As Shannon just mentioned in a recent post, the slubs are adults. Or at least attempting to put on the personas of adults. We are adult-ish. We pay bills, do laundry, clean, have our own place, have jobs, go to happy hour with colleagues, etc. And most days we are successful.
But this weekend I did something entirely childish. I was house-sitting/puppy-sitting for my parents when I became ill. Now really this means that I had a really stuffy nose, sore throat, and was a bit more tired than usual. This justified extreme laziness and napping, ignoring all cleaning and laundry that needed to get done. Proof positive that I am not ready to be an adult.
It also justified something else. Something so cliche and juvenile, that I am almost ashamed to admit it…if it weren't so awesome. I delved deep into the world of Harry Potter, beginning with a screening Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows-Part Two. When this was altogether unsatisfying (I always expect it to portray HP much more book-accurately than it ever does), I began reading.
Now, when I read HP, I commit. Wherever I start in the series, I have to end with the last book published (now the final book). Thus, I have to carefully choose where to begin in the series based on the time I have to devote to the reading. This weekend I chose book 5, by far my least favorite of the books (for obvious reasons) and began a wonderful visit the the wizarding world of Harry Potter.
What about these books seems to help me feel better when I am sick, or moody, or going through transitions? This summer, amid the move to the house in Minneapolis and the release of the last movie, I re-read the entire series (and the last two books, twice). I don't think I could have felt like my childhood was ending more than this summer. I had just graduated college, just moved into a house that wasn't my parents for the first time, and was beginning my new job the next month. The Harry Potter series was officially coming to a close. A series that had been with me since elementary school. I read it though a move to Nebraska and a move to Pennsylvania. The seventh book came out the summer after my senior year of high school.
The last movie, like I mentioned, after senior year of college. To commemorate, Shannon, Anna, and I had a wonderful Harry Potter evening before the midnight premiere. The dining room was decorated with floating candles, the door to our apartment had the platform 9 3/4 sign, acceptance letters to Hogwarts hung from the door, there was an herbology and potions section in our dining room, and we finished our meal with pumpkin pasties. Slubs love Harry Potter.
But why do I love Harry Potter? Why do I continue to return to it, year after year?
Maybe I love HP so much because it has to do with anticipation. Waiting for the next book to come out. The anticipation that consumed 13 or 14 years of my life (if we include movie releases). Anticipation that was consumed with reading online spoilers (and possibly fanfiction…) with friends as we awaited the next book. The anticipation of standing in line 15 minutes before midnight. The anticipation to finish the new book as soon as I could to get to the end…to await the next installment. The anticipation to see what would happen to the wizarding world and all the friends I had made over the years with the characters in J.K. Rowling's books.
Maybe I love it for its themes of friendship, good, and hope. Strikingly simple. I wanted friendships like Harry, Ron, and Hermione had. I love that good ultimately, if predictably, triumphs over evil. I like that the series is not only about hope for a better world, but action that makes that better world a reality. I like that the book is full of wholesome morals, about how rules are sometimes meant to be broken, and that love is the ultimate truth.
But in the end I find this all too philosophical. I like HP for one simple reason. It reminds me of my childhood imagination, or more accurately, it allows me to imagine like a child again. Too often we are caught up in our realities and planning for the futures. We are surrounded with data and facts; stress and worry. We forget to imagine, to think creatively. Sometimes, we just need to escape for a moment, imagine a different world where people meet their soulmates at the age of 11, decide on their careers at the age of 16, and defeat their ultimate enemies at 17. Where, with a flick of a wand, you can travel wherever you want, make objects fly across the room, and turn beetles into buttons.
We need that escape, if only for a moment, if only in our imaginations. Like Dumbledore says at the end of the seventh book, "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 723).
So whenever I need to feel like a child again, when I want to feel the pure joy of imagining, I read Harry Potter. And I am transported. Out of my new adult world, out of worries and cares, bills and laundry. Out of a world of anxiety and stress. And into the wonderful, enchanting, bewitching world of Harry Potter.
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Mediheal LINE Friends Face Masks Review + Giveaway!
ISN'T THESE JUST SUPER CUTE!!!! Well, everything about LINE characters are just very cute! Want them all? Read till the end to find out how you can win all 3 of them away!
In case you never heard of this brand, Mediheal - the sheet mask leader - is founded from the prestigious medical beauty school in Seoul University, Korea. It's always famous in their effective sheet masks, which is said to be rich nutrition from an entire bottle of ampoule to skin.
Thank you Mediheal for the cute Cony Ring stand as well!
As you can tell, I'm trying out the 3 types of LINE Friends Face Masks. These masks features Silky Cellulose Mask Sheet which has high adherence & moisture, soft & silk texture, anti-bacteria and it's good for sensitive skin.
Close up look on the Silky Cellulose Mask Sheet. And yes! It has LINE Characters on the mask! Isn't it cute?! Keep reading to see different designs on each type of masks!
So the first one I'm definitely trying out the P.D.F A.C Dressing Ampoule Mask because this is the one that I needed the most in my whole life as it's for acne-prone skin. It helps to soothe skin, sebum control and has Anti-wrinkle functional.
The main ingredients in it such as Centella Asiatica, Portulaca Oleracea extract and Salicylic acid concentrate on skin problem areas for rapid and relief effect, and it control oil secretion to make clean skin.
Close up look of the design.
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Rotoworlds Mock
By Greenseed4,
February 6, 2013 in NFL Draft
BroadwayJoe12
He's not a stand up 34 LB. He'd play end here. And we have ends.
His strengths are his insane first step, which is second to only Keke mingo's in this draft and his ability to bend around the edge, combined with the fact he weighs 255 lbs and doesn't have extremely long arms. What about that screams to you 34 DE?? There is literally nothing about him that is indicative of playing the 5-tech in this defense.
That having been said, unless Mingo runs a 4.4 flat and there's a run of QBs ahead of us, there's no way he falls.
Edited February 7, 2013 by BroadwayJoe12
SenorGato 13 posts
BroadwayJoe12 11 posts
Greenseed4 10 posts
unbanmadmike1 21 posts
SenorGato
Wouldnt the Anti-Coples suck at football?
The problem with drafting Warmack in the top ten is that you don't draft interior lineman in the top ten, when the difference between the best offensive guard and your average starting guard is minisc
You don't just draft offense to draft offense, that's beyond reactionary; that's how you end up over-drafting players. You always have an agenda and if a certain move doesn't fit in it, it becomes Re
unbanmadmike1
My point was that he's played 43 end in college and that doesn't fit here.
sirlancemehlot
Warmack is going to be the best player available at 9 if he's still there. And by far the surest thing.
Problem with drafting warmack is he isn't sexy enough for a fan base that's been treated to years of combine watching and 40 times and those awesome highlight reels with obscure gangster rap and speed metal soundtracks. Jets fans want sexy, dammit! Of course the best draft we've had in the last ten years featured two lineman in the FIRST round, but why bring that up.
If they are making picks because they are "sexy" and not for a long term winning program they will never win sh*t anyway.
The problem with drafting Warmack in the top ten is that you don't draft interior lineman in the top ten, when the difference between the best offensive guard and your average starting guard is miniscule compared to the difference between a top OLB and the average OLB. I love warmack, he's a stud, so is cooper, but there's a reason historicall and recently interior lineman do not get drafted top ten overall; it's because it's not a good value of return on your pick. If we trade down? sure, you can consider it. But for a league that is predicated on QB play, if you can't get the QB in this draft, you get the guy who can affect him on every down in Moore/Jones/Mingo/Werner.
If the Jets draft another high bust probability OLB you know Rex is calling the shots. they need OFFENSE.
You don't just draft offense to draft offense, that's beyond reactionary; that's how you end up over-drafting players. You always have an agenda and if a certain move doesn't fit in it, it becomes Rex's plot to destroy the team. Werner is one of the most highly touted prospects on everyone's board, yet because we need offense, it equals Rex calling the shots? Get out of here. If we draft werner, it's because he miraculously slipped and he's the top player on our board.
9/10 3-4 OLBs were college DEs.
Everything I've ever read about Werner says he isn't a 34 OLB and couldn't play standing up. But I guess thats all wrong and you're right...
What have you read?
http://walterfootball.com/scoutingreport2013bwerner.php
http://www.fftoolbox.com/nfl_draft/profile_display.cfm?prospect_id=3337
http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draft/player/_/id/30221/bjoern-werner
If you don't have insider:
Best fit appears to be as a LDE for a 43 scheme at the next level. Can line up as a 34 OLB but may have some restrictions if asked to consistently drop in coverage and play in space. If able to continue to add bulk to frame he has the length and natural strength to line up as a five technique for a 34 front.
Edited February 7, 2013 by unbanmadmike1
Walter starts off wrong as he's not 273. Werner 2011 and Werner 2012 were two different athletes IMO, one almost twenty pounds heavier than the other.
Edited February 7, 2013 by SenorGato
realistically though ...and love werner btw, but realistically guys straight out of college rarely get smaller when they move on to the pro game. at 22 yrs old, they havet come close to maxing out teir mass yet. by 27,28 they tend to be thicker and more solid. just food for thought.
Probably why he dropped the weight and went with 255 instead of 275.
Drafting a guy and hoping he can change positions right out of the gate before he plays a game is dumb when there are other options who can just plug and be an impact player like Warmack. Edited February 7, 2013 by unbanmadmike1
Drafting a guy and hoping he can change positions right out of the gate before he plays a game is dumb when there are other options who can just plug and be an impact player like Warmack.
Yet it worked for:
DeMarcus Ware
Shawn Merriman though Marylas did use him at LB
JAbe (college LB to DE)
Shaun Philips
Brian Orakpo
Ryan Kerrigan
Anthony Spencer
You have no idea if he's DeMarcus Ware, thats a special player.
It doesn't say in any of those that he can't play standing up, it's just that they think it'd be a transition, but those same people said the exact same thing about Aldon Smith and he turned our pretty well. There's also the notion that we aren't a traditional 30 front as we run a lot of 46 bear and 40 fronts as well, so that's why it's ideal to go BPA so you don't over-draft any players.
I love Warmack as much as the next guy, he's an absolute stud. However, his value over guys like Cooper, Warford and Bailey isn't the same as the disparity between Mingo/Werner/JJones compared to some of the guys you'd get in the lower first or high second. With the top ten pick, you're looking for someone who can be a game-changer on every play and in today's NFL that's either QB or pass-rusher. I just think a combination of Jarvis Jones/Mingo/Werner and Bailery/Barrett Jones/Warford is better than Warmack and Hunt or someone.
That's the idea though; a lot of the guys like Ghoston didn't fail because of the transition from DE to OLB, they failed simply because they weren't good enough. This argument does have some validity to it, as there are some players who definitely fit one scheme better, but some of these guys you can just tell are scheme diverse. You have guys like Von miller who was a 43 RDE in college, then played 43 OLB then to the jack/hybrid position and while many viewed him as a poor fit for the 43, that's where he's been and has excelled. He would have been just as dominant in the 34 most likely, but these types of players, which I believe Werner to be, can seem to play in any scheme. I'm hoping guys like Mingo and Jones are as well, because there will be a run on pass-rushers and I just hope one falls to us.
You're not addressing my point that Rex's D doesn't need an elite pass rusher and that the Jets had the worst offense in the NFL last season. They have to address this offense and an all pro guard to run behind for 12 years is EXACTLY what starts it. Edited February 7, 2013 by unbanmadmike1
So special and obvious that he fell to 11.
Aldon Smith
Cameron Wake
Koa Misi
bitonti
i agree with both sides. Yes he's a 4-3 DE and yes he's the bap at 9. You can't pass on him if he's there. But he won't be... so...
He's not going to be the BAP for the Jets even if he's there at 9.
Wake was a FA and I'd rather have Warmack on my team than Misi.
Wake was a Canadian DE FA. I would rather have Werner than Misi, and
Greenseed4
Werner could be a nasty 34 DE ala JJ Watt....but in this scenario with both him and Jones on the board -- I would trade down.
Wake was a Canadian DE FA. I would rather have Werner than Misi, and an impact pass rusher over a guard.
JJ Watt is a generational talent. The changes of Werner becoming him are low.
Trading down, in this mock, enables us to roll the dice on landing Jones, Werner, Chance, or our top rated WR.
I think we may be able to trade down to #12 (w Miami) and recoup a third round pick (they have two). They get their top rated OT-leftovers (Fisher or Lane), and do so in front of the OT-hungry Chargers. As a result we are risking our OLB-of-choice from getting selected by MIA, TEN or SD; two of which spent big bucks and/or selections on the OLB position last year.
I would then tempt the fate-Gods even further by trading down yet again. (in my dream world) With Cincinatti who has the #21 pick in the first (and 2-2nd round picks) . The chart would give us pick #53.
That means we would have: #21(1st); #39, #53 (2nd); #72, #82(3rd)
add in the potential Revis (1st and 2nd) and we have 7 picks in the first 3 rounds.
Normally I'd agree. But the power one gets from the bionic arm cannot be dismissed. In this scenario, Werner would definately get a bionic arm.
This isn't the draft you want to have 7 picks in the first 3 rounds in though.
We are SHOPPING for a new team. I wouldn't mind having 2-1's and trading one for a 2014 1st.
However, this year is strong for WRs, RBs, Safeties, OL and OLBs.
I'll be damned if we don't get one of each.
You're not addressing my point that Rex's D doesn't need an elite pass rusher and that the Jets had the worst offense in the NFL last season. They have to address this offense and an all pro guard to run behind for 12 years is EXACTLY what starts it.
I didn't know that was your point as the only thing you stated was if we don't go offense it means Rex is running the show. The Jets had the worst offense last season, but how did their Oline grade out? If you're worried about the offense, why don't you want to draft an impact WR or a RB?? Warmack is great, but you simply do not draft interior lineman top ten overall, the return just isn't their, it's a waste of a pick when we have so many other holes. Our oline graded out quite well this past season and plugging in an all-pro OG, isn't going to make our offense do a 180 when we still have no one throwing the ball. Take some of the best olineman (forgive me, I'm using 2011 advanced stat rankings as I don't want to look further) and you have Carl Nicks, Yanda, Evan Mathis, Josh sitton, Mike Iupati. Of those five, only Iupati was drafted in the first and was considered quite a reach when he was drafted 17th overall.
The reason interior lineman do not get drafted that high is the difference between an all-pro and a servicable guard is negligible compared to a pass-rusher, corner, WR etc.
As for Rex's scheme; don't you believe he'll be gone anyways? Even if he stays, just because he can generate pressure by schemes, doesn't mean he couldn't utilize a stud rusher; look what he did with Suggs and thomas.
Do you really trust this Jet FO who drafted Vlad Ducassa to draft an all pro guard in the 3rd round? Take the guy who you know is going to be great.
T0mShane
All the Werner knocks are the same ones leveled against Kerrigan. You're all racists.
"If" We get Rodgers, how many prime time games do we get?
By frankiepapa
Last year it was "All gas, no brake". What should it be this year?
By Alka

