February 2016, from 1 to 16 Feb First Fort Night

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Volume 2016, Issue No. 2, Dated: 1 to 16 February 2016, Time: 9:56 AM

February 2016, from 1 to 16 First Fortnight Post 

Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,

(Retd. Prof. of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004)

Res: 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,

Maharanipeta. P. O., Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P. Mobile: 09491902867.

kotcherlakoa_l_n@hotmail.com

   lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

                                Schools have been closed and transport disrupted across Scotland as Storm Henry sweeps in with gusts close to 90 mph on 1 Feb 2016. Gusts of 70-80 mph are expected with 90 mph possible on the west coast. Electro- lithography Patent filed in December 2014, the process of lithography is straightforward 1 Feb 2016.There are about 160 Swedish companies operating in India providing direct employment to 160,000 people and indirect employment to over one million people. China, Russia, Bangladesh, Japan, Taiwan and Philippines had earthquakes. Recent was in India at Nellore, a mild earthquake. A major storm system brought a mix of bad weather on Tuesday Feb 2, 2016, to much of the central United States, with a band of tornadoes downing trees in Alabama and Mississippi and heavy snow blanketing the northern Midwest. Russian space-walkers set off to retrieve biological samples that have been outdoors seven years, and put out some new science trays. Sakurajima volcano in Japan erupts. In southern Kagoshima prefecture erupted at 6:56 pm (0956 GMT). The Guardian‎:3 hours ago today 19h 41m PM, Feb 5, 2016. Evening on Saturday Feb 5, 2016 the sky was red in colour reflecting the volcanic eruptions in Japan. The New Year 2016, also known as the Spring Festival, is marked by the Lunisolar Chinese calendar, as on 8 Feb. Celebrated the day with dedication and giving pitru THARPANALU, in memory of their ancient forefathers and fathers, as per the HINDU calendar, from 10.14 AM on Sunday, 7 Feb 2016 to 8.00 PM on Monday 8 Feb 2016 at several places in India. Snow fell heavily in the state of north-eastern, Manchester in US, delayed traffic and voters braved plunging temperatures and freezing winds on late Monday, 8 Feb 2016. Houses, Vehicles and trees came under a sheet of snow after a heavy snow fall in Shimla on Monday 8 Feb 2016. Mild tremors measuring 4.6 R in Central Nepal, the aftershocks were recorded at Sindhupalcowk 100 km East of Kathmandu at 10.22 PM yesterday. Report on 11 February 2016. A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit the New Zealand city of Christchurch Sunday, 14 Feb 2016, seismologists said, sending goods flying off shelves. New Hampshire /2016/02/14 passengers evacuated from stranded mountain trams frigid temperatures. 02.14.16 | 3:25 PM. Life threatening cold wave sweeps across north-east US. Temperature in Boston dropped to -21.7 C overnight but feel as cold as -34.4 C with the wind chill.   I felt very shaky and decided to have rest, postponing slightly the act of offering milk, kept ready by 6.25 AM, to the Sun God and dumping it in the ground before the just Sun rise. It was  14 Feb 2016, Ratha Sapthami  day of Sun God.    

INTRODUCTION

          

Fig.1 A lightning strike on top of a building
   

1 February 2016 updated at 16:27 GMT

                   Schools have been closed and transport disrupted across Scotland as Storm Henry sweeps in with gusts close to 90 mph. Gusts of 70-80 mph are expected with 90 mph possible on the west coast. Weather forecasters have predicted the worst of the weather will hit on Monday night and in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

           In a paper published today in Nature communications the ASACUSA collaboration reports the unambiguous detection of 80 anti-hydrogen atoms 2.7 m downstream of their production, where the perturbing influence of the magnetic fields used initially to produce the anti-atoms is small. This result is a significant step towards precise hyperfine spectroscopy of anti-hydrogen atoms. In 2011, the ALPHA experiment announced trapping of anti-hydrogen atoms for 1000 seconds and reported observation of hyperfine transitions of trapped anti-atoms  2012. In 2013, the  ATRAP experiment announced the first direct measurement of the anti-proton's magnetic moment with a fractional precision of 4.4 parts in a million. At ALPHA, physicists study the anti-hydrogen particles by first combining an anti-proton and a positron (the antimatter equivalent of an electron) to make anti-hydrogen, which they trap in a magnetic field. They then kick the trapped particles with an electric field to see if they react. If an anti-hydrogen reacts and escapes from the trap then it means it has a charge, if it does not then it’s neutral. 

