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Jenis-Jenis Lensa Kamera DSLR

2012-02-05T17:11:00.000-08:00

Lensa adalah alat yang paling vital pada kamera. Tapi, tidak semua lensa diciptakan sama. Jika kita melihat di pasaran sana, Keragaman dan spesifikasi masing-masing lensa cukup banyak sehingga membingungkan konsumen untuk pemilihan yang benar-benar tepat. Setiap jenis memberikan efek serta karakteristik masing-masing yang dapat disesuaikan dengan kebutuhan fotografer.
Jenis-jenis lensa untuk lebih mudahnya kita bagi ke dalam tiga jenis, yaitu sebagai berikut :

1. jenis-jenis lensa menurut kemampuan pembesaran dan cakupan luas sudut pandang, terbagi atas dua jenis :
a. Lensa fix

Lensa ini memiliki sudut pandang atau pembesaran yang tetap. Dalam penggunaan lensa ini fotografer harus bisa memaksimalkan ruang geraknya dengan maju atau mundur agar mendapatkan perubahan sudut pandang dan pembesaran ruang foto yang maksimal. Bila dilakukan dengan cara yang benar, maka akan menghasilkan sebuah hasil gambar yang optimal.

b. Lensa Zoom atau Lensa Zoom Vario

Lensa Zoom memiliki gelang yang dapat diputar untuk mengubah sudut pandang dan pembesarannya. Disini fotografer tidak perlu melangkah maju atau mundur untuk mendapatkan sudut pandang dan pembesaran ruang fotonya. Lensa jenis ini juga cukup digemari para fotografer dengan alasan tidak perlu membawa banyak lensa dalam situasi tertentu. Lensa zoom sekarang ini sudah ada dengan sudut pandang terlebarnya 18 mm dan pembesarannya 200 mm. Lensa Zoom juga memiliki dua jenis bukaan diafragma, yaitu "Variable Aperture" dan "Constant Aperture". Pada lensa Zoom dengan "Variable Aperture", bukaan diaragma akan berubah pada saat gelang zoom kita putar dari terlebar ke tele, contohnya pada lensa 18-55 mm pada pembukaan f 3.5-f 5.6. Lensa ini memiliki bukaan maksimum 3.5 pada 18 dan akan berubah jadi 5.6 pada 55. Pada lensa zoom dengan "Constant Aperture", bukaan diafragma tidak berubah pada semua panjang focal length.

2.Jenis-jenis lensa dilihat dari panjang fokusnya, terbagi dalam 3 jenis :
a. Lensa Normal

Lensa Normal adalah lensa yang mempunyai sudut pandang kurang lebih sama dengan sudut pandang mata manusia sekitar 45 derajat, dan mempunyai panjang fokus 50 mm pada format kamera 135. Jenis lensa ini dapat menghasilkan fitur wajah dalam perspektif alami, dan subjek foto berada pada jarak yang nyaman dari kamera. Dinamakan Lensa Normal artinya setiap objek yang dipotret dengan lensa ini akan terlihat wajar. Lensa ini sangat baik untuk pemotretan close up karena tidak ada efek distorsinya, dan baik juga untuk pemotretan dokumentasi atau liputan.

b. Lensa Wide

Lensa Wide adalah jenis lensa dengan sudut pandang lebih dari 45 derajat. Lensa ini cenderung mengecilkan objek tapi meluaskan sudut pandang. Lensa Wide memiliki ruang tajam yang lebih luas sehingga akan baik untuk memotret Landscape, Cityspace, Interior dan Exterior.
Kekurangan dari lensa ini adalah mempunyai efek distorsi sangat tinggi, jadi tidak disarankan untuk memotret model secara Closeup, karena efek distorsi akan membuat wajah model terlihat lebih gemuk dan tidak proporsional. Namun saat ini, penggunaan Lensa Wide pada beberapa pemotretan bangunan atau arsitektur sengaja lebih menonjolkan efek distorsi agar gambar terlihat lebih indah dan dramatis.

c. Lensa Tele

Lensa Tele cenderung mempersempit sudut pandang namun mendekatkan objek atau memperbesar objek. Lensa Tele sangat baik untuk memotret pertandingan olah raga atau memotret satwa, karena kita tidak bisa terlalu dekat dengan objek yang ingin kita foto.
Lensa Tele sering juga digunakan untuk memotret model, baik seluruh badan atau Closeup. Lensa Tele dapat membuat latar belakang menjadi dominan atau blur karena ruang tajamnya yang sempit. Efek ini sangat menguntungkan saat memotret model sekaligus membuat latar belakang tidak terlalu mengganggu.

3. Jenis-jenis lensa khusus, terbagi dalam tiga jenis digunakan sesuai dengan keperluan masing-masing fotografer, antara lain:
a. Lensa Macro

Lensa Macro adalah lensa yang mempunyai kemampuan lebih dalam pembesaran gambar dibanding dengan lensa lainnya. Lensa ini biasanya dipergunakan untuk memotret benda-benda kecil atau serangga agar terlihat lebih jelas bentuk maupun teksturnya.
Lensa Makro baik juga untuk pemotretan produk seperti jam tangan, perhiasan, atau bahkan memotret makanan. jenis lensa ini dapat menangkap obyek foto dengan sangat dekat. hasilnya adalah obyek yang sangat detail dan menghasilkan sebuah gambar yang berdampak menakjubkan.

b. Lensa PC atau Perspective Correction

Lensa PC atau Perspective Correction biasanya dipergunakan untuk pemotretan arsitektur. Keunikan lensa ini adalah dapat diatur lensanya untuk naik atau turun, bahkan digeser ke kiri atau ke kanan untuk mengoreksi perspektif dalam gambar untuk mengurangi distorsi.

c. Lensa Fish Eye

Sesuai dengan namanya yang artinya mata ikan, lensa jenis ini mempunyai sudut pandang 180 derajat. Keunikan lensa ini terletak pada distorsinya yang dapat membuat foto lebih unik bahkan lebih artistik.

Ketujuh Soal yang Sulit Dijawab Oleh Para Ahli....????

2010-05-20T18:48:00.000-07:00

Ini merupakan survey yang dilakukan oleh para Ilmuwan loh...!!!!

1.Apakah anjing memiliki rasa humor?

Ilmuwan meneliti inteligensi binatang, mereka semakin mengakui suatu pandangan demikian: perilaku binatang bukan hanya bereaksi secara insting, tapi suatu reaksi bawah sadar, substansi pemikiran mereka membuatnya memiliki kemampuan merasakan suka, marah, sedih dan gembira bahkan rasa humor melalui organ sensornya.
Misalnya peneliti telah mendapati, bahwa gajah dapat mengenali dirinya dalam cermin (banyak anak-anak yang belum tentu dapat berbuat seperti demikian) orang utan (atau mungkin sejumlah unggas) dapat belajar sejumlah bahasa tingkat permulaan serta membuat suatu peralatan yang rumit. Bisa dibayangkan, jika burung dapat membuat cantolan (kait) dengan kawat listrik, untuk dipakai mengait makanan dari kaleng, maka bukankah sangat kejam kalau menggunakan mereka sebagai percobaan yang menyiksa?

2. Bagaimana asal muasal kehidupan?

Kalau anda ingin mempersulit seorang ahli biologi, anda cukup menanyakan bagaimana asal muasal kehidupan ini. Sejak 150 tahun silam, Darwin terus berpikir dan menurutnya bahwa segala kehidupan di atas bumi berasal dari prebiotic soup. Namun hingga sekarang, kita masih memikirkan asal muasal kehidupan ini.
Kita tidak tahu berbagai pengetahuan yang yang berhubungan dengan asal muasal kehidupan, misalnya bagaimana mulanya, darimana dan kapan kehidupan itu dimulai, serta apakah kehidupan itu mulai dari hidup hingga mati hanya sekali atau berlangsung berulang-kali dan sebagainya.
Sejumlah ilmuwan menduga, kehidupan berasal dari bawah tanah, atau di sekitar bibir semburan gunung berapi. Sedang para ilmuwan lainnya menduga, bahwa mikroba tunggal adalah nenek moyang segala makhluk hidup di bumi. Kurang lebih pada 3 milyar tahun silam, planet Mars kala itu hangat dan lembab, sedang bumi hanya sebuah padang pasir yang dingin, mikroba-mikroba tunggal ini terbang ke bumi seiring dengan hancuran ledakan batuan di planet Mars. Menurut pandangan ini, berarti kita semua adalah manusia dari planet Mars. Namun hingga saat ini, semua dugaan-dugaan ini belum pernah dibuktikan. Jadi tidak dapat meyakinkan orang. Asal mula kehidupan, besar kemungkinan merupakan misteri yang paling misterius di alam semesta.

