TRAFFIC JAM IN INDONESIA…

Traffic jam in big cities in Indonesia is an inconvenient problem that disturbs people’s daily activities. In Indonesia, it’s caused by several reasons. The main reason is the huge volume of vehicles on the road (as Yamaha, Toyota, Honda, etc always produce vehicles in periodical time) causing traffic jam if it isn’t balanced with the road capacity, or even if the condition of the road isn’t well anymore. Usually people prefer to use their personal vehicle rather than using public transportation. People thought that using public transportation in Indonesia isn’t as comfort as using personal vehicle. And also, some people don’t want to take a risk with gangster at public transportation. That’s why, traffic jam problem should be solved so that people won’t become inconvenient anymore.

MINANURROHMAN / 16607052

Giving ideas to solve the problem will be good idea.

Strat Lover

Fender Stratocaster(Strat) is a prestigious electric guitar produced by Fender Musical Instrument Corporation. Stratocaster guitar, invented in 1954 by Leo Fender and Freddie Tavares, has old-fashioned body shape, glassy-honking sound and bell-like harmonics as its prominent traits. It has more complex electronics than Fender’s first guitar (Telecaster), such as three single coils, synchronized tremolo, and five way selector switches and a Fender Strat is crafted using qualified materials by licensed workers. It is also one of the most enduring and common models of electric guitar in the world.

Nowadays, Fender Stratocaster guitar has become popular among worldwide musician, especially blues and jazz musician because of its vintage model, clear sound, and quality.Besides that, its price is affordable($400-$2000). In addition, Fender Stratocaster guitar has ever accompanied a lot of great musicians on their stages such as Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Richie Blackmore, Brian May(Queen), Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Yngwie Malmsteen , and Eric Johnson.



Garry.G.P.
16507171

Do you like playing? Listening to Bujana playing is nice and relaxing.

Tricks to Help You Eat Healthfully on The Road

Amid the rush and stress of business travel, nutrition is often pushed aside. While worrying about beating traffic, making flights, preparing for meetings and presentations, who has the time or the energy to think about eating healthfully?

But traveling for business is not an excuse to needlessly indulge in sugar and fats, experts say. Trading in cheeseburgers for salads and potato chips for carrot sticks could help ease the strain of traveling and help dodge weight gain.

"It doesn't feel good, first of all, to fly with a bunch of junk food in your stomach, or soda. "You want to stay as hydrated as possible, eat as much fiber as possible."

I acknowledged that doing so isn't always easy. Rather than depend on airport and roadside eateries, often laden with fast-food options, I advise travelers to plan ahead..

"Make sure you're eating high-fiber foods, those are your plant foods, like fruits and vegetables, beans and grains". Pita bread, nuts and dried fruits are other good choices and are easy to bring on flights. I also advised travelers to buy water once they've passed through security.

For business travelers who are driving, the choices become easier. "You can pack a cooler, you can bring plenty of water". "Pull over into towns where there are grocery stores. ... Get fresh produce, get vegetables, get a container of hummus and baked tortilla chips."

Of course, eating healthfully en route is only half the battle. How does one avoid the pitfalls of restaurants' choices during business dinners?

"If you're used to eating grilled chicken and steamed vegetables, order grilled chicken and steamed vegetables"

If ordering custom meals seems too fussy and high maintenance, I advised travelers to embrace restaurants' vegetarian options. Those are the high-fiber, low-fat, low-calorie meals.

For American restaurants, baked potatoes or salads are good choices, as long as they are eaten in a relatively pure form. In other words, steer clear of cheese, heavy dressings and meat. "If you don't get the cheese and oils, you're more likely to get high-fiber, low-fat meals".

Even fast-food restaurants can have healthy choices. "Something grilled, chicken is typically the best. A lot of restaurants now have salads, even fast food places".

BENHARDI

16507034

WR-01

How about in Indonesia??

Tourism Business of Indonesia

Indonesia, the tropical rain forest country that is known in the world as a tourism country, struck down a descent tourism business image. Two major point that will be discussed here are the probability of the reason of tourism business image of Indonesia and the prime basis of why tourist abroad want to spent their time in Indonesia.
JW Mariot bomb, bali bomb, and many other terorism fact and issue make tourist abroad afraid to go to Indonesia. How they will enjoy having a tour in Indonesia if they get fears, right. Aceh tsunami, earthquake, Sidoarjo mud and many other disaster more and more descend tourist interest.
What do you think about the excuse of tourist abroad having a trip in Indonesia? There is an opinion which says that beautiful scenery is the reason. For them, who have gone around the world to have a trip, have known, I think, that many country besides Indonesia have the same or maybe more beautiful in the scenery of their tourist resort than Indonesia. In my opinion, base on an article of Indonesia tourism, friendliness and hospitality of Indonesian is the main motivation. Tourist will feel comfort, enjoy, and safety when they get serviced or when they assimilated with Indonesian people. Thus, from the paragraphs above, I hope tourism in Indonesia will get its fame.

Luthfi AG
16507233

Good, thanks for posting.

Fasting

Fasting is good for our body. Not only Muslims, but also many other people do fasting. Scientists have proven that fasting can fix metabolism process in our body. Everyday, our digester organs work without rest to process food that we eat. When we do fasting, our intestine, appendix, etc take rest for a moment and recover their function. Fasting can also reduce stress. When we eat a little food, a little food essence will be absorbed to our blood transportation. So, oxygen can enter to our blood easier. The oxygen's circulation at our brain becomes faster, that our mind may be more fresh. Last, fasting can help us to cure some diseases. Take cholesterol problem as an example. Lessen amount of food we eating can decreases fat in our body. From the reasons mentioned above, we can take a conclusion that fasting gives us many advantages.

Megariza

16507175

Good, thanks for posting.

