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Pakistan Need Help for Rehabilitation Process

Now a day, Pakistan is in the natural catastrophic disaster. Disaster on this scale would be devastating for any country, but for Pakistan – a developing nation, chronically unstable due to fight against terrorism. The consequences may go well beyond those posed by the urgent need for humanitarian relief and for reconstruction in the longer term.

So far, approximately 2000-2500 people are believed to have died and million people have had their lives disrupted. UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates that more than 14 million people have been affected by the floods, making this a greater catastrophe than the Kashmir earthquake in 2005, or the Haiti earthquake of earlier this year, each of which affected 3 million people, or the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which affected 5 million.  Around with over 160,000 square kilometers (1/5 of  Pakistan) effected with this disaster.

People of Pakistan are fighting the battle against nature on its own but this can’t be fought without international help that’s why UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged the world to urgently speed up aid but the international response was very slow. We fear we’re getting close to the start of seeing a second wave of death if not enough money comes through, due to water-borne diseases along with lack of clean water and food shortages.

Floods have submerged 17 million acres of Pakistan’s most fertile crop land, killed 200,000+ livestock and washed away massive amounts of grain. A major concern is that farmers will be unable to meet the fall deadline for planting new seeds in 2010, meaning a massive loss of food production in 2011, and potentially leading to long term food shortages.  The agricultural damages are more than 2.9 billion dollars, according to recent estimates, and include over 700,000 acres of lost cotton crops, 200,000 acres of sugar cane and 200,000 acres of rice, in addition to the loss of over 500,000 tonnes of stocked wheat, 300,000 acres of animal fodder and the stored grain losses

This is the time to do something for the country. Our Agricultural and Industrial zone is almost demolished and if we don’t help those people regaining their lives back, we will ourself be in a very bad situation. The damage and the magnitude is too large for natural resources to cope with it … Pakistan needs your help.

For Pakistanis Abroad, Following are some of the links where they can donate:

http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/pakistan_floods.html

http://www.floodrelief.pk/

https://www.wfp.org/donate/pakistanflood

http://www.prcs.org.pk/AIDS.ASP

https://secure.savethechildren.org/01/web_e_pakistan_flood_10

Please spread the word and try to at least realize the alarming situation of the Country.

LONG LIVE PAKISTAN

Tags: Pakistan

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Google Stats, Fox News and Pakistan

Google has recently released its stats according which Pakistan has topped the list of searching pornographic matter through Google. The article was published and played up by FOX News in the wake of tarnishing the image of the country. The channel did not bother to take the version of Pakistani authorities but they just highlighted the fact on the basis of statistical data.

The article not only refers to stats but it highlights other things along with it. The writer on its own advised her reader to change the name of our country. The article also emphasize on the extremist elements existing in our country. This kind of journalism has always worked against Pakistan and such slanted act should always be played down.

There are loopholes in every society and system. Pakistani journalism has never raised fingers on corrupt elite in US or other western countries. Similarly, it is known that USA has the highest crime rate as well as rape cases. The Britain has the highest number of unmarried pregnant teenage girls. However, such horrendous acts which are far more evident in western societies were never played up in Asian particularly in Muslim media.

On the other hand, there are journalists working against Pakistan trying to dig stories which can distort the image of Pakistan, whereas, they hardly try to put up the lighter side of Pakistan. On western media, one can always find women in Burqa protesting against West but they don’t show the woman working in an office or holding key position in public sector. They like to inform the world about our corruption but they don’t really care about mentioning the story of that waiter who returned 10,000$ forgotten by the tourist.

I believe, FOX News article is against the ban on facebook.com by the Pakistani Court. Now, they are trying to start media war against the Pakistan and Pakistani Courts. So, some hard headed nutshells want us to change our name to whatever they suggested then they need to find a name for their country too because I don’t feel like suggesting anything. It’s always easy to blame and hard to self realization. Development and money does not solve all problems. So, let’s not interfere in each other’s affairs on personal vendetta. There are good things which need our attention too.

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You can also read the discussion on the same topic at

http://groups.google.com/group/telecom-grid-pakistan/browse_thread/thread/b0dc5d19f4fd8379/2ae32a16bed3e701?lnk=gst&q=fox+news#2ae32a16bed3e701

Tags: Google, Pakistan, Statistics

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Mathemetic Tricks – Intresting Facts

Try:

13837 x73 x (YOUR AGE) = ???

When you will put Your age in the value then you can see that your age will repeat number of times. Reason of this is

13837 x 73 = 1010101

Now, when you will multiply your age with the above number then your age will repeat. For example, your age is 25 then

13837 x 73 x 25 = 25252525

This trick will not work properly, if you age is less than 10 year or greater than 99 years. Because in less than 10 years i contains only 1 digit in your age. So, when one digit will multiply with 1010101 then will have 0 in better your age age value which is definitely not the part of your age. Same when this will increase 99 and it will convert into 3 digits then this trick will fail.

