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Around the world, many campaigns against drugs have been declared but according to Statistics the number of drugs user is getting higher every year. Even right now when the economic situation in downward. Many people lost their jobs and the scarcity of jobs available forces them to do illegal activity like becoming drug dealer. Many possibilities that the increasing number of drug users caused by the increasing number of depressed people. They can’t hold on the economic situation and looking for pain killer or sleeping pills to drag them away for awhile from reality and take them into dream. As soon as the dream is over they will find a way to get into that dream again by taking those drugs and getting high. They do not realize that taking those pills do not solve the problem only delay it and get it worse because it makes them become drugs addicts.

Drug addiction is increasing day by day, but addicts generally do not like to seek help from rehab centers. Without proper drug treatment there is no way out for addicts. Drug addiction should be diagnosed at an early stage for effective treatment because if the addiction was already at worse situation the patient will need to get immediate help for Drug Detox. Certain things are required in order for drug treatment to be successful. For example, the rehab center should have professional support and all staff members should be trained and skilled. Before the commencement of a Drug Treatment, the patient should visit the doctor to discuss all worries, expectations and fears. Every drug addict experiences withdrawal symptoms, but these can be treated with special medication. It is better for the patient to stay in the Drug Treatment Centers for a long time.

Having reliable server for web hosting is important to make sure that your web will stay up for 24/7. But sometimes the costs are too big for the low budgeter like personal web or small business web. The good news is when you owned web for personal purpose or small business you can still survive with cheap web hosting. Even you can still have the same features and services as high-end services solutions.
All you have to do is take a little of your time to do a small research to find the right web hosting plan that meet your requirements. Okay, let’s move to the main part, there are some aspects that you should consider while choosing web hosting services.

Resource: Most small companies and personal users do not require a large amount of resources like bandwidth and disk space. Selecting a web host that offers a generous but adequate amount of bandwidth and storage can save you a few dollars on hosting. And usually, good company will allow you to upgrade to a more robust package as your needs increase.

Control Panel: quick tips: try the demo versions; choose the one that you like most.

Flexibility: what I mean by flexibility is the ability to grow your website. The best deal is finding hosting provider that gives you the possibility to start small and growing it. In other words, a reasonable upgrade options and of course, price.

Support: this aspect is very important, Look for a company that offers support 24/7 whether it’s via phone or email. A good way to test the support service is by sending an email to test their response time.

Lastly, it is always best to look around and compare different companies first. By taking a little time to research, you can find a host that offers all the requirements that you needed. Good luck!

There has been a sad trend since the turn of this century. Health insurance costs have been rising so fast that even large sections of the middle class now find it a struggle, if not impossible, to pay the premiums demanded by the insurers for private plans. The fact is that, although in the last one or two years, there have been some increases in average take-home pay, these increases have not kept pace with inflation. People today are more poor than they were ten years ago. For a time, people compensated by using their credit cards and borrowing against the positive housing equity on their homes. With the bursting of the housing bubble and the credit crunch, people must now confront the size of the debt they carry. Articles like this are not supposed to feel sorry for employers. They are the ones who take our work, pay us as little possible and buy big houses to live in. Sometimes, we only put up with this exploitation because of the health plans some offer as part of the compensation package. But they have also been feeling the strain. The national statistics show that, in the period 2000-2007, there was an average 80% increase in the premiums payable by employers for the health plan offered to their employees. As a cost, this has increased five times faster than the cost of wages and salaries. Because consumers have come to expect that prices will not rise, it has not been possible to pass these increased costs on in the wholesale and retail prices. The result has been a reduction in the profits earned by the employers. Hence, wages have not risen fast enough to keep pace with inflation. This has real significance for the future health of the nation. Slightly more than 30% of the workforce is less than 30 years old and the majority of them are not insured. This because more employers have given up the unequal struggle to keep up a health plan for new employees, and more younger people who still have their health do not see it as a priority to use more and more of their take-home pay to fund private health insurance. They feel they are paying against the risk of sickness that might never come. This has an unfortunate knock-on effect. Health insurance distributes the risk so that the fit and health subsidize those who fall sick. If too many of the healthy refuse cover, the cost must be born by the older population more likely to make claims. This forces the premiums to rise. It would be better if everyone had a policy because this spreads the costs and keeps everyone’s payments low. You can make a start by using sites like this to find the cheapest possible policy, but nothing will change unless government policy changes.

