The world and our vision are without clear edges. The photograph is not this way. It frames and isolates. My photographs are a form of pointing. I choose and manipulate what parts of the world end up in these images, but I am never in complete control. To point is not to explain. The content created is not completely closed, or even definable. The settings court a range of intimacy. I have lain on that bed. I have watched the way light fell across that shirt, but any given scene and a photograph of the same scene are not equivalents. To point is not to own. It is not even to speak. To point is to focus and to share. These are images of how the world looked to me, but it is not my world; it is all of ours. Notice the light. Click the image for more.

Related: Lali Khalid Photography 

Legend has it that salt was ‘discovered when Alexander was in South Asia and his horse licked the salts rocks during his stay near Khewra (place known for best natural salt anywhere in the world now in Pakistan). Alchemists called it “the fifth element” after water, earth, air and fire because its qualities were comparable only to ether, the actual fifth element.

Thanks to the awareness that people everywhere are reconsidering the healing effects of natural salt. Now we can find salt in everything from food to medicines and also in inhalation or cleansing treatments for illnesses of the respiratory system and for a variety of other indications.

Which is why people like to keep salt artifacts like salt lamps and other decorations around how? Science decades the beneficial effects of negative ions in the treatment of many illnesses has been known, such as rheumatism, allergies, respiratory diseases, sleeplessness, migraine high blood pressure, physical disorders, disorders declination in performance and a lot more. Salt lamps, salt balls, salt pyramid and salt eggs are additional instruments in the treatment of such disorders. Salt products negatively ionize the air counteracting detrimental positive ionization. They absorb detrimental electromagnetic radiation. Owing to their nice and delicate light coming from salt lamp, atmosphere becomes soothingly unique. Imagine the effect of any salt artifact placed by your television set, computer or anywhere in home. And they look beautiful too.

Are you looking for student furniture? Have a look and see what they are offering including 12 new ranges of free standing furniture, designed for Student Accommodation, Hotels and health establishments. They also supply seating and fabrics especially for these areas. Student Bedroom Furniture represents outstanding value for money. Have a look. Better still try them.

S A J Shirazi

For me, blogging began as a leisure and casual pursuit and now it has become part of my job, creative activity and part of my socialisation. We are still a less connected country of 165,803,560 people (according to the June 2006 estimates) with only a few bloggers, even though the users’ base is exponentially growing.Since blogging is yet to be thoroughly explored by an average person, it has remained a novelty among most people. One question that regular bloggers are frequently asked is, how do they blog?

I started my first blog Light Within sometime ago as a showcase of my published work. Later, I also took up blogging for a foreign NGO working on poverty alleviation through self-help projects in rural areas of Pakistan, besides some others where I co-blogged. My employers also asked me to run a blog for the organisation where I work.Falling prey to the hype around generating additional income online, I started running Google ads and some local ads on my personal webblogs. Small amount cheques started pouring in and this became yet another incentive for me to blog actively. But unfortunately, in Pakistan, the trend has yet to catch the attention of the marketing sector, and hence the online marketing culture is not mature enough.

Weblogging has become a reliable resource for my writings, as well. More often, I blog informally, sharing impressions, generating ideas to see how they invoke reactions, keeping track of others’ work of my interest, or simply ranting or pointing out things that come to my attention. Also, blogging is great platform to prune ideas.

A few things keep blogging on the go: valuable feedback that clears my outlook for whatever I happen to be thinking of writing. I post different projects and invite bloggers to participate.My posts usually carry embedded questions that ask for answers. Readers come and some of them write valuable comments, shooting down my ideas outrightly, or substantiating them with their own experiences and knowledge. Sometimes, people also e-mail their replies. Besides ego-boosting, this helps me to explore the subject at hand from different angles and perspectives.

Secondly, the blogging fraternity is like my real life social community. We ask each others’ well-being through emails and keep ourselves abreast with what is happening to blog friends. Technorati and other online services promptly point out when any of my blogs or posts get mentioned by others bloggers. Like-minded bloggers from all corners of the world gather at each others’ blogs and share life and work experiences that I can learn from. On my blogroll, I have blogs from far and away including China, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Puerto Rico and Bangladesh and more.

Lately, I feel, bloggers like me can help in promoting blogging in this part of the world. I have subscribed to different alerts that keep me updated about technical developments and what people are talking about in the ever-growing blogsphere. Through my multiple blogs, I keep pointing out to new blogging platforms, new blog search engines and directories and other “cool” things bloggers like to have on their sites in addition to urging my friends and students to start their own blogs.Like all bloggers, I have favourites too. I use Google’s Blogger, free platform mainly because tempering with its template and innovating design are easy and Blogger allows hoisting ads. Recently (February 2006) all blogs hoisted on Blogger were banned in Pakistan (unblocked on Aug10, 2006) so I moved some of my blogs to WordPress, another free and efficient blogging platform. For the rest, I figured out how to bypass the ban through anonymous surfing and some other tricks.Blogging is, in some ways, a reciprocal phenomenon. Numbers of comments I have on my blogs are directly proportional to my commenting elsewhere. Same is the case with links exchange, with a few exceptions. In my view, if people want to comment on blogs, they can (and they should), but they should not feel pressurised to do it simply because they have had a comment from someone.One good way to expand the circle of friends is to reciprocate by visiting back and or through e-mails because this is how one gets to know other bloggers. This method provided me an opportunity to encourage and appreciate fellow bloggers who took time to read what I had written and shared their thought and ideas on the subject of my interests. If a visitor catches my interest and value, I keep going back regularly.

