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Rahasia Syekh Puji
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Ini dia rahasianya Mr. Syekh Puji.
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Ini dia rahasianya Mr. Syekh Puji.
Disclaimer
Ini belum tentu benar lho, saya cuma ambil dari forum kaskus.
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Penanganan Kelainan Sendi - ARTHROSCOPY
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Apa itu Arthroscopy?
Kata Arthroscopy diambil dari kata Yunani yaitu “arthro” (sendi) dan “skopein” (untuk melihat) Secara harafiah berarti “melihat di dalam sendi”.
Arthroscopy adalah prosedur pembedahan minimal invasive dalam bidang orthopaedic untuk menampilkan (visualize), mendiagnosa, dan menindaklanjuti problrm di dalam sendi.
Kapan dilakukan Arthroscopy ?
Arthroscopy dilakukan untuk beberapa kondisi seperti
• Radang
• Synovitis: radang synovium pada sendi lutut, bahu, siku, pergelangan tangan atau pergelangan kaki.
• Cedera akut dan kronis pada sendi-sendi
• Bahu:robekan rotator cuff tendons, impingement sindrom dan dislokasi sendi berulang.
• Lutut: robekan meniscal dan tulang rawan, chondromalacia (kerusakan tulang rawan llutut), dan robekan anterior dan posterior cruciate ligament.
• Pergelangan tangan: carpai tunnel sindrom
• Kelainan tulang dan tulang rawan di bahu, siku, perkelangan kaki atau tangan.
Walaupun hampir semua sendi dapat dikerjakan dengan Arthroscopy, 6 sendi yang paling sering adalah sendi lutut, bahu, siku, pergelangan kaki, pergelangan tangan dan sendi panggul.
Hal-hal yang dilakukan pada Arthroscopy :
• Prosedur rotator cuff
• Perbaikan atau pemotongan kerusakan tulang rawan pada lutut dan bahu
• Rekonstruksi anterior cruciate ligament dan posterior cruciate ligament pada sendi lutut
• Pengikisan jaringan radang (synovium)pada lutut, bahu, siku, pergelangan tangan dan pergelangan kaki
• Pembebasan carpal tunnel syndrome
• Perbaikan sobekan pada ligament
• Pembersihan loose body (bagian yang lepas) pada tulang dan tulang rawan di dalam sendi.
Setelah pembedahan Arthroscopy, sayatan kecil tersebut ditutup dengan perban, kemudian pasien dipindahkan ke ruang pemulihan, kadang-kadang pasien hanya memerlukan sedikit atau tidak sama sekali memerlukan obat penghilang sakit. Pada saat pasien dipulangkan, dokter akan memberikan petunjuk cara perawatan selama di rumah sampai dengan waktu pemeriksaan berikutnya dan program rehabilitasi yang harus dilakukan.
Komplikasi apa yang akan timbul ?
Komplikasi akibat pembedahan Arthroscopysangat jarang terjadi. Komplikasi yang mungkin terjadi adalah infeksi, bengkak berlebihan, pembedahan di dalam sendi.
Apa keuntungan tindakan Arthroscopy ?
Pembedahan Arthroscopy mempunyai keuntungan : rasa sakit yang kurang dibandingkan pembedahan biasa, waktu perawatan dan penyembuhan lebih singkat, dan komplikasi yang lebih jarang ditemukan.
Penyembuhan setelah Arthroscopy
Sayatan kecil akan sembuh dalam beberapa hari dengan rasa sakit yang minimal. Penyembuhan sendi akan memakan waktu beberapa minggu dengan program rehabilitasi yang tepat.
Pasien biasanya akan dapat kembali bekerja atau sekolah dan melanjutkan kegiatan sehari-hari setelah beberapa hari.
Diambil dari brosur RS Mitra Kemayoran
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Apa itu Arthroscopy?
Kata Arthroscopy diambil dari kata Yunani yaitu “arthro” (sendi) dan “skopein” (untuk melihat) Secara harafiah berarti “melihat di dalam sendi”.
Arthroscopy adalah prosedur pembedahan minimal invasive dalam bidang orthopaedic untuk menampilkan (visualize), mendiagnosa, dan menindaklanjuti problrm di dalam sendi.
Kapan dilakukan Arthroscopy ?
Arthroscopy dilakukan untuk beberapa kondisi seperti
• Radang
• Synovitis: radang synovium pada sendi lutut, bahu, siku, pergelangan tangan atau pergelangan kaki.
• Cedera akut dan kronis pada sendi-sendi
• Bahu:robekan rotator cuff tendons, impingement sindrom dan dislokasi sendi berulang.
• Lutut: robekan meniscal dan tulang rawan, chondromalacia (kerusakan tulang rawan llutut), dan robekan anterior dan posterior cruciate ligament.
• Pergelangan tangan: carpai tunnel sindrom
• Kelainan tulang dan tulang rawan di bahu, siku, perkelangan kaki atau tangan.
Walaupun hampir semua sendi dapat dikerjakan dengan Arthroscopy, 6 sendi yang paling sering adalah sendi lutut, bahu, siku, pergelangan kaki, pergelangan tangan dan sendi panggul.
Hal-hal yang dilakukan pada Arthroscopy :
• Prosedur rotator cuff
• Perbaikan atau pemotongan kerusakan tulang rawan pada lutut dan bahu
• Rekonstruksi anterior cruciate ligament dan posterior cruciate ligament pada sendi lutut
• Pengikisan jaringan radang (synovium)pada lutut, bahu, siku, pergelangan tangan dan pergelangan kaki
• Pembebasan carpal tunnel syndrome
• Perbaikan sobekan pada ligament
• Pembersihan loose body (bagian yang lepas) pada tulang dan tulang rawan di dalam sendi.
Setelah pembedahan Arthroscopy, sayatan kecil tersebut ditutup dengan perban, kemudian pasien dipindahkan ke ruang pemulihan, kadang-kadang pasien hanya memerlukan sedikit atau tidak sama sekali memerlukan obat penghilang sakit. Pada saat pasien dipulangkan, dokter akan memberikan petunjuk cara perawatan selama di rumah sampai dengan waktu pemeriksaan berikutnya dan program rehabilitasi yang harus dilakukan.
Komplikasi apa yang akan timbul ?
Komplikasi akibat pembedahan Arthroscopysangat jarang terjadi. Komplikasi yang mungkin terjadi adalah infeksi, bengkak berlebihan, pembedahan di dalam sendi.
Apa keuntungan tindakan Arthroscopy ?
Pembedahan Arthroscopy mempunyai keuntungan : rasa sakit yang kurang dibandingkan pembedahan biasa, waktu perawatan dan penyembuhan lebih singkat, dan komplikasi yang lebih jarang ditemukan.
Penyembuhan setelah Arthroscopy
Sayatan kecil akan sembuh dalam beberapa hari dengan rasa sakit yang minimal. Penyembuhan sendi akan memakan waktu beberapa minggu dengan program rehabilitasi yang tepat.
Pasien biasanya akan dapat kembali bekerja atau sekolah dan melanjutkan kegiatan sehari-hari setelah beberapa hari.
Diambil dari brosur RS Mitra Kemayoran
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Sekadar informasi
Sekadar informasi, dalam UU Pornografi pasal 14 disebutkan mereka yang menampilkan pornografi atas nama seni dan budaya, adat istiadat dan ritual tradisional tidak dianggap melanggar.
10 Surprising Health Benefits of Sex
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Ditranslasi menggunakan google translator.
Turns out sex is good for you in ways you may never have imagined.
Ternyata seks adalah baik untuk Anda dalam cara Anda mungkin belum pernah membayangkan.
By Kathleen Doheny
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
When you're in the mood, it's a sure bet that the last thing on your mind is boosting your immune system or maintaining a healthy weight .
Bila Anda sedang dalam suasana hati, dia adalah bertaruh yakin bahwa hal terakhir di pikiran Anda adalah penguat sistem kekebalan tubuh Anda atau mempertahankan berat sehat.
Yet good sex offers those health benefits and more.
Namun baik seks yang menawarkan manfaat kesehatan dan banyak lagi.
That's a surprise to many people, says Joy Davidson, PhD, a New York psychologist and sex therapist.
Itu adalah kejutan untuk banyak orang, kata Joy Davidson, PhD, seorang psikolog New York dan dokter seks.
"Of course, sex is everywhere in the media," she says.
"Tentu saja, seks adalah di mana-mana media," ujarnya.
"But the idea that we are vital, sexual creatures is still looked at in some cases with disgust or in other cases a bit of embarrassment. So to really take a look at how our sexuality adds to our life and enhances our life and our health, both physical and psychological, is eye-opening for many people."
"Tetapi kami ide yang sangat penting, makhluk seksual masih pada beberapa kasus dengan Rahmat atau dalam kasus lain sedikit malu. Jadi untuk benar-benar melihat bagaimana kami menambahkan seks kami untuk kehidupan dan meningkatkan kehidupan kami dan kami kesehatan , Baik fisik dan psikologis, adalah untuk membuka mata banyak orang. "
Sex does a body good in a number of ways, according to Davidson and other experts.
Seks tubuh yang tidak baik dalam beberapa cara, menurut Davidson dan tenaga ahli lainnya.
The benefits aren't just anecdotal or hearsay -- each of these 10 health benefits of sex is backed by scientific scrutiny.
Manfaat tidak hanya anekdotal atau didengar - tiap 10 manfaat kesehatan dari seks adalah didukung oleh keterbukaan ilmiah.
Among the benefits of healthy loving in a relationship:
Di antara manfaat sehat penuh kasih dalam hubungan:
1. Sex Relieves Stress
Seks Melegakan stress
A big health benefit of sex is lower blood pressure and overall stress reduction, according to researchers from Scotland who reported their findings in the journal Biological Psychology. They studied 24 women and 22 men who kept records of their sexual activity.
Kesehatan yang besar manfaat dari seks lebih rendah tekanan darah dan keseluruhan stres pengurangan, menurut peneliti dari Skotlandia yang melaporkan temuan di jurnal Biologi Psikologi. Mereka belajar 24 perempuan dan 22 laki-laki yang dipelihara catatan aktivitas seksual mereka.
Then the researchers subjected them to stressful situations -- such as speaking in public and doing verbal arithmetic -- and noted their blood pressure response to stress.
Kemudian para peneliti sasaran mereka untuk situasi stress - seperti berbicara di depan umum dan melakukan aritmatika lisan - dan mencatat tekanan darah mereka menanggapi stres.
Those who had intercourse had better responses to stress than those who engaged in other sexual behaviors or abstained.
Orang-orang yang mempunyai hubungan yang lebih baik untuk stres tanggapan dari orang-orang yang terlibat dalam perilaku seksual atau lain abstained.
Another study published in the same journal found that frequent intercourse was associated with lower diastolic blood pressure in cohabiting participants. Yet other research found a link between partner hugs and lower blood pressure in women.
Studi lain yang dipublikasikan di jurnal yang sama menemukan bahwa hubungan ini sering dikaitkan dengan tekanan darah diastolic lebih rendah di cohabiting peserta. Namun penelitian lain menemukan hubungan antara Tuhan dan mitra menurunkan tekanan darah dalam perempuan.
2. Sex Boosts Immunity
Seks mendorong imunitas
Good sexual health may mean better physical health.
Baik kesehatan seksual mungkin berarti lebih baik kesehatan fisik.
Having sex once or twice a week has been linked with higher levels of an antibody called immunoglobulin A or IgA, which can protect you from getting colds and other infections.
Hubungan seks sekali atau dua kali seminggu telah terhubung dengan tingkat yang lebih tinggi dari yang disebut antibodi immunoglobulin A atau Iga, yang dapat melindungi Anda dari mendapatkan angin dan infeksi lain.
Scientists at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., took samples of saliva, which contain IgA, from 112 college students who reported the frequency of sex they had.
Ilmuwan di Universitas Wilkes di Wilkes-Barre, Pa, mengambil sampel air liur, yang berisi Iga, dari 112 mahasiswa yang dilaporkan frekuensi seks mereka.
Those in the "frequent" group -- once or twice a week -- had higher levels of IgA than those in the other three groups -- who reported being abstinent, having sex less than once a week, or having it very often, three or more times weekly.
Mereka yang di "sering" grup - sekali atau dua kali seminggu - telah Iga lebih tinggi daripada yang lain dalam tiga kelompok - yang dilaporkan sedang berpuasa, hubungan seks kurang dari sekali seminggu, atau memiliki itu sangat sering, tiga kali atau lebih mingguan.
3. Sex Burns Calories
Seks Membakar Kalori
Thirty minutes of sex burns 85 calories or more.
Tiga puluh menit dari seks luka bakar 85 kalori atau lebih.
It may not sound like much, but it adds up: 42 half-hour sessions will burn 3,570 calories, more than enough to lose a pound.
Mungkin tidak seperti suara banyak, tetapi menambahkan up: 42-setengah jam sesi akan membakar 3.570 kalori, lebih dari cukup untuk kehilangan setengah kilo.
Doubling up, you could drop that pound in 21 hour-long sessions.
Domplengan, Anda dapat drop yang setengah kilo dalam 21 jam-lama sesi.
"Sex is a great mode of exercise ," says Patti Britton, PhD, a Los Angeles sexologist and president of the American Association of Sexuality Educators and Therapists.
"Sex merupakan modus latihan," kata Patti Britton, PhD, yang Los Angeles sexologist dan presiden American Association of Seksualitas Pendidik dan Therapists.
It takes work, from both a physical and psychological perspective, to do it well, she says.
Memerlukan waktu bekerja, baik dari sebuah perspektif fisik dan psikologis, dengan baik, ujarnya.
4. Sex Improves Cardiovascular Health
Seks meningkatkan kesehatan kardiovaskuler
While some older folks may worry that the efforts expended during sex could cause a stroke , that's not so, according to researchers from England.
Sementara beberapa lama kepengurusan Mei khawatir bahwa upaya dihabiskan selama seks dapat menimbulkan stroke, yang tidak demikian, menurut peneliti dari Inggris.
In a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health , scientists found frequency of sex was not associated with stroke in the 914 men they followed for 20
years.
Dalam sebuah studi yang diterbitkan dalam Jurnal Epidemiologi dan Kesehatan Masyarakat, ilmuwan ditemukan frekuensi seks tidak terkait dengan stroke pada 914 laki-laki mereka diikuti selama 20 tahun.
And the heart health benefits of sex don't end there. Dan kesehatan jantung manfaat seks tidak ada akhir. The researchers also found that having sex twice or more a week reduced the risk of fatal heart attack by half for the men, compared with those who had sex less than once a month.
Para peneliti juga menemukan bahwa hubungan seks dua kali atau lebih seminggu mengurangi risiko fatal serangan jantung setengah untuk laki-laki, dibandingkan dengan mereka yang hubungan seks kurang dari sekali sebulan.
5. Sex Boosts Self-Esteem
Seks mendorong percaya diri
Boosting self-esteem was one of 237 reasons people have sex, collected by University of Texas researchers and published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Penguat diri merupakan salah satu dari 237 alasan orang berhubungan seks, dikumpulkan oleh peneliti Universitas Texas dan dipublikasikan dalam Archives dari Perilaku Seksual.
That finding makes sense to Gina Ogden, PhD, a sex therapist and marriage and family therapist in Cambridge, Mass., although she finds that those who already have self-esteem say they sometimes have sex to feel even better.
Menemukan yang masuk akal untuk Gina Ogden, PhD, seorang dokter seks dan perkawinan dan keluarga dokter di Cambridge, Mass., walaupun dia menemukan bahwa orang-orang yang telah memiliki diri berkata mereka kadang-kadang melakukan hubungan seks untuk merasa bahkan lebih baik.
"One of the reasons people say they have sex is to feel good about themselves," she tells WebMD.
"Salah satu alasan orang mengatakan mereka berhubungan seks adalah untuk merasa baik tentang sendiri," dia memberitahu WebMD.
"Great sex begins with self-esteem, and it raises it. If the sex is loving, connected, and what you want, it raises it."
"Great seks diawali dengan diri, dan menimbulkan itu. Jika seks adalah penyayang, terhubung, dan apa yang Anda inginkan, ia menimbulkan itu."
6. Sex Improves Intimacy
Seks meningkatkan keintiman
Having sex and orgasms increases levels of the hormone oxytocin, the so-called love hormone, which helps us bond and build trust.
Hubungan seks dan orgasms kenaikan tingkat dari hormon oxytocin, yang disebut hormon cinta, yang membantu kami membangun kepercayaan dan obligasi.
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of North Carolina evaluated 59 premenopausal women before and after warm contact with their husbands and partners ending with hugs.
Peneliti dari University of Pittsburgh dan University of North Carolina dievaluasi 59 premenopausal perempuan sebelum dan setelah hangat kontak dengan suami dan mitra berakhir dengan Tuhan.
They found that the more contact, the higher the oxytocin levels.
Mereka menemukan bahwa lebih banyak kontak, semakin tinggi tingkat oxytocin.
"Oxytocin allows us to feel the urge to nurture and to bond," Britton says.
"Oxytocin memungkinkan kami untuk merasakan menyegerakan untuk mendidik dan obligasi," ujar Britton.
Higher oxytocin has also been linked with a feeling of generosity.
Tinggi oxytocin juga telah terhubung dengan rasa hati.
So if you're feeling suddenly more generous toward your partner than usual, credit the love hormone.
Jadi jika anda merasa tiba-tiba lebih murah terhadap pasangan Anda dari biasanya, kredit kasih hormon.
7. Sex Reduces Pain
Seks mengurangi rasa sakit
As the hormone oxytocin surges, endorphins increase, and pain declines.
Sebagai hormon oxytocin surges, endorphins meningkatkan, dan nyeri berkurang.
So if your headache , arthritis pain, or PMS symptoms seem to improve after sex, you can thank those higher oxytocin levels.
Jadi jika Anda sakit kepala, arthritis sakit, atau PMS gejala tampaknya untuk meningkatkan setelah seks, Anda dapat terima kasih oxytocin tingkat yang lebih tinggi.
In a study published in the Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine, 48 volunteers who inhaled oxytocin vapor and then had their fingers pricked lowered their pain threshold by more than half.
Dalam studi yang dipublikasikan dalam Buletin eksperimental Biologi dan Kedokteran, 48 relawan yang dihidu oxytocin uap dan kemudian mereka telah menurunkan tusuk jari mereka sakit ambang batas oleh lebih dari setengah.
8. Sex Reduces Prostate Cancer Risk
Seks mengurangi risiko kanker prostat
Frequent ejaculations, especially in 20-something men, may reduce the risk of prostate cancer later in life, Australian researchers reported in the British Journal of Urology International. When they followed men diagnosed with prostate cancer and those without, they found no association of prostate cancer with the number of sexual partners as the men reached their 30s, 40s, and 50s.
