The First Work Program of the Rainbow Children Forum in 2010/2012 periode

Seiring dengan berkembangnya teknologi dan informasi serta dampak dari globalisasi berimbas pada tingkah laku dan pola dari anak dan remaja yang tidak dapat menyaring dan memilah kebaikan dan keburukan dari kemajuan tersebut sehingga banyak hal yang terjadi pada anak dan remaja , baik sebagai pelaku maupun sebagai korban dari kemajuan tersebut.
Salah satu dampak dari hal tersebut yaitu kurangnya keimanan dan ketakwaan kepada Tuhan Yang Maha Esa , hal ini menyebabkan menyebabkan berbagai macam penyakit Rohani yang mewabah pada anak dan remaja.Hal ini dapat dilihat dari berbagai fenomena sehari – hari yang mana, banyaknya anak yang bertindak telah melampaui norma yang berlaku.
Penyebab dari fenomena ini bermacam – macam , salah satunya adalah tidak tertanamnya nilai – nilai luhur dalam pribadi anak dan remaja.Nilai – nilai itu mencakup nilai agama , nilai adat , nilai seni dan lain- lain.
Melihat permasalahan itulah Forda Pelangi Kabupaten Tanah Datar dan Dispora Kabupaten Tanah Datar mengadakan Lomba Baca Puisi Rohani I yang disingkat dengan (LBPR I). Kegiatan ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan rasa keimanan pada remaja Kab. Tanah Datar, karena menurut kami para remaja lebih mudah meresapi sesuatu melalui puisi.
Acara yang diketuai oleh Rafki Ismed Ghifary ini mendapat respon yang tinggi, baik dari kalangan pelajar sebagai peserta yang antusias. Buktinya peserta LBPR I ini membludak sampai 72 peserta, yang sebelumnya hanya diprediksi sekitar 50-an. Dan juga kegiatan ini juga direspon baik oleh bupati Tanah Datar M. Shadiq Passadigoe dengan berkenan untuk melaksanakan final LBPR I di Gedung Indo Jolito (Kediaman Bupati Tanah Datar) dan memberi makan siang kepada seluruh finalis, pendamping serta panitia LBPR I.
Acara LBPR I ini diadakan selama 3 hari, yaitu 26-28 November 2010. Sebelum berlomba, para peserta diberi pencerahan dengan bengkel puisi pada hari pertama oleh dewan juri dan pemateri dari provinsi. Disini para peserta diajarkan bagaimana cara berpuisi yang baik, yaitu dari vocal, mimik, dinamik suara dll. Pada hari berikutnya dilanjutkan dengan lomba puisi rohani I yang diikuti oleh 72 peserta yang diadakan di depan kantor DISPORA Kab. Tanah Datar. Dan pada hari terakhir, peserta yang lolos masuk final yaitu sebanya 20 orang diuji lagi kebolehannya di gedung Indo Jolito, hingga mendapatkan 6 finalis terbaik dari yang baik-baik. Hehheh...dan 1 peserta terfavorit.
”Acara ini bisa dijadikan program tahunan Forum Anak Daerah Pelangi Kab. Tanah Datar” ujar Kabid. DISPORA Bapak afriyendra yang juga sangat care dengan acara inI, yang juga bisa disebut sebagai ustd. Kondang di Kab. Tanah Datar.

