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food for art

2011-09-26T00:07:00.000-07:00

food for art

food for art, atau kami indonesiakan "pasar seni" memiliki menunjukkan beberapa nama seperti google search, memunculkan: http://pasarseni.net/aboutus.html, http://pasarseni.net/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasar_Seni_LRT_station, http://www.agoda.com/asia/malaysia/kuala_lumpur/attractions/hotels_near_lrt_train_station_pasar_seni.html, http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g297701-d378979-Reviews-Ubud_Art_Market_Pasar_Seni-Ubud_Bali.html, http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-2881408-pasar_seni_jakarta-i, http://pasarsenibali.itrademarket.com/.

Selanjutnya apa itu pasar seni, http://www.jakarta-cityhotels.com/hotels/north_jakarta/index.html, http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=403948501663, http://maestroindonesia.com/tours.htm, http://www.travellerspoint.com/guide/Indonesia/, http://sofian.staff.ugm.ac.id/artikel/Liberalisasi-Pendidikan-Tinggi.pdf.

Adalah pasar yang mengakomodasikan kebutuhan terhadap selera pasar yang mempunyai citra rasa seni, kekuatan ekonomi, dan berdampak pada tumbuhnya studio-studio, workshop-workshop untuk melayani permintaan dan kehidupan seniman.

Sehari-hari didalam studio, membuat dan mengerjakan ide-ide visual, seperti layaknya dapur rekaman, memindahkan file kamera ke laboratorium digital; komputer dan internet data base, menyalurkan informasi visual.

Studio produksi...

Celebration: food for art is coming soon....

Filantropi

2011-08-25T10:22:00.000-07:00

Umat muslim sedunia sebentar lagi akan merayakan Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1432 H, sebuah momentum yang sangat berbeda bagi umat muslim di Indonesia. Karena momentum hari raya ini juga dibarengi dengan momentum pulang kampung, istilah untuk orang-orang perantauan pulang ke kampung kelahiran, berkumpul keluarga dan sanak saudara. Ini tentu sangat unik bagi umat muslim di belahan dunia manapun, dimana pola budaya yang telah berlangsung sudah sangat lama ini juga unik ditiap daerahnya. Sedang disisi lain ada perubahan pola budaya yang juga sangat kontra dengan Islam itu sendiri, yakni kesederhanaan. Ini bisa kita lihat dari meningkatnya konsumsi budaya massa disetiap menjelang Lebaran, bahkan ketika hari-hari pertama puasa berjalan. Mall-mall dan pusat belanja dibanjiri pembeli untuk memborong keperluan rumah tangga, mulai dari mengganti cat rumah; perbaikan sana-sini, belanja kue lebaran dan parcel, baju baru, sepatu baru mungkin hingga mobil baru yang sengaja dibeli menjelang Lebaran dan digunakan untuk pulang kampung bersama keluarga. Ada pergeseran makna puasa dan lebaran setiap tahunnya, dan ditangkap secara baik oleh produsen untuk membuat promosi spesial lebaran dengan membuat discount besar-besaran.Kekhawatirannya adalah masih banyak umat muslim sendiri yang kekurangan pada saat Lebaran, untuk hanya sekedar membeli makanan lebih apalagi untuk keperluan sandangnya.

Saya hanya sedang berpikir berapa banyak uang yang berputar dalam satu bulan menjelang lebaran dan sesudahnya? adakan dalam angka milyaran? atau bahkan Triliyunan? Pernah saya baca bahwa nilai filantrofi masyarakat muslim di Indonesia lebih dari 19 Triliun dalam setahun. Nah, bagaimana seandainya masyarakat merubah pola budaya konsumsi pada setiap lebaran itu, untuk berderma? bersedekah? Karena saya belum yakin bahwa konsep zakat dalam Islam telah diaplikasikan secara maksimal oleh umatnya. Tentu akan muncul angka yang lebih fantastis dan mungkin betul-betul tidak ada orang kelaparan di Indonesia pada saat Lebaran atau pun setiap harinya.