FOOTBALL = LOTS OF MONEY

In Europe, football games have become industries which can earn lots of money. For example, in season 2006-2007 income during Champions League reached 750 million euros. (www.uefa.com) The money mainly came from television revenues and commercial contracts. That amount of money then was distributed for various necessities, including price money for the winner. Last year champion received 7 million euros from UEFA (European Football Association), not including the prize money which they received during qualification legs. A research also has released a fact that last year champion received not less than 100 million euros, mostly from television revenues. Not only that, the city from which the champion club comes also received big income. (Pikiran Rakyat 9/5/07)

Good, thanks for posting.

Making Money from Music

Music and economy were two very different things. But music has evolved into a commodity that can be sold. These are the two types on how to sell music: Major way and Indie way.
Major record companies are a “factory” that creates and sell music. They classify music based on profit. The ideal music for them is the one that they think can make a huge income to the company; regardless of what the musicians involved feel about the music. Musicians’ creative control to their music is thereby limited. Their job is no longer to create music from their heart, but rather to create a catchy, easy-listening tune. There are musicians that have no problem with this limitation, though, as long as they can have the money. These musicians are sometimes called sellouts.
But still, there are some other musicians that still have the dignity not to sell their creativity out. They start a movement that is independent from any types of creativity limitation by the means of profit. This is called Independent Movement or simply indie. Music in this movement is completely based on the musicians. Musicians have the rights to produce and publish any of their music. But they have to do that by their own money. The budget of course is significantly below the one spent in major record companies. So that means the product will automatically have a limitation in some aspects compared to the major one (e.g.: audience, quality of the package, etc.).
There is no guarantee to make a profit. For the ones who want to make a living from music, choosing between major company and indie label might be a hard job to do.

Agora Akbar Prayitno
16507223

Good, thanks for posting Akbar.

Stress

Stress is a physical problem which is appears when someone feels under pressure. It can be caused by personal problems or economics problems and can easily happens to anyone with closed personality. Someone who has a high level stress might be lost their emotional control. That will make him or her can not use their common sense and the worst effect of stress is someone can lose their memories.

If someone feel stress, he or she can reduce it by go on doing something that can make them relax, for example go on vacation or doing some hobbies. With vacation and doing some hobbies someone can forget their problems for a while and refresh their mind.

Stress can be prevent by several ways. First, by always have a positive thinking because with it someone can convince themself that they can face their problems. Second, have a consultation with others in order to release their mind's load. The last is with physical therapy.

Stress is a part of daily living.

Fall In Love with Paris, France

Paris is the most beautiful and also the most visited city in Europe. There are five main reasons why people fell in love with Paris and attracted to visit Paris. The first reason is because of its monuments and stunning old buildings. Paris is a mix of monumental architecture, iconic landmarks, and majestic boulevards. The glittering Eiffel Tower and The Arc de Triomphe at the end of the Champs-Elysees are the most enduring symbol of Paris which now boasts over 6 million visitors a year.

The second reason is because of its art and museums. Paris has the world’s largest museum, Musée de Louvre. Paris also has Musée d’Orsay, the home of such paintings by Monet, Renoir, and Van Gogh. From the world’s finest museum to some of the more obscure but no less worthy museums such as Musée Carnavalet, Paris has something for everyone.

The third reason is because of its churches. Paris has a lot of beautiful churches to choose from. There are St. Chapelle with its gothic architecture and the church of Sacre-Ceour with its great view of the city. Each church has stained glass, vaulted ceilings, flying buttresses, and giant organs which give mystical and magical feelings.

The fourth reason is because of its shops and flea markets. Paris is a paradise for shopping. People with deep pockets who look for fine things of any kind can buy whatever they like around Madeline and Opera. The best known item from Paris is fashion. World wide fashion brands such as Chanel, Hermes, and Dior are available at discounted prices.

The fifth reason is of course, its food. Paris is certainly a food lovers’ paradise. Paris is famous with its chocolates, cheeses, pastries, baguettes, croissant, truffles, and foie gras. La Maison du Chocolat is simply the most heavenly mouth watering chocolate on earth. Paris is truly a melting pot which not only blends all of the cuisines of the provinces of France in one city, but also world cuisines.

Isabella Widuri
16407001

How about San Francisco in the U.S.??

Rock Music From Time to Time

Rock music has been changed many times and formed new kind of music from time to time. The first rock music appeared in the 1950s and was played by Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Bo Didley, and so on, and it was called rockabilly or rock 'n roll. In the 1960s, rock was blended with folk to create folk rock which was and still played by Bob Dylan, jazz to create jazz-fusion rock, blues to create blues rock and there was also psychedelic rock which was played by Jimi Hendrix. In the 1970s, rock music has made many more kinds of genres like soft rock, hard rock, progressive rock, punk rock, heavy metal, new wave and many more. In the 1980s, the rock music has more diversities and the difference of the genres became more obvious. In the 1990s, there were so many hybrid genres that appeared like pop punk, post grunge, rapcore or nu metal, and so on. Nowadays, rock music genres has more varieties, some has evolved into new kind of music, some still plays conventionally and stick to the old things. In the future, we don't know what will become of rock music, will it still exist and become more complex or will it disappear and swallowed by the earth.

Rock is always a reflection of protest and love at the same time, it will never die.

Glory Glory Manchester United

Manchester United is undoubtedly one of the best football clubs in the world now. There are much reasons to the statement. First, The Red Devils MU, of all generations, always have a very good squad. We cannot deny the continuing era of their superstar, starting from Sir Bobby Charlton, Eric Cantona, David Beckham, and the newly shining Cristiano Ronaldo. Their other players have always been great too, their skills are world class. Next, MU has a very good facilities within the club. Their stadium, The Old Trafford, is very great. People even call it "The Theatre of Dreams" to express how great it is. The last reason is the amount of silverwares MU has gotten this far. MU has scored 16 English Premier League trophy and is currently the League's defending champion, while in the Continental level they have scored 2 UEFA Champions League trophy. The most notable achievements of the club occured at 1999 when they won three major honours in one season. This "treble winner" has been exclusive to MU for this far, as no other team has achieved it yet. These are the main reasons why MU is the best and as long as the club exists, the red banner will always be flying high.

