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Senin, 15 Oktober 2012

Term the teacher's contract or lecturer's contract


Many fenomenal that turn into criminal cases in the world of education is revealed in the media in recent years. From mild to severe criminal matters, from the beating of students, teachers, and students of drugs, prostitutes gathering among students and to issue the textbook material pornography. Is this all true or just sheer kongkalingkong engineering education with certain government officials, or perhaps the emergence of the existence of rogue elements of education mafia???

Many crimes that education has always been on the "Tutup Mulut" by education officials themselves, ranging from the basic level until higher education. It makes the victim more writing and publish on the news that are letters to the editor. In fact, it's all gone a secret anymore, because it was widely circulated in print and electronic media, in fact there are already up to overseas.

Issues that are hot in the world of labor such as presence of the system of "outsourcing (outsourcing / contract)" was also felt by part of education in Indonesia. This would violate labor laws. For educational institutions that make the systems outsourcing (outsourcing / contract) as a weapon to suppress (under pressure) administrative staff, especially staff's got a lot of criticism, especially from the Organization UNESCO world. UNESCO is the world's largest organizations are discussing on Education, Science, and Culture.

Education can not be equated with the employees of one company of teachers (lecturers) are privileged in educational institutions, because they have a big responsibility in educating the nation's children. With the proliferation of educational institutions make the systems outsourcing (outsourcing / contract), we often hear the term the teacher's contract or  lecturer's contract.

Rabu, 05 September 2012

What Is Social Studies?

Social studies is the integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.Within the school program, social studies provides coordinated, systematic study drawing upon such disciplines as anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, history, law, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology, as well as appropriate content from the humanities, mathematics, and natural sciences. The primary purpose of social studies is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world.
Social studies is taught in kindergarten through grade 12 in schools across the nation. As a field of study, social studies may be more difficult to define than is a single discipline such as history or geography, precisely because it is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary and because it is sometimes taught in one class (perhaps called "social studies") and sometimes in separate discipline-based classes within a department of social studies. Two main characteristics, however, distinguish social studies as a field of study: it is designed to promote civic competence; and it is integrative, incorporating many fields of endeavor. In specific and more detailed terms, these distinctions mean the following:
Social studies programs have as a major purpose the promotion of civic competence-which is the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required of students to be able to assume "the office of citizen" (as Thomas Jefferson called it) in our democratic republic. Although civic competence is not the only responsibility of social studies nor is it exclusive to the field, it is more central to social studies than any other subject area in the schools.
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) has long supported civic competence as the goal of social studies. By doing so, NCSS has recognized the importance of educating students who are committed to the ideas and values of our democratic republic and who are able to use knowledge about their community, nation, and world, along with skills of data collection and analysis, collaboration, decision-making, and problem-solving. Students who have these commitments, knowledge, and skills will be the most capable of shaping our future and sustaining and improving our democracy. K–12 social studies programs integrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes within and across disciplines.
Social studies programs help students construct a knowledge base and attitudes drawn from academic disciplines as specialized ways of viewing reality. Each discipline begins from a specific perspective and applies unique “processes for knowing” to the study of reality. History, for instance, uses the perspective of time to explore causes and effects of events in the past. Political science, on the other hand, uses the perspective of political institutions to explore structures and processes of governing.