My invisible site tracker Statcounter keeps telling me that I get more visitors from keywords and searches and not from reciprocal visits. Ironically, I get more visitors from abroad who search specific queries (like Thar Desert, Rohi Poetry Pakistan, Waris Shah, Pakistan earthquake economic effects) about Pakistan. But one does not have to blog for specific keywords. On the other hand, my personal blogging is without any theme with only a loose focus on travel, culture, blogging trend and life in Pakistan.

As any regular blogger will reiterate, the best blogging time is at night. By the end of the day, I know what I will blog about. On my home workstation, I log on to my tracker to see how many hits I have got and who all have been to my site. I also see if my Adsense meter has moved, before I start visiting back and replying to comments and emails. Then I write my own blog posts.

“I am neither geek, nor nerd, I am not a hacker, a phreaker, a programmer or any variety of technoid dweeb,” aptly puts an avid blogger. Blogging is easy and can be self-taught, and so, anyone can do it. You only have to take a start.

Best that I personally have experienced, while trying to promoting my own blogs, is leaving comments on others’ blogs. But you have to leave informed and quality comments and not just any thing, like “great idea” or a “nice picture,” to mark the presence. Comments should be written after reading the posts. When one agrees (or disagrees) with the issue under discussion and tells the writer on the basis of wise argument, a debate is likely to be generated. Bloggers are good at reciprocating (remember every one is interested in creating a loyal following of their own). Comments also add new perceptions and rich content to blogs. Most blogging services provide comment systems that make it possible to get back to the commentator even if they are not bloggers. Even visitors of a particular blog may talk to each other. Sociologists have always been saying about people’s enormous desire to communicate, share and be heard. This is easily possible through blogs.

Read the article here.

Looking for hotels in york? have a look at the Knavesmire Manor Hotel, once the home of the Rowntree family. It is an elegant Georgian Manor House built in 1833. Tastefully converted and recently refurbished, the hotel retains many of the original period features and an atmosphere of historical charm. This comfortable York hotel boasts an indoor heated swimming pool and free car parking as well as an excellent restaurant, also open to non residents. Situated on Tadcaster Road, with views across York Racecourse, the Knavesmire Manor enjoys one of the best locations of any hotel in York. One of the few remaining privately owned hotels in York, the Knavesmire Manor is still family run, taking pride in offering a personal and friendly service to all our guests. Try them and have an enjoyable experience.

Those who are looking for silver jewellery should start by having a look at Palenque online jewellery for al seasons; rings, wedding bands and watches and much more. The site features extended jewelry collection for men as well as women for different occasions. I suggest you have a look and see what they are offering and how. Better still try them and make someone’s day even without any occasion.

Looking for hotels in york? have a look at the Knavesmire Manor Hotel, once the home of the Rowntree family. It is an elegant Georgian Manor House built in 1833. Tastefully converted and recently refurbished, the hotel retains many of the original period features and an atmosphere of historical charm. This comfortable York hotel boasts an indoor heated swimming pool and free car parking as well as an excellent restaurant, also open to non residents. Situated on Tadcaster Road, with views across York Racecourse, the Knavesmire Manor enjoys one of the best locations of any hotel in York. One of the few remaining privately owned hotels in York, the Knavesmire Manor is still family run, taking pride in offering a personal and friendly service to all our guests. Try them and have an enjoyable experience.

Car leasing is one of the better options for transportation than maintaining own car or a fleet of cars. Those businesses and individuals who are looking for leasing cars must start at 1stcarleasing.com – a neatly laid out and users friendly site – and see what they are offering and how. Also see their special offers. They are the best and can help save a lot in terms of investment. 

Staple foods eaten in the north are corn, millet, and peanuts. In the south, people eat more root vegetables, such as yams and cassava, as well as plantains (similar to bananas). In both north and south regions, the starchy foods are cooked, then pounded with a pestle (a hand-held tool, usually wooden) until they form a sticky mass called fufu (or foofoo), which is then formed into balls and dipped into tasty sauces. The sauces are made of ingredients such as cassava leaves, okra, and tomatoes. The food most typical in the southern region of Cameroon is ndole , which is made of boiled, shredded bitterleaf (a type of green), peanuts, and melon seeds. It is seasoned with spices and hot oil, and can be cooked with fish or meat. Bobolo , made of fermented cassava shaped in a loaf, is popular in both the south and central regions.

Fresh fruit is plentiful in Cameroon. The native mangoes are especially enjoyed. Other fruits grown locally and sold in village marketplaces include oranges, papayas, bananas, pineapples, coconuts, grapefruit, and limes.

Read more: Food in Cameroon – Cameroonian Food, Cameroonian Cuisine – traditional, popular, dishes, recipe, diet, history, common, meals, staple, rice, people, favorite, make, customs, fruits, country, bread, vegetables, bread, drink. [From Here]

Anyone looking for A level retakes must start at Lansdowne Colleg. Have a look at the neatly laid out site and see what they are offering and how. Better still try them and take your academic results to the next level.

Motor trade insurance offers innovative software solutions linked with motor trader insurance cover that enables you to obtain a motor trade policy for most areas of the motor trade on a monthly renewal basis with the premium payable monthly with no additional charges whatsoever for monthly payments. Motor trade insurance policies for road risk only through to full combined motor trade insurance. Full on line from quotation through to purchase with certificate generation within your account in Motrade and much more. Have a look at the neatly laid out site and see what they are offering and how. Better still try motor trade insurance.