MOST IMPORTANT synchronizer

The most important synchronizer of course, the focus on Sun.

The Sun is an ordinary variable magnetic star of our Galaxy. It is a gas, or more precisely, a plasma ball, with the temperature in the center of about 1.7? 107 K. The radius larger than the radius of the Sun Earth 109 times, and the mass - to 333,000 times. In the Sun concentrated 99,866% of the mass of the sun, and it is - the main source of energy on Earth.

The average distance from the Sun to the Earth is about 150 million kilometers, which is 108 times greater than its diameter.

Extending radially in a spiral because of proper rotation of the Sun, the solar plasma fills the entire space of the solar system interacts with the planets in space and creates a giant bubble, heliosphere with the Sun at the center. The boundaries of the heliosphere extends beyond the orbit most distant planets in the solar system.

In the 11-year cycle of the sun experiencing a surge of magnetic activity, which manifests itself in the form of spots, coronal loops and flares, and in the same in length in a state of relative calm, with its spherical shape is retained. If the sun is compressed to the size of a beach ball, the difference between its diameter in the direction of north - south and east - west will be less than the thickness of a human hair, showed Jeffrey Kuhn of the University of Hawaii at Manoa (USA). It is too sphericity in its sphericity and more constant than predicted by theory.

Highlights the outer part of the Sun, consisting of the photosphere, chromosphere, corona. The photosphere is visible as a bright white disk. The area above the photosphere, extending the radius to 1500 km, called the chromosphere. It is found during a solar eclipse as a light ring, flashing for a few seconds before and after the total phase of the eclipse.

Crown is also visible during a total solar eclipse as a faint glow around the sun.

Streams of hot coronal gas flow into interplanetary space at speeds of several hundred kilometers per second, forming the so-called solar wind.

On the solar wind has a very small fraction of the energy emitted by the Sun, but it plays an important role in the transmission of disturbances to the Earth due to its activity. The magnetic field of the Earth is an obstacle to the solar wind, and his meeting with her a cavity, called the magnetosphere is filled with thin ionised gas. It is complementary to the Earth's atmosphere, a protective barrier against cosmic impacts.

The magnetic field of the Earth's atmosphere and effectively isolate it from the biosphere of life hostile space environment. This isolation - a necessary condition for the existence of the biosphere, including man.

The sun has a complex system of magnetic fields as a combination of faint extended unipolar and bipolar regions. The northern and southern polar zone occupied by unipolar regions of opposite polarity. The polarity zones are changed every 11 years. In the medium-and low-latitude zones of the Sun located unipolar and bipolar much stronger field.

A well-developed bipolar region is identified with the so-called sun spots. Just emerged spot can become a hub of activity and throw away the cloud of solar plasma.

Since the days of Galileo cycle of solar activity was determined by the presence of spots on the Sun, the continuous observation of which are held the last four years.

In addition to the 11-year and 22-year cycles are known cycles of longer duration.

Currently, under the solar activity is a complex of phenomena which, apart from sunspots, solar flares are included, coronal mass ejections, coronal holes as sources of fluxes of energetic particles of solar wind particles flow within the sector structure of the interplanetary magnetic field, the different types of bursts of solar radiation and non-thermal etc.

Periods of short-term changes in solar activity called 27-day cycle associated with the presence of long-lived sunspot groups and coronal holes on the Sun.

Emissions of plasma clouds can stretch out and take with the existing power lines in the vicinity of the magnetic field of the Sun. Reaching the Earth, they cause geomagnitnitnye disturbance (storm), echoed in biological rhythms and health.

Geomagnetic disturbances of different periodicity - an important factor in the timing of biological rhythms and transients in human biological rhythms.

Sun, however, the system with the Earth, first of all - day and night - the synchronizer of circadian rhythms. Sun - a number of explicit and implicit synchronizers. Open, and that has yet to open.

