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The 1394 Trade Association (1394 TA) and Apple have formally announced that the trade group has licensed the "FireWire" name. The 1394 TA is a platform neutral body whose purpose is to promote the development and use of IEEE 1394, FireWire to most Mac users. The 1394 TA is comprised of the many patent holders and manufacturers involved in IEEE 1394. The EE Times reports that the licensing deal is a "no-fee" deal for the 1394 TA.
While Apple introduced the FireWire brand name several years ago, many on the Wintel side of the market used the singularly uninspiring official name of IEEE 1394. Sony markets its own version of the standard as i.LINK. This agreement between Apple and the 1394 TA means that the term "FireWire" will be used to brand more FireWire devices, even from Wintel-oriented manufacturers. This will, in turn, make Appleis products appear to be more mainstream to mainstream PC users.
During the last two years, we have seen more companies branding or co-branding their 1394 products with the FireWire name, but the 1394 TA will now be able to monitor and promote this trend. The press release from Apple:
The 1394 Trade Association (TA) and Apple® today announced that the FireWire® trademark, logo and symbol have been adopted as a brand identity for the IEEE 1394 connection standard in a no-fee license agreement between the TA and Apple. In addition, Apple has granted the TA the right to sub-license the FireWire Trademark for use on products, packaging and promotion of the standard.
With its high data-transfer speed and "hot plug-and-play" capability, FireWire is the interface of choice for todayis digital video and audio devices, as well as external hard drives and other high-speed peripherals. FireWire has become the established industry standard for both consumers and professionals. Analysts predict that FireWire will be included on more than 64 million personal computers and nearly 100 million digital devices by the end of this year.*
Also included in the agreement, which was approved by the 1394 Trade Association Board of Directors, is a new version of the FireWire logo specifically designed for the TAis compliance program. Apple has granted the TA the exclusive right to sub-license the FireWire compliance logo to other vendors.
* Based on information from In-Stat/MDR
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French SuperCup & pre-season friendlies
Bordeaux 0* – Lyon 0 (Pens. 5-4) (French Super Cup, August 2, 2008)
Benfica 2 – PSG 2 (Friendly, August 2, 2008) PSG took a two goal advantage with a brace from Fabrice Pancrate, the first a lovely chipped finish and the second a simple tap-in. Makukula pulled a goal back with a spectacular strike which arrowed into the top corner, before Cardozo toe-poked the equaliser after the Parisians failed to handle a throw-in.
Marseille 0 – Toulouse 0 (Friendly, August 2, 2008)

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You can read more about why I'm doing listings here. Long story short: This curated and decidedly non-comprehensive list contains nothin' but shows that I am going to/would go to if I had more time.
Gig of the week:
Wavelength 686: Class of 2016 #5 (feat. Elliott Vincent Jones / Nailbiter / Germaphobes / Scott Hardware / West Nile) / The Silver Dollar Room 2016-01-22 (Friday) [FB event]
With their last show before next month's sweet sixteen festival, Wavelength is celebrating some on-the-cusp local bands that hew towards the electronic. Expect beats with a bit of grit and some leavening portions of pop.
This week's noteworthy shows:
Christine Bougie/Dafydd Hughes/Julia Hambleton/Andrew Downing [performing the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds in its entirety] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-01-20 (Wednesday – early!) [FB event]
Josh Cole Quartet / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-01-20 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Piano Fest (feat. Jacob Damelin / Steven Foster) / Burdock Music Hall 2016-01-20 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Ways to Blue: A Nick Drake Tribute (feat. Brooke Manning + Steve Sladkowski / Josh Korody / Halloway Jones / Robyn Phillips / Paul Erlichman / Lana Leprich / Stephen Prickett / Brad Casey / Christopher Shannon) / Holy Oak Café 2016-01-20 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Piano Party 4 (feat. Anastasia Tchernikova / Jesse Levine) / Ratio 2016-01-21 (Thursday) [FB event]
BART (The Pinecones) / The Piston 2016-01-21 (Thursday) [FB event]
Meandering Streams of Consciousness (feat. Manuel Morales/Jamie Thompson/Anoush Tabaei/Christopher Weatherstone/Rod Campbell/Jeff Burke/Avesta Nakhaei/Alinima Madani/Kousha Nakhaei/Tilman Lewis/Michael Lynn) / Array Space 2016-01-22 (Friday) [FB event]
Piano Fest (feat. Ryan Driver / Ghislain Aucoin / Alex Samaras) / Burdock Music Hall 2016-01-22 (Friday) [FB event]
Jim Sexton/Colin Fisher/Nick Fraser / Café Pamenar 2016-01-22 (Friday) [FB event]
The Britemores (Hellshovel / The Sulks) / Handlebar 2016-01-22 (Friday) [FB event]
Adam Rudolph: Go: Organic / The Music Gallery 2016-01-23 (Saturday) [FB event]
Alaniaris (Gennaro + Aldcroft) / Array Space 2016-01-23 (Saturday) [FB event]
Phèdre (Above Top Secret / Eytan Tobin / Lyl Gae) / Kapisanan Philippine Centre 2016-01-23 (Saturday) [FB event]
Processor (Five Eyes / Mystic Triangle) / Ratio 2016-01-23 (Saturday) [FB event]
The Veldt (B-17 / Baby Cages / Hot Garbage) / The Silver Dollar Room 2016-01-23 (Saturday) [FB event]
Piano Fest (feat. John Spence / Lisa Bozikovic / Rory Lavelle) / Burdock Music Hall 2016-01-24 (Sunday) [FB event]
Bedroom Projects ["side projects from celebrated Toronto Musicians"] (feat. Mother Tongues / Ed Munstay / Les Monstrès Terribles / Slime) / Handlebar 2016-01-24 (Sunday) [FB event]
LAL / Holy Oak Café 2016-01-24 (Sunday) [FB event]
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Lina Allemano's Titanium Riot (Lina Allemano Four) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-01-26 (Tuesday)
BOBAN [Raphael Foisy-Couture/Logan Mills] (GrieviNg [Rob Grieve/Karen Ng]) / Array Space 2016-01-27 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Ford Pier (Cris Derksen / David MacKinnon) / Burdock Music Hall 2016-01-27 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Endless City: Invocation/1 Year Anniversary show ["Music Futures" discussion + performances] (feat. Jay Holy [solo] / Man Made Hill) / 1161 Dundas St W. 2016-01-28 (Thursday – free!) [FB event]
Endless City: Invoking The Mind/Psychic Lobotomies (feat. Bodies That Matter / Brigitte Bardon't / Babel / Khôra) / 1161 Dundas St W. 2016-01-29 (Friday) [FB event]
Endless City: Invoking the Body/Rhythmic Exorcisms (feat. Ceramic TL / Khobra / Hexzuul + Mandlebrut / Mystic Triangle) / 1161 Dundas St W. 2016-01-30 (Saturday) [FB event]
Endless City: Invoking the Spirit/Vibrational Healing (feat. Cetacea / Cares / Fog Spirits / Blunt Chunks / Cyclopean Wall) / 1161 Dundas St W. 2016-01-31 (Sunday – afternoon show! 12 to 5 p.m.!) [FB event]
Chelsea Shanoff with Wesley Shen / Array Space 2016-02-03 (Thursday – PWYC!) [FB event]
Never No More! [supersized version of Alaniaris!] / Burdock Music Hall 2016-02-06 (Saturday) [FB event]
Scattered Clouds (The Shyness of Strangers / Meeko Cheech / Hilotrons) / Handlebar 2016-02-06 (Saturday) [FB event]
Michael Rault (Marvelous Mark / Beds / Robin Hatch [solo project debut!]) / The Silver Dollar Room 2016-02-06 (Saturday) [FB event]
The Soft Moon (STÜKA) / Lee's Palace 2016-02-11 (Thursday) [FB event]
Disappears (Vallens) / The Garrison 2016-02-17 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Long Winter 4.4 (feat. The Wooden Sky / For Esmé / Pavilion / DATU / Pet Sun / Tokyo Air Show / Ice Cream / North Atlantic Drift / Poster Boy / Kanada70 / Doc Pickles with the Jim Storie Juniors / Kyle Brenders / Dan Fortin / Taylor Hoodlum / Stevenson / Walrus / The Nick Fraser Sextet) / The Great Hall 2016-01-19 (Friday – all ages! PWYC!) [FB event]
Endless City (feat. Fresh Snow / Andrew Roy / Blue Light) / 1161 Dundas St W. 2016-02-19 (Friday) [FB event]
Special Costello (Baby Cages / Bile Sister / XXVII) / Double Double Land 2016-02-19 (Friday) [FB event]
Nap Eyes (Cian Nugent) / The Garrison 2016-04-07 (Thursday) [FB event]
Prince Rama / The Garrison 2016-04-12 (Tuesday) [FB event]
Bleached / The Garrison 2016-04-17 (Sunday) [FB event]
Woods / The Garrison 2016-04-22 (Friday) [more info]


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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Gotta lose some weight
In the past, I have used a pretty simple diet: eat whatever I want during the day; then run at night and don't eat afterwards. This always works, probably because most of my bad snacking happens at night.
