Hasil UN 2010

Hasil UN 2010 - Mendiknas Mohammad Nuh meminta kepada para orang tua dan siswa yang belum lulus ujian nasional (UN) tingkat SMA dan yang sederajat agar tidak risau, tetapi mempersipakan diri untuk mengikuti UN ulangan pada 10-14 Mei 2010.

Hasil Ujian Nasional - "Tidak lulus salah satu atau seluruh mata pelajaran UN 2010, masih terbuka kesempatan UN ulangan bagi siswa yang tidak lulus, sehingga siswa memiliki kesempatan mengulang agar lulus," kata Mendiknas kepada pers seusai melantik Rektor Unversitas Ngeri Jakarta (UNJ) Prof Dr Bedjo Sujanto, MPd di Jakarta, Senin.

Mendiknas menyatakan optimis bahwa siswa yang gagal dalam UN SMA 2010 akan dapat lulus, karena sebagian besar atau 64 persen siswa yang gagal UN 2010 hanya dalam satu mata pelajaran, seperti sebagian besar mereka tidak lulus dalam mata pelajaran Bahasa Indonesia dan Biologi.

Oleh karena itu, ia meminta kepala sekolah dan siswa yang belum lulus pada UN SMA 2010 agar mempersiapkan belajar secara serius tentang mata pelajaran yang tidak lulus pada UN tersebut sehingga dapat mengerjakan UN ulangan dengan minimal nilai 5,5.

Menurut Mendiknas, banyaknya siswa yang tidak lulus UN SMA dan yang sederajat pada UN 2010 atau turun empat persen dibanding 2009, antara lain proses belajar di sekolah tidak optimal, kesadaran siswa yang terkesan santai, faktor sarana dan prasarana belajar seperti buku dan guru di sekolah yang belum memadai.

Selanjutnya, kata Nuh, Kemendiknas akan melakukan evaluasi dan analisis tentang jenis mata pelajaran yang sebagian besar siswa gagal mengerjakan, letak sekolah dan wilayahnya, sehingga Kemendiknas akan melakukan intervensi kebijakan seperti memberikan pelatihan untuk mata pelajaran yang gagal dikerjakan siswa.

"Jadi orientasi UN bukan hanya sebagai tolok ukur kelulusan siswa, tetapi sebagai pemetaan sekolah, yaitu untuk mengetahui dan memberikan intervensi kebijakan penguatan terhadap sekolah-sekolah di mana saja yang mata pelajaran UN belum mampu diserap siswanya," katanya.

Ketika ditanya tentang sejumlah SMA seperti SMAN 112 Jakarta dan SMAN 78 Jakarta yang belum mengumumkan hasil UN karena sebagian siswa ke dua sekolah itu data siswa "hilang". Mendiknas menyatakan, pihak akan mengecek ke tempat pemindaian data di UNJ dan Kepala Dinas Pendidikan Pemprof Jakarta.

Sebelumnya, sedikitnya tiga SMA di Jakarta, pada Senin (26/4) seperti SMAN 112, SMAN 78 dan SMA Joshua belum mengumumkan hasil UN kepada siswanya, karena masih menunggu klarifikasi tidak keluarnya data kelulusan dari sebagian siswanya dari tempat pemindaian soal UN di UNJ.

Handphone Nokia

Hp Nokia - When choosing a device to capture images with there are three distinct categories: use the camera on your phone, buy a cheap point-and-shoot camera, or spend a little (or a lot) more and get a professional grade camera.

Although they might be the choices at the moment, Nokia’s sales chief says it won’t be that way for much longer. Working for a mobile phone company you would expect some bias, but Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president of Markets at Nokia, firmly believes that soon the camera phone will make heavy, professional digital cameras obsolete.

He reasons that eventually the phone in your camera will be capable of capturing images on a par with such expensive hardware. In fact, within 12 months we can all expect to be taking HD-quality images on new smartphones:

It will not take long, less than a year, when phones can record HD quality video and you can transfer it directly to your HD television set. They will in the very near future revolutionise the market for system cameras.

Although HD cameras may be commonplace next year, we wonder how long it will take for a Nokia smartphone to produce the same quality as a top-of-the-line digital SLR camera?