Saya hanya sedang membayangkan tentang suatu empati terhadap persoalan lingkungan sosial, tentang bagaimana kesenjangan sosial begitu terasa setiap tahunnya. Tentang kabar berita pendidikan dan kesehatan yang masih memerlukan perhatian, kita tentu masih ingat beberapa kali sosial media telah mampu meraih ikatan solidaritas kemanusian terhadap bencana-bencana di Indonesia, kasus ketidakadilan seperti Prita, kasus TKI 4 Milyar yang semuanya hanya memerlukan waktu sekejab saja telah mengumpulkan ribuan ton beras, milyaran rupiah, dan ribuan relawan-relawan tanpa pamrih.

Saya hanya ingin melihat Indonesia dengan umat muslimnya yang besar mampu menjawab tantangan zaman dan kapitalisme global? Bukankah Islam memiliki azaz sosial yang paling sosial dari semua mahzab dan terori sosial yang ada? Mungkinkah berderma dapat mendekatkan kita pada sesama? ah sebuah keniscayaan....tapi saya selalu berharap ada perubahan di negeri ini...dan Lebaran mudah-mudahan dapat menjadi makna khusus bagi sesama untuk saling berbagi dan mengembalikan fitrah kita sebagai manusia...

Selamat merayakan Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1432 H

photo contest for traveller

2011-08-20T12:19:00.000-07:00

If you stay at Bali - Indonesia or just traveling for holiday you can save your photographs and choice for photo contest about Transport at Bali...

‘Transport transport’? This will sound familiar to anybody who has ever set foot on Bali. Drivers renting their minivans or jeeps and themselves out to bring you wherever you want to go…Smiling from ear to ear, mimicking a steering wheel with both of their hands…’Transport Transport Mister?’

Transportation is the theme of this photo contest. You can interpret it as widely or narrowly as you want to. It could be vehicles in various states of disrepair, people propped up in a van, animals used as means of transportation or being transported. Funny or sad..standing still in traffic or racing along…it’s up to you!

Read more detail information at: Latitudes

News of Media

2011-07-27T10:25:00.000-07:00

Is there a more exciting news today than the political news? Who actually created the news?

News and media certainly one unified whole, so that now anyone can proclaim something with his own version. With a record we still adhere to the code of ethics coverage, balanced information, and positive competition.

Internet today has more to offer coverage of space and time are more economical. Access to information becomes easier to accept the reader. Media technology is growing very rapidly as the creation of many new discoveries and innovations. An open society is a new era as to what is called civil society. Society as a controller of a general policy applicable in each country and internationally. The era of openness with the media is a new episode of what the term era of democratization of society. Democracy becomes like a tool for public welfare and the environment and human life in the world.

The problem is that a lot of media work on the interests at play in the economic and political areas. This is an exhausting drama to be observed. Third-world countries, perhaps the victim of media impact, especially when the object of exploitation of the news is not good, as part of the propaganda of international politics.

Well, we kind of thought of international issues. But we must also be prepared with the sophistication of the media in the era of globalization, from which can inform the news media, how long the media can help spread the sad news, disasters, humanitarian news.

Becomes very beautiful when every human being to give attention to each other and share together, maintaining world peace, preserve and interpret the natural life by reaching out to each other. And the media to help convey ideas to bring mutual understanding in addressing the issues of life, not just issues of interest.

Jakarta Weather Forecasts

2011-07-26T12:32:00.000-07:00

Current conditions as of 1:00 AM WIT

Mostly Cloudy

Feels Like:: 86 °F
Barometer:: 29.82 in
Humidity:: 78 %
Visibility:: 3.73 mi
Dewpoint:: 73 °F
Wind:: CALM
UV Index:: --
UV Description:: Low
Sunrise:: 6:03 AM
Sunset:: 5:54 PM

80°

High: 89° Low: 74°

http://weather.yahoo.com/indonesia/dki-jakarta/jakarta-56004619/

Commemorate Indonesia

2011-07-26T03:47:00.000-07:00

Doc. mural (kampoeng) project at the village, Central Java
Indonesia

The diversity of Indonesia because no other group of islands thousands lined up from Sabang to Merauke, like the lyrics of a national song-I forget the title-ed). When done the journey to reach the point of western Indonesia to the most easterly point, it will be spent traveling by air, sea, land, upland, lowland, and the beach. Geographic Indonesia is very attracted foreign countries, with the complexity of the economic, social, political and growing.