Daniel
16507183

Agree with you.

Dates; Healthy Snack

Dates may be considered as an almost ideal food. In www.pubmed.gov, Al-Shahib W and Marshall RJ, scientists from London Metropolitan University, Department of Health and Human Sciences, London, UK, said that dates contain a high percentage of carbohydrate (total sugars, 44-88%), and also fat (0,2-0,5%), 15 salts and minerals, protein (2,3-5,6%), vitamins, and a high percentage of dietary fibre (6,4-11,5%).

Because of the high quantity of sugars, dates can prevent us feeling hungry in a long enough time. According to Dr. David Conning, General Director of British Nutrition Foundation, a glass of water which contains glucose will be absorbed in our body in 20-30 minutes, but the sugars which are contained in dates will be absorbed in 45-60 minutes (tauziyah.com).

This is very good for people who have problem with their weight. They can do their diet without have to keep hunger pains for a long time. Dates also contain many important minerals and vitamins, high percentage of dietary fibre, and low quantity of fat, which will help them to stay healthy. Dates are very suitable to be diet snack.

Agree completely.

Happy Tree Friends

Happy Tree Friends is my favorite serial film. I like it because it has a good graphic. The graphic is colorful and funny. Second reason is it has cute animal characters such as a rabbit, a moose, a skunk, and many others. Third reason is because the stories are simple, easy to understand, and entertaining. The stories are telling us about the daily activities of the forest dwellers, but with a "little" blood and gore. The animals are always dead in terrible ways in every episode, such as drowned, crushed into pieces, stabbed, etc. That’s why I like Happy Tree Friends so much.

Ari Purnomo Murniadi
16507186

Good, thanks for posting.

Tips for a Healthy Ramadahan

Ramadhan has come. It's summer now, the fasting day is getting longer and I am sure for me and others is much harder. Because of this we must be more careful with our activities, food choices and general habits during this Ramadhan in order to avoid illnesses and other problems while fasting. Here are a few simple tips to help cope with this year’s long fasts.

The first tips and the most important is drink lots of water.With the long Ramadhan days we are likely to get more dehydrated as we are not drinking for a longer period of time. So when Sahur and Maghrib comes try to drink lots of water.Second,keep away from caffeine drinks and sodas.Caffeine is known as a diuretic which means that it makes you want to use the bathroom more often, losing the precious water that your body has accumulated and making you dehydrated. Dehydration can make you feel unwell, decrease blood pressure, feel thirsty (which make fasting much harder!).The last tips is never skip sahur. Eating something in the morning is good for the body. It provides useful calories for the day and gets the digestive system going. Sahur can prevent too much eating when maghrib comes,so it can prevent weight gain and make us stay fit.

Ramadhan is a beautiful month. Enjoy this month and all the blessings it offers, as well as take advantage of the health benefits we can gain.Happy Ramadhan everyone!

FATIMAH ZAHRA
16607167,FTSL

Good. Do you listen to female radio as well??

My Mother

My mother is a Super Mom. She's a single parent. She is now raising two children, myself and my brother, Dipa, on her own, without a financial help from my father. Even though she raised me and my brother alone, she is always able to fulfill our needs. I call her my ' Bank of America'. With her working, it doesn't mean that she abandoned me and my brother. She always manage to free some of her time for the family. Anytime, anywhere, if I have problems, no matter how busy she is with her work, my mom will always be there for me. My mom always supports whatever positive activities, me and my brother are doing. Because my father doesn't live with us anymore, mom is the one who always handle the problems at home, from leaking gas to leaking roof top, all of the problems which should be done by men, she can handle it. My mom is also very confident in representing herself. She's never shy and afraid of people. She has a firm handshake and always look people in the eye. Like it is not enough, my mom is very funny. whenever I'm feeling sad, i just go talk to my mom, share my problems, and suddenly i could smile and laugh again. My mom has her own way of calming people down by telling jokes. My mom is a great woman. She's smart, strong, confident and funny. I admire her as a professional and also as a mother. I guess I could say my mom is a gift from God.

Pratiwi Utami Putri
16607245
FTSL 2007
Wr.01

Agree, and you are lucky. I grew up with my grandparents.

TELEVISION: HOW IT AFFECTS US

Television really affects people’s lives. Television can be very helpful to certain people who carefully choose the TV programs that they watch. TV can increase people’s knowledge of the outside world, through education channels(such as: discovery channels), art channels (tv 5), healthy life’s channels, and edutainment channels( such as: baby tv, nickelodeon, disney, and who wants to be a millionaire). Moreover, television entertains almost elderly people who can’t often leave the house.

On the other hands, there are several disadvantageous to television. One of them is people are addicted to it. People often feel powerful need to watch “boob tube” even if they don’t enjoy it. Recent studies show that people spend almost six hours or more a day watching the television. They stare at TV screen for more hours every single day than they do anything else, including studying and sleeping. This fact prove that people is now addicted to television, although they don’t believe it.

There are not so many good programs shown on TV I think.

Live far from parent isn't easy

To live far away from my parent is the most complicated thing for me. I truthfully tell you that live without parent isn’t easy for me and now I live with “my uncle”. In my mind, my parent is the only one who truly understands me. My uncle is rather different with my parent. He has me done what he thinks good for me. He doesn’t think deeper is it good for me or not. My parent will do much wise than that. They’ll think I like that or not.

Besides, cook my favorite food. They care what food I like best. Contrary to my parent, my uncle does the opposite. They’ve know that I don’t like Sundanese food, but they keep cooking it for me. I want to complaint, but I don’t have rights to do that. If I live with my parent, it wouldn’t happen.

