Sunday, May 25, 2014
QUESTIONS: DESPICABLE ME MOVIE REVIEW
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Natural Phenomenon: Circumhorizontal Arc
Questions:
1. What is Circumhorizontal Arc?
2. Why does CIrcumhorizontal Arc also called "Fire Rainbow"?
3. When does the brightly colored Circumhorizontal Arc occur?
4. What are the conditions required to form a “fire rainbow”?
Monday, February 10, 2014
Student Council President
IF
Despicable Me
The film begins with the news revealing that an Egyptian pyramid was stolen. When super-villain Gru (Steve Carell) hears of this, his pride is wounded and he plans to pull the biggest heist of the century by stealing the Moon. Gru tries to get a loan from the Bank of Evil (Formerly Lehman Brothers) and meets a young super-villain, Vector (Jason Segel), who annoys him. Bank president Mr. Perkins (Will Arnett) refuses to grant Gru the loan until he obtains the shrink ray necessary for the plan. Mr. Perkins tells Gru that he is getting too old and that new super-villains are younger and better, like Vector, who is revealed to be the one who stole the Pyramid of Giza. Gru and his minions steal the shrink ray from a top secret research facility in East Asia, but Vector steals it from him and shrinks his ship. Gru attempts to get the shrink ray back from Vector's lair, but all his attempts to enter the lair prove futile. After seeing three orphaned girls, Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier), and Agnes (Elsie Fisher) enter the lair to sell cookies to Vector. Gru adopts the girls from Miss Hattie (Kristen Wiig), the head of the orphanage, to use them to steal back the shrink ray. Gru has his assistant Dr. Nefario (Russell Brand) build robots disguised as cookies. He then has the girls sell the robots to Vector, and the robots help Gru steal the shrink ray. On the way home the girls ask to go to an amusement park. Gru agrees, intending to leave the girls there. Instead, the attendant says he, as an adult, has to ride the roller coaster with them. Gru ends up having fun with the girls. Back at home, he presents his plan to Mr. Perkins via video. The girls keep interrupting him. Perkins again refuses to give him the loan, claiming that although he doesn't have a problem with the plan, he just wants a younger villain to do it instead. Gru has a flashback of his childhood, depicting his wanting to go to the moon after seeing the first moon landing. When he tried to impress his mother (Julie Andrews) with models of the rocket (and an actual working one), she just ignored him. Mr. Perkins calls Vector (revealed to be his son, whose real name is Victor) to the Bank of Evil to inform him that Gru has the shrink ray. Vector reassures his father that he will get the Moon. Gru almost abandons his plan due to lack of funds, but the girls and the minions take up a collection to keep it going. However, Gru has to make a choice, because the moon will be in the optimal position for the heist on the same day as the girls' ballet recital. Dr. Nefario, seeing the girls as a distraction, contacts Miss Hattie, who arrives to take the girls back. Gru, the Minions, and the girls are heartbroken. Gru goes on with his plan and flies to the moon. Gru successfully shrinks and pockets the Moon. Gru remembers the ballet recital and rushes to it. However, it has ended by the time he arrived. There, he finds a ransom note from Vector demanding the moon in exchange for the girls. After Gru hands over the moon, Vector reneges on the deal, keeping the girls and the moon. This enrages Gru, who storms Vector's lair, this time successfully breaching the defenses. Vector flies off in an escape pod with the girls. Gru holds on to the exterior of the ship. He nearly falls to his death, but is rescued by Dr. Nefario piloting the same ship that Vector shrunk before. Nefario reveals that the bigger the object, the quicker the effects of the shrink ray wear off. Very soon, the moon begins to grow and roll around inside Vector's ship, hurting him and freeing the girls. The girls see Gru outside of the ship, and Gru tells them to jump over to him. Edith and Agnes successfully make it onto the ship, but before Margo can jump, Vector grabs her. The moon rolls again and knocks Vector over, and Margo grabs onto Gru's grappling hook. Gru rescues her with the help of his minions, while the rapidly-expanding Moon wrecks Vector's controls, causing his ship to carry it back into orbit. Gru and the girls settle down to live a happy life as a family and Vector is stranded on the Moon. The girls give a special ballet recital for Gru, his minions, and his mother, who finally tells him she is proud of him and acknowledges him to be the better parent. The music changes from Swan Lake to You Should Be Dancing, and everyone rushes on stage to dance as the film ends.
