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Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said a conference of non-BJP chief ministers is likely to be held in Mumbai soon to discuss the prevailing political situation in the country. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to the chief ministers of states where the BJP is not in power underlining the need to discuss the current situation in the country, he told reporters.
“NCP president Sharad Pawar and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray have discussed this and efforts are on to hold such a conference in Mumbai,” Raut said. He said various issues including unemployment, inflation, the “misuse” of Central probe agencies, attempts to create communal discord etc. will be discussed in the upcoming meeting.
Notably, leaders of 13 Opposition parties on Saturday expressed deep concern over the recent incidents of hate speech and communal violence in the country and urged people to maintain peace and harmony. In a joint statement, the leaders including Congress president Sonia Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and her Tamil Nadu and Jharkhand counterparts M K Stalin and Hemant Soren, also raised concern over how issues relating to food, dress, faith, festivals and language “are being used” by the ruling establishment to polarise society.
Raut alleged that recent attacks on processions taken out to mark Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti were “politically sponsored” to polarise voters, especially in the states where elections are due in the next few months. He reiterated his veiled “new Hindu Owaisi” barb at MNS chief Raj Thackeray who has taken an aggressive stand seeking the removal of loudspeakers atop mosques by May 3. “In Maharashtra too, a ‘Hindu Owaisi’ made all efforts to spoil the peace on Hanuman Jayanti. Concerted efforts were made to create disturbances in Maharashtra but people and the police are patient and strong,” he said.
The MNS chief on Saturday performed a ‘maha aarti’ of Lord Hanuman in Pune to mark Hanuman Jayanti. Posters were put up in Pune proclaiming Raj Thackeray as “Hindujannayak” (leader of Hindus), which has riled the ruling Shiv Sena. When asked who he was referring to as a “Hindu Owaisi”, Raut said, “It is clear from some loudspeakers who is the Hindu Owaisi. The issue of loudspeakers atop mosques could have been discussed with the government. But the intention was to create a law and order situation to fulfil BJP’s wish for imposing the President’s rule in the state”. “The BJP used (AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi) in the UP elections, and using the ‘Hindu Owaisi’ in Maharashtra,” he alleged.
Addressing a press conference earlier in the day, the MNS chief had said that he didn’t respond to “lavande” (spineless people) when asked about Raut’s “Hindu Owaisi” barb. Raut said Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti festivals are traditionally celebrated with peace and harmony. “Attacks on these processions were politically sponsored aimed at creating communal discord and polarising voters ahead of the assembly polls in few states. Some political parties are using these two deities for their selfish motives to hurt the unity of the country,” he alleged.


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I have actually had this new airgun for 2 months now. It is an HW77K. Weihrauch, out of Germany is the manufacturer of this .177 caliber airgun. It is considered to be one of the greatest spring piston powered air rifles of all time. I am thinking that it is pretty neat too!
I didn't think so by my first impressions with this gun once I got it. I think that I had read so many reviews about how good the gun was that I had expected a bit more than what it was when I pulled it out of the box and shot it for the first time.
I will spare the details of what didn't impress me but since then, I have changed my mind about this rifle and now I am really enjoying it.
Out of the box it was pretty twangy! Twangy?
That is a word that is used by many to describe the sound that the gun makes when it has been fired. This particuar gun has a large main spring that is compressed when the gun is cocked. After a pellet is loaded into the breech and the lever is in the closed position, the large main spring is held in the compressed state waiting for the trigger to be pulled by the shooter and releasing the spring to drive a piston with a seal on the front end of forward, compressing the air that is in the compression tube, forcing the pellet down and out of the barrel. When the spring, springs, it vibrates. That vibration is transmitted into the surrounding parts of the gun and makes the TWAAAAaaang that is heard to the shooter.
One of the best ways to remedy this twang is to have a snug fit between the guide that the spring compresses onto and the spring itself. That was one of the first issues that I addressed after shooting this gun. It makes a huge difference how the gun sounds when fired and gives a sense of a much better quality product.
There were other issues that I addressed while working on this particular air rifle that add to the overall positive experience of shooting a gun like this. I will spare those details and I will just share what the rifle looks like. Here are a couple of videos that I did when I first got the HW77. You may be able to hear the difference in the sound before and after I worked on it.
I have changed a few things since these videos were taken. One of the main things was changing the stock out for the "old style" sporter stock that is what makes the rifle look better, in my opinion. The "new style" is on the rifle in the videos.
Here are some images with the original (new profile) stock.
Here is a picture of the rifle with the classic stock on it.
Much nicer I think.
I have also de-tuned the rifle some. It is now shooting about 850 fps. I cut the spring down and I also addeed some weight to the piston.
It is shooting really nicely now!


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Sayyid Ammar Al-Hakeem, head of the National State Powers Alliance, chaired the Alliance’s first meeting with representatives of the affiliated Powers in the NSPA and members of the executive offices of the Alliance within the framework of the NSPA’s Secretariat on Friday, September 17, 2021, and discussed the developments of the political scene in Iraq and the forthcoming rights, especially the electoral one.
His Eminence said that the NSPA’s Alliance is a necessity in the next phase for the opportunities it presents to bring about qualitative change and regain the public’s confidence in the political system.
His Eminence stressed broad participation in the elections and indicated broad participation is an expression of the public's confidence in the political system. H.E. also stressed electoral security and freedom of the voter and candidate to express their own vision.
His Eminence said that it’s imperative to invest in NSPA’s acceptability, as it’s nationally accepted. H.E. confirmed the popular and political will to hold the elections on the specified date while stressing the need to compete based on programs.

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Mastering the Market: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from Woburn Abbey
- The Barber Institute of Fine Arts (R14 on campus map)
- Saturday 17 June (10:00) - Sunday 24 September 2023 (17:00)
Masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn, Anthony van Dyck and Frans Hals are among the dazzling selection of paintings from Woburn Abbey that take centre stage in the Barber’s lead exhibition this summer.
The show features one of the largest and most significant groups of Old Master paintings from the important collection of the Dukes of Bedford to be exhibited in a public gallery since the 1950s.
Mastering the Market focuses on themes of patronage and collecting in the innovative 17th-century Dutch art market – from the unique character of artistic culture in the newly independent Dutch Republic, through art dealership and attribution, to the demand for, and development of, new genres.
Complementing the Woburn masterpieces is a small selection of the outstanding Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Barber’s own permanent collection by Steen, Van Dyck and Hals, which will connect with the respective works by the same artists from Woburn.
The exhibition is curated by MA students from the University’s Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies, with guidance for experts at the Barber and Woburn Abbey.
Admission is FREE.

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By Daryl G. Kimball
Today, the U.S. State Department announced that the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) has agreed to implement a moratorium on nuclear weapon test explosions, long-range missile launches and other nuclear activities, including enrichment at its Yongbyon nuclear complex and to allow U.N. nuclear watchdog inspectors in to ensure compliance.
The State Department also said that the United States had agreed to finalize details of a proposed food aid package and to take other steps to improve bilateral ties. According to the State Department statement, the United States reaffirmed that the United States "... does not have hostile intent toward the DPRK and is prepared to take steps to improve our bilateral relationship in the spirit of mutual respect for sovereignty and equality."
"The United States still has profound concerns regarding North Korean behavior across a wide range of areas, but today's announcement reflects important, if limited, progress in addressing some of these," said the Department's spokesperson Victoria Nuland in the Feb. 29 statement.
Concerns still remain, but the news, which follows a Feb. 23-24 round of exploratory U.S.-DPRK bilateral talks in Beijing, is clearly a very welcome and important development.
As I wrote in my column "Next Moves on North Korea" in Arms Control Today last month, "... it is vital that President Barack Obama re-engage the North Korean regime and re-establish a verifiable freeze of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs before they take yet another turn for the worse."
Republicans and Democrats interested in protecting U.S. and international security have an obligation to put election-year politics aside and support the steps announced by the State Department today.
For Washington and its allies in Asia, it is essential that North Korea's nuclear program remain as limited as possible. As I noted in Arms Control Today:
As South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Jan. 2, the Korean peninsula is "at a turning point." Doing nothing in the face of the risk of new and more dangerous North Korean nuclear and missile capabilities is not an option.
Today's announcement is an important step toward a verifiable freeze of the most worrisome North Korean nuclear activities. President Barack Obama and Amb. Glyn Davies--the U.S. point-man on the DPRK--need to maintain the momentum in the weeks and months ahead.