My parent also cares about what I feel. They’ll shoot some funny stories if I look sad. In another time, they’ll tell me some inspirational stories when I almost give up reaching what I dream about. My uncle never does it and he seems ignore about what I feel.

All of thing above just little piece that make me feel, far away my parent isn’t easy.

Agree with you.

My Brother

Today I want to talk about how lucky i am to have a brother like my brother, but first I want to introduce him. He's a student at ITB, a 2005 machine engineer. He is my only brother and my only sibling too. The reason I am feeling lucky to have him is because he really cares about me in his own way. He always tries to protect me even if he never show it. He never shows a real knd of protection like told me not to do this or that, but he sort of supervise my friends, try to know them and being friends with them. He never really ask me how i am doing here, but once he told me that if I need help with anything I could go to him.
Sometimes he reminds me that I am a girl and I should be carefull all the time because no one really watch me all day. I could be bad if I want with all the supported surrounding conditions and none of my family will know but then he told me how bad it's going to get if I do that. He knows my freedom here but he sltill tells me that there are some limits that I should know and obey, like I have to use my time efficiently and effectifly between fun, study, rest, etc. He even once warned me how I am going to be really busy if I go to ITB, and even made me reconsider my desicion to go to ITB. He knows I can't handle these stress situations all by myself, so it's a really big help for me that my brother is here. He became another kind of parents for me.

16607095
Good, thanks for posting.

Nuclear Power

Nowadays nuclear power is safe and harmless for our environment. The experts have worked hard to make nuclear generator does not directly produce sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and carbon dioxide which is dangerous for our body. Also it was successfully proved that ventilation system with many filters can block radioactive gas. For the water pollution, people do not need to worry because, now the water that used to bring the heat from the system is not contains radioactive material anymore. For example, nuclear power gives France the cleanest air of any industrialized country, and the cheapest electricity in all of Europe.

Good, thanks for posting.

The Beatles

The Beatles is a legendary British rock music group. Their music was very popular around the world in 1960s with their stimulating songwriting and amazing performances. Beatles’s music gradually transformed from fresh-faced boys singing songs about love into complex young men writing about a world full of political and social problems. This legendary rock band was breakup on 1970. The members was trying to reunite the band, until the death of John Lennon by an obsessed fan. But still, we can feel the influence of The Beatles up until now.

Alfan Budi K.

FTTM 16407009

Good, thanks for posting.

Automatic Tuner

In this era where technology has progressively developed, a new tuning system for electric guitar was invented. Now, an electric guitar can even tune itself. The new self-tuning system is called “the power tune system”. This technology allows every guitarist, from beginners to professionals, to simply have their guitar tuned in various tuning by the guitar itself.

A Guitar with power tune system would look just like an ordinary guitar, without any large extended device or external cables connection, which is a disturbance for a guitarist. There is no big difference between normal guitar and guitar with power tune system except, there is a “power tune” knob on the guitar, which controls “ON” and “OFF” for the system. This knob is connected with built-in cables to a small device on the back of the guitar’s head. This device will control the movement of the tuners to put the string perfectly in tune.

This system is also easy to use. To use this automatic tuning system, first, activate “power tune” with the knob. Lightly strum on a string, and the system will respond to put the string in the tuning desired. It’s very simple.

Mochmad Raditya Pradana

16607004

Good, thanks for posting.

New Cholera Vaccine

Cholera, an intestines disease caused by bacteria Vibrato cholera, has been rarely heard. The World Health Organization (WHO) notes, cholera is no longer founded in industrial country and some developing country, including Indonesia. But that doesn't mean that cholera has been already extinct. According to WHO, number of cholera cases have increased by 30% since 2004. This disease is often happened in Africa, South America and half of Asia.

Many years ago, scientists had invented cholera vaccine. But it is so expensive. The vaccine has to be kept in special cooling box because cholera usually happened in remote areas. Moreover, if the vaccine has been taken out from the box, it won't last for long and have to be used immediately. In Japan, the cost that the government has to pay to provide the vaccine is about US$ 200 million - US$300 million every year.

Research team in Japan has successfully invented the new cholera vaccine through rice gene therapy method. "We develop a new vaccine technology that no longer need special cooling boxes and inject needles, so it is cheaper and comfortable." said Dr. Tomori Nochi, one of the researchers. This new vaccine is really good for developing country. Tomori sure that soon this new vaccine will be used worldwide. But he said that the best way to prevent cholera, of course, is keep the water system and environment clean.

Bona H Lubis

16507065

Good, thanks for posting.

computer game as a drug

Computer game is not only an entertainment but also a drug. First time you play it, you (usually) will not like it. Second time you play it, you will somewhat enjoy it. Several times you play it, you will a little bit like it. More and more you play it, you will more and more addicted. Last, if you already love it, you will play it three days non-stop , moreover, you will play it until your angel-of-death stands behind your back. For your information, Kompas has written an article about a man who plays computer game for 4 days and died at South Korea.




zaky hassani
16507167
Good, thanks for posting.

Friendster Fever

Almost every teen now have an internet account called Friendster, a public website that provides you many communication facilities such as chatting, messaging, or finding new friends. This website that was made by Jonathan Abrams allows us to show our profiles including our photo and make a relationship with our friends, or maybe with friends of our friends and so on. This thing has made friendster be something who is very loved by people, is he old or young, man or woman. Friendster's development shown a great number of user since its launching on March 2003. Until November 2003, it has had two million users and five millions in 2004. Because of its ability to get people's interest, Friendster also has got "Time Magazine Coolest Inventions of 2003." Now, Friendster has been a fever which infected people, especially with its instant messaging and comment posting facilities. But be careful, don't let it waste too much our time to check it and make us forget our tasks!

muhammad yasir
16507141

Good, thanks for posting.

