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Finding Smells That Repel

By SHIRLEY S. WANG

If you're one of those people whom mosquitoes tend to favor, maybe it's because you aren't sufficiently stressed-out.

Insects have very keen powers of smell that direct them to their targets. But for researchers trying to figure out what attracts or repels the pests, sorting through the 300 to 400 distinct chemical odors that the human body produces has proved daunting.

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Now scientists at Rothamsted Research in the U.K. have been making headway at understanding why some people can end up with dozens of bites after a backyard barbecue, while others remain unscathed. The researchers have identified a handful of the body's chemical odors—some of which may be related to stress—that are present in significantly larger concentrations in people that the bugs are happier to leave alone. If efforts to synthesize these particular chemicals are successful, the result could be an all-natural mosquito repellent that is more effective and safer than products currently available.

"Mosquitoes fly through an aerial soup of chemicals, but can home in on those that draw them to humans," says James Logan, a researcher at Rothamsted, one of the world's oldest agricultural-research institutions. But when the combination of human odors is wrong, he says, "the mosquito fails to recognize this signal as a potential blood meal."

The phenomenon that some people are more prone to mosquito bites than others is well documented. In the 1990s, chemist Ulrich Bernier, now at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, began looking for what he calls the "magic compounds" that attract mosquitoes. His research helped to show that mosquitoes are attracted to humans by blends of common chemicals such as carbon dioxide, released from the skin and by exhaling, and lactic acid, which is present on the skin, especially when we exercise. But none of the known attractant chemicals explained why mosquitoes preferred some people to others.

Rothamsted's Dr. Logan says the answer isn't to be found in attractant chemicals. He and colleagues observed that everyone produces chemicals that mosquitoes like, but those who are unattractive to mosquitoes produce more of certain chemicals that repel them.

Misguided Mosquitoes

"The repellents were what made the difference," says Dr. Logan, who is interested in the study of how animals communicate using smell. These chemicals may cloud or mask the attractive chemicals, or may disable mosquitoes from being able to detect those attractive odors, he suggests.

Currently the most effective repellents on the market often contain a chemical known as DEET, which has been associated in some studies with potential safety concerns, such as cancer and Gulf War syndrome. It also damages materials made of plastic. The federal Environmental Protection Agency has determined that DEET, when used as directed, is safe.Besides delivering annoying bites, mosquitoes cause hundreds of millions of cases of disease each year. As many as 500 million cases of malaria are contracted globally each year, and more than one million people die from it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mosquitoes can also spread West Nile virus, dengue fever, yellow fever and other illnesses.

The Rothamsted team set out to get the mosquitoes' viewpoint. The researchers separated human volunteers into two groups—those who were attractive to mosquitoes and those who weren't. They then put each of the volunteers into body-size foil bags for two hours to collect their body odors. Using a machine known as a chromatograph, the scientists were able to separate the chemicals. They then tested each of them to see how the mosquitoes responded. By attaching microelectrodes to the insects' antennae, the researchers could measure the electrical impulses that are generated when mosquitoes recognize a chemical.

Dr. Logan and his team have found only a small number of body chemicals—seven or eight—that were present in significantly different quantities between those people who were attractive to mosquitoes and those who weren't. They then put their findings to the test. For this they used a so-called Y-tube olfactometer that allows mosquitoes to make a choice and fly toward or away from an individual's hand. After applying the chemicals thought to be repellant on the hands of individuals known to be attractive, Dr. Logan found that the bugs either flew in the opposite direction or weren't motivated by the person's smell to fly at all.

The chemicals were then tested to determine their impact on actual biting behavior. Volunteers put their arms in a box containing mosquitoes, one arm coated with repellent chemicals and the other without, to see if the arm without the coating got bitten more.

Significant Repellency

The group's latest paper, published in March in the Journal of Medical Entomology, identified two compounds with "significant repellency." One of the compounds, 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one, is a skin-derived compound that has the odor of toned-down nail-polish remover, according to George Preti, an organic chemist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, who is involved in a separate line of research into insect-biting behavior. The other, identified in the paper as geranylacetone, has a pleasant odor, though there is some question about whether the chemical is formed by the human biochemical process or is picked up in the environment, Dr. Preti says.

Dr. Logan declined to comment about the specific chemicals because of proprietary concerns. He says the findings have been patented and the group is working with a commercial company to develop the compounds into a usable insect repellent. One issue that still needs to be resolved: how to develop a formulation of the repellent chemicals that will stay on the skin, rather than quickly evaporating as they do naturally. The hope is to get a product to market within a year or two, he says.

Some of the chemicals researchers identified are believed to be related to stress, Dr. Logan says. Previous research has shown that these particular chemicals could be converted from certain other molecules and this could be as a result of oxidation in the body at times of stress, he says. However, it's not clear if the chemicals observed by the Rothamsted researchers were created in this way, and research is continuing to answer this and other questions.

Dr. Logan suggests that mosquitoes may deem hosts that emit more of these chemicals to be diseased or injured and "not a good quality blood meal." Proteins in the blood are necessary for female mosquitoes to produce fertile eggs, and Dr. Logan says it might be evolutionarily advantageous for mosquitoes to detect and avoid such people.

Other Research

Other research includes an effort by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, who published a paper in the journal Nature last week identifying a recently discovered class of molecules that inhibit fruit flies' and mosquitoes' ability to detect carbon dioxide. Mosquitoes can detect carbon dioxide emissions from long ranges, so turning off the ability to detect the gas, perhaps by releasing the inhibiting molecules into the environment, may be a way of keeping the bugs at bay, the researchers suggest. Another team, at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, is launching a study into whether the taste of human skin and blood are related to the insects' interest in biting certain individuals.