BELLEVILLE, Ill. – The Belleville Area Humane Society cleans up flood debris caused by severe flooding on Tuesday.
The St. Clair Animal Control Center was closed due to flooding on Tuesday. Placement manager at the Belleville Area Humane Society, Amanda Roos, said they went to their partner’s shelter to rescue the animals from standing water.
“I arrived at our partner shelter, St. Clair County Animal Services around 7:15 a.m. when the flooding was in full effect,” Roos said. “We were pulling dogs out of water up to their necks, and pulling cats out and putting everyone in crates, and setting up on the sidewalk to at least get them out of the majority of the floodwaters.”
The Belleville Area Humane Society was unaffected by the flooding, but partnered with Gateway Pet Guardians and Stray Rescue of St. Louis to save pets from the flash flood.
“Animal Control, also known as St. Clair County Services, they are always busy so they were full,” said Kim Vrooman, executive director of the Belleville Area Humane Society. “We were able to evacuate more than 40 evacuated dogs in a short time.”
The dogs were temporarily housed at the Belleville Area Humane Society, but on Wednesday the kennels were empty.
“I think we received over 200 foster family requests yesterday,” Vrooman said. “A lot of outpouring from the community showing up with donations, showing up with supplies or showing up as a volunteer, it was really amazing.”
Vrooman said they are working with St. Clair County Animal Services to determine a plan while they are safe from flood damage.
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Cisco acquires ThousandEyes for $1 billion to expand its portfolio of cloud-based software and bolster its cloud offerings
Cisco has acquired network intelligence startup ThousandEyes in a deal reportedly valued at around $1 billion. In a Thursday announcement, the tech giant said the acquisition of the San Francisco-based ThousandEyes would enable the combined companies to provide customers with an end-to-end view into the digital delivery of applications and services.
As part of the acquisition agreement, Cisco said ThousandEyes CEO and co-founder Mohit Lad will take on the role of GM of ThousandEyes, and Co-Founder, CTO Ricardo Oliveira will continue to drive ThousandEyes product vision and innovation strategy.
Before the announcement, ThousandEyes, which had previously raised $110 million in venture funding, helps businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network. The startup also provides tools to help IT teams determine what’s braking or slowing down apps and websites. Prior to this acquisition, Cisco bought Duo Security in 2018 for $2.35 billion to shore up its capabilities in the authentication space.
Founded in 2010 by Mohit Lad and Ricardo Oliveira, ThousandEyes cloud platform offers unmatched vantage points throughout the global Internet and provides immediate visibility into experience for every user and application over any network, so companies can deliver superior digital experiences, modernize their enterprise WAN, and successfully migrate to the cloud. ThousandEyes is central to the global operations of the world’s largest and fastest growing brands, including Comcast, eBay, HP, 100+ of the Global 2000, 60+ of the Fortune 500, 5 of the 6 top US banks, and 20 of the 25 top SaaS companies.
By bringing together Cisco’s strength in network and application performance with ThousandEyes’ visibility into the Internet, customers will now have an end-to-end view into the digital delivery of applications and services over the Internet, allowing them to pinpoint deficiencies and improve network and application performance across enterprise and cloud networks. This acquisition will also empower enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation, no matter where they are in their journey, by delivering comprehensive visibility into applications and services delivered to customers and employees.
“I’m excited to welcome the ThousandEyes team to Cisco,” said Todd Nightingale, senior vice president and general manager, Cisco Enterprise Networking and Cloud. “The combination of Cisco and ThousandEyes will enable deeper and broader visibility to pin-point deficiencies and improve the network and application performance across all networks. This will give customers end-to-end visibility when accessing cloud applications, and Internet Intelligence will improve networking reliability and the overall application experience.”
Cisco will incorporate ThousandEyes’ capabilities across Cisco’s core Enterprise Networking and Cloud, and AppDynamics portfolios to enhance visibility across the enterprise, internet and the cloud. The acquisition is expected to close before the end of Cisco’s Q1 FY’21. ThousandEyes will join Cisco’s newly-formed Networking Services business unit, reporting to Todd Nightingale.

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BioImage, a Danish drug discovery company, has secured E15.2m second round funding from a group of investors led by Abingworth Management. Existing shareholder Apax Partners and new investor Novo also contributed.
Apax first supported the company in 1999, when it spun itself off from Novo Nordisk. It was the first Danish deal for the firm. Now Apax is looking to commercialise the company’s efforts, said Dr Stephen Thompson, a director at Apax Partners.
“We invested in a company with a proven scientific track record and an excellent portfolio of patent applications. We are delighted to participate in this subsequent financing round, investing in a company that has a commercial, viable patent portfolio,” he said.
BioImage has developed a technology that enables it to monitor intracellular events and protein translocation in living cells, which two years ago was a just a scientific concept. Today the company uses this development as the basis for limiting the side effects produced by certain drugs.
Currently the company has active projects in the areas of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, diabetes, cancers and cardiovascular diseases. It intends to collaborate with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to commercialise its products.
Other recent healthcare investments Apax has made include Affymax, Atugen and metaGen Pharmaceuticals. The firm has invested more than E850m in 60 Healthcare companies.
Abingworth was founded in 1973 and focuses on early-stage life science and biomedical companies. The firm has around $400m of funds under management and has backed more than 50 life science firms. It recently closed Bioventures III LP its third biotech fund at $225m. Since its formation in 1973, Abingworth has raised nine funds, four of which are entirely dedicated to life sciences. Novo is a Danish venture capitalist and part of the Novo Group.


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Volume III deals an research of China's overseas relief and funding to nations outdoor of Asia: in Africa, Europe, the center East, Latin the USA, and Oceania. Africa was once and is an important of those areas and it really is given precise therapy. within the concluding bankruptcy, Copper stories the findings of earlier the volumes, delineates China's most vital victories and setbacks, and notes competition to and feedback of China's relief and funding international relations. Copper supplies proof that might be stunning to a few of the truth that China's monetary support to constructing international locations is likely one of the so much salient developments in overseas politics and constitutes a powerful problem to the USA, Japan, and Europe, in addition to overseas monetary institutions.
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The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) recently released a 59-page booklet in Pashto that has reverberated across the region and the global security landscape. This document's contents are far from inconsequential; it not only nullified the Fatwa issued by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) but also extended an unexpected invitation to low-ranking Taliban members to join its ranks. This development signifies a complex and deeply troubling situation, shedding light on a dispute over religious authority, the fluidity of alliances, and the ongoing power struggle within Afghanistan's turbulent landscape.
The ISKP's rejection of the IEA's Fatwa carries significant implications that reach far beyond a simple theological disagreement. The Fatwa, deeply rooted in Sharia law, was a cornerstone of the Taliban's endeavor to consolidate their rule over Afghanistan following their return to power. By publicly nullifying it, the ISKP not only undermines the IEA's religious legitimacy but also questions the very ideological foundation upon which the Taliban's governance is constructed. This challenge to religious authority within Afghanistan's Islamist landscape reflects a broader pattern of radical groups attempting to shape their own interpretations of Islamic law to suit their political ambitions.
What adds layers of complexity to this already intricate situation is the broader context of extremist factions operating in the region. There's an ongoing nexus between the ISKP and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), aimed at countering the influence and control of the Afghan Taliban (TTA). The TTP, in response to the Taliban's Fatwa, has hinted at a potential alignment with the ISKP's stance in rejecting it. This alignment underscores the intricate web of allegiances and rivalries that define the militant landscape in the region. The ISKP's strategic decision to extend an invitation to lower-ranking Taliban members to join its ranks represents a concerning tactical move. This action is consistent with the playbook of extremist factions, which often seek to weaken their adversaries from within. By targeting the lower echelons of the Taliban, the ISKP aims to sow seeds of internal dissent and discord, potentially leading to fragmentation and instability within the ranks of its rival group. This could have severe consequences for Afghanistan's security landscape, creating additional challenges for the IEA in maintaining stability and control.
The invitation extended to Taliban defectors is a stark reminder of the ever-present threat posed by extremist groups exploiting vulnerabilities within Afghanistan. The country's decades-long conflict has left deep scars, and radical organizations are adept at capitalizing on disillusionment, grievances, and divisions within Afghan society. Such tactics can further exacerbate an already fragile state of affairs, perpetuating violence and instability. It is worth noting that allegations of the ISKP operating as an Indian proxy with an anti-Muslim or anti-Islamic agenda should be subjected to rigorous scrutiny and substantiated by credible evidence. Afghanistan's complex security landscape involves various actors with diverse motivations, making it crucial to base assessments on well-founded intelligence and analysis.
The ongoing ideological struggle between the ISKP and the IEA also raises questions about the nature of extremism and its relationship with religion. Extremist groups often manipulate religious doctrine to further their political objectives, leading to a distorted interpretation of Islam. This distortion not only poses a threat to regional and global security but also tarnishes the image of Islam as a whole.
In conclusion, the ISKP's recent actions, including the rejection of the IEA's Fatwa and the invitation to Taliban defectors, highlight the ongoing turmoil within Afghanistan. This turmoil extends beyond mere political power struggles; it delves into the realm of religious authority and ideological divisions. The alignment between the ISKP and the TTP against the Taliban further complicates the security situation, necessitating the IEA's concerted efforts to assert control and stability.
As Afghanistan grapples with these challenges, the international community must remain vigilant and engaged, striving for a peaceful and stable Afghanistan that can resist the influence of extremist factions. The path toward stability and lasting peace in Afghanistan is undeniably fraught with complexity, but it is a goal worth pursuing for the sake of regional and global security. The world must continue to monitor and respond to these developments with a clear understanding of the multifaceted nature of extremism and the underlying factors driving it. Only through a coordinated and comprehensive approach can we hope to address the root causes and consequences of such extremism, ultimately leading to a more secure and peaceful future for Afghanistan and the region at large.

