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November 1, 2025 · 23:49

The other place

That is said, but what is the other place? The Khaleej Times alerted me to the fact that in Sharjah (the third largest city in the UAE) they are having an international book fair. (At https://www.khaleejtimes.com/entertainment/uae-will-smith-guest-speaker-sharjah-book-fair) and the title gives us ‘Actor Will Smith to be guest speaker at Sharjah International Book Fair’ this is fair enough. I wasn’t aware of a book fair there, let alone an international one. We are given “The 44th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) is taking place from November 5 to 16 at Expo Centre Sharjah, welcoming an exceptional line-up of global authors, including Nigerian literary icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Italian theoretical physicist and bestselling author Carlo Rovelli, and Irish Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch.” And it is not the only event happening, we are also given “Meanwhile, the 15th Sharjah International Publishers Conference, organised by Sharjah Book Authority, opens on Sunday at Expo Centre Sharjah. The event will feature more than 30 professional workshops focused on the future of publishing, along with dedicated networking and deal-making forums. It will bring together thousands of publishers and professionals from across the globe, including senior figures in publishing, marketing, artificial intelligence, copyright, and international market development. There will also be a series of workshops for publishers, experts, and distributors from around the world to exchange experiences and explore avenues for collaboration.” And these events are visited by “1.82 million visitors attend book fair this year; most of them aged 35 to 44” I am a little upset that this doesn’t get a much wider audience. An event with almost 2 million should get a wider international view and it seemingly does not. I only learned about this as Will Smith is taking the centre stage. If not, I might not have known. That is a little sad, but this is what life offers. We only have a limited amount of time to spend on outer events and today I learned about this and I missed the 43 previous events. And Sharjah isn’t just a village (it is much bigger) setting the setting of over 1.5k+ activities, 2.2k+ Exhibitors from 112 countries and showing over 1.3M+ titles. As I personally see this, it might be one of the biggest book fairs in the world. So why does this not get additional attention? We see all kinds of reporters doing the same thing and why is this not on their agenda? One of the highlights is shown next week when Sheikh Sultan allocates AED 4.5 million to enrich Sharjah’s libraries with the latest works from SIBF 2024. This is definitely worth mentioning. When was the last time someone put some serious coin into elaborating the Library in Sydney (or Burwood)? How much was added to the stockpile of the Library in Amsterdam? It might be a lot, I really don’t know. But that is what the media is for, educating and informing us, not repeating the news from May on why Superman could be banned from Australian cinema’s and the fact that Hoyts showed it with the ‘news’ of “July 10th 2025. Science Fiction Themes and Violence. Trailer; Watchlist. Follows the titular superhero as he reconciles his alien heritage” gives the signal that there is something massively wrong with the Australian media and as such I wonder when they will wise up and give us actual news (like the international book fair in Sharjah) which runs from November 5th until November 16th from 10:00 in the morning until 22:00 in the evening. As such you can let your inner bookworm go nuts 12 hours a day and for 11 days, how is that for your book needs?

Guests from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Nepal, UK, America, Kazakhstan and several other countries, including a prince from Bel-Air, a rather fresh one. So you can wonder what is wrong with western media not giving (as far as I can tell) any time and space for this international event which has almost 2 million people attending this event.

I think it is time to ask the western media some heavy questions whether it helps them to play courtesan to the digital dollar, because as I see it, the difference between the Western media and the Dodo is rather thin, perhaps even too thin.

Try to see if you can get something on Dr. Zubair Farooq. He is apparently the first Urdu poet from the UAE. He created 40 collections of Urdu poetry and ghazals. In addition, he has written poetry in Arabic and English. It seems like it is something on the side, but that is how you learn and how you grow. I have no idea how Urdu reads, but as he also created poetry in English, it might be worth finding out more about him. A small remembrance on Poetry. It is a literary art form that uses the aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings beyond the literal. Poets use careful word choice, sound, and rhythm to stir imagination and emotions, often employing devices like rhyme, line breaks, and meter. Poetry differs from prose by its structure and emotional depth, though the line between them can sometimes be blurred.

My smallest exposure of self inflicted poetry could be seen through:

In creation of taxes, I stay silent
It is how I think it is meant
To not surrender your wallet for goods never gotten
Is one way to set your emotions to rotten
Not to blame the rich and many other kittens
It is merely the lack of options that got me smitten
And not in a good way, as such I sway
To avoid whatever taxes I must pay

Yup, not the best form of poetry, but I never got that class in school, it never mixed with Chemistry or Physics. So have a great day and see what you can learn today.

