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Archive for June, 2014

“Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.”

— Steven Wright

GB made an example by the public justice..!

Is it a preamble of the revolution and explosion of pent up public emotions about which Maulana Tahir ul Qadri and Sheikh Rasheed has been warning in advance?

Is it an EYE OPENER for the ruling elite of Pakistan?

Has the 17 June Lahore GENOCIDE precipitated this reactionary public violence?

Is Pakistan nearing a stage of the D day when:

TAAJ UCHALY JAEN GAY
TAKHT GERAI JAEN GAY

?????

Can someone throw light in few words on how and why French Revolution erupted?

4 Factors Every Business Plan Should Address

You’ve got a brilliant idea for a new product or service. You’re energized, excited, and ready to execute. But first you’ve got to write a business plan. Investors and stakeholders will care about four factors that are critical to every new venture:
The people. Introduce who will be starting and running the business, and any outside parties providing resources.
The opportunity. What will you sell – and to whom? How fast do you plan to grow?
The context. Capture the big picture – the regulatory environment, demographic trends, and other dynamic factors that you can’t control.
The risk and reward. Present an examination of everything that can go wrong and right. Be prepared to explain how your team can respond.

Adapted by HBR from 20-Minute Manager: Creating Business Plans.

Please Don’t Punish the Honest Citizens for the Sake of the Cheaters…! If PMLN Govt can’t give any relief to the Pensioners, widows and Senior Citizens at least it must not withdraw the old facilities.

Dear Mr. Prime Minister of Pakistan,

Sir,

AoA.

The matter raised by Mr. Kalim A. Chishtie, in his below mentioned letter, published by the Daily Dawn of today, needs your personal intervention, as it adversely affects the senior citizens and widows etc.

If we compare the previous PPP rule with your one years performance, one thing is strikingly clear that PPP at least had a soft corner for the low income group, while your government seems completely oblivious of the problems, being faced by the middle class and the lower middle class citizens.

I will request you to just have a look at the utility bills of the above mentioned categories of people, to have an idea how the same has increased during your tenure, compared with the last PPP government.

Actually, your government having failed to recover the utility bills from the high and mighty people, who never pay their utility charges, has decided to punish the millions of honest bill payers, by increasing the rates of all the utility services, with a vengeance; which is a very cruel and callous way of punishing the honest people, who never indulge in the theft of electricity, gas and water.

People still fondly remember that it was the last PPP government, which enhanced the upper limit of the EOBI pension to Rs. 3,600/PM.

Let me assure you that if the Rs.30,00,000/- or PKR 3 million upper limit (for investment in Pensioners Benefit Account & Behbood Certificates of the National Saving Center Schemes) is reasonably enhanced, your government can easily generate much more huge amount of funds, than you will get the revenue, from the tax collected on the Behbood & Pensioners Account profit payments. But, for this suggestion to be implemented, you will have to take a (firm) stand before the mighty bankers lobby, who will oppose this enhancement of limit, tooth and nail.

Submitted for your favourable consideration please.

Yours sincerely,

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad
Lahore.

Behbood scheme
By From the Dawn Newspaper
Updated about 2 hours ago
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IT is interesting to note that out of the blue the present government has come up with a novel idea of taxing the profits of the Behbood scheme. Does the government wish that senior citizens and widows who are meeting their expenses through profits derived from the scheme should face more difficulty in managing their daily expenditures in this age of inflation?
Kalim A. Chishtie
Karachi
Published in Dawn, June 18th, 2014

Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad
0321-9402157
Lahore.

Sent from my iPad3 4G LTE

“You never win the silver, you only lose the gold.”

Shah Rukh Khan.

Football World Cup 2014

A man takes his seat at FIFA world cup final in Brazil.

He looks to his right & notices that there is a spare seat between himself & the next guy.

Man asks the guy: “who on Earth would ever miss the FIFA world cup final?”

Guy: “That was my wife’s seat. We have been to the last four world cup finals together, but sadly she couldn’t make it to this one as she passed away.”

MAN: “oh… I am really sorry for your loss, but I must say that’s really nice of you to have her here symbolically by having a vacant seat, but these are expensive tickets; you would have brought another family member, friend or someone else with you!”

GUY: “No I couldn’t as they are all attending my wife’s funeral!”

The Mirror Story

A long time ago in India..
There lived a man with his family in the jungle. They had never seen a mirror in their life.

One day the man found a mirror in the jungle. When he saw his image in it he thought it was his father’s photo, he became very happy and took it along with him. He used to speak to the mirror everyday.

His wife became suspicious of him and one day when the man was out to work, she looked into the mirror and told,
“Ah now I get it. So this is the lady who my husband talks to everyday.”
She became angry and showed the mirror to her mother-in-law.

Mother-in-law saw her image in it and said:
“Don’t worry, be grateful that she is an old woman and will die soon.”

“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”

—Mother Teresa (1910-1997);
Founder Of The Missionaries Of Charity

“Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

An excellent letter published but the daily “Pakistan Observer” for intelligent persons..!

Artificial intelligence

Shereen Fatima Syed

Wednesday, June 18, 2014 – The advancement in technology, especially the computer technology and for that matter the information technology, has led the mankind to an era of consciousness, convenience and comfort. The computers have added speed to the job earlier performed by the human hands with the support of the god given intelligence and intellect. All our information being within the scope of new computer technology, has made us subservient to the technology; however this has also helped the mankind in almost every walk of life and has given way to collection, managing and utilizing data for constructive ends. Our lives and work, therefore generate vast amounts of data. From travel information to customer satisfaction and to collect information on financial management, even to the tune as to how much money the new movies will generate. The data offers great insights and quite often this is because of the Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is usually defined as the science of making computers do things that require intelligence when done by humans. The potential of artificial intelligence is enormous and in fact a 2013 study by Oxford University estimated that artificial intelligence could take over nearly half of all jobs in United States in the near future.

Artificial Intelligence’s most common application is about finding patterns in enormous quantities of data. This allows companies to automate and improve complex descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytical tasks. For example the goal of the fifth generation computer is to develop the device which could respond to natural language input and are capable of learning and also that of self-organization. Quantum computation, Molecular and Nano technology will be used in this technology. Other example is that of customized food / smart packaging, wherein everyone wonders as to how long they should heat something up in the microwave, and sometimes a wrong guess can lead to an explosion. By 2015 food may come with microchips in the packaging that communicate with kitchen appliances.

Nutrition scientists also project that developments in food technology and engineering may enable marketers to offer convenient healthy snacks that are customized at the point of sale to meet each individual consumer’s nutritional requirements and personal preferences. However, the potential of Artificial Intelligence for organizations is enormous and if the projections turn out to be true and in the coming years the AI market will grow to a multiple billion dollar market, and doing business can take up a whole new meaning. Resulting in fewer employees required while significantly improving your bottom line results. I think Artificial intelligence is second intelligence ever to exist.

—Islamabad