Assalamu'alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
Semoga selalu selamat, mendapat bimbingan dan perlindungan dari Allah Subhanahu Wata'ala. Amin.
Mohon bapak kembali mengingat ketika saya kekurangan biaya dari 4,5 Juta Rupiah, hingga dua minggu saya baru dapat pinjaman dari orang yang tidak disangka. Sekarang ia sedang memikirkan bahwa ketika itu juga akan timbul permasalahan baru sehingga tidak akan dapat terbayar, demikian adalah sebuah taktik untuk menipu, dengan Atas Nama Allah, saya sampaikan bahwa saya ini merasa tidak tertipu. Namun tetap dalam pendirian bahwa ia tidak akanmau lagi membantu saya, karena tidak sesuai dengan perjanjian, dimana ketika telah dibayar biaya 4,5 Juta rupiah maka datang ke Sintang DR Ibrahim Usman. Namun yang terjadi timbul peristiwa baru.
Agent FBI adalah agent dimana dapat menyampaikan dalam Bahasa Melayu atau Bahasa Indonesia.
Ketika itu pula telah diambil alih karena waktu tidak dapat cepat, sehingga Seorang Direktur Pembayaran Luar Negeri Datang hanya untuk Membayarkan Bantuan Presiden Umaru Yar'a Dua.
Namun hanya mengalami kendala yang tidak ada artinya.
Terima kasih anda tidak mempunyai komitmen sebagai seorang Direktur dimana untuk melapor ke Kedutaan Nigeria di Jakarta saja tidak mau.
Kedua. ketika anda berada di Hotel Arya Duta apa yang anda lakukan, Sehingga memakan waktu panjang hingga berminggu-minggu anda datang dari Nogeria, Lagos sebagai Seorang Pejabat Negara, United Nations. Tanpa Berbuat apa-apa dan Hanya Berhutang?
Silahkan anda dapati di Keluargasukirno.blogspot.com apabila anda ingin langsung melihat keadaan saya.
Terima kasih,
Wassalamu'alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
Hormat Saya,
Sukirno Priyanto
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Assalamu'alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
Hopefully, as always, get the guidance and protection of Allah Subhanahu Wata'ala. Amen.
Please father back when I remember the lack of cost of 4.5 million rupiah, up to two weeks, I can loan from the person who is not presumed. Now he is thinking that when the new problems will arise, so will not be able terbayar, as is a tactics to deceive, with the name of God, I say that I feel this is not deceived. But in the establishment that he no longer akanmau help me, because it does not comply with the agreement, where the cost has been paid 4.5 million rupiah to come to the DR Sintang Ibrahim Usman. However, there arose a new event.
FBI agent is the agent which can be delivered in Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Indonesia.
When she also has taken over the time can not be fast, so that a Director of the Payment of Foreign Affairs Come Help pay only for the President Umaru Yar'a Dua.
However, only a constraint that does not have meaning.
Thank you do not have a commitment as to where the Director to report to the Nigeria Embassy in Jakarta just does not want.
Second. when you are in the Hotel Arya Duta what you do, so take a long time until many weeks you come from Nogeria, Lagos as a State official, the United Nations. Without doing anything and the only debt?
Please find in Keluargasukirno.blogspot.com if you want to see my situation.
Thank you,
Wassalamu'alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
I Sincerely,
Sukirno Priyanto
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Tsunami - Missing Americans
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By 12 January 2005 US authorities had been unable to account for 4759 inquiries about Americans missing in Southern Asia. As of 5 p.m. Friday 07 January 2005 US authorities had been unable to account for 1,809 inquiries about Americans missing in Southern Asia [down from 2,150 at the start of the day]. A total of 20 Americans are missing and presumed dead, with a total of 17 the confirmed American deaths.
Since 26 December 2004 the State Department had received about 20,000 inquiries about loved ones or acquaintances who people have believed may or may not be in the region, or inquires about areas affected by the tsunami. By 03 January 2004 the US Government had been able to satisfactorily respond to three quarters of those inquiries, or about 15,000. That left about 5,000 inquiries that the government had not been able to resolve. By 05 January 2005 there were still 3,500 cases that had not been resolved.
By 06 January 2005 State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said US authorities had answered all but 2,500 of the 24,000 inquiries about Americans missing in Southern Asia. By comparison, the list of missing after the September 11th terrrorist attacks peaked at nearly 7,000, and was eventually reduced to 3,016.
A diplomat who spoke to reporters on 03 January 2005 said officials involved in the accounting process do not believe that the number of Americans who died in the disaster will be in the thousands. He said the conclusion was based on progress being made in narrowing the list of those still unaccounted for, and the fact that the State Department has been receiving relatively few desperate or frantic calls from families about missing relatives. But in fact the State Department had received about 20,000 such calls, and had over 5,000 that remained unresolved.
On 05 January the US added another 20 to the list of Americans presumed dead, raising the official American death toll to 36. The Swedes and the Germans are resigned to the fact that literally hundreds and hundreds of their countrymen have died in the tsunami. At least 60 Germans were confirmed dead, with another 1,000 missing, while Sweden has confirmed 52 deaths the number of missing variously reported from 700 to over 2300 [down from an initial estimates as high as 3,500]. As of 06 January there were 52 confirmed deaths, with 702 Swedes "confirmed missing" [missing and known to have been in affected areas] and 1,201 "unconfirmed missing" [missing but unknown whether they were in areas hit by the tsunami].
As of 03 January more than 2,900 Swedes, 1,100 South Africans and 1,000 Germans were unaccounted for by one estimate. The total number of missing Germans declined on 04 January after over 100 people returning home. By 05 January The number of Danes missing fell to 69 from 275, although another 100 people who could have been in the area have still to be traced, so there are potentially still about 200 Danes missing. A total of 889 South Africans had not contacted their families as of 05 January, seven were officially classified as missing. On 03 January nearly 1,400 Norwegians were believed to be missing, but the Justice Ministry released a list that initially contained 275 names of people registered as missing. By 05 January the official total for Norwegians missing was 81.
As of March 9, 2005, the American count was 34 dead, 135 missing.
Among the foreign victims of the disaster were many European tourists enjoying a winter sunshine break from the northern winter at seaside resorts. As of 08 April 2005 the total included 544 Swedish nationals, of whom 341 have been identified, 301 Germans, with an estimated 276 still missing, 95 French holidaymakers, 95 from Britain with a further 74 still unaccounted for, 49 Austrians and 54 missing, 39 Swiss along with 87 still unaccounted for, 36 Danes and 10 missing, as well as 25 Dutch with up to 15 more missing. In addition, 21 Australians are confirmed dead and six are missing, along with 21 Hong Kong citizens and a further 19 unaccounted for and 15 Canadians as well as seven missing.
