Panjab University

Mission of the University 

“The University has been incorporated for the purpose, among others, of making provision for imparting education in Arts, Letters, Science and the learned professions and of furthering advancement of learning, the prosecution of original research, with power to appoint University Professors, Readers and Lecturers, to hold and manage educational endowments, to erect, equip and maintain University colleges, libraries, laboratories and museums, to making regulations relating to the residence and conduct of students and to do all such acts as tend to promote study and research”. Panjab University has a long tradition of pursuing excellence in teaching and research in science and technology, humanities, social sciences, performing arts and sports. 

The University supports excellence and innovation in academic programmes. Promotes excellence in research, scholarship and teaching and is committed to attracting and supporting the best students and recruiting faculty who excel at teaching and research. For more than a century, it has served various societal needs with distinction. The glorious traditions of the University, established during the period of more than 125 years of its long service to the nation and since its inception in 1882 at Lahore (now in Pakistan), are a source of inspiration for the present generation of faculty members and students. By virtue of its age, experience, achievements and philosophy,

the Panjab University is a University of national character and stature, in so far as it has drawn both its faculty and students from all over the country and abroad. Its faculty includes some of the most distinguished scientists and academicians in arts and humanities. Sports: The University has playgrounds, a gymnasium and a swimming pool of high standard for its sports activities. Recently, the University has been awarded Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) trophy for the year 2004-05. Halls of Residence: The Panjab University offers 7 hostels for about 2,000 men students and five women’s hostels accommodating about 1500 students.

Health Services: The University has on the campus a health centre. It has six full time Medical Officers comprising of General Practitioners, a medical specialist, a surgeon, dentist and an Ayurvedic Physician. Besides these, there are four part time specialists in the areas of Gynecology, Pediatrics’, Ophthalmology and Radiology & three part time General Practitioners. Sports: The University has playgrounds, a gymnasium and a swimming pool of high standard for its sports activities. Recently, the University has been awarded Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) trophy for the year 2004-05.

Tourist Attractions

 The orange-tiled chedi dates from the mid-1850s, and encases an earlier chedi attracts Buddhist pilgrims from all over the world, and hosts each November a ten day fair which combines merriment and traditional entertainment with solemn religious merit making. Wat Phra Mainru is situated on Phetkasem Road near the moat of the town. This temple has an exotic andbeautiful pagoda. The marble Buddha image is also in Burmese style. It is a very splendid temple.

National Museum of Phra Pathom Chedi Located within the compound of Phra Pathom Chedi, are some ancient arts and objects which are mainlyof Dvaravati style whicharehoused in the museum. Wat Phra Patone Chedi An ancient Wat of Dvaravati Period, it is located at Suan Nantha Utthayan, Tambon Jorakeh. A number of religious arts, artifacts can be found in this wat such as bronze Buddha images, parts of the limb of the Buddha image Sila Kao and the guarding giant, lion including parts of the intricately decorative items of the ruined Chedi.

Wat Don Yai Hom Located in Tambon Don Yai Hom, it is generally known as "Wat KokYai Hom". At the present time, it is an archaeological site, a ruinwhich is called "Nearn Phra". Regarding Wat Kok Yai Hom which was located in Moo 3, Tambon Don Yai Hom is an old wat which has become almost dilapidated. Sanam Chan Palace Located about 2 kms, west of Phra Pathom Chedi, covering an area of 888 rai, 3 ngarn, 4 sq wah, there are a number of exquisite royal residences and palaces during the reign of King Rama VI available as follows: Piman Pathom Hall, Wat-Charee Rommaya Hall, The Charli Mongkol Asna building, The Marie Raja Rata Ballang building, The Tabkaew Hall, The Tabkwan Hall, Ruen Tabcharoen, The Monument of King Rama VI, Sri Nam Chand.