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Sweet memory during childhood

When first time seeing this picture from others website, it flashback my sweet child memory. Maybe that time i still dont know what it is t*** accually, but feel i like it. Haha. Yes, i am naughty boy. I like beauty big sister boing....boing. (what the pervert). Maybe that time i am small kids with white skin, and my child friend like calling me "anak mat salleh", so this is the reason why this "kakak2" like to hug and carry me when they meet me at playground. I like acting unintentional touch  their t***, but they dont care about it. hehe askfa87js7fuasyfyuisif   . So when seeing this picture it flashback how naughty i am during my childhood. -no komen-

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Quotes of the day

“Orang orang terkemuka telah menyedari bahawa tidak ada jalan istimewa untuk mendapatkan kemenangan. Jalan yang harus ditempuh adalah cara lama yang menuntut kerajinan dan ketekunan.”

-Dr Orison Swett Marden-

Effective Copywriting! Part III

7. Avoid T.M.I. (Too Much Information)

Never risk losing the attention of your audience by providing too much detail in your copy. Effective copywriting tells your audience what they need to know to act and make a purchase or how to contact you for more information. Extraneous details clutter the minds of your audience, which increases the possibility of them forgetting the most important aspects of your advertisement or marketing program.

Unless you’re advertising a prescription drug, highly technical equipment, or an exceedingly regulated or complicated product, the best rule to follow is K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid). You’re spending a substantial amount of your advertising budget on placing each ad. With each ad, you only receive a small amount of space to get your message across to your audience. Wisely use that pricey real estate to ensure you get the highest return on your investment.

8. Include a call to action.

The goal of any ad or marketing piece is to elicit some kind of response from the audience who sees it. A call to action is the element of copy that tells an audience how you want them to respond to your advertisement or marketing piece. Typically, the call to action creates a sense of urgency around a message and provides instructions on what to do next. For example, a call to action might tell the audience to call the advertiser or visit their store or website.

Including a call to action is by far the most important aspect of effective copywriting. It is essential that you make it easy for your audience to act on your ad or marketing message. You already persuaded them to want your product by following Step 1 through Step 7 of the copywriting outline and by writing influential copy. Now you must make sure your audience can respond easily to your ad and buy your product by compelling them to act.

To start, make sure the sentence structure of your copywriting is in an active rather than passive voice. The reason for this is simple. Copy that you write in the active voice is by definition action-oriented, while copy that you write in the passive voice talks about the action in a remote manner.

To further explain, when you write a sentence in the active voice, the subject of the sentence performs the action of the verb in the sentence. On the other hand, if you write a sentence in the passive voice, the subject of the sentence receives the action from the verb of the sentence.

The second step in creating an effective call to action in your copy is developing a sense of urgency. Your goal in advertising is to create awareness of your product or service and, ultimately, boost sales. When do you want to do that? Do you want your customers to act tomorrow, next month, or next year?

If you’re spending money on advertising now, you most likely want your customers to act now. If that’s the case, your copy needs to tell them to get off the couch and get into your store now. There are many words and phrases you can add to your copy to create a sense of urgency.

9. C.Y.A. (Cover Your Ass)

While large companies have legal departments that review copy to ensure it does not expose the company to potential problems, smaller companies don’t usually have the budget to seek the opinion of an attorney for each ad they run or marketing piece they print. However, that doesn’t mean small business owners have any less responsibility for producing ads and marketing pieces that are honest and not considered deceptive.

Most small business owners are sole proprietors meaning if they lose a lawsuit, not only can their business assets be used to satisfy a plaintiff’s claim, but their personal assets can be targeted as well. When you’re writing copy, consider if claims that you can’t prove in your copy (or can’t provide appropriate disclaimers for) are worth it once you weigh the risk vs. the potential reward.

Aside from opening yourself up to possible litigation, exaggerating or falsifying claims about your product or your competition is unethical and a bad business practice. If you’re caught in a lie (no matter how small), word will spread quickly, and your reputation could be irreparably damaged. Again, weigh the risk vs. the potential reward before you advertise using claims you can’t prove.

Be careful of using words superlatives such as the examples in the following list:

* Free

* Guaranteed

* Best, lowest, fastest, etc.

* Or your money back

* Risk-free

* No risk

* No purchase necessary

* No cost

* No obligation

* No investment

* 100 percent

* Promise

* No questions asked

10. Proofread.

It is critical that you accurately proofread your copy. One of the quickest ways to lose credibility in advertising is to allow grammatical or spelling errors to appear in your advertisement or marketing pieces. Customers translate carelessness in ads into carelessness in products and service.

They ask themselves, “If this company doesn’t care enough to produce an ad without errors, how likely are they to care about taking care of me?” Professional businesses produce professional quality ads and ad copy, and that means their copy has been proofread again and again and is error free.

It Really Is That Simple

Copywriting is truly easy. If you do your research and prep work, your copy will shine. Don’t be afraid to take calculated risks and learn from your mistakes, but don’t waste your limited advertising budget. By doing the legwork first and thoroughly completing your copywriting outline, you’ll have a working document you can use as a tool to produce all your copywriting projects now and in the future. Spend some time up-front to develop a first rate copywriting outline, and you’ll reap the rewards later with a boost in sales and profits and a higher return in your advertising investments. Now kick some ass.

This article has been excerpted from Kick-Ass Copywriting in 10 Easy Steps by Susan Gunelius, available from Entrepreneur Press.

Effective Copywriting! Part II

4. Communicate W.I.I.F.M. (What’s In It For Me?)

There are a variety of reasons to create an advertisement or marketing piece. Before you write copy for your promotional piece, you need to understand your goals for that piece. What do you want to get in return? The copy you use in each ad or marketing piece will vary based on your goals for that promotion. While this book does not focus on the development of marketing plans and strategies, I will offer some examples of different objectives for ads or marketing pieces that, in turn, will affect the copy you use:

* Communicate a special offer

* Share information and raise awareness

* Generate leads

Your customers need to understand how your product or service is going to help them by making their lives easier, making them feel better, helping them save money, helping them save time, etc. In this step of the copywriting outline, you’ll build on the work you’ve done so far by taking your product’s features, benefits, and differentiators and specifically describing how they directly affect your target audience members’ lives in positive ways. Remember the first tenet of copywriting–your product or service is far less important than its ability to fulfill your customers’ needs.

