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In memory of Nurin Jazlin
Akhbar Utusan Malaysia bertarikh 29 september, Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Nazri Aziz menyatakan, kemungkinan Polis mendakwa Ibu Bapa kepada Nurin adalah berdasarkan peruntukan undang-undang.
Amat menyedihkan, kenyataan ini datang dari seorang yang bertaraf menteri, disamping kenyataan sial dari anak kepada seorang tokoh agama yang merupakan Ketua Polis Negara, Musa Hassan.
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20 Things you Didn’t Know About... Hygiene
20 Things you Didn’t Know About... Hygiene:
- “Hygiene” comes from Hygieia, the Greek goddess of health, cleanliness, and . . . the moon. Ancient Greek gods apparently worked double shifts.
- The human body is home to some 1,000 species of bacteria. There are more germs on your body than people in the United States.
- Not tonight dear, I just washed my hands: Antibacterial soap is no more effective at preventing infection than regular soap, and triclosan (the active ingredient) can mess with your sex hormones.
- Save the germs! A study of over 11,000 children determined that an overly hygienic environment increases the risk of eczema and asthma.
- Monks of the Jain Dharma (a minority religion in India) are forbidden to bathe any part of their bodies besides the hands and feet, believing the act of bathing might jeopardize the lives of millions of microorganisms.
- It’s a good thing they’re monks.
- Soap gets its name from the mythological Mount Sapo. Fat and wood ash from animal sacrifices there washed into the Tiber River, creating a rudimentary cleaning agent that aided women doing their washing.
- Ancient Egyptians and Aztecs rubbed urine on their skin to treat cuts and burns. Urea, a key chemical in urine, is known to kill fungi and bacteria.
- In a small victory for cleanliness, England’s medieval King Henry IV required his knights to bathe at least once in their lives—during their ritual knighthood ceremonies.
- That’s their excuse, anyway: Excrement dumped out of windows into the streets in 18th-century London contaminated the city’s water supply and forced locals to drink gin instead.
- A seventh grader in Florida recently won her school science fair by proving there are more bacteria in ice machines at fast-food restaurants than in toilet bowl water.
- There’s no “five-second rule” when it comes to dropping food on the ground. Bacteria need no time at all to contaminate food.
- The first true toothbrush, consisting of Siberian pig hair bristles wired into carved cattle-bone handles, was invented in China in 1498. But tooth brushing didn’t become routine in the United States until it was enforced on soldiers during World War II.
- Please don’t squeeze the corncob. In 1935, Northern Tissue proudly introduced “splinter-free” toilet paper. Previous options included tundra moss for Eskimos, a sponge with salt water for Romans, and—hopefully splinter-free—corncobs in the American West.
- NASA recently spent $23.4 million designing a toilet for the Space Shuttle that would defy zero gravity with suction technology at 850 liters of airflow per minute. That’s a lot of money for a toilet that sucks.
- In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. campaigned for basic sanitation in hospitals. But this clashed with social ideas of the time and met with widespread disdain. Charles Meigs, a prominent American obstetrician, retorted, “Doctors are gentlemen, and gentlemen’s hands are clean.”
- Up to a quarter of all women giving birth in European and American hospitals in the 17th through 19th centuries died of puerperal fever, an infection spread by unhygienic nurses and doctors.
- TV kills! University of Arizona researchers determined that television remotes are the worst carriers of bacteria in hospital rooms, worse even than toilet handles. Remotes spread antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus, which contributes to the 90,000 annual deaths from infection acquired in hospitals.
- It is now believed President James Garfield died not from the bullet fired by Charles Guiteau but because the medical team treated the president with manure-stained hands, causing a severe infection that killed him three months later.
- What on earth made them think manure-stained hands were remotely acceptable to treat anyone?
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RANDOMNESS pageview
Just want to share this blog statistics here. As you can see on Thursday this blog pageview is 4871! Never reach that figure before. Thank you for visiting, enjoy your weekend. :-)
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Blogger Play
Blogger launched a new feature that shows the latest uploaded photos in a never-ending slideshow. Blogger Play is addictive, like many other real-time visualization tools, and could be a pretty good screensaver. The slideshow leaves out vulgar pictures, so the screensaver would be safe-for-work. "Blogger Play is (...) a great snapshot of what people are thinking and posting about, right now" and it expands the stream of recently-updated blogs from Blogger's homepage.
:: Blogger Play
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Gempa bumi kuat melanda selatan Sumatera, amaran tsunami
Gempa bumi kuat melanda selatan Sumatera, amaran tsunami:
KUALA LUMPUR 12 Sept — Gempa bumi kuat berukuran 7.9 pada skala Richter melanda selatan Sumatera, 155km barat daya Bengkulu, Indonesia dan 718km barat daya Johor Baharu pada 7.10 malam ini.Related post: berita, jakarta, earthquake, tsunami
Kenyataan Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia di sini menyatakan, gempa bumi itu berlaku di 4.5 darjah Selatan dan 101.0 darjah Timur.
Menurut kenyataan itu, penduduk di kawasan pantai terutama di Perlis, Kedah, Pulau Pinang dan Perak dinasihati supaya menjauhi kawasan pantai.
Gegaran turut dirasai di kawasan Barat Semenanjung Malaysia.
Sementara itu, JAKARTA digegar gempa bumi berukuran 7.9 pada skala Richter beberapa minit lepas.
Maklumat awal yang disiarkan televisyen tempatan menyatakan gempa bumi yang berpusat di sekitar kepulauan Bengkulu itu berpotensi tsunami.