Read more at Reuters

Matthew’s Opinion

I can certainly see smartphone cameras improving to the point where many consumers don’t consider buying a separate camera anymore. In fact, I think that’s already starting to happen now we are seeing 5 and 8 megapixel cameras becoming the norm.

Digital camera technology is going to continue to advance though, and will remain a few steps ahead of what you find in a phone. Companies such as Nikon and Canon need to stay ahead in order to keep selling high-end cameras.

The gap between high-end camera and smartphone camera will certainly narrow. Eventually we will get to a point where the image quality and video capture is so good you can’t really improve upon it anymore and still expect the human eye to notice the difference. How far away that is from happening I don’t know.

You also have to consider new technology coming into play such as the recent interest in 3D video. Such features will surely hit high-end cameras first making smartphones play catch-up when the technology becomes more affordable.

iPhone Generasi Terbaru? ‎

Gambar Gambar Lucu - Salah satu situs panduan gadget ternama, Gizmodo baru-baru ini berhasil mendapatkan informasi eksklusif tentang gambar dari iPhone generasi terbaru yang telah lama sudah dinanti-nanti para penggemar setianya.

Gambar Lucu - Meski hingga saat ini belum ada keterangan apapun dari pihak Apple mengenai gambar eksklusif yang didapat situs Gizmodo, namun kami sangat yakin bahwa inilah bentuk fisik yang nantinya akan ditawarkan Apple untuk iPhone generasi terbarunya.

Mengapa kami sangat percaya? Ya, karena kabarnya sumber mengaku mendapatkan gambar eksklusif prototipe iPhone terbaru itu dari salah satu sumber terpercaya yang namanya dirahasiakan sumber. Sumber mendapatkan gambar itu pada 18 Maret lalu di sebuah bar di kawasan kota Redwood.

Terlepas dari cara mendapatkan gambar eksklusif itu, ada baiknya kita bahas perubahan apa saja yang terjadi pada iPhone generasi terbaru ini.

Menurut informasi, perubahan iPhone generasi terbaru itu terlihat pada kamera bagian depan untuk video chat, ukuran kamera belakang yang lebih besar dari iPhone 3GS, Flash, penggunaan Micro-SIM, ukuran layar lebih kecil tapi sepertinya resolusi layar lebih baik, ukuran baterai lebih besar dan tentu saja bobot juga yang lebih berat, tombol split untuk pengaturan suara, tombol samping metalik, dan juga menggunakan bahan plastik mengkilap untuk bagian belakang bodi.

Selain itu, kami belum menemukan informasi lain mengenai perubahan apa saja yang terjadi pada iPhone generasi terbaru keluaran Apple itu. Yang pasti, desain iPhone generasi terbaru ini terlihat lebih kokoh dan apik dari iPhone 3GS.

Bagaimana, makin penasaran? Nah, kita tunggu saja bocoran informasi selanjutnya

Recipes

Burgers - There is a nubbly quality to a risotto made with pearled spelt. Now easily available from supermarkets and grocers, this ancient grain has an extraordinary comforting quality. It seems to handle vegetable stock more successfully than rice, restoring some of the silky texture that is often missing in a traditional risotto made with vegetable stock. Pea shoots are available in bags from the major supermarkets but easily grown at home, too. I plant trays of them on shallow compost. Serves four

250g pearled spelt

1 small onion

40g butter

1 litre hot vegetable stock

80g pea shoots

a handful grated Parmesan

a large knob of butter

grated Parmesan to finish

Resep - Put the spelt in a bowl, cover with cold water and leave for 10 minutes. This is not strictly necessary, but will give a softer and more sumptuous result than if you use it straight from the pack. Peel the onion and chop it finely. Melt the butter in a saucepan then add the onion and let it soften, but not colour.

Drain the spelt and add it to the onion, then pour in about a third of the hot stock. Let the liquid come to the boil, then lower the heat to a simmer and leave for 8-10 minutes, stirring regularly. Add half the remaining liquid, leave for 5 or 6 minutes then stir in the remainder. Continue cooking for a further 7 minutes or so, checking the texture of the spelt as you go. It should be soft, with a very slight bite to it.

Rinse the pea shoots then stir them into the risotto. As soon as the pea shoots have wilted, but before they darken, stir in the grated Parmesan and the butter. Check the seasoning, adding salt and ground black pepper as you need. Serve, with a little more Parmesan if you wish.

