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- 1/4 kg Dried
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-2 cups Water
-1/2 cup Sugar or to taste
-Salt To taste
-peppers (ground) To taste
-Red chili powder To taste
-1/2 cup Vinegar
-Red food color (optional) One
pinch
1. Add water, salt, red
chili powder, and peppers to dried plums and boil till they
get soft.
2. Add sugar to them and cook on medium heat,
until it melts and the mixture becomes a bit thick(
for about 2 minutes).
3. Add food color, vinegar and boil for an other minute. It
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city. You never know if you find a old time friend who is
also in KSA and you never knew about him. Simply visit, register
and join buddies of your past. Talk to them about your city,
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Cutting salt 'reduces
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RECOMMENDED SALT LIMITS
1 to 3 years - 2 g salt a day
(0.8g sodium)
4 to 6 years - 3g salt a day
(1.2g sodium)
7 to 10 years - 5g salt a day
(2g sodium)
11 and over - 6g salt a day
(2.5g sodium)
Source: Food Standards Agency
6g of salt is
about a teaspoonful
Eating less salt can cut cardiovascular disease risk by
a quarter and fatal heart disease by a fifth, work
shows. The ideal daily intake of salt is no more
than six grams and ministers want everyone to achieve
this by 2010.
Experts already know that too much salt can raise blood
pressure and high blood pressure increases the risk of
heart attack and stroke. The British Medical Journal
study now gives the evidence behind this link and
quantifies how much harm salt can do. People who
significantly cut back on the amount of salt in their
diet reduced their chances of developing cardiovascular
disease by 25% over the following 10 to 15 years. And
their risk of dying from cardiovascular disease went
down by 20%.
All of the 3,126 people studied by the US team from
Boston had had high-normal blood pressure, or
"pre-hypertension". In the trials, participants reduced
their salt (sodium) intake by about 25% - 35%, from
about 10g to around 7g.
And those who cut back tended to stick to a lower salt
diet in the long term, the researchers from Brigham and
Women's Hospital found.
Professor Graham MacGregor, a consultant in
cardiovascular medicine at London's St George's hospital
and chairman of the Consensus Action Group on Salt,
said: "This is a very important study.
"It shows that if people reduce their salt intake it
will reduce the number of people suffering from heart
attacks, strokes and heart failure. We did not have that
type of evidence before.
"And we are only talking about quite small reductions in
salt intake to have a big effect on risk."
Three-quarters of the salt we eat is already in the food
we buy. The average daily consumption in the UK is 9g.
Professor MacGregor said the 6g target was achievable
for most people if they were careful about the food they
chose to eat. He said the onus was on food manufacturers
to limit the amount of salt in products. Sodium is
usually listed in the nutritional information on food
labels, and multiplying this value by 2.5 will give the
salt content. The Food Standards Agency said it would
continue its work in encouraging industry to offer
consumers healthier choices. Ellen Mason, cardiac nurse
at the British Heart Foundation, advised: "By simply
checking the labels and switching to a lower salt
option, you'll be doing your heart a favour."
The Salt Manufacturers Association said the evidence did
not prove that salt reduction would have any significant
health benefits for the majority of people. It conceded
that individuals with high blood pressure might be
advised to restrict their intake.
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Some times being the
LARGEST does not matter! |
There is no
2nd opinion about our being The Largest Pak
Community in the Kingdom. We all are proud and
sure of that! But sometimes greater numbers do
matter, we are living in a strange world huh!
We are working on certain initiatives that are
unique and would greatly help us all who are
residing in KSA. Projects such as Family health
insurance, discounts from major airlines, retail
outlets and exclusive financial investment
opportunities, to name a few. But it seems that
35,000+ households are not enough for
some to offer exclusive service/attention to our
united community.
To start with if your other family members have
email addresses then why not first register them
to make CP community much more stronger.
How do I help?