IISc’s invention Mr. Santanu Talukder: 1 Feb 2016

                Environment-friendly: Electro- lithography: Patent filed in December 2014: The process of lithography is straightforward. You take a transparent glass plate, coat it with a layer of a suitable polymer. On top of this, add a layer of chromium, then you dig a trench of the desired pattern on the chromium layer so that parts of the polymer layer are exposed. Using acetone, dissolve the exposed polymer and remove those parts of it. This caused a gap to be formed in the polymer-chromium sandwich. This whole assemblage functions like the negative of a developed photo film. Now, if the metal of choice is “sputtered” on to this sandwich, it will go and occupy the gap that’s been created and directly fall on the glass plate. In this way, the desired pattern using a metal of choice can be formed. This pattern will have a width equal to the width of the trench and thickness equal to the polymer layer. The crucial difference between existing processes and this one is in the manner of digging the trench. Here, the researchers use electrodes that are widely separated from each other. The very thin cathode, when it moves like a nib over the chromium layer, causes the metal to heat up, dissolve and flow out. This makes a trench whose width is nearly that of the electrode tip. Other techniques, the e-beam lithography which is very popular, or the optical lithography using ultraviolet light, involve machines that cost a few crores of rupees whereas this set up could be assembled at a cost price of some Rs. 20 lakhs.

KUWAIT
      Saud Arabia, Kuwait covered with snowfall, made people in Taiuku, Arrar and northern areas experiencing -10 degrees cold, and even in the midday around 12 PM the darkness.

 ANDHRA PRADESH

                 Andhra Pradesh recorded warm temperatures since Yesterday 1 February 2016, and Nandigamma registered 39 C, which is about 7 degrees higher of this season, and Visakhapatnam shot up from 19 C, to 24.2 C within a few days. Since 3 morning it is very cool  in Visakhapatnam, though temperature to day Feb 5, 2016, is 29 C. But night temperature at Nandigamma was about 17 C. Middle India and Telangana registered higher temperatures during day time. Delhi, Mumbai and several other North India places are having smoggy conditions till morning 10 AM.

BAD WEATHER 

                   A major storm system brought a mix of bad weather on Tuesday Feb 2, 2016, to much of the central United States, with a band of tornadoes downing trees in Alabama and Mississippi and heavy snow blanketing the northern Midwest. The National Weather Service said eight tornadoes had hit eastern Mississippi and another had struck western Alabama, with another two possible in the state. The Mississippi storms had blown roofs off flipped mobile homes and downed trees.

VISAKHAPATNAM
          Feeling hot weather since Feb 1, 2016 and the evenings becoming more Sunny day-by-day  with the onset of summer, and use of ceiling fans became a necessity during the nights. The sun shine  persisting after 5.45 PM since Feb 1, 2016. The country Bharat is experiencing very hot weather during this winter season, IMD reports on Tuesday 2 Feb 2016, unheard of  earlier especially in December  2015. Anti-cyclone weather affecting the middle north India. Contrastingly, the smog weather in the coastal districts of AP began on Tuesday, early morning, but day temperatures are very high by about 3 to 6 degrees, excess that might continue for the next three days. It continued up to 16 Feb 2016.

Fig.2 Hot weather in Visakhapatnam

 10 Army soldiers missing in Siachen avalanche: Feb 3, 2016, 03.19 PM IST

              Feb 3, 2016: At least 10 Army Jawans are missing after an avalanche hit Siachen's Northern Glacier in Jammu and Kashmir. The soldiers were hit as they patrolled a glacier at an altitude of 5,800 metres (19,000 feet), in the early hours of today, 10 soldiers were hit by an avalanche at the northern Siachen Glacier while on patrol, Avalanches and landslides are common in the area during the winter and temperatures there can drop as low as minus 60 degrees Celsius (140 Fahrenheit).