Sering ejaculations, khususnya dalam sesuatu-20 laki-laki, dapat mengurangi risiko kanker prostat nanti dalam kehidupan, Australia dilaporkan peneliti di British Jurnal Urologi Internasional. Ketika mereka diikuti manusia didiagnosis dengan kanker prostat dan orang-orang, mereka tidak menemukan asosiasi prostat kanker dengan jumlah mitra seksual sebagai laki-laki mereka mencapai 30-an, 40-an, dan 50s.
But they found men who had five or more ejaculations weekly while in their 20s reduced their risk of getting prostate cancer later by a third.
Tetapi mereka menemukan laki-laki yang mempunyai lima atau lebih ejaculations mingguan sementara mereka dalam 20-an mengurangi risiko mereka mendapatkan kanker prostat nanti oleh ketiga.
Another study, reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association , found that frequent ejaculations, 21 or more a month, were linked to lower prostate cancer risk in older men, as well, compared with less frequent ejaculations of four to seven monthly.
Studi lainnya, yang dilaporkan dalam Jurnal American Medical Association, yang sering ditemukan ejaculations, 21 atau lebih satu bulan, yang terkait untuk menurunkan resiko kanker prostat pada laki-laki tua, juga, dibandingkan dengan ejaculations sering kurang dari empat sampai tujuh bulanan.
9. Sex Strengthens Pelvic Floor Muscles
Seks memperkuat otot panggul lantai
For women, doing a few pelvic floor muscle exercises known as Kegels during sex offers a couple of benefits.
Untuk perempuan, melakukan beberapa latihan otot panggul lantai dikenal sebagai Kegels selama seks menawarkan beberapa keuntungan.
You will enjoy more pleasure, and you'll also strengthen the area and help to minimize the risk of incontinence later in life.
Anda akan menikmati lebih senang, dan Anda juga akan memperkuat kawasan dan membantu untuk meminimalkan risiko sifat tdk bertarak nanti dalam hidup.
To do a basic Kegel exercise , tighten the muscles of your pelvic floor, as if you're trying to stop the flow of urine.
Dasar untuk melakukan latihan Kegel, kencangkan otot yang Anda panggul lantai, seperti jika Anda mencoba untuk menghentikan aliran air seni. Count to three, then release. Hitungan ke tiga, kemudian lepaskan.
10. Sex Helps You Sleep Better
Seks membantu Anda tidur lebih baik
The oxytocin released during orgasm also promotes sleep , according to research.
Oxytocin yang dilepaskan selama Memang juga mempromosikan tidur, menurut penelitian.
And getting enough sleep has been linked with a host of other good things, such as maintaining a healthy weight and blood pressure.
Dan mendapatkan cukup tidur telah terhubung dengan sejumlah lainnya baik-baik, seperti menjaga berat badan yang sehat dan tekanan darah.
Something to think about, especially if you've been wondering why your guy can be active one minute and snoring the next.
Berpikir tentang sesuatu, terutama jika Anda telah heran mengapa penjahat Anda dapat aktif satu menit dan keruh berikutnya.
by WebMD
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Ditranslasi menggunakan google translator.
Turns out sex is good for you in ways you may never have imagined.
Ternyata seks adalah baik untuk Anda dalam cara Anda mungkin belum pernah membayangkan.
By Kathleen Doheny
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
When you're in the mood, it's a sure bet that the last thing on your mind is boosting your immune system or maintaining a healthy weight .
Bila Anda sedang dalam suasana hati, dia adalah bertaruh yakin bahwa hal terakhir di pikiran Anda adalah penguat sistem kekebalan tubuh Anda atau mempertahankan berat sehat.
Yet good sex offers those health benefits and more.
Namun baik seks yang menawarkan manfaat kesehatan dan banyak lagi.
That's a surprise to many people, says Joy Davidson, PhD, a New York psychologist and sex therapist.
Itu adalah kejutan untuk banyak orang, kata Joy Davidson, PhD, seorang psikolog New York dan dokter seks.
"Of course, sex is everywhere in the media," she says.
"Tentu saja, seks adalah di mana-mana media," ujarnya.
"But the idea that we are vital, sexual creatures is still looked at in some cases with disgust or in other cases a bit of embarrassment. So to really take a look at how our sexuality adds to our life and enhances our life and our health, both physical and psychological, is eye-opening for many people."
"Tetapi kami ide yang sangat penting, makhluk seksual masih pada beberapa kasus dengan Rahmat atau dalam kasus lain sedikit malu. Jadi untuk benar-benar melihat bagaimana kami menambahkan seks kami untuk kehidupan dan meningkatkan kehidupan kami dan kami kesehatan , Baik fisik dan psikologis, adalah untuk membuka mata banyak orang. "
Sex does a body good in a number of ways, according to Davidson and other experts.
Seks tubuh yang tidak baik dalam beberapa cara, menurut Davidson dan tenaga ahli lainnya.
The benefits aren't just anecdotal or hearsay -- each of these 10 health benefits of sex is backed by scientific scrutiny.
Manfaat tidak hanya anekdotal atau didengar - tiap 10 manfaat kesehatan dari seks adalah didukung oleh keterbukaan ilmiah.
Among the benefits of healthy loving in a relationship:
Di antara manfaat sehat penuh kasih dalam hubungan:
1. Sex Relieves Stress
Seks Melegakan stress
A big health benefit of sex is lower blood pressure and overall stress reduction, according to researchers from Scotland who reported their findings in the journal Biological Psychology. They studied 24 women and 22 men who kept records of their sexual activity.
Kesehatan yang besar manfaat dari seks lebih rendah tekanan darah dan keseluruhan stres pengurangan, menurut peneliti dari Skotlandia yang melaporkan temuan di jurnal Biologi Psikologi. Mereka belajar 24 perempuan dan 22 laki-laki yang dipelihara catatan aktivitas seksual mereka.
Then the researchers subjected them to stressful situations -- such as speaking in public and doing verbal arithmetic -- and noted their blood pressure response to stress.
Kemudian para peneliti sasaran mereka untuk situasi stress - seperti berbicara di depan umum dan melakukan aritmatika lisan - dan mencatat tekanan darah mereka menanggapi stres.
Those who had intercourse had better responses to stress than those who engaged in other sexual behaviors or abstained.
Orang-orang yang mempunyai hubungan yang lebih baik untuk stres tanggapan dari orang-orang yang terlibat dalam perilaku seksual atau lain abstained.
Another study published in the same journal found that frequent intercourse was associated with lower diastolic blood pressure in cohabiting participants. Yet other research found a link between partner hugs and lower blood pressure in women.
Studi lain yang dipublikasikan di jurnal yang sama menemukan bahwa hubungan ini sering dikaitkan dengan tekanan darah diastolic lebih rendah di cohabiting peserta. Namun penelitian lain menemukan hubungan antara Tuhan dan mitra menurunkan tekanan darah dalam perempuan.
2. Sex Boosts Immunity
Seks mendorong imunitas
Good sexual health may mean better physical health.
Baik kesehatan seksual mungkin berarti lebih baik kesehatan fisik.
Having sex once or twice a week has been linked with higher levels of an antibody called immunoglobulin A or IgA, which can protect you from getting colds and other infections.
Hubungan seks sekali atau dua kali seminggu telah terhubung dengan tingkat yang lebih tinggi dari yang disebut antibodi immunoglobulin A atau Iga, yang dapat melindungi Anda dari mendapatkan angin dan infeksi lain.
Scientists at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., took samples of saliva, which contain IgA, from 112 college students who reported the frequency of sex they had.
Ilmuwan di Universitas Wilkes di Wilkes-Barre, Pa, mengambil sampel air liur, yang berisi Iga, dari 112 mahasiswa yang dilaporkan frekuensi seks mereka.
Those in the "frequent" group -- once or twice a week -- had higher levels of IgA than those in the other three groups -- who reported being abstinent, having sex less than once a week, or having it very often, three or more times weekly.
Mereka yang di "sering" grup - sekali atau dua kali seminggu - telah Iga lebih tinggi daripada yang lain dalam tiga kelompok - yang dilaporkan sedang berpuasa, hubungan seks kurang dari sekali seminggu, atau memiliki itu sangat sering, tiga kali atau lebih mingguan.
3. Sex Burns Calories
Seks Membakar Kalori
Thirty minutes of sex burns 85 calories or more.
Tiga puluh menit dari seks luka bakar 85 kalori atau lebih.
It may not sound like much, but it adds up: 42 half-hour sessions will burn 3,570 calories, more than enough to lose a pound.
Mungkin tidak seperti suara banyak, tetapi menambahkan up: 42-setengah jam sesi akan membakar 3.570 kalori, lebih dari cukup untuk kehilangan setengah kilo.
Doubling up, you could drop that pound in 21 hour-long sessions.
Domplengan, Anda dapat drop yang setengah kilo dalam 21 jam-lama sesi.
"Sex is a great mode of exercise ," says Patti Britton, PhD, a Los Angeles sexologist and president of the American Association of Sexuality Educators and Therapists.
"Sex merupakan modus latihan," kata Patti Britton, PhD, yang Los Angeles sexologist dan presiden American Association of Seksualitas Pendidik dan Therapists.
It takes work, from both a physical and psychological perspective, to do it well, she says.
Memerlukan waktu bekerja, baik dari sebuah perspektif fisik dan psikologis, dengan baik, ujarnya.
4. Sex Improves Cardiovascular Health
Seks meningkatkan kesehatan kardiovaskuler
While some older folks may worry that the efforts expended during sex could cause a stroke , that's not so, according to researchers from England.
Sementara beberapa lama kepengurusan Mei khawatir bahwa upaya dihabiskan selama seks dapat menimbulkan stroke, yang tidak demikian, menurut peneliti dari Inggris.
In a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health , scientists found frequency of sex was not associated with stroke in the 914 men they followed for 20
years.
Dalam sebuah studi yang diterbitkan dalam Jurnal Epidemiologi dan Kesehatan Masyarakat, ilmuwan ditemukan frekuensi seks tidak terkait dengan stroke pada 914 laki-laki mereka diikuti selama 20 tahun.
And the heart health benefits of sex don't end there. Dan kesehatan jantung manfaat seks tidak ada akhir. The researchers also found that having sex twice or more a week reduced the risk of fatal heart attack by half for the men, compared with those who had sex less than once a month.
Para peneliti juga menemukan bahwa hubungan seks dua kali atau lebih seminggu mengurangi risiko fatal serangan jantung setengah untuk laki-laki, dibandingkan dengan mereka yang hubungan seks kurang dari sekali sebulan.
5. Sex Boosts Self-Esteem
Seks mendorong percaya diri
Boosting self-esteem was one of 237 reasons people have sex, collected by University of Texas researchers and published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Penguat diri merupakan salah satu dari 237 alasan orang berhubungan seks, dikumpulkan oleh peneliti Universitas Texas dan dipublikasikan dalam Archives dari Perilaku Seksual.
That finding makes sense to Gina Ogden, PhD, a sex therapist and marriage and family therapist in Cambridge, Mass., although she finds that those who already have self-esteem say they sometimes have sex to feel even better.
Menemukan yang masuk akal untuk Gina Ogden, PhD, seorang dokter seks dan perkawinan dan keluarga dokter di Cambridge, Mass., walaupun dia menemukan bahwa orang-orang yang telah memiliki diri berkata mereka kadang-kadang melakukan hubungan seks untuk merasa bahkan lebih baik.
"One of the reasons people say they have sex is to feel good about themselves," she tells WebMD.
"Salah satu alasan orang mengatakan mereka berhubungan seks adalah untuk merasa baik tentang sendiri," dia memberitahu WebMD.
"Great sex begins with self-esteem, and it raises it. If the sex is loving, connected, and what you want, it raises it."
"Great seks diawali dengan diri, dan menimbulkan itu. Jika seks adalah penyayang, terhubung, dan apa yang Anda inginkan, ia menimbulkan itu."
6. Sex Improves Intimacy
Seks meningkatkan keintiman
Having sex and orgasms increases levels of the hormone oxytocin, the so-called love hormone, which helps us bond and build trust.
Hubungan seks dan orgasms kenaikan tingkat dari hormon oxytocin, yang disebut hormon cinta, yang membantu kami membangun kepercayaan dan obligasi.
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of North Carolina evaluated 59 premenopausal women before and after warm contact with their husbands and partners ending with hugs.
Peneliti dari University of Pittsburgh dan University of North Carolina dievaluasi 59 premenopausal perempuan sebelum dan setelah hangat kontak dengan suami dan mitra berakhir dengan Tuhan.
They found that the more contact, the higher the oxytocin levels.
Mereka menemukan bahwa lebih banyak kontak, semakin tinggi tingkat oxytocin.
"Oxytocin allows us to feel the urge to nurture and to bond," Britton says.
"Oxytocin memungkinkan kami untuk merasakan menyegerakan untuk mendidik dan obligasi," ujar Britton.
Higher oxytocin has also been linked with a feeling of generosity.
Tinggi oxytocin juga telah terhubung dengan rasa hati.
So if you're feeling suddenly more generous toward your partner than usual, credit the love hormone.
Jadi jika anda merasa tiba-tiba lebih murah terhadap pasangan Anda dari biasanya, kredit kasih hormon.
7. Sex Reduces Pain
Seks mengurangi rasa sakit
As the hormone oxytocin surges, endorphins increase, and pain declines.
Sebagai hormon oxytocin surges, endorphins meningkatkan, dan nyeri berkurang.
So if your headache , arthritis pain, or PMS symptoms seem to improve after sex, you can thank those higher oxytocin levels.
Jadi jika Anda sakit kepala, arthritis sakit, atau PMS gejala tampaknya untuk meningkatkan setelah seks, Anda dapat terima kasih oxytocin tingkat yang lebih tinggi.
In a study published in the Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine, 48 volunteers who inhaled oxytocin vapor and then had their fingers pricked lowered their pain threshold by more than half.
Dalam studi yang dipublikasikan dalam Buletin eksperimental Biologi dan Kedokteran, 48 relawan yang dihidu oxytocin uap dan kemudian mereka telah menurunkan tusuk jari mereka sakit ambang batas oleh lebih dari setengah.
8. Sex Reduces Prostate Cancer Risk
Seks mengurangi risiko kanker prostat
Frequent ejaculations, especially in 20-something men, may reduce the risk of prostate cancer later in life, Australian researchers reported in the British Journal of Urology International. When they followed men diagnosed with prostate cancer and those without, they found no association of prostate cancer with the number of sexual partners as the men reached their 30s, 40s, and 50s.
Sering ejaculations, khususnya dalam sesuatu-20 laki-laki, dapat mengurangi risiko kanker prostat nanti dalam kehidupan, Australia dilaporkan peneliti di British Jurnal Urologi Internasional. Ketika mereka diikuti manusia didiagnosis dengan kanker prostat dan orang-orang, mereka tidak menemukan asosiasi prostat kanker dengan jumlah mitra seksual sebagai laki-laki mereka mencapai 30-an, 40-an, dan 50s.
But they found men who had five or more ejaculations weekly while in their 20s reduced their risk of getting prostate cancer later by a third.
Tetapi mereka menemukan laki-laki yang mempunyai lima atau lebih ejaculations mingguan sementara mereka dalam 20-an mengurangi risiko mereka mendapatkan kanker prostat nanti oleh ketiga.
Another study, reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association , found that frequent ejaculations, 21 or more a month, were linked to lower prostate cancer risk in older men, as well, compared with less frequent ejaculations of four to seven monthly.
Studi lainnya, yang dilaporkan dalam Jurnal American Medical Association, yang sering ditemukan ejaculations, 21 atau lebih satu bulan, yang terkait untuk menurunkan resiko kanker prostat pada laki-laki tua, juga, dibandingkan dengan ejaculations sering kurang dari empat sampai tujuh bulanan.
9. Sex Strengthens Pelvic Floor Muscles
Seks memperkuat otot panggul lantai
For women, doing a few pelvic floor muscle exercises known as Kegels during sex offers a couple of benefits.
Untuk perempuan, melakukan beberapa latihan otot panggul lantai dikenal sebagai Kegels selama seks menawarkan beberapa keuntungan.
You will enjoy more pleasure, and you'll also strengthen the area and help to minimize the risk of incontinence later in life.
Anda akan menikmati lebih senang, dan Anda juga akan memperkuat kawasan dan membantu untuk meminimalkan risiko sifat tdk bertarak nanti dalam hidup.
To do a basic Kegel exercise , tighten the muscles of your pelvic floor, as if you're trying to stop the flow of urine.
Dasar untuk melakukan latihan Kegel, kencangkan otot yang Anda panggul lantai, seperti jika Anda mencoba untuk menghentikan aliran air seni. Count to three, then release. Hitungan ke tiga, kemudian lepaskan.
10. Sex Helps You Sleep Better
Seks membantu Anda tidur lebih baik
The oxytocin released during orgasm also promotes sleep , according to research.
Oxytocin yang dilepaskan selama Memang juga mempromosikan tidur, menurut penelitian.
And getting enough sleep has been linked with a host of other good things, such as maintaining a healthy weight and blood pressure.
Dan mendapatkan cukup tidur telah terhubung dengan sejumlah lainnya baik-baik, seperti menjaga berat badan yang sehat dan tekanan darah.
Something to think about, especially if you've been wondering why your guy can be active one minute and snoring the next.
Berpikir tentang sesuatu, terutama jika Anda telah heran mengapa penjahat Anda dapat aktif satu menit dan keruh berikutnya.
by WebMD
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Harga emas turun terus...huh
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Harga emas merosot tajam dan mencatat kinerja bulanan terburuk. Harga emas tercatat turun hingga 17 persen selama Oktober, yang merupakan penurunan bulanan terbesar dalam 25 tahun terakhir.
Penurunan harga emas secara bulanan yang terbesar hingga 18,2% sempat dicatat pada Februari 1983. Harga emas sempat menembus level tertingginya di US$ 1.030,80 per ounce pada Maret 2008.
Pada perdagangan Jumat (31/10/2008), harga emas diperdagangkan di level US$ 720,35 per ounce, turun 2,1% dibandingkan penutupan Kamis di US$ 735,50 per ounce. Harga terendah emas dicatat pada US$ 680,80 per ounce pada pekan lalu.
Harga emas terus turun seiring penguatan dolar AS. Penguatan dolar AS membuat komoditas yang berdenominasi dolar menjadi terlihat murah.
"Harga emas hari ini bergerak terutama karena pergerakan mata uang. Pada akhir bulan, pergerakan disebabkan karena dolar," ujar Simon Weeks, Direktur logam berharga di Bank of Nova Scotia, seperti dikutip dari Reuters, Sabtu (1/11/2008).