With possibly more than 2,000 Americans missing, the 2004 Tsunami would have ranked among the four worst American natural disasters, the others being the 1900 Gavelston hurricane [6,000 killed], the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire [2,000-3,000 killed], and the 1889 Johnstown Flood [2,200 killed]. Prior to the year 2004, only these three other events were on the short list of natural disasters that had killed more than a thousand Americans. The 2004 Tsunami may join this short list, even thought the Americans did not die in America.
On September 8, 1900, the greatest natural disaster to ever strike the United States occurred at Galveston, Texas. In the early evening hours of September 8, a hurricane came ashore at Galveston bringing with it a great storm surge that inundated most of Galveston Island and the city of Galveston. As a result, much of the city was destroyed and at least 6,000 people were killed in a few hours time. Galveston Island was a sand island about thirty miles in length and one and one-half to three miles in width. The course of the island is southwest to northeast, parallel with the southeast coast of the State. The City of Galveston is located on the east end of the island. Storm warnings were timely and received a wide distribution not only in Galveston but throughout the coast region. Warning messages were received from the Central Office at Washington on September 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. September 9, 1900, revealed one of the most horrible sights that ever a civilized people looked upon. About three thousand homes, nearly half the residence portion of Galveston, had been completely swept out of existence, and probably more than six thousand persons had passed from life to death during that dreadful night.
The San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906 ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. At almost precisely 5:12 a.m., local time, a foreshock occurred with sufficient force to be felt widely throughout the San Francisco Bay area. The great earthquake broke loose some 20 to 25 seconds later, with an epicenter near San Francisco. Violent shocks punctuated the strong shaking which lasted some 45 to 60 seconds. The earthquake was felt from southern Oregon to south of Los Angeles and inland as far as central Nevada. The highest Modified Mercalli Intensities (MMI's) of VII to IX paralleled the length of the rupture, extending as far as 80 kilometers inland from the fault trace. In the public's mind, this earthquake is perhaps remembered most for the fire it spawned in San Francisco, giving it the somewhat misleading appellation of the "San Francisco earthquake". Shaking damage, however, was equally severe in many other places along the fault rupture. The frequently quoted value of 700 deaths caused by the earthquake and fire is now believed to underestimate the total loss of life by a factor of 3 or 4.
There was no larger news story in the latter nineteenth century after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln than the 1889 Johnstown Flood. The story of the Johnstown Flood has everything to interest the modern mind: a wealthy resort, an intense storm, an unfortunate failure of a dam, the destruction of a working class city, and an inspiring relief effort. The rain continued as men worked tirelessly to prevent the old South Fork Dam from breaking. Elias Unger, the president of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, was hoping that the people in Johnstown were heeding the telegraph warnings sent earlier, which said that the dam might go. When it finally happened, at 3:10 P.M., May 31, 1889, an era of the Conemaugh Valley's history ended, and another era started. Over 2,209 people died on that tragic Friday, and thousands more were injured in one of the worst disasters in our Nation's history.
Call 1-888-407-4747
By 12 January 2005 US authorities had been unable to account for 4759 inquiries about Americans missing in Southern Asia. As of 5 p.m. Friday 07 January 2005 US authorities had been unable to account for 1,809 inquiries about Americans missing in Southern Asia [down from 2,150 at the start of the day]. A total of 20 Americans are missing and presumed dead, with a total of 17 the confirmed American deaths.
Since 26 December 2004 the State Department had received about 20,000 inquiries about loved ones or acquaintances who people have believed may or may not be in the region, or inquires about areas affected by the tsunami. By 03 January 2004 the US Government had been able to satisfactorily respond to three quarters of those inquiries, or about 15,000. That left about 5,000 inquiries that the government had not been able to resolve. By 05 January 2005 there were still 3,500 cases that had not been resolved.
By 06 January 2005 State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said US authorities had answered all but 2,500 of the 24,000 inquiries about Americans missing in Southern Asia. By comparison, the list of missing after the September 11th terrrorist attacks peaked at nearly 7,000, and was eventually reduced to 3,016.
A diplomat who spoke to reporters on 03 January 2005 said officials involved in the accounting process do not believe that the number of Americans who died in the disaster will be in the thousands. He said the conclusion was based on progress being made in narrowing the list of those still unaccounted for, and the fact that the State Department has been receiving relatively few desperate or frantic calls from families about missing relatives. But in fact the State Department had received about 20,000 such calls, and had over 5,000 that remained unresolved.
On 05 January the US added another 20 to the list of Americans presumed dead, raising the official American death toll to 36. The Swedes and the Germans are resigned to the fact that literally hundreds and hundreds of their countrymen have died in the tsunami. At least 60 Germans were confirmed dead, with another 1,000 missing, while Sweden has confirmed 52 deaths the number of missing variously reported from 700 to over 2300 [down from an initial estimates as high as 3,500]. As of 06 January there were 52 confirmed deaths, with 702 Swedes "confirmed missing" [missing and known to have been in affected areas] and 1,201 "unconfirmed missing" [missing but unknown whether they were in areas hit by the tsunami].
As of 03 January more than 2,900 Swedes, 1,100 South Africans and 1,000 Germans were unaccounted for by one estimate. The total number of missing Germans declined on 04 January after over 100 people returning home. By 05 January The number of Danes missing fell to 69 from 275, although another 100 people who could have been in the area have still to be traced, so there are potentially still about 200 Danes missing. A total of 889 South Africans had not contacted their families as of 05 January, seven were officially classified as missing. On 03 January nearly 1,400 Norwegians were believed to be missing, but the Justice Ministry released a list that initially contained 275 names of people registered as missing. By 05 January the official total for Norwegians missing was 81.
As of March 9, 2005, the American count was 34 dead, 135 missing.
Among the foreign victims of the disaster were many European tourists enjoying a winter sunshine break from the northern winter at seaside resorts. As of 08 April 2005 the total included 544 Swedish nationals, of whom 341 have been identified, 301 Germans, with an estimated 276 still missing, 95 French holidaymakers, 95 from Britain with a further 74 still unaccounted for, 49 Austrians and 54 missing, 39 Swiss along with 87 still unaccounted for, 36 Danes and 10 missing, as well as 25 Dutch with up to 15 more missing. In addition, 21 Australians are confirmed dead and six are missing, along with 21 Hong Kong citizens and a further 19 unaccounted for and 15 Canadians as well as seven missing.
With possibly more than 2,000 Americans missing, the 2004 Tsunami would have ranked among the four worst American natural disasters, the others being the 1900 Gavelston hurricane [6,000 killed], the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire [2,000-3,000 killed], and the 1889 Johnstown Flood [2,200 killed]. Prior to the year 2004, only these three other events were on the short list of natural disasters that had killed more than a thousand Americans. The 2004 Tsunami may join this short list, even thought the Americans did not die in America.