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Percy Harvin was at Winter Park meeting with Vikings trainers Monday, Dec. 3, but coach Leslie Frazier didn’t know whether the team’s best receiver would be back for this weekend’s game against NFC North rival Chicago.
Harvin hasn’t played since severely spraining his left ankle in a Nov. 4 loss to Seattle.
“I really don’t have much news regarding Percy,” Frazier said. “He did a little bit with our trainer today. We’ll learn a little bit more as the week goes on. Hopefully, we can get him back but there’s no certainty there, obviously.”
The Vikings, 6-6 entering Sunday’s game after having lost two straight, could use a healthy Harvin. Despite missing the past three games, he still leads all Vikings receivers, by a long shot, in receptions (62) and receiving yards (677).
Tight end Kyle Rudolph is next with 45 catches for 412 yards and eight touchdowns, tops of all receivers.
Harvin also leads the team with 575 yards on kick returns and an average of 35.9 yards.
Frazier said it’s clear the Vikings are a better team with Harvin on the field but stopped short of saying he would have made the difference in a 23-14 loss at Green Bay on Sunday.
“What he gives us as a kickoff returner, it’s hard to replace that,” Frazier said. “And what he does for us as a slot receiver. Hopefully, at some point we’ll get him back, but I can’t say we would have won or lost (Sunday) based on his being there or not being there. I just know we are a better team when he’s on the field for us.”
Frazier said defensive end Jared Allen, who was bothered by a shoulder injury Sunday, reported Monday with back spasms and will get an MRI exam, “just to make sure there’s nothing else going on there.”
“We should have him for the (Bears) game,” Frazier added.
— Center John Sullivan has a bruised rib but is expected to be available for practice this week.


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Hemp’s fiber molecule has a shaft-like structure that allows it to wick moisture right off the body, dry quickly, and, in cold conditions, even feel warm when wet.
Hemp fabric is very resistant to degradation from mold, bacteria, salt water, sunlight, abrasion, and chemicals, while being fully biodegradable (unlike synthetic fibers). Products made from hemp are much less prone to develop odor problems.
Hemp provides unparalleled protection from UV radiation.
Hemp textiles have rich and supple texture and tremendous strength and durability.
Hemp is an excellent ecological alternative to environmentally destructive conventional cotton cultivation and synthetics.
Plant fibers breathe much better than leather and synthetics – and hemp breathes better than all other plant fibers.
Hemp fiber is also more environmentally sound than synthetics, because plant fibers are totally biodegradable and have been produced from a natural origin without the pollution resulting from the manufacture of synthetics.
Hemp also has greater ecological benefits than other plant fibers since it is the most environmentally positive of all agricultural crops. It requires no chemicals in its production and actually improves the soil.
Uk hemp attempts to inform the public on all aspects of I hemp, especially those with which you may not be familiar. One of the most important applications of the hemp plant is in the realm of environmental protection, such as its ability to leach radioactivity from the soil, prevent erosion and mudslides, and grow with little or no pesticides. Hemp plants are hardy, adapting to and thriving in almost any climate on the planet. Unlike most crops, rather than depleting the earth, hemp actually helps to prepare the soil for the following year’s harvest (crop rotation). Hemp building materials and plastic products are environmentally-friendly and for the most part recyclable, and are also known to be mould-resistant.
Hemp can, for the most part, reduce the need for many other mass-produced modern raw materials. The fuel industry and other petrochemical products create large amounts of toxins and waste. Compared to common resources (such as cotton), the hemp industry not only results in eco-friendly fibres, fuels, cosmetics, medicines, and so on, it also protects the earth and makes the land more viable for other crops. The cotton manufacturing process is responsible for the utilisation of over 20% of the world’s chemical pesticides and processing chemicals; hemp can be grown and processed with minimal or no chemical use. There are very few by-products from hemp processing, and the small amounts of vegetable matter that are not used are easy to either re-use or dispose of.
With regards to the eco industry, it appears that even modern approaches in environmental protection sometimes accidentally lead to the over-consumption of resources, often non-renewable. Hemp plants help to produce oxygen, prevent deforestation and process greenhouse gases while offering materials for food, fuel, cosmetics, plastic, building materials, medicine, textiles and more. Many large companies producing the aforementioned goods are now considering, or have already implemented, the switch to hemp due to the current worldwide concern towards global warming, climate change and CO2 emissions.
“World over, cotton is the most prominent natural fibre and India too, is cotton-ified so to say. While the cash crop earns thousands of farmers a considerable income, hemp is a viable alternative to it. Take for example the growth period required by both crops. Cotton takes close to 9 months to grow completely. Hemp grows 12 feet in 90-120 days. The time period itself is quite advantageous to the farmers. But hemp is equally beneficial to the soil,
For instance, unlike cotton, hemp requires less water and no pesticides to grow. In fact, hemp is studied to be a great weed suppressor and can be grown on the same land for several cycles. Although the rotation of crop is advisable as it doesn’t deprive the soil of its nutrients like many cash crops that require fertilizers to grow do.Hemp is best grown in hilly terrain with a cool climate


What is Federal Tax Authority in UAE?
FTA stands for UAE Federal Tax Authority. It is the government agency responsible for administering, collecting and enforcing federal taxes and related fines, as well as the distribution of tax revenues and application of tax-related procedures in the UAE. The Federal Tax Authority in UAE was established under federal law by Decree No. 13 of 2016.
What is the UAE VAT declaration?
At the end of each taxable period, VAT Registration UAE businesses are required to file a VAT return with the federal tax authorities.
A VAT return summarizes the earned value of supplies and purchases of a VAT registered business during the tax period and shows the VAT liability of the business.
VAT liability is the difference between the production tax (VAT on the supply of goods and services) payable in a given tax period and the input tax (VAT on purchases) recoverable in the same tax period. If the output tax exceeds the input tax amount, the difference must be paid to the UAE Federal Tax Authority. If the input tax exceeds the input tax, the VAT registered business is subject to excess input tax. You have the right to set off this against subsequent payments to the federal tax authorities.
How do I pay my FTA taxes online?
Once your business is registered with the Federal Tax Authority’s online portal, you can pay your outstanding taxes online using multiple options available on the portal. Businesses must pay the full amount of the tax to the UAE federal tax authorities by the due date to avoid penalties. You can pay using the following methods:
- eDirham or credit card
- Local bank transfer
- international bank transfer
How do I contact the FTA?
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Amateur historian, particularly interested in the woman suffrage and civil rights movements in the U.S.
One of my most prized possessions is a boxed set of the ten plays that make up the cycle. The entertainment value is immense; the cultural value is…
Let’s start with a question—-Can a single newspaper article change the way you see the world?
A vessel is what I can be,
And thoughts are the liquor, the tea.
As ideas go round,
A whirring, a sound,
The unquiet brew that is me.


