MANGSA PENYAKIT AGE LEBIH 3,000 ORANG

IPOH - Sebanyak 251 kes baharu direkodkan semalam oleh Jabatan Kesihatan Perak melibatkan wabak acute gastroenteritis (AGE), menjadikan jumlah keseluruhan mangsa telah meningkat kepada 3,068 orang. Pengarahnya, Datuk Dr. Ahmad Razin berkata, jumlah tersebut membabitkan 180 kes yang dilaporkan di daerah Hilir Perak manakala 71 lagi di Batang Padang.

PESAKIT AGE, Nurul Izzatul Sofea Mohd. Johari, 4, ditemani oleh ibunya,
Nurul Firdaus Osman, 32, semasa dirawat di Hospital Tapah semalam. 

"Di Hospital Teluk Intan, seramai enam pesakit terpaksa ditahan di wad bagi menerima rawatan manakala Hospital Tapah menerima sembilan kes baharu. Bagaimanapun, masing-masing enam dan tiga pesakit yang ditahan di Hospital Teluk Intan dan Hospital Tapah dibenarkan pulang hari ini (semalam)," katanya ketika dihubungi Kosmo! di sini semalam. Wabak AGE yang menyerang dua daerah di negeri ini sejak dua minggu lalu telah menyebabkan dua kematian di Hilir Perak yang masing-masing melibatkan bayi berusia 10 bulan dan dua bulan.

 

AGE yang berpunca daripada sejenis virus digelar rotavirus, merebak melalui air sehingga menyebabkan mangsa muntah, demam dan dehidrasi. Berikutan itu, beberapa sampel air di daerah Batang Padang dan Hilir Perak dan Loji Air Bukit Temoh diuji bagi mengesan punca utama penularan wabak itu.

Sebarang pertanyaan mengenai wabak AGE boleh dibuat terus kepada Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri Perak melalui talian 05-2533489 atau 05-2533012.

Sumber dari KOSMO

HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

THE DROPPING OF ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI BROUGHT AN END TO WORLD WAR II, BUT AT A TERRIBLE PRICE TO HUMANITY.

On July 29, 1945, Japan rejected an ultimatum issued by the Allies to surrender unconditionally or suffer "complete destruction." This left two options : invade Japan or use the awesome power of what U.S president Harry S Truman described understandably as "a new weapon of unusual destructive force" -  the atomic bomb. U.S. military adviser considered that an invasion would incur some 1 million Allied casualties and untold civilian death, so Truman opted for what he considered the lesser of two evils, authorizing the immediate use of four atomic bombs. He also reiterated the call for surrender, warning the japanese og " a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth."

LITTLE BOY AND FAT MAN

On August 6 Operation Centerboard began. A B-29 bomber name Enola Gay, after the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, took off from the Mariana Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, for the city of Hiroshima, where bombardier Major Thomas Ferebee released an atomic bomb code-named Little Boy. The tail gunner, who witnessed the explosion from 10 miles away as Enola Gay returned to base, voiced a thought that would be echoed around the globe:  " My God. What have we done?" The city was vaporized, nearly 1000,000 people were killed instantly, and up to 250,00 died of burns and radiation sickness, some of them years later.

Japanese surrendering on the USS Missouri

Still Japanese would not surrender, and on August 9 a second atomic bomb, code-named Fat Man, was dropped on the port Nagasaki, wreaking similar destruction but with fewer casualties. The following days, Emperor Hirohito announced that Japan would surrender conditionally, thereby preventing the United State from dropping the remaining two atomic bombs, which had been scheduled for August 14 and 16.

THE BLITZ

To Germans, blitzkrieg means " lightning war", but for Britain the 'Blitz" means eight long, slow months of devastating air raids.

THE FIRST COUNTRY TO EXPERIENCE BLITZKRIEG WAS POLAND when the German navy and air force began bombarding that country's major cities and ports and the swift, mobile armored units of the German army swept across the border. Compared with the trenches of World War 1, " lightning war" was an apt term for this new form of warfare. In Britain the RAF prevented the process of blitzkrieg from progressing beyond the stage of aerial bombardment, and " lightning war" turned into a slow war of attrition as the Luftwaffe attempted to bomb the country into submission.

