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Persatuan Bulan Sabit Merah Malaysia ditubuhkan pada tahun 1948 sebagai cawangan Persatuan Palang Merah Britain di Sabah dan Sarawak. Pada tahun 1950an, lebih banyak cawangan persatuan ditubuhkan di Malaysia bermula di Pulau Pinang pada tahun 1950 dan kemudian di negeri-negeri lain.

Ketika kemerdekaan pada tahun 1957, cawangan di Semenanjung Malaysia dikenali sebagai Persatuan Palang Merah Persekutuan Tanah Melayu. Persatuan mendapat pengiktirafan oleh Persatuan Palang Merah Antarabangsa pada 4 Julai1963 dan menjadi ahli badan antarabangsa itu pada 24 Ogos 1963.

Pada 5 September 1975, Persatuan Palang Merah Malaysia telah ditukar nama kepada Persatuan Bulan Sabit Merah Malaysia selaras dengan kebenaran penukaran nama Akta Persatuan Palang Merah Malaysia kepada Akta Persatuan Bulan Sabit Merah Malaysia Akta 1975 oleh Parlimen Malaysia.

How to lose weight ?

You don’t need to exercise to lose weight on this plan, but it is recommended.The best option is to go to the gym 3-4 times a week. Do a warm up, lift weights, then stretch.If you’re new to the gym, ask a trainer for some advice.

By lifting weights, you will burn a few calories and prevent your metabolism from slowing down, which is a common side effect of losing weight (14, 15).

Studies on low-carb diets show that you can even gain a bit of muscle while losing significant amounts of body fat .If lifting weights is not an option for you, then doing some easier cardio workouts like running, jogging, swimming or walking will suffice. It is best to do some sort of resistance training like weight lifting. If that is not an option, cardio workouts work too.

Snakes!

Snakes consume a variety of items including termites, rodents, birds, frogs, small deer and other reptiles. Snakes eat their prey whole and are able to consume prey three times larger than the diameter of their head because their lower jaw can separate from the upper jaw. To keep prey from escaping, snakes have rear-facing teeth that hold their prey in their mouths.

Venomous snakes inject their prey with venom, while constrictors squeeze their prey. They do not need to hunt everyday. Anacondas and pythons can survive for up to a year without food after feeding. 

Snakes are found throughout the world except Antarctica, Iceland, Ireland, Greenland and New Zealand. Most snakes are found in tropical regions. Snakes are found in many habitats including in the water, forests, deserts . Snakes must shed their skin three to six times per year.

Sleepless Night .

As a college student, I had my fair share of sleepless nights. But as I matured and learned from the adverse affects I suffered because of those late nights, I began to realize that at the core of a healthy, long life is good sleep. Surprisingly, what we hear about health usually revolves around exercise and nutrition; the truth about sleep one of the most important factors to attaining vitality is often left out of the mix.

     Losing sleep is certainly not something to be taken lightly. An occasional night of tossing and turning is normal, but continued patterns of this behavior can cause real problems in your ability to function normally. Research shows that inadequate sleep can have disastrous effects on your weight loss efforts, impair your concentration, and even mimic the symptoms of impaired glucose tolerance which can lead to diabetes and hypertension.

Your mood also suffers when you don’t get enough sleep, causing you to become disoriented on the job, fatigued behind the wheel of a car, or irritated at home. But more importantly, these mood swings can affect your relationships with others, and even lead to depression.

Jokes :)

      Funny quotes are great for bringing a bit of humor into our lives. They help to lighten the mood, they’re excellent for breaking the ice, and of course, they’re fun to share with friends. After all, as my friend once said, “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”

 

Some of the most entertaining quotes, in our opinion, are those that are not only witty, but also wise conveying some universal truth. Funny quotes about life, love, and friendship those that we can relate to  are especially comical.once . “The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.”

Maggie!

At home, Maggie’s younger half-siblings Bobby and Molly are leaving to stay with their aunt. Maggie talks to Bobby, who mostly understands what she is undergoing. She withdraws from her family, struggling to cope with her hopeless situation and torn about contacting her friends. Falling from a swing, she breaks a finger on her infected arm, from which black fluid oozes. Terrified, even though she feels little or no pain, and despairing over her deteriorating body, Maggie  cuts off the finger. She flees outside and encounters a neighbor,  Nathan, and his young daughter, both senseless with infection. Wade kills both zombies but feels extreme remorse. The responding sheriffs consider Wade blameless, instead blaming Nathan’s wife Bonnie, who hid her infected family from the authorities. Bonnie visits Wade that night, decrying the dehumanizing treatment of the infected and revealing that Nathan had locked himself in with his sick daughter, becoming infected himself, rather than abandon her to death among strangers in quarantine.