According to Wikipedia, the islands that exist in the territory of Indonesia is an archipelago of about 6127 names of islands according to data from research results LIPI 1972. According to the geographical sense, Indonesia is part of the earth that stretches from 95 ° -141 ° East Longitude, and 6 ° North latitude to 11 south latitude. While Indonesia in the sense that the nation's political, economic, and social culture in the region.

Indonesia for the first time the term was invented by an English ethnologist named James Richardson Logan in 1850 in earth science. The term is also used by G.W. Indonesia Earl in the field of ethnology. G.W. Earl calls for residents Melayunesians Indonesians and Malay Archipelago.

The birth of the 3rd Convention of the United Nations (UN) regarding the law of the sea (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea / UNCLOS), December 10, 1982, the inception of the law of the sea which recognizes the concept of Island Country. Since 1994, the International Sea Law into effect and from then on all the Indonesian people have the sovereign right to exploit natural resources, including those on the seabed and below. Article 49 of UNCLOS in 1982 declared the sovereignty of the island nation that includes the waters enclosed by the baselines as well as the airspace above and the seabed and and the soil underneath.

History of Indonesia covers a very long time span that began in prehistoric times by the discovery of "Java Man" aged 1.7 million years ago. The period of the history of Indonesia can be divided into five age: pre-colonial era, the emergence of the kingdoms of the Hindu-Buddhism and Islam in Java and Sumatra, which mainly relies on trade; Colonial Era, the entry of the Europeans (especially the Netherlands) wants the spice lead to colonization by Netherlands for about 3.5 centuries between the beginning of the 17th century until the mid-20th century; Era of Independence First, the post-Independence Indonesia (1945) until the fall of Sukarno (1966); Era New Order, Soeharto's 32-year reign (1966 -1998); and the Reform Era that lasted until now.

Indonesia Now, travel range of time 1945 - 2011, where Digital has created human life to bridge the issues of space and time are so extensive.

Hati-hati dengan kamera Anda!

2011-07-25T12:55:00.000-07:00

catatan workshop spotlight:

tentang fotografi

Mengenal fotografi saat ini tentu sudah sangat banyak informasinya, berkaitan produk dan teknologinya sudah diaplikasikan dalam berbagai media seperti tentu saja kamera saku digital, kamera handphone dan webcame. Menjadikan fotografi sangat populer dimasyarakat, siapa tidak kenal fotografi? Masyarakat telah mengenal fotografi sejak lama, dari foto yang dibutuhkan dalam berbagai kepentingan seperti pas photo, peristiwa:pernikahan,kelahiran, kematian, dan dokumentasi berbagai kesempatan. Semua orang bahkan bisa menjadi fotografer diera demokratisasi kamera digital dengan hanya mempelajari menu penggunaan teknologinya. Tapi apakah setiap orang dapat menjadi fotografer yang baik dan profesional? Tentu saja tidak semudah itu. Banyak hal yang harus dipelajari untuk menjadi fotografer yang baik dan berkarakter diluar penguasaan teknis, misalnya:

1. melatih sense of interest & memperkaya berbagai disiplin ilmu pengetahuan

2. mempunyai prinsip sehinga mampu berkarya diluar mainstream

3. mempunyai idealisme untuk tetap bisa membedakan bagian mana yang penting dan tidak

Esensi fotografi merupakan kombinasi dari kerja kamera, cahaya dan kemampuan fotografernya.

Kamera tentu saja tidak boleh dipandang sebagai benda atau alat saja, lebih dari dari itu kamera dapat menjadi "senjata" sang fotografer melalui hasil-hasil karyanya. Dikarenakan fotografi merupakan bagian resepresentasi dari kenyataan atau peristiwa yang terekam, fotografi mempunyai peranan cukup besar dalam budaya visual. Fotografi dapat dan mampu mencitrakan opini yang dibangun dibalik pesan fotografisnya.