Answer your target audience’s question “What’s in it for me?” Remember, you’re paying for your ad space and possibly graphic design too. Don’t waste your money by placing an ad with ineffective copy that does not clearly tell your customers what they’ll get by buying your product or service.

Large companies with big advertising and marketing budgets can test snappy, cliché headlines and copy in an attempt to find the best way to catch their target audience’s attention, but small and medium-size business owners typically have limited budgets.

For smaller businesses that only have one chance to communicate their message, copy must be written so the message, including benefits and differentiators, is heard and understood by the target audience. There is no room in a small business owner’s advertising budget to risk not getting that specific message across to the right people every time.

5. Focus on “you,” not “we.”

It is essential that you are aware of how you’re addressing your customers in your copy. To do this, you need to understand pronoun usage. Think back to your school days. Remember your English teacher explaining first person, second person, and third person?

As a refresher, first person (I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours) is the person speaking and second person (you, your, yours) is the person to whom one is speaking. It’s essential that you write copy that speaks to your target audience and not at them–and not about you.

Therefore, the majority of your copy in any ad or marketing piece should be written in the second person. For example, do you prefer copy that says, “Through our first-rate sales department, we can deliver cars within 24 hours” or “You can drive your new car tomorrow”? While the first copy example focuses on the business, the second example focuses on customers and speaks directly to them. It’s more personal, and thus, more effective.

Remember, writing in the second person helps your audience quickly connect the points in your copy to their own lives and allows them to personalize the advertisement or marketing piece. This is how the ad is connected to an individual customer’s own life. By writing your copy so it focuses on the customer rather than yourself, the customer can personalize the ad and product you’re selling and act accordingly.

6. Understand your medium.

As you write your copy, be aware that each different medium where an ad is placed requires a different tone or style. Depending on where you’re placing your ad, the copy you use changes based on the audience who will see the ad. Are you placing your ad in a local newspaper or on a billboard? Are you placing your ad in a woman’s magazine or in a news magazine?

Different media require different copy to most effectively persuade a particular audience to act. Furthermore, different types of marketing pieces require different types of copy. Remember, there are many ways to use copy to promote your business other than traditional advertisements. Use every possible and appropriate opportunity to communicate your marketing messages to your customers.

"Detik-detik yang membosankan ketika raya" Intro

Ini adalah cerita dizaman semasakala apabila setiap kali menjelangnya Aidilfitri. Ape makna Aidilfitri jikalau tanpa senyuman dan kemaafan. Hanya menziarahi untuk menjaga nama dan maruah atau semata-mata untuk kepentingan masa akan datang? Mengapa manusia moden dihari ini yang sungguh pandai bijaksana dan bertatasusila hanya dimata tapi tidak dihati. Mereka pandai berlakon perwatakan seperti tiada dosa diantara mereka seperti umpatan dan perhinaan itu hanyalan santapan hiburan makcik-makcik dan pakcik-pakcik diluar sana. Mengapakah di hari yang mulia ini begitu senang untuk mencipta dosa kering sedangkan begitu susah memberi kemaafan di hari yang mulia ini. Adakah patut ianya mengikut hati dan perasaan tapi bukan dengan akal dan fikiran. Allah menjadikan manusia itu supaya mereka selalu mengingat dan berfikir dan bukannya alpa dah lalai. 

Aku hanyalah seorang insan biasa yang hanya mampu tersenyum dan sabar. Inilah ujian hidup. Begitu sukar untuk melepaskan dendam kesumat dihati yang sentiasa menyala-nyala apabila munculnya hari raya. Aku memang tiada memiliki apa-apa, hanya ilmu dan kesabaran. Tidak seperti mereka yang mempunyai kereta besar, rumah besar, isteri dan anak-anak besar, kerja besar, duit besar, biskut raya besar dan perut besar. Mengapa tiba-tiba timbul rasa irihati dan dengki, adakah itu hasutan iblis atau sememangnya sifat manusia yang suka mencari kebencian? Dimanakah dia datang? Bukankan betapa nikmatnya rasa hidup di dunia ini jika tiada miliki apa-apa. Tidak akan wujudnya kegelisahan dan kegusaran terhadap harta dunia. Tujuan hidup ini hanyalah untuk mecari keredhaan ilahi serta persediaan akhirat dan bukanya untuk dunia semata-mata.

Setiap kali bersalaman diantara kita ketika raya, begitu mudah sahaja dapat mengimbas raut wajah kebencian yang penuh skala penghinaan. Bisikan-bisikan yang menyakitkan begitu mudah sekali menembusi dinding-dinding api telinga. Bukanku tak sudi dan mahu menjadi seperti mereka, tapi sebab jiwa kita berbeda. Mereka hidup hanya mengejar kemewahaan dan kemegahan diri sendiri, tapi aku hidup untuk mencari keredhaan dan keiklasan sementara hidup dimuka bumi ini. Duit boleh dicari, kerja boleh dibuat, rumah boleh direka, kereta boleh dicuri, isteri dan anak boleh dikecapi, tapi masa,usia, kemanisan dalam hidup hanyalah pemberian ilahi. Ianya tidak akan dapat dicari, dicipta,direka,dicuri dan ditemui semudah mengunyah rendang daging kerbau dengan ketupat. -to be continue-

Noun
fucker (plural fuckers)

(pejorative, taboo slang) An undesirable person.
You fucker, you wrecked my car!

(taboo slang) The object of some effort.
Let’s see if we can fix this fucker.