Last month, I mentioned that I join a culture camp that concern about environmental problem. And yesterday, some of the participants were gathering at Sinchon. After I had that gathering, I thinking again about our solutions before, which is still unclear. At that time, we said that we should educate people with to be more aware and care about environmental problem. But we didn’t really sure how to do that.
While I’m wandering around the internet and thinking about that, I figured out that make people understand trough the entertainment will be quite efficient. Yes, educational entertainment, entertainment-education or in short, edutainment. We can educate people while still amuse them. And then I made a little research a.k.a Googling and found that some people are already on that track to educate people. Just try search ecoquest wiki and you’ll found a game that also an environmental movement. I just see the screenshot of the game and I think it could be a good example for other game developers.

Recently world economics is on its worst crisis, or at least one of the worst crises. One of the main causes was the subprime mortgage crisis which happened because of the boom and bust in the housing market in USA. The reasons proposed for this crisis are varied and complex. But the basic idea is because many financial institutions, investment banks in particular, issued large amounts of loans. Most of the debtor cannot pay their debt and ended up causing this economic crisis.
We should learn from this incident that we shouldn’t take too much debt. The limit is our capacity of paying back. Moreover, it is better if you didn’t have any debt at all. But it is fact that people will always have some desires upon the money which leads them being a debtor.
To handle this situation you need some assistance. And fortunately, in this internet age, you can found anything on internet include the assistance for solving consolidate debt. This website is also providing the service of the debt consultation so that the visitors will be able to get to know about the things related to the debt. The visitors can learn many things about it by reading comprehensively from the articles available.
You can also take the debt consolidation loans to pay off your balances on your previous debts to make it easier to be repaid. You will find it lift your heavy barrier effectively than if you just wait until a miracles safe you from paying off those debts. This website will also provide you free counselor to help you make a good plan on your process.

Fighting Against Corruption with Cultural Reformation

Ahmad Zamakhsyari Sidiq
Informatics Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung
ahmad.zamakhsyari@gmail.com
+62-8170242322

Indonesia is one of the countries in the world where corruption is widespread and has become a significant contributor to the fragility of the country’s economy. In 2007, Indonesia ranked 143rd and improved to ranks 126th in 2008 in the 2008 perception of corruption index according to Transparency International.
The government shows the willingness to fight against Corruption by established a state Commission to Combat Corruption (KPK) based on a national legislation. After the establishment of KPK, Anti-corruption prosecutions are having some effect. But Indonesia is still far from “corruption-free-state”, because the real problem is Indonesian people’s way of thinking. Indonesian people have lived in corrupted system since the VOC is still on the charge. Corruption is very common so people would think something like bribery as everyday things.
We have to stop the spreading of this “Culture” called corruption to the next generation. In order to stop this from spreading and becoming “culture” in the youth, we should do some cultural reformation. What kind of cultural reformation? As simple as the famous quote from Aa Gym: “Start from ourselves, Start from the simple things, Start now”.
Start from eliminating the simple kind of corruption like cheating on the exam, cut the lines, cut the traffic light, or bribing for driving license. Start from ourselves, trying to live by the rules and obey them and start from now.
This message has one vital point. That is Self-Integrity. Indonesian people now lack of self-integrity. It shows on how law and policy can be easily ignored with some rupiahs.
These acts is also aimed to bring back the social awareness about law enforcement because the problem wasn’t only the system, but mostly on the people run the system.