VERY SIMPLE
Just send the
following link to any Pakistani living in KSA
whom you know via email and request to join CP
community. REMEMBER IT
IS FOR OUR OWN GOOD. Thank you
http://www.contactpakistan.com/warnmail.htm
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Contact Pakistan
Earthquake Rehabilitation Projects
THANK YOU KSA COMMUNITY
May
Allah SWT reward you for your humanitarian work
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Eduvision has launched Online Information System for
Education in Pakistan
Students, parents and other concerned quarters can search
for any course/degree offered at any institution in
Pakistan. The information system offers the facility to
search from all types of disciplines/courses of study and
degrees offered by educational institutions for higher
education of the country. The information system contains
the complete information of chartered universities, medical
colleges, engineering universities, institutions offering
professional courses and general universities. Students can
search for any field of study offered by the educational
institutions of the country and can find all the necessary
information i.e. name of institution offering the field,
duration, discipline offered by the institutions in a city,
name of the degree, examination system etc.
Please visit
www.eduvision.edu.pk to search any field of
education in Pakistan
Eduvision is global CP partner and
under an agreement CP members enjoy a worldwide exclusive
discount |
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New
'super-Earth' found in space
The new planet is not much
bigger than the Earth
Mass: Five times
Earth's mass
Orbit: 13 days
Temperature: 0C -
40C
Distance: 20.5
light years
Constellation:
Libra
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Astronomers have found the most
Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a
world which could have water running on its surface.
The planet orbits the faint star Gliese 581, which is
20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra.
Scientists made the discovery using the Eso 3.6m
Telescope in Chile.
They say the benign temperatures on the planet mean any
water there could exist in liquid form, and this raises
the chances it could also harbour life.
"We have estimated that the mean temperature of this
'super-Earth' lies between 0 and 40 degrees Celsius, and
water would thus be liquid," explained Stephane Udry of
the Geneva Observatory, lead author of the scientific
paper reporting the result.
"Moreover, its radius should be only 1.5
times the Earth's radius, and models predict that the
planet should be either rocky - like our Earth - or
covered with oceans."
Xavier Delfosse, a member of the team from Grenoble
University, added: "Liquid water is critical to life as
we know it."
He believes the planet may now become a very important
target for future space missions dedicated to the search
for extra-terrestrial life.
These missions will put telescopes in space that can
discern the tell-tale light "signatures" that might be
associated with biological processes.
The observatories would seek to identify trace
atmospheric gases such as methane, and even markers for
chlorophyll, the pigment in Earth plants that plays a
critical role in photosynthesis. 'Indirect' detection
The exoplanet - as astronomers call planets around a
star other than the Sun - is the smallest yet found, and
completes a full orbit of its parent star in just 13
days.
Indeed, it is 14 times closer to its star than the Earth
is to our Sun. However, given that the host star is
smaller and colder than the Sun - and thus less luminous
- the planet nevertheless lies in the "habitable zone",
the region around a star where water could be liquid.
Gliese 581 C was identified at the European Southern
Observatory (Eso) facility at La Silla in the Atacama
Desert.
To make their discovery, researchers used a very
sensitive instrument that can measure tiny changes in
the velocity of a star as it experiences the
gravitational tug of a nearby planet. Astronomers are
stuck with such indirect methods of detection because
current telescope technology struggles to image very
distant and faint objects - especially when they orbit
close to the glare of a star. The Gliese 581 system has
now yielded three planets: the new super-Earth, a 15
Earth-mass planet orbiting even closer to the parent
star, and an eight Earth-mass planet that lies further
out.
The latest discovery has created tremendous excitement
among scientists. Of the more than 200 exoplanets so far
discovered, a great many are Jupiter-like gas giants
that experience blazing temperatures because they orbit
close to hot stars. The Gliese 581 super-Earth is in
what scientists call the "Goldilocks Zone" where
temperatures "are just right" for life to have a chance
to exist.
Commenting on the discovery, Alison Boyle, the curator
of astronomy at London's Science Museum, said: "Of all
the planets we've found around other stars, this is the
one that looks as though it might have the right
ingredients for life. "It's 20 light-years away and so
we won't be going there anytime soon, but with new kinds
of propulsion technology that could change in the
future. And obviously we'll be training some powerful
telescopes on it to see what we can see," she told BBC
News. "'Is there life anywhere else?' is a fundamental
question we all ask."
