Sunday, May 31, 2009
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Soon, open butterfly park at Indroda
Good morning friends. Butterfly is not of the insect I love to see and sometimes catch. Because of it’s different color, for me it is very attractive specially when he rested on top of the flower. As per The Times of India, soon there will be an opening of butterfly park at Indroda. I’ll be waiting to that.Chasing colourful butterflies in the concrete jungle of Ahmedabad may seem far-fetched. But come November, and this dream will turn into reality in nearby Gandhinagar. Except, you won't be allowed to catch these flying fairies.
Are you wondering how? The Gujarat Ecological, Education and Research (GEER) Foundation is developing an open butterfly park on the banks of Sabarmati river at a site close to the Indroda park. A network of pathways will be built for visitors which will wind through beds of flowers and artificially created water bodies. The park will be protected from wild animals with high fencing.
This fencing would have gaps large enough to allow butterfly to fly in and out. But this park would be developed in such a way that the butterflies do not leave this park. This park will have flowering plants which attract butterflies and give them a habitat ideal for breeding. This would be the first of its kind open-to-sky park in the country. "In closed enclosures, the life span of butterflies is just 15 days.
However, in an open enclosure they live for 40 days. In closed parks, artificial breeding keeps the number of butterflies high," an official said. Spread in an area of five to six hectares, this park will be adjacent to Indroda which already has 43 different species of butterflies.
GEER director CN Pandey said that the park would not only attract butterflies from around the greenery of Indroda, but there are also plans to procure species from other areas and to introduce them here. The park will have indoor and outdoor interpretation centres as the idea is to combine education with entertainment.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Rain or shine, Atlantis to attempt landing Sunday (2)
Good morning friends. Rain or shine, the crew of the US space shuttle Atlantis will have to attempt to land Sunday after bad weather forced delays in their return to Earth for two consecutive days.
NASA officials, however, may have to land the orbiter in California, on the other side of the country than initially planned.
On Saturday, heavy cloud cover and crosswinds forced the US space agency to put off the space shuttle Atlantis' return to Earth for at least another day, extending an otherwise successful mission to repair the Hubble telescope.
NASA had hoped to land the shuttle at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the weather did not cooperate, waving off landing for a second straight day. The crew has enough fuel to fly until Monday at the latest.
"The forecast for tomorrow is slightly better," Allard Beutel, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, told AFP. The US space agency has prepared Edwards Air Force Base in California as a back-up landing point in case conditions do not clear up in Florida.
"There's a chance for a landing at Kennedy tomorrow, and we're going to keep that option open," said Greg Johnson, another NASA spokesman. "Edwards remains good for tomorrow and Monday, if needed."
The first chance to land at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday is at 10:11 am (1411 GMT), he said. A second window of opportunity will appear nearly an hour and a half later -- at 11:40 am (15:40 GMT) in California -- and a third just nine minutes later: at 11:49 am (1549 GMT) in Florida.
NASA would prefer to land the shuttle at the Kennedy Space Center as it would cost the agency some two million dollars (1.4 million euros) extra to get the craft back home from Edwards Air Force Base.
Atlantis blasted off on May 11 with a crew of seven astronauts on what was scheduled to be an 11-day mission to repair the Hubble space telescope and extend its range and life for another five years. "They have enough supplies to stay on board until Monday. But we don't like to wait until the last moment," Beutel said. –The Times of India
Friday, May 22, 2009
Dhyaan's BirthDay
Dhyaan is a nice boy. His cousins which are all his playmates like him because he is always ready to share his toys with them. He plays with them with his toys. He shared everything what he have.
It’s Dhyaan’s first birthday. I always pray that as he grow, he became a very good man. And also I always pray for his health. Far from all kind of sickness.
Happy Birthday my son Dhyaan. Dad is very proud of you. We love you all.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Students try their hand at paper artwork
Good Morning Friends. It’s a good thing to hear that students try their hands at paper artwork. With this all the creativity of the children will be applied. It’s not easy, but it can be learned. Full concentration will be needed to create a good artwork.Aashna Parikh, a class XII student of Udgam School for children had come to National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. She wanted to do something constructive during her summer vacation.
Today, as she steps out of the NID heritage campus, Parikh has her masterpiece ready which she plans to flaunt to her friends and family. Parikh is not alone. Each participant of the summer workshop for paper craft at the institute created a masterpiece. Be it a lamp shade, mask, a natural cut out or a face statue, all made of paper are craft items made during the workship.
"Paper craft is an art as old as paper itself. Most participants who came here were beginners and thus had to start from the basics. Since there were many children, we stuck to paper folding more than paper cutting, because that is easier to do. But the kind of work that the participants have done shows that it has opened up their imagination," said Naran Patel, former NID faculty, who took the session.
There was also a summer workshop on calligraphy conducted by Amit Kharsani, a visiting faculty at the institute. "There was a lot of diversification in participants. While housewives wanted to learn for their children, children were participating to improve their handwriting," Kharsani said.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Happy kajal with dhyaan
Happy mother of Dhyaan Patel-Kajal Dhirendra Patel @ manavparivar matar for free medical camp.
City’s green cover tonsured by 50%?
Good morning friends. Green! ….. that’s one of my favorite color. It’s a cool color. Everytime I see a green color it remimds me of a nature. It’s a good view if everytime you look at something, you see green. Meaning the trees are there, the plants are still growing… That’s good to know.
Green is going from the city at much faster pace than you can spell the word. The effective forest cover of the city has in fact been reduced by almost half in the past 10 years.
Consider this: For every 100 new tree saplings planted, two full-grown trees have been chopped off in the city in the name of development in the past few years, as per the official record of the forest department. Now, compare the area covered by a sapling — barely 1 square metre — to that of a full grown tree which is normally put at 100 square metres, or even more.
This means, a 100 saplings would compensate for a full grown tree in a given time. So effectively, in a given year the green cover (what a global positioning system data would declare), of the city was reduced to half. Forest officials admit that planting a tree sapling cannot be an ‘immediate replacement for a full-grown tree’. ‘‘But then, we are trying our best,’’ said district forest officer, Lucknow, Ashok Mishra.
According to the data of the forest department, 9,334 full grown trees were felled for various development activities — road widening, housing, electricity poles and of course some of the state government ‘‘priority projects’’ like Ambedkar Udyan, Kanshi Ram Smarak and Rama Bai Rally Sthal in 2007-08. - The Times of India
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
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