Ketika laporan ini dibuat wartawan Bernama yang berada di tingkat 19 Wisma Antara di bandar raya itu masih terasa bangunan setinggi 20 tingkat itu bergoyang kuat.
Komputer di atas meja, televisyen dan perabot bergoyang akibat gempa itu.
Ribuan pekerja pelbagai syarikat di Wisma Antara bertempiaran keluar meninggalkan pejabat masing-masing untuk menyelamatkan diri dengan turun ke bawah dengan menggunakan tangga kecemasan.
Di JOHOR BAHARU, gegaran turut dirasai sehingga menyebabkan orang ramai terutamanya di bangunan tinggi keluar ke perkarangan bangunan masing-masing untuk menyelamatkan diri.
Jurucakap Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Johor, Saiful Bahari berkata, jabatan itu menerima banyak laporan daripada orang ramai khususnya yang tinggal di bangunan tinggi seperti kondominium Bukit Saujana, Taman Desa Cemerlang, flet Bukit Cagar dan juga di Gelang Patah.
Saiful berkata jabatan itu telah menghantar anggota untuk membuat pemeriksaan di bangunan-bangunan tinggi yang terlibat.
Di KUALA LUMPUR, Jurucakap Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Jalan Hang Tuah di sini ketika dihubungi berkata, jabatan itu menerima banyak panggilan daripada orang ramai melaporkan bangunan dan rumah pangsa mereka mengalami gegaran.
Katanya, keadaan itu menyebabkan penghuni dan pekerja di bangunan tinggi terbabit bergegas keluar untuk menyelamatkan diri.
“Antara kawasan yang mengalami gegaran ialah Pandan Jaya, Petaling Jaya, Jalan Klang Lama, Kepong, Cheras dan kompleks kerajaan di Jalan Duta.
Anggota bomba telah dihantar ke kawasan berkenaan untuk memantau keadaan keselamatan di sana,” katanya.
Bagaimanapun pihak bomba meminta orang ramai supaya tidak panik dan bertenang memandangkan gegaran itu cuma tempias daripada gempa bumi di Sumatera.-Bernama
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ConvertTube
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Google Friends Newsletter - August 2007
POWER TIP
Embed Google Maps on your website or blog
There's a new feature on Google Maps that enables you to easily embed an interactive map on your website or blog just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML (much in the same way as embeddable YouTube videos work). On Google Maps, pull up the map you want to embed-- it can be a location, a business, a set of driving directions, search results, or a map you've created. Then copy the embed code by clicking "Link to this page," and paste the code into your blog or website. You can create a map using the map-making tools in the My Maps tab and display it on your website using this embed feature.
http://maps.google.com
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NEW PRODUCTS & UPDATES
Updates to Google Earth
With the new Google Earth (4.2), you can see a view of the night sky and explore the universe from home. Browse, zoom and click on the sky the same way you can with the Earth. Thanks to partners such as the Hubble Space Telescope, you'll see beautiful imagery of space and the objects in it, together with lots of additional data including constellations, the moon, planets, a user's guide to galaxies, and the life of a star. There are also updates to Google Earth layers, including new overlays. A Book Search layer includes placemarks of location names mentioned in books that are available in Google Book Search; a Traffic layer overlays live-traffic data for major cities that are already published in Maps. We've also included high- resolution photos from across the U.S., placed so that they line up with the terrain, letting you see the "real deal" superimposed on 3D imagery.
http://earth.google.com/
StarOffice now in Google Pack
A free office productivity suite for creating documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the desktop, StarOffice, is now optional software within the Google Pack. And by using the Open Document Format, StarOffice is fully compatible with Google Docs & Spreadsheets so you can easily upload and share your work.
http://pack.google.com
Paid storage for Gmail and Picasa Web Albums
U.S.-based English-language users of Gmail and Picasa Web Albums can now purchase additional storage to be shared across these products. We want you to be able to live more of your life in "the cloud" -- where your data is available to you any time, from any PC. Eventually, we hope you can have one place to store you information - in whatever form - online. We've integrated this extra storage across Picasa Web Albums and Gmail for now, and plan to add more Google services soon.
http://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage
Web History now includes Google Book Search
Web History now includes Books, which means those of you who use Web History can see your searches on Google Book Search as part of your web history. it's easy to view and manage your past book searches, and get better personalized results too.
http://books.google.com
Google News now integrates videos
Now, in addition to articles and images from thousands of different publishers, Google News in the US, UK and Ireland integrates news video results with help from YouTube. Video partners include CBS, Reuters and others, and when available, clusters of news stories on the Google News page now feature embedded videos.
http://news.google.com
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MISCELLANY
As our lives move increasingly online, we all tend to take for granted the convenience of having websites know our shipping address, our preferred email format, the movies or music we're likely to enjoy, and of course our credit card or bank account numbers. Many news stories about what's called "online privacy" have delved into the implications of businesses (like ours) holding all of this personal information for you and every consumer. We encourage you to study the privacy policies of every company you do business with online, including us. Look for clearly-written explanations and reasonable terms. We're trying to go further than current industry standards, too, by being as transparent as we can possibly be in telling you about what data we keep, how long we keep it, and so on. If you're interested in these matters, you may enjoy the first video we've made to explain basic privacy concepts in an easy-to-watch 5 minute format. (We plan to produce more on this topic in the future). We hope you learn something and also let us know what you think.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLgJYBRzUXY
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