Wayoi.Com - Today there are range debates regarding with single sex education. Most research already proves that students in single-sex education are more likely to success. Although studying in single-sex education gives a lot of advantages, I argue that boys and girls should not be educated separately. There are three main reasons why single-sex education is not a good choice.

Firstly, single-sex education does not prepare students for the real life. In the real life there are two different sexes namely women and men. Absolutely they have to interact with one another. Children will never learn to interact normally with the opposite gender if they are separated during school hours. In addition, single-sex education inhibits the ability of students to understand the nature of different sex. Besides that, it limits their opportunity to work cooperatively with the opposite sex.

Secondly, in terms of mental development, single-sex education may effects students to have a sexual distortion. It happen because students are surrounded by the same sex most of the time. Consequently, it leads students to feel comfortable with the same sex, and then they would have interest in one another.

Finally, academically, single-sex education would not improve student’s performance. High academic performance can be achieved by learning among mix genders. Boys and girls have different perspectives. However, the different perspectives combination among mix genders would enrich student’s knowledge; for example, through group discussion in which the groups are consists of boys and girls.

Based on the reasons above, I strongly believe that the children should not be educated in single-sex education. The parents are needed to think further for the children’s development, and the government should restrict the development of single-sex education.

Wayoi.Com - Human being has to work to fill their needs. So many activities carried out by people around the worlds such as entrepreneur, civil servant, entertainer, farmer, doctor, teacher, fisher, helper etc. There are certain kind of job that need special talent or special education before that person will be allowed for that job like doctor, teacher and pilot, but also there are kind of jobs do not need special talent or education, for example, helper, labor.

We heard a lot about people who devote themselves to help others/people in need, they called social worker. Social worker means people who work in the field/term of humanity. They work not only to help the victims of natural disaster like earth quake, floods, or volcano eruption, but also to develop the community in the target areas.  

Being a social worker has several advantages. Firstly, it gave them a chance to travel to many different areas and meet a lot of people from that place. Social workers should able to interact with different people from different background education and culture. Secondly, social workers have plenty of chance to know better about their country since they travel to many different areas.

Wayoi.Com - Mentawai Island is one of the best islands in Indonesia. Located in West Sumatera Province and it’s border with Hindia Ocean. The islands consist of four main islands: North Pagai, South Pagai, Sipora and Siberut island.  Mentawai is one of district in West Sumatera. The island such a wonderful place to spend vacation and enjoy your selves. The fresh air without contaminated by any other pollution since no factory and limited number of vehicle give you a chance to get the fresh air all day long.

To reach that place from Padang you can take a ship or ferry from Bungus harbor. As informed above about the 4 main islands, it has relation with the ferry schedule. There is one ferry to serve 3 main islands, Siberut, Sipora, and Pagai (North and South Pagai has one join harbor). Sipora as a capital town of Mentawai has a few small ships to serve the island as well. Actually there was an airplane served Mentawai island and the port in Sipora, but it’s off for a while since an accident that happen (only one airplane serve Mentawai). The government said the air plane will be active at the beginning of 2012, in fact until today still no air plane.

The time between April to August to coincide with the summer holidays in Europe is the best time for surfing. At that season, Mentawai waves can reach a height of six feet and this is the most sought after by surfers water. Mentawai Islands has recorded 400 points which is often used as a surfing location surfing by surfers.

Of 400 points surfing, 23 points of which have international waves. Scattered among other areas in the Nyang-Nyang, Coral Bajat, Karoniki, Pananggelat and Mainuk (Siberut Island), Katiet Basua (Sipora Island) and North Pagai (Sikakap Island). Given recognition by the international community on the Mentawai waves can be seen from the surfing event held in these islands. Each year, was appointed as the organizer Mentawai Surfing Champions World Series or World Series Championship Surfing Water scheduled each August.

