Tips Menyimpan ASI Perah untuk Ibu-ibu Bekerja

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Jakarta, ASI (Air Susu Ibu) eksklusif dianjurkan diberikan selama 6 bulan sejak hari pertama bayi lahir ke dunia. Sayangnya, bagi ibu-ibu bekerja jatah cuti hanya diberikan selama 3 bulan. Mau tak mau bila tetap ingin memberikan ASI eksklusif, ASI perah menjadi pilihan.

ASI perah maksudnya adalah ASI yang dipompa, lalu disimpan untuk kemudian diberikan kepada bayi dengan media botol. Namun cara penyimpanan ASI perah tak boleh sembarangan, karena sedikit saja kelalain bisa membuat susu beracun untuk bayi.

Berikut beberapa tips menyimpan ASI perah (ASIP) untuk ibu-ibu bekerja, seperti dilansir boldsky dan situs AIMI, Selasa (14/8/2012):

1. Satu hal yang penting sebelum Anda mulai memompa ASI, pastikan bayi diperkenalkan terlebih dahulu dengan cara menghisap susu dari botol sebelum Anda melakukan prosedur ASI perah. Karena banyak bayi yang enggan menghisap ASI dari botol.

2. ASIP tidak hanya berguna untuk ibu yang bekerja, tetapi Anda juga bisa menyimpannya saat melakukan liburan dengan sang bayi sehingga tidak perlu malu menyusui di tempat umum.

3. Untuk menjaga kualitasnya, segera simpan ASIP setelah Anda memompanya. Prinsipnya, menyimpan ASIP dalam suhu dingin dapat meningkatkan daya tahannya; perubahan suhu diusahakan tidak drastis; dan semakin sebentar waktu penyimpanan ASIP maka akan semakin baik kualitasnya.

4. Menjaga ASIP di lemari es normal dapat dilakukan selama 3 hari sampai seminggu. Simpan di botol penyimpanan khusus dan tidak mengembalikannya setelah menggunakan sekali. Menyimpan ASIP di freezer dilakukan jika Anda perlu menyimpan ASIP untuk jangka waktu lebih dari 8 hari.

5. Disarankan untuk menyimpan ASIP dalam wadah 25-100 ml dan mengambil ASIP dari wadah seperlunya saja. Selain ASIP dapat lebih cepat dicairkan dan atau dihangatkan, ASIP yang sudah dicairkan tidak dapat dibekukan kembali namun dapat disimpan di dalam kulkas selama 24 jam. Sedangkan ASI yang sudah dihangatkan tidak boleh dihangatkan kembali.

6. ASIP tidak boleh dicairkan dengan meletakkannya di air panas, tapi cukup dimasukkan ke air sedikit hangat. Jangan memasukkan ASIP ke microwave karena dapat merusak nutrisi penting dalam ASI.

7. ASI mungkin terlihat kecoklatan atau sedikit berubah warna setelah di simpan di lemari es, tetapi tidak ada yang abnormal dengan hal itu. Ada juga mungkin beberapa sedimentasi seperti lemak yang terpisah, goyangkan saja botol sebelum diberikan pada bayi.


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4 Teknik Pijatan yang Bisa Bikin Wanita Bergairah

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Jakarta, Kebanyakan wanita membutuhkan susana yang rileks dan juga santai agar siap untuk melakukan hubungan seks. Oleh karena itu, pria dapat memberikan bantuan dengan cara memberikan pijatan lembut pada wanita untuk meningkatkan kualitas hubungan seksual.

Seperti dilansir dari mensfitness, Selasa (14/8/12), berikut 4 teknik pijatan yang dapat diterapkan pada pasangan wanita Anda, untuk mendapatkan seks yang lebih baik:

1. Rendam otot-ototnya

Siapkan air hangat dan tuangkan beberapa tetes minyak esensial dalam bak air mandi. Mandi dengan minyak esensial dapat membuat pikiran wanita menjadi tenang dan melemaskan otot-otot tubuh agar siap dipijat untuk mendapatkan seks yang lebih baik.

2. Berikan pijatan yang nyaman

Mintalah pasangan Anda untuk berbaring telungkup di tempat tidur dan gosok kaki-kakinya dengan menggunakan minyak pijat.

Pijatlah bagian kaki untuk beberapa lama karena pada telapak kaki terdapat ribuan ujung saraf yang dapat merangsang seluruh sistem saraf termasuk saraf yang mempengaruhi seks.

Pijatlah masing-masing kaki, kemudian perlahan-lahan naik ke betis dan bagian tubuh lainnya dengan perkembangan yang lambat agar wanita merasa nyaman dan rileks, sehingga siap untuk seks yang berkualitas.

3. Ubahlah gaya pijatan Anda

Mulailah dengan memberikan tekanan dengan menggunakan tumit telapak tangan untuk menerapkan tekanan ke otot-ototnya. Kemudian remas-remas otot tubuhnya menggunakan jari-jari Anda.

4. Berfokuslah terhadap titik-titik sensualnya

Berikan pijatan yang berkonsentrasi pada titik-titik sensual wanita seperti paha bagian dalam hingga tulang panggulnya, kaki dan otot-otot di bagian dada.

Dengan memberikan pijatan pada bagian ini, wanita tidak hanya merasa rileks tetapi juga memperoleh rangsangan yang hebat dan siap untuk seks.