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I cannot nor I won't.
What have I to ask beside?
Who through life has been my guide?
Here by faith in Him to dwell!
Jesus doeth all things well.
Save, O save me, or I die!
Praising my Saviour all the day long.
And opened the life-gate that all may go in.
O 'tis always Jesus all our way along.
And a calm abiding rest.
And it cannot pass away.
Shining like the sunbeams, doing good to all.
And tunes my heart to praise.
And I no more as now shall sing.
Within the palace of the King!
And tell the story — saved by grace.
I wake its chords no more.
Of His great love for me.
Through eternal years the same.
Oh, the height and depth of mercy!
Oh, the length and breadth of love!
Pledge of endless life above.
Make me gentle as a dove.
Let my Saviour dwell in me.
There by His love o'ershaded, sweetly my soul shall rest.
Over the fields of glory, over the jasper sea.
Jesus, my heart's dear refuge, Jesus has died for me!
Firm on the Rock of Ages, ever my trust shall be.
Wait 'til the blissful morning breaks on the golden shore.
Tell them of Jesus, the mighty to save.
Rescue the perishing, care for the dying!
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save.
h the wondrous gospel story!
And the story must be told.
O wonderful words of the gospel!
Through Jesus, our Saviour and King.
He offers to you and to me.
His precious blood our souls to save.
The "Spirit and the Bride say, Come"
Save me by Thy grace.
More than life to me!
Whom have I on earth beside Thee?
Whom in Heaven but Thee?
Sheds its beams around me.
For Thou hast redeemed us; all praise to Thy name.
With joy and thanksgiving Thy praises we sing.
All along my pilgrim way.
Every day my strength renew.
In the loud swelling chorus, "Salvation is free."
The wonderful Gospel of Jesus proclaim.
Speed away, speed away, speed away.
Love will hold me fast and true.
But I long to see my Saviour first of all.
And redeemed by His side I shall stand.
By the print of the nails in His hand.


