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pecies are treelike, characterized by a crown of compound leaves, called

fronds, terminating a tall, woody, unbanked stem.

..... Click the link for more information.  (Cocoas nucifera), a tree widely

distributed through tropical regions. The seed is peculiarly adapted to

dispersal by water because the large pod holding the nut is buoyant and

impervious to moisture. The trees therefore establish themselves

naturally on small islands and low shores bordering the tropical seas.

The tree grows to a height of 60–100 ft. (18–30 m), with a smooth

cylindrical stem marked by the ring like scars of former leaves. It bears

at the top a crown of frond like leaves and yellow or white blossoms. The

number of nuts varies; a well-cared-for tree may yield 75 to 200 or more

annually. The mature fruit as it comes from the tree is encased in a

thick, brown fibrous husk. The nut itself has a hard woody shell, with

three round scars at one end; the embryo lies against the largest scar

and emerges through it as a developing plant. Through this easily

punctured spot the "milk" of the young coconut may be drained.

*TSUNAMI*

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he 11 November launch in Jakarta of the Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning System (Ina

TEWS) was welcome news throughout the archipelago, but perhaps most of all in Aceh.

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he province hardest hit by the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, in which about

170,000 people died, is still rebuilding homes and livelihoods devastated by the disaster.

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In many places, the situation is better than it originally was, but in some places it is not

yet as good as it used to be,” Pieter Smith, head of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)

mission in Sumatra, told IRIN.

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mith heads ADB’s tsunami recovery project in Aceh. He said Indonesia’s Aceh and Nias

Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency, or BRR, would end its mandate in April 2009.

About US$6 billion had been invested in Aceh’s reconstruction so far, he said.

“

This [Ina TEWS] is definitely a very good investment from the international community and the

government,” Smith said.

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he early warning system can reportedly predict and disseminate news of a possible tsunami within

five minutes of an earthquake, according to the National Meteorology and Geophysics Agency.

“

This will give people around 30 to 40 minutes to evacuate and save their lives,” said Edie Prihanto,

assistant to the deputy for technological needs analysis at the Ministry for Technology and Research.

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rihanto told IRIN they began developing Ina TEWS in 2005, after the government decided that a

warning system had to be developed “at any cost”. The meteorology agency said about 57 percent of

Indonesia’s 81,000km of coastline was vulnerable to tsunamis.

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he system, which consists of buoys linked to detectors on the seabed, was developed at a cost of 1.4

trillion rupiahs ($130 million). Germany contributed 45 million Euros ($56 million) to the project,

while China, Japan, the USA and France contributed equipment and technical assistance.

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ince 2005, the government has been conducting tsunami preparedness drills in various parts of the

country every year on 26 December – the annual anniversary of the 2004 tsunami.

*ANIMAL*

*SNAKE*

Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder

Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of

eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic,

amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of

snakes have skulls with many more joints than their lizard ancestors,

enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their

highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired

organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side

by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a

pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca.

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ingdom: Animalia

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hylum: Chordata

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lass: Reptilia

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rder: Squamata

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uperfamily: Varanoidea

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unranked): Pythonomorpha

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uborder: Serpentes

*BUILDING*I

n technology, architecture, construction, engineering and real estate development

the word building may refer to one of the following:

1

.Any human-made structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or

continuous occupancy, or

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.An act of construction (i.e. the activity of building, see also builder)

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n this article, the first usage is generally intended unless otherwise specified.

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uildings come in a wide amount of shapes and functions, and have been adapted

throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available,

to weather conditions, to land prices, ground conditions, specific uses and aesthetic

reasons.

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uildings serve several needs of society – primarily as shelter from

weather and as general living space, to provide privacy, to store

belongings and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter

represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of comfort

and safety) and the outside (a place that at times may be harsh and

harmful).

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ver since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects

or canvasess of artistic expression. In recent years, interest in

sustainable planning and building practices has also become part of

the design process of many new buildings.

*That’s All*

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