Bachelor of Software Engineering (Hons) - Overview

Software Engineering is the creative application of engineering principles and methods to the design and development of hardware and software systems.

The programme provides students with an excellent foundation in current software development practices. Specific studies include all facets of the software engineering process and programming languages such as C programming and Java. This programme provides graduates with the necessary skills and industry experience to develop quality large-scale software systems and manage various aspects of software engineering especially project management and quality assurance.

Entry Requirements:

Entry Level	Entry Requirements
Taylor's Foundation in Computing (FIC)	CGPA 2.0*
Taylor's Diploma in Information Technology (DIT)**	Average of 60%
Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM)	CGPA 2.75 (3 subjects) Including C in Mathematics
Unified Examination Certificate (UEC)	5B (Maximum 22 points) Including B in Mathematics and English
A Levels	CCD (Minimum 220 points) Including C in Mathematics
Australian Matriculation (SAM)	ATAR 75 Including 14 in Mathematics
Canadian Pre-University (CPU)***	65% Average Including 70% in Mathematics
International Baccalaureate (IB)***	32 points Including 5 points in High Level Mathematics AND 6 points in General / Business Mathematics

*Credit in Mathematics at SPM
**Exemptions of subjects for the chosen degree will be on a case-to-case basis
***Based on 6 subjects
Note: All information is correct at time of web update (November 2011) and is subject to change.

English Requirements:

Entry Level	Entry Requirements
IELTS	6.0
TOEFL	79 (Internet Based Test) 550 (Paper Based Test) 213 (Computer Based Test)
MUET	Band 4
UEC English	B4
O Level / 1119 English	C3
Taylor's Intensive English Programme (IEN)	Upper Intermediate Grade B or Advanced Grade C

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Diploma in Information Technology - Overview

The Diploma programme is designed to equip students with the necessary combination of knowledge and skills to assist in an organisation’s computing infrastructure and its users. The programme provides a broad-based education in technological discipline with aspects of information and communications technology, mathematics, and providing the students with the skills and knowledge to responsibly be part of today's IT workforce. Students are exposed to various techniques of analysing user requirements and specifications, as well as designing and implementing of software systems.

This programme will prepare students for roles in programming and software development, or research-based careers in the IT industry or to continue their higher studies. This programme is also embedded with the relevant study skills and practices to develop effective communication skills which prepares them for an entry level executive career particularly in the area of technical support, through the development of personal and interpersonal skills and, in particular, the ability to work independently or within a team, and technical capability and skills in IT-related industries.


Entry Requirements:

Entry Level	Entry Requirements
SPM / 'O' Levels	Minimum 3 credits including credit in Mathematics
STPM	Grade C in One Subject
'A' Levels	Pass
Other qualifications	Other equivalent qualifications will be considered on a case-by-case basis

Intakes: March & July

Duration: 2 ½ years

Further Studies: Upon completion of the Diploma, students who qualify may apply for a direct entry into the second year of the degrees offered at the Taylor's School of Computing and IT.

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AT&T fires back at FCC staff report on T-Mobile deal

he U.S. Federal Communications Commission has invited questions about its impartiality with a staff report laying out concerns about AT&T's proposed acquisition of rival mobile carrier T-Mobile USA, AT&T said Thursday.
The FCC announced Nov. 22 that its staff had found the proposed $39 billion deal to be contrary to the public interest, and on Tuesday, the FCC released its 157-page staff report laying out concerns about the merger, while also granting AT&T's request to pull back its application to transfer T-Mobile spectrum licenses.
AT&T fired back on Thursday, calling the staff report unfair and lacking in objectivity.
"We expected that the AT&T-T-Mobile transaction would receive careful, considered, and fair analysis," Jim Cicconi, AT&T's senior executive vice president of external and legislative affairs, said in a blog post. "Unfortunately, the preliminary FCC Staff Analysis offers none of that. The document is so obviously one-sided that any fair-minded person reading it is left with the clear impression that it is an advocacy piece, and not a considered analysis."
The report raises questions about whether its authors were "predisposed," he added. "The report cherry-picks facts to support its views, and ignores facts that don't," Cicconi said. "Where facts were lacking, the report speculates, with no basis, and then treats its own speculations as if they were fact. This is clearly not the fair and objective analysis to which any party is entitled, and which we have every right to expect."
The staff report "dispassionately" analyzed the facts of the merger, based on a 200,000-page record and the participation of more than 50 businesses and consumer groups, an FCC spokesman said. "The AT&T/T-Mobile merger would result in the single greatest increase in wireless industry consolidation ever proposed," he added. "The objective analysis concluded, like that of the Department of Justice and multiple state attorneys general, that the transaction would decrease competition, innovation and investment, and harm consumers."
The FCC, in the staff report, has ignored its own findings that 90% of U.S. residents have a choice of five or more mobile carriers, Cicconi's blog post said.
The report also discounts AT&T's promised 4G rollout, he added. AT&T has said the merger will allow it to roll out LTE mobile broadband service to 97% of U.S. residents, instead of the 80% that the company had planned. The FCC report dismisses this commitment based on "speculation" that AT&T would expand its network even without the merger, Cicconi said.
The FCC report also ignores job gains that would likely come as AT&T expands its network, Cicconi added. AT&T and supporters of the merger have argued that AT&T's promised $8 billion in network deployment spending would create up to 96,000 new jobs at AT&T and other companies. The FCC, in October, estimated that its new $4.5-billion-a-year broadband fund would create up to 500,000 jobs over six years, he noted

