What should someone do, when she/he is sad? What
would you do, when you miss someone? Would you like to devote a whole sleepless
night just by glaring at the shady and solitary sky of a miserable night? Or
how about some senseless music to charge you up by dancing on them. I heard
painting helps some to revive themselves by bringing their creativity on. But
today, I have decided I want to write.
I know for many writing can be so boring. Even if
you are good at it, what would you prefer to write the most? Is it a poem of
love for someone you care about? Or a story describing the most awkward
situation which you have dealt with recently and you think you would like to
share them with your friends. But today, I wanted to write a poem, but ended up
opening my pc and complaining through this digital piece of paper.
So if you have read the above two subsections, I
know by now, that you like questioning yourself and the chances that you are
going to read this paper till the very end, is very high.
Just today, while you were in the class have you
questioned yourself, that why were you not able to give the best answer among
all, in the shortest period of time? Or was the boss at your office too harsh
on you just because you couldn’t submit your final report before the deadline,
while others were appreciated.
Do you also feel the same way that it’s ok if you
are not the hero at every game around, sometime it’s fine to lose and be
second? It gives us the chance to excel, raises our hungriness to do better and
learn from our mistakes. But can you deal with rejections and failures like
many of our closed ones, because often time I can’t and I fail more often.
Recently have you tried to make someone happy and
failed? I did! I have found most of the time I can make people laugh with fake
stories and smiles and not to mention people falls for lame jokes very well.
But isn’t it so heart breaking that you are trying to do something to make
someone happy from the deepest part of your heart, but the person seems to care
less or don’t even bother to fell considerate.
Does it occur to you too, that you are listening
to one of your favorite song and for the first time you understood its meaning
and for the whole time you were envisioning someone you love, but in reality,
there was no extra real part of that, it was just a song. The greatest gismo to
make a heart appease with its melodious zephyr – the music can actually make
you gloomy, it does for me. Have you ever tried to listen to a favorite song of
someone special and not remember her/him for a single time, is it ever
possible? May be because love is magical.
Love is special, love is kind, love knows no
boundary, but sometime don’t you think there should have been a limit on how
much people exaggerates on this special term - love? Love may be blind for
someone, but for most it’s the single tool that makes them strong, it gives
them hope to know themselves. Few times love rescinds people but for many it
gives them a chance to re-experience themselves and win the heart of many. Love
is lucky when someone is being loved. But for many like me, love is the drug of
my life, and I am still searching that love!
After spending around ten minutes reading the
above lines with the mentioning of love for so many times, have you tried to
think of someone special, even for a small span of time? You see, this is how
it works, you can’t really explain it by writing or by sketching, and this is
something even the best poets can’t put together in rhyming words.
So what are you going to do for that someone you
love today? The person can be from the past tense, or someone you promised
yourself that you are never going to call them again, but today it’s different,
everything can be tried for the first time. How about we send a single text to
them just to let them know that no matter what they have done to us or how much
we care for them and still they don’t bother to ask how we are, that at least
they are in our prayers, and we will love them always.
In its simplest form, an Arduino is a tiny computer
that you can program to process inputs and outputs going to and from the chip.
The Arduino is what is known as a Physical or
Embedded Computing platform, which means that it is an interactive system, that
through the use of hardware and software can interact with itʼs environment.
The Arduino hardware and software are both Open Source,
which means the code, the schematics, design, etc. are all open for anyone to
take freely and do what they like with it.
Project - Automatically Controlled Traffic Signal
Lights
We are now going to create a set of traffic lights
that will change from green to red, via amber, and back again, after a set
length of time using the 4-state system. This project could be used on a model
railway to make a set of working traffic lights or for a childʼs toy town.
What you will need:
·Breadboard
·Red Diffused LED
·Yellow Diffused LED
·Green Diffused LED
·3 x 220Ω Resistors
·Jumper Wires
Connect it up
This time we have connected 3 LEDʼs with the Anode
of each one going to Digital Pins 8, 9 and 10, via a 220Ω resistor each. We
have taken a jumper wire from Ground to the
Ground rail at the top of the breadboard and a
ground wire goes from the Cathode leg of each LED to the common ground rail.