Located in Tambon Bang Pla, it is a Thai Song Dam group that migrated from a village in Nong Pra, AmphoeKhao Yoy Phetchaburi Province. The Word Song Dam is distorted from the word Suang, or Song which are translated as "a pair of trousers". Sometimes we refer this group of people as Lao Song Dam or Thai song dam, the word DAM, in this case, means the dresses, because they are likely to dress in black clothing. The dam is likely to put on black pants with fitted legs which is called "SONGKOM". Sometimes they wear long black sleeve shirts which are called "SUA HEE". 

The woman is likely to wear a sarong having black and white stripe alternatively lengthwise which is called "SIN LAO". The folklore musical instrument is called "KHAN". Thai Song Dam posses handicraft abilities in making household utensils, in wicker-work, in weaving cloths and other household appliances Amphoe Nakhon Chaisri Utthayarn Pla Located in Moo1, Tambon Huay Plu, in front of the Wat area, there is a converging place of fish. They come to this place naturally such as Swai, Thepoe, Tapien, and Hang-Daeng. They are all natives of the Tha Chin River. This Utthayarn Pla is about 11 kms from the intersection to the Amphoe's office.

Nakhon Pathom Travel Information

Introduction
 Nakhon Pathom is located in an alluvial plain in the central region, about 58 kms by road from Bangkok. Generally, it is an area of alluvia plain which is drained by the Tha Chin River, covering an area of 2,168,327 sq kms or about 1,355,204 sq Rai. It is an old city which has an interesting history dating back thousands of years. It was well known as a center of cultural development and prosperity. From the evidence revealed by extensive excavation in the past, we have learned a lot of things which have historical and archaeological value, such as Phra Pathom Chedi and Dhammacakra (Symbol of the completeness of the Dhamma) etc.
Festivals & Events

Loi Krathong Festival

As the full moon of the twelfth lunar month (usually in mid-November) lights up the night sky, throughout the Thai kingdom, hundreds of thousands of ornately-decorated krathong or traditional banana leaf floats are set adrift in rivers and waterways in a spell-binding ritual called Loi Krathong - the 'festival of lights". This is one of the Kingdom's oldest and best-preserved traditions. 
Jumbo Banquet & Jumbo Queen Contest

The Jumbo Queen Contest was first held in 1st May 1997 to celebrate the annual Jumbo Banquet.And seek for representative to lead a caravan of favorite food and fruits in the annual Jumbo Banquet. A Jumbo Queen is a lady who best exhibits the characteristics of the majestic pachyderm to persuade people to support the cause of elephant conservation in Thailand.The search has begun go find the Jumbo Queen, a well-padded young woman with the right personality to front a campaign to... promote the conservation of elephant cause in Thailand.

Songkran Traditional Festival

Of all the feasts and festivals in Thailand, which are many, the Songkran Festival is the most striking. It starts April 13 and lasts between 3 days, depending on where you are in Thailand. The word Songkran is from the Sanskrit meaning the beginning of a new Solar Year, but nowadays Thailand celebrates the New Year on 31 December.
The Thai people celebrate this festival with water. Everyone gets soaking wet and since it is the hottest season of the year, the custom is quite refreshing. Songkran is a Public Spring Cleaning Day, supported by the religious belief that anything old and useless must be thrown away or it will bring bad luck to the owner.

Gliding Luang Por Wat Rai Khing Festival

Held during the 13th waxing moon day to the 4th waning moon day of the 5th lunar month, every year, altogether 8 days and 8 nights. Many forms of entertainment are available such as musical performance, Lie-Kay (Thai song and dance performance), Movies. Local goods are also available for sale.
 

PRE-ENGINEERED BUILDINGS APPLICATIONS

PEB concept was originally conceived during the second half of the last century, nearly 70% of all single storey non-residential construction now utilizes Pre-Engineerd Buildings. Applications range from small car parking sheds through 100m (+) wide clear span aircraft hangars, low-rise multi-storey buildings. Almost every conceivable building use has been achieved using the Pre-Engineered Buildings approach.