As limits are reached

The Khaleej Times give us (at https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/uae-summer-switch-off-non-essential-appliances-for-one-hour-every-day-urges-sharjah-authority) ‘UAE summer: Switch off non-essential appliances during peak hour daily, urges Sharjah authority’ where it starts with “Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority said the Conservation Hour or Peak Hour initiative will start in July and last until September” with the additional “Along that line, the authority has called on those living in Sharjah to participate in an initiative called Conservation Hour or Peak Hour from July to September”, for those unaware Sharjah is directly North of Dubai. The addition given is “The initiative will require residents to switch off non-essential electrical appliances during peak hours, which is from 2:30pm to 3:30pm, every day”, this situation was going to happen and it will be a global problem. I raised the issue in January 2023. The first part was in ‘Inactivity by the overpaid‘(at https://lawlordtobe.com/2023/01/13/inactivity-by-the-overpaid/). There I raised “There will be a power shortage by 2030. Personally I think that he is overly optimistic. I would reckon that clear shortages will be visible no later than 2027 in the Netherlands” In this Article I raised the issue that I made in May 2022 and again in June 2022. There I looked at solutions. There were a few sides and Dubai would benefit from that solution. Part of that solution was given in ‘Will you feel frisky?’ (at https://lawlordtobe.com/2022/06/28/will-you-feel-frisky/). There you see that the concrete that sets the floors/ceilings have space in every building to leave a mica underground, with on top of that solar panels. Now ads I see it Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah all have hundreds of buildings that benefit from these panels (the sunny side of the building) In my case I illuminated London as well as Austin Texas the day before. However this is now a race. There is a limit on solar panels. First one in, the less limitations that place has. As we now see, Sharjah is at present the first to step on the breaks. 6 years before the NOS (Dutch news media), as such I believe that the limitations will be seen all over Europe in the next two years, depending on the summers. London, Paris, Orleans, Cannes, Nice, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, and several other places. In my view I see the following solution:

The mat with the solar panel. That panel is set to be connectable to other mats, I envision a sort of Scalextric (that old racing game) connection on one side the can be connected to a wire, that connect the panels on the separate levels to a battery on top of the building. I just used the Tesla solution, but other solutions could be used. Depending on the size of the building it would be an expected 2 x 2 or 4 x 2. So that one side can be fully charged and the other set of batteries is used to fuel the net.

Now this solution does not fully solve it (initially), but it will reduce the stress on the electricity net. As more buildings are fitted out with this solution, more stress on the electricity net is reduced. I reckon that two dozen buildings all over Sharjah might reduce the pressure enough for the peak pressure to go away. And it will push a zero carbon setting too.

All this is not a given, but I reckon that Chinese developers will see this as a way to come in as this path could see billion in revenue. Tesla has the battery advantage, I have no idea what China has in this area. You know what is the most striking one? I had in part the solution here in this blog two years before the rest had admitted that there is a power problem coming our way. The issue becomes that as time passes, not enough time will remain to implement the solution as well as the given that too many places at the point need this solution all at the same time and no one will be able to deliver this solution. To give a rough estimate Manhattan, Texas and Los Angeles will need a rough 12000 batteries. London is another 3500 batteries and I have no idea what the EU will need. Consider that one source gave the 2030 option, it would imply that at least 20,000-35,000 batteries are needed. I am certain that these numbers are hard to reach. So that leaves the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Australia and several other countries. Soon enough it will become a rat-race for the components.

Enjoy Saturday, preferably with all appliances still getting power.

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November 3, 2019 · 13:01

A National Brand

Today’s story comes from LinkedIn of all places perhaps that is not quite correct, the story got a foothold there; it is His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum that gave the story the light it deserved. His call to form a team, 7 from each emirate, 49 in total and that gives us light to a part most of us did not ever consider, the UAE, the United Arab Emirates is indeed truly a union, a unions between 7 Emirates, each with its own flag.

Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain, each with its flag, its capital and all united under the UAE with its capital Abu Dhabi. Four of its voices are less than 5%, Umm al-Quwain (0.8%), Fujairah (1.6%), Ajman (3.9%) and Ras al-Khamain (4.3%), these 4 represent less than 20% of the UAE population (10.6%) yet they will be fully represented and the UAE went as far as local, global and social media to spread this word for a gathering towards a national brand.

It is interesting to see such a wide announcement to make proclamation towards an idea that will take months to fulfil. We are so used to social media being a vat for dishing out information that such a call is a nice change of pace.

I hope that this gets all the attention by national subjects on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and so on, because it seems like a worthy cause to give out such recognition in the end to 49 artists, an assignment to ‘to design the UAE’s new nation brand logo, before the end of this year‘, something that is usually in the hands of a chosen few, a chosen group of people high in the ranks of some government or corporate side.

And it was equally nice to see the usage for social networking being used in this way, it is not often, it is actually way to little that we see a request like that from any government to its citizens far and wide, perhaps that was the part that hit me first, a global stage created for a national product from its citizens. I for one hope that this will be the start of something beautiful, not for me, even though I would prosper in finding out how knowledge in this way would push boundaries.

I would love to see the connections and the creation that the UAE called for, to see what the nationalistic intentions are towards created artwork, towards arts propelled in such a way, I reckon that the creations that this call made, even though it would be on a national floor could get a global exposure, optionally propelling the artists aiming to the national floor on a global floor. In my purview for no other reason than to see the mindset of someone connected to the arts and a national frame of mind.

I personally am as curious as can be to see the results of such a call. There is a pride, a nationalist pride in anyone who is working abroad, it does not matter whether you took up another nation to fly your wings, a career in another place or merely a student that is out of once nation, the bulk of them will remain proud towards their station of origin. It is different with refugees at times, but they too will have a personalised setting towards the place they come from. You can ask any Armenian outside of Armenia (well you can ask nearly anyone), a lot of them will always keep the flag of their original country high in mind and soul.

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