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Shopify provides everything you need to create a beautiful online store. Shopify powers more than 30,000 online retailers including Amnesty International, Evisu Jeans, and Tesla Motors. Ecommerce website hosting with unlimited bandwidth is included in all packages. Shopify includes mobile commerce features and can be managed with an iPhone.
CompareLiveBall is landing page optimization software for marketers. The SaaS platform lifts ad campaign conversion rates by 20-300% or more by focusing on post-click performance. Marketers are empowered to create, test and optimize their own conversion-focused user experiences without web development or IT support. With LiveBall, marketers create world-class landing pages, microsites and conversion paths that make great first impressions on visitors from all types of traffic sources. Once the pages are created, marketers can A/B and multivariate test images, text, forms, videos, Flash and more. Once a champion is determined and the results are statistically significant, LiveBall can even re-route traffic to the higher converting page on its own. Hundreds of LiveBall customers report triple digit conversion lift. Join them and increase the ROI of your online marketing efforts (Post-Click Marketing).
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CompareFor small businesses in growth, there comes a moment when basic sales and marketing tools just can't grow with you. That's where our small business CRM Infusionsoft comes in. Our powerful software combines CRM, email marketing and e-commerce into one integrated system driven by the power of sales and marketing automation.
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Forty-four student-athletes are expected to earn degrees from the University of Houston at this weekend's graduation ceremonies at Hofheinz Pavilion.
University of Houston former forward Katelyn Rhodes has signed to play professionally for the Houston Aces of the Women's Premier Soccer League.
The University of Houston soccer team teamed up with the Texas Heatwave youth recreational soccer program to offer a free soccer clinic to the program's players and coaches last Friday at Lindsay Lyons Fields in Atascocita.
Over a three day span, University of Houston soccer student-athletes spent time giving back to the Houston community by participating in Generation One and at the Nehamiah Sports Day.
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an imagining
as the trainAdd to commentary
pulled out of the station
and begun to speed onwards
towards an empty city
yearning to be filled again
i saw her. i was standing
before the now shut doors
and idly looking out at the
grey streamers of cloud.
i saw her sitting in the
uncovered part of the platform
the rain, falling.
only the wet, blonde
wisps of hair i could see
reaching out from underneath
the hood of her jacket. she
did not move.
When all is said and done, I imagine this simple direct style of poetry will outlast most of the ornate stuff that is hard to understand.
A couple of suggestions. The wisps of hair "reaching out". I have trouble with that image. Straggling is neither poetic sounding nor original but something a little different from "reaching out". Put a semi-colon after jacket and start the new line below with "she". Or a period would do well there too.
Lovely poem.
how about "emerging"?
thanks for the comments.
I'm looking at this (pretty much just for the fun of doing it) and searching for the redoing:
You have written:
only the wet, blonde
wisps of hair i could see
reaching out from underneath
the hood of her jacket. she
did not move.
what are you really wanting to say here? I interpret that the only thing you could see were the wet wisps of blonde hair. (only wisps of her lovely blonde hair blah blah from underneath the hood of her jacket?)
I can't see wisps reaching out but "emerging" seems a little prosaid. I like the image of the hair actively doing something. Maybe "reaching out" isn't so bad, after all. Reaching out to me (as in moving your desire for her.)
Anyhow, lovely poem. Keep me enjoying your good work.
i'm wanting to say that i did not see the face underneath the hood, just the hair, falling down from beneath it.
Then that is what you should say, talented poet. It is misleading, I believe, to tell us, the readers, in the sixth line, "I saw her". Then, in line ten, "I saw her sitting...". And I don't know about the other readers but I did not get that image at all, that all you saw was her hair. I thought you saw her face.
however, one can see someone without necessarily having to see that person's face. perhaps the last stanza could do with a rework nonetheless.
good idea. carry on. after all, it is your poem and you know what's best.


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One of those days where all you can do is exhale?
When your lips are relaxed, you exhale and end up making that "Ppppp ..." noise.
I have had one of those days today. Despite the highs and lows, joys and frustrations, good and bad; I have reason to rejoice. God is with me, living in me, and speaking to me.
After pacing back and forth, rubbing a hole in my forehead from all the thinking, and finally conceding to the fact that things may not turn out the way I really would like them to, I exhaled. It was in this moment of "Ppppp ..." that God showed up. The noise that came from air moving between my lips reminded me of five significant words from my day.
More often than not, a conversation with the Almighty reveals my need for ...
Purity in my heart, soul, mind, and strength. Only through faith in Jesus' death and resurrection can this happen. I am a filthy, rotten, sinner addicted to sinning. Fortunately, I am the type of failure-prone, habitual hypocrite that Jesus came to save. Be it pride, lust, anger, greed, selfishness, or whatever - I need to seek purity in all of me.
This brings me back to Jesus, which brings me to my ...
Purpose in life. The ultimate question that all people ask at some point; why am I here? I have come to know my purpose. The Bible talks quite a bit about this; from Genesis to Revelation. The answer can be summarized in the words of YHWH found in Leviticus 11:44 "... be holy, for I am holy." This seems like a daunting task, insurmountable by me, never to be attained by anyone. That's because it is. No human can be holy the way that God is holy. Sin has forever ruined any hope of doing this on our own. But, with a humble, repentant heart, anyone can come to Jesus and be holy, just as He is holy.
