...The bright dancing lights that appear in the sky are called the Aurora Borealis . These lights are made of from collisions of electricity charged particles from the sun entering at earths atmosphere . The lights are seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemisphere. Auroral displays appear in many colors although pale green and pink, shades of red, yellow, green, blue, and violet have been seen and reported . Some of the lights appear in many different forms of patches or scattered clouds of light to streamers, arcs, rippling curtains, and shooting rays that light up the sky with an mysterious glow. What causes The Northern Lights ? Northern Lights can be seen in the northern or southern hemisphere, in an irregularly shaped oval centred over each magnetic pole. The lights are known as 'Aurora borealis' in the north and 'Aurora australis' in the south. Scientists have learned that in most instances northern and southern auroras are mirror-like images that occur at the same time, with similar shapes and colors....
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...Have you ever wondered, how the Northern Light came to be? Well, there are so many different myths about how they came to be, but I’m telling it the way I know they came to be. One day, Athena and Zeus were walking out in their garden and they started to talk. They talked and talked about the boys, that’s what they did when they had their walks. Athena would bring up ideas she had for different things around the world. Athena was the goddess of wisdom, she has great judgment, and she has knowledge of a lot of things. Zeus, he is the god of the sky. Athena was using her judgment to help people see things in brighter way “ I think that we should have the sky, you know instead of it just being one sad plain color, we should have it be all different...
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...abroad these days. 4. They shaked their head when they heard the news. - They shake their heads when they heard the news. 5. They gone to see the latest Harry Potter film, but it was very disappointment. - They went to see the latest Harry Potter film, but it was very disappointing. 6. All the islanders greets us very enthusiastic. - All the islanders greet us very enthusiastically. 7. This is the building there has a monument at the front. - This is the building that has a monument in the front. 8. The baby cry constantly and will not be comfortet. - The baby cries constantly and will not be comforted. 9. Who’s side are you on? - Who is the side are you on? 10. Northern Lights is a popular book who where written by Philip Pullman. - Northern Lights is a popular book that was written by Philip Pullman. Opgave B 11. He asked me if I could come. (om) 12. It rains a lot because the temperatures are rising globally. (fordi) 13. If you do your homework, you are sure to get good grades. (hvis) 14. We used to watch TV while my brother was cleaning the house. (mens) 15. My uncle hates spending money although he is very rich. (skønt) 16. When I was younger, we used to go to the beach every Sunday. (da) Opgave C 1. The carpenter measured out the kitchen floor. - measures 2. They ran to the train station in the rain. - run 3. The police searched for the thief. - search 4. He brought some wine for the party....
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...What’s so special about the Alethiometer? Alethiometer, also known as the “Golden Compass”, originated from the movie “The Golden Compass”. This incredible prop is contracted with the most remarkable care and dedication. The casing is real, highly polished brass and was made in a working foundry specially constructed for the purpose in the prop workshops. It is a heavy item with ornate details engraved into the outer shell and also under the lid; whereas the underside image of the Magisterium building was carved. Thus, it was inspired by the architecture in Prague. It consist three ornate control knobs on the edge of the ‘compass’, which were used to set a question to be answered by the Alethiometer. The face of the dial is the most detailed part of the prop; it contains 36 symbols. Each symbol is painstakingly and carefully hand-painted by a jeweler. The three arms on this particular prop are fixed in place, it doesn’t move by itself, unless of course, if you turn the knobs by force. Same applies with a replica. A copy of the genuine prop is considered a ‘toy’ and can be bought in selected stores, mostly purchased in the “Amazon” and “Noble Collection”. The authentic ‘compass’ has six different versions, each created for the filming of the movie, from a closed rubber prop required for action scenes to a computer controlled, fully-geared moving prop. The center hub cover of the face was added in post-production by computer effects, as was some of the movement and glow lighting...
