Mendenhall Glacier

Closer view of the glacier in the winter

A glacier caveunder Mendenhall Glacier

Mendenhall Glacier is a glacier about 12 miles (19 km) long located inMendenhall Valley, about 12 miles (19 km) from downtown Juneau in the southeast area of the U.S. state ofAlaska. The glacier and surrounding landscape is protected as the 5,815-acre Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area, a federally designated unit of theTongass National Forest.^[2]

Originally known as Sitaantaagu ("the Glacier Behind the Town") or Aak'wtaaksit ("the Glacier Behind the Little Lake") by the Tlingits, the glacier was named Auke (Auk) Glacier by naturalist John Muir for the Tlingit Auk Kwaan (or Aak'w Kwaan) band in 1888. In 1891 it was renamed in honor ofThomas Corwin Mendenhall. It extends from the Juneau Icefield, its source, toMendenhall Lake and ultimately theMendenhall River.

The Juneau Icefield Research Program has monitored the outlet glaciers of the Juneau Icefield since 1942, including Mendenhall Glacier. The glacier has also receded 1.75 miles (2.82 km) since 1958, when Mendenhall Lake was created, and over 2.5 miles (4.0 km) since 1500. The end of the glacier currently has a negative glacier mass balance and will continue to retreat in the foreseeable future.^[3]

Given that average yearly temperatures are currently increasing, and the outlook is for this trend to continue, it is actually possible that the glacier might experience a period of stabilization or slight advance during its retreating march. This is because increasing amounts of warm, moist air will be carried up to the head of the icefield, where colder ambient temperatures will cause it to precipitate as snow. The increased amount of snow will feed the icefield, possibly enough to offset the continually increasing melting experienced at the glacier's terminus. However, this interesting phenomenon will fade away if temperatures continue to climb, since the head of the glacier will no longer have cold enough ambient temperatures to cause snow to precipitate.

The Greatest Treasure

One day Peter found a treasure map.

"Hurray! I'm going to find this treasure, and have some adventure!" He exclaimed.

Peter set off. He walk a long way and finally reached a forest. There he met Lion.

"You are strong and courageous," said Peter to Lion. 

"Will you come with me on a treasure hunt?" Lion agreed and joined Peter.

The forest was dense and dark. Peter was afraid but with Lion by his side, he made it through. 

When the two finally reached the mountain, they met Eagle.

"You have excellent vision and can alert us to dangers," said Peter to Eagle.

"Will you come with us? We are looking for a treasure!" Eagle agreed and joined Peter and Lion. 

The mountains were tall and craggy. Lion slipped, but Peter was swift enough to give him a hand and pull him up. Eagle with his sharp vision, watched every step they took. Soon they reached the valley below where they met Sheep.

"Will you join us in our search for treasure?" Peter asked the Sheep. 

"And keep us warm when its cold?" Sheep agreed and joined Peter, Lion and Eagle. 

A cold wind swept across the endless meadow. They all huddled against Sheep who kept them warm and cosy.

The four finally reached the desert where they met Camel.

"You are called the ship of the desert," said Peter to Camel.

"Will you help us get across and join the treasure hunt too?" Camel agreed.

Peter, Lion and Sheep mounted the Camel and happily set off across the vast desert with Eagle enjoying the spectacle from above. Camel began galloping and everybody cheered with excitement. Traversing the desert on Camel's back was quite thrilling!

The five finally reached the ocean where they met Turtle. 

"Can you help us cross the water?" Peter asked the Turtle.

"We are on a treasure hunt." Turtle agreed and joined Peter, Lion, Eagle, Sheep, and Camel.

The rough waves almost drowned the party, but Turtle skillfully steered them across. 

They met Owl on the otherside. Owl spoke from his ancient wisdom. 

"Congratulation, you have found the treasure."

"Where is it?" They all exclaimed in surprise.

"Together you have passed the forest, climbed the mountains, dared the valley, braved the desert, and cross the ocean.You would never have done it without one another."

They all looked at each other and realised that Owl was right! They had found friendship! Indeed, they had found the greatest treasure ever!

The Amazing Structure : Dynamic Tower

The Dynamic Tower (also known as Dynamic Architecture Building or the Da Vinci Tower) is a planned 420-metre (1,378 ft), 80-floor moving skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates which designed by architect David Fisher. 

Similar to the Suite Vollard completed in 2001 in Brazil, each floor will be able to rotate independently. This will result in a constantly changing shape of the tower. Each floor will rotate a maximum of 6 metres (20 ft) per minute, or one full rotation in 90 minutes.

The majority of the workers will be in factories, where it will be much safer. The entire tower will be powered from wind turbines and solar panels. The turbines will be located between each of the rotating floors. The solar panels will be located on the roof and the top of each floor.

In 2008, Fisher said that he expected the skyscraper to be completed in 2010. In 2009, Fisher said construction would be complete in late 2011. However, as of January 2013, construction has not started yet, and there has been no official announcement of the building site. Fisher did not “say where the tower would be built, because he wanted to keep it a surprise”. Fisher acknowledges that he is not well known, has never built a skyscraper before and has not practiced architecture regularly in decades.

