The 25 Magic Words Of American Television

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Tonight, two new fall shows premiere: Mob Doctor, which is about a doctor who works for the mob, and Revolution, which is about a devastating global power outage and — more than that — a revolution.

Neither of these shows particularly requires your attention, but taken together, they emphasize that essentially, all you need to make a show is the right combination of title-friendly words. In fact, if you take the correct 25 words, you can combine them (often in either order!) to create all the television we will see in the next ten years. These 25 words hold the key to American commercial television. These are the only 25 words you need. Any combination of two — any combination of two — would make an entirely plausible, fairly easily imaginable broadcast or cable series. Don't believe me? Try out the 25 Magic Television Words for yourself.

MOB

DOCTOR

LAW

JUSTICE

CUPCAKE

CHICAGO

FORCE

911

STORM

REVOLUTION

HEAT

FOREVER

TEAM

PETS

AMERICA

CELEBRITY

ALASKA

TRUCKER

LOVE

MYSTERY

WARS

COUNTRY

REAL

DINER

FASHION

If you don't believe me, try the exercise. Any two of those words can become, together, the title of a new show. Very often, combinations are reversible — Trucker Love is clearly a dating show, while Love Trucker would be a Hallmark movie about a man who transports candy hearts for Valentine's Day and gets stuck in a small town where the adorable local mechanic who happens to be a single mom has to get him back on the road in time to deliver his candy for the big day. See how easy? (DO NOT RIP OFF LOVE TRUCKER. You know who you are.)

Try it yourself. These 25 words are all you need.

18 Sep, 2012

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Are You A Sellout If You Cook For Your Man?

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September 17, 2012

For generations women have been told, if you want a man, learn to cook. That's exactly why feminist writer Shayla Pierce stayed out of the kitchen. But now she finds herself with a boyfriend, learning to cook, and wondering if that makes her a sellout. She speaks with host Michel Martin about her article and her change of heart.

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Nordic Cuisine: Moving Beyond The Meatballs And Pickled Fish

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The Nordic Food Lab experiments with garum, a form of fish sauce familiar to the ancient Romans.

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The Nordic Food Lab experiments with garum, a form of fish sauce familiar to the ancient Romans.

For many people, the phrase "Scandinavian food" probably doesn't bring much to mind beyond the Ikea food court. For those who do have a connection with these Northern European countries, the mental image is probably smothered in gravy with a side of potatoes. But if you're coming to Copenhagen's noma restaurant expecting the same old meatballs and pickled fish, think again.

New Nordic cuisine has been catching the attention of foodies around the globe for a couple of years now, thanks in no small part to noma and other pioneering Scandinavian restaurants that are making over an old-fashioned and, some would say, outdated cuisine.

This is not "new" as in "revisited." This is "new" as in "new." Sure, there's still room for traditional whole grain rye bread, roast pork with crackling skin and strawberry porridge — if it's organic. But New Nordic cuisine is so much more.

 

New Nordic "is a mentality right now. It's a mentality of discovery. It's a mentality of sort of scientific and creative exploration," says Ben Reade, head of culinary research and development at the Nordic Food Lab, the place where a lot of this exploration of new and old food sources and preservation techniques is happening.

On a houseboat parked right outside of noma (though independent), a handful of young, energetic cooks and academics spend their days experimenting with things like seaweed, pine needles, lichens and insects. Their only directive? To share their findings with anyone who's interested.

As his colleagues taste-test mealworms and make vinegar from rosehips, anthropologist Mark Emil Hermanson gets to think about how food contributes to a region's identity and what delineates the edible from the inedible.

"We've decided that the line is deliciousness itself," he says, sucking down a dropper of fermented grasshopper garum. (It is, truly, delicious. Like soy sauce with oomph.)

All this experimentation stems from the fact that New Nordic is a movement driven by a manifesto — literally — of local and healthy. And local is tricky when the growing season might last only from June to August. Under these parameters, the ocean takes on added importance, as do wild game, root vegetables and cold-climate berries.