On September 8, 1900, the greatest natural disaster to ever strike the United States occurred at Galveston, Texas. In the early evening hours of September 8, a hurricane came ashore at Galveston bringing with it a great storm surge that inundated most of Galveston Island and the city of Galveston. As a result, much of the city was destroyed and at least 6,000 people were killed in a few hours time. Galveston Island was a sand island about thirty miles in length and one and one-half to three miles in width. The course of the island is southwest to northeast, parallel with the southeast coast of the State. The City of Galveston is located on the east end of the island. Storm warnings were timely and received a wide distribution not only in Galveston but throughout the coast region. Warning messages were received from the Central Office at Washington on September 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. September 9, 1900, revealed one of the most horrible sights that ever a civilized people looked upon. About three thousand homes, nearly half the residence portion of Galveston, had been completely swept out of existence, and probably more than six thousand persons had passed from life to death during that dreadful night.
The San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906 ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. At almost precisely 5:12 a.m., local time, a foreshock occurred with sufficient force to be felt widely throughout the San Francisco Bay area. The great earthquake broke loose some 20 to 25 seconds later, with an epicenter near San Francisco. Violent shocks punctuated the strong shaking which lasted some 45 to 60 seconds. The earthquake was felt from southern Oregon to south of Los Angeles and inland as far as central Nevada. The highest Modified Mercalli Intensities (MMI's) of VII to IX paralleled the length of the rupture, extending as far as 80 kilometers inland from the fault trace. In the public's mind, this earthquake is perhaps remembered most for the fire it spawned in San Francisco, giving it the somewhat misleading appellation of the "San Francisco earthquake". Shaking damage, however, was equally severe in many other places along the fault rupture. The frequently quoted value of 700 deaths caused by the earthquake and fire is now believed to underestimate the total loss of life by a factor of 3 or 4.
There was no larger news story in the latter nineteenth century after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln than the 1889 Johnstown Flood. The story of the Johnstown Flood has everything to interest the modern mind: a wealthy resort, an intense storm, an unfortunate failure of a dam, the destruction of a working class city, and an inspiring relief effort. The rain continued as men worked tirelessly to prevent the old South Fork Dam from breaking. Elias Unger, the president of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, was hoping that the people in Johnstown were heeding the telegraph warnings sent earlier, which said that the dam might go. When it finally happened, at 3:10 P.M., May 31, 1889, an era of the Conemaugh Valley's history ended, and another era started. Over 2,209 people died on that tragic Friday, and thousands more were injured in one of the worst disasters in our Nation's history.
The New York Times
DISASTER
Frayed Nerves and Aftershocks Create Panic in Southern Asia
By AMY WALDMAN
Published: December 30, 2004
NAGAPPATTINAM, India, Dec. 30 — Frayed nerves and a slight aftershock created widespread panic throughout southern Asia today, as the Indian government issued a warning of another tsunami along India’s southern coast. In India and Sri Lanka, many fled the beaches in fear of more deadly waves, muddling the relief effort and bringing the recovery of bodies in many areas to a temporary halt.
Three aftershocks that measured just above 5 on the Richter scale ultimately led to officials in India to issue what amounted to a false alarm. The government’s overreaction reflected the sensitivity of Indian officials to criticism that they should have given notice of the tsunami to coastal villages, which in many cases were hit two or three hours after the earthquake on Sunday that devastated much of southern Asia.
The warning came a day after world leaders, including President Bush, promised long-range help to Asian countries as impatience with the pace of relief efforts rose along with the estimated toll from the week’s disaster, which officials said today had surpassed 115,000 dead.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy called today for an emergency meeting of the Group of Eight to discuss options for aid and debt reduction in the wake of what he called “the worst cataclysm of the modern era,” according to the Reuters news agency.
As American planes and ships moved into place to help on Wednesday, Mr. Bush made his first public comments since tsunamis inundated about a dozen countries on Sunday, reflecting pressure on the vacationing president to appear more engaged in what aid groups are calling one of the worst natural disasters in history.
“These past few days have brought loss and grief to the world that is beyond our comprehension,” he said at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., adding that Washington was prepared to contribute much more than the $35 million it initially pledged.
“We are committed to helping the affected countries in the difficult weeks and months that lie ahead,” Mr. Bush said. He said the United States would work closely with Japan, India and Australia to coordinate relief efforts.
In Washington, two influential Republican lawmakers said today they would introduce legislation in the new Congress for a sizable aid package.
“I think there will be very decisive action early on,” said Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Mr. Lugar, speaking on CNN, said he had drawn up a resolution anticipating “very generous appropriations.”
Mr. Lugar’s House counterpart, Representative Henry J. Hyde of Illinois, said he too is drafting legislation for action early in the new year. “The challenges of coping with suffering on this magnitude are almost unfathomable, and we will act,” Mr. Hyde said in a statement issued by the House Committee on International Relations, which he heads.
Mr. Hyde said a Congressional delegation led by Representative Jim Leach, Republican of Iowa, would visit Thailand and Sri Lanka next week, and that the group’s findings would be important in shaping the aid legislation. Mr. Leach is chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell visited the embassies of Thailand and Sri Lanka to offer condolences on behalf of President Bush and the American people and to promise that “we will stand with them in solidarity and do everything we can to assist in this time of tragedy,” as he put it outside the Sri Lankan Embassy.
Meanwhile, Secretary General Kofi Annan cut short his vacation to return to New York to oversee the United Nations’ relief effort, one of the largest in the organization’s history.
Today, Mr. Annan told reporters that world governments had donated $500 million thus far to help disaster victims.
The tsunamis have killed more than 115,00 people in 11 countries throughout southern Asia and Africa, according to The Associated Press. The nation hit the hardest appears to be Indonesia, where roughly 80,000 79,940 were reported killed on Sumatra. There, the greatest devastation appears to have occurred in the province of Aceh, where, Agence France-Presse said, about 45,000 roughly 80,000 deaths have been reported.
In Sri Lanka, nearly 25,000 were reported killed, and in India, the death toll has reached 7,330, according to The A.P.
Frayed Nerves and Aftershocks Create Panic in Southern Asia
By AMY WALDMAN
Published: December 30, 2004
NAGAPPATTINAM, India, Dec. 30 — Frayed nerves and a slight aftershock created widespread panic throughout southern Asia today, as the Indian government issued a warning of another tsunami along India’s southern coast. In India and Sri Lanka, many fled the beaches in fear of more deadly waves, muddling the relief effort and bringing the recovery of bodies in many areas to a temporary halt.
Three aftershocks that measured just above 5 on the Richter scale ultimately led to officials in India to issue what amounted to a false alarm. The government’s overreaction reflected the sensitivity of Indian officials to criticism that they should have given notice of the tsunami to coastal villages, which in many cases were hit two or three hours after the earthquake on Sunday that devastated much of southern Asia.