This is a promise for real ...
People with real needs. If we were all willing to take 34 seconds out of our day to be silent, I'm sure each and everyone of us could think about something we need. Someone may be in dire need of money in order to pay the bills. Another person might hear their stomach growl, and honestly be in need of food. Looking around and being surrounded by people, laughing life away and looking like everything is O.K. there are people in our midst who need a friend. Whatever it may be, by God's grace, with the helping hands of believers led by the Spirit, I pray that your needs may be met today.
There needs to be something said about ...
Possessions in this temporal world. There are so many things in this world that we want to have, know how to use "for His purposes," and carefully consider whether or not they are becoming idols. We are blessed beyond belief here in America. Our pockets are filled with technology that was unheard of ten years ago. Looking in our closets, it seems like we each could clothe a small village or two. But what do we do? We want more. Suddenly the next best thing has become obsolete. It's time to upgrade. But will this stuff last? Jesus tells us to store up treasures in heaven, rather than things on this earth.
What possessions are distracting me from people?
Does my purpose in life push me to higher standard of purity?
How do I feel about prayer? Is prayer a duty or a blessing? Does prayer make my heart beat?


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By Paul Vieira
BCE Inc. chief executive George Cope has a lot of beefs with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission over its rejection Thursday of BCE's proposed $3-billion takeover of Astral Media Inc. One of them: The regulator's recently appointed chairman, Jean-Pierre Blais, declined to meet with BCE executives following his appointment in early June.
Mr. Cope reiterated this complaint during an interview with BNN, the BCE-owned Canadian business TV channel.
He said he was upset because as BCE submitted its deal for approval, "there was a new CRTC chair put in place. We reached out and said, 'We'd just like a meeting to introduce the CEO of BCE to the chair.' We were told, 'Given the Astral file, we really can't see you right now.' Fair enough. Then we find out that every one of our competitors, right up to five days in front of the hearing, were able to sit in front of the CRTC."
By Paul Vieira
Three Canadian media companies decided Tuesday to exert some pressure on federal regulators to block BCE's proposed multibillion-dollar takeover of specialty-TV company Astral Media.
Chief executives from the cable operators – among them Pierre-Karl Peladeau of Quebec media titan Quebecor – said at a news conference in Ottawa that the acquisition, as structured, would strike a blow to competition in the broadcasting industry, and force consumers to fork over more cash to watch their favorite channels.
See the latest Canada news and features from The Wall Street Journal.
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He began as an engineer, craftsman, salesman and deliveryman. In those early days, Isaac P. Hyde, did everything.New England's leather and shoe industry needed high-quality knives to cut and shape its wares. Hyde saw the need and filled it. By budgeting his time, he could fashion the knives by hand, finish them, load them in his buggy, distribute them, factory to factory, and get back to Southbridge in time to sweep up the workshop. From this modest beginning, Hyde built first a reputation, then a factory. By the close of the 19th century, he had expanded his line of knives to include special ones for a variety of industrial uses. |
In 1917 another factory was built,this one in the shape of a letter H. Beyond the initial coincidence of that shape and the company name, the new building was designed for efficient work flow, improved illumination and expected expansion. |
And expand Hyde did. Today, Hyde is into its second century of service to American industry and the home handyman.To the uninitiated, the variety of uses for Hyde products is astonishing. In fact, if it's made of paper, cloth, plastic, leather, or rubber chances are a Hyde blade was involved in its manufacture. Likewise, Hyde helps harvest and process a wide variety of food products around the world. The essence of Hyde's success is concentrating on what it knows best; laser cutting, blanking, heat treating, grinding and polishing steel. The standards that Isaac Hyde established in the 1870's still hold true today: Make the best possible product from the most appropriate steel and try every day to improve on yesterday's best. Day after day, in every product, Hyde gives America the edge it needs. |


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I am having the same issues. We just switched from Directv to Blue Ridge cable in PA. The SA8300HDC only has a 160Gig hard drive so I want to add an external disk. After reading lots of info here I purchased a WD1001FALS and a Antec MX-1 enclosure. The cable box is running Passport 3.1.086 and refuses to recognize the new disk drive. I called the cable company and all they said was to have both boxes running and plug in the eSata cable followed by a pop up screen to accept formating the new hard drive. I never get the screen to accept formatting. I tried all the possible power up sequences. I do notice the programs freeze for about 10 seconds and then just continue with no attention pop up when I connect the eSATA cable. I don't know what to do next. Different cable box or drive or enclosure? Thanks for any new ideas.
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At home, I have had a setup with a wireless router for quite a while. It's more or less a stock OpenWRT setup, but I have split the joined all the wired ports into one virtual interface (actually, I think they're just on one VLAN) and split off the wireless. The wireless is open to the world, but I have a fair amount of packet filters there so it doesn't get too annoying. Some people have no shame and run bittorrent and other file sharing utilities on other people's open wireless.