These days, though, the Girl works almost every night, leaving me to watch the Lorax. He usually is in a bad mood in the evening so running with the baby jogger is unreliable.
My new plan: calorie counting. I have done this once before, for about three days; Then I went nuts and stopped counting. I like the scientific feel to knowing what I put in my body. It might be fun, actually. I'll aim at 2500-3000 calories a day, which will hopefully yield a slow weight loss.
Of course, the Girl will offer her input in this matter as well. If I am her running coach, she can be my dietician. The way I have slowly gotten her to take an easy day here and there, she has taught me the term "sugar cereal".
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- Drs. Cynthia and David said...
We just posted on this topic. Unlike you, we are trying to lose serious weight (25-30 lbs), and are not in good enough condition to put in serious miles to make it all melt away. We've been low carbing it, which works quite well. I am also interested in just how much carbs a person needs, given that distance running mostly burns fat anyway. I don't know if you have posted on this topic- if so, or if you know of someone else who's put in some effort, please let me know where to look. Otherwise, I am putting in some research time on this and other topics and will share my thoughts at some point. I'd be interested in your views on our post on exercise and weight loss however, if you have the time.
- July 31, 2008 at 2:28 AM
- SteveQ said...
I once counted how many calories I took in. 6800. That's not a typo. Of course, I was counting only because I knew it'd be unusual. Still, I average 4000 when running very high mileage!
For Drs. Cynthia and David: as the brain and red blood cells use only glucose, there's a basal need of 75 grams of carbohydrate per day; this can, however, be formed from gluconeogenesis, so one could theoretically live without carbs.
- July 31, 2008 at 8:55 AM
- Danni said...
Since you're a guy you will probably lose the weight by just thinking about it. :p Girls have the tougher row to hoe.
- July 31, 2008 at 5:56 PM
- Runningdoctor said...
I agree with Steve that you can live without carbs (hence the Atkins success). But it puts the body into a crisis mode that I don't think is beneficial. The Girl just quoted a big study where the Mediterrenean diet beat Atkins in a bunch of parameters (recent issue of New England Journal of Medicine, I believe). I definitely feel Atkins is fading out.
Danni, I know what you mean. It's not fair. Then again, you women can bear babies and you generally look better; you can "chick" guys at races.
- August 2, 2008 at 9:05 AM


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Fixing The Internet(s)
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA blew it. Oh yes, I know that it is a very unpopular stand to blast the person who essentially "Invented The World Wide Web", especially since I'm using his little brainchild to spritz my venom, but heck dude, this sucka is screwed up!
I also know that NetFreaks will see this as tantamount to blasting the Pope for being the Antichrist, but hear me out...
Let's start at the very beginning (it's a very good place to start, according to Maria von Trapp). Sir B-L might have been able to type a mean line of Unix code, but his naming conventions when it comes to URLs betray a fundamental nerditure which has no relevance to reality... and it is this basic flaw that has cost the world endless trillions of useless, pointless and completely unnecessary keystrokes, frustration and waste of (cumulatively) thousands of years of precious time. We've accepted all this Geek Gobbledigook as an indelible part of our lives like death and taxes, when instead it's just the Ivory Tower isolation of one particular misguided Gobbledigeek who foisted this whole mess on us all.
The Unixheads might argue that http:// is necessary in order to tell the computer what it's going to be doing next, so I can't really shoot them down too much as that evil set of seven characters is usually incorporated into browsers and not really a typical part of common usage. I laugh my head off whenever I hear some "novice of the internets" give a URL on TV or radio and start at "h-t-t-p colon, forward slash, forward slash..."
Then we get into the www. It was pointed out to Sir B-L when he came up with this misbegotten mega-alliteration that it actually took longer to say "double u, double u, double u" than to say "world wide web." What in blue blazes does www have to do with anything? It's like tacking on your little label onto the world's addressing system so that everyone will always know that it was you who created it. Why not tjbl then? If you want to self promote, put your initials in it, then at least you can massage your ego properly! But if we're examining actual computer processing requirements, if the http:// isn't enough to get the browser onto the www part of the internet, (and yes, Virginia, www is only one part of the internet) then change the damn http://! Make it httw:// or hw:// or something like that, for cryin' out loud! Keep It Simple, Stupid!
Now we come to the suffix, which has to be the Number One Most Idiotic Convention of the Industrial Age. Good ol' Sir B-L out of his immense wisdom messed this up in such a profoundly idiotic fashion that it's really hard to understand just what the hell he was thinking. Let's tackle the very existence of the suffix. Why in the name of the InterDeities do we even have a suffix? It's completely unnecessary in computer processing requirements so that's not the reason. Sir B-L's blatantly skewed view of the world caused him to misinterpret the activities of the entire world's population into essentially six categories:
- .edu: Education
- .gov: Government
- .mil: Military
- .org: Organizations
- .com: For all those varied and sundry unwashed masses who actually have to engage in mercantile activities to feed their families rather than rely on tenure and fat grants,
- ...and all the nations (plus a whole bunch more that no one really uses).
Why does this make absolutely no sense whatsoever? For enough reasons to fill HubPages' servers with so much verbiage that they'd explode. Let's just deal with the major salient points:
- It's skewed to be USA-centric. Why do all the countries have their own national suffixes but Americans just generally use .com? (Come on... how many .us addresses have you seen?)
- Yes, I know Sir B-L is British, which brings us to the next point. Why is the United Kingdom along with Japan the only countries to have a popular commercial/national suffix? Why isn't there a co.fr, co.it, and co.cn?
- Why have national suffixes at all when anyone anywhere can register a .com? It defeats the entire purpose of having a national suffix at all.
- What was Sir B-L thinking when he gave .tv to Tuvalu, a country which ended up financing its entire economy primarily on its sale of the suffix to the television corporations?
- Why is there no respect for any national alphabetical system other than the ones that originated in Western Europe?
- Since .com is responsible for many times more sites than all the other suffixes put together, why isn't it broken up? Imagine how much better the internet experience would be if .xxx was all porn, .p2p was all file sharing, etc. This way, ISPs could filter and/or charge for various usages differently.
I know, I know... things like .p2p weren't invented yet when Sir B-L put on his propeller beanie and sat down at his cluttered desk to figure out ways to befuddle an entire global generation. However since porn is the oldest human visual activity, it just goes to illustrate the bottom line: This entire convention is broken. Companies and notable individuals have to be the first to register over 250 different URLs to ensure that no cybersquatter is going to hold them hostage with their own name which might be legally registered and trademarked already. And that's just plain wrong.