With the championship, the Mentawai can gather 3000 foreign tourists in 2007. As many as 60% of the tourists who come from Australia, 39% of the United States, and the rest of Europe, and Asia. The average tourist spends U.S. $ 2,500 for a surf in the Mentawai. To ensure the comfort and safety of the surfers, managers and local governments hold some supporting facilities.

Tour de Singkarak 2012 Logo

While waiting for OSD Lyric downloading for my Ubuntu 12.04, I come here to posting on something related to Tour de Singkarak 2012. That is the official theme song and lyric of the Tour de Singkarak.

If you want to download and hear this nice jingle, simply download Tour de Singkarak Official Theme Song from it's official website.

Below is the lyric of the entitled Soul of Minangkabau, the official song of the Tour de Singkarak 2012. Enjoy it:

Lady Gaga Concert

Lady Gaga concert in Jakarta Indonesia finally canceled by the promoter, Big Daddy. The promoter convey the decision through a press conference on Sunday, May 27, 2012. Various media in Indonesia, especially online media and television broadcast this news. Lady Gaga concert cancellation reason in Indonesia concerns over the safety of spectators or Indonesia Little Monster and concerts security.

With the cancellation of the Lady Gaga concert in Indonesia, has meant an end to debate the pros and cons that occurred during the time in Indonesia. Lady Gaga polemic in Indonesia occurred after the rejection of a number of community organizations. They opposed the arrival of Lady Gaga in Jakarta, Lady Gaga is considered satanists and Lady Gaga style does not fit with the majority culture and religion in Indonesia. These reasons are also used to reject Lady Gaga in other countries like the Philippines and South Korea.

Giro d'Italia Official

Visited Italy in the early summer is the time to enjoy the beautiful scenery. At that time, Italy held Giro d'Italia event that the route will be down nearly every corner of the country of Italy. Route covers an area of ​​Italy, and sometimes also the countries that border with Italy. Giro d'Italia or The Giro, is a long-distance professionals bicycle racing held at every year the end of May to early June. Giro is the UCI's annual agenda and the second most popular bicycle road race after the Tour de France. Together with the Tour de France and World Road Cycling Championships, Giro d'Italia to create the Triple Crown of Cycling.

Giro history began in 1908 and until 2012 had entered into 95 editions. 2012 edition was held from 5-27 May 2012 and the total distance covered in the Giro d'Italia 2012 is 3499 km. There have been many world champions who were born from the Giro. The first year, the winner of the Giro only Italian citizens. But since 1950, non-Italian winner of the Giro began to emerge. Jean-Baptiste Dortignacq, of France, is the first non-Italian to win the Giro d'Italia.

Giro d'Italia in 1941 abolished until the year 1945 due to World War II. When it started again in 1946, which is used for street racing scene has been destroyed by war. Other European political situation is also affecting the Giro is when the clashes between Italian police with the activists who support the annexation of Trieste to Yugoslavia.

Tour de Singkarak 2012

Having successfully hosted the road race bicycle Tour de Singkarak (TdS) since 2009, West Sumatra will be back to host the Tor de Singkarak 2012 for the fourth time. The race will be held from 4 to 10 June 2012 as the result of cooperation between the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy with the Provincial Government,  Indonesia Bicycle Sport Association (PB ISSI) and 14 regencies and cities (municipalities) in West Sumatera Province which is will be crossed as the route of each stage.

Implementation of the Tour de Singkarak 2012 also joined by the Tour de France organizers, the Amaury Sport Organization (ASO). Total prizes provided for TdS 2012 it reached $ 1 billion. Based on Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) standard, Tour de Singkarak is in the category 2.2 and has become an annual event for the UCI in Asia Region.

In addition to the Tour de Singkarak, UCI also set the Tour d'Indonesia and the Tour de East Java as its annual agenda. Tour de Singkarak classification, according to UCI, ranked approximately three levels below the Grand Tour which was previously taken a place Le Tour de Langkawi Malaysia and three levels below the Tour de France. When compared with the Jelajah Malaysia, Tour de Singkarak is on the same rank.