THE BLITZ ON LONDON

Air raids on London began on "Black Saturday," September 7, 1940, and continued every night for more than two month with the exception of November 2, when bad weather grounded the Luftwaffe. However, the Blitz on London did not have the desired effect. It was a tactical error it that it allowed the RAF to regroup and ultimately win the Battle of Britain, and it was a psychological error in that did not break the morale of Londoners, but instead made them more defiant and more supportive of prime Minister Winston Churchill's dogged determination to fight on at all costs.

Churchill inspects Bomb
damage to House of Commons

London during the Blitz (1941)

Bomb Damage in London December 1940

THE BLITZ ON BRITAIN

The Blitz was soon extended to most of Britain. When it became clear the capital would not be bombed into submission, the Luftwaffe began systematically bombing other industrial cities important to the war effort, as well as continuing intermittent raids on London. 

After the almost total destruction of Coventry on November 14, 1940, the Germans coined a new verb: Coventrisieren,   "to annihilate or raze to the ground." Over the coming months many other cities would be Coventrized, including Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Sheffield and Southampton. Some 42,000 people were killed and countless homes and historic buildings destroyed in the eight months of the Blitz, but Britain did not buckle, and reprieve eventually came with Hitler's decision to turn instead on his former ally, the USSR

THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

No words sum up this battle than Winston Churchill'r, " Never in the field of human conflict was so much over by so many to so few".

After the conquest of France,  Adolf Hitler began planning Operation Sealion the invasion of Britain, In order to land invasion force against Britain's superior navy, Germany would require complete supremacy in the air, and so it was the battle of Britain was fought entirely in the skies. The battle began in earnest on August 13, 1940 code-name Eagle Day by Germans when the Luftwaffe (German air force) , under the command of Herman Goering, began the large-scale bombing of British airfields and aircraft factories in an effort to destroy the RAF.
 But the Germans had not counted on the skill, determination and stamina of British pilots, the maneuverability of the British Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft, of the advantage provided bu Britain's secrete chain of south-coast radar stations, the first in the world. At first the Germans consistently lost more aircraft than the British, but in late August Goering changed tactics, concentrating greater firepower on a smaller number of targets, and the RAF began to lose planes and pilots faster than it could replace them. Then Goering made a decision that would cost him the battle : On September 7 he began bombing London.

Herman Goering

TACTICAL ERROR

Historians disagree to whether Goering made this decision in order to achieve a breakthrough, not realizing how close the RAF was to capitulation or whether it was a misguided retaliation for RAF raids on Berlin. Whatever the reason, it was the break the RAF needed. The bombing of London marked the start of the Blitz, which was disastroius for London, but by taking Luftwaffe resources away from bombing Britain's airfields, it allowed the RAF to regroup. On September 15 came the decisive raid on London - the Luftwaffe lost nearly three times as many aircraft as the RAF, and the Germans had to accept that far from being defeated, the RAF was gaining strength. Two days later Hitler postponed Operation Sealion "until further order," abandoning it altogether on October 12. The battle of Britain had been won and lost, and September 15 is celebrated annually as Battle of Britain Day in memory of the pilots of the RAF - " the Few" to whom so much is wed by so many.

JAC JELAS ISU SENTAP DENGAN PEMINAT

Biarpun ramai pihak memuji kehebatan Anugerah Juara Lagu ke-26 (AJL26) yang disifatkan paling berprestij sepanjang penganjurannya, ada pula beberapa pihak menyalahkan Jaclyn Victor di atas kekalahan lagu Sedetik Lebih.Malah ada juga pihak bertindak membuat undian, penyanyi mana lebih bagus membawa lagu tersebut. Namun kerana tindakan dan kritikan berlebihan segelintir peminat ‘tegar’ lagu tersebut nyanyian asal Anuar Zain, Jaclyn atau nama penuhnya Jaclyn Joshua Thanaraj Victor dikatakan naik angin, menerusi beberapa kenyataan dikeluarkan menerusi laman Facebook miliknya.

