Saturday, 5 February 2011
[KEREN] Rumah Kost Berbahasa Inggris Di Bandung Yg Cozi Banget !
Friday, 7 January 2011
[Tanda-tanda dekat kiamat?] Setelah Burung, Puluhan Ribu Kepiting Mati.
VIVAnews - Setelah matinya ribuan burung belum lama ini, kini tumpukan bangkai kepiting ditemukan memenuhi daerah pantai di Thanet Coast.
Seperti dikutip oleh situs Livescience, para ilmuwan telah dibuat bingung dengan fenomena kematian ribuan kepiting yang terjadi di daerah ini. Diperkirakan ada sekitar 25 ribu kepiting jenis Necora puber yang mati di pantai ini, tahun ini.
"Ini telah menjadi sebuah fenomena yang tak terpecahkan sejak tiga tahun berturut-turut," ujar Tony Child, Thanet Coast Project Manager, kepada situs Livescience.
Tahun lalu, bahkan kepiting yang mati di tempat ini lebih banyak lagi, yakni mencapai sekitar 40 ribu kepiting. Thanet Coast adalah sebuah pesisir yang panjang yang memiliki batu karang kapur, di wilayah Kent Inggris.
Tapi, tahun ini, yang mati dipantai tersebut tak cuma kepiting, melainkan juga bintang laut. Kepiting Necora puber atau dikenal juga dengan nama velvet swimming crab, merupakan kepiting yang memiliki mata berwarna merah, dengan rambut-rambut halus yang tumbuh pada tubuhnya, sehingga tampak seperti tekstur beludru.
Para pakar lingkungan sempat melakukan serangkaian penelitian terkait dengan kejadian ini, namun pemelitian itu tak menemukan kesimpulan apapun. Namun, Child punya perkiraan tentang penyebab kematian kepiting tadi.
Menurut dia, setiap tahun kematian kepiting terjadi saat pantai tertutup salju. Child menjelaskan, salju mencair akan membuat suhu di sekitar pantai anjlok sehingga kematian kepiting diperkirakan ada kaitannya dengan hipothermia. "Namun, saya tidak tahu pasti, apakah ini benar-benar penyebabnya," kata Child.
Sebelum kematian massal kepiting ini, sekitar 500 burung ditemukan mati di Lousiana, dan burung-burung lainnya ditemukan mati di Swedia. Sementara di beberapa negara lain juga ditemukan bangkai-bangkai ikan yang telah mati.
sumber: viva
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
[FOTO EKSKLUSIF] Pangeran William dan Kate Middleton yg bertunangan!!
Nine years after they met in a friend’s university digs, the romance between Prince William and KateMiddleton has finally been sealed with a ring.
Yesterday’s long-awaited announcement of their engagement came after years of fevered speculation and spanned at least one very public – and for Kate at least very painful – break-up.
For a month after William proposed to Kate, offering her the same engagement ring worn by his late mother Diana, the only other person in the know was Kate’s father Michael, whose permission William went on to seek.
Owing to the couple’s intense desire for secrecy, even the Queen and Prince Charles were kept in the dark.
They were informed in a telephone call at 7.30am yesterday – just two and a half hours before the engagement was made public.
The Queen swiftly declared herself ‘delighted’ and Charles said he was ‘thrilled’, quipping: ‘They have been practising long enough.’
For his part, Prince Harry just swore in shock but later said he was delighted to be gaining a ‘sister’.
The wedding will be held next year in London, probably at Westminster Abbey, but the couple have made no firm decision on venue or date. It could even be held as early as March.
Taking it in their stride: Kate and William parade in front of the world's media
Last night in a revealing TV interview, Kate admitted how hurt she had been when the couple split in 2007. It is now clear that it was William who precipitated the split.
She told ITV: ‘I, at the time, wasn’t very happy about it but actually it made me a stronger person. You find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn’t realised.’
The couple rekindled their romance after a few months apart and, last month, William surprised Kate – or Catherine as she will now be known – with his late mother’s ring after smuggling it in his rucksack on an African safari.
The 28-year-old chose the priceless diamond-encrusted sapphire as a way of including Diana in the ‘excitement’ of his proposal.
It was, he said, a very special heirloom and Kate is ‘a very special person to me’.
‘It was my way of making sure my mother didn’t miss out on today, and the excitement and the fact that we’re going to spend the rest of our lives together.’
Another source told the Mail that while the vast cost of the event will be shouldered by the RoyalFamily, the Middletons have not yet ruled out making some sort of contribution themselves – possibly by paying for the honeymoon which is likely to be in the Seychelles.
Kate admitted yesterday that she was overwhelmed by the prospect of marrying into one of the most famous – and notoriously dysfunctional – families in the world. ‘It’s quite a daunting prospect but hopefully I’ll take it in my stride and William’s a great teacher so hopefully he’ll be able to help me along the way,’ she said.
Asked about the prince’s late mother, she described Diana as an ‘inspiration’ and said she would have loved to have met her.
If Kate was admitting to nerves, her parents were displaying none. Former air hostess CaroleMiddleton, who has since created a multi-million-pound fortune from her firm which sells children’s party goods, looked nervous but casual in tight-fitting jeans.
In a statement delivered outside their sprawling detached home in Bucklebury, Berkshire, her husband Michael said: ‘I would just like to say that Carole and I are absolutely delighted by today’s announcement and thrilled at the prospect of a wedding some time next year.’
It is understood that Kate favours the idea of being a stay-at-home RAF wife but will take on a small number of royal patronages.
William is based at RAF Valley on Anglesey, where he is working as a Sea King search-and-rescue pilot.
The couple plan to live on the island for the first years of their marriage, in a relatively modest £750-a-month rented farmhouse.
They admit that while they do not plan to have children immediately, the prospect is part of their immediate future.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330340/Royal-Wedding-Prince-William-Kate-Middleton-engaged-marry-2011.html


