Sunday 23 January 2011

Facebook Bisa Bikin Asma Kambuh

Sebuah studi di Italia mengungkap bahwa Facebook berpotensi kuat memicu serangan asma. Temuan ini jelas menguatkan peringatan tentang bahaya psikologis dari situs jejaring sosial.

Sejumlah dokter di Italia melakukan studi terhadap seorang remaja pria 18 tahun pengidap asma yang mengalami depresi setelah melihat foto-foto mesra mantan kekasihnya bersama sang selingkuhan di laman Facebook.

Melihat foto-foto mantan kekasih yang berselingkuh membuat remaja itu sesak napas. Ini terbukti dari hasil pengukuran aliran pernapasan sebelum dan setelah log-in ke Facebook. Setiap selesai melihat foto-foto mesra mantan kekasih, tingkat kelancaran aliran napasnya berkurang 20 persen.

Depresi yang terjadi memicu serangan asma setiap kali ia membuka laman Facebook mantan kekasihnya. Dan terbukti, ketika seorang psikiater berhasil membujuk remaja itu menjauhi Facebook, serangan asma berhenti.

“Stres psikologis adalah penyebab terjadinya serangan asma,” tulis Dr Gennaro D’Amato, pemimpin studi, dalam Jurnal The Lancet Medical, seperti dikutip dari Daily Mail. “Ini menunjukkan bahwa Facebook dan jaringan sosial lainnya bisa menjadi sumber baru stres psikologis.”

Klaim para dokter di Italia itu mendapat dukungan dari sejumlah pemerhati penyakit asma di Inggris. Sebab, hampir 70 persen pasien asma mendapat serangan di saat stres.

5 Adat Pernikahan Teraneh di Dunia

Pernikahan dapat menjadi sebuah momen indah dan penuh kebahagiaan yang menandai penyatuan dua insan. Uniknya, pernikahan seringkali dilangsungkan dengan berbagai adat.

Bahkan tak jarang di tengah kebahagiaan tersebut, pasangan harus melewati prosesi adat yang aneh dan irasional. Ada beberapa tradisi pernikahan yang dianggap paling aneh di dunia. Simak lima di antaranya berikut ini:

1. Menculik pengantin wanita di Roma

Kebanyakan malam pengantin dihabiskan dengan cara romantis tetapi tidak dengan adat pernikahan di Roma. Pengantin pria diharuskan ‘menculik’ pengantin wanitanya. Budaya ini kental pada kehidupan kaum gipsi Romawi. Bila seorang pria berhasil menculik seorang gadis dan menyembunyikannya selama dua-tiga hari, ia akan resmi menjadi istri.

2. Menikahi hewan di India

India tak asing dengan berbagai cerita takhayul, termasuk dalam pernikahan. Suku Santhal di India percaya, jika seorang bayi perempuan tumbuh gigi di bagian atas gusi terlebih dulu, itu sebuah pertanda ia akan dimakan harimau dalam waktu dekat. Karena itu, ia harus menikah dengan seekor anjing untuk menghapus pengaruh buruk tersebut.

Kisah ini dialami seorang anak usia sembilan tahun, Karnamoni Handsa, yang menikah dengan seekor anjing. Pernikahan ini dibuat meriah dan dihadiri 100 orang tamu. Setelah upacara pernikahan ‘mengusir setan’ selesai si gadis dapat menikah dengan pemuda manusia.

3. ‘Menghitamkan’ pengantin wanita di Skotlandia

Ada kebiasaan unik dalam adat pernikahan di Skotlandia. Saat pernikahan, pasangan pengantin memakan isi perut domba dan pengantin prianya memakai pakaian sejenis rok. Selanjutnya, pengantin pria, keluarga dan teman-teman akan menyirami pengantin wanita dengan telur mentah, air kotor, saus dan susu basi. Kebiasaan ‘menghitamkan pengantin wanita’ merupakan ritual pernikahan yang sangat tua yang dilakukan setelah ikrar pernikahan.

4. Pengantin wanita harus gemuk

Beda dengan standar kecantikan umumnya, di Mauritania wanita cantik adalah wanita berukuran besar. Bila seorang wanita akan menikah, mereka akan ditempatkan pada sebuah kampung yang disebut ‘penampungan lemak’ untuk ‘menghilangkan’ keriput dan lebih menarik.

Ritual ‘Leblouh’ dalam bahasa lokal mewajibkan gadis yang akan menikah menyantap segala macam makanan agar gemuk dengan cepat. Menu makanan harian terdiri dari dua kilogram daging dan lima galon susu unta tiap hari. Jika mereka memuntahkannya, petugas pengawas akan menyiksa mereka.