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Tower

 

WANTED! with TRIPLEX, Siti Djubaedah and Pasea

Wonderful Day and Night at Matswapati!

Hello, everybody! This time Mrs. Wiwin gave us a 'Tugas Mandiri' task about SMAN 3 Bandung Cultural Festival. It was held at 27th of September 2014. Name of the festival is...Matswapati! I heard that Matswapati is a name of Wayang character. This event had vacuum for 6 years. So this event is really exciting and interesting especially for SMAN 3 Bandung students. And this event won't be held without Abdel M. Deghati. So give a big thanks for him guys! 

We started the day with parade at 7 am. The parade was followed by tenth graders and others school students. And the parade was competed among classes. We walked while sang around Sumur Bandung area. And i think the parade was so fun but made me and my friends quiet tired. 

Around 11 am, the festival officially opened. And there was something that made our opening special. It was because the opening attended by Ridwan Kamil and his wife, Athia Kamil. Suddenly so many people came near to the stage. And than we treated by many perfomer of SMAN 3 Bandung extracurricular and others community.

There were many interesting stand. Stand of my class was offer to play pepeletokan. It was a sunda game that rarely to find now. If you lucky you could got a sunda snack or a doll or maybe a clothes. The other class stand had unique games or service too. At X ipa-1 stand you could give something to anybody you want but mostly the visitors who came there gave the thing for their crush. At X ipa-2 you could took an IQ test. And then at X ipa 4 there were many girl clothes. I didn't really remember what all of the stands offer. But i think the stands with the most visitors were at X ipa 7 stand. The stand offer Miracle's service. It was ' Miracle knows your secret'. Many visitors came there to ask an advice for what they had to do. Mostly ask about their love story. And you could paid her whatever you want but sincere. There was a foodcourt too. The food court offer many variant food. You could found bazaar SMAN 3 Bandung foods too there.

The announcement of the favourite winner would be annouce. And then... The MC said that the points of the first winner was far enough from the second winner. And then the MC said that the first winner was....X ipa 3!!!! It was crazy. We never thought it before. And the prizes was really amazing. We got 1 million!! YEAY! 

The time that we waited were to watch Barsena and Glenn Fredly. 

Barsena was perform about 5 a clock until Adzan Magrib. After that, we were given a time for Magrin prayer. So everyone went to the nearest Masjid. 

Finally, Glenn Fredly perform time was came! Everybody waited this moment. Actually i'm not a fan of Glenn but i love his songs, everyone knows his songs. It's like his song is everybody songs. He brought us to love nuence. Because he mostly sang the love song. And the most i liked that he sang that night was 'Terserah'. It is one of sad song of Glenn. For me the song is completely direct for someone out there :'). Beside that, Glenn was talked about his ignorance of President decion that negated elections. Nobody want this include me. 

So that was my wonderful day and night at Matswapati. Keep calm and love your own culture! 

Me and my friends with parade atribute

Nice day :) ( Bali Street )

Opening of the festival. As you can see the opening was attended by Ridwan Kamil and his wife, Athia Kamil.

We won the parade competetion and we got one million! :D

My Identity

Hello, my name is Salsalbilla Maharani Achda. You can call me Salsa. But my junior high school friends usually call me Salsal because there are 5 Salsabilla at my junior high school. I was born at 21st of August 1999. I have 1 little brother. He was only one and  a half years. He was born when I was in eighth grade. It was at 7th of February 2013. His name is Muhammad Rifat Thiago Al-Kautsar. At the first time i thought that was a wrong time when i know that i would have a sibling. Because im afraid i would lose him. It was happen when i was kid.  My mother had miscarried 4 times. It was really terrible time. I lost my older brother and 3 little brother/sister. So that was. But now im really happy and grateful to God because i never felt lonely again. 

My kindergarten was at permata ibunda. Then i continued my school to karang pawulang 4 elementary school. After that i studied at 5 junior high school. And now i am a student of 3 high school (nobody ask). Alhamdulillah :) . The next i want to study at ITB majoring in architecture or 

faculty of medical at German. Aamiin. 

And then about my hobby. I think i have many hobbies. But the most i like is eating!!! For me eating is more important than my need. And then  i like playing music. I can play kajon and guitar. But i only an amateur player. I also like reading. Read everything. Reading novel, comic, newspaper, magazine, article from internet, and other things.

And then about my excellence and weakness. When i was at junior high school, me and my friends once assigned to write the exellence and weakness  of all students in our class. And my friends wrote my exellence are kind, smart, wise, and polite. And my weakness are not neat, plain, freak, and... they said to be a fan of Lionel Messi is a weakness... this is really hurt :'(. Just imagine your admiring person be degraded like that...but from all of that i was really happy. Because i could be that person (my exellence) for my friends although i was not feel same with what they said. I hope i could be better soon for My God who always there for me and everyone. 

WANTED!