EARTH QUAKES

                          Kathmandu, February 5: 10:26 PM IST: A 5.2 magnitude earthquake on Friday evening struck close to Kathmandu, shaking much of the capital of Nepal. Around 10 people are reportedly injured Anamnagar area of Kathmandu. Tremors were also felt in parts of Bihar including Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi, Bettiah, Darbhanga and  Raxaul. An Earthquake in Nepal: 5.5 magnitude quake forces residents to rush out of homes; over 15 people injured. The quake was epi-centred at Sindhupalchowk district, 55 km, north-east of Kathmandu. Earthquake in Nepal: A moderate quake measuring 5.5 magnitude on the Richter scale today hit Nepal’s capital and its tourist hub Pokhra, injuring 15 people. The quake was epi-centred at Sindhupalchowk district, 55 km, north-east of Kathmandu. 
           At 03:57 local time 19:57 UTC) on 6 February 2016, an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.4 struck 28 km (17 mi) north-east of Pinqtung City in southern Taiwan, in Meinong District of Kaohsiung. The earthquake struck at a depth of around 23 km (14 mi), with the earthquake having a maximum intensity of VII (Very strong) on the Mercalli scale, causing widespread damage and at least 26 deaths. Five aftershocks occurred, during strong earthquake at 05:07 am on Jan 4, 2016 Source: Monipur, India. Magnitude 6.7.

Bangladesh Earthquake: 2016-01-03:23-05-22-utc-6-7-55: Strong Earthquake Hits North-east India, Records 6.7 on Richter Scale: Massive Earthquake in Bangladesh 04 Jan 2016.

Big Solar Eruption, M7.2 Earthquake | S0 News Jan.30.2016

Indonesia: A strong 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Talaud Islands north of Sulawesi today but there was no threat of a tsunami, seismologists said. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said there was no tsunami threat from the quake.In its preliminary impact assessment, the USGS said there was a low likelihood of casualties and damage from the tremor. Indonesia sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity in the region.  A 6.9 quake struck in the Banda Sea in December sparked panic but no reports of damage or casualties. Moderate earthquake - Biha, Indonesia on January 4, 201621:05:39 . Depth (Hypocenter): 29.19 km

Philippine: Monday 1 Feb 2016: The quake hit at 00:38 am local time (1638 GMT), and was centred around 300 kilometres (190 miles) north-east of Manado and 320 km south-east of the Philippine city of General Santos.

Russia on February 3, 2016: Moderate earthquake:Caucasus Region, February 3, 2016 at 6:42 pm: Magnitude: 4.2: Local Time (conversion only below land): 2016-02-03 20:05:55: GMT/UTC Time : 2016-02-03 17:05:55: Depth (Hypocenter) : 138 km. RUSSIA on 2016-02-04 at 00:18:24 UTC Magnitude: 5.0 SOUTHWESTERN SAKHA.  Location 57.84 North; 124.20 East: Depth 10 km: 1356 km North of Harbin.

China Earthquake

The disaster has struck the country's south-western Sichuan province at 00:02 AM GMT (8:02 AM local time) on Saturday, at a depth of around 13 km (7.6 miles).

Taiwan Earthquake 

              A 16-storey tower block was toppled by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in southern Taiwan on Saturday Feb 6, 2016, with rescuers battling to free residents still trapped inside. The shallow quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres around 1.30 AM, according to the US Geological Survey, 39 kilometres north-east of Kaohsiung, the second-largest city on the island and an important port. The quake was initially reported as having a magnitude of 6.7, but was downgraded to 6.4.

               Moderate Earthquake: on February 5, 2016 at 10:02 pm: Magnitude: 4.4: Local Time (conversion only below land): 2016-02-06 05:07:19: GMT/UTC Time: 2016-02-05 21:07:19: Depth (Hypocenter) 25 km.

 OUTDOOR BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES IN SPACE

                Russians took a space-walk Wednesday to install fresh experiments outside the International Space Station and gather biological samples stuck outside for years. With that accomplished, the space-walkers set off to retrieve biological samples that have been outdoors seven years, and put out some new science trays. They also planned to test a new glue that might prove useful in years to come on the station's exterior.

