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March 7th, 2015
K-5 Malala Feeder school by NCHD - National Commission fro Human Development.
Location: Mir Bandai Ali Khan at Tando Ghulam Ali Badin District, Sindh, Pakistan
By: Pervaiz Lodhie
Founder LEDtronics
Founding Director PHDF - Pakistan Human Development Fund
Faciltated by: Shaantech Pakistan Team
Back Ground
National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) was established in July, 2001 as a federal statutory body. It is a fast-track initiative to improve social sector outcomes at the grass-roots. The goal of the Commission is to fill the implementation gaps and improve public sector delivery mechanisms to achieve the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) through:
Universal Primary Education (UPE)
Adult Literacy / Gender Empowerment Program
Reducing Population Growth Rate
Improving Infant & Maternal Mortality
Capacity Building at Grassroots
NCHD has been officially declared as lead agency for the spread of literacy programs in the country by the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The 2006 UNESCO International Reading Association Literacy Prize has been awarded to NCHD for its National Literacy Program.
Visit of Mr. Pervaiz Lodhi – Member PHDF
Mr. Pervaiz lodhie a distinguished member of PHDF visited Malala Feeder School on 7th March 2015 alongwith his team and the Worthy Director operations Sindh Humaira Hashimi Sahiba. The team arrived at Malala feeder school at about 12.00noon. A warm welcome was given to the distinguished guests. The students from Malala wrapped in school uniform give a salute the honourable guests and offered flowers to the guests. Thrown rose petals in a queue to the head Masters room.
Where Mr. Moti lal – Head Master briefed the honourable guests about the back ground and the efforts taken for establishment of such a wonderful building through donations. He elaborated that besides donors the I-care, PHDF, Mir Ghulam Ali Talpur and the chairman usher and zakat the children are continuously supporting the school by making donations from their pocket money, which were a unique contribution and the idea for construction of malala feeder school. They started the school with the number of 25 children only but now after hectic efforts and continuous work hard the number has raised to 455. At the movement 5 Feeder teachers are placed while 3 other teachers are voluntarily putting their time and efforts.
Then the guests visited each class room one by one, where two children from each class presented rose flowers to the guests. The guest asked many questions about the education, the attitude of the teachers and their satisfaction from the school and learning land marks. Checked and found whole the school very neat and clean.
A gathering of parents of children was also arranged in the school, after visiting class rooms the honourable guests moved toward the stage where function started with the recitation of holy Quran. A student of class three Ghulam Rasool recited from Holy Quran.
Naat Maqbool (PBHM) was presented by three female students namely Huma Naz, Mehmoona, Nayab and Iqra
Mr. Pervaiz lodhi – member PHDF said in his address that PHDF put a unique idea of public and private partnership and have proved that by collective efforts Pakistan can meet the desired goals and objectives especially in the field of education. He called a meeting with stake holder and the private sector yesterday and will be meet with the honourable minister and PHDF members in Pakistan to contribute on their part in the uplift of NCHD and the objective of Education and literacy in Pakistan. He thinks that it is only NCHD which has office in every district of the Pakistan and grass root approach. He will try a funding and the support of Pakistanis in America and bring some good news as well. He is himself contacting various philanthropists and groups in this regard also. Insha Allah we will bring a positive change in Pakistan and continue our mission. He appreciated the innovative idea for construction of Malala school building. He also suggested that he will show the movie to the father of Malala who is visiting America in coming month.
At end of this session honourable guest distributed Shaantech Solar Charged LED Lights to top 3 students from each class (1,2,3,4,5)
Question Mark. Aus der Serie „Satzzeichen“ 2014
Rotierende Skulptur aus Lianen Findling, fluoriszierendes Klebeband, schwarze Totenkopf Büchse und Schwarz Licht
Skulptur, Objekt, Video, Installation, Fotografie
Markus Wintersberger 2014
Question Mark. Aus der Serie „Satzzeichen“ 2014
Rotierende Skulptur aus Lianen Findling, fluoriszierendes Klebeband, schwarze Totenkopf Büchse und Schwarz Licht
Skulptur, Objekt, Video, Installation, Fotografie
Markus Wintersberger 2014
Polygonia inerrogationis
Seen at the White Rock water treatment plant. One of the first butterflies I've seen around this year.