3. Apakah reaksi batin hanya omong kosong?

Sebagian besar ilmuwan mengatakan tidak percaya dengan fenomena abnormal, sebab fenomena-fenomena ini menyalahi prinsip normal dan tidak dapat di jelaskan melalui percobaan. Namun apakah kita bisa mengatakan bahwa terapi kristal (menggunakan energi kristal agar Medan magnetis organisme tubuh manusia kembali dalam kondisi seimbang dan reaksi batin itu adalah omong kosong?)
Fenomena abnormal meliputi kekuatan Gamma (d, spiritual, ocehan era baru (new century), ramalan bintang, ramalan kartu/tarot, para ilmuwan punya alasan menganggap bahwa fenomena abnormal adalah suatu ilmu pengetahuan gadungan. Namun ilmuwan justru sebaliknya, mereka cermat dan rasional dalam keilmuan, kerap mempublikasikan temuan riset terbaru mereka di majalah Science terkemuka.
Namun ketika terapi kristal dan teknik ramalan bintang diyakini hanya sebagai suatu hiburan dan bukan ilmu pengetahuan, lalu bagaimana dengan reaksi batin, terapi akupungtur dan teknik hipnotis? ini masih perlu diteliti secara ilmiah. Dan sudah barang tentu, reaksi batin mungkin juga akan dibuktikan sebagai suatu berita burung, siapa tahu? tidak peduli bagaimana hasilnya, harus berusaha menemukan fakta yang sesungguhnya.

4. Apa waktu itu?

Jika anda ingin mempersulit seorang fisikawan, tanyakan padanya: Apa itu waktu? sebab, kita tidak akan tahu jawabannya.
Ada sebuah rumor yang mengatakan, waktu adalah senjata gaib alam yang menghalangi segala benda melakukan aktivitas secara bersamaan. Waktu bisa mendefinisi kehidupan kita, sebab kita mengandalkan waktu untuk mengukur hidup. Namun dalam hal apa itu waktu, kita sama seperti orang zaman dahulu, juga tidak tahu apa-apa. Dan sudah barang tentu, ini bukan berarti kita tidak tahu apa yang telah dilakukan waktu. Fisikawan seperti Einsn, dimana dalam hal karakteristik tentang waktu punya pandangan yang dalam. Jadi kita bisa memberi sebuah tanda pada waktu, kemudian masukkan waktu ke dalam persamaan yang tidak sama, sehingga dengan demikian kita bisa meneliti sejumlah besar fenomena dan menarik kesimpulan.
Akan tetapi, ini belum bisa memberi tahu kita sebenarnya apa itu waktu. Apakah merupakan sebuah sungai yang mengalir dari masa lampau ke masa depan? jika ya, lalu sungai apakah itu? Apa yang mendorongnya bergerak dan berdasarkan apa kecepatan arus sungai itu mengalir? jika waktu adalah sebuah sungai, apakah bisa mengalir ke atas menembus sungai ini? dan apakah kita bisa sepenuhnya menghentikan arus sungai yang mengalir ini?
Novelis fiksi mengatakan ini memungkinkan. Yang mengherankan kita adalah, fisikawan juga beranggapan seperti ini. Namun sebelum kami menciptakan sebuah mesin waktu, kami harus mengetahui betul terhadap waktu yang sukar di raba dan mudah lenyap dalam sekilas ini. Hingga terakhir nanti, kami akan menyingkap misteri-misteri yang misterius ini. Namun jika memang demikian, maka dipastikan akan muncul lebih banyak lagi misteri. Mungkin satu-satunya yang layak terhibur adalah, apabila kelak kita dapat menyingkap semua misteri, dan jika benar-benar terpecahkan, maka segalanya akan menjadi hambar.

5. Mengapa obesitas dari hari ke hari kian meningkat?

Pada 100 tahun silam, di dunia nyaris tidak ada satu pun kasus obesitas, selama 100 tahun itu, obesitas telah menjadi krisis yang tiada taranya dalam sejarah penyakit manusia. Jika dikalkulasi menurut situasi saat ini, kita akan semakin kelebihan berat badan.
Sebab obesitas sangat jelas: makan terlalu banyak, kurang olahraga. Namun kondisinya tidak sesederhana ini. Pertama jarang sekali yang mengetahui, di sejumlah besar negara obesitas di barat, misalnya Amerika Serikat, kalor yang dibuang orang-orang jauh lebih sedikit dibanding kalor yang dihabiskan orang-orang pada 50 tahun silam. Dibanding dengan orang-orang pada 1950 silam, kita jarang jalan kaki, yang menggantikannya adalah sejumlah besar kendaraan bermotor. Obesitas mulai tumbuh subur sejak 1980, dibandingkan ketika itu, olahraga yang sangat kurang dilakukan.
Sejumlah besar ilmuwan yakin, bahwa dibalik suburnya obesitas pasti terpendam sebuah misteri yang mendalam. Sejumlah ilmuwan pernah menuturkan, obesitas mungkin disebabkan oleh suatu virus, atau dapat dijelaskan dengan ilmu genetika.

6. Apakah manusia bisa awet muda?

Apa kita bisa awet muda? mungkin bisa, mungkin juga tidak. Mencegah penuaan merupakan salah satu hal yang paling tidak suka dibicarakan para ilmuwan, sebab ini dapat menimbulkan serangkaian masalah seperti moral dan logika atau hal-hal yang memusingkan kepala.
Pertama, pada kenyataannya kita tidak tahu apa sebenarnya penuaan itu. Dalam pandangan kita, ketika kita sudah tua, tubuh atau fisik juga akan dengan sendirinya ikut tua. Namun kenyataannya tidaklah demikian. 20 tahun pertama usia kehidupan kita, fisik kita dari hari ke hari semakin berisi dan kuat, fungsi tubuh kita kita kian hari semakin efektif, kemampuan melawan penyakit semakin kuat. Namun, mengapa di hari-hari selanjutnya (usia bertambah), semuanya menjadi sangat berlawanan?

7. Semenit saya yang lalu apakah sama dengan saya sekarang ?

Apakah saya masih sama seperti satu menit yang lalu? ini kedengarannya seperti sebuah pertanyaan yang sangat aneh! Namun ini adalah satu soal yang paling memusingkan dalam segenap ilmu pengetahuan dan dunia filsafat. Yaitu soal pengakuan jati diri. Secara permukaan, jawabannya jelas adalah: sudah pasti, saya adalah orang yang sama pada semenit yang lalu. Namun coba renungkan lagi sejenak.
10 menit yang lalu, semua hal yang dilakukan setiap sel dalam otakmu sama sekali berbeda dengan hal yang dilakukan sel otak anda sekarang. Setiap berselang beberapa tahun, tubuh anda hampir sepenuhnya berganti sekali. Apakah dapat Cutty Sark dibuat kembali dengan kayu yang baru dan berbagai komponen baru itu, apakah akan sama persis dengan Cutty Sark yang berlayar di atas laut pada 150 tahun silam itu? Terhadap hal ini, jawaban teori pemurnian adalah: Tidak. Dengan begitu, anda bukan lagi anda dimasa kanak-kanak itu. Pertanyaan ini menunjukkan, bahwa pertimbangan kita terhadap individual selalu berkontradiksi dengan suasana nyata yang sedang terjadi. Dan bagaimana kita mengakui jati diri satu orang yang sama, apakah berdasarkan DNA atau sesuatu lainnya yang lebih samar-samar lagi?

Misteri Dibalik Angka 13

2010-05-01T00:59:00.000-07:00

Di seantero dunia terdapat bermacam-macam kepercayaan, mitos, dan legenda, yang tidak terhitung banyaknya. Bagi kaum rasionalis, kepercayaan-kepercayaan orang-orang tua ini seharusnya ikut mati sejalan dengan modernisasi yang merambah seluruh sisi kehidupan manusia. Namun demikiankah yang terjadi? Ternyata tidak.
Di dalam tatanan masyarakat modern, kepercayaan-kepercayaan tahayul ini ternyata tetap eksis dan bahkan berkembang dan merasuk ke dalam banyak segi kehidupan masyarakatnya. Kepercayaan-kepercayaan ini bahkan ikut mewarnai arsitektural kota dan juga gedung-gedung pencakar langit.