FUSION DEVICE! Scientists to inject fuel in experimental fusion device:  4 hours ago on 3 Feb 2016 at 20h35m IST PM.  GREIFSWALD, Germany (AP)

            Scientists in north-east Germany were poised to flip the switch Wednesday on an experiment they hope will advance the quest for nuclear fusion, considered a clean and safe form of nuclear power. Researchers at the MaxPlanck Institute in Greifswald planned to inject a tiny amount of hydrogen and heat it until it becomes a super-hot gas known as plasma, mimicking conditions inside the sun. It's part of a world-wide effort to harness nuclear fusion, a process in which atoms join at extremely high temperatures and release large amounts of energy. Advocates acknowledge that the technology is probably many decades away, but argue that once achieved, it could replace fossil fuels and conventional nuclear fission reactors. Construction has already begun in southern France on ITER, a huge international research reactor that uses a strong electric current to trap plasma inside a doughnut-shaped device long enough for fusion to take place. The device, known as a tokamak, was conceived by Soviet physicists in the 1950s and is considered fairly easy to build, but extremely difficult to operate. The team in Greifswald, a port city on Germany's Baltic coast, is focused on a rival technology invented by the American physicist Lyman Spitzer in 1950. Called a stellarator, the device has the same doughnut shape as a tokamak but uses a complicated system of magnetic coils instead of a current to achieve the same result.
JAPAN VOLCANO

              Sakurajima volcano in Japan erupts. In southern Kagoshima prefecture erupted at 6:56 pm (0956 GMT). The Guardian‎:3 hours ago today 19h 41m PM, Feb 5, 2016. A volcano has erupted in southern Japan, sending an orange burst into the sky and lava. Lava rolled down mountain’s slope and smoke billows into sky after eruption in southern Japan. The country’s meteorological agency said Sakurajima erupted at about 7 PM local time (10 AM GMT). The public broadcaster NHK showed dark grey smoke billowing into the sky and lightening. The eruption shot out large rocks, with the agency warning debris and pyroclastic flows, super-hot and fast-moving mixture of gases and rock fragments, could reach as far as two kilometres (1.25 miles) away from the eruption vents.

COST OF SOLAR POWER              
          The US complaint in 2013 alleged that the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission subsidies were available only if developers used equipment produced in India, violating a key global trade rule. The programme is aimed at easing chronic energy shortages in India, Asia’s third-largest economy. The Obama administration argued that the rules are a barrier to solar products made in America and elsewhere but also effectively raised the cost of generating solar power in India and were extending the country’s dependence on fossil fuels.

COASTAL CLOUDS
            Cool breeze from the Ocean in Rayalseema, Coastal area and Telengana regions accompanied with  rainy clouds. On Friday 5 Feb 2016, several places in Visakhapatnam there were slight spills of light rain. In both the states, daily temperatures were about one to two degrees higher than normal. Kurnool registered about 36 C. On Saturday and Sunday the city experienced cloudy weather. Evening on Saturday Feb 5, 2016 the sky was red in colour reflecting the Volcanic eruptions in Japan.

8 Feb 2016  MONKEY NEW YEAR CHINA
Each sign has one year Time.

                   The new year, also known as the Spring Festival, is marked by the Lunisolar Chinese calendar, so the date changes from year to year. The festivities usually start the day before the New Year and continue until the Lantern Festival, the 15 day of the new year.

                                                      

Fig.3 Chinese symbol for New Year Monkey

The Chines e symbol for monkey. Each Chinese New Year is characterised by one of 12 animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac. The Chinese zodiac is divided into 12 blocks (or houses) just like its western counterpart, but with the major difference being that each house has a time-length of one year instead of one month. This year it's the Year of the Monkey, the ninth animal in the cycle. The next Year of the Monkey will be in 2028. What does your Chinese zodiac sign mean? In Chinese astrology, the 12 animal zodiac signs each have unique characteristic Chinese sign  that implies!!! Dragon: Lucky, flexible, eccentric, imaginative, artistic, spiritual, charismatic.

Fig.4a NEW YEAR Chinese 3.6 bn celebrated on 8 Feb 2016

Fig.4b The 12 years chakra of Chinese to celebrate

 this new year on 8 Feb 2016

INDIA SRIKAKULAM, VISAKHAPATNAM AND ALLAHABAD

        Celebrated the day with dedication and giving pitru THARPANALU, in memory of their ancient forefathers and fathers, as per the HINDU calender, from 10.14 AM on Sunday, 7 Feb 2016 to 8.00 PM on Monday 8 Feb 2016 at several places in India. (Note: each sacred person is a manifestation of the divine women-hood of his wife with him so no separate observation made for the female deity of the family). Each region has an episode about the SACRED day. But in India they remember the seven generations of the past births of their parents of the family, and worship them to guide them piously. In Tamil Nadu, Vedaaranyam, and Kodaikuri, festival baths in the Ocean observed with pious dedication. Pushyam or else Magha Masam, Sunday Sampurna Amavashya, from Sunrise to Sun setting, has Sravana Nakshtram, Vyatheepatha yogam, (the five occuring on the same day)  regarded as sacred. Pushy masam, Amavatsya, Sravana Nakshtram, Vyatheepatha yogam the five occurrence makes the day as Mahaodayam on Monday 8 Feb 2016. Vamsadhara (Ke Matyalesham), Nagavali (Kallepalli), Mahendratanaya , rivers SANGAMA joint place people take the sacred baths. Also in Srikurmam ocean baths famous.   