5. Pengantin dilarang buang hajat

Tradisi di semenanjung Kalimantan ini tak kalah aneh. Setelah ritual pernikahan yang membahagiakan, suku Tidung mewajibkan pasangan pengantin harus menunda membuang kotoran besar maupun kecil selama 72 jam atau sekitar tiga hari tiga malam. Sehingga, pasangan pengantin akan dibatasi makan dan minum dan diawasi agar tidak ke toilet. Jika menjalani ritual ini, pasangan akan menjalani pernikahan bahagia, dianugerahi anak yang banyak dan sehat.

Pasien Periksa Gigi Malah Telan Bor Gigi

Seorang pasien yang melakukan pemeriksaan gigi rutin di sebuah klinik gigi, tidak sengaja menelan bor gigi yang digunakan untuk membersihkan gigi. Insiden ini membuat pasien tersebut segera dilarikan ke rumah sakit.

Seperti dilansir News.com.au, Jumat (21/1/2011), pria yang bermaksud melakukan pemeriksaan gigi tersebut justru harus menjalani perawatan lebih lanjut di rumah sakit di Provinsi Vastmanland.

Kejadian nahas ini berlangsung ketika dokter gigi tidak menyadari jika mata bor dari alat yang ia gunakan lepas. Sebelum dokter dan asistennya tersebut sempat berhasil mengeluarkan bor tersebut, pria itu justru tidak sengaja menelan mata bornya.

Pria itu dilarikan ke rumah sakit untuk menjalani proses rontgen. Petugas medis di rumah sakit menemukan mata bor tersebut berada di bagian perutnya, namun dipastikan tidak ada masalah kesehatan serius akibat kejadian yang tidak disengaja ini.

Mata bor ini diperkirakan akan keluar dari tubuh pria tersebut dengan cara yang alami, yaitu saat si pasien tersebut buang air besar.

How To Make A Girl Fall In Love With You

Let's get started. Getting a girl of your dreams is much like getting the car of your dream. But unlike a car which you can always bargain for, there is nothing like a 20 percent discount in courting the girl of your dreams, she's so sweet a thing to be discounted, you dearly are in love with her and your feelings for her can only be communicated not by the words of the mouth, but by the words of the heart. Getting the girl actually depends on how big your heart is - faint heart, never won fair lady.

The first dating idea for any man is to make a good impression. In your doing so, you don't have to talk, dress or do the common things that all the Toms do to get a decent girl's attention. Be unique, that's all you need. Be a man of his own style. Dress decently - indecency can make one be mistaken for arrogance; watch your language - obscene language gives the impression of immaturity, being uncultured and cheap; be a man of good habits - don't drink or smoke like any other loser.

How to make her fall in love with you? Take your time. Add some romance to your dating style. When in College I had a crush on the most beautiful lady in our first year lot. Though all senior guys were out to get that girl, I managed to divert her attention from the other guys. I wrote her three letters without disclosing my identity and slid into her room secretly; all I said was 'Yours Secret Admirer.' The first letter contained the meaning of her name, this I got by playing around with the initials of her name to make meaning. The second was a funny message that could only be read backwards and it was all about her physique and her smartness. In the third letter I told the girl to be ready to receive a rose flower from her admirer, but only if she could be kind enough to phone him using a number that I had included in the letter. The girl did phone me that very night, and her first words to me were, "Hallo Secret Admirer." So, the story of our love affair came to be. Later she told me that was so creative of me, no one had approached her in that manner. I made her fall in love with me and made a date in the romantic manner.

Befriending and understanding the girl you are out to get is the next important thing. This is what I also did. You have to understand that as a lady, she loves to be loved, adores to be adored and needs to be needed. This will move you closer to the girl and you'll get to know what she's into, what she likes and dislikes, and what her style is. Love is built upon friendship and it always leaves individuals better off having known each other should they break up. I and my College steady were to break some time later but to date, we are the best of buddies. Be sure that bringing out the selflessness friend in you will make her create room for you in her heart.

A shoulder to lean on and some good friend that she can always turn to is all that a lady wants. Please don't hesitate to be helpful and supportive. Be that friend who rekindles her zeal of hardworking and restoring hope back into her life when she looses hope. This above all other things will make you her daily vitamin simply because you bring out the best in her in terms of personality and character. In you, she'll have found that friend whom she can open up to, share with and advice each other on the rights and wrongs, the dos and don'ts of life. Don't forget to always be there to celebrate the good times, and to lend an ear when the girl needs you to listen as a friend.

