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none                                                             L. Geng
Internet-Draft                                              China Mobile
Intended status: Informational                                  L. Qiang
Expires: September 6, 2018                                        Huawei
J. Ordonez
O. Adamuz-Hinojosa
P. Ameigeiras
University of Granada
D. Lopez
Telefonica I+D
L. Contreras
COMS Architecture
draft-geng-coms-architecture-02
This document defines the overall architecture of a COMS based
network slicing system.  COMS works on the top level network slice
orchestrator which directly communicates with the network slice
provider and enables the technology-independent network slice
This Internet-Draft will expire on September 6, 2018.
Geng, et al.            Expires September 6, 2018               [Page 1]
Internet-Draft               Network slicing                  March 2018
2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
3.  Overall Architecture  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
4.  Advanced Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
5.  Integration with NFV  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
9.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
Network slicing itself is a new concept triggered by vertical
industry, but that doesn't mean new forwarding technology is needed.
As an example given by [draft-arkko-arch-virtualization] shows, there
are multiple existing technologies could be used for network slicing
- VLAN tags are used in an ethernet segment, MPLS or VPNs across the
domain.  If the storage and computing resources are considered, there
will be more available technologies (e.g., SFC).
Let's follow IETF's routine and image what will happen from the
bottom-up view.  At first, existing technologies evolve toward
network slicing at forwarding plane in their own scopes.  Then slice
management related functions will be patched at management/control
planes.  When a network slice is going to be deployed inside a
domain, one of implementation technology will be selected, and the NS
provider directly operates on the management plane of this selected
technology.  For example, If VPN is selected as the implementation
technology, then a network slice is a VPN for the NS provider in this
domain.  While if SFC is selected in other domain, then a network
slice is a SFC for NS provider.  What will happen if a network slice
across both VPN and SFC domains?  There is no uniform management
manner in this case.
Then try to consider from the top-down view.  There is no doubt that
slicing requirement is generated from NS tenant.  When a NS tenant
request for NS service, normally he will not specify which
implementation technology should be used.  Similarly, when the tenant
operates/manages his purchased slice, he doesn't want to care about
the technical details.
We can easily observe that bottom-up and top-down approaches will
eventually converge on a technology-independent common management
plane, that is exactly what COMS (Common Operation and Management on
network Slices) doing.
This document will explain how COMS works, and define the
architecture of COMS.  Architecture discussed in this document is
assumed to be used only inside Transport Network region, and the end-
to-end network slice/slicing also just refers to the slice/slicing
across multiple TN domains in this document.
2.  Terminology
Other network slicing related words used in this document are
interpreted as description in [COMS-PS].
Notations used in this document are interpreted as follows:
T(x->y): end-to-end delay from x to y;
B(x->y): bandwidth from x to y;
S(x): storage space of x.
3.  Overall Architecture
This section provides the overall architecture for a COMS based
network slicing system as shown in Figure 1.  If multiple such kind
of systems deployed in different domains, these systems may stitches
together through the method discussed in [Stitching-Management] and
[Stitching-Data].  COMS works on the top network orchestrator inside
Transport Network region, which directly receives the network slice
service profile, operation and management requests for network
slices.  Based on received information, the network orchestrator will
select the most appropriate implementation technologies, and map the
technology independent requests into the technology specific
configuration information that will be sent to the corresponding
network slice controller/orchestrator downwards.
| Network Slice
| Service Profile
+--------------------------v----------------------------+
|                                                       |
|     Top Level Network Orchestrator based on COMS      |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
+--------+------------------+-------+-----------+----------------+
|        |                  |                   |                |
| +------v--------+  +------v--------+  +-------v-------+   +----v----+
| |               |  |               |  |               |   |         |
| | NS Ctrlr/Orch |  | NS Ctrlr/Orch |  | NS Ctrlr/Orch |   |   ...   |
| +-------+-------+  +-------+-------+  +-------+-------+   +----+----+
|         |                  |                  |                |
==v=========v==================v==================v================v=====
=                                                                       =
= +------------+ +------------+ +------------+ +------------+ +-------+ =
= |Connectivity| | Computing  | |  Storage   | |Generalized | |  ...  | =
= |            | |            | |            | |Functions   | |       | =
Figure 1: Overall Architecture of COMS
4.  Advanced Architecture
This section discusses the detailed architecture of a COMS based
network slicing system through an example shown in Figure 2.  We do
not intend to design the inner framework of the top level network
slicing orchestrator but to explain how COMS works.  Four components
insides the top level network orchestrator are logical components
that could be converged sometimes.
o  Common Information Model: can be understood as the template,
according to which the received network slice service profile is
translated.
o  Split Service Profile into Domains: the end-to-end service profile
is split into the service profiles inside different domains.
o  Select Specific Implementation Technologies: there may be multiple
available implementation technologies inside a domain, select the
most appropriate one according to the service profile.  As
Figure 2's example shows, since the end-to-end delay in Domain 1
is very small, the Flex-E will be selected.  While in Domain 2 two
storage units are required, the NFV technology will be selected.
o  Map to Selected Technologies: necessary mapping to the controller/
orchestrator of selected technologies.
|Network Slice Service Profile
**************************************************************************
*Top Level Network Orchestrator based on COMS                            *
*                                  |                                     *
*  +-------------------------------v ---------------------------------+  *
*  |Common Information Model                                          |  *
*  | ................................................................ |  *
*  | . ~~~~~~~   T(A->B)<=10ms; B(A->B)>=10M         ~~~~~~~        . |  *
*  | . ~  A  ~---------------------------------------~  B  ~ S(B)=1G. |  *
*  | . ~~~~~~~                                       ~~~~~~~        . |  *
*  | .     |     T(A->C)<=20ms; B(A->C)>=10M         ~~~~~~~        . |  *
*  | .     +-----------------------------------------~  C  ~ S(C)=2G. |  *
*  | .                                               ~~~~~~~        . |  *
*  +--------------------------------+---------------------------------+  *
*                                   |                                    *
*  +--------------------------------v---------------------------------+  *
*  |Split Service Profile into Domains                                |  *
*  |................................. ................................|  *
*  |.    Domain 1                   . .Domain 2                      .|  *
*  |.                T(A->D)<=2ms   . .    T(D->B)<=8ms   S(B)=1G    .|  *
*  |.       ~~~~~~~  B(A->D)>=10M ~~~~~~~  B(D->B)>=10M   ~~~~~~~    .|  *
*  |.       ~  A  ~ --------------~  D  ~-----------------~  B  ~    .|  *
*  |.       ~~~~~~~               ~~~~~~~                 ~~~~~~~    .|  *
*  |.           |    T(A->E)<=2ms   . .    T(E->C)<=18ms  S(C)=2G    .|  *
*  |.           |    B(A->E)>=10M ~~~~~~~  B(E->C)>=10M   ~~~~~~~    .|  *
*  |.           +-----------------~  E  ~-----------------~  C  ~    .|  *
*  |.                             ~~~~~~~                 ~~~~~~~    .|  *
*  |..................................................................|  *
*  +---------------------------------+--------------------------------+  *
*                                    |                                   *
*  +---------------------------------v---------------------------------+ *
*  |Select Specific Implementation Technologies                        | *
*  |    .............................   ............................   | *
*  |    .Domain 1                   .   .Domain 2                  .   | *
*  |    .        Flex-E             .   .         VPN+NFV          .   | *
*  +---------------+----------------------------------+----------------+ *
*                  |                                  |                  *
*  +---------------v----------------------------------v----------------+ *
*  |Map to Selected Technologies                                       | *
*  +---------+------------------------+--------------------+-----------+ *
|                        |                    |
*********v***********    *********v********  **********v*********
* Flex-E Controller *    * VPN Controller *  * NFV Orchestrator *
*********+***********    *********+********  **********+*********
*********v***********    *********v********************v*********
*  Physical/Logical *    *            Physical/Logical          *
*  Resources inside *    *            Resources inside          *
*  Domain 1         *    *            Domain 2                  *
*********************    ****************************************
Figure 2: Advanced Architecture of COMS
5.  Integration with NFV
This section details the integration of the NFV framework [NFV-MANO]
in the COMS architecture.
Network slice providers aim to accommodate a myriad of use cases and
application scenarios from multiple tenants over a common network
infrastructure.  To that end, network slice providers build up
multiple network slice instances (NSIs), each customized to serve the
specific service demands of a particular tenant.  An NSI is a logical
self-contained network instance that network slice providers offer to
a tenant, and that a tenant can consume.  Although NSIs may span
across multiple network segments (e.g., RAN, transport, and core
network), this document only considers the transport network domain.
NFV may play a key role in network slicing, enabling its realization
in a cost-efficient manner.  Using the flexibility and virtualization
capabilities that the NFV framework brings, a network slice provider
can create and operate multiple NSIs over a common shared network
infrastructure with isolation guarantees in terms of performance,
management, security, and privacy [Ordonez-Network-Slicing].  To
provide the tenant with the required performance and functionality,
an NSI includes one or more network services, each consisting of a
chained set of compassable atomic units called virtualized network
functions (VNFs).  These VNFs are software-based implementations of
network functions that rely on computing, storage, and connectivity
resources for their execution and communication.  To simultaneously
serve the requirements of multiple NSIs, the network slice provider
makes use of the resources that are at its disposal, and efficiently
orchestrate them across NSIs.  Although the network slice provider
can own these resources, we consider it rents them from one or more
infrastructure owners following the Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS) paradigm.  In this case, the network slice provider takes the
role of a network infrastructure tenant.  Note that each of the three
actors presented here (network infrastructure owner, network slice
provider, and network slice tenant) defines a different
administrative domain.
