CLIMBING MOUNTAIN

Climbing mountain is not only too easy but also not too difficult to do. Climbing mountain activity is an activity which is challenged and test the climber’s courage. Many teenagers do this activity to look for experiences, adventures or just take up the free time. The area condition that dangerous enough, the beautiful scenery that really amazed and desire to reach mountain top are the challenges for the climber. 

People who over 50 years old still can do climbing if their body still health. Most mountain climbers are teenagers. Beside their physics still health, they also are not too busy with some life activities. Don’t your ever think that mountain climbing identic with dangerous hobby and waste your time also your energy. Many advantages also get from this hobby. Who doubt the beautifully of mountain scenery? Wherever in Indonesia or in another country, most people are interested in mountains. 

Besides that, with climbing mountain, you can train your courage. Because beside healthy body, for climbing mountain is needed big courage to defeat mountain fields, of course different with field in lowland. The paths which some flat, some sheer, even step mountain side are many things that should be passed to reach mountain top. But, all of those are not obstacle for a mountain climber maniac. 
For you who have mountain climbing hobby, by means of this activity you can pass away the stress feeling because of your daily activity so you can refresh your mind.

             
For climbing mountain is required many preparation, so that the climbing that we will do can run smoothly and avoid things we will not happened. So, for you who have climbing mountain hobby, preparation is very important to do. 

The first, of course physically preparation. For climbing activity, your physic has to really healthy condition. If you are sick, it will be better if your climbing mountain activity is delayed or cancelled. Of course you don’t want the climbing mountain activity that you will make your condition is getting worst. 

For physically preparation, it is good for you if you are often doing sport for training foot muscle when climbing. Just do light sport activities like cycling or running and for you who are not really like or do sport seldom you should do little warming up first before climbing to soften your body muscle. 
The second is mentally preparation. For you who will climb mountain, you must be ready with all risks which you will find while climbing because your bile and your courageous will be test within this activity. You will discover many new things that are not common to see in your daily life. You will pass-through many paths which some ascend and some descend sharply. You also will see many kinds of new plants and new ambience nature too. 
Because of need strong mental, most people who like mountain climbing are boys but for girls to have this hobby is good. In fact, nowadays, many girls are interested with adventure activities like climbing mountain. 


Beside physically and mentally preparation, the mountain climber usually also prepare tools and things which should be bring by the mountain climbers are :

1. Big backpack (carrier bag) : carrier bag that will be used should too small, so that all things that you’ll carry can be put into the bag. So, it doesn’t makes you in trouble. 
2. Sleeping bag : find a simple sleeping bag to carry.
3. Changing clothes : bring enough changing clothes.
4. Jacket : wear a jacket which make your body feel warm enough.
5. Rain coat : put rain coat in the place where it can takes easily if rain fall happen suddenly. 
6. Food and drinks : bring food which can support your stomach for a long times so you do not eat many times while climbing.
7. Medicine : it is very important thing to bring at one time if the accident is happened and for you who have disease that need a special drugs, you should bring your own medicine. 

Climbing tools that usually bring are : 

1. Tent/doom : bring a tent which its size is not too big, just comfortable to take a rest. 
2. Survival kit : include of things are related with survival. For example matches, salt, multifunction knife, etc. 
3. Shoes : wear shoes which can protect your feet from weather or mountain field that sometime dangerous. 
4. Flashlight : check that your flashlight work well. 
5. Compass 

So, actually mountain climbing hobby is not dangerous activity if you want to prepare anything well before do it and a good preparation of course can minimalist the accident. For you who have mountain climbing hobby and very interested with this activity, don’t forget for always keep the mountain nature everlasting. Don’t damage the scenery with unresponsible action.

Communication Technology

Communication in the most important thing or activities in the world. Because without it we don’t got anything. And it hold the role of our life. Basically, people need communication. So, it keeps develop from day to day. Therefore, many big communication companies were established in the world. They produce many kinds of product which related to communication. Such as mobile phone (hand phone), television, computer, radio, etc. 

Nowadays, hand phone is not only become an accessories or life style, but also become a part of our life too. Even students of elementary school bring it even less the adult. By it, we could talk with the other people at different places. It could connected people. It also very portable equipment of communication. And it’s has many kinds of function, for example internet access, short message service (SMS), multimedia message service (MMS), camera, and videos and the other fitures.