The most common applications of Pre-Engineered Buildings are:

Because the clips on teardrop configurations can be quickly moved, the shelves can be easily adjusted to different heights to accommodate various load sizes. This is convenient for a warehouse that needs to store a wide variety of product sizes. Another advantage of selective pallet rack systems is the easy accessibility they provide to all products at all times. Such accessibility is important if the inventory is rapidly depleted and restocked (called quick turnover). A selective pallet rack system is commonly used in a “big-box” distribution application, as well as in retail store inventory rooms, cold storage applications, wholesale stores, etc.
Structural pallet rack systems are very similar to selective pallet rack systems, but the horizontal supports are attached to the uprights with bolts and often have an increased weight-bearing capacity. Also, structural pallet racking can be designed into the structure of the building itself, so that the upright columns are simultaneously used to support the roof of the storage facility, in which case the structural pallet rack uprights replace the storage building’s vertical support I-beams.

Habib Bank Plaza Karachi

Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founding father, realized the importance of financial intermediation while he was campaigning for the creation of a separate homeland for the Muslims of India. He persuaded the Habib family to establish a commercial bank that could serve the Indian Muslim community. His initiative resulted in the creation of Habib Bank in 1941, with HO in Bombay (now Mumbai), and fixed capital of 25,000 rupees. The bank played an important role in mobilizing funds from the Muslim community to finance the All India Muslim League's campaign for the establishment of Pakistan. Habib Bank also played an important role in channeling relief funds to Muslims hurt in the communal riots and violence that preceded the departure of the British from India. After Pakistan was born in 1947, Habib Bank, at the urging of Governor General Jinnah, moved its headquarters to Karachi, Pakistan's first capital. This gave Karachi its first commercial bank of the newly formed Pakistan. The Habib family owned and managed the bank until the Pakistan government nationalized it on 1 January 1974.

• 1951 HBL opened the first of 3 branches in Sri Lanka. 
• 1952 HBL established Habib Bank (Overseas). 
• 1956 HBL opened first of 5 branches in Kenya. 
• 1957 or 1958 HBL opened a branch in Aden. 
• 1961 HBL opened the first of what would become 6 branches in the UK. 
• 1964 HBL opened the first of 4 branches in Mauritius and a branch in Beirut. 
• 1966 HBL opened the first of 8 branches in the UAE. 
• 1969 HBL opened first of 3 branches and an OBU in Bahrain. However, HB’s branch in Aden is nationalized. 
• 1971 HBL opened an OBU in Singapore and a branch in New York. 
• 1972 HBL opened the first of 11 branches in Oman. HBL constructed Habib Bank Plaza in Karachi to commemorate the bank’s 25th Anniversary.
• 1974 The government of Pakistan nationalized HBL and HBL merged with Habib Bank (Overseas). 
• 1975 HBL opened a branch in Belgium. HBL also merged with Standard Bank, a Pakistani bank.
• 1976 HBL opened a branch in the Seychelles, the first of two branches in Bangladesh, and a branch in the Maldives. 
• 1979 HBL opened a branch in the Netherlands. 
• 1980 HBL opened a branch in Paris and another in Hong Kong. 
• 1981 HBL established Nigeria Habib Bank with 40% ownership. HBL also opened a representative office in Teheran.
• 1982 HBL opened a branch in Khartoum. 
• 1983 HBL opened branch in the Karachi EPZ and a branch in Istanbul. 
• 1984 HBL established Habib American Bank in New York with a branch each in Manhattan and Queens, and a US International Banking Facility. HBL also opened a branch in California.
• 1987 HBL opened in Australia. 1991 The Habib Group established a separate private bank, the Bank AL Habib, after private banking was re-established in Pakistan. HBL opened a branch in the Fiji Islands, and took over the Paksistani branches of failed bank, BCCI. 
• 1992 In Nepal HBL acquired 20% of Himalayan Bank. 
• 1995 HBL established a representative office in Cairo. 
• 1990s HBL established Habib Finance (Australia), and Habib Finance International Limited, Hong Kong. 2002 On June 13, 2002 Pakistan's Privatization Commission announced that the Government of Pakistan had granted the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), a subsidiary of the Aga Khan Development Network, rights to 51% of the shareholding in HBL, against an investment of PKR 22.409 billion (USD 389 million). HBL's UK operation came close to being shut down due to regulatory issues with the Financial Services Authority. The issue was resolved by converting the operations to a subsidiary. Then Habib Bank Limited and Allied Bank of Pakistan merged their operations (Habib contributed its 6 branches and Allied its 4), into a new bank, called Habib-Allied International Bank, in which Habib Bank has a 90.5 percent shareholding, while Allied Bank has 9.5 percent. Simultaneously with the transfer of business to the new bank, both Allied and Habib Bank close down all independent operations in the UK
• 2003 HBL received permission to open a branch in Afghanistan. 
• 2004 On February 26, the Government of Pakistan handed over management control of Habib Bank to AKFED. The Board of Directors was reconstituted to have four AKFED nominees, including the Chairman and the President/CEO and three Government of Pakistan nominees.
• 2006 HBL sold the operations that it had established in Fiji in 1991 to Bank of South Pacific.
• 2009 HBL was granted permission to open Remnibi accounts in China. It already has training and shareholding arrangements with Urumqi Commercial Bank.