Banyak peristiwa dibelahan dunia diketahui khalayak dari hasil kerja fotografer, baik tentang keberhasilan, kegagalan, keputusasaan, kebahagiaan, kemenangan, kekakalahan, kemiskinan, kelaparan, bencana dan berbagai peristiwa diatas bumi ini.Kita bisa tahu bagaimana peran media sangat bisa mengendalikan opini dunia, seperti Amerika melalui CNN-nya. Bagaimana peran media begitu besar sehingga "perang media" dapat menjadi perang yang sangat berbahaya, karena dapat membawa opini khalayak banyak. Bagaimana citizen jurnalism berkembang untuk mengimbangi peran media yang terkadang cenderung dikendalikan oleh peran dan kepentingan pemiliknya yang tersangkut kasus-kasus sosial dan negara.

Karena itu ketiga hal diatas (1,2,3 red.) menjadi penting untuk dipelajari sebagai bekal menjadi fotografer yang baik dan berkualitas. Kenapa berkualitas? Kualitas fotografer sebenarnya bukanlah ditentukan oleh bagus tidaknya imaji yang dibuat secara teknis, tetapi lebih dari itu. Karakter karya fotografi-lah yang menentukan apakah karya-karya seseorang itu layak diapresiasi atau tidak.

Dalam dunia fashion misalnya, bagaimana fotografer mempunyai kontribusi besar dalam melahirkan bintang-bintang majalah dan ikon kecantikan. Melalui ide dan gagasan fotografisnya fotografer dapat membangun citra seorang bintang, dan juga melalui kehebatannya fotografer sekaligus bisa menjatuhkan seorang bintang lainnya. Fotografer juga turut melahirkan trend baru dalam dunia fashion.

Selanjutnya apa yang ingin anda lakukan dengan media fotografi dan kamera yang anda miliki?

Tablet Android Honeycomb Terbaik Murah

2011-07-23T12:41:00.000-07:00

Introduction to Android mencatatkan bahwa saat ini pengguna telepon seluler telah mencapai angka 3 milliar, dan angka ini sudah pasti akan terus meningkat seiring perkembangan kebutuhan atas teknologi gadget. Percepatan teknologi informasi menjadi sebuah keniscayaan baru bagi manusia di abad modern, inovasi dan kreasi berkembang tiada henti untuk mencapai kemudahan digital life style. Perang digital semakin ramai ketika pada pada tanggal 5 November 2007. Google Inc, Intel, T-Mobile, Sprint, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola dan lain-lain telah berkolaborasi pada pengembangan Android melalui Open Handset Alliance, sebuah aliansi teknologi multi-nasional dan industri mobile.

Android adalah sistem operasi untuk telepon seluler yang berbasis Linux. Android menyediakan platform terbuka bagi para pengembang buat menciptakan aplikasi mereka sendiri untuk digunakan oleh bermacam peranti bergerak. Awalnya, Google Inc. membeli Android Inc., pendatang baru yang membuat peranti lunak untuk ponsel. Itu sebabnya, operating system Android terintegrasi dengan berbagai aplikasi Google, seperti Gmail, Google Maps dan, Google Calendar. Pengembangan aplikasi untuk sistem operasi Android dilakukan oleh Open Handset Alliance. Notebook dengan sistem operasi Android akan memperkuat posisi Google terhadap Microsoft di pasar software untuk menjalankan komputer. Saat ini, posisinya adalah Windows menguasai lebih dari 90 persen pasar.Harga ponsel yang relatif murah itu tidak lepas dari status Android sebagai sistem operasi yang bebas dikembangkan alias open source.

Di lain pihak, Google merilis kode–kode Android di bawah lisensi Apache sebuah lisensi perangkat lunak dan standar terbuka perangkat seluler. Di dunia ini terdapat dua jenis distributor sistem operasi Android. Pertama yang mendapat dukungan penuh dari Google atau Google Mail Services (GMS) dan kedua adalah yang benar–benar bebas distribusinya tanpa dukungan langsung Google atau dikenal sebagai Open Handset Distribution (OHD).