I have yet to have any internerd adequately explain to me why I can't just type in cocacola or fedex or exxon in my browser and have it go to the proper site, even if from a computer processing requirement the proper address would be hw://cocacola, hw://fedex or hw://exxon? The argument that, say, a German citizen would be directed to an English language site is ridiculous. My IP clearly tells the net where I am, so if I'm accessing from Germany, send me to the German sites of cocacola, fedex or exxon! Once I'm there, if I really want to, I can click on a national flag and go to an English one if I choose, or just bookmark cocacola/en, etc.
Now that the World Wide Web is no longer an academic curiosity but the communications backbone of a planet, we can no longer afford such nerdian complexities. We need to overhaul the entire addressing structure of the internet and we need to start now.
What a great idea Hal I'm gonna connect a drain to the back of my computer and let all those pesky WWW's and HTTP's run out !
So THAT'S how you spell it. xD I'm not very good with languages unless it's ASL or Spanish. And even then, I'm not that great. :-P
I just got that Do Re Mi song stuck in my head. D:
Yes kikaR, I've got the complete sound track too ... reminds me of something. So, it's auf wiedersehen for the moment!
I think with USA giving up their "planet leader" role this will come naturally. More, I think some geeks are putting down some code for this already :)
Yeah, but the Sound of Music's sitting in my video cabinet right now. And I seriously don't want to get "So long, farewell, auviedezane (sp?), goodnight!" stuck in my head for the next several hours...
Thanks KikaR. George R von Trapp belonged to a previous era, long before you were born! LOL!
lol! Quicksand, that was very clever! And quite amusing. :)
Let's not quote the von Trapps' please. I happen to know all the songs, and I will probably get them stuck in my head. ... ... >.< Crap, too late, it already happened.
Once again, a good hub, Hal. You seriously make me laugh too much. :-P
Yeah! Let's start at the very beginning, what a very good place to start. When you read you begin with ABC, when you browse you begin with WWW!
LMAO, that's the way it's gonna be!
all this bs about, url....what else was it ?? surely lost me arounf dt he second paragraph, you a bottle and a nap!? This darn thing changes so much it gives me a headache!!1 it changing at the pace it should change... have not learned anything...from all those back to future movies you've watched?///Da Da!!


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Sometimes I don't know when I dream and when I am awake.
A cacophony of voices assails my ears.
Which are real? Are any?
Am I a princess, or a demon? I have been called both,
But I don't feel like either.
I am just Rose – nothing more, nothing less.
Does anyone truly see me? Many claim
To have my best interests at heart.
But how then, can they speak such opposite things?
I wish I could shut out every voice and just hear
The truth within myself.
But when I do, I find nothing within
Only emptiness.
The sweet trill of birdsong pierces
The barricades I have raised around me.
A hand brushes my veil aside and lifts my chin,
And I see myself reflected in the eyes of One who is Truth.
My pale-moon face with all its lines and crags, exposed –
…Beautiful? Yes.
Who am I? I ask. The answer comes,
Swift and sure: You are my child.And I find that is all I need to know.


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For Ryan's 30th birthday we had Harvey's DNA tested at Petco. After waiting, and waiting, and waiting, I went online to see what was taking so long. I googled the DNA company and found a link that had user comments.... about 75% of the users said stuff like "What a joke!!!" or "Good for a laugh, bad on my wallet!" I was bummed.... we really wanted to know what he was. We were told when we adopted him that he was a "Short-haired St. Bernard." We googled that, and he DOES look like one, but he is 90 pounds, which is pretty small for a St. Bernard. Well, I got the DNA results yesterday in the mail. The results?? According to a professional DNA company, Harvey is primarily boxer, with Italian Greyhound ancestry.... Really?! I definitely see the boxer. I always tell people he's a St. Bernard/Boxer mix.... but an Italian Greyhound mix?! I don't think so. :)
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Italian Greyhound + Boxer = Harvey??
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Awakening from History: Iraq, the Dangerous Diversion
CURRENT AFFAIRSIn James Joyce's classic "Ulysses," Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's alter ego, complains, "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." Right now, America is only beginning to awaken from the nightmare of our misadventure in Iraq.
At the start of the Second World War, after the sudden German Blitzkrieg attack on Poland and the consequent declaration of war by France and England, nothing happened. During the period between September 1939 and April 1940 all was indeed quiet on the western front. Yet the British and French failed to profit from studying the surprisingly innovative tactics exhibited by the German forces in Eastern Europe, and the close cooperation between Nazi ground and air elements.
British planes dropped harmless leaflets on German cities. Along the German border with France a few shots were exchanged. British newspapers called it the "Sitzkrieg." Secure behind their supposedly impregnable Maginot Line and unaware of the carnage that was about to descend on them, the French referred to the inactivity as "la drôle de guerre "--"the phony war."
Another Phony War
We, too, have been engaged in a phony war. Not phony because of inactivity. Phony because we have been fighting the wrong war at the wrong time in the wrong place against the wrong enemy. And we're doing it with the wrong strategy and for the wrong reasons. For those brave and uncomplaining soldiers fighting, making do, and dying in Iraq, it's a real enough war.
It has been dubbed "a war on terror" but never was formally declared. With its skimpy allocation of troops and the puzzling strategy we are employing, it has as much chance of being successful as our ongoing war on drugs. In many respects, it is proportionally a more deadly war than the war we fought in Vietnam. It took a long time for the simple truth to dawn on us that we cannot fight and control an insurgency with a field army intended for a war on the plains of Central Europe. Our preemptive attack on Iraq had a result that could have been easily predicted by anyone familiar with that troubled country's bloody history of fierce resistance to occupation.
Had planners consulted a book titled "The Insurrection in Mesopotamia, 1920," by Lt. Gen. Sir Aylmer L. Haldane, published in England in 1922, they would have found sage advice. General Haldane was the general officer commanding in Iraq--then called Mesopotamia--who overcame guerrilla resistance to British occupation of the country. Place names of hot spots of resistance then are identical with those in today's headlines: Mosul, Fallujah, Najaf, Samarra, Karbala, Tikrit. Haldane's solution in 1920 was to employ armored cars to keep supply lines open. We only got around to armoring all our military vehicles in Iraq after suffering heavy losses in unarmored vehicles.
Gertrude Bell, who might be called "the godmother of modern Iraq," later confessed that the British attempt to establish representative government in Iraq through elections was a mistake. "The stronger the hold we are able to keep here the better the inhabitants will be pleased," she wrote. "They can't conceive an inependent Arab government. Nor, I confess, can I. There is no one here who could run it." For our part, we have encouraged elections in Iraq and the establishment of a government even though we still do not control the heart of the country in which half the Iraqi population lives.
Iraqis may be the least likely candidates for success at self-government in the Middle East. In the 37 years during which Iraq was a kingdom, the country had 57 prime ministers. Participatory government--and any hope of democracy--became moot after the young king's murder by Army officers in 1958, when rule passed to the hands of the Army and then Saddam Hussein.
The Wrong Planning
It has been said that this nation always fights the next war with the equipment and plans of the last war. If that were true of the war are fighting in Iraq, there would be no criticism. The war in Vietnam was a guerrilla war waged by a tenacious enemy. Yet in Iraq, our initial tactics and equipment seemed to be modeled on World War II.
The paradox is that we still do not even control the highway between Baghdad and its airport. In a guerrilla war, there is no front--or rather the front is everywhere. The Pentagon's failure to initially provide an adequate number of armored vehicles to troops in Iraq borders on the criminal.
