Memaknai Hari Raya Idul Adha

Idul Adha datang pada tanggal 10 Dzulhijjah. Idul Adha datang setelah Puasa Arafah. Puasa Arafah adalah puasa dimana kita akan dihapuskan dosa-dosanya oleh Allah SWT selama 2 tahun, yaitu 1 tahun sebelum puasa Arafah serta 1 tahun setelah puasa Arafah. Walaupun, puasa ini adalah puasa Sunah, namun puasa ini sangat besar manfaatnya. Keesokannya, kita merayakan Hari Raya Idul Adha. Pada hari itu, kita dianjurkan untuk menyembelih hewan kurban. Yang untuk selanjutnya dibagikan kepada orang-orang yang berhak. Pada Idul Adha, semua Muslim berbahagia menyambutnya. Idul Adha melatih kita untuk peka terhadap lingkungan sekitar kita, untukberbagi, memberi, dan mengasihi kepada orang-orang fakir dan miskin. Itulah makna dari Idul Adha sebenarnya.

Quote of the month

Successful people ask better questions, and as result, they get better answers

Tony Robbins

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts

Albert Einstein 

About My City, Sidoarjo

Sidoarjo is a regency (kabupaten) of East Java, Indonesia. Sidoarjo is bordered by Surabaya city and Gresik regency to the north, by Pasuruan regency to the south, by Mojokerto regency to the west and by the Madura Strait to the east. It has an area of 634.89 km², making it the smallest regency in East Java.  As of 2000, Sidoarjo had a population of 1,549,883. The regency is part of the urban planning region surrounding Surabaya, known as 'Gerbangkertosusila'.

Sidoarjo mud flow 2006
Since May 2006, more than 10,000 people in the Porong subdistrict have been displaced by the hot mud flowing from a natural gas well being drilled by Lapindo Brantas, an oil well company that is part of a conglomerate owned by Coordinating Minister for the People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie. Gas and hot mud starting spewing from the well on May 28, when the drill penetrated a layer of liquid sediment. Attempts to pump concrete down the well did not stop the flow. While some scientists have speculated that the earthquake that struck Yogyakarta on May 27, the day before the well erupted, may have cracked the ground, creating potential pathways for the mud to reach the surface, others have suggested that the drilling procedure was faulty by not using a casing. Some 50,000 cubic metres of hot mud were erupting every day as of August; in 

September, the amount increased to some 125,000 cubic metres daily. On September 26 barriers built to hold back the mud failed, resulting in the flooding of more villages. As of late September 2006 scientists are saying that the eruption may be a mud volcano forming, and may be impossible to stop.

Petronas Towers

Two twin buildings of Petronas, those are an oil company owned by Malaysia and multinational company and association firm of Malaysia is two twin buildings of skyscraper which is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This part is the part of a big construction which is signed by the sharp increase of country economy in 1990; those buildings build in north part of high-tech business zone, in Malaysia. This Petronas towers are built by cement columns which is supported by steel covered by stainless steel and glass with design based on geometric patterns that come from traditional Islamic architecture. The towers designed by Argentina-American architect whose named is Cesar Pelli, is included one of the highest building in the world which height reaches 452 m (1,483 ft). The building of 88 floors is connected at 41-th and 42-th floors by a fly over bridge, and every tower is limited by tower peak of height 22 ft (74 m). At the lower level, the petronas towers also have a concert hall which is the place for musical concert and business reference library of Malaysia. The building of this tower is finished in 1997 which are higher than Sear Chicago tower as the record holder of the highest building before. But in 2003, Petronas towers are beaten of their height by Taipei 101 tower.

Source:

ing.infoplace.com

John Dalton (1766 - 1844)

John Dalton was a British chemist which born from noble family. Dalton was the first man that gives explanation scientifically about color-blind (1794), a condition which he suffers and known as "Daltonism". Dalton noted more than 200,000 atmosphere research and researched gas mixture and gas expansion when they were heated. Dalton's law is still used to describe the law of partial pressure in chemistry. This work brought him to his greatest contribution in chemistry, that is an atomic theory of matter which has scientific base. He started teaching his discovery in 1803 and published his discoveries in A New System of Chemical Philosophy in 1808.

Source :

http://www.english.upenn.edu/

Blog

Blog merupakan singkatan dari "web log" adalah bentuk aplikasi web yang menyerupai tulisan-tulisan (yang dimuat sebagai posting) pada sebuah halaman web umum. Tulisan-tulisan ini seringkali dimuat dalam urut terbalik (isi terbaru dahulu baru kemudian diikuti isi yang lebih lama), meskipun tidak selamanya demikian. Situs web seperti ini biasanya dapat diakses oleh semua pengguna internet sesuai dengan topik dan tujuan dari si pengguna blog tersebut.

Sejarah

   Media blog pertama kali dipopulerkan oleh Blogger.com, yang dimiliki oleh PyraLab sebelum akhirnya PyraLab diakuisi oleh Google.Com pada akhir tahun 2002 yang lalu. Semenjak itu, banyak terdapat aplikasi-aplikasi yang bersifat sumber terbuka yang diperuntukkan kepada perkembangan para penulis blog tersebut. 

   Blog mempunyai fungsi yang sangat beragam, dari sebuah catatan harian, media publikasi dalam sebuah kampanye politik, sampai dengan program-program media dan perusahaan-perusahaan. Sebagian blog dipelihara oleh seorang penulis tunggal, sementara sebagian lainnya oleh beberapa penulis. Banyak juga weblog yang memiliki fasilitas interaksi dengan para pengunjungnya, yang dapat memperkenankan para pengunjungnya untuk meninggalkan komentar atas isi dari tulisan yang dipublikasikan, namun demikian ada juga yang yang sebaliknya atau yang bersifat non-interaktif. 

   Situs-situs web yang saling berkaitan berkat weblog, atau secara total merupakan kumpulan weblog sering disebut sebagai blogosphere. Bilamana sebuah kumpulan gelombang aktivitas, informasi dan opini yang sangat besar berulang kali muncul untuk beberapa subyek atau sangat kontroversial terjadi dalam blogosphere, maka hal itu sering disebut sebagai blogstorm atau badai blog.