The surprisingly outrageous news of Oishee might help us to agree to the fact that, how dangerous is mental illness and how much easier it is for us to get affected-in this busy life of ours. The same real life, where people are once in a blue moon seen to be helpful to each other and does not have any idea of what true real-love is. The same society where kids are growing up with the ideology and philosophies of the house maids and the car drivers, because they are the one who were there for them, while their parents were busy making riches. The worst of all case is, when the bonding and breakups shown on the TV serials are more significant to them than their own family. Read More at: http://www.bdchronicle.com/outlook/opiniondetail/40
How
AgroTech Social Business can contribute and boost an Agricultural Based
economy:
In the
perspective of Bangladesh
Asif Mahmood Abbas
EEE
Student, EECS Department, North South University
Chief
Project Coordinator, South Asian Youth Society (SAYS)
Events
Chair, IEEE NSU Student Branch
Executive
Body Member, Society of Science Engineering & Technology (NSU SSET)
I am a meek
engineering student who was supposed to perish in the hub of heavy books; but for
some cause I had always been ardent about helping others and doing something inventive
for the society. Since my A’level days, I couldn’t stop the longing for
organizing and executing social initiatives. While for years my dream was to
study Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, but I ended up in an Electrical
Engineering School-well it helped to redefine my dreams and the way I can
contribute for my country.
It’s kind of bizarre that I am
writing about engineering particulars for a Social Business related souvenir.
Well, that’s me.
So, what is Social Business?
Many people
still get muddled with the concrete definition of social business (SB);
especially students like me from a dissimilar background other than Business.
According to ‘YUNUS Social Business Global
Initiative’ website, “A SB is a
non-dividend company created to solve a social problem. Like an NGO, it has a
social mission, but like a business it generates its own revenues to cover its
costs. While investors may recoup their investment, all further profits are
reinvested into the same or other social businesses”.
As per the
formal definition, you need a problem and a social mission if you want to twitch
your own SB. So, if we look around and accumulate data about the various social
glitches, then without any doubt agriculture and its associated fields will
make its way to the top of the list.
So how important is agriculture to us?
Since the birth
of Bangladesh, Agriculture is the dominant economic activity and regarded as
the lifeline of Bangladesh’s growth. Agriculture mainly includes crops,
fisheries, livestock, and forestry interrelated sectors. According to the ‘National Agriculture Policy 2010’ report from Ministry of
Agriculture of Bangladesh, “as the
largest private enterprise, agriculture contributes about 21% of the GDP,
sustains the livelihood of about 52% of the labor force, and remains a major
supplier of raw materials for agro-based industries.”
As we all know
and have seen in our daily lives and we are so thankful to our farmers, because
of them we can have fresh vegetables and in some cases, good quality fishes
everyday on our kitchen table. Regardless of the conventional way of farming
and cultivation procedures, people are getting acquainted with new know-hows
and are adapting pioneering skills and systems in their mode of work.
So how important is International Agencies in bringing
technologies and techniques for a better agriculture farm and what are their
roles so far?
In the sector of
aquaculture-agriculture sector of Bangladesh, among hundreds of International
Organizations, WorldFish is indeed one of the biggest contributors. WorldFish
has a long history of involvement in the development and adaptation of
appropriate aquaculture and management practices for smallholder farms in
target countries. A substantial portion of that research has been conducted
with partners in Bangladesh. With the
objective of generating an appropriate and sustainable low-cost aquaculture
technology for small rural farmers, they started IAA-based aquaculture research
in Bangladesh in the 1990s. (Jahan, Beveridge, & Brooks, 2008).
Now as a global
citizen, technology has started to come to us at a faster rate than we have
imagined but for the rural farmers the speed is very sluggish. Still, tech like
Biological Control, Tissue Culture, SMS Based Agricultural Help center, Gene
Bank integrated robotics for tractors and other light vehicles are spreading
all over Bangladesh. But we can’t forget the fact that majority of the farmers
are underprivileged and uneducated, who, on most of the time are unwilling to
accept the transformation.
So what about those farmers who live below the level of
poverty?
According to the
report “Mapping Poverty for Rural
Bangladesh: Implications for Pro-poor Development” by Center for Policy
Dialogue (CPD),2004, ‘Agricultural
interventions are important, not only for increasing the productivity of rice -
the dominant crop, but also for diversifying production systems appropriate to
the national ecology of the area. Food for work, food for education, VGD, etc.,
should be targeted to upazilas with higher intensities of poverty.’ According to their survey in more than 225
upazilas, they have found the linkage between wage variation and special
variation of poverty appears to be small because agriculture activities as a
major occupation is taken up by only 15-20 percent of households. Among these
households about half of their time is spent on waged employment. Other working
days are spent on other activities including self employment.
Considering the
above data is relevant at present-day, so we are left with an enormous
population who can be well trained with some rudimentary skills so that they
can subsidize to other areas associated to agriculture. If we can host training foundations where
local youths can learn how to use and operate hi-tech, low cost mechanisms,
surely it will start a revolution-a change in the ground of agriculture. No
matter how much a common student like me tries to bring something new, it won’t
be conceivable unless or until our Government is enthusiastic to help and present
new technologies and take required steps to involve many more societies in the
agricultural sectors.
So what is the Government actually doing?
