One of my favorite photo from Pakistan Photographer Club at flickr.com
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Quotable Quotes
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you do not mind, it does not matter.
Satchel Paige
All mankind is divided into three classes; those who are immovable, those who are movable; and those who move.
Benjamin Franklin
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in this world is for enough good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd
All your dreams come true, if you have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
Thomas Fuller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Anyone who is not a socialist at 16 has no heart, but anyone who still is at 32 has no mind.
Woodrow Wilson
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
Mignon McLaughlin
Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
Thomas A. Kemps
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin
Beautiful faces are those that wear whole-souled honesty printed there.
Ellen Palmer Alorton
Behavior is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
Goethe
Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
Sim York Soo
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.
F.F. Bosworth
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
Rev. Larry Lorenzoni
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Do not pray for easy lives! Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers! Pray for powers equal to your tasks!
Phillips Brooks
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
Common sense is genius dressed up in work clothes.
Ralph Waldo
Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Courage is not the absences of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice, it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.
Sue Murphy
Do not ask what your community can do for you. Ask what you can do for your community.
Steve Andres
Do not get married only because of the money. You can borrow it cheaper.
Z. Z. Gabber
Do not judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis
Do not walk in front of me, I may not follow. Do not walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camas
Do not worry that children never listen to you; worry that they area always watching you.
Robert
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
James Dean
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
Even if your are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Even paranoids have real enemies.
Delmore
Every fool knows that he cannot reach the stars but it never keeps a wise man from trying.
Ronnie B. Woods
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius
We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today. Sydney Smith
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
Satchel Paige
All mankind is divided into three classes; those who are immovable, those who are movable; and those who move.
Benjamin Franklin
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in this world is for enough good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd
All your dreams come true, if you have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
Thomas Fuller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Anyone who is not a socialist at 16 has no heart, but anyone who still is at 32 has no mind.
Woodrow Wilson
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
Mignon McLaughlin
Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
Thomas A. Kemps
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin
Beautiful faces are those that wear whole-souled honesty printed there.
Ellen Palmer Alorton
Behavior is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
Goethe
Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
Sim York Soo
Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.
F.F. Bosworth
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
Rev. Larry Lorenzoni
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Do not pray for easy lives! Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers! Pray for powers equal to your tasks!
Phillips Brooks
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
Common sense is genius dressed up in work clothes.
Ralph Waldo
Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Courage is not the absences of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice, it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.
Sue Murphy
Do not ask what your community can do for you. Ask what you can do for your community.
Steve Andres
Do not get married only because of the money. You can borrow it cheaper.
Z. Z. Gabber
Do not judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis
Do not walk in front of me, I may not follow. Do not walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camas
Do not worry that children never listen to you; worry that they area always watching you.
Robert
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
James Dean
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
Even if your are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Even paranoids have real enemies.
Delmore
Every fool knows that he cannot reach the stars but it never keeps a wise man from trying.
Ronnie B. Woods
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius
We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today. Sydney Smith
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
India's Population
India Likely to Surpass China in Population by 2030
With 1,130,000,000 (1.13 billion) people, India is currently the world's second largest country. India crossed the one billion mark in the year 2000, one year after the world's population crossed the six billion threshold.
Demographers expect India's population to surpass the population of China, currently the most populous country in the world, by 2030. At that time, India is expected to have a population of more than 1.53 billion while China's population is forecast to be at its peak of 1.46 billion (and will begin to drop in subsequent years). India is currently home to about 1.13 billion people, representing a full 17% of the earth’s population. When India gained independence from the United Kingdom sixty years ago, the country's population was a mere 350 million. Since 1947, the population of India has more than tripled. In 1950, India's total fertility rate was approximately 6 (children per woman). Nonetheless, since 1952 India has worked to control its population growth. In 1983, the goal of the country’s National Health Policy was to have a replacement value total fertility rate of 2.1 by the year 2000. That did not occur. In 2000, the country established a new National Population Policy to stem the growth of the country’s population. One of the primary goals of the policy was to reduce the total fertility rate to 2.1 by 2010. One of the steps along the path toward the goal in 2010 was a total fertility rate of 2.6 by 2002.
As the total fertility rate in India remains at the high number of 2.8, that goal was not achieved so it is highly unlikely that the total fertility rate will be 2.1 by 2010. Thus, India’s population will continue to grow at a rapid rate. The U.S. Census Bureau does predict a near-replacement total fertility rate of 2.2 to be achieved in India in the year 2050.
India's high population growth results in increasingly impoverished and sub-standard conditions for growing segments of the Indian population. As of 2007, India ranked 126th on the United Nations' Human Development Index, which takes into account social, health, and educational conditions in a country.
Population projections for India anticipate that the country's population will reach 1.5 to 1.8 billion by 2050. While only the Population Reference Bureau has published projections out to 2100, they expect India's
population at the close of the twenty-first century to reach 1.853 to 2.181 billion. Thus, India is expected to become the first and only county on the planet that will ever reach a population of more than 2 billion (recall that China's population is likely to drop after reaching a peak of about 1.46 billion in 2030 and the U.S. isn't likely to see a billion).
