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Water & Light at Sassi Mazar Balochistan May30, 2015
SUN SHINES IN THE NIGHT
Sassi punnu mausoleum got Solar Energy
Every year thousands of peoples from various parts of Sindh, Baluchistan and Punjab gather at the shrine of Sassi and Punnu in Singher village to attend a 3 days carnival. Singher village is , 52 Kilometers away from Hub town. Singher means chain, as the village is surrounded by the chain of hills where it is believed that Sassi and Punnu were buried under a landslide.
Before the monsoon a carnival organizing committee receives donation from the Baloch tribal chiefs of Sindh and Balochistan to bear the expenditures of the event. Collected funds are mostly used for providing food, water and accommodation to all the devotees there. Sufi Faqirs (singers) from Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab travel to perform songs on the occasion to pay homage to Sassi Punnu, the popular tragic romance of Sindh and Balochistan. Besides folk songs, a traditional Sindhi game malakhro similar to Japanese wrestling sumo also attracts a large number of the people to come there.
Lands from mountains with old graves scattered in the area and rainy water ways are quite difficult to cross for the travellers. Despite this, devotees, males and females, travel long distance to visit the site the entire year. For the local people, camel is the only means of transport and people gather there during the occasion.
There is only one well, which is useful for the communities otherwise the entire area underground water level is unsafe for human consumption. In case the area receives monsoon rains the people use rainy water from ponds.
For the benefit of peoples living in surroundings as well as devotees who visit during carnival and over the year, Masood Lohar, country Manager UNDP, GEF small grant program decided to use solar energy for providing clean and safe water and lighting on the mausoleum.
On 30th May 2015, Shaan Technologies Private Limited installed a 3 HP Solar Powered pump on a 250 ft deep well that is located near the tomb. Operating on a 3 kilowatt solar panel bank this pump provide 30 Gallon water per minutes & eliminates requirement of diesel generator operated pump that organizing committee previously used to supply water during the festival.
Now solar pump serves as a continuous source of clean water without any additional cost. A water tank is provided to store pumped water. This tank helped as a 24 hours ready source of water for the local people.
In addition to that 2 solar powered floodlights were also installed in front yard of tomb. These 14 watt LED lights runs on a 35 watt solar panel that provide sufficient power to run LED lamps up to 12 hours. Dusk to Dawn photo sensors is also used in the system that automatically turns on the light just before the sunset and turns off at dawn. This project was financed by the UNDP GEF Small grant program. Lodhie foundation contributed 10% cost of the project under its poverty alleviation initiative.
Project Summary
Location: Sassi Punnu Moseleum, Singher Village, Near Hub Dam, Baluchistan
Coordinates: 25°18'41"N 66°53'21"E
Nearby cities: Karachi, Hub City, Sonmiani / Winder city
Initiated By: UNDP, GEF Small Grant Program in association of Lodhie Foundation
Implemented by: Shaan Technologies Private Limited Karachi
Implantation Date: 30Th May 2015
Equipment installed:
(1) One 3HP DC Submersible water pump with 3KW Solar panels and Pump Controller
(2) Two Solar Powered LED Floodlights
Beneficiaries: Up to 2500 people living in the Singher village and surroundings
Folktale of Sassi & Punnu
Sassi Punnu is a famous folktale of love told in the length and breadth of Sindh, Pakistan. The story is about a faithful wife who is ready to undergo all kinds of troubles that would come her way while seeking her beloved husband who was separated from her by the rivals
Sassi was the daughter of a Brahman Hindu Rajah from Rohri . Upon Sassui's birth, astrologers predicted that she was a curse for the royal family’s prestige. The Raja ordered that the child be put in a wooden box and thrown in the Sindhu, present day’s river Indus. However, she was saved by a washer-man belonging to Bhanbhor, near Gharo district, Thatta . The washer-man raised her as his own daughter.
When Sassui became a young girl, she was as beautiful as the fairies of heaven. Stories of her beauty reached Punhun a prince from Kech Makran Balochistan and he became desperate to meet Sassi. The handsome young Prince therefore travelled to Bhambore. He sent his clothes to Sassi's father (a washerman) so that he could catch a glimpse of Sassi. When he visited the washerman's house, they fell in love at first sight. Sassui's father was dispirited, hoping that Sassi would marry a washerman and no one else. He asked Punnhun to prove that he was worthy of Sassui by passing the test as a washerman. Punnhun agreed to prove his love. While washing, he tore all the clothes as, being a prince, he had never washed any clothes; he thus failed the agreement. But before he returned those clothes, he hid gold coins in the pockets of all the clothes, hoping this would keep the villagers quiet. The trick worked, and Sassui's father agreed to the marriage.
