Mt. Kinabalu 2012 Expedition by 51KOD AW

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A pains, exausted, panics, joys are all in one during Mt. Kinabalu expidition by 51 KOD AW on 7-8 Okt. 2012 was worthy as all happy ending before going back to KL.......

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10 Self-Checks Women Should Do Every Morning

From: The Editors of WOMEN'S HEALTH | Healthy Living – Fri, Aug 24, 2012 1:13 PM EDT

If the only time you zoom in on your anatomy is when you're tweezing your unibrow or popping a zit, then you could be missing out on some crucial information about your health.

One of the many wonderful things about your body is that it has built-in sickness sensors, and experts say you can spot early warning signs of even serious conditions simply by taking a few minutes to bond with the image in the mirror.

So go ahead, take a closer look. In the immortal words of Ice Cube: It's time to check yourself before you wreck yourself.

Your Nails
If you see dark lines on the nail beds
It could mean Texas-sized moles aren't the only red flags for skin cancer--the disease can also develop under your nails. Yellowish, brown, or black stripes are a sign of cell damage, possibly from melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, says Ariel Ostad, M.D., a dermatologist in New York City.

With early detection and treatment, though, about 95 percent of cases are curable, so have your dermatologist take a second look.

If you see bright white stripes
It could mean everyone gets white spots on their nails from time to time (usually it's a sign that you banged your finger in a drawer), but If you see long horizontal bands of discoloration on the nail's surface and you've been feeling fatigued lately, it could be bad news for your kidneys.

"These bands can be a signal that the kidneys aren't able to filter out protein from your urine," Ostad says. That means your body is losing protein faster than you can shovel in filet mignon--and that can lead to kidney failure. Visit your doctor ASAP for a urine test. 

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Vitamin D is essential for bone development and helps the body to absorb calcium. Foods rich in vitamin D include fish such as salmon, tuna and sardines. Dairy products are also a good source of vitamin D, including milk and cheeses. Other foods are ready-to-eat cereals, margarine, cod liver oil, beef and liver....

6 Nutrients For Faster Weight Loss

For years scientists have searched for a magical ingredient that would help people shed fat. In 2008, Dr. Shalamar Sibley of the University of Minnesota put 38 obese people on an 11-week diet where they consumed 750 calories less than their estimated daily need. Study participants whose blood levels of D were higher at the study's start lost more weight than participants whose blood levels of D were lower. They actually lost a lot more--70 percent more, to be exact.

Based on the results of this study, by fueling your body with the D-rich nutrients it needs to stay out of a fat-storage state and in a fat-burning state, you can speed weight loss by 70 percent! Thousands of studies on vitamin D have been completed over a span of 40 years, and it's become clear that vitamin D is pretty incredible and effective. Still, it's not the only player on this fat-melting team. Turn up your metabolism and melt body fat adding vitamin D and these five fat-melters from The Vitamin D Diet.

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Global Climate Change: Underestimated Impact of Sea Level Rise on Habitat Loss?

Jun 14, 2012
The hidden impact of sea-level rise: current projections may be underestimating the consequences of global climate change on habitat loss.

Global climate change is expected to cause sea-level rise of approximately 1-2 meters within this century and studies are beginning to project the consequences for humans and global biodiversity. While the direct consequences of sea-level rise due to flooding and inundation ('primary effects') are beginning to be assessed, no studies have yet considered the possible secondary effects from sea-level rise due to the relocation of human refugees into the hinterland.

Researchers from the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, with lead author Florian Wetzel and senior researcher Dustin Penn, collaborated with scientists from the Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity Group of Aarhus University, Denmark to assess and project the potential secondary impacts of sea-level rise on habitat availability and the distribution of mammals. They found that in more populated regions secondary effects can lead to an equal or even higher loss of habitat than primary displacement effects.

The results are published in the new issue of the international journal Global Change Biology.
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CRC to discuss sea-level rise, land use

Adopted from:  http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20120618/ARTICLES/120619724

By Kate Elizabeth Queram
Kate.Queram@StarNewsOnline.com

Published: Monday, June 18, 2012 at 12:19 p.m.

Last Modified: Monday, June 18, 2012 at 12:19 p.m.

The N.C. Coastal Resources Commission will meet in Beaufort Wednesday and Thursday to discuss sea-level rise and changes to several land-use plans.