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Commentary About Textiles, Sustainability, and Environment
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Practical effects of the ACNC
In the 2011-2012 Budget, the Federal Government announced reforms to the regulation and governance of charities and not-for-profit (NFP) organisations. The reforms are aimed at rectifying inadequacies in the current framework by simplifying how the NFP sector is regulated. The effect will be the reduction of red tape, in addition to improving public trust and support of the NFP sector by increasing transparency and accountability and ensuring tax concessions are correctly utilised.
The three broad categories of reform as stated by the Office for the Not-for-Profit Sector are as follows:
Establishing a national 'one-stop-shop' regulator for the not-for-profit sector (being the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC)) to remove the complex regulatory arrangements currently in place and streamline reporting arrangements;
Greater harmonisation and simplification between Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments on not-for-profit issues, including regulation; and
Reducing red-tape for government funded not-for-profit organisations, including streamlining contracting and funding arrangements[1]
The key reforms are:
As mentioned above, the establishment of the ACNC as an independent national regulator for charities, which commenced operation on 3 December 2012;
A statutory definition of "charity" to replace the court-made definition, which is expected to be finalised by 1 July 2013;
Implementation of special conditions for NFP tax concessions so that NFP organisations receiving such concessions must generally operate 'in Australia' as a not-for-profit and can no longer apply those concessions to income from unrelated commercial activities; and
Working towards a nationally consistent approach to fundraising regulation to reduce inconsistencies and avoid duplication amongst state and territory laws.
There are also proposed reforms to be implemented further in the future, including changes to the Corporations Act to ease the compliance burden of companies limited by guarantee.
During the Federal Government's staggered implementation of the reforms, it is important the NFP sector keeps a close eye on when each reform becomes operational in order to correctly fulfil its new obligations. Updates can be found at the Office for the Not-for-Profit Sector website, the Treasury website and the PilchConnect website.
Statutory definition of 'charity'
The ACNC began operation on 3 December 2012 as the new independent national regulator for charities. However, not all NFP organisations are considered to be charities. The term 'charity' has a specific legal meaning quite separate from that of 'not-for-profit'.
A 'not-for-profit' is an organisation that cannot be run for profit, gain or benefit (direct or indirect); meaning all income and assets owned by the organisation must remain with the organisation and be used to fulfil the purpose of the organisation. Members are not entitled to profits made by the organisation. Any profit made must be used to further the organisations purposes.
A 'charity' is a not-for-profit organisation that is set up for a purpose the law regards as charitable. Under the current common law definition, a charity is established for the purposes of assistance to the aged, the sick and the infirm, for the relief of poverty, advancement of religion, advancement of education or for other purposes beneficial to the community.
From 1 July 2013, the Australian Government will implement a statutory definition of 'charity' in an attempt to rectify confusion surrounding the common law definition and in order to clarify the following:
how much charities can carry out activities which don't have an exclusively charitable purpose;
the charitable status of peak bodies;
when family ties should disqualify people who benefit from a charitable trust;
the meaning of 'public benefit'; and
the charitable status of advocacy organisations.[2]
The ACNC and other Commonwealth agencies will use the statutory definition to determine whether an organisation can be registered as a charity.
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Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission (ACNC)
The ACNC was established under the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Act 2012 (Cth)[3] and Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (Consequential and Transitional) Act 2012 (Cth)[4]. The ACNC regulates charities only (including public benevolent institutions and health charities); however, its regulatory power is expected to expand to encompass the registration and regulation of all NFP entities in the future (but not before 1 July 2014).
From 3 December 2012, charities are able to register with the ACNC. Registration with the ACNC is free. While registration is voluntary, charities must be registered with the ACNC in order to receive charitable tax concessions from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and other Commonwealth benefits. Charities already registered with the ATO were automatically registered with the ACNC on 3 December 2012 by way of a transfer of information from the ATO to the ACNC.
The ACNC is now responsible for determining an organisations 'charity' status; however, the ATO will retain responsibility for determining the eligibility of charities to access Commonwealth charitable tax concessions such as income tax exemption and deductible gift recipient status. If your organisation does not want access to charitable tax concessions, there is no need to register with the ACNC.
Once a charity is registered with the ACNC it has the following ongoing obligations:
Notification of certain changes
Registered charities need to inform the ACNC if their legal name, address for service, governing body members or governing rules change. A "small charity" (annual revenue less than $25,000) must notify the ACNC of any such changes within 60 days of becoming aware of the change. A "medium charity" (annual revenue is between $250,000 and $1,000,000) or a "large charity" (annual revenue of $1,000,000 or more) must notify the ACNC of any such changes within 28 days of becoming aware of the change.
Registered charities must keep financial records and operational records from 3 December 2012. Financial records explain the charity's financial transactions, position and performance and allow financial reports to be prepared and audited. Operational records are any other document concerning the charity's operations e.g. meeting minutes, reports or details of charity's activities, programs or services. Charities are not required to provide these records to the ACNC unless asked.
Registered charities must lodge annual reports (financial and non-financial). NOTE: At the moment, these reports are in addition to any other reporting requirements charities may have.
From 1 July 2013, all charities must submit an annual information statement containing basic non-financial information about their operations during the 2012-2013 reporting period. The details to be contained in the annual information statement are currently being finalised by the ACNC, but will cover information concerning how the charity works towards its charitable purpose, the number of volunteers and paid staff, and the type of beneficiaries who benefit from the charity's activities. If your reporting period is 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013, your statement is due by 31 December 2013. If your reporting period is 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013, your statement is due by 30 June 2014 (NOTE: if your charity wishes to report for a 12-month time period other than the financial year period, you must notify the ACNC by 2 June 2013).
From 1 July 2014, in addition to the annual information statement, all medium and large charities will need to submit a financial report for the 2013-2014 reporting period. For medium charities, a reviewed or audited annual financial report is required. For large charities, an audited financial report is required. Financial reports must be submitted within six months of the end of your reporting period. If your reporting period is 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014, your financial statement is due by 31 December 2014. If your reporting period is 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014, your financial statement is due by 30 June 2015.
Public information portal
The ACNC Register lists the name, ABN and state registration details of all registered charities. During 2013, the ACNC will make further information about registered charities available to the public. The ACNC public information portal will include information regarding the charitable purpose, registration date, responsible person contact details, governing rules and the annual reports of each registered charity.
From 1 July 2013, all registered charities will have to comply with governance standards and external conduct standards to be introduced by the Federal Government. Public consultation on the content of these standards closed on 15 February 2013. Both houses of parliament must approve the standards before they can be passed.
For more information and updates see the ACNC website.
For more information about what currently constitutes a 'charity' and the role of the ACNC, see Arts Law's December 2012 ART+Law article What's new for charities: The Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission.
Changes to conditions for Tax Concession Entities
The Federal Government is planning a number of changes to the Commonwealth tax concessions for all NFP organisations. These tax matters do not come within the power of the ACNC and will continue to be handled by the ATO.
Restating and standardising special conditions for tax concession entities
The Federal Government has moved forward in its plans to change the special conditions organisations will need to comply with in order to access income tax exemption and deductible gift recipient (DGR) status. The changes concern ensuring organisations with income tax exemption and/or DGR status are operating and pursuing their purposes 'in Australia' (unless an exception applies) and introducing a standard definition of 'not-for-profit' for Commonwealth tax laws.[5]
After public consultation on draft legislation closed in May 2012, the Tax Laws Amendment (Special Conditions for Not-for-profit Concessions) Bill 2012 (Cth) (the Bill) was introduced into the House of Representatives on 23 August 2012. The aim of the legislation is to:
restate the 'in Australia' special conditions for income tax exempt entities, ensuring that they generally must be operated principally in Australia and for the broad benefit of the Australian community;
standardise the other special conditions entities must meet to be income tax exempt;
standardise the term 'not-for-profit'; and
codify the 'in Australia' special conditions for deductible gift recipients ensuring that they must generally operate solely in Australia, and pursue their purposes solely in Australia (with some exceptions, such as overseas aid fund and some environmental organisations).[6]
As at March 2013, parliamentary debate regarding the Bill remains suspended. However, once the laws are passed, NFP organisations will need to make sure they comply with these new special conditions and amend their constitutions or rules to suit.
The Bill and Explanatory Memoranda can be found on the Parliament of Australia website.
Better Targeting of Not-for-profit Tax Concessions
As stated in the Treasury's May 2011 consultation paper 'Better Targeting of Not-for-profit Tax Concessions', the reform of the NFP sector tax concessions is aimed at ensuring tax concessions provided to NFP organisations, such as income tax exemption, fringe benefit tax and goods and services tax concessions, can only be used in relation to activities that directly further the purposes of the NFP organisation. These changes are focused on income that is made by a NFP organisation from unrelated commercial activities that is not then applied towards fulfilment of the organisations charitable or altruistic purposes.
The start date for the measure is 1 July 2014, but will only apply to a NFP organisation's new unrelated commercial activities that commenced after 7:30pm on 10 May 2011, where the profits are not directed back to the organisations purposes and the activities are not small scale and low-risk.[7]
the measure will not impact tax concessions that were used for such unrelated commercial activities prior to 1 July 2014;
unrelated commercial activities commencing prior to 7:30pm on 10 May 2011 will not become subject to the measure until 1 July 2015, and the measure will not impact on tax concessions used for those activities prior to 1 July 2015.[8]
As at March 2013, no draft legislation for the measure has yet been released.
Nationally consistent approach to fundraising
Many NFP organisations operate across jurisdictional boundaries and are burdened by regulatory overlap between the Federal, State and Territory Governments in relation to fundraising. The Federal Government is working with states and territories, through the Council of Australian Government (COAG), towards agreeing on a nationally consistent approach to fundraising legislation.
As at March 2013, this process is still at the consultation stage and reform is not expected in the near future. For more information, see the COAG NFP Reform Working Group website.
[1] From the Office for the Not-for-Profit Sector website http://www.notforprofit.gov.au/about-us/not-profit-reform
[2] From the PilchConnect website http://www.pilch.org.au/charitydefinition_info/
[3] Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Act 2012 (Cth) available at http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/C2012A00168.
[4] Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (Consequential and Transitional) Act 2012 (Cth) available at http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/C2012A00169.
[5] Ibid http://www.pilch.org.au/taxreform_info/
[6] From the Parliament of Australia website http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r4872
[7] From the PilchConnect website http://www.pilch.org.au/taxreform_info/
[8] From the Assistant Treasurer website http://ministers.treasury.gov.au/DisplayDocs.aspx?doc=pressreleases/2013/003.htm&pageID=003&min=djba&Year=&DocType=
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While the US is cooking up a new, bigger mess in the Levant, the old mess in Afghanistan only gets worse. Last week, Washington's colonial bureau finally managed to cobble together a political deal in Afghanistan between two rivals for the presidency, Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah.
Ashraf Ghani is Washington's choice for president; Abdullah will act as 'chief executive,' a sort newly created role of prime minister sure to break down. To no surprise, they are expected to quickly sign an agreement to keep 25,000 US and NATO troops in Afghanistan for years to come.
Outgoing Afghan president Hamid Karzai, installed in office by the CIA soon after the 2001 US invasion, loosed a Parthian shaft at his former American allies, asserting they did not want peace in Afghanistan, rather ongoing occupation.
Karzai, who has emerged as a genuine nationalist, has stated that the only thing the US and its allies accomplished in Afghanistan was to kill large numbers of civilians.
Over in Iraq, former prime minister Nouri Maliki, another CIA-installed "asset," also refused to sign a pact allowing long-term garrisoning by US troops. So out he went. Now Karazi joins Maliki, recalling Henry Kissinger's quip that it's more dangerous being America's ally than its enemy.
The US may shuffle the deck in Afghanistan, but its basic problems remain. Ghani, a former academic and banker, is a decent person, but he is far too westernized, has little support among majority Pashtuns, and is widely seen as a willing American collaborator and sock puppet.
His erstwhile rival, Abdullah Abdullah, is the front-man for the Northern Alliance, a Tajik gang from the Panjshir Valley that was a Soviet ally when Moscow occupied Afghanistan.
The Uzbek warlord, Rashid Dostam, a major war criminal and Soviet collaborator, joined the Northern Alliance and became its strongman.
The Northern Alliance collaborated with the US after its invasion, just as Tajiks and Uzbeks had done with the Soviets. Afghanistan's communists gained control of the brutal national intelligence service, interior ministry, police and foreign affairs. But their main business remained narcotics.
The US remains the proud owner of the world's leading producer of heroin. The drug lords that kept Karzai in power are all close US allies. But no one in Washington cares to talk about the dirty underside of Afghan politics or how its government runs on drug money. Foreign aid is the only other source of government income.
Most Pashtuns detest the suave Abdullah Abdullah and his fellow Tajiks. For their part, Tajiks look down on Pashtun as backwards mountaineers. Everyone mistrusts the minority Uzbek and Hazara, both of whom also collaborated with the US occupation or Iran.
Taliban, Afghanistan's most popular and authentic political movement, is predominantly Pashtun. Washington's refusal to talk directly to the demonized Taliban ensures that there will be no real political compromise in wretched Afghanistan, which has been at war for the past 35 years.
The half-forgotten Afghan War has cost the US close to 2,500 dead, 17,000 wounded and over $1 trillion. The "reconstructed" Afghan army will be as likely to collapse without direct US support as was Iraq's army, three divisions of which ran away at first contact with ISIS fighters.
So why does Washington keep pumping billions into Afghanistan, which has no oil? Because, in keeping with imperial logic and strategy, it remains the best pipeline route to export the oil riches of the Caspian Basin south to Karachi on the Arabian Sea. And because Afghanistan overwatches Central Asia, where China is increasingly active.
Lastly, because the mighty US military industrial complex cannot accept being defeated by Pashtun tribesmen. Nor can the American, Canadian, British and French politicians who sent their soldiers to fight and die in this useless war.