GLOBAL WARMING : CAUSES AND EFFECTS

Global warming, it’s a typical global phenomena that has been peoples concern for years. Global Warming is caused by many things. The causes are split up into two groups, man-made causes, and natural causes. Man-made causes probably do the most damage. There are many man-made causes. Pollution is one of the biggest man-made problems. Pollution comes in many shapes and sizes. Burning fossil fuels is one thing that causes pollution. When fossil fuels are burned they give off a green house gas called CO2. Another major man-made cause of Global Warming is population. More people means more food, more methods of transportation, and that means more methane because there will be more burning of fossil fuels, and more agriculture. While natural causes are the causes that were created by nature. One natural cause is a release of methane gas from arctic tundra and wetlands. Methane is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the earth's atmosphere.

In the other side, there are many great effects of global warming. Increase of temperature on the earth is one of the global warming effects. Increasing global temperatures are causing a broad range of changes. Sea levels are rising due to thermal expansion of the ocean, in addition to melting of land ice. Changes in temperature also change precipitation patterns that will increase the frequency, duration, and intensity of other extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, and tornadoes. Other effects of global warming include higher or lower agricultural yields, further glacial retreat, reduced summer stream flows, species extinctions.

Based on the explanation above, we’ve known about the effects of global warming. Therefore, as the young generation we must try to decrease the effects from the least thing that we can do. For example, we can minimize the use of air conditioner, perfume, and many other things that using fossil fuels. So, let’s start to save the earth from now on!


Licha Permata Amanda
16607104

Good Licha, thanks for posting.

Mathematic's Mystery

Mathematic is known as the basic of knowledge; it holds many portions in many aspects. Of course, it is so wide that we are unable to explore all of the aspect in mathematics. Thus, it creates what so called mathematical mystery. We have known many "mathematical mysteries" like Poincaré's Conjecture, Kepler's Conjecture, Infinite Monkey Theorem, and any other theorem. Some of them were successfully solved, and the others still remain unsolved.

One of the well known mysteries is Fermat's Last Theorem. Pierre de Fermat, live 1601-1665 as a mathematician, state that:

xⁿ + yⁿ = zⁿ

Has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2. Fermat wrote this in one of his paper as a marginal note: I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain. Many famous mathematicians try to solve this mystery from time to time, including Euler, Sophie Germaine, Gauss, and any other mathematicians. Although many works and methods were conducted, a very small doubt for Fermat's Last Theorem will remain for some time since no complex proof to guarantee this theorem. Until now on, Fermat's Last Theorem still become a mystery.

Haryus A A

16507041

Good, thanks for posting.

Everybody Knows That They Are Innocent, But...

There are two main factors that make population of elephants become less and less. They are internal factors and external factors. Internal factors are something that comes from the elephants themselves. It is like incapability to adapt with their environment, both in their colony and in others populations. The external factors are from outside, such as an unpleasant habitate, lack of food, human behaviour, and soon. According to the fact, 3 elephants die every day because of those factors in Bungo Tebo, Jambi. It is kind a worry! It happens not only because of nature selection but also human fault. They hunt the elephants for the high price of their tusks or sometimes they kill them just for fun. Meanwhile, the capacity of Way Kambas in Lampung is limited, there are no room for others wild elephants anymore. So, it can be sured that many wild elephants will breathe their last breath in open air and the elephants become extinct. Poor them...

Nurika M.I

16607127

Good thought.

Garbage is our earth

Garbage and our life are things that can not be separated, everyday as we do our life, we have to face garbage and waste problem. The garbage quantity is increased together along with the growth of population, this problem causes air, soil, and water pollution. According to The Body shop Survey in 2004, the total amount of Jakarta's garbage per day have weight which equals to weight of 6955 elephants and their total amount of plastic-waste can cover for about 2600 football fields, based on this survey, we can conclude that garbage is very serious problem that we have to fix to. For this time, we handle this garbage problem with TPA (Last Dump Pool) with no treatment for the mount up garbage afterwards, there is no processing for this garbage such as recycling.

Garbage is really an "earth's" big chaos if we not deal with it seriously. We can do 3R (reduce, reuse, recycle) to overcome the garbage-problem. Garbage takes the main part of our environment, if we do not care to it, who cares?

Nisrina Setyo D.
16607097

Good, the problems mostly lie on how we behave.

Online Shopping

Online shopping can be a lot of fun but it's impotant to be careful. Buying something that you haven't touched or seeen in real life can be a bit of gamble especially in sizing. You have to read the sizing charts on websites carefully to avoid getting the unfit products. If the brand is available at most stores, it's a good idea to go and try some items on just to double check what size you are. If not, measure yourself accurately so you know the best size to get. You have to pay extra attention to the return policy of the site if you don't want to be stuck if they don't refunds or accept exchanges. If you order from overseas, you have to pay attention to the cost of shipping. For instance, sending something from UK to USA can be more expensive than the actual products. The last point is invest in shipping insurance to avoid getting lost or damaged in transit.

Marcella Dyan Mitariana
16607067

Do you think this is going to be popular in Indonesia?

GLOBAL WARMING

Global warming refers to the increase of Earth's (land, ocean, and air) average temperature. It caused by the green house effect. Green house effect is an effect that caused by green house gases such as carbon dioxide, metane, dinitrogen oxide, etc. But, fromall of the green house gases, carbon dioxide is the biggest contributors on the global warming process. Green house gases called like that because of their ability to create thin layer in the atmosphere that can reflect the heat back to the Earth and keep the heat in the Earth, just like a process that usually happen in the green house.

Human activities that use fossil fuel are the biggest cause of green house gases' increasing in the atmosphere. Because, until today many power plants are still using fossil fuel to operate their machines. So, when we are watching television, turning on the air conditioner, turning on the light, washing by using washing machine, and doing other activities that use electricity, We also give contribution to the global warming process.