Anyway, my setup is no longer so simple. I bought a WRT54GL to provide
better reception in other parts of the flat and wanted to join those
two. After a little bit of reading, I found what I wanted: WDS.
Due to a previous misconfiguration of the WRT54GS, the WDS
connection was joined onto the br0/LAN segment and not the wireless
segment. That was easily enough fixed, but it's always a bit scary to
change network settings on headless devices. (I did manage to lock
myself out, but I could ssh through in from the wireless network, so I
just used the WRT54GL to bounce through.) Once that bit was up, I could
set up WDS, I did as the documentation told me and did it with
(anyone can do WDS with you) enabled. It worked, so I
turned it off and rebooted both routers (again..), and it still worked.


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The Nick Vertucci Companies, Inc. brings you a solution to the challenges that come with investing in bank owned foreclosures. By overseeing the entire project every step of the way, NV Companies simplifies the process of succeeding in Real Estate investment!
Armando Montelongo from A&E's hit Television show FLIP THIS HOUSE has teamed up with NV Companies CEO Nick Vertucci to host "The Real Estate Investing Hour".


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Jack Brenchley
Affiliate Faculty in Communications (Digital Design)
Professor Brenchley's impressive professional credentials include serving as Software Quality Engineering Manager with Adobe System's InDesign/InCopy development team. A Trinity graduate himself, he later earned a B.A. in Education from Western Washington University and an M.B.A. and Graduate Certificate in E-Commerce from City University, Seattle. He continues a lifelong interest on the intersection between business, technology, education, and faith.
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Water Quality Permits for Agriculture
Permits and other authorizations required for animal feeding operations, concentrated animal feeding operations, and other agricultural operations.
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Delinquent Fees and Penalties Will Affect Processing Your Application
Effective Sept. 1, 2012, the TCEQ redefined delinquent accounts to include those entities or people** who owe at least $25 in delinquent penalties or fees. The previous threshold for delinquency was $200. This new $25 threshold is the same amount used by us to place an entity on Warrant Hold with the Comptroller of Public Accounts.
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If you compost livestock manure that is hauled in from off site, this general permit might cover you. Find out whether you qualify.
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If you are starting a new concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Texas, read this page to find out whether you need a water quality permit from the TCEQ.
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Agriculture Stakeholder Group
Meeting schedule, agendas, minutes of past meetings, and related information for this voluntary group that meets several times a year to discuss issues such as implementation of and compliance with water quality rules for agriculture.
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Helpful information about water quality and wastewater permits. Deficiencies we find frequently during administrative review.
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Check the status of permits or applications covered under water quality general permits.
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Information on obtaining an individual permit for the operation of a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Texas. Links to permit application.


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Elections 2012
12:53 am
Wed September 12, 2012
Hassan Accepts Democratic Nomination
By Emily Corwin
Democrat Maggie Hassan won the Democratic nomination for Governor at the Puritan Conference Center in Manchester last night. She says she's ready to face Ovide Lamontagne, whom she called "the tea party favorite."
Hassan brought up issues from payday loans, to education and womens' health:
Under my opponent's version of live free or die, abortion would be illegal, even for the victims of rape or incest, and women and their doctors would be treated as criminals.
Hassan continued with the refrain, "that's the tea party way." She also criticized the legislature's recent budget cuts, especially to education.


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Knowledge Base - Service Tax
- Registration for Service Tax (18)
- Service Tax Payments (21)
- Service Tax Returns (11)
- Service Tax Refunds (4)
- Service Tax Exemptions (6)
Service tax is, as the name suggests, a tax on Services. It is a tax levied on the transaction of certain services specified by the Central Government under the Finance Act, 1994.
It is an indirect tax (akin to Excise Duty or Sales Tax) which means that normally, the service provider pays the tax and recovers the amount from the recipient of taxable service.
Normally, the 'person' who provides the taxable service on receipt of service charges is responsible for paying the Service Tax to the Government (Sec.68 (1) of the Act). However, in the following situations, the receiver of the Services is responsible for the payment of Service tax :
Vide Entry 97 of Schedule VII of the Constitution of India, the Central Government levies service tax through Chapter V of the Finance Act, 1994. The taxable services are defined in Section 65 of the Finance Act, 1994. Section 66 is the charging section of the said Act.
Taxable Services have been specified under Section 65(105) of the Finance Act, 1994.
Click here for a detailed list of taxable services.
If you are engaged in providing a service to your customer:
(i) Whether the service rendered by you is falling under the scope of any of the taxable services
(ii) Whether there is a general or specific exemption available for the category of service provided under any notification issued under section 93 of the Finance Act, 1994.
At present, the effective rate of Service Tax is 10.30% on the value of the taxable service. The above effective rate comprises of Service Tax @10% payable on the "gross value of taxable service", Education Cess @ 2% on the service tax amount, and Secondary and Higher Education Cess @ 1% on the service tax amount.
The "value of taxable service" means, the gross amount received by the service provider for the taxable service provided or to be provided by him. Taxable value has to be determined as per the provisions of the Section 67 of the Finance Act, 1994 read with Service Tax (Determination of Value) Rules, 2006.
The Central Excise Officer is empowered to verify the accuracy of any information furnished or document presented for valuation.
