Save While Shopping
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Living in the age of computers and collaborative technologies, consumers have exponentially growing choices to use new products, gadgets and tools in life as well as work, making lives much easier and fun. It is some time overwhelming for consumers to decide which newer gadget to use. Producers, manufacturers and marketers, on the other hand, are doing their best to provide all related information in the form of related bits and pieces of information in order to facilitate consumers to make informed buying decisions. Large number of consumers is turning to the Internet for making purchases. Search engines statistics also show people looking for products to shop online and also to save.
Evidence suggests that the Internet savvy consumers are more likely to locate where they can get better deals. Who wants to shop for digital cameras, laptops or other items on ground these days when better options are available on the click of the mouse? With Internet becoming one big consumer market, shopping online is not only fun but also a convenience. It saves time and money in more than one ways. Shoppers can see more, can carry price comparison and find good deals sitting home. That is not possible for those who go and shop on ground. How can you visit each and every store to find what are they offering? That is why it is one of the fast growing trends as the world is becoming more connected every day.
It is in this milieu that Savebuckets - a place where everyone can find what they need and and shop easily – comes to help. Given my own interests, I searched for some gifts and toys for my kids and was amazed to see what I found there. I suggested that all shoppers should start at Savebuckets and save a whole lot of money.
Savebuckets is neatly laid out and users’ friendly site. Shopping there is easy. Have a look and save while you shop.
posted @ 1:38 PM,
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Dolls of the World-International NGO Project 1990-2010
Monday, November 16, 2009
TGD Success Story-Dolls of the World-International NGO project
Income Generation for Women and Men in Rural Araes
Handicraft-AppropriateTechnology-CT&IT
AWARDS AND SPECIAL EVENTS
1990 First contact with TGD
1991 Movie Production
1992 Start of a small and private Basic Health Service
1993 Start of Women Art Centre
1996 First Award from Lok Virsa, Islamabad, Pakistan
1996/7 Grant from Japanes Government for Solar Power Unit in Village
1997 50 years of Pakistan, Exhibition in “House of the Cultures of the World” Berlin,
Germany
1998 Export Promotion Buereau Karachi & Pakistan Embassy in Bonn, Germany:
Handicraft Exhibition: 12 NGOs from Pakistan, Bonn, Germany
1999 Export Promotion Bueraeu Karachi: International Toys Fair in Nurenberg,
Germany
2000 Expo 2000, Award Best Worldwide Project from Asia, Hanover, Germany
2001 Consul General and Commercial Counselor in Dubai: Sponsored Project on
Pakistan Pavilion in Global Village / Dubai Shopping Festival, UAE
2002 Export Promotion Bureau Karachi:
Handicraft Exhibition: 6 NGOs from Pakistan, Import Shop Berlin, Germany
2004 Olympic Games-Dolls from Pakistan: Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2004 UN-IWSA, Silver Award, Izmir, Turkey
2005 Expo 2005, Pakistan Pavilion, Aichi, Japan
2007 UNESCO Award: Seal of Excellence, Islamabad, Pakistan
2008-2010 PakDolls in MuseumsShop of Gandahra-Exposition in Bonn-Berlin-Zuerich
COOPERATIONS
Anjuman-e-Falah-e-Aama,-
The Mother from 8 Daughters:
Presentations, Participations
1993 Start in TGD, Pakistan LokVirsa Museum Islamabad
1998 Cameroon Museum Mont Febe, Yaounde
1999 Colombia Museo Nacional, Bogota
2000 Iceland National Museum, Reykjavik
International Dolls Museum, Flateyri
2001 UAE-Dubai
2002 Greece Benaki-Museum, Athen
2003 Negev/Israel
2004 Greenland National Museum, Copenhagen
2005 Germany Ethnological Museums Cologne, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Berlin
NETWORKING
TGD and 6 villages around TGD, 6 NGOs in Pakistan, Cooperation with the daughter-projects…
Clients in Pakistan (between 12 and 16)
Clients Abroad in Canada/USA, Europe, Australia/New Zealand, Japan
Special Clients: Collectors and Ethnological Museum, Cabbies Collectors Club for Certification of Origin
LINKS
www.thattakedona.blogspot.com
www.archive.com: Thatta Kedona
www.fronzeck-multimedia.de/dgfk/interviews
www.deutsch-pakistanisches-forum.org
google: thatta kedona, senta siller, norbert pintsch
posted @ 1:01 PM,
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Dolls Village Pottery Workshop
Monika Kuppler conducted workshops for dolls pottery for new students in Women Art Center. Here are some of the pieces thatwere produced during workshop.
