Sunday, November 30, 2014

WEATHER IN 16th to 30th NOVEMBER, 2014 AT VISAKHAPATNAM AND Newer physical techniques

 

Volume 2014, Issue No.11, Second Fortnight November, 2014.
Time: 8AM
 
 
 
WEATHER IN 16th to 30th NOVEMBER, 2014 AT VISAKHAPATNAM AND Newer physical techniques

 by

Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana
{Retd. Prof. of Physics, SU, Kolhapur}, 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram,
Official Colony, Maharanipeta. P. O, Visakhapatnam-530002.
 Cell no: 09491902867.

 

ABSTRACT

               Finding of Newer physical techniques in literature on Optical Phonons, Freezing the human Eggs, Solar cell theory, Meta Materials and Magnetic Resonance Techniques recent are listed.  4th century BC minister Kautilya credited with rising Maurya Dynasty in India, which expelled Alexander from North India, and unified the subcontinent for the first time under a single rule. India reached its high territorial mark in the third century BC, when its revered Emperor ruled a territory comprising the entire today’s India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and parts of Afghanistan and Iran. .”How can you be an Indian without knowing Sanskrit”, many a pracharyas assert. School’s under KVs formula for transition to Sanskrit covers class VI, class VII and class VIII syllabi issued on Tuesday Nov 19, would be a graded effort.  CBSE affiliated schools would have compulsory Sanskrit teaching till class 12 but Supreme Court of India, verdict allows to introduce Sanskrit only the next year. A house in HSR Layout has become the first and smallest solar power-generating station in the country after the Bangalore.  Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with the house owner on Monday. According to the agreement, the household will supply power at a cost of Rs 9.56 per unit as fixed by the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission. Japan and China earthquakes, with huge human losses on the Sunday 23 November 2014 created panic but the three nuclear installations in Japan are intact with 80,000 people in China were made homeless. Putting off the street light opposite our house main gate, on the 25 Nov 2014, NARASIMHA ASHRAM, till to-date 30th November, with intention of major unlawful activities seems, to have become a nasty business.

INTRODUCTION

World order

        4th century BC minister Kautilya credited with rising Maurya Dynasty in India, which expelled Alexander from North India, and unified the subcontinent for the first time under a single rule. India reached its high territorial mark in the third century BC, when its revered Emperor Ashoka ruled a territory comprising the entire today’s India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and parts of Afghanistan and Iran.

 

General

A. Sanskrit

          Sanskrit dwelled in the years 3072BCE, 2872BCE and 2848BCE when recitations of Bhagavatham, and discourses on Krishna Leela took place when saints and devotees participated. Kalidas maintained chaste Sanskrit. His plays Shoodrak and Bhavbhooti retained the elites spoke in chaste Sanskrit. Bhim Rao Ambedkar in August-September 1949, mooted in the Constituent Assembly, presented a memorandum and an amendment to substitute Sanskrit as the official language which was backed by several prominent people including Rajendra Prasad. Nehru described it as the greatest treasure that India possesses a magnificent inheritance influencing the life of our people, and prospers basic genius of India. Uma Bharati suggested Sanskrit can replace English as the country’s link language. 11th century poet Sriharsha, described that several kings in the swayamvar, in Satyayuga era, of Damyanthi (who married King Nala), conversed in Sanskrit. Adi Sankara (788-820CE) who travelled length and breadth of India used Sanskrit in his discourses everywhere. Article 343 of the constitution has no mention of Sanskrit as a National language of India. Sanskrit literature is the treasure trove of learning. Supreme Court of India, verdict to introduce Sanskrit only next year in Schools.

  1. MONKS OF INDIA

            A monk performed a feat of recalling 500 items and the note keepers and the audience have confirmed his achievement. He performed the feat in Vallabhai Patel stadium in Mumbai on Sunday 23rd Nov. A capacity crowd of 6000 people watched the event of the monk. The school children are encouraged to use meditation to enhance their brain power. The power of mind is stated to be very immense, once you get rid of distractions.


  1. USA LARGEST SNOW EVENT
            Depending on where the heaviest bands set up, this means some locations south of Buffalo could be looking at week-long totals of seven to nine feet. The largest snow event on record in Buffalo was 81.6 inches in 2001, about seven feet, which accumulated over the course of five days. While snowfall records are not kept for locations other than Buffalo itself, seven feet is still a good indicator of a historic snow event in the region. Massive mounds of snow are piling up in western New York. More than four feet of snow fell in parts of Buffalo on Tuesday, November 25, while a second storm is expected Thursday. Temperatures dropped below freezing from coast to coast. (AP)
 D.   G20 Summit

I wish to join my other colleagues and congratulate President Dilma Rousseff on her re-election as the President of Brazil, Modi said in his opening remarks at the BRICS LEADERS’ MEET here on the sidelines of the G20 Summit.