The NSIs shown in Figure 3 run parallel on a common shared transport
network infrastructure.  The transport network infrastructure
consists of connectivity resources that may span across multiple
administrative domains (i.e., different network infrastructure
owners).  These resources include WAN nodes and links providing
reachability across geographically remote data centers, where the
VNFs from different NSIs run.  In particular, they connect together
the network connectivity endpoints (e.g., gateways) of those data
centers.
To simultaneously serve the connectivity needs of the NSIs using
resources within its administrative domain, each network
infrastructure owner has a WAN Infrastructure Manager (WIM).  The WIM
is a NFV functional block that performs control-management actions
over the underlying connectivity resources to deploy and operate a
number of L2/L3 virtual topologies with different levels of
abstractions.  To enforces the connectivity required by an NSI, the
WIM abstracts the resources under its management, and creates a
customized virtual topology that logically connects the data centers
hosting the NSI's VNFs.  The resources of each data center are
managed with a Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM).  This NFV
functional block play a similar role to the WIM, but extending their
management domain to computing and storage resources.
The transport network resources, managed by the underlying network
infrastructure owners using their WIMs/VIMs are delivered to the
network slice provider logically placed on top of them.  The network
slice provider makes use of these resources to deploy and operate the
NSIs that are under its management.  For this end, it may rely on the
NFV Orchestrator (NFVO) functionality.  According to the NFV
framework, NFVO is a functional block with two well-defined
functionalities: resource orchestration and network service
orchestration.  The former focuses on orchestrating network
infrastructure resources across multiple VIMs/WIMs, while the latter
performs lifecycle management operations (e.g., instantiation,
scaling, updating, termination, etc.) over the network service(s)
built using those resources.  Due to the different scope of these two
set of functions, the NFVO may be logically split into two functional
blocks: Resource Orchestrator and Network Service Orchestrator.
^        +---------------------------------------------------------+
|        |             Cross-Segment Slice Manager                 |
|        +-------------------------^-------------------------------+
|                                  |
|              +-------------------v------------------------+
|              |    Transport Network Slice Orchestrator    <------+
|              +----------------------------------^-----^---+      |
|                                                 |     |          |
|           +------------------------------------ | ----+------+   |
|           |                 NSI M               |            |   |
|        +--------------------------------------- | --------+  |   |
|        |                 NSI 1                  |         |  |   |
| +---------------------------+      +---v---+     |  |   |
Network     | |   Tenant SDN Controller   <------>  OSS  |     |  |   |
Slice       | +--^-------^--------^----+--+      +---^---+     |  |   |
Provider    |    |       |        |    |             |         |  |   |
Domain      | +--v--+ +--v--+     | +--v--+   +------v-------+ |  |   |
| | VNF | | VNF |  .. | | VNF |   |   Network    | |  |   |
|        | +--^--+ +--^--+     | +--^--+   |   Service    | |  |   |
|        |    |       |        |    |      | Orchestrator | |  |   |
|        |    | +-----+--------v--+ |      +------^-------+ |  |   |
|        |    +-> vSwitch/vRouter <-+             |         |-++   |
|        |      +-----------------+               |         | |    |
|        +--------------------------------------- | --------+ |    |
|                                                 |           |    |
|      +------------------------------------------v-----------v--+ |
+      |                    Resource Orchestrator                <-+
+--------^-------------------^-------------------^--------+
+-------+           |                   |                   |
+-----v-----+       +-----v-----+       +-----v-----+
+         |    WIM    |  ...  |    VIM    |  ...  |    WIM    |
|         +-----+-----+       +-----+-----+       +-----+-----+
|                   |                   |
Network     +-------+------+   +-----------------+   +------+-------+
Infrastructure | Connectivity |   | +-------------+ |   | Connectivity |
Owner      |   Resources  |   | |  Computing/ | |   |   Resources  |
Domain     +--------------+   | |   Storage/  | |   +--------------+
| |Connectivity | |
|                          | |  Resources  | |
|                          | +-------------+ |
|                          |   Data Center   |
v                          +-----------------+
Figure 3: Integration of NFV framework in COMS architecture
To orchestrate the resources that are at its disposal (those provided
by the underlying network infrastructure owners), the network slice
provider has a single Resource Orchestrator.  The main role of the
Resource Orchestrator is to dispatch this finite set of resources
across the operative NSIs in an optimal way, with the aim of
simultaneously satisfying their (potentially diverging) performance
requirements.  To bring multiplexing gains and cost savings in this
task, the Resource Orchestrator may take advantage of resource
sharing.  Resource sharing introduces flexibility and efficiency in
slice provisioning, as network slice provider's resources can be
dynamically allocated and released across NSIs according to the time-
varying resource requirements that their tenants impose.  This
approach requires an adequate resource management framework for the
Resource Orchestrator that carefully finds an optimal solution,
enabling resource sharing among NSIs when necessary, while preserving
their performance isolation.
As shown in Figure 3, each of the operative NSIs serving a network
slice tenant comprises a tenant SDN controller, a Network Service
Orchestrator, and an Operation Support System (OSS).  On the one
hand, the tenant SDN controller configures the VNFs at application
level, and chains them to dynamically build up the network service(s)
that are required in the NSI.  For VNF configuration management, the
tenant SDN controller uses southbound configuration protocols such as
NETCONF.  For VNF chaining management, it leverages the networking
capabilities provided by virtual switches/routers, sending them
appropriate forwarding instructions using southbound control
protocols such as OpenFlow.  On the other hand, the Network Service
Orchestrator manages the lifecycle of the network service(s).
Finally, the OSS performs the intra-NSI management, bridging the gap
between the Network Service Orchestrator and the tenant SDN
controller, and coordinating their operations and management data.
The OSS is also the entry point of the NSI, providing management
capability exposure to external blocks.  By way of example, the
network slice tenant can use the OSS to gain access to the NSI and
operate it at its convenience.
The description given above focuses on run-time phase, assuming the
NSIs are operative, and omitting the deployment steps referred in
Section 1.  To trigger the deployment of a network slice, the network
slice provider needs other functional blocks.  These functional
blocks include a Cross-Segment Slice Manager, and one or more Network
Slice Domain Orchestrators.  The Cross-Segment Slice Manager receives
a network slice service profile from the tenant.  This profile
contains the (end-to-end) slice requirements.  The Cross-Segment
Slice Manager decompose these requirements into one or more network
slice domain slice requirements, and send them to the respective
Network Slice Domain Orchestrators (e.g., RAN Slice Orchestrator,
Transport Network Slice Orchestrator, Core Network Slice
Orchestrator).  Since the architecture discussed in this document is
assumed to be inside the transport network domain, we only consider
the Network Slice Transport Orchestrator.  The Network Slice
Transport Orchestrator uses the network slice transport requirements
to determine which VNFs and network service(s) are required, and what
are their resource requirements.  Once checked the Resource
Orchestrator can provision them, the steps for deploying the slice
begin.  First, the Resource Orchestrator creates the resource slice.
Then, the OSS takes over the resource slice and configures it,
resulting in a networking slice.  Finally, the OSS (assisted by the
Network Service Orchestrator and the Tenant SDN controller),
instantiates one or more network services (and their constituent
VNFs) over this networking slice to realize a service slice, making
it usable for the network slice tenant.
There is no security problems introduced by this document.
There is no IANA action required by this document.
9.  Informative References
[COMS-PS]  "Problem Statement of Supervised Heterogeneous Network
Slicing", <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/
draft-geng-coms-problem-statement/>.
[draft-arkko-arch-virtualization]
"Considerations on Network Virtualization and Slicing",
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/
draft-arkko-arch-virtualization-00>.
[I-D.boucadair-connectivity-provisioning-protocol]
Boucadair, M., Jacquenet, C., Zhang, D., and P.
Georgatsos, "Connectivity Provisioning Negotiation
Protocol (CPNP)", draft-boucadair-connectivity-
provisioning-protocol-15 (work in progress), December
[NFV-MANO]
ETSI GS NFV-MAN 001, "Network Functions Virtualisation
(NFV); Virtual Network Functions Architecture",  V1.1.1,
Geng, et al.            Expires September 6, 2018              [Page 10]
[Ordonez-Network-Slicing]
Ordonez-Lucena, J., Ameigeiras, P., Lopez, D., Ramos-
Munoz, J., Lorca, J., and J. Folgueira, "Network Slicing
for 5G with SDN/NFV: Concepts, Architectures, and
Challenges", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 5,
pp. 80-87, May 2017.
[RFC5440]  Vasseur, JP., Ed. and JL. Le Roux, Ed., "Path Computation
Element (PCE) Communication Protocol (PCEP)", RFC 5440,
[Stitching-Data]
"Gateway Function for Network Slicing",
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/
draft-homma-coms-slice-gateway/>.
[Stitching-Management]
"Interconnecting (or Stitching) Network Slice Subnets",
draft-defoy-coms-subnet-interconnection/>.