Habib bank has long been scrutinized by intelligence officials monitoring terrorist money flows. 

On July 18, 2007, Mariane Pearl, the widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, filed a lawsuit against Habib Bank Ltd over the 2002 abduction, torture and murder of her husband. The pending lawsuit alleges the bank and its subsidiaries knowingly conducted financial transactions and provided account services on behalf of Al Akhtar Trust, a Pakistani based charity trust. Al Akhtar Trust’s accounts have been used to provide financial support to terrorists. However, HBL claims to have froze Al Akhtar Trust’s accounts several years before Daniel Pearl’s abduction. On October 24, 2007, Pearl's lawsuit against HBL was formally dropped. Lawyers for Mariane Pearl noted that Habib Bank Limited and the other defendants in the case had not answered the lawsuit filed in July (although Habib Bank Limited had denied ever supporting terrorism), but they otherwise did not explain their reason for dropping the action. The U.S. Federal Reserve Board and the New York State Banking Department criticized Habib Bank Limited for failing to address deficiencies in its compliance with U.S. anti money laundering laws. After the U.S. Federal Reserve Board threatened formal charges, though none were filed, Habib Bank Limited agreed to strengthen the banks compliance. More specifically, the Fed ordered HBL to strengthen its transaction monitoring systems and the filing of "suspicious activity reports" on transactions that do not fit the routine business patterns of the bank's customer base.

Artículos

Bianco  

Presentó en la feria su enderezadora de trama modelo Digitex 2 + 1, que ofrece un doble efecto de enderezamiento de alta precisión y tiempo de reacción rápido. Los cabezales de lectura de la máquina operan continuamente en transparencia y reflejan modos de 12 micros/ segundo para "flash" a 10 revoluciones por segundo, lo que equivale a 20 lecturas de posiciones de trama por segundo.

Otra especialidad de la compañía es la introducción de dispositivos especiales para ramas tensoras, para la mejora de los ciclos de escurrimiento e impregnación. Esto ha sido mejorado con el rediseño de los bien comprobados exprimidores a lo ancho, que vienen ahora equipados con controles de tensión eficientes y altamente sensitivos, y que se pueden utilizar también para el procesamiento de tejidos de punto "difíciles".
En Birmingham, la compañía introdujo también una compactadora de fieltro a lo ancho, así como una máquina para la apertura de tejidos tubulares, Apritubolare, que ha resuelto exitosamente el problema asociado con el procesamiento de tejidos de punto tubulares.

Vista de la nueva máquina de teñir “Athená”, de Sclavos, con relación de licor de 1:45.

