Saturday, November 30, 2019

Nov. 16, 2019: sirtuins, known as anti-aging genes,Gravastars spinning has changing shapes, Old newspapers can be used to grow carbon nanotubes,26 Nov. 2019. Eclipse Start Time - 08:14 AM: Maximum Eclipse Time - 09:40 AM: Eclipse End Time - 11:24 AM, :Widespread snow, storms create Thanksgiving travel headaches across U.S., India's wettest monsoon in 25 years could lift 2020 wheat output to record.

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           Volume 2019, Issue No. 11a, Dated: Nov. 16, 2019, Time: 12:47:47 AM
Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,
M.Sc. (Math. Phys.), M.Sc. (Nucl. Phys.), PhD.(AU), Int. Edu & Res. (Sweden 1964-65) 
     While returning from Sweden, spent a few days in England, Paris, Egypt and etc. countries, 
    Visited USA about 12 Universities, several National Laboratories and Institutes for four months. 
Sept.to December 1988. and i1989 visited Japan for about
10 days, and South Korea Conf. in Physics for a week in 1989.
 [Retd. Prof of Physics; Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004].    
Residential Address: 17- 11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,
      Maharanipeta.  P. O., Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P. Mobile: 09491902867.
       kotcherlakota_l_n@hotmail.com; DOB:23-07-1940.
    lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Experts worried about safety of Srisailam dam, India has potential for very rapid economic growth, says Bill Gates, Winter arrives in US. Mississippi  -8C, breaking record of 108 years, Gravastars spinning has changing shapes, harvesting solar energy efficiently, Telangana State Agricultural University to offer PG in Vegetable Science, Vedic chant held once in six years at Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram, This light-sensing camera with more than 1,000 sensors can detect signs of alien life, using kernel fibres extracted from the stem of gongura greens (pulicha keerai) that are a staple in Andhra cuisine. They sell the bliss pads on the e-commerce website, Several rivers burst their banks in southeastern France, causing major damage as homes were flooded and trees, cars and boats were swept along by the waters, Old newspapers can be used to grow carbon nanotubes,4,000 artifacts belonging to five of the 62 tribes across Odisha have already been preserved in 3D digital format, In the morning of 26 November 2019, from 6:30AM the Sunlight was bright and strong. At 8:40 AM Subdued Sunlight. At 9:01 clear decreased light. 9:23 AM bright light. At 9:45 M chilly weather. At 10:30 AM also chilly weather but Sunlight was bright. At 11:15 AM Good Sunlight but chilly weather. 11:30 AM relatively hot. At 11.45 AM hot weather of the Sun,  India's wettest monsoon in 25 years could lift 2020 wheat output to record, Nov. 30, 2019: 12:08 AM IST: It’s going to be a warmer winter this year, says IMD.
DETAILS
Nov. 16, 2019: At US congressional hearing on Kashmir, call to end lock down. Lawyers and human rights advocates testify at hearing, demanding investigation into current crisis.
Nov. 16, 2019: Pshenichnikov studied a system in which an organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite semiconductor was combined with the organic compound bathophenanthroline (bphen), a material with a large band-gap. The scientists used laser light to excite electrons in the perovskite and studied the behavior of the hot electrons that were generated.(Singapore) have now shown that this may be easier than expected by combining a perovskite with an acceptor material for hot electrons. Their proof of principle was published in Science Advances on 15 November.
Nov. 16, 2019: 00:52 IST: ‘Experts worried about safety of Srisailam dam.  Sagar, Amaravati will suffer severe damage if urgent measures are not taken’ . Irrigation experts are jittery about the condition of the Srisailam dam, which had to handle huge volumes of water in recent times. The gates were open eight times this season. Since 2003 no repair and maintenance works were carried out. If dam bursts the Nagarjuna Sagar, Pulichintala dam, Prakasam barrage,  would be affected. Rayalaseema would become a desert. It endured a flood of 25.5 lack cusecs in 2009. Repair works to be taken up on war footing. Systematic neglect since 2003. The dam tilted almost 8.8 mm on October 8, 2009, but fortunately returned to normal after the flood receded.
 Nov 16, 2019: JAMMU, In a major crack down in Dwara area of Sidhra, just adjoining Golf Course at the bank of river Tawie, the Forest Department staff and Police along with Revenue officials today retrieved over 200 canals of forest land and demolished 10 Pucca structures using JCBs
Nov 16, 2019: 12:20 pm IST: Untimely rains hit India's summer crops, delay rural economy recovery. Heavy rains in October and November have brought more misery to India’s farmers.
Nov: 16, 2019:  2 min read: India Unlikely To Allow Commercial 5G Use On 26 Ghz On ISRO’s Demand. Russia, China and Japan want to use 26 Ghz band for military operations. India has also accepted ISRO’s demand for satellite preparation. Could result in surge in 5G tariff for consumers in India, say telcos.