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Day 12 & 13, Seville: One city, two rainbows and some new friends
Seville's old town is a maze of narrow brick lanes and plazas adorned with fountains and orange trees.
Published on Jan 31, 2011 01:48 PM IST
, SevilleHimali Kothari
The train station of Seville needs to be moved. Or maybe some kind of a vacuum tube can be created which sucks visitors out of the train and straight to the centre of the old town. The periphery is drab and lifeless and it is only when you see the old town you realise why...all the life has gravitated here. This is the point where any visitor to Seville should acquaint himself with this beauty. I am staying at El Cachito, a one room hotel in the old town! It is owned by Alexandra and her husband Andrew. Andrew and Alexandra are both writers, American-born who have been living in Seville for 20 years. Andrew also runs a shiatsu practice from his office next door to EL Cachito. After a few tips from Alexandra, I am ready to start the day.
Seville's old town is a maze of narrow brick lanes and plazas adorned with fountains and orange trees. Yes! Orange trees! Even though I have read about them, the sight still catches me by surprise. Not one or two but dozens and dozens of trees loaded with oranges, line the streets and dot the squares. Seville is the city of must-sees as well as must-dos. I have left the must-sees for the next day and head off to 'do' a walk by the Guadalquivir River. A lush green bank leads off the promenade to the edge of the river. Trees near the edge lean into the river their leaves skimming the water.
Alexandra has advised me to cross one of the bridges and visit Triana. Triana used to be a fishing village and while it is now integrated into Seville it still retains its quaint personality. Little row houses stuck to each other line the river bank. Each one painted a different colour to differentiate it from its neighbour. Pink facades with white-rimmed windows, butter yellow facades with chocolate rims, blues with bright mauve rims...it's an endless parade.
Just as I am about to walk back it starts to drizzle and I have to take shelter under a shop awning. As I look across teh river to the Sevillian skyline, the sun comes out and a rainbow arches across the city. As the sky lightens, the colours of the rainbow get deeper and just when I think it can't get any better than this...it does. A second rainbow appears over the first one! Of course! If the pot of gold is the treasured old town of Seville surely one rainbow can't suffice. I can't tear myself away till the last traces of the 'vibgyor' have disappeared.
Later in the evening, Alexandra and Andrew have invited me for a drink in the plaza with them and a couple of their friends. The blend of lights, residual raindrops on the streets, the fragrance of oranges in the air and good company has made Seville even more enchanting. I ask Alexandra's friend Peter, "How do you guys get any work done here? If I lived in a place like this I would never want to work. I would just sit in one of these plazas and stare open-mouthed at everything around me"
"You can't work here! In Seville, there is only siesta and fiesta."
Now, that makes sense!

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Asking $10,500 OBO. Open to trades/partial trades for CNC vertical milling machines, HD Street Glide, or Road Glide. This is a quality machine built in a professional shop and featured in a national magazine. I've come down considerably on the price, and will not lower any further. Note as well that the bike has a clean NYS title, and is titled as a Gravesend bike, not a "special construction."
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Here’s our first in a series of designer interviews! Get to know Lise, one of the Designlab mentors for our upcoming Design 101 course.
Lise graduated from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. Afterwards, she spent time in Boston doing Web and Graphic Design work. She was most recently the lead designer at Media Armor in Boston and is now the Visual and UI Designer atKloudless in Berkeley. Check out her portfolio, and send her a tweet @leez!
How did you get into design?
In middle school I started making websites for fun using Dreamweaver and Photoshop. I also got involved with working on the yearbook and brought that interest into high school, where I became the design editor.
I went to Northeastern University in Boston for undergrad. I started as a Communications major before I made the switch to Graphic Design after my first year. Northeastern is a pretty unique school that has a 5-year program and the option to do up to three 6-month co-op jobs.
During my first co-op, I did design work for The Patriot Ledger, a Massachusetts newspaper. For my second co-op, I led design for a Boston startup called Media Armor, which handled web/mobile ad analytics. It was a great experience where I was able to work closely with the founders to completely rebrand the corporate identity, designing a logo, business cards, letterheads, and other marketing materials. I also designed and built their website.
I always had an interest in web design, but it’s hard to have all the skills of both a developer and designer. I think knowing HTML and CSS can help a designer bridge the gap to communicate better with developers, especially on the front-end. Learning HTML and CSS is relatively easy, but it’s a bit like learning a language; you have to practice and keep up with it. I love that I get to touch the code. It’s important that a designer follows up on his or her vision (or the mockups).
I joined Kloudless in Berkeley a little over a year ago. They were looking for a designer with skills in traditional graphic design, as well as web and UI design, somewhat of a generalist. The team here is really great and as the only designer I have a lot of freedom in decision-making, which is both good and bad. Bad because I have no other designers to collaborate with and be extra critical of my work—it would be helpful to learn from other design peers. Good because we can move faster as a team without needing too many unnecessary debates. It’s great comparing the early mockups with where we are now. Our brand and our product have definitely improved over time.
How do you view the design world?
I see the design field as fitting into different types of media. Anything can be designed. There are areas of design involving print or packaging, physical product design, environmental design like signage and wayfinding systems, and of course digital and interactive media. I spend most of my time in the digital space, which is a spectrum in itself. You can be interacting via touch, or with a mouse and cursor, or something else in a 3D space. The variable screen sizes we have now, from computer monitors to different smartphones and tablets, have added a new layer of complexity to the design world.
How do you see design changing over the next few years? What areas are hot right now?
There has been a fairly recent rise in designing for interactive media given all the technological advancements we have made. Because of that there has been a ‘new’ focus on UX and UI design, or user experience and user interface design. Even though UX has always been around, it existed without a name, but now it’s a really hot area in design.
Thinking about UX means being analytical. I see it as being composed of:
- Information architecture – to decide what needs to be presented and where
- Research and cognitive psychology – to understand user behaviors
- Wireframing – to go through each potential user step
In line with the focus on UI/UX, responsive design (another buzz word that’s been around for a while) has been a big area of change in design. We are at a point now where the screen size and resolution of our end-users is so varied, that we have to solve some new problems and think of our designs as being more flexible or device-agnostic.
What do you think every aspiring designer should know?
All designers need a good eye, or the ability to be sensitive to small details. At the same time, a designer should be able to step back and look at a project holistically and evaluate if the problem is being solved, or the message communicated well.
I think its essential that (aspiring) designers learn about and gain an appreciation for typography. You can learn a lot about the essentials of graphic design through the study of typography, like visual hierarchy, contrast, and dealing with white space. It also helps to know about the history of graphic design.
As for software, Photoshop is the quintessential program for making website layouts (it’s great with pixel-grid alignment). I’ve used Illustrator for mocking up layouts as well, but it’s better for vector graphics and logos that need easy scaling. Starting out with these two programs is beneficial… and many of their keyboard shortcuts carry over! I should also mention InDesign as the key choice for printed layouts and materials. If you ever have to design a magazine or book, InDesign is your choice.
I personally like to wireframe first on paper then bring it into Photoshop. Actually, I’d advise that designers learn to draw and practice sketching on paper in general. For wireframing on the computer, there are a lot of programs you can choose from like Balsalmiq and OmniGraffle.
How long do you think it takes to become proficient at design?
There are so many areas within design it’s almost impossible to be a master of all. You can probably become proficient in certain areas in as fast as a year. If you want to be really proficient, focus on specific areas you prefer, like web design, then you’ll naturally become a specialist.
How do you get inspired?
Sometimes it’s good to stop doing design or whatever it is you’re doing and just shut your brain off. It helps you take a step back.
Nature is pretty inspiring. It removes me from the screens I’m glued to all day, and it’s just natural and beautiful.
Traveling, seeing other cultures, new cities, and meeting different people helps keep my mind fresh too. When I visited Japan, there was so much to inspire me from the balance between traditional and modern parts of society, to Japanese textile prints and even the ‘cute’ culture. Life sort of becomes a visual library full of fodder for new ideas.
What do you think is vital to know as an aspiring designer?
It seems like a lot of people are interested in design and don’t know where to start.
Dive into a project that gets you excited and ask for feedback from real designers!
Check out Designlab’s new course: Design 101 if you’re interested in learning more about design concepts and bridging the gap from developer to designer!
Slightly modified and republished from The Balanced Designer (with permission).