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Breaking News:..Like to Eat?..Like to Save Money on Groceries?..Look What's Coming! (O/T)
Why the Retail Crisis Could Be Coming to American Groceries
The American grocery store has so far been mostly immune to the ravages of online shopping and the all around apocalyptic outlook facing the nation's retailers. But a war is coming to the staid supermarket, and that could mean more consolidation, bankruptcies, and falling prices.
An invasion is getting under way. Lidl, a German retailer known for low prices and efficient operations, is expected to start an aggressive U.S. expansion in the coming weeks that could open as many as 100 new stores across the East Coast by the summer of 2018. The company, which runs about 10,000 stores in Europe, has also set its sights on Texas, one of the most competitive grocery markets in the U.S. Analysts expect Lidl to expand to nearly $9 billion in sales by 2023.
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The last thing U.S. grocers need is more cutthroat competition. As the ranks of U.S. grocery stores have swelled, food has become a way for struggling brick-and-mortar retailers such as dollar stores and pharmacies to compete for customers. Even though groceries have been somewhat insulated from online pressure, Amazon.com remains dedicated to cracking the code, finally, on fresh food.
"It's an intimidating time for a lot of these retailers," said Jennifer Bartashus, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. "We're poised to see a lot more change in the next couple of years." These are the five forces that are going shake up the landscape of American groceries.
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These are tough times for the U.S. retail industry, with stores closing at a record pace so far in 2017. It's no secret why: Amazon is gobbling up more and more sales of clothing, electronics, and other items that once drew shoppers to department stores and malls. The grocery business has been a safe haven in recent years. Only about 1 percent of the roughly $1.5 trillion industry has moved online. That's made supermarkets an attractive real estate tenant in an era when other shopping has moved from the mall to the living room couch. The reliability of food sales has also drawn more and more stores into the market for prepared food, snacks, and other traditional grocery items as a reliable driver of store traffic. After all, we have to eat and get more garbage bags.
"It's perceived as relatively impervious to the shift online," James Cook, director of retail research at JLL, said of the grocery business. "For most of America, food is not purchased online."
Now Groceries Are Everywhere
More food is sold in more places these days, with pharmacies and dollar stores looking to groceries to lure customers. Dollar General alone added more than 900 stores last year, ending 2016 with more than 13,000 locations. The chain, which generates roughly 75 percent of revenue from consumable items such as food, soap, and paper towels, is planning to open another 1,000 stores this year. CVS, which operates nearly 8,000 standalone locations, is betting on food to boost store traffic. Like other pharmacies, where shoppers would traditionally visit to pick up deodorant along with a prescription, the chain has boosted its food offerings to add more healthy snacks and grab-and-go options.
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Grocery Prices Are Falling Fast
All this competition has come amid an historic bout of food deflation. Grocers have engaged in a price war that has been a boon for consumers while weighing down on corporate earnings—and those trends will only get more intense once Lidl opens its doors in the U.S. The company has long battled rival German grocer Aldi in markets across Europe. Both companies have taken on entrenched grocers and eaten into market share with their low prices and no-frills stores. Aldi, which has more than 1,600 U.S. stores, has spent the past couple years preparing for Lidl's arrival by aggressively expanding in Southern California and spending $1.6 billion to spruce up its locations. That has put pressure on Wal-Mart and the dollar stores in the competition for budget-conscious shoppers. Wal-Mart Stores, which generates more than half of its revenue from groceries, has been working to improve its fresh food offerings. The retail giant's low grocery prices have made things tough for Kroger Co., the largest supermarket chain in the U.S.
Lidl is slated to open 20 locations in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina this summer and could reach 630 locations over the next six years, according to Kantar Retail. The company had sales of roughly $69 billion last year. Expect Lidl's entrance into the U.S. to ramp up the price war and possibly force smaller, regional companies to close or consolidate. "It's definitely making the regional players nervous," said Bartashus. "It's like a stack of dominoes; it takes one thing to tip it, and they all start moving in one direction."
Food Shopping Isn't a Weekly Behavior Any More
The number of shopping trips Americans made to buy food rose rose 1 percent last year, according to Nielsen data. That may not sound like much, but it's the first annual gain in at least a decade. The shift in shopping behavior is being driven, in part, by the increasing preference for fresh food. Americans are shopping more often and buying fewer items per trip. The weekly trip to load up the station wagon is also being supplemented by everything from meal-kit services, such as Blue Apron, grocery deliveries, and visits to the local farmer's market. The grocery business is known for its razor-thin margins and survival driven by repeat business. The fracturing of this pattern is a long-term risk for grocers, who have responded by boosting prepared food offerings.
Amazon Is Hungry for Groceries
So far, at least, e-commerce has struggled to encroach on the grocery business. Amazon has tried for nearly a decade to find its way into delivering fresh food without much success. Now the online retail giant is opening brick-and-mortar stores, experimenting with drive-in grocery kiosks where consumers can pick up orders, and working on a hybrid supermarket that mixes the best of online and in-store shopping. Even though customers have been slow to adopt delivery for groceries, the business is expanding. There was a time when analysts felt consumers would never buy shoes online because they wanted to try them on. That sentiment is still applied to grocers—most people, the thinking goes, still want to touch the avocados or talk to a butcher. The looming threat of Amazon's encroachment is another potential headwind for the grocery business.
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Q: how to intent another class using json array im developing a quiz wherein i have 10 questions stored. and it is randomly displayed my problem is after that my 10th question i do not know how to intent it to my score class which score must be display of the player recently played the quiz.
this is where the questions is loaded:
public class Question1 extends Activity {