According to
another paper, “Sustainable Agriculture:
A Challenge In Bangladesh”, the
sustainability of conventional agriculture in Bangladesh is under threat from
the continuous degradation of land and water resources, and from declining
yields due to indiscriminate use of agro-chemicals. They also emphasized that
the Government is pursuing efforts to promote sustainable agriculture with
emphasis on better use of on-farm resources and the reduction of external
inputs.
So personally
what I accept as true is that, we cannot deny the fact that how important
Agriculture is for us and provided we can introduce latest and innovative
technologies- it can do much better.
So
how about the financing?
From the
Government side, they will conclude by saying that we got a separate bank,
Bangladesh Krishi Bank, out-and-out only for the agricultural sector of
Bangladesh. Recently from the central bank a pronouncement was taken to familiarize
small loans from all the banks for the agriculture related business and
products; but there are enough qualms as how active they are and how much prevalent
are they to attract the rural farmers. This is where establishments like
Grameen Bank and others NGO’s were so efficacious with their microcredit strategies
and schemes, they were both striking and easy to get.
Then
how about coalescing a huge group and doing something collaboratively with an adequate
sum of investment? The answer is AgroTech based Social Business! We got the
problem and the social issue: which is the Agriculture Techniques. Now in order
to make the commercial more lucrative, unique and very attractive we can lead
and come up with prodigious ideas that can relate Agriculture, which are
low-cost, easy to use and widely existing.
So, what are the technologies available to us?
If we look at
our neighboring countries like India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and China,
then we find that their encroachment and researches in the field of Agriculture
is astonishing. For example some of the technologies like Tractors with
Autopilot, using Ultrasound to move a flock of animals, Integrated Irrigation
system using Smartphone, Automatic sensors for crops and their Documentations
are easy to built and design even by students and can be introduced to the
market through a good Social Business Concept.
If certain enterprises
can come up with certain unambiguous plans as to introduce new ideas, I think
it will hearten more students towards exploration and to contribute for their
own country. As a chain reaction the Government will highlight this sector more
and will underline on innovation of Technologies instead of snowballing
subsidies in the National Budget. As a whole, the rural farmers will be promoted
from such SB concepts and sooner or later help to build a Better Bangladesh.
References:
·ASR. 2006. Agriculture Sector Review (Crop sub
sector). Actionable policy brief and resource Implications. Ministry of
Agriculture, Govt. Republic of Bangladesh, Dhaka. pp. 14-51.
·BRRI. 2010. Rice statistics in Bangladesh.
Gazipur: Bangladesh Rice Knowledge Bank, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute.
(http://www.knowledgebank-brri.org/riceinban.php).
·BBS. 2008. Statistical Year Book of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics Division, Ministry of Planning, Govt. People’s
Republic of Bangladesh, Dhaka. pp. 121-134.
·BER. 2009. Bangladesh Economic Review,
Department of Finance, Ministry of Finance, Govt. People’s Republic of
Bangladesh. pp. 83-85.
·M.A.A. Faroque1, M.A. Kashem and S.E. Bilkis, ‘SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURE: A CHALLENGE IN BANGLADESH’, Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. & Tech.
1 (1&2): 1-8, December, 2011.
·Mapping Poverty for Rural Bangladesh:
Implications for Pro-poor Development, Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD), July
2004.
·Khondker Murshed-E-Jahan, Charles Crissman, John
Antle, Economic and social impacts of integrated aquaculture-agriculture
technologies in Bangladesh, AAS-2013-02.
N.B: This article was published on the magazine of Social Business Forum 2013.
Today I have apprehended that I am left
with only 18 months in hand, but still haven’t done much to touch my goalmouths
or my eventual dreams. If I don’t act or become serious from now on, then there
is a great chance, that I might lose it all.
Lord, give me abundant dynamism so that I
can toil so hard, that the next 18 months will remain as the stiffest working
time of my lifespan. Give ample serenity to my mind and soul so that it don’t
get distracted towards less imperative things, rather direct it towards my
priorities, upsurge my attentiveness towards my studies and research.
Meanwhile, give me those prospects so
that I can bump into those people, who got offended because of my troublesomeness
or something immature- that I might have done grudgingly; but deep inside the
heart they felt bad and started hating me. I want to make sure and elucidate
where I was wrong and I need their help to rectify myself.
Lord, I know who my dad is and where
from he came and how many things he forewent for our family. There was not a
single thing so far, which we asked and never time-honored it. He skilled us
the difference between right and wrong and told us how to single out them. Latterly,
due to some anomalous action of mine, he was really miffed and stopped talking
to me for days, only then I appreciated what I have done and how off beam I was.