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Sprint, Clearwire lay out deals on LTE, WiMax, funding

The companies will cooperate on continued WiMax service and future LTE buildouts

 

 Sprint Nextel may help finance Clearwire's LTE network and keep offering WiMax service through 2015 under a set of agreements worth as much as $1.6 billion that the companies laid out on Thursday.

The deals fleshed out a non-binding memorandum of understanding that the companies announced in late October and will help Clearwire to stay afloat and maintain its WiMax network, as well as build a planned LTE (Long-Term Evolution) system. As they detailed the new agreements, the companies also announced that Clearwire had made a scheduled $237 million interest payment on its debt, which Clearwire had suggested it might delay.
Thursday's announcement helped to clarify how Sprint and Clearwire hope to maintain their current partnership and move forward. Clearwire and Sprint both use a WiMax network, now reaching more than 130 million U.S. residents, that was the country's first 4G network. Sprint is Clearwire's majority shareholder and biggest wholesale partner. However, Clearwire has struggled financially since its creation in 2008, and both companies have separately announced plans to adopt LTE, which is becoming the industry-standard 4G technology. They will also use different versions of LTE but have vowed to make them work together.
Sprint will pay Clearwire $926 million for unlimited access to its WiMax network in 2012 and 2013, subject to certain conditions, the companies said. Sprint said it will continue to sell WiMax devices through at least 2012 with two-year contracts and support them through the course of the contracts. Sprint gets long-term usage-based pricing commitments for WiMax in 2014 and beyond and will be able to use the WiMax network at least through 2015.
The companies also said they set competitive long-term pricing for re-wholesaling of WiMax by Sprint, allowing Sprint to set up MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) relationships with other carriers.
Looking toward the LTE future, the companies said they would collaborate on an LTE network plan and that Sprint would pay Clearwire as much as $350 million, over two years, for capacity on Clearwire's LTE network. The deal gives Sprint long-term usage-based pricing for the network in 2012 and beyond. But Sprint's payments depend on Clearwire meeting certain build-out targets and network specifications by June 2013.
Sprint is looking to Clearwire's LTE network as a complement to its own LTE system, which is to be rolled out as part of its multi-technology Network Vision deployment starting next year. The two companies have agreed to identify cell sites where Clearwire's LTE will help Sprint cover "hot spots" with high demand for mobile data. And depending on the timing of the buildout, Sprint said it expects to start selling devices including phones and laptop cards that support Clearwire's network starting in 2013.

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Feds report tech job losses in Mass. between '01 and '09

- A snapshot of high-tech development in Massachusetts by the federal government found that tech employment in the state declined 15%, or 47,000 jobs, between 2001 and 2009.
That decline sounds dramatic, but underlying it is a shift away from manufacturing to services and scientific jobs that require highly educated workers, according to a recently released U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report.
Computer equipment manufacturing jobs, for instance, fell 40%; communications equipment manufacturing jobs declined 78%; and even software publishers, a labor category that includes developers, declined by 10% over this period. Massachusetts wasn't alone. The IT industry shrank nationally as an employer over the last decade.
Meanwhile jobs in scientific research, in particular, increased by more than 32%, accounting for 44,000 of the state's 272,700 tech jobs counted in 2009. One out every five dollars paid in wages in that state is attributed to tech.
That increase is the result of the state's bio-tech industries, with most of the beneficiaries being the highly educated, said Frank Conte, editor of the Beacon Hill Institute's economic indicators project. The Institute is the research arm of the economics department at Suffolk University in Boston.
Even as the overall number of jobs declined, tech wages overall increased nearly 30%, according to the BLS.
For instance, software publishers -- the BLS counted 22,000 such jobs in 2009 -- saw their average wages increase 25.5% to $119,300.
The rising wages, coupled with the decline of workers in some areas, means "the industry is getting more productivity out of fewer workers," said Conte, which may also point to increasing outsourcing of lower-value work.
For those involved in scientific research, wages grew 45% during this period, reaching $110,000.
Christopher Anderson, the president of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, an industry group, said there are fewer large technology companies in the state and in New England, "but there has been an explosion of small, younger technology companies."
Anderson said the council is working with others in New England to increase the visibility of these firms.
But citing the state's unemployment rate, which has been just above 7%, lower than the national average, Anderson said "I don't see a negative trend here."
The BLS study cuts itself off at a time when tech unemployment was rising. But the Federal Reserve Board is reporting growth in revenue and wages in New England tech firms.
In its latest Beige Book released Wednesday, the Fed said that its New England software and IT contacts are reporting year-over-year revenue increases from mid-single digits to 20%.
These firms, as well, are increasing headcounts, many by more than 5%, according to the Beige Book, which is a collection of anecdotal reports of economic activity from unidentified sources around the U.S.
Many firms also report "continued difficulty in attracting and retaining qualified software engineers, programmers, and sales personnel," the Beige Book reported. Annual wage increases for most employees were reported between 3% and 5%, "with one firm increasing the wages of software engineers by more."