E.   PM's wife

Jashodaben files RTI about security other facilities she is entitled, to Mehsana [Nov 24, 2014, PTI].  She also expressed unhappiness about the current security set-up, where her guards travel in government vehicles like car, while despite being a PM's wife, she has to travel in public transport.

F.   Earliest ice on record appears on Great Lakes


          CBC News: Nov 24, 2014 at 12:41 PM ET

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the ice formation on Lake Superior at this time of year is the earliest ever recorded on any of the Great Lakes since records started being kept more than 40 years ago.
 

G. Thieves had broken the street lights

26 November 2014 Last updated at 06:56 : ATM machine stolen And finally, thieves in Delhi managed to take away an ATM machine after failing to steal the cash, reports say. They also took the CCTV cameras installed inside the Union Bank of India. The police also said that thieves had broken the street lights before uprooting the cash dispenser, the NDTV website reports.

What surprised most is that breaking of the street lights opposite our house main gate, on the 25 Nov 2014, NARASIMHA ASHRAM in 17-11-10, Official Colony, Maharanipeta P. O, Visakhapatnam for stealing, the card shed galvanized sheet covers of each 5’x11’ size that were stolen, in spite that there was a night watchman next door, seems to be a habit of the thieves routine pattern of making easy money. People puts as, the drunkards who make paltry money, from the stolen property. Of course, the thefts are also designed to develop a fear complex among the residents, to continue their habit of making easy money, for whatever the designed avocations of dreadful supporters of these inhuman acts.

H.  TURTLES AND DINOSURE

          ‘Tree of life’ sequence places turtles in the group ‘Achelosauria’ with dinosaurs, crocodiles and birds.

I.      Philae COMET DATA

Scientists say they detected what might be complex carbon compounds on the surface of the comet the craft landed on two weeks ago. The detection of carbon supports a view that comets may have brought key chemicals to Earth to kick-start life. A very large signal implies presence of what are basically organic (carbon) compounds. There is a rich signal there. It is not simple. It is not like there are two compounds, there are clearly a lot of things, there are a lot of peaks. Sometimes a complicated compound can give a lot of peaks. The "peaks" refer to the graph produced by the Ptolemy instrument of the different molecules it detected. The result is in line with initial observations made by a similar German-led instrument on Philae.

 


Fig.A Comet Philae Lander data reveals, significantly
large presence, of organic compounds.

 
Physical techniques

 A.   Optic phonon

Optic phonons, or crystal vibrations that can be excited with infrared light, can also be used to confine light to dimensions much smaller than the wavelength of light, while maintaining record-high efficiencies. These surface phonon polaritons are analogous to electron oscillations in metals or doped-semiconductors, called plasmons, but offer the benefit of low losses and operation in the infrared to terahertz spectral regions.

B.   freeze the HUMAN eggs

          Silicon-Valley technology giants have offered $20,000 to both full-time and part time employees to freeze their egg, in liquid nitrogen in cryogenic jars, and $480 annually to store them in order to enable these women to FOCUS on their careers and delay child bearing. Big question is what are the rights of an unborn child? Young companionship of parents denied of healthy parents to these frozen egg children, this angle seems to have been totally neglected. Unless clear legislated policy is enacted frozen egg children seems to be a exploitative message [News Dt. Nov. 22, 2014].

C.   SOLAR CELLS THEORY

The holes move inside the tungsten Diselenide layer, the electrons, on the other hand, migrate into the Molybednium disulphide. The material could be used for glass fronts, letting most of the light in, but still creating electricity. As it only consists of a few atomic layers, it is extremely light weight (300 square meters weigh only one gram), and very flexible.

D.   Metamaterials

Meta-materials are artificial composites of various materials designed to exhibit optical properties not anticipated in nature. One such property is hyperbolicity, whereby a material exhibits both metallic- and dielectric-like optical responses simultaneously along different crystal axes. These hyperbolic metamaterials are the basis for many potential applications such as 'hyper-lenses,' used for imaging of nano-scale objects not observable using conventional optics.

E.   MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING TECHNOLOGY

           The location where memories are generated has been found with much better accuracy never achieved before [Nov 26 2014 news DZNE: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases].