Although India has created several impressive goals to reduce its population growth rates, the India and the rest of the world has a long way to go to achieve meaningful population controls in this country with a growth rate of 1.6%, representing a doubling time of under 44 years.
With 1,130,000,000 (1.13 billion) people, India is currently the world's second largest country. India crossed the one billion mark in the year 2000, one year after the world's population crossed the six billion threshold.
Demographers expect India's population to surpass the population of China, currently the most populous country in the world, by 2030. At that time, India is expected to have a population of more than 1.53 billion while China's population is forecast to be at its peak of 1.46 billion (and will begin to drop in subsequent years). India is currently home to about 1.13 billion people, representing a full 17% of the earth’s population. When India gained independence from the United Kingdom sixty years ago, the country's population was a mere 350 million. Since 1947, the population of India has more than tripled. In 1950, India's total fertility rate was approximately 6 (children per woman). Nonetheless, since 1952 India has worked to control its population growth. In 1983, the goal of the country’s National Health Policy was to have a replacement value total fertility rate of 2.1 by the year 2000. That did not occur. In 2000, the country established a new National Population Policy to stem the growth of the country’s population. One of the primary goals of the policy was to reduce the total fertility rate to 2.1 by 2010. One of the steps along the path toward the goal in 2010 was a total fertility rate of 2.6 by 2002.
As the total fertility rate in India remains at the high number of 2.8, that goal was not achieved so it is highly unlikely that the total fertility rate will be 2.1 by 2010. Thus, India’s population will continue to grow at a rapid rate. The U.S. Census Bureau does predict a near-replacement total fertility rate of 2.2 to be achieved in India in the year 2050.
India's high population growth results in increasingly impoverished and sub-standard conditions for growing segments of the Indian population. As of 2007, India ranked 126th on the United Nations' Human Development Index, which takes into account social, health, and educational conditions in a country.
Population projections for India anticipate that the country's population will reach 1.5 to 1.8 billion by 2050. While only the Population Reference Bureau has published projections out to 2100, they expect India's
population at the close of the twenty-first century to reach 1.853 to 2.181 billion. Thus, India is expected to become the first and only county on the planet that will ever reach a population of more than 2 billion (recall that China's population is likely to drop after reaching a peak of about 1.46 billion in 2030 and the U.S. isn't likely to see a billion).
Although India has created several impressive goals to reduce its population growth rates, the India and the rest of the world has a long way to go to achieve meaningful population controls in this country with a growth rate of 1.6%, representing a doubling time of under 44 years.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
I with Noor Naz Agha
At the farewell party of our law course at Sindh Law College Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan.
In case of Emergency
ICE CAMPAIGN (in case of Emergency)
Seriously Very Important to Note
Isn’t it true that we all carry our mobile phones with hundreds of names/numbers stored in its memory but yet nobody, other than ourselves, know which of these numbers belong to our near and dear ones?
Let us for a moment create a scenario wherein (God forbid) we are involved in an accident or had a heart attack and the people attending us get hold of our mobile phone but don’t’ know which number to call to inform our family members. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency?
For this reason, we must have one or more telephone numbers stored under the name ICE (in case of emergency) in our mobile phones.
Recently, the concept of “ICE” is catching up quickly. It is simply, an important method of contact during emergency situations.
As cell phones are carried by majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or person who should be contacted at during emergency as “ICE” (meaning In Case of Emergency).
The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when they went to the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones with patients, but they didn’t know which number to call.
He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose.
Following a disaster in London, the East Anglican Ambulance Service has launched a national “In case of Emergency (ICE)” campaign.
In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital staff would then be able to quickly contact your next of kin, by simply dialing the number stored as “ICE”.
Please discuss this to all among your families and friends. It won’t take too much time before every body will know about this.
It really could save your life, or put a loved one’s mind at rest.
Fore more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc. A great idea that will make a difference!
Let’s spread the concept of ICE by storing an ICE number in our mobile phones today!
Ilyas A. Ansari
Seriously Very Important to Note
Isn’t it true that we all carry our mobile phones with hundreds of names/numbers stored in its memory but yet nobody, other than ourselves, know which of these numbers belong to our near and dear ones?
Let us for a moment create a scenario wherein (God forbid) we are involved in an accident or had a heart attack and the people attending us get hold of our mobile phone but don’t’ know which number to call to inform our family members. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency?
For this reason, we must have one or more telephone numbers stored under the name ICE (in case of emergency) in our mobile phones.
Recently, the concept of “ICE” is catching up quickly. It is simply, an important method of contact during emergency situations.
As cell phones are carried by majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or person who should be contacted at during emergency as “ICE” (meaning In Case of Emergency).
The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when they went to the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones with patients, but they didn’t know which number to call.
He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose.
Following a disaster in London, the East Anglican Ambulance Service has launched a national “In case of Emergency (ICE)” campaign.
In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital staff would then be able to quickly contact your next of kin, by simply dialing the number stored as “ICE”.
Please discuss this to all among your families and friends. It won’t take too much time before every body will know about this.
It really could save your life, or put a loved one’s mind at rest.
Fore more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc. A great idea that will make a difference!
Let’s spread the concept of ICE by storing an ICE number in our mobile phones today!
Ilyas A. Ansari
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