Tuesday, April 21, 2009

HATI-HATI LAPTOP BIYON

Laptop Byon memang mempunyai fitur yang lumayan lengkap. Tapi sayangnya tidak disertakan user manual. Drivernya saja tidak begitu lengkap. Sehingga pengguna kadang dibuat bingung kenapa ada sebagian fiturnya yang tidak bisa berjalan seperti yang saya alami.

Salah satu fitur yang disediakan oleh Byon adalah WIFI, tetapi ketika di install driver asli bawaan, network adapternya tidak terdeteksi. Sudah berulang kali di install dan di-uninstall hasilnya tetap sama. Nol Besar.

Akhirnya dengan terpaksa searching di google. WOOOOW senang ketemu dengan sebuah wordpress yang membahas tentang Byon. Singkat kata saya harus searching ke situsnya Byon. www.byon.co.id.

Ternyata mantaaaaaaaaaffffffffffffffffffffffff. Semua driver tersedia termasuk user manual. : D :D :D

Monday, April 20, 2009

Pohon Raksasa



Pohon ini bernama pohon "Munggur" Terletak di sebuah desa di Watu Sigar Wonosari Gunung Kidul Yogyakarta Indonesia. Berusia ratusan tahun dengan diameter kira-kira tujuh meter.
Menurut saudara saya yang berusia 30 tahun mengatakan bahwa bapaknya saudara saya tersebut tidak tahu berapa usia sebenarnya. Karena sewatu bapak saudara saya itu masih kecil pohon tersebut sudah ada.

Monday, April 13, 2009

HIV & AIDS

HIV and AIDS

Over 40 million people are living with HIV. In 2003 alone, over three million people died of AIDS and a further five million became infected with HIV.

Positive Lives photo exhibition. Photo by Richard Bacon, India Dec 06: Positive Lives photo exhibition. Photo by Richard Bacon, India Dec 06
Empower target groups

Concern's HIV and AIDS policy acknowledges that although a major effect of the disease is to reduce individual, community and national capacities, remaining capacity is significant.

There are large numbers of uninfected people who, together with many people infected and affected, constitute the most valuable resource available to combat HIV and AIDS.
International Development Target

Response to HIV and AIDS is one of Concern's five organisation wide programmes. In the long term Concern's HIV and AIDS policy aim will contribute to the International Development Target adopted in 1999, which seeks to achieve a 25% reduction in HIV infection rates among 15-24 year olds in worst affected countries, and globally, by 2015.
Minimise impact

The policy's aim is to empower our target groups to minimize their vulnerability to and risk of HIV infection, and to minimize the impact of AIDS among those infected and affected by it. Concern will pursue this aim in all of its programme work (education, health, HIV and AIDS and livelihood programmes) including emergency preparedness and response.
Rapid evolvement

The HIV and AIDS pandemic is evolving very rapidly, and it is therefore important that Concern regularly review this policy and incorporate appropriate changes.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Humu Mohammed




Humu Mohammed is 52 years old. She is married and has given birth to two daughters. Both are married and living with their husbands. Humu's husband is currently jobless due to an eye problem. Humu is a food vendor. She lives with her husband and some grandchildren in a family house in Mampong, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Humu prepares and sells a local dish called "Kokonte." It is produced from cassava flour. She buys the cassava from farmers in her community. The peeled cassava is dried in the sun for days and milled into fine flour. Kokonte is served hot with soup and many Ghanaians enjoy it for breakfast. With the loan, she wants to procure cassava flour and other ingredients in bulk to improve the quality of her meal to win additional customers.

Lighting Malawian homes

Lighting Malawian homes

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Support This Project

Categories: Health
Project Name: Lighting Malawian homes
Country: Malawi
About: Poor communities in Malawi use kerosene for lighting, which is highly toxic. This project will introduce clean, affordable solar lighting and electricity into rural homes by local solar entrepreneurs.
Duration: 2 years
Cost: £65,000
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We are doing this project in partnership with TRAID, a ground breaking charity committed to protecting the environment and reducing world poverty through recycling and delivering educational programmes and campaigning.

The problems:
The majority of people living in rural Malawi do not have access to electricity and are forced to burn kerosene for lighting. Kerosene is harmful to health, dangerous and increasingly expensive. Kerosene is also a fossil fuel that emits greenhouse gases, which contribute to climate change - our calculations show that the average kerosene lamp in Africa spews out a tonne of CO2 in less than 10 years.

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The solution:
This project will introduce simple, locally assembled, affordable LED solar lanterns to the poorest communities. It will provide people with a cheap alternative to kerosene, saving many lives.

We will train 120 young people orphaned or affected by HIV/AIDS in Northern Malawi in solar skills to build these solar lanterns.

The lights will be sold through existing sales networks and, most importantly, the low cost will ensure the new technology is readily accepted.

As an added benefit, employment is generated through product assembly and sales. The products can be repaired locally, which provides salesmen with the confidence to issue warranties.

Working with the Centre for Appropriate Technology, an organisation in Mzuzu, we will provide technical trainings (solar panel and LED light assembly) and help source and import solar and LED materials to Malawi. We'll provide the Centre for Appropriate Technology with business development support, including marketing assistance and the development of its financial management system.

Outcomes:
Better quality lighting for all at lower costs.
Increased access to clean, renewable forms of lighting.
Thousands of lives saved and better health for all.
Employment for poor families, helping them overcome poverty.
Reduced greenhouse gas emissions from displaced fossil fuels.

What your gift will buy:
The components needed to make a solar powered LED light cost about £4. Once assembled, the final product can be sold for up to £7. This is cheaper than in other countries, as materials are cheaper in Malawi.

Funds are reinvested to pay a team of assemblers, support people who sell the products, cover overheads and expand. The Centre for Appropriate Technology expects to produce 10,000 products in the first year, expanding continually over the next two years.

To meet the people involved, watch videos and read updates from Malawi, go to the blog