The 15-member commission, which oversees development in the state's 20 coastal counties, will meet at the NOAA/NCNERR Administration Building, 101 Pivers Island Road, Beaufort, beginning at 1 p.m. Wednesday.

The CRC will hear a review of its draft sea-level rise policy, which contains no specific sea-level rise benchmark and, among other things, encourages coastal communities to examine scientific data from their region to devise an appropriate response to the threat.

At the commission's February meeting in Nags Head, members voted to return the policy to committee rather than approve the document and forward it to public hearing.

A spokeswoman for the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources said it's unclear whether the commission will vote on the document following Wednesday's presentation.

The policy is separate from a sea-level rise report, which originally recommended that coastal communities prepare for 1 meter – or 39 inches – of sea-level rise by 2100.

That prediction drew significant ire from developers and sparked a General Assembly debate that attracted national attention, culminating in last week's passage of a controversial sea-level rise bill that would prohibit state agencies from using projections of accelerated sea-level rise – mainly from global warming and the melting of polar ice caps – in drafting coastal development rules.

CRC members will also consider amendments to several land-use plans, including one for New Hanover County and one for Topsail Beach.

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Sea-level rise issue may be headed for moratorium, further study

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 3:20 by Pat Gannon

From: StarNewsOnline.com Blogs

 

State lawmakers may try to place a moratorium on using predictions of accelerated sea-level rise in coastal planning while the state studies the issue in the coming years.

Rep. Pat McElraft, R-Carteret, on Tuesday discussed a plan to address the contentious sea-level-rise issue this year and beyond. The House, she said, could take up the sea-level-rise bill this week and vote not to accept the measure as it recently passed the Senate.

If the House votes not to concur with the Senate version, it would put the issue in front of a conference committee of House and Senate members. There, McElraft said, the plan is to place a moratorium on using accelerated rates of sea-level rise in writing coastal development policies while the state studies the issue.
McElraft said a study, which would be conducted at least in part by the Coastal Resources Commission, should look at all of the available science on the issue, “not just one model like the Science Panel looked at.”
McElraft added that a study could take as long as five years to complete, meaning the moratorium would be in place for some time.

“We need to look at this more scientifically and not with a political agenda,” McElraft said.
As it passed the Senate, the bill would prohibit state agencies from using projections of accelerated sea-level rise – mainly from global warming and the melting of polar ice caps – in drafting coastal development rules. Instead they would have to use only historical sea-level-rise data. The historic rates of rise are much lower than many scientists believe the seas will rise in the future.

The bill was a direct response to a 2010 report of the Coastal Resources Commission’s Science Panel on Coastal Hazards. The report recommended that a sea-level rise of 39 inches, or 1 meter, be adopted as the amount of anticipated rise by the year 2100 for policy development and planning purposes. The report noted that there is consensus among scientists that the rate of rise will increase this century and beyond.
But that report has been criticized by some along the coast who say planning for such a dramatic rise in sea levels could have a significant economic impact on eastern North Carolina because homes and roads and other infrastructure would have to be built farther from the ocean or higher off the ground. They also say enacting policies based on 1 meter of rise could lead to higher insurance rates and restrictions on land use along the coast.

Sen. David Rouzer, R-Johnston, who ushered the measure through the Senate, said Tuesday afternoon that he may not support McElraft’s idea.
“At first blush, probably not,” Rouzer said. “I think this bill’s a good bill, so we’ll see,” he said.
Any changes made by the conference committee would have to be approved by the full House and Senate.

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Work Your Abs Without Getting On The Floor

Monday, June 11, 2012 4:28 pm       Written by: Dual Fit   

If you think you need to get on the floor to work your abs, you're wrong. The majority of the abdominal exercises in the fitness world require you to lie on the floor, mainly on your back. But this can be a problem for people who have back injuries or someone who has a problem getting up and down from the laying position.

 You can work your abs standing up just as much as you can lying down. Standing ab exercises may actually be even more beneficial for you. They are a great way to start out if you are a beginner exerciser. Many people who are just starting out find getting down to the floor to perform crunches a bit difficult. If you begin by working your abs in the standing position, you can give your abdominal muscles a little time to warm up and get stronger before getting to the more advanced level. Now, this isn't to say that standing ab exercises are just for beginners. They are great for everyone.