The warning came a day after world leaders, including President Bush, promised long-range help to Asian countries as impatience with the pace of relief efforts rose along with the estimated toll from the week’s disaster, which officials said today had surpassed 115,000 dead.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy called today for an emergency meeting of the Group of Eight to discuss options for aid and debt reduction in the wake of what he called “the worst cataclysm of the modern era,” according to the Reuters news agency.
As American planes and ships moved into place to help on Wednesday, Mr. Bush made his first public comments since tsunamis inundated about a dozen countries on Sunday, reflecting pressure on the vacationing president to appear more engaged in what aid groups are calling one of the worst natural disasters in history.
“These past few days have brought loss and grief to the world that is beyond our comprehension,” he said at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., adding that Washington was prepared to contribute much more than the $35 million it initially pledged.
“We are committed to helping the affected countries in the difficult weeks and months that lie ahead,” Mr. Bush said. He said the United States would work closely with Japan, India and Australia to coordinate relief efforts.
In Washington, two influential Republican lawmakers said today they would introduce legislation in the new Congress for a sizable aid package.
“I think there will be very decisive action early on,” said Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Mr. Lugar, speaking on CNN, said he had drawn up a resolution anticipating “very generous appropriations.”
Mr. Lugar’s House counterpart, Representative Henry J. Hyde of Illinois, said he too is drafting legislation for action early in the new year. “The challenges of coping with suffering on this magnitude are almost unfathomable, and we will act,” Mr. Hyde said in a statement issued by the House Committee on International Relations, which he heads.
Mr. Hyde said a Congressional delegation led by Representative Jim Leach, Republican of Iowa, would visit Thailand and Sri Lanka next week, and that the group’s findings would be important in shaping the aid legislation. Mr. Leach is chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell visited the embassies of Thailand and Sri Lanka to offer condolences on behalf of President Bush and the American people and to promise that “we will stand with them in solidarity and do everything we can to assist in this time of tragedy,” as he put it outside the Sri Lankan Embassy.
Meanwhile, Secretary General Kofi Annan cut short his vacation to return to New York to oversee the United Nations’ relief effort, one of the largest in the organization’s history.
Today, Mr. Annan told reporters that world governments had donated $500 million thus far to help disaster victims.
The tsunamis have killed more than 115,00 people in 11 countries throughout southern Asia and Africa, according to The Associated Press. The nation hit the hardest appears to be Indonesia, where roughly 80,000 79,940 were reported killed on Sumatra. There, the greatest devastation appears to have occurred in the province of Aceh, where, Agence France-Presse said, about 45,000 roughly 80,000 deaths have been reported.
In Sri Lanka, nearly 25,000 were reported killed, and in India, the death toll has reached 7,330, according to The A.P.
BBC News 27 Maret 2005
Tsunami: Anatomy of a disaster
| By Helen Lambourne |
At 0059 GMT on 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake ripped apart the seafloor off the coast of northwest Sumatra. The wall of water 
Enlarge ImageOver 100 years of accumulated stress was released in the second biggest earthquake in recorded history.
It unleashed a devastating tsunami that travelled thousands of kilometres across the Indian Ocean, taking the lives of more than 200,000 people in countries as far apart as Indonesia, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Somalia.
A new BBC One programme, featuring the harrowing stories of survivors, gives a scientific account of the disaster.
THE EARTHQUAKE
Two hundred and forty kilometres (150 miles) off the coast of Sumatra, deep under the ocean floor, at the boundary between two of the world's tectonic plates, lies a 1,200km (745 miles) trench called the Andaman-Sumatran subduction zone.
At about the same speed as your fingernails grow, the lower plate, carrying India, is being forced or subducted beneath the upper plate, carrying most of South-East Asia, dragging it down, causing huge stresses to build up.
These stresses were released on 26 December. Shaking from this giant mega-thrust earthquake woke people from sleep as far away as Thailand and the Maldives.
Unlike the more frequent strike-slip earthquakes of Kobe or Los Angeles, which last for a matter of seconds, subduction zone quakes last for several minutes. Image: Prof Kerry Sieh, Caltech)" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40962000/jpg/_40962261_coral_bbc_203.jpg" border="0" vspace="0" width="203" height="152" hspace="0">
Corals were lifted clear of the water, here at Simeuleu in Indonesia (Image: Prof Kerry Sieh, Caltech)
The shaking during the Indonesian event went on for eight minutes.
Nobody knows how many died in the actual quake itself, but scientists have since visited the nearby island of Simueleu and found something astonishing.
The whole island has been tilted by the force of the earthquake, causing coral, submerged beneath the ocean for thousands of years, to be thrust out of the water on the east side; bays in the west have been drained.
"We were astonished to find ourselves walking through a pristine marine ecosystem, missing only its multitude of colours, its fish, and its water," said Professor Kerry Sieh, from the California Institute of Technology, US.
Yet, when the shaking from the earthquake subsided, no-one had any idea that the tremors had set in motion something far more deadly - a tsunami.
THE TSUNAMI
Deep under the Indian Ocean, at the epicentre of the quake, the 20m (65ft) upward thrust of the seafloor set in motion a series of geological events that were to devastate the lives of millions.
Billions of tonnes of seawater, forced upward by the movement of the seabed now flowed away from the fault in a series of giant waves.
The only people in the world to have any idea what had happened were thousands of kilometres away on the island of Hawaii. Everything can be traced to the collision of two tectonic plates(Image: Royal Navy UK)
But, relying on seismic data alone, the scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center had no idea the earthquake had unleashed an ocean-wide tsunami.
It was a full 50 minutes after they first picked up the tremors that they issued a warning of a possible local tsunami.
Thirty minutes after the shaking had subsided, the first wave, travelling eastwards, crashed into Sumatra.
On the shores directly facing the epicentre, the waves reached heights of 20m (65ft), stripping vegetation from mountain sides 800m (0.5 mile) inland, capsizing freighters and throwing boats into the trees.
The city of Banda Aceh, just a few kilometres further round the coast was almost completely destroyed, killing tens of thousands of people in just 15 minutes.
WHAT THE ELEPHANTS KNEW
Leaving a devastated Sumatra behind, the series of waves continued across the Andaman Sea towards Thailand.
A herd of elephants in the mountains seemed to know it was coming. They began behaving strangely, stamping the ground and tugging at their chains, eventually breaking away to run to the hills.
Elephants have special bones in their feet that enable them to sense seismic vibrations long before we can. Animals taking to the hills was not the only sign that something was about to happen.
Due to the complex way in which the seafloor ruptured, some waves set off travelling with the crest first, others travelling trough first.
The trough, reaching the shores of Thailand, caused the sea to disappear off the beaches. It is one of the classic warning signs of an approaching tsunami. 