"Kunci utama pendorong emas saat ini adalah dolar AS yang sepertinya akan terus menguat, dan tentu saja hal itu berarti negatif untuk emas," ujar seorang pialang di London.
taken from detikfinance.com
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Harga emas merosot tajam dan mencatat kinerja bulanan terburuk. Harga emas tercatat turun hingga 17 persen selama Oktober, yang merupakan penurunan bulanan terbesar dalam 25 tahun terakhir.
Penurunan harga emas secara bulanan yang terbesar hingga 18,2% sempat dicatat pada Februari 1983. Harga emas sempat menembus level tertingginya di US$ 1.030,80 per ounce pada Maret 2008.
Pada perdagangan Jumat (31/10/2008), harga emas diperdagangkan di level US$ 720,35 per ounce, turun 2,1% dibandingkan penutupan Kamis di US$ 735,50 per ounce. Harga terendah emas dicatat pada US$ 680,80 per ounce pada pekan lalu.
Harga emas terus turun seiring penguatan dolar AS. Penguatan dolar AS membuat komoditas yang berdenominasi dolar menjadi terlihat murah.
"Harga emas hari ini bergerak terutama karena pergerakan mata uang. Pada akhir bulan, pergerakan disebabkan karena dolar," ujar Simon Weeks, Direktur logam berharga di Bank of Nova Scotia, seperti dikutip dari Reuters, Sabtu (1/11/2008).
"Kunci utama pendorong emas saat ini adalah dolar AS yang sepertinya akan terus menguat, dan tentu saja hal itu berarti negatif untuk emas," ujar seorang pialang di London.
taken from detikfinance.com
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Facts about Executive Search Firms and Health Care Recruiters
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Artikel ini bisa ditranslate ke bahasa indonesia menggunakan google translate widget.
1) If you are job hunting, you should send your resume to recruiters.
Different recruiters know about different positions. They do not usually know about the same ones. This is particularly true with retained firms. By sending your resume out widely, you will be placed in many different confidential databases and be alerted of many different positions. If you send your resume to only a few, it may be that none you send to will be working with positions which are suited for you. Throw your net widely. If you change jobs, it is also wise to send follow-up letters to the recruiters and alert them of your new career move. Many search firms follow people throughout their careers and enjoy being kept up-to-date. It is a good idea to have your resume formatted in plain text so you can copy and paste it into email messages when requested to do so. Then, follow up with a nicely formatted copy on paper by postal mail.
Some people estimate that only 1% to 3% of all resumes sent will result in actual job interviews. So, if you only send 50 resumes, you may only have less than 2 interviews, if that many. Send your resume to as many recruiters as you can. It is worth the postage. Generally, recruiters will not share your resume with any employer or give your name to anyone else without obtaining your specific permission to do so. The recruiter will call first, talk to you about a particular position and then ask your permission to share your resume with that employer.
2) Your resume will be kept strictly confidential by the executive search firm.
Recruiters are professionals. They recognize that in order to assist job seekers and professionals in their career development, they will need to ensure the professional of strict confidentiality. What this means is that the recruiter will hold all of your information confidential at all times. It is, in fact, safe to submit your resume to a search firm and not worry that the search firm will let it leak out that your are job searching. Recruiters will call you each and every time they wish to present you to an employer in order to gain your permission. Only after they have gained your permission will they submit your name or resume to the identified employer. The wonderful aspect of working with search firms is that you can manage your career and your job search in confidence and privacy. Also, keep in mind that recruiters know about your industry and they know about job openings that you may never hear about on your own. Pick a handful of trusty recruiters whom you will allow to follow you throughout your career. They can also be good confidantes, sounding boards and advisors, whether or not you are contemplating a job change.
3) Fees are always paid by the employer, not the job candidate.
Recruiters and search firms work for the employer or hiring entity. The employer pays them a fee for locating the right individual for the job opening. This is important to remember, in that when you interact with executive recruiters, you are essentially interacting with an agent or representative of the employer. Recruiters are more loyal to employers than they are to job candidates because they work for the employer. This should not present a problem, but, should cause you to develop your relationship with the recruiter with the same integrity and professionalism that you would with the employer.
Recruiters are paid fees in one of two ways - retainer fees or contingency fees. This is an important distinction and will affect your process with both the employer and the recruiter. Some employers prefer working with contingency firms and some with retained firms. Both are respected by employers and useful in your job search, but, the two types of firms will not be handling the same positions with the same employers simultaneously. The "retained" recruiter has entered an exclusive contract with an employer to fill a particular position. The retained recruiter, then, is likely to advertise a position, sharing the specifics of the position, location and employer openly. The retained firm feels a great obligation to fulfill the contract by finding the best person for the job. The contingency recruiter, on the other hand, usually does not have an exclusive relationship with the employer, and is only paid a fee if the job search is successful. Often, if the employer uses contingency firms, there will be more than one contingency firm competing to fill a certain position. As a job hunter, if you are sent to an interview by a contingency firm, you may find that you are competing with with a larger number of applicants for a position. Generally, retained firms only send in from 3 to 5 candidates for a position.
Recruiters will be paid fees equal to about 25% to 35% of the resulting salary of the successful candidate plus expenses. This does not come out of the job candidate's salary. This is paid to the recruiter through a separate relationship between the employer and the search firm. These may seem like large fees to you, but, keep in mind that recruiters incur a great many expenses when searching for successful job candidates. They spend enormous amounts of money on computer systems, long distance calls, mail-outs, travel and interviews. Recruiters work very hard for these fees. Employers recognize the value of using recruiters and are more than willing to pay recruiters the fees. All you have to do is contact the recruiter to get the process moving.
4) Not all healthcare recruiters work only in healthcare.
Some search firms work exclusively in healthcare, while others may work in several fields at once. Some of the larger generalist firms will have one or more search consultants that specialize in healthcare. It is important for you, as a job hunter, to assess the recruiters' knowledge of your field. If you use industry buzz words in describing your skills, experience or career aspirations, you may or may not be talking a language the recruiter understands fully. It is wise to explore fully with the recruiter his understanding of your field and area of specialization. For a list of recruiters with experience in healthcare, you may wish to consult the Directory of Healthcare Recruiters.
5) Recruiters and search consultants move around.
Recruiters, like many professionals, move to new firms during their careers. Often you will find that recruiters will work at several firms during their careers. Since it is much more effective to address your letters to a person rather than "to whom it may concern", it is smart for job hunters to have accurate and up-to-date information about who is who and where, since this can change frequently. Search firms also move their offices, sometimes to another suite, street or state. If you have a list of recruiters that is over one year old, you will certainly waste some postage in mailing your resumes and cover letters. Many of your mail-outs will be returned to you stamped "non-deliverable", unless you obtain an up-to-date list. The Directory of Healthcare Recruiters is updated very frequently, usually monthly. If you ordered a Directory in years past, it is wise to order another one. The money saved on postage will pay for the Directory. Also, keep in mind that money spent on materials such as postage, resume paper and resources like the Directory are tax deductible if you are job hunting.
6) Most search firms work with positions all over the country.
If you are from a particular state, and want to remain in that state, don't make the mistake of only sending your resume to recruiters in your state. Often the recruiters in your state are working on positions in other states, and recruiters in other states are working on positions in your state. This is usually the case. Very few recruiters in our Directory work only in their local area, most work all around the US and some internationally. Regardless of your geographic preference, you should still send your resume to all the healthcare recruiters. Our own search firm, although located geographically in Kansas, is a national firm. We place candidates all over the US. For more information about us, go to About Us. If you really only want to remain in your area, you can specify that preference in your cover letter. Do keep in mind, however, that by stating your geographic preference, you may be eliminating yourself from the running for a dream job somewhere else.
7) Recruiters primarily work with hard to fill positions or executive positions.
Some recruiters specialize in managed care executive positions, healthcare financial positions or health administration positions. Others may specialize in finding doctors, nurses or physical therapists. Generally, an employer does not engage a recruiter's assistance in filling a position unless it is hard to fill. Sometimes employers will engage search firms to save them the valuable time of advertising or combing through dozens of resumes. Contingency recruiters tend to work with more mid-level management and professional positions, but, this is not always the case. Retained firms generally work with the higher level clinical or administrative positions. One thing you will be assured of is that if a recruiter is working on a position, that means that the employer is willing to pay a fee. That usually means that the position is a valued position and one worth closer inspection on your part. Our economy is an "Employer's Market". This means that employers receive a deluge of resumes for their open positions. Increasingly, employers are using recruitment firms to handle their openings and schedule the interviews because employers simply do not have the manpower or time to handle the many resumes they receive. Therefore, if a job hunter is submitted by a recruiter, that job hunter has a great advantage over all other applicants.
by Pam Pohly's Net Guide.
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Artikel ini bisa ditranslate ke bahasa indonesia menggunakan google translate widget.
1) If you are job hunting, you should send your resume to recruiters.
Different recruiters know about different positions. They do not usually know about the same ones. This is particularly true with retained firms. By sending your resume out widely, you will be placed in many different confidential databases and be alerted of many different positions. If you send your resume to only a few, it may be that none you send to will be working with positions which are suited for you. Throw your net widely. If you change jobs, it is also wise to send follow-up letters to the recruiters and alert them of your new career move. Many search firms follow people throughout their careers and enjoy being kept up-to-date. It is a good idea to have your resume formatted in plain text so you can copy and paste it into email messages when requested to do so. Then, follow up with a nicely formatted copy on paper by postal mail.
Some people estimate that only 1% to 3% of all resumes sent will result in actual job interviews. So, if you only send 50 resumes, you may only have less than 2 interviews, if that many. Send your resume to as many recruiters as you can. It is worth the postage. Generally, recruiters will not share your resume with any employer or give your name to anyone else without obtaining your specific permission to do so. The recruiter will call first, talk to you about a particular position and then ask your permission to share your resume with that employer.
2) Your resume will be kept strictly confidential by the executive search firm.
Recruiters are professionals. They recognize that in order to assist job seekers and professionals in their career development, they will need to ensure the professional of strict confidentiality. What this means is that the recruiter will hold all of your information confidential at all times. It is, in fact, safe to submit your resume to a search firm and not worry that the search firm will let it leak out that your are job searching. Recruiters will call you each and every time they wish to present you to an employer in order to gain your permission. Only after they have gained your permission will they submit your name or resume to the identified employer. The wonderful aspect of working with search firms is that you can manage your career and your job search in confidence and privacy. Also, keep in mind that recruiters know about your industry and they know about job openings that you may never hear about on your own. Pick a handful of trusty recruiters whom you will allow to follow you throughout your career. They can also be good confidantes, sounding boards and advisors, whether or not you are contemplating a job change.
3) Fees are always paid by the employer, not the job candidate.
Recruiters and search firms work for the employer or hiring entity. The employer pays them a fee for locating the right individual for the job opening. This is important to remember, in that when you interact with executive recruiters, you are essentially interacting with an agent or representative of the employer. Recruiters are more loyal to employers than they are to job candidates because they work for the employer. This should not present a problem, but, should cause you to develop your relationship with the recruiter with the same integrity and professionalism that you would with the employer.
Recruiters are paid fees in one of two ways - retainer fees or contingency fees. This is an important distinction and will affect your process with both the employer and the recruiter. Some employers prefer working with contingency firms and some with retained firms. Both are respected by employers and useful in your job search, but, the two types of firms will not be handling the same positions with the same employers simultaneously. The "retained" recruiter has entered an exclusive contract with an employer to fill a particular position. The retained recruiter, then, is likely to advertise a position, sharing the specifics of the position, location and employer openly. The retained firm feels a great obligation to fulfill the contract by finding the best person for the job. The contingency recruiter, on the other hand, usually does not have an exclusive relationship with the employer, and is only paid a fee if the job search is successful. Often, if the employer uses contingency firms, there will be more than one contingency firm competing to fill a certain position. As a job hunter, if you are sent to an interview by a contingency firm, you may find that you are competing with with a larger number of applicants for a position. Generally, retained firms only send in from 3 to 5 candidates for a position.
Recruiters will be paid fees equal to about 25% to 35% of the resulting salary of the successful candidate plus expenses. This does not come out of the job candidate's salary. This is paid to the recruiter through a separate relationship between the employer and the search firm. These may seem like large fees to you, but, keep in mind that recruiters incur a great many expenses when searching for successful job candidates. They spend enormous amounts of money on computer systems, long distance calls, mail-outs, travel and interviews. Recruiters work very hard for these fees. Employers recognize the value of using recruiters and are more than willing to pay recruiters the fees. All you have to do is contact the recruiter to get the process moving.
4) Not all healthcare recruiters work only in healthcare.
Some search firms work exclusively in healthcare, while others may work in several fields at once. Some of the larger generalist firms will have one or more search consultants that specialize in healthcare. It is important for you, as a job hunter, to assess the recruiters' knowledge of your field. If you use industry buzz words in describing your skills, experience or career aspirations, you may or may not be talking a language the recruiter understands fully. It is wise to explore fully with the recruiter his understanding of your field and area of specialization. For a list of recruiters with experience in healthcare, you may wish to consult the Directory of Healthcare Recruiters.
5) Recruiters and search consultants move around.
Recruiters, like many professionals, move to new firms during their careers. Often you will find that recruiters will work at several firms during their careers. Since it is much more effective to address your letters to a person rather than "to whom it may concern", it is smart for job hunters to have accurate and up-to-date information about who is who and where, since this can change frequently. Search firms also move their offices, sometimes to another suite, street or state. If you have a list of recruiters that is over one year old, you will certainly waste some postage in mailing your resumes and cover letters. Many of your mail-outs will be returned to you stamped "non-deliverable", unless you obtain an up-to-date list. The Directory of Healthcare Recruiters is updated very frequently, usually monthly. If you ordered a Directory in years past, it is wise to order another one. The money saved on postage will pay for the Directory. Also, keep in mind that money spent on materials such as postage, resume paper and resources like the Directory are tax deductible if you are job hunting.
6) Most search firms work with positions all over the country.
If you are from a particular state, and want to remain in that state, don't make the mistake of only sending your resume to recruiters in your state. Often the recruiters in your state are working on positions in other states, and recruiters in other states are working on positions in your state. This is usually the case. Very few recruiters in our Directory work only in their local area, most work all around the US and some internationally. Regardless of your geographic preference, you should still send your resume to all the healthcare recruiters. Our own search firm, although located geographically in Kansas, is a national firm. We place candidates all over the US. For more information about us, go to About Us. If you really only want to remain in your area, you can specify that preference in your cover letter. Do keep in mind, however, that by stating your geographic preference, you may be eliminating yourself from the running for a dream job somewhere else.
7) Recruiters primarily work with hard to fill positions or executive positions.
Some recruiters specialize in managed care executive positions, healthcare financial positions or health administration positions. Others may specialize in finding doctors, nurses or physical therapists. Generally, an employer does not engage a recruiter's assistance in filling a position unless it is hard to fill. Sometimes employers will engage search firms to save them the valuable time of advertising or combing through dozens of resumes. Contingency recruiters tend to work with more mid-level management and professional positions, but, this is not always the case. Retained firms generally work with the higher level clinical or administrative positions. One thing you will be assured of is that if a recruiter is working on a position, that means that the employer is willing to pay a fee. That usually means that the position is a valued position and one worth closer inspection on your part. Our economy is an "Employer's Market". This means that employers receive a deluge of resumes for their open positions. Increasingly, employers are using recruitment firms to handle their openings and schedule the interviews because employers simply do not have the manpower or time to handle the many resumes they receive. Therefore, if a job hunter is submitted by a recruiter, that job hunter has a great advantage over all other applicants.
by Pam Pohly's Net Guide.
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Top 10 benefits of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Translated by google translator
Info ini saya ambil dari link ini http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101655201033.aspx
Alasan 1
Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience.
Sediakan sederhana, akrab, konsisten dan pengalaman pengguna.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 is tightly integrated with familiar client desktop applications, e-mail, and Web browsers to provide a consistent user experience that simplifies how people interact with content, processes, and business data.
Kantor SharePoint Server 2007 adalah rapat terpadu akrab dengan klien aplikasi desktop, e-mail, dan Web browser untuk konsisten memberikan pengalaman pengguna yang mempermudah cara orang berinteraksi dengan konten, proses, dan data bisnis.
This tight integration, coupled with robust out-of-the-box functionality, helps you employ services themselves and facilitates product adoption.
Ketat integrasi ini, digabungkan dengan kuat out-of-the-kotak fungsionalitas, membantu Anda menggunakan layanan sendiri dan memfasilitasi adopsi produk.
Alasan 2
Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities.
Meningkatkan produktivitas karyawan dengan menyederhanakan kegiatan bisnis sehari-hari.
Take advantage of out-of-the-box workflows for initiating, tracking, and reporting common business activities such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection.
Manfaatkan out-of-the-kotak workflows untuk memulai, pelacakan, dan pelaporan kegiatan usaha umum seperti memeriksa dokumen dan persetujuan, isu pelacakan, dan tanda tangan koleksi.
You can complete these activities without any coding.
Anda dapat melengkapi kegiatan ini tanpa coding.
Tight integration with familiar client applications, e-mail, and Web browsers provide you with a simple, consistent experience.
Ketat integrasi dengan aplikasi klien akrab, e-mail, dan Web browser menyediakan Anda dengan sederhana, konsisten pengalaman.
Modifying and extending these out-of-the-box workflow processes is made easy through tools like Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (the next release of Microsoft Office FrontPage).
Memodifikasi dan memperpanjang ini out-of-the-kotak proses kerja dibuat mudah melalui alat-alat seperti Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (rilis berikutnya dari Microsoft Office FrontPage).
Alasan 3
Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content.
Membantu memenuhi persyaratan-persyaratan yang komprehensif melalui kontrol atas konten.
By specifying security settings, storage policies, auditing policies, and expiration actions for business records in accordance with compliance regulations, you can help ensure your sensitive business information can be controlled and managed effectively.
Dengan menetapkan pengaturan keamanan, penyimpanan kebijakan, audit kebijakan, dan tindakan untuk bisnis kadaluarsa catatan sesuai dengan mematuhi peraturan, Anda dapat membantu memastikan Anda sensitif bisnis informasi dapat dikontrol dan dikelola secara efektif.
And you can reduce litigation risk for your organization.
Dan Anda dapat mengurangi risiko proses pengadilan untuk organisasi Anda.
Tight integration of Office SharePoint Server 2007 with familiar desktop applications means that policy settings are rendered onto client applications in the Microsoft Office system, making it simpler for employees to be aware of and comply with regulatory requirements.
Ketat integrasi Office SharePoint Server 2007 akrab dengan aplikasi desktop berarti bahwa kebijakan pengaturan yang diberikan ke klien aplikasi Microsoft Office di sistem, menjadikannya lebih sederhana untuk karyawan untuk mengetahui dan mematuhi persyaratan-persyaratan.
Alasan 4
Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value.
Secara efektif mengelola dan repurpose konten untuk mendapatkan peningkatan nilai bisnis.
Business users and content authors can create and submit content for approval and scheduled deployment to intranet or Internet sites.
