I-FLASH SEPTEMBER 2016

Hello guys! We’re back again this months with the concept of “Flat Design”, again. In this edition, we picked “My first step” because the hardest part to do something is the first step. We are going to convince you to make your first step toward your dream as soon as you finished reading this edition.We are going to make this as simple as possible so you can enjoy the contents to the fullest. Thank you, as always, Mba Feni for the amazing articles. We hope you enjoy our masterpiece. Ready to read some amazing thing? Here we go! Enjoy.

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ACHIEVING MY DREAMS

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IAAS HUNTS FOR NEW MEMBERS

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SCIENCE BULLETIN

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TEN RULES OF CHANGE PART ONE

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TEN RULES OF CHANGE PART TWO

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DON’T EAT IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT IT!

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IHFNM FUN FACTS AREA

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UNITED NATION NEWS

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PHOTO STORY

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Do you have a dream deep in your heart that you want to pursue? If you do, have you taken the first step necessary to achieve it? Taking the first step is perhaps the most difficult thing to do in achieving a dream. There are a lot of mental obstacles that make it difficult to take that first step.

Here are some dont’s to help you solve the mental obstacles: 1.

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Don’t wait until the situation is perfect.

You should not wait until the situation is perfect because the situation will never be perfect. No matter how or when you see it, there will always be something that make you think again.

Don’t wait until other people agree with you. Just like you shouldn’t wait for the situation to be perfect, you shouldn’t wait until everybody agrees with your idea.

There will always be opposition, and that is perfectly normal. If you wait until there is a consensus, you will never start.

Don’t wait until your skill is good.

We might think that we need to have good skill before we start doing something. But the truth is, you will learn much more by doing than by waiting. Doing al lows you to hone your skill much faster than just learning the theory.

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YOUR FIRST STEP

As you can see, the three points above have “don’t wait” in them. So here is the bottom line:

the best time to start is now.

I learned this in business. When I started my photography service, I didn’t have the skill to create good content nor to market it properly. But I started photographing anyway. The first months were really tough. After photographing for few months, I got only 25 follower. Thankfully, the experience taught me a lot. While there is still a lot of room for improvement, I’m now amazed to see what I’ve learned along the way.

Here are some more things you should do to successfully take the first step: 1.

Believe in your dream. Believing in your dream is essential

to get the motivation you need to achieve it. You simply

can’t fool your own heart. Is the dream worth pursuing? Is it

something that you want to pour your heart into?

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Visualize your dream. Can you imagine – in detail – how

the world will look like when your dream comes true? Visual

izing your dream will energize you. The energy and

excitement is there for you to feel.

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Expect a hard way ahead. While it’s not impossible, achiev

ing your dream is definitely not easy. Don’t expect an easy way.

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Take one bite at a time. Your dream may be big (it should

be!). Take a small portion of it that you can handle.

IAAS HUNTS NEW forMEMBER IHFNM (IAAS Hunts for New Member) is a spectacular event which is organized by Human Resources Department. This event has purpose to get new family member of IAAS LC IPB for the IOP 24. While, IAAS Hunts New Member is the sequence of: 1. Open stand This open stand is a way to get the new member of IAAS. This stand is opened from 8 am until 3 pm in Media Center, and 3 pm until 5 pm in Agrimart’s yard (near Agrimart 1) place where everyone can take registration form and give it back. It is good to go there because we are really open to all people that really curious to know more about IAAS. 2. Open House Open house is a sequence of Agri Symphoni in IPB. There are also another organization and club from IPB that join in this Open House 53. The member of IAAS here is very welcome with all people coming and go from this stand. Most of them are IPB batch 53. At that time, they us ask about the explanation of IAAS, the program which IAAS has, the annual event, and the benefit of being family member

of IAAS. It is amazing to know to fact that the number of the people who take the application form is dramatically increase than in open stand. Approximately, we get 300 people who take the application form.

3. Interview The interview is started at 8 am in the morning. It is held in two days, 25th and 26th of September 2016. In the first day, I can see the eagerness of the participants to join IAAS. Since in the early morning, before 8 am, they have already come to the place. Approximately, there are 427 applicants who go for interview. This number is quite bigger than in the last year.