The result is light, salty, sour, and full of fish. It's also quite playful. At the summer Olympics, noma's chef Rene Redzepi caused a stir by serving live, lemongrass-flavored ants at his London pop-up. When asked about what's notable in his kitchen these days, Redzepi mentions a "yeast fudge."

"It looks totally weird. It actually looks like a slice of bread," he explains. "It's a new thing that incorporates not only lots of good flavors, but also humor and surprise."

Redzepi says 10 years ago, his greatest challenge was in sourcing. Back then, humble Scandinavians weren't used to looking out the window for high-quality ingredients. For example, he says, not so long ago sea urchins were imported from France ... until Danes discovered they were plentiful in their own waters.

It's an indicator of just how things stood 15 years ago when fine dining in Copenhagen meant going out for French or Italian. Now, says David Johansen, head chef at Copenhagen's Kokkeriet, also on the vanguard of the new Nordic movement, "it's total opposite. It's almost impossible to get a French meal in Copenhagen. We have maybe four or five places. Whereas all the kitchens are based on the Nordic."

But you don't have to live in Copenhagen or Scandinavia to take part in the New Nordic craze. Redzepi says the lessons here are transferable.

"If there is a message that comes through this, it's that right now cooking is happening in a part of the world where the history of cooking is poor, the weather conditions are extreme...everything talks against it, so to speak," he says. "(But) it's happening. And that's the message: that good food can happen anywhere."

17 Sep, 2012

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Books Behaving Badly: A Tale Of Real Life In Ink

Shani Boianjiu is the author of The People of Forever Are Not Afraid.

When I was 11 I found a book that did not know it was a book. It was a yellowing Hebrew translation of Tarjei Vesaas's Norwegian novel The Ice Palace. I found it on the shelf in my room that belonged to my parents' old books. Usually these books were too long for me.

Maybe I opened this book because it was short. Maybe I opened it because it had a picture of a young girl on the cover. Maybe I sought it out because it was not one of my books. Still, it was a miracle that I opened it. I opened this book despite the fact that, at 11, I was beginning to suspect that all books were nothing more than cruel lies.

All the books that were mine — like Erich Kastner's books, or Anne of Green Gables — promised meaning and closure that, I found nowhere in real life. In those stories strangers always came to fully know each other. Every secret was revealed, and understood. Pain existed only in the service of the story, and it always came to an end. Every word and person and loss had a purpose.

In my own short life, I had a sadness whose cause I could not put in words, and a yearning for friendship I could not express in my interactions with my peers. For reasons I couldn't understand, I found it difficult to connect with the world. From my home in a small town in Israel, I would see stories on the news, where children died on exploded buses and missiles devastated homes, and the meaning of all that loss was inexplicable to me. When I had learned to read five years earlier, books had been my joyful escape. Yet I was beginning to feel as though those stories were only scams, setting me up for the purposeless heartache that was reality.

Then I read the Ice Palace. The book describes the beginning of a friendship between Siss, a confident, curious child, and Unn, the quiet new girl in town. The story starts out formulaically — the two girls are drawn to one another, and they set up a play date. During that play date they glimpse a spiritual bond that leaves them both dumbfounded. Unn confesses to Siss that she has a secret.

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Shani Boianjiu was born in Jerusalem in 1987. She served in the Israeli Defense Forces for two years.

From this point on, the book shocked me by refusing to behave like any other book I knew. The morning after their meeting, Unn wants to avoid the embarrassment of seeing Siss at school, and decides instead to visit an ice palace created by a frozen waterfall nearby. She enters its enchanting rooms. In language both gorgeous and harrowing, the author describes her getting lost in the palace, and dying.

The rest of the book, the part that, before the sudden moment of Unn's death, I had expected to be about her secret and the growth of the girls' friendship, instead describes Siss's confusion at the meaningless loss of a friend she barely knew. The town's adults pressure Siss to tell them what happened the night before, but the truth is she has little tangible knowledge — only that Unn had a secret, and that the two felt a connection she cannot explain in words.