Let try to multiply your age 13837 x 73 x AGE

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Some Rules of Life

1. Pursue Achievable Goals
2. Keep a Genuine Smile
3. Share with others
4. Help the Neighbors
5. Maintain a Youthful Spirit
6. Get Along with the Rich, the Poor, the Beautiful & the Ugly
7. Keep Cool Under Pressure
8. Lighten the Atmosphere with Humor
9. Forgive the Annoyance of Others
10. Have Few Pals
11. Cooperate and Reap Greater Rewards
12. Treasure Every Moment with Your Loved Ones
13. Have High Confidence in Yourself
14. Respect the Disadvantaged
15. Indulge Yourself Occasionally
16. Give thanks to the Almighty
17. Take Calculated Risks
18. Understand “Money isn’t Everything”

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How to Check Hard Drive Health

STEP I:
If you don’t have a monitoring software for disk health, you would need to download Free disk health monitoring utility. There are many options among them. The most famous name is SMART – (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology). It is used to test the health of computer’s hard disks. SMART detects and reports on several indicators of reliability, for gauging possible disk failures. This is a very common device, so I mentioned it. You can go for any such utility. Read more on how to clean computer hard drive.

STEP II:
Run the windows check disk utility after installing the software on your computer. It will check hard drive for errors and repair if there are any problems in the system file. In addition, it will also examine the physical structure, that is, the integrity of the disk surface. This is the basic thing for hard disc health check.

STEP III
After the utility disk check:

1. Close all the software (application, browsers and any other utilities) which might be open
2. Open ‘My Computer‘
3. Right click on the mouse on your hard drive properties
4. Click tool tab which will be under error checking
5. Click on the option which says check now
6. Choose the option which says ‘automatically fix file system errors’
7. Read more on computer keeps freezing up.

STEP IV:
Once you are done with ‘automatically fix file system errors’,

1. Select the option which says scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors and
2. Finally click start to tune the utility.This is when the utility will check hard drive for bad sectors, when it is checking hard drive for health. Download and then run the freeware diagnostic tool you might be having on your computer, for example Hard Disk Tune. This is a fabulous diagnostic tool to run an entire benchmark analysis of the hard drive. Not just that, it also identifies structural errors and makes a total analysis of the drive, checking every item. Read more on bad sectors on hard drive.

Once this is done,

1. Close the program,
2. Shut off the computer and
3. Switch it on.

Hopefully, your hard disk will be fine now.

That’s it! It was that simple to check hard drive health.

Tags: Disk Management, Error detection and correction, Hard disk drive

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Handbook for Life & Personality

Health:

1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
4. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5. Make time for prayer.
6. Play more games.
7. Read more books than you did in 2009.
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
9 Sleep for 7 hours.
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:

11. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
12. Don’t have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13. Don’t over do. Keep your limits.
14. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
15. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip.
16. Dream more while you are awake.
17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
18. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.
20. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more.
24. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Society:

25. Call your family often.
26. Each day give something good to others.
27. Forgive everyone for everything.
28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 &under the age of 6.
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30. What other people think of you is none of your business.
31. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:

32. Do the right thing!
33. Always speak the truth even if it leads to your death.
34. GOD heals everything.
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up..
37. The best is yet to come.
38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

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Possible Ban on Import of Used Computers

Multinational brand vendors are pressuring the government to ban the import of used computers and IT accessories. The Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) is considering the proposal presented by these companies and other interest groups. The government’s decision to seek proposals has created discontent among second-hand/used computer users and sellers. The decision has been largely criticized as “a timid and anti-poor policy of the federal government”, as  reported by the Business Recorder. The paper added that retailers expressed fears that the currently increasing rate of IT literacy would begin to drop if the ban were to take place.

The newspaper reported that a used computer system is imported at 15 to 20 US dollars, while a new one costs around 350 to 400 US dollars. Pakistan imports – mainly from UK and the US, about 0.75 million used computer annually, which satisfy over 90 percent users of middle and lower class societies. Whereas, new computer capture a very small market share, according to retailers, there are about 35m000 shops selling second-hand computer across the country and imposing this ban is likely to put them out of the business.

On the other hand, adviser to Prime Minister for IT Sardar Latif Khosa said that there is no proposal under consideration at any governmental level to ban import of used computer as such measures would deprive common man from a personal computer, especially our students.

But we know our ministers’, adviser’s and executive’s statement are most of time false. They imposed the decision on the public later on but before it they always deny it so that public may not offensive. We need to see by implementation of this ban how many people will suffer. Business is already not in good position in Pakistan while type of steps are very bad on this situation. Our student can’t afford expensive devices and computer.

There is clearly and a real debate in the country because it does have real implications for economic, environmental and technological choices for ordinary Pakistanis.

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