If the value adopted by the Service Tax assessee is not acceptable in accordance with the statute, the officer shall issue a show cause notice (SCN) proposing to determine the value as per the law.
Yes, any taxable service provided to Diplomatic Missions for official use of such Mission as well as for the personal use or for the use of the family members of diplomatic agents or career consular officers posted in a foreign diplomatic mission or consular post in India is exempt in terms of the notifications numbers 33/2007-ST dated 23rd May, 2007 and 34/2007-ST dated 23rd May, 2007 respectivel
There are no specific statutory records which have to be maintained by a Service Tax assessee. The records including computerized data, if any, which are being maintained by an assessee on his own or as required under any other law in force, such as Income Tax, Sales Tax etc. are acceptable for the purpose of Service Tax - (Rule 5(1) of the STR, 1994).
Yes. If it is felt necessary, the Department can call for additional information/ documents for scrutiny, as per Rule 6(6) of the STR, 1994 and Sec. 14 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 which is made applicable to Service Tax matters, as per Sec. 83 of the Finance Act, 1994.
As provided under Rule 5A of STR, 1994, an officer authorized by the Commissioner can have access to an assessee's registered premises for the purpose of carrying out any scrutiny, verification and checks as may be necessary to safeguard the interest of revenue.
Issue of Invoice/Bill/Challan by a Service Tax assessee is mandatory as per Rule 4A of the STR, 1994. The same should be issued within 14 days from the date of completion of taxable service or receipt of payment towards the service, whichever is earlier.
Yes. It is mandatory to separately indicate the amount of Service Tax charged in the Bills/Invoices/Challans raised on the clients, as per Section 12A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 which is made applicable to Service Tax, under Sec.83 of the Finance Act, 1994.
All records and documents concerning any taxable service, CENVAT transactions etc. must be preserved for a minimum period of 5 years immediately after the financial year to which such records pertain (Rule 5(3) of Service Tax Rules 1994.)
Service Tax is required to be paid at the rate in force (at present 10.3%) only on the value/amount of taxable service received in a particular month or quarter as the case may be, and not on the gross amount billed to the client. [Refer to sub-section (2) of Section 67 of Finance Act,1994/Rule 6(1) of Service Tax Rule 1994].
Service Tax is payable on amount realized. In given situation, the amount so realized from the client would be treated as gross amount inclusive of Service Tax and accordingly the value of taxable service and the Service Tax liability are worked out as follows:
For example :
Value of taxable service (AV) = Rs. 10000
The Penal provisions for various contraventions of the Service Tax Law are as follows:-
The penal provisions under Service Tax are provided under Sections 76, 77 and 78 of Finance Act, 1994.
When any amount is demanded as Service Tax or other dues from any person under the Finance Act, 1994 and rules made thereunder towards recovery of service tax or other dues which is not levied or paid or short levied or short paid by any person, or erroneously refunded to any person, and/or any person is liable to penalty under the said Act/Rules, notices are issued in the interest of natural just
Where any service tax has not been levied or paid or has been short-levied or short-paid or erroneously refunded, the person chargeable with the service tax, or the person to whom such tax refund has erroneously been made, may pay the amount of such service tax on the basis of his own ascertainment thereof, or on the basis of tax ascertained by a Central Excise/Service Tax Officer before servic
- When show cause notices are issued under provisions of the Finance Act, 1994 charging any person for contravention of any provisions of the said Act and rules and/or notifications issued thereunder and penal action is proposed the competent officers of the Department adjudge the case and issue orders. This process is called adjudication.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs has issued notification no. 30/2005-ST dated 10th August, 2005, as amended by Not.No. 16/2008, dated 11.03.2008, specifying power of adjudication of cases under section 83A of the Finance Act, 1994 which is as follows:
No. The noticees can defend their case themselves. However, they may also engage any person, duly authorized to defend their case before an adjudicating officer.
The CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, introduced with effect from 10.9.2004, provides for availment of the credit of the Service Tax paid on the input services/Central Excise duties paid on inputs/capital goods/Additional Customs duty leviable under section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, equivalent to the duties of excise.
Duties paid on the inputs, capital goods and the Service Tax
paid on the 'input' services can be taken as credit. Education Cess paid on the Excise duty and Service Tax can also be taken as credit. However, the credit of such Education Cess availed can be utilized only for payment of Education Cess relating to output service.
The interest and penalty amounts cannot be taken as credit.
These terms have been defined in the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004. (Refer Rule 2).
No. The inputs/capital goods can be procured from the First stage and Second stage dealers also. Those dealers should have registered themselves with the Central Excise Department. The invoices issued by them should contain proper details about the payment of duty on those goods. (Refer Rule 9 of CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004.)
The documents on which CENVAT credit can be availed are as follows:-
Yes. Credit of Service Tax on the input services can be availed, only after making payment of the amount indicated in the invoice / bill/challans. This is necessary because, the input service provider will be paying the Service Tax to the Govt. only after he realizes the payment, as the payment of Service Tax is only upon realization. [Rule 4(7) of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004].