(taboo slang, humorous) People, friends, especially of very high solidarity.
What’s up, fuckers!?

(rare, taboo slang) One who fucks.
She was a good fucker, but to tell the truth, I had had enough for the night.

Effective Copywriting! Part I

1. Exploit your product’s benefits.

The first step of the copywriting outline is the foundation for your advertising campaigns. A benefit is the value of your product to a customer. In other words, a benefit is what the product can do for a customer or how the product can help a customer.

You need to put into words the reasons your product is the best available and better than your competitors’ products based on the added value it provides to your customers. The key to success is for you to fully understand all the benefits of your product. Only then can you ensure that the audience knows them and can relate to them.

2. Exploit your competition’s weaknesses.

To write compelling copy, it is essential that you know what differentiates your product from the competition. Once you know your competitors’ weaknesses, you must make sure your audience knows them and understands why buying your competitors’ products would be a terrible mistake.

Get started by thoroughly researching your competition and understanding what they offer in terms of products and services. Next, list the elements of their offerings that are inferior to your own. Feel free to tear the competition apart but be realistic in your comparisons. You want to be able to support your claims if you are challenged.

3. Know your audience.

Every person in the world is not going to see every ad in the world. Each ad has a specific audience that will see it, and it’s the marketer’s job to find the best placement to ensure the target audience will see it. For example, an ad for skateboards placed in a local senior citizen housing association newsletter is not likely to generate a lot of sales.

In fact, it would be a waste of advertising dollars. The target audience for skateboards is teenagers or young adults. The vast majority of senior citizens do not use skateboards, and it is not a product category in which they typically purchase gifts. Before you buy ad space, make sure you’re spending your money in the right place to get the biggest bang for your buck in terms of exposure and building awareness of your product or service.

First, take the time to research your customers thoroughly. In most businesses, 20 percent of customers are responsible for 80 percent of sales (this is called the 80/20 rule in case you’re curious about the official marketing terminology for this phenomenon). That 20 percent represents your best customer, and your job is to determine who that 20 percent is. Evaluate your customers and put together a demographic profile of your most valuable customer, so you can advertise in the best places to find similar people who are likely prospects.

If you’re a small business owner, you probably don’t have a budget set aside to conduct a thorough research study and analysis of your customer base, so you’ll have to improvise by using your own communication skills and visual investigation. Remember, you’re trying to develop a basic profile of your target customer, not a CIA profile of each individual who buys your product. Do your best with the information you have.

There are many attributes you can use to develop a demographic profile of your customers. Following is a list of examples of traits to help you start your own demographic profiling initiative:

* Gender

* Age

* Ethnicity

* Family Status

* Income

* Occupation

* Interests

-2bc-

Effective Copywriting! Intro

"Whether you’re a small-business owner, a medium-size business owner, an eBay seller, or simply trying to break into the copywriting industry, understanding the fundamentals of writing sales-oriented copy and put you on a path to success.

At its core, copywriting is another device in a business’ marketing toolbox. Well-written copy can make or break an ad or marketing piece. With that in mind, copywriting can equate to either well-spent advertising investments or a waste of  advertising dollars.

Many people misinterpret the uniqueness of effective copywriting. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard freelance writers say they want to shift from article writing to copywriting as if it’s simply an extension of their existing abilities.

Copywriting does come naturally to some people, but for most, it’s a foreign landscape they do not know how to navigate. Copywriting is about more than writing the hard sell sales letter that many short copywriting courses offer. In fact, I cringe when I see those over-the-top sales letters, which do little more than provide an ugly representation of copywriting, sales and marketing.

Well-crafted copywriting doesn’t need to beat a person over the head. It doesn’t have to drown in bold typeface and capitalization. The message should stand on its own without an overabundance of heavy-handed sales language and design embellishments. I associate many sales letters that are guilty of this technique with a writer who doesn’t truly understand the basic purpose of copywriting. However, successful copywriting can be achieved in 10 easy steps."

Let learn some tips the effective ways copywriting in the next post. -2bc-

Resepi Biskut Raya Tahun Ini...

Sebab aku dah lame xbuat kuit favorite nie, so kasik korgla buat. Nanti Raya leh aku ngap. Dulu kecik2 rajin, biler dah tua nie malas pulak. Ok cara2 nya ialah:

Biskut Mamar Carrey/Carries/Sewaktu dgn nya

p/s: nie bukan gambar ori, sebab gambar ori xde aku rembat kat blog org len jual kuih.yg aku buat creative skit ha ha

Ok bahan2 nya:

1) 150gm mentega

2) 50gm gula icing

3) 200gm tepung gandum

4) 20gm susu tepung

5) 60gm tepung jagung

6) 1 camca kecil vanilla

  

Untuk Toping pulak:

1) 40ml putih telor

2) Pukul sebentar dan masukan sedikit gula icing 150gm sehingga kental

3) Masukan tepung jagung 15gm

Cara2:

Pukul mentega dgn gula + vanilla +tepung

Uli dan terap

Sapukan toping

Bakar selama 15minit pada suhu 180 'c

p/s: resepi ini bujet leh dpt dlm 1-2 balang kuih.(rase2nye) Jangan terlalu tebal nanti xsedap, terlalu nipis nanti hangus. Kalo xreti jugak mintak tolong pakar. sekian. Selamat mencuba dan Selamat Hari Raya. 