Sebagai contoh kecil, di berbagai gedung tinggi di China, tidak ada yang namanya lantai 13 dan 14. Menurut kepercayaan mereka, kedua angka tersebut tidak membawa hoki. Di Barat, angka 13 juga dianggap angka sial. Demikian pula di berbagai belahan dunia lainnya. Kalau kita perhatikan nomor-nomor di dalam lift gedung-gedung tinggi dunia, Anda tidak akan jumpai lantai 13. Biasanya, setelah angka 12 maka langsung loncat ke angka 14. Atau dari angka 12 maka 12a dulu baru 14. Fenomena ini terdapat di banyak negara dunia, termasuk Indonesia.

Mengapa angka 13 dianggap angka yang membawa kekurang-beruntungan? Sebenarnya, kepecayaan tahayul dan aneka mitos yang ada berasal dari pengetahuan kuno bernama Kabbalah. Kabalah merupakan sebuah ajaran mistis kuno, yang telah dirapalkan oleh Dewan Penyihir tertinggi rezim Firaun yang kemudian diteruskan oleh para penyihir, pesulap, peramal, paranormal, dan sebagainyaterlebih oleh kaum Zionis-Yahudi yang kemudian mengangkatnya menjadi satu gerakan politisdan sekarang ini, ajaran Kabbalah telah menjadi tren baru di kalangan selebritis dunia.

Bangsa Yahudi sejak dahulu merupakan kaum yang secara ketat memelihara Kabbalah. Di Marseilles, Perancis Selatan, bangsa Yahudi ini membukukan ajaran Kabbalah yang sebelumnya hanya diturunkan lewat lisan dan secara sembunyi-sembunyi. Mereka juga dikenal sebagai kaum yang gemar mengutak-atik angka-angka (numerologi), sehingga mereka dikenal pula sebagai sebagai kaum Geometrian.

Menurut mereka, angka 13 merupakan salah satu angka suci yang mengandung berbagai daya magis dan sisi religius, bersama-sama dengan angka 11 dan 666. Sebab itu, dalam berbagai simbol terkait Kabbalisme, mereka selalu menyusupkan unsur angka 13 ke dalamnya. Kartu Tarot misalnya, itu jumlahnya 13. Juga Kartu Remi, jumlahnya 13 (As, 2-9, Jack, Queen, King).

Penyisipan simbol angka 13 terbesar sepanjang sejarah manusia dilakukan kaum ini ke dalam lambang negara Amerika Serikat. The Seal of United States of America yang terdiri dari dua sisi (Burung Elang dan Piramida Illuminati) sarat dengan angka 13.

Inilah buktinya:

-13 bintang di atas kepala Elang membentuk Bintang David.
-13 garis di perisai atau tameng burung.
-13 daun zaitun di kaki kanan burung.
-13 butir zaitun yang tersembul di sela-sela daun zaitun.
-13 anak panah.
-13 bulu di ujung anak panah.
-13 huruf yang membentuk kalimat Annuit Coeptis
-13 huruf yang membentuk kalimat E Pluribus Unum
-13 lapisan batu yang membentuk piramida.
-13 X 9 titik yang mengitari Bintang David di atas kepala Elang.

Selain menyisipkan angka 13 ke dalam lambang negara, logo-logo perusahaan besar Amerika Serikat juga demikian seperti logo McDonalds, Arbyss, Startrek. Com, Westel, dan sebagainya. Angka 13 bisa dilihat jika logo-logo ini diputar secara vertikal. Demikian pula, markas besar Micosoft disebut sebagai The Double Thirteen atau Double-13, sesuai dengan logo Microsoft yang dibuat menyerupai sebuah jendela (Windows), padahal sesungguhnya itu merupakan angka 1313.

Uniknya, walau angka 13 bertebaran dalam berbagai rupa, bangsa Amerika rupa-rupanya juga menganggap angka 13 sebagai angka yang harus dihindari. Bangunan-bangunan tinggi di Amerika jarang yang menggunakan angka 13 sebagai angka lantainya. Bahkan dalam kandang-kandang kuda pacuan demikian pula adanya, dari kandang bernomor 12, lalu 12a, langsung ke nomor 14. Tidak ada angka 13.

Kaum Kabbalis sangat mengagungkan angka 13, selain tentu saja angka-angka lainnya seperti angka 11 dan 666. Angka ini dipakai dalam berbagai ritual setan mereka. Bahkan simbol Baphomet atau Kepala Kambing Mendez (Mendez Goat) pun dihiasi simbol 13. Itulah sebabnya angka 13 dianggap sebagai angka sial karena menjadi bagian utama dari ritual setan.

Friday the 13th adalah Hari sial?

Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dari Dr Donald Dossey seorang psikoterapi khusus dlm bidang phobia = takut dlm bhs Yunani, di AS saja ada lebih dari 21 juta orang yang memiliki penyakit paraskevidekatriap hobia atau rasa takut akan hari Jumat tgl 13. Dan menurut laporan dari The Stress Management Center and
Phobia Institute di Asheville AS, tenyata setiap hari Jumat tgl 13, ekonomi Amerika mengalami kerugian antara 800 s/d 900 juta AS$, karena banyak orang yg ogah travelling, bekerja ataupun melakukan
kegiatan bisnis apapun juga.

Passing grade SNMPTN 2010

2010-04-30T07:42:00.000-07:00

Buat temen-temen yang pada cari passing grade jurusan yang kalian idolain. Ini dia daftar top hundred Passing Grade baik IPA maupun IPS. Semoga bermanfaat dan menjadi motivasi bagi temen-temen sekalian.

TOP 100 PASSING GRADE TERTINGGI JURUSAN IPA

1. Teknik Informatika – ITB (65,9%)
1 Teknik Elektro – ITB (62,5%)
2 Teknik Kimia – ITB (61,8%)
3 Pendidikan Dokter – UI (59,8%)
4 Teknik Informatika – ITS (59,5%)
5 Pendidikan Dokter – UGM (59,3%)
6 Teknik Industri – ITB (58,8%)
7 Teknik Elektro – UI (58,6%)
8 Pendidikan Dokter – UNAIR (58,6%)
9 Farmasi – UI (58,4%)
10 Pendidikan Dokter – UNPAD (58%)

11 Teknik Elektro – ITS (57,7%)
13 Pendidikan Dokter – UNDIP (57,5%)
14 Teknik Kimia/TGP – UI (57,4%)
15 Farmasi – ITB (57,4%)
16 Teknik Elektro – UGM (57,4%)
17 Teknik kimia – ITS (56,6%)
18 Ilmu Komputer – UGM (56,5%)
19 Pendidikan Dokter – UNSRI (56,5%)
20 Teknik Perminyakan – ITB (55,2%)
21 Teknik Fisika – ITB (55,1%)
22 Pendidikan Dokter – UNBRAW (55,1%)
23 Teknik Lingkungan – ITB (54,8%)
24 Teknik Kimia – UGM (54,8%)
25 Matematika – ITB (54,6%)
26 Teknik Pertambangan – ITB (54,2%)
27 Teknik Elektro – UNDIP (54,1%)
28 Teknik Industri – UI (54%)
29 Teknik Industri – ITS (53,8%)
30 Farmasi – UNAIR (53,8%)
31 Teknik Mesin – ITB (53,4%)
32 Teknik Penerbangan – ITB (52,9%)
33 Teknik Industri – UNDIP (52,9%)
34 Teknik Elektro – UNBRAW (52,9%
35 Ilmu Komputer – UI (52,8%)
36 Teknik Lingkungan – ITS (52,4%)
37 Pendidikan Dokter – USU (52,1%)
38 Teknik Mesin – UI (52%)
40 Farmasi – UNPAD (51,5%)
41 Teknik Mesin – ITS (51,5%)
42 Arsitektur – UGM (51,4%)
43 Teknik Mesin – UGM (51,4%)
44 Pendidikan Dokter Gigi – UI (51,2%)
45 Pendidikan Dokter – UNAND (50,6%)
46 Arsitektur – ITB (50,3%)
47 Teknik Planologi – ITB (50,1%)
48 Pendidikan Dokter Gigi – UGM (50%)
49 Pendidikan Dokter – UNHAS (50%)
51 Teknik Material – ITB (49,2%)
52 Arsitektur – UNDIP (49,2%)
53 Kimia – ITB (49,1%)
54 Pendidikan Dokter Gigi – UNAIR (49%)
55 Teknik Sipil – ITB (48,7)
56 Teknik Elektro – UNUD (48,5%)
58 Biologi – ITB (47,8%)
59 Teknik Geologi – ITB (47,8%)
60 Pendidikan Dokter Gigi – UNPAD (47,8%)
61 Teknik Mesin – UNDIP (47,8%)
62 Psikologi – UNPAD (47,7%)
63 Teknik Metalurgi dan Material – UI (47,4%)
64 Sistem Informasi – ITS (47,4%)
65 Arsitektur – UI (47,2%)
66 Statistika – UNPAD (47,2%)
67 Biologi – UGM (47,2%)
68 Arsitektur – UNBRAW (47,1%)