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VirtualSharp to enable disaster recovery to public clouds

VirtualSharp hopes to soon let its customers set up disaster recovery plans that fail over from their private clouds to public clouds, the company announced this week at the CloudBeat conference in Redwood City, California.
VirtualSharp's software lets customers do disaster recovery on their private clouds and also easily simulate failovers -- as often as daily or even every few hours -- in order to make sure the disaster recovery process will work properly in a real outage. Currently, customers use a different internal data center or additional virtual machines for the failover.
On Wednesday, VirtualSharp announced features in its ReliableDR software that will let public cloud providers provide the disaster recovery services. Companies will be able to sign up for the service online and set a so-called service level agreement for the disaster recovery process. For instance, the customer can say that it wants to be able to recover an application in 30 minutes and run a disaster recovery test every six hours. If those parameters aren't met, the cloud service provider can send an email to the customer indicating what is causing the holdup.
"This means that when you have a threat to recovery it will be found long before it impedes or becomes an obstacle to recovery" in a real outage, Carlos Escapa, CEO for VirtualSharp, said.
For now, the product is compatible with clouds -- public and private -- using VMware hypervisors.
VirtualSharp expects to be able to announce a public cloud partner in the coming weeks and anticipates service availability in the first quarter.
Pricing will be dependent on the public cloud provider. Escapa hopes to eventually achieve a cost of US$100 per virtual machine in the public cloud per month. Current customers license the software and pay a maintenance fee based on the number of virtual machines they use.
VirtualSharp represents a new kind of disaster recovery process, and not just because it automates the process, Escapa said. A company may be doing data replication for disaster recovery, but that's not enough anymore because companies are increasingly running complex applications that may span data centers.
"I feel strongly that the focus is not so much on data protection. There's a shift to service protection, which is data plus apps plus configuration plus storage plus the virtual machine," he said. "All of these things have to click together to make sure a service can be restarted if the cloud gets blown away."
While VirtualSharp has large customers, it has been surprised to find that half of its users are small companies. That's because smaller companies tend to be the ones going "whole hog" to the cloud, Escapa said. "Therefore, they actually have mission critical apps being virtualized. We have seen the cost of an outage can be very high for small to medium size businesses, so for them this is a form of insurance," he said.

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Top search queries, Facebook posts shine light on 2011

Disaster in Japan, Casey Anthony trial account for top news stories of the year for Bing, AOL and Facebook

 

 As the end of the year approaches, a look at what people searched for and shared online can start painting a picture of what most interested people during 2011.

Microsoft this week released a list of top search queries on Bing, while AOL released a similar list and Facebook weighed in with the most-shared news stories by its users.
Google, the world's largest search service, hasn't yet released its top 2011 search queries, but nevertheless one can already get an idea of what most captivated people throughout the year.
Based on those reports, online user interest was all over the map this year, ranging from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March to zodiac signs, faithful dogs and criminal trials.
The disaster in Japan drew a lot of attention -- in fact, Facebook said satellite images of hard-hit areas before and after the disaster published in the New York Time's was the most shared news article of the year.
Microsoft and AOL noted that the Japan disaster was the fourth most searched story on their respective search sites.
Stories on the Casey Anthony trial, the death of Osama Bin Laden and Hurricane Irene were also among the most popular search items on Bing.
AOL said its search users showed strong interest in Casey Anthony trial, the Royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
The most shared articles on Facebook showed a bit more user eccentricity.
Two of the top 10 shared articles on Facebook were about zodiac signs, and another was about a giant crocodile captured in the Philippines. Facebook's dog lovers were shared stories about a faithful dog mourning the death of a Navy SEAL and about a dog in Japan staying with his friend in the rubble of the earthquake and tsunami.

