On flour excursion

Tragic Tale!

SIALKOT, Jan 15: To avoid headache due to shortage of flour, schoolteachers on Tuesday sought help of their students who queued up in large numbers for getting the commodity for their academics.

Students of various government schools were seen standing at flour sale points in Daska city to buy atta for their teachers, earning in return leisurely hours away from classrooms.

While most of the students this correspondent talked to said their teachers had sent them to fetch flour, many were on short leave for getting flour for their homes. “We’ll be right back to school after dropping the flour bags at homes”, they said.

The district administration has set up 14 sale points in Sialkot’s urban and rural parts for the convenience of the consumers, but the quantity made available hardly fulfils the need of the population.

The Rangers have already taken control of the 24 flour mills (18 in Sialkot and six in Narowal), monitoring the flour production and supply. District Food Controller Rohail Butt told newsmen that the Rangers stood at the mills in Sialkot, Daska, Bhopalwala, Sambrial, Pasrur, Shakargarh, Narowal and surrounding areas and were regularly checking the records of the flour mills.

Via Dawn

Maternal side has ’stronger bond’

 

Maternal grandparents go the extra mile, say the researchers

Children have a stronger relationship with grandparents on their mother’s side, a new study suggests. Researchers asked grandparents how often they had face-to-face contact with their grandchildren.

More than a quarter of maternal relatives questioned said they had contact several times a week, while the paternal figure was only about 15%.

The findings, by the universities of Newcastle and Antwerp, are published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology.

Even in families where there has been divorce, we found consistent differences Thomas Pollet, Newcastle University

A sample of more than 800 grandparents from Holland was studied to establish the amount of social interaction between extended family members.

For grandparents living within 19.5 miles (30 km) of their grandchildren, more than 30% of the maternal grandmothers and 25% of grandfathers had contact daily or a few times a week.

In contrast, only about 15% of both paternal grandparents could say the same.

Thomas Pollet, from Newcastle University, said: “Even in families where there has been divorce, we found consistent differences - grandparents on your mother’s side make the extra effort.

“We believe there are psychological mechanisms at play because throughout history, women are always related by maternity whereas men can never be wholly certain they are the biological father to their children.”

This certainty suggests that maternal grandparents, especially maternal grandmothers, may go the extra mile to visit their grandchildren, he added.

Work is like that………….

There are 2 people always next to you:

1 - The (Manager), smiling pleasantly to hide evil intentions!

2 - The (Team Leader), busy figuring out what work to dump on you next…..
And, there’s YOU, who struggles with it all!

The perfect picture is given below

Team leader YOU Manager

UK secondary school tests RFID embedded uniforms

Hungerhill School, a secondary school in Doncaster, South Yorkshire is running a trial that involves tagging the uniforms of pupils with RFID tags. The tags pull up data including academic performance, the child’s current location, and can even deny access to certain restricted areas — behind the bike shed, perhaps? The trial has raised the usual questions of privacy and human rights, although since the trial is voluntary and provides convenience by auto-registering pupils, the current iteration of the trial isn’t a particularly great violation. Call us when kids get tags from birth, then we’ll take to the streets: but probably only because ours missed out. We’ll take our tongue out of our cheek now.

[Via Picture Phoning]

Wana ride??

No hugs allowed at school

If you need a hug, you won’t get it at Percy Julian Middle School. Principal Victoria Sharts banned hugging among the suburban Chicago school’s 860 students anywhere inside the building. She said students were forming ‘hug lines’ that made them late for classes and crowded the hallways.

“Hugging is really more appropriate for airports or for family reunions than passing and seeing each other every few minutes in the halls,” Sharts said.

Another reason to institute the no-hugging policy was that some hugs could be too long and too close, she said. “There is another side to the issue when a hug is either unwanted or becomes inappropriate as judged by one of the students involved,” Sharts said. “On occasion, we do deal with those incidents. The goal is always to promote safe and orderly hallways where everybody can get by, be safe, and be on time.”

Superman : The weirdest baby names ever?

A couple in New Zealand has got over the disappointment of having their first choice of name for their baby son turned down by naming him after a superhero instead.

New Zealand couple Pat and Sheena Wheaton were stunned when the government registry of births, deaths and marriages informed them that their original choice of 4REAL was unacceptable as it contained a digit. Undeterred, they eventually settled on the name Superman as an alternative.
The Wheatons decided to call their son 4Real after seeing an ultrasound image of him. It was then they realised that their baby was “for real”. And it seems they are more than just slightly attached to the name. The couple plans on fighting the government’s ruling and insists that they will continue to call the child 4REAL in the privacy of their own home.

But the Wheaton’s baby faces a definite challenge for the unofficial title of world’s weirdest baby name after a Chinese couple attempted to name their newborn child “@”. The baby’s father claimed that he had selected the email-related moniker because of the global popularity of the symbol and the fact that in Mandarin it translates to “love him”.

Celebrity baby names shamed

The Wheaton’s baby (and that’s not a photo of him above, by the way, it’s a different youngster onto whom we’ve morphed a superhero outift for comic effect) is not the first child to be the recipient of a superhero-related name. Hollywood action star Nicolas Cage named his second child Kal-El, the birth name of Superman. He claimed he had preferred the name Kyle but his wife Alice Kim had insisted on a longer name.

Cage isn’t the only celebrity to bestow an unfortunate name on his young offspring. Celebrity mockney chef Jamie Oliver named his daughter Daisy Boo while A-list celebs Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin famously called their first child Apple. My Name Is Earl star Jason Lee and partner Beth Riesgraf went one better naming their son Pilot Inspektor. You can only imagine the struggles each of these children will face on their first day at school.

Orangutan

Elmo, an abandoned four-day-old baby Orangutan, is held by his keeper at an animal nursery in Cisarua, West Java.