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Segregation in schools
How the systemic segregation of schools is maintained by 'individual choices' : npr ed journalist nikole hannah-jones says school segregation will continue. Desegregation in public schools contributed by brian j daugherity the segregation of public schools went beyond issues of black and white. Modern-day segregation in public schools the department of education has branded tracking—designating students for separate educational paths based on their. National humanities center fellow leon litwack found that even before the civil war free northern negroes encountered segregation in schools and public. America's schools are getting more and more segregated enforcing the 1954 supreme court ruling that outlawed racial segregation in public schools. Age segregation in school faq, exposing the shameful history of why children are divided into grades by age in school. Define segregation segregation synonyms, segregation pronunciation, segregation translation, english dictionary definition of segregation n 1 the act or process.
Segregated schools are often unable to overcome the challenges of concentrated poverty -- particularly because our state's funding formula has not been. Brown, the kansas girl at the center of the 1954 supreme court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died at age 76. Sweden vows to ban all religious schools in an effort to tackle segregation after taking in a record number of asylum seekers sweden's main governing party proposes. But the growing number of minority and low-income children in the nation’s schools does not mean that their segregation is inevitable, nor that they are doomed. In 1991, the oklahoma city v dowell case ended a federal order to desegregate oklahoma schools this case led to numerous court cases that have diminished.
Michael brown beat the odds by graduating from high school before his death — odds that remain stacked against black students in st louis and the rest. Now, the south is seeing a resurgence of segregation this is the story of schools in tuscaloosa, ala — where a series of backroom deals and difficult compromises. American schools are 'more segregated than they were in the 1960s,' says hillary clinton by linda qiu on thursday, june 25th, 2015 at 4:52 pm.
Linda brown, the plaintiff behind the landmark 1954 lawsuit that ended school segregation, died sunday. Brown was a central person in the historic brown v board of education case that led to the end of segregation at us schools. From elementary through high school, new york city children tend to go to school with others similar to themselves, in one of the country’s most racially.
Segregation in schools
Despite its polychromatic diversity, new york city has one of most deeply segregated school systems in the nation when asked about this last week, mayor. It's a settlement five decades in the making: beginning in august, students in cleveland, mississippi, will no longer attend segregated schools.
- Increasing segregation in american schools today as i walk through our schools and communit people living and socializing where they feel it is most.
- School segregation in the united states began in its de jure form with the passage of jim crow laws in the american south in the late 19th century.
- Is school segregation getting worse plenty of people say yes, including scholars, journalists, and civil-rights advocates for the first time in years, there’s.
- He and several black families were turned away, sparking the brown v board of education case that challenged segregation in public schools.
- Linda brown, who at the age of 9 became the cornerstone figure in the landmark supreme court case that struck down segregation in the nation's schools, has.
Despite a more than half-century-long effort to integrate, statistics indicate that us schools continue to be racially stratified. Journalist and 2017 macarthur genius grant award-winner nikole hannah-jones says that when it comes to school segregation, separate is never truly equal. Linda brown, who as a young girl was at the center of the lawsuit that ended racial segregation in american schools, has died brown died sunday in topeka. Nearly a decade before the supreme court ruling in brown v board of education made segregated schooling of black students unconstitutional, a group of.


