POWER and TOWER:two ideas

ONE:The simple act of replacing light bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) can cut your electricity bills; and, it can also help fight global warming.

CFLs, which look like mini tube lights, consume only one-fifth of the electricity used by ordinary light bulbs. This would reduce power demand and levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as coal consumption for power generation would be less.

TWO:The idea of using microwave energy to cook food was accidentally discovered by Percy LeBaron Spencer of the Raytheon Company when he found that radar waves had melted a candy bar in his pocket. Experiments showed that microwave heating could raise the internal temperature of many foods far more rapidly than a conventional oven.

TRAIN:Andaman & Sikkim Railway Project

Port Blair, Jul 20 : People in Andaman and Nicobar have started to look forward to their first ever rail-link in the Union Territoty after the Railway budget.

The matter connecting Port Blair with Diglipur Island, linked through ra

il, was raised by the lone MP from Andaman and Nicobar Bishu Pada Ray in Parliament recently.

''I met Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and she assured me of all possible steps in this regard discussing it with the Prime Minister and Finance Minister for clearance,'' Mr Ray told mediapersons here today.

''Earlier the matter was dropped saying the rail-link in the UT is not economically feasible but I have given an example of the rail-link between Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla, which is 292 km long, and was constructed without looking at the economic feasibility aspect. I have demanded to consider rail-link in Andaman on the same ground adding both the present road and sea links are time consuming,'' he added.

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GANGTOK, July 24 (PIB): The Railways have set a target of December 2015 for the completion of Sevoke-Rangpo rail project for which plan outlay has been fixed at Rs 10 crore in 2009-10. The final location survey contract has already been awarded. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways, E Ahamed informed about the sections that have been completed during the last five years in North East States. These are Samuktala-New Bongaigaon of New Jalpaiguri-New Bongaigaon Gauge Conversion (61 kms), Alipurduar-Bamanhat Gauge Conversion (80 kms), Manu-Agartala of Kumarghat-Agartala New Line (89 kms) and Senchoa-Silghat Gauge Conversion (62 kms). In all, 16 projects fully/partly in North Eastern Region are in progress which includes New Maynaguri-Jogighopa, Sevoke-Rangpo. Gauge conversion is also on which includes New Jalpaiguri-Siliguri-New Bongaigaon.

Solar Eclipse in Sikkim

COLOURS OF THE SUN:sun sahiba sun !!!

Nadhiya ke paar..
neeche chu(river) oopar baadal.
ghanan ghanan....
surya ka magic !!!
tv mey dekho...dekha.
bhoond bhoond mey....
Baadal nahi hata!
Rangpo mey garmi ke samay humidity(nami) bhi saath saath!!!!

SOME PHOTOS

THE BRICK SMOKERS
LIFE CYCLE
HOME ALONE

LIFEBOAT
Home schooling for Samanta.
Light and Shadow
Fishermen's Ordeal
British Legacy

DIGLIPUR

The British first settled the convicts and officials on the coast of Aerial Bay in the 18thCentury (1789) as per the recommendations of Lt. Archibald Blair. The settlement was named after the then Governor General Lord Cornwallis. The settlement had to be abandoned subsequently in 1793 due to the unprecedented attack of Malaria which left majority of the settlers dead. After about 170 years a settlement of refugees from East Bengal was established at a place nearby and given the name of Diglipur.(source:Directore General of Light Houses and Light Ships)

Wikipedia...In 1789 the government of Bengal established a penal colony on Chatham Island in the southeast bay of Great Andaman, now known as Port Blair (after the officer who founded it). After two years, the colony moved to the northeast part of Great Andaman and was named Port Cornwallis after Admiral William Cornwallis. However, there was much disease and death in the penal colony, and the government ceased operating it in May 1796.

MIND SET

Did you ever noticed ! ....when you learned a new word or something new then you always see the same word often or the related matter here and there which you learned the other day.Avid readers must have experienced it.If you are interested in visual/graphic kind of things then you will not disagree with me seeing images of people or portraits in clouds, walls/in places .Our mind can be set to a certain extend for what you want to learn or what you want to achieve.Our brains are programmable and it is similar to our modern day computers,because the computers are made to behave like our brains.

Some times the name of a person is in the tip of your tongue ,and not coming out! Then leave it for some time and engage yourself in some other work.The name will pop- up suddenly when you are not thinking about it.

I use Alphabetical Technique to bring out the names I forget.I start from A then B,C ,D....Insight shows me the name.If I can't then I leave it to my mind to bring it out!

Read more at learning curve.

Pre Monsoon 2009

flower-Gulmohar
Insect-wasp
Bird-Gauthali(swallow/swift)
Plant-(I don't know the name!) Now i know the name it is cape gooseberry.
People(Name the place and win a prize!)

ALIENS IN SIKKIM

We introduce new species into our environment whenever we comeback from other environs.Knowingly or unknowingly these new species accommodate itself into the new environ and if possible invade when no other enemy species counteracts against it.These two conspicuous plants made themselves felt in Sikkim.The Banmara is ubiquitous and it is not possible to remove it from here.Most of the plants which we see around us are Alien to this land ,some are invasive in nature.They spread their legs and lo... vini,vidi,vici!!!The Botanists Paradise is loosing to these Alien Invaders slowly.Man brought plants from other places for food production,crafts,ornamental use and out of curiosity.Some of them didn't harm other species of plants and co-exist,but few which are toxic(like the banmara) are invading in nature .They destroy green pastures leaving no place for the herbivorous.The Pistia(water lettuce) decreases the oxygen level in the ponds,which kill the fish.Now it is time to identify and take note of these "not so Eco-friendly" plants,so that something can be done to stop its spread in our ecology.There are so many other alien plants doing the harm to our local plants,here I only took two plants,let us identify one by one...the search will continue......!!