Kemudahan-kemudahan yang ditawarkan Android telah memunculkan berbagai produk yang bersaing seperti saat ini:

1. Asus Eee Pad Transformer

2. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

3. Motorola Xoom

4. LG Optimus Pad

5. Acer Iconia Tab A500

6. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1V

7. HTC Flyer

8. Samsung Galaxy Tab

9. Viewsonic Viewpad 7

10. Creative Ziio

11. Viewsonic Viewpad 10s

12. Hannspree Hannspad

13. Notion Ink Adam

14. Advent Vega

Ke-14 daftar Android tablet terbaik di tahun 2011 ini dirating oleh tim TechRadar, ini sebagai perbandingan saja untuk memulai sebuah pandangan terhadap produk yang bersaing di pasar.

Di Indonesia, Acer yang saat ini mempunyai produk Acer Iconia Tab A500 mencoba strategi unik dengan membuat kompetisi SEO blog dan review konten produk. Ini menjadi sangat menarik karena Acer justru melibatkan pengguna internet untuk ikut mempromosikan produknya, sekaligus mengajak masyarakat internet menjadi lebih kritis pada apa yang mesti diunggulkan pada produk ini. Sebuah strategi iklan yang menembak 2 keuntungan sekaligus, yakni meningkatnya pemahaman penulis blog pada produk Acer Iconia Tab A500 dan meretasnya multi-link yang tersebar sekaligus memungkin banyak konsumen semakin mengenal Acer Iconia Tab A500, dimana Android merupakan pasar baru bagi pengguna telepon selular.

Acer Iconia Tab A500

Fun Redefined, itu tagline yang membawa asumsi bahwa produk ini akan membawa kesenangan seperti pada kata "The Power is in our hands. Have fun!". Kekuatan tagline ini tentunya untuk mendorong minat konsumen pada produk yang dirilis 3 Mei 2011, sebuah perangkat dengan layar sentuh 10.1" dan pertama memakai sistem Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) di Indonesia.

Ya, fitur-fitur games yang super-cepat 3D, dengan teknologi prosesor dual-core NVidia Tegra 2 250 dan 3 preloaded HD Games, berkecepatan 1GHz, RAM 1GB, dan chip grafis GeForce menjadikan Tab A500 pantas menjadi teman menghabiskan waktu pada saat-saat tertentu. Game-game yang menyenangkan pada banyak kesempatan digunakan sebagai hiburan para kawula muda abad ini. Ini tentu saja tetap bersaing dengan game-game online yang dimainkan dengan menggunakan netbook. Tablet Android Honeycomb Acer Tab500 dapat menjadi alternatif bagi belanja hebat, terbaik dan murah.

Berikut spesifikasi detail dari Acer Iconia Tab A500:

Strikingly Powerful

NVidia Tegra 2 250 Dual Core 1.0 GHz Processor
Android 3.0 “Honeycomb”
1 GB DDR2 RAM memory
10.1″ WXGA 1280×800
Multitouch
High-performance battery
Aluminium unibody casing

Incredibly Entertaining

3 preloaded games
6-axis motion sensing
game, reading, app stores
Main camera 5 MP A/F with flash & 720 HD video recording
HDMI output
Dolby mobile sound quality
16/ 32 GB storage options

Fully Connected

Acer clear.fi solution
Aggregation of social media
HDMI dual display
Second camera 2 MP for webcam
WiFi b/g/n
USB type-A standard port with USB host

Data-data tersebut dalam artikel ini diadopsi dari berbagai sumber.

Disaster Recovery

2009-05-26T12:05:00.000-07:00

Photo above is the condition Sidoarjo at this time, when you see the photos in the file "landscape disaster" will look different. Sidoarjo is only one of the disaster in Indonesia and the settlement still requires serious by the Indonesian government. A location that is now filled with drilling mud, such as sulfur and which has been shut nearly 1 out of district residential lots. Indonesia is very close to a variety of potential natural disasters, because the soil structure and geographical conditions that support the disaster. Suppose you heard about the tsunami disaster in Aceh, earthquake in Yogyakarta, and the latest disaster is the landslide and flooding in Situ Gintung Jakarta.