Santapan Rohani di Pagi Ramadan Part II

12 BARISAN MANUSIA.. MENUJU KE AKHIRAT:-

barisan pertama: di iringi dari kubur dlm keadaan tidak bertangan & berkaki. keadaan ini dijelaskan melalui seruan Allah swt :"mereka orang2 yg menyakiti hati jiran sewaktu hidup mereka. Mereka yg sombong & tidak berbuat kebaikan kepada jiran tetangga akan mendapat kehinaan didunia maupun di akhirat".firman Allah 'aku akan memalingkan hati orang yg sombong serta takbur di muka bumi ini dengan tiada alasan yg benar dari (memahami) ayat2 ku(yg menunjukkan kekuasaan ku),itulah balasan & tempat kembali mereka adalah neraka"

barisan ke-2: di iringi dari kubur dlm bentuk babi hutan datang seruan Allah "mereka orang yg meringan2kan solat sewaktu hidup,sesungguhnya orang yg memelihara solat 5waktu akan dihindari dari siksa kubur sebaliknya,mereka yg mengabaikan maka waktu dia mati,mayatnya akan dihimpit oleh liang lahat sehingga berselisih tulang rusuk." rasulullah saw bersabda "sesungguhnya seorang hamba apabila dia berdiri untuk bersolat,maka di letakkan semua dosanya di atas kepala & kedua2 bahunya,maka setiap kali dia rukuk atau sujud,berjatuhanlah dosa2 itu

barisan ke-3: di iringi dari kubur dgn bentuk keldai & perut penuh ular serta kala jengking "mereka adalah orang yg enggan membayar zakat ketika hidupnya walaupun pada ketika itu mereka tergolong dlm orang yg berkemampuan. inilah balasannya & tempat kembali mereka adalah neraka

barisan ke-4: diiringi dari kubur dlm keadaan darah memancut keluar dari mulut "mereka adalah antara orang yg suka berdusta ketika berjual beli.berniagalah dengan jujur serta amanah agar hasil yg diperoleh datang dari sumber yg halal.

barisan ke-5: diiringi dari kubur dalam keadaan berbau busuk seperti bangkai ketika itu Allah menurunkan angin sehingga bau busuk itu menganggu ketenteraman padang mahsyar "mereka ini adalah orang yang menyembunyikan perlakuan derhaka,takut diketahui oleh manusia tetapi tidak pula takut kepada Allah.inilah balasannya & tempat mereka juga adalah neraka

barisan ke-6 : diiringi dari kubur dengan keadaan kepala terputus dari badan mereka adalah orang yg dahulunya menjadi saksi palsu. 

barisan ke-7: diiringi dari kubur tanpa lidah tetapi mengalir darah & nanah dari mulut mereka mereka ini adalah orang yg enggan memberi kesaksian kebenaran

barisan ke-8:diiringi dari kubur dlm keadaan terbalik,kepala kebawah & kaki ke atas mereka adalah orang yg melakukan zina.tempat mereka juga adalah di neraka. sabda rasulullah "tiada bersunyi2an antara seorang lelaki & wanita,melainkan wujudnya syaitan sebagai orang ketiga antara mereka"

barisan ke-9:diiringi dari kubur dengan wajah hitam & bermata biru,sementara dlm diri mereka penuh dengan api gemuruh mereka adalah orang yg makan harta anak yatim dengan cara yang tidak sepatutnya

barisan ke-10: diiringi dari kubur dlm keadaan tubuh berpenyakit sopak & dipenuhi kusta mereka ini adalah orang yg derhaka kepada ibu bapa sewaktu hidupnya.

barisan ke-11: diiringi dari kubur dlm keadaan buta,gigi panjang seperti tanduk lembu jantan,bibir terjuih hingga ke dada & lidah terjulur hingga ke perut serta keluar pelbagai kotoran yg menjijikkan. mereka ini adalah orang yg minum arak sewaktu hidupnya.

barisan ke-12: diiringi dari kubur dengan wajah bersinar2 seperti bulan purnama mereka melalui titian siratulmustakim seperti kilat.datang suara dari sisi Allah yang memaklumkan "mereka semasa hidupnya adalah orang yg beramal salih & melakukan kebaikan.mereka juga menjauhi perbuatan derhaka,memelihara solat lima waktu, & meninggalkan dunia dalam keadaan bertaubat.inilah balasan mereka & tempat kembali mereka adalah syurga,beroleh keampunan,kasih sayang & keredhaan Allah swt."

Does Logic Stifle Creativity?

-by Stephen R. Grossman-

Mr. Grossman is President of Double Dominance, Inc. a creative problem-solving company in Maple Shade, NJ (phone 609-779-0702). He is author of Innovation, Inc. (Wordware Publishing, Plano, TX, 1988). www.consultants-mall.com/grossman.htm

"I always carry my umbrella when the weatherman says it’s going to rain. Last night, the weatherman said it was not going to rain. Today, I’m carrying my umbrella.

Am I being logical?

Most people would say no. However, there’s nothing illogical about the above statement. I never said I didn’t carry an umbrella on days it wasn’t supposed to rain. My behavior may be silly and unreasonable; but, based solely on the information I gave you, it’s not illogical.

If you think this little exercise was something only a lawyer could love, you’re not alone. Many people (including some who are experts in the mechanics of our thought processes) believe that logic is a limiting system to finding wonderful creative solutions to complex and difficult problems. They see creativity as a magic, inspirational, intuitive process that only can be stifled by the drab, time-consuming, linear progression of logic.

Frankly, they’re not being logical.

Logic

Most of us fear what we don’t understand, and logic is no exception. Far from being a limiting factor, logic can be the catalyst for actually dislodging the wonderful “Aha?” that lies imbedded in the recesses of the unconscious mind.

Logic is nothing more that conditional reasoning. We start with a set of preconditions that must not be violated on our path to a solution; just as my carrying the umbrella on a sunny day did not violate the statement, “I always carry my umbrella when the weatherman says it’s going to rain.” The fact that it is unreasonable of me to carry an umbrella on a sunny day is irrelevant. “Reasonableness” or “rationality” are value judgments and only can mislead when applied to logic.

A logical train of thought must follow three rules:

1. It must be sequential. When going from A to Z, you must go from A to B, then B to C, and so forth. You may not jump directly from A to C.