Strong And Straight

Naskah Pidato - It’s funny: Although one’s enjoyment of Menashe’s poems certainly can increase from the context he offers when publicly reading them, I think that—more perhaps than many contemporary poets—his tiny poems also stand up quite straight and strong on the page without any added context whatsoever. It is one of those things that prove him to be a truly great poet, I suppose.

Dr. Elizabeth Weber, associate professor of English, is one of four poets whose work has been chosen for display along the Indianapolis Cultural Trail, which is now under construction downtown.

Weber’s poem “City Generation” will be mounted at Poet’s Place, a site on Alabama Street near the Marsh supermarket that honors one of the trail’s early supporters. Weber, co-director of UIndy’s Kellogg Writers Series, also will receive a $1,000 honorarium.

The poems were selected from among 120 submissions for inclusion in the trail’s public art installation, Moving Forward by local architect Donna Sink. The three other poets’ works will be displayed on colorful new bus shelters that will be placed along the south side of Virginia Avenue between downtown and Fountain Square.

Weber teaches creative writing at UIndy, and her own poems and essays have been published in many magazines, anthologies and literary journals. She holds a master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Montana and a doctorate in English and Creative Writing from SUNY, Binghamton.

The text of her cultural trail poem follows.

City Generation
by Elizabeth Weber

This city loves me: even the stop lights

are concerned with my health.

The one at North and Alabama tells me, Wait!

when it turns red, and Go! when green,

not content to let me rely on my own eyes.

Usually I drive these streets and miss the aster

blooming between apartment buildings.

The killer whales hanging midair

on a building on the corner

of St. Clair and Delaware, miss

the way the Riley Towers loom

above me like Godzilla on a rampage.

Miss the human city where a man sits

on a bench with briefcase and O’Malia’s bag,

takes off his glasses and cleans them

with a gleaming white handkerchief,

a simple gesture that goes beyond young or old.

Everyday my young students in this city write

about my generation, your generation, about our generation

until my head swirls with generations

as in you generate I generate we generate

as in somebody generated this cornerstone

of the old Sears Roebuck Building

its date so faded all I can see is 19 something

erected by Samuel L somebody.

Around me new and old rise together,

mix and change into something

more than once was.

It is like what my father said to my son,

Things sure have changed

since I went to high school here sixty years ago

to which my son answered, Well, I sure hope so!

Always the hope of the young

and perhaps the old

because change is here everyday at the City Market

where pigeons still pester those eating at tables

as they did one hundred years ago,

where old men still sit and talk

and mothers still hold their babies

and ask policemen which way to City Hall.

Blackberry tablet

Daftar Harga HP Terbaru - Everyone else is jumping on the tablet bandwagon, why not RIM? That is what an industry research firm is claiming after sources in the component supply chain have said that Research in Motion has placed an order for an 8.9-inch tablet from Hon Hai Precision (Foxconn) that will ship in late Q3 2010 or early Q4 2010.

Blackberry - The report doesn’t reveal anything else, but I’d be a bit surprised if it were true. RIM aren’t known for jumping into any old device category unless they felt it would enhance their portfolio. Also, RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis recently told Walt Mossberg that, “I don’t see the benefits of a tablet over a notebook… A lot of technology falls in the middle.”

However, if true, it could be some companion device to the Blackberry or it may be related to the recent acquisition of QNX, who specialise in embedded OS development. At the time they talked of a mystery set of “intelligent peripherals” for the future.

Elusive Mercury

Primbon - Five planets were known to the ancients: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Four of them are in plain view on many nights. But little Mercury is different. There’s a reason why it was named for the quick, mercurial messenger of the gods. It dashes back and forth between the sunrise and sunset sky, staying out of sight most of the time and usually hiding low in the twilight when it shows at all.

Ramalan Primbon - As a result, you may have never seen Mercury. This week, however, it stands in unusually plain view about as high and bright as it ever gets. What’s more, it has a brilliant companion practically hollering for you to come pay attention.

Look low in the west as twilight fades, and you’ll see not just one shining world, but two. The brilliant one is Venus. Mercury is the smaller, shyer partner just to Venus’s right or lower right, separated from it by about the width of two fingers at arm’s length.