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My officially licensed design for The Return of the Living Dead Parts 1 & 2. Created for Gutter Garbs. Shirts Available HERE
Part 4 of my ongoing Horror Heroes and Heroines Series “Scream”
Part 3 of my ongoing Horror Heroes and Heroines Series “Wednesday Addams”
Honored to be able to do a couple shirt designs for Halloween 1978 for Gutter Garbs. Available HERE
Honored to be asked by FRIGHT RAGS to create an officially licensed shirt design for Halloween 2018. Available for purchase HERE
Part 2 of my ongoing Horror Heroes and Heroines series celebrating icons of Horror. 5 colors including a glow in the dark layer
Part 1 of my ongoing Horror Heroes and Heroines series celebrating icons of Horror. 5 colors including a glow in the dark layer
CREEPSHOW 2 created for Gutter Garbs. 24×36
“Everything in this world is magic, except to the magician.”
18×24 printed on Curious Metallic brand Cryogen White paper that sparkles in the light. Regular edition with flesh tone and artist exclusive variant without flesh. Available HERE
My new creation for Gutter Garbs. Thrilled to be able to do a design for one of my favorite 80’s horror movies. Posters and shirts available HERE.
“BE AFRAID BE VERY AFRAID!”
3 color screen print for The Fly designed for Gutter Garbs and screen printed by Delicious Design League
Available HERE from Gutter Garbs
Thrilled to be part of Gallery1988’s 30 Years Later show opening this Friday in Los Angeles. This group show celebrates the films of 1988. Decided to celebrate one of my favorite movies, The Naked Gun and one of my favorite human beings ever, Leslie Nielsen. Prints will go on sale online Saturday on Gallery1988s website and my Bigcartel store. 24″ X 36″ 5 colors.SLHdesign.bigcartel.com
Fun fact about Leslie Nielsen, for 25 years he carried around a small squeezable fart maker wherever he’d go even tv interviews and randomly let out fake farts for laughs and uncomfortable stares. Conan O’Brien once asked him if he ever took it out at an inappropriate time like a date and Leslie said thats the best time to take it out, what better way to find out if someone really likes you. The man was comedy and a total class act. RIP.
Very grateful to be asked to create a design for the 30th Anniversary of Friday the 13th Part VII The New Blood. Fun Fact this film was Kane Hodder’s first appearance as Jason Voorhees. Excuse the watermark, fake Facebook fan sites like to steal artwork. This is a 5 color design. Posters 24X36 and also shirts are available exclusively at Gutter Garbs right now.
“A lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of sheep.”…..Finally done after 4 months. “Queens In The South”, a companion piece to “Kings In The North”. Design is reversed so characters can look at each other also invertible like Kings. 4 colors on Curious Metallic Paper. 20″ X 30″
-Regular Edition: Targaryen Fire Red – Printed on Red Lacquer Metallic Paper.
-Variant Edition: Lannister Gold – Printed on Super Gold Metallic Paper.
-Variant Edition: Purple Reign- Printed on Violette Metallic Paper.
Thrilled to be asked to be part of the John McTiernan art show at Hero Complex Gallery in Los Angeles. John is responsible for some of the most memorable action movies ever made. Director of such films as Predator, Last Action Hero, Die Hard, The Hunt For Red October, Die Hard: With A Vengeance, etc. Big thanks to Delicious Design League for another insanely detailed print job. Honestly the prints are better than the jpegs.
My Predator design “The Jungle, It Just Came Alive And Took Him.” 12″ X 36″
Regular – Silver Metallic ink on red pop-tone paper.
Variant – Nintendo Game color variant bright blue on purple pop-tone paper.
AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE HERE
“We are Groot.” 12″ X 36″. Officially licensed by Marvel. 6 colors on Speckletone Cream paper which gives the piece an organic wood-like look and feel in my opinion. On display and for purchase right now at Hero Complex Gallery in Los Angeles. Copies will go on sale online in about 2 weeks, ill post when that happens so be sure to follow me here and on instagram. Thanks Tommy Parker for the signature pic. The print actually looks better than the Jpeg. Thanks to Delicious Design League for another insane print job.
When George A. Romero passed earlier this year it hit me pretty hard. Most people know him as the godfather of the zombie genre, however he is also responsible for a personal childhood favorite of mine. In 1982 he directed a collaboration with writer Stephen King and makeup special effects master Tom Savini called Creepshow. 2017 marks the 35th Anniversary of Creepshow. It was easy to draw inspiration from the original poster designs illustrated by Joann Daley (Creepshow 1) and Winters (Creepshow 2). As a child, first seeing their depictions of the cycloptic cinephile Death on the covers of VHS copies at the gas station/video store my family would frequent while on vacation in the Stephen King-esqu small town of Alpena, Michigan in the 90s quickly made me the horror fan I am today. You can see and purchase the regular edition at Gallery1988 this Friday the 17th for their Crazy 4 Cult group show from 7pm-10pm. Remainders will go on sale the following day on their website as well as my artist proofs and artist exclusive green variant on my site.
Creepshow Regular (Pink & Blue fluorescent inks)
Creepshow Artist Exclusive Variant (Green & Blue fluorescent inks, Metallic Gold ink)
Both are 24×36
Signed and Numbered
AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE HERE
Feeling very fortunate to be asked to create a piece for Focus Features 15 Year Anniversary Art Show at Gallery1988 this weekend. Such a young company with so many amazing titles. My officially licensed Shaun Of The Dead screen print “You’ve Got Metallic Red On You” is 12×36 inches 4 colors including metallic red. This print is available exclusively through Gallery1988. PURCHASE HERE
“Kings In The North” Had a real blast creating this. Designed to be hung two different ways depending on favorite character or who is currently winning. 20″ X 30″. 5 colors including metallic blue White Walker eyes.
Spent 9 months of my life designing this. Started October 15, 2016 and just got it back from the printers a week ago. Nightmare on Elm Street 3 is one of the greatest sequels and one of the best horror movies ever made not to mention one of my faves. 2017 marks its 30 year anniversary. Can’t thank Delicious Design League enough for knocking this print job out of the park. This will be available this Friday at Gallery 1988: LA for their “30 Years Later” show starting at 7pm.
Edition of 40
5 Colors including Fluorescent Blue and Green
Signed and Numbered
Designed this for Time Beard’s Sci-Fi Show in San Francisco.
4 Colors on Curious Metallic Mandarin Paper
“I am Eternal Child”
Screen Print done for Gallery1988’s group show “KING” A show dedicated to Stephen King
Edition of 50
“Eleven” based off of one of my favorite shows.
12″ X 36″
6 Colors ( 2 Black Light Colors)
Edition of 50
6 Colors including black light pink and blue
KILL BILL VOL. 1 Done for The Logan Theatre and GalerieF.
18″ x 24″
4 Colors on Lemon Drop Pop Tone Paper
Edition of 100
Inspired by Beetlejuice. “Lydia” 12×36 inches. 7 Colors. Edition of 88.
My first ever 24×36. Dedicated to one of my favorite horror movies ever, Fright Night. 7 colors. Edition of only 50
Officially Licensed Screen Print for Aliens. Licensed by Acme Archives and 20th Century Fox and approved by Sigourney Weaver herself. 18×24. 5 Colors. Available for purchase from my store and through GALERIEF
Regular Edition – Yellow Border
Variant Edition – Green Border
Daddy’s Little Monster inspired by Harley Quinn (Suicide Squad) 12×36 inches. 6 colors (2 Metallics) Regular Edition and Holographic Rainbow Foil Edition.
A/Ps can be purchased through my store. Editions can also be purchased through GalerieF
My first print for 2016. The Lion King. Available HERE
18″ X 24″
Edition of 50
Screen Print done for Gallery 1988’s Crazy 4 Cult. 20×30 Inches. 5 Colors.
Regular – Edition of 50
Foil – Edition of 10
Available from GALLERY1988
My officially licensed Day of the Dead shirt design for Fright Rags. Limited quantities available. Purchase HERE

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Trunk or Treat
Another successful KWO Trunk or treat that provided a safe place for children to trick or treat. These events are a fun way to bring families in our community together to celebrate Halloween.
Thrive & Shine: 2022 Whole Health Expo
The Thrive and Shine event at Parmelee Farm was full of resources to support whole healthy choices for the mind, body and spirit, including Reiki, Yoga, Massage, Art, Counselors, Raffles & more! Keynote speaker was Dr. Dorothy Martin Neville who wrote Real Women Change The World: Letting the Good Girl Die so the Real Women Can Live.
Connex Credit Union Support
The Killingworth Women’s Organization would like to warmly extend our thanks to the Connex Credit Union Guilford Branch for selecting us as the coin cashing machine recipient for the first quarter of 2022. Connex generously donated $839.88 to the KWO, which will be used to fund many of our community-wide programs, including the Helping Hands Food Pantry, Domestic and Sexual Violence & Prevention, and our local scholarship program, to name a few. We are incredibly grateful for Connex’s continued support, in both our organization and our community.
Preparing Gift Bags for Mother’s Day
On April 13, each member donation a handful of toiletries and women’s accessories for the New Horizons Women’s Shelter in Middletown, CT. As a result, we had an extensive selection to distribute. Items were packed in bags donated by a local retailer. Each bag will be gifted to a mom at the shelter for Mother’s Day.
Gift Delivery to New Horizons
Domestic Violence & Awareness Month
October marks Domestic Violence and Awareness Month (DVAM), a month of activities that celebrate survivors and raises awareness about the issues and the services available to help victims and survivors. The Killingworth Women’s Organization plans on marking the town with purple ribbons in support of DVAM and to increase awareness. You’ll also see signs around town for the month of October to help raise awareness. Killingworth is a wonderful place but we are not immune to domestic violence in our little town.