Liang Geng
Email: gengliang@chinamobile.com
Li Qiang
Email: qiangli3@huawei.com
Jose Ordonez Lucena
Email: jordonez@ugr.es
Oscar Adamuz Hinojosa
Email: oadamuz@ugr.es
Pablo Ameigeiras
Email: pameigeiras@ugr.es
Diego Lopez
Email: diego.r.lopez@telefonica.com
Luis Miguel Contreras Murillo
Email: luismiguel.contrerasmurillo@telefonica.com
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Cow, Culture,Carcass
Amidst this pandemic, a lot of people have a lot less to do, so here resurfaces the age old discussion on 'Gaumata' Well, WE THE PEOPLE, always be in some kind of crisis and everything happens amidst that only, I don't recommend that way of living but that's a sad reality for most of us. Anyways, not getting deviated. It was in second week of June that U.P. government approved an Ordinance which amends and make more rigorous the punishment to protect cows and prevent their slaughter. So this happened, that I was watching this news channel/portal and they were talking about this issue, basically taking opinions of students or say the youthful. It begins with headlining the fact that the ban is being imposed, then a little commentary on the government inefficiency of handling the pandemic and stating this as a deviation, opens the floor for the opinions. So, it starts with one who supports the ban but when asked for his reasons wasn't able to express his ideas, then moved to second, third, fourth and so on all of them citing reasons against the ban, inter alia, 'this is completely Stupid' (was not asked for reasons) 'this is to drive a wedge between people' 'rights of minorities curtailed ' 'it is a myth that hindu cannot eat cows' 'majoritarian-ism at best' 'kill buffalo not cows because that's not our so called Hindu culture that's stupid' 'you cannot put ideas of one religion over the other' a few more on the lines of religious freedom, and 'what do you expect from ministers like these, common people don't even think of this, it's just the political classes who have nothing to provide on employment opportunities and are here to just cause problems' 'what about India being biggest exporter' with more of this & that, it ended. This prompted me to ponder upon, after watching them, I felt they were quite unaware about most of the things let alone the Amendment itself. Maybe it was just a scripted talk biased from the very start but if it is not then I wish to do this discussion. Let's outline the amendment first, Uttar Pradesh Prevention of the Cow Slaughter (Amendment) Ordinance 2020, making it more stringent as for, the first offence, a person can be given a rigorous punishment of one to seven years with a fine from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 3 lakh. In case of a second offence, the person can be given 10-year rigorous imprisonment with a fine up to Rs 5 lakhs, thus bringing amendments to the Cow Slaughter Act, 1955. If found in illegal transportation of cows and other bovines, the driver and the owner of the vehicle shall be charged under the new Act, unless proven that the transportation was done without the owner's knowledge. Owner of such vehicle who has indulged in this illegal act of transportation will have to incur the maintenance of the captured cows for one year. There also is now a provision that allows authorities to publicize pictures of the accused in their neighbourhoods or a prominent public place if they escape after committing the crime. To be very clear, the provisions amended are well thought of, be it increase in fine or the punishment as in jail time, the publication of the notice regarding the offenders, in the place where such person ordinarily resides or to some conspicuous place of such town or village and thereby circulating it, will most definitely yield deterrence. Moreover, as some people and opposition parties are stating that this publication is an infringement of rights of a person, I would like to remind them that this is not something new, in Criminal Procedure Code Section 82, deals in similar manner with such offenders who try to escape and conceal themselves. It's just that, what the State Government has done, taken an inspiration.
Moving on, I would like to take on the most vicious of all the opinions, 'it is just a myth that a Hindu cannot eat cows and it is considered sacred' I don't know how come people just are happy to believe in concocted ideas of some people and keep spewing them so confidently. Before going into scriptures, manuscripts let's look at the most common practice continued till date, I believe every house of a Hindu at the very least have seen their mother specifically making ROTI (Chapatti) the first of the lot of every meal, putting the cooked food aptly on it for the Cow. What more can be called as a significant part of a Religion, when even before your family you make and take out food for cows. Now, take any religious happening, ceremony even a श्रद्धा (shraadh) the first meal is made for the Cows. Nothing is considered ritually complete unless this holy act of compassion is done. There are festivals which are dedicated to the Cows like Pongal, Govardhan Puja, Sankranti, etc.
I would rather put it this way, no festival be completed without worshipping cows in some way or the other. Now let's talk about some documented evidences on the contention here,
The fundamentals of Hindu culture lie in the Vedas, the most ancient scriptures, readable to men, let's take a look at, some of the many references, अघ्न्या यजमानस्य पशून्पाहि (Yajurveda 1.1) 'O human! animals are 'Aghnya' – not to be killed. Protect the animals' हे मनुष्यों ! पशु अघ्न्य हैं – कभी न मारने योग्य, पशुओं की रक्षा करो ब्रीहिमत्तं यवमत्तमथो माषमथो तिलम् एष वां भागो निहितो रत्नधेयाय दान्तौ मा हिंसिष्टं पितरं मातरं च (Atharvaveda 6.140.2) 'O teeth! You eat rice, you eat barley, you eat gram and you eat sesame. These are specifically meant for you. Do not kill those who are capable of being fathers and mothers' हे दांतों की दोनों पंक्तियों ! चावल खाओ, जौ खाओ, उड़द खाओ और तिल खाओ | अनाज तुम्हारे लिए ही बनाये गए हैं | उन्हें मत मारो जो माता – पिता बनने की योग्यता रखते हैं | अनागोहत्या वै भीमा कृत्ये मा नो गामश्वं पुरुषं वधीः (Atharvaveda 10.1.29) It is definitely a great sin to kill innocents. Do not kill our cows, horses and people. निर्दोषों को मारना निश्चित ही महा पाप है | हमारे गाय, घोड़े और पुरुषों को मत मार | Enlighten me, how could there be justification of cow and other animals being killed when killing is so clearly prohibited in the Vedas? Now, from the Bhagwad Gita itself, Chapter 10.28 आयुधानामहं वज्रं धेनूनामस्मि कामधुक् । प्रजनश्चास्मि कन्दर्प: सर्पाणामस्मि वासुकि: (Gita10.28) Among weapons, I am the thunderbolt; among cows, I am the cow Kamadhenu (the cow of plenty). I am the sexual desire of procreation; among serpents, I am Vasuki. Srimad Bhagavad Gita Chapter 10 explains, how God is present in every thing and every where and every being. Different verses explain how God is present in various things/beings. इस प्रकार मुख्य-मुख्य वस्तुओं में अपनी योग शक्ति रूपी तेज़ के अंश की अभिव्यक्ति का वर्णन करके अब भगवान् यह बतला रहे हैं कि समस्त जगत् मेरी योग शक्ति के एक अंश से ही धारण किया हुआ है। अथवा बहुनैतेन किं ज्ञातेन तवार्जुन । विष्टभ्याहमिदं कृत्स्नमेकांशेन स्थितो जगत् (10.42) The interpretation of Vedic scripts demands proficiency in Vedic lexicon history and philosophy. But Western Orientalist like Max Müller and Griffith, who lived and studied in Britain, tried to interpret the Vedas with their little knowledge in Sanskrit. And, a hidden agenda of misinterpreting Vedas to alienate Indians from their cultural roots. 'kill buffalo not cows because that's not our so called Hindu culture, that's stupid' This opinion is outrageous, as because, ask any Indian he/she can tell you at the very least 10 of such animals, which are associated with the God and Hindu revere them along with the God and all this is so that there always remains a compassionate relation between the man and other beings, that was the wisdom, rationale and the intellect behind it other than the obvious. (Yajurveda 26/18) says- May all living beings look upon me as their friends and may I too treat them as my own friends? Oh God, do arrange things in such a way that all (living beings) behave with one another like true friends. (Yajurveda 16/3) says- pursue strict non-violence towards mankind and animals. (Yajurveda 40/7) says- He, who visualizes all beings as souls (and not as woman, men, children, cows, deer, peacocks, tiger's serpents etc.) in his mind, does not feel infatuation or anguish at their sight, for he experiences oneness with them. What more can I put together other than saying, 'Words To Live By' Now, 'Majoritarian-ism is at its best' or that one 'minorities rights are being curtailed' Article 48 of the Constitution says: The State shall endeavor to organize agriculture and animal husbandry on modern and scientific lines and shall, in particular, take steps for preserving and improving the breeds, and prohibiting the slaughter of cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle. Constitution have provisions which mandates the state to prohibit the slaughter of cows and calves. And this is from the very beginning it's not by some amendment you add something up just to appease someone, because makers knew it was encapsulated in this culture since time immemorial. Article 48 should be read with Article 37 which states very clearly that principles laid down in Part IV are fundamental in the governance of the country and it shall be the DUTY OF THE STATE to apply these principles in making laws. ARTICLE 31 C states that NO law giving effect to the policy of the State towards securing all or any of the principles laid down in Part IV shall be deemed to be void on the ground that it is inconsistent with, or takes away or abridges any of the rights conferred by Article 14 or Article 19. One should understand this, that you cannot compare America and Bharat, for the former is a land where people came to explore the 'New World' from Europe (particularly Spain & Britain) & made colonial settlements, while the latter is a living civilization, here people have stayed from time immemorial and nurtured the philosophy of living in consonance with the nature. You dig up the land at the right places and will find a shiva'ling, or an idol sculpted with such an expertise which stood against all odds the same is prayed every day in a mandir. This ancestry is the biggest difference between us and other nations, the continuance of Dharma, the pervasive Santana Dharma.