F.     New York, Nov 29. The titanium carbide clay, can be ea easily molded like cookie dough, which belongs to a class of materials known as MXenes, could serve as battery material for next generation cars, mobile devices and even power grid super-capacitors. The clay, which already exhibits conductivity on par with that of metals, can be turned into a film - usable in an electrode - simply by rolling or pressing it. "Both the physical properties of the clay, consisting of two-dimensional titanium carbide particles, as well as its performance characteristics, seem to make it an exceptionally viable candidate for use in energy storage devices like batteries and super-capacitors,

G.  SMARTPHONE

              London Nov.26: 'Super Wi-Fi' network that reached your smart-phone via TV frequencies, facilitates to down load songs and transfer movies. The low-range TV frequencies are highly suited for penetrating obstacles such as walls.

F.  NEW POLARIZER LCD DISPLAYS

          New York Nov.24: Research led by an Indian-origin engineer has led to a polarising filter that allows in more light, leading the way for mobile device displays that last much longer on a single battery charge and cameras that can shoot in dim light.

 PROTECTION OF EARTH

Scientists find invisible space shield protecting the Earth.


November 26, 2014: University of Zurich

 The genetic material DNA can survive a flight through space and re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, and still pass on genetic information. Scientists obtained these astonishing results during an experiment on the TEXUS-49 research rocket mission.

OBSERVATIONS

          The Philae’s data to earth twice per day opened on Friday Nov.14 at 2130GMT closed at 0036GMT shifted itself slightly rotated larger solar panel to absorb more sun light.  A drill sample would shed light on origins of Solar system 4.6billion years ago, and may be even life on Earth. No data as yet whether a sample obtained by the drill. The Lander’s planned mission ended after about 64 hours when its batteries ran out, but not before it delivered a full set of results that are now being analyzed by scientists across Europe.

FIRST SANSKRIT ANIMATION MOVIE

          A techie from Bengaluru and an animator have plans to develop a Kannada folk song story, of a conflict between cow and a tiger that narrates, Punyakoti a man-animal conflict in the growing world of humanity, in Sanskrit language because of its “SCIENTIFIC” algorithm. It would be ready by 2016!  News of 18th Nov 2014.

INDIAN NAVY FAILED TO LOCATE
          The wreck of the naval Torpedo Recovery vessel (TRV: A-72) has been located sunk at a depth of 370meters by video-graphy (remotely operated vessel ROV) of MV Olympic Canyon of a private Reliance Company, on Tuesday November 18th , a job that Indian Navy miserably failed to fulfill in spite, of its extensive surveys spending lot of money and expertise.
Sun’s rotating magnet pulls lightning towards UK Nov 19

            The sun may be playing a part in the generation of lightning strikes on Earth by temporarily 'bending' the Earth's magnetic field and allowing a shower of energetic particles to enter the upper atmosphere.
Fig.B  Suns rotating magnet pulls lightning towards UK Nov 19 2014.

FLASH MEMORY NATURE TODAY 20 NOV

          West-CHEM school of Chemistry, University of Glasgow team and 12 other Scientists published details about engineered molecular flash memory using nano-scale polyoxomethalate clusters. It retains the data written on it, even when power supply is discontinued. For this reason it is termed as non-volatile memory. A published letter in ‘Nature Today’ dated November 20, describes the molecule doped with selenium derivative [(Se (IV) 03) 2] 2-, a new type of oxidation state (5+) observed. Observed at the device level can be used as a memory. In Digital cameras, USBs and other places it can be used to retain data.

The Dutch research team tried an entirely different approach to creating cozy LEDs. The scientists had noticed that when they embedded LEDs in coated textiles or transparent materials, the color of the emitted light would sometimes change.
Visakhapatnam Avenue lights on the beach road and national high ways have already been deployed with embedded LEDs nearly a week ago Saturday 15th November.
EARLY WINTER IN U.S.A:
          Heavy snow storms on Wednesday stranded motorists, with eight people dead, in Northeastern United States. Buffalo city received 5 feet (1.5 m) of snow. A snow storm in Buffalo Erie country area, with all 50 states in USA experienced sub-freezing temperatures on Tuesday.  Snow has been accumulating since Tuesday morning, and the lake effect is expected punish the area again.  CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. — A ferocious storm continued to slam into the Buffalo area on Thursday, adding more than a foot of snow to a region that has barely begun to dig itself out from the mountain of snow that fell in the last 48 hours.  Some people were stranded in their cars for as long as two days. In Lancaster, N.Y., where 10 more inches of snow fell overnight, adding to the 60 inches on the ground on Wednesday, the streets looked like a stage set for a dystopian movie, where snow has claimed dominion over mankind. The snow fell so fast that it quickly packed into a solid mass, making plowing impossible. The only option was to use heavy machinery to pick up snow and haul it away, a slow, grinding effort. Announced on Wednesday that they would pay people $10 an hour to help clear an estimated 2, 20, 000 tons of snow from around the stadium so the team would be ready to play on Sunday. The border between Lancaster and Depew, one of the hardest hit areas, and has not had heat for three days. Thursday Nov.20, it piled up 2.4m snow on the ground in New York city of Buffalo. They looked out a window and saw the snow falling anew, the Buffalo sky turning iron gray again. Ten inches of snow had fallen overnight, adding to the 60 inches on the ground on Wednesday. In Lancaster, Orchard Park and Cheektowaga, three of the area’s hardest-hit towns, cornices of ice and snow blanketing house roofs dipped down like frozen custard toppings, merging with snow-banks that towered eight feet from the ground.

