I'm a real Wino

Selamat pagi wahai para pemburu kebahagiaan.
Pagi ini entah masih sedikit mabuk atau setengah sadar, aku ingin sedikit bercerita, tentang secangkir anggur merah. Rasanya nikmat sekali malam mingguan sembari meneguk secawan anggur merah.
Jujur saja, selain saya pecandu kopi sejati saya juga takluk dalam tegukan red wine, yah boleh dikatakan saya juga adalah WINO, yeah I'm real WINO!!
Tentunya ada sebuah kisah tentang red wine ini sendir, sembari satu sloki dibagikan, ada rasa candu disana dan ada berbagai rasa yang berlumuran disana pula, sungguh tak bisa terkatakan!
Namun disini saya ingin berbagi sedikit cerita tentang manfaat red wine itu sendiri, okay here we go!

CEGAH KANKER PROSTAT
Penelitian mengungkapkan alasan kenapa para pria di Eropa Barat lebih jarang terkena kanker prostat ketimbang pria Amerika. Alasan pertama, karena mereka senang makan bawang putih dan bawang merah hingga 10 gram perhari. Alasan kedua adalah pria di Eropa Barat lebih rutin mengkonsumsi red wine. Minuman dari buah anggur merah ini reseveratol, sejenis anti oksidan yang ditemukan juga pada sejumlah tanaman yang ternyata sangat ampuh menghambat pertumbuhan sel sel kanker, termasuk sel kanker prostat. Satu atau dua gelas wine sudah cukup. Bila anda minum terlalu banyak, malah menetralisir manfaatnya.

MEMUTUS MATA RANTAI ALZHEIMER
Banyaknya kegiatan dan banyak pula momen moment yang menjengkelkan, yaitu betapa pikunnya aka pelupa anda, bahkan untuk hal hal kecil. Ternyata fakta dari itu semua adalah meski jumlahnya sangat kecil, ada 5 dari 4 juta penderita alzheimer berusia dibawah 60 tahun. Keadaan yang menyerang pria berusia antara 30-40 tahun ini disebut early-onset alzheimer. Gejalanya tidak beda dengan late onset alzheimer. Faktor resiko terbesar penyakit ini adalah riwayat keluarga.
Jika terdapat kasus alzheimer di keluarga anda, segeralah pergi ke neurolog untuk tes genetik. Apabila anda divonis ternyata memiliki satu dari tiga gen penyebab, konsumsilah ginkgo biloba atau rajin meminum red wine. Sebuah penelitian menyebutkan, orang yang minum red wine minimal sebulan sekali, lebih sedikit terkena alzheimer ketimbang yang tidak minum sama sekali.

MEMPERPANJANG UMUR DENGAN MENYELAMATKAN JANTUNG DAN HATI
Mengkonsumsi red wine secara teratur juga bermanfaat untuk jantung anda, karena akan menurunkan kaadar kolesterol LDL(kolesterol jahat), namun tetap menjaga agar kolesterol HDL(kolesterol yang bermanfaat untuk menyapu plak dalam darah) tetap tinggi. Hal ini disebabkan kandungan fenol dalam wine. Sedangkan para ahli meneliti bahwa mereka yang mengkonsumsi wine (meski cuma sesekali) memiliki resiko untuk mati muda kurang dari 33% ketimbang merekayang tidak pernah minum wine. Pada mereka yang rutin mengkonsumsi wine, maka resiko mati akibat penyakit kanker dan jantung turun dengan signifikan, namun para ahli tidak menyebutkan presentasenya. Para ahli juga menemukan fakta bahwa selain bermanfaat untuk kesehatan jantung, kandungan fenol dalam wine juga menghambat pertumbuhan sel kanker payudara dan sel kanker prostat. Sedangkan kandungan reseveratol mampu menghambat pertumbuhan sel kanker hati.

MENGHAJAR ORAL HERPES
Red wine sanggup mengahajar oral herpes sebelum penyakit itu muncul. Caranya cukup oleskan red wine pada radang. Terima kasih pada zat yang disebut reseveratol.

MENETRALISIR GIGITAN ULAR
Yang ajaib, red wine mampu menetralisir gigitan ular, tapi sekali lagi perannya hanya membantu bukan sebagai pengobatan utama. Antioksidan tannin dalam red wine konon mampu menetralisir racun akibat gigitan ular.

SALAH SATU CARA MENINGKATKAN PERFORMA KESEHATAN
Manfaat ini diperoleh dari antioksidan Polyphenol yang terdapat dalam red wine. Pola makan yang tinggi lemak dan racun dalam tubuh bisa dikurangi dengan mengkonsumsi sayuran dan buah buahan yang kaya akan polyphenol, salah satunya adalah red wine.