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...The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin is the story of Genly Ai’s trip to Gethen, a cold, icy planet inhabited by androgynous people. Genly was sent to this planet by the Ekumen, an interplanetary organization that encourages the exchange of goods and ideas, to introduce the Gethenians to the organization and its technological advances. When he arrives in Karhide (one of the countries on Gethen), he meets Argaven and Estraven, the country’s king and chancellor, respectively. The next day, Argaven refuses the Ekumen’s offer, and he informs Genly that Estraven has been exiled. Genly then journeys to Orgoreyn, a country adjacent to Karhide, to tell the people there about the Ekumen. He soon meets the thirty-three Commensals who rule Orgoreyn. They do not believe his story of the Ekumen, and they want to see his spaceship as proof. After several days of negotiation, Genly is suddenly imprisoned in his room. He is sent to a barbaric prison camp along with other prisoners, but he is soon rescued by Estraven. Estraven wants Gethen to join the Ekumen, for he thinks it will prevent an impending war on the planet between Karhide and Orgoreyn. Genly and Estraven cross the icy tundra on foot toward Karhide; the journey takes months. Once they reach Karhide, Estraven is killed by some border officers for returning despite his exile. Genly calls for his ship, Argaven, to join the Ekumen, and Genly and his crew then leave the planet. Genly Ai is the protagonist of The Left Hand of Darkness...
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...SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS OF NORTHERN LIGHTS LIMITED James Slater, Vice President (Sales and Marketing), Northern Lights Limited (NLL),has to make a tough decision whether to sponsor its client, Amtron Pvt Ltd. NLL is a company in the steel service centre industry. Amtron is one of NLL’s oldest clients. They have been NLL’s first major client in 1945. They have been a strong business source of business and referrals to NLL. AMTRON gave all its orders to NLL even though they have been approached by many other suppliers. Thus, there is a great customer loyalty seen by Amtron. NLL too has a great deal of goodwill in the market. The situation in front of NLL is whether to sponsor for Amtron’s event which would be attended by the sales and service achievers of Amtron. This was termed as a great marketing opportunity by AMTRON. It would be attended by all of Amtron’s executive marketing staff. The situation can be divided into two decisions: A. To sponsor the event Sponsorship can be given in 3 different ways: i) Grand Reception ($50,000) ii) Golf Tournament ($20,000) iii) Grand Banquet ($90,000) Sponsoring the event won’t cost NLL much. Amtron placed an order of $20 million in the previous year. The sponsorship they give Amtron would be a small fraction of revenue earned from Amtron. Also, NLL believes in keeping strong customer relationship which would be tested in the situation. However this decision could also pose as a problem for NLL. By...
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...array of colors. The northern horizon is draped with an iridescent green, deep blues, sharp violets, scarlet reds, and bright oranges and yellows. You stand awestruck as the colors descend, like a melting rainbow, across the sky. Then, as quickly as they appeared, they vanish without a trace. This natural phenomenon is known as aurora borealis, or the northern lights, or better known as the dancing lights. Aurora Borealis is one of the most exotic and difficult concepts in astronomy. The colours of aurora borealis are fomed by the collision of gas particles in the Earth’s atmosphere with charged electrons from the sun’s atmosphere. So, today I will inform you about the different types of gas particles that are involved in the production of the colours of aurora borealis. I obtained the all the information about Aurora Borealis from the book entitled The Amazing Northern Lights authored by Syun-Ichi Akasofu. First of all, the big player in the formation of lights of the aurora borealis is oxygen. Oxygen is responsible for the vivid green light and also for a deep brownish red light. The emission of the deep brownish red light occurs at high altitudes of the aurora. At high altitudes, the earth’s atmosphere contains a greater percentage of atomic oxygen and is very thin like a hard vacuum giving the atoms ample opportunity to emit red light since the collisions between atoms happen only about every 7 seconds. This atomic oxygen emits red light at a wavelength of 630...