Keyword: self-integrity, corruption, cultural reformation, Indonesia, youth

This is the Article I sent to the AYCC committee for the 2008 AYCC Book:

Short Brief of AYCC

Asian Youth Culture Camp (AYCC) held by The Office for Hub City of Asian Culture, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Republic of Korea, and this 2008 AYCC is the 3rd AYCC. For this 3rd AYCC, The Office for Hub City of Asian Culture, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism collaborated with Gwangju International Center, United Nations Environment Program National Committee for the Republic of Korea (UNEP) and Chonnam National University as the host.
The participant came from Cambodia, China, Denmark, Indonesia (including me ), India, South Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Tanzania divided into seven group. The camp was held from October 30th to November 2nd, 2008 and divided into three group discussion session, one group presentation and a mission impossible. Even before we actually meet each other, we already involved in the online discussion. I think the idea was brilliant, because we need some kind of “warm-up” before the camp because the participant comes from various academic backgrounds.

The Camp

In the first discussion session, we asked to present about individual proposal that we made before the camp. So after some short introduction we started to present each proposal. I tried to address an issue about one of my country’s World Heritages that endangered by Climate Changes, that is the Komodo National Park, home of the unique Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis). The proposals from other participant were very interesting and have unique point of view. In the second session the observer from AYCC committee give us a topic to discuss. We only have short time for the discussion but we can freely expressing our idea. And as the discussion go on in my group, we talk more about damage on World Cultural Heritages and the causes.
The last intra-group session was to summarize the previous discussions. Its quite tough discussion because too many things to consider while so little time we had. But that is the challenges of discussion. And I’m really nervous because every move was taped by television broadcaster (I didn’t remember the name, maybe it’s Arirang).
The discussion in our group consume so much time, so we didn’t have the time to create the report. As the solution we take some times from our sleep time to finishing the report.
The next day, we had rare opportunity to joined 2008 Asian Culture Forum which was organized by Korea’s Global TV Arirang and hosted by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism at Hotel Ramada Plaza Kwangju. It is invited many fantastic speakers from good organizations like Director of Liverpool Biennale (United Kingdom) and Director of National Art Center, Tokyo (Japan).
After the Asia Culture Forum, we return to Chonnam University and we gathered at the hall to present the group report. My group presenter was Chang Min and he did great job for us, even we receive The Best Team Award. In order to refresh our mind, we go to eat dinner together and play some Korean game. I really like the time when we playing together, because it shows that there is no barrier between us.
Last day was an outdoor trip called “The Mission Impossible”. All participants were assigned into new groups so each of us can interact more among participants. Each group has different mission to accomplish and after the first mission at Kwangju Biennale, All groups were separated to different places. And my team got the Kwangju River Bike Mission. We had to take the Bike tour, take pictures as evidence of task completion and draw a map of Kwangju River. I feel so lucky to get this mission because I love riding a bike and Kwangju River is really nice place for biking and jogging. Kwangju River can be a perfect example for riverside management. Not only provide clean river but also a place for entertainment. We also had lunch in Korean traditional restaurant (really old one, just like in the countryside of Korea). I really had a great time during “The Mission Impossible” task.
Closing Ceremonies
Every group presented their travel time by showing some pictures taken at the mission with short explanation. And then winner announcement held followed by music performances. I really happy because both of my group get “The Best Team Award” (Presentation group and Tour group).
Suggestion
Overall, the camp is a huge success. The participants had valuable experiences of working with together on environmental issues and exchange our cultures. I have some suggestion for future camp. It is not about the camp itself, but the promotion and post-camp actions.
I think for the next camp the promotion should be more incessant. In order to bring more youth to experience the great time in the camp. Independent website definitely needed to maintain the post-camp actions and maintain the relations between the participants. This is also easing the participant candidates to review about previous camp. Last but not least, I hope AYCC will hold again next year.

2.3  Change of Sea Level

The increasing of the mean temperature causes the melting of polar ice caps. The mean sea level in the Jakarta Bay will increase as high as 0.57 centimeters (cm) per year [1].