2. Each step of the process must be correct. If one of the steps violates the preconditions, the entire process is wrong.

3. You may only use problem-relevant information. We must stay within the boundaries and guidelines given by the criteria of the system.

Sounds pretty inflexible and uncreative, doesn’t it? Now, let’s look at the creative process. Although there are many definitions of creativity, we’ll use the one that’s commonly used by the anti-logic camp: “The creative process is a problem-solving act that involves a shift in perception--a sudden inspiration that develops a totally new way of looking at the problem.”

Non-logical?

For example: A paper towel manufacturer wanted to increase sales, so they asked their designer to come up with a solution that would make the product more “personal.” How do you make a mass-produced product, like a paper towel, deliver a “personal” message to millions of consumers?

The designer spent many sleepless nights working on that problem. Finally, one morning while she was putting on her makeup, she realized that her mirror was a perfect example of what she was looking for. Millions of people could own the same generic mirror, but each mirror would impart a unique message to its owner--the reflection of their own face.

Her first thought somehow put a mirror on the package, but she discarded this instantly as impractical. Her next thought was the answer: Create 12 patterns, one for each sign of the Zodiac. People who purchased “their” sign saw the message as something intensely personal. Since only 12 designs were needed, the “Astrological Towel” was a huge success, boosting sales without significantly increasing production costs.

On the surface, this creative process would seem the opposite of logic. For example:

1. It was nonlinear. The designer jumped directly from a makeup mirror to astrology.

2. One step was wrong. She could not put a mirror on the towel or the packaging because the technology wasn’t available for her.

3. She created relevance from the irrelevant information--the makeup mirror had nothing to do with paper towels.

A closer examination, however, shows that the designer could have used pure logic to reach the same solution. In fact, the designer did not abandon logic; she simply redefined the parameters of the problem. Instead of defining her task as making a paper towel “personal” to millions of people, she amended the boundary conditions to include the idea that the product simply should have the perception of uniqueness. The parameters of the problem then would have included all such items or events that fit the conditions for “mass uniqueness”--birthdays, anniversaries, common first names, ethnic groupings, et cetera.

Because there are only 12 signs in the Zodiac, it would not have taken long for a solely logical process to reach the same solution.

How do we know this? Because every result developed by the creative process can be backtracked using logic! If it’s not possible to find a logic string that explains a creative burst, then the creative “solution” can’t possibly work as predicted.

You may argue that this is a conceptual non sequitur because the trick is to “create” the solution, not to use logic to rationalize it. You may claim that it was only the mental foray that our marketing director took into the irrelevant that allowed the appropriate solution to present itself.

Preconditions

Every creative act reverses an underlying assumption that the problem solver has been making about the problem. In other words, when there’s no logical answer, the creative person changes the question.

Remember the first rule of logic? We start with a set of preconditions that must not be violated. Very often it is the assumptions we make about these preconditions that constitutes the problem. By changing the preconditions, the “creative” solution is inevitably the logical one. The act of creativity is a confirmation, not a refutation, of the power of logic.

There are three unifying principles of creative and logical thinking:

1. Logic may be unreasonable and irrational.

2. There is always a logical path to every creative solution.

3. Reversing the assumptions on which a logical argument is based may yield quite profound, unforeseen, and wonderful solutions, while preserving the integrity of the logical argument.

Those who try to separate logic and creativity are doomed to failure. Logic is the tool with which we eat the meal. If we don’t like steak, we don’t throw away the fork; we change our order.

It’s only logical."

Quotes of the day

"I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." - Albert Einstein

• Born: 14 March 1879
• Birthplace: Ulm, Germany
• Died: 18 April 1955 (heart failure)
• Best Known As: Creator of the theory of relativity

Thanks to his theory of relativity, Albert Einstein became the most famous scientist of the 20th century. In 1905, while working in a Swiss patent office, Einstein published a paper proposing a "special theory of relativity," a groundbreaking notion which laid the foundation for much of modern physics theory. (The theory included his famous equatione=mc².) Einstein's work had a profound impact on everything from quantum theory to nuclear power and the atom bomb. He continued to develop and refine his early ideas, and in 1915 published what is known as his general theory of relativity. By 1920 Einstein was internationally renowned; he won the Nobel Prize in 1921, not for relativity but for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect. In 1933 Einstein moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where he worked at the Institute for Advanced Studies until the end of his life. Einstein's genius is often compared with that of Sir Isaac Newton; in 2000 Time magazine named him the leading figure of the 20th century.

Einstein was famously rumpled and frizzy-haired, and over time his image has become synonymous with absent-minded genius... He sent a famous letter to Franklin Roosevelt in 1939, warning that Germany was developing an atomic bomb and urging Allied research toward the same goal... Einstein married Mileva Maric in 1903. They had two sons: Hans Albert (b. 1904) and Eduard (b. 1910). They also had a daughter born before their marriage, Leiserl (b. 1902). She apparently was given for adoption or died in infancy. Mileva and Albert were divorced in 1914... He married his cousin Elsa Löwenthal in 1919, and they remained married until her death in 1936... The Institute for Advanced Studies has no formal link to Princeton University; however, according the IAS website, the two institutions "have many historic ties and ongoing relationships"... The Albert Einstein College of Medicine opened in New York City in 1955. It is part of Yeshiva University. Einstein did not create the school, but gave his permission to have his name used.

Quotes of the day

"It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship." Thayer, Mary Dixon

Santapan Rohani di Pagi Ramadan

Mari kita sama-sama renungkan peristiwa ini.