TOP 100 PASSING GRADE TERTINGGI JURUSAN IPS Tahun 2008

1. Akuntansi – UI (63,9%)
2 Ilmu Hubungan Internasional – UI (63,1%)
3 Akuntansi – UGM (62,1%)
4 Akuntansi – UNPAD (61,2%)
5 Manajemen – UI (61%)
6 Psikologi – UI (60,6%)
7 Ilmu Komunikasi – UNPAD (59,4%)
8 Psikologi – UGM (58,7%)
9 Ilmu Hubungan Internasional – UGM (58,5%)
10 Ilmu Komunikasi – UI (58,3%)
11 Ilmu Hubungan Internasional – UNPAD (58,1%)
12 Manajemen – UGM (57,9%)
13 Akuntansi – UNAIR (57,5%)
14 Ilmu Komunikasi – UGM (57,4%)
15 Ilmu Komunikasi – UNAIR (57,4%)
16 Akuntansi – UNBRAW (57,3%)
17 Sastra Inggris – UGM (56,6%)
18 Ekonomi Pembangunan – UI (56,4%)
19 Psikologi – UNAIR (56,4%)
20 Ilmu Hukum – UI (56,2%)
21 Manajemen – UNAIR (56%)
22 Eko. dan Studi Pembangunan – UGM (55,6%)
23 Akuntansi – UNDIP (55,2%)
24 Manajemen – UNPAD (55,1%)
25 Manajemen – UNBRAW (54,5%)
26 Ekonomi Pembangunan – UNPAD (54,2%)
27 Ilmu Hukum – UGM (54,1%)
28 Manajemen – Univ. 11 Maret Solo (53,9%)
29 Sastra Inggris – UI (53,8%)
30 Ilmu Administrasi Niaga – UI (52,9%)
31 Ilmu Administrasi Niaga – UNPAD (52,2%)
32 Manajemen – USU (52,1%)
33 Ilmu Komunikasi – UNDIP (51,6%)
34 Manajemen – UNDIP (51,5%)
35 Ilmu Hukum – UNPAD (51,4%)
36 Ekonomi Pembangunan – UNAIR (51,1%)
37 Ilmu Hukum – UNAIR (50,7%)
38 Ilmu Administrasi Negara – UGM (50,5%)
39 Ilmu Pemerintahan – UGM (50,4%)
40 Sastra Perancis – UI (50,1%)
41 Sastra Jepang – UGM (50%)
42 Manajemen – UNS (49,9%)
43 Kriminologi – UI (49,6%)
44 Ekonomi Pembangunan – USU (49,5%)
45 Ilmu Administrasi Publik – UNBRAW (49,3%)
46 Ilmu Administrasi Negara – UI (49%)
47 Ilmu Hukum – UNDIP (48,8%)
48 Akuntansi – UNHAS (48,6%)
49 Ilmu Administrasi Negara – UNAIR (48,5%)
50 Ilmu Pemerintahan – UNDIP (48,3%)
51 Ilmu Hukum – UNBRAW (48,3%)
52 Ilmu Hukum – USU (48,2%)
53 Akuntansi – UNSRI (48,1%)
54 Ilmu Hubungan Internasional – UNAIR (47,9%)
55 Manajemen – UNAND (47,9%)
56 Ilmu Politik – UI (47,8%)
57 Sastra Cina – UI (47,8%)
58 Ilmu Hukum – UNSRI (47,7%)
59 Ilmu Komunikasi – UNILA (47,7%)
60 Ilmu Administrasi Negara – UNPAD (47,4%)
61 Sastra Perancis – UGM (47,1%)
62 Akuntansi – Univ. 11 Maret Solo (46,9%)
63 Sastra Rusia – UI (46,7%
64 Sastra Inggris – USU (46,6%)
65 Ilmu Administrasi Fiskal – UI (46,6%)
66 Ilmu Filsafat – UI (46,6%)
67 Manajemen – Univ. Negeri Semarang (46,6%)
68 Akuntansi – USU (46,5%)
69 Sastra Jerman – UI (46,4%)
70 Manajemen – UNHAS (46,4%)
71 Ilmu Hukum – UNAND (46,2%)
72 Ekonomi Pembangunan – UNILA (46,1%)
73 Sastra Inggris – UNPAD (46%)
74 Ilmu Hubungan Internasional – UNHAS (46%)
75 Sastra Inggris – UNAIR (45,8%)
76 Desain Komunikasi Visual – Univ. 11 Maret Solo (45,7%)
77 Sastra Inggris – UNHAS (45,6%)
78 Ilmu Kesejahteraan Sosial – UI (44,9%)
79 Arkeologi – UI (44,7%)
80 Ilmu Hukum – UNSRI (44,7%)
81 Ilmu Administrasi Bisinis – UNBRAW (44,7%)
82 Sosiologi – UI (44,5%)
83 Ilmu Pemerintahan – UNHAS (44,2%)
84 Ekonomi Pembangunan – UNDIP (44%)
85 Ilmu Hukum – UNHAS (44%)
86 Sastra Arab – UI (43,8%)
87 Ilmu Administrasi Negara – Univ. 11 Maret Solo (43,5%)
88 Ilmu Sejarah – UI (43,2%)
89 Desain Interior – Univ. 11 Maret Solo (43,2%)
90 Manajemen – UNUD (43,2%)
91 Ekonomi Pembangunan – UNBRAW (43,1%)
92 Ilmu Pemerintahan – UNPAD (43%)
93 Ilmu Administrasi Niaga – UNDIP (43%)
94 Pend. B. Inggris – UNSRI(42,9%)
95 Ilmu Administrasi Negara – USU (42,7%)
96 Ilmu Administrasi Niaga – UNILA (42,6%)
97 Ekonomi Pembangunan – UNHAS (42,6%)
98 Sastra Inggris – UNBRAW (42,3%)
99 Antropologi Sosial – UI (42%)
100 Akuntansi – UNUD (41,9%)

PASSING GRADE TERTINGGI IPA VERSI LAINNYA :
Passing Grade Regional III

Arsitektur I T S 42.77 IPA
Biologi I T S 31.5 IPA
Desain Produk Industri I T S 33.22 IPA
Fisika I T S 35.69 IPA
Kimia I T S 34.16 IPA
Matematika I T S 36.11 IPA
Statistika I T S 38.91 IPA
Teknik Elektro I T S 49.13 IPA
Teknik Fisika I T S 40.19 IPA
Teknik Geodesi I T S 38.16 IPA
Teknik Industri I T S 48.22 IPA
Teknik Informatika I T S 49.94 IPA
Teknik Kelautan I T S 42.47 IPA
Teknik Kimia I T S 48.80 IPA
Teknik Lingkungan I T S 39 IPA
Teknik Material I T S 35.16 IPA
Teknik Mesin I T S 44.27 IPA
Teknik Perkapalan I T S 47.36 IPA
Teknik Sipil I T S 45.33 IPA
Teknik Sistem Perkapalan I T S 43.47 IPA

PASSING GRADE TERTINGGI IPS VERSI LAINNYA

Antropologi Sosial UNAIR 32.28 IPS
Biologi UNAIR 31.80 IPA
Ekonomi Akuntansi UNAIR 46.81 IPS
Ekonomi Manajemen UNAIR 44.40 IPS
Ekonomi Pembangunan UNAIR 42.87 IPS
Farmasi UNAIR 37.02 IPA
Fisika UNAIR 32.22 IPA
Ilmu Administrasi Negara UNAIR 40.31 IPS
Ilmu Hubungan Internasional UNAIR 43.21 IPS
Ilmu Hukum UNAIR 39.5 IPS
Ilmu Komunikasi UNAIR 41.75 IPS
Ilmu Politik UNAIR 34.75 IPS
Ilmu Sejarah UNAIR 31.71 IPS
Kedokteran Hewan UNAIR 36.25 IPA
Kesehatan Masyarakat UNAIR 35.69 IPA
Kimia UNAIR 32.30 IPA
Matematika UNAIR 33.66 IPA
Pendidikan Dokter UNAIR 43.81 IPA
Pendidikan Dokter Gigi UNAIR 37.97 IPA
Psikologi UNAIR 39.62 IPS
Sastra Indonesia UNAIR 31.03 IPS
Sastra Inggris UNAIR 31.18 IPS
Sosiologi UNAIR 32.12 IPS

Tapi yang terpenting adalah Berdoa dan Belajar. Semoga temen-temen lulus di pilihan yang diinginkan. Good Luck....!!!!!