                                 

Fig.5 Mahaodayam on Monday 8 Feb 2016 from Sunday 10.14 AM to
Monday 8.00 PM throughout India observed sacredly.

        Through out India all the people irrespective of cast and creed observe these dedication for the ancestral.
PHOTO FROM SPACE
       Three countries photographed from Space with the aurora of the Earth.         

                               Fig.6 457776 Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands . jpg

INDIA BC-ANCIENT AN ACCOUNT

             Iron age initiated sea travels by Telugu people from Andhra, picked up full bright during the Satavahana Dynasty. In the north Kalingpatnam, middle the Machilipatnam in Divi seema theNagaya Lanka, Potharlanka, Koduru, Ghantasala, Majeru, Nizampatnam, Chinnaganjam, Duggirajyapatna, Ramaya patnam located sea ports foreign trades have developed as three fruits and as six vegitates. Pleany written natural historia, in BC77-80 and unknown greek writer in BC 80-90, Periplus Merius Errithrayi, CladiusTolmy written Gography, detail out the facts of trade between Roman Market and Telugu people. Executive clothes, bringing Golden and Silver coins of trade with India fluorished unbound. Pleany mentioned it in BC 80. Nero and Wessaciyan  used substituted golden coins of unworthy materials. Imports were restricted by them with the help of Sashanalu. In Visakhapatnam, Bavikonda, Thotlakonda, Pavuralakond, Guntur Zillah, Nagarjunakonda, Nellore zillah Puduru, Telangan Karimnagar, Peddabunkur, Dhullikatta, Kotalingalu, Nelagonda zillah, Phanigiri, Eleswaram, Mahaabu zillaha, Kudali, Sangameswara, excavations yielded the golden coins. Nalagonda    zillah Akkinenipalli, karimnagar Sultanpur,Kamma zillah Dharmavari pallem, Nagarvappadu, Medak zillah Kondapur freign golden coins were found. Andhra pradesh in Kadappa zilla Attirala, Nandalur, Guntur zilla Chebrolu, Mllayapalem,Peda Kodamagantla, Vinukonda, Prakasham zillah Paleru, Darshi, Krishna zilla Vijayawada-Vidyadhara puram, Penuganchiprolu, Kurnool zillaha, Veerapuram, Nllore zillaha Guutipalli, Srikakulam zillaha Gummada, Kotapadu, Salihundilu revealed secret treasures  of Roman Golden and Silver coins of thousands. Out of 70 Roman coin treasures, 60 were in the south, and in it in Telangana 8, Andhra 15  places found treasures reveal how much trade was with Andhra. First Roman coins found by a farmer in 1786, while tilling his land, in Nellore, depicting the Roman Emperors, Hodriyanus Agustus BC 117-138, Rani Postana BC 141, and later in Telangan Nallagonda yielded 1531 Roman coins. Krishna zillaha Penuganchiprolu yielded Roman 50 golden coins, comprising of Agustus BC 27-41 BC, Tiberius BC 14-37 about 6 coins,   Cladius Drusan BC 41-54 about 4 coins, Nero BC 54-68, about 11, Wessasis BC 69-79 about 2, Domician BC 81-96 about 1, Nerve  BC 96-98 about 3, Trajan BC 98-117 about 4, Hadrius BC 117-138 about 3, Antonius BC 138-161 about 18, Sptimus Saverse BC 198-211 about 4, Elgabus BC 218-223 about 1 MaximusBC 235-238 about 1, testifying the fact for nearly 300 years the Roman coins were plundering India of its wealth and produce for human consumption.   Ikashavasuku sashanalu depict the Suvarna (golden) Hiranya padalu (words).  Less expensive coins were used to decorate the lady ornaments, as kasulaperu, excavated in Nagarjunakonda and Veerapuram. [Emani Sivanagireddi 09848598446].

