 2022
Oliver Stone's New JFK Revisited Disproves Official Story: Reveals U.S. Intelligence Involvement in Assassination
John Potash - December 17, 2021
What to do in November? The Editors for CovertAction Magazine Weigh In
Chris Agee and Jeremy Kuzmarov - September 17, 2020
Anti-Government Protests in Cuba Provoked by U.S. Embargo Has Right-Wingers Salivating at the Prospect of Regime Change
Carlos L. Garrido - August 12, 2021
Has the Ukraine Conflict Driven U.S. Government Officials Crazy?
Jeremy Kuzmarov - August 5, 2022
Ex-Marine Explains Why Oswald Alone Could Not Possibly Have Shot JFK
Daniel Borgström - December 20, 2021
James Bradley, Author of Flags of Our Fathers, #1 New York Times Best-Seller, Speaks Out Against the U.S. Military Encirclement of China
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