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MADRID 27 April - Sepanyol menjadi negara pertama di Eropah yang dikesan menerima wabak selesema babi apabila seorang lelaki yang baru pulang dari Mexico minggu lalu dikesan dijangkiti virus tersebut.

Lelaki yang tidak dinamakan itu kembali ke Sepanyol pada 22 April dan diletakkan di bawah pemantauan pada 25 April selepas mengadu sakit dada, kata Menteri Kesihatan Trinidad Jimenez dalam satu sidang akhbar.

Kira-kira 20 pesakit sedang dipantau. - Reuters

You Are the CEO of Your Own Life

Truly acknowledge that you are the CEO of your own life and a better life immediately becomes imminent.

Whether we are entrepreneurial spirited individuals, currently employed and even unemployed, we must operate with the proverbial “The Buck Stops Here” sign on our desks. Everybody wants things from and for their lives. Various forms of abundance, financial wealth, building a great house, starting a successful business or charitable foundation, creating a family are a few of many possibilities. Effective CEOs take the time to identify what they truly want.

Just as in business, determined CEOs in life have very detailed visions of what they desire to occur. They plan and document(in writing) their visions, access them frequently (numerous times daily) and possess an unwavering, 100% genuine belief that all things desired will be brought into being within a determined timeframe. It’s a very specific destination that’s created and good CEOs take any and all necessary actions along the way. Excellent CEOs make vision attainment appear to be almost effortless ventures. This is because the decision has been made that their life and causes are so important to them and their families that effort represents a very minor price to pay. For top CEOs, it’s a relaxed, enjoyable and fun trip with thoughts and eyes always on their targets. It’s a constant Be, Do, Have journey.

As your own CEO, it’s important to recognize that you possess four main resources which exist solely to help you achieve desired results in your life. These four resources are your employees. Their names are:

• Time
• Focus
• Energy
• Money

Your employees work only for you. They can only quit if you allow them to and can’t request a transfer to another company. Monitor their performances and ensure they’re good, solid employees who all show up for work every day. How they collectively perform on a daily basis will determine your overall results and when you can expect your great success to arrive. These employees are literally your workforce. They should not be taking any sick days and vacations are to be authorized only at your, the CEO, level.

Your employees each have specific, but very unique specialties which enable your path…….

Time

By definition, time is a nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. The past is gone, the present is here but the future is still for us to define. Time, of course, will be present for us but doesn’t benefit the future unless it’s utilized in a constructive way. Does your employee time work well for you or does it show up every day but never seem to yield progress to desired results?

Focus

Employee #2 is focus. Is your focus vivid or blurry? Worse yet, is your focus missing in action? Have you created, documented and shared the “master plan” (vision) with focus? Do you meet regularly with focus? Does focus truly understand that it’s a vital part of the team? Focus should be a 24/7 employee and never allowed to punch out or leave the premises.

Energy

Is energy always being expended and managed in a direction that coincides with the CEOs (your) desired end vision? Energy should know what it’s supposed to be doing at all times. Focus must work very closely with energy as they are reliant on each other. A sailboat without a rudder (focus) and wind (energy) is highly unlikely to ever reach a desired destination.

Money

Always keep a very close eye on your employee #4- money. Successful CEOs have a strong, positive relationship with and respect for money. Always be verifying and measuring how money is doing for you. Money won’t typically complain about being mistreated but positive management and utilization will illustrate itself in many various ways. Always be good to money and money will be good to you.

CEOs are busy and shouldn’t need to spend overt amounts of time micromanaging their four employees. For assistance regarding this, the best CEOs incorporate affirmations into their mornings, days and evenings. For the CEO that desires financial abundance, a simple affirmation example is to repeat the words “Wealth”, “Success”….. “Wealth”, “Success”….. “Wealth”, “Success”…….over and over again in a slow, deliberate manner for five minutes, three times or more per day, every day; also just prior to going to sleep and immediately after waking up each morning. You will immediately notice that your four employees begin showing up early, staying late and even be working when you’re out of the office. They will come to love their jobs and you will always be proud of them for what they help you accomplish.

Peperiksaan Bukan Penentu 100 Peratus Gred Pelajar

Oleh ARSHAD KHAN
Pengarang@utusan.com.my

KUALA LUMPUR 18 April – Sistem pendidikan negara bakal melalui transformasi penting tahun depan apabila tidak lagi bergantung 100 peratus kepada peperiksaan bagi menentukan gred pelajar.