Labels: Monika Kuppler, Pottery, WOmen Art Center
posted @ 8:36 AM,
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Logic is Variable
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Logic is Variable is a resource for my writings. More often, I blog informally, sharing impressions, generating ideas to see how they invoke reactions, keeping track of others’ work in the fields of my interest, or simply ranting or pointing out things that come to my attention.Also, I use blogging as a platform to prune ideas. This is where I meet others and share experiences. Have a look!
posted @ 2:54 PM,
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Rural Tourism
Strong travel movements characterize our times. The infrastructure, good connections by land, water and air make travel easy and suggest that everything is easily available everywhere. The values of the traditional culture however are increasingly forgotten in this scenario, although it is these values, which give the city dweller – the local one as well as foreigners a new outlook and possibilities to show off people and places. Which is why it is recomded tha conveniences of city life be transfered to villages.
Tourists, visitors an travelers, for example to the Punjabi village Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka are best recommended to leave back their city ideas and thereby become more open for understanding the rural life and its rich, traditional culture. If the come with urban attitudes, the visitors will start pitying the village dwellers for the deficient possibilities. Currently the villagers there do not need gymnastic studios like the city dwellers, the dusty path from one village to another is sufficient for walking practice instead of taking rounds in an oval stadium, and so on.
The so-called conveniences of city life must be financed. The drainage water must be disposed of somewhere, cultural and other institutions must be filled with life.
While making a journey to a village, one should leave behind expectations of necessities of life, like multiple course meals, air-conditioned rooms, luxurious bathrooms, swimming pools, the list goes on because with such fixed ideas one cannot learn anything about the culture in the rural areas.
We have already reported on the tragedy of the traditional culture, -- the absence of assessment possibilities of the economic impact only when the traditional values do not exist any more. Do we give them the due value which is at that point of time is probably too late?
An eventual help here is the reference to the increasing environmental sensitivities in populations in industrialized countries. The protection of the nature, the earth, the water is a luxury, which must be financed very expensively, with the side effect that one is not able to compete with countries that overexploit their resources.
Should good sense prevail, and sensible people should ask themselves why the whole expenditure? Reference is made here to “Max Weber” and his work “Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.”
Tourists, visitors an travelers, for example to the Punjabi village Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka are best recommended to leave back their city ideas and thereby become more open for understanding the rural life and its rich, traditional culture. If the come with urban attitudes, the visitors will start pitying the village dwellers for the deficient possibilities. Currently the villagers there do not need gymnastic studios like the city dwellers, the dusty path from one village to another is sufficient for walking practice instead of taking rounds in an oval stadium, and so on.
The so-called conveniences of city life must be financed. The drainage water must be disposed of somewhere, cultural and other institutions must be filled with life.
While making a journey to a village, one should leave behind expectations of necessities of life, like multiple course meals, air-conditioned rooms, luxurious bathrooms, swimming pools, the list goes on because with such fixed ideas one cannot learn anything about the culture in the rural areas.
We have already reported on the tragedy of the traditional culture, -- the absence of assessment possibilities of the economic impact only when the traditional values do not exist any more. Do we give them the due value which is at that point of time is probably too late?
An eventual help here is the reference to the increasing environmental sensitivities in populations in industrialized countries. The protection of the nature, the earth, the water is a luxury, which must be financed very expensively, with the side effect that one is not able to compete with countries that overexploit their resources.
Should good sense prevail, and sensible people should ask themselves why the whole expenditure? Reference is made here to “Max Weber” and his work “Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.”
Labels: Rural Tourism
posted @ 9:24 AM,
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Zenni Holiday Fun Eyeglasses
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Zenni is the best when it comes to Holiday Fun Eyeglasses. Zenni takes prescription eyeglasses a health item necessity for most wearers, and to that end they take pride in being able to bring to all a very high quality product of great durability, safety and comfort at truly reasonable and affordable prices.
Starting $8 Prescription Zenni Glasses, the ever increasing and huge range of stylish frames, and their mention in press and on electronic media makes them stand out in the industry. Have a look and choose what you like from their new arrivals.
Starting $8 Prescription Zenni Glasses, the ever increasing and huge range of stylish frames, and their mention in press and on electronic media makes them stand out in the industry. Have a look and choose what you like from their new arrivals.
posted @ 3:28 PM,
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Meet Those Who Have Been to Pakistan House Postdam
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Complete List is here
Labels: Volunteers
posted @ 2:29 PM,
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