4. IOP IOP or IAAS Orientation Program is the term that we used for the name of batch in IAAS. Now, in IAAS LC IPB has 23 batch, but we are already welcoming the new generation which is IOP 24. In IOP, we usually making event in villa. There, we have a purpose to strengthen the bond between new members of IAAS. It is also small inauguration of the member, as they are still candidate member after they pass the interview.

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ten rules of change_ Self-change is tough, but it’s not impossible, nor does it have to be traumatic, according to change expert Stan Goldberg, Ph.D. Here, he lays out the 10 principles he deems necessary for successful change. After 25 years of researching how people change, I’ve discovered 10 major principles that encompass all self-change strategies. I’ve broken down those principles and, using one example—a man’s desire to be more punctual—I demonstrate strategies for implementing change in your own life.

rules number one

All Behaviors Are Complex.

Research by psychologist James O. Prochaska, Ph.D., an internationally renowned expert on planned change, has repeatedly found that change occurs in stages. To increase the overall probability of success, divide a behavior into parts and learn each part successively.

Strategy: Break down the behavior Almost all behaviors can be broken down. Separate your desired behavior into smaller, self-contained units.

rules number two

Change Is Frightening

We resist change, but fear of the unknown can result in clinging to status quo behaviors—no matter how bad they are.

Strategy: Examine the consequences, Prepare your observers, Be realistic.

Compare all possible consequences of both your status quo and desired behaviors. If there are more positive results associated with the new behavior, your fears of the unknown are unwarranted. Unrealistic goals increases your fear of failure.

New behavior is also frighten your observants.

rules number three

Change Must Be Positive As B.F. Skinner’s early research demonstrates, reinforcement-not punishment-is necessary for permanent change. Reinforcement can be intrinsic, extrinsic or extraneous. According to Carol Sansone, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of Utah, one type of reinforcement must be present for self-change, two would be better than one, and three would be best.

Strategy: Enjoy the act, Admire the outcomes, Reward yourself Intrinsic reinforcement occurs when the act is reinforcing. An act doesn’t have to be enjoyable when the end result is extrinsically reinforcing. Extraneous reinforcement isn’t directly connected to the act or its completion.

A worker may despise his manufacturing job but will continue working for a good paycheck.

rules number four

being is easier than becoming In my karate class of 20 students, the instructor yelled, “No pain, no gain,” amid grueling instructions. After four weeks, only three students remained.

Uncomfortable change becomes punishing, and rational people don’t continue activities that are more painful than they are rewarding.

Strategy: Take baby steps, Simpifly the process, prepare for problems.

Draw four lines between the two and write a progressive step on each that takes you closer to your goal. Methods of changing are often unnecessarily complicated and frenetic. Through simplicity, clarity arises. Perfect worlds don’t exist, and neither do perfect learning situations. You have to prepare what will be the problem and learn how to solve them.

rules number five

Slower Is Better Everything has its own natural speed; when altered, unpleasant things happen. Change is most effective when it occurs slowly, allowing behaviors to become automatic.

Strategy: Establish calm, Appreciate the path.

Allow it to calm and the mud will settle, clearing the water. The same is true for change. Don’t devise an arduous path; it should be as rewarding as the goal.

rules number six

Know More, Do Better Surprise spells disaster for people seeking change. Knowing more about the process allows more control over it.

Strategy: Monitor your behaviors, Request feedback, Understand the outcomes.

Some therapists insist on awareness of both current and desired behaviors, but research suggests it’s sufficient to be aware of just the new one. A study in the British Journal of Psychology found that reflecting on personal experiences with others is key to successful change. But because complimenting new behavior implies that the observer disliked the old one, it can make observers feel uncomfortable. Success is satisfying, and if you know why you succeeded or failed, similar strategies can be applied when changing other behaviors.

rules number seven

Change Requires Structure Many people view structure as restrictive, something that inhibits spontaneity. While spontaneity is wonderful for some activities, it’s a surefire method for sabotaging change.

Strategy: Identify what works, Revisit your plan regularly, Logically sequence events.

Classify all activities and materials you’re using as either helpful, neutral or unhelpful in achieving your goal. Eliminate unhelpful ones, make neutrals into positives and keep or increase the positives. Review every day how and why you’re changing and the consequences of success and failure.