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Jobs Gains to Accelerate? Non-Farm Payrolls Preview

The US economy has seen a steady gain in jobs in recent months. The upcoming report for the month of November holds higher expectations. In the current environment, a positive outcome will likely be dollar negative. NFP Preview.
According to last month’s release, the US gained 80,000 jobs in October. While this was slightly below expectations, the report included significant revisions for previous months, and a rise in the participation rate of the population. The overall picture remained very positive.
Indicators leading up to this report have been generally positive: ADP showed that the private sector gained over 200K jobs, better than expected. Although this report doesn’t always provide good guidance for the private sector figure in the official report, the positive trend seen in recent months is encouraging.
The Chicago PMI also exceeded expectations. The Philly Fed Manufacturing Index wasn’t so upbeat, but it remained positive for a second month in a row. ISM Manufacturing PMI was better than expected, but the employment component was lower than last month’s.
Contrary to last month, we don’t have the ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI figure before the release of Non-Farm Payrolls. The non-manufacturing sector, or services sector, is responsible for the vast majority of the economy. The employment component in this indicator is a good gauge for the Non-Farm Payrolls.
Expectations and Outcomes
Fear still dominates the markets. The coordinated effort by central banks to cut dollar swap rates provided only a temporary relief, but didn’t solve the underlying sovereign debt problems. A global downturn is still feared.
In this environment, a positive outcome means hope for the global economy and will shift money from the dollar and the yen to “risk currencies” such as the euro and the Aussie. A bad outcome will intensify the worries, with the dollar and the yen strengthening.
Expectations stand on a gain of 120K, 40K more than last month. A gain of 150K will not be a big surprise, given the aforementioned indicators.
Here are three general scenarios

• +80K to 200K: Such a result, within expectations, will shake the markets, but the long term impact will be marginal, with markets tuning in to European news very quickly, and forgetting about this numbers.
• +200K or more: A nice gain in jobs will weaken the US dollar against all currencies apart from the yen, in hope that the US can be the locomotive that will pull the world out.
• Under +80K: A weak US will be worrying, and this can exacerbate bad European news, if released. Fridays have a significant dose of bad news.

It is important to note the revisions for previous months, which were quite significant last month. If the total revisions are higher than 100K in any direction, this will also have an impact on the markets.
Regarding the unemployment rate, official expectations are for no change: 9%. Given the very gradual drop in weekly jobless claims (even though it stopped this week), a drop to 8.9% will not be a big surprise. The focus will likely remain on the Non-Farm Payrolls.
In any case, this event is highly volatile and has special characteristics. Please read the 5 notes for Non-Farm Payrolls trading and trade with care.

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The Success Key of BlackBerry in Indonesia

- Compared to all countries in Southeast Asia, Indonesia does have the largest number of BlackBerry users. So what makes this phone so successful?

There are about three million BlackBerry subscribers in Indonesia. This figure is believed to still be growing along with the incessant activity of RIM's marketing partners in Indonesia. Indonesia itself has a mobile market with a rate of more than 180 million subscribers.

Behind the success of the BlackBerry was not spared from the habits of the users in Indonesia. It is utilized RIM to continue to aggressively promote their products.

"The people of Indonesia is fond of texting. So they get a better experience with the fuel features, email and social media. That's what makes the BlackBerry sold in Indonesia," said Francois Mahieu, Senior Director, Head of Product Management Asia Pacific Rim.

In addition, RIM also implement their various strategies such as building community, providing a diverse selection of products, or offer efficiency and durability of products that claimed to be the best in its class.

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Mesothelioma Fact

Mesothelioma Fact , Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer that occurs in the thin tissue that lines most of the internal organs. Asbestos is the cause of about 90 percent of all mesothelioma cases. Asbestos is a mineral found in the neighborhood. Asbestos fibers are strong and resistant to heat makes it very useful to be applied to a variety of needs. People who work in environments polluted many asbestos fibers have a greater risk of exposure mesothelioma.

When asbestos split, asbestos dust is formed. If dust is inhaled or swallowed asbestos fibers will then settle in the lungs or in the stomach and can cause irritation that causes mesothelioma.

Some people who over many years exposed to asbestos pollution can not have mesothelioma, while others the opposite. This indicates that other factors may be related, namely the hereditary factors do you have a family history of cancer in some people is a condition that increases the risk.

Risk factors that may increase the risk of mesothelioma such as:
• Exposure to asbestos fiber dust pollution
• Living with someone who works in an environment with asbestos (the asbestos fibers are attached to their clothing or skin)
• Smoking
• SV40 virus is found in many primates
• X-ray radiation
• Family history with mesothelioma

Many people who experienced mesothelioma exposed to asbestos fibers while working at places such as:
• Mine
• Factory worker
• Manufacturing of electronic components
• Construction of rail
• Shipbuilding
• Construction workers
• Mechanics

Prevention :
• Beware if you work in an environment with asbestos
• Follow standard safety regulations
• Do not use objects that contain asbestos in your neighborhood

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The Symptoms and Causes of Mesothelioma

Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer that occurs in the thin tissue that lines most of the internal organs (mesothelium). The doctor divides mesothelioma into several types based on which part of this cancer occurs.