Kamis, 30 Agustus 2012

10 Ways for Making Your Self Confidence


1. Keep a positive crowd.
The people you hang out with can either drag you down or lift you up. Since we spend so much of our time with other people it’s important to keep positive – or at least reasonably neutral – people around you as much as you can. One or a few negative people can affect you in a big way – perhaps through nagging – and pull you down day after day.
2. Keep a positive intake of information, influence and emotions.
Much of the news and society brings a bleak and negative picture of both the world and yourself to your doorstep each day. Just like the people that surround you the information that surrounds you can affect you in big way. Don’t just stay passive and take it all in. Choose what you want to watch, hear and read. Choose what´s useful and beneficial for you.
3. Positive thinking
Learning to see the world and your life through a more positive lens can be a bit difficult and takes some time. Especially if you’ve spent several years with a negative view on things. Have a look at Take the Positivity Challenge! for pointers on how to change your mindset to a more positive one.
4. Compare yourself to yourself. Not to others.
This will eliminate a lot of unnecessary pain in your life. The thing is if you pass one person then you’ll just find another person more successful than you. And your brief sense of being a winner will once again transform into anxiety and fear. Focus on yourself, not the other people around you, no matter if they are more or less successful. Compare yourself to yourself. Improve yourself and see how you grow and become a more successful, more confident and happier person.
5. Redefine failure.
How you view failure controls how much your confidence drops before or after a failure. The definition of failure we are brought up with in society might not be the best and most useful to have. If you look at the most successful people you quickly notice that they have a different response to failure than the more common one.
They don’t take failure or rejection that seriously. They know it’s not the end of the world if they fail. Instead they look at each failure and see the good part: what they can learn from it and improve next time.
They have an abundance-mentality. They know that if their first business-venture fails it feels like crap for a while but it’s ok in the long run. They learn from it and then they try again. If they are rejected for date, do they give up? Probably not. They know that next week or the week after they might find someone else that’s interesting and ask them out.
They know that there are a lot of good people out there. That there are a lot of good business opportunities out there. But they have also learned that to become successful at anything you have to fail perhaps 5, 10, 20 times or more.
You have work on your skills to sharpen them. See failure or rejection not as something incredible negative that might end your life if it strikes. Redefine it in your mind to lessen the negative emotional impact and the fear. See failure simply as feedback on what you need to improve on. Listen to the advice the failure gives you and you will improve. And, by redefining failure this way your level of confidence will not take a drastic drop every time you fail or fear failure.
6. Compliment other people
When we think negatively about ourselves, we often project that feeling on to others in the form of insults and gossip. To break this cycle of negativity, get in the habit of praising other people. Refuse to engage in backstabbing gossip and make an effort to compliment those around you. In the process, you’ll become well liked and build self confidence. By looking for the best in others, you indirectly bring out the best in yourself.
7. Sit in the front row

In schools, offices, and public assemblies around the world, people constantly strive to sit at the back of the room. Most people prefer the back because they’re afraid of being noticed. This reflects a lack of self confidence. By deciding to sit in the front row, you can get over this irrational fear and build your self confidence. You’ll also be more visible to the important people talking from the front of the room.

8. Speak up
During group discussions many people never speak up because they’re afraid that people will judge them for saying something stupid. This fear isn’t really justified. Generally, people are much more accepting than we imagine. In fact most people are dealing with the exact same fears. By making an effort to speak up at least once in every group discussion, you’ll become a better public speaker, more confident in your own thoughts, and recognized as a leader by your peers.
9. Work out
Along the same lines as personal appearance, physical fitness has a huge effect on self confidence. If you’re out of shape, you’ll feel insecure, unattractive, and less energetic. By working out, you improve your physcial appearance, energize yourself, and accomplish something positive. Having the discipline to work out not only makes you feel better, it creates positive momentum that you can build on the rest of the day.
10. Focus on contribution
Too often we get caught up in our own desires. We focus too much on ourselves and not enough on the needs of other people. If you stop thinking about yourself and concentrate on the contribution you’re making to the rest of the world, you won’t worry as much about you own flaws. This will increase self confidence and allow you to contribute with maximum efficiency. The more you contribute to the world the more you’ll be rewarded with personal success and recognition.

Senin, 28 Mei 2012

If There's A Question Tell About Love


Thou shalt then say:

     All Love on the basis of the love of God that is true love, all the love that leads one to obey God's true love. Because love is chastity, sacrifice, perseverance in keeping one's word, sincerity in carrying out God's command.

     Love is a covenant and agreement ...

     Love is the water of life even he is the secret of life ...

     Love is the delicacy of spirit even he is the spirit of life ...

     With love to light all the darkness ... life will be bright .. will dance and be a clean heart ...

     With love all errors will be forgiven ...

     with the omission would love all forgiven ...

     raised with the love of good sense ...