The damage across the Indian Ocean region was immense (Image: Prof Jose Borrero, USC)
Tragically, many tourists went down to the beach to look, some to rescue fish left flapping on the sand. A few minutes later, the first wave hit Thailand.
A thousand tonnes of water crashed down on each metre of beach. At Khao Lak, the wave reached 10m (30ft) and caused billions of pounds of damage. The human cost was far greater - nearly 5,000 confirmed dead and 3,000 still missing.
At the same time, the westbound series of waves were heading for Sri Lanka. In the deeper waters of the Indian Ocean, barely noticeable at just a 30cm (1ft) above the surface, they were travelling at some 800km/h (500 miles per hour).
SRI LANKA
The first wave hit Sri Lanka with no recede and no warning. The waves, up to six of them, weighing over 100 billion tonnes, rushed inland like a giant tide.
As they hit Sri Lanka's southern tip, they began to change direction, an effect called refraction.
The part of a wave closest to the shore slowed down in the shallow water, leaving the outer part, travelling at faster speeds, to bend around the island. The southwest coast of Sri Lanka, the side that should have been safe, was suddenly in the waves' direct line.
Cities such as Galle were destroyed; over 4,000 people died in this region alone.
The waves carried on further north to India, where they killed 10,000 people.
THE MALDIVES
Next in the waves' line, was one of the lowest lying countries on Earth - the Maldives.
Miraculously, although 80 people died here, this country escaped relatively unscathed.
It seems that due to their unique geography, being the tips of underwater volcanoes and without a continental shelf to push the wave height up, the tsunami just washed through.
Coral reefs are also thought to have protected the country, acting like a giant underwater colander, stripping the waves of energy.
As the waves left the Maldives, they passed through a narrow gap between the island chains, focusing their energy directly at Somalia, where 300 people lost their lives.
In Kenya, the waves, when they hit were small; their energy further removed by the land masses of the Seychelles and Diego Garcia.
They had also seen the news reports and evacuated the beaches; only one person died.
The last victim of a natural disaster that had claimed 300,000 with hundreds still unaccounted for.
Tsunami: Anatomy of a Disaster tells the story of 26 December 2004, why the waves were so devastating and what scientists are doing to prevent it happening again. The programme was broadcast on BBC One on Sunday at 1835 GMT.Sunami Asia BBC News Round
UK remembers Asia tsunami victims
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Survivors of the huge waves, relatives of the victims and the Queen all took part in the ceremony, which included a two minute silence.
In the silence thousands of petals, one for each person killed, fell from the ceiling of the cathedral.
Over 273,000 people were killed in the tsunami, which struck south east Asia on 26 December 2004.
Survivor Sasha Pagella, said the service was a "chance to say goodbye" to a little girl he had tried to hold onto but who had been swept away.
The sermon was given by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and police who helped with the aid effort were also present.
Nearly 2,000 people attended the service.
Selasa, 19 Mei 2009
Sri Lanka umumkan kemenangan
Sri Lanka umumkan kemenangan
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Presiden Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa mengumumkan kemenangan negara itu atas pemberontakan Harimau tamil setelah berperang selama 26 tahun.
Rajapaksa membuat pengumuman itu dihadapan anggota parlemen sehari setelah militer mengklaim telah membunuh pimpinan pemberontak Velupillai Prabhakaran dalam sebuah pertempuran.
Juru bicara militer mengatakan kepada BBC mereka belum mengidentifikasi jenazah Prabhakaran, namun meyakini dia menjadi salah satu dari korban yang tewas terbakar.
Media Tamil diluar Sri Lanka sebelumnya membantah kematian pemimpin Harimau Tamil ini.
Prabhakaran tewas dalam pertempuran
Dalam laporan televisi Sri Lanka sebelumnya disebutkan, Pemimpin pemberontak Harimau Tamil Velupillai Prabhakaran tewas.
Pernyataan ini muncul tidak lama setelah militer mengatakan telah mengepung Prabhakaran dan sekitar 200 pemberontak di sebuah daerah kecil di hutan bagian timur laut Sri Lanka.
Klaim ini belum bisa diverifikasi kebenarannya sementara para wartawan dilarang ke zona perang.
Pasukan Sri Lanka menggempur para pemberontak dalam beberapa pekan ini, menduduki daerah mereka dan menyebabkan perang selama 26 tahun ini akan berakhir.
Sebelumnya dilaporkan empat pemimpin senior Harimau Tamil tewas sementara pertempuran terus berlanjut di Sri Lanka Utara.
Pemerintah Sri Lanka menyatakan tentara terlibat "pembersihan akhir" setelah sebuah situs internet yang terkait dengan pemberontak mengatakan Harimau Tamil meletakkan senjata.
Keempat orang yang tewas itu dikatakan termasuk kepala sayap politik Harimau Tamil Balasingham Nadesan, namun tidak ada keterangan mengenai pemimpinnya, Velupillai Prabhakaran.
Namun militer Sri Lanka menyatakan menemukan mayat anaknya, Charles Anthony.
Militer Sri Lanka menyatakan gerilyawan Harimau Tamil tersudut di area hutan seluas 1,5 kilometer persegi.
Menurut militer kepala sekretariat bidang perdamaian, Seevaratnam Puleedevan
dan pemimpin militer yang disebut Ramesh, termasuk dua lainnya yang tewas.
Jenazah mereka telah ditemukan.
Jumat, 15 Mei 2009
Dunia Gempar Ikan Purba Tangkapan Yustinus
Dunia Gempar Ikan Purba Tangkapan Yustinus
Kompas - Jumat, Mei 15
MANADO, JUMAT - Dua nelayan asal Malalayang, Manado, Yustinus Lahama dan Delfie, tidak menyangka ikan hasil tangkapannya pada 19 Mei 2007 di perairan Teluk Manado, cukup menggegerkan dunia.
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Pasalnya, ikan yang diketahui para ilmuwan dunia itu, sejenis "Latimeria menadoensis" atau Coelacanth, merupakan ikan purba yang sebenarnya sudah dianggap punah sejak 65 juta tahun lalu.
Sekarang ikan tersebut telah dipajang dan membuat gempar peserta dari berbagai negara yang ikut dalam ajang World Ocean Conference (WOC) dan Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) Summit, 11-15 Mei 2009.
Yustinus mengatakan, ikan purba tersebut ditangkap ketika tersangkut kail miliknya. Ketika ditarik nampak seekor ikan dengan panjang kurang lebih satu meter dan berat berkisar 30 Kg disertai bintik-bintik putih.
Ikan itu didapat pada kedalaman laut sekitar 105 meter, di pantai Malalayang, pada pukul 08.00 Wita, 19 Mei lalu. "Meski tergolong besar, namun ikan tersebut tampaknya tidak melakukan perlawanan lagi ketika diseret hingga ke dalam perahu," katanya, mengisahkan penangkapan itu.
