Nothern Lights

The Northern Lights are one of the big three natural phenomena, created by our sun's magnetic activity. The Northern Lights are caused by large numbers of electrons that stream towards the Earth along a magnetic field and collide with air particles in our sky. The air then lights up rather like what happens in a fluorescent light tube - and what we see is the Northern Lights, also called Aurora Borealis.

The resulting colors of the Northern Lights reflect gases we find up there. The charged particles originate from the sun, and weather conditions on the sun and earth decide whether or not we will see this phenomenon (but the next pages in this section will help you optimize your chances). It's most common to see shades of green in the Northern Lights

Can I see them anywhere?
Yes. Although more frequent at higher latitudes, closer to the poles (such as in Canada, Alaska, Antarctica), they have been seen closer to the equator as far south as Mexico. To view them, look in the direction of the closest pole (the northern horizon in the northern hemisphere, the southern horizon in the southern hemisphere).

Can I see them at any time of the year?
Yes. In some areas, such as Alaska or Greenland, they may be visible most nights of the year. And they occur at any time of the day, but we can’t see them with the naked eye unless it’s dark.

What causes the colors and patterns?
Colors and patterns are from the types of ions or atoms being energized as they collide with the atmosphere and are affected by lines of magnetic force. Displays may take many forms, including rippling curtains, pulsating globs, traveling pulses, or steady glows. Altitude affects the colors. Blue violet/reds occur below 60 miles (100 km), with bright green strongest between 60-150 miles (100-240 km). Above 150 miles (240 km) ruby reds appear.

Fun Facts about northern lights:

• Auroras have been observed since ancient times.
• The height of the displays can occur up to 1000 km (620 miles), although most are between 80-120 km.
• Auroras tend to be more frequent and spectacular during high solar sunspot activity, which cycles over approximately eleven years.
• Some displays are particularly spectacular and widespread and have been highlighted in news accounts. Examples include auroral storms of August-September, 1859, Feb 11, 1958, (lights 1250 miles wide circled the Arctic from Oregon to New Hampshire) and March 13, 1989, (the whole sky turned a vivid red and the aurora was seen in Europe and North America as far south as Cuba).
• Legends abound in northern cultures to explain the northern lights. Some North American Inuit call the aurora aqsarniit(“football players”) and say the spirits of the dead are playing football with the head of a walrus. Often legends warn children that the lights might come down and snatch them away.
• June 1896, Norwegian Kristian Birkeland, the “father of modern auroral science,” suggested the theory that electrons from sunspots triggered auroras.

Sources : http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/northernlights.htm                http://goscandinavia.about.com/od/knowledgesafety/ss/northern-lights.htm

Holiday

December has came, so the holiday has came too. 24 ^th December 2013 until 5^thJanuary 2014 was the semester holiday. I was very happy because in that holiday season, my teacher didn’t give any school homework. I was actually really excited because my family and I had planed to go to Bali.

26^th December 2013 my family and I went to Bali by plane from Bandung. Around 05.45 o’clock we flew to Bali. Inside the plane I taught that I could sleep again because I very sleepy, but in fact I couldn’t sleep anymore.  I really enjoyed the trip because the view was very beautiful.

After I sat for one hour, the plane landed at Ngurah Rai Airport. I felt very excited because in Bali there was a lot of place that we could visit.  At the First day, my family and I visited Lake Bedugul, the scenery in the Lake Bedugul was pretty good. Therefore, my family and I took a picture there. After we had visited Lake Bedugul, my family and I went Tanah Lot. In Tanah lot we could see sunset which was very beautiful. Around 9 p.m my family and I checked in to the hotel and we immediately went to sleep.  At the Second day in Bali my family and I visited Pandawa Beach. Pandawa Beach was actually a new beach in Bali. The water in Pandawa Beach was very clean in fact we could see fishes swam in that beach. After we spent a half day in beach my family and I went to Pura Uluwatu and also took some picture there. At 7 p.m we went back to the  and took some rest. My family and I spent five days in Bali.

