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Monday, April 29, 2013

Blood River in China

It is the last thing the residents of Chongqing would have expected to see.
But the Yangtze river, which runs through the city in south-western China, turned a bright shade of orange-red yesterday.
The waterway where the Yangtze met the Jialin River provided a fascinating contrast as the red started to filter into the other river.

Meeting point: A ship sails across the junction of the polluted Yangtze River (left) and the Jialin River in Chongqing, China

Dirty/clean: A ship sails across the junction of the Yangtze River and the Jialin River at the exact spot where the dyed river starts to bleed into the Jialin

Close-up: Whatever it was that dyed the river was almost orange in color
While officials investigate the cause of the colouring, one fisherman went about his daily business as if nothing had happened
Check it out! Some residents were so amazed that they collected samples in water bottle



In Luoyang, a small town in central China, called the atenció of inhabitants and authorities when they saw the Jian river water blood red.
Police reported that the red color is due to a factory paint fireworks illegally spilled. However many believe that it is a lie of the authorities, because what happened awarded an apocalyptic sign.



Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Wordless Wednesday: Eat Good Eat Fruits


Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Bilakah Lemak Di Bakar Ketika Senaman?


Sebenarnya, 15 minit pertama anda bersenaman hanya dapat membakar kalori bahan makanan harian anda. Selepas tempoh 15 minit, barulah senaman 'cardio' tadi akan mula membakar lemak-lemak badan. Senaman 'cardio' atau senaman aerobik ialah senaman yang melibatkan penggunaan udara yang banyak untuk menghasilkan tenaga. Antara contoh senaman 'cardio' ialah berlari, berjalan laju, kayuhan basikal dan berenang.

Covert Bailey, dalam 'Smart Exercise', menyatakan bahawa anda akan membakar lemak selepas hanya dua belas minit senaman aerobik. Jika anda boleh meningkatkan aktiviti aerobik anda ke 30 minit atau lebih, anda akan membakar peratusan yang lebih besar kalori lemak.
Masih terdapat beberapa percanggahan pendapat tentang yang lebih baik - tempoh yang lebih lama pada intensiti yang lebih rendah, atau jangka masa pendek pada intensiti yang lebih tinggi. Jika masa anda terhad, maka intensiti yang lebih tinggi akan memaksimumkan manfaat aerobik anda dalam jumlah yang singkat. Jika anda boleh bekerja untuk tempoh yang lebih lama pada intensiti yang lebih rendah, anda akan mengurangkan peluang anda untuk kecederaan.

Perkara asas senaman ialah anda seharusnya membakar lebih banyak kalori daripada apa yang dimakan. 3,900 kalori bersamaan 0.5 kg lemak. 
(Dari Michael G. Kurilla mgkr2r@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)

Ini mungkin soalan yang paling kerap dibangkitkan oleh individu yang bersenam untuk tujuan sama ada pengurangan berat badan atau hanya mengawal berat badan. Ini berpunca dari kesedaran bahawa senaman aerobik adalah tambahan penting kepada mana-mana program penurunan berat badan, diet yang ditambah dengan senaman aerobik menghasilkan penurunan berat badan lebih daripada diet semata-mata.





Senaman boleh dikategorikan kepada tiga peringkat; intensiti ringan, sederhana dan tinggi.
Intensiti ringan adalah kadar berjalan kaki yang selesa dan boleh dikekalkan hampir selama-lamanya.
Intensiti sederhana adalah bersamaan dengan purata penyamaan senaman kardiovaskular (dapat bercakap, tetapi tidak menyanyi) dan boleh dikekalkan (dalam individu yang terlatih) untuk ke atas sebanyak 3 - 4 jam. Intensiti tinggi pula, anda langsung tidak dapat bercakap dan hanya boleh dikekalkan selama 30 - 45 minit.

Berdasarkan kajian penyelidikan baru-baru ini dan sangat terperinci, dari segi pembakaran lemak mutlak, senaman intensiti sederhana membakar yang paling banyak lemak. Pada kadar jantung sama dengan kira-kira 75% daripada max, pembakaran lemak akan mendekati 0.5 gram - 1.0 gram seminit.




Pada intensiti sederhana, majoriti kalori digunakan (85 - 90%) adalah kalori lemak, tetapi tahap mutlak adalah hanya kira-kira 60% daripada intensiti yang sederhana. Pada tahap intensiti tinggi, pembakaran lemak menurun ke tahap kira-kira 65% daripada kadar yang sederhana. Kadar yang tinggi dalam pembakaran gula di dalam otot berlaku dan mengakibatkan kesakitan otot.