Intent menu = null;
BufferedReader bReader = null;
static JSONArray quesList = null;
static int index = 50;

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.question10);

    Thread thread = new Thread() {
        public void run() {
            try {
                Thread.sleep(1 * 1000);
                finish();
                loadQuestions();
                Intent intent = new Intent(Question1.this,
                        Question2.class);
                Question1.this.startActivity(intent);
            } catch (Exception e) {
            }
        }
    };
    thread.start();

}

//List<JSONObject> question = null;

private void loadQuestions() throws Exception {
    try {

        InputStream questions = this.getBaseContext().getResources()
                .openRawResource(R.raw.questions);
        bReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(questions));
        StringBuilder quesString = new StringBuilder();
        String aJsonLine = null;
        while ((aJsonLine = bReader.readLine()) != null) {
            quesString.append(aJsonLine);
        }

        Log.d(this.getClass().toString(), quesString.toString());
        JSONObject quesObj = new JSONObject(quesString.toString());
        quesList = quesObj.getJSONArray("Questions");
        Log.d(this.getClass().getName(),
                "Num Questions " + quesList.length());

        /*  question = new ArrayList<JSONObject>();
             int n = Math.min(10, quesList.length());
             for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                 JSONObject questions1 = quesList.getJSONObject(i);
                 question.add(questions1);*/

    } catch (Exception e) {

    } finally {
        try {
            bReader.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.e("", e.getMessage().toString(), e.getCause());
        }

    }

}

public static JSONArray getQuesList()throws JSONException{

      Random rnd = new Random();

        for (int i = quesList.length() - 1; i >= 0; i--)
        {
          int j = rnd.nextInt(i + 1);
          // Simple swap
          Object object = quesList.get(j);
          quesList.put(j, quesList.get(i));
          quesList.put(i, object);
        }
        return quesList;

}

this is where the event of the questions:
public class Question2 extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */

TextView question, items = null;
RadioButton answer1 = null;
RadioButton answer2 = null;
RadioButton answer3 = null;
RadioGroup answers = null;
int selectedAnswer = -1;
int quesIndex = 0;
int numEvents = 0;
int selected[] = null;
int correctAns[] = null;
boolean review = false;
Button next = null;
int score = 0;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.startquiz);

    try {
        score = getIntent().getIntExtra("score",0);
        items = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.displayitems);
        question = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.displayquestion);
        answer1 = (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.option1);
        answer2 = (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.option2);
        answer3 = (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.option3);
        answers = (RadioGroup) findViewById(R.id.QueGroup1);

        next = (Button) findViewById(R.id.selected);
        next.setOnClickListener(nextListener);

        selected = new int[Question1.getQuesList().length()];
        java.util.Arrays.fill(selected, -1);
        correctAns = new int[Question1.getQuesList().length()];
        java.util.Arrays.fill(correctAns, -1);

        this.showQuestion(0, review);

    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("", e.getMessage().toString(), e.getCause());
    }