• Pleural malignant mesothelioma, which occurs in the tissue lining around the lungs and is the most common type.
• Peritoneal mesothelioma, occurring in tissues that line the stomach.
• Pericardial mesothelioma, occurring in the tissue lining around the heart.
• Mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis, occurs in the lining around the testicles

The symptoms of Mesothelioma

Signs and the symptoms of mesothelioma varies based on where the cancer occurs.

Pleural mesothelioma, signs and symptoms include:
• Shortness of breath
• Pain when breathing
• Pain when coughing
• Pain in the lower rib
• an unusual lump in the chest under the skin layer
• Lost weight suddenly
• Dry cough

Peritoneal mesothelioma, signs and symptoms include:
• Pain in abdomen
• Swelling in the abdomen
• Changes in bowel movements, such as more frequent diarrhea or constipation
• Lump in the tissues in the abdominal area
• Lost weight suddenly

Other forms of mesothelioma
Signs and the symptoms pericardial mesothelioma and tunica vaginalis are unclear. On health , there is no complete information about this. Pericardial mesothelioma have signs and symptoms that may include difficulty breathing or chest pain. While mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis can be detected first by the enlargement of the testicles.

The Causes of Mesothelioma

In general, cancer occurs when cell DNA mutation. This mutation makes the cells continued to grow and flourish while others have normal cell cycles of life and death. Accumulation of cancer cells can form a malignant tumor.

It is unclear what causes the initial genetic mutations that lead to mesothelioma although scientists identify factors that may increase the risk. Cancer may result from a combination of several factors, such as heredity, environment, health condition and lifestyle.

Benign pleural mesothelioma
Benign tumors that form in the chest sometimes called benign mesothelioma. But the term is misleading. Benign mesothelioma is not started on the same cell where the cancer is formed. And in some cases kacil, benign mesothelioma can be very aggressive. For this reason, some doctors now prefer to call this tumor as a solitary fibrous tumor.

Solitary fibrous tumors usually do not cause signs and the symptoms. It is unclear what caused the solitary fibrous tumor, but tumors are associated with asbestos contamination pollutants. Treatment for solitary fibrous tumors usually includes surgery procedures.

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Sampoerna Launches International Standard School

http://marijoe-alfiah.blogspot.com/ - Putera Sampoerna Foundation in collaboration with ExxonMobil launched a boarding school level of upper secondary school (high school) and the first international standard in Indonesia. The school is dedicated to students and student achievement from pre-prosperous families across Indonesia.

Nenny Soemawinata, Managing Director Putera Sampoerna Foundation said there were as many as 200 students and students who have passed through stringent selection process and managed to set aside more than 1,000 registrants from all over Indonesia to get a full scholarship with a total value amounting to 3.15 million U.S. dollars from the ExxonMobil Foundation.

The male and female students selected are those that have been set aside more than 1,000 applicants from various regions in Indonesia. The selection process is divided into five stages of strict selection, the selection of documents, academic tests, psychological tests, interviews, focus group discussions (FGD), as well as home visits to prospective students (home visit).

Sampoerna Academy Bogor Campus consists of students from throughout the region in Indonesia, including Sumatra, Kalimantan, Nusa Tenggara (NTT), to West Papua. In addition, a number of students or students there are also derived from the operation of ExxonMobil, among Blora, Cepu and Bojonegoro, East Java.

Furthermore Nenny explained, Sampoerna Academy is an international education curriculum adapted from Cambridge University with a national curriculum or the Education Unit Level Curriculum (SBC).

Meanwhile, Regent Bogor, Rahmat Yasin said it strongly supports the opening of school Sampoerna Academy Campus in Bogor Bogor regency, West Java. He hopes one day this school can print more students and student achievement and an example for other schools so that the quality of education in Indonesia continues to increase.

For information, Putera Sampoerna Foundation in 2009 has opened Sampoerna Academy in Malang, and Palembang, in which male and female students in Malang majority coming from the East Java region, while the students are girls at Palembang comes from Sumatra and Kalimantan. The total students of all Academy Sampoerna has currently reached 993 students with 525 students and new students 2011/2012 force. This year, Putera Sampoerna Foundation Sampoerna Academy plans to inaugurate in Bali.

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School to Japan Without Learn Japanese Language

School to Japan Without Learn Japanese Language

http://marijoe-alfiah.blogspot.com - Asia Pacific University (APU) provides scholarships for foreign students to undergo studies in of Sakura. This scholarship is awarded for a maximum of 4 years (until graduation) and no ties whatsoever. Scholarship selection process incoming and APU based on the quality of documents submitted, without the written tests or interviews. In addition, the APU uses English as an introduction to learning. So, you do not need to learn Japanese first. Interested?

