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Tips for People with Disabilities and Senior Citizens to Handle Emergency Situations

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Set up a Personal Support Network : Designate someone to check on you in an emergency and to help with evacuation or sheltering-in-place. Prepare and carry with you an emergency health information card : This will help you to communicate if you are found unconscious or incoherent. Include information about your medications, adaptive equipment, blood type, allergies and sensitivities, insurance numbers, immunization dates, communication difficulties and preferred treatment, as well as contact information for your health providers, personal support network and emergency contacts.

Pakistan Aeronautical Complex launches a computing tablet, a notebook and an eBook reader.

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The newest entrant in the market for tablets and eBook readers – dominated by the likes of Apple, Amazon and Samsung – is none other than the Pakistani military. The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) Kamra, whose self-described mission is “to produce and support weapon systems for a high state of operational readiness of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF)”, has started up a new commercial venture with a Chinese company, which an official told The Express Tribune was to “strengthen the national economy”. The first three products produced by PAC are a computing tablet, a notebook and an eBook reader. A press release issued at the launch of the project on December 29 notes that “for the joint production of JF-17, PAF had established sufficient facilities which are appropriate for the production of both defence and commercial products.”

Tulaja fort Khushab

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The Tulaja fort The Tulaja fort is located on a huge rock outcropping with sheer cliffs overlooking the shrine of Kacchianwalla and the Punjab plains. The entire area is covered with the ruins of defensive walls, houses, and other structures made of large stone blocks. Although one building has been identified as a mosque, it is very difficult to distinguish other religious, military or civil structures. One of the most interesting features is a large square tank made of the flat rectangular bricks, which may have supplied water so that the fort could withstand a siege. Comparing this tank with those in other forts may help in assigning a relative date to its construction. In addition to architectural styles, evidence from any coins, which are found here, may help to indicate if this city belonged to the period of the Turk Sultans, Lodhis or Mughals. Extensive remains of a cemetery and other settlements are on the slopes below the fort. There are also supposed to be some remains on ...

Daylight Saving Time

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Daylight Saving Advantages Many people around the world treasure the extra hour of daylight in the afternoon because they work later hours, exercise in the evenings or need to complete outdoor household chores such as mowing the grass, gardening or fixing windows, roofs or other parts. Others have reported that daylight saving time could be linked to reduced road injuries. A joint Transport Research Laboratory and University College of London study predicted that less people would be killed and injured in road accidents if one hour of daylight was transferred from the morning to the afternoon. The study supports the adoption of Single Double Summer Time (SDST) in the United Kingdom, where politicians, together with the general public, voice their opinions on the introduction of an extended daylight saving schedule. 

World Thinking Day 22 feb 2012

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The poorest people in the world are the ones who will most feel the effects of environmental degradation and climate change. Ensuring environmental sustainability is a critical foundation for ending this poverty. Girls and young women of all ages around the world are also differently and disproportionately affected by the consequences of environmental degradation and climate change. The World Thinking Day theme for 2012 is Millennium Development Goal 7: “we can save our planet” and the aim is to raise awareness of the environment and the impacts our lifestyles and choices have on it, so together we can, as one Movement, speak out and take action to save our planet. Environmental sustainability is the seventh of eight areas of focus made by 189 world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000. It is part of the WAGGGS Global Action Theme, which encourages girls and young women to make a personal commitment to change the world around them by linking to an important agenda.

Invention by Pakistani Scientist Bio diesel from used tea

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Produce Bio-Diesel With Tea Invention by Pakistani Scientist A Pakistani scientist has successfully invented a nano catalyst for production of bio-diesel with the help of spent tea for the first time in the world, opening up new avenues for alternative environment-friendly energy resources. Dr. Syed Tajamul Hussain, a nano scientist working at National Center for Physics (NCP), and his research team members after untiring efforts during last one year proved with their laboratory tests that used tea can be utilized to produce bio-diesel almost free of carbon emission on commercial basis. The results of their research is going to be published in world reputed Journal of Bio-Technology in its January 2010 issue.

Solar Energy Companies in Argentina

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Solar Park capable of generating more than 1500MW of electric power. solar power flower   Solar Energy Companies in Argentina

Biogas plant in khushab

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 ADP is funding 15 new biogas plants in Soon Valley, in Khushab district in north-west Punjab. With a population of approximately 70,000 residing within 22 villages, this area is underdeveloped compared to the rest of the district due to smaller land holdings, ground water depletion and difficult topography. An agro-based community, Soon Valley has a substantial number of small farmers who do not have a basic gas supply in their area and therefore rely on wood as a source of basic fuel. As a result, several areas of the valley have witnessed tremendous deforestation and drought in the recent past.

Punjab Sports Festival for year 2012

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Punjab Government has planned to launch mega sports event in upcoming year. Punjab Sports Festival for year 2012 has been started from. Punjab Government claimed that it would be the biggest sports event of Pakistan history.There are four types of categorization in this event. The event will be on Union Council level, Tehsil Level, District level and Division level. There are almost 14 different sports categories in which people can participate.There is no form registration fee for all games.

Poultry Farming

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The poultry farming has now become one of the most dynamic associated parts of agriculture throughout the world. Poultry culture in South Asian countries is expanding rapidly and the rate of growth of commercial layer and broiler (meat producing) farms is phenomenal to meet the ever increasing demand for proteins through poultry meet and eggs. In Pakistan, poultry industry had made considerable contribution to food production and plays a vital role in the economy of the country. Rising of poultry in Pakistan has virtually proven a profitable enterprise as it is the best source of cheap, palatable and nutritious food protein.

Salt Therapy

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Health statistics show a sharp increase in the number of people suffering from respiratory problems Conventional treatments often cause undesirable side effects, with drugs containing steroids or corticoids As a result many people look for natural therapies. In reality such a therapy has been around since the time of the ancient Greeks. It is called salt therapy (Halotherapy). Hippocrates was the first person who spoke about the anti-inflammatory effect of inhaled salt particles. He was aware of the curative nature of the halite salt mined from the Carpathian Mountains where today the salt crystals from the Praid salt mine are put into the Dry Salt Inhaler “Salt miners do not suffer from respiratory diseases” observed the Polish physician F. Bochkowsky. Bronchitis and other respiratory diseases can be cured or effectively treated the natural way, he argued in 1843. Ever since hundreds of thousands of people suffering from allergies, asthma and other respiratory disorders have encou...