Usaha dan Kerja Kerasku

Pada suatu pagi yang cerah dimana matahari tersenyum manis memancarkan sinarnya.. yang penuh keagungan. Hidup seorang anak yang bernama patrio dimana.. dia adalah anak sekolah yang masih duduk di sekolah dasar bina karya kelas dua..
Diawal kisahnya di pagi yang cerah ini, dia akan berangkat sekolah, tak lama, sesampainya di sekolah tak diduga bel pun sudah berbunyi suara teeeeet…!! Tanda pelajaran mau dimulai maka ia pun segera masuk ke kelas. Suasana kelas yang gaduh dan siswa banyak yang antusias karena dimana pelajaran pertama adalah pelajaran matematika yang mana pelajaran ini sangat asing bagi patrio, dia tak begitu jago dengan pelajaran tersebut… kecuali teman yang salah satunya yang bernama mitra dia sangat suka dengan pelajaran yang satu ini. akhirnya semua siswa pun mempersiapkan materi pertama yaitu dengan materi perkalian dan pembagian… Patrio pun berfikir.. “haduuuhhh bisa nggak ya aku nanti dengan pelajaran yang satu ini…”.

Akhirnya Ibu guru pun datang dan segera memulai pelajaran materi ini… Dan semua yang ada di fikiran patrio tadi pun terjawab.. bahwa benar patrio tidak bisa mengikuti pelajaran ini dengan baik kecuali anak-anak yang lain sangat enjoy dan rileks menikmati pelajaran ini..
Dan patrio pun hanya diam termenung.. sampai akhirnya di penghujung materi ini.
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Kedamaian Dunia

Selama ini, Aku tak mempercayai adanya keajaiban. Walaupun Aku sering melihat dan mendengar banyak fakta tentang keajaiban. Tapi Aku tak pernah percaya akan itu. Sampai akhirnya, ada hal yang membuatku sangat percaya akan adanya keajaiban.

“Dhira! Kamu harus teruskan perjuangan Ayah… hanya kamu yang diwarisi aliran darah itu! Kamu harus selamatkan Dunia kita!” ungkap Ayah. Saat itu, Dunia yang selama ini kutempati sudah sangat hancur. Tidak banyak yang dapat merubah keadaan ini. Entah sejak kapan Dunia kami dipenuhi dengan monster-monster menjijikkan dalam bentuk naga raksasa. Mereka memperbudak seluruh manusia yang ada di Dunia ini. Sudah banyak nyawa yang hilang di Dunia ini. Dan konon, yang bisa memusnahkan monster naga itu hanyalah Pedang Api.
“Tapi, Yah… kenapa Aku? Aku seorang perempuan dan Aku tak yakin dapat melakukannya!” tolakku.
“Sayang… hanya kamu yang bisa. Apa kamu tidak melihat banyak yang sudah kehilangan nyawa? Bahkan, Anak kecil yang tak bersalah pun ikut menjadi korban. Sekali lagi, Ayah mohon… hari ini adalah hari terakhir kita untuk selamatkan Dunia!” ujar Ayah la
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Bulatkan Tekad dan Tawakkal

Oleh: Agus Riyanto

Suatu hari seorang sahabat bertanya melalui email, “Kalau ada orang yang terlahir dengan otak yang cerdas mereka mudah meraih kesuksesan yang mereka impikan. Lha, bagi orang yang pikirannya pas-pasan, bagaimana saya bisa sukses dalam hidup ini?”

Sahabat pembaca, sering kali kita mendengar orang lain di sekitar kita menceritakan dirinya. Namun, jika kita amati mereka lebih menonjolkan kekurangan atau rasa ketidakberdayaan yang mereka rasa ada padanya. Mereka berfokus pada sesuatu yang “negatif” dari diri mereka sendiri. Saya sengaja memberi tanda petik pada kata “negatif” karena ini sebenarnya hanya persepsi mereka saja. Kalau menilai keterbatasan diri, rasanya banyak orang yang lebih punya alasan. Alasan yang menguatkan bahwa dirinya tidak bisa ini, tidak bisa itu dan sebagainya.

Dalam kitab suci-Nya, Allah SWT telah berfirman yang artinya, “Kemudian apabila kamu telah membulatkan tekad, maka bertawakkallah kepada Allah. Sesungguhnya Allah menyukai orang-orang yang bertawakkal kepada-Nya”.