This book expanded my childish understanding of what a book can be and do. It showed me that not every secret needs to be revealed. Not every seed of a connection blossoms. Not every child grows up, or is freed of her demons. Not every loss or pain has a purpose, or can be put in exact words.

The main characters in this book were my age, and yet there were none of the comforts of other childhood tales in this story. And although this book describes the frozen waterfalls of Norway and I was reading it during a blazing Israeli summer, for me the experience of reading it came closer to encountering real life in ink than anything I had read before, or since. This is a book that celebrates the inexplicable and the incomplete. Reading it did not make reality less fragmented and random, but it made it seem worthy, inexplicable as it may be.

PG-13 is produced and edited by Ellen Silva and Rose Friedman.

17 Sep, 2012

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Toronto Looks East With Asian Film Summit

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Luminaries including Mira Nair, Guneet Monga, Shailja Gupta, Nina Lath Gupta and Dibakar Banerjee attended TIFF's Asian Film Summit Banquet to discuss the growth of a new, realist South Asian cinema.

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Luminaries including Mira Nair, Guneet Monga, Shailja Gupta, Nina Lath Gupta and Dibakar Banerjee attended TIFF's Asian Film Summit Banquet to discuss the growth of a new, realist South Asian cinema.

On Sunday, Sept. 15, the annual Toronto International Film Festival came to a close after 11 days of screenings, meetings and, of course, parties. It's become an extremely important place to kick off the fall film season. But this year, the festival wasn't only looking west to Hollywood — it was also sharpening its focus on the East, and the rise of new cinema from India in particular.

One of the films at this year's Toronto festival was called Shanghai; it comes from Mumbai, and was directed by Dibakar Banerjee.

"One often-repeated refrain that you hear in India is that this city is going to be like Shanghai, and that city is going to be like Singapore, and that city is going to be like London," says Banerjee. "And it's usually a promise made by a politician who is holding up the carrot of progress to his constituency."

Banerjee's film is a searing portrait of both benefactors and victims of the economic boom in India.

"When everything is about more buildings, more factories, more companies, more MBAs and all that, a lot of vulnerable lifestyles get broken down, and there's resentment building up because everybody wanted a share of the pie, but only a few got it," he explains. "And those who haven't got it are watching, and they're not happy."

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Dibakar Banerjee's Shanghai is part of a gritty new wave of Indian film.

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Dibakar Banerjee's Shanghai is part of a gritty new wave of Indian film.

For Banerjee, those social tensions are the stuff of important stories to tell, and his film is the standard-bearer for a recent wave of gritty, realistic films from India — movies that are very different from the exotic song-and-dance landscapes of Bollywood.

"It's really just dynamic right now," says Cameron Bailey, the Toronto film festival's artistic director. "There's so much great work going on. I feel like international festivals like ours should be paying — all of us should be paying more attention to what's happening in Asia."

He says in addition to showing the human side of the massive social and economic shifts in South Asia, these films are also creating a new kind of globalized aesthetic that's a good fit for Toronto.

"This is the city that discovered Slumdog Millionaire — the film was premiered here first — and that's, I think, a good example. It's a film by a British director, set in India, in English and Hindi. That's a completely normal Toronto film."

Toronto is itself a product of globalization. It's home to huge immigrant communities from India and China. Almost half of Torontonians are not white. Multiculturalism is the official government position. This all adds up to sold-out screenings of Indian films at the Festival.

Walking past the red carpet, for instance, you might hear a gaggle of young women trying to catch the attention of South Indian superstar Siddharth, on hand for the premiere of Midnight's Children. The adaptation of Salman Rushdie's lush magic-realist novel screened as a gala presentation along with Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Nair's film, set in five countries, follows a young man with loyalties divided between East and West. For the director, Toronto was the natural venue to introduce the film to North America.

"Toronto is a very multi-ethnic joint," she says. "People are here from all over the world, people have moved here as well from all over the world, so there's a greater worldly curiosity."

Nair made her name in 1989 with Salaam Bombay, a film about street children that was eventually nominated for an Oscar. She went on to direct Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake. When it comes to hyphenated, global storytelling with Indian roots, Nair paved the way.