It was foolish for American planners to base their occupation plans on our experience in Germany and Japan after the Second World War. These were two disciplined societies accustomed to living under rigorous regimentation. After a dozen years of sanctions, and despite the iron hand of Saddam Hussein and the Baath party, Iraq had become a corrupt, opportunistic society of fast-buck operators. Anything and everything was for sale, and the fabric of society had already broken down well before we got there.
Civilians vs. Military
Does the name Eric Shinseki ring a bell? It should. A 1965 graduate of West Point, General Shinseki was injured twice in Vietnam. (He lost a foot the second time and received two Purple Hearts and four Bronze Star decorations.) After serving ten years in Europe, he was promoted to General, named vice chief of staff of the Army in 1998 and served as chief of staff until he retired in 2003.
When he took over as Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld envisioned a different plan of future military action. Preferring defensive weapons against attacks from space and offensive weapons for attacks from the air, his plan did not involve the Army much. Shinseki wanted a new kind of army, one combining the adaptability of light infantry with the power of mechanized heavily armored forces. In May of 2002, although $2 billion had already been spent on it, Donald Rumsfeld canceled the unfortunately-named Crusader heavy artillery project, a self-propelled howitzer designed to fire up to ten 155mm shells per minute as far as 25 miles. (He didn't mind the name; he objected to its size and cost.) Later, General Shinseki would tell a Congressional committee the Crusader weapon system could have saved American lives during Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan.
The unprecedented naming by Mr. Rumsfeld of General Shinseki's successor as Chief of Staff 18 months before his term expired turned him into a lame duck and stripped him of clout. Relations between the general and the defense secretary were never warm--and they became worse in 2003 when General Shinseki testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that occupying and stabilizing Iraq would require "several hundred thousand troops."
General Shinseki's numbers were pooh-poohed as too high by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. Mr. Rumsfeld publicly repudiated him, saying he was "wildly off the mark." The Army invaded Iraq with about 100,000 soldiers. Recent events--the extended and repeated tours duty for our stretched-thin forces, and the continuing casualty figures--have shown how right Gen. Shinseki was.
Interestingly, a RAND Corporation study of occupation forces based on the British experience in Northern Ireland found that the ideal ratio was one soldier for each 20 inhabitants. According to that formula, to control Iraq properly, with its fractious population of about 25 million, would require 500,000 occupying troops.
The Wrong Enemy
For Iraq, Saddam Hussein was as bad as it could get. But he posed no immediate threat to the United States. Yet with monumental illogic, we waged a preemptive war against Iraq. Some experts have suggested that attacking Iraq because of 9/11 made as much sense as a declaration 0f war against Mexico would have made following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The simple truth is that 9/11 should have been treated as what it was--a crime with international ramifications--and the assistance of the countries of the world should have been enlisted in the hunt for the criminals. Our primary adversary should always have been Osama bin Laden, yet he was allowed to escape from our clutches. Now he seems to thrive and issue threatening pronouncements via taped messages from the safety of the tribal area of northwest Pakistan.
Ironically, bin Laden is a creation of the United States, although the U.S. government, probably out of embarrassment, has been singularly quiet about its participation in the recruitment and arming of fighters who forced the Russians in 1989 to abandon their occupation of Afghanistan. After Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), operating at arm's length, organized an Afghan jihad, or holy war, against the godless Russians, with the cooperation of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorateof Pakistan. The CIA provided weapons and recruited candidates from various Muslim countries and facilitated their travel to Pakistan for training.
Arab countries were the main source of fighters, who were jocularly called "Afghan Arabs." Non-Afghan recruits came from Algeria, Indonesia, Kosovo, Chechnya and Sudan. The Pakistani embassy in Algiers issued 2,800 visas to Algerian volunteers in the 1980s. Fighters from all countries trained at Peshawar in Pakistan and received the comparatively high salary of $1,500 a month.
The CIA had hoped to turn up a Saudi prince to lead this jihad but could not find one. It settled for Osama bin Laden, recruited in 1980--with CIA approval--by the head of Saudi intelligence. Osama bin Laden shuttled frequently between Saudi Arabia and Peshawar in Pakistan with Saudi donations for the jihad. By 1986, bin Laden, whose family had made millions in construction, was the major contractor on a large CIA-funded project, the Khost tunnel complex deep in the mountains near the border with Pakistan.
Not many years later, with the Russians gone, bin Laden turned on his erstwhile American employers. In Operation Anaconda, U.S. planes would bomb this same tunnel complex. With peculiar timidity, although American Special Forces troops were at hand, to spare American casualties U.S. commanders would choose to use Northern Alliance fighters of doubtful allegiance to root out Taliban die-hards in 2002 with an almost predicrables lack of the desired result.
Michael Scheuer, author of two books on Osama bin Laden and al Quaida under the pen name "Anonymous," spent many of his years of service as a CIA analyst studying bin Laden. Scheuer's advice in his 2004 book "Imperial Hubris" was not to see bin Laden as a criminal terrorist or as a lunatic, but rather as a talented, clever and brilliant military and political genius, with the attributes of a successful CEO. Scheuer warned that bin Laden has been precise in telling us the reasons he is waging war on us. None of the reasons have anything to do with our freedom, as George W. Bush insists. They have everything to do with U.S. policies and actions in the Muslim world. Scheuer confidently predicted another massive bin Laden attack on the United States. In bin Laden's words, "just as you lay waste to our nation, so shall we lay waste to yours."
Osama bin Laden's long-term strategy is one developed by Gandhi and refined by radical Chicago labor and civil rights organizer Saul Alinsky. It is embodied in the phrase, "The action is the reaction." In his 1971 book "Rules for Radicals," Alinsky wrote, "The real action is in the enemy's reaction. The enemy, properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength. Tactics, like life, require that you move with the action."
The bin Laden action was the bombing of American symbols: the twin WTC towers (wealth), the Pentagon (the military), and (probably) the White House or the Capitol Building (the government). The American reaction exceeded his wildest dreams. We attacked the hated secularist Saddam's Iraq, laid waste to it and removed him from power. Now we are engaged in trying to rebuild it. In bin Laden's words, "The policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy various corporations-- whether in the field of arms or reconstruction--has helped us to achieve our results." What is remarkable about bin Laden as an adversary is that he has so clearly spelled out his intentions and objectives in his many taped messages to the West--an Arab version of "Valdez Is Coming."
For an investment of about a half million dollars, bin Laden succeeded in goading us into attacking a Muslim country and committing us to spending billions of dollars. He has acknowledged that his policy is to bleed America to the point of bankruptcy--and we are foolishly cooperating with him in this. He knows that the soft underbelly of the West is oil, and oil will never get cheaper. Yet we continue to do nothing about reducing our dependence on hydrocarbon fuels.
Despite a record-shattering reward of $50 million offered for his capture, Osama bin Laden still remains at large, a potent threat to the United States and the West. Are most intelligence professionals worried about the possibility of another major incident masterminded by this formidable adversary? Yes, they are very worried--and you should be too.
The "C" Word Surfaces
Five days after the devastating attack of September 11, President George W. Bush alighted from his Marine Corps helicopter on the White House lawn and spoke extemporaneously at a press conference. In response to a question about homeland security efforts infringing on civil rights, he remarked ambitiously that his administration would "rid the world of evildoers," describing the new American purpose as, "this crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while."
Foreign leaders, more sensitive perhaps to problems within their own borders, condemned the unfortunate choice of words. The French foreign minister said, "We have to avoid a clash of civilizations at all costs." Two days after invoking the "C" word, the White House back-pedaled. "President Bush regrets using the word 'crusade,' with all its connotation of religious warfare, to describe his campaign against terrorism," Ari Fleischer, his press secretary, told reporters.