Keistimewaan Angka dalam Bahasa Indonesia

2010-04-30T06:34:00.000-07:00

Aku punya kabar yang bagus buat temen-temen sekalian yang ngakunya orang Indonesia asli. Ini bukan tentang peristiwa, tempat, ataupun hal lainnya. Yupz bener sekali, Disini yang menjadi keistimewaan adalah angka yang ada dalam bahasa Indonesia. Ini bukan misteri, dongeng, ataupun cerita pengantar tidur. Tapi ini bener adanya.

Coba temen-temen perhatiin. Coba hitung satu sampai sembilan. Satu, Dua, Tiga, Empat, Lima, Enam, tujuh, Delapan, Sembilan, Sudah....!!!!!. Yupz.. kenapa kok gak sampai sempuluh. Sepuluhnya mana???. Okey, aku kasih tau buat teme-temen sekalian kemana sepuluhnya. Coba deh perhatiin. Coba temen-temen jumlahin angka yang huruf depannya sama...!

Satu + Sembilan = ".........."
Dua + Delapan = "..........."
Tiga + Tujuh = ".........."
Empat + Enam = "...........", dan
Lima + Lima = ".........."

Yupz...., bener sekali jumlah dari semua penjumlahan di atas adalah SEPULUH, Entah secara kebetulan ataupun tidak, secara sengaja ataupun tidak sengaja, hal ini menjadi hal unik yang patut kita banggakan sebagai orang Indonesia sejati.
Hehe.. Sorry, kalo info nya kurang nggigit, coz ini juga baru nyadarnya tadi siang.

Indonesia, Punya Hiu Yang Bisa Jalan

2010-04-30T00:29:00.000-07:00

Tahukan Anda, Indonesia memiliki spesies ikan hiu yang biasa berjalan di dasar lautan? Hiu yang bernama latin Hemiscyllium galei dan Hemiscyllium henryi tersebut dijuluki walking shark (hiu berjalan) yang ditemukan di perairan Raja Ampat, Kawasan Kepala Burung Papua Barat.

"Uniknya, dia berjalan di dasar laut dengan siripnya, nggak berenang," kata Fahmi, peneliti Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (LIPI), yang lama meneliti jenis hiu dan pari, di Pusat Penelitian Oceanografi LIPI, Jakarta, Senin (19/4/2010).
Ukuran tubuh walking shark sedikit lebih kecil dari ukuran tubuh hiu pada umumnya. Warna tubuhnya pun menarik dengan tutul-tutul kecoklatan seperti tokek atau gecko. Corak pada tubuh jenis walking shark, menurut Fahmi, akan berubah seiring pertambahan usia.
"Warna pasti berubah, tapi pola dasarnya sama," ujarnya. Pola dasar warna tubuh tersebutlah yang kemudian membedakan spesises Hemiscyllium galei dengan Hemiscyllium henryi. Selain itu, ukuran tubuh Hemiscyllium galei juga tampak lebih besar dibanding Hemiscyllium henryi.
Karena walking shark berjalan di dasar lautan, Fahmi menyampaikan, maka mereka hanya memakan hewan-hewan kecil dasar laut seperti kerang.
Bentuk gigi mereka juga berbeda dengan gigi hiu pemakan ikan pada umumnya. "Gigi mereka nggak runcing, tampak seperti gigi lele, untuk memecah cangkang," ujar Fahmi.
Kedua jenis hiu berjalan tersebut termasuk dalam 11 spesies biota laut baru yang ditemukan di perairan Raja Ampat, dan diperkenalkan LIPI hari ini. Mengenai kemungkinan ditemukannya kedua spesies tersebut di perairan lain, Fahmi menjawab, "Kecil ya, karena dia berjalan, jadi penyebarannya nggak jauh, cenderung endemik. Paling yang banyak satu familinya, tapi beda marga. Adanya kebanyakan di Indonesia timur," tuturnya.
Untuk diketahui, peneliti biota laut Conservation International bekerjasama dengan LIPI menemukan 11 biota laut baru. Kesebelas biota laut tersebut diberi nama sesuai dengan keinginan pemenang lelang "Blue Auction" di Monaco. Hasil lelang akan digunakan untuk mendidik calon taksonom Indonesia yang masih minim jumlahnya.

Foto Pertama "Mikroskop" Matahari

2010-04-30T00:23:00.000-07:00

Badan Penerbangan dan Antariksa Amerika Serikat (NASA) memublikasikan sejumlah foto yang diabadikan sebuah satelit yang mampu memprakirakan gangguan badai matahari. Para ahli NASA menyatakan, foto itu memberikan informasi terbaru tentang gangguan badai matahari.

Para ahli menunjukkan sejumlah foto badai matahari berwarna yang tajam dan sebuah video pendek badai matahari. Foto dan video itu ditangkap jaringan Solar Dynamics Observatory NASA, Rabu (21/4/2010). Satelit itu adalah satelit yang diluncurkan 11 Februari lalu.

Pemimpin tim peneliti, Dean Pesnell, menjelaskan, foto dan video yang diabadikan satelit itu telah mematahkan sedikitnya satu dari berbagai teori tentang gangguan akibat badai matahari. Namun, Pesnell tidak merinci teori apa yang terbantahkan.

Menurut Direktur Divisi Fisika Matahari NASA Richard Fisher, satelit itu bekerja dengan baik. Satelit itu membawa tiga paket instrumen, satu paket dibuat Laboratorium Atmosfer dan Fisika Luar Angkasa University of Colorado. Dua instrumen lain dibuat Lockheed Martin di Palo Alto, California.

The "Alien" in the Earth's mingled with Man

2009-12-13T17:35:00.000-08:00

Bulgarian scientists said, an alien or aliens already here on earth among us. They even claim to have made contact with intelligent beings outside the earth's.

"Alien is there among us, and watching us all the time," said the Bulgarian scientist, Lachezar Filipov, told Bulgarian media.

They claim to work to solve the complex set of symbols that is sent to them. Now they're working on. This was said by a scientist from the Space Research Institute Government of Bulgaria.

They claim to have answered 30 questions that have been sent an alien. Lachezar Filipov, deputy director of the Space Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, confirms the results of that research.

He said the research center has analyzed the circle on the field 150 (crop circles) from all over the world. They think that will answer the question.

"They are not hostile to us. They want to help us, but we have not managed to establish contact with them directly. "

Mr. Filipov even say, the Vatican agreed that aliens exist.

Human beings can not establish contact with aliens via radio waves, but through the power of the mind.

"The human race will have direct contact with an alien 10-15 years," he said.

"They are critical to human amoral attitude disturbing the natural process," he said.

Publications about the alien was held in the middle of the debate on controversial roles, feasibility, and the reform of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Last week, the issue has sparked debate between the Finance Minister Simeon Djankov and Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov.

Doomsday Prophecy 10 Never Proven

2009-12-12T02:04:00.000-08:00

The emergence of a 2012 film based on the prediction of the Mayan calendar end of the world make a lot of people talk about the last days. Many who consider the prediction error. However, there is also a little trust. However, predictions of doom turned out that most come from religious backgrounds have often expressed. Ten of them-which later proved to miss-is:

1. Chicken Astrologer of Leeds, 1806

History records many of which declared that the era marked the end was coming with the arrival of the prophet. However, perhaps "prophet" of the strangest was a chicken laying of the City of Leeds, UK, 1806. Chicken was originally thought to produce eggs that reads "Christ will come". As news spread of this miracle, many people believed that the end was coming, so a curious residents watched the end when the egg-laying chickens and watched swindler who wrote that sentence.

2. The Millerite, 23 April 1843

A New England farmer named William Miller, after several years of studying the Bible, concluded that the time chosen by God to destroy the world can be inferred from a literal interpretation of scripture. He explained this to anyone that the world would end between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844. He preached and published quite a lot and led thousands of people (who called the Millerite) who believed that the date would end the 23 April 1843. Many were sold or donated all his possessions because they believe they no longer needed, but when April 23 comes (but Jesus did not come) so that the group was disbanded, and some of them form a movement that until now known as the Church of Seventh-day Adventist (Seventh Day Adventist).