Finally, my family and I went home at 30^th December 2013 to Bandung by plane. I think that trip was very amazing .

Student Council President Speech

Assalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb

Hello, my name is Azkia Afifah and I am the candidate for the Student Council President.Before I talk about my mission, I want to ask you about the leader. What is the defition of Leader? The Leader is the person who leadsor command a group, organization, or country. For me the leader is a person who have leadership character. Leadership is ability to inspire motivation in other to move toward a desirable vision. Good leader is the person that can make all members of organization  responsible for work of other. All in all, the best leader is drive change and long lasting motivation.

Motivated,  Dedicated, Resposible. These are three words that describe me and the reason why you should vote for me. Dedicated is responsibility to making sure nothing  bad goes into it or happens to hurt it. Being loyal to other almost guarntees that support system always there.

If I am elected I want make some great event. I promise I can listen what you, the student have to say. I will try my hardest to help you, the student have a memorable school year. I believe that I am qualified to be a student council president. While casting your vote, I ask you to look beyond popularity or who friends with. Look at who would be the better leader for our school. Thank you and vote me Azkia for Student Council President!!

English Assignment

.          1.  If I have $ 1.000.000.000, I’ll go around the world

    If I had $ 1.000.000.000, I would go around the world

    If I had had $ 1.000.000.000, I’d have gone around the world

2.  If I have $ 1.000.000.000, I’ll go to outer space

    If I had $ 1.000.000.000, I would go to outer space

    If I had had $ 1.000.000.000, I’d have gone to outer space

 3.  My mother will be happy if I get a good score

    My mother would be happy if I got a good score

    My mother would have been happy if I got a good score

 4.  If I have enough money, I’ll buy that jacket

    If I had enough money, I would buy that jacket

    If I had had enough money, I’d have bought that jacket

5.  My father will angry to me if I come late to home

    My father would angry to me if I came late to home

    My father would have been angry to me if I come late to home

6. I will go swimming if I have free time.

    I would go swimming If I had free time

    I would have gone swam If I had had free time

7. If I go to Japan, I can meet my friends who live there.

    If I went to Japan, I could meet my friends who live there

    If I gone to Japan, I could have met my friends who live there

8. I will visit them if I have enough time.

    I would visit them If I had enough time

    I would have visited them If I had had enough time

 9. I’ll go home if the bell rings.

     I would go home if the bell rings.

     I would have gone home if the bell rungs.

10. If he runs quickly, he will get there soon

      If he rans quickly, he would get there soon

      If he runs quickly, he would have got there soon.

Export

A function of international trade whereby goods produced in one country are shipped to another country for future sale or trade. The sale of such goods adds to the producing nation's gross output. If used for trade, exports are exchanged for other products or services. Exports are one of the oldest forms of economic transfer, and occur on a large scale between nations that have fewer restrictions on trade, such as tariffs or subsidies.

The benefit of export  that can be achieved through exporting are:

• Promote business growth
• Exploit technology and expertise
• Enhance competitiveness
• Increased Sales and Profits. Selling goods and services to a market the company never had before, it boosts sales and increases revenues. Additional foreign sales over the long term, once export development costs have been covered, increase overall profitability.
• Gain Global Market Shares. By going international companies will participate in the global market and gain a piece of their share from the huge international marketplace.
• Diversification. Selling to multiple markets allows companies to diversify their business and spread their risk. Companies will not be tied to the changes of the business cycle of domestic market or of one specific country.
• Lower Per Unit Costs. Capturing an additional foreign market will usually expand production to meet foreign demand. Increased production can often lower per unit costs and lead to greater use of existing capacities.
• Compensate for Seasonal Demands. Companies whose products or services are only used at certain seasons domestically may be able to sell their products or services in foreign markets during different seasons.
• Create Potential for Company Expansion. Companies who venture into the exporting business usually have to have a presence or representation in the foreign market. This might require additional personnel and thus lead to expansion.
• Sell Excess Production Capacity. Companies who have excess production for any reason can probably sell their products in a foreign market and not be forced to give deep discounts or even dispose of their excess production.                                                                                                                                                The Lack of export                                                                       
• Greater business complexity
• Pressure on resources
• Increased costs & financial exposure.                                                                                                                                               I think Exporting offers the potential to accelerate the growth of your business by diversifying into new markets overseas rather than just serving the domestic market. While there are extra costs involved in managing an export business, you still have the opportunity to increase your profitability through a higher volume of sales and may even be able to achieve higher margins in some foreign markets than you can in the domestic market. Other benefits of exporting include expanded sales and customer networks, exposure to new ideas, technology and global sourcing  .                                                                                                                                               sources : http://toolkit.smallbiz.nsw.gov.au/part/2/6/28                                                                 