The next steel shipping container you see being hauled by a truck or train might not stow the usual mass of lumber, textiles or foodstuffs. It might hold 10 tons of finely interlaced computer servers, ready to be deposited in a parking lot to serve 10,000 employees at a corporate headquarters—or 10,000 people on the Internet. Sun Microsystems has just started delivering these data-centers-to-go, taking the concept of portable computing to a whole new level.
True, the Project Blackbox system is portable only in the industrial sense that it is integrated into a standard 20-foot shipping container. But once delivered to a site, it is almost as self-contained as any laptop. All the system requires is a power cable and an Internet connection—plus a water supply and an external chiller for cooling. As many as 250 servers inside provide up to seven terabytes of active memory and more than two petabytes of disk storage. Perhaps most critically, says Greg Papadopoulos, Sun’s chief technology officer in Menlo Park, Calif., Project Blackbox will deliver that functionality in about one-tenth the time and at one-hundredth the cost of building a traditional computer room of equal prowess.
That prospect means such boxed data centers could not only replace the corporate data center, they could also transform the computer experience for all of us. “Project Blackbox symbolizes a big bet we’re making as a company,” Papadopoulos explains. “It’s a bet that the billions and billions of client machines we’ll have in the future—desktops, handhelds, iPods, whatever—will spend most of their time interacting with the network.” These devices will have little need to store and run common software applications the way most computers do today. Instead they will simply access programs online that enable word processing, spreadsheets, and so on.
This transition is already well on its way, under names such as grid, utility or cloud computing. More and more people use Internet services for e-mail (such as Hotmail), blogging (Blogger), social networking (MySpace), mapping (Google Earth) and other tasks. They do not host the software on their own machines; they just link to it when they need it. Papadopoulos compares the movement to what happened with electricity a century ago: very few of us keep a generator in the basement anymore; we just plug into the power grid and consume electricity as needed.
Powering the Cloud
If cloud computing is the future, the Net will have to get a lot bigger, fast, and Project Blackbox could play a crucial role. Of course, Papadopoulos says, the Internet already has many computational power plants, in the form of big, institutional data centers crammed with hundreds of computers in floor-to-ceiling racks.
The problem is that the generating capacity of these plants is slipping further and further behind the growth in demand. Each new data center has to be custom-designed and specially installed, computer by computer, in a process that can take years and cost tens of millions of dollars. Once up and running, the centers cost a fortune to operate, both because the computer rooms tend to be carved out of high-rent office space and because they require massive air-conditioning around the clock to cool the sea of power-hungry microprocessors. As Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s chief executive officer, put it at the Project Blackbox debut ceremony, “Just about every chief information officer and start-up I meet says they’re crippled by data-center energy and space constraints.”
Sun’s goal is to offer a way out. The big companies such as Qwest, Level 3, Akamai and Google that erect the huge server farms that support the Internet’s ever skyrocketing traffic could add capacity much faster by linking together the prefab containers, saving millions of dollars in the process. They and other firms could also sprinkle Blackboxes around in numerous other places to create nodes in the expanding grid.
At the same time, companies that must expand in-house computing would have new options. A firm in New York City, say, could augment its downtown data center with containers on a rooftop or in a parking garage—or in a low-rent warehouse in New Jersey. An oil company could mount a Blackbox on an offshore oil rig to run on-site operations as well as seismic monitoring. A humanitarian organization could set up emergency data centers to coordinate relief efforts in a disaster zone. The Pentagon could deploy mobile data centers to support combat operations.
Of course, the real-world viability of these installations is only beginning to be tested. Zoning and building codes could make siting tricky in some places. And few parking lots or rooftops come ready-equipped with an industrial 600-amp power conduit, an ultrahigh-bandwidth network connection, a hefty 60-gallon-per-minute water pipe, and a large chiller to cool the water. Security fences, cameras or guards would almost certainly be desired.
Nevertheless, early industry reaction has been favorable. InfoWorld magazine listed Project Blackbox as one of “12 crackpot tech ideas that just might work.” David Patterson, a noted computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who sits on Sun’s technical advisory board, adds that Project Blackbox would allow companies “to put data centers closer to inexpensive or environmentally friendly sources of electricity, like a hydroelectric dam or a wind turbine.” And the spread of Blackboxes, he notes, “could significantly reduce the cost of utility computing—this notion that, in the future, an iPhone or whatever will be the only thing we carry with us, and most of what we do will be an online service.”
An Extended Conversation
Project Blackbox was inspired by a casual discussion two years ago between Papadopoulos and computer inventor Danny Hillis—although in truth, Hillis notes, that chat was only the latest round of a conversation that had gone on for more than a decade. The notion, he says, dates back to when he was chief scientist at Thinking Machines, Inc., a supercomputer maker in Cambridge, Mass., and Papadopoulos was an engineer he had just hired from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“A bunch of us there liked to fantasize about what the world would be like when computers were really small and cheap,” Hillis says. “We loved the idea that you’d have a very simple machine on your desk and a lot of the work would be done back at some really big buildings full of computers.”
Thinking Machines closed shop in 1994, but the conversation continued. A decade later Papadopoulos, who had gone to Sun when that firm bought Thinking Machines’s technology, dropped by to visit Hillis at his new consulting company, Applied Minds, in Glendale, Calif. As the two men were puzzling over how to make the smallest and most energy-efficient computers possible, Hillis turned the question inside out: What was the biggest computer that could be built?
In practice, Papadopoulos reasoned, the biggest computer would be defined by the largest box that could be shipped around. As both men recall, that notion quickly put them onto the idea of building a system inside a shipping container. The container would be the computer.
This idea was not original. Brewster Kahle, another Thinking Machines alumnus, was already trying to supply developing nations with computer systems built into shipping containers. And the U.S. military had experimented with transportable data centers in trucks for field operations. But those designs had been for ad hoc, one-of-a-kind products. No one had done the serious engineering required to design a mobile data center as a mass-producible commodity.
Intrigued, Papadopoulos asked Hillis and his colleagues at Applied Minds to design and build a prototype for Sun. The challenge was trickier than it might seem. Hillis could not just throw a bunch of servers into a container willy-nilly; they would fry themselves. A standard rack of modern servers consumes about 25 kilowatts of power, almost all of which ends up as heat. Conventional data centers are therefore built with plenty of space between the racks to allow for air cooling—a primary reason why data centers tend to consume so much floor space. Inside a sealed container, however, the heat would have no place to go. “That was the number-one technical challenge by far,” Papadopoulos says.
After much trial and error, they found an elegantly simple solution. A standard shipping container is eight feet wide, eight feet high and 20 feet long. Up to 38 servers are stacked like pizza boxes on a frame that looks like a deep, stand-alone bookcase with no back panel. Four of these “bookcases” are spaced out along one wall [see box on opposite page]. A tall, water-cooled heat exchanger is sandwiched between each pair of cases. Another set of four cases and coolers stands along the opposite wall.
In this configuration, hot air from the first case of servers is vented out its back side right into the adjacent heat exchanger. The exchanger draws out the heat and sends cool air into the front of the next case. Heat exits the back of that case into the next heat exchanger, and so on, in a loop that travels down along one side of the container and back around the other side. Indeed, once the door is closed the air circulates in a continuous cycle.
The catch, of course, is that the heat exchangers must exhaust hot water outside the container to the environment or send the warmed water through an external chiller to cool and recirculate it. Either way, because the heat exchangers must absorb large amounts of heat quickly, water must flow through them at 60 gallons a minute, requiring a substantial supply pipe.
Another practical matter is bandwidth. If 10,000 company employees or Internet users are tapping into a Blackbox’s terabytes of memory, its owner will have to run more than a little phone line to it. Sun recommends a dedicated fiber-optic cable. That arrangement is not too taxing for an on-site parking garage, but a downtown company that places boxes in a suburban warehouse or next to a low-cost, rural power plant will have to lease such lines from a regional telecommunications firm. Of course, an owner would have to program the system as well, but most companies choose to do this work so they can customize a data center to their needs.
Hillis’s group had its prototype working well enough by spring 2006 that Sun decided to develop the system for market. Papadopoulos tapped yet another Thinking Machines alumnus to lead the development team: David Douglas, Sun’s vice president of advanced technology.
“In the prototype, they got everything about 80 percent right,” Douglas says. “But now my job was to figure out how we were really going to manufacture these things. How do you take empty shipping containers and stamp out data centers in high volume? How do you drive the cost down and get the reliability up?”
Engineering a Real Product
The result was an endless amount of fine-tuning, he says. Figuring out how to run the plumbing for the cooling system. Installing sensors for standing water so that a leak could quickly be detected. Providing escape routes for those times when people had to be inside a container. Finding a way to run the data cables that interconnected the servers so that someone could still pull out a unit for repair. Putting shock absorbers under each rack of computers so that they could survive the rough landings they would inevitably encounter during transport.
Finally, in October 2006, Sun unveiled the product. (The bright white container was hastily painted black for the occasion.) Papadopoulos says potential customers were intrigued—though not exactly for the reasons he initially expected.
“We were originally excited about making these systems really energy-efficient and inexpensive to operate,” he says. “But the ‘early adopters’ we talk to are much more taken with the notion that Project Blackbox is prefab and fast. People are saying, ‘I need this in 30, 60, 90 days. And I need it to work.’”
Sun will not discuss how many of these early adopters have actually placed orders. “Suffice it to say we have a very robust pipeline of interest,” Papadopoulos notes. “These are guys who are close to meltdown,” meaning they cannot add faster computers to their current systems because they have no way to exhaust the increased heat. “We expected skepticism, and we got it,” he adds. “This is a radical concept in the data-center world. What we didn’t expect, however, was to give a presentation and have people come up afterward saying, ‘I need 10 of these tomorrow.’”
More to Explore
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Mark Levinson. Princeton University Press, 2006.
What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software. Tim O’Reilly. September 30, 2005. Available at www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
Sun Microsystems’s official Project Blackbox Web page: www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/