But the damage had been done. Spoken by almost anyone else, the President's statement might have been seen as merely a few ill-chosen words. But coming from an evangelical Christian--in the light of the war that followed--the statement confirmed Muslims' worst suspicions and was taken as tantamount to a declaration of war against Islam. Six months later, President Bush showed that he had learned nothing from the first gaffe. On Feb. 16, 2002, he uttered the taboo word again. In a speech in Alaska, he referred to the war on terror as a crusade, paying tribute to the Canadian armed forces who "stand with us in this incredibly important crusade to defend freedom."
Throughout the Islamic world, "crusade" is a loaded term that evokes the successive Christian medieval wars against Muslims in the Holy Land. It is interesting to note that Iraqi insurgents have adopted a code name for American troops. To them, we are "crusaders." Witness the message left by the suicide bomber who blew himself up in the giant American mess tent near Mosul on December 21. In a tape made by him before the incident, he said that he intended to "take advantage of lunch time when the dining hall is crowded with the crusaders and their (Iraqi) allies." The word crusader has become a universal derisory appelation throughout the Muslaim world for American and British occupation forces in Iraq.
Between the eleventh and the fourteenth centuries, Christian Europe and Islam went from being occasional adversaries to avowed and intractable opponents. The depressing reverberations of this extreme attitudinal change still persist in the world today. There were eight crusades that poured out of Europe, successive rivers of humanity snaking their way to the Middle East, practicing "sanctified violence" against Muslims by raping and pillaging and living off the land. Is it any wonder that the words "crusade" and "crusader" stir bitter folk memories?
Who Incited the Crusades?
If blame can be laid at anyone's doorstep for the enmity generated by the successive waves of crusaders that penetrated the Middle East, it would have to be Pope Urban II. He applied a torch to the powder at the Council of Clermont in 1095. A member of the noble de Lagery family, Urban II was born around 1035 in the Champagne district of France. Baptized Odo (or Otto), upon ascending to the papacy in 1085, he followed papal tradition and became Urban II. His choice of the clergy indicates that he was probably a younger son. The eldest son in each noble family was destined for a knightly future.
Ten years after having been chosen pope, Urban II delivered an impassioned sermon in the French city of Clermont alleging that Christians were being oppressed and abused by their savage Muslim conquerors. He enumerated their misdeeds: enforced circumcision of Christian men; pouring the blood from these "foul practices" on altars or in baptismal fonts; "the appalling violation of women, of which it is more evil to speak than to keep silent."
A call for Christians to set out for the Holy Land to free Christian holy places from the grip of the Muslims. his sermon evoked spontaneous cries of "God wills it!" It was to become the rallying cry of the Crusades. The pope's motives for calling for a crusade were several: The Catholic clergy was rife with abuse; the pope was essentially powerless to change a warring and sinful society. Urban II also saw the Crusades as an opportunity to increase the power of the papacy by reestablishing friendly relations with the Eastern Orthodox Church in Constantinople, broken in 1054 by a bitter argument over liturgical practice.
Alexius Commenus, the Byzantine emperor in Constantinople, had asked Pope Urban II for aid from the West against the Seljuk Turks who had taken nearly all of Asia Minor from him. He hoped his appeal would yield a few thousand mercenaries for his depleted armies. He neither expected nor wanted to be overwhelmed by an independent and unruly force of 100,000 men, women and children that trekked through his domain.
In the Crusades, other targets were Jews. In their passage through Germany and central Europe, CVrusaders extracted money from the Jewish communities of Mainz and Cologne in return for promises of protection that were then not honored. After Jerusalem fell in 1099 in the first crusade, the Muslim and Jewish communities were both slaughtered.
Instead of embracing Eastern Christian sects, the new patriarch of Jerusalem expelled them from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Eastern Christians soon discovered that they had been better treated under Muslim rule than they were in a "liberated" Jerusalem. Eastern Christianity, based in Constantinople, and Islam had actually coexisted for four centuries. Their relationship, although tense, was no more contentious than that between Byzantium and the Slavic or Latin countries to the west. The Crusaders' ultimate goal, the holy city of Jerusalem, remained in Muslim hands, but this had been the case for more than four centuries. In the Iberian Peninsula, overwhelmed by Islamic forces in the year 711, culture, learning and trade flourished, and Spain became one of the most civilized centers of the known world.
It is true that from its earliest days, the Muslim religion had embraced warfare. Muhammad himself had waged a series of bitter campaigns while subjugating Mecca, but the picture of Muslims as brutal oppressors painted by Urban II was pure fiction. By the eleventh century, Muslims were more likely to be waging war against fellow Muslims--Sunni vs. Shiia, a contest that continues to this day--than they were to be oppressing Christians. In fact, the papal picture of Muslims as brutal oppressors was a tissue of lies. For over four centuries Islam had proved to be considerably more tolerant of other religions than was Christianity. Christians under Islam were usually treated with remarkable compassion and tolerance. The Muslim faith acknowledged and respected Judaism and Christianity as creeds with which it had a common devotional tradition and a mutual basis in authoritative scripture.
Unless we familiarize ourselves with the real issues at stake in our so-called "war on terror" and the West's history of exploitation of the Islamic world, we shall not be able to make intelligent decisions. America will pay an intolerably steep price if Islam replaces communism as the next "Satanic foe."
A Dangerous Diversion
The war in Iraq and subsequent occupation of that unhappy and restive country have been a dangerous diversion from our hunt for bin Laden and the war on al-Quaida. Our Iraq folly has inflamed Islamic extremists, inspiring retaliatory terrorism everywhere. American resources--military manpower and equipment, intelligence services and money--should have been devoted to capturing bin Laden and crushing the al-Quaida infrastructure, tracking down its members and protecting the American homeland from assault.
Once it was demonstrated that Iraq was a paper tiger that possessed no weapons of mass destruction, to save face the administration conceived the unctuous lie that our objective all along was to bring democracy to Iraq. We seem to have the impression that democracy is like some all-purpose detergent cleanser that will eradicate the longstanding ethnic and religious rivalries of Iraq and other troubled countries of the Middle East.
How Did the Iraq War Happen?
With an ongoing war costing American taxpayers billions of dollars every month and no end in sight, the question of how we got stuck with the Iraq tar baby is paramount. How did a small band of unelected neocons, who managed to avoid service in the military (we used to call them "draft dodgers"), convince a president not known to be a great reader of history, nor one given to introspection, that an attack on Iraq was an appropriate action? How did they mislead Congress, browbeat the press and intimidate senior professional military officers into accepting their sketchy war plans without question? How was the American public conned into believing their lies? How could the neocons have been so wrong in their predictions that Iraq's oil would finance the war and subsequent occupation or that our troops would be welcomed with open arms and garlands of flowers?
The Iraqi population had already been ground down by years of sanctions enforced by the United States and Britain and attended by shortages of food, medicine and other necessities. Under the circumstances, they could hardly be expected to exhibit friendly feelings toward us. Even more pressing now are the twin questions of how and when can we get out of Iraq and be free of this tar baby. Gen. Tommy R. Franks, who commanded the invasion of Iraq, told the NBC news program "Today," "I think we will be engaged with our military in Iraq for, perhaps, three, five, ten years." That chuckle you are hearing is surely coming from bin Laden reposing somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of the Northwest Frontier province of Pakistan.
One Solution: Return to the Constitution
The way to prevent such situations from occurring in the future may be to adhere to the Constitution in initiating wars. In the last half-century, we have masked them as "police actions" that a supine Congress gives the President the power to pursue. Without adequate public debate on issues, such votes have been little more than rubber stamping of each President's aggressive actions.
Yet Section 8 of Article One of the Constitution, covering the powers of Congress, says, "The Congress shall have Power to declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water." Never mind the quaint capitalization characteristic of the period. The intent of the Constitution's framers is quite clear.