Pengguna bisnis dan penulis konten dapat membuat dan mengirimkan konten untuk persetujuan dan penyebaran dijadwalkan untuk intranet atau situs-situs Internet.
Managing multilingual content is simplified through new document library templates that are specifically designed to maintain a relationship between the original version and different translations of a document.
Mengelola multi konten sederhana adalah melalui dokumen baru perpustakaan template yang dirancang khusus untuk menjaga hubungan antara versi asli dan terjemahan yang berbeda dari sebuah dokumen.
Alasan 5
Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems.
Menyederhanakan organisasi-lebar akses untuk kedua terstruktur googling dan di seluruh beda sistem informasi.
Give your users access to business data found in common line-of-business systems like SAP and Siebel through Office SharePoint Server 2007. Users can also create personalized views and interactions with business systems through a browser by dragging configurable back-end connections.
Memberikan Anda akses untuk pengguna bisnis data umum ditemukan di baris-dari-bisnis sistem seperti SAP dan Siebel melalui Kantor SharePoint Server 2007. Pengguna juga dapat membuat personalisasi dilihat dan interaksi dengan sistem bisnis melalui browser diatur kembali oleh seret-akhir sambungan.
Enterprise-wide Managed Document Repositories help your organizations store and organize business documents in one central location.
Perusahaan-lebar Dikelola Document Repositori membantu Anda menyimpan dan mengatur organisasi bisnis dokumen di satu lokasi pusat.
Alasan 6
Connect people with information and expertise.
Menghubungkan masyarakat dengan informasi dan keahlian.
Enterprise Search in Office SharePoint Server 2007 incorporates business data along with information about documents, people, and Web pages to produce comprehensive, relevant results.
Cari perusahaan di Kantor SharePoint Server 2007 memasukkan data usaha bersama dengan informasi tentang dokumen, orang, dan halaman Web untuk menghasilkan komprehensif, hasil yang relevan.
Features like duplicate collapsing, spelling correction, and alerts improve the relevance of the results, so you can easily find what you need.
Fitur-fitur seperti duplikat roboh, koreksi ejaan, dan tanda meningkatkan relevansi hasil, sehingga Anda dapat dengan mudah menemukan apa yang Anda butuhkan.
Alasan 7
Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries.
Bersama mempercepat proses bisnis di seluruh organisasi batas.
Without coding any custom applications, you can use smart, electronic forms–driven solutions to collect critical business information from customers, partners, and suppliers through a Web browser.
Tanpa coding apapun aplikasi kustom, Anda dapat menggunakan pintar, formulir elektronik didorong-solusi bisnis penting untuk mengumpulkan informasi dari para pelanggan, mitra, dan pemasok melalui browser Web.
Built-in data validation rules help you gather accurate and consistent data that can be directly integrated into back-end systems to avoid redundancy and errors that result from manual data re-entry.
Built-in validasi data aturan membantu Anda mengumpulkan data akurat dan konsisten yang dapat langsung terintegrasi ke dalam sistem back-end untuk menghindari kesalahan dan kelebihan bahwa hasil dari data manual masuk kembali.
Alasan 8
Share business data without divulging sensitive information.
Berbagi data bisnis tanpa divulging informasi sensitif.
Give your employees access to real-time, interactive Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser through Excel Services running on Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Memberikan akses karyawan Anda secara real-time, interaktif Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet dari browser Web melalui Excel Layanan yang berjalan di Kantor SharePoint Server 2007.
Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one central and up-to-date version while helping to protect any proprietary information embedded in the documents (such as financial models).
Menggunakan spreadsheet ini untuk mempertahankan dan efisien berbagi satu pusat dan up-to-date versi sementara untuk membantu melindungi informasi apapun milik tertanam dalam dokumen (seperti model keuangan).
Alasan 9
Enable people to make better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one central location.
Memungkinkan orang untuk membuat keputusan yang lebih baik-informasi oleh presentasi bisnis-informasi penting dalam satu lokasi pusat.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 makes it easy to create live, interactive business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and display business-critical information from disparate sources, using integrated BI capabilities such as dashboards, Web Parts, scorecards, key performance indicators (KPIs), and business data connectivity technologies.
Kantor SharePoint Server 2007 untuk mempermudah membuat hidup, interaktif bisnis intelijen (BI) portal yang berkumpul dan usaha menampilkan informasi-kritis dari sumber-beda, menggunakan terpadu BI kemampuan seperti panel kontrol, Web Parts, scorecards, key performance indicator (KPIs), konektivitas data bisnis dan teknologi.
Centralized Report Center sites give users a single place for locating the latest reports, spreadsheets, or KPIs.
Laporan terpusat situs Pusat memberikan pengguna satu tempat untuk locating laporan terbaru, spreadsheet, atau KPIs.
Alasan 10
Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise.
Menyediakan sebuah platform terpadu untuk mengelola intranet, extranet, Internet dan aplikasi di seluruh perusahaan.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on an open, scalable architecture, with support for Web services and interoperability standards including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).
Kantor SharePoint Server 2007 dibangun pada terbuka, scalable arsitektur, dengan dukungan layanan Web dan interoperabilitas standar termasuk XML dan Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).
The server has rich, open application programming interfaces (APIs) and event handlers for lists and documents.
Server telah kaya, membuka antarmuka pemrograman aplikasi (API) dan penangan acara untuk daftar dan dokumen.
These features provide integration with existing systems and the flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT investments.
Fitur-fitur ini menyediakan integrasi dengan sistem yang ada dan fleksibilitas untuk menggabungkan baru non-Microsoft investasi TI.
Cheers, frizzy2008
Translated by google translator
Info ini saya ambil dari link ini http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101655201033.aspx
Alasan 1
Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience.
Sediakan sederhana, akrab, konsisten dan pengalaman pengguna.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 is tightly integrated with familiar client desktop applications, e-mail, and Web browsers to provide a consistent user experience that simplifies how people interact with content, processes, and business data.
Kantor SharePoint Server 2007 adalah rapat terpadu akrab dengan klien aplikasi desktop, e-mail, dan Web browser untuk konsisten memberikan pengalaman pengguna yang mempermudah cara orang berinteraksi dengan konten, proses, dan data bisnis.
This tight integration, coupled with robust out-of-the-box functionality, helps you employ services themselves and facilitates product adoption.
Ketat integrasi ini, digabungkan dengan kuat out-of-the-kotak fungsionalitas, membantu Anda menggunakan layanan sendiri dan memfasilitasi adopsi produk.
Alasan 2
Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities.
Meningkatkan produktivitas karyawan dengan menyederhanakan kegiatan bisnis sehari-hari.
Take advantage of out-of-the-box workflows for initiating, tracking, and reporting common business activities such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection.
Manfaatkan out-of-the-kotak workflows untuk memulai, pelacakan, dan pelaporan kegiatan usaha umum seperti memeriksa dokumen dan persetujuan, isu pelacakan, dan tanda tangan koleksi.
You can complete these activities without any coding.
Anda dapat melengkapi kegiatan ini tanpa coding.
Tight integration with familiar client applications, e-mail, and Web browsers provide you with a simple, consistent experience.
Ketat integrasi dengan aplikasi klien akrab, e-mail, dan Web browser menyediakan Anda dengan sederhana, konsisten pengalaman.
Modifying and extending these out-of-the-box workflow processes is made easy through tools like Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (the next release of Microsoft Office FrontPage).
Memodifikasi dan memperpanjang ini out-of-the-kotak proses kerja dibuat mudah melalui alat-alat seperti Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (rilis berikutnya dari Microsoft Office FrontPage).
Alasan 3
Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content.
Membantu memenuhi persyaratan-persyaratan yang komprehensif melalui kontrol atas konten.
By specifying security settings, storage policies, auditing policies, and expiration actions for business records in accordance with compliance regulations, you can help ensure your sensitive business information can be controlled and managed effectively.
Dengan menetapkan pengaturan keamanan, penyimpanan kebijakan, audit kebijakan, dan tindakan untuk bisnis kadaluarsa catatan sesuai dengan mematuhi peraturan, Anda dapat membantu memastikan Anda sensitif bisnis informasi dapat dikontrol dan dikelola secara efektif.
And you can reduce litigation risk for your organization.
Dan Anda dapat mengurangi risiko proses pengadilan untuk organisasi Anda.
Tight integration of Office SharePoint Server 2007 with familiar desktop applications means that policy settings are rendered onto client applications in the Microsoft Office system, making it simpler for employees to be aware of and comply with regulatory requirements.
Ketat integrasi Office SharePoint Server 2007 akrab dengan aplikasi desktop berarti bahwa kebijakan pengaturan yang diberikan ke klien aplikasi Microsoft Office di sistem, menjadikannya lebih sederhana untuk karyawan untuk mengetahui dan mematuhi persyaratan-persyaratan.
Alasan 4
Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value.
Secara efektif mengelola dan repurpose konten untuk mendapatkan peningkatan nilai bisnis.
Business users and content authors can create and submit content for approval and scheduled deployment to intranet or Internet sites.
Pengguna bisnis dan penulis konten dapat membuat dan mengirimkan konten untuk persetujuan dan penyebaran dijadwalkan untuk intranet atau situs-situs Internet.
Managing multilingual content is simplified through new document library templates that are specifically designed to maintain a relationship between the original version and different translations of a document.
Mengelola multi konten sederhana adalah melalui dokumen baru perpustakaan template yang dirancang khusus untuk menjaga hubungan antara versi asli dan terjemahan yang berbeda dari sebuah dokumen.
Alasan 5
Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems.
Menyederhanakan organisasi-lebar akses untuk kedua terstruktur googling dan di seluruh beda sistem informasi.
Give your users access to business data found in common line-of-business systems like SAP and Siebel through Office SharePoint Server 2007. Users can also create personalized views and interactions with business systems through a browser by dragging configurable back-end connections.
Memberikan Anda akses untuk pengguna bisnis data umum ditemukan di baris-dari-bisnis sistem seperti SAP dan Siebel melalui Kantor SharePoint Server 2007. Pengguna juga dapat membuat personalisasi dilihat dan interaksi dengan sistem bisnis melalui browser diatur kembali oleh seret-akhir sambungan.
Enterprise-wide Managed Document Repositories help your organizations store and organize business documents in one central location.
Perusahaan-lebar Dikelola Document Repositori membantu Anda menyimpan dan mengatur organisasi bisnis dokumen di satu lokasi pusat.
Alasan 6
Connect people with information and expertise.
Menghubungkan masyarakat dengan informasi dan keahlian.
Enterprise Search in Office SharePoint Server 2007 incorporates business data along with information about documents, people, and Web pages to produce comprehensive, relevant results.
Cari perusahaan di Kantor SharePoint Server 2007 memasukkan data usaha bersama dengan informasi tentang dokumen, orang, dan halaman Web untuk menghasilkan komprehensif, hasil yang relevan.
Features like duplicate collapsing, spelling correction, and alerts improve the relevance of the results, so you can easily find what you need.
Fitur-fitur seperti duplikat roboh, koreksi ejaan, dan tanda meningkatkan relevansi hasil, sehingga Anda dapat dengan mudah menemukan apa yang Anda butuhkan.
Alasan 7
Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries.
Bersama mempercepat proses bisnis di seluruh organisasi batas.
Without coding any custom applications, you can use smart, electronic forms–driven solutions to collect critical business information from customers, partners, and suppliers through a Web browser.
Tanpa coding apapun aplikasi kustom, Anda dapat menggunakan pintar, formulir elektronik didorong-solusi bisnis penting untuk mengumpulkan informasi dari para pelanggan, mitra, dan pemasok melalui browser Web.
Built-in data validation rules help you gather accurate and consistent data that can be directly integrated into back-end systems to avoid redundancy and errors that result from manual data re-entry.
Built-in validasi data aturan membantu Anda mengumpulkan data akurat dan konsisten yang dapat langsung terintegrasi ke dalam sistem back-end untuk menghindari kesalahan dan kelebihan bahwa hasil dari data manual masuk kembali.
Alasan 8
Share business data without divulging sensitive information.
Berbagi data bisnis tanpa divulging informasi sensitif.
Give your employees access to real-time, interactive Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser through Excel Services running on Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Memberikan akses karyawan Anda secara real-time, interaktif Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet dari browser Web melalui Excel Layanan yang berjalan di Kantor SharePoint Server 2007.
Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one central and up-to-date version while helping to protect any proprietary information embedded in the documents (such as financial models).
Menggunakan spreadsheet ini untuk mempertahankan dan efisien berbagi satu pusat dan up-to-date versi sementara untuk membantu melindungi informasi apapun milik tertanam dalam dokumen (seperti model keuangan).
Alasan 9
Enable people to make better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one central location.
Memungkinkan orang untuk membuat keputusan yang lebih baik-informasi oleh presentasi bisnis-informasi penting dalam satu lokasi pusat.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 makes it easy to create live, interactive business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and display business-critical information from disparate sources, using integrated BI capabilities such as dashboards, Web Parts, scorecards, key performance indicators (KPIs), and business data connectivity technologies.
Kantor SharePoint Server 2007 untuk mempermudah membuat hidup, interaktif bisnis intelijen (BI) portal yang berkumpul dan usaha menampilkan informasi-kritis dari sumber-beda, menggunakan terpadu BI kemampuan seperti panel kontrol, Web Parts, scorecards, key performance indicator (KPIs), konektivitas data bisnis dan teknologi.
Centralized Report Center sites give users a single place for locating the latest reports, spreadsheets, or KPIs.
Laporan terpusat situs Pusat memberikan pengguna satu tempat untuk locating laporan terbaru, spreadsheet, atau KPIs.
Alasan 10
Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise.
Menyediakan sebuah platform terpadu untuk mengelola intranet, extranet, Internet dan aplikasi di seluruh perusahaan.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on an open, scalable architecture, with support for Web services and interoperability standards including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).
Kantor SharePoint Server 2007 dibangun pada terbuka, scalable arsitektur, dengan dukungan layanan Web dan interoperabilitas standar termasuk XML dan Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).
The server has rich, open application programming interfaces (APIs) and event handlers for lists and documents.
Server telah kaya, membuka antarmuka pemrograman aplikasi (API) dan penangan acara untuk daftar dan dokumen.
These features provide integration with existing systems and the flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT investments.
Fitur-fitur ini menyediakan integrasi dengan sistem yang ada dan fleksibilitas untuk menggabungkan baru non-Microsoft investasi TI.
Cheers, frizzy2008
CEK DARAH ANDA, Normalkah...?
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Normalkah ……?
• Kolesterol
• Fungsi Hati
• Fungsi Ginjal
• Kadar Gula Darah Saya …..?
KOLESTEROL
Kolesterol yang tinggi dalam darah (Dislipidemia) merupakan factor yang berperan sebbagai penyebab aterosklerosis yang akhirnya dapat menyebabkan Penyakit Jantung Koroner ( PJK ) dan stroke. Setiap orang dewasa berumur > 20 Tahun dianjurkan untuk melakukan pemeriksaan kadar kolesterol darah secara berkala.
Perkiraan Biaya
Pemeriksaan Kolesterol Lengkap Rp 170.500,-
Pemeriksaan terdiri dari :
1. Kolesterol Total
2. Kolesterol HDL
3. Kolesterol LDL
4. Trigliserida
DIABETES MELITUS
Diabetes Melitus adalah penyakit menahun yang ditandai dengan kadar glukosa darah yang melebihi nilai normal akibat kekurangan hormone insulin terganggu. Kadar gula darah yang tinggi lama – kelamaan dapat menyebabkan kerusakan dan gangguan fungsi berbagai jaringan dan organ tubuh. Penelitian terbaru menyebutkan penyebab DM terbanyak pada saat ini adalah karena gaya hidup yang tidak sehat.
Perkiraan Biaya
Pemeriksaan Kadar Gula Darah Rp 213.000,-
Pemeriksaan terdiri dari :
1. Gula Darah Puasa
2. Gula Darah 2 jam setelah makan
3. HbAIC
LIVER/HATI
Liver/Hati adalah organ tubuh yang bila kerusakannya tidak parah tidak akan menimbulkan gejala. Untuk mengetahui adanya gangguan fungsi hati harus dilakukan pemeriksaan panel fungsi secara berkala.
Perkiraan Biaya
Pemeriksaan Fungsi Hati Rp 127.000,-
Pemeriksaan terdiri dari :
1. SGOT
2. SGPT
3. Gamma GT
4. Fosfatase Alkali
GINJAL
Ginjal merupakan organ penting yang menyaring darah dan membuang zat-zat sisa dan racun dari dalam tubuh. Infeksi ginjal dan gangguan fungsi ginjal bila tidak ditangani cepat dan tepat dapat menyebabkan kerusakan organ dan gagal ginjal.
Perkiraan Biaya
Pemeriksaan Fungsi Ginjal Rp 125.500,-
Pemeriksaan terdiri dari :
1. Ureum
2. Creatinine
3. Asam Urat
4. Urine Lengkap
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Normalkah ……?
• Kolesterol
• Fungsi Hati
• Fungsi Ginjal
• Kadar Gula Darah Saya …..?
KOLESTEROL
Kolesterol yang tinggi dalam darah (Dislipidemia) merupakan factor yang berperan sebbagai penyebab aterosklerosis yang akhirnya dapat menyebabkan Penyakit Jantung Koroner ( PJK ) dan stroke. Setiap orang dewasa berumur > 20 Tahun dianjurkan untuk melakukan pemeriksaan kadar kolesterol darah secara berkala.
Perkiraan Biaya
Pemeriksaan Kolesterol Lengkap Rp 170.500,-
Pemeriksaan terdiri dari :
1. Kolesterol Total
2. Kolesterol HDL
3. Kolesterol LDL
4. Trigliserida
DIABETES MELITUS
Diabetes Melitus adalah penyakit menahun yang ditandai dengan kadar glukosa darah yang melebihi nilai normal akibat kekurangan hormone insulin terganggu. Kadar gula darah yang tinggi lama – kelamaan dapat menyebabkan kerusakan dan gangguan fungsi berbagai jaringan dan organ tubuh. Penelitian terbaru menyebutkan penyebab DM terbanyak pada saat ini adalah karena gaya hidup yang tidak sehat.
Perkiraan Biaya
Pemeriksaan Kadar Gula Darah Rp 213.000,-
Pemeriksaan terdiri dari :
1. Gula Darah Puasa
2. Gula Darah 2 jam setelah makan
3. HbAIC
LIVER/HATI
Liver/Hati adalah organ tubuh yang bila kerusakannya tidak parah tidak akan menimbulkan gejala. Untuk mengetahui adanya gangguan fungsi hati harus dilakukan pemeriksaan panel fungsi secara berkala.
