What you never get to see about Pakistan in the western media ...

What you never get to see about Pakistan in the western media ...

Motorway M1 Lahore to Islalamabad - first Motorway in the Indo Pak Sub Continent

 

 

 

Karachi  sea-front, seen from the Indian ocean

 

Charminar Monument at Bahadurabad, Karachi

 

 

Hirran Minar, Sheikhupura, Lahore

 

 

 

Chaukundi Tombs & Graveyards, Sindh

 

 

 

Sirri Paya Road, Swat

 

 

Jeep Crossing over Hunza River near Sost

Dodipitsar Lake, Kaghan Valley.

 

 

 

Railway Bridge, Attock.

 

 

 

Skiing down Broad Peak (8047 M) & might K2 (8611 M , 2nd highest in the world) in the background. Karakoram – Pakistan

 

Altit Fort, Hunza Valley

 

 

Kund Malir Beach, Balochistan

 

 

Amazing heart  shaped Lake in Gilgit, Pakistan

 

 

Centaurus Mall, Islamabad — with Hussain Ali.

 

 

Metro Bus passing below Kalma Chock Flyover under heavy clouds.

 

Ata'abad Lake, Humza - this lake was formed due to a land-slide in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. The whole side of a mountain crumbled and slid into the river blocking it and causing a huge lake that submerged many villages and hamlets.

 

View of Multan

 

 

 

Ata'abad Lake, Gulmit

 

 

 

Frere Hall, Karachi.

 

 

Mosque inside Khewrha Mine, Jehlum City

 

 

Para Gliding at Peer Chinasi Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan

 

 

 

Desert Rally 2013, Cholistan Desert

 

 

Chinaar Road, Abbottabad. 

 

 

Crystal deposits in the Khewra Salt Mine near Jehlum City. The mine is the world's second largest salt mine and supplies 350,000 tonnes of salt per year.

 

 

 

Sadpara Lake, Skardu

 

 

 

Mosque in Chitral.

 

 

University Of Peshawar

 

 

 

Baltoro glacier. The wilderness and Snows of Karakorams

 

 

 

Namal Lake, Mianwali

 

 

 

Ibne Qasim Garden, Karachi

 

 

Night view of Metrobus System, Lahore

 

 

Sea-food resturant at Do Darya, Karachi (Indian Ocean).

 

 

Eric Shipton's Shangrila in Hunza Valley. A View of Hunza river and Valley from Eagle's Nest

 

 

Last light on Nangaparbat, Fairy Meadows, Astore

 

 

Dongbar peak (6258m) this mountain exists on Biafo glacier. This shot taken from Biantha (camp site on right bank of Biafo glacier) with a full moon behind the mountain

 

 

Hingol River, Balochistan

 

 

Mangla Lake, Mirpur (near Jehlum City), Azad Kashmir

 

 

 

Hanna Lake, Quetta

 

 

Taobaat, Neelam Valley, Kashmir

 

 

 

Katpana Lake Skardu in winters

 

 

Badshahi Mosque, Lahore

 

  

10 Things Really Amazing Employees Do

Here are ten traits that any great employer should recognize and reward instantly.

 

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As a longtime employer of dozens, I was always grateful to have good employees. It takes a lot to recruit and maintain top talent. Every once in a while special employees come along that just really seem to get it. They drive the entire company forward in ways that were unimaginable. Advancement and reward is never an issue for these rock stars because they understand the power of cause and effect, and only a worthy company can retain them and afford them.
Here are 10 things amazing employees seem to do effortlessly. Here's how to help your great employees be even more amazing.

1. Enthusiastically Learn All Aspects of Business

They understand they're part of something bigger and more worthwhile than just their job. They look to learn other areas of the business and be fluent in finance and management so they'll positively impact multiple areas of the company.

What you can do: Invest in material and seminars on business basics like accounting, marketing, and management so all employees have easy access to learn and grow.

2. Steward the Company

They treat the company as if it were theirs. They look to make prudent decisions about expenses and opportunities with the long-term future of the company in mind. They easily assess risk vs. reward, selflessly when making decisions.

What you can do: Be transparent in your business. The more you share your financials and philosophy, the easier it is for employees to make the right decisions.

3. Generate Viable Opportunities

You don't have to be in sales or marketing to help a company grow. Strong networkers from all divisions see company growth as a collective effort and constantly keep their eyes open for ways to more than pay for themselves.

What you can do: Make sure all your employees understand your value proposition and can easily identify opportunities. Then reward them openly for their efforts.

4. Resolve Issues Before They Are Issues

My favorite days running companies are when I notice positive change in procedure when I was totally unaware of the need for change. Amazing employees are always looking to improve systems proactively, and they do.

What you can do: Communicate a clear written vision of where the company is going and encourage initiative so people feel safe and empowered to make change.

5. Tell It Like It Is

Amazing employees understand that hiding bad news helps no one. They find kind ways to bring uncomfortable information to the surface, but they DO bring it to the surface. They tell people what's necessary before major damage is done.

What you can do: Foster an open communication environment where people are not only given permission to tell the truth, but also absolutely required.

