cuscus

The cuscus is a large marsupial native to the Northern forest of Australia and the large, tropical island of Papua New Guinea.

The cuscus is known to range in size from just 15cm to more than 60cm in length, although the average sized cuscus tends to be around 45cm (18inches). The cuscus has small ears and large eyes which aid the cuscus through it's nocturnal lifestyle.

Cuscus can survive in different ecosystems: tropical rainforests, mangroves and dense forests at high altitudes (3900 feet).

The cuscus is an arboreal mammal, and spends it's life almost exclusively in the trees. The cuscus rests in the trees during the day, sleeping in the dense foliage and awakens at night to start moving through the trees in search of food. The cuscus is an omnivorous animal but the cuscus mainly eats leaves and fruits occasionally feasting on small birds and reptiles. Pythons and birds of prey are main predators of cuscus.

The cuscus is thought to breed throughout the year rather than having a strict breeding season. The mother cuscus gives birth to between 2 and 4 baby cuscus after a gestation period of just a couple of weeks. As with all marsupials, the female cuscus has a pouch on her tummy which the new born cuscus babies crawl into and stay until they are bigger, less vulnerable and able to start feeding themselves. Typically only one of the cuscus babies will survive and emerge from the pouch after 6 or 7 months.

The cuscus has a long and very strong prehensile tail which is naked (has no fur) at the end. The cuscus also has long, sharp claws which help the cuscus when it is moving around in the trees. The cuscus has thick, woolly fur which can be a variety of colours including brown, tan and white.

When the cuscus was first discovered, scientists believed that the cuscus was a type of monkey due to the way that the cuscus moves through the trees and uses it's tail to grip onto branches. It was later discovered that the cuscus was actually most closely related to the possum.

Today the cuscus populations are declining mainly due to deforestation and therefore loss of the habitat in which the cuscus exists. More and more of the secluded forests where the cuscus dwells, is being cut down with the trees being sold to logging companies.

The cuscus is an elusive and very secretive animal that are extremely difficult to spot in the wild. It is said to be one of the most rewarding sights, if you spot a cuscus in it's natural habitat.

Source:

·         http://a-z-animals.com/animals/cuscus/

·         http://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/cuscus_facts/454

Mammatus Cloud

Hi, my name is Vivi Mutia Yuheva, I'll tell you about the natural phenomena that Mammatus cloud.

Mammatus, also known as mammatocumulus (meaning "mammary cloud") is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. The name mammatus is derived from the Latin mamma (meaning "udder" or "breast"). According to WMO International Cloud Atlas mamma is a cloud supplementary feature.

Mammatus are most often associated with the anvil cloud and also severe thunderstorms. They often extend from the base of a cumulonimbus, but may also be found under altocumulus, altostratus, stratocumulus, and cirrus clouds, as well as volcanic ash clouds. In the United States, sky gazers may be most familiar with the very distinct and more common cumulonimbus mammatus. When occurring in cumulonimbus, mammatus are often indicative of a particularly strong storm or maybe even a tornadic storm. Due to the intensely sheared environment in which mammatus form, aviators are strongly cautioned to avoid cumulonimbus with mammatus. They also attach to the bottom of other clouds.

Mammatus may appear as smooth, ragged or lumpy lobes and may be opaque or translucent. Because mammatus occur as a grouping of lobes. The individual mammatus lobe average diameters of 1–3 km and lengths on average of 0.5 km. A lobe can last an average of 10 minutes, but a whole cluster of mamma can range from 15 minutes to a few hours. They usually are composed of ice, but also can be a mixture of ice and liquid water or be composed of almost entirely liquid water.

True to their ominous appearance, mammatus clouds are often harbingers of a coming storm or other extreme weather system. While they may appear foreboding they are merely the messengers - appearing around, before or even after severe weather.

The existence of many different types of mammatus clouds, each with distinct properties and occurring in distinct environments.

One environmental trend is shared by all of the formation mechanisms hypothesized for mammatus clouds: sharp gradients in temperature, moisture and momentum (wind shear) across the anvil cloud/sub-cloud air boundary, which strongly influence interactions there in.

source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud

advertisement

Hi my name Vivi mutia yuheva, I would like to tell you about advertisement. Advertisement is an item in a newspaper, on television, on the internet, or in a public place, which tries to persuade you to buy something, or which gives you information about an event or job vacancy. For example

                  Curried Chicken Pineapple and Spicy Sour Meat

• ·         Curried Chicken Pineapple

Curried Chicken Pineapple,typical Minang, Padang, Indonesia has a very savory taste because there is a fusion between the taste of chicken, pineapple, spices and coconut milk. Cuisine this one is also very popular, especially for people Minang, Padang, Indonesia. the workmanship and processes and materials are also almost the same as the usual chicken curry, it's just that there is a combination of pineapple.