For the record, the last time the U.S. Congress declared war was almost 65 years ago--on December 8, 1941, after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, which also happened to be a preemptive attack. This was followed four days later by the declaration by the Congress that a state of war existed between the United States and Germany and Italy--after these two nations declared war on the United States. Sixty-five years! That's simply too long a time for constitutional government to have been circumvented.
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Creating your own financial plan provides direction. Moreover, it also provides a benchmark from which you can evaluate your progress and helps you to prioritize methodical use of the financial resources. But don't miss out to review your plans from time to time in order to adjust the changing financial circumstances, Eg Inflation, salary increment, increase or decrease in saving etc.
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In order to achieve the financial goal one should increase the net worth on yearly basis. At the end of the year, don't forget to recalculate and compare your current year net worth with previous year and evaluate that whether it has reached its benchmark or not. This can help you plan your finances in a progressive way.
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Make an expenditure plan which includes your income streams and expenses. The plan must include your salary, interest, income, bonus and any other source of income you have and also the outflow section which includes that where your income is invested. To create a right balance the investment should be equal to your income. Having a higher income graph as compared to the investment is more beneficial as like this you will be able to make savings for your future.
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Thank your secretary, administrative assistant, receptionist and other support professionals today – it's Administrative Professionals' Day in the U.S. and Canada!
Let's be honest, where would we be without the help of these professionals? It's no wonder that this day (it's also a week) has become one of the most celebrated workplace observances with community events, social gatherings and the recognition of these staffers with gifts.
According to the International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP), this year's theme is centered on celebrating all office professionals. "The recession has hit everyone in the office. Downsizing has forced all of us to pull together and work harder, not just the administrative professionals in the workplace. IAAP recognizes the hard work and sacrifice from everyone. This year, celebrate all office professionals."
Created as National Secretaries Week in 1952, it got its start from Harry F. Klemfuss a publicist out of New York. He joined forces with the National Secretaries Association (now the International Association of Administrative Professionals) to encourage more people to consider careers in the field. As the politically correct terms and range of responsibilities have changed, so too have the titles of this celebrated occasion. What started out as National Secretaries Week became Professional Secretaries Week in 1981 and later Administrative Professionals Week in 2000.
U.S. Department of Labor Statistics suggest that there are more than 4.1 million secretaries and administrative assistants working in the U.S. with another 8.9 million working in various administrative support roles. Let's celebrate them all today.
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There was much excitement in a packed Kentish Town Community Centre on Saturday when the completed building project was officially opened.
The line-up of buggies outside looked like it was competing for a Guiness World Record, and inside many of their usual occupants were hard at play in the walled garden as their parents listened to the speeches inside the spacious, airy main hall.
Tribute were paid particularly to the staff who had stayed through the temporary move to Greenwood Place and back, and Cathy Crawford, the Chair of Centre, pointed out particularly to the politicians present (including Camden's mayor, Abdul Quadir, whose chain proved a great attraction with the younger set, and local MP Frank Dobson) how the centre had listened to its users in designing its new shape, and how successful that listening had been in its growth in recent years.
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Chinese companies and other global players are showing an increasing interest in fulfilling China's electric vehicle ambitions. China has not been too successful thus far in promoting electric cars to the fullest and realizing the full potential of this market.
But this could soon change with two Chinese automakers winning an approval from the Beijing municipal council for the sale of electric cars. These companies are BYD Co. (a company that is partially backed by Warren Buffet) and BAIC Motor Co. Shares of the former spiked by 9.6% in Hong Kong following the news of approval.
The all- electric crossover vehicle from BYD has witnessed considerable sales in Shenzhen, a city in southern China, given that the company is based out of this city. However, most of these vehicles are used as buses or taxicabs.
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DescriptionIn Lugaru the players takes under his control an anthropomorphic rabbit, adept of various melee and long-range combat techniques. His name is Turner, his wife has been killed and his only son kidnapped by a band of rogue raiders. At first, the task seems clear, however soon a tangled up conspiracy begins to unravel itself. The brave kung-fu rabbit will have to face wolves, bandits and even treacherous friends to fully understand what exactly is going on.
The prominent feature of Lugaru is a unique combat system that takes advantage of skeleton animation in mix with rag-doll physics. The players will have access to various actions at their disposal, each one resulting in different move depending on the context in which the action was performed. The list include simple attacks, attack reversals, counter-reversals, long-range knife attack and a strong rabbit kick. Sometimes, it stands to reason to remain undetected and sneak up on the enemies from behind taking them out one by one. As the game progress additional weapons become available, like sword or staff, each one with the techniques of their own.
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ControversyShortly after the release of the Mac App Store in February of 2011, Wolfire Games reported on their blog that an effectively pirated version of Lugaru HD was being sold through Apple's service. While Wolfire already offered the game through the store as "Lugaru HD" for $9.99, the pirated version was listed using the previous title of "Lugaru" by an individual named Michael Latour with the developer iCoder for $0.99 (later being raised to $1.99). When pressed about the issue, iCoder developer Alex Matlin argued that the re-selling of the title qualified as fair-use under the open-source GPL license which the game was released under, despite the license reading: "Wolfire has allowed the data to be freely redistributed for non commercial purposes, but it is forbidden to use in any revenue generating works."
Despite contacting Apple the day that the counterfeit was spotted, the pirated version of the game was not removed from the App Store until over a week later, by which point it had reached #60 on the Store's sales pages. Wolfire was not contacted by Apple in any way, nor were they informed about what would happen to customers who had purchased the pirated version. As a result, they invited anyone who had purchased an illegitimate copy of the game to contact them in order to receive a legitimate copy of the game and a bonus Steam key.
GraphicsOn May 2009, a pack with high resolution textures was added by default to the game. This textures were developed by a fan of the game called Tim Soret. Since that addition, the game was renamed as "Lugaru HD".
Release historyPrior to the launch of Overgrowth, Wolfire Games announced to give away copies of Lugaru for free to anyone who joined the Free Lugaru for Overgrowth Fans event on Facebook and became a fan of Overgrowth on the social network.
Information also contributed by MichaelPalin.
Related Web Sites
- Lugaru (Official site)
St. Martyne (3655) added Lugaru (Macintosh) on May 01, 2008
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CA Pawan Kumar
According to the Proviso of sub-rule (1) of Rule 6 of the Service Tax Rules, 1994 reads, "Provided also that the service tax on the value of taxable services received during the month of March, or the quarter ending in March, as the case may be, shall be paid to the credit of the Central Government by the 31st day of March of the calendar year." Even otherwise, interest @18% per annum is chargeable under Section 75 of the Finance Act, 1994, for delayed payment of service tax. There are cases where industries pays excess service tax to the credit of Central Government due to miscalculation of service of value, pending of the information regarding the actual receipt of the values of the taxable services provided or paid service tax to the credit of Central Govt. on services which was later not provided for any reason which later appears that excess service tax has been paid. How we can adjust the excess payment of service tax against the future liability or Is there any period or monetary restriction for such adjustments?
As Illustrated: Whether the excess payment of service tax of Rs. 10 lakhs during the month of March, can be adjusted straightaway throughout the tax liability due for April, or it can be adjusted in the coming months if any balance left?
In the contrast this with sub-rule (3) of rule 6 of the Service Tax Rules, 1994, which reads,
"(3) Where an assessee has paid to the credit of Central Government service tax in respect of a taxable service, which is not so provided by him either wholly or partially for any reason, the assessee may adjust the excess service tax so paid by him (calculated on a pro rata basis) against his service tax liability for the subsequent period, if the assessee has refunded the value of taxable service and the service tax thereon to the person from whom it was received."