Professor Glenn White at the Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory is helping to develop the European Space
Agency's Darwin mission, which will scan the nearby
Universe, looking for signs of life on Earth-like
planets. He said: "This is an important step in the
search for true Earth-like exoplanets. "As the methods
become more and more refined, astronomers are narrowing
in on the ultimate goal - the detection of a true
Earth-like planet elsewhere. "Obviously this newly
discovered planet and its companions in the Gliese 581
system will become prominent targets for missions like
Esa's Darwin and Nasa's Terrestrial planet Finder when
they fly in about a decade."
Credit BBCNews.com
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Embassy has launched its
website in Saudi Arabia. Following are forms that
you can download and with a
PDF reader load and then print. For further details
visit embassy site. |
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Downloadable Public Forms |
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New Passport/Addition Copy
Report of Loss of Passport
National Identity Card for Overseas Pakistani’s
Visa Application Form
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Passport Renewal
Affidavit of Loss of Passport
Pakistan Origin Card
Life Certificate Letter of Authority
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I just want to know (and it will be in the benefit
for all the members) the procedure of
taking/sending
a car to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia?
Here are my questions (which are general questions, if any one can Answer for general benefit)
There are three schemes to take/send a car to Pakistan as per CBR
1- Transfer of residence
2- Gift Scheme
3- Personal Baggage
I know little information about all these schemes, but i want to know the details i-e
1- Which scheme is better and more economical for us being an overseas Pakistani
2- What is the procedure, we should start from where, Pak embassy OPF - CBR ???
3- What is the total amount required for transportation of the car
4- What are the total taxes one need to pay in Pakistan (so that no agent can deceive us - if we need
an agent or not)
5- If I have a Remittance card, there is a relaxation of custom/duties based on this remittance
card, is this offer of relaxation of customs/duties on this card can be used to settle the duties/customs
what ever.
6- Do we need to hire someone here in Saudi Arabia to do all these tasks or we can do ourselves. If any
one has already sent/taken a car to Pakistan, he is requested to publish this information for every one.
Best of my regards Muhammad Yousaf 050 944 6920
We Request CP community to help if you have answers to above questions, thank you so much!
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Count Yourself Lucky!
Assalam-o-alikum,
Dear lucky fellows,
Yes...I am addressing you, all there. Each one of us is
lucky. What?? Do I hear you say No you are not? Dear
friends, no one of us is born without luck. Though luck is
often attributed with kismet, the truth is that most people
who are lucky are so because of the certain qualities that
they have. Can you buy this idea that one person is lucky
all the time and other is unlucky every time? Lucky people
acquire a mindset where they precipitate "lucky" events and
only think about them. Those people who find think of
themselves to be from the unlucky lot do the opposite, that
is, they amplify the sad aspects of things that happen to
them.
Opportunity is the essence of luck. Those people who come
across more opportunities and benefit from them are the ones
who usually rise to great heights. Usually, lucky people
have extrovert personalities and hence have more social
interactions. They mingle easily with others. Because of
their increased social interactions, they encounter more
opportunities which they strike and benefit from. People who
are deemed as lucky are open minded and this quality of
theirs make them more receptive to new prospects. Often
unlucky people try to stick to routine and do not look up to
new avenues. Lucky ones are on the hunt for new horizons to
explore. Risks involved do not mar their spirit and they
accept new opportunities as challenges.
If we want to make our self lucky, we have to train our mind
for positive thinking. Lucky people are optimistic while
unlucky ones have pessimistic approach. Every night, before
going to sleep, we shall recall all the good things that
have happened to us that day. With the passage of time, our
attitude will also become better as our mind will be
focusing more on positive happenings to us. Remember,
optimism plays a key role in luckiness. Be open-minded
and optimistic in your thinking. Be hopeful about the
future. This hopefulness helps persisting in the face of
failure also. Avoid dwelling on the ill fortune. See how
things could have been worse. Learn from your experience.
Take it as a chance to test and polish your skill set. Seize
the opportunities that come along your way.
So you see, my friends, how you can make you own chi…just by
having a positive mindset and maximizing chance
opportunities. Remember opportunity strikes but once, so
don’t let it go unheard. Even if you are not successful, at
least you will not regret not trying it. And sooner or later
you will be coming across the opportunity that will take you
to great height. Remember dreams will never be realized
without risks.
Till next time, Allah Hafiz
Ms. Amna Tariq Holy City of Makkah-Ul-Mukarrama
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