Global warming is very influence the Earth's life and its content. Because of global warming, almost every glacier in Alaska ismelting now. Then, the rise of sea level cause millions of coastal area's population in Carribean, Japan, Philiphina, and Indonesia have to prepare to move to the higher area.

As the next generation, we have tojoin in the effort to take care of our Earth. The effort can we start from ourselves and our surroundings by economizing electricity consume and reducing the use of fossil fuel. One thing that we can do is using publi transportation, using bicycle, or going on foot in our everyday activities better than using personal vehicle.


Annisa Fitri
16507140

The problem is the invention of technologies and the behaviour of human.

The Difficulties of Solar Cell

Compared to the other power generation, solar cell energy generator is relatively difficult to be developed. It's caused by some difficulties that hard to be solved in developing solar cell generator. One of the weakness of solar cell generator is, it depends to the energy of the sun's light and heat that makes the nature plays biggest part in working it. As we know, there's not always fine and sunny weather to guarantee the solar cell generator works effectively. Sometimes, the rainy and cloudy days come and make the solar cell can't be used everyday. Also, no solar cell generator is generated at night as no sun's light and heat that time. Consequently, solar cells must have large capacity to store energy to be used when there's no sun's energy can be absorbed. By adding the storage, of course it makes the solar cell generator more expensive. Moreover, only in the low attitude areas can enough solar energy be generated at this time. The area in the polar of earth cannot use the solar cell well yet as there's not enough sun's heat and light there. The other difficulties to develop solar cell is building plants for solar cell generator is extremely expensive; a very large space is needed to build it, and the need of constant maintenance. For instance, the solar cell plants has to be cleaned everyday and the process to clean it up is not easy and cheap. Finally, the cost per watt of solar cell generator is more expensive than the steam power or the nuclear power generation. For all these reasons, the researchers are still looking for ways to make solar cell cheaper and can be used widely and effectively. Through many considerations, the final decision is for now, solar cell still has many weaknesses compared to its profit. That's why it's very difficult to develop solar cell plants and make solar energy available to the general public for a competitive price.
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Armageddon

Armageddon is a movie which got the Academy Award nominated. This movie is acted by Bruce Willis (as Harry Stamper), Liv Tyler (as Grace Stamper), Ben Affleck (as A.J. Frost), and others, directed by Michael Bay, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimmer. This movie is about an asteroid which is as big as Texas will strike the Earth on 18 days. So NASA decided to recruit Hary Stamper, the best deep core driller in the world, with his team to plant a nuclear bomb to detonate the asteroid. But, at the end of this mission, the remote-denotation trigger is damaged, which means that one of the crew members will have to stay behind in order to manually detonate the bomb. A.J got this job, to sacrifice his self to detonate the asteroid. A.J.is Harry’s daughter’s boyfriend. Harry didn’t want to make his daughter sad. So, he sacrificed his self to activate the bomb. And this movie has a sad ending. I think this movie is very good because it told us not to be egoist and to sacrifice for someone we love.

Andara Livia
16507118

Water

One of important needs of human is water. Water is a very important need for the human life because in daily life, everybody needs clean water for drinking, cooking, bathing, washing, and others. The sources of clean water are limited because there are a lot of water's sources which have been polluted so that it's necessary to do the water treatment process in order to fulfill the quality of clean water. Water which comes from ground and surface has to pass the water treatment process such as separation and purification so that it can be distributed to the people for the daily need.


Camelia Indah M.
16607256
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managing our time

We often hear a maxim that tells us how important our time is but only a few people who could really manage the time well. There are a lot of people who are still late, running out of time, undisciplined and many other. Actually, if we can manage our time well, those things will not be happen. Managing time is not as hard as we think. Managing time effectively is a basic thing in our life that we can gain by routine. The first thing that we must do is to control our habitual actions. We must plan what we will do from day to day and we must make a priority of our activities. The second thing is we must not waste our time. We have to do things that we can do now. We must anticipate urgent things that will appear suddenly and need a lot of time to handle. The third is we have to list our activities. The list will guide us to maintain our activities that we have planned before. It also prevents us from doing useless activities. Once we can do it in our routines, we may be able to do it by then.

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Ramadhan

Ramadhan


Ramadhan is one of month in Islam calendar. Ramadhan is the most desireable month for all Moslem in the world. During Ramadhan, Allah will raise His blessing and forgive all sin that we make.

In Ramadhan, all Moslem must do shaum. When doing shaum, you are prohibited to eat and drink from azan subuh to azan maghrib. Not just that, you are prohibited from doing all activity which will add your sin. Like make someone angry, bad thinking, drink alcohol, etc. Maybe it’s hard, but it will give you a lot of advantage. Beside you will get His blessing, it will train you to control your lust. And it will make you feel how suffered people who live in poverty. And it will make you healthier. How can we be healthy if we didn’t eat almost one day? In fact, shaum will give your digest system time to rest. And it will burn your fat, because your body will get energy from fat.

Beside shaum, in Ramadhan, there will be a night which more precious from another night. It’s called Lailatul Qadr night. The time which Lailatul Qadr happens is random. But it’s usually happen in ten odd night last ramadhan. It said, Allah will grant any wish from one Moslem. So it’s not strange if in that period time, mosque is always full. In inside you will see people who do pray or read AlQur’an.