From: Treffert Coatings - Hedayah

Subject: FW: PERTEMBUNGAN ANTARA SAINS MODEN DENGAN ILMU WAHYU

(AL-QURAN) & HADIS

To: "'amirjb psg'"

Date: Thursday, 15 January, 2009, 4:49 PM

" Salam, artikel yang sebaiknya dibaca sehingga ayat terakhir dan di panjangkan*insyallah semoga membawa kebaikan kepada kita semua.

kisah benar dari seorang guru

PERTEMBUNGAN ANTARA SAINS MODEN DENGAN ILMU WAHYU(AL-QURAN) & HADIS.

Dalam artikel ini saya menceritakan pengalaman diberikan Allah anak sulung dengan memberikan anak manja ini makanan rapu.

Sebenarnya, melalui anak yang sulung ini, begitu banyak Allah memberikan ilmu melalui pengalaman membesarkannya. Alhamdulillah bersyukur saya di atas segala nikmat yang diberikan Nya.

Dari tahun 1980 hingga 1985, saya mengajar di tiga buah sekolah dari SMK Sultan Ahmad Shah Cameron Highland, Sekolah Mahmud Raub dan akhir sekali di Sekolah Menengah Sains Raub. Saya mengajar subjek utama biologi tingkatan 4 dan 5 di samping beberapa subjek lain. Dalam subjek biologi ini saya menggalakkan pelajar saya untuk memakan hati kerana menurut sains, hati kaya dengan pelbagai khasiat seperti sumber zat besi yang sangat diperlukan oleh tubuh badan . Saya tidak pernah membuktikan sama ada benar dakwaan sains ini tetapi itulah yang perlu saya ajarkan kerana ia terdapat di dalam sukatan pelajaran biologi dari dulu sampai sekarang.

Para doktor juga telah diberikan ilmu yang sama iaitu hati sama ada hati ayam atau hati lembu mengandungi sumber zat besi yang tinggi yang sangat diperlukan tubuh. Namun Islam mengajarkan sesuatu yang bertentangan sama sekali dengan ilmu sains ini iaitu mafhumnya lebih kurang begini "Janganlah kamu makan organ dalaman" . Walau pun Nabi berkata jangan tetapi ulamak lebih menjatuhkan hukum makhruh dalam keadaan ini dan bukan mengharamkannya. Organ dalaman adalah organ selain daging yang terkandung dalam tubuh haiwan seperti:

1. Hati

2. Paru-paru

3. Perut

4. Hempedal

5. Buah pinggang

6. Jantung

7. Telur ayam yang belum keluar dari perut ayam 8. Telur ikan 9. etc.

Sains menggalakkan makan hati kerana khasiat zat besinya yang sangat diperlukan manusia sedangkan Islam melarang dari memakan hati ini . Mana yang anda pilih? Sains atau pesan Nabi Muhammad SAW ini?

Kembali kepada pengalaman membesarkan anak sulung 25 tahun lalu, setelah berbagai makanan rapu termasuk berbagai jenama minuman bergas diberikan, sewaktu anak saya berusia 2 tahun, ia sudah menghadapi satu masalah, beliau mudah letih dan tidak bermaya. Saya dan isteri membawa anak kesayangan ke klinik di Raub Pahang. Doktor Cina di klinik ini

sangat rapat dengan saya dan isteri kerana isteri doktor ini mengajar matapelajaran Biologi di sekolah yang sama dengan Isteri saya.

Setelah membuat semakan dan ujian termasuk melihat di dalam kelopak mata bahagian bawah, doktor mengatakan bahawa anak saya sudah mempunyai masalah anemia atau bahasa mudahnya kurang darah atau lebih tepatnya darah anak saya ini kekurangan sel darah merah menyebabkan warna darahnya kurang merah . Doktor menasihati kami berdua agar memberikan anak sulung kami ini makan banyak hati seperti hati ayam .

Doktor juga ada memberikan supplement untuk anak kami tersebut. Bermula dari saat ini setiap kali balik dari sekolah, sewaktu singgah di pasar Raub, saya akan membeli sekilo hati ayam untuk diberikan kepada anak disamping makanan ayah dan ibunya. Walaupun dengan supplement dan hati ayam yang diberikan, keadaan kesihatan anak saya semakin merosot . Ia semakin sangat mudah letih. Beliau hanya akan menjadi penonton apabila sepupunya bermain atau rakan-rakannya berlari berkejar-kejaran.

Perniagaan doktor ini semakin maju maklumlah saya kerap ke kliniknya boleh dikatakan setiap bulan selain dari sakit demam. Pada usia anak saya ini 4 tahun, doktor Cina ini dah surrender dan merujukkan kes anak saya ini ke Hospital Univer siti Petaling Jaya . Saya dan isteri terpaksa mengambil cuti membawa anak menemui doktor pakar kanak-kanak. Anak saya diambil darahnya dan doktor minta anak saya dimasukkan ke dalam wad kanak-kanak.

Bacaan hemoglobin dalam darah anak saya cuma 4.2 sedangkan orang biasa sepatutnya dalam lingkungan 12 dan ke atas . Allah saja yang mengetahuinya azab yang kami lalui. Hasil pemeriksaan doktor, mereka mengatakan anak saya kena anemia Talesemia (umur sel darah merah pendek berbanding normal 120 hari). Saya tidak ada ilmu ketika itu tentang apa itu (Talesemia). Saya menelefon kakak ipar saya di Tapah bertanyakan apa itu Talesemia. Subhanallah, penjelasannya sangat mengerikan. Kanak-kanak penghidap talesemia selalunya meninggal dunia sebelum usia mencecah 7 tahun . Adakah saya akan kehilangan anak sulung yang dikasihi?