}

private void showQuestion(int qIndex, boolean review) {
    try {
        JSONObject aQues = Question1.getQuesList().getJSONObject(
                qIndex);
        String quesValue = aQues.getString("Question");
        if (correctAns[qIndex] == -1) {
            String correctAnsStr = aQues.getString("CorrectAnswer");
            correctAns[qIndex] = Integer.parseInt(correctAnsStr);
        }

        question.setText(quesValue.toCharArray(), 0, quesValue.length());
        answers.check(-1);
        answer1.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
        answer2.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
        answer3.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
        JSONArray ansList = aQues.getJSONArray("Answers");
        String aAns = ansList.getJSONObject(0).getString("Answer");
        answer1.setText(aAns.toCharArray(), 0, aAns.length());
        aAns = ansList.getJSONObject(1).getString("Answer");
        answer2.setText(aAns.toCharArray(), 0, aAns.length());
        aAns = ansList.getJSONObject(2).getString("Answer");
        answer3.setText(aAns.toCharArray(), 0, aAns.length());
        Log.d("", selected[qIndex] + "");
        if (selected[qIndex] == 0)
            answers.check(R.id.option1);
        if (selected[qIndex] == 1)
            answers.check(R.id.option2);
        if (selected[qIndex] == 2)
            answers.check(R.id.option3);

        setText();
        if (quesIndex == (Question1.getQuesList().length() - 1))
            next.setEnabled(false);

        if (quesIndex < (Question1.getQuesList().length() - 1))
            next.setEnabled(true);

        if (review) {
            Log.d("review", selected[qIndex] + "" + correctAns[qIndex]);

            if (selected[qIndex] != correctAns[qIndex]) {
                if (selected[qIndex] == 0)
                    answer1.setTextColor(Color.RED);
                if (selected[qIndex] == 1)
                    answer2.setTextColor(Color.RED);
                if (selected[qIndex] == 2)
                    answer3.setTextColor(Color.RED);
            }
            if (correctAns[qIndex] == 0)
                answer1.setTextColor(Color.GREEN);
            if (correctAns[qIndex] == 1)
                answer2.setTextColor(Color.GREEN);
            if (correctAns[qIndex] == 2)
                answer3.setTextColor(Color.GREEN);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e(this.getClass().toString(), e.getMessage(), e.getCause());
    }
}

private void setAnswer() {
    if (answer1.isChecked())
        selected[quesIndex] = 0;
    if (answer2.isChecked())
        selected[quesIndex] = 1;
    if (answer3.isChecked())
        selected[quesIndex] = 2;

    Log.d("", Arrays.toString(selected));
    Log.d("", Arrays.toString(correctAns));

}

private OnClickListener nextListener = new OnClickListener() {

    public void onClick(View v) {
        int i = correctAns.length;

        if (v == next){
            if (correctAns[i] == selected[i])
                    {

                        score++;
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Your answer is correct!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    }else
                    {
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Your answer is wrong..." + correctAns, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    }
        }

        quesIndex++;
        try {
            if (quesIndex >= Question1.getQuesList().length())
                quesIndex = Question1.getQuesList().length() - 1;

        } catch (JSONException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        showQuestion(quesIndex, review);

    }
};
private void setText() throws JSONException {
    this.setTitle("Question " + (quesIndex + 1) + "  out of  "
            + Question1.getQuesList().length());
    items.setGravity(250);
}

public void reload() {
    setAnswer();

Intent intent = getIntent();
overridePendingTransition(0, 0);
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION);
finish();

overridePendingTransition(0, 0);
startActivity(intent);
}

A: I am unable to understand why you're trying to run a separate thread in Question1.onCreate(). If you want to load the questions in the background, use AsyncTask. Personally, I prefer to use an IntentService to do background tasks where you want to persist the results. An IntentService is particularly useful for decoding JSON.
You don't say what is happening now with your app, but my guess is that the Activity Question2 never starts. I'm not sure, but I suspect it's because you're trying to start the Activity from a background thread. You could use runOnUiThread() to fix this, but it would be much better to load the questions in an IntentService, send a local BroadcastMessage to your Activity when the loading is done, and then display the results. Also, I'd parse the JSON into a database or content provider.

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Pļaviņas vattenkraftverk () är ett vattenkraftverk i Lettland i floden Daugava (Düna). Det togs i drift år 1965 och har den största installerade effekten i Baltikum och den näst största i Europeiska Unionen. Kraftverket omfattar tio aggregat med en totalt installerad effekt på 893,5 MW. Med en fallhöjd på ca 40 meter ger det en nominell utbyggnadsvattenföring på över 2 500 m³/s.

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Vattenkraftverk i Lettland
Daugavas avrinningsområde


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Camarenilla is a municipality located in the province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. At the time of 2006 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 563 inhabitants.

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Municipalities in the Province of Toledo


Summer vacations are over, and the days are getting shorter. A human reading that last sentence would understand the context and automatically recognize that what's really being said is that the period of daylight is getting shorter. A semi-intelligent machine would likely interpret the sentence as meaning that the sidereal rotation period of the Earth is decreasing from its usual value of 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.100 seconds. Disaster movies aside, we all know that the period of Earth's rotation does not change. Well, actually it does, but just a little.
Astronomers are very good at spotting stars out of place. Since the stars march from horizon to horizon because of Earth's rotation, astronomers are very sensitive to time, as well. Edmond Halley, discoverer of his eponymous comet, noticed variations in the length of day as early as 1695. Much of this variation is predictable, and it cycles annually. Out of the millisecond variation observed over the course of a year, the length of day increases during the northern hemisphere winter, and it decreases in the summer. The cause is a variation in the rotation rate of the Earth, which depends on how the mass of the Earth is distributed. Most of this variation is from the atmosphere, especially changes in the speed and direction of the jet stream. Temperature controls the jet stream, and the seasonal change in temperature therefore affects the length of day.
Aside from this annual cycle, there are longer term variations caused by the Earth's molten core. Richard Gross did a thorough analysis of long term change in the length of day using historical astronomical records from 1832-1997. To smooth the short term variations, he used a technique called Kalman filtering, much beloved by electrical engineers. A summary of his findings appears in the graph below.
Excess variation in the length of day, 1832-1997 (from Ref. 2).
What's more remarkable is recent research that shows that sunspots affect the length of day. A team of physicists from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (France) examined data for the amplitude of the annual variation of the length-of-day over the period 1962 to 2009. The amplitude variation was modulated about 30% by the 11-yr cycle of sunspot number. As the number of sunspots goes up, the length of day goes down. There's a slight phase shift in these data, since the sunspot numbers lead the amplitude by about a year. The Paris team suspects that the mechanism is a sunspot alteration of winds on the Earth. Excess ultraviolet light from the Sun could heat the stratosphere, and that could affect the winds. Of course, much further work is needed, and since the effect is small and happens in an eleven year cycle, don't expect any quick results.
Image of the X-ray Sun near the maximum of the solar cycle by the Yohkoh solar observatory (November 12, 1991, 07:33).
All Days Are Not Created Equal, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Web Site, January 22, 2002.
Richard S. Gross, "A combined length-of-day series spanning 1832-1997: LUNAR97," Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, vol. 123, no. 1, (March 1, 2001), pp. 65-76.
David Shiga, "Sunspots squeeze and stretch the day," New Scientist, issue 2775, August 27, 2010.
Linked Keywords: daylight; Natural language understanding; sidereal rotation period; Earth; Disaster movies; rotation; Astronomers; Edmond Halley; Halley's comet; moment of inertia; jet stream; molten core; Kalman filtering; electrical engineers; sunspots; Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris; France; phase shift; ultraviolet; Sun; stratosphere; Yohkoh solar observatory.