Scholarships are awarded APU includes only 124 credits over four years for freshmen (first year student), 94 credits for 3 years for second-year transfer student (second year transfer student), and 62 credits for 2 years for a third year transfer student ( third year transfer student).

This scholarship program does not apply if the student takes additional credits, or decide to study more than 4 years.

Well, there are several scholarship options, namely Pre-Enrollment scholarship that covers 100 percent of the scholarship program, scholarship programs 80 percent, 65 percent of the scholarship program, scholarship program by 50 percent, 30 percent scholarship, and Honor Scholarship.

100 percent for the scholarship program, all tuition fees paid by the university, without the cost of tickets and living expenses. Similarly, 80 percent of the program, pays 80 percent of university tuition fees and so on. Meanwhile, Honor Scholarship is a scholarship granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology valued at 600,000 yen per year. Students only pay 130,000 yen entrance fee, airfare, and tuition 1200000-1375000 yen per year and the cost of living, and can be combined with other APU scholarships.

There are also Scholarships Post-enrollment, ie internal scholarships to students who have been in Japan, achievement and meet the requirements. In addition, there are external scholarships are awarded to international students, and 19 kinds of scholarships are awarded for those who have student visas.

For enrollment to April 2012, application deadline 30 September 2011 and the regular application deadline November 30, 2011. For enrollment September 2012, application deadline January 31, 2012, the regular application deadline March 31, 2012.

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How To Avoid Google’s Penalty

How To Avoid Google's PenaltySEO has become the most significant element to promote your company on the internet, yet when you complete all SEO tips, there’s a very important factor that you need to be quite careful about and the thing is how to avoid google’s penalty. Google, needless to say, is the most chosen and favored search engine in the world. Google optimization, like it or not, is going to be an important part of your Search engine optimization strategies, therefore it is necessary that you’re inside the Google’s good records. Yet, in search engine result pages (SERP), a lot of people are likely to neglect the probabilities of their website taking on Google’s penalties and result in having to pay huge cost for the similar. Here are some tricks to make sure that you are able to avoid Google’s penalty.

Link Your Website Carefully: Once you are inserting a link into your website for another website or the opposite way round, be mindful that you’re sure concerning the other domain name getting associated with ethical actions. Occasionally linking to black hat SEO users could possibly be the reason for your problem. Therefore it’s crucial to acquire links and put links properly.
Just Avoid Cloaking Activities: Cloaking refers to the stuffing of key phrases on a web page in an aim to create SEO friendly. Along with fresher and improved protocols, Google is able to identify the difference between a genuine page designed for visitors and the one that’s meant simply for Google. Therefore you need to stay away from such strategies.
Error 404: When you have pages which are missing on your website, you might find yourself spending a vast cost for it. The reason is that anytime you site will divert that page to your HostSite which can be a negative sign for the search engines considering that it breaks down the relevance of your website.

Finally, you can consider Google’s webmaster guidelines and thus make sure that you have a good amount of admission to their help forum. By doing this you’ll be able to know how to avoid Google’s penalty and ensure that your SEO efforts run smoothly

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Google Panda Gives More Opportunity For True Writers

Well, within these two weeks, many people are talking about the new algorithm made by Google Inc or which better known as Google Panda or Google Farmer. What’s new with this change? Is your website affected and sent it to nowhere? Don’t worry guys… This is only a beginning. Whenever Google made a change, there’s some part of the world feel happy, yet the other used to feel sad. Either those who practice SEO or not. And of course, it’s a very normal situation since no techology is perfect, right? For a short terms, let’s just wait and see.

However, according to my personal analysis, Google Panda gives more opportunity for true writers. I mean, those who love to write what they like, especially which write in a very long words, get so many benefits from this new algorithm. Why I said it so?

Here’s what I thought. One of my blogs, which has original contents and written with a very long words, get additional traffics although I never optimize it. Then another blogs, which has good traffic previously, dropped to sandbox and even deindexed due to short contents that might be caught as a spam blog by Google.

With this simple analysis, then if you’re going to gain more traffic at this moment, just focus to what you write. You don’t need to pay more attention on the basic of SEO but the content itself. However, I don’t know whether this condition is also valid to your problem. Yet it’s good to try. :D

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How To Stop Spam Bot From Google AppEngine

Recently, there are many Google AppEngine developers using that free programs to spam the world. I don’t know how many bloggers have been affected by this kind of spam. However, based on several webmaster forums, there must be million people have been affected, but only a few people who are really aware with this issue. What did irresponsible AppEngine developers used to do? They used to hijack our blog or website. It’s so safe because banning Appspot.com IP Addresses could be a great disaster considering that Googlebot and Adsense bot IPs recycled from time to time. More over, blocking them based on the referrer is barely useless. Many people have tried this trick both from .htacces and php script but they have no luck.