As for the recipe ingredients and how to make it is:

Ingredient:

1. 1 whole chicken, cut into 6 part
2. 1 lemon, squeeze the water 
3.  2 bay leaves
4. leaves of turmeric 
5. 2 stalks lemongrass, crushed 
6. 2 lime leaves
7. 1.5 liters of coconut milk diluted from 2 coconuts
8. 500ml coconut milk
9. salt to taste
10. 1/4 pineapple, cut into pieces
11. 3 tablespoons cooking oil

Ground spices:

1.   5 red chilies curly
2. 4 large red chilies
3. 8 red onions
4. 4 cloves of garlic
5. 1/2 teaspoon pepper
6. 1 teaspoon coriander
7. 2 cm turmeric
8. 2 cm ginger
9. 1 cm galangal

How to make:

1. Rinse the chicken, coat with lemon juice and salt, let stand a minute, drain. 
2.   Heat oil, saute ground spices, add the bay leaves, turmeric leaves, lemon grass ,and lime leaves. Stir until fragrant.
3. Add chicken, and cook until half cooked. Enter stir chicken into thin coconut milk, and cook until boiling.
4. Pour the coconut milk thick and cook until the chicken is tender, the sauce thickens, and greasy. New enter pineapple, stir, remove from heat. Serve warm.

• ·         Spicy Sour Meat

Indonesian cuisine recipes, Meat Acid typical spicy Padang, Indonesia. Acid spicy meat tasted sour and spicy, so if you have ulcer disease should not eat too much.

Ingredient:

1. 1/2 kg of meat, cut into 1 cm
2. 1/2 liter of water
3. 200 gr minced chili
4. 2 lime leaves
5. 1/2 sheet turmeric leaf, node and torn
6. 2 stalks lemongrass, crushed
7. 1 piece kandis acid
8. 1/2 teaspoon salt

Ground spices:

1. 4 red onions
2. 2 cloves of garlic
3. 1 cm ginger
4. 1 cm galangal

How to make:

1. Cooked or boiled water with the meat, minced chili, mashed seasoning, lime leaves, turmeric leaves, and lemongrass with a low heat until boiling.
2. Once the meat is rather soft, enter kandis acid and salt. Continue cooking until the meat is tender and the flavors mingle. When the meat is tender and the water has not stay little add hot water to taste. When the meat is tender and the flavors mingle. Lift.

                                                                  Good Luck

source:
1. http://pankersnews.blogspot.com/2013/11/gulai-ayam-nanas-khas-pelalawan-beserta.html
2. http://www.resepnya.com/3557/resep-masakan-indonesia-daging-asam-padeh-khas-padang/

My Holiday

My name vivi mutia yuheva, will tell me for three weeks holiday is that after sharing raport UAS from 24th December 2014 to 11th January 2015. Because my math scores less so I had to follow the short semester on the 24th, 26th, and 27th, and I have to follow the short semester on the 6th and 7th, on the 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st december, and 1st january, I did the same routine of watching tv, listen to music, sleep. On 2th january me and the family went to Grandma house in Jakarta, Indonesia.
There I tried to wear clothes from my grandmother made for me and my sister, who for me is three skirts and two shirt, and a shirt for my sister, me and my sister likes that shirt. besides trying to wear clothes from my grandmother, me, my sister, and my brother do lunch, watch tv that was in my grandmother's room, and I asleep while watching TV, I kept waking up at the afternoon, at night my family and I go home, and up to hours 12pm, when my family and I reached the house my family and I go straight to bed in each room.
Tomorrow it is the 3th and 4th january of me and my family a break, that is to watch tv, sleep, and some other activities. on the 5th of January I and my best friends are hanifa and fida go to a mall for for roads and after streets me and go watch a movie at home fida, but me and my friends do not watch until the end because I had to go home, so my friends watching the other I've ever watched, I arriving home at 9pm the night.
On January 6 next day I had to go to school because they have short semester English and it turns out dated January 7 also need an english short semester, when I had a promise to my friend that hanifa and fida January 6 after a short semester English fida will stay for a two days one night at home fida, so I decided to stay for a two days one night at home fida but I have to go home at 7am morning. In fida home I, hanifa and fida cook, play, continuing the film which was delayed at the previous day's.
on the 8th I watch tv, listen to music, sleeping, and other activities. and the 9th and 10th I have a camper from extracurricular PMR (Red Cross Youth) for a-b training, and the 11th, the last day of my holiday break and prepare items for school. and that's my vacation for three weeks.

