Badu Video

Badu Video, It’s been just about eight years since Badu’s dropped a full-length izm, so no surprise she’s exiting her extended gestational period with an 18-track double-decker to accompany that trademark afro back into the spotlight. There’s a grab bag of producers in tow (including the ever-generous  Madlib), although it’s 9th Wonder who brings the throwback ’70s funky sounds to “Honey,” which is allowing us a sweetly extended retro eruption  this morning. The vid (which is awesome) fits the vibe: a trip through a record store with Erykah putting herself in the middle of classic album covers, changing up the hair everywhere from Paid In Full to Let It Be. Sleeveface  is so last year; gimme gimme Baduface.

Major Power Breakdown Hits Karachi

KARACHI: A major power breakdown hit metropolis here Wednesday following a major tripping in the transmission line of Wapda at Jamshoro. A major tripping in the supply line of Wapda at Jamshoro caused a complete electricity breakdown in the metropolis since 7pm. It was not restored till filing of this report.

The tripping had paralysed the system of KESC, shutting down all the generating units Bin Qasim Thermal Power Units (BQTPP, Korangi Thermal Power System (KTPS), Site Gas Turbines, Kanupp, Gul Ahmed and Tapal, the two Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and other private power producers.

There was complete shut off at the Governor and Chief Minister House, all the government and private buildings, hospitals, health centers, and private offices. Supply of water was also disrupted from all pumping stations of Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB), causing serious problems.

The KESC sources said it would take five to six hours to restore the supply from its electricity generating units as the tripping had caused serious faults in the company’s system. They claimed that the employees of the utility were busy in fixing up the fault and restoring its generating units.

On the other hand, citizens from most of the areas complained that no one was responding on the complain numbers of the company. There were also chances of major cable faults in different areas of Karachi as the city is already experiencing 40 to 90 cable faults daily in normal conditions.

Due to complete breakdown, the people were unable to know what had actually happened as the TV cable system had also gone down. Commenting on the failure of KESC System, Mazhar Chaudhry, Secretary General of KESC Share Holders Association, (SHA) said that the company has currently no protective system on the transmission lines and feeders.

This, he said, was a criminal negligence of the company’s management, which caused complete failure of the system. When contacted, Jaan Abbas Zaidi, the Chief Operating Officer Distribution refused to talk to this scribe saying that the issue relating to power failure is purely a technical matter.

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