Basically everyone is capable of playing a musical instrument, but please note which instrument best suited to the needs of each person. For beginners and professional musicians are advised to choose a standard instrument to guarantee the sound quality of the instrument. If the instrument is below standard, then the resulting sound will not be beautiful. For the novice musician, musical instrument standards will facilitate the learning of music. As for professional musicians, the standards music instrument will support of his profession. The more professional a musician, musical instrument he used to be more qualified as well. He will know which products are high quality and which are not standard.

In addition, to learn music is highly recommended to use acoustic instruments, not electrical. Acoustic instrument feels more natural that can be felt from the sound produced. Acoustic musical instruments are also honing the skills to produce a sound that require sensitivity touch to produce different sounds.

Acoustic instrument is a musical instrument that uses the mechanical motion to produce sound, such as a guitar string vibration, the vibration of the lips flutist, or vibration of the drum membrane. Many music schools introduce acoustic musical instruments to students when types of instruments are introduced, such as guitars, drums and flute. When in the first high school, the first musical instrument was taught by my music teacher is a flute and every student should have it for the convenience of training at any time and anywhere, even at home. Flutes for sale at this time can be bought easily at online music instrument stores.

Unexpectedly, after the Instagram application available for the Symbian operating system, Facebook acquired Instagram. There is no preliminary information about the planned purchase of $ 1 billion, so today news very surprising, especially for users Instagram.

For business people and analysts may judge this story as the greatness of Facebook business expansion, but for most Instagram users this news seems to be bad news. They worry that Facebook will take advantage of new opportunities for Instagram to develop the advertising market. Invasion of advertising into their accounts would undermine the convenience of using Instagram. It is not like that the user wants the popular photo sharing application.

Other scary things that will happen is a matter of privacy. Facebook so far is often mentioned trouble with the privacy of its users. With Instagram integration into Facebook, they are who consistent with privacy issues, become very worried. It is likely that the user account Instagram management switch to Facebook.

Toshiba Excite 13

Toshiba Excite 13 is a Home Tabled PC because the wide size. This is the only Tabled PCs are manufactured with a super size to achieve the 13.3 inch wide screen. Toshiba issues Toshiba Excite 13 large size tabled may be to find a niche market that is not ogled by other tabled manufacturers. Though Tabled PC is a revolution of the personal computer industry for easy to carry anywhere and does not require a lot of places. But Toshiba Excite 13 seemed to try to make something unique for PC Tabled although it does not become a priority for Tabled PCs are easy to carry around. Although large, the tablet is quite thin with a thickness of only 0.4 inch.

Tabled other PC manufacturers may not have dared to produce tablets that match or exceed the jumbo size of Toshiba Excite 13. Toshiba itself did concede that Toshiba Excite 13 is designed to be a home Tabled PC. Good for browsing, playing games, watching movies, video chat and so forth. That is the reason why Toshiba tablet is designed with this super size width. Of course, the wide size makes these tabled does not support to be a easy mobile device. Wide size also made it more expensive than the tabled with the specifications in the same class.

Mentioned that Toshiba Excite 13 has put Android 4.0 operating system or Ice Cream Sandwich. The screen size of 13. Technology using 3 inch IPS (In Panel Switch) 1.600x900 pixel resolution. Quad core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor makes Toshiba Excite 13 speed very good. Thus the width of the screen causing the tabled a bit heavier than tabled in general. It weighs about 2.2 pounds, which means almost the same weight with a small laptop.

Other features include a camera with 2 mega pixel and 5 mega pixel . There are 32GB and 64GB of internal memory, microSD slot, 1GB of RAM, micro USB, Micro HDMI, and four speakers. The battery also can last longer. According to Toshiba, the Excite 13 battery can survive to 13 hours duration.