Menurut data berbagai sumber, Coelacanth diartikan sebagai "duri yang berongga" berdasarkan kata Yunani coelia, "berongga" dan acanthos, "duri". Ini merujuk pada fisiknya yang berduri pada sirip yang berongga.
Coelacanth adalah ikan yang berasal dari sebuah cabang evolusi tertua yang masih hidup dari ikan berahang. Diperkirakan sudah punah sejak akhir masa Cretaceous 65 juta tahun lalu, sampai sebuah spesimen ditemukan di Timur Afrika Selatan, di perairan Sungai Chalumna tahun 1938.
Namun, sejak itu Coelacanth ditemukan di Komoro, perairan Pulau Manado Tua di Sulawesi, negara Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambik, Madagaskar dan Taman Llaut St Lucia di Afrika Selatan.
Di Indonesia, khususnya di sekitar Manado, spesies ini oleh masyarakat lokal dinamai ikan raja laut. Coelacanth terdiri dari sekitar 120 spesies yang diketahui berdasarkan penemuan fosil. Sampai saat ini, telah ada dua spesies hidup Coelacanth yang ditemukan yaitu Coelacanth Komoro, Latimeria chalumnae dan Coelacanth Sulawesi, Latimeria menadoensis.
"Hingga tahun 1938, ikan yang berkerabat dekat dengan ikan paru-paru ini dianggap telah punah semenjak akhir masa Cretaceous, sekitar 65 juta tahun yang silam," kata Dekan Fakultas Kelautan dan Perikanan Unsrat Manado, Prof KWA Masengie.
Menurut dia, ada seorang iktiologis (ahli ikan), Dr JLB Smith kemudian mendeskripsi ikan tersebut dan menerbitkan artikelnya di jurnal Nature pada tahun 1939.
Ia memberi nama Latimeria chalumnae kepada ikan jenis baru tersebut, untuk mengenang sang kurator museum dan lokasi penemuan ikan itu.
Pencarian lokasi tempat tinggal ikan purba itu selama belasan tahun berikutnya kemudian mendapatkan perairan Kepulauan Komoro di Samudera Hindia sebelah barat sebagai habitatnya, di mana beberapa ratus individu diperkirakan hidup pada kedalaman laut lebih dari 150 meter.
Di luar kepulauan itu, sampai tahun 1990-an beberapa individu juga tertangkap di perairan Mozambik, Madagaskar dan juga Afrika Selatan. Namun semuanya masih dianggap sebagai bagian dari populasi yang kurang lebih sama.
Pada tahun 1998, enam puluh tahun setelah ditemukannya fosil hidup Coelacanth Komoro, seekor ikan raja laut tertangkap jaring nelayan di perairan Pulau Manado Tua, Sulawesi Utara.
Ikan ini sudah dikenal lama oleh para nelayan setempat, namun belum diketahui keberadaannya di sana oleh dunia ilmu pengetahuan. Ikan purba itu secara fisik mirip Coelacanth Komoro, dengan perbedaan pada warnanya.
Ketika ikan itu ditangkap dengan jenis yang lain oleh dua nelayan di Manado, informasinya langsung menghebohkan warga hingga ke telinga Gubernur Sulut, SH Sarundajang. Gubernur Sulut SH Sarundajang selaku penggagas pelaksana WOC, langsung mencari ikan tersebut dengan mengundang sejumlah peneliti dari berbagai akademisi, baik dalam negeri maupun luar negeri.
Ikan tersebut langsung diamankan di Dinas Kelautan dan Perikanan Sulut, disimpan di "cold storage", agar bisa terus bertahan hingga pelaksanaan WOC dan kepentingan ilmiah.
Manado Ocean Declaration (MOD) sudah disepakati pada WOC yang diikuti ribuan peserta dari 80 lebih negara di Manado, serta telah mencatat sejarah tentang penyelamatan laut dan konservasinya.
Namun, keberadaan ikan purba yang ternyata masih berada di perairan di dunia ini tetap mencuatkan ide, agar Coelacanth jadi maskot WOC.
Koordinator Media Center WOC Roy Tumiwa di Manado, mengatakan, ikan purba itu sudah dijadikan bahan diskusi di tingkat pemerintah dan stakeholder kelautan.
Keberhasilan menyelenggarakan WOC telah menjadikan Kota Manado terkenal ke berbagai penjuru dunia. Namun, akan lebih terkenal lagi, bila ikan purba coelancanth kelak dijadikan maskot WOC.
Rabu, 13 Mei 2009
Pisang Merah yang baru saya temukan
Hari ini saya terima hadiah pisang, dari seorang ibu penjual sayur, datang dan membawa pisang merah bersama pisang emas (kecil) namun saya tampilkan pisang merah karena saya kagum dengan warna kulit pisang yang tidak seperti lazimnya pisang, dimana warna kemerahan ini sepertinya mengandung arti yang sangat baik, dan mempunyai citra rasa tersendiri. Bagi orang-orang cina kebanyakan yang ada di Indonesia, warna merah mengandung arti yang sangat tinggi nilainya, seperti Buah Merah, Buah Naga, Ikan Arwana merah, dan semua yang mengandung mistis ke merah-merahan yang berkhasiat untuk kejayaan ataupun untuk pengobatan.
Namun bagi saya, adalah rasa kagum karena saya baru melihat pisang yang unik setelah masak justru kulitnya berwarna kemerah-merahan.
Namun bagi saya, adalah rasa kagum karena saya baru melihat pisang yang unik setelah masak justru kulitnya berwarna kemerah-merahan.
Terumbu karang
Terumbu karang bisa lenyap
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| Kawasan terumbu karang penting bisa lenyap akhir abad ini |
Kawasan terumbu karang paling penting di dunia terancam bahaya tergusur pada akhir abad ini kecuali tindakan cepat dilakukan.
Kelompok konservasi internasional WWF memperingatkan, 40 persen terumbu karang di Coral Triangle telah hilang.
Kawasan itu terbagi antara Indonesia dan lima negara Asia Tenggara lainnya serta diyakini berisi 75 % spesies terumbu karang dunia.
Kawasan ini seperti hutan tropis Amazon dalam arti keanekaragaman hayatinya.
Perubahan suhu
Pada tahun 2009, di kawasan Asia Tenggara seratus juta orang antri untuk mendapatkan makanan.
|  Produktivitas samudra menyusut sekarang ini |
Ikan yang pernah mereka andalkan sebagai makanan telah hilang.
Komunitas mereka berantakan dan ekonominya hancur.
Itulah yang kita perkirakan, tulis laporan terbaru WWF, jika terumbu karang terkaya dunia hancur.
Dan hal itu bisa terjadi abad ini.
Itulah skenario terburuknya, namun ketua penulis laporan ini Profesor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg menuturkan, hal itu tidak seburuk arah perjalanan sekarang.