So, understand this, in India, be it any religion, it has to and it should be in accordance with the Culture of Bharat. Previous governments didn't took any measures to ensure the safety of cows, this one wants to, so is it Unconstitutional. No, It is 100% in there jurisdiction. So now someone comes up and says, WHAT MINORITY SHOULD EAT, THE MAJORITY WILL DECIDE ? So if you are going by this, then essentially it is to say, MAJORITY HAVE TO SURRENDER THEIR CULTURE BECAUSE MINORITY WANTS TO HAVE A DINNER OUT OF IT. This minority-majority business is not going to take you anywhere good in future. Maybe some short term political benefits. As we have seen time and again, And if you think that this is a personal affair, which clearly isn't, but still, then tell me there are so many other options for you to eat, why to cling to this only. Moreover, How dare you put killing over saving, no one of you, could logically defend this. Tomorrow you will ask for genocide for some other animal as they are not any good and pious to you. So my contention is that, When you get the right to eat, what I revere, why cannot I eat that German Shepard dog of yours or that cute little Cat that you begin your day putting selfies with. And, eating beef is no Islamic Ritual, moreover it is said, Imam Suyuti in his al-Jami as-Saghir narrates that the Messenger of Allah said, 'The milk of the bovine (cow) contains healing, its fat is a medicine, and its meat a cause for sickness, while the cow's milk and fat contain cure and healing.' Abu al-Qasim Sulaiman ibn Ahmad ibn Al-Tabarani, one of the most important Hadith scholars, referred to the aforementioned Hadith as authentic, and so did Bayhaqi in his Sunan and Hakim in his Mustadrak. Prophet himself is not known to have partaken cow meat. According to well known Islamic scholars, there is no Hadith available which confirms that the Prophet in fact ate beef. Muslims should come forward and say it openly, This isn't Arabia or Alaska that we have to survive by killing animals, this is India, this is an agriculture rich land and we don't have to feed upon animals, at least begin with not killing cows, bulls, buffalo and pigeons. You see the context of this is, where the Hindus and the Muslims in India, usually tend to lose their calm would be handled forever, harmoniously. Let's play, Peekaboo with History, before I rest my case, During the First War of Independence in 1857, when Bahadur Shah `Zafar' was installed as emperor by the Hindus in Delhi for a brief period, his Hindu prime minister, on the emperor's proclamation, made cow killing a capital offence.
Even in Maharaja Ranjit Singh's kingdom, the only crime that invited capital punishment was cow slaughter. Now let's glance at some historical events in context to the Communist strong hold Kerala, where members of Indian Youth Congress a year or so in past, had publicly killed a cow and the Secretary was distributing the beef, this all barbaric act to protest against the ban on sale of cattle for slaughter. All this when there are written records which very clearly suggest otherwise, Before getting recruited into the military of the kingdom, a Nair warrior (most of the military men were from Nair community) having finished studying the art of warfare from Kalari (military school) had to take oath in front of the King to protect Brahmins and cows.
This is recorded by Duarte Barbosa, a 16th century Portuguese writer:
'The King then asks him if he will maintain the customs and rules of the other Nayres (Nairs), and he and his kinsmen respond 'Yes.' Then the King commands him to gird on his right side a sword with a red sheath, and when it is girt on he causes him to approach near to himself and his right hand on his head, saying therewith certain words which none may hear, seemingly a prayer, and then embraces him saying ' Paje Gubrantarca, that is to say ' Protect cows and Bramenes (Brahmins)' Similar oath was made by Samuthiris or Zamorins, the Nair kings of Calicut before their royal coronation, 'At Yagneswaram he is met by Vemaneheri Namputiri, a descendant of Melattur Agnihotri. The Eralped (Zamorin) gives him an ola (text), promising to protect Brahmins, temples and cows.' It is interesting to note that Aithihyamala, a 19th century work detailing many folklore and legends of Kerala also records an incident in which the famous 18th century Raja of Cochin, Rama Varma Shaktan Thampuran executed a Muslim who had killed a cow. The Raja also refused to observe Shivaratri vrata since the Muslim had killed the cow on that day. So eating beef and slaughter of cattle was unthinkable in kingdoms of Kerala. How and whence did beef eating became widespread in Kerala. Obviously, it is a later trend after communism and Abrahamic religions became popular and started having a stronghold in the decision/policy making process. 'what about India being biggest beef exporter' Now some Facts to blow your mind up, The involvement of Government in this and how it is Against Fundamental Rights of every Hindu. If we go by numbers India slaughter 100000 BUFFALOES every day for export, and wait for it,
The Government owned arm, Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) Makes HALAL mandatory. All animals must be slaughtered by HALAL method in the presence of an assigned man by All India Ulema-e-hind as per Islamic Shariyat for certification. It partners with one particular Deobandi Islamic organization to ensure compliance of specified Islamic manner of slaughter done Only and Obviously by a MUSLIM. For if not by a Muslim it won't be considered halal, but haram.(forbidden by Islam) If this doesn't makes you worried and unhappy then let's go a little further, Nearly half of Indian buffalo meat goes to Vietnam which has really no Muslims, Thailand and Philippines with 5-6 percent Muslims in their population are also among major importers. Choice of Halal is of APEDA, not of the buyers. So when great minds of secular rhetoric lovers come and cater you with their stupid logics don't just stand there doing हां-हां, अरे ये तो, अरे वो तो, speak up and slap some facts right on their faces.
Hindu way of slaughter is 'JHATKA' which is done in one strike relieving the pain at once (such as by a single strike of a sword or axe to sever the head. The animal must not be scared or shaken in any way before the slaughter) unlike halal which keep the animal in agonizing pain by just making a cut at the jugular vein and windpipe, as they give a prayer. So, all you meat-eating Hindus do the very least ask for JHATKA MEAT, GO ONLY TO THOSE BUTCHER SHOPS WHICH PROVIDE JHATKA, AND YES, KFC MCDONALDS AND OTHERS DON'T PROVIDE JHATKA, THEY FEED HALAL.(meaning of halal: Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do) Don't anywhere get this idea that I'm promoting butcher shops of Hindu but definitely I promote slaughter by JHATKA, and again, If you wish to eat the Islam certified meat, go do that with all means, just do it consciously, but before you go I would like to reiterate, Government of India and other small or a major outlets give you Halal meat. Thereby, In a Very Subtle Way State itself Discriminates against the Hindu butcher community, their right to do business is curtailed, for they cannot get a Certificate, just because they're not Muslims.
This very act of discrimination, done only on the grounds of religion, amongst its own citizens, itself is nothing less than a STATE SPONSORED CRIME OF DISCRIMINATION. I'm not writing a Conclusion for this, as there is a lot left to say and even more to do. Vande Matram!
1. https://www.dailyo.in/lite/politics/beef-cow-slaughter-dadri-murder-vedas-bhagavad-gita-hindutva-hinduism/story/1/7111.html
2. https://stephenknapp.info/importance_of_the_cow_in_vedic_culture.htm
3. http://indiafacts.org/the-myth-of-beef-eating-hindu/
4. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://mobile.twitter.com/sangamtalks/status/1274265839970238464&ved=2ahUKEwicoImMwuvqAhWy8HMBHeBCB0gQFjAEegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw1HEDAlk4PuCqAueKXKJxHb
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Al Hudaydah (Arabic: الحديدة Al Ḥudaida) is a governorate of Yemen. Its capital is Al Hudaydah. This governorate borders the Red Sea and is part of the narrow Tihamah region. Its capital, Al Hudaydah, also serves as an important local port city.
Cities, towns & villages in Al Hudaydah
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Bayt al Faqīh Bayt al-Faqīh or Beit al-Faqih ; Arabic: بيت Bayt al-Faqīh, 'House of the Jurist') is a city in Al Hudaydah Governorate in Yemen. It is located on the pilgrimage and trade route across the Tihamah plain between Al Hudaydah and Ta'izz. It is 50 km south of Al Hudaydah and 150 km southwest of the Yemeni capital of San'a' and lies at an altitude of 122 m. Its population was 28,773 in the 1994 census and estimated at 41,652 in 2005.
Aş Şalīf As-Salif (Arabic: الصليف, As-Sālif, also transliterated as al-Salif) is a coastal village in western Yemen. It is located in a bay of a headland that forms the southern coast of the Kamaran Bay. As-Salif is recognized for its large deposits of rock salt. Historically, the salt was exported to India. The salt is mined by a government-owned corporation. As-Salif is located at around 15°18′39″N 42°40′23″E / 15.31083°N 42.67306°E.
Al Ḩudaydah Al Hudaydah (Arabic: also known in English as Hodeda, Hodeida, Hudaida, and Hodeidah, is the Fourth-largest city in Yemen. It boasts a population of 400,000 people and is the centre of the Al Hudaydah Governorate.
Makram Makram (Arabic: مكرم) is a coastal town on Kamaran Island in the Red Sea. It is situated in the Al Hudaydah Governorate of Yemen, at 15°23′0″N 42°33′37″E / 15.38333°N 42.56028°E.
Al Furrah Furah (Arabic: فُرح) is a coastal town on Kamaran Island, Yemen. It is located at around 15°17′5″N 42°33′5″E / 15.28472°N 42.55139°E.
Sayfāf Sayfaf (Arabic: صيفاف) is a coastal town in Kamaran Island, Yemen. It is located at around 15°27′N 42°38′E / 15.450°N 42.633°E.