 
Sclavos
Sclavos, en colaboración con su socio Pozzi SpA, tuvo un gran éxito en la ITMA 2003 con la presentación de su nueva máquina de teñir modelo "Athená", que ofrece un excelente rendimiento a largo plazo, así como una gran productividad, reducción en los costos y calidad de tejido. Algunas de las principales características de esta máquina incluyen:
•    Excelente productividad, al menos un 30% mayor que otras máquinas de su tipo en el mercado, de acuerdo a la compañía
•    Capacidad única para el procesamiento de tejidos con la menor relación de licor posible, desde 50% hasta 100% de capacidad por portillo, por ejemplo, de 125 kg a 250 kg por portillo
•    Una relación de licor de 1:4.5 para el llenado completo
•    Tiempos de procesamiento de 3.5 horas para el teñido de Algodón Reactivo
•    De acuerdo a declaraciones de la compañía, el menor consumo de energía en la industria en la actualidad
•    Tecnología "Wisdom™" para la reproducibilidad y rendimiento óptimos del teñido para cada tipo de tejido.
 

 

Aparato RBF, de Lawer, para el

dosado y dispensado en tintorería.  

Lawer

Lawer SpA presentó en la ITMA 2003 una nueva cocina de colores automática que puede satisfacer las condiciones de un rango operativo más amplio y diferenciado. La nueva versión del sistema DOS-CHEM para la dosificación y distribución automática de productos líquidos está dotada de un doble cuentalitros: uno destinado a la dosificación industrial y otro de pequeñas dimensiones dedicado a la dosificación de precisión y conectado a un ramal de distribución, también de dimensiones reducidas, adecuado para el envío de pequeñas cantidades de productos a dosificar a los aparatos de tintura con mínima aportación de agua para el transporte y el lavado.



 
Termoelettronica
Termoelettronica, que forma parte del grupo MCS, presentó sistemas para la preparación de las pastas de estampado. La firma ha desarrollado sistemas para el control del proceso de dosificación que garantizan una elevada repetibilidad de la pasta para estampado.
 

 

La firma también ofrece su máquina de teñído horizontal RBNO, mostrada derecha.

Loris Bellini

La firma italiana ofreció en la feria sus equipos para la tintura y el acabado de hilados, incluyendo la máquina APB para el teñido por rociado presurizado y automático para hilados en madejas; la secadora a presión horizontal/vertical modelo ARSPO-ARSPV, apropiada para el cargado directo de los portadores de hilo modulares que salen directamente de las máquinas de teñido RBNO/RBNV sin previa hidroextracción centrífuga; la secadora por radio-frecuencia termocontrolada modelo TCRFD, con control automático del control de la temperatura y control automático de la humedad residual; y la Robodye 2000, una instalación robotizada integrada que realiza las funciones de teñido, hidroextracción y secado del hilado en bobinas.

Indianola, Texas 1875

A Brief History of Indianola, Texas...

In the year 1875 life was good at Indianola, Texas. It was ten years after the Civil War, the Yankee reconstruction government was gone years ago, and ship traffic to the port was growing steadily. In this frontier seaport town, there were travelling baseball teams, 4th of July Celebrations, fire brigades, churches, schools, theatres, billiard parlors, and photography studios. Seafood, was particularly cherished. It was also the year of the first hurricane of two that would devastate the town and lead to its abandonment.

Indianola, Texas 1875

 

Indianola, Texas, then and now.

The current (5/06) photo below may not be the same street shown
in the photo above, but it is now the only street
along the bay front.

 

Incorporated as a town in 1853, Indianola's roots were first set at Indian Point, three miles to the north of Powderhorn Bayou. At Indian Point, an American settlement had sprung up in 1846 a year after Texas had become a state. Two years earlier in 1844, Prince Karl Solms Braunfels had begun to land German immigrants nearby at the settlement of Karlshaven also on the shores of Matagorda Bay. By 1848, Indian Point was the primary entry port for European immigrants and Americans landing here to migrate westward.