Nov.16, 2019: Japan: We also identified sirtuins, known as anti-aging genes, to examine how they delay aging and prolong life. Interestingly, our recent research findings indicate that delaying human aging and extending life expectancy is not quite a pipedream. Focusing on the analysis of sirtuins and the klotho gene, named after the Greek goddess Klotho who spun the thread of life, we are working on methodologies to clarify the mechanism for the onset of age-related diseases and thus suppress aging, with the goal of overcoming aging and age-related diseases.
Nov.17, 2019: India has potential for very rapid economic growth, says Bill Gates.
Nov. 18, 2019: Winter arrives in US. Mississippi  -8C, breaking record of 108 years, Birmingham and Alabama recorded -8 C, more than 200 records have fallen since last week, number might cross 300. Snowfalls in Texas, heavy snow fall affects life in Buffalo, New York, recorded nine inches broke a 77-year old record and parts of northern Michigan saw almost 30 inches of snowfall.
Nov. 18, 2019:  The more sunny days in a place like Barbados or Antigua, the better. But the city in the world that gets the most sunlight isn’t a beach town at all. It’s Yuma, Arizona.
Nov. 18, 2019: 8:08 am CST, Monday, Snow, flooding, mudslides in Austria kill 1, injure 2. Another mudslide in Bad Gastein, south of Salzburg, destroyed two homes, burying two women inside. Firefighters rescued one of them quickly, the other one only after several hours. Both were injured and taken to the hospital. In Gurktal, in the Carinthia region, some 70 firefighters had to evacuate the residents of 15 buildings because of the swelling Gurk river.
Nov. 18, 2019: A Gravastar is an object hypothesized in astrophysics as an alternative to the black hole theory by Pawel O. Mazur and Emil Mottola . It has usual black hole metric outside of the horizon, but de Sitter metric inside. On the horizon there is a thin shell of matter. In the original formulation by Mazur and Mottola, gravastars contain a central region featuring a p=-ρ false vacuum or "dark energy", a thin shell of p=ρ perfect fluid, and a true vacuum p=ρ=0 exterior. The dark energy like behavior of the inner region prevents collapse to a singularity and the presence of the thin shell prevents the formation of an event horizon, avoiding the infinite blue shift. The inner region has thermodynamically no entropy and may be thought of as a gravitational Bose–Einstein condensate. A gravastar would be made of a core of exotic matter similar to dark energy, that prevents the collapse of a matter shell surrounding it, made of the normal matter that once made up a star. When the star started to collapse at the end of its life, a phase transition would happen that could create this exotic matter before the event horizon could be formed. This speculative object would be almost as compact as a black hole, but the tiny difference between them would be enough to prevent the formation of the event horizon and the conceptual questioning that comes with it. 17 Nov. 2008 • IOP Publishing Ltd. P.Roach et al. Dynamical models of prototype gravastars are constructed and studied. The models are the Visser–Wiltshire three-layer gravastars, in which an infinitely thin spherical shell of a perfect fluid with the equation of state p = (1−γ)σ divides the whole spacetime into two regions, where the internal region is de Sitter, and the external one is Schwarzschild. When γ<1 and , it is found that in some cases the models represent stable gravastars, and in some cases they represent 'bounded excursion' stable gravastars, where the thin shell is oscillating between two finite radii, while in some other cases they collapse until the formation of black holes occurs. However, when γ≥1, even with , only black holes are found. In the phase space, the region for both stable gravastars and 'bounded excursion' gravastars is very small in comparison to that for black holes, although it is not completely empty. Spin induced quadrupole moment parameter takes value 1 for a black hole and for other compact objects the value will vay depending on the internal structure. A gravastar is a strange object that would have a core of exotic matter resembling dark energy. The external shell like a normal star. Gravastar gets compressed near the equator and bulges out at the poles. Thus their shapes change differently when spinning. There are not many ways to look for exotic objects. 
Fig.1 Push Button for crossing in Patna.