States, regions, administrative units in Al Hudaydah
Muḩāfaz̧at al Ḩudaydah Al Hudaydah (Arabic: Al Ḥudaida) is a governorate of Yemen. Its capital is Al Hudaydah. This governorate borders the Red Sea and is part of the narrow Tihamah region. Its capital, Al Hudaydah, also serves as an important local port city.
Bayt al Faqīh Bayt al-Faqih District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 241,300 inhabitants.
Al Marawi'ah Al Marawi'ah District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 129,527 inhabitants.
Al Mansuriyah Al Mansuriyah District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 44,744 inhabitants.
Ad Durayhimi Ad Durayhimi District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 55,013 inhabitants.
Az Zaydīyah Az Zaydiyah District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 95,048 inhabitants.
Al Hajjaylah Al Hajjaylah District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 9,694 inhabitants.
Al Mighlaf Al Mighlaf District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 39,436 inhabitants.
Al Qanawis Al Qanawis District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 72,336 inhabitants.
Alluheyah Alluheyah District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 105,682 inhabitants.
Az Zuhrah Az Zuhrah District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 138,045 inhabitants.
Al Munirah Al Munirah District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 37,183 inhabitants.
As Sukhnah As Sukhnah District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 59,652 inhabitants.
Al Garrahi Al Garrahi District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 89,163 inhabitants.
Jabal Ra's Jabal Ra's District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 44,674 inhabitants.
Al Hawak Al Hawak District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 155,369 inhabitants.
Al Hali Al Hali District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 168,071 inhabitants.
Al Mina Al Mina District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 91,843 inhabitants.
As Salif As Salif District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 6,343 inhabitants.
Kamaran Kamaran District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 2,465 inhabitants.
Bājil Bajil District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 169,884 inhabitants.
At Tuhayat At Tuhayat District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 67,660 people.
Bura Bura District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 45,116 inhabitants.
Hays Hays District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 45,436 inhabitants.
Ad Dahi Ad Dahi District is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen. In 2003, the district had a population of 54,503.
Zabīd Zabid District (Arabic: مديرية زبيد) is a district of the Al Hudaydah Governorate in western Yemen.
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Hodeidah Airport Hodeida International Airport is an airport in Hodeida, Yemen (IATA: HOD, ICAO: OYHD).
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Jazīrat Jabal Zuqar Zuqar Island (Arabic: جزيرة زقر, Jabal Zuqar) is an island in the Red Sea that belongs to Yemen. It lies between the coasts of mainland Yemen and Eritrea, near the Bab-el-Mandeb straits which connect the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. Despite its proximity to the African continent, Zuqar Island is considered a part of Asia because it sits on the Asian continental shelf.
Kamaran Island Kamaran Island (Arabic: كمران Kamarān) is the largest Yemen-controlled island in the Red Sea. The 108 km2 (42 sq mi) island is 18 km (11 mi) long and 7 km (4.3 mi) wide and is strategically located at the southern end of the Red Sea. It is a \"shelf island\" located in the shallow waters of the Arabian peninsula's continental shelf with coral reefs surrounding three sides of the island. The population numbers 2,200.
Ḩanīsh The Ḩanīsh Islands (Arabic: جزر حنيش) are an island group in the Red Sea. Most of them are a part of Yemen, but before 1998 they were claimed by Eritrea as well. After a case in an international court under the guidance of Abdul Karim al-Iryani, Yemen was granted full ownership of the larger Islands, and Eritrea was awarded the peripheral islands to the southwest. The three largest islands are Jabal Zuqar to the north (about 130 km²), Al-anīsh al-Kabīr (Great Anīsh) to the south (about 116 km²), with the much smaller Al-anīsh al-Ṣaghīr (Little Anīsh) in between.
Jabal aţ Ţayr Jabal al-Tair Island (Jebel Teir, Jabal al-Tayr, Tair Island, Al-Tair Island, Jazirat at-Tair; Arabic: جزيرة جبل الطير Jazīrat Jabal aṭ-Ṭayr, literally, \"Bird Mountain Island\") is a roughly oval volcanic island northwest of the constricted Bab al-Mandab passage at the mouth of the Red Sea, about halfway between Yemen and Eritrea. From 1996 until it erupted in 2007 Yemen maintained two watchtowers and a small military base on the island. After 124 years of dormancy, the volcano that created the island erupted on 30 September 2007.
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Q: What happens when I create a Nether portal in the End? If I go to the End, and bring the things I need to create a portal with me, where will my portal to the Nether go? Will it even spawn at all?
New Edit: SPC has a command called spawnportal I tried it once and it created a fully functional portal, but what will happen when I go through it?

A: Nether portals created in The End will simply not activate when you ignite them.
Response to New Edit
I have no clue, but I would suggest backing up your world before trying it. It is possible that you won't be able to go through the portal and you will just stand there.

A: As has already been said, you cannot build a portal in the End.
However, they can still be hacked in and used. Using creative mode and INVEdit, I located a naturally spawning End portal frame, and traveled to the End. From there, I placed a portal block and traveled to the Nether. Finally, I placed another portal block and was spawned back on the Overworld.
End Portal: (-1007,16,-123);
End Spawn: (100,53,0);
Nether Portal: (89,64,-21);
Nether Spawn: (11,62,-3);
Overworld Portal: (8,46,20);
Overworld Spawn: (74,64,163);
Note than when I spawned in the Nether, I was inside other blocks and no Overworld portal spawned with me. Spawning back to the overworld worked fine.

A: you will have an obsidian frame with fire inside.


AMD has announced continued work on tweaking software support for its latest Ryzen processors and its SenseMI technology, building a new power plan for Windows 10 which helps to improve responsiveness.
First unveiled by the company in December last year, SenseMI is the name given to a suite of technologies built into the company's Zen-architecture Ryzen chips and designed to improve power efficiency while boosting on-demand performance. SenseMI is split into five core technologies: Pure Power, which comprises more than 100 embedded sensors which monitor the chips' voltage, power draw, and temperature at an individual-component level; Precision Boost, which modifies the current clock speed in 25MHz increments at a 1,000Hz polling rate; Neural Net Prediction and Smart Prefetch, which aim to more accurately predict the upcoming instructions and data requirements of programs compared with existing algorithms; and Extended Frequency Range (XFR), which automatically - though to a minor extent - boosts the chips' clock speed above their default maximum when adequately cooled.
In theory, SenseMI should add up to considerable power savings without sacrificing performance - but only if the host operating system knows how to make sense of the platform. That's an improvement AMD, in Robert Hallock's latest community update, claims to have made in the form of a new power plan for Windows 10 which improves the on-demand performance without harming power draw.
Installing the power plan, AMD has claimed following internal testing, can improve responsiveness to a point where the default 'Balanced' plan can now rival the all-out 'High Performance' plan - yet still clock down and save power when you're not running CPU-intensive applications. For now, the power plan is a manual download; AMD has indicated it's waiting for user feedback on power usage and responsiveness before making it, or a modified version thereof, an automatically installed part of its official chipset drivers.
The customised power plan settings can be downloaded from the company's official blog post now.


If уоu оwn a whіtе dоg, we саn аll аgrее they аrе mоrе difficult tо mаіntаіn. All it tаkеѕ іѕ оnе wаlk fоr them to lооk like wе tossed them іn a рuddlе of dіrt. Mоѕt оf uѕ do everything роѕѕіblе to keep thеm сlеаn, but sometimes thаt doesn't even work. Tеаr stains оn white dоgѕ hаvе bесоmе a рорulаr tоріс, bесаuѕе it саn be hard tо rеmоvе the "ruѕt" lооk around thе lоwеr роrtіоn оf thеіr eyes.
Whеn іt comes tо ѕеrіоuѕ issues, еxсеѕѕіvе tеаrіng саn іrrіtаtе thе skin. Thіngѕ саn get worse аѕ bасtеrіа bеgіnѕ to enhance thе іrrіtаtіоn. Thіѕ іѕ whу it's іmроrtаnt tо соntrоl thе рrоblеm аnd trу tо correct іt promptly. In оrdеr tо dо thіѕ you hаvе tо understand whаt саuѕеѕ tеаr ѕtаіnѕ on whіtе dоgѕ (or any оthеr dog fоr that mаttеr). еаr ѕtаіnіng іѕ uѕuаllу саuѕеd by ерірhоrа, which іѕ thе tесhnісаl wоrd fоr еxсеѕѕіvе tеаr рrоduсtіоn. Thе tеаrѕtаіnѕ thеmѕеlvеѕ are rеddіѕh-brоwn ѕtrеаkѕ undеr a dog's (оr cat's) еуеѕ. Whіlе tear ѕtаіnіng іѕ tурісаllу nо more thаn a mіnоr аnnоуаnсе, іt can аlѕо bе a symptom оf a ѕеrіоuѕ еуе hеаlth problem. Tеаrѕtаіnѕ аrе typically thе rеѕult of porphyrins. Pоrрhуrіnѕ аrе nаturаllу оссurrіng mоlесulеѕ соntаіnіng іrоn – waste рrоduсtѕ frоm thе breakdown оf rеd blооd сеllѕ -- and are mоѕtlу rеmоvеd from the bоdу іn the uѕuаl way (іn роор). Hоwеvеr, іn dogs аnd cats, роrрhуrіn саn аlѕо bе еxсrеtеd thrоugh tears, ѕаlіvа, аnd urіnе.