(Note: initially misidentified as a Green Comma, which are not seen at this low of an elevation in New Mexico--thanks Christopher!)
Questions are asked and statements made to a farm advocacy panel of moderator Rural Advancement Foundation International – USA Executive Director Scott Marlow and panelists Federation of Southern Co-op Ben F. Burkett, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Administrator Elanor Starmer, USDA Farm Service Agency Administrator Val Dolcini, USDA Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (OASCR) Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Dr. Joe Leonard, and Farmer’s Legal Action Group Deputy Director and Senior Staff Attorney Stephen Carpenter, on Sept. 15, 2016, in Washington, D.C. The panel discussion followed a screening of Farm Aid's Homeplace Under Fire film about the frontline, grassroots work of American farm advocates and their thirty-year efforts to keep family farmers on the land. The film is directed by Charles D. Thompson and produced by Farm Aid in cooperation with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
The locomotive built to lead a nation at war.
A build long in the making...for well over a year and spanning many life changes that attempted to derail this project, Union Pacific #844 finally emerges from my workshop.
UP #844 has captured my imagination since childhood, appearing in several mini-series, TV shows and ads from the early 1990’s. With a sleek body, brutish flat face, high stepping drivers and enormous smoke deflectors, it embodies every definition of monstrous speed and power.
Manufactured by the American Locomotive Company and delivered to UP in 1944 to accommodate both wartime traffic and the projected increase in passenger service after the war, #835-844 were built upon the nearly perfected FEF-1 and FEF-2 series of locomotives delivered between 1937-1939. The entire FEF-3 series proved to be a masterpiece of design and was continuously called upon to lead top priority freight and passenger service.
#844 was delivered on a cold December day in 1944 as the final steam locomotive ever received by UP. Truly an unsleeping giant, #844 is the only steam locomotive of any American Class 1 railroad that has never been struck from the roster. Throughout her revenue career, she headed express freight, fast mail, and the most prestigious passenger trains of the central high plains and mountainous west – The Overland Limited, Los Angeles Limited, Portland Rose, and Pony Express.
Fitted with 80-inch drivers and a 300 psi operating boiler pressure, #844 generates 63,800 lbs of tractive effort. She was designed to comfortably haul a 1,000-ton train at 100 mph and would regularly run at 120 mph.
Significant research was put into this model. Before even laying out the frame I had compiled an 80-year timeline documenting every minor, and major, upgrade, repainting, and alteration. I had one specific goal in mind: to capture her high-speed passenger service essence. As such, I have modeled her exactly as she would have appeared in April of 1949 – oil burning, with a Sellers exhaust steam injector and painted in the famous two-tone gray of Armour Yellow and Harbor Mist Gray. I am proud to say that this is one of the most accurate representations of a two-tone gray FEF-3 in the modeling world.
This model is 8-wide and precisely 1:48 scale. #844 represents the absolute apex of duel-service steam and I want this model to represent nothing less. It is powered by two L power function motors in a 1:1 gear ratio so that she has both high tractive effort and can travel at high speed. The tender is fitted with a power functions control switch and two V2 IR receivers, one dedicated to each motor, powered by a 20c 7.4V Turnigy battery.
I design all my models with usability in mind. That being said, due to the #844’s unavoidable long legs, the locomotive can technically snake its way through R56 curves but is much happier with R120. I will pride myself in saying that the tender can navigate R40 due to my engineering of a unique design to conquer the flexibility challenges that plagues centipede tenders.