The main factor in the synchronization of the biological clock associated with the sun, is the alternation of light and darkness (photoperiodism). Despite the fact that the person an exceptional impact on these phenomena belong to social factors, however, synchronizing it is more on the solar than social time.

Dependence on solar time (photoperiodism), the greater the smaller the town, or the smaller the population lives in it. On the contrary, the influence of social factors is stronger, the town more.

Interestingly, the share of owls or evening chronotype more in the larger settlements, and on the contrary, the share of larks or morning chronotype more in smaller towns.

As regards the length of the day and night, and other daily periodic symptoms such as changes in lighting the earth's surface and its related factors - temperature, humidity, etc., they are caused by the Earth's rotation around its axis. With increasing distance from the Earth's surface the amplitude of diurnal variation of these factors is reduced.

The role of the Sun Earth imposed daily periodicals in the biological rhythms of the French scientists have shown experiments with the immersion of people for a long period in the cave, where they lost their ability to see the change of day and night. They have some time staying in these conditions are set so-called free-running rhythm with the daily cycle in the range of 36 to 48 hours. Interestingly, absolutely blind biological rhythms are not synchronized lighting conditions, and they have a free-flowing phase drift to the outside (sunny) daily rhythm despite the clear operating mode of the day.

How important is imposed by the Sun man circadian biological rhythms periodicals and a half to two times more frequent in relation to the natural, yet to be installed.

Perhaps this is a typical rule for living systems, exercisable at various levels. At the very least, doctors are well aware that, for example, the natural frequency of spontaneous cyclic activity of the sinus node, a cyclic activity of the heart, usually less than the heart rate that is available to a person under the control of external (regulatory own humoral and autonomic nerve) mechanisms.

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Homemade 4 Cylinder Carburetor Synchronizer/Manometer

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An extended video of my homemade manometer with detailed explanations and demonstrations of it in operation. Very inexpensive yet very accurate. I used Snapple bottles which worked fine, but if you can get taller bottles that would be better as it gives you more time to fix a severely out-of-sync cylinder before a bottle runs dry. You'll notice my design links all 4 cylinders together to give you true comparison across all 4 cylinders.
Since it's been asked: if you get air in the reservoir line simply blow/suck on one of the cylinder lines until all air bubbles are gone; just like if a bottle goes dry, etc.
And for the carburetor adapters, you can make your own (see my comment in the comments section) or buy them here: http://www.z1enterprises.com/ItemDeta...

Here's a list of required materials:
4 Glass bottles
4 Rubber Stoppers
4 plastic 'tees'
20'-25' clear tubing
4 intake port adapters (specific to your bike make/model)

Tip: put the stoppers in the freezer for a while before trying to drill the holes for the tubing and it will drill much cleaner.

In some Chinese provinces are completely dry LAKE

In some provinces of China are completely dry lake global climate change. Across the Planet. Examples for examples.

And the drought in China, yes, such that in some provinces are completely dry lake.

Here's to you, and a new round of meteozavisimosti meteopaty and at different levels of biological and social organization.

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The consequences of the worst in the last 50 years of drought in China in varying degrees, experienced about 35 million people. This was reported by the government.

More than 5 million people lack of drinking water, in addition, due to the reduction of the observed lack of hydroelectric power in the region.

Employees of the world's largest dam on the Yangtze River have warned that if in the next 2 weeks the rains, they are no longer able to flush out of the river.

As reported by Xinhua, in some provinces of China are completely dry lake. Drought impact on agriculture, fishing and fishing reserve. The effects of drought in the agricultural sector could have a negative impact on global food prices.

According received from the State Headquarters of China on flood and drought information, since the beginning of this year, rainfall in the provinces located in the basin of the middle and lower reaches of the country's largest river Yangtze was at 40-60% less than for the same period in the ordinary years. In this regard, the water level is located in the four largest freshwater lakes in the country fell sharply.