Tamil Nadu Meteorite Mystery on Saturday 6 Feb 2016 at 4 PM.        

        Meteorite Mystery deepens at Vellore, with the man was killed in a massive explosion that numbed another student and two gardeners were injured. A bakery shop located 500 meters had broken glass windows and also of the nearby houses due to the fall of this object. The sound was heard about 5 km away from the campus. A lakh of rupees was paid for the driver, Kamaraju’s death and three people would receive, said Madam Jayalalitha CM, 25,000 rupees given to the injured   Kamaraju went to wash his face at a tap near a water tank, in the parking lot of the college around noon on Saturday. The college was located at Natrampalli, about 85 km away from Vellore town.

            The spot was about 18-20 km of air distance from Bethaveppampattu, where a similar object suspected to be a meteorite fell on January 26. It created a perfect circle in a farmland, and no casualty like in the recent incidence.

           An American, Ann Hodges, injured by a softball-size hunk of black rock that broke through her ceiling of her house in Sylacauge, Alabama, in November 1954. It has hit her in the thigh, leaving a pine-apple-shaped bruise.

           The last meteor shower was on January 3 and the next one expected between April 22 and 23. There is nothing in this February month according to them. In 2013, a meteorite exploded over central Russia, raining fireballs over a vast area and causing shock wave that smashed windows, damaged buildings and injured 1200 people.

          The blast left a crater of 5 ft depth and 2 ft wide. Policemen recovered a black, pockmarked stone weighing 11 g from the blast site. Blast shattered several window panes and damaged the windscreens of buses parked nearby.  A dark blue stone was found at the scene. G. Baskar, the Principal was working in his cabin when he heard an explosion.

           The last reported death from a meteorite strike was in 1825. A similar incident happened in Kerala two years ago. The experts were able to identify it only after it stopped burning.
Manchester US

            Snow fell heavily in the state of north-eastern, Manchester in US, delayed traffic and voters braved plunging temperatures and freezing winds  on late Monday, 8 Feb 2016.

SNOW IN SHIMLA

               

Fig. 7 Houses, Vehicles and trees came under a sheet of snow 

after a heavy snow fall in Simla on Monday 8 Feb 2016.

Fig.8 A lone survivor of ten people buried under 25 feet.

                          The Siachen Glacier located at the northern tip of Kashmir is the world's highest and coldest battlefield. More soldiers have died here because of the weather and difficult terrain than in battle. At least 869 officers and soldiers have been killed there since the mid-1980s. For six days, army soldier Hanamanthappa was buried under 25 feet of snow at the Siachen Glacier, in temperatures close to minus 40 degrees since 3 Feb. A rescue team that had been chipping away at ice for days, found him and was astonished to feel a faint pulse.  A wall of ice, a km wide and 800 metres high, came crashing down on their post, though he was recovered died on the 11 Feb 2016 morning.

Ancient Water system

      Vijayapura city in Karnataka holds an underground water supply system of the years 1490 to 1686 with several constructed tunnels to supply water to the ancient cities. IHCN Indian Heritage Cities Network agency, mapping the tunnels. Karez means underground water supply system in Persian, Gunjs, overhead stone tanks, Bawadis pen wells, are the systems in the old cities. Bidar has a Karez system since 2013 being restored. Iran has about 36,000 Karez systems that are operational as on date. Several places in India have water supply systems, since ancient days, found even at Lothal. 

MILD TREMORS KATMANDU
               Mild tremors measuring 4.6 R in Central Nepal, the after shock was recorded at Sindhupalcowk 100 km East of Kathmandu at 10.22 PM yesterday. Report on 11 February 2016.  A total of 4229 aftershocks with magnitude 4 or more have been recorded after the devastating Earthquake of April 25 last year.
                

IRAN

Fig.9 Rainbow in Iran

           Iranians marking the anniversary of the 1979 revolution; airstrikes in Sanaa; rainbows making an appearance as spring weather flirts with the region.
Pune February 12, 2016 Waves replaced by Ripples!