Nov. 18, 2019: Gujarat: 4.3 magnitude earthquake jolts parts of Kutch. The earthquake of 4.3 magnitude was recorded at 7:01 pm with its epicenter 23 km NNE (north-north-east) of Bhachau in Kutch district. 
Nov. 19, 2019: 19:19 IST: Tremors In Delhi, Parts Of North India After Earthquake In Nepal. The earthquake had its epicenter in Nepal and was measured 5.1 on Richter scale. 
Nov 19, 2019: 


Fig.3 A new coated

A novel bacteria-repellent coating could dramatically reduce the amount of water needed to flush a toilet, which usually requires six litres. When it dries, the first spray grows molecules that look like little hairs, with a diameter of about 1,000,000 times thinner than a human's," Wang said in a statement. While this first application creates an extremely smooth surface, the second spray infuses a thin layer of lubricant around those nanoscopic "hairs" to create a super-slippery surface, the researchers explained.
Nov. 20, 2019: 


Fig.4 Traditional method of grinding

Our house Narasimha  Ashram was built in 1932

with lime & mortar supervised by my mother 

Mrs. Peramma Rangadhama Rao.  
About 20 rounds by bullocks attached to a stone grinder generates 250 kg of mortar. We wanted to revive this method  for restoration work.
Nov 20, 2019: 09.43 AM IST: Storytelling with a desi twist: Spotify to launch original podcasts in India. “Storytelling is intrinsic to India and almost nostalgic because most of us have grown on stories that our grandparents and parents told us; Spotify wants to re-establish that listening culture here, especially as users seek more screen-free moments.” 
Nov. 21, 2019: 1:54 AM IST: Visakhapatnam: Special Training program for women candidates. Skill Development Institute, Arilova campus, concluded a special training programme for women candidates in coordination with HPCL, IOCL and BPCL on Wednesday.
Nov. 21  2019: 10:36 AM GMT: 6.4-magnitude quake hits Thailand. Highlights: An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hit a border area between northern Thailand and Laos on Thursday.
Nov. 21, 2019: 11:08 PM IST: Washington: The researchers at the QIMR Berghofer have shown that there are 22 different genes that help to determine how much a person should be exposed to the sun before developing melanoma. The study was published in the journal, ‘British Journal of Dermatology.’ People who are at high genetic risk, sun exposure in childhood is a strong contributing factor while people at low genetic risk develop melanoma only after a lifetime of exposure to sunlight.
Nov 21, 2019 (9 hours ago): One hour free internet in Bengaluru soon: Minister. Denizens of India's tech hub will soon have an hour free internet daily.