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Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist was filmed in five countries, with editing and post-production done entirely in India.

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Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist was filmed in five countries, with editing and post-production done entirely in India.

"The other day someone referred to me as the Dadi — the grandmother — of all this cinema, and I said, well, that's a little ageist, but I'm going for the Dadi syndrome, no problem." Nair says. "I feel very proud of the great vigor I see in Indian cinema now."

Nair, normally based in New York, took a different route with The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

"The difference for me in this film was that the post-production was done entirely in India, which is a very exciting thing to do because I realized that I can do it — I can make an international film of the highest of quality in Bombay. That's a lovely, empowering feeling."

The Art Of Making Art Involves Selling It, Too

Toronto isn't just a place to screen these kinds of films. It's a marketplace. In the industry lounge next door to the cinemas, directors meet producers meet distributors meet financiers — all on the hunt for new business.

"The market in Toronto is extremely well-developed," observes Guneet Monga, one of the most successful producers of independent films from India. She says just coming to Toronto opens doors.

"Once we're here, I don't have to explain that I make good content, I just have to walk in and say I have films in Toronto and it's a statement, and people take a meeting, and when I say that I have four films in Toronto, they're pleasantly surprised."

To spotlight producers like Monga, the festival hosted an all-day summit on Asian cinema this year. It brought Western investors and policymakers together with their Chinese and Indian counterparts to discuss everything from co-productions to censorship.

Artistic director Cameron Bailey was also behind the festival's focus on the East.

"I'm thinking back to what happened in the 1920s and '30s and '40s, when you saw so many Europeans come to Hollywood. They came for political reasons, often, just trying to escape pretty awful circumstances in some cases, in Europe, but they changed Hollywood. There was a new sophistication in the comedies, for instance — people like Ernst Lubitsch. There [were] just new kinds of stories that were being told. I think something similar will happen when we see Asia make its way into Western filmmaking in a stronger way. I think we're just at the beginning of that, and I wanted the Asian Film Summit to really help that conversation move forward."

Bailey says that for him, making Toronto a crossroads of cultures is also personal.

"My wife is Chinese-Canadian; we have a young son, he's 3 and a half years old, he's just started preschool, and I want him to grow up in city and in a world where all of his cultures are front and center, where he doesn't feel marginalized in any way, and so that's also part of why I'm doing this."

Toronto is a meeting point between East and West, but those encounters aren't just about multicultural warm-and-fuzzies — they're about a shared love for both the art and the dollars.

17 Sep, 2012

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Atasi Perselingkuhan Antara pasangan

Atasi Perselingkuhan Antara pasangan Apakah Anda sering bertengkar dengan pasangan? Banyak pasangan yang terjebak dalam hubungan buruk tanpa mengenali penyebabnya. Tak melulu soal perselingkuhan, pertikaian justru kerap terpancing dari kebiasaan buruk dalam mengelola hubungan.

Psikiater Rebecca Gladding, MD, sekaligus penulis buku 'You are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life', memaparkan lima kebiasaan buruk pasangan yang berpotensi menghancurkan hubungan, dikutip galtime.com.

1: Berdebat mempertahankan ego
Perbedaan pendapat itu sah-sah saja. Masing-masing memiliki hak untuk memberikan argumen untuk mempertahankan pendapatnya. Namun, terkadang banyak pasangan yang terus berdebat lantaran masing-masing ingin memenangkan "pertarungan".

Ada yang ngotot agar pasangannya 100 persen setuju dengan argumennya. Ada yang sudah menyadari argumen pasangannya yang benar, tapi tetap bertahan pada ego lantaran tak ingin terlihat kalah di hadapan pasangan.

Hentikan kebiasaan ini. Coba kendalikan ego saat berdiskusi dengan pasangan. Jangan sampai Anda selalu menempatkan pasangan sebagai musuh yang harus selalu tunduk pada argumen Anda. Kedepankan logika berpikir demi hubungan harmonis dan mencegah pertikaian panjang.