     Even if not with love, then it will not bend the branches together with the other branches ...

     Even if it were not for love will not stoop to the female deer males, will not cry, dry land to the dark cloud, and the earth will not laugh at the flowers in the spring ....

     When love is hollow in the life of the soul will be narrow and there was dissension and discord.

     When love has gone, the flowers will wilt, the light goes out, will pendeklah age, will dry lake in the wilderness and will come and go and miserable disease.

     When love has gone ... that's when the bees leave the flower, when it left the cage sparrows, finches also when it does not descend again at the top of the fir.

     Had the ocean has a shore And except that the river has a mouth, the coastal ocean and love is not love does not comes down to the river.

Senin, 21 Mei 2012

Using your computer on multiple networks has never been so easy!



The powerful easy to use interface allows you to use resources in every network you will be connecting to (workgroup, domain or home group). It's the perfect solution for everyone using Windows and is working on more than one network or location (e.g. when you are using your machine on multiple locations, offices or at home).
Each location is stored in a profile. Simply select a profile and your drives will be mapped correctly, the correct default printer will be selected, IP Addresses will be set correctly, the correct Proxy Server will be configured, and much more. You will be able to use your machine on any network with ease.

Features

Mobile Net Switch is a network switch utility, also called a netswitcher, multinetwork manager or network connection manager and enables you to create multiple network profiles.

The program has been designed to allow you to switch between several network profiles instantly, without needing to restart your computer. It also incorporates a professional yet easy to use interface and even allows you to enable none-admin users to configure network settings without technical knowledge. It's the best network connection program. Switch network profiles instantly.

Download the fully functional and non-expiring version here.

Selasa, 15 Mei 2012

Learning FOREX for DUMMIES !!!




Usually these books begin with the author stating how she or he got into the currency market. They might recount an anecdote of their college years, when they made XXX amount of dollars on a chance trade. Other authors use these first sentences to describe how awesome and immense the currency market is. I’m not going to follow suit.


I’d like to begin this book by offering you flattering compliments. Think of it as an added incentive to keep you reading. That said, did you lose weight, Champ? It’s a very good look. And I must say that I love what you did to the place, you’re an artist.


There you have it; you just received a good dose of compliments and the general “voice” of this book. You picked this book up because you want to learn about the forex market and how to trade successfully on the forex markets. To a first-time trader, this can sound like a daunting task. Reader, fear not. I’m going to walk you through everything you need to know about the forex markets and will do so in a manner that’s friendly, fun, soothing, and very easy to comprehend.


There’s a lot of information in this book but I know you’ll be able to fly through it and understand everything completely. If at any point you find that there’s something that’s unclear, please visit our website at www.fxclub.com to find your answer. And if your answer isn’t there, you can send your question to info@fxclub.com and Forex Club’s expert customer service team will be sure to give you an answer.


It’s important for you to realize that even professional forex traders make losses from time to time. All biases aside, I want you to view every trade you make, every price movement you watch, and every emotion you feel – good or bad – as a learning experience. As a novice to the market, you are a clump of clay; formless, colorless and with no direction as to what you will become. Every step forward that you take in your learning process will mold you into something better than you were.


When you are happy with a trade that you made, bless your pips, and learn how to duplicate that trade. When you’re upset with a trade that you made, move through it, and learn from your mistake.


So, sit down someplace nice, make yourself cozy, and pour yourself a nice drink. Let’s learn about forex.

Download this book here.


12 Tips and Tactics For Your Online Marketing Plan for take your product be famous efective market


Always someone asks me how to get their product online will be famous to online market. Just remember again about gools for online market is also known as web marketing, webvertising, or e-marketing about your product. So is referred to as the marketing (generally promotion) of your products or services over the Internet. Online marketing is considered to be broad in scope because it not only refers to marketing on the Internet, but also includes marketing done via e-mail and wireless media. Digital customer data and electronic customer relationship management (ECRM) systems are also often grouped together under online marketing. All about i say is propaganda product effectively online. 12 Tips and Tactics For Your Online Marketing Plan for take your product be famous efective market:

# 1 – Research how others have gotten their products to market.
For this steps you must understand the tools available including sell sheets, intellectual property such as trademarks, copyrights and various patents, and the potential market for your product. There are several good books, courses, columns and online communities available for aide in your research, but as the inventor, you are the best person to decide which market is best for your product.