3. Armageddon / Apocalypse of Mormon, 1891 or earlier

Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, the church held a meeting in February 1835 to tell him that he spoke to God. During that conversation, Smith admitted that Jesus will return in the next 56 years, and then the end times will soon begin.

4. Halley's Comet, 1910

In 1881, an astronomer, from the spectral analysis, found that the comet tails contain a deadly gas called cyanogen (the origin of the word cyanide). This was not too interesting until someone realized that cross the earth will intersect with the tail of Halley's comet in 1910. Would the planet's surface would be covered by the poisonous gas? That speculation is printed on the front page of The New York Times and several other newspapers, which caused widespread panic across the U.S. and other countries. Finally, the scientists coolly explained that it was not worth worrying about.

5. Pat Robertson, 1982

May 1980, televangelists and Christian Coalition founder, Pat Robertson, startling and scaring a lot of people when he stated in his TV show, "700 Club", to viewers around the world that he knows when the world will end (although the Bible itself in Matthew 24:36 about the Resurrection declared "About the day and at that time no one knows, not even the angels in heaven do not know"). "I guarantee that in the year 1982 there will be judgments of the world," said Robertson.

6. Heaven's Gate, 1997

When comet Hale-Bopp appeared in 1997, came rumors that an alien aircraft that was following the comet. It was covered by NASA and the astronomy community. Although the allegations were denied by the astronomers (and can anyone argue with a good telescope), this issue could broadcast the radio show "Coast to Coast AM" Art Bell hosted and paranormal themes. These allegations inspired a cult of believers UFO (Unidentified flying object that is considered an alien aircraft) in San Diego calling itself Heaven's Gate to believe that the world will end soon. The world was ending for the 39 cult members who committed suicide on March 26, 1997.

7. Nostradamus, in August 1999

Paper Michel de Nostradame a very confusing and metaphorical has attracted the attention of many people for over 400 years. The writing, the accuracy is highly dependent on a highly flexible interpretation, has been re-translated and translated in dozens of different versions. One of the articles mentioned line, "In 1999, the seventh month / From the sky came a great king of terror." Many followers of Nostradamus became upset because she thought that this was the vision of the famous seer of the Apocalypse.

8. Y2K, January 1, 2000

As the last century is almost over, many people worried that computers would lead to an end. The problem, known since 1970, is that many computers would not be able to distinguish between the years 2000 and 1900. No one knows exactly what effects, but many are expected to be a disaster, ranging from light mass die until a nuclear explosion. Increased arms sales and getting people to survive in a bunker. But in fact, not many errors occur when the new millennium begins.

9. May 5, 2000

If it was not Y2K error occurs, then the global disaster is guaranteed to happen by Richard No one, author of the book 5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster in 1997. According to No one, the mass of ice in Antarctica will be 3 miles thick on May 5, 2000, a date that also coincides with the parallel of the planets in the solar system, which somehow will lead to a fatal global freezing. Date passed and the earth has not frozen, but the book was actually "hot" in the market. It is also possible, prevent the recurrence of global warming ice age.

10. God's Church Ministry, autumn 2008

According to the minister of God's Church, Ronald Weinland, the end times have arrived, again. His book in 2006, 2008: God's Final Witness, show that hundreds of millions of people will die, and at the end of 2006, "the longest 2 years left before the world was experiencing the worst time in human history. In the fall of 2008, America will fall as a powerful country , and never will be again an independent state, "and the book was also noted," Ronald Weinland its reputation as the end-time prophet of God. "

Well, the ten predictions that did not happen, so it's good we did not worry too much about the end-time prophecy in 2012. Are not many posts mentioning that no one will know the time?

Found, Spider Net Oldest

2009-12-12T02:00:00.001-08:00

Fine net spider made about 140 million years ago was found preserved in amber. Nets are found in Sussex, England, was preserved when the sap resin before it hardens and menggenanginya petrified. In the same stone was also found in the rest of the plant, insect droppings, and ancient microbes.

"This is a spider web of the oldest ever found by our fossil record," said researcher Martin Brasier of Oxford University, Saturday (31/10).

Brasier and colleagues using a computerized technique called confocal microscopy to reconstruct and examine the net and knot. Some things, including the nodes which are connected using a sticky fluid, indicates that the net was made by a spider that is related to spiders modern garden.

"This spider is also placed along the sticky nets to trap their prey," Brasier said. "The remains of the sticky liquid come preserved in amber.

The analysis of these nets also provide clues about the food of spiders. I think, based on web forms, this animal preys on flying insects such as flies and bees ancestors, wasps, and beetles, "Brasier said.

In 2006, the researchers found cobwebs are also preserved in amber. He was about 136 million years.

Legend "bloodsuckers"

2009-11-27T11:39:00.000-08:00

KOMPAS.com - One time a television network picked up reports of a dark boundary passer Mexico-United States. How the illegal immigrants were threatened not only by U.S. police, but also by being "mythical" chupacabra.

They are derived in the Sonoran desert, on the border of Mexico-United States-the extent of about 300,000 square kilometers and is known barren and extremely hot, finally died with two holes in their necks. The child remains alive because hiding in a tree hole.

Victim allegedly killed animal chupacabra. Animals that had been legendary in some countries. From Puerto Rico in South America to Texas, and the United States. Number of news mention, chupacabra also in the Philippines.

Chupacabra figure is identical to the cases of livestock deaths or illegal immigrants, with bite wounds on the neck; blood sucked out victims.

The term "chupacabra" is derived from the Spanish, "chupar" means sucking and "cabra" means a goat, because most victims are cattle goats. In English, means goat sucker.

The first time the term or the El chupacabra chupacabra (Spanish) used in the two daily in Puerto Rico, in 1992. Both reported cases of mass death of livestock, ranging from birds, horses, and the most: a goat.

After that many similar cases reported in the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and the U.S.. Since it remains mysterious chupacabra: discussed many communities, but there was one conclusion.

Not be clear, the mysterious figure became the target of urban fashion. T-shirts and baseball caps chupacabra picture sold fictitious among Hispanic and American communities.

His figure is like coyotes, foxes shaggy, but there is also a call like kangaroos because, he said, can jump high.

A number of artists described the chupacabra-like gargoyles, winged creature with a grinning face with sharp teeth ready to pounce.

In fact, there are at least three "figures" chupacabra picture. First and the public: crusty figure glaucous with longer hind legs than front legs. Large fanged snout like a dog. Can stand and jump like a kangaroo and smelled of sulfur. The second, similar to the first picture, but the hair of his head slightly. Third, figure like a wild dog, the head of a little hair, about hair, with no large canine teeth or claws.

Encounter in Texas

In CNN's September 2009 findings of the report down to resemble coyotes dead animals, belonging to a school owner preserved animals maker Blanco, Texas. The owner named Jerry Ayer admitted getting animals weighing 60 kilograms were from his former pupil, Lynn Butler. Animals that died after eating rat poison in the warehouse.

Bermoncong animal like a dog, without fur encrusted with severe ringworm on his body. According to Lynn, as quoted Telegraph.co.uk, several experts who examined the suspect was a chupacabra.

The phone rang Jerry kept asking animal. Most suspect that chupacabra. "I do not know what it is ... I do not know if I have a strange animal, "said Jerry is overwhelmed with interview requests.

Soon the local media, national, even international, citing what he described as "coyote genetic defect" that. Jerry himself did not believe in chupacabra.

University of Texas A & M had taken tissue samples from the animal's body to identify. So did a number of other universities.

Earlier, CNN view video duration 1 minute 36 seconds was recorded from a video device Deputy Sheriff's car Dewitt County, Texas, driven by Brandon Riedel, August 8, 2008.

On the tape appeared to resemble the figure of a black dog, bermoncong, with ears standing, running on the gravel road. Two hind legs slightly longer than front legs.

Some suspect the same animal species, the coyote, including Brandon boss, Sheriff Jode Zavesky.

Encounter was not the first in Cureo, Texas. In 2007 a rancher found a dead animal which he thought chupacabra. The results of DNA tests showed his DNA like coyotes, but not identical.

Homework

Belief in the existence of the chupacabra, many regard it as a myth. Aligned with the legendary chupacabra big man Yeti, "Big Foot", or lake monster Nessie, the Loch Ness, Scotland.

