Arfa Karim

World’s Youngest MCSE Professional Arfa Karim from Pakistan is Dying

LAHORE: The youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Aarifa Karim is hospitalised and in critical condition.Arfa Karim Randhawa is the youngest Microsoft certified professional and belongs to Pakistan and was certified at the age of “9″.
She is right now in the hospital and doctors are trying as much as they can to save her.
Arfa Karim was admitted to the hospital due to cardiac arrest (heart attack in general terms).
However, doctors have given up hope for the survival for the young genius and machines can be turned off soon.
Any how, we might still have some time to pray for her health and life, and if not, then her life after death and for her forgiveness.
She was an asset not only to her family and Pakistan, but also to the world.

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Osama bin Laden is alive.

Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living comfortably in a house in the north-west of Pakistan protected by local people and elements of the country’s intelligence services, according to a senior NATO official.

The latest analysis contradicts the belief that the Al-Qaeda leader is roughing it in underground bunkers as he dodged CIA drones hunting him from the air.

"No one in al-Qaeda is living in a cave," according to an unnamed NATO official quoted by CNN.

He added that Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s second in command, and was also living in a house close by somewhere in the country’s mountainous border regions.

Pakistani officials on Monday repeated their long standing denials that the Saudi-born terrorist mastermind was being given safe haven.

However, the NATO official said bin Laden was thought to have ranged from the mountainous Chitral area near the Chinese border, to the Kurram Valley which borders Afghanistan’s Tora Bora​, one of the Taliban strongholds during the US invasion in 2001.

North Waziristan, in particular, has become a nexus for Afghan, Pakistani and Arab militants as they plot attacks against NATO forces across the border in Afghanistan.

Earlier this month a leaked White House report accused its ally Pakistan of playing a double game by avoiding "military engagements that would put it in direct conflict with Afghan Taliban or al-Qaeda forces in North Waziristan".

A senior Pakistani security official denied that bin Laden was being protected and said the latest allegations were designed to heap pressure on Islamabad ahead of talks in Washington this week that would focus on strengthening co-operation between the two countries.

"Each and every time something important is happening then things like this keep creeping out," he explained. "If it’s not bin Laden it’s something else."

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Amazing Atlantic Road

Amazing Atlantic Road

Atlantic Road / Atlanterhavsveien / Averøy, it is kept open throughout the year from 1989 and now toll-free. It took six years and cost approximate 19.37 million US dollars to complete this project consisting of 8 bridges and many roads; it connects islands and is over 8 km (5.4 miles) long.

The Atlantic Road was voted as “Norway’s construction of the century” in 2005.

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Paintings by Jeannie Paske

Paintings by Jeannie Paske

Paintings by Jeannie Paske. More art by Jeannie on her website, blog and etsy. For updates follow her on twitter and facebook.

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The Great Indian Banyan Tree

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Vertical City, Venezuela

Vertical City, Venezuela

'Vertical City' by British architecture collective desitecture is a proposal situated on 23 de enero Caracas,Vanezuela - which was originally designed to become a mass housing block for residents to live and work in.

On January 23rd, 1958, when the dictator president Jimenez was ousted following a military coup, masses of homeless and lower class citizens flooded into the tower and it has since become known

as 23 de enero.

To cope with the threat of eviction, the residents became more organised and networks of exchange and communication formed within the towers which became self contained micro communities.

As the area on which the tower is constructed is that of slums, this gives value to previously worthless land. The stakeholders now have the option of either relocating altogether, though this would break up the established sense of community, or to move out of the slums and into the emerging micro economic community of the tower while deriving an income from their share in the land development.

The 180-storey tower appears to be a twisting cantilever, but is in fact a simple structure with only the top cup containing a cantilevered element.

The main support is the vertical and diagonal structural frame containing circulation and services. This system runs through all three cups and within the first forty five storeys, supports the palette shaped overlapping gardens and city farms.

Beneath the tower are four levels of vehicular access and parking that covers an expansive area. It incorporates the piled structural legs and the diagonal main composite core, acting as a stabilizing counterweight to the tower. The inner structure of the cups is a diagonal grid into which the wheat sheaf patterns of woven individual units are embedded.

The three cups are meant to define distinct user groups and activities while remaining connected. They could contain: retail, hotel, apartments; or social housing, local administration and offices etc. the tower encompasses elements of work, leisure, home and a sense of place. Access to and from the tower takes many forms such as cable car, helicopter, water taxi car or metro.

Bars, cafes and resturants will flourish in such a climate, taking their cue from the many roof top spaces. The hope is that the tower will become a destination in its own right with 24hr zones of activity.

The external skin elements of the tower are made of a lightweight composite. Precast units contain a hollow structure which has embedded micro turbines. This transforms the skin into wind energy, enerating surface, providing power to augment photovoltaic panel solar collection. Within the inner skin, the effect is enhanced as natural convection assists the production of energy.

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