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Archive for April 13, 2007
April 13, 2007 at 8:20 am
· City
indianexpress: The thumb rule for resurfacing of an airbase runway is once every 15 years. Going by that calculation, the Lohegaon airstrip should have been resurfaced in 2002, as the last such effort came in 1987. However, that has not happened and it has taken another five years before the ball started rolling for the resurfacing of the Pune Airport with the Indian Air Force floating the tenders in the last week of March.
On Thursday, outgoing Air Marshall, South Western Air Command, P K Mehra told reporters, “It will take three months for the tenders to get approved; the funds for the runway have been released. We will be having a dialogue with the bidders and I want it to be completed in 3-4 months.” He admitted that it was a difficult target to meet.
The increased air movement at Pune, with an estimated 1.5 million passengers flying in 2006, up by half a million from the previous year, has taken its toll on the runway. It is currently shut down every Saturday for up to five hours to carry out repair works. Over 35 flights take off and land at the airport everyday.
“Typically, an operational airbase needs to resurface the runway every 15 years. The resurfacing was last carried out in 1987 and is now overdue,” a senior air force officer from the South Western Air Command (SWAC) had told Pune Newsline only a few months ago.
So was the runway functioning with considerable risk? No, said airport director Deepak Shastri. “From time to time we carry out the friction test to check the condition of the runway. It was absolutely fine and there was no problem regarding safety of passengers,” he said.
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April 13, 2007 at 8:19 am
· City
indianexpress: COME Saturday, Puneites will be able to witness an interesting planetary spectacle in the early morning sky, when the moon will hide the planet Mars for a brief period of time. This term, technically referred to as occultation, is similar to an eclipse, and will be visible across southern India.
Since the event will take place after sunrise in Pune, it should be easy to spot, said Arvind Paranjpye, Scientific Technical Officer at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). The occultation will begin at 5.55 am, when Mars will disappear behind the moon, and will end at 6.53 am, when Mars reappears. The timing will be different for different locations in India. For instance, it will begin before sunrise in Mumbai.
The moon will be a thin crescent, since the new moon occurs on April 17. The occultation will occur in the brighter portion of the moon. Observers can start looking for Mars right below the bright lunar crescent, half an hour before the predicted time.
As the time nears, the gap between Mars and the moon will decrease, until the two will touch each other. Within 20-30 seconds, Mars will disappear completely behind the moon. This should be easily visible even to the naked eye, although optical instruments like simple binoculars or an astronomical telescope would be of help.
By the time Mars reappears from behind the moon, the sun will be above the horizon, so an optical instrument will be required to spot it. Moreover, observers will also have to guess from where it will reappear.
“This is a fairly common occurrence, and occurs whenever the moon is in alignment with a planet. In the past, moon has occulted other planets like Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, and so on,” said Paranjpye.
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April 13, 2007 at 8:18 am
· City
indianexpress: ASHWINI Hogale hated school because the 15-year-old couldn’t read. The blackboard was a big blur to her.
Hogale had cataract, and it took her teacher Kiran Bhagade at Shri Sangmeshwar Vidyalaya, at Pote village, Solapur, to detect the problem.
Bhagade contacted Hogale’s parents and the girl was brought this February to Pune for surgery at the H V Desai Eye Hospital. Hogale is now hoping to top her class.
“One of the main reasons children drop out of school is handicaps,” says Ajay Kakade, Maharashtra coordinator of the Inclusive Education for Children with Special Needs programme, a crucial component of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan launched in 2002-03.
Teachers were trained to identify children with physical and mental disabilities, including loss of sight and hearing.
“So far, we have screened 10,40,325 children at 78,000 schools in the State, and 4,41,000 children have been identified with various problems. Hearing aids, crutches, prosthetic limbs and other material has been given to 1,95,000 children and over 4,000 surgeries conducted for problems related to sight, hearing and physical disabilities,” he said.
Take 10-year-old Swapnil (name changed), whose foot was crushed in an accident.
His parents couldn’t afford treatment and the boy had to be carried to the Pune Municipal Corporation school at Yerawada every day.
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April 13, 2007 at 8:17 am
· City
indianexpress: TWO snake lovers from Pune, Ram Bhutkar and Subhash Ghule, recently rescued a 12 feet long king cobra illegally restrained at Solapur allegedly by a Naga hermit. The rescue took place at Degaon village on the outskirts of Solapur town with the help of forest department officials.