In the above scenario, where an assessee paid service tax in advance, who later on did not provide any service, hence there was no liability on his part to pay the service tax in the first instance, as per the above sub-rule, in case he refunded the service tax to the person from whom he received, can adjust the amount without any restriction on the amount or the period. Notice the words, 'for the subsequent period' in the above sub-rule (3) against the words, 'for the succeeding month or quarter' of sub-rule (4A)
Sub-rule (1A) of rule 6 of the Service Tax Rules, 1994, which reads as follows.
"(1A) Without prejudice to the provisions contained in sub-rule (1), every person liable to pay service tax, may, on his own volition, pay an amount as service tax in advance, to the credit of the Central Government and adjust the amount so paid against the service tax which he is liable to pay for the subsequent period:
Provided that the assessee shall: intimate the details of the amount of service tax paid in advance, to the jurisdictional Superintendent of Central Excise within a period of fifteen days from the date of such payment; and indicate the details of the advance payment made, and its adjustment, if any in the subsequent return to be filed under section 70 of the Act;
Explanation: For the removal of doubt, it is hereby clarified that in case the value of the taxable service is received before providing the said service, service tax shall be paid on the value of service attributable to the relevant month, or quarter, as the case may be."
In the above case, an assessee can pay service tax in advance and adjust the same as and when he receives the taxable value on pro rata basis during the subsequent period. There is no restriction as to the amount and the period of adjustment, as in the case of non–provision of service mentioned in sub-rule (3) of rule 6. Notice the words, 'for the subsequent period' in the above sub-rule (1A), against the words, 'for the succeeding month or quarter' of sub-rule (4A).
Sub-rules (4A) and (4B) of rule 6 of the Service Tax Rules, 1994 which are relevant, read as follows.
"(4A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (4), where an assessee has paid to the credit of Central Government any amount in excess of the amount required to be paid towards service tax liability for a month or quarter, as the case may be, the assessee may adjust such excess amount paid by him against his service tax liability for the succeeding month or quarter, as the case may be.
(4B) Reason for adjustment: Adjustment shall be possible if excess payment of service tax for a month/quarter (as the case may be) shall be for any reason other than following:
(i) wrong interpretation of law;
(ii) Taxability, classification or valuation of taxable services;
(iii) Applicability of any exemption Notification
(ii) Monetary limit: Excess payment made for a month/quarter (as the case may be) can be adjusted within a monetary limit of Rs. 2 lakh. However, Adjustment of excess payment made, in case of Centralized Registration, due to delay in receipt of details from other offices (branches), can be done without any monetary limit.
Amendment: W.e.f.01.04.2012, rule 6(4B) has been amended vide notification no. 3/2012 dated 17.03.2012 to remove conditions mentioned in column (ii) & (iii) hereinabove. Now, adjustment of excess payment of service tax made can be adjusted without any monetary limit. Further no intimation is required to be filed with Superintendent. However, adjustment of excess payment made shall be reflected in service tax return of the assessee.
Sub-rule (4) of rule 6 reads as follows.
"(4) Where an assessee is, for any reason, unable to correctly estimate, on the date of deposit, the actual amount payable for any particular month or quarter, as the case may be, he may make a request in writing to the Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise or the Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case may be, giving reasons for payment of service tax on provisional basis and the Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise or the Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case may be, on receipt of such request, may allow payment of service tax on provisional basis on such value of taxable service as may be specified by him and the provisions of the Central Excise (No.2) Rules, 2001, relating to provisional assessment, except so far as they relate to execution of bond, shall, so far as may be, apply to such assessment."
So, in the cases of advance payment, centralized accounting system and non-provision of taxable service, there is no restriction as to the amount and period, as to the adjustment of excess payment of service tax. In the case of excess payment (rule 4A & 4B) simpliciter alone, such adjustment can be made only once during the subsequent month or quarter, as the case may be, without any monetary limit.
For example: An assessee paid an excess service tax of rupees 5 lakh in the month of March, and his liability to pay service tax for the month of April is 2 lakh rupess, so 2 lakh rupees can be adjusted out of excess payment of 5 lakh made in march, but the balance of 3 lakh rupees cannot be adjusted due to period restriction and therefore the assessee has to claim refund for the balance amount of 3 lakh rupees.
The reasons for the stipulation of period restrictions imposed on adjustment of excess payment of service tax (sub-rule 4) appears improper, although the alternate path of filing of refund claim is available, which is a bit cumbersome procedure when compared with the self-adjustment of excess payment of Service Tax by the assessee.
Initially there was a restriction on Monetary limits also but by virtue of the notification no. 03/2012 dated 7/03/2012 the Monetary limits has been abolished by the finance act but Time limits for adjustment of excess service tax payment is still a issue before us.
Hence it is advisable and equitable that the Govt should also lift the period restriction of sub rule 4A of rule 6 of Service tax rules 1994.
Name : Pawan kumar
Mobile No.: 9953419880
(The views expressed are personal of the author)
Dear Sir,
I have paid excess Service tax on Dec, 2016 due to calculation error which comes out to be Rs. 24,000/- in excess. After that, I had not paid any service tax to the government. Sir, how can I claim the refund of such excess payment? Please reply asap
My vendor submitted his invoice of October 2016 in the month of December 2016. We paid the amount in Dec'16.
Can I get the set off of the service tax paid on the October invoice ?
we are partnership firm we provide services my client have paid us 50% Service Tax and rest he will paid on behalf us. How to file ST3, please guide me
Due to wrong interpretation of law we paid excess kkc in months of may and the same i want to adjust in months of june. can i take a pre approval of assessing officer.
how to adjust excess amount of last quarter to next quarter in service tax return (ST-3) online
Sir, We are Pvt. Ltd. Company & service tax provider on Renting of Immovable Properties. We are raising our bills on monthly/Quarterly basis to our clients/ service receipents. But for the last 5 – 6 years they have not paid our service tax regulary, they have paid in instalments. Now they says that we should raise the bills in current date with current rate (form 10% & 12.36% & 14 % previous rates of service tax to current rate i.e. 15%) to claim our pending service tax from them. Is it possible? What will be effect on our liabilities. will there be any penalty from the department regarding issue of duplicate bills in current date with current rates?
Sir, If Service provided in the month of April '16 are of Rs. 1,00,000. Invoice raised by Service Provider is Rs. 1,00,000 + Service Tax thereon Rs. 14500 i.e. Rs. 1,14,500. Payment made to Service Provider is Rs. 1,14,500. However, on review by Service Receiver it was observed that actual service provided were of only Rs. 80,000 and Service Receiver has made an extra payment of Rs. 20,000 + Service Tax thereon Rs. 2,900. Please tell me, how can this be settled in the next month's billing, if Service Provided in the month of May '16 are of Rs. 1,20,000.
Dear sir
sir someone taken fully cenvat credit during the period of service tax payment. sir pls let me know how i will do the calculation of service tax with rule 6.


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Brooks is producing a political thriller he helped write, "Enhanced Interrogation," which he said addresses the current issues of terrorism and torture in America. He hopes to shoot the movie in
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When: 23rd March
Where: TCAT Tiverton
Who: Drive Chain + Zoltar Speaks.
The Venue, a warm, amazingly lit hall with a large stage worthy of any big band. A huge drum kit sat on a high rise surrounded by white Gothic-esq, Victorian lamp posts. The scene was well and truly set for the highly anticipated return of DriveChain. But the biggest surprise of all? We were in Tiverton high school's school hall and the lead singer of this Heavy metal band taught English here for 4 years and the bassist was a student! This really was their Home ground show.
And first up to bat was Zoltar Speaks, a Minehead based, female fronted melodic rock band, boasting their high energy shows and they did not disappoint. From the word go Zoltar Speaks engaged the crowd, instantly wowing. Their heavy melodic, almost funk sound went down well with everyone head banging and dancing. They played a mixture of old and new songs showing of the full range of their talent but what really stood out was when they played the track from there new video release titled 'Last man standing'.