Natural disasters are a consequence of a combination of natural events (a physical event, such as mountain eruption, earthquake, landslide) and human activity. Because of human weakness, the effects of less well emergency management, causing losses in the field of financial and structural, even until death. The resulting loss depends on the ability to prevent or avoid disasters and their resistance.

Disaster is defined as the occurrence of events that can not be predicted and are very destructive. This identifies the occurrence of a sudden, unexpected, are very destructive, and less planning. Disaster occur with a frequency that is not stabilized and increased for those who do not prepare for the occurrence possibilities of disaster. Various disasters that may occur include:
1. Natural disasters caused by geological conditions and geographical location
2. Fire caused by environmental factors, and system settings that can cause electrical short circuit
3. Damage to the electricity network caused by electrical system
4. Terrorist attacks are caused by poor physical security and non-physical data center
5. System or device that damaged the error associated with management control device
6. Operational errors due to human done
7. The virus is caused by an error eg the selection of anti virus used

If disaster recovery is associated with the business world, will lead us in the # definition of Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) and # Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Business will depend on the spread of information and applications that process information, so the main application-specific standard to be is very critical so that when the interference occurs only when some of it can cripple a business company. For that reason, some companies have a direction that ensures business continuance available occur when a disaster or disruption that is not planned or already planned. This landing in the # Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)

Data Replication

One thing that becomes very crucial in the Disaster Recovery is a data and information, as has been mentioned before is very important to maintain consistency of data and information for the company. This need can accommodative by using data replication technology. Data replication is a process of copying content data to a remote location either take place or continue at a certain interval. Replication of data will provide a complete copy of data for disaster recovery purposes. Location is usually the secondary remote data center.

But in reality not many companies in Indonesia that would meet the standards of disaster rescue. As happened in Sidoarjo is a mistake because the procedure of drilling companies.

Landscape Disaster

2009-05-21T11:30:00.000-07:00

Sidoarjo Surabaya Indonesia
(All photograph take by canon)

About Paddy

2009-05-20T11:04:00.000-07:00

According to history, including rice genus oryza L. which includes approximately 25 species, scattered in the area of the tropics and sub-tropical regions such as Asia, Africa, America and Australia. According to Chevalier and Neguier, rice comes from the two continents: Oryza Fatua Koenig and Oryza Sativa L come from Asia, while other types of rice that is Oryza Stapfli Roscher and Oryza Glaberrima Stend come from West Africa (African Continent). Oriza Fatura Koenig and Oryza Minuta Presl come Daru India (Himalaya)

Paddy is now a cross between Oryza Officinalis and Oryza Satira F. Spontonea. In Indonesia in the first rice grown in dry land areas with the field system, without irrigation. This is done also in other countries.

Paddy is one of the most important crop cultivation in human civilization. Although mainly based on the type of plant cultivation, rice is also used to refer to some type of family name (genus) are the same, which is called wild rice. World rice production ranks third of all cereal after maize and wheat. However, rice is the main carbohydrate source for the majority of the world.

Country's leading producers of rice is People's Republic of China (31% of the total world production), India (20%), and Indonesia (9%). However, only a small portion of rice production are among the world countries (only 5% -6% of the total world production). Thailand is a major exporter of rice (26% of the total rice sold in the world) followed by Vietnam (15%) and the United States (11%). Indonesia is the world's largest importer of rice (14% of rice sold in the world) followed by Bangladesh (4%), and Brazil (3%).

Farmers and rice are always a couple of victims from the rice trade in Indonesia. If you follow the news in Indonesia within a period of 5 years, the farmers are always losers, but the price of rice tended to increase each year. In fact almost most of the people of Indonesia need rice as staple food, while the eastern Indonesian region need more corn. This issue is not added to the problems of drug syndicate and fertilizer. One more disadvantaged farmers by the system going again.

While the rice fields have become the building and housing of citizen. A map the village became a city, a map of the rice into housing.

Farmer and Paddy

2009-05-19T12:32:00.001-07:00

The heat of the day the workers are the harvest of rice, staple food for the people of Indonesia and other Asian countries.

Why Thinking?