The king cobra was kept in a four feet long, four feet wide and six feet deep cement tank, the top of which was covered with an iron cage. The reptile is presently in the custody of the forest department officials in Solapur.
Bhutkar said he had received tip off from a Solapur-based snake lover Ashfaq Gafur Muchhale. “Initially I was doubtful as king cobras are not found in western Maharashtra and normally being poisonous they are not caged by amateurs. However, when I went to Degaon with Ghule, I found that it was indeed a king cobra. We immediately contacted the forest department officials who rushed to the spot and took the snake in their custody. Later, a case under Wildlife Protection Act was filed against the hermit, Mohannath Aghori alias Kasture,” he said.
Bhutkar said Kasture, during questioning by forest department officials, claimed that he had brought the snake to Solapur from Karnataka.
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April 13, 2007 at 8:16 am
· City
indianexpress: THE sale of two Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) school buildings — located on 1.20 hectare land in Pimpri Waghere — to Rayat Shikshan Sanstha has raised the hackles of the opposition Congress. The party has alleged that the school buildings are being sold at the rate of Rs 200 per square feet whereas the market rate is between Rs 1600-2400.
In a memorandum addressed to Municipal Commissioner Dilip Band, former corporator Amar Mulchandani said the deal would mean a loss of at least Rs 5 crore to the PCMC.
“The general body had hurriedly approved the proposal just before the election. The item related to the sale of school buildings was brought in the general body meeting under section 1K of the BPMC Act,” Mulchandani told Pune Newsline on Thursday.
He said the issue was not even on the agenda nor was it discussed in the PCMC general body meeting.
Pointing out that PCMC was not in the business of selling and buying land, Mulchandani said, “If PCMC had to sell the buildings, it should have advertised in newspapers. Why did they have to favour a particular institute?”
When contacted, Band said that there was nothing wrong in selling the buildings to a reputed institute like the Rayat Shikshan Sansthan. “There will be no loss to the PCMC neither will there be any profit,” he said. He also denied the Congress charge that the issue was tabled in the general body at the last moment. Band said two existing PCMC schools would be shifted to the nearby civic building.
But Mulchandani said the PCMC resolution was illegal and bad in law and threatened to file a PIL in the Bombay High Court.
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April 13, 2007 at 8:14 am
· City · Special Mention
indianexpress: IN a unique tribute to the Dnyaneshwari, Pune-based 22-year-old Swati Pethkar will complete her feat of writing the entire text in calligraphy in Nevase on Friday.
The 13th Century sant-poet Dnyaneshwar rendered more than 9,000 stanzas of commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, that came to be known as the Dnyaneshwari. It is at the very temple that Sant Dnyaneshwar composed his work, that Pethkar will conclude her task with a traditional writing instrument, boru. This is perhaps the first time that the Dnyaneshwari is being written in the calligraphy font, a tedious task that demanded three years of painstaking work.
It all began on April 8, 2004, when Pethkar, a BA external student and art teacher at the St Anne’s Girls’ School, was studying the art of calligraphy. “Back then I used to practise calligraphy by copying individual letters in the Marathi alphabet from the Swar-Vyanjan. But this never gave me an idea of how much space should be left between letters while writing a full word. So I decided to take up some text and I chose the Dnyaneshwari because it is such an important scripture,” she said.
There was another inspiration for Pethkar: Her grandmother. “Most of the times, the Dnyaneshwari is written in small print, which is difficult for my grandmother to read. The main objective behind writing this is to do it in such a way that everyone, including old people, would be able to read it with ease,” she said.
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April 13, 2007 at 8:11 am
· Technology
techtree: A first for Bose; the company has introduced in-ear headphones that stay put in the ears, while achieving great balance between audio quality, comfort, and fit.
Small and lightweight, the headphones come in an electro-acoustic design made to rest gently in the ears of the listener.
Using 3 interchangeable, differently-sized silicone ear tips: small (White), medium (Grey), and large (Black), the in-ear headphones can be customized to suit different needs.