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Nibiru collision

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V838 Mon, a star with an expanding gas shell passed off as "photographic evidence" of Nibiru
The Nibiru collision is a supposed disastrous encounter between the Earth and a large planetary object (either a collision or a near-miss) which certain groups believe will take place in the early 21st century. Believers in this doomsday event usually refer to this object as Planet X or Nibiru. The idea that a planet-sized object could possibly collide with or pass by Earth in the near future is not supported by any scientific evidence and has been rejected as pseudoscience by astronomers and planetary scientists.
The idea was first proposed in 1995 by Nancy Lieder, founder of the website ZetaTalk. Lieder describes herself as a contactee with the ability to receive messages from extra-terrestrials from the Zeta Reticuli star system through an implant in her brain. She states that she was chosen to warn mankind that the object would sweep through the inner Solar System in May 2003 (though that date was later abandoned) causing Earth to undergo a pole shift that would destroy most of humanity. The predicted collision has subsequently spread beyond Lieder's website and has been embraced by numerous internet doomsday groups, most of which link the event to the 2012 phenomenon. Although the name "Nibiru" is derived from the works of ancient astronaut writer Zecharia Sitchin and his interpretations of Babylonian and Sumerian mythology, Sitchin himself denied any connection between his work and various claims of a coming apocalypse.
The idea of the Nibiru encounter originated with Nancy Lieder, a Wisconsin woman who claims that as a girl she was contacted by gray extraterrestrials called Zetas, who implanted a communications device in her brain. In 1995, she founded the website ZetaTalk to disseminate her ideas. Lieder first came to public attention on internet newsgroups during the build-up to Comet Hale-Bopp's 1997 perihelion. She stated, speaking as the Zetas, that "The Hale-Bopp comet does not exist. It is a fraud, perpetrated by those who would have the teeming masses quiescent until it is too late. Hale-Bopp is nothing more than a distant star, and will draw no closer." She claimed that the Hale-Bopp story was manufactured to distract people from the imminent arrival of a large planetary object, "Planet X", which would soon pass by Earth and destroy civilization. After Hale-Bopp's perihelion revealed it as one of the brightest and longest-observed comets of the last century, Lieder removed the first two sentences of her initial statement from her site, though they can still be found in Google's archives. Her claims eventually made the New York Times.
Lieder described Planet X as roughly four times the size of the Earth, and said that its perigee would occur on May 27, 2003, resulting in the Earth's rotation ceasing for exactly 5.9 terrestrial days. This would be followed by the Earth's pole destabilising in a pole shift (a physical pole shift, with the Earth's pole physically moving, rather than a geomagnetic reversal) caused by magnetic attraction between the Earth's core and the magnetism of the passing planet. This in turn would disrupt the Earth's magnetic core and lead to subsequent displacement of the Earth's crust.
Lieder's Planet X idea first spread beyond her website in 2001, when Mark Hazlewood, a former member of the ZetaTalk community, took her ideas and published them in a book: Blindsided: Planet X Passes in 2003. Lieder would later accuse him of being a confidence trickster. A Japanese cult called the Pana Wave Laboratory, which blocked off roads and rivers with white cloths to protect itself from electromagnetic attacks, also warned that the world would end in May 2003 after the approach of a tenth planet.
Roughly a week before the supposed arrival of Planet X, Lieder appeared on KROQ radio in Los Angeles, and advised listeners to put their pets down in anticipation of the event. When asked if she had done so, she replied that she had, and that "The puppies are in a happy place." She also advised that "A dog makes a good meal". After the 2003 date passed without incident, Lieder said that it was merely a "White Lie ... to fool the establishment," and said that to disclose the true date would give those in power enough time to declare martial law and trap people in cities during the shift, leading to their deaths.
Many internet sites continue to proclaim that Lieder's object is en route to Earth, often citing its arrival date as December, 2012. This date has gathered many apocalyptic associations, as it is the end of the current cycle (baktun) in the long count in the Mayan calendar. Several writers have published books connecting the collision with 2012. Hazlewood has since changed his views on Planet X, and now says that there are intelligent alien forces acting to protect us as a species, and that we are set to ascend to a higher level of consciousness in 2012.
Zecharia Sitchin and Sumer
Although Lieder originally referred to the object as "Planet X", it has become deeply associated with Nibiru, a planet from the works of ancient astronaut proponent Zecharia Sitchin, particularly his book The 12th Planet. According to Sitchin's interpretation of Babylonian religious texts, which contravenes every conclusion reached by credited scholars on the subject, a giant planet (Nibiru or Marduk) passes by Earth every 3,600 years and allows its sentient inhabitants to interact with humanity. These beings, which Sitchin identifies with the Annunaki of Sumerian myth, would become humanity's first gods. Lieder first made the connection between Nibiru and her Planet X on her site in 1996 ("Planet X does exist, and it is the 12th Planet, one and the same.").
Sitchin however denies any connection between his work and Lieder's claims. In 2007, partly in response to Lieder's proclamations, Sitchin published a book, The End of Days, which set the time for the last passing of Nibiru by Earth at 556 BC, which would mean, given the object's supposed 3,600–year orbit, it would return sometime around AD 2900. He did however say that he believed that the Annunaki might return earlier by spaceship, and that the timing of their return would coincide with the shift from the astrological Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius, sometime between 2090 and 2370.
Other names
Lieder drew the name Planet X from the hypothetical planet once searched for by astronomers to account for discrepancies in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. In 1894, Bostonian astronomer Percival Lowell became convinced that the planets Uranus and Neptune had slight discrepancies in their orbits. He concluded that they must be being tugged by the gravity of another, more distant planet, which he called "Planet X". However, nearly a century of searching failed to turn up any evidence for such an object (Pluto was initially believed to be Planet X, but was later determined to be too small). In 1992, astronomer Myles Standish showed that the supposed discrepancies in the planets' orbits were illusory; the product of an overestimation of the mass of Neptune. Today astronomers accept that Planet X does not exist.