Custom wheels and drivers were sourced from Brick Train Depot and Breckland Bricks while the Walschaerts valve gear is from Trained Bricks. I want to particularly thank Monty’s Trains who designed and printed all stickers you see on this model. Monty also provided the technical experience that allowed me to upgrade from a standard Lego battery pack to the vastly superior LiPo world.
I strive to make my models both detailed and accessible. As such, instructions ARE available for this model in both two-tone gray and black (accurately dated to July 1954). Additionally, both liveries come with simple and complex valve gear instructions.
Today known as The Living Legend, UP #844 is the last of a great breed and represents the absolute apex of duel-service steam as one of the most powerful, prestigious and well-engineered Northern type locomotives of all time.
I feel extremely grateful to the Union Pacific Steam Team for ensuring that, through unquantifiable amounts of continuous labor, #844’s clock is not approaching twilight, but held at dawn. She is poised to travel the high iron for time eternal, forever roaring across the heartland plains and into the rising sun.
Thank you everyone for taking time to read this post, I greatly appreciate your questions, comments and praise. This model represents the end of a personal era, and I appreciate all the encouragement and support that I received from the community along the way. Railroading and Lego modeling are my passions, and I am happy to be part of these growing communities.
Cort
rahul gandhi, widely believed to be the future prime minister of india, visited jawaharlal nehru university for an interaction with its students. true to its leftist traditions he had a hard time defending the policies of the ruling congress government. rahul faced a barrage of questions from mostly radical left students ranging from defence expenses to social sector spending. 29 september 2009. jnu, delhi.
Question: What the heck is PONG supposed to be?
When you're playing it, it feels like the video game representation of some real-life sport. You're bouncing a ball back and forth with another player, which at first glance sounds a lot like like table tennis, AKA ping pong-- and that would seem to explain the name. And yet, PONG is two-dimensional and free of gravity. The ball goes in a straight line, at a fairly constant rate of travel. And you don't play ping pong by rotating a wheel. Come to think of it, it's not a darned thing like ping pong. So what the heck is it?
To answer this, we built this real-life Tabletop Pong game. You can read more about this project here.
I want to go to Brickscascade but i also want to go to emerald city comic con! Which one is better and why?
P.S I have heard that the comic con lines are really long, is that the case at the emerald city comic con?
Question marks hang over the legitimacy of Angola’s general election as Africa’s second-longest serving leader Jose Eduardo dos Santo has won a five-year term in office following his party’s landslide victory.
So many questions at this time of year - What are you doing for Christmas? What do you want for Christmas? Do you believe in Father Christmas?.......
An enjoyable night out with friends at a Tim Minchin concert in Brighton last night provided an interesting take on the season
I really like Christmas
It's sentimental, I know, but I just really like it
I am hardly religious
I'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu, to be honest
And yes, I have all of the usual objections
To consumerism, the commercialisation of an ancient religion
To the westernisation of a dead Palestinian
Press-ganged into selling Playstations and beer
But I still really like it
I'm looking forward to Christmas
Though I'm not expecting a visit from Jesus........
The double jeopardy of albino people in addition to their poor health, they must face the prejudices of society. In Cameroon, libel, insults and abuse may be their daily and children are more vulnerable!
An Association - VEAC - helps them for a better integration in society:
www.veac-cm.com/veac/index.php
Photograph © Xavier Hinnekint
When you ask the question,“Is the Greenbelt really working?” you may get a real contrast in opinions depending who you ask. Local farmers have complained that the five-year-old environmental land preserve isn’t doing much to save farmland. Many farmers are struggling to sell their crops and the Greenbelt's restrictive land-use rules are strangling farmers who live in the protected area. According to a first-ever study by University of Guelph researchers, animal agriculture is disappearing even more rapidly in Ontario's protected Greenbelt versus the provincial average.
Many people, including the artist, can appreciate that this important piece of land has been set aside for future generations to enjoy. “The beauty that you can find in the Ontario Greenbelt is something that other communities in Canada and the rest of the world may not have the privilege of experiencing," comments Lengyel.