                         http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/export.asp                                                

Announcement

Sunset Used Book Exchange

March 19 - 22

Book collection: March 4 – March 15

Class visits in our school library: March 19 – March 22

Donate gently-read children’s books to our annual Used Book Exchange (K-5 is greatly

appreciated). Books can be dropped off in our library drop-box by the front entrance.

Students will select “new” books to read during their scheduled class visits. The number

of books each student will receive will be determined by a school wide average. The

more books donated = the more books the kids get to take home!

Please volunteer to help out during class visits. Go to www.signupgenius.com, click on

“Find a Sign Up”, and type in linda_w_lau@yahoo.com into the text box.

Thanks for your continued support and hope to see you there!

Bik Lam, Librarian

Linda Lau, Annie Malley & Deborah Zouai, Library Co-Chairs

source : http://sunset-pta.org/sunset-used-book-exchange-donations/

Question

When will the class visit their school library? 

Why do they need to donate book?

Who is the librarian?

What website do you have to visit if you want to be a volunteer?

Where can the books be dropped if you want to donate?

Analysis A Dark Brown Dog Story

• Topic of the story A Dark Brown Dog            :  friendship between human and dog and a faithfulness                                                                         of a dog towards his master.
• Plot of the story                                     :  A dark brown dog was a story which told about the unfortunate dog and story about a friendship relation between a child and a dog.  dog always got a bad treatment from the family, but the dog still stayed at the house because the dog felt that he has found his true friend there. many physical conflicts here or it belongs to external conflict,  between the family (especially the father) and the dog. In other hand, there are internal conflict, conflict in the dog itself (when he felt so suffer,  cried a song of infinite lowliness and despair, but he knew that he couldn’t leave the child). But the major  conflict here is between the family and the dog. Main problem comes from the family who didn’t like the dog; thus, they did something cruel to the dog. If the family liked the dog, there weren’t problems and conflicts in this story. Then, we can see the climax of the story is when the father got drunk and he was not too aware, he revealed his  anger to the dog like he was on the top of his anger. He knocked the dog down with a heavy coffee-pot. We know that because of that, he dog yelling in supreme astonishment and fear.  Imagine that we were the dog, how pity we are. It was not enough for the father whom had made the dog so suffer, even the dog had screamed by full of fear in him. The father threw the small body of the dog throw the window. It was very cruel for the dog, but the father didn’t care. At the time, he child see what the father did to the dog, and the child cried and screamed, tried to avoid the father did that. We can imagine, the situation must be strained and full of tears.
• Setting                                                              :  a dark brown dog had a setting in America 
• Character in a story A Dark Brown Dog           :  -Major characters are the dog and the child                                                                                       -Minor characters father, mother,(the family) and the                                                                             neighbor.
• Moral value                                                      :  The moral of the story is that without the dog, the boy would have ended up abusing things like his father. Notice how in the beginning of the story he beats the dog, naturally emulating his fathers abusive actions towards all people and things. By the end once the dog is dead, he learns that abuse leads to bad things.