Then how to stop spam bot from Google AppEngine? Just install ZB Block php script to your server and you’re done! Here’s the additional tips.

1. Download ZB Block from spambotsecurity.com or download directly from here.
2. Extract the file then upload to the domain’s root. (for example: http://yoursitecom/zbblock/)
3. Run the setup from http://yoursitecom/zbblock/setup.php)
4. Follow the setup and you’re done.

Well, I think that’s all the easiest way how to stop spam bot from google appengine (appspot.com). Hopefully it works for you.

PS: I am in purpose to write this issue because some of my sites have been ruined by appspot spammer. :( And I need to make it as an archive for my self. Besides, I believe some of you facing the similar problem. :lol:

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What’s In Sorezki Link Building Services?

Last year, many webmasters were giving up in link building. That was because many major search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Bing didn’t count the incoming links as it were. It was not so surprising because there were many people trying to fool the search engines by collecting as many backlinks as they can, either manually or automatically. I think that’s the only choice that search engines had. However, after search engines made many improvements on the beginning of 2011, I can say that link building is again very important to rank well in any search engines.

Nevertheless, it doesn’t mean that all incoming backlinks are treated equally. As webmasters, we should be able to determine which kind of backlink that good or not. However, since link building process isn’t an easy job and takes a lot of time, looking for link building services might be the best choice.

Nowadays, there are many SEO company offering link building services. Most of them are likely promising but some are not. But at this time, I will only focus to talk about SOREZKI.com, an online platform that offers SEO services.

Now, check out my opinion about this company below.

1. SERVICES
Sorezki offers several services such Organic Search, Yearly SEO Projects, PPC management, Consultation and article submission. These services are not so special because there are many company on this field offering the same thing. Probably the only rare service found on another company is ORM, optimization for reputation management.

2. PRICING
When I visit the site, I couldn’t find complete pricing details for each service they offer.

3. TRANSPARANCY
Although this company claims that link building process is done manually, but they don’t provide any proof that they have high quality backlink networks. As we all know, a backlink from high quality website is better than 10 backlinks from low quality websites, right?

4. SITE DESIGN
Sorezki site design is clean and eye-catching. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to navigate. Those, especially newbie customers, might have many difficulties when they want to start.

Well, that’s all that came from my head. You’re free to disagree. :D

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The Dangers of Facebook

Learn how to protect yourself when meeting people online.
Finding and making friends online using social networking Web sites such as MySpace and Facebook has almost become a rite of passage. Students at universities around the world chronicle their lives by building online profiles and sharing personal information, photographs, and opinions in order to connect with new people. If you use one of these sites to stay in touch, to express yourself openly, and to find like-minded people, that’s great. Just be sure you stay smart and safe in the process.
This includes knowing what Facebook and other social networking sites intend to do with your profiles. In September 2007, Facebook announced that profiles will become searchable through its new Public Search Listings. If you have a profile posted on Facebook, and don’t want your name and profile picture indexed by one of the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN Search, you need to update your Facebook privacy settings immediately. While Facebook has some restrictions on the Public Search Listing of a profile, few people posted their information on Facebook thinking it would be made available to virtually anyone with an Internet connection. You need to take action to prevent this from happening.
You should consider some other important things as well. First, while you can meet new friends online, you may also come into contact with malicious people misrepresenting themselves. These are people you don’t want to know. Internet thieves and sexual predators are only too eager to exploit personal information found on social networking sites. They are out there and willing to hurt you unless you take precautions to protect yourself.
A second consideration, frequently overlooked, is that information you post on a social networking site may reveal indiscretions and worse to future employers, college professors, or even your parents. It’s on the record that students have been suspended and expelled for escapades and threats posted online. In some instances, potential job offers have been withdrawn because of information posted on a social networking site. Keep these things in mind when taking advantage of the pluses of social networking.
You can follow these tips to help you protect yourself on a social networking Web site:

• Consider restricting access to your profile. If the site allows it, it’s a good idea to limit access to your profile. Don’t allow strangers to learn everything they can about you. It’s just not safe.
• Keep your private information private. Never post your full name, Social Security number, address, phone number, full birth date, financial information, or schedule. These will make you vulnerable to identity thieves, scams, burglars, or worse.
• Choose a screen name that is different from your real name. Avoid using any personal information that would help someone identify or locate you offline.
• Think twice before posting your photo. Photos can be used to identify you offline. They can also be altered or shared without your knowledge.
• Don’t post information that makes you vulnerable to a physical attack. Revealing where you plan to meet your friends, your class schedule, or your street address is almost an open invitation for someone to find you. Remember that a photo in front of the Co-op tells strangers you are in Austin, and quite likely at the university.
• Use your common sense. If you are contacted by a stranger online, find out if any of your established friends know the person, or run an online search on them (after all, you can use these things to your own benefit too!). If you agree to meet them, make it in a public place and invite others to join you.
• Trust your instincts. If you feel threatened or uncomfortable during an online interaction, don’t continue the dialogue. Report any offensive behavior to the social networking Web site administrators.
• Be suspicious. Don’t take any information you receive from a new online contact at face value. The Internet makes it easy for people to say or do things they would never say or do in public or in face-to-face interactions. Protecting yourself is the smart thing to do. 