Toshiba mentions that Toshiba Excite 3 will be sold in the market in mid-June 2012. In addition to Excite 13, Toshiba also released a series Toshiba Excite 7.7 and Toshiba Excite 10. What is the price Excite 13? Toshiba released to a number of media that Excite 13 will be sold for USD650 for the 32GB model and USD750 for 64GB. Prices are also influenced by the large size of Toshiba Excite 13.

A Titanic Artifact: Silk Hat

Titanic Artifacts Auction - Artifacts and memorabilia from the wreckage of the Titanic will be auctioned by an American company, Guernsey Auctioneers. The number of artifacts were about 5500 pieces, the seven-time dives to the wreck of the Titanic from 1987 until 2004. Titanic is still lying at the bottom of the Atlantic, 400 miles from the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. All the artifacts to be auctioned are grouped in several categories.

The plan, the artifacts will be auctioned on 18 April 2012 in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. There is also a mention Titanic artifacts auction will be held on the 1st of April in Guernsey Auctioneers, New York City. The result will be announced on 15 April, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, which is 15 April 1912.

Any artifacts that have been successfully auctioned, must obtain approval from a federal court judge in the state of Virginia, USA, before moving into the hands of the purchaser.

As quoted from a number of media, artifacts to be auctioned is the stuff that remains after the sinking of the giant ship. Its value is estimated at around U.S. $ 189 million.

Artifacts are all collected by RMS Titanic Foundation. The collection consists of fine china such as plates and cups, vessels, lifeboats and a part of the hull. In some reports, the Titanic artifacts were also composed of a hat, pants, rings, shoes, spoons, bells, wallet, Titanic tickets, knives, necklaces, bracelets, compass, Titanic steering, wall plates are made of metals, glasses, cups, paper money, Titanic accessories and others.

It is not clear how the continuation of this auction. Another story says that the wreck of the Titanic would be protected existence and become the world's cultural heritage. UNESCO will protect the wreck of the Titanic which is considered as underwater cultural heritage through a convention agreed by the countries in the world.

This treaty prohibits the exploration and retrieve artifacts from the Titanic. Forty-one countries have signed the convention. With the rules of UNESCO is likely Titanic artifacts and memorabilia auction will be canceled. But there has been no recent official information.

Hitler-Philippe Loret-Jean Marie Loret-Charlotte

Adolf Hitler was reported to have descendants that are still alive today. A French citizen has to admit that he is the grandson of Adolf Hitler. His name is Philippe Loret (56 years), a plumber in France. This secret has been closed for forty years and is now open to rescue a family history. This confession shocked the world because it is known that Hitler did not have descendants still live. Media around the world to preach about this news.

Presumably Jean-Marie, father of Philippe Loret, is the child of a brief secret relationship between Hitler and a French woman. Woman named Charlotte Lobjoie, who allegedly many historians as the lover of Hitler during World War One in 1917. At that time Hitler was a corporal and was assigned to northern France in the summer of 1917.

Philippe Loret and six brothers first learned of their father, Jean-Marie, that they are descendants of Adolf Hitler. The first time you were told, they were just stunned, not knowing what to say.

Super Junior Concert in Jakarta

Super Junior "Super Show 4" Concert Ticket - Suju is a boy band where the members are Leeteuk, Yesung, Shindong, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, Donghae, Siwon, Ryeowook as well. They planned to hold a concert for two days on 28-29 April 2012 in the Eyes of the Eagle International Stadium (Meis), Ancol. However, not new when sold out concert tickets happen. Previously, their concert tickets in Singapore, South Korea, or Thailand were sold in minutes.

Concert of South Korean boy band Super Junior or Suju, which will be held on 28-29 April 2012, certainly sold out in just a few hours. Than 6,000 tickets at Rp 500,000 to Rp 2 million is provided, only 99 percent were sold in order to maintain the comfort of the audience later.

When sales reached 99 percent, sales have closed. Promoter mentioned that do not need a full concert, but comfort. Who became a concert promoter "Super Show 4" in Jakarta on Saturday (7/4/2012) is Showmaxx Entertainment.

