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HOW TO PERFECT EYES

Even if you find eyebrows to have a minor importance or just an insignificant detail, you must know that they have an important role in each of ours physiognomies. Their shape and color influence a lot the expression and harmony of the face.
Make-up is perfect only if the eye-brows are carefully arranged and corrected if necessary, to fit the harmony of the whole face.  It is recommended that the shape of the eyebrows to be corrected to fit the shape of your face. If you would rather do them yourself than go to an expert, here you will find some necessary information.

Just what are the qualities of perfect eyebrows?

First of all, every bit of your eyebrows must be equal and matched, they must be smooth and their color must be assorted to your face and eyes, not to unnatural hair color you have, but to the natural color your hair is supposes to be. If you feel you must change their color then you can go to a cosmetic salon and make them light brown if you are blonde or black if you are a brunette.

The eyebrows have three base points: the base – that is situated at the top of the nose, the middle- the most oblique part and the extremity. The perfect eyebrows are shaped as a comma, with the base of about 8mm and the extremity less thick of 2-3mm tops. The extremity has to line up with the base. if your eyebrows don’t look like this, they should be corrected, and if they are too rare, then a special pencil will be used to fill the empty spaces. The color of the pencil must fit the one of your hair.

To have shiny, smooth eyebrows comb them every night and massage them with a face cream. Be careful when adjusting your eyebrows: eyebrows that are too thick darken the face, those too slim make you look astonished all the time.

Depending on the shape of your face:

-       Round face: the eyebrows don’t need to be rounded and the correction has to be done as ascendant as possible. You will correct, going obliquely, the superior part of the base.

-       Square face: the eyebrows for this type of face are thick and horizontal. Therefore they need to be made less thick and their shape has to change.

-       triangular face : the eyebrows must be oblique upwards and separated a little from the nose through correction

-       Diamond shaped face: the eyebrows will be corrected just a little, and made as oblique as possible. Read Full...

Writing A Thesis Or Paper - Food For Thought

I think it may be helpful at this time to raise some issues and possible thesis topics that I would chose if I was going to write a thesis about Education Technology in Indonesia.
(If anyone would like to use them they are certainly welcome - need refining)

DRAFT August 22, 2009 - I am currently developing this article

Accepted Conditions - Not under debate.

- The learning of ICT is an urgent national priority and the current plans to achieve a 1:20 computer / student ratio (or better) by year 2015 must be fully supported.

- A 1:20 ratio is a minimum for conducting an effective ICT learning program, but certainly insufficient to consider e-learning as a effective national educational option.

Hypothesis 1

The high priority given to e-learning in the public k-12 education sector in Indonesia is currently counter-productive, and the focus of our teaching institutions upon computerised learning as a solution for improving education quality in schools is inapproriate and unsupported.

- It will be at least another 10 years before there are sufficient computers in our public schools to even consider commencing a minimal national e-learning program.

- With current computer/ student ratiois 1:2,000 any real developments that may be achieved will only further widen the gap for the majority of students who don't have access or facilities.

- A clasroom Contextual learning environment is still recognized as the best form of education

- Because of the high profile given to issues like e-learning by government bodies and media, the majority of teachers in the field, who don't have access to these facilities may believe that they are dis-advantaged and limited educationally.

- Frequently students who achieve national acclaim in contests, for example Olympiads, are for small towns and villages, and not from large high-tech cities or schools.

- We must question whether technology and all the trappings and distractions (entertainment, chatting, etc.) and time-wasting options are actually reducing the quality of learning in our communities. This is a global issue, not just an issue for Indonesia.


- High-tech developed countries are frequently questioning the quality of their education systems and how effectively they are preparing their students academically and for their real-world needs.

- The development of quality e-learning materials is extremly difficult and well beyond the abilities of most teachers in the field.

- Insufficient research has been conducted in Indonesia to support the notion that e-learning will improve education quality.

Hypothesis 2

Institutions teaching education technology courses are not adequately preparing their students for the real-world (Appropriate Technology) needs of our learning communities.

Accepted Conditions - Not under debate.

1) There is a role for E-Learning in External Studies for university students residing at great distances from their campus, and for people in the workforce who need to study at times that they have available.

2) There is a very large role and market for E-Learning in the corporate sector for staff training. Many staff can not make themslves available (and it is also costly) to attend classes. For instance, Field Technical Staff, Pilots, Nurses, etc....

- But not in schools?
- Appropriate education technologies are not currently being maximized in our schools.

- Insufficient emphasis upon training for education technology students in the application of appropriate technologies.

Why is the major thrust of our teaching institutions hi-tech based?

- What are the educational implications for a technology driven society?

- Classroom of the future - What Future?

- Are we really enhancing our students education or de-skilling our students?

- There is a lack of evidence to support the notion that e-learning in Indonesia improves learning performance.