At last Punnu (Punhoon) married her. However, his father, Ari, the King of Ketch, did not like his son getting married to a low-caste girl, so he instructed his other sons to go to Bhanbhor and bring back Punnu at any cost. They visited Punnu as his guests and during the night they intoxicated him and his wife. Later, they put their brother on one of the camels and left. When Sassi woke up in the morning, she was shocked to find Punnu missing and all his brothers gone. She understood their trickery. She left Bhambhor immediately to Kech Makran on foot in search of him. The Kech Makran is located along the Makran Coastal Highway in Baluchistan, Pakistan.
After crossing Pab Mountain, she reached the Harho range. She could not proceed further when her path was blocked by the Phor River. So she started retracing her steps. Soon she was accosted by a beastly goatherd who intended to molest her. Sassi prayed to God for protection. Immediately the ground below her feet started caving in like quicksand and she disappeared within seconds. Seeing the miracle, the goatherd repented sincerely, and to make amends for his misconduct, he made a grave in the site and became its custodian.
Punnu found no peace of mind at Kech. He languished and soon became an invalid. Under the circumstances, his father allowed him to return to Bhambhor.
During his return journey, Punnu happened to pass by the site where Sassi had met her death. When the goatherd came to know his story, he told him as to what had happened to Sassi. Punnu was beside himself on hearing the horrible news.
He prayed to God to unite him with Sassi. Again the ground became quicksand and he soon disappeared into the bowels of the earth. So came to an end the tragic love story of Sassi and Punnu. The legendary grave still exists in this valley.
The famous Sufi saint and poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai sings this historic tale in his sufi poetry “Shah jo Risalo” as an example of eternal love and union with Divine.
Sassi’s resting place is said to be about 45 miles away in the Pub range to the west of Karachi. A local man of some importance constructed a simple mausoleum in 1980 over the joint grave of Sassi and Punnu. It is often visited by tourists.
GRG26/5/4 Photographic Portraits of South Australian Soldiers, Sailors and Nurses who took part in World War One
Number 890 BANNISTER, Stanley Prescott
4th Division Ammunition Column
Place of birth: North Kensington
Residence: North Kensington
SRSA ref: GRG26/5/4/890
Heading through Marsh Green on a 628 Kitt Green Circular. New to Timeline as 219, then First Manchester as 6607, later 60146 in the national numbering and now Stagecoach Wigan 35036!
GRG26/5/4 Photographic Portraits of South Australian Soldiers, Sailors and Nurses who took part in World War One
Number 824 DAUNIGHT, Albert Charles
5th Motor Transport Company
Place of birth: London, England
Residence: Maylands
SRSA ref: GRG26/5/4/824
Fleet number 1106 was seen at the foot of Lothian Road while the drivers change over. The bus was working route 11 from Hyvots Bank to Western Harbour at Leith. Note the Lothiancity branding which was rolled out on the Enviro 400XLB fleet but has not been used on vehicles delivered since.
Number 24 in the Dutch Championship Historic Touring Cars & GTs is the Porsche 904/6 of Patrick Koel. © Bert Visser
GRG26/5/4 Photographic Portraits of South Australian Soldiers, Sailors and Nurses who took part in World War One
Number 1012 FARRELL, Thomas
48th Battalion
Place of birth: Port Augusta
Residence: Iron Knob
SRSA ref: GRG26/5/4/1012
319364 named "Transforming Blackfriars" on the rear of 319 number 010 is soon to be transferred to Northern Rail AN (Allerton).
According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were;
Bedford [BDM] 1 0722...0722 RT
Bedford South Junction......0724½......0723¾ RT
Flitwick Junction......0730½......0731½ RT
Flitwick [FLT] 1 0731½ 0732...0732¼ 0732¾ RT
Harlington [HLN] 1 0735½ 0736...0736¾ 0737 1L
Leagrave Junction......0740......0741¼ 1L
Leagrave [LEA] 1 0741 0741½...0742¼ 0742¾ 1L
Luton North Junction......0744......0745¼ 1L
Luton [LUT] 1 0745 0746...0746½ 0747 1L
Luton Airport Parkway [LTN] 1 0748 0748½...0749¼ 0749¾ 1L
Harpenden [HPD] 1 0753½ 0754...0754¾ 0755 1L
Harpenden Junction......0754½......0755½ 1L
St Albans [SAC] 1 0759 0800...0800¼ 0800¾ RT
Radlett Redland Roadstone......0803......0804¼ 1L
Radlett [RDT] 1 0804½ 0805...0805¾ 0806½ 1L
Radlett Junction......0806......0807¼ 1L
Elstree & Borehamwood [ELS] 1 0808½ 0809...0810 0811 2L
Mill Hill Broadway [MIL] 1 0812½ 0813½...0815 0816 2L
Silkstream Junction......0815½......0818 2L
Hendon [HEN] 1......0816½......0819½ 3L
Brent Curve Junction......0817½......0821 3L
Cricklewood Curve Junction......0818......0821½ 3L
Cricklewood [CRI] 1......0818......0821¾ 3L
Cricklewood South Junction......0818......0821¾ 3L
West Hampstead North Junction......0819......0822¾ 3L
West Hampstead Thameslink [WHP] 1 0819½ 0820½...0823¼ 0824¼ 3L
West Hampstead South Junction......0821½......0824½ 3L
Carlton Road Junction......0823......0826¼ 3L