An office of the manufacturer or provider of output service who receives invoices for the procure ment of input services and issues invoices for the purpose of distributing the credit of Service Tax paid to such manufacturer or provider of output service is an "Input Service Distributor". [Refer Rule 2(m) of CENVAT Credit 2004].
Yes. They have to register themselves as per the provisions made under Service Tax (Registration of Special Category of Persons) Rules, 2005. They have to file half yearly returns by the end of the month following the half year. [Refer rule 3 of Service Tax (Registration of Special Category of Persons) Rules, 2005].
There is no specific format of records to be maintained. However, they have to maintain adequate records showing the details such as receipt, disposal, consumption and inventory of inputs and capital goods, the amount of credit taken and utilized etc.
Separate accounts are to be maintained for the receipt, consumption and inventory of input and input service meant for providing taxable output service and for use in the exempted services. Credit should be taken only on that quantity of input /input services which are used for the service on which Service Tax is payable. (Ref. Rule 6 of Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004)
Refund of accumulated credit is admissible only in case of exports of finished goods or output service.
What constitute export of service is defined in the Export of Service Rules, 2005. The Export of taxable services is exempted from Service Tax.
The Export of Services, Rules, 2005 specifies 3 categories of cross border transaction of services and conditions that will be construed as export of services in cases of:
If export proceeds are received in Indian currency, no export benefits shall be available.
If services are rendered in India, it shall not be treated as export, even if it is rendered to any foreign national and he pays in convertible foreign currency.
- Taxable services may be exported without payment of service tax, provided the conditions specified in Export of Service Rules, 2005 are fulfilled.
- Where service tax has already been paid on export of services to countries (other than Nepal and Bhutan), rebate/refund of such service tax, can be availed under notification no. 11/2005-ST dated 19.4.2005;
Service tax paid on the input services used in export of goods is refundable to exporter by way of rebate/refund in terms of notification No. 41/2001-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 26th June, 2001. Further CENVAT Credit accumulated on such input services is also refundable under rule 5 of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, subject to the observance of procedure prescribed in notification No.
The rebate claims or refund of utilized CENVAT Credit application has to be filed in the Central Excise or Service Tax Division/Group where the assessee is registered.
The manufacturer-exporter has to file the claim for refund to the Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise or the Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case may be, having jurisdiction over the factory of manufacture or warehouse.
Section 66A of the Finance Act, 1994, inserted with effect from 18.4.2006, provides that where any taxable service is provided or to be provided by a person who has established a business or has a fixed establishment from which the service is provided or to be provided or has his permanent address or usual place of residence, in a country other than India, and is received by a person who has hi
The recipient of service shall be liable to pay tax if the provider of service do not have any established business or a fixed establishment in India. However, a person carrying on a business through a branch or agency in any country shall be treated as having a business establishment in that country (including India).
If the provider of the service (from outside India) has his business establishments in more than one country, the country, where the establishment of the provider of service directly concerned with the provision of service is located, shall be treated as the country from which the service is provided or to be provided.
Usual place of residence, in relation to a body corporate, means the place where it is incorporated or otherwise legally constituted. (Ref.: Explanation 2 to sub-section 2 of Section 66A of the Finance Act,1994.)
The Taxation of Services (Provided from Outside India and Received in India) Rules, 2006 specifies 3 categories of cross border transaction of services and conditions that will be construed as import of services, namely, -
Advance ruling means the determination, by the Authority, of a question of law or fact specified in the application regarding the liability to pay duty/service tax in relation to service proposed to be provided, by the applicant. Activity means service to be provided. (See Section 96A of the Finance Act, 1994)
Authority for Advance Rulings for Excise and Customs is meant to provide binding ruling on important issues so that intending investors will have a clear-cut indication of their duty/tax liability in advance.
- A non-resident setting up a joint venture in India in collaboration with a nonresident or a resident; or
- A resident setting up a joint venture in India in collaboration with a non-resident; or
- A wholly owned subsidiary Indian company, of which the holding company is a foreign company, which proposes to undertake any business activity in India;
Advance rulings, concerning service tax matters, can be sought in respect of –
Office of the Authority for Advance Rulings (Central Excise, Customs & Service Tax), 4th Floor (Room No. 445 to 465, 467 & 469), Hotel Samrat, Kautilya Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi – 110 021, Phone 91-11-26876402/26876406, Fax No. 91-11-26876410, Email : [email protected],
- An assessee aggrieved by an order/decision of the Adjudicating authority subordinate to the Commissioner of Central Excise in respect of Service Tax may file an Appeal to the Commissioner (Appeals), in Form ST-4, in duplicate.
- A copy of the order / decision appealed against should be enclosed.
Yes. If the Commissioner (Appeals) is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from presenting the Appeal within the statutory period of three months, he may allow the Appeal to be presented within a further period of three months. The law does not provide for further extension of time.
Yes. The procedure is as follows:-
Section 73 of Chapter V of Finance Act 1994 as amended from time to time deals with such a scenario where there is case of short payment of service tax or short levy or erroneous refund of tax.
Section 73A deals with such a scenario and the service provider would have to pay the amounts so collected to the Central Government. Where not paid, a SCN can be issued with regard to recovery of such amounts. This provision would apply in all such cases where the service provider has collected in any manner from the service receiver, amounts representing service tax.