    A doctor warns Wade that Maggie’s condition is worsening quickly, leaving him three eventual options: she can be quarantined, which Wade refuses; Wade can administer at home the same euthanasia injection offered in quarantine, which he’s warned is painful; or Wade can "make it quick" himself. Wade and Maggie make the most of their remaining days, reminiscing about Maggie's deceased mother. Despite Maggie's physical deterioration she struggles to maintain normality. She attends a bonfire with high school friends Allie and an infected boy, Trent , whom Maggie previously dated. He tells rumors of horrible conditions at the quarantine facilities, saying he would die before going there.

    

   One day, Maggie smells food near her stepmother Caroline, though Caroline smells nothing and muses that Wade must be cooking downstairs. Finding the kitchen empty, Caroline realizes in horror that Maggie has begun to smell living flesh, in this case Caroline's, as food. Maggie receives a desperate call from Trent. At his home, Trent has locked himself inside his bedroom after he too felt hunger smelling another human. Maggie tries to comfort him but watches helplessly as the police forcibly remove . To be continued.

Data Transfer- Internet

        File sharing is an example of transferring large amounts of data across the Internet. A computer file can be emailed to customers, colleagues and friends as an attachment. It can be uploaded to a website or File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server for easy download by others. It can be put into a "shared location". These simple features of the Internet, over a worldwide basis, are changing the production, sale, and distribution of anything that can be reduced to a computer file for transmission. This includes all manner of print publications, software products, news, music, film, video, photography, graphics and the other arts. This in turn has caused seismic shifts in each of the existing industries that previously controlled the production and distribution of these products.

        Streaming media is the real-time delivery of digital media for the immediate consumption or enjoyment by end users. Many radio and television broadcasters provide Internet feeds of their live audio and video productions. They may also allow time-shift viewing or listening such as Preview, Classic Clips and Listen Again features. These providers have been joined by a range of pure Internet "broadcasters" who never had on-air licenses. This means that an Internet-connected device, such as a computer or something more specific, can be used to access on-line media in much the same way as was previously possible only with a television or radio receiver. 

Ekonomi Malaysia

          Malaysia adalah negara yang sedang  membangun,  mengamalkan  pasaran berorientasikan  negara  dan terbuka. Negara  memainkan  peranan yang penting tetapi  semakin  berkurangan  dalam  menjana  ekonomi  menerusi  perancangan makroekonomi. Di alam  tahun 2007,Ekonomi Malaysia adalah Negara mempunyai ekonomi ke-29 mengikut parti kuasa membeli dengan keluaran dalam negara kasar bagi tahun 2007 dianggarkan berjumlah $357.9 bilion dengan suatu kadar tumbesaran sebanyak 5% hingga 7% semenjak 2007. 

        Negara-negara Asia Tenggara telah mengalami suatu peningkatan ekonomi mendadak dan menjalani pembangunan yang pantas semasa akhir abad ke-20 dan mempunyai satu KDNK per kapita sebanyak $14,400, telah dianggap sebagai sebuah Negara.. Bagi taburan pendapatan, terdapat 5.8 juta seisi rumah pada tahun 2007. Daripada itu, 8.6% mempunyai pendapatan sebulan di bawah RM1,000, 29.4% mempunyai pendapatan di antara RM1,000 dan RM2,000, manakala 19.8% memperolehi di antara RM2,001 dan RM3,000; 12.9% daripada seisi keluarga/rumah memperolehi di antara RM3,001 dan RM4,000 serta 8.6% di antara RM4,001 dan RM5,000. Akhirnya, di sekitar 15.8% daripada seisi rumah mempunyai pendapatan di antara RM5,001 dan RM10,000 serta 4.9% mempunyai pendapatan RM10,000 dan ke atas.

JUNK FOOD!

Junk food is a pejorative term for foodcontaining high levels of calories from sugaror fat with little protein, vitamins or minerals. Junk food can also refer to high protein food containing large amounts of meat prepared with, for example, too much unhealthysaturated fat; many hamburger outlets, fried chicken outlets and the like supply food considered junk food.