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Keeper at West Quoddy Head Deploys the Tried-and-True
By Maine Lights Today Staff March 18, 2020
The following news story appeared in the Boston Globe on April 22, 1932. The account appeared under the newspaper's column, entitled, "Odd Items from Everywhere."
West Quoddy Head Light Station, Lubec
(U.S. Coast Guard photo)
At the time, Eugene N. Larrabee was serving as keeper at West Quoddy Head Lighthouse – a post he held from 1930 to 1940. Based on the account, it appears that electricity had recently been installed at the lighthouse and the subsequent loss of commercial power during a storm may have resulted in the first outage of the beacon in its storied history. The account appears below…
"The light in the tower at West Quoddy Head, near Lubec, Me., failed to shine this week for the first time since Thomas Jefferson was President. A heavy snowfall, which did extensive damage to many parts of Eastern Maine, cut off the wire system recently installed in the lighthouse.
"Keeper E. N. Larrabee quickly got the old vapor lamp, which had been taken out when the new system was installed, and in a half-hour, a beacon was again provided for the mariners."
A present day view of West Quoddy Head's beautiful third order Fresnel lens.
Historical, West Quoddy Head Light
Maine Lights Today Staff


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HomeIn the cream cheese fiasco of 2021, a new suspect emerges — is it the water?
In the cream cheese fiasco of 2021, a new suspect emerges — is it the water?
Andrew SilversteinDecember 14, 2021By Wikimedia Commons
By Wikimedia Commons
While Manhattan bagel shops are scrambling to meet their schmear demands, for Paul Denise, the Superintendent of Public Works in Lowville, New York, the cream cheese crisis of 2021 reflects a much larger concern: balancing competing water needs in his community.
Lowville, a village of 3,200 people near the Canadian border, is home to one of the nation's largest cream-cheese factories. The Kraft Heinz plant, which supplies New York City with its tubs of Philadelphia, has at times in the last months used more than 80% of the municipality's water to meet soaring cream-cheese demands.
To ensure that Lowville has enough water for essential activities, its board of trustees in November took the drastic step of regulating the plant's water access. The reduction of water use combined with peak season for New York's largest user, Junior's, the Brooklyn cheesecake giant, to form a significant factor in the bagel-spread shortage.
Since The New York Times reported a citywide cream cheese shortage earlier this month, the media has struggled to explain the sudden shortfall. Bloomberg reported nationwide cream cheese production had fallen 6.2% in October, while at-home consumption has increased 18% in the past year. Still, mysteriously, only New York City foodservice providers who buy in bulk have suffered shortages, while the city's store shelves are well-stocked with packaged Philadelphia. Somehow, no other dairy product has been affected.
Lowville: This village of 3,200 people near the Canadian border is home to one of the nation's largest cream cheese factory.
A variety of theories has cropped up: unnamed unvaccinated truck drivers; labor shortages in unspecified plants; and a cyberattack on a Wisconsin cheese producer a full seven weeks ago. The Guardian suggested New Yorkers themselves were at fault: the result of laying it on too thick. And on cue, Republicans took to Twitter to blame President Biden.
Combined with global supply chain problems and high inflation as the economy recovers from COVID-19, the vague reasons for the crisis have sowed fear and uncertainty. If today it's my bagel order, what will come tomorrow?
However, New York's cream cheese woes don't reflect cracks in the overall economy. They are a result of nationwide consumers stocking their kitchens with New York bagels and cheesecakes, and a local issue that predates COVID. Lowville, the upstate New York village where most New York bagel shops get their spread, doesn't have enough water.
A Million Gallons of Water Per Day
By iStock
Key Supplier: Don Merkelson of F & H Dairy in Brooklyn estimates that Philadelphia cream cheese represents 75% of the New York cream cheese market.
According to a Kraft Heinz representative quoted in The New York Times, the company is shipping out 35% more product to foodservice partners than last year. "Exceptional increases in production volumes during the pandemic based on customer demands," Kraft Heinz explained in an October statement to local television station WNYN-TV, "has led to a corresponding increase in our water usage."
Starting in the summer, the plant began to use a significant portion of the 1.5 million gallons of water the Lewis County community is permitted to draw daily from the watershed. "When they were pulling 1.1 [to] 1.2 [million gallons], that didn't leave very much for the rest of the village," said Superintendent Denise. The North Country village has sometimes asked residents not to water their lawns or wash their cars.
One day in August, Kraft used over 85% of the municipality's daily water allotment, dropping the local reserves to a dangerously low level. Lowville declared a water emergency. "If they drain that tank, that tank ultimately supplies the Lewis County General Hospital," Denise said.
The problem is not new. In 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported that an increase in string cheese production was eating up over 80% of Lowville's daily water usage. Local politicians tread carefully around the issue. The factory is so central to the village life they celebrate a yearly cream cheese festival. Kraft Heinz is Lewis County's biggest private employer and the largest purchaser of milk from local dairy farms. A plant closure would be devastating for the rural community.
When a water warning was announced in October, elected officials finally took action. As of Nov. 1, Kraft Heinz must pay surcharges for excess use, and if water levels dip too low, the village will reduce water flow to the factory. According to Denise, since then, the Lowville creamery has been using around 800,000 gallons a day, down from the 950,000 to 1.3 million gallons used daily in the prior months.
Around this time, Don Merkelson of F & H Dairy in Brooklyn said Kraft Heinz started missing orders and sending in light shipments. Merkelson normally receives a 40,000-pound load every two weeks, which he then distributes to between 50 and 100 local bagel shops. "This weekend, we went to Costco and picked up some three-pound loaves of cream cheese just to keep people going," he said over the phone.
Merkelson believes his competitors are also mainly supplied by Kraft. "Most bagel stores prefer to use that brand," he said, estimating that about 75% of New York bagel shops use Philadelphia. Kosher shops, he said, are the exception.
Kraft Heinz didn't respond to emails asking if the reduction in water use may be causing the cream cheese shortage. But Andrew Novakovic, an agricultural economist at Cornell University, believes it to be an important factor in the crisis.
"Many commercial facilities have their own water supply," Novakovic wrote in an email, explaining that "It is often the case that a small municipality cannot accommodate a large scale, modern plant."
Courtesy of Andrew Silverstein
Kraft Work: Lowville's Kraft Heinz plant, which supplies New York City with its Philadelphia, has at times in the last months used over 80 percent of the municipality's water
On a phone call, Lowville Mayor Joseph Beagle resisted the idea that his village didn't have enough water supply to meet demand. "There is no supply issue as far as water goes," he said. Instead, he points to overall labor shortages in Lewis County. The drop in Kraft's water usage, he says, comes from reducing waste and the colder weather helping cooling processes. Superintendent Denise believes Kraft keeps water use below the new limits to avoid negative local news coverage. Both officials and others in the community said the factory was tight-lipped about their production. Workers refused interviews.
In normal times, the upstate plant could satisfy New York City's cream cheese appetite without running the village dry, but this year has seen a dramatic increase in demand. While the media focus has been on bagel shops struggling to schmear, they represent only a segment of the local bulk cream cheese market.
A Perfect Storm for Cream Cheese
By Getty Images
King of Cream Cheese Users: Junior's opened in 1950 as a single Brooklyn restaurant. These days, they sell cheesecakes in 8,000 supermarkets nationwide, have four restaurants, and a booming online order business.
In an interview with Gothamist, Alan Rosen, the owner of Junior's, said the Brooklyn cheesecake giant is going through 120,000 to 160,000 pounds a week of Philadelphia cream cheese. That is six to eight times the amount F & H purchases to stock dozens of bagel shops. Much of that scarce cream cheese gets shipped out of the New York area in the form of Junior's cheesecakes.
Junior's opened in 1950 as a single Brooklyn restaurant. These days, they sell cheesecakes in 8,000 supermarkets nationwide, have four restaurants, and a booming online order business. Their cheesecakes are available in Japan, France and South Korea. In 2019, both of their Times Square locations ranked in the top 10 of the nation's independent restaurants in terms of the number of meals served according to the publication Business Rankings Annual. COVID-19 shuttered the restaurants, but supermarket and online cheesecake sales increased.
"People were looking for comfort food," Rosen said by phone. "We didn't have a down year."
Diners have returned en masse to Junior's restaurants, while retail sales have held steady, now amounting to 40% of overall revenue. The Brooklyn entrepreneur estimates business is up 55% from 2019. Since his cheesecakes are made of 85% cream cheese, Rosen says he goes through 4-million pounds of cream cheese a year — a large share of that during the holiday season.
The creamy dessert is not just found at Hanukkah parties, Thanksgiving dinners and corporate gift baskets; the Jewish cake has become a Christmas staple.
"We do about half our mail order-business in November and December," the third-generation owner explained.
Water may be to blame for New York's cream cheese shortage
Why the story of cream cheese is the story of Jews in America
Andrew SilversteinNovember 30, 2021
When Junior's peak season coincided with the water supply reduction, that might have been the perfect storm. In the past two weeks, Junior's has had intermittent production stops at their New Jersey factory as their supply of Philadelphia from Lowville has fallen short.
"We can be contributing to our own problem," reflected Rosen in discussing his recent growth, but he pushed back when asked if he is making it hard for local bagel shops to get their hands on supply. "I don't think you can blame me for this. But nice try," he said.
Indeed, overall cream cheese demand is up and Junior's is not the only New York brand which has expanded in the national market. Goldbelly, which ships food nationwide and features such New York institutions as Russ & Daughters, Zaros Family Bakery and Ess-a-Bagel, increased revenue by 300% during 2020. Still, Junior's is by far the largest user in New York. "I don't think anyone in the area can touch us," Rosen claimed, adding that Junior's is one of "the top three users of cream cheese in the country."
Rosen doesn't plan on slowing down. He hopes to turn his family business into a billion-dollar company. He's not worried that future supply issues will affect growth. "Kraft is a great partner. And we're not concerned in the long run," he said. Mayor Beagle is also optimistic the local Kraft Heinz factory can increase productivity. The village will add new wells to provide added water capacity starting by next summer.
Lowville may be able to solve their freshwater deficit, but according to professor Novakovic, "In places of the world where climate change reduces water availability, this will definitely be a future factor."
The cream cheese crisis of 2021 will surely pass, even if the entire Midwest starts noshing on New York cheesecakes and bagels like Upper West Side Jews. Inflation and supply chain issues will also be resolved, but water scarcity may not.
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My friends know I attempted to write a cook book a couple of years ago. I spent nearly 2 years developing about 100 recipes for the book but then it broke down in the writing process.
I've decided to start inserting the recipes in my blog. For those who are interested, I've collected them here for easy reference !
A number of years ago, so many now I prefer to forget, I made a Thanksgiving dinner for my extended family. I wanted to try something different from the traditional turkey or ham that had adorned the table for all the years of my youth. A friend of mine, and an extraordinary cook, had once told me how he removed the bones of a chicken before cooking it. I was intrigued. I thought, if he could do this with a chicken, surely I could do the same with a turkey large enough for the family guest list of fourteen! I set about to give it a try.
That year, I made the first meal that was truly a reflection of me. I boned the turkey; created a stuffing of fennel sausage and asparagus; grilled all types of vegetables including baby sweet potatoes and brussel sprouts (a curious family favorite) and personal sized breads. I even tried to make the preparation and display worthy of fine dining.
Ultimately, the culinary calisthenics were lost on my family. Comsi comsa.
What I realized that year was that I no longer was in the shadow of my mother and her mother, and all of those generations before them. I had done a meal that none of them would have dreamed of. It was then and there that I knew I had my own style. I had created my own kitchen.
This book is a mix of recipes, thoughts and musings, and a few stories. It is my hope that, while wondrous for my ego if you were to duplicate my dishes exactly, I would be equally happy to find you had made them your own.
The goal is for you to introduce your own fresh local ingredients, spice to your own liking, and experiment with the foundations I have put to paper, perhaps with tuberous; because, I have realized that no recipe belongs to any one person. We all will make the food reflect our own surroundings, personality, and yes, even our heredity. Food is to be experienced and lauded. It should create new memories and reinforce old ones. If you cook exclusively from a book ,it will be like living in a hotel – pleasant and comfortable, but never truly home.
So read through the recipes and hopefully the stories and background that brought them to life. Then head to the kitchen and make them come to life !