Section 73C makes provisional attachment of property possible during pendency of proceedings u/s 73 or 73A. This can be done to protect the interests of revenue but with the permission of Commissioner of Central Excise. The attachment shall be by an order in writing and of property belonging to the person on whom the SCN is served.


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Archive for March 20, 2012
Sony Hands You A Business Card
1Every now and then, I have thoughts about things, but I'm not entirely sure how to explain them. These thoughts seem to be gut reactions, feelings, or "hunches" (if you're a fan of Scooby Doo-style explanations). This post falls into that category, but I'll do my best to explain what I think of when I think about how Sony handles it's PlayStation division in regards to their players.
Apples And Oxen
Although it'll rattle some corner of the Internet, I must use the PS3's arch-nemesis, the Xbox 360, as a foil to what Sony does wrong. Mind you, I'm not partisan: I own both systems, and I use both systems. But I don't think both systems are equal from an ecosystem perspective. I'm not talking hardware; I'm talking about philosophical differences in how the devices and the people behind them treat you, the gamer. This is not an "Xbox is awesome! PS3 sucks!" post. So un-bunch if you have already bunched, please.
Farmers Market Versus Inconvenience Stores
Microsoft wants you to buy their stuff. They're a business; it's what businesses do. In fact, the whole business plan for pretty much any business should be summed up by your neighborhood "convenience store", so named because they make buying the things you need easy. If you hear about a demo or a new XBLA release, you can log into Xbox.com and read about it, view video and see images, and maybe add the item to your download queue so when you get home, you can power up the Xbox and it will automatically download for you.
Sony, on the other hand, has no way to view their marketplace unless you're on a Sony device (PS3 or Vita). Normally you'd go to http://www.us.playstation.com and click on the PlayStation Network item on the sidebar, and then choose PlayStation Store and expect to be taken to…the PlayStation Store, right? Sadly, this only takes you to a PR page which explains what the PSS offers, and although it does offer you a tutorial video on how to access the PSS, it shows you how to do that on the PS3 only.
Show, Don't Tell
A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. Sony apparently has more literature majors on it's marketplace staff than it does artists, because once you do get into the marketplace, it's rather difficult to visualize the product they're asking you to buy. Not every item on the market has screen shots, and even fewer have video. Instead, there's a wall of text that they politely ask you to read, followed by a landslide of legal disclaimers that would make King John sigh with fatigue. If you don't know what you're looking at before you go into the description, or don't have a way to look up the information on the item through a third party solution (tablet, PC, smartphone, etc), you're spitting into the wind. Considering the raft of "WTF?" that the PlayStation platform has always enjoyed here in the West, which includes Western games plus a whole lot of imports from the Homeland of Japan, only the dedicated PS fans are going to recognize the majority of these items without a little visual assistance.
Click OK If You Want To Click OK
I've complained about the PS3's XMB (Cross Media Bar) UI in the past, and I still stick by my distaste for it. I've come to accept it as my PS3 usage has increased over time, but I still think that it's far from being an optimal experience.
The thing that I find the most bothersome most of the time is how often I'm confirming things. On a PC, or even the Xbox, I'm asked to click on something to initiate the download. On the PC, if I say OK, it downloads. On the Xbox, I have to confirm the cost of the item against the amount of points I have (or not, if it's free) and click Purchase (or whatever the button is), and then it downloads. Silently.
On the PS3, I have to click Download on the market page (sans images or video), then I need to view my cart. Then I have the option to download individual items, or the entire cart. Then I have to confirm that I confirmed the download. Then it queues. Then I have to click Go Back to confirm that I've seen the download progress indicator. Now I'm back at the cart. Now what? Where am I? How did I get here and where do I go now? It feels like an awkward conversation where both parties have run out of things to say, and end up standing there, staring at each other, both unsure if it's OK to break away for a more comfortable venue.
The same goes for saving games, most of which require you to acknowledge the acknowledgement that your game has been saved. The PS3 has a Cell Processor, supposedly a very powerful bit of computing hardware. I trust that when I tell it to save, it's saving. I'm not your mommy, PS3; I know you can do it on your own.
Sony Is Seen, But Not Heard
There is probably something that a lot of people don't even think about, but which I think is pretty important, especially if we're talking about PR or customer interaction, and that's spokespeople.
If you know anything about Xbox, you know (of) Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb. He's got his own Xbox-centric website. The dude is everywhere Xbox is. He's like (pardon the sacrilege, and loaded comparison) John the Baptist to the Xbox's Jesus, going ahead of the main event to spread the word. If you see Major Nelson, you know that there's some kind of Xbox deluge to follow. And he seems to be a nice guy, too. We went to the Xbox presentation in Cambridge during PAX East a few years ago, and he was very personable. He was also out and about on the PAX East floor, doing "his thing", which is to be the Face Of Xbox and interacting with the fans.