When the ticket was announced has been exhausted, Elf (as Suju fans) chose to go home with disappointment. Purchase tickets in snaking queues Twin Plaza Hotel, Jakarta

As expected, the enthusiasm of fans to the Super Junior in Jakarta concert is very high. But, why not open the promoter of the online ticketing system to avoid long snaking queue?

According to Entertainment Showmaxx, it is the desire SuJu management, SM Entertainment. The promoter also want to avoid selling fake tickets. Showmaxx been trying its best to anticipate the number of fans who lined up tickets. Showmaxx also had coordinated with the police. Since the ticket is sold out, does someone to resale his/her Suju concert ticket?

A friend commented that free sex among teenagers has reached an alarming level. Not only teenagers but children also begin within the reach of its influence. Until now sex free in some cities has become an ordinary thing among teenagers. Free sex offender is not only teenagers who come from troubled families but also among the educated youth and the economic well-established. Teens now affected much of western culture that they think is great without sorting out the good and bad. Weak supervision and guidance of parents also cause this behavior is increasingly threatening the teens.

Free sex due to lack of parental control of children. Lack of attention causes teens now want to seek pleasure outside the home. In addition, because of the demands of economic necessity that forced to do things they should not do.

Many young teenagers consider that the age of adolescence is the most beautiful. It is always a reason, so many teenagers are victims and they do not realize what the consequences of the act he was doing. Many teens have sex free because there are certain parties who lead them. To address this need the support of all parties. Parental supervision should be tightened and early knowledge of sex education should be paid adequately. Then again reinforced the religious and moral teachings, both at school and at home.

The economic crisis that hit several countries in recent years has led to the economic potential of bankruptcy. One cause is the economic collapse economic crisis affecting economic activity, one of which banking financial services. Some countries, many banks are forced to be merged, closed or suspended operations due to the inability of the bank in the management and operation. Whereas the number of banking and other conveniences provided by the government has a lot.

One cause of the closure of banking operations by the government is the amount of foreign loans over three times and due to the exchange rate of the domestic currency against foreign currencies has increased and uncontrolled. In addition, loans made ​​by banks to the industry that has a special relationship with the bank, or in other words the bank has a conflict of interest in determining the loan recipient. Related lending, corruption, collusion and nepotism not only done by private banks, but also by state banks. Only, in practice the government banks are more likely to be distinguished by the private banking activities.

To rescue the bank, the merger through the issuance of government bonds to raise the bank capital. The incorporation of a bank merger also means the entire financial statements, reducing the number of branch offices and human resources. But on the bright side, the opportunity to bank customers in the borrowing will be met by the bank because the bank had a capital adequacy to be lent. Merging banks in some countries is an example that the bank merger results will be healthier and more advanced than the previous one.

Samsung Galaxy Note is a gadget with a combination of Smartphone and Tablet PC that uses the Android OS. Features of "pen" that accompany it allows us to write and draw on the screen. Weighing just 178 grams, the compact size and feature phones. The screen is equipped with Super Amoled and Dual Core 1.4 GHz processor.

By using the Samsung Galaxy Note, you do not need to bring a book and pen again each time a meeting. Sometimes some people are too forgetful to bring a book and pen. When the meeting, sometimes no time to write in the book. In addition, Samsung Galaxy Note fast in opening applications and can play the video without falter.

Samsung Galaxy Note camera is 8 Mega Pixel, enough detail to produce good quality photo. When compared with the iPad, Samsung Galaxy Note can be used as an alternative replacement for the smaller size and simple. Unfortunately the price is still too expensive, at least for me. With current income, to have it I have to work hard enough to make money.