I am happy that things are now satisfactory and I thank You a lot, for passing
this realization to me. Lord, please provide me verve so that I can live up to
all of his dreams.
My mom, hmm, the only person with whom I
wrangle so much and have disagreements and dissimilar judgment in most of the concerns,
still I know how much she loves me and I hope she understands how much we three
sibling loves her. Lately after her accident, the day when the Milad Sharif
took place on the mosque and the moment Imam Hujur started Munajat for her; I realized
how much I love her as I couldn’t stop my tears. Lord, please give us both Hedaayet,
so that we can clear all of our differences and set an example of how cool the
relationship between a mom and her son can be. InShaaAllah.
Well, at the very start of the year I
decided and made a pact that I am not going to date anyone until December 2014;
and I am still holding on that. Lord, please bounce me plenty oomph, so that I can
apprehend the Haraam things and stay away from them; so that I can maintain the
rule of Pardaa’ of Islam. It’s really hard for me to do so, but I am indomitable
that I want to do that, because I fear you and I want to be the best husband
for my future wife.
In this case I don’t want to be a whited
sepulcher and be a double faced git. Yes, I like someone, I like her for years
but I can’t do anything about it – right at this moment. The more I am procrastinating,
I know deep inside how bad it feels, and she is just getting away from me. But what
can I do, my hands are snarled! Lord I always prayed: ‘Please do something’,
because I couldn’t bear the soreness of not getting her close; and the fact
that-I was pushing her far away. Lord, you are the Best Planner. I like her so
much, that I think she is the best thing that ever happened to me through any
of my friends. Yes I want her, but I also want the best for her too. If she is
in my destiny, then let her be! If not, I have to deal with that, and I really
have no idea how I am going to do that. Lord, one thing is for sure, I am not
going to give up and I want to be the best man for her and I want to do that
till the very last moment, following all the Halal ways.
Lord, I can’t thank You enough, for all
the things that you have provided me with, best mom and dad, such a thoughtful
and sweet sister and such an upright little brother. I could never whine about
the health wealth, happiness of our family, Alhamdulillah. Lord, please increase
the level of patience of my family and make us determined to do something for
the country, for the Muslim Umh’ah. I am sanctified with so many mentors and
friends, I don’t think I ever had to pass a single day being sad or depressed, because
they were always there to cheer me up.
Lord within days, Ramadan is going to
start and we are waiting for it with such anticipation. This year, the day length
is too long and the summer temperature is too high, Lord, please have your mercy
on the poor people and guide the youths of today so that they can do something
for the unfortunate ones in this month and earn 70 times more Sawwab. Lord,
this year during the month of Ramadan I have intended to recite the Holy Qur’an - once, fully-from the
start to the end. Please, accept my Niy’at and guide me properly so that I can
recite in the most correct way. And I would also like to attend all the ‘Khatmey
Tarabi’ prayer on the mosque. Along with this, give me enough opportunities to
pray 5 times at the Mosque, so that it becomes a convention and I don’t miss
any Salah on purpose; and most importantly, So that I can pray them all on
time. Ameen.
Lord, I want to be the best son every
mother and father would be proud of, and I also want to be the best brother
every sibling would be inspired of. I want do excel so much in life, so that I can
present myself to my future wife - as the best husband she can get; and in
doing so, I want to be a good father and a good provider for my kids. Lord, I want
to travel miles before I go to sleep. Please guide me. InShaaAllah!
But in doing so, I don’t want to be
unable to summon up what my true identity is, that who I am and what is my duty
in this world. I am a human being, an ‘Ashraful Makhlukat’, the best of Your
creation. And You have created us only so that we worship you. You are ‘Allah-hu-Samadun’,
‘Allah-hu-Muhaiminun’, You are ‘Gofurur Rahim’; Indeed the best of all names
belongs to you.
Allah (swt), please give us enough liveliness,
so that we can differentiate between the right and wrong and cross every
barrier towards a better future worshipping You.
I remember few years back, someone told me: that I someone used to be her inspiration. She mentioned that he died for her and that's how she lost her inspiration.
But no one ever cared about my inspiration. No one tried to see what I see or tried to break the walls of my fear. Until recently.
Recently I rediscovered what it means when a person is your source of inspiration. I understood how it feels when the you have lost your inspiration; maybe the person died for you; or is far away and doesn't bother to care about.
I have seen myself being so helpless and so miserable sometimes, just because I didn't know what to do. But earlier, it was so easy for me; maybe because there was someone with whom I could share so much and so many things.
It's hard to survive when someone leaves a mark in your life. It's tough when you try to think about all the good memories that you had in the past; and everywhere it's just her. Years passes by, but still...
What is important in your life is to be happy and live every moment of it. If you can't be happy at least try to make other people happy. I heard she is happy so should I be.