2: Berasumsi
Jangan-jangan dia begini, jangan-jangan dia begitu, atau pasti dia seperti ini, ... Kalimat-kalimat seperti ini biasanya mudah tersulut saat ketakutan dan kecemasan merayapi diri. Tuduhan begitu mudah muncul dan menempatkan diri sebagai korban kebohongan, tanpa ada komunikasi yang baik dengan pasangan.

Jangan biasakan menuruti bayangan atau merasa memiliki firasat sebelum Anda mengomunikasikan persoalan dengan pasangan. Kedepankan komunikasi dalam hubungan. Bicarakan semua masalah. Diam dan berasumsi justru akan menyulut pertikaian yang berpotensi merusak keharmonisan hubungan.

3: Mengejar jaminan perasaan
Tak hanya dihujani kalimat mesra, wanita juga sangat senang jika pasangannya mengulang-ulang komitmennya terhadap hubungan. Dan, wanita cenderung suka membahas topik yang sama, terutama ketika pria sempat melakukan kesalahan atau selingkuh.

Membahas suatu masalah atau menanyakan perasaan pasangan memang penting, tapi ada batasnya. Jangan sampai usaha membuat nyaman perasaan justru membuat pasangan merasa tidak dipercaya. Ingat karakter pria, semakin didesak, ia justru semakin menghindar.

4: Memeriksa ponselnya
Melihat ponsel pasangan tergeletak mungkin sangat menggoda. Apakah pasangan masih berhubungan dengan mantan? Apakah pasangan melakukan kebohongan? Pertanyaan-pertanyaan inilah yang biasanya menggerakkan tangan kita untuk memeriksa pesan-pesan singkat dan email pasangan diam-diam.

Terlepas rasa penasaran yang menggelora, ini sebenarnya justru mengindikasikan kita tak percaya dengan pasangan. Hati-hati, memeriksa hal-hal pribadi pasangan justru bisa memicu pertikaian serius yang dapat menghancurkan hubungan. Jika memang ingin membacanya, lakukan saat sedang berdua pasangan, bukan diam-diam.

5: Membahas hal penting lewat layanan elektronik
Biasakan membahas masalah serius dengan komunikasi langsung atau tatap muka. Meski sejumlah layanan chat menyediakan emoticon beragam, itu bisa menimbulkan salah persepsi yang memicu pertikaian panjang. Bagaimanapun kontak mata, bahasa tubuh, dan nada bicara menjadi elemen penting dalam sebuah pembahasan serius Atasi Perselingkuhan Antara pasangan

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Promo Member Alfamart Minimarket Lokal Terbaik Indonesia

Promo Member Alfamart Minimarket Lokal Terbaik Indonesia  Promo Member Alfamart Minimarket Lokal Terbaik Indonesia merupakan promosi Yang dilakukan Oleh Minimarket Lokal Terbesar dan Minimarket Pertama Terbaik Indonesia guna untuk menarik Simpati dan Perhatian lebih dari masyarakat untuk menjadi Member Alfamart dan khususnya pecinta Informasi internet dengan menyelenggarakan Promo Indonesia Kontes SEO Alfamart 2012.

Bagi anda yang suka berbelanja tentunya tidak asing lagi dengan minimarket yang satu ini. Sebagai Minimarket Pertama yang memiliki member terbanyak di Indonesia Alfamart memberikan banyak inovasi untuk memanjakan membernya. Salah satunya adalah dengan konsisten 2 minggu sekali  memberikan Promo khusus untuk member-membernya baik untuk berbelanja di Alfamart atau pun di merchant-merchant yang banyak bekerja sama dengan Alfamart untuk memberikan potongan harga atau harga spesial.

Promo Member Alfamart Minimarket Lokal Terbaik Indonesia. Promo Indonesia ini diberikan oleh Alfamart sebagai Minimarket pertama yang mempunyai member terbanyak di Indonesia. Ketika mendengar kata "promo" pasti semua orang tertarik, karena pada setiap kegiatan promo pasti akan ada diskon, hadiah atau sesuatu yang menguntungkan lainnya. Dan kabar gembiranya, Alfamart sebagai minimarket besar Indonesia sedang mengadakan penawaran yang menarik, yaitu Promo Member Alfamart Minimarket Lokal Terbaik Indonesia. Promo Indonesia ini diberikan Alfamart untuk para calon member dan juga member Alfamart.