There’re so many big mobile phone companies. Such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Siemens, Motorola, Samsung, Panasonic, Philips, and so on. Each of mobile phone companies has a special character of their own product.

Modern communication also bring us to modern life. For example, we could watch every moments from all over the world at the same time too. Like football match, every weekend, could watch Europe football league. Especially English Premiere League, La Liga at Spain, Seri A at Italy, Bundesliga at Germany, and many more. Of course besides our own league, Liga Djarum Indonesia. That’s one of so many advantages from using application of modern communication.

And what about computer? Computer also become a part our life too. Because it could help us for many kinds of our activities.  For example; saving data, typing, internet access, drawing, creating animation, and creating new software. Today, teacher in our class usually have the student collect the assignment to be computerized too. Because nowadays is computer area. 

Reminding that communication has many advantages and that it’s very important, we must have a control of it. Because, once again, without it we would be out of the competition on the future (work).

Therefore, we must : 

1. Prepare our selves as well as possible. Including accepting everything from the out sides which related of communication technology.
2. Keep in studying and developing our selves in order to have a control of communication technology very well. 
3. We should prepares all things very well. 

 

There’re many books related with communication technology where could enrichment our knowledge about it. The special one of them is “The Social Information and Communication Technology, innovation, actors, and contest”. This book is a useful text for advanced students of MIS and ICT courses, and for those studying ICT in related areas : Management and Organization Studies, Cultural Studies, and Technology and innovation. As ICT’s permeate every sphere of society business, education, leisure, government, etc it is important to reflect the character and complexity of the interaction between people and computer, between society and technology. For example, the user may represent a much broader set of actors than the user conventionally found in many texts, the operator, the customer, the citizen, the gendered individual, the entrepreneur, the poor and the student. 

 

Each actor uses ICT in different ways. This book examines these issues, deploying a number of methods such as Actor Network Theory, Socio Technical System, and phenomenological approaches. Management concern about strategy and productivity, are covered together with issues of power, politics, and globalization. Topics range from longstanding themes in the study of IT in organization such as implementation, strategy and evaluation, to general analysis of IT as socio-economic change a distinguished group of contributors, including Bruno Latour, Saskia Sassen, Robert Galliers, Frank and Ian Angel, and Richard Boland, offer the reader a rich set of perspective and ideas on the relationship between ICT and society, organization, knowledge and innovation.

ACACIA TREE

The Acacia is a genus of trees and shrubs of the Mimosa family. Although nearly five hundred species of Acacia have been identified, only about a dozen of the three hundred Australian varieties grow well in the southern United States, and of these, only three are flowering. 

The Bailey Acacia has fernlike silver leaves and small, fragrant flowers arranged in rounded clusters. The Silver Wattle, although very similar to the Bailey Acacia, grows twice as high. The Sydney Golden Wattle is squat and bushy with board, flat leaves and sharp spine twigs. Named for its bright, yellow flowers, the Golden Wattle is most showy and fragrant of the Acacias. Another variety, the Black Acacia or Blackwood, has dark green leaves and unobtrusive blossoms. Besides being a popular tree for ornamental purpose, the Black Acacia is valuable for is dark wood, which is used in making cabinets and furniture, including highly prized pianos.

The Acacia’s unusual custom of blossoming in February has been commonly attributed to its Australian origins. In the southern Hemisphere, of course, the seasons are reversed, and February, which is winter time in the United States, is summertime in Australia. Actually, however, the pale, yellow blossoms appear in August in Australia. Whether growing in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, the Acacia will bloom in winter.

Search Engine Competition

Internet world, especially the site search engine (suits information seekers), has now become a lucrative business field. Because almost everyone need information to increase knowledge, looking for work, or choose education. Perhaps one of the sites visited by thousands of search engines and even millions of people every day. Information sought also varied, ranging from education, health, social, economic, political, until the culture.

Number of people who seek information via the Internet was attracting more attention to practitioners of IT (information technology) to rollicking investment. Although the site is now the top google search engine is still held, it did not dampen the hackers on the Internet to do business in the website information seekers. Because business opportunities in this region is still wide open and we can reap huge profits from advertising that is placed within our website.