A number of direct encounters testimony or video recording votes is not enough. Called chupacabra minor fantasy or imagination, or the form of "mass hysteria".

A pathologist at the University of UNAN, Leon, in Nicaragua conclude, the animal was only a dog with a form of "unusual". His appearance was striking with the morphology (shape) is very different from the normal offspring of wild dogs. Mentioned, chupacabra has a very peculiar characteristics.

Some reports claim that the red eye chupacabra able to hypnotize and paralyze their victims, who become the prey animals spellbound-so silent when their blood sucked out. Somewhat different from the other predators, chupacabra to suck the blood out of his victims or their organs.

Among natives of tropical rain forests of South America developed a mystical story "mosquito man". "Mosquito Man" is sucking the blood of animals with long noses.

Some people believe, chupacabra is equal to "mosquito man". To be sure, chupacabra still be "homework" for scientists.

Wow ... Interest A camera recorded Ancient Fish

2009-11-27T11:31:00.000-08:00

TOKYO, KOMPAS.com - Life coelacanth, a fish often called early because of allegedly extinct since prehistoric times, re-recorded cameras in the Gulf waters of Manado, North Sulawesi. The recording time is unique because it is visible is the figure of a fish seedling.

The figure recorded coelacanth fish was thought to have a 31.5 cm long with scales the color blue and white specks. These ancient fish seedlings was swimming slowly near the stone wall at the bottom of the sea.

Video duration of 20 minutes was made by Japanese researchers who are doing research with the researchers Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and Universitas Sam Ratulangi Manado using underwater robots. The recording was made on October 6, 2009 at a depth of 161 meters.

"As far as we know, this is the first video recording Coelacanth saplings, which are still mysterious creatures," said Masamitsu Iwata, a researcher from Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, Japan, as announced Tuesday (17/11), as reported by AFP.

The discovery of these seedlings showed that an ancient fish still thrive in waters of Sulawesi. However, scientists also hope that these findings provide a new image and awareness of all parties to the fish habitat is protected from damage.

Chicks ancient fish had previously been found in the stomachs of ancient fish caught females in the area. It is believed, contains ancient fish until ready to hatch their eggs to be born.

Coelacanth fish life up until now it still keeps many mysteries. Scientists previously thought the fish had been extinct since millions of years ago from the fossil evidence found. However, in 1938, the same species found alive in waters off western South Africa and other discoveries followed in Manado in 1999. Therefore, the coelacanth fish often called living fossils.

New Chameleon Species Discovered in East Africa

2009-11-27T11:25:00.000-08:00

DADOMA, KOMPAS.com - a new chameleon species found in the woods Magombera, in Tanzania, East Africa. A researcher from the Department of the Environment at the University of York Dr Andrew Marshall found it by accident while observing the behavior of a snake eating twigs of a monkey.

Chameleon is certainly a new species after several similar specimens captured, tested, and compared. Species given the name which means Kinyongia magomberae chameleon Magombera. The findings are published in African Journal of Herpetology.

According to him, the discovery of new species of chameleons are very rare so it is very menggembirakannya. These findings also emphasize the importance of maintaining and cruising areas for these species to survive.

"Hopefully with this invention can be supports efforts to provide this area and other areas with more protection," said Marshall. Moreover, chameleons live in habitats of limited and highly dependent on the presence of trees in the forest.

Marshall, who is also Head of Conservation Science in Zoos and Playground Flamingo, has been active investigation of the research project led to changes in forest Magombera. These forests are important for the people in the surrounding area and home for wildlife, including red colobus monkeys are threatened with extinction.

Marshall developed projects combining forest biological research with education to local residents about how to manage forests sustainably. Its main objective is to develop the protection status of forests and find alternative ways to meet the needs of local communities.

Through Poison Breath throw

2009-11-27T11:05:00.000-08:00

Did you know that your body releases toxins nearly 70 percent while breathing? If you are not breathing properly, toxins inside your body will not disappear completely with the good. This means, other systems within your body must work extra that will ultimately cause you to become ill.

According to Healing From Within, a site on the internet, to be able to breathe properly, you should take a deep breath in through the stomach. But what often happens is that people breathe short and simply fill the top three lung. In the meantime, if people are upset, he would have difficulty breathing.

Breathing in the full awareness is a simple way to relax your body, reduce stress and fill the cells of your body with oxygen. Here is a simple exercise that can help you to be aware of your current condition. Sit up straight against the chair. Put your hands on your navel. Then, relax your stomach and slowly take a deep breath.

Smell the air until the diaphragm really down and feel your stomach deflate. By the time you exhale, the belly contracts. Repeat this movement several times. You may even be able to say to yourself, "Inhale ... exhale ...".

These words will also help you to realize you are breathing. When you experience disappointment or stress, it is enough breathing deeply. This will help you appease your inner situation effectively.

Light Shed on Mysteries of Deadly Jellyfish

2009-11-26T07:31:00.000-08:00

Box jellyfish are odd creatures. Some species have 24 eyes. They mate in mass spawning, during which males and females never touch while they release sperm and eggs into the ocean and let nature take its course.

Most interest to humans is the fact that box jellyfish can be deadly. But because jellyfish don't make for good fossils, and few jellies exist in museum collections, little is known about their evolutionary history or the relationships between different species.

Now scientists have gained new information about the distribution, relationships and evolution of these deadly sea creatures, findings that could eventually help researchers generate antivenom to save lives.

Who's related to whom

Box jellies, also called sea wasps, stingers or fire jellies, live primarily in warm coastal waters around the world. They are particularly well known in Australia, the Philippines and the rest of southeast Asia, but they also occur in Hawaii and in waters off the United States Gulf and East Coasts. Some are harmless, others cause death to humans in just minutes.

Named for their box or cube-shaped body, these animals are members of Cubozoa, the smallest class of Cnidaria, animals ranging from sea anemones and corals to Portuguese man of war and true jellyfish, all of which possess stinging capsules known as nematocysts.

Using DNA extracted from tissue samples, the researchers used a number of genetic tests and analytical techniques to trace the evolution of the various species and their toxicity and to sort out misidentified species. Among the findings: Box jellies may contain a unique family of proteins that, with further study, could help create antivenoms.

The Australian box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri), the largest box jellyfish species, is considered the most venomous marine animal and its sting can be fatal. Its close relative, Chironex yamaguchii, has caused deaths in Japan and the Philippines. A much smaller species, Carukia barnesi, is the first species known to cause Irukandji Syndrome. Symptoms include severe low back pain, nausea, headache and vomiting, and sometimes “an impending feeling of doom”, but the syndrome is usually not life-threatening. Other box jellyfish species are now known to cause the same symptoms.

“Knowing who is related to whom among the box jellyfish will be very helpful in making predictions about species that are not well known,” said NOAA researcher Allen Collins. Its possible an antivenom that works for one species might work for another, he said.

Where they are

Other species of jellyfish are known to swarm and takeover parts of the oceans. Box jellies don't seem to move around as much as some species, however. The study revealed several patterns in the global distribution of box jellyfish species. Some live exclusively in the Atlantic, others in the Pacific, and still others are found in the Indian Ocean.

"Geography seems to isolate species and most don’t seem to cross open ocean habitats," the researchers said in a statement. "A few are found in all three oceans and may live in tropical regions around the globe."

The study, funded by the National Science Foundation and the PADI Foundation, is detailed in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.

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The Elephant-Eared Octopod

2009-11-26T07:25:00.000-08:00

What do you get if you cross an octopus with an elephant? Well, in reality, probably nothing but a squashed octopus.

But with its elephant-like appearance, it's easy to see why this odd creature, found more than a mile beneath the ocean, has been nicknamed Dumbo by scientists. Never before seen by man, it is a cirrate octopod, and the 'ears' that saw it named after Disney's cartoon elephant are actually fins that it uses to swim.

Marine biologists found the six-foot-long creature on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in their quest to record and name every living thing in the seas. In total, 17,650 species were identified living deeper than 200 metres, the 'twilight zone' where light barely penetrates and photosynthesis ceases to be possible.

Scientists were surprised by the diversity of life in the deepest reaches of the oceans. Even the mud at the bottom of the ocean abyss was teeming with living things.

