Nepal--Beyond Dark Ages

Bryan Hadefield an electrical engineer with 30 years experience provides some useful insights into the myths surrounding the load shedding crisis as well as explaining the real causes behind the crisis. Bryan identifies the following misconceptions,

• Turning off your geyser will help save electricity, BS - It mostly just postpones the use of that electricity until you turn it back on.
• Load-shedding must be done because people are using too much electricity, half-true, load shedding has to be done because too many people are using too much energy at the same time and Eskom cannot generate the required electricity
• Heavy rains have resulted in wet coal, Partially true , but inadequate supply chain management has resulted in low coal stockpiles
• Economic growth rates in the have exceeded all expectations. We are victims of our own success, this is typical government BS and totally untrue. Actual growth rates for the South African economy have always been below the targets set by government and way behind the growth rate of comparable emerging market economies.

stop load shedding

I believe that if public and the government work together, admit that they made a mess, and start being leaders, we can move through this energy crisis with only some minor bruises to our economy. So I've compiled a list of the 7 best ways to stop load shedding. I believe that with some small and painless changes we can at least provide ourselves with enough breathing room to get through this crisis.

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1. Turn off the air conditioners
2. Turn off your geyser
3. Turn off your pool pump
4. Turn off anything that consumes standby energy (TV's, DVD players, cell phone chargers, etc.)
5. Switch to CFL and LED lights (and use fewer lights)
6. Run appliances as late at night, or early in the morning as possible
7. Use your computers in energy saving modes

Read the full blog post for all the details of how and why If you think this plan makes some sense, then please post about it on your blogs and websites! Let's try to spread a message that is understandable, and can get us out of our current predicament. Thanks

IRON MAIDEN FLY HIGH AGAIN FOR THE FINAL LEG OF THEIR ‘SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME WORLD TOUR’

International rockers Iron Maiden were headed back to the UAE following the success of their "Somewhere In Time" tour.

Their Dubai gig marks the first date in the fourth and final leg of their phenomenally successful tour.

The band first performed in the region at the Dubai Rock Festival, so are looking for to returning to the desert! 

"We had a terrific time in Dubai when we played at Desert Rock Festival a couple of years ago. It seemed there were fans there from all over the Middle East and even farther afield and it felt like a very special occasion. So when we decided to take out Ed Force One again early next year we all thought that Dubai would be a great place to start," said the band's founding member Steve Harris.

They were performed at Dubai Media City Amphitheatre on February 13, 2009.

Taking off in early February Maiden will make their first appearances in New Zealand for 16 years via Dubai and Bangalore followed by the long haul journey for a return to Mexico in some even larger venues and then finishing with an extended run through Central and South America to include countries and cities they have not visited before. The dates are as follows --

February 2009:-

Fri 13th - UAE - Dubai Media City Amphitheatre 

Sun 15th - India - Bangalore Royal Challenge Rock In India 

Fri 20th - New Zealand - Auckland.  Mount Smart Stadium 

Sat 21st - New Zealand - Christchurch. AMI Stadium 

Wed 25th - Mexico - Monterrey Estadio Universitario

Thurs 26th - Mexico - Guadalajara Arena VFG Jalisco.

Sat 28th - Mexico - Mexico City Fero Sol Stadium Complex

1st - 29th March 2009 - South and Central America.

History of Valentines Day

So guys always remember, love is the most beautiful feeling of heart that thrills the other organs so don't hesitate confessing it to the person you love and I wish you good luck!!! Before that at least to know about the history of Valentine... In our country some people called as Vantang Vuntung Day! specially those people who misused valentine means.

We all indeed know about Valentine day date i.e. fourteenth February and that it is a day of lovers. But I'm sure many of us do not have a clear idea as to who discovered Valentines Day and how did the very idea of celebrating Valentine's Day come from? Many of us are ignorant about the origin of Valentine's Day. It is interesting to learn about Valentine Day story so read further to know about the history of Valentines Day.

Actually nobody has a clear idea as to who was saint Valentine because there were three different saint Valentines and all were martyred. Some stories suggest that Valentine day owes its origin to the Roman Empire during the reign of emperor Claudius II. It was in those times when the emperor felt that married men turned out to be poor soldiers and thus he was against the very idea of marriage of young couples. But when he got to know that saint Valentine defied him and was secretly encouraging young lovers to get married, he passed orders for his death. And it was on the fourteenth of February when this great saint valentine died in around 270 AD. A couple of stories suggest that saint Valentine protected Christians from the clutches of harsh Roman punishments.

While some maintain that Valentine himself initiated the concept of sending love message in which he had ended the note by writing 'from your Valentine'. People say during imprisonment he fell in love with the jailor's daughter and he had expressed his feelings for her in the most romantic manner by writing a love letter. Well the more the mouths, more the number of stories. But one thing that everyone believes in is the fact that Valentine was a very romantic person and was the one to lay the foundation for lovers to come forward and express feelings to their Valentine.

Who will cry when you die?

I heard about this book - Who will Cry when you die. This book is on “Spirituality”. While I was Reading title of this book, certain questions flashed on my mind. Actually speaking, who will cry when you die?

Parents, Spouse, Kids, Relatives, Friends

So, what do you think...who will miss you more...who will cry...when you bid adieu to this world?



I am trying to search answer myself:

All fingers are not of same size, all people are not same type.

To cry is a good thing as tear help in putting out pain. When we loose someone it is like a shock and spontaniously tears comes in our eyes and we loose control over our tounge, words, behaviour and everything. But as the times passes the state of shock converts in to pain which we feel inside our heart.

Remember when eyes cry everyone can see and know but when hearts cry only whose heart cry will know rest will be unaware. Sometime we have smile at our lips but at heart we are sinking and crying.

In my point of view and I also believe that life is about making others happy. It is about laughing together and smiling together. That is actually a way to live your life.

Let's take another look. Life, as a whole is a cycle. It starts from birth and ends with death. It is a known actuality. As long as, anything is in process, you can judge its impact. As long as a performer is performing on the stage, you cannot judge the show. You cannot judge the success or failure of the show. In the same way, as long as you are living...no one can actually evaluate your life. It is only after the death that one can feel the impact of your life...cry for you, feel proud of you and remember you in a certain way. So, in short...we should do things in our life...in the best possible way that we can. Live our life in a way that no one else would have can lived and then leave the stage.

Let's put your view on to it........

Job losses darken Dubai real estate sector

The real estate sector in Dubai has suffered from a major turnaround of fortunes in the past three months। From a position of seeming invulnerability in September, despite dark warnings of a future correction, the market now finds itself saturated with would-be buyers as projects are put on hold, access to funding and liquidity becomes increasingly restricted and the city's property and finance firms come under a wave of job losses.

My first blog... Whew! It's a big day! ;)

Hello! Welcome to my blog. I started a blog to keep a listing of all my designs and photographs (which i grabbed in my camera). Then I realized that I'd probably use it for a lot more than that, so really, expect anything here. If it's important to me, I'm going to write about it at some point. I hope you will find it fun and sometimes enlightening.

To start off, here is a little design I worked up today while trying to design some photo effect। Please feel free to make these for yourself, link interested folks back to here or share this design. If you make these and love them, please tell me! If you find an error PLEASE let me know! I'd hate for folks to be confused or unhappy with the results because of a silly mistake I made. Also, please bear with me as I just learned to photography last couple of month.