GLOBAL WARMING---WHERE ARE YOU ?

GLOBAL WARMING---WHERE ARE YOU?



DENSE FOG, CHILLY WEATHER CONTINUES UNABATED AND THE COLD WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE INTENSIFYING IN PARTS OF ASIA.

ON JANUARY 07^th 2011, DELHI(4.3) WAS COLDER THAN SHIMLA(5.5).

THE SOUTHWARD JOURNEY OF THE MERCURY CONTINUES AND MANY PLACES IN THE MAINLAND OF MADHYAPRADESH RECORDED SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES. IN REWA 44-YR OLD RECORD WAS BROKEN AND IN RAICHUR (KARNATAKA) 120-YR OLD RECORD WAS BROKEN.

THE NIPPY WEATHER CONDITIONS LEAD TO FOG AND MIST AFFECTING NORMAL LIFE, BEING THROWN OUT OF GEAR. ROOM HEATERS AND FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGED BON-FIRES ARE A COMMON SIGHT.

THE GUANGXI WEATHER BUREAU IN CHINA HAS WARNED ABOUT INTENSE COLD WAVE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CHINA. MILLIONS OF LIVES ARE PARALYSIED DUE TO SLEET AND SNOW, THE NATIONAL HIGHWAYS AND AIRPORTS BEING CLOSED. ITS CASCADING EFFECT IS SHORTAGE OF FOOD SUPPLIES AND PRICE RISE AND SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES BEING CLOSED OWING TO SAFETY CONCERNS.

IF THERE IS NO RELIEF FROM SUCH FREEZING WEATHER, THE ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES, WATER AND ELECTRICITY MAY BEAR A COLD SNAP. THE RESULTING FINANCIAL LOSSES MAY BE IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. THE BONE PENETRATING COLD WAVE MAY LAST FOR ABOUT A WEEK MORE, ACCORDING TO IMD. AND WE WILL HAVE TO BEAR THE BRUNT OF WEATHER, BECAUSE WE DO NOT HAVE ANY COLD WAVE RISK MITIGATION PLANS AND THE VAGARIES OF WEATHER WILL CONTINUE TO SHOW ITS UNPRECEDENTED CALAMITY.

MEANWHILE, NAGPUR WEATHER OBSERVATORY, ESTABLISHED ON 01.01.1869 AT MAYO HOSPITAL AS A CLASS-IV-B OBSERVATORY AND SHIFTED TO PRESENT SITE ON 19.04.1948 AS A CLASS-I OBSERVATORY RECORDED TODAY ON 07^th JANUARY 2011 A MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 5.7 DEG CEL, THE SECOND LOWEST TEMPERATURE IN THE HISTORY. INCIDENTLY TODAY IN 1937 THE LOWEST EVER MINIMUM TEMPERATURE WAS RECORDED AS 3.9 DEG CEL. AND TOADY LAST YEAR IN 2010 WAS THE COLDEST DAY OF THE RESPECTIVE SEASON. IN NAGPUR. ON FIVE OCCASSIONS IN THE PAST DECADE i.e. IN 2001,2004,2007,2008,2009 THERE WAS NOT A SINGLE DAY IN JANUARY WHICH COULD SEE A TEMPERATURE DROP EVEN UPTO 8 DEG CEL

IF WE FURTHER CONTINUE TO WITNESS THE ONSLAUGHT OF WINTER,  WE MAY HAVE TO ISSUE A SEARCH WARRANT FOR GLOBAL WARMING TO EXTEND ITS GRATITUDE TO GIVE US MUCH NEEDED RESPITE AND WARMTH.

Milind Phadke
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KNOW ABOUT NOKIA

10 things you don't know about NOKIA

1) The ringtone "Nokia tune" is actually based on a 19th century guitar work named "Gran Vals" by Spanish musician Francisco Tárrega. The Nokia Tune was originally named "Grande Valse" on Nokia phones but was changed to "Nokia Tune" around 1998 when it became so well known that people referred to it as the "Nokia Tune."

2) The world's first commercial GSM call was made in 1991 in Helsinki over a Nokia-supplied network, by Prime Minister of Finland Harri Holkeri, using a Nokia phone.

3) Nokia is currently the world's largest digital camera manufacturer, as the sales of its camera-equipped mobile phones have exceeded those of any conventional camera manufacturer.

4) The "Special" tone available to users of Nokia phones when receiving SMS (text messages) is actually Morse code for "SMS". Similarly, the "Ascending" SMS tone is Morse code for "Connecting People," Nokia's slogan. The "Standard" SMS tone is Morse code for "M" (Message).

5) The Nokia corporate font (typeface) is the AgfaMonotype Nokia Sans font, originally designed by Eric Spiekermann. Its mobile phone User's Guides Nokia mostly used the Agfa Rotis Sans font.