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Be Ultimate with Vista

Windows Vista is the newest operating system from Microsoft Cooperation that release in 2006. Microsoft has upgrade a lot of features in Windows Vista that we can’t found in Windows XP, such as windows media center, windows aero themes, windows sidebar, ease of access center, and windows ready boost. However, even there are so many new features in Vista that will make you more enjoy your computer, many people haven't known the features of Vista.
Windows Vista has so many new features. The first is Windows Media Center, the most integrity media player from Microsoft. With WMC, you can play almost all types of entertaining files includes music, movies, TV programs, and even you can make a picture album from your photos. The second one is windows aero themes. After using the aero theme to your desktop, you can enjoy the 3D flip windows and windows thumbnails that allow you to see other inactive windows without clicking or switch to the other windows. The aero also make your Windows looks much better with their 3D expressions that appear when close and open a window. Third one is windows sidebar. This funky tool can make you enjoy and practically add gadgets that you need, such as calendar, clock, money currency, notes, weather condition, and picture slideshow. The fourth is ease of access center. This feature can be said as a Microsoft cares to the defect of eyesight, dexterity, hearing, speech, and reasoning. This application can be helpful for the blind, far-sighted, and hand defect people. Microsoft has prepared Vista so with this ease access you can adjust the windows with all your defects. And the last is windows ready boost. Facing the high memory consumes, Vista has been ready with its memory boost. After you use Vista, you can just plug your USB memory device, and you can make this device shared its memory to your computer. This method make more practical and economical to make your RAM (Random Access Memory) get bigger memory.

After knowing some features of Windows Vista, may be you can think that Vista is better for you and your computer. In addition, we also have known Vista can share memory with USB memory device. That means we have solution for the high memory consumes. Overall, Vista has been a lot better than other operating system in its features. So, why don’t you try using Vista now?

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Time

Time is so precious. Everyone, no matter who they are, has only 24 hours each day as capitals, that won’t come back or being summarized if they don’t use them. To illustrate how precious time is, let’s take a moment to reflect about these examples. One year is so precious for a student who has to retry his class. One month is so important for a mother who gets her baby prematurely born. One minute is so valuable for a student who needs one more minute to finish his work at an exam. One second is so precious for a man who has just saved from a car accident. So, try to appreciate every second you have and always find the best way to ‘invest’ it.

Stephen Herlambang
16507093

In other words time is money.

Japanese Writing

Japanese language is written in a mixture of Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana. Kanji is adapted from Chinese characters. It is said there are 48.000 characters of Kanji, but only about 5.000 to 10.000 are commonly used. Each Kanji usually has two readings, they are “on” reading that is adapted from the Chinese pronunciation and “kun” reading that is show characters meaning in Japanese language. One Kanji often has more than one meanings and sounds. Hiragana and Katakana are more simple than Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana characters are adapted from a part of Kanji. Both have only 46 syllabic characters and same pronounciation. The different between Katakana and Hiragana is their uses. Hiragana is used to write native Japanese words and Katakana is used to write words of foreign language and some onomatopoeia.

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The Mass Extinction of Dinosaur

Dinosaur which was the great conqueror of earth, was extinct 65 million years ago. No one sure what makes the dinosaur become extinct. Some scientists argue that the extinction of dinosaur happened in a long period by volcanic eruptions. Another thinks that it was short time period by asteroid crash.
The first argument said that there was series of volcanic eruptions, not one but thousands or millions. Smoke and ash filled the air, made all day became cold and gloomy. Plants began to die because it lacked of light and warmth. Automatically, plant-eating dinosaur began to die. The death of plant-eating creatures made meat-eating dinosaur starving and began to die too.
Other argument thinks that the extinction of dinosaur happened in a short time, due to an event that was looked by dinosaur in a few seconds. The event was the crash of 10 km diametric-asteroid with the velocity of 20 km/s to the earth surface. With the huge diameter and velocity 70 times of jet plane, the effect of the crash was same with blast of 100 million atomic bombs. The crash sent shock wave to all the continents and made giant tsunami wave in the oceans. Gigantic clouds of dust fly high to the atmosphere, blocking the sun light and made all day became dark, cold, and gloom. Plant became die and dinosaur starving until the end.

Azhari Surya Adiputro
16507070
STEI

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Guitar, a mini orchestra

Guitar is a musical instrument that was first founded in Spain. It has six strings and a tube called “resonance tube”. As an instrument, guitar can produces many tones, so basically it is classified as a melodic instrument. When it was first founded, it was made from wood and had an ordinary shape. But nowadays, it has developed into many shapes and also can be connected to an electric speaker.
If we look back at the history of guitar, actually it was designed for solo playing such as piano. It could produce many beautiful tones only from six strings. Therefore, a very composer, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827 A.D) called guitar as a “Mini Orchestra” that can be played anywhere, anytime. Unfortunately, this “mini orchestra” doesn’t show its ability as an orchestra. It is mostly played just for a single melody or a back-sound of a song. Indeed, this “mini orchestra” can produces bass, melody, chord, and even percussion at a moment.

Hotbatahan Mordekhai

FTSL 16607329

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Reason for Studying at ITB

When I graduated from high school I planned to continue my study at ITB. ITB has credibility as the best institute in Indonesia, that’s the main reason I choose them. ITB has a very complete laboratories and library for support the studying process. Besides that, ITB also provides us the best lecturer. 80% of its lecturer graduated from doctoral and magister program. So, there’s no doubt about the quality of the lecturer. The other reason is, by studying at ITB, I have a chance to learn many new cultures from different places. ITB has become a “melting pot” of a student. That’s my reason for studying at ITB

Hotbatahan Mordekhai

FTSL 16607329

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Bandung, in The Past and Present

When i was in an elementary school , Bandung was very green, beautiful, and fresh city. I said beautiful because the city is neat and clean. There were a lot of trees along the big street that make a good view. It's also has cold weather and fresh air.

But now, when i come here for studying, the condition has a big change. I still find plant or trees in the street but not as many as in the past. The weather is not as fresh as a few times ago because there are many housing project replace the green area. Besides, pollution and congestion from the vehicles make the city warming. There are many factory outlet and shopping malls along the big street. Now, Bandung is going to be a busy big city, but i miss the old Bandung.