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Jun 28, 2012 China_Severe droughts cause huge economic losses in E, C China

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Severe droughts parching farmland in central China's Hubei Province and east China's Anhui Province have left thousands of people suffering economic losses, local authorities said Tuesday.

As of Sunday, 31 cities and counties in Hubei have been affected by the drought, leaving 306,000 hectares of crops withering in the dry land, accumulating an economic losses of 350 million yuan.

The northern part of Anhui province has received the lowest amount of rainfall, 26 millimeters, on record since May 1, according to the latest data from the provincial hydrological bureau.

A total of 930,000 hectares of crops in Anhui have been affected and more than 1,000 ships have been stranded along a three-kilometer section of the lower reaches of the Wohe River, leaving more than 2,000 crew members aboard with little drinking water.

The drought is expected to wane as the province will see rainstorms in the following few days, the Anhui Provincial Meteorological Observatory said Tuesday.

The drought in the southern part of Hubei has waned thanks to recent heavy rain in the region. From Tuesday to Thursday, the region saw a new round of rainstorms, according to the provincial meteorological observatory.

"None of the plots has been irrigated so far. I have invested 400 yuan on each mu (0.0667 hectare) of land but will get nothing in return. I will lose 20,000 yuan in total this year," said Wu Zhengzhong, a local villager.

The declining water level of Hongze Lake in east China's Jiangsu Province has left some 1,800 vessels stranded on Monday, which lined up for about six kilometers for ten days.

The water level fell to 11.3 meters on Monday, 1.2 meters lower than the navigatable mark.

Since May, northern Jiangsu has seen less rainfall than an average year. The low water level and insufficient volume of upstream river water, the Huaihe River, are the major causes of the stranding, according to the navigation management.

At present, only vessels loaded with energy-related goods such as coal are allowed to pass the ship lock so as to ensure power supply. The empty vessels were required to suspend their navigation temporarily.

"I bought this boat with (a loan of) 1.5 million yuan, and now I am losing 750 yuan everyday, which is growing," said Wu Tingchang, a boatman from Anhui Province.




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TEMPERATURE RECORDS SPRING 2013 THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

Temperature records spring 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere temperature record spring 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere from global warming and its consequences in the near soon feel the northerners are not alone. Definitely affect the planet's climate, living conditions, and not a single human.

Kolyma bloomed.

While the same essence of the case, it is necessary to stop and think about the facts, which are a dime a dozen.

For example, take two:

- in the Arctic for the most part zero temperature, which is on long-term measurements are supposed to be in the red

- Kolyma in the peak plus fourteen, and should be minus one or two, and the temperature will only grow.

More is coming, if the Earth has entered a period of global high scores.

Life in reality is like on a hot skillet.

Winter - Wiki Article

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Winter is the coldest season of the year in temperate climates, between autumn and spring. It is caused by the axis of the Earth in the respective hemisphere being oriented away from the Sun. Different cultures define different dates as the start of winter, and some use a definition based on weather, but when it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. In many regions, winter is associated with snow and freezing temperatures. At the winter solstice, the days are shortest and the nights are longest, with days lengthening as the season progresses after the solstice.

Cause

The tilt of the Earth's axis relative to its orbital plane plays a big role in the weather. The Earth is tilted at an angle of 23.44° to the plane of its orbit, and this causes different latitudes on the Earth to directly face the Sun as the Earth moves through its orbit. It is this variation that primarily brings about the seasons. When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere faces the Sun more directly and thus experiences warmer temperatures than the Northern Hemisphere. Conversely, winter in the Southern Hemisphere occurs when the Northern hemisphere is tilted more toward the Sun. From the perspective of an observer on the Earth, the winter Sun has a lower maximum altitude in the sky than the summer Sun.

During winter in either hemisphere, the lower altitude of the Sun causes the sunlight to hit that hemisphere at an oblique angle. In regions experiencing winter, the same amount of solar radiation is spread out over a larger area. This effect is compounded by the larger distance that the light must travel through the atmosphere, allowing the atmosphere to dissipate more heat. Compared with these effects, the changes in the distance of the earth from the sun are negligible.