Another common name for Planet X/Nibiru is Nemesis, a name taken from a hypothesis first proposed by physicist Richard A. Muller. In 1984, Muller postulated that mass extinctions were not random, but appeared to occur in the fossil record with a loose periodicity that ranged from 26-34 million years. He attributed this supposed pattern to a heretofore undetected companion to the Sun, either a brown dwarf, a dim red dwarf or a gas giant planet, lying in an elliptical, 26-million-year orbit. This object, which he named Nemesis, would, once every 26 million years, pass through Oort cloud, the shell of over a trillion icy objects believed to be the source of long-period comets and to lie at thousands of times Pluto's distance from the Sun. Nemesis's gravity would then disturb the comets' orbits and send them into the inner Solar System, causing the Earth to be bombarded. However, to date no direct evidence of Nemesis has been found. Though the idea of Nemesis appears similar to the Nibiru collision, they are in fact very different, as Nemesis, if it existed, would have an orbital period thousands of times longer, and would never come near Earth itself.
Still others refer to the object as Eris;] however, Eris (provisional designation: 2003 UB313) is a dwarf planet only slightly larger than Pluto with a well-determined orbit that never takes it closer than 5.5 billion km from the Earth. Astronomer Mike Brown, who discovered Eris, believes the confusion results from both the real Eris and the imaginary Nibiru having extremely elliptical orbits.
Scientific criticism
Astronomers point out that such an object so close to Earth would be easily visible to the naked eye (Jupiter and Saturn are both visible to the naked eye, and are dimmer than Nibiru would be at their distances), and would be creating noticeable effects in the orbits of the outer planets.[29] Some counter this by claiming that the object has been hiding behind the Sun for several years, though such a claim is geometrically impossible.[12] Images of Nibiru near the Sun taken by amateurs are usually the result of lens flares, false images of the Sun created by reflections within the lens.[30]
Mike Brown notes that if this object's orbit were as described, it would only have lasted in the Solar System for a million years or so before Jupiter expelled it, and that there is no way another object's magnetic field could have such an effect on Earth. Lieder's assertions that the approach of Nibiru would cause the Earth's rotation to stop or its axis to shift violate the laws of physics. In his rebuttal of Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision, which made the same claim that the Earth's rotation could be stopped and then restarted, Carl Sagan noted that, "the energy required to brake the Earth is not enough to melt it, although it would result in a noticeable increase in temperature: the oceans would [be] raised to the boiling point of water . . . [Also,] how does the Earth get started up again, rotating at approximately the same rate of spin? The Earth cannot do it by itself, because of the law of the conservation of angular momentum."
Many believers in the imminent approach of Planet X/Nibiru accuse NASA of deliberately covering up visual evidence of its existence. One such accusation involves the IRAS infrared space observatory, launched in 1983. The satellite briefly made headlines due to an "unknown object" that was at first described as "possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this Solar System". This newspaper article has been cited by proponents of the collision idea, beginning with Lieder herself, as evidence for the existence of Nibiru. However, further analysis revealed that of several unidentified objects, nine were distant galaxies and the tenth was "intergalactic cirrus"; none were found to be Solar System bodies.
Another accusation frequently made by websites predicting the collision is that the US government built the South Pole Telescope to track Nibiru's trajectory, and that the object has been imaged optically. However, the SPT (which is not funded by NASA) is a radio telescope, and cannot take optical images. Its South Pole location was chosen due to the low-humidity environment, and there is no way an approaching object could be seen only from the South Pole. The "picture" of Nibiru posted on YouTube was revealed to in fact be a Hubble image of the expanding gas shell around the star V838 Mon.
In a 2009 interview with the Discovery Channel, Mike Brown noted that, while it is not impossible that the Sun has a distant planetary companion, such an object would have to be lying very far from the observed regions of the Solar System to have no gravitational effect on the other planets. A Mars-sized object could lie undetected at 300 AU (10 times the distance of Neptune); a Jupiter-sized object at 30,000 AU (1000 times the distance of Neptune). To travel 1000 AU (30 times the distance of Neptune) in 2 years, an object would need to be moving at 2400 km/s, or faster than the galactic escape velocity. At that speed, any object would be shot out of the Solar System, and then out of the Milky Way galaxy into intergalactic space.
Public reaction
The impact of the public fear of the Nibiru collision has been especially felt by professional astronomers. Mike Brown now says that Nibiru is the most common pseudoscientific topic he is asked about.
David Morrison, director of SETI, CSI Fellow and Senior Scientist at NASA's Astrobiology Institute at Ames Research Center, says he receives 20–25 emails a week about the impending arrival of Nibiru; some frightened, others angry and naming him as part of the conspiracy to keep the truth of the impending apocalypse from the public, and still others asking whether or not they should kill themselves, their children or their pets. Half of these emails are from outside the US.[12] "Planetary scientists are being driven to distraction by Nibiru," notes science writer Govert Schilling, "And it is not surprising; you devote so much time, energy and creativity to fascinating scientific research, and find yourself on the tracks of the most amazing and interesting things, and all the public at large is concerned about is some crackpot theory about clay tablets, god-astronauts and a planet that doesn't exist." Morrison states that he hopes that the non-arrival of Nibiru could serve as a teaching moment for the public, instructing them on 'rational thought and baloney detection', but doubts that will happen.
Morrison noted in a lecture recorded on FORA.tv that there was a huge disconnect between the massive number of people on the internet who believed in Nibiru's arrival in 2012 and the majority of scientists who have never heard of it. To date he is the only major NASA scientist to speak out regularly against the Nibiru phenomenon.
A viral marketing campaign for Sony Pictures' 2009 film 2012, directed by Roland Emmerich, which depicts the end of the world in that year, featured a supposed warning from the "Institute for Human Continuity" that lists the arrival of Planet X as one of its doomsday scenarios. Mike Brown attributes a spike in concerned emails and phone calls he received from the public to this site