Untuk itu, Sistem Pentaksiran Pendidikan Kebangsaan (SPPK) akan diperkenalkan yang memasukkan kecerdasan akademik, sahsiah pelajar dan penglibatan dalam kokurikulum sebagai penentu gred peperiksaan awam.

Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin berkata, ia akan dimulakan dengan murid prasekolah dan tahun satu.

SPPK akan menyebabkan penumpuan terhadap peperiksaan Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR), Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) dan Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) dikurangkan.

“Langkah ini secara keseluruhannya akan menyediakan modal insan yang holistik,” katanya yang juga Menteri Pelajaran.

Teks ucapan Muhyiddin dibacakan oleh Timbalan Menteri Pelajaran, Datuk Dr. Wee Ka Siong sempena pelancaran Pesta Buku Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur 2009 di sini hari ini.

Hadir sama, Ketua Pengarah Pelajaran, Datuk Alimuddin Mohd. Dom.

Tahap pencapaian pelajar buat masa ini diukur 100 peratus kepada prestasi mereka ketika menjawab soalan peperiksaan akhir tahun dan awam.

Ka Siong pada sidang akhbar selepas itu berkata, SPPK akan meletakkan penekanan terhadap proses pembelajaran secara menyeluruh dan bukan setakat menjawab soalan peperiksaan sahaja.

Katanya, langkah itu menjadikan sistem pendidikan negara tidak terlalu berorientasikan peperiksaan sehingga kelihatan mengabaikan aspek-aspek lain yang sama penting.

Malah, kata beliau, untuk jangka panjang, kementerian juga sedang menilai sama ada perlu mengadakan sehingga tiga peperiksaan awam.

Alimuddin ketika ditemui menambah, di bawah SPPK, pemberian markah untuk pelajar akan terdiri daripada empat punca iaitu:

- Psikometri (sikap atau sahsiah seseorang pelajar)

- Kokurikulum

- Berasaskan sekolah (peperiksaan mingguan dan bulanan)

- Berpusat (Lembaga Peperiksaan menyediakan soalan standard peperiksaan di semua sekolah).

Jelas beliau, melalui SSPK, penglibatan murid dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran (P&P) akan lebih maksimum.

Katanya, pihak kementerian mencadangkan 70 peratus markah untuk UPSR adalah berasaskan pentaksiran dan hanya 30 peratus melalui peperiksaan umum.

Bagi PMR pula, katanya, 50 peratus berdasarkan pentaksiran dan 50 peratus lagi dalam peperiksaan manakala untuk SPM, 30 peratus berdasarkan pentaksiran serta bakinya melalui peperiksaan.

“Untuk SPM kita menumpukan lebih sedikit pada peperiksaan kerana keputusan itu penting bagi penempatan pelajar di institusi pengajian tinggi awam dan swasta,” katanya.

Jelas beliau, projek perintis SSPK telah dilaksanakan melibatkan 50 sekolah pada tahun lalu dan 500 lagi pada tahun ini.

Katanya, maklum balas yang diterima termasuk daripada para guru adalah amat positif.

Beliau berkata, pengenalan SSPK tidak akan membebankan para guru kerana sebahagian pendekatan sistem itu sudah pun dimulakan.

“Sekarang ini pun dah buat, kita ada ujian mingguan, ujian bulanan dibuat oleh guru, tetapi semuanya hanya simpan di sekolah dan tidak dimasukkan dalam keputusan akhir peperiksaan.

“Macam itu juga dengan kokurikulum, sekarang pun ada pelajar jadi pengawas, main bola untuk sekolah, cuma tidak dimasukkan secara rasmi dalam penentuan gred peperiksaan awam pelajar,” katanya.

Jelasnya, sistem pentaksiran akan dimulakan dari tahun satu hingga enam untuk UPSR, tingkatan satu hingga tiga bagi PMR manakala tingkatan empat dan lima untuk SPM.

Katanya, kumpulan pertama pelajar yang akan dinilai UPSR mereka menggunakan kaedah SPPK ialah pada tahun 2015 iaitu apabila murid tahun satu 2010 menduduki peperiksaan awam pada tahun berkenaan.

Jelas Alimuddin, beliau yakin SPPK akan dapat mencapai objektifnya kerana ia dilaksanakan secara berperingkat-peringkat.