Perkiraan Biaya
Pemeriksaan Fungsi Hati Rp 127.000,-
Pemeriksaan terdiri dari :
1. SGOT
2. SGPT
3. Gamma GT
4. Fosfatase Alkali
GINJAL
Ginjal merupakan organ penting yang menyaring darah dan membuang zat-zat sisa dan racun dari dalam tubuh. Infeksi ginjal dan gangguan fungsi ginjal bila tidak ditangani cepat dan tepat dapat menyebabkan kerusakan organ dan gagal ginjal.
Perkiraan Biaya
Pemeriksaan Fungsi Ginjal Rp 125.500,-
Pemeriksaan terdiri dari :
1. Ureum
2. Creatinine
3. Asam Urat
4. Urine Lengkap
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Layanan Western Union
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Kini layanan pengiriman dan penerimaan uang dari luar negeri ke Indonesia sudah semakin mudah. Western Union (WU) memberikan keuntungan bagi anda dalam melakukan transaksi pengiriman dan penerimaan uang untuk/dari keluarga maupun kerabat anda.
Keuntungan bertransaksi WU
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Kini layanan pengiriman dan penerimaan uang dari luar negeri ke Indonesia sudah semakin mudah. Western Union (WU) memberikan keuntungan bagi anda dalam melakukan transaksi pengiriman dan penerimaan uang untuk/dari keluarga maupun kerabat anda.
Keuntungan bertransaksi WU
- BEBAS BIAYA. Bebas biaya materai dan administrasi untuk setiap transaksi penerimaan uang.
- CEPAT. Uang anda dapat segera diterima di tempat tujuan setelah pengiriman berhasil dilakukan.
- MUDAH. Anda dapat melakukan transaksi penerimaan hanya dengan menunjukkan KTP dan mengisi aplikasi tanpa harus memiliki rekening bank.
- AMAN. Hanya penerima yang ditunjuk yang dapat menerima kiriman uang anda dan setiap pengiriman dilindungi sistem keamanan kelas dunia dengan adanya Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN), yang berlaku sebagai nomor identitas transaksi anda.
- Datang ke bank yang berafiliasi dengan WU terdekat dan melengkapi formulir Pengiriman Uang.
- Menyerahkan formulir Pengiriman Uang yang sudah dilengkapi, kartu identitas asli yang masih berlaku, beserta uang yang akan dikirim kepada petugas Bank Danamon.
- Anda akan mendapatkan tanda terima pengiriman uang yang dilengkapi dengan MTCN.
- Pengirim harus segera memberitahukan kepada Penerima perihal nomor MTCN, jumlah uang yang dikirim, dan informasi bahwa uang tersebut dapat diambil di lokasi layanan WU terdekat.
- Penerima mendapatkan informasi dari Pengirim perihal: MTCN dan jumlah uang yang akan diterima.
- Silahkan datang ke kantor bank yang berafiliasi dengan WU terdekat sebagai salah satu pilihan lokasi layanan WU.
- Penerima melengkapi formulir Penerimaan Uang serta menunjukkan kartu identitas yang masih berlaku. Kemudian petugas bank akan memproses transaksi.
- Penerima akan menerima uang tunai berikut bukti tanda terima penerimaan uang.
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Erotika dalam karya fiksi
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Oleh Mulyo Sunyoto
Oleh Mulyo Sunyoto
Ketika masih duduk di bangku sekolah menengah pertama, eseis Goenawan Mohamad sudah membaca novel George Orwell yang berjudul "1984" dalam versi aslinya.
"Saya baca terutama di bagian-bagian yang memuat deskripsi erotik," katanya. Pengalaman Goenawan tentu tidaklah istimewa. Karena pembaca pada umumnya secara naluriah tak akan melewatkan bagian penggambaran perilaku erotik ketika menikmati karya fiksi.
Itu sebabnya para novelis menjadikan deskripsi perilaku erotik sebagai bagian tak terpisahkan dari totalitas cerita. Ada pengarang yang menjaga agar deskripsi mengenai perilaku erotik itu jangan sampai terjerumus ke dalam klasifikasi pornografis. Ada pengarang yang tak mempedulikan batas-batas klasifikasi itu.
Jika tujuan penggambaran atau deskripsi mengenai perilaku erotis itu adalah untuk merangsang naluri seksual pembaca, seperti dijelaskan Webster`s New Explorer Dictionary, penggambaran itu bisa dikategorikan sebagai pornografi.
Dalam novel terbaru Ayu Utami "Bilangan Fu", misalnya, deskripsi perilaku erotik jelas tidak dimaksudkan untuk merangsang seksual pembaca karena sang pengarang tak membuat deskripsi jasmaniah-harfiah. Sebaliknya, Ayu sengaja mengaburkan adegan erotik lewat bahasa metaforik, yang sebetulnya bisa saja dianggap lebih merangsang fantasi seksual pembaca.
Di halaman 38 novel setebal 531 pagina itu, Ayu membahasakan adegan seks dengan pilihan kata berikut:
"Di dalam kamar kubiarkan Marja memicu kudanya untuk berlari lebih cepat lagi. Kubiarkan ia menaji si kuda dengan sanggurdinya yang tak berbelas kasih. Ia mengucapkan segala sumpah serapah yang terdengar oleh seluruh dunia dan kata-kata kotor pada kuda yang mulai kehilangan kontrol."
Diksi metaforik dalam pasase itu seperti "kuda", "menaji", "sanggurdi," digunakan pengarangnya untuk menghindari lukisan-lukisan verbal-vulgar yang biasa digunakan kalangan pengarang novel picisan.
Tak vulgar
Sementara itu dalam "God of Small Things", bahasa harfiah dipakai oleh Arundhaty Roy untuk melukisan percintaan erotik antara Ammukuty, seorang janda, dengan jejaka yang digandrunginya, Velutha. Meskipun bisa dicap pornografis, deskripsi tentang percintaan erotis yang digubah Arundhaty jauh dari kesan porno yang vulgar.
Kenapa? Sebab Arundhati meletakkan adegan erotik itu dalam bingkai situasi yang tegang. Sang lelaki dalam ancaman disiksa warga setempat karena nekat bercinta dengan wanita dari kasta tinggi sementara dia sendiri dari golongan sudra.
Bahasa harfiah yang melukisan tubuh manusia yang sedang bercinta antara lain diwujudkan dalam kalimat berikut: "Ammu menjulurkan lidahnya dan mengecapkannya di ceruk kerongkongan lelaki itu. Di cuping telinganya. Ia menarik kepala lelaki itu ke arahnya, dan mencium mulutnya. Ciuman berkabut...."
Namun, untuk adegan hubungan intim, Arundhati tidak seharfiah saat ia melukiskan adegan ciuman, yang menurut banyak kalangan belum "porno banget", meskipun Lembaga Sensor Film (LSF) suka menggunting pita seluloid yang berisi adegan ciuman.
Inilah deskripsi Arundhaty untuk adegan "porno" yang disampaikan dalam diksi dan frasa metaforik:
"Sepasang mata yang berkabut menatap sepasang mata yang berkabut dalam tatapan mesra, dan seorang wanita yang berkilauan membuka dirinya pada seorang lelaki yang berkilauan. Wanita itu selebar dan sedalam sungai di saat banjir. Lelaki itu menyelam ke dalam airnya. Wanita itu dapat merasakan lelaki itu bergerak semakin dalam dan semakin dalam di dalam dirinya. Sibuk sekali. Hingar bingar..."
Fiksi yang menguraikan perilaku erotis dengan bahasa yang denotatif, menurut kritikus Milan Kundera, tidak akan sedahsyat yang menggunakan kiasan atau metafora. Terkait dengan metafora, pengarang Putu Wijaya mengamini Kundera. Putu selalu menghadirkan tamsil, ibarat, kiasan dan metafora dalam fiksi-fiksi gubahannya. Semua medium ekspresi itu diramu dan disampaikan untuk menghadirkan pekabaran yang memukau.
Para pengarang tak henti-hentinya mengeksplorasi dan mencita bahasa metaforik, termasuk ketika mereka mendeskripsikan perilaku erotis dalam karya-karya fiksi mereka.
Cheers, frizzy2008.
"Saya baca terutama di bagian-bagian yang memuat deskripsi erotik," katanya. Pengalaman Goenawan tentu tidaklah istimewa. Karena pembaca pada umumnya secara naluriah tak akan melewatkan bagian penggambaran perilaku erotik ketika menikmati karya fiksi.
Itu sebabnya para novelis menjadikan deskripsi perilaku erotik sebagai bagian tak terpisahkan dari totalitas cerita. Ada pengarang yang menjaga agar deskripsi mengenai perilaku erotik itu jangan sampai terjerumus ke dalam klasifikasi pornografis. Ada pengarang yang tak mempedulikan batas-batas klasifikasi itu.
Jika tujuan penggambaran atau deskripsi mengenai perilaku erotis itu adalah untuk merangsang naluri seksual pembaca, seperti dijelaskan Webster`s New Explorer Dictionary, penggambaran itu bisa dikategorikan sebagai pornografi.
Dalam novel terbaru Ayu Utami "Bilangan Fu", misalnya, deskripsi perilaku erotik jelas tidak dimaksudkan untuk merangsang seksual pembaca karena sang pengarang tak membuat deskripsi jasmaniah-harfiah. Sebaliknya, Ayu sengaja mengaburkan adegan erotik lewat bahasa metaforik, yang sebetulnya bisa saja dianggap lebih merangsang fantasi seksual pembaca.
Di halaman 38 novel setebal 531 pagina itu, Ayu membahasakan adegan seks dengan pilihan kata berikut:
"Di dalam kamar kubiarkan Marja memicu kudanya untuk berlari lebih cepat lagi. Kubiarkan ia menaji si kuda dengan sanggurdinya yang tak berbelas kasih. Ia mengucapkan segala sumpah serapah yang terdengar oleh seluruh dunia dan kata-kata kotor pada kuda yang mulai kehilangan kontrol."
Diksi metaforik dalam pasase itu seperti "kuda", "menaji", "sanggurdi," digunakan pengarangnya untuk menghindari lukisan-lukisan verbal-vulgar yang biasa digunakan kalangan pengarang novel picisan.
Tak vulgar
Sementara itu dalam "God of Small Things", bahasa harfiah dipakai oleh Arundhaty Roy untuk melukisan percintaan erotik antara Ammukuty, seorang janda, dengan jejaka yang digandrunginya, Velutha. Meskipun bisa dicap pornografis, deskripsi tentang percintaan erotis yang digubah Arundhaty jauh dari kesan porno yang vulgar.
Kenapa? Sebab Arundhati meletakkan adegan erotik itu dalam bingkai situasi yang tegang. Sang lelaki dalam ancaman disiksa warga setempat karena nekat bercinta dengan wanita dari kasta tinggi sementara dia sendiri dari golongan sudra.
Bahasa harfiah yang melukisan tubuh manusia yang sedang bercinta antara lain diwujudkan dalam kalimat berikut: "Ammu menjulurkan lidahnya dan mengecapkannya di ceruk kerongkongan lelaki itu. Di cuping telinganya. Ia menarik kepala lelaki itu ke arahnya, dan mencium mulutnya. Ciuman berkabut...."
Namun, untuk adegan hubungan intim, Arundhati tidak seharfiah saat ia melukiskan adegan ciuman, yang menurut banyak kalangan belum "porno banget", meskipun Lembaga Sensor Film (LSF) suka menggunting pita seluloid yang berisi adegan ciuman.
Inilah deskripsi Arundhaty untuk adegan "porno" yang disampaikan dalam diksi dan frasa metaforik:
"Sepasang mata yang berkabut menatap sepasang mata yang berkabut dalam tatapan mesra, dan seorang wanita yang berkilauan membuka dirinya pada seorang lelaki yang berkilauan. Wanita itu selebar dan sedalam sungai di saat banjir. Lelaki itu menyelam ke dalam airnya. Wanita itu dapat merasakan lelaki itu bergerak semakin dalam dan semakin dalam di dalam dirinya. Sibuk sekali. Hingar bingar..."
Fiksi yang menguraikan perilaku erotis dengan bahasa yang denotatif, menurut kritikus Milan Kundera, tidak akan sedahsyat yang menggunakan kiasan atau metafora. Terkait dengan metafora, pengarang Putu Wijaya mengamini Kundera. Putu selalu menghadirkan tamsil, ibarat, kiasan dan metafora dalam fiksi-fiksi gubahannya. Semua medium ekspresi itu diramu dan disampaikan untuk menghadirkan pekabaran yang memukau.
Para pengarang tak henti-hentinya mengeksplorasi dan mencita bahasa metaforik, termasuk ketika mereka mendeskripsikan perilaku erotis dalam karya-karya fiksi mereka.
Cheers, frizzy2008.
ARS: Alternatif Remittance System Rawan Digunakan Teroris
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Pengiriman uang alternatif (alternatif remittance system/ARS) dan pengiriman uang secara elektronik (wired transfer) diindikasikan masih menjadi sarana para pelaku kejahatan semisal aksi pencucian uang (money laundering) dan penggalian pendanaan untuk aksi terorisme.
Hal itu terungkap dalam konferemsi pers APEC Seminar on Securing Remittance and Cross Borders Payment from Terorist Use, yang diadakan oleh Pusat Pelaporan dan Analisis Transaksi Keuangan (PPATK) bekerja sama dengan Asia Pasific Economic Cooperation (APEC) di Jakarta, Rabu (22/10).
Menurut Public Relation PPATK M Natsir Kongah MS dalam perkembangannya, jasa alternatif pengiriman uang dapat disalahgunakan karena ARS tidak terdeteksi dalam sistem keuangan.
Dari data yang dikeluarkan oleh APEC, Indonesia menduduki peringkat keempat dari lima besar pengiriman atau penerimaan uang ke dalam negeri, dibawah China, Meksiko dan Filipina. "Pada tahun 2006 jumlah pengiriman yang masuk ke Indonesia setara dengan 1,6 persen GDP," kata Natsir.
Sedangkan, dari mulai 2002 jumlah penerimaan uang yang masuk terus meningkat dimana pada 2002, jumlah uang yang masuk ke Indonesia sebanyak 1,259 juta dollar AS. Untuk 2003 mencapai 1,489 juta dollar AS. 2004 sebanyak 1,865 juta dollar AS, 2005 sejumlah 5,419 juta dollar AS. Dan 2006 berrtambahn menjadi 5,722 juta dollar AS. Sedangkan pada tahun lalu jumlahnya meningkat lagi menjadi 6 juta dollar AS.
Nantinya, diharapkan hasil dari seminar tersebut dapat membuahkan pemahaman yang lebih komprehensif bagi instansi terkait yang ada di Indonesia. Seperti kepolisian, kejaksaan, bea cukai maupun imigrasi. "Selain itu juga seminar ini untuk mendukung tugas dan fungsi PPATK sebagai financial intelegence unit," terang Natsir.
Seminar 2 hari ini diikuti oleh 100 peserta baik yang berasal dari instansi terkait di Indonesia maupun perwakilan dari negara anggota APEC.
by kompas.com
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Pengiriman uang alternatif (alternatif remittance system/ARS) dan pengiriman uang secara elektronik (wired transfer) diindikasikan masih menjadi sarana para pelaku kejahatan semisal aksi pencucian uang (money laundering) dan penggalian pendanaan untuk aksi terorisme.
Hal itu terungkap dalam konferemsi pers APEC Seminar on Securing Remittance and Cross Borders Payment from Terorist Use, yang diadakan oleh Pusat Pelaporan dan Analisis Transaksi Keuangan (PPATK) bekerja sama dengan Asia Pasific Economic Cooperation (APEC) di Jakarta, Rabu (22/10).
Menurut Public Relation PPATK M Natsir Kongah MS dalam perkembangannya, jasa alternatif pengiriman uang dapat disalahgunakan karena ARS tidak terdeteksi dalam sistem keuangan.
Dari data yang dikeluarkan oleh APEC, Indonesia menduduki peringkat keempat dari lima besar pengiriman atau penerimaan uang ke dalam negeri, dibawah China, Meksiko dan Filipina. "Pada tahun 2006 jumlah pengiriman yang masuk ke Indonesia setara dengan 1,6 persen GDP," kata Natsir.
Sedangkan, dari mulai 2002 jumlah penerimaan uang yang masuk terus meningkat dimana pada 2002, jumlah uang yang masuk ke Indonesia sebanyak 1,259 juta dollar AS. Untuk 2003 mencapai 1,489 juta dollar AS. 2004 sebanyak 1,865 juta dollar AS, 2005 sejumlah 5,419 juta dollar AS. Dan 2006 berrtambahn menjadi 5,722 juta dollar AS. Sedangkan pada tahun lalu jumlahnya meningkat lagi menjadi 6 juta dollar AS.
Nantinya, diharapkan hasil dari seminar tersebut dapat membuahkan pemahaman yang lebih komprehensif bagi instansi terkait yang ada di Indonesia. Seperti kepolisian, kejaksaan, bea cukai maupun imigrasi. "Selain itu juga seminar ini untuk mendukung tugas dan fungsi PPATK sebagai financial intelegence unit," terang Natsir.
Seminar 2 hari ini diikuti oleh 100 peserta baik yang berasal dari instansi terkait di Indonesia maupun perwakilan dari negara anggota APEC.
by kompas.com
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Ten Smart Travel Packing Tips
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
1. Plan ahead. Know what weather to expect and what your activities might be, then pack the right clothes for the climate and your events. Ignore the urge to add in “but what if…” items.
2. Pack less. Pack only 3 pair of quick-drying underwear that can be washed out and dried overnight: one to wear, one to wash, and a spare. Expect to wear each outer clothing item more than once. Choose versatile pieces that can be worn in different combinations.
3. Pack a “go-anywhere” wardrobe. Take clothes that blend in with the local population and provide safety from those who target tourists. For instance: modest necklines for women, long pants or skirts, and shirts with a collar and sleeves.
4. Pack easy-care clothes that you love. To ensure that you will look and feel great on your trip, choose clothes from your closet that still appear fresh at the end of a long day. If things wrinkle at home, they will surely wrinkle while traveling.
5. Take comfortable shoes. You will not have a good time if your feet hurt. Three pairs of shoes are the maximum for most trips: one to wear and two to pack.
6. Choose the right bag for the trip. Structured bags with wheels protect the contents and offer independence in airports, while unstructured bags without wheels are generally easier to squish into small places, as in the trunk of a car.
7. Know the current airline luggage rules. To avoid additional fees and confusion at the airport, understand how many pieces of luggage may be checked, plus the maximum dimensions and allowable weight for each bag. Call your airline or check www.smartpacking.com for the latest information.
8. Pack smart. Use smart packing tricks to fit items into your luggage in the most space-efficient way, and to provide easy visibility during security checks. For example, group small items in see-through containers or in self-sealing plastic bags. Pack less to speed the security check process—an over packed bag takes longer to manually inspect and is more difficult to repack.