With Bose’s proprietary TriPort acoustic headphone structure, the headphones do not have to be pushed deeply into ear canals to perform as required. The silicone ear tips’ allow the headphones to ‘rest’ in the Concha or outer bowl of the ear.
Applying QuietComfort Acoustic Noise Cancelling technology to in-ear design, the small ports in the ear pieces allow the headphones to reproduce deep low notes without increasing size. This makes for a more balanced sound, with range and realism.
Besides, these in-ear headphones are compatible with portable MP3 Players, CD and DVD Players, as well as other audio sources.
A small carrying case that easily fits into any pocket is included to protect the headphones during transportation and storage, and reduce cable tangling.
Bose’s in-ear headphones are available for Rs 5,000 plus taxes from Bose stores, www.boseindia.com, or over toll free number 1800 11 BOSE (2673)
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April 13, 2007 at 8:09 am
· Technology
techtree: According to an Associated Press (AP) report, IBM has just developed a technology to ‘vertically’ connect chips inside products ranging from cell phones to supercomputers.
The advancement promises to prolong battery life in wireless devices, and eventually speed-up data transfers between the processor and memory chips in computers.
Besides, the new technique does away with long metal wires currently used to transfer information and electrical charge between chips.
Typically, memory and processor chips are spaced inches apart from each other, causing transmission lags as chipmakers multiply the number and voracity of calculating cores on their processors.
IBM’s all new solution has two chips sandwiched on top of one another - with the distance between them measured in microns (millionths of a meter) - and held together by ‘vertical’ connections etched in silicon holes filled with metal.
The vertical connections are referred to as “through-silicon-vias,” which allow multiple chips to be stacked together with greater information flow between them.
IBM said its three-dimensional approach creates the possibility of up to 100 times more pathways for information, and shortens by 1,000 times the distance that information on a chip needs to travel.
Lauding the initiative, one researcher said, this is a big step - a really historic move. While it has been studied to death, this is the first time a company is saying ‘we can connect two chips in the vertical direction’.
The new technology holds the most promise for use in computers, but will initially be used in wireless communications chips when production begins next year.
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April 13, 2007 at 8:07 am
· Technology
techtree: Electronic Arts (EA) has launched the PC version of Cricket 07, called EA SPORTS Cricket 07 PC, which boasts a century stick control system, natural camera perspective, and TV-like presentation, among others.
Thanks to a new Quickplay Cricket setting, players can either crank up game speed, ease back difficulty settings, and join Limited over/Twenty20 extravaganzas with hard hitting sixes; or they can ease the pace, slide up difficulty settings, and brace themselves for five day action.
There’s a complete schedule of Australian State and English County tourneys for players to choose from. Else, they can participate in this year’s eagerly awaited Ashes campaign.
EA SPORTS Cricket 07 PC is also available on PlayStation 2 (PS2)
Apart from this game, EA has re-launched its entire EA Sports Cricket franchise (Cricket 2005, Cricket 2004, and Cricket 2002) for the PC.
While EA SPORTS Cricket 07 PC is priced at Rs 999; EA SPORTS Cricket 05 is available for Rs 499; EA SPORTS Cricket 04 for Rs 299; and EA SPORTS Cricket 02 for Rs 199.
The PC version games are immediately available across India at leading outlets.
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April 13, 2007 at 8:06 am
· Technology
techtree: According to reports, Palm is all set to come out with Treo smart phones with Linux operating system (OS) later this year.
The announcement was made by Palm officials during a meeting with analysts in New York.
During the meeting, Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm, confirmed that the Linux platform has been under development for a number of years. The system software will be rolled out before the end of the year, which the company believes will lead to advanced and modernized Palm operating systems.
The company has not yet given any name to the software but refers to it as “Palm Operating System on a Linux core,” which will replace the current Palm OS 5 known as “Garnet”.
Reportedly, the Linux-based OS will support existing Palm OS applications. It will allow for simultaneous voice and data traffic, and support faster application switching as well as online applications.
Though Colligan did not give out any specific details on the Linux-based product, he said that the Linux platform will give them control again over their own operating system, and will also help the company to lower costs and bring products to market in lesser time.
Until a year back, Palm was using its own OS for smart phones. Then last year, the company broadened its customer base by debuting Treo smart phones with Windows Mobile system. And now, Linux-based smart phones will also join the product mix.
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