- There are insufficient materials available currently to support e-learning programs.

- The production of quality effective learning materials is extremely difficult.

Issues for thought:

Welcome to the world of Education Technology. One of the greatest challenges for the educator (who really cares about education), is wading through all the hype (rhetoric) and finding truths.

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Scale Structure of a Scene

Scale Structure of a Scene

The large-scale structure of a scene is extremely simple. Actually, there are two possible choices you can make for your scene structure. Dwight Swain calls these two choices "scenes" and "sequels". This is horrendously confusing, since both of these are what most ordinary people call scenes. In what follows, I'm going to capitalize these terms, calling them Scenes and Sequels. That is your signal that I'm using Swain's language. When I use the word "scene" in the ordinary non-Swain sense, I'll leave it uncapitalized. Since you are exceptionally brilliant and perceptive, you will not find this a problem. Let me give you the high points on Scenes and Sequels right up front.

A Scene has the following three-part pattern:

1. Goal
2. Conflict
3. Disaster

A Sequel has the following three-part pattern:

1. Reaction
2. Dilemma
3. Decision

You may think these patterns are too simple. You may think this is reducing writing to Paint-by-Numbers. Well, no. This is reducing fiction to the two patterns that have been proven by thousands of novelists to actually work. There are plenty of other patterns people use. They typically work less well. It may well be that there are other patterns that work better. If you can find one that works better, please tell me. But for now, let's pretend that Dwight Swain is right. Let's pretend these are absolutely the best possible patterns for writing fiction. Let's pretend these are the keys to writing the perfect scene. Let's move on and look at each of these in turn.

As we said, the Scene has the three parts Goal, Conflict, and Disaster. Each of these is supremely important. I am going to define each of these pieces and then explain why each is critical to the structure of the Scene. I assume that you have selected one character to be your Point Of View character. In what follows, I'll refer to this character as your POV character. Your goal is to convincingly show your POV character experiencing the scene. You must do this so powerfully that your reader experiences the scene as if she were the POV character.

1. Goal: A Goal is what your POV character wants at the beginning of the Scene. The Goal must be specific and it must be clearly definable. The reason your POV character must have a Goal is that it makes your character proactive. Your character is not passively waiting for the universe to deal him Great Good. Your character is going after what he wants, just as your reader wishes he could do. It's a simple fact that any character who wants something desperately is an interesting character. Even if he's not nice, he's interesting. And your reader will identify with him. That's what you want as a writer.
2. Conflict: Conflict is the series of obstacles your POV character faces on the way to reaching his Goal. You must have Conflict in your Scene! If your POV character reaches his Goal with no Conflict, then the reader is bored. Your reader wants to struggle! No victory has any value if it comes too easy. So make your POV character struggle and your reader will live out that struggle too.
3. Disaster: A Disaster is a failure to let your POV character reach his Goal. Don't give him the Goal! Winning is boring! When a Scene ends in victory, your reader feels no reason to turn the page. If things are going well, your reader might as well go to bed. No! Make something awful happen. Hang your POV character off a cliff and your reader will turn the page to see what happens next.

That's all! There is literally nothing more you need to know about Scenes. Now let's look at Sequels . . .

The Sequel has the three parts Reaction, Dilemma, and Decision. Again, each of these is critical to a successful Sequel. Remove any of them and the Sequel fails to work. Let me add one important point here. The purpose of a Sequel is to follow after a Scene. A Scene ends on a Disaster, and you can't immediately follow that up with a new Scene, which begins with a Goal. Why? Because when you've just been slugged with a serious setback, you can't just rush out and try something new. You've got to recover. That's basic psychology.

1. Reaction: A Reaction is the emotional follow-through to a Disaster. When something awful happens, you're staggering for awhile, off-balance, out of kilter. You can't help it. So show your POV character reacting viscerally to his Disaster. Show him hurting. Give your reader a chance to hurt with your characters. You may need to show some passage of time. This is not a time for action, it's a time for re-action. A time to weep. But you can't stagger around in pain forever. In real life, if people do that they lose their friends. In fiction, if you do it, you lose your readers. Eventually, your POV character needs to get a grip. To take stock. To look for options. And the problem is that there aren't any . . .
2. Dilemma: A Dilemma is a situation with no good options. If your Disaster was a real Disaster, there aren't any good choices. Your POV character must have a real dilemma. This gives your reader a chance to worry, which is good. Your reader must be wondering what can possibly happen next. Let your POV character work through the choices. Let him sort things out. Eventually, let him come to the least-bad option . . .
3. Decision: A Decision is the act of making a choice among several options. This is important, because it lets your POV character become proactive again. People who never make decisions are boring people. They wait around for somebody else to decide. And nobody wants to read about somebody like that. So make your character decide, and make it a good decision. Make it one your reader can respect. Make it risky, but make it have a chance of working. Do that, and your reader will have to turn the page, because now your POV character has a new Goal.