Source: IMDB
This movie is an entertaining movie for all ages. Those minions were soooooooo cute.
Monday, January 27, 2014
Natural Phenomenon: Dry Season Impact of Rainfall La Nina
DRY SEASON IMPACT OF RAINFALL IN LA NINA
The high rainfall during the dry season is a lot of benefit to many farmers who experienced famine in the previous year due to drought, because of the rain in this dry season of planting and harvesting them become more numerous. Rain in the dry season also provide many benefits such as adequacy of water supply needs for communities in areas that normally experience water shortages during the dry season. Although it is recognized that these conditions would likely lead to large losses for salt, and tobacco farmers, who expect the presence of plenty of sun in summer.
La Nina PHENOMENON
Such violations that trigger the occurrence of climate extremes in dry weather can not be separated from several factors such as rainfall controlling overheating in sea surface temperatures in Indonesian waters. Increasing sea surface temperatures in the waters of Indonesia caused more intensive process of evaporation and cloud formation that caused a lot of rain. In addition to sea surface temperature, extreme weather conditions in most parts of Indonesia in recent years due to La Nina phenomenon of global factors. La Nina causes buildup of air mass that contains a lot of water vapor in the atmosphere of Indonesia, so the potential for rain cloud formation becomes higher. As a result of the months in mid 2010 which should take place now instead drought torrential rains in various areas.
La Nina is a global natural phenomenon characterized by the condition of sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean waters under normal values (cold), while sea surface temperature conditions in the waters of Indonesian Maritime Continent was above normal values (warm). La Nina phenomena can be known from the value of sea surface temperature anomaly in the waters of the Pacific Ocean. La Nina is the opposite of El Nino is a phenomenon of rising sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean waters that affects the occurrence of long dry season and the length in Indonesia.
As opposed to the natural phenomenon of El Nino, La Nina during the sea surface temperature in the waters of the Pacific Ocean will become cold. Cooling sea surface temperatures will lead to high air pressure. Indonesian territory which lies west of the Pacific will experience a low air pressure caused by warming sea surface temperature in the vicinity. The condition causes air masses from the Pacific will flow into Indonesia that resulted in converging air masses rich in moisture, then the chances of rain in the Indonesian area becomes larger. The trend was the emergence of this phenomenon has been observed since the beginning of the dry 2010.
The prediction results Climatology Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) and several monitoring agencies such as NOAA weather world (USA), BOM (Australia), Jamstec (Japan) showed the presence of negative sea surface temperature anomaly. On August until September 2010 been predicted La Nina phenomenon moderate, while in October 2010 until January 2011 will be a strong La Nina phenomenon.
La Nina phenomenon has affected the weather conditions in the atmosphere of Indonesia since early August 2010. When that time most of Indonesia is entering the dry season, but the fact still remains rain fell sporadically in various areas. Incidence of drought is the case rain makes the dry period in 2010 dubbed a wet dry. Based on data from monitoring results BMKG rainfall in various regions showed that rainfall during July and August 2010 over 50 mm per day. This means that almost most of Indonesia is experiencing rainfall with increasing frequency.
MOST EXTREME
According to the wet dry note in Indonesia, the weather in 2010 is the most extreme conditions during the last 12 years. Monitoring data in Indonesian waters, sea surface temperature indicate that the La Nina in 2010 causing temperatures to most warm Indonesian waters during the last 12 years. La Nina has caused climate impacts in the form of significant deviations.
The phenomenon of overheating in sea surface temperature is almost uniform in all regions of Indonesia is similar to the climate condition in 1998. But when viewed in intensity, sea surface temperatures seem much higher in Indonesian waters. The divergence of the current climate could be said unique because in addition to the most extreme deviation, overheating in sea surface temperatures in the waters of Indonesia take place evenly.
Activity associated with La Nina, then the prediction BMKG indicate that extreme weather will still take place and hit the majority of the Indonesian territory until the end of this year. This prediction is based on the data of sea surface temperature Indonesian waters would continue to warm up to the moon in December 2010. Meanwhile predicted La Nina phenomenon will continue to dominant until March 2011 onwards towards neutral conditions in April 2011.
Some predictions are based on data and scientific facts mentioned above, all the more affirming a conclusion about the presence of La Nina this year, so every effort in to face the impact of the presence of La Nina weather extremes need to be prepared as early as possible. Public urged to improve disaster preparedness in the face of extreme weather impacts that may occur in the region occurred .***