6. Demonstrate High Standards, With Low Maintenance

I always feel relaxed when I can trust an employee to perform a task to the same high standards I would expect from myself. Not all can do this without constant attention or difficulty. Amazing employees quietly drive their own high standards.

What you can do: Set the example and the tone for high performance with minimal drama. Publicly reward those who can execute in the same manner.

7. Grow Themselves, and Others

They not only drive their own career but they inspire others to do the same. These employees lead by example in how to advance without creating animosity or resentment. They see and create their perfect future, and also bring others along.

What you can do: Encourage personal development and peer growth through dedicated group time and learning for career advancement.

8. Research, Apply, and Refine

No employer expects people to know everything. In this fast changing world, I choose employees who will learn over those who know. The best employee proactively explores options, takes action and then improves without direction from the top.

What you can do: Invest time in exploration and expansive thinking. Encourage people to explore deep visionary projects with time and reward for the findings.

9. Stimulate Happiness

Amazing employees aren't always sunshine and roses. They do know how to keep it real. But they understand the dynamics of people, stress, and the blend of work, life and friendship. They are self-aware and able to direct their own path that brings out their best with family, friends and career. They exude positive energy even in stressful times and share it around, making for a happier office.

What you can do: Create an environment where people can openly express themselves. Encourage them to work hard in fulfilling ways and achieve their dreams.

10. Facilitate Amazing Bosses

Amazing employees make me grow as an employer. They self-confidently get their value and help me get mine. They make me want to be worthy of working with somebody of such high caliber, without ever saying it directly of course.

What you can do: Make effort to genuinely show appreciation for any of the behaviors above so people feel their value and will grow to full potential. Then they will do the same for you.
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An Inc. 500 entrepreneur with a more than $1 billion sales and marketing track record, Kevin Daum is the best-selling author of Video Marketing for Dummies. @awesomeroar

Source: http://www.inc.com/kevin-daum/10-things-really-amazing-employees-do.html

Sodium-air batteries could replace lithium-air as the battery of the future

The world of hardware reshapes itself as fast as it ever has nowadays. Pocket computers exponentially increase in power seemingly every few months, while our laptops can now fold completely in half and masquerade as a tablet. However, as far as hardware ever reaches, batteries always seem so stagnant. Now, though, promising research into sodium-air batteries could lead toward the battery revolution we’ve all been waiting for.
Aside from, for example, standard AA or AAA batteries, lithium-ion batteries are the go-to power source for our most prized mobile devices. They are rechargeable, and last an acceptable amount of time before cutting out right in the middle of an important phone call. Though our smartphones and tablets have an acceptable lifetime, sometimes you accept what you’re given rather than what you actually want. An iPhone 5 can last around 8 hours of 3G, LTE data use or talk time, or for 10 hours of video playback, or 40 hours of audio playback.
When you’re using some combination of all those features — as anyone with a smartphone and a long commute is fully aware — the phone’s battery life is woefully short. Because of the way a lithium-ion battery generates power — through chemical reactions — the amount of power generated has a ceiling. This means that at some point, a lithium-ion battery will be giving literally the maximum amount of power it can. A ceiling means that, eventually, our devices will require more power than the battery can give.
In order for a battery to work, it needs to exchange an electron, because that usually generates a form of energy that is harvestable. However, the weight of a material is an important factor when designing a battery, as, obviously, a heavier battery means a heavier, less desirable device. So, in order to generate energy from a light material, you turn to oxidation. Considering oxygen abounds, you don’t need to include something that will be the oxidation catalyst, which makes the battery lighter. This type of battery, rather than the usual suffix of -ion, carries the self-explanatory suffix of -air. Scientists theorize that, in part due to not requiring a catalyst in the battery, a higher yield of energy can be generated. Whereas a lithium-ion battery has a capacity of around 200Wh/kg, a lithium-air battery could reach all the way up to 3460Wh/kg.
Unfortunately, the chemistry behind lithium-air batteries is so complicated that researchers have begun shifting their focus to sodium-air batteries. Though the capacity of the sodium-air is much lower than the lithium-air, sitting around 1600Wh/kg, it’s at least significantly higher than a lithium-ion, and much easier to make than the lithium-air. One end of the battery has a sodium electrode, on which an electrolyte is sandwiched underneath a carbon electrode that oxygen can travel through. The electron travels around the battery, the ionic metal dissolves into the electrolyte which in turn travels to the carbon electrode and hits the oxygen.
Though this is still in an experimental form, researchers found that not only does the sodium-air hold more charge than a lithium-air battery, but is easier to charge as well. It was mentioned above that lithium-air has a theoretical density of more than double the sodium-air, but as it turns out, the sodium-air has a higher density in practice (that isn’t to say that, one day, lithium-air won’t reach its enormous density destiny).
At the moment, though, a sodium-air can only be charged around eight times before it dies for good. Hopefully, scientists will be able to figure out why that is, and bring us a battery that can power our mobile devices for long periods of time without us having to conserve the power after a long night out.

By James Plafke
Source: http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/149779-sodium-air-batteries-could-replace-lithium-air-as-the-battery-of-the-future