"Sampai sekarang kita tidak menyadari betapa cepatnya sistem ini berubah,"ujar
Profesor Hoegh-Guldberg.
"Dalam 40 tahun ini di Coral Triangle, kita kehilangan 40 persen terumbu karang dan mangrov dan mungkin perkiraan terendah. Kita secara fundamental mengubah cara planet ini berjalan dan hanya dengan 0,7 derajat perubahan suhu," katanya.
"Apa yang terjadi ketika melebihi dua atau empat digit ?," tanyanya.
Konsekuensi perubahan iklim
Untuk menghindari skenario terburuk memerlukan pengurangan signifikan emisi gas-gas rumah kaca dan pengendalian lebih baik terhadap penangkapan ikan dan kawasan terumbu karang, tulisa laporan itu.
Coral Triangle meliputu 1 % permukaan bumi namun berisi sepertiga terumbu karang dunia dan tiga perempat spesies terumbu karang.
Jika berlalu, seluruh eko sistem juga akan hilang dan kata Prof Hoegh-Gudberg memiliki konsekuensi besar dalam kemampuan menangangi perubahan iklim.
"Polusi, penggunaan tidak tepat kawasan pantai, semuanya ini menghancurkan produktifitas laut yang menyusut sekarang. Itulah sistem yang menyimpan CO2 Sekitar 40 % CO2 masuk samudera," katanya.
"Sekarang jika kita mengganggunya, masalahnya bagi planet bumi akan lebih besar," lanjut Prof Hoegh-Gudberg.
Indonesia menjadi tuan rumah World Ocean Conference pekan ini karena lautnya diabaikan dalam diskusi global perubahan iklim.
Senin, 11 Mei 2009
Bahaya terhadap sanitasi anak-anak
Bahaya terhadap sanitasi anak-anak
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| Tahun 2004, diare menewaskan 1,8 juta orang, kata WaterAid |
Jutaan hidup anak-anak terancam bahaya setiap tahun karena lembaga-lembaga bantuan dan pemerintah membuat pilihan yang salah mengenai prioritas perawatan kesehatan.
Kesimpulan ini diperoleh dari laporan baru lembaga amal WaterAid.
Laporan itu menyebutkan, diare yang disebabkan sanitasi buruk membunuh lebih banyak anak-anak daripada gabungan HIV/AIDS, TBC dan malaria.
Dikatakan, pengeluaran secara global untuk HIV/AIDS lebih besar daripada jumlah yang dikeluarkan untuk sanitasi lebih baik.
'Tidak gaya'
Laporan ini menggarisbawahi apa yang disebutnya ketimpangan antara penyakit yang membunuh anak dengan jumlah uang yang dianggarkan bagi mereka.
Tahun 2004 dikatakan, diare membunuh 1,8 juta anak-anak di seluruh dunia namun hanya US$ 1,5 milyar yang dianggarkan untuk sanitasi dalam dua tahun antara 2004 dan 2006.
Dalam periode sama US$ 10,8 milyar dikeluarkan bagi HIV/AIDS yang bertanggung jawab atas kematian lebih dari 300.000 anak-anak.
Tanggapan glopbal bagi penyakit yang disebabkan sanitasi "tidak rasional", tulis laporan itu.
Para penulisnya mengatakan, kurangnya kemauan politik menjadi penyebabnya.
Sanitasi katanya tidak cukup gaya atau emosional agar para politisi tertarik.
"Satu-satunya alasan yang kita dapat lihat adalah lemahnya kemauan politik yang memicu kelalaian ini," kata Oliver Cumming salah seorang penulis laporan itu.
"Dan kita akan lebih terkejut ketika kita mempertimbangkan peran investasi di bidang sanitasi yang dilakukan negara-negara maju," lanjutnya.
Kamis, 07 Mei 2009
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Seruan Obama hadapi al-Qaeda
Seruan Obama hadapi al-Qaeda
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| Pertemuan puncak ini berlangsung di tengah pergolakan baru di Afghanistan dan Pakistan |
Presiden AS Barack Obama mengatakan dia mitranya dari Afghanistan dan Pakistan bersatu dalam upaya mengalahkan al-Qaeda.
Obama tampil di depan para wartawan dengan diapit oleh presiden Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, dan presiden Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, setelah ketiga pemimpin itu mengadakan pertemuan puncak di Washington.
Tujuannya adalah "mencegah, mematahkan dan mengalahkan al-Qaeda" dan sekutu-sekutu ekstremnya, kata Obama.
Ia juga menjanjikan dana yang lebih besar untuk membantu warga sipil di kedua negara itu.
Puluhan penduduk sipil diduga tewas dalam serangan udara Amerika di bagian barat Afghanistan, hari Selasa, yang mendorong Karzai mengangkat masalah ini dalam pertemuan dengan Obama.
Menteri luar negeri, Hillary Clinton, mengatakan sebelumnya bahwa dia "sangat, sangat menyesalkan kematian puluhan warga sipil itu. Dia mengatakan AS akan berusaha sekuat tenaga untuk mencegah "kematian orang-orang tak bersalah".
'Dukungan kuat'
Obama mengatakan kedua mitranya memahami besarnya ancaman keamanan dari para militan.
Amerika, kata Obama, berada di pihak rakyat di Pakistan dan Afghanistan dan memiliki strategi lengkap untuk kawasan itu, bersama komponen sipil dan militer.
Ia mengatakan, masih akan banyak tindak kekerasan yang terjadi tetapi Amerika memiliki tekad yang abadi untuk mengalahkan al-Qaeda.
Amerika Serika, tambah Obama, akan memberikan dukungan kuat kepada pemerintah Pakistan dan Afghanistan.
Manusia Kerdil dari Flores
Hobbit Flores spesies baru
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Kalangan ilmuwan menemukan bukti baru bahwa tulang belulang manusia "Hobbit" Indonesia berasal dari spesies manusia baru, bukan pigmi modern.
Manusia setinggi satu meter dan berat 30 kg pernah berada di Flores mungkin 8000 tahun lalu.
Sejak penemuan itu, para peneliti menyatakan dengan tegas sebagai identitas manusia kerdil.
Dua tulisan di jurnal Nature sekarang mendukung gagasan bahwa mereka sepenuhnya spesies manusia baru.
Tim yang menemukan tulang-tulang kecil di gua Liang Bua, Flores beranggapan bahwa populasi itu milik spesies Homo floresiensis, terpisah dari Homo sapiens biasa.
Mereka berpendapat, "Hobbits" itu turunan dari spesies prasejarah manusia, barangkali Homo erektus yang mencapai pulau di Asia Tenggara lebih dari satu juta tahun lalu.
Selama bertahun-tahun, badan mereka kemungkinan semakin kecil ukurannya melalui proses seleksi alamiah yang disebut pengkerdilan pulau, klaim para penemu dan banyak ilmuwan lainnya.