Dan yang paling penting adalah red wine juga dapat MENGHILANGKAN STRESS, MENAMBAH RELAKS, MEMANCING MUNCULNYA IDE IDE KREATIF.

Famous Places Around the World Turned Into Miniature Scenes

Article by Michael Zhang · May 04, 2013

 

New York-based photographer Richard Silver is a passionate traveler, and his primary goal as an artist is to share his life experiences by creating beautiful photographs during his travels. Rather than shoot traditional photos, he uses techniques such as tilt shift, HDR, panorama, and time-slice in order to capture the world in eye-catching ways. Last year we shared his time-slice photos of NYC, which showed day turning into night in single photos.
Another major project he has been working on is called “Tilt Shift.” He has been photographing some of the world’s most famous locations and turning them into miniature scenes.

The project contains photos snapped in locations ranging from the famous structures of Machu Picchu (as seen above) to runners streaming down a road during the New York Marathon.
Silver says, “People always ask me, How do I make people look so small or why do I make people look so small? Simple, we are!” Thus, his goal with the project is to “give the viewer a new way of seeing themselves and their place in the world.”
The photographer tells us he was inspired by the tilt-shift work of Italian photographer Olivo Barbieri. However, instead of using an actual tilt-shift lens, Silver shot “normal” photographs and then applied an artificial shallow depth of field to the images using Photoshop during post-processing.
“I appreciate the freedom that digital gives me especially with this ongoing project,” he says.
So far, Silver has already visited all 7 New Wonders of the World (one of the lists, at least), and has applied this tilt-shift style to all of them.

The US Open in New York City

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City

Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Acropolis

Ahu Tangariki

Palm Islands in Dubai

The White House in Washington, DC

The World Trade Center Memorial

The Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem

Colesium

The Great Wall of China

Teotihuacan, Mexico

Brooklyn Bridge

Roman ruins

The New York Marathon in 2011

Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Zocalo, Mexico

Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey

Snow walkers in Iceland

Silver’s photographs are now being exhibited in galleries located in many of the countries he has visited (over 50 of them around the world).

Read more at http://petapixel.com/2013/05/04/photographer-turns-famous-locations-around-the-world-into-miniature-scenes/#lbHtQB6h1MOOsFvr.99

The History of Jewellery

 

 

The word ‘jewelry’ traces its origin to the Latin word ‘jocale’, which literally meant ’plaything’. The word ‘jewel’ was has been derived from the old French word ‘jouel’, anglicized in the 13^th century. Jewelry has been used for ages, though not necessarily for the purpose of ornamentation. In the most basic form, jewels have been used, since the times when early humans began to use tools and wear clothing. As humans became proficient in the use of tools and metals, the crude jewelry progressed to assume beautiful shapes and designs. The article dwells on the history of jewelry at length. Read on to know some interesting information and amazing facts about how it came into existence.

Interesting & Amazing Information On Origin & Background Of Jewellery

It is interesting to note that that jewelry which is today available in such exquisite designs, glossy stones and material was first made of readily available natural materials, such as animal teeth, bone, different types of shells, carved stones and wood. Initially, jewelry was more of a functional item, used to fasten articles of clothing together, and it was not associated with decorative purposes. However, with the passage of time, it was adapted for being purely used as an object of aesthetic ornamentation. It also came to be used as a spiritual and religious symbol.

 

The first gemstones are considered to be gathered in as much the same way as food. It is highly likely that the gems came to an accidental notice, while the primitive humans were searching for food, picking through alluvial gravels in a dry river bed that contained gems. Prima facie, these dazzling, rather useless pieces of stones were harder than any naturally occurring substance and their transparency could be used for capturing the warmth of fire, brightness of sun and blue depth of sea and sky. However, even the primitives soon learnt the right use of these precious stones and as mankind progressed, jewelry very well became a symbol of wealth and status.

 

It was the ancestors of Homo Sapeins, which actually began the tradition of making jewelry for the purpose of ornamentation. Early humans traveled from Central Africa to the Middle East, the Indus Valley, and to the continent of Europe, collecting objects that interested them and fashioning them into pieces of jewelry, notably to narrate the story of their journey. Mas d’Azil is a paleolithic cave site in the mountains of France, where a French archaeologist found necklaces and bracelets made of bone, teeth, mother-of-pearl, shells and stone, strung together with a single piece of twine. This jewelry roughly belonged to the period between 17,800 and 6,500 BC.