When was HIV discovered, and how is it diagnosed?and How is HIV spread (transmitted)?

In 1981, homosexual men with symptoms of a disease that now are considered typical of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were first described in Los Angeles and New York. The men had an unusual type of lung infection (pneumonia) called Pneumocystis carinii (now known as Pneumocystis jiroveci) pneumonia (PCP) and rare skin tumors called Kaposi's sarcomas. The patients were noted to have a severe reduction in a type of cell in the blood that is an important part of the immune system, called CD4 cells. These cells, often referred to as CD4 T cells, help the body fight infections. Shortly thereafter, this disease was recognized throughout the United States, Western Europe, and Africa. In 1983, researchers in the United States and France described the virus that causes AIDS, now known as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and belonging to the group of viruses called retroviruses. In 1985, a blood test became available that measures antibodies to HIV that are the body's immune response to the HIV. This blood test remains the best method for diagnosing HIV infection. Recently, tests have become available to look for these same antibodies in blood and saliva, some providing results within 20 minutes of testing.

HIV is present to variable degrees in the blood and genital secretions of virtually all individuals infected with HIV, regardless of whether or not they have symptoms. The spread of HIV can occur when these secretions come in contact with tissues such as those lining the vagina, anal area, mouth, or eyes (the mucus membranes), or with a break in the skin, such as from a cut or puncture by a needle. The most common ways in which HIV is spreading throughout the world include sexual contact, sharing needles, and by transmission from infected mothers to their newborns during pregnancy, labor (the delivery process), or breastfeeding. (See the section below on treatment during pregnancy for a discussion on reducing the risk of transmission to the newborn.)
Sexual transmission of HIV has been described from men to men, men to women, women to men, and women to women through vaginal, anal, and oral sex. The best way to avoid sexual transmission is abstinence from sex until it is certain that both partners in a monogamous relationship are not HIV-infected. Because the HIV antibody test can take up to six months to turn positive after infection occurs, both partners would need to test negative six months after their last potential exposure to HIV. If abstinence is out of the question, the next best method is the use of latex barriers. This involves placing a condom on the penis as soon as an erection is achieved in order to avoid exposure to pre-ejaculatory and ejaculatory fluids that contain infectious HIV. For oral sex, condoms should be used for fellatio (oral contact with the penis) and latex barriers (dental dams) for cunnilingus (oral contact with the vaginal area). A dental dam is any piece of latex that prevents vaginal secretions from coming in direct contact with the mouth. Although such dams occasionally can be purchased, they are most often created by cutting a square piece of latex from a condom.
The spread of HIV by exposure to infected blood usually results from sharing needles, as in those used for illicit drugs. HIV also can be spread by sharing needles for anabolic steroids to increase muscle, tattooing, and body piercing. To prevent the spread of HIV, as well as other diseases including hepatitis, needles should never be shared. At the beginning of the HIV epidemic, many individuals acquired HIV infection from blood transfusions or blood products, such as those used for hemophiliacs. Currently, however, because blood is tested for both antibodies to HIV and the actual virus before transfusion, the risk of acquiring HIV from a blood transfusion in the United States is extremely small and is considered insignificant.
There is little evidence that HIV can be transferred by casual exposure, as might occur in a household setting. For example, unless there are open sores or blood in the mouth, kissing is generally considered not to be a risk factor for transmitting HIV. This is because saliva, in contrast to genital secretions, has been shown to contain very little HIV. Still, theoretical risks are associated with the sharing of toothbrushes and shaving razors because they can cause bleeding, and blood can contain large amounts of HIV. Consequently, these items should not be shared with infected people. Similarly, without sexual exposure or direct contact with blood, there is little if any risk of HIV contagion in the workplace or classroom.