6) In Asia, the digit 4 never appears in any Nokia handset model number, because 4 is considered unlucky in many parts of Southeast/East Asia.

7) Nokia was listed as the 20th most admirable company worldwide in Fortune's list of 2006 (1st in network communications, 4th non-US company).

8. Unlike other modern day handsets, Nokia phones do not automatically start the call timer when the call is connected, but start it when the call is initiated. (Except for Series 60 based handsets like the Nokia 6600).
9) Nokia is sometimes called aikon (Nokia backwards) by non-Nokia mobile phone users and by mobile software developers, because "aikon" is used in various SDK software packages, including Nokia's own Symbian S60 SDK.

10) The name of the town of Nokia originated from the river which flowed through the town. The river itself, Nokianvirta, was named after the old Finnish word originally meaning sable, later pine marten. A species of this small, black-furred predatory animal was once found in the region, but it is now extinct.

Milind Phadke
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The Beauty of Mathematics

The Beauty of Mathematics

1 x 8 + 1 = 9

12 x 8 + 2 = 98

123 x 8 + 3 = 987

1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876

12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765

123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654

1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543

12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432

123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11

12 x 9 + 3 = 111

123 x 9 + 4 = 1111

1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111

12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111

123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111

1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111

12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111

123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88

98 x 9 + 6 = 888

987 x 9 + 5 = 8888

9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888

98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888

987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888

9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888

98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

1 x 1 = 1

11 x 11 = 121

111 x 111 = 12321

1111 x 1111 = 1234321

11111 x 11111 = 123454321

111111 x 111111 = 12345654321

1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321

11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321

111111111 x 111111111=12345678987654321

Milind Phadke

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MEETING WITH SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCE, FOR FCS.

DEAR ALL IMDNGSSA MEMBERS,

THIS IS TO INFORM YOU ALL THAT AN EMAIL RECEIVED FROM Shri RIZWAN AHMED INFORMING ABOUT A LETTER SUBMITTED TO SECRETARY MoES FOR URGENT ON Flexible Component Scheme (FCS), FEW HOURS AGO AND IS BEING PRESENTED HERE AGAIN FOR YOUR QUICK REFERENCE.



Letter from IMDNGSSA, to Secretary MoES



THANKS AND REGARDS.

Milind Phadke

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INDIA’S PRIDE ‘CIRUS’ SHUTDOWN

REACTOR SHUT DOWN

THE CIRUS REACTOR WAS SHUT DOWN PERMANENTLY ON FRIDAY MIDNIGHT i.e. ON 31st DEC 2010.

THIS 40 MW REACTOR, OPERATING AT A CAPACITY FACTOR OF 50-80% WAS PRODUCING 6.5-10.5 Kg OF PLUTONIUM PER YEAR AND USED NATURAL URANIUM FUEL WHILE USING HEAVY-WATER(DEUTERIUM) AS A MODERATOR (a medium that reduces the speed of fast neutrons and turning them into thermal neutrons which are capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction) PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE FIRST NUCLEAR TEST IN POKHRAN-I (codenamed SMILING BUDDHA) IN 1974.

THE FIRST NUCLEAR CHAIN REACTION (CRITICALITY) WAS ATTAINED ON 10th JULY 1960.

THE CIRUS (CANADA INDIA REACTOR UTILITY SERVICES) WAS AN ICONIC SYMBOL OF INDIA’S INDIGENOUS NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAMME FOR CIVIL AND MILITARY. THE PLUTONIUM FROM ITS SPENT FUEL WAS USED AS A PART OF STRATEGIC NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAMME OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY. THE BARC (BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE) MAINTAINS THAT URANIUM FUEL WHICH IT PROCURED INDEGENOUSLY HAS BEEN FULLY UTILISED BY SLOWLY DRAINING OUT OF HEAVY WATER IN THE MODERATOR. HOWEVER, THE PUMPS STILL CONTINUE TO RUN TO REMOVE THE DECAY HEAT AND ALL OTHER PROCESSES TO REMOVE THE RESIDUAL HEAT FROM THE CORE FO THE REACTOR WILL BE KEPT OPERATIONAL FOR SOME MORE TIME, PROBABLY UPTO ONE YEAR. AFTER DECONTAMINATION, THE REACTOR WILL NOT BE DEOMMISSIONED AND WILL BE USED FOR STUDENTS’ TRAINING. ALSO A PLAN TO CONVERT IT INTO A NEUTRON PRODUCING SYSTEM FOR SUB-CRITICAL EXPERIMENTS IS ON THE ANVIL. THIS FIFTY YEAR OLD NUCLEAR REACTOR, COULD HAVE LIVED FOR TWENTY MORE YEARS, WAS SHUT DOWN IN SEPTEMBER 1997, REFURBISHED, AND RESUMED IN 2005(SCHEDULED TO RESUME IN 2003), BEFORE PERMANENTLY SHUTTING IT DOWN.

Milind Phadke

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