Kajian di atas dilakukan untuk mereka yang melakukan senaman sebelum sarapan pagi. Bersenam selepas makan akan cenderung untuk menggalakkan pembakaran kalori makanan, bukannya kalori lemak. Penggunaan gula semasa sesi latihan juga akan cenderung untuk melambatkan pembakaran lemak.

Water Infusions To Fight Off Sugar Cravings

Keep healthy with water that's infused with your favorite flavors, antioxidants and vitamins.
Water infusions can help us fight off sugar cravings while getting us back to an alkaline state!
This is a billion times better than drinking water which has added sugars in them. Don't let them fool you make your own.

 Infusion is the process of extracting chemical compounds or flavors from plant material in a solvent such as water, oil or alcohol, by allowing the material to remain suspended in the solvent over time (a process often called steeping). An infusion is also the name for the resultant liquid. The process of infusion is distinct from decoction, which involves boiling the plant material, or percolation, in which the water passes through the material (as in a coffeemaker).


 Recipe to share:-

Citrus Cucumber Water Fat Flush
(Always use organic ingredients when available.)

Ingredients
1 grapefruit sliced
3 tangerines sectioned
1 cucumber sliced
1 small bunch ( a few sprigs ) of mint leaves
1 tray of ice ( or a quarter of a bag)
1/2 gal - 1 gal purified water (depending on the size of your pitcher)

1 Wash grapefruit, tangerine cucumber and peppermint leaves. Slice cucumber, grapefruit and peel tangerine. Combine all ingredients fruits, vegetables, purified water, and ice into a large pitcher.

2 Refrigerate for about 15 minutes

Stir & Enjoy!
Via Oasis Advanced Wellness


-Juicing Vegetables

Monday, April 22, 2013

Atlet Pecut Negara, Imran Hadi

Imran Hadi sedang membawa baton acara 4x100m
Suatu masa dahulu, Malaysia adalah satu negara yang digeruni di Asia Tenggara kerana berjaya melahirkan ramai 'Raja Pecut'. Antaranya ialah M. Jegathesan, Rabuan Pit, Istiaq Mubarak, Watson Nyambek, Azmi Ibrahim dan Nazmizan Mohamad. Tetapi kini, arena balapan seolah-olah hilang sinarnya setelah sekian lama Malaysia tidak memenangi sebarang pingat diperingkat antarabangsa yang boleh dibanggakan.

Bekas raja pecut Asia, Rabuan Pit tidak pernah menganggap peluang menyaksikan negara kembali memiliki jagoan pecut sudah tertutup berikutan negara memiliki kemudahan mencukupi untuk membentuk lebih ramai atlet berwibawa. Malah dengan kemudahan latihan mencukupi selain sekolah sukan dan venue pertandingan yang lengkap, bukan masalah untuk melahirkan lebih ramai raja pecut. Namun yang penting katanya, mereka harus lebih fokus dan meningkatkan disiplin serta keazaman dalam misi melonjak imej negara dalam sukan terbabit.

Antara atlet masa kini yang menyandang tugas berat untuk  mengharumkan kembali nama negara ialah Muhd Nur Imran Hadi, pelari pecut kelahiran Johor. Beliau ialah pelari keempat terpantas di Malaysia sepanjang zaman yang berjaya melepasi catatan masa Rabuan Pit sendiri.

Keratan Akhbar - Rekod Lelaki Terpantas Tanah Air



Keratan akhbar -Kuartet Johor
Walaupun begitu, sokongan dan doa daripada seluruh rakyat Malaysia adalah satu senjata ampuh yang mampu membawa zaman kegemilangan menjadi nyata.

Kita adalah sejarah masa depan!



Sunday, April 21, 2013

Stay Fit at Fabulous Fitness Gym, Puchong



Anybody wants to get an autograph from Malaysian Sprinter - Mr. Imran Hadi?  
- He is also my brother :) :) :) 

Lets hurry to his 'Fabulous Fitness Gym', Puchong. This fitness center is now open starting 20th April 2013.
Address: 71-1 Tanming Boulevard, Jalan Meranti Jaya 3/1, Taman Meranti Jaya, 47120 Puchong
                (Near Hero, Taman Meranti Jaya, Puchong)

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fabulousfitness.gym

Fees:




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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Dandelion : When Flower becomes Tyre

Still remember this Dandelion flower in Ice Age?