# 2 – Have An Open Mind – Brainstorm With Your Team Regularly
Collaboration with fellow team members can be of benefit to all parties involved.  Not only will collaboration open up new ideas, but it will also improve buy-in from other associates.  If you’re in an internet marketing rut, or just looking to breathe that new life into your plans to dominate the search and social web, be aware of the resources you may already have at your disposal.

# 3 – Buy one or two well-regarded books on inventing. 
Look for those that focus on making money, not just patents and read them. I frequently hear from people who say, "I bought your book but I am still confused." In answer to a couple questions I find they have not actually read the book. After this step you may adapt the next five steps to incorporate what you have learned in your research.

# 4 - The Journey Is Just As Important As the Destination – Just Make Sure You Document
Along the way to creating your “perfect” internet marketing plan, there is a lot to learn.  Remembering that the journey leads to our destination will put us in the right frame of mind to learn from the experience.  As you’re making mistakes or experiencing success it is essential that you document the steps that you took to get there.

# 5 - Conduct market research. 
Identify products on the market, both online and in stores that are similar to your product idea, and note which companies make them and where they are sold.

# 6 - Become An Agent of Change – Don’t be Afraid to Try New Things
Fear consumes many people both personally and professionally.  A fear of failing or disappointment can often lead to a stagnant and uninspired plan for dominance on the web.   Instead of allowing fear to make an appearance, instead recognize that mistakes will be made, but they will be a learning experience.

# 7 - Spend time on the  Patent Agency and Trademark Office (PATO) website to identify and read any patents similar to your concept.

# 8 – Take Some Time to Breathe – Step Back and Survey the Situation
A true marketer knows that our industry is a very customer-centric business. Without our customers we wouldn’t have jobs.  It can become very easy to fall into time sucking tactics that may only put us further behind. 

# 9 – Makes online marketing also refers to the placement of media. 
Along many different media stages of the customer engagement cycle through search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), banner ads on specific websites, email marketing, mobile advertising, and Web 2.0 strategies.The inventions are as varied as the creative people who developed them. They have ranged from child feeding devices to software programs to frozen foods to electronic gardening tools to cell phone accessories.

# 10 – Develop as good a prototype as possible with your available resources. 
This can be as basic as a drawing or as evolved as a professionally made product.
    
# 11 – Connect with other entrepreneurs in your local area or online to share information, resources & offer support.
    
# 12 – Makes draft a your business plan; starting with the fundamentals and make more good with a lot of business consultant.

Most all of the tactics mentioned above will lend themselves to creating a stronger, more cohesive marketing plan.  At one time or another, most of us have faced a situation where we knew our plan wasn’t working, but weren’t exactly sure how to fix it.  Online marketing also must be ties together for creative and technical aspects of the Internet, including design, development, advertising and sales. Let us start by saying that if this is a question you've been asking, you are exactly where you should be. 

If you truly have an invention--something that has not been created before--there is no set way to get it to market and there is no right way. Finding out how to get your product to market is often more relevant to your success than the features and benefits of your invention. In fact, real money-spending consumers don't buy inventions; they buy products. So, shift your approach away from the typical inventing lexicon to how to sell a new product.

I hope that these tips & tactics will become part of a stronger plan and give you the hight spirit to get on the road to online marketing success.