Scientists spot elusive space-time ripples 

                After decades of search for these ripples in space-time, which Albert Einstein predicted exactly 100 years ago, scientists working with the gigantic optical instruments in the U.S. called LIGO [Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory], have detected signals of gravitational ripples emanating from two merging black holes 1.3 billion light years away arriving at their instruments on the Earth. That is to say, this cataclysmic event of two black holes merging occurred 1.3 billion years ago, when multi-cellular organisms were just beginning to form on the Earth, the gravitational ripples from which are being received now on the Earth.

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Kotcherlakota Lakshminarayana

Ripples and Waves differ. One shouldn't confuse them.
KLN: Dt.12 Feb 2016 at 09:45:16: LIGO Phys Rev Letters today 12 Feb 2016.
Kip Thorne California, said that the Universe as calm Sea has changed, and  "The colliding black holes that produced these gravitational waves created a violent storm in the fabric of space and time, a storm in which time speeded up and slowed down, and speeded up again,  a storm in which the shape of space was bent in this way and that way." 

NEW HAPPENINGS       

Fig. 10 Green and  Rose coloured fruits from the same banana fruit stock  

in Satyamandalam, Bhavanisagar in the  house of Rangaraj 64 yrs old 

CHENNAI                       

  

Fig. 11 The Sindhuram sacred flower that yields the powder

from its flower embedded seeds by crushing them.

Fig.11a The details  of Sindhur flower growth in Kadkale 

HIMALAYAN GRIFFON

Fig. 12 Himalayan Griffon spotted in South India.

          Panaji: Bird watchers delighted to find the Himalayan Griffon (vulture) report in Hindu on 13 Feb 2016. In 2013 an exhausted juvenile was rescued inThrissure district of Kerala. Multiple sighting were reported from Bangalore, and Kakinada. Earlier this year 2016 species spotted in Kaiga. They do not breed in the first three years. 

PAITHANI ANCIENT ART
     Paithani ancient techniques of tapestry threads with multiple colours, along with Gold and Silver threads, are woven together to form fascinating piece. [Neetha Lulla exhibits]

13 Feb 2016

               Sweden and India are partners in many fields such as sustainable cities, education and health, Lofven said while addressing the Sweden Country Seminar at the Make in India Week that got under way here on Saturday 13 Feb 2016. Lofven is being accompanied by a high-level business delegation to attend the mega event. There are about 160 Swedish companies operating in India providing direct employment to 160,000 people and indirect employment to over one million people. [issued by the CII said].

14 Feb 2016 Wellington

                                  

Fig.12 a:  Earth quake in New Zealand Christchurch

                 A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit the New Zealand city of Christchurch Sunday, 14 Feb 2016, seismologists said, sending goods flying off shelves. Sirens could be heard going off around the South Island city and at least one building was evacuated, according to media reports. The latest quake was measured at 5.8 by the US Geological Survey at a shallow depth of about eight km (five miles) and centred 17 km west of the city. New Zealand is on the boundary of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, which form part of the so-called "Ring of Fire", and experiences up to 15,000 tremors a year. A strong 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck near Christchurch in New Zealand on Sunday, causing cliffs to collapse into the sea but no major damage to the city. The epicentre of Sunday's quake on New Zealand's south island was 15 km (9 miles) east of Christchurch and at a shallow depth of 15 km (9 miles), There were more than 40 aftershocks.

              

14 Feb 2016 Morning around 5 AM 
Four photos of the sky with the Shukra (Venus) recorded.

Fig.13a  West side photo 

Fig.13 b East side  photo rising Sun Glow at 5AM on 14 Feb 2016

Fig.13 c Towards the East on 14 Feb 2016 

at around 5 AM about 30' angle

Fig.13 d  Middle of the sky at 5 AM the splendid planet Shukra

on the 14 Feb 2016 

BOSTON CHILLI TEMPERATURES

Fig.14 a Boston.com Staff | 02.14.16 | 3:25 PM

                    Across the state, people are throwing water into the air and watching as it instantly turns to ice, a nifty trick only possible in the coldest of conditions. While record-setting winter cold might not seem like any fun, some are taking advantage of the sub-zero temperatures on this chilly Day. New Hampshire /2016/02/14 passengers evacuated from stranded mountain trams frigid temperatures. 

                                     

Fig.14 b Instantly water becomes ice and flies past the place

Fig.14 c Water thrown becomes ice instantly

                  Life threatening cold wave  sweeps across north-east US. Temperature in Boston dropped to -21.7 C overnight but feel as cold as -34.4 C with the wind chill.  That is record low of -19.4 C set in 19979. Over nine states effected from northern Pennsylvania to western Maine with guests up to 72 kph. New York city bracing to coldest night in 20 years. 