9. Travel light. Wheels are helpful on smooth terrain, but you must still be able to carry your bag on rough streets and up and down stairs. Two smaller bags are easier to manage than one larger bag, although changing airline checked baggage rules might make this cost more. Lighten up cosmetics and toiletries; these often make up half of the bag weight. Travel and sample-sized items are a good trick, as is transferring the amount needed into a small container. Dual duty products such as moisturizer plus sunscreen eliminate one entire bottle.
10. Use or pack a lock. Today’s airport security requires luggage to be unlocked, but pack a lock so you can secure your bag at your destination. Or purchase a new TSA-approved lock—a combination lock that is set by the owner with TSA holding the master key—and lock while traveling.
The moral to the story is if you follow these simple guidelines, you will have the freedom to go everywhere — independently and comfortably — and travel will indeed be the relaxing break you anticipate.
©2008 Susan Foster, Smart Travel Press, P.O. Box 25514, Portland, OR 97298-0514, Susan@smartpacking.com
Cheers, frizzy2008.
1. Plan ahead. Know what weather to expect and what your activities might be, then pack the right clothes for the climate and your events. Ignore the urge to add in “but what if…” items.
2. Pack less. Pack only 3 pair of quick-drying underwear that can be washed out and dried overnight: one to wear, one to wash, and a spare. Expect to wear each outer clothing item more than once. Choose versatile pieces that can be worn in different combinations.
3. Pack a “go-anywhere” wardrobe. Take clothes that blend in with the local population and provide safety from those who target tourists. For instance: modest necklines for women, long pants or skirts, and shirts with a collar and sleeves.
4. Pack easy-care clothes that you love. To ensure that you will look and feel great on your trip, choose clothes from your closet that still appear fresh at the end of a long day. If things wrinkle at home, they will surely wrinkle while traveling.
5. Take comfortable shoes. You will not have a good time if your feet hurt. Three pairs of shoes are the maximum for most trips: one to wear and two to pack.
6. Choose the right bag for the trip. Structured bags with wheels protect the contents and offer independence in airports, while unstructured bags without wheels are generally easier to squish into small places, as in the trunk of a car.
7. Know the current airline luggage rules. To avoid additional fees and confusion at the airport, understand how many pieces of luggage may be checked, plus the maximum dimensions and allowable weight for each bag. Call your airline or check www.smartpacking.com for the latest information.
8. Pack smart. Use smart packing tricks to fit items into your luggage in the most space-efficient way, and to provide easy visibility during security checks. For example, group small items in see-through containers or in self-sealing plastic bags. Pack less to speed the security check process—an over packed bag takes longer to manually inspect and is more difficult to repack.
9. Travel light. Wheels are helpful on smooth terrain, but you must still be able to carry your bag on rough streets and up and down stairs. Two smaller bags are easier to manage than one larger bag, although changing airline checked baggage rules might make this cost more. Lighten up cosmetics and toiletries; these often make up half of the bag weight. Travel and sample-sized items are a good trick, as is transferring the amount needed into a small container. Dual duty products such as moisturizer plus sunscreen eliminate one entire bottle.
10. Use or pack a lock. Today’s airport security requires luggage to be unlocked, but pack a lock so you can secure your bag at your destination. Or purchase a new TSA-approved lock—a combination lock that is set by the owner with TSA holding the master key—and lock while traveling.
The moral to the story is if you follow these simple guidelines, you will have the freedom to go everywhere — independently and comfortably — and travel will indeed be the relaxing break you anticipate.
©2008 Susan Foster, Smart Travel Press, P.O. Box 25514, Portland, OR 97298-0514, Susan@smartpacking.com
Cheers, frizzy2008.
True story of Stanford University
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Untrue story:
The Stanfords visited several great universities of the East to gather ideas. An urban legend, widely circulated on the Internet but untrue, describes the couple as poorly-dressed country bumpkins who decided to found their own university only after being rebuffed in their offer to endow a building at Harvard. They did visit Harvard's president but were well-received and given advice on starting a new university in California. From the outset they made some untraditional choices: the university would be coeducational, in a time when most were all-male; non-denominational, when most were associated with a religious organization; and avowedly practical, producing "cultured and useful citizens" when most were concerned only with the former.
True story:
taken from http://www.stanford.edu/about/history
The Birth of the University
In 1876, former California Governor Leland Stanford purchased 650 acres of Rancho San Francisquito for a country home and began the development of his famous Palo Alto Stock Farm. He later bought adjoining properties totaling more than 8,000 acres. The little town that was beginning to emerge near the land took the name Palo Alto (tall tree) after a giant California redwood on the bank of San Francisquito Creek. The tree itself is still there and would later become the university's symbol and centerpiece of its official seal.
The Stanford Family
Leland Stanford, who grew up and studied law in New York, moved West after the gold rush and, like many of his wealthy contemporaries, made his fortune in the railroads. He was a leader of the Republican Party, governor of California and later a U.S. senator. He and Jane had one son, who died of typhoid fever in 1884 when the family was traveling in Italy. Leland Jr. was just 15. Legend has it that the grieving couple said to one another after their son's death, "the children of California shall be our children," and they quickly set about to find a lasting way to memorialize their beloved son.
The Stanfords visited several great universities of the East to gather ideas. An urban legend, widely circulated on the Internet but untrue, describes the couple as poorly-dressed country bumpkins who decided to found their own university only after being rebuffed in their offer to endow a building at Harvard. They did visit Harvard's president but were well-received and given advice on starting a new university in California. From the outset they made some untraditional choices: the university would be coeducational, in a time when most were all-male; non-denominational, when most were associated with a religious organization; and avowedly practical, producing "cultured and useful citizens" when most were concerned only with the former.
The prediction of a New York newspaper that Stanford professors would "lecture in marble halls to empty benches" was quickly disproved. The first student body consisted of 559 men and women, and the original faculty of 15 was expanded to 49 for the second year. The university’s first president was David Starr Jordan, a graduate of Cornell, who left his post as president of Indiana University to join the adventure out West.
The Stanfords engaged Frederick Law Olmsted, the famed landscape architect who created New York’s Central Park, to design the physical plan for the university. The collaboration was contentious, but finally resulted in an organziation of quadrangles on an east-west axis. Today, as Stanford continues to expand, the university’s architects attempt to respect those original university plans.
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Untrue story:
The Stanfords visited several great universities of the East to gather ideas. An urban legend, widely circulated on the Internet but untrue, describes the couple as poorly-dressed country bumpkins who decided to found their own university only after being rebuffed in their offer to endow a building at Harvard. They did visit Harvard's president but were well-received and given advice on starting a new university in California. From the outset they made some untraditional choices: the university would be coeducational, in a time when most were all-male; non-denominational, when most were associated with a religious organization; and avowedly practical, producing "cultured and useful citizens" when most were concerned only with the former.
True story:
taken from http://www.stanford.edu/about/history
The Birth of the University
In 1876, former California Governor Leland Stanford purchased 650 acres of Rancho San Francisquito for a country home and began the development of his famous Palo Alto Stock Farm. He later bought adjoining properties totaling more than 8,000 acres. The little town that was beginning to emerge near the land took the name Palo Alto (tall tree) after a giant California redwood on the bank of San Francisquito Creek. The tree itself is still there and would later become the university's symbol and centerpiece of its official seal.
The Stanford Family
Leland Stanford, who grew up and studied law in New York, moved West after the gold rush and, like many of his wealthy contemporaries, made his fortune in the railroads. He was a leader of the Republican Party, governor of California and later a U.S. senator. He and Jane had one son, who died of typhoid fever in 1884 when the family was traveling in Italy. Leland Jr. was just 15. Legend has it that the grieving couple said to one another after their son's death, "the children of California shall be our children," and they quickly set about to find a lasting way to memorialize their beloved son.
The Stanfords visited several great universities of the East to gather ideas. An urban legend, widely circulated on the Internet but untrue, describes the couple as poorly-dressed country bumpkins who decided to found their own university only after being rebuffed in their offer to endow a building at Harvard. They did visit Harvard's president but were well-received and given advice on starting a new university in California. From the outset they made some untraditional choices: the university would be coeducational, in a time when most were all-male; non-denominational, when most were associated with a religious organization; and avowedly practical, producing "cultured and useful citizens" when most were concerned only with the former.
The prediction of a New York newspaper that Stanford professors would "lecture in marble halls to empty benches" was quickly disproved. The first student body consisted of 559 men and women, and the original faculty of 15 was expanded to 49 for the second year. The university’s first president was David Starr Jordan, a graduate of Cornell, who left his post as president of Indiana University to join the adventure out West.
The Stanfords engaged Frederick Law Olmsted, the famed landscape architect who created New York’s Central Park, to design the physical plan for the university. The collaboration was contentious, but finally resulted in an organziation of quadrangles on an east-west axis. Today, as Stanford continues to expand, the university’s architects attempt to respect those original university plans.
Cheers, frizzy2008.
The Wealthy Use Google, The Poor Use Yahoo
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Talk about a digital divide. Hitwise recently performed some analysis of the traffic patterns on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) search engines. Google users tended to be older and spend more money online. Yahoo users, conversely, were often younger and spent less money online. Which is the better audience to have?
Why is it that Google users are likely to be older and spend more and the opposite for Yahoo? Is it the blend of services available? The result Hopkins finds of highly-indexed Google users being 55+ seems odd to me. My parents fall into that age bracket and hardly use the Internet for more than the most casual searches. Meanwhile, my peers, ranging from 25 to 40, seem to have adopted more of Google's services than our parents have. So when Hitwise says Yahoo users are younger, does that mean younger than 25? Younger than 20? Are teenagers the biggest users of Yahoo services?
Why would Microsoft want to buy a company that caters to teenagers? Granted, the 18-34 advertising bracket is highly coveted, as younger people are falling into the purchasing patterns they will likely follow for the rest of their lives. But older people, 34-54, generally have more disposable income.
taken from http://www.europaluxury.com
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Talk about a digital divide. Hitwise recently performed some analysis of the traffic patterns on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) search engines. Google users tended to be older and spend more money online. Yahoo users, conversely, were often younger and spent less money online. Which is the better audience to have?
Why is it that Google users are likely to be older and spend more and the opposite for Yahoo? Is it the blend of services available? The result Hopkins finds of highly-indexed Google users being 55+ seems odd to me. My parents fall into that age bracket and hardly use the Internet for more than the most casual searches. Meanwhile, my peers, ranging from 25 to 40, seem to have adopted more of Google's services than our parents have. So when Hitwise says Yahoo users are younger, does that mean younger than 25? Younger than 20? Are teenagers the biggest users of Yahoo services?
Why would Microsoft want to buy a company that caters to teenagers? Granted, the 18-34 advertising bracket is highly coveted, as younger people are falling into the purchasing patterns they will likely follow for the rest of their lives. But older people, 34-54, generally have more disposable income.
taken from http://www.europaluxury.com
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Depkominfo Selanggarakan Instalasi Open Source Software Secara Massal
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Kementerian Ristek dan Depkominfo menyelenggarakan instalasi Open Source Software (OSS) secara massal pertama di Indonesia untuk 288 unit laptop. Setelah proses instalasi selesai, ke-288 laptop tersebut akan menjalankan aplikasi OpenOffice secara massal pertama di Indonesia, di mana setiap 3-4 laptop dijalankan oleh seorang peserta.
"Ini akan dicatatkan di MURI (Museum Rekor Dunia Indonesia -red)," kata Asisten Deputi Pendayagunaan dan Pemasyarakatan Iptek Kementerian Ristek Kemal Prihatman di sela proses instalasi massal Open Source Software di Jakarta, Sabtu (2/8). Dalam kesempatan itu, MURI juga mencatatkan hotspot dengan akses SSID terbanyak dalam satu waktu secara bersamaan dan konten blog terbanyak dalam waktu tiga jam.
Sementara itu, Pakar Telematika Onno W Purbo yang juga merupakan panitia acara itu mengatakan ada dua filosofi diselenggarakannya kegiatan pencatatan.
"Kita ingin tanamkan bahwa meng-install software open source itu mudah dan yang kedua kita ingin tanamkan bahwa menulis dalam blog itu juga mudah," katanya.
Kemal mengatakan sejak penandatanganan kesepakatan bersama penggunaan OSS di 18 Kementerian/Departemen pada Indonesia Go Open Source (IGOS) Summit Mei 2008 lalu perkembangan open source sangat positif.
"Namun memang tergantung kesiapan dari bagian di masing-masing instansi, ada yang masih proses dan ada yang sudah menggunakan," katanya.
Untuk Kementerian Ristek sudah 100 persen untuk server dan 95 persen desktop yang telah menggunakan OSS, sisanya tetap menggunakan software proprietari karena memang belum ada penggantinya. Sedangkan Dirjen Aplikasi Telematika Depkominfo Cahyana Ahmadjayadi mengatakan, pemassalan OSS di Departemen Kominfo khususnya di Dirjen Aplikasi Telematika sudah 98 persen dan dua persen dengan proprietari.
Semangat OSS sudah dimulai di Indonesia sejak 30 Juni 2004 dengan deklarasi lima instansi pemerintah yakni, Kementerian Ristek, Depkominfo, Depdiknas, Depkum dan HAM serta Kementerian PAN disusul dengan diluncurkannya OSS versi Indonesia IGOS Nusantara pada 12 Juli 2005, ujarnya. Kementerian Ristek, kata Kemal, juga sedang mempersiapkan delapan aplikasi khusus untuk Kementerian/Departemen seperti aplikasi inventaris kantor, aplikasi kepegawaian, aplikasi pengelolaan anggaran, hingga aplikasi pelayanan publik. Aplikasi tersebut nantinya bisa di-download di web Depkominfo dan bersifat customized karena terbuka untuk dimodifikasi, ujarnya.
Perangkat lunak open source sudah disediakan secara gratis oleh pemerintah dan merupakan pengganti perangkat lunak berbayar (proprietari) yang di pasaran cukup mahal seperti Microsoft.
taken from mediaindonesia.com
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Kementerian Ristek dan Depkominfo menyelenggarakan instalasi Open Source Software (OSS) secara massal pertama di Indonesia untuk 288 unit laptop. Setelah proses instalasi selesai, ke-288 laptop tersebut akan menjalankan aplikasi OpenOffice secara massal pertama di Indonesia, di mana setiap 3-4 laptop dijalankan oleh seorang peserta.
"Ini akan dicatatkan di MURI (Museum Rekor Dunia Indonesia -red)," kata Asisten Deputi Pendayagunaan dan Pemasyarakatan Iptek Kementerian Ristek Kemal Prihatman di sela proses instalasi massal Open Source Software di Jakarta, Sabtu (2/8). Dalam kesempatan itu, MURI juga mencatatkan hotspot dengan akses SSID terbanyak dalam satu waktu secara bersamaan dan konten blog terbanyak dalam waktu tiga jam.
Sementara itu, Pakar Telematika Onno W Purbo yang juga merupakan panitia acara itu mengatakan ada dua filosofi diselenggarakannya kegiatan pencatatan.
"Kita ingin tanamkan bahwa meng-install software open source itu mudah dan yang kedua kita ingin tanamkan bahwa menulis dalam blog itu juga mudah," katanya.
Kemal mengatakan sejak penandatanganan kesepakatan bersama penggunaan OSS di 18 Kementerian/Departemen pada Indonesia Go Open Source (IGOS) Summit Mei 2008 lalu perkembangan open source sangat positif.
"Namun memang tergantung kesiapan dari bagian di masing-masing instansi, ada yang masih proses dan ada yang sudah menggunakan," katanya.
Untuk Kementerian Ristek sudah 100 persen untuk server dan 95 persen desktop yang telah menggunakan OSS, sisanya tetap menggunakan software proprietari karena memang belum ada penggantinya. Sedangkan Dirjen Aplikasi Telematika Depkominfo Cahyana Ahmadjayadi mengatakan, pemassalan OSS di Departemen Kominfo khususnya di Dirjen Aplikasi Telematika sudah 98 persen dan dua persen dengan proprietari.
Semangat OSS sudah dimulai di Indonesia sejak 30 Juni 2004 dengan deklarasi lima instansi pemerintah yakni, Kementerian Ristek, Depkominfo, Depdiknas, Depkum dan HAM serta Kementerian PAN disusul dengan diluncurkannya OSS versi Indonesia IGOS Nusantara pada 12 Juli 2005, ujarnya. Kementerian Ristek, kata Kemal, juga sedang mempersiapkan delapan aplikasi khusus untuk Kementerian/Departemen seperti aplikasi inventaris kantor, aplikasi kepegawaian, aplikasi pengelolaan anggaran, hingga aplikasi pelayanan publik. Aplikasi tersebut nantinya bisa di-download di web Depkominfo dan bersifat customized karena terbuka untuk dimodifikasi, ujarnya.
Perangkat lunak open source sudah disediakan secara gratis oleh pemerintah dan merupakan pengganti perangkat lunak berbayar (proprietari) yang di pasaran cukup mahal seperti Microsoft.
taken from mediaindonesia.com
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Ten ways to tell it’s not SOA
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Are we having fun yet? I’ve talked plenty about companies implementing JBOWS (Just a Bunch of Web Services) versus full-throttle SOA, but is there a way to tell the difference?
Here are a few clues that you may be not quite as service-enabled as you thought:
1) If a vendor tells you that you need to buy a suite to get to SOA… it’s not SOA. SOA means complete freedom from suites and integrated packages.
2) If a vendor is trying to sell you hardware… it’s not SOA. Enough said.
3) If you’re sending out email inquiries or making phone calls to find out what services are out there…. it’s not SOA. Registries and repositories are essential for service discovery and validation.
4) If nobody’s sharing services… it’s not SOA. You can have all the standardized services you can handle, but if it’s services within silos and nothing more, then it’s services in silos.
5) If developers and integrators are not being incented or persuaded to reuse services and interfaces… it’s not SOA. Without incentives or disincentives, they will keep building their own stuff.
6) If your CIO is clueless about what’s going on with shared services… it’s not SOA. To truly function, SOA-based infrastructures need to cross organizational boundaries, and it takes someone at the management level to bring these efforts together. Otherwise, again, it’s services in silos.
7) If the IT department is running the whole show… it’s not SOA. Sorry IT folks, but SOA needs to have the business heavily involved in the effort as well.
8) If it only runs one operating system or platform… it’s not SOA. SOA has nothing to do with any single OS.
9) If it replicates a SOA in place elsewhere… it’s not SOA. Every company has unique business requirements and processes, and no two SOAs will be alike.
10) If you have to rewrite or redesign code to make things run right… it’s not SOA. SOA is supposed to make rewrites unnecessary.
Qualifier: of course, there’s no such thing as a perfect SOA — the important thing is the fact a company is working toward service orientation at some level.
by Joe McKendrick
(Source of inspiration — James Governor’s “15 Ways to Tell It’s Not Cloud Computing“)
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Are we having fun yet? I’ve talked plenty about companies implementing JBOWS (Just a Bunch of Web Services) versus full-throttle SOA, but is there a way to tell the difference?