Minimarket Alfamart yang berdiri sejak tahun 1994 oleh PT. Sumber Alfaria Trijaya Tbk ini yang sekarang sudah memiliki banyak member dan merupakan member terbesar di Minimarket Indonesia. Pertumbuhan  Alfamart di Indonesia sangatlah pesat bak "jamur di musim hujan", terbukti dengan berdirinya cabang-cabang Alfamart yang tidak hanya di kota-kota besar tapi sampai ke pelosok-pelosok kecamatan di seluruh negeri Indonesia.

Alfamart Minimarket Pertama yang memiliki member terbanyak di Indonesia Alfamart Memberikan Motivasi dan Inspirasi serta Inovasi untuk memanjakan membernya. Salah satunya adalah dengan konsisten 2 minggu sekali  memberikan Promo Indonesia khusus untuk Member Alfamart baik untuk berbelanja di Alfamart Minimarket atau pun di merchant-merchant yang banyak bekerja sama dengan Alfamart Minimarket untuk memberikan potongan harga atau harga spesial.

Member Alfamart Adalah sebutan untuk para pelanggan setia Alfamart.Para member Alfamart akan mendapatkan berbagai macam keuntungan dan kejutan special dari Alfamart seperti: HematKu, Kalender Belanja, Specialku dan Hadiahku,serta program ekslusif lainnya. Member Alfamart adalah pelanggan yang memiliki dan bergabung dalam keanggotaan Kartu AKU, A Card Flazz atau Kartu AKU BNI Promo Member Alfamart Minimarket Lokal Terbaik Indonesia

KARTU AKU Promo Member Alfamart Minimarket Lokal Terbaik Indonesia

    Kartu Aku

Adalah kartu member yang pertama kali diluncurkan Alfamart pada tahun 2005. Dengan Kartu AKU, Member akan dapat memperoleh manfaat dan berbagai macam keuntungan serta Promo Indonesia menarik yang tidak dapat diikuti oleh pelanggan lain yang bukan merupakan member Kartu AKU. Kartu AKU berlaku Nasional di Alfamart seluruhIndonesia.

A CARD FINAL Promo Member Alfamart Minimarket Lokal Terbaik Indonesia
    A Card Flazz

Adalah Kartu Member Alfamart yang di luncurkan pada 15 Mei 2010 bekerja sama dengan Flazz BCA, yang selain berfungsi sebagai kartu member juga dapat digunakan sebagai alat pembayaran/transaksi karena A Card Flazz merupakan Kartu Prepaid (kartu non rekening yang dapat menyimpan uang untuk keperluan berbagai transaksi).

A Card Flazz dapat digunakan sebagai alat pembayaran tidak hanya diseluruh outlet Alfamart, Alfamidi ataupun Alfaexpress tetapi juga diseluruh merchant Flazz antara lain restoran, salon, toko buku, parkir, bioskop dan masih banyak lagi. Untuk sementara ini, A Card Flazz berlaku di Jabodetabek,Surabaya

KARTU AKU BNI Promo Member Alfamart Minimarket Lokal Terbaik Indonesia
    Kartu Aku BNI

Merupakan salah satu Kartu Member Alfamart yang di luncurkan pada 1 Januari 2010, merupakan kerjasama antara Alfamart dengan Bank BNI. Kartu AKU BNI merupakan kartu multifungsional, yang selain berfungsi sebagai kartu member, juga berfungsi sebagai alat pembayaran. Pengguna Kartu AKU BNI juga akan mendapatkan berbagai keuntungan dan kejutan spesial dari Alfamart serta tentunya dapat mengikuti program-program eksklusif khusus member di Alfamart. Untuk saat ini, Kartu AKU BNI berlaku di Alfamart Jabodetabek.
8 Keuntungan Member Alfamart