Although they look close together, Venus is actually 50 percent farther away. It shines so much brighter, despite its greater distance, for three reasons. It’s about twice as big a planet as Mercury; it’s covered with brilliant white clouds, while Mercury is a bare world of dark gray rocks and dust; and Venus is also showing us more of its sunlit dayside right now.

The great Copernicus myth
Mercury’s elusive nature is legendary. And one of the best legends about it is false, yielding only now to a century of debunking.

In the late 1500s, the reclusive astronomer Nicolas Copernicus figured out two extraordinary things, that Earth is a planet like the ones in the sky and that all of them circle around the sun. He was the opposite of a glory seeker. He kept his secret largely to himself for many years, published it only in his dying days, and even then seemed to hedge it with qualifications and digressions. As a canon in the Catholic Church, perhaps he was afraid of the kind of harsh reaction that would later overtake Giordano Bruno and Galileo Galilei.

His theory took decades of work. The trick was to measure the positions of the planets on numerous dates — as seen on the apparent dome of the sky, like specks of paint on the inside of a huge hemisphere — and correctly interpret their complicated, puzzling motions.

Copernicus’s breakthrough was in realizing that their inexplicable loops, backtracks, and forward races on the starry sky-dome made sense if the planets were actually following simple orbits in three-dimensional space, centered on the sun — and if Earth was doing the same thing, too.

But getting it right required a large number of measurements. And each of these had to be processed with 3-D geometry and trigonometry when every calculation was done with pencil and paper. Copernicus relied mostly on measurements made by earlier astronomers. He made relatively few observations himself and spent most of his life indoors puzzling over the math.

Mercury was especially tough. It moves fast, it follows (we now know) an unusually elliptical orbit, and it spends a lot of time out of sight. A legend developed that on his deathbed, Copernicus lamented that he had never actually seen Mercury. In the 1840s, a popular German science book titled Kosmos, by the great naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, spread this legend far and wide. As a result, it became a fixture in popular science writing for more than a century.

It seemed plausible. Copernicus lived much of his life in what is now northern Poland, at a latitude where Mercury remains especially low. And he often complained about the Baltic mists and fogs blotting out his views.

But no. It is clear from Copernicus’s writings that what bothered him was his inability to measure Mercury’s position at times when the planet was especially near the horizon, leaving gaps in his data. By the 1890s, the deathbed tale had been debunked many times. But a good story is hard to kill. It was still being published when I was a kid learning astronomy in the 1960s.

Eventually, however, truth won out. You don’t run into the tale in the 2000s. It is good to know that sometimes it is possible to lay a popular falsehood to rest, though it may take more than a century.

Politik Beras

Contoh Makalah - Prof Purbayu Budi Santosa, mencoba menguraikan permasolusi tepat. Menurut pendapat dia, persoalan perberasan membuahkan ketidakadilan dan perenggutan hak asasi bagi petani. Pemikiran yang mencerahkan itu, dia uraikan dalam ratusan tulisan, baik artikel ilmiah dan populer, makalah seminar, jurnal ilmiah, laporan hasil penelitian, dan buku.

Contoh Pidato - Buku ini merupakan karya kelima yang merupakan hasil ketekunan dan ketelitian mendokumentasi artikel populer yang tersebar di media massa, terutama Suara Merdeka dan Wawasan, di tengah kesibukan mengajar dan tugas sebagai Pembantu Dekan III Fakultas Ekonomi Undip.

Jalur ekonomi kelembagaan yang dipilih Prof Purbayu dan mewarnai buku ini, terbilang langka di negeri ini. Sebab, kebanyakan ekonom di Indonesia lebih memilih jalur ekonomi berbasis kapitalistik, atau paling tidak dicampur dengan ekonomi berbasis kerakyatan atau Pancasila.
Berulang-ulang Purbayu menyatakan, penerapan ekonomi pasar bebas di negeri ini yang diadopsi dari pemikiran Neoklasik, membuat Indonesia dalam keadaan terus terpuruk dan tidak bisa lepas dari krisis. Karena sejatinya, negara harus campur tangan dalam urusan ekonomi dalam negeri, entah pemberian subsidi maupun kebijakan yang prorakyat.
Penggunaan matematika dalam analisis ekonomi dalam ekonomi pasar bebas yang sebetulnya, buah rintisan Adam Smith, sangat tidak tepat diberlakukan di Indonesia dan sebetulnya di negara lain pula.