Sudah tidak tahu apa yang perlu dibuat, saya berkunjung ke sebuah farmasi di Kajang mencari sesuatu yang boleh saya usahakan untuk mengubati masalah anak saya. Saya ternampak sebuah ubat supplement buatan Amerika dalam bentuk cecair bernama NUTROPLEX. Saya tawakkal membelinya dan memberikan ubat ini kepada anak saya. Alhamdulillah bacaan hemoglobin anak saya meningkat sehingga ada waktunya kepada bacaan 7. Satu perkara lain selain masalah masalah yang telah disebutkan di atas, anak saya ini kerap sekali menghadapi demam secara purata 2 kali sebulan dari usia 2 tahun sehingga berusia 13 tahun . Pendek kata, sekolah memang terpaksa selalu tidak hadir kerana demam.

Begitulah masalah yang kami hadapi membesarkan anak sulung ini sehingga berusia 13 tahun. Kerap demam dan tidak bermaya serta mudah letih. Kemuncak masalah ini ialah bila satu ketika saya mendapat panggilan telefon dari isteri mengatakan anak saya terpaksa dimasukkan ke hospital kerana demam yang serius. Waktu ini saya sudah mula berguru dengan arwah guru saya. Segala masalah anak saya sudah sedia dalam makluman arwah guru cuma menanti saat yang sesuai sahaja untuk memberitahu kepada saya.

Dalam saat kebingungan mengenangkan anak dimasukkan ke hospital kerana demam yang serius, saya menelefon arwah guru saya. Setelah saya menjelaskan cerita sebenarnya, arwah memberitahu saya agar mencari sebanyak mungkin buah delima masak di mana-mana kampung dan berikanlah makan kepada anak saya. Alhamdulillah saya berjaya mencari agak banyak juga buah delima kampung dan saya menyuapkan kepada anak saya. Alhamdulillah selepas beberapa hari, anak saya dibenarkan keluar dari wad hospital .

Bermula dari saat inilah saya terpaksa akur sahaja dengan apa yang disarankan oleh arwah guru saya. Sebelumnya, saya memang banyak membantah kata-kata arwah guru, maklumlah saya lulusan univer siti (biologi & kimia) sedangkan arwah guru sekadar pengamal perubatan tradisional dan tok guru agama . Arwah guru saya menasihati agar:

1. Elakkan dari makan sebarang organ? dalaman seperti hati dsbnya

2. Elakkan makanan rapu seperti coklat, maggi mee, twisties, ding dang, double decker, burger, naget, sausage dan sebagainya

3. Elakkan minuman bergas

4. Elakkan jeruk-jeruk kering dan basah

5. Makan sayur-sayuran yang berzat seperti sayuran hijau dan pahit.

6. Makan buah delima

7. Makan epal hijau

Selepas tiada pilihan (doktor dan pakar sudah diusahakan) melainkan mencuba kaedah rawatan arwah guru semata-mata , akhirnya saya bersyukur kepada Allah SWT bahawa inilah kaedah yang tepat untuk merawat kes anak saya. Sejak dari saat ini, anak saya ini kelihatan semakin

sihat dan segar dan akhirnya kekerapan menghidap demam pun telah menjadi sejarah . Syukur Alhamdulillah terima kasih kepada Mu ya Allah di atas rahmatMu.

Bermula dari saat ini saya sudah berpusing 180 darjah. Saya menyumpah kepada ilmu sains yang mengajarkan bahawa makan hati boleh membawa kebaikan kepada manusia .. Saya menyumpah juga kepada diri saya yang selama ini mengajarkan kepada pelajar-pelajar saya satu ilmu yang sebenarnya membawa mudharat kepada manusia. Ampunilah dosa ku ya Allah

kerana mengajarkan ilmu sesat di sekolah dahulu (ilmu makan hati untuk menambah darah).

Saya yakin bahawa saranan ilmu sains bahawa memakan hati haiwan adalah baik untuk menambah darah adalah ilmu songsang yang diajarkan oleh orang Yahudi agar umat manusia menjadi tidak sihat . Orang Yahudi ini beranggapan jikalau dunia ini dipenuhi oleh orang Yahudi

semata-mata, alangkah indahnya. Mereka ingin membunuh umat lain selain Yahudi secara senyap.

Tanggapan saya ini adalah berdasarkan bahawa orang Yahudi ini sangat mempelajari ilmu di dalam Al Quran dan hadis cuma mereka tidak beriman sahaja . Mereka inginmenggunakan ilmu ini untuk merosakkan dan membunuh umat Islam. Saya berkata demikian kerana ilmu sains dari barat mengajarkan untuk memakan hati sedangkan orang Yahudi , Amerika dan England tidak makan hati . Mereka juga tidak makan kepala ikan seperti disarankan Nabi sedangkan orang Melayu Islam di Malaysia? makan hati dan kepala ikan .

Memakan hati bukan sekadar tidak membantu meningkatkan paras hemoglobin darah malahan memakannya akan mengundang pelbagai mudharat lain yang Allah dan Rasul Nya saja yang mengetahui dengan tepat . Pengalaman anak saya serta didiagnosed oleh doktor sebagai pesakit leukemia sudah cukup mengajar saya betapa mudharatnya memakan hati. Anak saya telah memakan hati ayam dengan begitu banyak sekali semenjak berusia 2 hingga 13 tahun . Subhanallah.

Kepada mereka yang taksub dengan ilmu sains dan perubatan moden, waspadalah, berbagai agenda tersembunyi dimasukkan oleh Yahudi dan Nasrani di dalam ilmu sains dan perubatan moden . Mereka mengajarkan tidak ada ubat bagi menyembuhkan penyakit seperti diabetes,

jantung dan bengkak hati sedangkan Allah dengan jelas menyatakan setiap penyakit diturunkan Allah bersama ubat melainkan mati .

Kepada ibu bapa kitalah sebenarnya yang banyak meracuni anak-anak dan diri kita sendiri dengan cara memberikan makanan yang sama sekali tidak sepatutnya untuk dimakan oleh anak-anak dan diri kita .

Setengah manusia sangat redha dan seronok untuk diracuni dengan menghisap rokok, minum

arak dan menghisap dadah .