Dian Rahmawati
16607126
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Global Warming

Global warming has become a real horrible phenomenon. We can say that it is a real horrible phenomenon because it can cause bad impacts for our life in so many aspects such as in human’s health. I’ve read in internet that in a world of warmness, scientist predicts that more human can die because of stress temperature. Beside of that, disease epidemic which is usually found in tropical area, like disease resulted by mosquito or other sickness career animals, would increasingly extends because they can make a move to too cool previous area for them. The scientist also predicts the increasing of allergic incident and exhalation disease because warmer air will multiply pollutant and spore mold. That’s why we must keep our environment and prevent the worse things happen because of global warming.


Amelia Riani
16507224

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My Favorite Place

I very like to go to ITB library. ITB library is the most interesting place for me. There are two principal reasons why I like to go there. First, the content of the library. The content of the library is very complete. ITB library has internet station and many good books, for example “The Fundamental of Physics Extended” by Halliday and “Calculus” by Edwin Purcell. Therefore, in the library I always acquire new information or knowledge that I haven’t known before by searching the information straight from book or browse it in internet station, for example is information about the origin of life. Different from information I have gotten from my senior high school, in ITB library I find the proof about the origin of life more complete and clearer. Second, the circumstance of the library. The circumstance of the library is very comfortable. Here, everything (for example book, table, chair, and computer) is arranged well and clean. The situation is very quiet. It is very comfortable for me to read a book or browse information in internet. These all are the reasons why I very like to go to ITB library.

Ario Yudo Husodo

16507042

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My Activities Using My Computer

There are many activities which I can do with my computer. First, I can do my assignments in my computer. My assignments can be making reports, writing tasks, making presentations, and doing the other tasks. When I still studied in Senior High School, I often got homeworks which needed neat writing. Of course I prefer to type the tasks by using my computer if it was allowed. Nowadays I often get some tasks which I should submit them through the internet, for instance english academic writing and concept of technology tasks. Sometimes my work group appoint me to make presentation file. I do it by making presentation slides in my computer.
I have other activities on my computer, for example playing games, listening to music, watching TV, and browsing internet. I sometimes play songs while I was relaxing. Every morning I turn on my computer to watch TV news. When I don't have any task, I often play games. The game that I like to play very much is Pro Evolution Soccer which is a football computer game. Every week I always do internet browsing. I usually check my email and tasks or searching for news or other information. These are my activities which I usually do in my computer.

Bernardino Madaharsa D.A.
16507204

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Impacts of Advance in Technology

Scientific progress and technological advance have brought along positive impacts in our lives. Their products make our lives become easier and make our tasks finished faster. As example, someone can ride a vehicle if he wanted to go to some place. He does not need to spend his energy and time for walking. Another good impact is the increase of the speed of information flow. Someone can get information from many countries in a few seconds only by searching in the internet.
In the other hand, scientific progress and technological advance also have bad effects. Someone can become lazy because he thinks he can get his needs instantly. For instance, students become lazy to record what their teachers taught in class because they can copy their friend’s book. Someone can also become more individualistic because they can do many things alone with the help of technology products.
As the conclusion, scientific progress and technological advance not only give us advantages, but also bad impacts.

Aris Feryanto
16507262
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The Reason Why Are ITB'S Alumni Get Difficult in Getting Jobs

Have we ever thought that will we be certain in getting a job after graduated. Nowadays, there is a issue saying that ITB's alumni are difficult to get a job. The main reason is they have bad attitudes like egoism and low teamwork. Other reasons like low IP or bad english are not a big problem if their attitude is good. Egoism and low teamwork made a project spend much time and budget. So, it is thought as an inhibitor in working. Every company need not it. So, as new generation of ITB who want get a good job, we must cut it down. There are no egoism and low teamwork in ourselves.

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Trebuchet:The Ancient Engine

Trebuchet is an ancient engine which evolved. Trebuchet was invented in China about 2200 years ago and reached the Mediterranean 600 years later. And it is derives from ancient sling. Trebuchet is a siege engine which have a short arm and a long arm which attached by a sling. The first man made trebuchet is called traction trebuchet and used by the Chinese in 5th century BC. This trebuchet use the men power as the power source. About 15-45 men is pull ropes attached to the short arm of a lever. Then, to fulfill the need of war, this siege engine is evolved to a trebuchet which called counterweight trebuchet. Like its name, this trebuchet is use a counterweight instead of the men's power in its hurling arm as the power. This kind of trebuchet is usually larger than the traction trebuchet and likely have longer range. It is caused by the very heavy counterweight. But its rate of fire is smaller than the traction trebuchet which also caused by its counterweight. This counterweight trebuchet is the trebuchet known and used in the ancient war.
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Importances of Soil

The soil has many important roles to our life. First, it has a role in providing water, not only for trees but also for human. The soil can absorb rain water which is fallen from the sky and keep it as underground water which has been used by human. Second, the soil can also prevent flood which has been one of the main disaster in our country. It can absorb the water which runs above the water. Third, the soil also has a role in providing minerals. People get their minerals from the plants which get mineral from absorbing soil’s minerals. There is no doubt that the soil is one of the important substances in our lifes.

Abraham Ranardo Sumarsono
16507125

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Why ITB

There are several consideration why I choose ITB as place to continue my study. First, ITB is the best college in Indonesia. According to my parents opinion's ITB is the best engineering institution in Indonesia. My neighbor who graduate from ITB is wanted by many International company is one of the prove that ITB is the best. Second, ITB is located in Bandung which is near from my hometown Bogor. I don't want to go far from Bogor, because my mother lives alone there. I worry about her. I can easily check on her whether something happen. Third, I want to be able to change Indonesia. In fact, two of six presidents of Indonesia are come from ITB. Many influenced person are come from ITB. I want to be the next person who bring positive change to Indonesia. That is some of my reasons that I want everybody to know.

Agam Bhaskoro
16507216
STEI

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