Repetition increase the probability of success. it’s important to sequence the aspects associated with learning a new behavior in order of level of difficulty or timing.

rules number eight

small success is big Unfortunately, plans for big successes often result in big failures. Focus instead on a series of small successes. Each little success builds your reservoir of self-esteem; one big failure devastates it.

Strategy: Map your success.

Approach each step as a separate mission and you’ll eventually arrive at the end goal.

rules number nine

Practice Is Necessary Practice is another key approach to change, suggests one study on changing conscious experience published recently in the British Journal of Psychology. I’ve found that the majority of failures occur because this principle is ignored. Practice makes new behaviors automatic and a natural part of who we are.

Strategy: Use helpers, Practice in many settings.

Not all behaviors can be learned on your own. Sometimes it’s useful to enlist the help of a trusted friend. If you want to use a new behavior in different environments, practice it in those or similar settings. Dubbing this “generalization,” psychologists T.F. Stokes and D.M. Baer found it critical in maintaining new behaviors.

rules number ten

New Behaviors Must Be Protected Even when flawlessly performed, new behaviors are fragile and disappear if unprotected.

Strategy: Control your environment, Use memory aides.

Environmental issues such as noise and level of alertness may interfere with learning new behaviors. After identifying what helps and what hinders, increase the helpers and eliminate the rest. Because a new behavior is neither familiar nor automatic, it’s easy to forget. Anything that helps memory is beneficial.

The process of changing from what you are to what you would like to become can be either arduous and frustrating or easy and rewarding. The effort required for both paths is the same. Choose the first and you’ll probably recycle yourself endlessly. Apply my 10 principles, and change, once only a slight possibility, becomes an absolute certainty. The choice is yours.

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UN agricultural agency and USAID sign agreement to boost developing countries’ ability to track key data

Food prices often spike in the aftermath of a patchy harvest, causing concern among food security experts. The AGRIS methodology will help in measuring agricultural performance. UN Photo/WFP/Phil Behan

7 September 2016 – The United Nations agricultural agency today signed a $15 million agreement with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to boosting the capacity of developing countries to track key agricultural data – information considered essential to good policy-making and that will help track progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

“In the decades to come, humanity will need to produce more food for a growing

population using natural resources such as water, land and biodiversity in a sustainable way – while coping with the challenges imposed by climate change,” the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, José Graziano da Silva, said in a news release.

“Our ability to boost food yields sustainably and meet the SDG hunger eradication target will hinge on the availability of better, cost-effective and timely statistical data for agriculture and rural areas” he added.

On 1 January 2016, the 17 SDGs of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted by world leaders in September last year – officially came into force. Over the next fifteen years, with the aim of achieving the SDGs, countries will mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.

In particular, Goal 2 of the SDGs is centred on ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture. According to FAO, Goal 2 recognizes the interlinkages among supporting sustainable agriculture, empowering small farmers, promoting gender equality, ending rural poverty, ensuring healthy lifestyles, tackling climate change, and other issues.

The USAID donation will cover the first phase of an FAO-led project that will run from 2016 to 2021, starting with pilot efforts in four developing countries – two in sub-Saharan Africa, one in Latin America and one in Asia. A dialogue is under way with eligible countries.

The goal of the project is to design and implement a new and cost-effective approach to agricultural data collection in developing world contexts, known as agricultural integrated surveys (AGRIS).

In the news release, FAO said that the AGRIS methodology will not only capture improved annual data on agricultural production, but also broader and more detailed structural information relating to farms, including employment, machinery use, production costs, farming practices, and environmental impacts.

It will incorporate recent innovations

like remote sensing, global positioning systems (GPS), mobile technology and various uses of ‘big data.’ These tools will introduce more objective approaches to measuring agricultural performance, in some cases replacing traditional, more expensive methods.

In addition to better and more detailed data, AGRIS is also expected to promote the integration of disparate data sources, improve data timeliness and usability, and cut data collection costs.

“The end result,” according to FAO, “will be high-quality data on a wide range of technical, economic, environmental and social dimensions of agriculture that will help governments analyse and understand the impacts of agricultural policies, assess progress toward the SDGs and other goals, and shape better policies.”

“Strong national data systems are critical for governments and private sector actors to make informed and smart decisions that foster food security and economic prosperity,” the Assistant to the Administrator for USAID’s Bureau for Food Security, Beth Dunford, said in the FAO news release.

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