It can be seen from the many new sites are born and then joined the race in business search engine. And our website has its own advantages so that progressively increased business competition. As for the types of specialized sites that operate as a search engine :

• Altavista.com 
• Infoseek.com 
• Dejanews.com 
• Hotbot.com 
• Yahoo.com

Search Engine

The types of special site that operates as a search engine along with its description :

• Altavista.com

This site search engine which has high speed and broad coverage in the search for information. Search is so fast because it is assisted by the operator with the keyword is "Boolean" (and, or, not, near). The advantages that can be carried by Altavista.com there are two kinds: first is the spelling checker; search of information that can automatically display the search keyword is wrong and fix without having to repeat it again. 

The second is to translate the facility that serves to translate the information we seek. Incidentally this information in foreign languages ​​and we trouble to read it. So with the facility that information can be translated into our language so that it will facilitate us. 

• Infoseek.com 

This includes sites within the ranks of search engines search the latest news from "Buisnesswire" Reuters, CNN, USA Today, and The New York Times. Specification of this website one of them is in terms of economics and many other advantages. 

• Dejanews.com 

Having its own advantages that are not in other sites. The advantage is this system of search engines are looking for stories with the pattern of discussion. 

Various facilities have some sort: "déjà discussion", rating the product with the "déjà community." Data obtained from the usenet, newsgroups or postings which are sent via the web. Another advantage of Dejanews is its ability to provide sufficient detailed information about the "news reading", and postings which are sent via the web. 

• Hotbot.com 

There have been many Internet users as one of the fastest search engine sites. Because this website is supported tens of millions of documents that are connected to various sites. As for how to search using key system with Boolean operators. This facility is called the advanced search, search results faster and more specific information.

• Yahoo.com 

Apart from the top sites but also has a good search engine facility. This can be obtained by Yahoo.com always an update to its facilities. The search engine Yahoo.com belong so favored by novice Internet users. Subject to view this website in alphabetical face making it easier for the usernet. Although in general these sites have in common is a search engine, but each site has its own advantages.

Documentation in the LC and Google Tweet

All data can become information, and all information is important. Even what we say on social networking sites, like Twitter, can be important information for researchers. Many cases that were started from the writing on Twitter, call it a very shocking case was the world revolution, as had happened in Tunisia, started from the mass accumulation on Twitter.

These conditions turned out to have been foreseen by the Library of Congress (LC). LC thinks that Twitter has become part of the history of the world. Twitter has become part of the process of exchanging information. Therefore, in mid-2010 yesterday, LC, one of the largest and oldest library in the world is located in the United States began a project documenting the magnitude of chirp (tweet) Twitter enthusiast.

The main purpose of this documentation is to assist researchers in obtaining research data. Tweet, which has been experiencing growth of more than 50 million every day is an important data which is used as information in a study. In addition, this tweet documentation also serves as a form of preservation "collections". Later tweets that have been outstanding for more than 6 months can be used for internal use in the library, research, non - commercial, display the library's own collection, and preservation.

LC step above was also followed by Google. Since the end of 2009 Google adds features real - time search as part of search engine technology. In April 2010, Google added a new feature in the form of search tweet, named Reply It. Through this feature, Google users can see the archive of existing tweet on Twitter by a certain time.

How to use this feature is quite easy. You just open Google and type in what themes will be sought, for example Indonesia, and then click search. Next on the left side of the page select Realtime (Real time on the Google version of Indonesia), it will display the talks about Indonesia on Twitter. If you wish to view archived tweets about Indonesia, you just shift the graphic image on the right of the appropriate time in want. The graph will illustrate the success of talks on a particular theme at a given time as well.

Model

Like copying indeed become one of the common human nature. From there it will give birth to squat idol. Many people then tried desperately to admire and imitate his idol. Ranging from how to talk, dress, attitude, and behavior. If that be the idol that was a good person, good or pious may not be a problem. But how would that be the idol that is the wrong person.

We often could not understand, why the teenagers idolize celebrities who mostly did not deserve to emulate. What's in it imitate a bad behavior when we are also going to be bad. Indeed we already have a primary role models, ie Prophet Muhammad PBUH. Figure this one will not be one to emulate.