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        The Daeyang Gallery and House
   

     Its not exactly a house, nor entirely a gallery, but it does have a wine bar—and might best be described as “semi-public.” That said, Steven Holl is comfortable with fluid, hybrid typologies, having designed projects such as the Linked Hybrid complex in Beijing, which combines housing, retail, cinema, and recreation. But for the Daeyang Gallery and House, his first project in Korea, the New York architect also threw in an avant-garde music metaphor, a mathematical reference, and a hefty dose of the “phenomenology” for which he is known. The result is a 10,700-square-foot compound that, despite its heavy-handed complexity, resonates with remarkable subtleties.
     Built for the Daeyang Shipping Company to display its collection of art, which spans from ancient Korean artifacts to cutting-edge contemporary works, the project occupies a hilly site in a posh residential section of Seoul. It comprises three pavilions—a guest residence, an event space, and a reception area—that emerge from a reflecting pool on the roof of a sprawling, lower-level gallery.
     As inspiration for the plan, Holl used a drawing he discovered in a John Cage book of a 1967 musical score by the Hungarian-Canadian composer István Anhalt. Holl followed the sketch to a tee: two rectangular-ish shapes in the upper-left and -right corners (which he used as the footprints of the events pavilion and guesthouse), pierced from below by a vaguely sword-shaped element (now the reception space with the wine bar). He recast the spaces in between as the building's reflecting pool. “Music, in the form of the graphic of the score, was a heuristic device provoking the three-pavilion concept piercing the sheet of water,” Holl explains.
     Before the heuristics begin, however, you drive into a stone-paved courtyard, then enter the building at the lower-level gallery. From a split-level foyer, you take steps down or go up ramps to traverse three pleasingly diverse gallery spaces that then lead to the pavilions upstairs. Throughout the project, 59 linear skylights, parallel but staggered irregularly, bring daylight inside. Many of the skylights are set in the reflecting pool, so light trickles through water before entering the galleries below and dancing across walls and floors. “The skylights cutting through like [musical] staff lines allow sunlight to reconfigure the spaces daily and seasonally—as if the sun plays the music in light and space,” Holl says.
        A similar sense of fluctuation applies to the spaces themselves. One set of stairs and ramps boomerangs up, through the reflecting pool, and then to the wine bar. Surrounded by a garden with stands of black bamboo, pines, and gingko trees, the glass-and-copper pavilions create mesmerizing reflections in the pool while offering shifting perspectives of landscape, water, and architecture.
       Such visual effects are heightened by the pavilions' floor-to-ceiling, double-paned glass. Instead of mullions, Holl employed barely noticeable support fins for the glass, which creates an elegant look but required one of the flat, overhanging roofs to be cantilevered and steadied by piano wire.
         Other Holl signatures make an appearance: a door that wraps into a corner, notched walls, and neo-constructivist lighting fixtures. (Like many Holl projects, the building is geothermally heated and cooled.) The architect also designed custom-made rugs, which abstract the Anhalt drawing in shades of mustard, green, and Matisse blue. He even created a sculptural mailbox.
       But just when you start to feel overwhelmed by a sense of Gesamtkunstwerk, the building allows your eyes to regain focus. A restrained material palette—granite and concrete below, dark oak floors and reddish wood walls and ceilings on the pavilion level—tone things down. Muted details, such as curving feet for gallery railings and recessed lighting that almost disappears, further soften the pedantic blow.
       Holl's buildings, and his readings of them, sometimes feel overwrought. Besides the Anhalt sketch, the Daeyang project ostensibly follows proportions based on the mathematical sequence 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55—the Fibonacci series. Of course, math, music, and architecture have a long history of conspiring at some larger truth; Holl himself has taught a course at Columbia called “The Architectonics of Music.” But as an intellectual exercise, that triumvirate feels nearly exhausted—in the Seoul project, it risks becoming a contrivance, an overabundance of concepts. Still, that ought not take away from Holl's experiential accomplishment here. Cutting through the rhetorical clutter, one finds a building that is, in reality, full of sublime moments.
 
Source=
archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/2012/05/daeyang-gallery-and-house.asp

                       Short Semester

      I would tell you about my short semester. Short Semester is A few days in our holiday and used for additional value to qualify in order not to re-contract.
      This is my first time for me. l'm following is a short semester mathematic and short semester english. I followed the short semester mathematics for three days, two days of learning, namely 24 th and 27 th, and one day test is the 28 th and short semester English for two day.
      atmosphere while learning mathematics in the 24 th and 27 th is silent, that there are many who come for short semester. Lessons learned on the 24th of that chapter 1 and on the 27th of that chapter 2 and 3, Because silence, I became the concentrations studied. Usually when learning I can not concentrate, because fuss. Many do not understand about chapter 1, but since the short semester, I so understand about chapter 1. If chapters 2 and 3 I stayed learn some who have not understood.
      But somehow on the 28th that moment I can only test a few questions, and I already understand how time in looking for the answer but not even met-met. So the question that I have not the content I replied origin, due to run out of time. Done in tests I asked my friend faris "hard or easy?" Continue faris replied "middling".
      Only a few short semester English language that only two people plus me And I was given the task to read the story in the paper that had been given teacher. Then the teacher asked a question according to the story in the paper that I had read.
      Feelings I while get the short semester, angry, sad, disappointed, just jumbled. Actually the math I've thought if get short semester, but I do not think the English language can be short Semester.
      Starting today I was determined to be diligent study, do not lazy anymore.

fighting

sorry my grammar and typo