14 Feb 2016 Sunday Morning:

           Mild tremors were felt in several villages of Vinjamur area in Nellore district on Sunday morning. The tremors lasted a few seconds, even as the people ran out of their houses. The residents of Chakalikonda, Bathivaripalem and other hamlets felt the impact of the tremors, but soon recovered from the mild shock. This is the sixth time that very low intensity tremors are being reported in this upland area located east of Udayagiri fort. Following a series of tremors in the region, scientists of the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) made a field study in the area a few weeks ago. They said that the local people need not worry about the tremors as they were progressively decreasing in their intensity.

                     

Fig. 15. Sun God Prayer at Arasavalli on Sunday 14 Feb 2016

         I felt very shaky and decided to have rest, postponing slightly the act of offering milk, kept ready by 6.25 AM, to the Sun God and dumping it in the ground before the just Sun rise. It was  14 Feb 2016, Ratha Sapthami  day of Sun God.    

Gravitational Waves?

Fig.16   Spot marked 1 uncertainty window of LIGO-India,

and the dot marked 2 is size of moon, outline marked A, is the 

region where from the signal originated with 90% confidence level.

Marked B defines the 10% confidence level.

                  Gravitational Waves Chirps have been recorded quite accidently at 11:50 AM central European time, on September 14, 2015, termed as a chance discovery, on the experimental run of LIGO apparatus. Begin collecting data on the September 18, 2015 officially. Gravitational waves can pass through the universe unobstructed, so they carry information which cannot be obtained otherwise. These waves pass freely the hot plasma of the early universe, so scientists can use them to gain insight into what occurred during that otherwise invisible time.

              The oscillations began at 35 cycles per second and rapidly increased to 250Hz it then became chaotic and rapidly died down. The whole thing was over within one-fourth of a second, journal Science notes. The magazine Science, notes that the gravitational waves stretched space, making the entire Earth expand and contract by 1/100,000 of a nano-meter about the width of an atomic nucleus. Black holes that merged were only 36 times and 29 times the mass of the Sun, but the fused black hole weighed only 62 solar masses, and not 65 solar masses. The three solar masses, which went missing were created the Gravitational waves.

                When black holes orbiting around each other, collided and merged into a single massive black hole. The ripples in the fabric of space-time, caused by the orbiting black holes, travelled outward as gravitational waves. Gravitational waves produced when objects accelerate. According to Theory of General Relativity, the pair of black holes, orbiting around each other lost energy through the emission of gravitational waves. As the holes lost energy, they were gravitationally drawn closer to each other. As they came closer, the spinning becomes faster, and they emit even more gravitational waves and lost even more energy. At the end of 20 millisecond of data, they were whirling around each other so fast, that each orbit lasted just a few milliseconds, thus the black holes had whipped up before colliding and merging into one bigger black hole. The total power output of gravitational waves during the brief collision was 50 times greater than all of the stars in the universe put together, said Kip Thorne of Caltech said the New Scientist.

                      The collision was so violent, even that it radiated more energy in the form of gravitational waves than all the stars in the observable universe emitted a light in the same amount of time says Nature magazine. 

CONCLUSION

     Gravitational Ripples, observed at 11:50 AM,  Central European Time on September 14, 2015   released from the impact join of two black holes orbiting one another circling and speeding up in a split second they spiral collided . A huge cataclysmic burst of energy is released, more than all  the stars in the universe  are putting out that instant. A new black hole with a mass of 62 suns is formed. It is larger than each of the ones that merged.  The black holes that merged are of the masses, 36 and 29 Solar masses, resultant less massive, by three solar masses, suggesting that the equivalent of 3 solar masses were carried away in the form of gravitational Wave? The present author feels that the released energy waded away as ripples but not as waves!  

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

             The author is indebted to Late Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) for his concern of Nature and Eventualities that inspired the author, to monitor the awesome peculiarities of Nature. The bewildering weather in North East US on the 14-15 Feb 2016 is most puzzling with temperatures as low as -21.7 C coldest in 20 years. Paithani ancient techniques of tapestry threads with multiple colours, along with Gold and Silver threads, are woven together to form fascinating piece. Himalayan Griffon are roaming in India in Feb 2016.