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...is trying to show a series of different relationships and their struggles. The actors are struggling to find love and dicover what love is. The vital message of love keeps occurring . This wonderful, humorous, and romantic play’s goal is to make the audience want to fall in love again but also keep them laughing on the way. In the play the lighting continued to change. The purple lights that represented the sky keeps occurring to set the romantic mood of the play. In the prologue, there is music that sounds very romantic and also a field of stars ; a clear, cold, moonless northern night sky – serves as the backdrop for the entire play. In the prologue, the light is on Pete and Ginette sitting on a bench in Pete’s yard, looking at the stars. They are not sitting close to each other at all Pete is sitting on the stage right end of the bench; Ginette, on the stage left end of the bench. In addition, during the transition of the prologue to Act 1 , the lights starts to fade on a sad, confused and hopeless Pete. Equally Important, The sound in “Almost, Maine” enhanced the light-hearted nature of the script. Sound was mostly used in the musical transitions between scenes,...
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...IT IS currently summer in the northern hemisphere, which may mean cloudless azure skies, some of the time at least. What makes the sky this colour? For scientists, the answer is relatively straightforward: Rayleigh scattering. When white light from the sun reaches the earth it hits the gas molecules that make up the atmosphere. These molecules—mainly nitrogen and oxygen—are smaller than the wavelengths of light in the visible spectrum and so scatter the light. White light is made up of different wavelengths, which, since Isaac Newton’s experiments with prisms in the 17th century, we think of as a spectrum of seven different colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Light at the violet end of the spectrum travels in shorter, tighter waves, which are affected more by the molecules in the atmosphere than the longer, lower-frequency waves at the red end. This phenomenon is named after Lord Rayleigh, the British physicist who discovered it in the 19th century. The sky appears blue because shorter wavelengths are scattered more by the atmosphere than longer wavelengths; so the scattered sunlight that reaches our eyes when looking at the sky (rather than at the sun itself) is predominantly blue. Once you have got your head around that, it might seem that the answer to the initial question—“Why is the sky blue?”—is rather simple. But there is a catch: not everyone would agree that the sky is blue. In 1858 William Gladstone, better known for being the Prime Minister...
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...Crystal Limited Edition: Swarovski Limited Edition Collection for Chanel The Event Design The event will take place in Milan at Officine del Volo, an industrial structure built in 1915. The venue consists of 3 separate rooms on two different floors, the total space being 1500 square meters. For our event on 8th of November, we will use the Eliche room on the ground floor for welcoming the guests and serving a pre-dinner drink and for the dinner we will use the Biplano room on the first floor. Eliche room has a space of 500 square meters that is punctuated with columns, which give a sense of structure to the room. The wooden ceiling brings a warmer contrast to the cement floor and columns. From Eliche room guests take the stairs to Biplano room that will host the dinner. Biplano room is characterised with elements from the early century; parquet floor, wooden trusses and big windows at both ends of the room. Elegant Gala Dinner In order to celebrate the launch of Limited Edition Collection of necklaces for Chanel, we want to create a Gala Dinner that combines the image of the two iconic companies present; Chanel and Swarovski. Chanel represents casual elegance, quality and luxury, while Swarovski brings a touch of glamour and sparkle. For the event we decided to use three main colours: black, white and different shades of violet. Black and white can be seen in the furnishing and decoration, creating a simple yet elegant atmosphere, while violet lightning adds a touch...
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...1. The most important factor responsible for the Earths four seasons is that the Earth rotates around the sun tilted on its axis at a 23.5˚ angle. The axis is always tilted in the same direction which means that for half the year the Northern Hemisphere is pointed more toward the sun and for half the year the Southern Hemisphere is pointed more toward the sun, giving us our seasons. The hemisphere that is facing more directly toward the sun has more direct sunlight and less beam spreading, which makes the sunlight more intense. Variations in solar radiation between the equator and the North Pole would be the smallest on June 21, the summer solstice. In the winter the North Pole would not have close to as much radiation as the equator because of the lower solar angle and the shorter period of daylight. During the June solstice the difference in solar radiation between the North Pole and the equator would be very close because the North Pole will have longer hours of daylight which will offset the lower sun angles. The equator still has more direct sunlight but not as many hours of daylight. During the June solstice at the equator you will have 12 hours of daylength. The further north you move from the equator the longer the daylength will be. Once you reach 66.5˚N you will have 24 hours of daylight. If you move south from the equator your will have less daylight until you reach 66.5˚S where you will have 0 hours of daylight. During the December solstice the opposite...