Here are a few clues that you may be not quite as service-enabled as you thought:
1) If a vendor tells you that you need to buy a suite to get to SOA… it’s not SOA. SOA means complete freedom from suites and integrated packages.
2) If a vendor is trying to sell you hardware… it’s not SOA. Enough said.
3) If you’re sending out email inquiries or making phone calls to find out what services are out there…. it’s not SOA. Registries and repositories are essential for service discovery and validation.
4) If nobody’s sharing services… it’s not SOA. You can have all the standardized services you can handle, but if it’s services within silos and nothing more, then it’s services in silos.
5) If developers and integrators are not being incented or persuaded to reuse services and interfaces… it’s not SOA. Without incentives or disincentives, they will keep building their own stuff.
6) If your CIO is clueless about what’s going on with shared services… it’s not SOA. To truly function, SOA-based infrastructures need to cross organizational boundaries, and it takes someone at the management level to bring these efforts together. Otherwise, again, it’s services in silos.
7) If the IT department is running the whole show… it’s not SOA. Sorry IT folks, but SOA needs to have the business heavily involved in the effort as well.
8) If it only runs one operating system or platform… it’s not SOA. SOA has nothing to do with any single OS.
9) If it replicates a SOA in place elsewhere… it’s not SOA. Every company has unique business requirements and processes, and no two SOAs will be alike.
10) If you have to rewrite or redesign code to make things run right… it’s not SOA. SOA is supposed to make rewrites unnecessary.
Qualifier: of course, there’s no such thing as a perfect SOA — the important thing is the fact a company is working toward service orientation at some level.
by Joe McKendrick
(Source of inspiration — James Governor’s “15 Ways to Tell It’s Not Cloud Computing“)
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Travel Essentials in Indonesia
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
How to get in and get out of Indonesia
By AIR
The principal gateways for entry to Indonesia are Jakarta and Bali. Flights from neighbouring countries also stop in several Indonesian cities. Singapore has some of the cheapest flights to Indonesia and is a major travel hub in the region, so it may be cheaper to fly to Singapore, from where you can enter Indonesia by air or ship. From Penang in Malaysia, you can take a short flight or ferry to Medan in Sumatra.
AIRLINES
The number of carriers servicing Indonesia has waned over the past few years. Nevertheless the glut of alliances between carriers means there are still enough options.
Air France, www.airfrance.com
Air New Zealand, www.airnz.co.nz
Air Paradise, www.airparadise.com.au
Australian Airlines, www.australianairlines.com.au
ANA (All Nippon Airways), www.ana.co.jp
Cathay Pacific, www.cathaypacific.com
China Airlines, www.china-airlines.com
China Southern Airlines, www.cs-air.com
Eva Airlines, www.evaair.com
Garuda Indonesia, www.garuda-indonesia.com
JAL (Japan Airlines), www.jal.co.jp
KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), www.klm.com
Lufthansa, www.lufthansa.com
MAS (Malaysia Airlines), www.malaysiaairlines.com.my
Northwest Airlines, www.nwa.com
Philippine Airlines, www.philippineairlines.com
Qantas, www.qantas.com
Singapore Airlines, www.singaporeair.com
Silk Air, www.silkair.com
Thai Airways, www.thaiair.com
AIRPORT
Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport is spacious, modern and efficient, but only has a few good and shopping outlets. Bali’s smaller Ngurah Rai International Airport is slightly more interesting. Shopping is also overpriced here but more varied than at Soekarno-Hatta. In peak tourist seasons when a few jumbos land, it is standing room only and queues are long. Standard duty-free items are on sale at both airports.
From AUSTRALIA
Bali is the major gateway to Australia, with almost all flight to/from Indonesia routed via Denpasar. Direct flight connect Denpasar with Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Darwin. Garuda and Qantas used to be the only carriers competing on most of these runs, but a couple of new outfits strated in 2003. Air Paradise flies from Melbourne and Perth, and Australian Airlines (operated by Qantas) from Sydney and Melbourne. Other direct flights to Indonesia are Perth – Jakarta and Sydney – Jakarta (both Australian Airlines).
To/From CHRISTMAS ISLANDS
If your tourist pass is running out and you’d like to return to Indonesia, Darwin is not your only Australin short-hop destination option. Christmas island in Australia’s Indian ocean Territories is only 360 km away from Jakarta, and there’s a weekly return charter-flight, which at the time of research departed Saturday from both Jakarta and Christmas island.
NEW ZEALAND
There are no direct flight between Indonesia and New Zealand; however, Air New Zealand, Garuda and Qantas connect Auckland with Denpasar via Sidney, Melbourne or Brisbane.
Flight Centre (0800 243 544; www.flightcentre.co.nz) has an office in Auckland and many branches throughtout the country. Also checkout deals in the travel section of the New Zealand Herald.
The USA
There are no direct flights from the USA, but there are plenty of options that involve a stopever in another Asian destination, such us Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore or Malaysia. If you are traveling from east coast USA, it’s better to travel via either Frankfurt or Amsterdam.
If you are also visiting others parts of Asia, some good deals can be organized (eq, there are cheap tickets between the US west coast and Singapore with stopovers in Bangkok for very little extra money). However, be careful during the peak travel seasons (June to August, and Chinese New Year) because seats will be hard to come by unless reserved months in advance.
US websites worth checking out for lowcost flight include, www.lowestfare.com and www.travelzoo.com .
CANADA
Getting discount tickets in Canada is much the same as in the USA – shop around until you find a good deal. Again, you’ll probably have to fly into Hong Kong or Singapore (or Europe from the east coast) and carry on from there to Indonesia.
The UK
There are no direct flights to Indonesia from the UK; however, there are plenty of airlines offering services via Europe, Asia and/or the Middle East. Discount air travel is big business in London. Advertisements for many agencies appear in the travel pages of weekend broadsheet newspapaer, in Time Out, the Evening Standard and in the free managazine TNT.
There are plenty of travel agencies worth checking for fares. STA Travel (0870 - 160 0599; www.statravel.co.uk) has branches across the country. Other reputable agencies are Trailfinders (0207 – 938 3939; www.trailfinder.com); Flight Centre (0870 – 890 8099; www.flightcentre.co.uk) and ebookers (0870 – 010 7000; www.ebookers.com).
CONTINENTAL EUROPE
STA Travel has offices throughout the region. Check out its website at www.statravel.com for office locations and contact details. Nouvelles Frontieres (www.nouvelles-frontieres.com) also has branches throughout Europe.
France has a network of travel agencies that can supply discount tickets. OUT Voyages (08 20 81 78 17; www.otu.fr) and Voyageurs du Monde (01 42 86 16 40, 08 25 30 02 90; www.vdm.cm) have branches throughout the country and offer some of the best services and deals.
Recommended travel agencies in Germany include STA Travel (01805-456 422; www.statravel.de) which has branches in major cities across the country.
In Italy, CTS Viaggi (840-501 150; www.cts.it) is a student and youth specialist with branches in major cities.
In Spain, recommended agencies include Usit Unlimited (902 252 575; www.usitworld.com) and Barcelo Viajes (902 116 226; www.barcelo-viajes.es), both with branches in major cities.
In the Netherlands, NBBS Reizen (0900-10 20 300; www.nbbs.nl) is a stalwart agent.
ASIA
All the following air fares are for one-way travel.
MALAYSIA
The most popular flight is from Penang to Medan in Sumatra with Malaysia. Malaysia Airlines also flies Medan – Kuala Lumpur and Pontianak – Kuching.
PHILIPPINES
Bouraq and Merpati both have flights from Manado to Davao in the Philippines, but you need an onward or return ticket to enter the Philippines. Philippine Airlines flies Manila – Jakarta.
SINGAPORE
Silk Air flies into several cities including Medan, Padang, Pekanbaru, Palembang, Manado, Makassar, Mataram, Balikpapan and Solo.
By SEA
MALAYSIA
Most sea links are between Malaysia and Sumatra. Confortable, high-speed ferries between Penang (Malaysia) and Belawan (near Medan, Sumatra) are one of the most popular ways to reach Indonesia. The other main ferry connection is between Dumai (Sumatra) and Melaka (Malacca). From Johor Bahru in southern Malaysia, daily ferries run to Batam and Bintan islands in Sumatra’s Riau islands. From east-coast Kalimantan, speedboats depart every morning from Tarakan to Nunukan and from Nunukan to Tawau.
SINGAPORE
A popular way to reach Indonesia is via the Riau islands in Sumatra. The main stepping stones are the islands of batam and Bintan, both only a short high-speed ferry ride from Singapore. From Batam, speedboats travel through ro Pekanbaru on the Sumatran mainland. From Bintan, Pelni ships run to Jakarta and other destinations, and other ships go from Bintan to Jakarta.
By LAND
There are three possible land crossings into Indonesia. It’s possible to cross by road at Entikong, between Kalimantan and Sarawak (eastern Malaysia); get your visa in advance.
The border crossing between West and East Timor at Motoain was open at the time of research; a visa in required when traveling from East to West Timor.
The road from Jayapura of Sentani in Indonesia to Vanimo in Papua New Guinea can be crossed, depending on the current political situation. A visa is required if traveling into Indonesia.
by Indonesia Trekking
Whatever you bring, make sure you to pack light & within the baggage restrictions on your air ticket. Airlines are becoming more stringent & do impose hefty charges for excess baggage!
TRAVEL ESSENTIALS
Cheers, frizzy2008.
How to get in and get out of Indonesia
By AIR
The principal gateways for entry to Indonesia are Jakarta and Bali. Flights from neighbouring countries also stop in several Indonesian cities. Singapore has some of the cheapest flights to Indonesia and is a major travel hub in the region, so it may be cheaper to fly to Singapore, from where you can enter Indonesia by air or ship. From Penang in Malaysia, you can take a short flight or ferry to Medan in Sumatra.
AIRLINES
The number of carriers servicing Indonesia has waned over the past few years. Nevertheless the glut of alliances between carriers means there are still enough options.
Air France, www.airfrance.com
Air New Zealand, www.airnz.co.nz
Air Paradise, www.airparadise.com.au
Australian Airlines, www.australianairlines.com.au
ANA (All Nippon Airways), www.ana.co.jp
Cathay Pacific, www.cathaypacific.com
China Airlines, www.china-airlines.com
China Southern Airlines, www.cs-air.com
Eva Airlines, www.evaair.com
Garuda Indonesia, www.garuda-indonesia.com
JAL (Japan Airlines), www.jal.co.jp
KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), www.klm.com
Lufthansa, www.lufthansa.com
MAS (Malaysia Airlines), www.malaysiaairlines.com.my
Northwest Airlines, www.nwa.com
Philippine Airlines, www.philippineairlines.com
Qantas, www.qantas.com
Singapore Airlines, www.singaporeair.com
Silk Air, www.silkair.com
Thai Airways, www.thaiair.com
AIRPORT
Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport is spacious, modern and efficient, but only has a few good and shopping outlets. Bali’s smaller Ngurah Rai International Airport is slightly more interesting. Shopping is also overpriced here but more varied than at Soekarno-Hatta. In peak tourist seasons when a few jumbos land, it is standing room only and queues are long. Standard duty-free items are on sale at both airports.
From AUSTRALIA
Bali is the major gateway to Australia, with almost all flight to/from Indonesia routed via Denpasar. Direct flight connect Denpasar with Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Darwin. Garuda and Qantas used to be the only carriers competing on most of these runs, but a couple of new outfits strated in 2003. Air Paradise flies from Melbourne and Perth, and Australian Airlines (operated by Qantas) from Sydney and Melbourne. Other direct flights to Indonesia are Perth – Jakarta and Sydney – Jakarta (both Australian Airlines).
To/From CHRISTMAS ISLANDS
If your tourist pass is running out and you’d like to return to Indonesia, Darwin is not your only Australin short-hop destination option. Christmas island in Australia’s Indian ocean Territories is only 360 km away from Jakarta, and there’s a weekly return charter-flight, which at the time of research departed Saturday from both Jakarta and Christmas island.
NEW ZEALAND
There are no direct flight between Indonesia and New Zealand; however, Air New Zealand, Garuda and Qantas connect Auckland with Denpasar via Sidney, Melbourne or Brisbane.
Flight Centre (0800 243 544; www.flightcentre.co.nz) has an office in Auckland and many branches throughtout the country. Also checkout deals in the travel section of the New Zealand Herald.
The USA
There are no direct flights from the USA, but there are plenty of options that involve a stopever in another Asian destination, such us Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore or Malaysia. If you are traveling from east coast USA, it’s better to travel via either Frankfurt or Amsterdam.
If you are also visiting others parts of Asia, some good deals can be organized (eq, there are cheap tickets between the US west coast and Singapore with stopovers in Bangkok for very little extra money). However, be careful during the peak travel seasons (June to August, and Chinese New Year) because seats will be hard to come by unless reserved months in advance.
US websites worth checking out for lowcost flight include, www.lowestfare.com and www.travelzoo.com .
CANADA
Getting discount tickets in Canada is much the same as in the USA – shop around until you find a good deal. Again, you’ll probably have to fly into Hong Kong or Singapore (or Europe from the east coast) and carry on from there to Indonesia.
The UK
There are no direct flights to Indonesia from the UK; however, there are plenty of airlines offering services via Europe, Asia and/or the Middle East. Discount air travel is big business in London. Advertisements for many agencies appear in the travel pages of weekend broadsheet newspapaer, in Time Out, the Evening Standard and in the free managazine TNT.
There are plenty of travel agencies worth checking for fares. STA Travel (0870 - 160 0599; www.statravel.co.uk) has branches across the country. Other reputable agencies are Trailfinders (0207 – 938 3939; www.trailfinder.com); Flight Centre (0870 – 890 8099; www.flightcentre.co.uk) and ebookers (0870 – 010 7000; www.ebookers.com).
CONTINENTAL EUROPE
STA Travel has offices throughout the region. Check out its website at www.statravel.com for office locations and contact details. Nouvelles Frontieres (www.nouvelles-frontieres.com) also has branches throughout Europe.
France has a network of travel agencies that can supply discount tickets. OUT Voyages (08 20 81 78 17; www.otu.fr) and Voyageurs du Monde (01 42 86 16 40, 08 25 30 02 90; www.vdm.cm) have branches throughout the country and offer some of the best services and deals.
Recommended travel agencies in Germany include STA Travel (01805-456 422; www.statravel.de) which has branches in major cities across the country.
In Italy, CTS Viaggi (840-501 150; www.cts.it) is a student and youth specialist with branches in major cities.
In Spain, recommended agencies include Usit Unlimited (902 252 575; www.usitworld.com) and Barcelo Viajes (902 116 226; www.barcelo-viajes.es), both with branches in major cities.
In the Netherlands, NBBS Reizen (0900-10 20 300; www.nbbs.nl) is a stalwart agent.
ASIA
All the following air fares are for one-way travel.
MALAYSIA
The most popular flight is from Penang to Medan in Sumatra with Malaysia. Malaysia Airlines also flies Medan – Kuala Lumpur and Pontianak – Kuching.
PHILIPPINES
Bouraq and Merpati both have flights from Manado to Davao in the Philippines, but you need an onward or return ticket to enter the Philippines. Philippine Airlines flies Manila – Jakarta.
SINGAPORE
Silk Air flies into several cities including Medan, Padang, Pekanbaru, Palembang, Manado, Makassar, Mataram, Balikpapan and Solo.
By SEA
MALAYSIA
Most sea links are between Malaysia and Sumatra. Confortable, high-speed ferries between Penang (Malaysia) and Belawan (near Medan, Sumatra) are one of the most popular ways to reach Indonesia. The other main ferry connection is between Dumai (Sumatra) and Melaka (Malacca). From Johor Bahru in southern Malaysia, daily ferries run to Batam and Bintan islands in Sumatra’s Riau islands. From east-coast Kalimantan, speedboats depart every morning from Tarakan to Nunukan and from Nunukan to Tawau.
SINGAPORE
A popular way to reach Indonesia is via the Riau islands in Sumatra. The main stepping stones are the islands of batam and Bintan, both only a short high-speed ferry ride from Singapore. From Batam, speedboats travel through ro Pekanbaru on the Sumatran mainland. From Bintan, Pelni ships run to Jakarta and other destinations, and other ships go from Bintan to Jakarta.
By LAND
There are three possible land crossings into Indonesia. It’s possible to cross by road at Entikong, between Kalimantan and Sarawak (eastern Malaysia); get your visa in advance.
The border crossing between West and East Timor at Motoain was open at the time of research; a visa in required when traveling from East to West Timor.
The road from Jayapura of Sentani in Indonesia to Vanimo in Papua New Guinea can be crossed, depending on the current political situation. A visa is required if traveling into Indonesia.
by Indonesia Trekking
Whatever you bring, make sure you to pack light & within the baggage restrictions on your air ticket. Airlines are becoming more stringent & do impose hefty charges for excess baggage!
TRAVEL ESSENTIALS
- Passport valid for at least 6 months from date of departure and must have at least 1 completely blank page (no stamps, nothing) upon arrival in Indonesia for Indonesian Immigration to attach the visa on arrival. Otherwise, you will be denied entry into Indonesia
- Tickets, itinerary, travel insurance policy and any travel vouchers
- Visa (if necessary) – for most countries including Australia, NZ and USA a US$25 30-day tourist visa is issued on arrival into Indonesia, payable in most currencies, or by credit card.
- Money – change some cash into Indonesian Rupiah before you leave home or at the airport when you arrive in Indonesia. There are ATM’s at all airports, cities and main towns in Indonesia. Change AU$400 minimum per two weeks stay, less for boat trips. Travellers cheques are becoming more and more difficult to change outside major centres, so cash, preferably new 50 or 100 dollar notes and a credit or cash card enabling you use ATM’s are the go. Make sure you have RP 100,000 left over at the end of your trip for airport departure tax when leaving Indonesia.
- Ticket or document wallet to store you valuables.
- A sense of humor and an open mind – Indonesia has a very different culture to us and things don’t always go to plan. These two qualities will ensure you get the most from your travel experience and they don’t weigh anything!
Cheers, frizzy2008.
Info yang mungkin berguna
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
Cheers, frizzy2008.
- Karbon atau arang kayu yang biasa digunakan untuk memasak sate adalah media yang baik untuk memurnikan air dari pencemar logam seperti zat besi yang biasa mencemari air di perkotaan, karena arang kayu memiliki pori-pori yang mampu mengadsorpsi ion logam yang terdapat dalam air.