Jadi ada dua unsur yang harus kita miliki sebelum kita melakukan sesuatu yang diharapkan memberikan perubahan lebih baik terhadap kehidupan kita—tidak peduli keterbatasan apa pun yang ada pada kita. Pikirannya pas-pasan
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TransPerfect Named Best Translation and Language Service in Best of Elearning! 2013 Awards

Elearning! and Government Elearning! Readers and Community Members Choose Awardees

NEW YORK -- 

TransPerfect, the world’s largest privately held provider of language services and related technology solutions, today announced that it has been named a Best of Elearning! 2013 Award winner in the category of best translation and language service. The award winners were announced at the Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo in Anaheim, CA in August. Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines’ readers and community members choose award winners via an open-ended online ballot.

The award highlights the value of TransPerfect’s e-learning solution, which helps businesses maintain unified teams across geographically and culturally diverse regions. With bespoke multilingual e-learning and training tools and services, customers can deliver multi-language translations of training materials or offer centralized e-learning to internationally distributed workforces. TransPerfect’s education experts have worked with clients including America Online, Citibank, General Electric, Microsoft, and others to adapt world-class learning solutions for global audiences.

Frank Jaquez, International Training Manager for Yum! Brands, a TransPerfect client, said, “We manage multiple languages across Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, and our partnership with TransPerfect has been invaluable to our organization. Their GlobalLink technology and translation services have helped our international training teams streamline localization and deliver quality content in multiple languages.”

Elearning! magazine targets the enterprise learning market and provides executives with resources for improving enterprise, partner, and employee performance. It covers enterprise-wide learning and workplace technologies, and focuses on discovering which tools, technologies, services, and content solutions are effective. The publication reaches more than 150,000 professionals, many of whom participate in the Best of Elearning! Awards by voting for their favorite product and service providers.

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Wow: German Language Loses Longest Word

The German language, well known for its long words, has decided that it will no longer include its longest word in its lexicon.
This particular word is Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz and it means a “law delegating beef label monitoring”.  The word, introduced in 1999, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, was even shortened into the acronym ‘RkReUAUG’ by many speakers due to its length. It has now been repealed following changes to EU regulations on the testing of cattle.
To some, this is an entirely natural process. “The way language develops is that terms will shorten over time,” says Denny Hilton, a senior assistant editor at the Oxford English Dictionary. “It’s just how words tend to evolve.”
However, the move may have upset Sesquipedalians – lovers of long words – but may be welcomed by Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobics – or those who fear long words.
The longest word to be found in the German dictionary is kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung (36 letters) meaning “automobile liability insurance”, although Guinness World Records also records Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften (39 letters, meaning “insurance firms providing legal protection”).
Now a campaign is under way to win recognition for even grander linguistic feats. Among the contenders is said to be donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitaenswitwe (49 letters), meaning the “widow of a Danube steamboat company captain”.
However, German is not the only language to feature such long words. “There are languages like Inuit where the whole sentence is a word – everything goes together in one enormous contraption,” says Vivian Cook, professor of applied linguistics at Newcastle University.
English is unlikely to ever compete with such feats, says Cook – the Old English words from which the present-day language is derived tended to be short and sharp.
The Oxford English Dictionary’s longest word, at 43 letters, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which refers to a lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust.
The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries is floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning “nothing” and defined as “the act of estimating something as worthless” –  its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.
However, the longest word that we’re aware of is in fact a place name. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the name of a large village and community on the island of Anglesey in Wales, situated on the Menai Strait next to the Britannia Bridge and across the strait from Bangor.
We’d like to hear if you know of any words longer than floccinaucinihilipilification or place names longer than Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Read more: http://www.translatemedia.com/german-language-loses-longest-word.html/#ixzz2VKpiIqWf

Cat to Human Translation Application

No, I don't mean CAT Tools, but cat the animal. The application is still in progress of development. Here what the news says:

Coming soon - a Chinese mobile app that translates cat body language and lets you know what your cat is trying to tell you - as if you didn't know already.
Although it isn't yet available, cat lovers can sign up to be notified when Māo, an app for Android and iOS, is released in the coming months.

How often have you wished that your cat, who seems to understand so much of what you say, could answer back? Well most of the time your cat is tyring to communicate - it's just that humans often fail to understand. As the Māo website puts it:
Every part of a cat's body, from the mouth to the tail, speaks volumes about how they feel. Unfortunately, not everyone knows how to read their body language.
And that's where Māo hope to bridge the gap using body language and 16 distinct vocal patterns which are universal to all cats. The app is said to distinguish between the behaviour of adult cats and kittens and claims that over time it will learn to recognise parts of your cat’s unique personality and vocal characteristics by calibrating captured data to basic behavioural and vocal patterns.

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