Here's good news for Internet enthusiasts. Ethnic sounds - right from the Brazilian rain forest to Arctic ice sheets - will now accompany the location-sighting venture on Google Earth.
"Our objective is to bring the world alive," said Bernie Krause, whose California-based company Wild Sanctuary created the software to embed sound files into relevant locations on Google Earth.
Krause spent 40 years collecting over 3,500 hours of sound recordings from across the world, including bird and whale songs and the crackle of melting glaciers.
"We have all the continents of the world, high mountains and low deserts," Krause was quoted as saying by New Scientist.
He hoped it will make virtual visitors more aware of the impact of human activity on the environment in the years since he began making and collecting the recordings.
Users will be able to hear various modern-day sounds at a particular location, then travel back in time to compare them with noises of decades gone by.
Krause plans to have the software ready with 26 sounds for demonstration on May 29.
He promised his sound files are of a consistent quality and enriched with time, date and weather information.
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Google Earth to have sounds
May 14, 2007, 11:03 amIL&FS is consultant for Delhi-Mumbai corridor
May 14, 2007, 11:00 am
The government has appointed financial services firm IL&FS as consultant for the ambitious $50 billion Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor project being planned with Japanese assistance.
"Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion has engaged IL&FS as consultant to finalise the concept paper for the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. The consultant's report will be finalised by July," a government official said.
The report will be presented to Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath and Japanese Trade Minister Akira Amari for approval. A detailed project report is expected to be finalised by the end of December this year. The project would be launched in January 2008 and completed in next seven years.
The corridor will come along the Delhi-Mumbai high-speed freight link, work on which has already started.
The project would come up on a 300 kilometre area along the freight corridor. Its main objective is to provide good quality connectivity and other infrastructure like investment hubs comprising industrial parks and special economic zones.
It will have a 4,000 MW power plant, three ports and six airports apart from connectivity with existing sea ports.
The corridor will pass through Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
Planned on the lines of Tokyo-Osaka industrial corridor, the MoU for the corridor was signed in December 2006 during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Tokyo.
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"Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion has engaged IL&FS as consultant to finalise the concept paper for the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. The consultant's report will be finalised by July," a government official said.
The report will be presented to Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath and Japanese Trade Minister Akira Amari for approval. A detailed project report is expected to be finalised by the end of December this year. The project would be launched in January 2008 and completed in next seven years.
The corridor will come along the Delhi-Mumbai high-speed freight link, work on which has already started.
The project would come up on a 300 kilometre area along the freight corridor. Its main objective is to provide good quality connectivity and other infrastructure like investment hubs comprising industrial parks and special economic zones.
It will have a 4,000 MW power plant, three ports and six airports apart from connectivity with existing sea ports.
The corridor will pass through Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
Planned on the lines of Tokyo-Osaka industrial corridor, the MoU for the corridor was signed in December 2006 during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Tokyo.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
Kutchis go trekking in the Himalayas
May 14, 2007, 10:39 am
Kutchis, who live in the hilly terrains here have found a new love... Trekking in the far off reaches of the Himalayas. Everybody, irrespective of age enjoys trekking here — from 4-year-olds to 70-year-olds. In fact, for the last couple of years, this border district, has to its credit, the distinction of sending the largest trekking group from the country to the Himalayas.
“On an average, a group of trekkers include 125 people. The biggest ever group that trekked to the Himalayas from here comprised 225 people. That was an all India record in 2003. Our club has the record of sending the highest number of trekkers to the Himalayas ever since we took our first batch of trekkers outside Kutch. We had then (1994) gone to Harkidun in Uttarakhand,” said Urmish Sachade, one of the founding members of Kutch Nature and Adventure Club, a non-profit organisation, set up by nature lovers in 1985.
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This year, Sachade’s team is leading a group of more than 125 people. Before boarding the train for Delhi on Saturday, Sachade said, “We will go to Roopkun in Himalayas. The trek will begin from Loha Junge at 7,200 ft (the base camp) and culminate at Bedani Kund at 12,000 feet.” He said the trek would span 37 kms of thrilling experience.
“The soothing and calm environs of the Himalayas rejuvenate the mind and body. Every year, I go on a trek. Even my one-and-half-year-old son will accompany us this time,” he said. The month-long trekking is organised in collaboration with an adventure activity promoter.
After the devastating earthquake of 2001, this club initiated a course on disaster management at the school level. since then, it has been getting a good response.
After a visit to one such camp at a girl’s school, an Iranian delegation led by a senior minister of their country, which had come to study quake management system in Kutch, was so impressed that he announced to introduce similar programmes in Iranian schools.
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“On an average, a group of trekkers include 125 people. The biggest ever group that trekked to the Himalayas from here comprised 225 people. That was an all India record in 2003. Our club has the record of sending the highest number of trekkers to the Himalayas ever since we took our first batch of trekkers outside Kutch. We had then (1994) gone to Harkidun in Uttarakhand,” said Urmish Sachade, one of the founding members of Kutch Nature and Adventure Club, a non-profit organisation, set up by nature lovers in 1985.
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This year, Sachade’s team is leading a group of more than 125 people. Before boarding the train for Delhi on Saturday, Sachade said, “We will go to Roopkun in Himalayas. The trek will begin from Loha Junge at 7,200 ft (the base camp) and culminate at Bedani Kund at 12,000 feet.” He said the trek would span 37 kms of thrilling experience.
“The soothing and calm environs of the Himalayas rejuvenate the mind and body. Every year, I go on a trek. Even my one-and-half-year-old son will accompany us this time,” he said. The month-long trekking is organised in collaboration with an adventure activity promoter.
After the devastating earthquake of 2001, this club initiated a course on disaster management at the school level. since then, it has been getting a good response.
After a visit to one such camp at a girl’s school, an Iranian delegation led by a senior minister of their country, which had come to study quake management system in Kutch, was so impressed that he announced to introduce similar programmes in Iranian schools.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
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