Berbagai kritik yang diajukan kepada aliran Neoklasik, menggambarkan relevansi penggunaan aliran ekonomi kelembagaan. Dalam ekonomi kelembagaan, mengamanatkan kepercayaan kepada diri sendiri, bukan berarti menolak semua yang berasal dari asing, tetapi harus bisa melakukan penyaringan terhadap hal-hal yang tidak cocok dan berarti bagi kemajuan bangsa dan negara ini.

Pembangunan di Indonesia hendaknya dilakukan secara komprehensif, meliputi materi dan moral.
Memang selama ini keduanya telah dilakukan, tetapi unsur materi yang sangat menonjol. Titik tolak pembangunan ekonomi pun terlalu berkiblat kepada unsur efisien dan efektif, dan menganggap tidak penting unsur moralitas. Kiblat terori neoklasik begitu menonjol, padahal Adam Smith, Myrdal, maupun North sebagai “dewa“ pemikir ekonomi, begitu mempertimbangkan faktor nonekonomi dalam analisis ekonominya (halaman 215).

Revitalisasi
Apabila ekonomi kelembagaan sudah benar-benar diterapkan penuh di Indonesia , kasus seperti Bank Century atau kasus lain pengaruh dari sistem pasar bebas, tidak akan pernah terjadi di negeri ini. Prof Purbayu menyebut, rakyat pedesaan bisa terus tersenyum dan usaha memproduksi beras, tidak jadi sia-sia lagi dan bisa menyangga penuh kebutuhan rumah tangga, bahkan bisa lebih. Karena, dalam ekonomi kelembagaan, rakyatlah yang jadi prioritas utama pemerintah, bahkan pemerintah harus memberi subsidi produktif kepada rakyat, terutama petani yang hidup di pedesaan.

Purbayu menilai, karut-marut masalah perberasan yang ada sekarang ini, membuat revitalisasi sektor perberasan perlu dilakukan segera, supaya harga beras tidak bergejolak, dengan begitu bisa memberikan kemanfaatan yang nyata dan optimal bagi segenap masyarakat. (hal 114).
Jangan sampai beras terus-menerus dijadikan komoditi politik. Jangan sampai impor beras lebih didorong oleh ketakutan data kemiskinan akan membengkak, yang akan memukul pemerintah.
Karena secara politis, jika angka kemiskinan membengkak, biarpun indikator kinerja lainnya menunjukkan angka baik, pemerintah akan tetap dianggap gagal.

Terobosan baru dicetuskan Prof Purbayu agar komoditas beras yang sarat dengan kepentingan politik itu dapat ìdiakhiriî. Yaitu lewat penganekaragaman makanan pokok, sehingga orientasi pencapaian swasembada pangan bukan sematamata beras. Revitalisasi Bulog juga perlu dilakukan, sehingga Bulog tidak hanya menjalankan tugas pelayanan publik, tetapi juga bisa mencari keuntungan. Menempatkan manfaat sosial dan bisnis dalam pertalian yang tidak saling meniadakan (trade off). Tidak hanya mengandalkan dana dari pemerintah pusat yang jumlahnya sebetulnya tidak memadai, apalagi untuk beli beras hasil seluruh petani. Yang akhirnya, membuahkan kebijakan impor beras yang merugikan petani yang kemudian mengangkat beras sebagai komoditas politik.

Selain itu, perlu pula dihilangkan disparitas yang tinggi antara harga pupuk bersubsidi dengan harga di pasaran, yang pada akhirnya menimbulkan penyelewengan seperti penimbunan guna kepentingan pribadi dan memunculkan kejahatan ekonomi yang sangat merugikan petani, yang posisi sebelumnya sudah lemah.

Namun, normalnya buku buntelan opini, pasti ada kekurangan yang menyelimuti. Umur tulisan yang pendek, pembahasan materi yang kurang fokus, adanya pengulangan ide atau gagasan, dan kurangnya pendalaman pembahasan, sangat terlihat dalam buku ini. Tapi, tampaknya editor berusaha meramu buku ini menjadi sebuah buku yang menarik dan memiliki nilai tambah. Upaya editor membuat pembaca mudah memahami substansi tulisan, terlihat kentara dengan pengelompokan buku menjadi empat bagian yang menguraikan tema atau substansi yang serupa.
(Hadziq Jauhary-35/CN15)