Nov 21, 2019: 22:53 PM IST: .
Fig.5 Two bolts of lightning struck and the plane escapes.
A pic showing two bolts of lightning striking a passenger plane on the runway at New Zealand’s Christchurch International Airport on Wednesday. In the picture, it appears as though the plane miraculously escaped from getting hit by those powerful bolts of lightning.
Nov 21, 2019: 20:27 IST: Bloomberg:  India plans incentives to bring in foreign manufacturers from Tesla to Glaxo.
Nov. 21, 2019: Windows 10 X to support Win32 apps, Sandbox & other features.
 Nov. 21, 2019: The device designed by Varun Kashyap and others at the University of Houston is not only capable of harvesting solar energy efficiently, but also storing it until it is required. The work can have a range of applications from power generation to desalination to distillation, the scientists said in a paper published in the journal Joule on Wednesday.
Nov. 22,  2019 1:53 AM IST: Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University to offer PG in Vegetable Science.
Nov. 22, 2019: Vedic Chant
Fig.6 Vedic chant held once in six years at 
Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram
56-day ritual started Thursday 21 Nov. 2019.
Nov 22, 2019: 2:30 pm IST: UK's Labour Party pledges apology for Jallianwala Bagh in election manifesto.
Nov 22, 2019: 06.07 PM IST: This light-sensing camera with more than 1,000 sensors can detect signs of alien life. Considered as one of the highest-performance cameras ever, it can also detect elusive dark matter. the camera consists of sensors made from superconducting nanowires, which can detect single photons.
Nov. 22, 2019: 12:51 IST: This Tiny Tea Stall In Kerala Keeps Ramasseri Idli Alive. The steam from under the pots cooks these Ramasseri idlis to a soft texture and much thinner than the conventional idli. One of the cooks, painstakingly pours the idli batter into flat clay steamers and stacks them up. The steam from under the pots cooks these idlis to a soft texture and much thinner than the conventional idli. These idlis will remind you of a thick dosa and melt in your mouth. Aside from coconut chutney and sambar, there's also a spicy idli powder that is Raw material scarcity hits woodcarvers' livelihood in Andhra Pradesh
Nov. 23,  2019: 04:06: For over 100 years, woodcarvers of Settigunta and Lakshmigaripalle near Kadapa have been eking out a living by carving various artifacts from different types of wood. Different types of woodcarvings by the artisan have earned fame far and wide. Around 300 families depend on the craft, which has passed down from generation to generation for more than a century. The finished products are sold at pilgrim centres like Tirupati, Tirumala, Srikalahasti, Srisailam and are also sought after as wedding gifts.
Nov. 23, 2019: 2:30 AM IST: Indore: Ministers, officers use public transport.
Nov, 23, 2019: The young entrepreneurs  Gowtham S and Niveda R, from Coimbatore in the news for making sanitary napkins, biodegradable, discovered in a college project,  using kernel fibres extracted from the stem of gongura greens (  keerai) that are a staple in Andhra cuisine. They sell the bliss pads on the e-commerce website. "bliss.naturelpads" on Facebook. They interacted with many women in Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bangalore while making the product. CK Ranganathan told them Go fast and Grow Fast. 
Dar desert once upon a time had a River: 
Fig.7 Dar desert once up on a time had a River flowing.
Nov. 24,  2019: Two dead after massive floods hit southeastern France. Several rivers burst their banks in southeastern France, causing major damage as homes were flooded and trees, cars and boats were swept along by the waters. Rainfall continued in the region on Sunday, but was less intense.
Nov 24, 2019: 19:49 PM IST: Old newspapers can be used to grow carbon nanotubes: Study: The new study, published in the - MDPI Journal C - details the research experiments carried out in producing carbon nanotubes which could have the potential to solve some of the problems associated with their large scale production. 
Nov. 24, 2019: 8:00 [IST]: Indian Researchers Use 3D Technology To Restore Tribal Art. Under the new 3D technology for preserving art, more than 4,000 artifacts belonging to five of the 62 tribes across Odisha have already been preserved in 3D digital format. This method also included audio and visuals.
Nov 26 2019: Solar Eclipse Morning from 8:05 AM To 11:15AM: Photos:
Fig.8 A at 08:32 AM The Sun blazing Photo 6.
Fig.8 B at 08:32 AM The Sun Spectra Photo 5(2)
Fig.8 C at 08:33 AM photo 4(2)
Fig.8 D Subdued Sun Light in front of
Narasimha Ashram at 09:17 AM Photo 4
Fig.8 E Subdued light and Sun spectra at 09:19 AM
Photo 3 Note the sky with less light.
Fig.8 F The Sunshine on the backyard
at 09:20 AM Photo 2 unusually less bright.
Fig.8 G. Photo 1 at 09:20 AM between the two
Mango trees in the front yard and at the backyard 
above the terrace of Narasimha Ashram.
The Sun spectra.
Time schedule of my observation of the Solar Eclipse. In the morning from 6:30AM the Sunlight was bright and strong. At 8:40 AM Subdued Sunlight. At 9:01 clear decreased light. 9:23 AM bright light. At 9:45 M chilly weather. At 10:30 AM also chilly weather but Sunlight was bright. At 11:15 AM Good Sunlight but chilly weather. 11:30 AM relatively hot. At 11.45 AM hot weather of the Sun. 