Senin, 14 Mei 2012

Office for education Try Office 365 for free


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Retracing Surakarta Princes’ Residences Chapter I: An Introduction


Sonny Hendrawan Saputra | 22 April 2012 


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Keraton Surakarta Hadiningrat
For reading the series of “RETRACING SURAKARTA PRINCES’ RESIDENCES”:

Chapter I: An Introduction, please click here
Chapter II: Batik Factory, please click here
Chapter III: Ndalem Sasonomulyo, please click here
Chapter IV: Delikan, please click here
Note: This article is the introduction for the series of articles “RETRACING SURAKARTA PRINCES’ RESIDENCES”. There will be several series in which one series represents one residence of the Surakarta Prince or other features related to the topic. Enjoy!
Exploring Solo or Surakarta can be a never ending journey. There are so many choices of spots to visit, from the popular one until something which is hidden or not common yet to see for most people who visit Solo. Of course, visiting Keraton Surakarta Hadiningrat (the palace of Surakarta King) must be one of the top first destinations. Not only as important building in Solo, but also because it has been famous place as the center of Javanese culture with majesty of its heritages. When you ask people who have visited Solo, there is a big possibility that they have visited the palace, but they may not have any ideas about the other buildings outside the main complex of the palace like the residences of the princes. In fact, those residences are also the interesting spots to explore with their own uniqueness. Those have so many potentials to be tourism spots in Solo.
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Gift for participants of Blusukan Ndalem Pangeran program
Since those houses are not yet popularly known by many people, I was so excited to join the activity to visit five houses of the Surakarta Princes which was conducted by “Blusukan Solo” Community from Rumah Karnaval Indonesia organization. Blusukan is a Javanese word to mention the activity of going around in hidden or unknown place. So the focus of this community is to go exploring the places in Solo that may not be noticed by people. The program done in April 22, 2012 was entitled “Blusukan Ndalem Pangeran” or simply has the meaning as exploring the princes’ residences.
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Keraton Surakarta Hadiningrat as the meeting point for participants
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Me, and the committe of Blusukan Ndalem Pangeran program
Generally, those residences are spacious with typical Javanese housing style called Joglo. Joglo has specific space functioned as open hall with dominant wooden ornament. Some of the residences are in good condition, while some others, I think they need urgent renovation. Uniquely, all the houses in palace area including princes’ residences have their own names. These following pictures are the front parts of five princes’ residences in which I will explain later in detail one by one in following series.

1. Ndalem Sasono Mulyo

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Ndalem Sasonomulyo

2. Ndalem Suryohamijayan

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Ndalem Suryohamijayan

3. Ndalem Poerwodiningratan

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Ndalem Poerwodiningratan

4. Ndalem Mangkubumen

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Ndalem Mangkubumen

5. Ndalem Mloyosuman

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Ndalem Mloyosuman
This cultural trip started at 8 am and ended in 4 pm. Yes, 8 hours of the program, just like regular working hours on a day. To be honest the trip was so fun until I could not feel that the time was running so fast. Other nice things were to have the opportunity in palace area in buffet style which was cooked by Abdi Dalem (Palace assistant) and to visit the graveyard of Ki Sala who was recognized as one of the important persons for the existence of Solo area. The understanding about those residences became more enlightening from the information by Dr. Titis S. Pitana., M.Trop. Arch and Gusti Puger (one member of royal family). Plus, when participants visited each house, they can meet the host or Abdi Dalem who explained the detail of the residences.
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Titis S Pitana and Gusti Puger as the informants of Blusukan Ndalem Pangeran program
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Visiting graveyard of Ki Sala
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The participants and committee of Blusukan Ndalem Pangeran after the program ended

to be continued…..

Sabtu, 12 Mei 2012

What WordPress SEO Dashboard control ?


This is the WordPress SEO Dashboard, here you can control some of the basic settings such as for which post types and taxonomies to show the WordPress SEO controls.
Webmaster Tools
Underneath the General Settings, you can add the verification codes for the different Webmaster Tools programs, I highly encourage you to check out both Google and Bing’s Webmaster Tools

This is were you set the templates for your titles and descriptions of all the different types of pages on your blog, be it your homepage, posts, pages, category or tag archives, or even custom post type archives and custom posts: all of that is done from here.
Templates
The templates are built using variables, see the bottom of this page for all the different variables available to you to use in these.

Trouble?
Be sure to check if your titles are displaying correctly once you’ve set this up. If you’re experiencing trouble with how titles display, be sure to check the ‘Force rewrite’ checkbox on the left and check again, or follow the instructions on this page on how to modify your theme.