Tеаr duсt іnflаmmаtіоn - Most іnflаmmаtіоn іѕ found in the tear duct, but it's also роѕѕіblе tо find іt around the аrеа.
Prоblеmѕ with tеаr drаіnаgе - Thіѕ wіll be соmmоn in ѕоmе brееdѕ, but rare іn оthеrѕ. It occurs duе tо blockage оr partial closure оf thе ореnіng.
Cоnjunсtіvіtіѕ - When thе conjunctiva іѕ іnflаmеd, соnjunсtіvіtіѕ tаkеѕ рlасе. Most оf uѕ knоw іt аѕ "Pink Eye," but іt соuld саuѕе tеаr stains оn whіtе dоgѕ.
Keratitis - Thіѕ іѕ ѕіmіlаr to соnjunсtіvіtіѕ, but іt'ѕ created bу іnflаmmаtіоn оf thе соrnеа.
Thеrе аrе ѕеvеrаl оthеr саuѕеѕ, but the ѕуmрtоmѕ аrе a lіttlе dіѕhеаrtеnіng. While tеаr stains оn whіtе dogs аrе mоrе nоtісеаblе, it's important to consider ѕоmе of thе other ѕуmрtоmѕ. Aftеr аll, watery dіѕсhаrgеѕ, dried dіѕсhаrgе оn thе ends of the eyelids, оr еvеn pain саn bе аѕѕосіаtеd wіth thіѕ рrоblеm.
Whеn a dog іѕ lоѕіng hіѕ оr her ѕіght, a trір to thе veterinarian іѕ advised. In mоѕt cases, thе vet will аѕk уоu about dieting habits. Oftеn time's tear ѕtаіnѕ оn whіtе dogs іѕ a form оf рооr nutrіtіоn. If the fооd thеу аrе еаtіng is nоt doing thе jоb, consider adding a natural vіtаmіn supplement to thеіr diet.
Thеrе аrе ѕеvеrаl орtіоnѕ оut there, but Nuvеt реt products seem tо be wеll аbоvе еvеrуоnе else. Thеу'vе bееn аrоund for 14 years, and thеу offer ѕоmе оf thе lаrgеѕt dоѕеѕ оf nаturаl іngrеdіеntѕ. Thе kinds of іngrеdіеntѕ thаt wіll сlеаr-uр tеаr ѕtаіnѕ on whіtе dоgѕ and offer a mоrе bаlаnсеd nutrіtіоn.
My Maltese Dog Has Tear Stains- How Do I Get Rid Of Them ?


Plato's Phaedrus - a look at power Plato recognizes Eros in the journey of the human soul.
". . . many then are the beautiful works arising from divine mania, . . . So that we ought not to be afraid of mania; nor should any reason disturb us, which endeavours to evince that we ought to prefer a prudent friend to one who is divinely agitated: for he who asserts this, ought likewise to show, in order to gain the victory, that love was not sent from the Gods for the utility of the lover and his beloved. But, on the contrary, it must now be shown by us that a mania of this kind was sent by the Gods, for the purpose of producing the greatest felicity. The demonstration, indeed, will be to the unworthy incredible, but to the wise, an object of belief. It is necessary, therefore, in the first place, that, beholding the passions and operations of the divine and human soul, we should understand the truth concerning the nature of each."
We will explore what Plato says in the Phaedrus concerning the soul that is the true self and how the divine impulse and inspiration of Eros underpins the ascent to its starry home.


Third in a series of scientist profiles.
I camped at Greenland's Ice Sheet edge with a dynamic team of scientists in July, and produced a video study on each of them.
First and second vid here.
Advice. Consider a real job. Your soul will thank you.
Some employees at Fox News were left embarrassed and humiliated by their network's coverage of the latest revelations in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to conversations CNN had with several individuals placed throughout the network.
The employees spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. A Fox News spokesperson declined to comment.
On Monday, it was revealed that President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and another associate Rick Gates had been indicted by a grand jury on 12 counts, including conspiracy against the United States. Unsealed court records also revealed that another Trump associate, George Papadopoulos, had pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI weeks ago.
There's more. recommend the piece for your amusement.
The mayor of San Juan says the Trump administration is so "afraid" to discuss its "deplorable" response to Hurricane Maria that it hastily canceled a meeting between her and the Federal Emergency Management Agency after she had flown all the way to Washington on Tuesday.
Carmen Yulin Cruz said she was supposed to meet with FEMA Administrator Brock Long to discuss the agency response to the September 20 hurricane, which to this day has left 75 percent of the island without power—only to discover the meeting had been scrubbed and not even been rescheduled after she landed in the capital.
But other groups are listening to Cruz. The UN's top human rights panel said on Monday that the U.S territory's 3.4 million residents are being treated unfairly by their own American government.
"We can't fail to note the dissimilar urgency and priority given to the emergency response in Puerto Rico, compared to the U.S. states affected by hurricanes in recent months," said Leilani Farha, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the right to housing.
Meanwhile, Puerto Rico has cancelled a controversial 300 million dollar contract with a 2 man company, which had been hired to undertake rebuilding the island's shattered electrical grid. Some observers noted connections between the company and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
The Puerto Rican government's power company is going to scrap its $300 million contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings once it wraps up current work on Hurricane Maria recovery efforts, power company director Ricardo Ramos said Sunday.
Ramos said he's bowing to a demand by Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Roselló, who had called Sunday for the island's power company to cancel the contract with the Montana company from Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke's hometown.
Roughly 70 percent of the U.S. territory has been languishing without power more than a month after Maria struck on Sept. 20 as a Category 4 storm with winds of up to 154 mph. Ramos says the cancellation will delay pending work by 10 to 12 weeks but will not affect current work.
If you're willing to betray your own grandchildren, well then…..
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — As national co-chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Northwest Iowa's Sam Clovis encouraged a low-level foreign policy adviser to meet with Russian officials to build relations with the Kremlin, according to media reports Monday.
"Make the trip, if it is feasible," Clovis wrote in an August 2016 email to George Papadopoulos.
Papadopoulos, 30, a former researcher at the conservative Hudson Institute, was thrust Monday into the center of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign. Papadopoulos, who was secretly arrested in July for lying to federal authorities, has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with Mueller's investigation, according to court papers unsealed Monday.


The Mid Tees Research Project is a grassroots archaeological project working in the Tees Valley, researching particularly the Roman and early medieval archaeology of the area.
The project focus is a multi-period site covering an area of approximately 1km2 in the area of the Tees crossing point of Cades Road (Margary 80a), the postulated roman road running from Brough on Humber to Newcastle.
The project concept is aimed at re-awakening the long tradition of amateur archaeological endeavour from its long slumber of recent years. The project will offer opportunities for suitably experienced amateur and professional archaeologists with interesting and innovative research ideas to conduct research independently within the site, but within the wider research aims of the project, also providing opportunities for interested volunteers to acquire the necessary skills to eventually work independently themselves within the project.


Changing the sign in method in the VIA portal will immediately affect any subsequent logins to any VIA products. We recommend performing these changes out of core business hours, ensuring colleagues are fully aware of the changes taking place and that the sign in process is fully tested after implementation.
Once ADFS Sign In is enabled, users will not be able to sign into Polycom VVX or RealPresence Trio devices. In order to utilise these devices, please create a "Device account" in the VIA portal. This account is solely for the use on an IP device and does not allow for SSO.
The certificate utilised by ADFS must be a Public Certificate, signed by a Root authority, NOT an internal certificate.
1) Navigate to any of your AD FS Servers.
2) Open the ADFS Management Interface and expand "Trust Relationships" & "Relying Party Trusts"
3) Click "Add Relying Party Trust".
5) Click Next, Set the display name to "VIA Skype for Business" or leave as default.
6) Select your desired Multi-Factor authentication settings.
7) Select "Permit all users to access this relying party".
8) Leave "Open the Edit Claims Rules dialog" checked and click close.
9) From the "Claim Issuance Policy" window, click "Add Rule".
10) Choose "Send LDAP Attributes as Claims" and select Next.
11) Enter a name for this rule, e.g. "UPN".
12) Select the attribute store "Active Directory".
13) Select "User-Principal-Name" in the left-hand box (LDAP attribute) and enter "UPN" as the "Outgoing Claim Type".
14) Finish the select and save the Claim Issuance Policy.
15) You will now see VIA as a configured and enabled Relying Party Trust.


Funding for technology startups in Africa hasn't historically been as readily available for reasons including high risks as well as a perceived shortage of talent. Savannah Fund, founded by Mbwana Alliy and Paul Bragiel, provides seed money to tech early stage startups in sub-Sahara Africa and they're looking to fund promising projects with interest in business within the region and beyond.
Alliy, founder of the Tanzanian travel company YellowMasai, first came up with the idea for Savannah Fund while attending the Pivot East conference in Nairobi. The conference is an opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors to meet although quickly Alliy noted an issue with its execution.
First, Alliy noticed that the investors were only interested than funding requests for startups that needed $1 million in funding. Beyond that, he noticed that the technical experience of the investors wasn't as fully developed as it should have been considering the projects' scopes. Overall, the entrepreneurs weren't pitching to the right set of investors and the mismatch showed as not all worthy projects who deserved funding were granting it.
Savannah Fund's aim is to provide capital to startups with a prototype built and those already with traction in the market. Any entrepreneur who wants to build a startup for Sub-Saharan Africa with an aim to reach a global market is encouraged to apply.