Fig.9 The path of the Solar eclipse on

26 November 2019.
Eclipse Start Time - 08:14 AM: Maximum Eclipse Time - 09:40 AM: Eclipse End Time - 11:24 AM: Partial Eclipse Duration - 03 Hours 10 Mins 09 Secs Maximum Magnitude - 0.73. Sutak Begins - 05:29 PM, Dec 25. Sutak Ends - 11:24 AM. The timing of the annularity will be 09:24 am to 09:27 am in the east coast and 09:31 am to 09:35 am in the west coast. 
All times are local time (IST) for Visakhapatnam.
Global Event: Annular Solar Eclipse. Local Type: Partial Solar Eclipse, in Visakhapatnam. Begins: Thu, 26 Dec 2019, 08:13. Maximum: Thu, 26 Dec 2019, 09:40 0.73 Magnitude. Ends: Thu, 26 Dec 2019, 11:23. Duration: 3 hours, 10 minutes.



TimePhaseEventDirectionAltitude
08:13 Thu, 26 Dec
Partial Eclipse begins The Moon touches the Sun's edge.Map direction Southeast 125°
21.8°
09:40 Thu, 26 Dec
Maximum Eclipse Moon is closest to the center of the Sun.Map direction Southeast 139°
37.0°
11:23 Thu, 26 Dec
Partial Eclipse ends The Moon leaves the Sun's edge.Map direction South-southeast 168°
48.2°

Nov. 27, 2019:  17 Hours ago: 