Meteorological reckoning

Meteorological winter is the method of measuring the winter season used by meteorologists based on "sensible weather patterns" for record keeping purposes, so the start of meteorological winter can change depending on how far north one lives. Winter is often defined by meteorologists to be the three calendar months with the lowest average temperatures. This corresponds to the months of December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere, and June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere. The coldest average temperatures of the season are typically experienced in January in the Northern hemisphere and in June or July in the Southern hemisphere. Nighttime predominates the winter season, and in some regions it has the highest rate of precipitation as well as prolonged dampness because of permanent snow cover or high precipitation rates coupled with low temperatures, precluding evaporation. Blizzards often develop and cause many transportation delays. Diamond dust, also known as ice needles or ice crystals, forms at temperatures approaching −40 °F (−40 °C) due to air with slightly higher moisture from aloft mixing with colder, surface based air. They are made of simple ice crystals that are hexagonal in shape.

Accumulations of snow and ice are commonly associated with winter in the Northern Hemisphere, due to the large land masses there. In the Southern Hemisphere, the more maritime climate and the relative lack of land south of 40°S makes the winters milder; thus, snow and ice are less common in inhabited regions of the Southern Hemisphere. In this region, snow occurs every year in elevated regions such as the Andes, the Great Dividing Range in Australia, and the mountains of New Zealand, and also occurs in the southerly Patagonia region of South America. Snow occurs year-round in Antarctica.

Astronomical and other calendar-based reckoning

In the Northern Hemisphere, some authorities define the period of winter based on astronomical fixed points (i.e. based solely on the position of the Earth in its orbit around the sun), regardless of weather conditions. In one version of

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SPACE WEATHER IN OUR LIVES

Space weather in our lives in our Space Weather plays a very special role, which is one of the major themes of the resource. To apply the theme, each time at a new level, many researchers, and this introduction, we invite the interested reader to read a scientific monograph VS Martyniuk, NA Temuryants and BM Vladimir's There is no bad weather, space weather in our lives.

Earth - part of the solar system, the solar system - the part of the Galaxy, the Galaxy - part of the observable universe (for recent theoretical research has yet to be an unobserved dark matter and dark energy). Earth - is one of the clusters of matter in the universe, which is influenced by her in motion and interaction through the physical fields and radiation generated in an infinite universe, the majority of the space is occupied by interstellar gas, dust, and separate streams of particles. Earth makes a complex mechanical movement due to the transfer, the interaction with other clusters of matter (rotation around its own axis upper geoobolochek, as well as the rotation of the Earth around the solid core of the magnetic axis, and participation in both of these rotations of the liquid magma move in an elliptical orbit (the form of which is cyclically transformed ) around the Sun, and the rotation

together as part of the solar system around the center of a galaxy, and so on).

This corresponds to Mach's principle (the famous Austrian physicist and philosopher whose ideas largely determined the theory of relativity): ... the inertia force acting on the body is the result of the gravitational effects on the body remote matter iinertnaya body weight is determined by all matter in the universe.

A characteristic feature of the Earth is the existence of so-called wildlife, which, together with the environment inhabited by living organisms and subject to their influence, as well as placed in this environment, waste products of these organisms is the Earth's biosphere. The idea of the cosmic influence on life on earth, as it is known, has its roots in antiquity. The first scientific hypothesis about the influence of the Sun on the Earth processes in European science of modern times was expressed famous English astronomer William Herschel in the early 19th century.

Comparing the small number of observations on the number of sunspots to fluctuations in commodity grain, this wonderful researcher concluded that the Sun somehow affect the weather and climate of the Earth, and thus on productivity and, consequently, the price of wheat. Surprisingly, this is essentially the first correct result,

which is now confirmed by independent studies, was not accepted by the scientific community seriously.