Make the girl feel special; because she's someone's friend - your friend, and let her know that she too has touched your life in a unique way like no one else could. Compliment her for her company and for being there when you needed her, when you felt sad and all alone. Show appreciations for the comfort the girl offers you and for making you smile.

In your day to day talks, share your dreams, your world, and every aspect of your life with your girl. Always dream with her, build with her, and always cheer her on and encourage her. Tell your girl how you always think about her even when you try not to think about her. Let the girl know that she's your first thing in the morning and the last thing when you go to bed at night.

Her knowing that you were thinking of her when you slipped beneath the softness of your blanket and gave in to the bliss of sweet dreams, will make her go 'my my' and her heart will sing your name all the year round.

You have to be creative and constructive to keep girl's interest in you so full of life. I remember one time I told my girlfriend to be to imagine we are both deaf and dump. We then sat opposite each other on the table and started sharing our feelings for each other using eyes and hand signs. It turned out to be some fun. There was also this time that we were in the library and we decided we are not going to speak to each other verbal, so I wrote a love note on a paper and passed it across the table to her, she replied and on and on we carried on our love on paper conversation till we almost exhausted a whole rim of paper. At sometime, I noticed that some guys sited with us on the table were enjoying our ordeal than their studies. Such are the things that made the girl embrace my world. I remember her suggesting that we play deaf and dump two years after we broke up, can you imagine that?

Never fail to phone her, even when she least expects it. I once called some girl that I was interested in at four o'clock in the morning. When inquiring of what I was doing up so early, I told her I was in thirteenth heaven, where people think of their loved ones when they can't sleep. Wow! First thing early the next morning, she was at my door with a king-sized hug for me. No matter how many dates you take her, don't make any elbow - exceeding moves after any date, just drop her home and with a friendly handshake, wish her good night. Don't kiss her when she expects you to. Your respect as a gentleman will be earned on how patient you are with her when it comes to such matters as kissing her and accessing her inner graces.

The writing is on the wall that you want her, but you can't have her just yet. Increase your demand. Try to show her that men are also hard to get at times. Make her realize that when she feels a little dizzy, a little tired, a little sad, a little sick, a lot bored and very much cold, she's actually missing vitamin you. By this time, she'll be so much into you and since love is truthful and is characterized by open and honest communication, honestly promise her your everlasting devotion, loyalty, respect, and your unconditional love for a lifetime. Prove to her that you'll always be there for her, to listen and to hold her hand, and that you'll always do your best to make her happy, and feel loved.

Remember, patience is the key to her heart; be like that gardener watching a fruit as it hangs on the tree, day after day admiring it, but, exercising tremendous self-discipline, neither feeling the fruit, nor pinching it, nor testing it to see if it is ready. And then, one day he holds out his hand and the fruit simply drops into it, ripe, warm and eager to be eaten.

The patience and self-control which you practice will make you more attractive and charming. This will qualify you as her daily vitamin and win you that heart hers.

I wish you to meet the girl of your dreams ASAP, make her fall in love with you, and make her feel the happiest girl in the world!

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Tips How to View Private Myspace Profiles

We all notice that if you are a MySpace user, you've come across some profiles that you're dying taboo to view but only to catch out that they're set to private. You realize that the simply way to view their profile is to add them as a friend and hope they accept. Unfortunately, nearly of the time they don't know you and they wont accept your friend request. However, I can show you how to view private profiles on MySpace.

I know personally, I've stumbled upon a profile of someone I thought I recognized. All I need to do is look into some more pictures on their profile to be sure. But when I try to view their MySpace profile, I find it's set to private. Now I see the only way I can view their pictures is to send a friend request to them. But we all know that this can be tiresome and most of the time not work at all. If their profile is set to private, they'll most potentially not add you as a friend.

Private profiles is a great feature on MySpace, however they can be a real annoying when it comes to finding friends that you haven't seen in a long time, or becoming friends with someone that you think look cool.

Fortunately, I came across a site recently in some dark corner of the internet. On this site, you can enter the MySpace user ID and it will return with every picture that user uploaded on their profile, without having to send a friend request or gain access to their private MySpace profile. This is the greatest tool i've found in a long time. Now for all of that have wondered, here is a new way to view Private MySpace profiles. There, you'll find how to view private MySpace profiles.