Among the bizarre creatures encountered by the researchers were a six foot long cirrate octopod - nicknamed 'Dumbo' because of the large ear-like fins it uses to swim - discovered more than a mile deep on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Another was a 'wildcat' tubeworm caught in the act of dining on crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

When the worm was extracted by a robot arm from the sea bed, oil gushed both from the animal's body and the hole in which it was found. Also recovered from the Atlantic was an 'indescribable' catch of multi-coloured invertebrates, including corals, sea cucumbers and sea urchins living a kilometre below the surface.

At more than 1.7 miles down, in the northern Gulf of Mexico, scientists videoed an odd-looking transparent sea cucumber creeping forward on its many tentacles.

Dr Robert Carney, from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, US, one of the Census scientists, said: 'Distribution is pretty straightforward for animals in the deep sea.'

He continued: 'The composition of faunal populations changes with depth, likely a consequence of physiology, ecology and the suitability of sea-floor habitat condition for certain animals.

'Diversity is harder to understand. Although the mud on the deep sea floor appears monotonous and poor in food, that monotonous mud has a maximum of species diversity on the lower continental margin.

'To survive in the deep, animals must find and exploit meagre or novel resources, and their great diversity in the deep reflects how many ways there are to adapt.' The vast majority of creatures collected in mud from the abyssal plain were new to science, said the researchers.

Of some 680 specimens of copepods collected from the south-eastern Atlantic, for example, just seven could be identified. Among the hundreds of species of earthworm-sized macrofauna found at different sites, 50% to 85% were unrecognised.

British expert Dr David Billett, another member of the team from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, said: 'The abyssal fauna is so rich in species diversity and so poorly described that collecting a known species is an anomaly.

'Describing for the first time all the different species in any coffee cup-sized sample of deep sea sediment is a daunting challenge.'

The scientist used a range of high and low-tech hardware including robot submersibles and sea-floor rovers, coring drills, dredges and trawling nets. The Census, which is also surveying life at shallower depths, is due to complete its work in October 2010.

Dr Chris German, one of the project leaders from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, US, said: 'The deep sea is the Earth's largest continuous ecosystem and largest habitat for life. It is also the least studied.'

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Fossils of Martian Bugs Found on Meteorite

2009-11-26T05:01:00.001-08:00

The fossilised remains of Martian bugs have been discovered on a meteorite that crashed into the Antarctic 13,000 years ago. The rock - named name Allen Hills 84001 - sparked a huge debate when it was found in 1996 and both Nasa and U.S. President Bill Clinton announced the possible discovery of life from Mars.

It was initially thought that the fossils were bacteria from Earth that contaminated the meteorite while it lay in the frozen wasteland. But according to a leaked report from Nasa, scientists now believe the fossilised remains originated on Mars.

Using advanced High Resolution Electron Microscopy not available 13 years ago, experts looked specifically at carbonate discs and magnetite crystals. The scientists, led by Kathie Thomas-Keprta, concluded that 'unusual chemical and physical properties' in the meteorite were 'intimately associated within and throughout these carbonate discs'.

This is evidence of interaction with water on Mars over 3.5billion years ago, they said. Dr Emily Baldwin, deputy editor of Astronomy Now magazine, told The Sun: 'Many scientists argued that what looked like fossils in the meteorite were really caused by the explosive event, such as an asteroid impact, that blasted the rock out of Mars in the first place.

'But the Nasa team is now saying they have proved that they could not have been produced by the blast itself.

'If the features turn out to have an extra-terrestrial, biological origin and were not formed during the 13,000 years the meteorite spent lying on Earth, this will have profound implications for our understanding of how life evolved in the solar system.'

Nasa is expected to make an announcement revealing the findings, from its Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, in the next few days.

Mars expert Professor Colin Pillinger, who was behind the failed Beagle 2 probe to the planet in 2003, told The Sun: 'This is good quality work and more compelling evidence to add to the mix.

'These guys have been plugging away at this for years. It is a very careful study by very reputable people.'

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Picture of Michael Jackson Shown in The Baby's Scan

2009-11-21T05:08:00.001-08:00

It looks like an ordinary ultrasound scan, with a blurry contrast of light and shade. But to Dawn Kelley and William Hickman, it's the face of Michael Jackson.

The imaginative couple say they can clearly see the face of the late pop star when they look at the picture of their unborn baby. Mr Hickman, 29, a window cleaner, said: 'I showed my daughter Ami, who's six, and she saw it straight away, so I thought "well, if she can see it too, it's not just me seeing things".'

Mother-of-six- Dawn, 34, went for her 20-week scan at Sunderland Royal as normal last month, but doctors could not see the foetus's stomach or diaphragm. A few weeks later she was sent to a different medical centre for a closer look.

The more powerful scanner there is normally used to examine internal organs so the images it produces are much more detailed.

Mr Hickman said: 'We were looking at the pictures again, and I just saw Jacko there.

'None of us are really Michael Jackson fans. I mean I like him, but we're not crazy about him or anything.'

Their children Chris, 16, Amanda, 15, Jason, 13, Alisha, 10, Ami-Lee, six, and Kye, four, say they can all see the singer's face in the scan photo too. But the couple won't, however, be naming the new addition to their family after Jackson - they already know they are having a girl.

Dawn, who is due to give birth to her daughter in March, said: 'I've had plenty of scans before and none of the photos have ever looked like this one. It's a bit spooky really.

'But it is my seventh child, and they say seven is a mythical number.'

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Types and Variety KISSING

2009-10-17T07:46:00.000-07:00

Many people who only know of two types of kisses: kiss my neck and kiss the French (French kiss). However, booming perciuman world. Now kiss a lot of variety.

Here's the breakdown:

Butterfly kisses
Put your face into the couple's face as close as possible and then blinking, your eyelashes kerjapkanlah quickly and suddenly.

Neck kiss
As we already know, a kiss is usually marked the first date of a spouse. Your neck gently brushed his lips paired with.

Kissing ears
It is clear that the target is paired ears. Suck and nibble gently. Because so close to the ear hole, try not to make noise is noise.

Eskimo kiss
Gently rub your nose with a nose spouse. As gently as possible and feel every touch is happening.

Eye kiss
As the name suggests, gently kiss couples eyes closed.

Finger kiss
While relaxing with your partner, take a couple fingers and slowly diemut.

Kissing feet
Nan kiss erotic kiss begins with the toes, then way up with soft kisses nan.

Forehead kiss
This is a friendly kiss. You just kissed a couple from one end to another.

Frozen kiss
Also known as melting kiss. This is equivalent to kiss the ice, wearing only a small box of ice blocks. Kulum ice block and use the tongue was moved to the mouth of the couple. Effect of cold and ice will provide a sensual feeling.

French kiss
This is the most sensual kiss between various kisses. Some call it the soul kiss, involving the tongue and lips.

Fruit kiss
Take a piece of fruit (a little hard) and biting edges. Other end is given to the couple while performing the kiss.

Kissing hands
Raise your partner's hand and began kissing his fingertips until the upper hand.

Hot and cold kiss
The first couple to lick her lips warm, and then blow it to make her lips cold. Notice your breath. Before kissing, avoid eating foods that stimulate, like onions.

Waking kiss
This is more to time than the techniques. When the couple woke up, kissed him start from the neck and ends at the lips. Then with a tender voice, says: "Good morning dear ..."

Pillar Evolousi goal

2009-10-17T07:42:00.000-07:00

Goalposts football used today actually had experienced a long evolution. Initially, the goal is only a two-pole fitted with unstable range, in accordance with the agreement the two teams that competed.

In 1863, English football federation (FA) to determine that the length of two goal posts is 7.32 meters. The size was not changed until now. However, it was on top wakatu no longer pole. Thus, frequent controversy over whether the ball has been scored or not.

In 1875, was decided using the goalposts across the top. While the goal height 2.44 meters. Thus, the more smepurnalah soccer goal. However, evolution is not finished. Therefore, it appears still controversy about whether the ball entered the goal or next to it, especially the balls hard kick.

Columns form a debate whether or round box. In 1920, JC Perkins Goals of the Standard companies make a round goalpost. Goalpost was first used by the club Nottingham Forest. Since then, extending round the post popular around the country and the world.

Materials from the beginning of the goalposts are always wood. Then, in the 1980s, began widely used aluminum or steel. Because of the wooden goalposts can not unstable and easily influenced weather.

Until we know the use of such goal now is use a net behind him. Thus, when there is a goal, the ball was in it. This reduces the controversy, but not entirely. In fact, there are still differences of opinion whether the ball had passed the goal line or not.

Well, then FIFA will try to use the Hawk Eye technology. Technologies that will tell whether the ball was over the line or not. So far, sports courts are already using the latest technology.