Following the discovery cycle in the appearance of sunspots scientific world has experienced a relatively short period of fascination with sunspots comparisons of various phenomena. However, by the end of the 19th century, the mood of the scientific community has changed a lot, and have been challenged even reliably established facts regarding the impact of the Sun on the Earth. In the subsequent period in the 20th century, the opposition met any data and considerations relevant to the influence of solar activity on the medical and biological phenomena.

The vast majority of researchers considered the study of these issues as a matter entirely frivolous, and many were genuinely convinced that the idea of the impact of the cosmos to the biological process is unscientific. The negative attitude towards the concept of cosmic influences on the terrestrial processes, to some extent, and was due to psychological reasons, first of all, an unconscious reaction to the astrological primitive myths.

However, interest in this issue continued to show different researchers. Great Swedish scientist SA Arrhenius was deeply interested in

space physics. He probably was one of the first to completely clear idea of the phenomenological scheme of cosmic influence on the biosphere: some processes in space affect our environment by changing the parameters of a factor which has a direct effect on the body. In his view, this factor is electrical in nature.

AL Chizhevsky 110th anniversary of the birth of which in 2007 celebrates the scientific community, was the first researcher who codified all available at the time the data array and found high prevalence of solar-terrestrial relationships. Many of the issues raised by them, are still relevant today.

It should be noted that for the theoretical description of the solar-terrestrial relationships and building a relevant theoretical models require some

the objective conditions that have emerged and matured in the second half of the 20th century. The first important point was that if it was discovered that the Earth's space environment - a space where constant flow of different kinds of dynamic processes. This became clear after the largest ever research program - the International Geophysical Year (1957-1958).

At the same time, the study of non-stationary cyclic processes on the Sun, in space and on Earth has become a common theme of the special international programs and many research teams. Space exploration and development of space, naturally made it possible to put the problem of direct measurements in space and obtain the corresponding experimental data on cosmic processes. And recently there was even a special term, space weather, which referred to a set of complex processes in the near-Earth space, determined mainly by solar activity and galactic radiation.

The second key point is that the second half of the 20th century is characterized by the rapid development of a number of biological disciplines, which are a classic example of interdisciplinary sciences - biophysics, biochemistry, biorhythmology, biometeorology, etc, in the area of interest which includes the study of the influence of various factors on biological processes. Currently, the scientific community rooted view that the impact on the body at the same time a lot of environmental factors that raised the question of the impact of ultra-low-intensity factors of cosmic origin

are recorded also on the surface.

Essential to addressing the problems of space-biosphere relations was the development of philosophical and methodological principles based on a systematic approach. A living organism, ecosystem and biosphere have been considered as a thermodynamically open cybernetic dynamical systems. At the same time the development of the theory of dynamical systems has allowed to create mathematical models that describe the qualitative behavior of living systems in time and their high sensitivity to a variety of factors, which in relation to the living system can act as control parameters.

Thus, at present, has all the basic prerequisites for a serious theoretical understanding of the influence of the cosmos to the biospheric processes.

Posing in front of the world's scientific community about the reality of the issue kosmobiosfernyh relations seems quite legitimate and timely, and the study of the biological effects and mechanisms of action of cosmic factors on living systems should be the subject of learning a new field of science - space and the Biosphere.

The Solar Cycle

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The sun erupted late on January 22, 2012 with an M8.7 class flare, an earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), and a burst of fast moving, highly energetic protons known as a "solar energetic particle" event. The latter has caused the strongest solar radiation storm since September 2005 according to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.

NASA's Goddard Space Weather Center's models predict that the CME is moving at almost 1,400 miles per second, and could reach Earth's magnetosphere -- the magnetic envelope that surrounds Earth -- as early as tomorrow, Jan 24 at 9 AM ET (plus or minus 7 hours). This has the potential to provide good auroral displays, possibly at lower latitudes than normal.

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