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Keeping The Netherlands on track
NS Dutch Railways safely carries more than one million passengers to their destinations every day. Passenger satisfaction is one of the railway operator's highest priorities, and one of the activities in which NS Dutch Railways invests so as to offer passengers the smoothest and most efficient possible journey is the continuous upgrading and renovation of its trains. The NS Train Modernisation workshop keeps a sufficient number of trains operational to keep the growing number of passengers that use NS services satisfied. Marco Kerstens, Senior Operations Manager at ICT Group, was part of the team responsible for automating this process at NS Train Modernisation.
Digitalisation of the renovation process
The upgrading and renovation of trains is a complex challenge involving many different parts and components. Marco: "When NS inaugurated its new wheel-set re-engineering workshop in Haarlem in 2017, they did not only install new machines, but also decided to further automate the renovation of wheel sets." Renovating wheel sets is a sustainable and cost-effective solution, and with around 100 engineering and planning experts on staff, NS ensures that all 13,000 available wheel sets are literally 'kept on track'. Once a wheel set has been renovated, it is good to go for another 1.2 million kilometres. On arrival in the workshop, the wheel sets are inspected for wear and tear and damage to determine what parts and components need to be replaced or repaired. The next step is to create a workflow for the re-engineering process. "NS selected ICT Group for this project on the strength of our extensive experience in configuring MES software applications," Kerstens continues. MES, an acronym for Manufacturing Execution System, links customer demand from the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system to the machines. "To put it in simple terms, the MES operates the machines digitally when performing the repair work, makes sure they start and stop in time, and collects all the test results and data required. MES really records every movement made. We use barcodes to track all parts and components, which means MES can process, record and store more than 100 tests per wheel set."
During the re-engineering process used for the wheel sets, MES monitors the production parameters, issues an alert when an intervention is necessary, keeps track of the parts and components used per wheel set, and communicates with the ERP system to order or queue components. An additional advantage of an MES is that the system stores all tests and production data in one central location, making it possible to further optimise the re-engineering process based on smart data analysis. Marco: "MES automatically copies all relevant data to the maintenance system. All tests and re-engineering data are kept upto- date, just like all actions performed by the operators, including implementation time and the results of these actions." NS on the automation process: "In addition to its successful completion, the automation project is also of a high quality and was finished right on schedule."
"I am given the freedom to advance my personal mission and live up to my full potential, both personally and in my career."
Fascinating challenge
Automating these types of processes is a complex business. There are many aspects and challenges involved in a production process: apart from requiring technical knowledge, it also calls for knowledge of the discipline, empathy, flexibility and strong communication skills. You start out by asking the client about the functionalities they're looking for, and then come up with a design that you eventually deliver to the client on-site fully operational. It means being involved in all aspects from start to finish! Successfully managing an MES project also requires knowledge of both the hardware and the software (PLC and SCADA). In the case of NS, this included knowledge of the interfaces with the dozens of machines that must generate data, and various software applications. Marco: "For example, all operators in the workshop are equipped with a mobile scanner they can use to communicate with the MES. They use this scanner to store the measured data, scan and check objects, enable and disable tasks, and confirm certain actions." This app was developed by OrangeNXT, a division of the ICT Group.
Important contribution
Marco: "Working at ICT Group involves more than contributing to key processes within the various fields in which we operate." At ICT Group, you and your needs come first and you will be given new challenges and opportunities every day to proactively develop within your expertise. "I am given the freedom to advance my personal mission and live up to my full potential, both personally and in my career." The development and sharing of knowledge is a continuous challenge for ICT Group, with passion and personal ambition being all-important.
Would you also like to work in an environment where you can make the most of your talents, get to use the latest technologies and can contribute to vital processes every day? Check out https://ict.eu/jobs and find the job that's right for you!
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