Namun sejumlah peneliti berpendapat bahwa spesies ini tidak cocok dengan otak Hobbit seukuran kera hampir 400 cm kubik, sepertiga dari otak manusia modern.
Teka-teki
Ini adalah teka-teki, kata mereka, karena individu-individu itu tampaknya memiliki alat-alat dari batu yang dipahat secara rumit.
Mereka menyatakan, Hobbits mungkin bagian dari manusia modern dengan otak kecil yang abnormal.
Salah satu tim yang dipimpin William Jungers dari Stony Brook University di Amerika Serikat menganalisa tulang belulang kaki Hobbit.
Mereka menemukan bahwa dalam tingkat tertentu manusia luar biasa.
Jari kaki besar bersatu dengan jari lainnya dan penyatuan ini memungkinkan jari itu sebagai penyangga sepenuhnya badan sesuatu yang tidak ditemukan di kalangan kera besar.
Minggu, 03 Mei 2009
Bentrok di Mesir soal ternak babi
Bentrok di Mesir soal ternak babi | ||||||||||
Polisi dilaporkan terlibat bentrok dengan para peternak babi yang mencoba menghalangi hewan ternak mereka disita untuk dimusnahkan. Pemerintah Mesir melancarkan pemusnahan massal babi dalam tindakan yang dinyatakan sebagai tindakan kehati-hatian untuk mencegah flu babi. Para pakar kesehatan PBB mengecam langkah Mesir itu sebagai tindakan yang tidak perlu dan kekeliruan. Jenis virus flu babi baru belum dipastikan ditemukan pada babi, dan tidak ada tanda virus itu muncul di Mesir. Para peternak babi Mesir, yang penganut Kristen Koptik, mengeluhkan sumber nafkah mereka diambil, dan mereka menuntut diberi pekerjaan dan kompensasi. Di Meksiko, tempat pertama flu babi mulai menjalar, pemerintah menyatakan, masalah ini mungkin mencapai titik stabil. Menteri Kesehatan Jose Angel Cordova mengatakan, negara itu mencatat jumlah kasus menurun setiap hari. Di seluruh dunia, 700 orang diketahui terjangkit virus flu babi. Penularan dari manusia ke manusia telah dikukuhkan di enam negara. Karantina Sementara itu, sekitar 400 orang kini dikarantina di Cina, setelah kedatangan seorang pria Meksiko yang terjangkit flu babi di Hongkong.
Ini merupakan kasus pertama virus flu babi yang dikukuhkan di Asia. Lebih dari 250 tamu dan staff di hotel tempat pria itu menginap sedang menjalani isolasi selama satu pekan. Pria tersebut terbang melalui Shanghai, dan lebih 100 penumpang dan awak dikarantina di sana dan di Beijing. Sebanyak 30 penumpang juga ditahan di Provinsi Guangdong. Meksiko menyatakan Cina melakukan diskriminasi terhadap warganya yang tidak ikut dalam penerbangan yang sama, dan dutabesar Cina telah dipanggil untuk menjelaskan kebijakan negaranya. Dalam perkembangan lain, Kanada, Meksiko dan Amerika Serikat telah mengeluarkan, pernyataan bersama yang mendesak negara mitra dagang mereka agar tidak membiarkan berjangkitnya flu babi mempengaruhi perdagangan internasional. Seruan itu dikeluarkan oleh para menteri NAFTA, sementara peternakan babi di Provinsi Alberta, Kanada melaporkan sekelompok babi telah di karantina di sana setelah tertular virus H-1-N-1. | ||||||||||
Bentrok di Mesir soal ternak babi Sabtu, 02 Mei 2009
Makan Bersama
Pada saat kita selesai beraktifitas, diperlukan segera pengganti energi dan ion yang lepas sehingga kita merasa lapar. Namun kita perlu memperhatikan pola makan, dimana sebaiknya diatur jadwal makannya, sehingga ketika memerlukan energi tidak terlalu kekurangan energi sisa di dalam tubuh, sehingga kita tidak terlalu merasakan kelaparan, denga kata lain, jiga kita lapar, maka nafsu makan kita tinggi, sedangkan kita kadang tidak sabar alias emosi, sehingga yang seharusnya makan dengan tenang, perlahan dan dengan teratur, jadi tidak terkontrol, lalu kita selalu tergesa-gesa untuk segera menghilangkan rasa lapar kita. Namun akhirnya ketika kita selalu ingin makan sekenyang-kenyangnya, disinilah kadang yang membuat kita lalu kekenyangan, dan terjadi penimbunan lemak dalam darah maupun kulit. Sumber penyakit pertama timbul adalah dari hati kita, ketika hati kita tidak terkontrol untuk mengatur pola makan, maka yagn terjadi adalah emosi untuk segera makan dan kenyang.
Pola makan harus disesuaikan dengan keseimbangan gizi, dimana walaupun kita makan nasi dengan lauk tempe dan sayur tahu, serta sedikit sambal untuk perasa, maka cukup dalam hal sesaat, selain itu kita harus ditambah dengan menu susu satu gelas, jangan lupa ketika habis makan nasi, kita harus minum air putih (bening) yang tidak mengandung zat kimia ataupun pewarna, ini berfungsi untuk mencerna makanan yang telah masuk kedalam perut kita. kedua, air putih tersebut adalah untuk mengganti ion yang hilang akibat aktifitas kita, baik aktifitas berjalan, duduk, membaca, bekerja, santai, dan lainnya. Jangankan untuk bergerak, tidurpun kita mengeluarkan energi, walaupun tidak sebanyak ketika beraktifitas seperti olah raga, bersepeda, berjalan, berlari, bermain, menyapu, mengepel lantai, dan kegiatan lain dirumah maupun ditempat kerja.
Apa fungsi kita makan teratur, selain kita membiasakan makan teratur kita juga mengatur diri kita untuk disiplin. Sebaiknya kita makan bersama keluarga, sehingga apabila dengan menu seadanya, walaupun harus bergantian dalam seminggu, kita merasa tenang, berselera, dan semangat kebersamaan tercipta dalam keluarga.
Apakah ini tradisi? bukan. kita biasakan adalah untuk kita memulai disiplin mengatur waktu kita secara baik, sehingga tidak ada waktu yang terbuang percuma, tidak ada waktu yang kurang bermanfaat, dan sebagainya, dengan pengaturan waktu dari dini, dari kita sendiri, dari hal yang kecil akan mempengaruhi perubahan hidup mendasar. Semoga kita bisa menempatkan waktu kita dan memanfaatkan waktu dengan baik. Mari kita mulai dari sekarang, dari hal yang kecil, dan dari diri sendiri. Tidak baik memulai dari orang lain, karena itu adalah kritikan.
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