Sony has The Kevin Butler. Man, I love The Kevin Butler. I don't think there's anything that he's been in that hasn't caused me to laugh out loud – the real kind, not the Internet shorthand kind. He's a great pitchman, and I think Sony really scored in the The Kevin Butler presentation. But…The Kevin Butler doesn't really tell me anything about the PS brand on a day to day basis. I check his Twitter stream next to Major Nelson's, and it's clear that Major Nelson is far more informative then The Kevin Butler. I appreciate The Kevin Butler's humor, which is always on, but I don't see him as really a "face" of PlayStation. He's more like a "mask", which is fine for ads and branding purposes, but not for connecting with the community.
The Neighbor And The Businessman
These are just some examples off the top of my head that I've been collecting over time when I encounter something that makes me think that Sony really dropped the ball in connecting with people. Their market is only friendly if you obsess over every single game release anywhere in the world and know it on the weight of the title alone. They try to drive people to use their hardware and only their hardware on their terms, which makes it far less-than-easy for people to actually use their market. Sony doesn't even have a real, feet-on-the-ground community person in The Kevin Butler, who they use as the brand's spokesperson and elected cheerleader.
Whether you like the people you play with or against on either the Xbox or the PS3, I think that Microsoft has a much more advanced customer interaction apparatus in place than Sony does, by miles. To me, walking into the Xbox ecosystem is like chatting with a neighbor, having a beer, talking about lawn care or football or other neighbors. Sony, by contrast, is like walking into a business meeting. There may be a little small talk, but the most exciting thing you can hope to get out of it is a long contract, a handshake, and a business card.
I think that anything Sony does at this point to move towards a better link with their community would be head and shoulders above what they have in place right now. I'd even jump for joy if they wholesale-stole Microsoft's playbook. They need to move away from being the stereotypical cold Japanese "all business, all the time" design and realize that their PlayStation division is selling video games, not cancer treatments.


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Evolution GT
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Game Info
Game version | 1.0 |
Installer | Works |
Game | Sarter, OK; Black screen and crashes |
Patch | - |
Download patch | - |
Demo works | No |
Download demo | Evolution GT Official website |
Requires no-cd patch | - |
Multiplayer works | - |
Works with Cedega version(s) | - |
Tested with Cedega version(s) | 5.1.1 |
Supported by TransGaming | No |
URLs | Evolution GT Official website |
Evolution GT, Black Bean's highly anticipated racing simulation video game, is set to hit the streets this spring. The game features an expansive single player career mode and breaks new ground in racing simulation with unique features. With some of the best AI seen in a racing game players can expect intense rivalries to develop between teams and individual AI controlled drivers. The opponents you face want to win just as much as you do! Feel the pressure as they try to force you into making mistakes and use the teachings of Gabriele Tarquini (BTCC and ETCC Champion) to gain the edge! Coupled with a superb physics model where every car drives like its real world counterpart and a revolutionary skills system which allows players to create and modify the driver depending on their style of drive, Evolution GT is a total immersion racing experience that literally lets you BE THE DRIVER! Set on tracks across Europe, Evolution GT puts gamers in the control of fully licenced vehicles from some of the best known manufacturers from across the globe including Audi, Volkswagen, Renault, Opel, Chevrolet and TVR. Evolution GT'sfeatures include:
- 35 fully licenced and destructible cars
- 28 tracks including the famous Donington Park, Hockenhiem and also tracks in cities like London
- Career mode with driver development system
- Challenge mode to push player's skills to the limit!
- Split screen action
- Win and use extra gear to increase your skills for the next race
- Unique features like Cunning Overtaking and the Tiger Effect where players have the ability to avoid accidents before they happen!


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- Satima Flavell
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Jan13-13, 09:01 AM | #1 |
Pair production - conservation of momentum VS conservation of energy
Allover the web i am only seeing a statement similar to this:
"Pair production is not possible in vaccum, 3rd particle is needed soWell noone out of many writers shows, how to prove this matematically. So this is what interests me here. First i wanted to know if pair production really cannot happen in vacuum, so i drew a picture and used equations for conservation of energy and conservation of momentum to calculate energy of a photon ##(h \nu)## needed for pair production. It turns out ##h\nu## is different if i calculate it out of conservation of energy or conservation of momentum. And even more! It can never be the same because equallity would mean parts ##v_1 \cos \alpha## and ##v_2 \cos \beta## should equall speed of light ##c##. Well that cannot happen. Below is my derivation. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY: $$ \scriptsize \begin{split} W_{1} &= W_{2}\\ W_f &= W_{e^-} + W_{e^+}\\ h\nu &= W_{ke^-} + W_{0e^-} + W_{ke^+} + W_{0e^+}\\ h\nu &=\left[m_ec^2 \gamma(v_1) - m_ec^2\right] + m_ec^2 + \left[m_ec^2 \gamma(v_2) - m_ec^2\right] + m_ec^2\\ h\nu &=m_ec^2 \gamma(v_1) + m_ec^2 \gamma(v_2)\\ h\nu &=m_ec^2 \left[\gamma(v_1) + \gamma(v_2) \right]\\ \end{split} $$ CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM: ##y## direction: $$ \scriptsize \begin{split} p_{1} &= p_{2}\\ 0 &= p_{e^-} \sin \alpha - p_{e^+} \sin \beta \\ 0 &= m_e v_{1} \gamma(v_{1}) \sin \alpha - m_e v_{2} \gamma(v_{2}) \sin \beta\\ &\text{If $\boxed{\alpha = \beta} \Longrightarrow \boxed{v_1 = v_2}$ and:}\\ 0 &= 0 \end{split} $$ ##x## direction: $$ \scriptsize \begin{split} p_{1} &= p_{2}\\ \frac{h}{\lambda} &= p_{e^-} \cos \alpha + p_{e^+} \cos \beta \\ \frac{h \nu}{c} &= m_e v_{1} \gamma(v_{1}) \cos \alpha + m_e v_{2} \gamma(v_{2}) \cos \beta\\ h \nu &= m_e c \Big[ \gamma(v_1) \underbrace{v_{1} \cos \alpha}_{\neq c} + \gamma(v_{2}) \underbrace{v_{2} \cos \beta}_{\neq c} \Big] \end{split} $$ Alltogether: Because momentum in ##y## direction equals 0 (holds for some combinations of ##\alpha, \beta, v_1, v_2##) whole momentum equals just the momentum in ##x## direction. So if i add them i get: $$ \scriptsize h \nu = m_e c \Big[ \gamma(v_1) \underbrace{v_{1} \cos \alpha}_{\neq c} + \gamma(v_{2}) \underbrace{v_{2} \cos \beta}_{\neq c} \Big] $$ From this i can conclude only that i cannot sucessfully apply conservation of energy and conservation of momentum at the same time and therefore pair production in vacuum cannot happen. QUESTION1: Why do writers state that 3rd particle is needed so that conservation of momentum holds? What if conservation of momentum holds and conservation of energy doesn't? How can we say which one holds and which one doesnt? QUESTION2: Do writters actually mean that if a 3rd particle is included we can achieve ##h \nu## to match in both cases? QUESTION3: Can someone show me mathematically how this is done? I mean it should right? |
Jan13-13, 10:01 AM | #2 |
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2) yes. |
Jan13-13, 11:59 AM | #3 |
Science Advisor |
First of all you have to define which process you really mean. I don't understand you picture. What's "razpad"?
Usually under pair production one understands the process [tex]\gamma + \text{nucleus} \rightarrow e^+ + e^- +\text{nucleus}.[/tex] Of course both energy and momentum are conserved in this reaction. What you may have read is the correct statement that a single-photon decay in the vacuum is impossible due to energy-momentum conservation. |
Jan13-13, 12:26 PM | #4 |
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Pair production - conservation of momentum VS conservation of energy |
Jan13-13, 01:13 PM | #5 |
$$ \begin{split} h\nu &=m_ec^2 \left[\gamma(v_1) + \gamma(v_2) \right]\\ h \nu &= m_e c \Big[ \gamma(v_1) \underbrace{v_{1} \cos \alpha}_{\neq c} + \gamma(v_{2}) \underbrace{v_{2} \cos \beta}_{\neq c} \Big] \end{split} $$ |
Jan13-13, 01:29 PM | #6 |
Jan13-13, 02:05 PM | #7 |
Your inequality shows that the process is not possible without a nucleus.
You can look at the time-reversed process, too: With electron+positron, there is an inertial system with a fixed center of mass. This is not true for a single photon. With a nucleus, it is a bit lengthy to calculate it in an analytic way. The general idea is that a nucleus is heavy compared to the electrons - it can gain significant momentum with little energy (##E \approx \frac{p^2}{2m}## (edit: fixed prefactor)). Therefore, you are "allowed" to ignore momentum conservation if you consider photons and electron/positron only: the nucleus will get the momentum difference. |
Jan13-13, 02:38 PM | #8 |
If we use center of mass system we get ##p_{1} = p_{2} = 0## out of conservation of momentum. I can't help myself with this but could i help myself with a conservation of energy? |
Jan13-13, 03:23 PM | #9 |
Without proton (=as you calculated), it cannot be done. There is a similar effect in classical collisions: For elastic collisions, you have both energy and momentum conservation. For inelastic collisions, energy is still conserved (of course, it is a very fundamental law), but a part of the energy can go to heat or other forms of energy you don't care about. Therefore, for (perfectly) inelastic collisions, energy conservation is ignored, and momentum conservation only is considered. Let's look at an actual example with a nucleus: We have an incoming photon with an energy of 1277 keV and a momentum of 1277 keV (using c=1), approacing a 208Pb nucleus (m=194 GeV) and performing pair production there. Assume that the angle between electron and positron is 0 (easier to calculate): Electron+positron fly in x-direction with v=0.6c (giving gamma=1.25). Their summed energy is 2.5*511keV = 1277 keV, and their summed momentum is 1277 keV * 0.6 = 766.5 keV (with c=1). The 208Pb nucleus (m=194 GeV) moves in x-direction with a momentum of 510.5 keV and a kinetic energy of 0.00067 keV. As you can see, its energy is neglibile - you could dump basically every amount of momentum you like into it, and it would not make a difference. Therefore, energy conservation is relevant, momentum conservation is not (unless you want to get the velocity of the nucleus after the collision). |
Jan13-13, 03:40 PM | #10 |
Thank you soooo much!
There is only one more thing. Does anyone know of a good center of mass = center of energy system animation or. good picture for pair production. |
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