Working on his pitch deck for two months, Alliy explains that he was pitching up to three in a day a one hour each in its peak for one month. Instead of being discouraged by negative feedback, Alliy noted carefully the specific reasons why investors weren't interested.
The investors most interested in Savannah Fund were those who had some kind of connection with Africa. Tim Draper is an investor who had spent time in Africa and quickly realized the impact Savannah Fund would have in the region.
The startup must have at least two people involved. That is, it must be a team and not a one person show.
The team must already have a prototype built. Alliy notes that everyone has ideas, but in today's business climate, there's no reason not to have a prototype. That means a team who can code and can release a product on their own. So, Savannah Fund is looking to fund startups who use mobile technology and internet as its base.
There are five companies per class and two classes per year for a total of 10 companies per year. Startups will be mentored and trained by seasoned entrepreneurs for about an hour each day in the afternoon after spending morning sessions working on their projects.
The second kind of investment offered is additional funding for startups that have completed the accelerator program with Savannah Fund and need next stage funding to keep things moving forward.
The last kind of capital Savannah Fund offers is for startups that didn't participate in the accelerator program but who still approach the investment firm for seed funding.


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The Stories Behind Some of Our Favorite Colorado Craft Beer Labels
Alysia Shoemaker August 10, 2018 Food + Booze
Photo by Alysia Shoemaker
Food + BoozeBeer, Bars and Booze
People are visual creatures. We are attracted to the bright, the vibrant and the unusual. It doesn't matter if it's in the liquor store or on Instagram, it's the visuals that cause people to stop and take a second look. Beer labels are great examples of visuals luring people in for a closer look. This isn't to say that it doesn't matter what is inside the can, but more often than not people are looking for a reason to pick up the can in the first place. What's inside the can keeps people coming back for more but that is a discussion for a different day.
READ: Something Brewery Makes Crowler Labels Pop In 3D
What we want to look at is how can something that is all but required for every brewery be so different? It comes down to the brand and more specifically the people behind the brand. The people behind the labels – whether or not they admit it or not — have a goal. The goal is to tell you who they are, what the beer is all about and to encourage you to become a part of who they are.
Below are the stories behind the labels of three different breweries. Each brewery showcases different styles beers and ideas but has an equal passion for making special labels that standout with a purpose.
Reflections of Cellar West Artisan Ales
For Cellar West, the label is meant to be a visual representation of the artisanship of this small brewery specializing in oak-aged Brett beers. Everything at Cellar West is done by hand and it's done by Zach Nichols – owner, brewer and label designer. To Nichols, the labels are an "extension of the beer and myself."
This means that the labels aren't based on a brand or a set of firm ideas. Instead, Nichols, who keeps a running list of potential beer names via a text message thread to himself lets it flow. There is no true order of what comes first the beer or the name. When it comes to the names Nichols shared that " [they] come from things I hear on a daily basis, from somewhere, maybe a song lyric." Often, he creates a new beer and then goes back to the thread to find something to match the style of the beer. For example, "if it's a rustic saison it's going to be something more classic and not super weird and funky."
This process of matching the right style to the right name continues on for the label. When looking for inspiration Nichols often focuses on the idea of where he would like to be when drinking the particular beers. For example, for his beer, Meager, a super simple and delicate saison the label has mice drinking a beer on a basic wooden table with a classic saison glass. How does that make sense? When Nichols thinks of Farmhouse ales, he pictures farmhouses from the old country where mice scurry around in the barn.
For most of the saisons Nichols says, "I try to keep the labels more simple and timeless. Keep it to maybe a couple of earth tone colors." On the other side of the spectrum – let's say he has brewed a triple dry hopped Brett IPA he goes "funky with the label." Nichols wants to make sure that the energy and vibe of the label mimics the character of the beer." By having the label reflect the beer you know what kind of beer you are getting into with Cellar West – classic saisons will be earth tones and simple while big hoppy and slightly tart beers will pop with bright colors and sometimes psychedelic designs.
When asked which labels were the easiest Nichols mentioned his original beer Westfield – the idea was a long time coming and it's an old world take on a field party. At this party, however, they crush saisons instead of Natty Light. This is a throwback to his youth growing up in Wisconsin, where he might not have attended many but did enjoy a couple of field parties. The second easiest label also goes on the beer that brought Cellar West a GABF medal and that's Make Hay, a robust saison. The idea of a jolly farmer crushing this beer on his tractor after a long day on the field came to Nichols right away.
Zach Nichols of Cellar West
Nichols also drew the three-eyed bird people see hanging outside the front down, currently in North Boulder but the brewery is on its way and expanding in a new location in Lafayette. Nichols wants people to know it's a three-eyed loon and it represents the three cycles of fermentation each beer goes through before it ends up in our hands.
At Cellar West, the label is the beer – like most of the labels, it is that simple.
The Story of Fiction Beer
Fiction Beer Company has a firm identity — it's all about books and beer. What you might not know is that people take this very, very seriously. When we sat down to talk with Christa Kilpatrick one of the co-owners and resident book nerd we found out just how serious. Kilpatrick shared people will or won't drink one of our beers based on the book tied to it. Each beer brewed has a literary background.
Once a certain beer and book are paired, Kilpatrick then tells the story of how the beer, the style and its ingredients tie to that literary story on the back of each can except for the crowlers. All of this happens – the name, the backstory and the concept before the beer even gets to the graphic designer, Glissen Rhode.
After all of that plus the work that goes into the label imagine people basing their decision on whether to drink something solely based on the book. For example, with Madame Psychosis "some people absolutely loathed the book so they won't drink the beer." On the other hand, Fiction released, Never Tell Me The Hops, a Star Wars themed beer and according to Kilpatrick "people were just coming in because they wanted the label." It just shows the passion people have for beer and literature which in the end is what Fiction Beer is about.
In talking with Rhode, her favorite part is that Fiction and Kilpatrick like to take risks and be bold whether it's neon lettering or cutting through the color to let the can shine through. Glissen shares, "with their whole concept of books and beer it's an opportunity to put artwork on the beer label why not make them resemble book covers?" In a sense, if you were to line up all of Fiction's cans in a beer store it would be like walking into a bookstore. Yes, the publisher on each book is present, just like you will always find the row of books on Fiction's cans but according to Rhode, "every beer is going to look different with a different kind of theme that pulls from the book and the beer style and the flavors." When Kilpatrick and Rhode speak of the individual themes and ideas it's easy to see why every can is different which is not something you see at most breweries.
Which labels does Rhode find the most difficult? According to Kilpatrick, "when we send sci-fi or wizards, she's like hold up – it's an adventure." On the HAL can, for example, Kilpatrick and her husband (brewer Ryan Kilpatrick) were very specific about it needing to be HALS' eye and that there be a nebula on the can that resembles a hop. On the other hand, when the Falconer was passed over to Rhode, "I gave her a bird and she was like I've got it." Not only did she have it but Rhode sketched the bird of prey herself. The Falconer is not alone according to Rhode. "There is a spirit animal on each can, one element that represents the beer and the book. Logic is Relative is the Armadillo, Magic Wallet is Medusa."
These descriptions, from as simple as a bird to extreme detail in the most challenging of labels which for Rhode was Beta Capsule (think sci-fi video game) are how she and Fiction collaborate. "Part of the creative process that I enjoy is taking their puzzle or riddle and teasing out what the creative direction will be."
There is only one thing you can expect from the beers at Fiction and that is something different. Each beer and each can is going to tell you a story literally, via your taste buds and then bring it all together in the label.
"There is a spirit animal on each can, one element that represents the beer and the book. Logic is Relative is the Armadillo, Magic Wallet is Medusa."
The Outer Range Lifestyle
There is one thing Outer Range provides in the labels that grace its 16 ounces cans of Hazy IPAs or Belgian style beers and that is variety. The cans vary from pictures of Frisco from its earliest days to totally modern designs to the newest addition trail labels. There is one thing that goes across all of those labels however and that is a passion for the outdoors. The beer and particularly the trail labels are meant to transport you even if just for a moment away from everyday corporate life to the serenity of nature and mountains.
To understand why Outer Range is passionate about the mountains you need to know the backstory, we sat down with Emily Cleghorn who broke it down. Lee Cleghorn (co-owner and head brewer) and Emily (co-owner – branding and marketing) met when they were both stationed in Fort Carson in Colorado Springs while both enlisted in the Army. They got engaged in Keystone and married in Vail – the mountains have always played a role in their life and now their brewery. After they both finished serving they went to New York "to translate their Army skills into business acumen." The entire time they were there Emily told us, "we yearned for this mountain lifestyle."
Taking into account the Cleghorns' personal backstory it's not hard to see why they love Frisco and Summit County. Take for example the cans which focus on early Frisco. Outer Range partners with the Frisco Historic Museum for the photos that end up on the cans. To Emily "it's important for a younger generation to understand our history here." It speaks to the simplicity of the lifestyle that in a sense hasn't changed over time.
Understanding the history helps with the Cleghorns' goal, "to perpetuate love for the mountains" and of course craft beer. The Cabin Culture label which features an unmarried woman, wearing a long dress with a flower in her cap while as Emily puts it, "packing heat" still has a living relative in Frisco. While she was single when the photo was taken she was later married and via the historic museum, her great-nephew received a case of the beer featuring his great aunt.