 

The earliest used metal for making jewelry was ‘’free gold’’, which was found in Spanish caves and was native to the region. The initials signs of crude metallurgy were witnessed over 10,000 years ago, when native copper, meteoric iron, silver and tin were first used by humans to create tools and possibly, jewelry. While the history of jewelry suffers from the lack of credible documentation, perhaps due to its archaic roots, there is no denying the fact that the contemporary pieces of jewelry worn by women today, has evolved through a series of phases, to enjoy the popularity it holds today.

 

Source was  taken from:  The Den Toronto (http://thedentoronto.tumblr.com/)

#Beautiful

Featuring R&B crooner Miguel, "Beautiful" is the first single from music diva Mariah Carey's much-anticipated fourteenth studio album due in 2013 via Island Def Jam. Co-written by the singing pair, and co-produced with the help of Happy Perez, "Beautiful" is a romantic ballad with a vintage, retro vibe. Miguel and MiMi kill this vocally. "Beautiful" was world premiered on radios on May 6.

Ah ah you're beautiful
Ah ah you're beautiful

Hop on the back of my bike
Let the good the wind blow through your hair
With a a-- like that, and a smile so bright
Oh you're killing me, you know it ain't fair

Ride on through the middle of the night
Let moonlight kiss your skin
When you dance like that, your jeans so tight
Oh you're killing me, baby do it again

You're beautiful, and your mind is f-cking beautiful
And I can't pretend that that doesn't mean a thing to me, to me, yeah
You're beautiful, good lord, you're f-cking beautiful
And I can't pretend that that doesn't mean a thing to me, to me, yeah

I like when you run red lights, don't stop till you thrill me, oh how you thrill me
Always in control, how you do it I don't know
But I don't care, take me anywhere,

Cause it's beautiful, ooh you make me feel undressable
And I can't pretend that that doesn't mean a thing to me, to me, ohh yeah
You're beautiful, and your mind is f-cking beautiful
And I can't pretend that that doesn't mean a thing to me, to me, yeah
You're beautiful, good lord, you're f-cking beautiful
And I can't pretend that that doesn't mean a thing to me, to me, yeah

Ah ah you're beautiful
Ah ah you're beautiful

You don’t know what you’re doing darling
Hop on back my bike darling
Don’t you worry darling

Move on!

10 Tips to Mend a Broken Heart (how to move on)

By Therese J. Borchard

Bess Myerson once wrote that “to fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” Especially if you are the one who wanted the relationship to last.
Mending a broken heart is never easy. There is no quick way to stop your heart from hurting so much.
To stop loving isn’t an option. Author Henri Nouwen writes, “When those you love deeply reject you, leave you, or die, your heart will be broken. But that should not hold you back from loving deeply. The pain that comes from deep love makes your love ever more fruitful.”
But how do we get beyond the pain? Here are 10 tips I’ve gathered from experts and from conversations with friends on how they patched up their heart and tried, ever so gradually, to move on.
1. Go through it, not around it.
I realize the most difficult task for a person with a broken heart is to stand still and feel the crack. But that is exactly what she must do. Because no shortcut is without its share of obstructions. Here’s a simple fact: You have to grieve in order to move on. During the 18 months of my severe depression, my therapist repeated almost every visit: “Go through it. Not around it.” Because if I went around some of the issues that were tearing me apart inside, then I would bump into them somewhere down the line, just like being caught in the center of a traffic circle. By going through the intense pain, I eventually surfaced as a stronger person ready to tackle problems head on. Soon the pain lost its stronghold over me.

2. Detach and revel in your independence again.
Attempting to fill the void yourself — without rushing to a new relationship or trying desperately to win your lover back — is essentially what detaching is all about. The Buddha taught that attachment that leads to suffering. So the most direct path to happiness and peace is detachment. In his book, Eastern Wisdom for Western Minds, Victor M. Parachin tells a wonderful story about an old gardener who sought advice from a monk. Writes Parachin:

“Great Monk, let me ask you: How can I attain liberation?” The Great Monk replied: “Who tied you up?” This old gardener answered: “Nobody tied me up.” The Great Monk said: “Then why do you seek liberation?”

One of the most liberating thoughts I repeat to myself when I’m immersed in grief and sadness is this: I don’t need anyone or anything to make me happy. When I’m experiencing the intense pangs of grief, it is so difficult to trust that I can be whole without that person in my life. But I have learned over and over again that I can. I really can. It is my job to fill the emptiness, and I can do it… creatively, and with the help of my higher power.
3. List your strengths.
As I wrote in my “12 Ways to Keep Going” post, a technique that helps me when I feel raw and defeated to try anymore is to list my strengths. I say to myself, “Self, you have been sober for 20 years!! Weaklings can’t pull off that! And here you are, alive, after those 18 months of intense suicidal thoughts. Plus you haven’t smoked a cigarette since that funeral back in December of last year!” I say all of that while listening to the “Rocky” soundtrack, and by the last line, I’m ready to tackle my next challenge: move on from this sadness and try to be a productive individual in this world. If you can’t list your strengths, start a self-esteem file. Click here to learn how you build one.
4. Allow some fantasizing.
Grief wouldn’t be the natural process that it should be without some yearning for the person you just lost. Dr. Christine Whelan, who writes the “Pure Sex, Pure Column” on BustedHalo.com, explains the logic of allowing a bit of fantasy. She writes:

If you are trying to banish a sexual fantasy from your head, telling yourself “I’m not going to fantasize about her” or “I won’t think about what it would be like to be intimate with him” might make it worse… In a famous psychological study from the 1980s, a group of subjects were told to think about anything but whatever they did, they were not supposed to think about a white bear. Guess what they all thought about? [A white bear.]

5. Help someone else.
When I’m in pain, the only guaranteed antidote to my suffering is to box up all of my feelings, sort them, and then try to find a use for them. That’s why writing Beyond Blue contributes a big chunk to my recovery, why moderating Group Beyond Blue has me excited to wake up every day. When you turn your attention to another person — especially someone who is struggling with the same kind of pain — you forget about yourself for a split moment. And let’s face it, that, on some days, feels like a miracle.
6. Laugh. And cry.
Laughter heals on many levels as I explain in my “9 Ways Humor Heals” post, and so does crying. You think it’s just a coincidence that you always feel better after a good cry? Nope, there are many physiological reasons that contribute to the healing power of tears. Some of them have been documented by biochemist William Frey who has spent 15 years as head of a research team studying tears. Among their findings is that emotional tears (as compared to tears of irritation, like when you cut an onion) contain toxic biochemical byproducts, so that weeping removes these toxic substances and relieves emotional stress. So go grab a box of Kleenex and cry your afternoon away.
7. Make a good and bad list.
You need to know which activities will make you feel good, and which ones will make you want to toilet paper your ex-lover’s home (or apartment). You won’t really know which activity belongs on which list until you start trying things, but I suspect that things like checking out his wall on Facebook and seeing that he has just posted a photo of his gorgeous new girlfriend is not going to make you feel good, so put that on the “don’t attempt” list, along with e-mails and phone calls to his buddies fishing for information about him. On the “feels peachy” list might be found such ventures as: deleting all of his e-mails and voicemails, pawning off the jewelry he gave you (using the cash for a much-needed massage?), laughing over coffee with a new friend who doesn’t know him from Adam (to ensure his name won’t come up).
8. Work it out.
Working out your grief quite literally — by running, swimming, exercising, walking, or kick-boxing — is going to give you immediate relief. On a physiological level — because exercise increases the activity of serotonin and/or norepinehrine and stimulates brain chemicals that foster growth of nerve cells — but also on an emotional level, because you are taking charge and becoming the master of your mind and body. Plus you can visualize the fellow who is responsible for your pain and you can kick him in the face. Now doesn’t that feel good?
9. Create a new world.
This is especially important if your world has collided with his, meaning that mutual friends who have seen him in the last week feel the need to tell you about it. Create your own safe world — full of new friends who wouldn’t recognize him in a crowd and don’t know how to spell his name — where he is not allowed to drop by for a figurative or literal surprise visit. Take this opportunity to try something new — scuba diving lessons, an art class, a book club, a blog — so to program your mind and body to expect a fresh beginning… without him (or her).
10. Find hope.
There’s a powerful quote in the movie The Tale of Despereaux that I’ve been thinking about ever since I heard it: “There is one emotion that is stronger than fear, and that is forgiveness.” I suppose that’s why, at my father’s deathbed, the moment of reconciliation between us made me less scared to lose him. But forgiveness requires hope: believing that a better place exists, that the aching emptiness experienced in your every activity won’t be with you forever, that one day you’ll be excited to make coffee in the morning or go to a movie with friends. Hope is believing that the sadness can evaporate, that if you try like hell to move on with your life, your smile won’t always be forced. Therefore in order to forgive and to move past fear, you need to find hope.

And remember to love again…

Once our hearts are bruised and burned from a relationship that ended, we have two options: we can close off pieces of our heart so that one day no one will be able to get inside. Or we can love again. Deeply, just as intensely as we did before. Henri Nouwen urges to love again because the heart only expands with the love we are able to pour forth. He writes:

The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper. When your love is truly giving and receiving, those whom you love will not leave your heart even when they depart from you. The pain of rejection, absence, and death can become fruitful. Yes, as you love deeply the ground of your heart will be broken more and more, but you will rejoice in the abundance of the fruit it will bear.

Source was taken from: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/02/18/10-tips-to-mend-a-broken-heart/