2009-05-19T12:01:00.000-07:00

Do you ever imagine how the structure of our brain and how does it work?

This is a note that I read a daily newspaper in Indonesia (2000). Understanding how work the human brain rapidly increased. Peak recognition is granted to the three scientists who seriously learn, they are eligible to receive a Nobel Prize for the field of physiology or Medicine for this year. They are Arvid Carlsson of Sweden and the United States two experts, Paul Greengard and Eric Thick. The report will not discuss all the results of the three figures above, but more focused on the findings of Arvid Carlsson deemed meritorious in understanding the function of dopamin (dopamine) as a transmitter in the brain and how important chemical compound for the ability to move us.

The award of the Nobel Prize that year Medical is the recognition that basic research can be established and applied in the estuary practical purposes, that is the invention of modern medicines. Medicines is a answers for various diseases which have a lot of strain of the human race, such as Parkinson disease, depression, and schizophrenia.

Research conducted by Arvid Carlsson, for example, has been directing the people of Parkinson disease, which was caused by lack / absence of certain dopamin in the brain. With the This knowledge can then dikembangkanlah treatment with substitution (agonist), which is similar dopamin, the drug called L-dopa (Levo-dopa) that is quite effective. With this therapy degree dopamin someone can be. Pope John Paul II that the disease Parkinson estimated to have this therapy in addition to lowering therapy asetilkolin degree, so that the offset between dopamin.

Arvid Carlsson showed that successful in the human brain there are high degree of dopamin in the ganglia basalis, which is the area important to control muscle movement. In the patients the disease Parkinson, nerve cells in the brain that produces dopamin, fiber syarafnya stick to the ganglia basalis dead. This causes the symptoms such as tremor, muscle stiffness, and decrease the ability for someone move.

In the human brain there are a hundred billion nerve cells. They are linked one another through a complex network of nerves of the extent of not countless. Messages from one nerve cell to another nerve cell transmissions through a different chemical transmitter, which was then commonly called as neurotransmitter. Transduksi nerve signals antarsel going on in this dots is called a special contact sinaps. A nerve cell can have thousands of such contacts with the nerve cells other.

Arvid Carlsson has conducted research in the field of neurologi stub since end of the 1950s, especially on dopamin. At that time scientists dopamin still believes that only a prekursor of neurotransmitter, namely noradrenalin. Carlsson successfully break this presumption, because he found that the dopamin concentrated in the area of the brain from another place noradrenalin, and he concluded, is a transmitter dopamin which are separate from noradrenalin.

In addition to the success of treat Parkinson patients, research has been Carlsson improve our understanding of several other drugs. He successfully shows the drugs antispikotik which is widely used to treat schizophrenia patients, with the influence to block the transmission sinaptik
receptors dopamin. Carlsson findings have very important meaning for treatment depression, a psychiatric disease that most often experienced humans.

He also greatly contributed to developing medicines antidepresi generation new, namely the SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor). Drugs this group had appeared terlaris in the United States, such as Prozac (flouxetine) that in the early 1990s omzet reach 1 billion U.S. dollars, even then begin to decline in popularity because debated as "capsule personality", which make the patient as though meminumnya changes in personality. Position now tergeser by Zoloft (sertraline). Both these drugs circulating in Indonesia, can be competitive sponsor in the First National Conference on schizophrenia, while that.

dr Jan Sudir Ancient PhD, Head Neuroendokrinologi headline / Neuroimunologi Section Neurologi Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia / Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (FKUI / RSCM) stated that the development of knowledge about neurotransmitter is extraordinary rapid. "Neurology modern and applied particularly steep neurotransmitter developed since 1980. Already known at that time an 20-type. In 1988 when I was a assistant in the Section Neurologi FK Vrije University of Amsterdam increased so 40-an, and jumped again in 1990 so 50's. Now the number is so hundreds up to eighty, "he said. As a result, medicines for hysteria and psychosis are more specific, similar to the development of antibiotics.

Merapi view

2009-05-18T08:34:00.000-07:00

Some day in merapi view.....
Yogyakarta
Indonesia

(the photographs by Nokia Phone)