Fig.10  torrential overnight rains, 
with some swept away by landslides.  
Dozens dead as heavy rain pounds DR Congo capital. At least 41 dead in Kinshasa as the city is battered by torrential rains and landslides, says top city official. Kinshasa, after torrential overnight rains, with some swept away by landslides. a bridge connecting the districts of Lemba and Ngaba collapsed, and another was destroyed in the district of Kisenso. The mayor of Lemba, Jean Nsaka, said a drainage ditch had given way under pressure of the water, and the highway had been engulfed. "More than 300 homes have been flooded. There are many houses which have been destroyed." Flash flooding has hit the small but strategic East African nation of Djibouti, where the government and United Nations say the equivalent of two years’ rain fell in a single day.
Nov. 27, 2019 3:29 pm: 6.1-magnitude earthquake hits Greek island of Crete. The tremor was felt a day after a 6.4 -magnitude earthquake in Albania that has left more than 20 dead and hundreds injured. The Athens Observatory said the quake struck at 9:23 am (0723 GMT) and had a depth of over 70 km (44 miles). 
Nov. 27, 2019: ISRO launches PSLV C 47 carrying Cartosat 3 & 13 US nano-satellites. PSLV C47 lifted-off at 0928 Hrs (IST) from the Second Launch Pad. After 17 minutes and 38 seconds, Cartosat 3 was successfully injected into a sun synchronous orbit of 509 km. Subsequently, the 13 nanosatellites were injected into their intended orbits. After separation, solar arrays of Cartosat 3 were deployed automatically and the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network at Bengaluru assumed control of the satellite. In the coming days, the satellite will be brought to its final operational configuration.
Nov.27, 2019: Widespread snow, storms create Thanksgiving travel headaches across U.S. One of the hardest-hit areas was Minnesota's Twin Cities region, which was blanketed in white by the same system that clobbered the Denver area a day earlier.
Nov. 27, 2019: Thanksgiving travelers delayed by US storms. Dangerous storms are moving across the United States, from the West Coast to the Midwest. The US National Weather Service is advising millions of people to delay their travel plans due to the weather and hundreds of flights were grounded.
Nov. 28, 2019: 2:26:14 PM: Yamuna Frost Mystery Solved! High amounts of phosphate concentration found in household wastewater to blame. As per the report, given to the panel, the samples that were lifted from Kalindi Kunj and ITO bridge by the CPCB had a phosphate concentration of 0.51 mg/litre.
Nov. 28, 2019: Hindu reading room was opened on April 13, 1917, and was inaugurated by then Governer of Madras, J B Pentland. Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region (VMR), represented mostly by coastal plains within 75m of altitude between 17°30′15″ to 18°11′15″ N and 83°28′12″ to  82°57′37″  E, is situated midway between Kolkata in the north and Chennai in the south on the east coast of India. The total geographical area of VMR is 1721 km^2, of which 1418 km^2 falls into Visakhapatnam District. 
Nov. 29, 2019: Fishermen worry for future as Mali lake shrinks. As temperatures rise, a lake in Mali is slowly evaporating. And with it - hope for Modeste Traore. That his kids will one day become fishermen - like him. "If things go on like this I don't think our children can become fishermen. Personally, I don't believe in it anymore. But we are working on ways and means of making sure the water from the lake does not completely disappear. The 56-year-old has lived his whole life by Lake Wegnia.
Nov. 29, 2019: 8:20 AM:  Updated 5 hours ago: Trump makes surprise Afghanistan trip, voices hope for ceasefire. Trump’s visit was his first to Afghanistan since becoming president and came a week after a prisoner swap between Washington and Kabul that has raised hopes for a long elusive peace deal. 
Nov 29, 2019: 01.27 PM IST: India's wettest monsoon in 25 years could lift 2020 wheat output to record. The country received monsoon rains during the June-September season that were 10% above average and the rainfall continued during October and November, increasing soil moisture levels required for crop sowing. Rainfall also lifted the water level.
Nov. 30, 2019: 12:08 AM IST: It’s going to be a warmer winter this year, says IMD. Average temperatures are likely to be higher by 0.5°C across several subdivisions in the country. In central and peninsular India, the minimum temperatures could be higher by 1°C. 
Nov. 30, 2019 3:47 pm:  Iran shuts schools due to rising air pollution levels. The air pollution in Tehran, with over 12 million population, has reached the level considered unsafe for all groups of people.
Nov. 30, 2019: 2:08 PM: Active Northeast Monsoon to bring heavy rain in Chennai for next 48 hours. Many parts of Tamil Nadu have once again received moderate to heavy showers particularly over the southern districts in comparison to the northern districts and the interior parts of the state of Tamil Nadu. However light to moderate rain with one or two intense spells occurred over North Coastal Tamil Nadu. Chennai has not received heavy rain but still, moderate showers are going on over the city. Few localities have also recorded intense spell of rain which lead to traffic jams and waterlogging at some places.
Nov. 30, 2019: 3:55 pm: Scientists develop electro-optical device for faster computing. Bhaskaran is a Professor of Applied Nanomaterials who runs the Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Lab in the area of photonics.
Nov. 30, 2019: 17:00 IST: Student Recreates IPod Classic On His IPhone, Makes Internet Nostalgic. Elvin Hu has recreated an iPod Classic on his iPhone, which has made the internet nostalgic and many have asked for Hu to release the simulation as app. 
Nov. 30, 2019: 11:49 AM: Northeast Monsoon 2019: Low pressure area in Arabian Sea to bring heavy rains in Kerala November 30 onward.
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Facebook.post: Kotcherlakota Lakshminarayana. 25 November at 02:44: 
26. Conquering the Universe in a few moments
by Prof. Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana, 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony, Maharanipeta.P.O., Visakhapatnam-530002, AP. Cell No.09491902867. 23rd November, 2019 Time: 9:14 AM. 
Nara was amazed to note that the decorative art drawings in front of the house on the veranda, are extremely amazing. The reason they resemble the distant galaxies and quasars etc. How the women-folk (most of them uneducated) in India, draw these intriguing figures of drawings, since most of them resemble the very distant galaxies, stars and quasars etc. ( see the rest of the article on my facebook.post)
Acknowledgment
                         The author, Professor Dr. K. Lakshmi Narayana is indebted to late Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) for his guidance and inspiration.. He is grateful to his mother late Mrs. Peramma Rangadhama Rao for her sustained interest in my ventures.