22 November 2014 updated at 05:30

The state remains paralyzed by "historic" levels of snowfall. The city of Buffalo was estimated to have received as much snow in three days as it normally gets in a year. Floods fear as snowfall in north-eastern US subsides. More than 30 roof collapses in the area were reported overnight. Officials in New York State are worried buildings may collapse when the rain arrives, because it initially will add to the weight of snow lying on roofs.

RASHTRIA SANSKRIT SANSTHANA
          German ambassador on Wednesday reached RSS for retention of German language as a third language in INDIA.  The agreement signed in 2011 lapsed for teaching German in KVs and government has not agreed to retain it. KVs formula for transition to Sanskrit covers class VI, class VII and class VIII syllabi issued on Tuesday Nov 19, would be a graded effort.  CBSE- affiliated schools would have compulsory Sanskrit teaching till class 12.”How can you be an Indian without knowing Sanskrit”, many a pracharyas assert. Some schools had been to courts for preventing the introduction of Sanskrit, almost just prior to the examinations in Schools [News on 21st Nov 2014].

WEATHER ON 20 NOV.
 

          It is very cloudy and chilly day, but with no rain and might be a sequel to the sudden heavy snow in USA. New York reports temperatures to remain below normal from Midwest to east coast until the week end. A total of three to four feet(0.9 to 1.2meters) of snow in western New York and as much as six feet (1.8meters) elsewhere. The snow fell at the rate of five inches i.e.13cm an hour and some areas in USA recorded 24-hour snow fall to 78inches, i.e. 193cms. New York 10 counties declared emergency. In the south of USA a record chill from Arctic-born cold that swept rocky mountain held at 2am on Tuesday women’s basket ball team. Firefighters used snowmobiles to deliver blankets and other supplies to stranded motorists in New York State.
 

Fig.1  Deep freeze in USA on Wednesday 19 Nov. 2014
 early winter! Buffalo-snow-pictures-slide-IB1A-jumbo, Photo2612.
 

Fig.2 Deep freeze snow in Hamburg NY
Wednesday 20 Nov 2014.
Fig.3 Deep freeze snow 21SNOW:
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house wife’S feet: solar power at Rs.9.56 PER UNIT

The residence of Lalitha Shankaranarayana now generates about eight units of solar power per day and can export up to five units per day to the grid, on a sunny day. A home turns power-generating station in Bengaluru. Bengaluru, Nov 18, 2014, DHNS: A house in HSR Layout has become the first and smallest solar power-generating station in the country after the Bengaluru Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with the house owner on Monday. According to the agreement, the household will supply power at a cost of Rs 9.56 per unit as fixed by the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission. Bescom has agreed to procure power from the house for 25 years. The agreement can be terminated at the will of the seller.

   Fig.4 The residence of Lalitha Shankaranarayana

now generates  about eight units of solar power.

WEATHER IN INDIA

On 16th and 17th Nov 2014 at Visakhapatnam were Sunny days throughout.

Recorded minimum temperatures of 140 C at Ramagundam, 160 C at Nizamabad, Hakimpeta and Medak districts, 170 C at Hyderabad and Kalingapatnam, Nandigama recorded 190 C on Thursday November 20th. Weather would remain, with no low pressure systems till November 27th. Weather on 21st and 22nd seems to be pretty mild with the Sun not at full blaze due to the polluted winter sky of Visakhapatnam city and as well in Muralinagar the place of stay of Dr. Lalitha Kumari MD (USA). But the heat of the Sun was felt on both days due to the partially covered sky. Totally a cloudy day, 23rd Nov 2014 with no Sun light at all in Muralinagar.