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SO WHO EXACTLY IS ON THE NATIONAL DNA DATABASE? 13,000 KILLERS AND SEX OFFENDERS OUT ON THE STREETS BUT NOT LISTED

A shocking 13,000 killers, paedophiles and rapists are missing from the national DNA database, it emerged last night.
The convicts, all of whom are at liberty, may have been able to get away with further crimes because of the gaping hole in the system.
Home Secretary Theresa May told MPs she had asked police to track down the murderers and sex attackers to obtain DNA samples.
But chief constables, who have complained about a shortage of funding, refused to give a blanket promise that they would succeed. The Association of Chief Police Officers said only that forces would ‘consider diverting resources’ to the mission.
Mrs May ordered a trawl of the DNA database after the Tories came to power last year. This uncovered 13,000 cases, dating back to 1974, where serious criminals did not have DNA taken.
Labour repeatedly changed the law to allow for DNA to be taken from innocent citizens. However no attention was paid to those convicted of grievous crimes before the database was established in 1995.
A law providing police with the power to take DNA samples for historic convictions was passed only in 2010.

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Forex Trade

Forex is the international bank-to-bank currency market. Forex trade assumes purchasing or selling the currencies. Due to ever-changing currency rate, buying a currency at lower price and selling it at higher one you can gain profit catching its further movement correctly (for example: correctly determine the news).

Forex market partakers are: banks (central and commercial), pension funds, insurance companies, brokers, dealers and private investors. Because of a great participants number and similar deals volume a lot of transactions are executed during a few seconds.

A huge capital is not required for trading at Forex, as a broker gives a loan - leverage. Its size is equal to hundredfold amount of deposit, it means that a trader (participant playing at Forex) enters the market with a sum exceeding the amount for deals execution hundredfold.

Trading deal at Forex consists of 2 parts. First: a trader opens a position with a certain currency pair. Second: he closes the position with this pair. Trading deals at Forex are closed automatically during several seconds. However, even such a big deals quantity accomplished by the traders cannot put a substantial effect on the price.

Position opening in Forex trading is a process of requesting one currency from a broker for a certain quantity of another. The cost of the base currency in the first pair is called quotation displayed in the quoted currency unit. It has 2 figures: Bid - the cost of base currency sold for quoted one and Ask - the price at which it is bought. A difference between them is called spread (it is the main income source for a broker), and point is the minimal price movement which can be accepted. Currency rate information is always available for those who operate at Forex market.

Forex trading is carried out by three ways. These methods involve several trading strategies. Traders with big trading experience at Forex develop their own strategies for several years, but there are some approved and really beneficial strategies:

- Day trading (intra-day short term trading) is opening of short term deals by a trader for 1 or 2 minute period up to couple of hours. Such deals are usually closed in the same trading day and almost never carried over the next one.

- News trading. Traders using this kind of trading can always have a stable profit, making the right analysis of published news. At the same time, wrong news analysis and position setup can result in serious losses.

- Midterm trading. According to this kind of trading, a trader opens long period deals (from 1-2 days up to 1-2 months). Getting a big profit following this strategy is possible in case the deal remains opened not less than a few days. A good capital is needed for backing up such deals.

- Technical analysis in Forex trade consists in the ability to estimate and make the right analysis of different chart types (bar, Japanese candles, lines) with currency pairs and figures displayed on them that gives an opportunity to forecast rate fluctuations of the currency pairs.

- Carry trade is gain acquisition from interest rates difference of currency pairs.

Using this type of trade, trader's deals remain opened for a long period of time (from 2-3 months to 1 year and more). Such trading requires a big capital. It is used for waiting when the deal becomes profitable in order not to bear losses until the price changes to the right direction.

Also one of the advantages of Forex trade consists in that the work is run 24 hours 7 days a week (from Monday to Friday), therefore, regardless of the difference between the time zones and location you can continue taking part in trades. Such opportunity of trading at Forex is provided by the world financial centers managed by the national banks together with international banks where different countries capital is kept.

The major of them are located in: New York, London, Tokyo, Paris, Luxembourg, Singapore, and Austria. They allow supporting the liquidity for trading at Forex during the whole day and night.

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