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So I guess I will use this post as my first of many I hope, in a series of photography shoots. In order to get better and get out of my comfort zone, I need to go out and experiment. I reached out to my friend Mike Lindsay who is just like me, and wants to get better at photography and filming.
So, we packed our bags and decided to meet up on a Sunday afternoon, which just so happen to be a beautiful sunny day. Our journey started at Tim Horton (a coffee chain for those of you that don’t know) we both decided that we did not want to do a nature shoot because we both have been doing that as of late. I was really wanting to do a more urban type of shoot. Going out and taking pictures of old buildings get some graffiti artwork and hopefully get some pictures of people. Since we both live in Kitchener, Ontario which has some really cool old architecture especially in the downtown area. We decided that would be the best course of action. So we parked the car on one end of downtown Kitchener, and we started by taking pictures of the Lang Tanning Co building. Which was an old leather company started by Reinhold Lang when he came to Berlin, Ontario, that is what Kitchener was called before.
Just some really cool and interesting history for ya. Downtown Kitchener has a lot of all buildings, from when Kitchener was first founded. Kitchener has a deep root German history given the name Berlin. It was changed to Kitchener in 1916 because of the first World War and the anti-German sentiment that was in the area.
Right across the Lang building is the Kaufman Rubber Co building which was a shoe making company founded by Jacob Kaufman in 1907. They made brand name boots such as Sorel. The way the brick and white concrete (I think) mixed made for an awesome picture of the main entrance of the building.
From there we just went up King St. and shot some other interesting things. We hit up Kitchener’s city hall area, and it so happened that the Kitchener Comic Con was going on. Really neat, of course not as big as the major Comic Con’s but non the less a really cool experience. Outside of the City Hall building was this really neat looking carriage wheels maybe, and it was interesting the way they were lined up.
Nice and rustic trim around them. Then we came to the interesting part of our journey. Remember how I said I wanted to take pictures of people in natural motion or positions. Well we met Uncle Tuchi or something like that and he was standing in a very interesting way leaning on a railing and staring away.
I go the courage to ask if I could snap a shot of just how he was standing and he said sure. So I snapped away and as we were about to take off he said “hey, do one more to send back home” so I raised my camera and he said “no like this” and snapped it.
Really interesting fellow! Thanks Uncle something. I have to admit for my first time really going out and taking pictures, I loved it. I mean, I love photography; but it really made me appreciate the surroundings we live in. Made me look at things in a new way. Needless to say, Mike and I will be continuing our shoots and it will make for a great series on the blog. Below is more from our shoot.
Till the next one!

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Kang Lee, MD is a primarily located in Point Pleasant, WV, with another office in Gallipolis, OH. Their specialties include Pediatrics. Kang Lee is affiliated with Holzer Medical Center.

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A home for my photographs
Cool photo...love the wide space.
nice to see the ice going.. now all ya need is lots of green on them trees *S*
Nice! There will be a lot of water under some bridge :-)
Beautiful. The water looks cold!
What a beautiful shot.
Interesting. I wonder where this water lead to. Great shotMy Watery Wednesday
It looks like most of the snow is gone. Hope you don't get flooding there.
Great shot. Love to see the ice is going!
It looks spring will come soon. Flowers will bloom soon.
beautiful. I love it, can feel the spring air. :)
I like your photos, you have a nice space here. I wonder...is it going to be larger than usual thaw this year?
There is a whole lotta water in there.
Nice shot .... wish it was happening here too :)
Those are welcome shots.
It look cool and fresh.
Spring is right at the corner! Great photo!
I love your composition and the vanishing point of the river.Looks like there is a little more snow to melt.Have a wonderful week and thanks for your visit.
Lovely! It doesn't look quite that spring-like here...but it's coming!
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Karen this is gorgeous...our rivers are not only thawing, but flooding (even though there is a mix of rain and snow coming down today)... it seems the flood has come earlier this year than in the past.
Come on, Spring!! Glad to see the early signs. Nice shot; thanks for sharing.
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Bulgaria President: It Is Better to Have Economic Crisis than Historic Shame
President Rosen Plevneliev has spoken to a multitude of heads of state and other high-profile politicians attending an international forum marking the 70th Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The event, titled "Let My People Live!", commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945.
Plevenliev told counterparts from around the world that marking the Holocaust Remembrance Day was sending a message of unity to all peoples in the world and the "every leader" has the responsibility of not allowing such a tragedy in the future.
He placed an emphasis on Bulgaria's move to save nearly 50 000 Jews from deportation during World War Two, regretting the country failed to do so for Jews in Northern Greece and parts of Yugoslavia (administered by Sofia for some time during the war) since they weren't Bulgarian citizens.
In his words, "it is better to be facing an economic crisis than a moral catastrophe, we'd better have economic problems than to bear an historic shame". With these words Plevneliev quoted Israeli President (2007-2014) Shimon Peres, who made this comment in 2013 at an exhibition marking seventy years from the saving of Bulgarian Jews that was set up in Brussels.
Bulgaria's head of state also reminded that Sofia was an instance of religious peace and tolerance, with a synagogue, a mosque and two churches (one Orthodox and one Catholic) placed in the heart of the capital.
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The main concept of Newt is that the food and its ingredients should be good for your body. There is a lot of raw food, vegan food and a lot of gluten free food to. It is a place where you can take everyone and where everyone will find something that works for everyone.
We got a quick chat with Maria who is the owner during our visit there and she has a passion for making food that is good and lenient for your body.
Here are all my photos from my visit:

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Andy Murray follows in Roger Federer's footsteps after releasing personal logo
- British No 1 Andy Murray has released his own personal logo
- Roger Federer also has his own logo, an 'RF' which appears on his clothes
- The logo will make its first appearance at the Australian Open
Andy Murray has unveiled his new personal logo, which he will display for the first time at the Australian Open next week.
The design will feature on Murray's on-court bag and training T-shirts in Melbourne.
The world No 6 hired Aesop Agency to come up with the logo, which combines his initials with the number 77.
Andy Murray's new logo incorporates his initials AM and the number 77 - a reference to his Wimbledon title
The logo will make its first appearance at the Australian Open, which starts next week
SPORTS STARS' TRADEMARKS
Roger Federer - Like Murray, the tennis star also has his own logo (RF).
Gareth Bale - In 2013 Bale successfully applied for intellectual property rights to his '11 of hearts' trademark celebration.
Cristiano Ronaldo - The Ballon d'or winner has brought out and entire fashion range under his CR7 logo.
Murray became the first British man in 77 years to win the Wimbledon singles title in 2013, and it is the name of the management company he set up following his second grand slam victory.
The launch of the logo follows Murray's switch of clothing sponsor from adidas to Under Armour.
Dan Calderwood, design director at Aesop, said: 'We wanted to create a modern mark that captures Andy's energy and spirit whilst subtly referencing his affinity with the number 77.
'It's simple and striking, with heraldic cues that echo his dominance on the court.'
Roger Federer already has his own logo, pictured here on his T-Shirt while he trains
Murray in training for the Australian Open while coach Amelie Mauresmo watches on
Murray follows in the footsteps of a number of players, most famously Roger Federer, whose RF logo is ubiquitous at tennis events.
Meanwhile, it was announced on Thursday that Murray will join Federer and world No 1 Novak Djokovic at next month's Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
The Scot lost to Federer in the final in 2012 on his most recent appearance at the tournament, which begins on February 23.
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10 June 2013 13:53 [Source: ICIS news]
LONDON (ICIS)--An initial European June paraxylene (PX) contract has been agreed at €1,092/tonne ($1,436/tonne), down €28/tonne from last month, one producer said on Monday.
The number is broadly in line with current Asian spot levels, which closed last week at $1,430-1,435/tonne FOB (free on board) Korea.
Downstream, the European purified terephthalic acid (PTA) market is experiencing some shortage as a result of reduced output on the back of poor margins.
Following months of depressed demand, the pull for PTA from downstream polyethylene terephthalate (PET) looked like it had begun following a lacklustre 2013 so far.
The European PX contract was agreed on a free delivered (FD) northwest Europe (NWE) basis.
Further confirmation from other players is pending.
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