Pros and Cons of School Uniforms

We have worked with schools across the United States, and believe us, you are not the only person asking this question! The answers that we have heard from our customers are as varied as our customers are. The debate over school uniforms is complicated, so we've included highlights from both sides for you to consider:

Professional:

Some say that a child in a school uniform is more likely to take school seriously. Putting on the school uniform signals he or she is going to school just like dad dresses up to go to work. Schools report that when students dress in "work clothes" rather than "play clothes" they take a more serious approach to their studies.

Promotes Good Discipline:

Many think that school uniforms help maintain school discipline, decreasing the amount of discipline problems. The argument is that children today are lacking in self-discipline because parents refuse to discipline them. This makes it more difficult on the teacher who has to deal with classes of 25-30 students at a time.

Reduces Fighting and Violence:

Schools report that school uniforms decrease fighting and violence that arrise out of arguments over fashionable clothes. Children invariably tease those who do not have trendy clothes. Those who can't afford name brand clothes are often sensitive about their clothing. Schools struggling with gang problems report that school uniforms help ease tensions.

Distractions:

Many parents believe that students wearing school uniforms look nicer and that a school uniform policy ensures that children will come to school in appropriate clothing, avoiding distractions such as fads considered to be outlandish or overly revealing. Some students have turned school into an unending fashion show. This disctracts from learning, as some kids spend more time focused on thier clothes than on homework.

Values:

School uniforms stress that individuality and self-expression are not determined by designer clothing or the latest fashion fad.

Low Cost:

School uniforms are a bargain. They are becoming far less expensive than many other clothes. Schools argue that school uniforms are economical, especially compared to designer clothing, and parents agree given school uniform durability. They say school uniforms last longer because they are made for repeated wash and wear. Many schools capitalize on this by starting used school uniform stores or swap meets. Parents can get used school uniforms at discount prices, or just use them as hand-me-downs between siblings.

School Spirit:

Some feel wearing a school uniform helps build school spirit. It instills a feeling of belonging. As the Beach Boys said, "Be true to your school." Schools report an increase in school pride.

Individuality:

Supressing individuality is the most commonly cited objection to school uniforms. Educators argue that an academic program encouraging students to pursue individual thought is much more important than what they wear. They inhibit creativity and self-expression, forcing students to conform.

Causes Discipline Problems:

Some students reject any rules. Forcing them to wear school uniforms only aggravates their rebelious spirit. They alter their school uniform by tightening, widening, shortening, or lengthening them, and teachers are given the impossible task of policing the students on a daily basis.

Little or No Relationship to Academics:

Opponents insist that their is no credible evidence that school uniforms improve school discipline or promote higher academic acheivement. The principal argument is that some great students are terrible dressers. Dress does not necessarily improve learning.

Will Planet Earth Have ‘Two Suns’ By 2012?



Well look that: we may have another “sun” soon. That would be swell, and certainly the greatest thing to happen to sunglasses manufacturers. A scientist in Australia says that Betelgeuse, which is something like 640 light years away, appears to be losing mass at a fairly rapid rate. If that happens the star could go supernova, which would produce such a blindingly bright, uh, image, that it would be as visible in our sky as a second sun. Wild.

The prediction is that all of this would go down in 2012.

That, of course, means that this actually happened 640 years ago, more than 100 years before Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue.

I don’t know, I thought it was neat. It also reminded me of Sephiroth, which is always appreciated.

Ratusan Warga Menonton 'Jejak UFO' di Persawahan Sleman

Sleman - 'Jejak UFO' di persawahan di Dusun Jogomangsan, Desa Jogotirto, Kecamatan Berbah, Sleman, DIY, menjadi tontonan gratis penduduk sekitar pagi ini. Mereka berduyun-duyun menuju bukit Gunung Suru untuk menyaksikan lingkaran aneh tersebut.

Demikian pantauan detikcom di lokasi, Senin (24/1/2011) pukul 08.15 WIB. Warga memarkir kendaranaannya di jalan masuk bukit. Seperti biasa bila ada "event dadakan", sebuah kotak sumbangan sukarela dipasang. Warga tampak kagum pada lingkaran unik tersebut.

Lokasi persawahan ini terletak 5 km arah tenggara Bandara Adisutjipto. Saat ini jalanan menuju kawasan itu becek karena semalam hujan. Sedangkan hari ini cuaca cerah. Para petani juga tetap bertani seperti biasa.

Di sekitar persawahan itu saat ini dipasangi kertas bertuliskan DILARANG MASUK AREAL SAWAH dengan spidol hitam. Juga dipasang tali rafia hitam yang bertujuan agar warga tidak memasuki lingkaran aneh itu. Lingkaran aneh itu berada di jalur SUTET.

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BISNIS MENARIK TAHUN 2011

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