Junk food can be appealing for a variety of reasons, including convenience, price and taste. For children, who do not always understand the health consequences of their eating habits, junk food may appear especially appetizing. However, regularly consuming fattening junk food can be addictive for children and lead to complications like obesity, chronic illness, low self-esteem and even depression, as well as affecting how they perform in school .

 Fast-food consumption in children was linked with many dangerous precursors for obesity. According to this , kids who ate fast food were more likely to consume a higher amount of calories, fat, carbohydrates and added sugars in one fast food meal. Children who consumed more fattening foods while eating fast food were also likely, in general, to eat more unhealthy foods at other meals. According to high-calorie food can be addictive, causing children who occasionally eat fast food to learn problematic patterns of eating. These factors were found to place children who regularly ate fast food at increased risk for obesity.

Luck !

The definition of luck (or chance) varies by the philosophical, religious, mystical, or emotional context of the one interpreting it. Luck is "a purposeless, unpredictable and uncontrollable force that shapes events favourably or unfavourably for an individual, group or cause".

When thought of as a factor beyond one's control, without regard to one's will, intention, or desired result, there are at least two senses that people usually mean when they use the term, the prescriptive sense and thedescriptive sense. In the prescriptive sense, luck is a supernatural and deterministicconcept that there are forces (e.g. gods or spirits) that prescribe that certain events occur very much the way laws of physics will prescribe that certain events occur. It is the prescriptive sense that people mean when they say they "do not believe in luck". In the descriptive sense, people speak of luck after events that they find to be fortunate or unfortunate, and maybe improbable.

Therefore, cultural views of luck vary from perceiving luck as a matter of random chanceto attributing to such explanations of faith orsuperstition. 

Lucky symbols are popular worldwide and take many forms.

HANDPHONES .

HANDPHONES

Handphones have become a major part of our lives. Today, it is being widely used all over the world. It has metamorphosized from being a luxury to necessity for some of us. Handphones are one of the things that we cannot do without, for one reason or another. We have come to depend on it, increasingly so, and in doing so it has become a need. Having handphones can prove to be very useful but it can also be said otherwise. There are both advantages and disadvantages to owning a handphone or being in the midst of people who own them.

Owning a handphone means one can be easily reached when on the road or when one is not at home or in the office. It can even be used when one is overseas, using the ROAM service. There are features such as voice messages and SMS, in other words, Short Message Service. This is to allow people to contact a handphone owner even if he is busy or is unable take the call. These features enable the owner of the phone to know why he is being called, so on and so forth. SMS-es help to keep it short. Without calling, you can leave a short message. Nowadays though, people use it to have conversations, especially the young, and those who find it easier to message than to talk. It is also cheaper and thus allows one to save on talk time. Another advantage would be that of being able to call whenever and wherever there is an emergency, for example when you are in a road accident or you need to call someone and there does not seem to be any public phones nearby. There are also different mobile service plans to choose from to suit one’s communication needs, be it longer talk time, free incoming or outgoing calls, or more free local SMS. As such, one can reap much benefits and save costs. Nowadays, handphones rarely just have one function, which is to make and receive calls. There are more functions and features such as listening to music, taking pictures with an in-built camera, playing games, and even logging on the internet and etc.

There are also disadvantages that come along with the usage of handphones. Firstly, there are limitations to where a handphone can be used. If there were no reception, then there would be no possibility of making or receiving calls. On another note, a person can say he is at a certain place when in fact he s somewhere else. So, you can never be too sure of where a person might actually be. User-abuse is another factor. Here, what is meant by user-abuse is the fact that some users are not considerate in that they make use of the phone in places where it is not allowed. As such they disturb others. It is one thing to let it ring loudly, but yet another, to be answering the phone. For example, in movie theatres, plays and the like. It is said that there are dangers of handphone radiation, though there is no conclusive evidence to prove a link between cancer and handphone radiation. Lastly, handphones cannot be used in most parts of hospitals as it could affect the readings on the equipments due to the radiation emitted and would pose as great danger to the patients.

Stress

What is Stress? Stress is a type of emotional  pressure suffered by a human being. There is two types of stress which are physical stress and psychological stress. The stress that we always refer to is the psychological  stress. Stress is divided into two which are eustress and distress. Eustress is good stress  and distress is a bad stress.  Experiencing  eustress enables us to work hard to achieve a positive result in the end. On the other hand, distress is the negative stress where we feel pressured and usually we do not feel satisfied after finishing a certain task. It is good to always practice eustress when we are doing something to gain full emotional satisfaction after completing a task.