Latex found in the Dandelion's root

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • A Dutch biotech company is developing dandelions for commercial rubber production
  • The flowers roots contain latex, a potential source of natural rubber
  • The company uses DNA profiling to identify beneficial mutations and "improve" the crop
  • It says its methods are different from GM as it does not introduce genes from other species
Wageningen, The Netherlands (CNN) -- The dandelion's bright yellow bloom and fuzzy, parachute-like seeds are a familiar sight across the continents.
But scientists at Dutch biotech firm KeyGene believe the flower's true beauty could lie beneath the soil.
The dandelion's roots contain latex, the milky liquid that is a source for natural rubber and the origin for the plant's name in a number of languages (the Danish for "dandelion" translates as "milk pot").
Global demand for natural rubber is expected to outstrip supply by 20% by 2020. But KeyGene believes that the dandelion can be developed into an important natural source of the commodity, worth more than $100 billion a year.
The dandelion's roots are smaller than ideal for commercial rubber production. So KeyGene is putting the plant through a process of plant phenotyping in order to develop a variety of dandelion with a fatter root and higher yield, that would be better suited for industrial processing.
We're making and developing a better rubber dandelion, which produces more rubber because of an increased size
KeyGene CEO Arjen Van Tunen
"We are making ... crosses between the Russian dandelion and the common dandelion using those modern DNA profiling technologies," says KeyGene CEO Arjen Van Tunen. "We're making and developing a better rubber dandelion, which produces more rubber because of an increased size."



Dandelion
A dandelion flower head composed of hundreds of smaller florets (top) and seed head (bottom)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Eudicots
(unranked):Asterids
Order:Asterales
Family:Asteraceae
Tribe:Cichorieae
Genus:Taraxacum
Cass.
Species
See text
Taraxacum (pron.: /təˈræksəkʉm/) is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are native to Eurasia and North and South America, and two species, T. officinale and T. erythrospermum, are found as weeds worldwide.[1] Both species are edible in their entirety.[2] The common name dandelion(/ˈdændɨl.ən/ dan-di-ly-ən, from French dent-de-lion, meaning "lion's tooth") is given to members of the genus, and like other members of the Asteraceae family, they have very small flowers collected together into a composite flower head. Each single flower in a head is called a floret. Many Taraxacum species produce seedsasexually by apomixis, where the seeds are produced without pollination, resulting in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent plant.[3]

Boston Marathon Bombings Tragedy 2013: 3 killed & more than 130 injured in back-to-back blasts

BOSTON, April 15 : Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing three people and injuring more than 130 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised alarms that terrorists might have struck again in the U.S.

A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that an 8-year-old-boy was one of the three killed. Other reports have indicated that an 8-year-old was killed. The AP source provided no details, but someone who spoke to a friend of the family and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity to protect the family's privacy confirmed that an 8-year-old boy was among the dead.








The person said the boy's mother and sister were also injured as they waited for his father to finish the race.
A White House official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still unfolding said the attack was being treated as an act of terrorism. A "person of interest" was being questioned at was being questioned at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, according to the Boston Globe, but Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis also told the Globe that no suspects have been arrested.

Here's an interactive map of the scene:
“Any event with multiple explosive devices — as this appears to be — is clearly an act of terror, and will be approached as an act of terror,” a White House official said, according to the Boston Globe. “However, we don’t yet know who carried out this attack, and a thorough investigation will have to determine whether it was planned and carried out by a terrorist group, foreign or domestic.”
President Barack Obama vowed that those responsible will "feel the full weight of justice."

A senior U.S. intelligence official said two other bombs were found near the end of the 26.2-mile course in what appeared to be a well-coordinated attack.

The fiery twin blasts took place about 10 seconds and about 100 yards apart, knocking spectators and at least one runner off their feet, shattering windows and sending dense plumes of smoke rising over the street and through the fluttering national flags lining the course. Blood stained the pavement, and huge shards were missing from window panes as high as three stories.

"They just started bringing people in with no limbs," said runner Tim Davey of Richmond, Va. He said he and his wife, Lisa, tried to keep their children's eyes shielded from the gruesome scene inside a medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners, but "they saw a lot."
"They just kept filling up with more and more casualties," Lisa Davey said. "Most everybody was conscious. They were very dazed."