It is this dichotomy, the balance between protecting beauty and preserving a way of life, which the artist is attempting to capture in his series, In the Shadow of the GTA Greenbelt.
This is one of about 14 prints that I am getting framed for an upcoming exhibit at the Sovereign House in the Bronte area of Oakville.
The focus for the exhibit is on the Ontario Greenbelt and my images attempt to portray the beauty found in this area as well as the challenges faced with urban expansion and farming issues within this area.
A link to the event can be found here ... www.brontehistoricalsociety.ca/Page3.html
The show starts on July 17th with exhibit dates including the 17th, 18th, 21st, 24th and 25th of July. The exhibit is open to the public from 1:00 - 4:00 pm.
As I am exhibiting with two other photographers, we have a blog set up specifically for the show ...
gtagreenbeltexhibit.blogspot.com/2010/06/welcome-to-in-sh...
It was spontaneous result of playing with a very dark photo, shot in jpg. I added some artistic touch from me.
Last glacier, Illnois, ended at Jacksontown, Ohio. This is left by the moraine. Help, what is geological description of this artifact? See bottom affects for rest of my question to my alma mater, the Ohio State University. Following discussion kindly sent by Dale Gnidovec, curator, the Ohio State University, geological department.
I attended exhibition by Dale Gnidovec curator of Ohio State geology department at Highbanks Metro Park. A handout discussed rock vs mineral.
"Dear Bobby,
Although identification of rocks from photographs is always a bit
questionable ...
I would say the rock is a granite gneiss (pronounced "nice), a metamorphic
rock. It formed when magma (molten rock deep below ground) cooled slowly
(over thousands to millions of years) and hardened into granite. Later
the granite was buried deep (miles) in the earth, where the intense
pressure caused the minerals to line up, producing the streaks of
contrasting colors. Millions of years of erosion brought that part of the
crust to the surface, where erosion broke off a large boulder that was
then carried to Ohio from somewhere north of Hudson Bay by the glaciers
during the last two million years. The trip didn't take place all at once
- the glaciers came and melted back multiple times, each time moving the
rock farther south. The roundness suggests to me that at some point the
rock was also rolled downstream by glacial meltwaters.
Cheers.
Dale"
Dale Gnidovec, Curator
Orton Geological Museum
The Ohio State University
D. Gnidovec, email message to writer of this artifact, Bobby Foster, n.p. 2 Feb. 2010.
I, and a minister from my church, Reverend John Kuckuk, went on a geological hike with Dale, around the Ohio Statehouse square, and had a memorable outing. Then John and I went to statehouse ate in the snack bar run by the blind people. Memorable.
> www.flickr.com/photos/lonesome1/3831428691/
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> Would some one look at above link and forward any ideas. The rock is one
> mile east of Jacksontown Ohio on Route 40. Just east of Hebron. Ancestral
> lands.
The stone is 3 feet by 2 feet. Also, use large trunk of tree as reference point. The stone has red parallel lines of a different substance. I would say the rock is sandstone.
An addition to Dale's lecture is the following Ohio Geological Department website:
Question Mark. Aus der Serie „Satzzeichen“ 2014
Rotierende Skulptur aus Lianen Findling, fluoriszierendes Klebeband, schwarze Totenkopf Büchse und Schwarz Licht
Skulptur, Objekt, Video, Installation, Fotografie
Markus Wintersberger 2014
Question Mark. Aus der Serie „Satzzeichen“ 2014
Rotierende Skulptur aus Lianen Findling, fluoriszierendes Klebeband, schwarze Totenkopf Büchse und Schwarz Licht
Skulptur, Objekt, Video, Installation, Fotografie
Markus Wintersberger 2014
The student saw a chance to use the Pythagorean theorem and jumped at it.
Then was confused when he discovered what the left angle must be. Good drawing, guys.