Kentish Town Junction......0823......0826¾ 3L
Kentish Town [KTN] 1......0824......0827¾ 3L
Dock Junction North......0825½......0829 3L
St Pancras International [STP] A 0827 0828½...0830¾ 0831¾ 3L
Farringdon [ZFD] 3 0833 0834...0834¾ 0836 2L
City Thameslink [CTK] 2 0836½ 0837½...0837½ 0839¾ 2L
London Blackfriars [BFR]
Operated by Southeastern (SE) from here. 1 0839 0840...0840¼ 0841¼ 1L
Elephant & Castle [EPH] 4 0844 0846...0846½ 0847 1L
Denmark Hill [DMK] 4 0851½ 0852½...0852 0853 RT
Crofton Road Junction......0853½......0854½ 1L
Peckham Rye [PMR] 4 0854½ 0855...0855¼ 0855¾ RT
Nunhead [NHD] 2 0857 0857½...0858 0858¾ 1L
Catford [CTF] 0902½ 0903...0903 0904 1L
Bellingham [BGM] 0905 0905½...0906½ 0907¼ 1L
Shortlands Junction [XOR]......0910½......0913¼ 2L
Shortlands [SRT] 0911 0911½...0914¼ 0915 3L
Bromley South [BMS] 3 0913½ 0914½...0916¼ 0917 2L
Bickley Junction [XLY]......0918......0921¼ 3L
St Mary Cray Junction [XMU]......0919......0922½ 3L
Swanley [SAY] 2 0925 0926...0929½ 0929½ 3L
Otford Junction [XOT]......0938......0944 6L
Sevenoaks [SEV] 4 0945...0949 4L
The interior of one of Lachlan Valley Railway's FS cars, as it makes it way along the Newcastle Branch near Wickham.
Wickham, NSW.
Saturday 15 November 2014.
Testing out the Panasonic G80. This is a common Darter taken with the 12-60 lens.
Final crop on the face at 1x1.
Dance act Diversity, winners of Britain's Got Talent, perform outside Number 10 to show their support for the Backing Young Britain Campaign, 16 September 2009; Crown copyright.
Former stable, now partly converted to offices and partly to a repair workshop. c1700. Red brick front wall, laid in English Bond with dark headers; white brick rear; render to south gable end. Old plaintiles; roof hipped at the north end, gabled on the south. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 7 bays. A raised band between the storeys. On the upper storey, 4 original cross windows with square leaded panes remain; at the north end, 2 windows have been replaced by late C19 sashes with vertical glazing-bars in flush frames. In the 5th bay from the south the window has been replaced by a large clock, brought from a tower by the stable block at the former Ousden Hall: this has a small gabled and bracketed roof above. On the ground storey all the original openings have been blocked or altered: 2 early C19 windows have diamond leading and pointed Gothick heads. A blocked dormer with hipped roof in the north slope of the roof, and on the north ground storey one original 3-light window with square-leaded panes and pintle hinges.
From -
heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/HBSMR/MonRecord.aspx...
Both the stable block and number 8 Angel Hill / Angel Corner are grade II listed buildings.
One of the keys to shooting Epic Landscape Photography is exalting the photograph's soul via golden ratio compositions, thusly wedding the photographic art to the divine proportion by which life itself was designed and exalted. The simple golden ratio PHI can exalt your art with the golden ratio harmonies in the form of golden rectangles, golden triangles, golden spirals, golden cuts, and more, all linked by the divine proportion!
Dr. Elliot McGucken's Golden Number Ratio Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography Composition Studies!
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Greetings flickr friends! I am working on several books on "epic photography," and I recently finished a related one titled: The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography: An Artistic and Scientific Introduction to the Golden Mean . Message me on facebook for a free review copy!
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The Golden Ratio also informs the design of the golden revolver on all the swimsuits and lingerie, as well as the 45surf logo!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Dr. E’s Golden Ratio Principle: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after. Robust, ordered growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in nature’s elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which all their vital sustenance and they themselves had been created—the golden ratio.
Ansel Adams is not only my favorite photographer, but he is one of the greatest photographers and artists of all time. And just like great artists including Michelangelo, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Leonardo da Vinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Botticelli, and Picasso, Ansel used the golden ratio and divine proportions in his epic art.
Not so long ago I discovered golden regions in many of his famous public domain his 8x10 aspect ratio photographs. I call these golden harmony regions "regions of golden action" or "ROGA"S, as seen here:
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And too, I created some videos highlighting Ansel's use of the golden harmonies. Enjoy!
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More golden ratio and epic photography composition books soon! Best wishes for the Holiday Season! Dr. Elliot McGucken :)