As you can see on my blogroll widget in the sidebar, not mani longer list of links that I put there. Only there are a few links. This is not because I do not want to be friends or exchanging links with other bloggers, but since I have been lied to. The widgets is offered and available to anyone who would like to exchange link with this blog and I have made since the beginning of this blog is created. As we know, exchanging links will help increase the ranking of a page rank of a blog. Google like blogs that have incoming links.

Yesterday I visited one by one those links, but I was shocked after opening one by one. Most of these blogs do not include my link anymore with vary of condition. There are blogs still exist, but the blogroll has been removed. There are still have a blogroll, but my link was removed. There is also my link has been moved from the main page to a specific page. Then there are the blogs no longer exist, reinstall, owned by another party or changing the function to domain parking.

My response to this action was to delete one by one link that has no such exchange. If there is a message box, I left a message on their blog that their links have also removed from my blogroll. For those who are still listed, I also left messages of thanks.

Actually, for me there is no problem if they do not want to exchange links again as long as previously notified. If so, it is clear that they want to make money by cheating on my own. My blog reputation is also bad for google page rank and get down.

I will do the same thing to protect my other blog. I will also periodically checks to avoid harm to my own. This experience will be useful also for you the blogger if you do not want to be cheated by your exchange link friend. Please take a look whether your link is also removed or not.

Valentine's Day 2012 has almost arrived in few days. All people will start thinking of what would now be present as an expression of affection to their beloved ones. This will apply throughout the world for those who welcome it, especially for those who are in pairs. Valentine's day is always a moment of affection used to it. This tradition has spread throughout the world through the different cultures, races and religions.

This year, Valentine's Day will fall on Wednesday. Unfortunately yes, why not fall on any day of the week :). But do not be disappointed, that affection does not distinguish the time. If this year's Valentine's Day falls on Wednesday, then use the best of the best expressions as well. Then is the best gift for Valentine's day 2012? Having tried searching online, I came to the conclusion there are two kinds of gifts to choose from. The first is a classic gift and the second is contextual gifts.

In my invention, which became a classic gift trend this year for Valentine's Day 2012 is a red rose. I do not know the reason for this trend, but it would not hurt if your gifts this year adapted to this trend. As is known, other than rose, the other is a classic gift of chocolate. But the chocolate for this year under the rose.

Then what is the contextual gift? There is no specific object to be named best valentine day gift this year. There are only a keyword that is the result of creativity objects. This could mean anything that is made with your own creations, such as self-designed greeting cards or any items creations. This reminds me of the belief in china this year's calendar year which falls on the Dragon Shio. According to feng shui master, this year was a good year for the creative industries. Maybe this has something to do.

If I may suggest, it helps if your Valentine's gift this year is due a combination of this type of gift, classical and contextual. Suppose you make chocolate for your spouse in the home based on flavor and attractive shape of the mold. Will be unique and no one sold in stores.

Wayoi.Com - Shoumix widget is no longer available as a free service since announced at the end of last December 2011 and is valid from a few days. I initially wondered why my blog message box was not appears, after investigation it turns out there is the recent announcement of the shoutmix. Shoutmix is a widget that bloggers are widely used to decorate their blogs. Blog visitor who come will utilize this widget to leave a message. For the blogwalker, this widget is the place to invite back a blog owner that has been visited to visit his blog too.

Shoutmix actually consists of several 'plan', the plan which is widely used by bloggers are Shoutmix Free Plan. This Plan was the one who is no longer available and Shoutmix only provide paid services starting early this year 2012. For me as a blogger is no problem with this policy because I'm basically just using the free service after all these years and still can find a similar widget that is still free such as Cbox and Shoutbox. But, unfortunately is the messages that left by visitors in my Shoutmix had become lost.

Now I've moved using the Cbox as you can see in this blog. My other blogs use Shoutbox for alternatives in order to reduce the habit of depending on one type of service the shout widget. I am sure since Shoumix free plan no longer available, many bloggers who have moved to use similar types of services that provide free because many availabl on the internet. For widgets that function to record a message, the blogging world has helped to support many web 2.0 technologies.