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...hyperbola and it would escape the gravitational pull of the sun. It would then leave the solar system. Parabolas are the orbital paths of objects in the form of an open curve. If one cuts out an angle in a circular cone, it would follow this path parallel to the sides of the cone. Hyperbolas occur when a plane cuts across two parallels half-cones. Kepler’s laws applies to any situation where two bodies in the universe orbit each other due to their mutual gravitational attraction, not just two planets. For example: Moon’s that orbit planets, such as the four Galilean Moons that orbit Jupiter. #2)(A) The reflecting telescope, which uses a mirror to attract light was perfected by Isaac Newton in 1668 although it was developed by John Gregory in 1663. The refracting telescope, which uses a lens to attract light was developed by a Dutch optician in 1608 named Hans Lippershey. Two...
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... seconds) 3. What are radio waves? An electromagnetic wave of a frequency used for long distant communication. 4. Explain the difference between a transverse wave and a longitudinal wave, and give examples of each. In a longitudinal wave, the vibration travels in the same direction that wave travels. Examples of longitudinal waves include: Sound, p-waves (earthquakes) In a transverse wave, the vibration direction is perpendicular to direction that wave travels. Examples include: Light/electromagnetic, (radio, microwave, xray, etc.), water waves, swaves (earthquakes). The major difference between longitudinal and transverse waves is their direction. Longitudinal waves move left to right while transverse waves move up and down. 5. Compare and contrast: light waves vs. sound waves Light waves are transverse and sound waves are longitudinal. Light waves can travel through a vacuum but sound waves cannot. Speed of light is nearly 300 million m/s while sound has a speed of about 340 m/s. 6. What changes the pitch of sound? The frequency of vibration. Faster vibration would cause a higher pitch while slower vibration would cause a lower pitch. 7. Explain how different factors affect the speed of sound? Speed of sound depends on factors such as altitude, humidity, and temperature because sound waves need molecules to collide in...
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...Northern Rock Bank: an english exemple of the sub-prime mortgage crisis Brief introduction: The Northern Rock-one of the UK's largest mortgage lenders has become the highest profile UK-based victim of the fallout from the global credit crunch, which stemmed from the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the US. The Bank of England has agreed to give emergency financial support to the Northern Rock and it avoided from going bust. I. History of the bank Northern Rock Building Society was formed in 1965 as a result of the merger of Northern Counties Permanent Building Society (established in 1850) and Rock Building Society (established in 1865). During the 30 years that followed, Northern Rock expanded by acquiring 53 smaller building societies, most notably the North of England Building Society in 1994. Along with many other UK building societies in the 1990s, Northern Rock chose to demutualize and float on the stock exchange in order to better expand their business. Demutualization is the process by which a customerowned mutual organisation changes legal form to a shareholder-owned public company. Throughout this period a concern against demutualisation was that the assets of a mutual society was built up by its members throughout its history not just the present members who would benefit, and that demutualisation was a betrayal of the community that the societies were created to serve. Northern Rock chose to address these concerns by founding the Northern Rock Foundation. From...
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...July 2002 • NREL/TP-550-30769 A Literature Review of the Effects of Natural Light on Building Occupants L. Edwards and P. Torcellini National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1617 Cole Boulevard Golden, Colorado 80401-3393 NREL is a U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory Operated by Midwest Research Institute • Battelle • Bechtel Contract No. DE-AC36-99-GO10337 July 2002 • NREL/TP-550-30769 A Literature Review of the Effects of Natural Light on Building Occupants L. Edwards and P. Torcellini Prepared under Task No. BEC2.4002 National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1617 Cole Boulevard Golden, Colorado 80401-3393 NREL is a U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory Operated by Midwest Research Institute • Battelle • Bechtel Contract No. DE-AC36-99-GO10337 NOTICE This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States government. Neither the United States government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States...
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