Authorities shed no light on a motive or who may have carried out the bombings, and police said they had no suspects in custody. Authorities in Washington said there was no immediate claim of responsibility. The FBI took charge of the investigation.



“It was just immediately [evident] there were injuries, right in the middle of the spectator crowds,” boston.com sports producer Steve Silva told the Boston Globe. Silva was there covering the race.
“There was blood everywhere; there were victims being carried out on stretchers. I saw someone lose their leg. People are crying. People are confused,” Silva told the newspaper.

The NBA canceled Tuesday's game between the Boston Celtics and the Indiana Pacers. It will not be rescheduled. The NHL also postponed the Boston Bruins' game against the Ottawa Senators on Monday night. It will be rescheduled.

Police said three people were killed. Hospitals reported at least 144 injured, at least 17 of them critically. The victims' injuries included broken bones, shrapnel wounds and ruptured eardrums.
At Massachusetts General Hospital, Alisdair Conn, chief of emergency services, said: "This is something I've never seen in my 25 years here ... this amount of carnage in the civilian population. This is what we expect from war."

Some 23,000 runners took part in the race, one of the world's oldest and most prestigious marathons.
One of Boston's biggest annual events, the race winds up near Copley Square, not far from the landmark Prudential Center and the Boston Public Library. It is held on Patriots Day, which commemorates the first battles of the American Revolution, at Concord and Lexington in 1775.

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis asked people to stay indoors or go back to their hotel rooms and avoid crowds as bomb squads methodically checked parcels and bags left along the race route. He said investigators didn't know whether the bombs were hidden in mailboxes or trash cans.
He said authorities had received "no specific intelligence that anything was going to happen" at the race.
The Federal Aviation Administration barred low-flying aircraft within 3.5 miles of the site.


bracket

"We still don't know who did this or why," Obama said at the White House, adding, "Make no mistake: We will get to the bottom of this."
With scant official information to guide them, members of Congress said there was little or no doubt it was an act of terrorism.
"We just don't know whether it's foreign or domestic," said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

A few miles away from the finish line and around the same time, a fire broke out at the John F. Kennedy Library. The police commissioner said that it may have been caused by an incendiary device and that it was not clear whether it was related to the bombings.

The first explosion occurred on the north side of Boylston Street, just before the finish line.
When the second bomb went off, the spectators' cheers turned to screams. As sirens blared, emergency workers and National Guardsmen who had been assigned to the race for crowd control began climbing over and tearing down temporary fences to get to the blast site.

The bombings occurred about four hours into the race and two hours after the men's winner crossed the line. By that point, more than 17,000 of the runners had finished the race but thousands more were still running.

The attack may have been timed for maximum carnage: The four-hour mark is typically a crowded time near the finish line because of the slow-but-steady recreational runners completing the race and because of all the relatives and friends clustered around to cheer them on.

The senior U.S. intelligence official said the two other explosive devices found nearby were being dismantled. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the findings publicly.
Runners in the medical tent for treatment of dehydration or other race-related ills were pushed out to make room for victims of the bombing.

A woman who was a few feet from the second bomb, Brighid Wall, 35, of Duxbury, said that when it exploded, runners and spectators froze, unsure of what to do. Her husband threw their children to the ground, lay on top of them and another man lay on top of them and said, "Don't get up, don't get up."
After a minute or so without another explosion, Wall said, she and her family headed to a Starbucks and out the back door through an alley. Around them, the windows of the bars and restaurants were blown out.
She said she saw six to eight people bleeding profusely, including one man who was kneeling, dazed, with blood trickling down his head. Another person was on the ground covered in blood and not moving.

"My ears are zinging. Their ears are zinging," Wall said. "It was so forceful. It knocked us to the ground."
Competitors and race volunteers were crying as they fled the chaos. Authorities went onto the course to carry away the injured, while race stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site.

Roupen Bastajian, a state trooper from Smithfield, R.I., had just finished the race when he heard the blasts.
"I started running toward the blast. And there were people all over the floor," he said. "We started grabbing tourniquets and started tying legs. A lot of people amputated. ... At least 25 to 30 people have at least one leg missing, or an ankle missing, or two legs missing."

The race honored the victims of the Newtown, Conn., shooting with a special mile marker in Monday's race.
Boston Athletic Association president Joanne Flaminio previously said there was "special significance" to the fact that the race is 26.2 miles long and 26 people died at Sandy Hook Elementary school.

 -foxsports.com
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