Benefits Of Working Abs While Standing

The biggest benefit of standing ab exercises is a lower risk of injury. Ab moves that are performed on the floor are not always done correctly. The basic crunch, for example, requires you to lift your neck and shoulders up off the ground. Unless they have a trainer, the majority of people do it wrong. They hold on to their neck and pull it up to get themselves off the ground. This isn't going to work the abs and it will strain your neck. During standing moves, you don’t have this problem. It is much easier to control your neck and shoulders in a standing ab move then it is on the floor.

Another big benefit is the effectiveness of each exercise. When you are performing moves on the floor, you can only go so far. Exercises that are done on the floor sometimes involve the legs way more than they should. A lot of people tend to use their hip flexors rather than their abs. (Hip flexors are located in the front of your thigh.) Many people also tend to use their hands as well to perform some moves.

 During a sit-up, a lot of people swing their arms out in front of them to get their body off the floor. If you are doing that, you're not really working the abs because you are using your arms to get up. While performing a reverse crunch, people tend to press their palms down on the floor. This also isn't going to work the abs effectively.

So you can see that there are many downfalls to working your abs on the floor. Working your abs standing will make sure you do a safe and effective workout. If you aren't convinced that you can get a successful ab workout standing up, perform these moves the next time you work your abs.

1) Knee Cross Crunch

This move is going to work every muscle in your stomach. To perform this move: Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and hold a dumbbell in one hand. Extend the arm with your dumbbell over head and put your other hand on your hip for balance. Now lower the arm that was in the air as you simultaneously bring the opposite knee up across the body so that your elbow and your knee meet. Hold this position for about a second and perform the desired number of reps. When done with one side, complete the same thing on the other side.

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It's important to make sure you are getting your knee above the hips during this move. This is what is going to target your lower abs. (The dumbbell is optional. If you are just starting out, you can perform this move only using your bodyweight.)

2) Standing Bicycle Crunch

Think you need to perform bicycle crunches on a mat? Think again. This move works the same muscles that the bicycle crunch does -- all of them.

To perform this move: Stand with your feet hip-width apart. Place your hands behind your head with your elbows out and back in line with your shoulders. Bend one knee up across the body making sure it comes at least to hip height. Keeping the knee in the air, bend the opposite side of your upper body toward the lifted knee so that you can feel the crunch. Return back to the starting position and perform the desired number of reps, alternating sides. After you do this move, you may never do bicycle crunches on the floor again.

3) The Repeater

This move, derived from a step aerobics class, awesome because not only is it a killer ab exercises but it also provides a bit of a cardio and leg workout. Since this move is used mostly in a step class, you can use a step if you'd like but it's not necessary. It's just as good a move on the flat floor.

To perform this move: Stand with your body on angle with one leg in the front with the knee slightly bent and the other leg in the back straight but not locking the knee. You are going to place both of your hands up above your head (your body should be on an angle, you shouldn't be standing up straight.) Bring the knee in the front up as you pull your arms down to put the knee. Pretend that you are holding a coconut in your hands and you are trying to break it using your knee. Perform this move a pretty fast pace. When you are done doing the desired number of reps, repeat the same move on the other side.

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The Moon's Peculiar Dust Gets More Peculiar Still

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The moon has never had all that much. It doesn't have atmosphere, it doesn't have water and it sure doesn't have life. What it does have though is dirt -- lots and lots of dirt -- and it's some of the coolest stuff you ever saw. Now it's gotten cooler still, thanks to the discovery this week of a wholly unexpected ingredient stirred into the lunar mix.

Even before astronauts landed on the moon, they knew the soil would be something special. With no atmosphere to intercept incoming meteorites and micrometeorites, the lunar regolith -- or surface covering -- would have been subjected to a 4.5 billion year bombardment that would have produced a layer of dust far finer than confectioner's sugar. That dust, the Apollo crewmen found when they went out to play in it, did some strange things: it rose above the surface when disturbed and hung there far longer than could be explained by the moon's weak gravity; it crept deep into the weave and cracks of virtually anything it touched and clung there as if adhesively attached. What's more, it was filled with exquisitely fine green and orange glass beads -- the products of the superheated melting and cooling that followed impacts.