And now you've come full circle. You've gone from Scene to Sequel and back to the Goal for a new Scene. This is why the Scene-Sequel pattern is so powerful. A Scene leads naturally to a Sequel, which leads naturally to a new Scene. And so on forever. At some point, you'll end the cycle. You'll give your POV character either Ultimate Victory or Ultimate Defeat and that will be the end of the book. But until you get there, the alternating pattern of Scene and Sequel will carry you through. And your reader will curse you when he discovers that he's spent the whole doggone night reading your book because he could not put the thing down.

That's perfection.

However, it's only half the battle. I've told you how to design the Scenes and Sequels in the large scale. But you still need to write them. You need to write paragraph after compelling paragraph, with each one leading your POV character smoothly through from initial Goal to knuckle-whitening Conflict to bone-jarring Disaster, and then through a visceral Reaction to a horrible Dilemma and finally on to a clever Decision.

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words with different meanings

Since setting up this site I have become more aware of the differences in language between the U.K. and the U.S.A. whether it be different meanings for the same word or different words for the same thing, so thought it may be fun to start a page listing some of these differences. 

This page has now been online for several years and I had no idea how much interest it would provoke.  I now have a file full of comments, views and definitions.  My big problem is how to present all this information in a way which is useful, informative and entertaining.  This is still a work in progress.

Another thing which has become apparent is the fact that there are no definitive answers;  not only do different counties/states use different terminology but there appears to be differences between generations as well.  All this makes it very difficult to produce information with which everyone agrees.

What has become very evident over the years is just how much language is merging between all the various countries. Here in the UK we have adopted many, many “Americanisms” into everyday language and, I believe, some British terms are now used in the USA. This is probably due to travel and the wide exchange of TV programmes etc. 

I think this exchange of TV programmes may also be the cause of a lot of misconceptions. Many people contacting me see to think we still use the type of language which they hear on programmes such as Upstairs, Downstairs, Pride and Prejudice etc., which, of course, is not the case. Then, of course, there are programmes like Eastenders which is set in the East End of London and the language used is from that area (minus all the swearing of course) but people from other parts of the UK not only sound very different but use completely phrases and terms. 

In short this is a very complex subject.

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story reading

The Frog in the Well

There was a frog that lived in a shallow well.

” Look how well off I am here ! ” he told a big turtle from the Eastern Ocean. ” I can hop along the coping of the well when I go out, and rest by a crevice in the bricks on my return. I can wallow to my heart’s content with only my head above water, or stroll ankle deep through soft mud. No crabs or tadpoles can compare with me. I am master of the water and lord of this shallow well, What more can  a fellow ask ? Why don’t you come here more often to have a good time ? “

Before the turtle from the Eastern Ocean could get his left foot into the well, however, he caught his right calw on something. So he halted and stepped back then began to describe the ocean to the frog.

” It’s more than a thousand miles across and more than ten thousand feet deep. In ancient times there were floods nine years out of ten yet the water in the ocean never increased.

And later there were droughts seven years out of eight yet the water in the ocean never grew less. It has remained quite constant throughtout the ages. That is why I like to live in the Eastern Ocean. ”

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Blackberry Tips securing data administrator

If you are one of the many BlackBerry users, the following tips may be particularly useful for securing sensitive data on your BlackBerry and prevent that you avoid data theft by ignorant hands unauthenticated.



1. Enable Password Protection on your BlackBerry

Most BlackBerry users are too lazy or even reluctant to activate the password feature to protect his BlackBerry. The reason is simple, because they are too lazy to type a password when I have to unlock the BlackBerry when it comes to use it. Though this feature is extremely useful to prevent the hands of ignorant to use your BlackBerry. On the BlackBerry click menu [Option] - [Security Options] - [General Settings] and then sets the Enable Password at the position.



2. Secure Password with Password Keeper

Never store passwords on your BlackBerry browser, always use the Password Keeper for storing your important passwords.



3. Data Encryption In Bluetooth

On the BlackBerry click menu [Option] - [Security Options] - [General Settings] on the Content Protection Strength sets and then select the Enable strong position, stronger or strongest suit your needs. This encryption feature you can also apply on your Phone Book, so that the important numbers and confidential on a BlackBerry would be safer.



4. Turn off Bluetooth when not needed

In the default condition, the Bluetooth on the BlackBerry is in the ON position, for it is better if you turn off Bluetooth when you do not currently use. That's to prevent the spread of Bluetooth Bluetooth hacking or viruses.



5. Clean up Memory

Click the menu [Option] - [Security Options] - [Memory Cleaning] is useful to clean (cache) of key data such as passwords or unencrypted email on your Blackberry memory. Read Full...