FAN (Forum Anak Nasional)

FAN merupaka n singkatan dari Forum Anak Nasional. FAN 2010 kemaren diadakan di

PUSPIPTEK (Pusat  Penelitian Ilmu pengetahuan dan Teknologi), Tanggerang, selama 3 hari dari tanggal 30 september – 2 oktober 2010. Acara FAN ini diikuti oleh 28 provinsi se-Indonesia, dengan utusan 3 orang per provinsi. Saking semangatnya, ada juga provinsi yang mengirim lebih dari 3 orang. Yaitu seperti Kalimantan barat yang mengirim 8 orang anak, dan Maluku yang juga mengirim 8 orang anak juga. Dan utusan dari Sumatera Barat ada Arief Rizaldi Prasetya dari kab. Tanah Datar, Nugraha hadi Yulianto dari kab. Pasaman, dan Novelia Prima dari kab. Sijunjung.
Hari Pertama merupakan acara pembukaan sekaligus dialong interaktif anak degan Ibu Menteri KPP dan PA (Komisi Pemberdayaan Perempuan dan Perlindungan Anak. Namun sayangnya Ibu menteri tidak hadir, jadi pendapat-pendapat dan suara-suara dari anak Indonesia tidak dapat langsung oleh Ibu Menteri KPP dan PA. Hari kedua, para peserta FAN dibawa jalan-jalan ke laboratirium PUSPIPTEK. Disana para peserta dibagi menjadi 3 kelompok , kelompok A dibawa ke laboraturium penjernihan air dari sungai Cisadane, kelompok B dibawa ke laboraturium Bioteknologi, sedangkan kelompo C dibawa ke laboraturium Biodiesel yang meneliti tentang cara menjernihkan kembali minyak hasil penggorengan. Disana para peserta melakukan penelitian ilmiah dan mendiskusikan hasil penelitian ilmiah tersebut untuk di presentasikan.Malamnya, diajarkan tentang cara membuat sungai kehidupan
Pada hari terakhir, ada penyampaian materi tentang Konvensi Hak Anak. Dan juga materi dari Bapak Agum Gumelar tentang peningkatan rasa nasionalisme. Nah..disinilah para anak-anak Indonesia berkesempatan buat mencurahkan dan mengeluarkan aspirasi, pendapat dan suara-suaranya karena kebetulan Bapak Agum Gumelar adalah suami dari Ibu menteri KPP dan PA.
Dan pada acara penutupannya yang merupakan sebuah kenangan yang tidak terlupakan. Disanalah terasa kekompakan anak-anak Indonesia dengan semboyan Bhineka Tunggal Ika. Walaupun berbeda tetapi tetap satu.

The reality is, has anybody the guts to no say, and in any case why would they? Most legislators are only interested in feathering their own nest; they don’t care about the people or the good of the country. If any Legislator was crazy enough to oppose the police's choice for a new leader, they could end up in prison on trumped-up charges, beaten to a pulp in the street, their home fire-bombed, having a fatal accident, or suddenly be found to have committed suicide. Everybody knows that the police use intimidation and violence to get their way.
From all accounts Timur Pradopo associates with thugs and criminals, which means by default he himself is a thug and a criminal, and I understand is well practiced in the use of violence to get his way. Altogether, this man sounds to be a very nasty piece of work all round.
Too many secrets need to be kept; too many crimes need to remain unsolved; too much dirty business needs to be kept in the dark: this is the man that all those involved in the murky, dirty, criminal and violent world that exists in the corridors of Indonesian power, have elected. The new Don has already been chosen, and he knows exactly what his job is; who he has to protect; whose interests he needs to promote; who he needs to put down, and he has the essential connections in the underworld to perform his tasks with deadly efficiency.
The President of Indonesia has completely ignored and abandoned the people by supporting this man, he cares not one bit of the damage this will do to the country and to its citizens; he cares only of himself. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is a traitor. Blood on the streets of Indonesia is inevitability now, and the people can blame our weak, pathetic, cowardly leader, and his ar** licking cronies, for this when it happens.