EARTHQUAKE JAPAN 23 NOVEMBER

The magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck yesterday near Nagano city, Hakuba town in Nagano prefecture on Sunday 23 November 2014, shortly after 10 pm (1300 GMT) at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Extensive damage in the mountainous area of central Japan occurred. The US Geological Survey measured the quake's magnitude at 6.2. Since the quake occurred inland. 37 homes collapsed. Nuclear reactors three of them are safe in the affected areas.

 


Fig.5  the 23rd Nov 2014 Japan earthquake.

TREMORS STRUCK CHINA
          5 killed and 80,000 affected as tremor strikes with epicenter at Tagong township, China on Sunday 23 November 2014, of magnitude 6.3R in Sichuan province and victims treated in hospital in Kangding County on Sunday.

WEATHER
          Visakhapatnam on Sunday 23 November was totally cloudy with no rain might be a sequel to the Japan Earthquake and China Tremors.

          On 24 Nov. 2014 it was very hot with full Sun shine in Visakhapatnam but pleasantly, there was wind blowing that kept the city cool.

LOW PRESSURE ON 25 NOV
          It would affect South Tamil Nadu due to the influence of an upper air circulation over south Andaman Sea and at 1.5km above mean sea level. This may not affect AP weather bureau announced. Minimum temperatures have fallen down. The author noticed the weather in Visakhapatnam was cloudy, at around 12h30mPM on Wednesday 26th Nov with passing of stray clouds. Adjoining Equatorial region of Indian Ocean is under influence of this low pressure. Adilabad recorded 100C.

Putting off the street lights opposite our house main gate, on the 25 Nov 2014, NARASIMHA ASHRAM, with intention of major unlawful activities seems, to have become a nasty business.

HUDHUD EFFECT ON OCEAN

          It has been noticed that the HUDHUD has churned up the coastal Indian Ocean resulting in bringing up the nutrients elements of the bottom of the sea to the surface. The sighting of bottle neck dolphins points to rise in fish populace. The plankton, mackerel and sardines, other diverse group of organism which form crucial source of food for all varieties of fish have been brought up. The bottle neck dolphins, feed on the yellow fin tuna fish, surprisingly, not far from Visakhapatnam coast. On an average Lawson’s bay, Bheemili and Pudimadaka beaches fetch about 70,000tonnes of fish. News dated 26th Nov 2014.


Fig.6 Dolphin at Vizag feeding the small fish brought up from Ocean bed.

27 Nov 2014 USA

          A Nor’easter that is expected to dump several inches of snow from Washington D.C., to Boston, news at 12h28m, is dampening holiday travel for many travelers this THANKS GIVING.

 


Fig.7 about 12+ inches in Snowshoe, WV and still coming down!

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The 27th Nov 2014 happens to be a very chilly day, and with very mild, Sun with atmosphere covered by clouds mild and transparent.

Fig.8a House Narasimha Ashram front yard
with the empty space of stolen shed galvanized sheets Photo2638.

 
Fig.8b the famous ‘sepanga flowering’ yellow fragrant tree
from Tirupati planted by Dr. Ramaleela years ago
bent due to the HUDHUD hit at our home Photo2640.

 
Fig.8c The recovered only one galvanized sheet
of the car shed with others stolen on 26 Nov 2014
at 22hrs night from the compound Photo26411.

Fig.9 The rainy clouds of separated wave forms
Developed in Visakhapatnam, after the USA unseasonal snow and
melting generation of water flow Photo2642. 

The 28th November in Visakhapatnam was very cloudy, except for a few hours of the Sun light from 10AM to 2PM. Overcast sky is not threatening to rain. The 29th November was pretty hot day of the winter season, during the total day there was  full Sun light blazing and no wind, but comfortable. The 30th November began with a hot sun from morning 8AM a bit unusual in view that past few days it was cloudy and cool weather.

 

 

 
       Fig.10a Beach Visakhapatnam
at 5h41mPM on 30th Nov 2014.

 
 
 


Fig.10b Beach Visakhapatnam
at 5h41mPM on 30th Nov 2015.
 
  Fig.10a and Fig.10b depict the Visakhapatnam Beach shore around 5h41m PM and the beach has receded notably from the shore, today being the purva bhadra [Navami the 9th day of the full moon on 6th December] up to 3h46mAM of 1st December 2014.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

       I am grateful to Late Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) for his unbound interest in my research and it was his encouragement that sustained me through the years of my Science & Technology academic effort.



 
       

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