All of them pushed it and played their hearts out to this song, very impressive with the front row stood in awe. The drummer and the bassists played what seemed to be a well rehearsed carefully placed marriage of skill and ability to create a sturdy foundation on which the guitars built there chunky yet melodic phrases. All tied together, you had a catchy and powerful sound that any metal lover would bang their heads to. The lead singer, Louise, fully commanded the audience's attention, making full use of the stage and showing of her powerful vocals with one innocent bystander commenting that it was "mind blowingly good"
When asked what they were up to for the rest of the year, they kept it close to their chests with guitarist Ollie stating "We definitely have lots in the pipe-line, the video's just come out, loads of PR is getting done, keep watching!" And I agree! This band is absolutely one to watch in the future, they have so much energy and showmanship they really opened up the gig, getting ready for the main event.
Now for those of you who don't know, DriveChain is a 4 Piece Metal band that disbanded 2 years ago, their influence still lingered around the local southwest music scene though, with many bands looking up to and learning from them, hoping to fill their shoes whilst they were gone. But no longer it seems.
Ascending the stage they leapt straight into their set, with the song 'First to this Fire' as if they had never left before. Instantly it was seamless even with their new, female bassist, Chrissy Slevin, who was not only performing live for the first time with the well-known rockers but was running the whole gig, being the promoter!
One of the highlight songs was 'Salvation' which took all fans back to the old days and had everyone singing along. One thing I really like about this band is their sound is raw and basic. It takes you back to the classic, simple, no fuss metal days of bands such as 'American Head Charge' and 'Drowning Pool'. Impressive really in this day and age with everyone striving for a new sound. They make old school cool. Yet they still have an edge, keeping current and fresh. Fair enough they haven't got a highly technical edge but they are still thoroughly melodic and strong, with clear and seamless vocals, backed by memorable, fast paced guitars. A well oiled-machine grinding out those pounding rhythms.
I caught up with lead singer Matt after the show who told me that it was really good to be back here, especially in the place that he once taught. "It's good but strange, I walked through these doors every day for 4 years and then just stopped." On Stage he gushed to the crowd about how amazing the crowd were, adding after, "Tiverton is the place to gig, even better than Exeter!" And it's true, the crowd at this gig welcomed them back like heroes, singing along and moshing best they could. So it looks like the infamous Drive Chain are back for good, when asked about what's different now to how it was, Matt replied;
"There's not as much pressure anymore, it's much more relaxed, it's not like I'm turning up to the third practice in one week and thinking 'I have to look at your face again!'
As the crowd fell out the hall at the end of the gig, overall the consensus was that everyone had pretty outstanding night, the first of its kind in Tiverton's own TCAT, and not the last with hopefully a regular metal night to be hosted in the venue. Its community run, so all of the profits go back into the venue to improve the facilities and to get more decent entertainment in! So definitely keep your eyes peeled for more face melting metal coming Tiverton's way!
Go check the Bands out!
Drive Chain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOZ6ZcCp-DM
Zoltar Speaks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTC8j84bmM


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A freak Caolan Lavery debut goal on 68 gave Chesterfield a rare but deserved win at Meadow Lane.
Manager Paul Cook, who had his own contract extended to 2017 this week, has brought in five new faces during the transfer window but only Caolan Lavery starts alongside fit again Armand Gnanduillet in attack. Ian Evatt returns at the back to boost the physicality to cope with giant Hungarian striker Balint Bajner.
Shaun Derry's Magpies themselves brought in seven players last month as he looks to turn around a run of just one win in 11 games. Experienced Alan Smith returns for County.
An all action first half but down to some fine goalkeeping, it was goalless at the break.
Chesterfield were backed by a significant following for the game began on a pitch that is clearly not in the A1 category; County share with the City's Rugby Union club, and the pitch no doubt played a part in the selection of Evatt ahead of Raglan, although his solid showing off the bench last week against Doncaster will have been the greater part of the selection dilemma.
Lavery made a turn on the right corner of the box and drove a low ball in that eluded both keeper Carroll and striker Gnanduillet as the game started cautiously.
Hollis was booked for a foul on Gnanduillet.
Clucas forced a good close range save from Carroll after a brilliant O'Shea run but from the break out Bajner shot just wide showing the speed County are capable of getting forwards.
Clucas's header from Jones' free-kick was caught by Carroll, who had one of the games of his life at the Proact in the 1-1 draw earlier this season.
Hayhurst delivered from the left, Bajner gathered and Lee made a superb block but the loose ball fell kindly for the striker who then hit wide from three yards.
Thompson raced by Hird, who'd slipped and his close ranger ran up Lee's leg and clipped the post before being cleared.
Hird made a tackle and Ryan set O'Shea off. His ball to Lavery saw the Owls loanee's angled shot palmed wide by Carroll and from the corner Gnanduillet headed wide.
Ryan's left footed volley was gathered at the second time of asking by Carroll as the game continued at pace. Adams darted into the box and Lee had to save at his feet and the keeper had to repeat the feat to deny Noble.
O'Shea's free-kick found Gnanduillet but he under hit the header though it fell for Lavery whose close ranger was blocked on the line.
Gnanduillet's header was straight forward for Carroll as Chesterfield restarted positively. O'Shea should have hit the target, he shot high, after Clucas's run and pass.
Bajner's shot clipped an ankle to earn County's first corner, Morsy cleared. Bajner was denied by Hird as the hosts started to get into the action. Ryan's cross won Chesterfield a corner on the right, Clucas delivered and the ball just eluded Carroll but was cleared and County rapidly made ground but didn't make the most of their advantage.
Gnanduillet headed Ryan's cross just over at the visitor's bossed play, Carroll had to stoop low to halt O'Shea's low effort.
Jones replaced Smith for Notts. Lavery's shot was under hit and Carroll gathered as Spireites pressure needed to lead to a goal to avoid the risk of a County counter-attack.
That lead came on the 68th minute. A long ball from Evatt bounced over Hollis and he went in to pass back from 35 yards but as the ball came down and the defender kicked, LAVERY got a foot in and the ball looped miles over Carroll to give Chesterfield a deserved, if freak, lead.
Adams conceded a corner as the goal buoyed the Blues.
Harrison came on for Lavery. Dumbuya won a corner, though the full-back claimed his cross hit Jones's hand. A second corner resulted but O'Shea cleared. Thomas replaced Noble.
Darikwa was booked for a foul on Hayhurst. Carroll arrived just in time to nick the ball off the toe of Harrison. Hird was booked for a foul on Garry Thompson.
Hollis escaped a second yellow when he pulled down Harrison 25 yards out. O'Shea hit high. Dieseruvwe replaced Gnanduillet.
Five minutes of additional time wasn't what Spireites' 1,838 fans wanted to see but the visitors didn't come under any late pressure to risk their lead. Notts: Carroll, Dumbuya, Adams, Smith, Mullins, Hollis, Hayhurst, C.Thompson, Noble, Woolery, Bajner. Subs: Pilkington, G.Thompson, Thomas, Jones, White, Daniels, Edwards.
Chesterfield: Lee, Darikwa, Hird, Evatt, Jones, O'Shea, Morsy, Ryan, Clucas, Gnanduillet, Lavery. Subs: Chapman, Raglan, Humphreys, Duffy, Harrison, Dieseruvwe, Banks.
Ref: Keith Stroud (Dorset).


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8pm-10pm: Dinner and drinks!
-Brooklyn Grange Crudité with Honey Vinaigrette
-Whipped Cheese and Greens Taco with Honey Mole
-Honey Baked Ham, Refried Beans Tostadas Lime, Brown Butter, Radishes, Greens and Bread
-Honey Mustard Chicken, Sausage, Corn and Cheese Tamale and Honey Butter
-Ice Cream Sandwiches
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