- Pengolahan air minum dengan cara dimasak hanya cocok untuk air minum dari sumber yang belum tercemar, sedangkan untuk daerah perkotaan dan industri dimana airnya telah tercemar, pengolahan air minum dengan cara dimasak hanya dapat membunuh kuman tapi tidak menghilangkan bahan kimia berbahaya yang terdapat didalamnya, perlu pengolahan lebih lanjut agar air yang tercemar dapat dimunum, seperti dengan cara destilasi, adsorpsi, penukar ion atau menyaringnya dengan menggunakan membran semipermiable.
- Mercury adalah logam yang berbentuk cair pada temperatur kamar, mercury akan menjadi padat bila diberi tekanan sebesar 7.640 atm atau 7,7 juta milibar.
- Sejak zaman Belanda para petani kita sudah mengenal pupuk Z.A. (zwavelzuur amonium) yang tiada lain adalah amonium sulfat, (NH4)2 SO4. Pupuk Z.A. hanya mengandung 21 % berat nitrogen. Akan tetapi harganya lebih murah dari urea, serta dapat menyumbangkan unsur S (belerang) yang juga esensial bagi tumbuh-tumbuhan. Hanya penggunaan pupuk Z.A. yang terlalu banyak akan menyebabkan tanah bersifat asam.
- Alkohol dapat bersifat sebagai asam. Alkohol mirip air dalam hal bersikap sebagai suatu basa dan menerima sebuah proton (menghasilkan suatu alkohol terprotonkan, ROH2+). Seperti air pula, suatu alkohol dapat bersikap sebagai asam dan melepaskan sebuah proton (menghasilkan ion alkoksida, RO-). Seperti air, alkohol adalah asam atau basa yang sangat lemah, untuk alkohol murni atau alkohol dalam air, kesetimbangan ionisasi terletak di sebelah kiri (di daerah alcohol takterionkan).
Dalam larutan encer dalam air, alcohol mempunyai pKa yang kira-kira sama dengan pKa air. Namun dalam keadan murni (tak ada air) alkohol-alkohol jauh lebih lemah daripada air. Nilai pKa methanol murni sekitar 17, dan alkohol-alkohol lain lebih lemah lagi. Sebagai perbandingan untuk air murni pKa = 15,7 (bukan 14, yakni pKw).
Satu alasan mengapa alkohol murni mempunyai keasaman yang lebih rendah adalah karena alkohol mempunyai tetapan dielektrik yang lebih rendah. Karena mereka kurang polar, alcohol kurang mampu mendukung ion dalam larutan daripada molekul air. Dalam larutan-air yang encer, alkohol mempunyai nilai pKa yang kira-kira sama seperti air. - Sabun dapat bereaksi dengan ion logam seperti ion besi, ion kalsium, ion magnesium dan lainnya, sehingga sifat sabunnya berkurang, yaitu tidak dapat mengikat lemak.Oleh sebab itu sabun tidak cocok digunakan dengan menggunakan air sadah dan air yang tercemar ion logam seperti besi. Untuk air yang banyak mengandung ion logam sebaiknya digunakan ditergent.
- Cell bahan bakar hidrogen, menggunakan hidrogen sebagai anode dan oksigen sebagai katoda. Elektron dalam fuel cell berasal dari hidrogen yang mengalir dari anoda menuju katoda sehingga dihasilkan arus listrik. Oksigen bereaksi dengan hidrogen yang kekurangan elektron menghasilkan air. Cell bahan bakar hidrogen merupakan penghasil listrik yang rendah polusi karena produk akhirnya adalah air, yang bukan zat pencemar.
- Gas alam dapat disimpan dalam bentuk cairan dengan cara diberi tekanan tinggi. Gas alam dalam bentuk cair 600 kali volumenya lebih kecil dibandingkan dalam bentuk gas. Jadi dengan tempat yang sama dalam bentuk cairan, gas alam 600 kali lebih banyak dibandingkan dengan bentuk gas dengan volume yang sama.
- Helium adalah salah satu unsur gas mulia yang digunakan untuk menggantikan udara pada pernafasan penyelam atau orang lain yang bekerja dibawah tekanan tinggi, dengan campuran helium 80 % dan Oksigen 20 %. Terlalu lama terkena udara yang dimampatkan dapat menimbulkan narkose nitrogen, yang salah satu efeknya adalah halusinasi, yang oleh penyelam dikenal sebagai pesona bawah laut, para penyelam yang terpesona demikian tak mampu memperhatikan tindakan-tindakan pengamanan dan mungkin akan tenggelam. Helium disarankan sebagai pengganti nitrogen karena helium kurang larut dalam darah dibandingkan nitrogen. Selagi penyelam kembali ke tekanan atmosfer, melarutnya gas nitrogen akan membentuk gelembung-gelembung gas yang sangat kecil dalam darah, yang menimbulkan “ tekukan” yang terasa nyeri dan berbahaya.
Cheers, frizzy2008.
At CERN, computers to tackle the Big Bang
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
GENEVA--The CERN Computer Center is the number-crunching hub that powers the physics research lab's quest to discover the nature of the universe.
A formidable 8,000 servers housing 40,000 Intel processor cores provide the grunt to help crack the petabytes of data spewed out from CERN's cutting-edge particle accelerators, based here. Editors' note: This story was originally published on Silicon.com as a photo gallery. Click here to see all the images.)
About half of these cores will be used to deal with data from the 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which will generate about 15 petabytes of data by colliding protons with protons.
The computer center will provide only about 20 percent of the processing power used to examine the LHC data, with the rest coming from the LHC Computing Grid, a dedicated network of more than 100,000 processors.
Scientists hope the LHC will offer a "glimpse" at the Higgs Boson, a particle thought to give mass to the universe.
The LHC will produce up to 600 million particle collisions per second. To store the huge amount of data the LHC produces, the center houses 8 petabytes of hard disks and 18 petabytes of magnetic tapes. This will increase to 16 petabytes of disc and 30 petabytes of tape by the end of the year.
Even this is insufficient to store the vast amounts of the raw data produced by the LHC, so its four detectors--which each look for different particles and energy signatures--have built-in electronics and smaller computer centers that analyze petabytes of data per second they collect and that throw away the bulk of the information not of interest to the physicists.
The data that's left is sent on to the computer center and its racks of servers.
"A lot of processors are devoted to data processing for physics. We are collecting a tremendous amount of data from the collision points," said Jean Michel Jouanigot, head of network services at CERN.
CERN switching points.
The computing center holds 1,500 10-gigabit ports for data exchange and 70,000 1-gigabit ports for information flow among CERN sites. These are just some of the switching points.
(Credit: CERN)
Once the data arrives at the center it is immediately stored and reprocessed before being made available to 7,000 physicists in 33 countries via the LHC grid.
The grid is linked to the center through dedicated 10-gigabit-per-second connections. It can handle about 50,000 users at once, sharing out bandwidth and processing power between scientists.
"The grid is a worldwide collaboration through many hundreds of sites and will get information through very powerful networks," Jouanigot said.
CERN serves as an Internet exchange point and is one of the oldest in Europe.
Within the computing center itself, the data exchange is handled by 1,500 10-gigabit ports, while information flow within CERN's various sites is handled by 70,000 1-gigabit ports.
by Nick Heath of Silicon.com reported from London.
Cheers, frizzy2008.
GENEVA--The CERN Computer Center is the number-crunching hub that powers the physics research lab's quest to discover the nature of the universe.
A formidable 8,000 servers housing 40,000 Intel processor cores provide the grunt to help crack the petabytes of data spewed out from CERN's cutting-edge particle accelerators, based here. Editors' note: This story was originally published on Silicon.com as a photo gallery. Click here to see all the images.)
About half of these cores will be used to deal with data from the 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which will generate about 15 petabytes of data by colliding protons with protons.
The computer center will provide only about 20 percent of the processing power used to examine the LHC data, with the rest coming from the LHC Computing Grid, a dedicated network of more than 100,000 processors.
Scientists hope the LHC will offer a "glimpse" at the Higgs Boson, a particle thought to give mass to the universe.
The LHC will produce up to 600 million particle collisions per second. To store the huge amount of data the LHC produces, the center houses 8 petabytes of hard disks and 18 petabytes of magnetic tapes. This will increase to 16 petabytes of disc and 30 petabytes of tape by the end of the year.
Even this is insufficient to store the vast amounts of the raw data produced by the LHC, so its four detectors--which each look for different particles and energy signatures--have built-in electronics and smaller computer centers that analyze petabytes of data per second they collect and that throw away the bulk of the information not of interest to the physicists.
The data that's left is sent on to the computer center and its racks of servers.
"A lot of processors are devoted to data processing for physics. We are collecting a tremendous amount of data from the collision points," said Jean Michel Jouanigot, head of network services at CERN.
CERN switching points.
The computing center holds 1,500 10-gigabit ports for data exchange and 70,000 1-gigabit ports for information flow among CERN sites. These are just some of the switching points.
(Credit: CERN)
Once the data arrives at the center it is immediately stored and reprocessed before being made available to 7,000 physicists in 33 countries via the LHC grid.
The grid is linked to the center through dedicated 10-gigabit-per-second connections. It can handle about 50,000 users at once, sharing out bandwidth and processing power between scientists.
"The grid is a worldwide collaboration through many hundreds of sites and will get information through very powerful networks," Jouanigot said.
CERN serves as an Internet exchange point and is one of the oldest in Europe.
Within the computing center itself, the data exchange is handled by 1,500 10-gigabit ports, while information flow within CERN's various sites is handled by 70,000 1-gigabit ports.
by Nick Heath of Silicon.com reported from London.
Cheers, frizzy2008.
The emotional effects of acne
Fahmi Rizwansyah says:
You've been anticipating — and possibly dreading — the "big day" for weeks. The nature of the event isn't important; it may be a first date, an important job interview, or your own birthday party. You try to hide behind hair or heavy make-up. But you can't ignore the face in the mirror.
Sound familiar? For acne sufferers all over the world, these scenarios are all too common. Even routine social interactions — a day at the office, a trip to the market — can be a nightmare of stress and self-loathing. Yet, due to the "merely cosmetic" nature of acne vulgaris, these very real emotions are widely dismissed as oversensitivity. Clear-faced friends and co-workers say, "Really, it looks worse to you."
And they're probably right. But they're missing an important point: Acne is as much about how you feel as how you look. Over the years, the research methods and medical treatments may have changed, but the answers to the question "how does your acne make you feel?" have remained alarmingly constant: Ugly. Angry. Dirty. Depressed. These answers are consistent across gender lines, age barriers and national borders.
What is being done?
Every year, millions of dollars are devoted to the medical study and treatment of acne; millions more are spent on the development and marketing of over-the-counter remedies. Comparatively little energy, however, has been spent determining the psychological and social effects of the condition. Consider the following statement:
There is no single condition which causes more psychic trauma, more maladjustment between parent and children, more general insecurity and feelings of inferiority and greater sums of psychic suffering than does acne vulgaris.1
Made by Sulzberger and Zaidems in a 1948 article, this statement rings true today. Despite acne's limited impact on overall patient health, several studies have concluded that it produces a similar degree of emotional stress to skin conditions causing significant physical disability. The implications are fairly obvious: Acne hurts more on the inside. So why is it so easy for people to dismiss these feelings as vanity?
The problem of measuring emotion.
The difficulty lies not in validating acne's negative affects, but in quantifying them. For years, researchers have been struggling to find an accurate means of measurement for this particular kind of study. Scientists use psychometrics to measure conditions of the mind, but have yet to develop a scale for evaluating the psychological effects of physical conditions such as acne. And the use of psychometric scales for evaluating acne patients has been largely inconclusive.
Why? Emotional symptoms — depression, anger, low self-esteem — are influenced by an incredible number of variables. So it's difficult to know for sure whether one's depression is caused by acne alone or a combination of factors, ranging from trouble in school to on-the-job stress. At the moment, the best way to understand the psychosocial effects of acne seems surprisingly simple: Listen.
The power of patient testimony.
Until science develops an accurate scale, the best way for us to learn about acne's emotional effects is from the patients themselves. The following passages are excerpted from verbatim quotes taken during a 1995 study in San Francisco.2 In dramatic contrast with the psychometric questionnaires used in the past, patients were asked open-ended questions and encouraged to answer at length.
It has been many years since I have looked in a mirror. I comb my hair using a silhouette on the wall to show the outline of my head. I have not looked myself in the eyes in years, and that is painful to not be able to do that, and that is a direct result of acne.
When my acne got more severe, I began to really examine more things, become more aware of social norms, what is acceptable, what is attractive. That is when I began to have lower self-esteem; it made me become more of an introvert. It made me want to avoid certain occasions. 'Ask her out? Well, maybe not. She won't be interested because of how I look.
It's associated with being dirty, and I hate that, because it's not at all like that. I inherited it from my mother, and she is always telling me that she had the exact same thing, and that it will go away. I am mad that I inherited it from her. My dad makes me feel bad because he never had bad skin when he was younger, so he doesn't understand.
My mother doesn’t know what she has done to hurt me. If I ate fatty foods, she would criticize. If I ate spicy food — which Thai food is, they are all spicy — she would say that because I ate spicy food, that was why I had pimples. She kept telling me how ugly my face was, and no one was going to marry me if I had bad-looking skin. And that really hurts me.
I know I am so insecure in this way — but if I go into a store, I won't buy candy, even if I really want it. I think in my mind that people are looking at what I am buying, and thinking, 'Oh, she eats junk. No wonder she has so many zits on her face.
From just this small sample, it's easy to see the wide-ranging emotional impact of acne on those who suffer from it. These accounts of family conflict, social withdrawal and deep private suffering are, according to the patients, the direct result of their acne.
While it's hard to measure the impact of this condition, the message within these testimonies is clear: Acne can cause profound emotional suffering. Of course, if you live with acne, this isn’t news — but it may be helpful to know you’re not alone.
And there’s good news, too. We now know more about the treatment of acne than ever before. There is a wide range of acne treatments available, and there’s a good chance you’ll be able to find a regimen that works for you. More about acne treatments.
1 Sulzberger MB and Zaidems SH, “Psychogenic factors in dermatological disorders,” Medical Clinicians of North America, 1948, Vol. 32, p. 669.
2 Koo, John, MD, “The psychosocial impact of acne: Patients’ perceptions,” Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 1995, Vol. 32, p. 26–30.
Cheers, frizzy2008.
You've been anticipating — and possibly dreading — the "big day" for weeks. The nature of the event isn't important; it may be a first date, an important job interview, or your own birthday party. You try to hide behind hair or heavy make-up. But you can't ignore the face in the mirror.
Sound familiar? For acne sufferers all over the world, these scenarios are all too common. Even routine social interactions — a day at the office, a trip to the market — can be a nightmare of stress and self-loathing. Yet, due to the "merely cosmetic" nature of acne vulgaris, these very real emotions are widely dismissed as oversensitivity. Clear-faced friends and co-workers say, "Really, it looks worse to you."
And they're probably right. But they're missing an important point: Acne is as much about how you feel as how you look. Over the years, the research methods and medical treatments may have changed, but the answers to the question "how does your acne make you feel?" have remained alarmingly constant: Ugly. Angry. Dirty. Depressed. These answers are consistent across gender lines, age barriers and national borders.
What is being done?
Every year, millions of dollars are devoted to the medical study and treatment of acne; millions more are spent on the development and marketing of over-the-counter remedies. Comparatively little energy, however, has been spent determining the psychological and social effects of the condition. Consider the following statement:
There is no single condition which causes more psychic trauma, more maladjustment between parent and children, more general insecurity and feelings of inferiority and greater sums of psychic suffering than does acne vulgaris.1
Made by Sulzberger and Zaidems in a 1948 article, this statement rings true today. Despite acne's limited impact on overall patient health, several studies have concluded that it produces a similar degree of emotional stress to skin conditions causing significant physical disability. The implications are fairly obvious: Acne hurts more on the inside. So why is it so easy for people to dismiss these feelings as vanity?
The problem of measuring emotion.
The difficulty lies not in validating acne's negative affects, but in quantifying them. For years, researchers have been struggling to find an accurate means of measurement for this particular kind of study. Scientists use psychometrics to measure conditions of the mind, but have yet to develop a scale for evaluating the psychological effects of physical conditions such as acne. And the use of psychometric scales for evaluating acne patients has been largely inconclusive.
Why? Emotional symptoms — depression, anger, low self-esteem — are influenced by an incredible number of variables. So it's difficult to know for sure whether one's depression is caused by acne alone or a combination of factors, ranging from trouble in school to on-the-job stress. At the moment, the best way to understand the psychosocial effects of acne seems surprisingly simple: Listen.
The power of patient testimony.
Until science develops an accurate scale, the best way for us to learn about acne's emotional effects is from the patients themselves. The following passages are excerpted from verbatim quotes taken during a 1995 study in San Francisco.2 In dramatic contrast with the psychometric questionnaires used in the past, patients were asked open-ended questions and encouraged to answer at length.
It has been many years since I have looked in a mirror. I comb my hair using a silhouette on the wall to show the outline of my head. I have not looked myself in the eyes in years, and that is painful to not be able to do that, and that is a direct result of acne.
When my acne got more severe, I began to really examine more things, become more aware of social norms, what is acceptable, what is attractive. That is when I began to have lower self-esteem; it made me become more of an introvert. It made me want to avoid certain occasions. 'Ask her out? Well, maybe not. She won't be interested because of how I look.
It's associated with being dirty, and I hate that, because it's not at all like that. I inherited it from my mother, and she is always telling me that she had the exact same thing, and that it will go away. I am mad that I inherited it from her. My dad makes me feel bad because he never had bad skin when he was younger, so he doesn't understand.
My mother doesn’t know what she has done to hurt me. If I ate fatty foods, she would criticize. If I ate spicy food — which Thai food is, they are all spicy — she would say that because I ate spicy food, that was why I had pimples. She kept telling me how ugly my face was, and no one was going to marry me if I had bad-looking skin. And that really hurts me.
I know I am so insecure in this way — but if I go into a store, I won't buy candy, even if I really want it. I think in my mind that people are looking at what I am buying, and thinking, 'Oh, she eats junk. No wonder she has so many zits on her face.
From just this small sample, it's easy to see the wide-ranging emotional impact of acne on those who suffer from it. These accounts of family conflict, social withdrawal and deep private suffering are, according to the patients, the direct result of their acne.
While it's hard to measure the impact of this condition, the message within these testimonies is clear: Acne can cause profound emotional suffering. Of course, if you live with acne, this isn’t news — but it may be helpful to know you’re not alone.
And there’s good news, too. We now know more about the treatment of acne than ever before. There is a wide range of acne treatments available, and there’s a good chance you’ll be able to find a regimen that works for you. More about acne treatments.
1 Sulzberger MB and Zaidems SH, “Psychogenic factors in dermatological disorders,” Medical Clinicians of North America, 1948, Vol. 32, p. 669.
2 Koo, John, MD, “The psychosocial impact of acne: Patients’ perceptions,” Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 1995, Vol. 32, p. 26–30.
Cheers, frizzy2008.
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