   1. Hematku dan Kalender Belanja
   2. Spesialku dan Hadiahku
   3. Special Big Program for "Member Alfamart"
   4. Redemption For "Member Alfamart"
   5. Member Alfamart" Thematic Promo
   6. Special Treatment for "Member Alfamart" Birthday
   7. Special Event/Activities For "Member Alfamart"
   8. Merchant For "Member Alfamart"

 

Demikianlah penjelasan singkat tentang  Promo Member Alfamart Minimarket Lokal Terbaik Indonesia Semoga dapat bermanfaat dan memberikan pengetahuan Lebih kepada masyarakat agar dapat bergabung menjadi Member Alfamart dan pastikan anda mendapakan keuntungan dan manfaat lebih dari Alfamart Minimarket Lokal Terbaik Indonesia

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Fashion Dari Kulit Hewan

Fashion Dari Kulit Hewan Bau dan menjijikan, dua hal ini menjadi gambaran jelas tentang bangkai. Siapa pun akan menjauh untuk menghindarinya. Tetapi tidak dengan desainer asal Jerman ini. Ia justru berbulan-bulan
mengumpulkan bangkai binatang, untuk hasil karyanya.

Mungkin banyak orang yang akan berpikir dua kali untuk mengenakan alas kaki yang terbuat dari tapak kuda atau tikus mati. Tetapi bagi Irish
Shieferstein ini merupakan sebuah inovasi terbaru.

Seperti yang dilansir oleh Daily Mail, Irish Shieferstein baru saja mengeluarkan rancangan terbarunya. Kali ini ia berkreasi dengan
memanfaatkan bangkai hewan. dimulai dari kuku, kulit hingga seluruh
tubuh burung.

Desainer 45 tahun ini, mengumpulkan semua bangkai dari tukang daging. Ia menghabiskan waktu seminggu untuk membersihkan daging yang melekat, selanjutnya tulang dan kulit dikirim ke penyamak kulit untuk diawetkan.

Koleksi rancangannya telah ditampilkan di berbagai pameran seluruh dunia, termasuk Dolce dan Gabbana. Tetapi sayangnya, sepatu ini belum diproduksi secara umum dan meluas. Apalagi harga yang ditawarkan cukup tinggi, dan sepatu ini hanya dapat digunakan beberapa jam saja.

Beberapa koleksi penting Iris meliputi sepasang sepatu yang terbuat
dari kuda cokelat tanpa tumit sehingga orang yang memakainya harus
menyeimbangkan kaki mereka, sepatu stiletto kulit ular dengan tambahan pistol di bagian tumitnya juga dapat menjadi pilihan.

Selain itu ia juga membuat sepatu yang terbuat dari bankai burung merpati lengkap dengan sayap. " Saya merasa sedang terbang saat melihat rancangan saya yang satu ini" ujarnya.

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Atasi Permasalahan Kulit Kering

Atasi Permasalahan Kulit Kering Meski pun kita tinggal di negara tropis yang hangat, tetapi nyatanya kebanyakan orang beraktivitas di ruangan yang dingin oleh penyejuk udara. Kondisi ini bisa menyebabkan kondisi kulit kering, pecah-pecah, dan terasa gatal. Untuk menyiasatinya, simak tips dari American Academy of Dermatology agar kulit terjaga kelembabannya.

- Mandi air dingin

Mandi air hangat memang bisa membuat rileks, tetapi air hangat membuat kulit lebih mudah kering. Ini karena minyak alami pelindung kulit terhapus oleh air hangat. Karena itu biasakan untuk mandi dengan air dingin. Bila ingin mandi dengan air hangat, mandilah dengan cepat.

- Pilih sabun

Kulit seharusnya terasa lembut dan kenyal setelah mandi. Jika kulit malah terasa kering atau tertarik, mungkin Anda perlu mengganti sabun. Bila kulit Anda tergolong kering, pakailah sabun yang ditambahkan dengan pelembab. Terkadang memang diperlukan beberapa kali uji coba sebelum menemukan sabun yang tepat. Biasakan untuk menggunakan sabun pada area tertentu saja seperti wajah, ketiak, kaki, atau sekitar paha.