"It's not just about the beer, the beer is what we produce but we are trying to create experiences," said Emily. This is where the Trail Labels come into play. All along Emily had wanted to share their local favorite trails with people coming up for the weekend – she even thought about passing about maps at a beer release when a friend asked her why not put them on a label? She thought to herself why not? She partnered with her graphic designer, Diana Griggs, as she does with all designs and a national topography agency to make sure the labels were useful. Each label also includes their favorite points of interest to make them fun.
At this time, there are five planned trails starting with Lily Pad Lake, a minimal elevation trail and will end with a 14er so people can do the trails in succession. Emily was searching for a way to give their beer fans a usable tool to explore the mountains and this was the right match. I would say it's safe to say this won't be going away after the initial five trails either. Here's hoping the plans for something fun in the winter works out as well.
The Outer Range labels have a purpose to Emily, "the cans I feel like are something that can spread our message far and wide." It helps of course that they are labeling damn good beers. Emilt makes it simple when it comes to who Outer Range is as a brewery, "we are trying to marry our love of craft beer with our love of the outdoors."
Every brewery has a story and if you want to know it, you can find it on the label.
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Alysia is a Colorado native and beer writer for 303 Magazine. On the weekends she can be found at the latest bottle release or visiting the newest breweries Colorado has to offer. Alysia's other passions include exploring the mountains but only when it's warm, checking out dog parks and hunting for the best tacos in town. There is no show she won't go to and no bookstore she won't explore.
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Adobe?s next big bets are on AR and mixed reality software
August 13, 2019 • Adobe, Mixed
By the end of this year, designers will be getting three new Adobe apps, which are all part of the company's vision for the next era of creativity. This next generation of apps will focus on mixing real-life, physical elements with digital ones, and it will emphasize experiences "outside of the glass," says Adobe chief technology officer Abhay Parasnis. They'll also be interconnected through mobile and desktop experiences so that users can switch between apps on any device.
"Every app we're building — Aero, Fresco, Photoshop on the iPad — you will see us push to be cloud native, making collaboration a lot simpler," Parasnis told The Verge. Perhaps the best example of the future Adobe envisions is another project that's still in development called Project Glasswing. It's a mixed-reality display prototype that would bring all of Adobe's apps into the real world in the form of Photoshop or After Effects layers on a transparent screen in front of real 3D objects.
Parasnis stopped by The Verge to demonstrate all of the apps in development on an iPad Pro, starting with Fresco, the upcoming raster and vector illustration app for the iPad. He drew some brush strokes on the canvas, saved it, then opened the same file in Photoshop for the iPad, where the brush strokes remained. Parasnis says the goal is to make the apps "feel the same, not just in the UI, but in the paradigm of cloud documents." Files should seem local, while the actual work is happening in the cloud, instantly syncing and saving every change.
Fresco, which is meant to mimic how watercolors and oil paints behave on paper, is the culmination of eight years of research using Adobe Sensei's AI platform. The first version required high-end GPUs to run the engines, and a big part of the research time was spent making sure that the realistic strokes wouldn't drain battery life and performance. "To an artist, nothing is worse than feeling like there's already a level of interaction with a glass and a digital screen," Parasnis says. For Adobe's research team, cutting down the latency and getting the brushes and paints to mix naturally in real time represents several breakthroughs.
What Fresco is meant to achieve by bringing the analog painting experience into digital screens, Project Aero aims for the opposite. The augmented reality authoring tool allows for designers to create immersive experiences through the Adobe tools they already know how to use without having to know how to code. According to Parasnis, Aero started with the question of "Can we take digital output of creations from Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dimension, and seamlessly bring them to life in physical 3D spaces around us?"
Aero was previewed at Apple's developer conference last year, where Adobe announced that it would work with an AR file format created by Apple and Pixar. The unified format — USDZ, which is limited to iOS for now — means that files can be exported to show up in iPhones on regular apps like iMessage and Safari, without having to download separate AR viewers.
The app lets artists use drag-and-drop modules to create animations and responsive AR experiences that automatically take into account factors like physics and lighting, which would normally require knowledge of programs like Unity and Apple's ARKit. Aero also gives artists the ability to fine-tune their AR creations using 3D textures and materials from Substance, the texturing software by Allegorithmic, which Adobe recently acquired. A handful of artists have access to the closed beta of Aero, but the app is taking requests for early access here.
Still, Parasnis recognizes the limits of AR, which binds users to screens and requires devices to look at the world. "For AR and immersive to go mainstream, both the hardware and the software has to happen," Parasnis says. Adobe's solution to that is Project Glasswing, a transparent LCD display that could potentially be used in retail environments or public spaces like hotels and museums. The prototype display can blend digital and physical environments without the need for glasses and headsets. "We like it as an alternative form of AR," he says.
Parasnis stresses that Project Glasswing isn't a hardware product; instead, it's a means for Adobe to showcase how its software can be used in real-life applications, especially in retail. Adobe intends to partner with other companies to "take the hardware forward" because, Parasnis says, "We don't actually want to be in the business of making the display."
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For retailers worried about how to compete with Amazon, Parasnis thinks AR has the potential to give them an advantage. "If I can make my physical retail environment and spaces more interactive," he says, "it gives users a reason to actually leave their screens and go into physical spaces."
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Martin Egblewogbe stands at the door of most well-meaning literary activities in Ghana, turning the knob and ushering you in with a smile, if you were a visitor to West Africa's calmest country, longing for poetry and beer. You will be drawn to him before his poetry, organisational panache in the city of Accra of writers who refused to be left behind by a kaleidoscopic culture and indifferent polity, this writer and teacher of physics at the University of Ghana, Legon. But once you hear him read, a mellifluous rendering of philosophy and love most often, then you will comprehend why he decides to gather the crowd himself-to erect platform for a passion and zeal. Martin is an exciting poet and short-story writer. His collection of short stories, Mr. Happy and the Hammer of God, still cause a stir. He co-founded Ghana Poetry Project and at the helm of perhaps the most accommodating and engaging literary tryst in Ghana, Talkparty, or Ehalakasa, in the local parlance. This is the poet I present to you at this curve of the rainbow.
Martin Egblewogbe lives in Accra, Ghana. He mainly writes short stories and poetry, and is involved in working with other writers to create a deeper appreciation of literature in the Ghanaian society.
A: I do not think that I made a conscious choice to become a poet and a writer; what happens is that I find that there are stories and poems that I want to write, and then I do. Apart from that, I am rather ordinary and I have an interest in science.
A: Beckett comes to mind, Kafka as well. Okigbo for the poetry, Marlowe for the play on Faust; Dostoevsky certainly, Mann of course. The list goes on.
A: I believe that cultural and societal change are best wrought by artists, writers, poets, whose works then form the vanguard and a bastion for progress.
A: The Ghana Poetry Project is now the Writers Project of Ghana, and we're rolling out several programs that have helped raise a core of poets and performers in Accra at least; furthermore, our activities have served to promote the appreciation of literature among many members of the general public. WPG currently runs a radio show, book readings, poetry recitals, schools outreach programs, and many more.
A: Things are picking up on the publishing front. There are many books being released now than before, and the quality keeps improving as well. Though the unjustly maligned form of self-publication is quite prominent, one must applaud the writers who are fighting to break the stagnation that has crippled the publication of creative writing in the country. What will finally let this industry surge is the breaking of the barrier of marketing and sales.
I'm looking at this pattern.
I see my imminent salvation.
And howitzers belching flame from the hills.
And machineguns raining bullets from burning houses.
And warships and subs and torpedoes in the deep.
And missiles striking like the fist of god.
Let them return half-mad and staring into the distance.
And mothers weeping in the corners.
the true inheritors of the world.
Too tired even to die.
Brought down a wicked feast of flesh!
That glowed in front of me.
So many, many; So many more!
Countless of the same each day!
Still lives in Sodom, and Gomorrah.
Mellow evening, fading to night.
Over these years that you've been gone.
Graduating, graduated shades of Grey.
For there is neither Black nor White.
An eerie lighting up of night.
Flashing again and again on the horizon?
And I don't know what at all it is.
and wreaking escape by thought alone.
required to give the boom to the bang.
the shadow of god across the intellect.
exchanging lives in their bloody moneyshow.
Exciting interview and interesting poems. Martin's writings are always deep. they aren't easy to penetrate and he uses a lot of his scientific brain to question man's position in this world. Are we the ultimate victors? Why can't we learn from our actions? For instance, why must we war when we know that war isn't good? etc.


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Dresser-Rand Sells 11 MW Of PV Plants In Italy To MBB Clean Energy
Texas-based energy equipment and engineering services provider Dresser-Rand Group Inc. has reached an agreement with Germany-based MBB Clean Energy AG for the latter's acquisition of three photovoltaic power plants with a combined capacity of 11 MW, designed, built and commissioned by Dresser-Rand in Italy.
The plants are in full operation with approved feed-in tariffs and produce about 16 GWh of electricity per year. All tolled, the facilities incorporate 44,764 polycrystalline silicon solar modules. Dresser-Rand will provide long-term operations and maintenance services for the facilities.
MBB Clean Energy says it aims to become one of the leading clean energy producers in Germany through the acquisition and operation of European and international energy projects.
'We are very proud that MBB Clean Energy AG has selected the Dresser-Rand plants to be the first solar project acquired for its interesting new bond portfolio, and to be part of MBB Clean Energy's exciting renewable energy business,' says Jesus Pacheco, Dresser-Rand's executive vice president for new equipment.


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