Jaclyn atau mesra di sapa Jac semasa dihubungi Zass mengakui tahap kesabarannya hilang, selepas beberapa pihak menyalahkannya kerana kegagalan lagu Sedetik Lebih memenangi tiga lagu terbaik, biarpun penilaian lagu itu sudah dilakukan 80 peratus sebelum malam kemuncak tersebut.“Saya bukanlah seorang yang cepat naik darah, nak melenting tak tentu pasal. Saya rasa, saya sangat penyabar orangnya. Saya pasti, setiap kesabaran manusia pasti ada hadnya dan saya cuma manusia biasa sama seperti yang lain.Saya akui saya tersilap kerana cepat sangat ‘meletus’, saya sepatutnya lebih sabar menghadapi sebahagian pihak mungkin tidak menyukai saya. Malah jika difikirkan, kalau saya menyanyi, sedap macam mana, bagus macam mana sekali pun, orang belum tentu menyukai saya.

“Saya juga tak berniat meminta simpati sesiapa, cuma saya harap orang lebih faham sesuatu keadaan sebelum mengeluarkan apa-apa kenyataan. Tapi jika ada pihak yang terasa dengan saya, saya mohon maaf,” jelasnya. Jac berkata, pihak yang tidak berpuas hati dengan kekalahan Sedetik Lebih harus memahami AJL itu sendiri sebelum menuduhnya yang bukan-bukan.

“Anugerah Juara Lagu adalah program menilai lagu, lirik, melodi. Ia tentang penulis lirik dan pencipta lagu. Kami sebagai penyanyi hanya menyanyikan sahaja lagu tersebut. Ini bukan Anugerah Juara Penyanyi, yang mempertandingkan penyanyi, ia mempertandingkan lagu. Sebagai bonus untuk penyanyi hanyalah anugerah vokal dan persembahan sahaja,” terangnya lagi.

Hanya salah faham

Jac menjelaskan, perkataan ‘bodoh ke apa?’ yang ditulis di Facebooknya itu bukan ditujukan kepada peminat atau pihak yang mengkritiknya, sebaliknya ayat itu ditujukan kepada dirinya sendiri. Saya bukan bodoh untuk mengatakan orang lain bodoh. Maksud perkataan bodoh ke apa? kalau difahami adalah, bodohlah saya jika saya melepaskan tawaran yang tak mungkin saya kecapi selepas ini. Malah Anuar Zain sendiri menyatakan rasa gembiranya kerana saya yang membawakan lagu tersebut. Selepas tamat persembahan, Anuar sendiri menghubungi saya menerusi Blackberry Messenger (BBM) memuji persembahan saya,” katanya.

Jac berkata, tatkala ditawarkan pihak KRU untuk menyanyikan lagu tersebut, dia sendiri terkejut.

“Semuanya bermula dengan tawaran untuk menjadi artis mereka. Kemudiannya, pada sesi perbincangan yang lain, barulah mereka memberitahu mereka mahukan saya menggantikan Anuar. Bila mereka tawarkan pada saya, saya rasa ia tanggungjawab berat yang tak mampu saya tolak. Orang selalu kata, peluang tak selalu datang. Justeru kita perlu fikir untuk menerima peluang itu dan saya menerima peluang itu bukan kerana saya gila glamor atau tamak nak menyanyi dua lagu pada malam itu,” katanya.

Bukan penghujung

Biarpun dikutuk dan dituduh sebagai punca kekalahan, Jac berkata ia tidak menjadi titik noktah buatnya untuk membantu komposer lain andai diberi tawaran membantu membawakan lagu penyanyi lain pada masa akan datang.

“Jika ada pihak mahu memberi kepercayaan kepada saya dan saya rasa mampu untuk membawakan lagu itu dengan baik, serta selagi ia tidak mengganggu saya, saya tiada masalah untuk membantu. Selain itu, ia mungkin menjadi peluang untuk mempelajari tentang muzik dan saya tidak pernah puas belajar mengenai muzik,” katanya.

Jac yang baru mengikat kontrak bersama KRU Music sebagai artis rakaman selama setahun, kini mempergiatkan promosi single terbarunya, Sebelah Jiwaku, ciptaan sepenuhnya oleh Edry Abdul Halim. Malah kata Jac, sebelum dia merakamkan lagu tersebut, dia sendiri berbincang bersama Edry untuk mencari strategi terbaik. Atas alasan itulah, dia terbuka hati menerima lamaran KRU kerana syarikat itu tidak membatasi keinginannya sebagai penyanyi.

"Menerusi bakat saya, saya tidak mahu menjadi stereotaip dan berusaha membawa diri ke depan dengan menyampaikan lagu-lagu berentak berbeza,” kata gadis berusia 33 tahun ini.

Sumber dari Sinar Harian .