- Pakai pelembab

Waktu paling tepat untuk memakai pelembab adalah setelah mandi ketika kulit masih dalam kondisi lembab sehingga zat pelembab mudah diserap dan dikunci. Pelembab dalam bentuk krim adalah yang terbaik untuk kulit kering. Bila memungkinkan pilih produk yang bebas parfum. Untuk wajah, gunakan pelembab yang mengandung vitamin C dan E.

- Konsumsi air yang cukup

Meski tidak berkaitan secara langsung, namun konsumsi air yang cukup bisa memperlancar metabolisme dan membuang toksin sehingga tubuh tetap sehat dan fit.

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Merokok Membuat Otak Bodoh

Merokok Membuat Otak Bodoh Bukti efek negatif dari kebiasaan merokok kembali diungkap oleh sebuah penelitian. Para ahli di Inggris menunjukkan bahwa merokok dapat mempercepat penurunan kualitas memori, cara berpikir, dan belajar khususnya di kalangan pria. Temuan ini menambah daftar panjang alasan bagi para perokok untuk segera berhenti.

Bukan rahasia lagi kalau dalam sebatang rokok setidaknya terkandung sekitar 4.000 zat kimia yang berbahaya bagi tubuh manusia. Tak heran apabila banyak penelitian menyebutkan bahwa asap rokok memiliki andil besar dalam merusak kesehatan.

Dalam riset terbaru yang dipublikasikan pada 6 Februari 2012 dalam jurnal Archives of General Psychiatry, Severine Sabia dari University College London beserta rekan-rekannya menganalisis data sekitar 5.100 pria dan lebih dari 2.100 wanita. Penelitian dilakukan dengan cara menilai serta menganalisis responden terkait fungsi mental, seperti memori, pembelajaran, dan pengolahan pikiran.

Penilaian fungsi mental para responden dilakukan selama tiga kali selama kurun waktu 10 tahun. Sedangkan penilaian status merokok responden dilakukan enam kali dalam kurun waktu 25 tahun. Usia rata-rata responden adalah sekitar 56 tahun ketika penilaian pertama dilakukan.

Peneliti menemukan bahwa di kalangan kaum pria, merokok berhubungan dengan merosotnya kemampuan otak yang lebih cepat. Selain itu, penurunan yang lebih masif terjadi pada pria yang terus merokok selama masa penelitian.

Di antara responden yang berhenti merokok, upaya meninggalkan rokok rupanya tidak terlalu membantu. Peneliti menemukan bahwa pria yang berhenti merokok dalam 10 tahun sebelum penilaian pertama dilakukan ternyata masih berisiko mengalami penurunan mental, terutama terkait fungsi "eksekutif" pada otak. Namun, mereka yang telah berhenti merokok dalam jangka waktu lama, cenderung mengalami penurunan fungsi otak lebih lambat.

"Akhirnya, hasil penelitian kami menunjukkan bahwa ada hubungan antara merokok dengan penurunan kemampuan mental, terutama pada usia lebih tua," kata peneliti.

Peneliti menambahkan, meski temuan tersebut telah menemukan hubungan antara merokok dan penurunan mental pada pria, tetapi hal ini tidak membuktikan hubungan sebab-akibat.

"Temuan ini menggarisbawahi bahwa merokok memiliki dampak buruk terhadap otak. Kebiasaan merokok di usia pertengahan adalah faktor yang dapat dimodifikasi yang mana efeknya mungkin setara dengan penurunan (fungsi mental) hingga rata-rata 10 tahun," kata Dr Marc Gordon, Kepala Neurologi di Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY, yang tidak terlibat dalam penelitian.

Dalam riset ini, para ahli tidak menemukan hubungan antara efek merokok dan penurunan fungsi mental pada kaum wanita. Alasan untuk perbedaan jenis kelamin ini belum terungkap dengan jelas. Tetapi, hal itu mungkin berkaitan dengan fakta bahwa pria umumnya cenderung merokok lebih banyak ketimbang wanita.

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