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When the astronauts brought their samples home, the geologists in Houston discovered even more. The soil was unusually chemically reactive -- not something that was expected from a scrap of a world that was supposed to be largely inert. And it did a lousy job of conducting heat. The surface of the moon on the sunlit side might be close to the boiling point of water, but just a few feet down it would be far below freezing.
For 40 years, geologists struggled to understand just what gave lunar soil these pixie dust properties, but geologist Marek Zbik of Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia may finally have cracked it. The answer: nanoparticles -- vanishingly tiny flecks of mass, some no bigger than molecules, that have all the odd qualities of moon dust, and more.
Zbik made his discovery thanks to an instrument known as a synchrotron-based nano tomograph -- a hunk of hardware that didn't remotely exist when the Apollo crews splashed down. Nano tomographs work by bombarding nano particles with x-rays to produce 3-D images of structures that otherwise would be far too tiny to see -- or at least to see well. When Zbik got some lunar soil and a nano tomograph in the same room together, he knew that the first thing he wanted to look at were the infinitesimal glass bubbles scattered through the lunar material.
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The bubbles are formed the same way the larger glass beads are formed -- in the fiery heat of meteorite collisions -- but their exotic origins notwithstanding, they still ought to be built like any other bubble. That means they ought to be filled with some kind of gas. That, however, wasn't the case. "Instead of gas or vapor," says Zbik, "the lunar bubbles were filled with a highly porous network of alien-looking glassy particles that span the bubbles' interior."

Alien-looking maybe, but Zbik quickly recognized them as nano particles -- and that would explain a lot. Nano particles can become electro-statically charged, which would impart the same property to the soil, perfectly accounting for its tendency to float. They have low thermal conductivity, explaining why the lunar subsoil can get so cold so close to the surface. They are chemically active, and they are also electrically sticky, meaning that when the soil got on an astronaut's pressure suit or into the joints of his lunar tools it would be all but impossible to brush away.

What was not immediately evident was why the nano particles had a chance to interact with the soil at all. The ones that were spotted by the tomograph, after all, were sealed inside the bubbles like a figurine in a snow globe. Something would have to be breaking those globes, and Zbik reckons it was the same thing that created them in the first place: collisions.

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"It appears that the nano particles are formed inside bubbles of molten rocks when meteorites hit the lunar surface," he says. "Then they are released when the glass bubbles are pulverized by the consequent bombardment of [more] meteorites. This continuous pulverizing ... and constant mixing develop a type of soil which is unknown on Earth."

There's more than just abstruse soil science in all this. Nano particles have long been the it material for engineers working on new computer hardware, medical equipment, drug-delivery systems, even fabric. The better we understand their origins and properties, the better we can manipulate them. What's more, if we ever hope to establish a long-term human presence on the moon, the tendency of the soil to cling to surfaces and, ultimately, to wear them away is a problem that will have to be addressed. Studying the dust now can provide solutions for later.

That, however, is for another time. For now it's enough just to appreciate the elegance of both the new discovery and the moon itself. Four decades after we last dropped by for a visit, our little satellite is still surprising us.

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Animal always refer to our best friends or pets. But all this will change someday if human have no respect to them.

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Intipati SBPA

Sempena pelancaran pekeliling saraan baru perkhidmatan awam (SBPA) oleh YBhg. Tan Sri Abu Bakar Bin Haji Abdullah, Ketua Pengarah Perkhidmatan Awam Malaysia yang bertempat di Putrajaya pada 7 Disember 2011, terdapat sebanyak 19  intipati pelaksanaan SBPA. Antara intipati pelaksanaan SBPA yang dipersetujui oleh Kerajaan adalah seperti berikut:
 

1. pelaksanaan transformasi Perkhidmatan Awam melalui lima (5) inisiatif iaitu Perkhidmatan Awam yang kejat (lean civil service), kepimpinan dinamik, modal insan berkualiti, Perkhidmatan Awam yang fleksibel dan saraan yang kompetitif;

2. pewujudan Pelan Induk Saraan Perkhidmatan Awam (PISA) bagi melaksanakan rombakan sistem saraan Perkhidmatan Awam secara tersusun.

3. pengekalan prinsip-prinsip saraan yang berkuat kuasa dengan penambahan empat (4) prinsip baru iaitu kadar upah untuk kerja mengikut Kumpulan Perkhidmatan, kadar upah untuk individu berdasarkan bakat, keupayaan dan pengalaman, kadar upah untuk kerja bagi individu (subject matter expert) serta kadar upah tambahan untuk kerja mengikut prestasi;

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