(ir/ir)


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Menajamkan Foto dengan Filter High Pass

(dok. Johntefon)

Jakarta - Selain filter Unsharp Mask, di Photoshop juga masih terdapat cara lain untuk menajamkan foto, salah satunya adalah High Pass. Cara kerjanya cukup sederhana yakni sebagai berikut:

Langkah 1: Buka Sebuah File

Buka sebuah file yang akan ditajamkan. Harus dipahami bahwa Photoshop maupun program foto editor lainnya hanya menajamkan (baca: memaksimalkan ketajaman) foto yang 'kurang tajam', bukan foto yang sama sekali tidak tajam.

Langkah 2: Duplikasi Layer

Duplikasi layer dengan mengakses menu Layer > Duplicate Layer. Ketika muncul kotak konfirmasi Duplicate Layer, klik OK untuk menyetujuinya.

Langkah 3: Mengubah Mode Blending

Akses menu Layer > Layer Style. Ketika muncul kotak dialog Layer Style, klik kotak Blend Mode, lalu ubah Normal menjadi Overlay. Klik OK untuk mengakhiri langkah ini.

Langkah 4: Menjalankan Filter High Pass

Akses menu Filter > Other > High Pass. Ketika muncul kotak dialog High Pass, drag slider Radius sambil memperhatikan peningkatan ketajaman, bila sudah sesuai dengan yang diinginkan, klik OK untuk mengakhiri langkah ini.

Langkah 5: Selesai

Sebelum menyimpan file ini, padatkan layer dengan mengakses menu Layer > Flatten Image. Nah, sekarang Anda dapat menyimpannya kembali.

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8 Tips Berinvestasi Emas

Emas merupakan salah satu bentuk investasi yang banyak diminati. Hal itu karena, jenis logam mulia tersebut tidak terpengaruh oleh inflasi. Jika Anda memilih untuk berinvestasi, belilah emas yang berupa batangan atau koin. Namun untuk sekedar mengoleksi dan berjaga-jaga di kala keadaan finansial sulit, bisa memilih yang berupa perhiasan. Dikutip dari berbagai sumber, simaklah beberapa tips berinvestasi dengan emas.

1. Apa Tujuan Anda Membeli Emas?

Sebelum membeli emas, tetapkan dahulu tujuan Anda. Jika ingin berinvestasi, pilihlah emas batangan atau koin, karena nilai intrinsiknya yang relatif besar. Sedangkan untuk perhiasan sekaligus tabungan, maka bisa memilih emas yang memiliki kadar yang tinggi. Untuk emas perhiasan, nilai jualnya relatif lebih tinggi jika kemilaunya masih terjaga dengan sangat baik.

2. Cek Harga Emas Saat Ini

Harga emas berbeda setiap harinya, jadi Anda wajib mengeceknya di pasaran. Bukalah situs-situs yang mengkhususkan untuk hal ini seperti logammulia.com, pegadaian.co.id atau harga-emas.com. Di situs ini Anda bisa melihat langsung harga-harga emas sesuai jenisnya. PT. Antam bahkan mengumumkan harga emas dua kali dalam sehari. Harga emas yang diumumkan oleh PT. Antam itulah yang menjadi patokan harga emas nasional.

3. Tempat Membeli Emas

Belilah emas di toko yang memiliki reputasi yang jelas. Hal ini berguna untuk memberikan rasa aman dan kualitas yang baik. Perhatikan juga harga jual kembali di toko tersebut, jangan sampai harga jual kembali turun drastis. Hindari membeli emas dengan harga sama sesuai yang tercantum di surat. Untuk rekomendasi yang terjamin dan bersertifikat, pilihlah PT. Antam atau Pegadaian.

4. Cek Keadaan Fisik Emas

Dalam memilih emas, diutamakan yang tampilannya bersih tanpa noda hijau di pori-porinya. Tandanya emas tersebut belum dicuci dengan benar dan masih meninggalkan sisa kimia yang bisa menyebabkan alergi. Jika Anda memilih untuk membeli emas dalam bentuk perhiasan, periksalah dengan baik apakah ada goresan, cekungan maupun cacat lainnya. Karena saat Anda hendak menjualnya kembali, hal ini akan mempengaruhi harganya.

5. Tanya Kadar kemurnian Emas

Menurut harga-emas.com, standar internasional kadar kemurnian emas adalah sebagai berikut; emas 24 karat adalah emas murni (99.99%), 22 karat memiliki komposisi 91.7% emas dan dicampur bahan lain 8.3% (biasanya bahan perak), 20 karat memiliki kompoisis 83.3% emas, 18 karat memiliki komposisi 75% emas, 16 karat memiliki komposisi 66.6% emas, 14 karat memiliki komposisi 58.5% emas, 9 karat memiliki komposisi 37.5% emas.

6. Simpan Segala Bentuk Surat dengan Baik

Setelah membeli, Anda akan mendapatkan beberapa surat seperti kuitansi, sertifikat emas hingga nota pembelian. Simpanlah semua surat yang diperoleh dengan baik, karena akan diperlukan saat akan dijual kembali. Jika surat-surat penting ini hilang, harga emas Anda bisa jatuh. Simpanlah dalam satu plastik bersama dengan emasnya dan kemudian disegel.

7. Menyimpan Emas yang Benar

Memiliki emas sama artinya dengan menyimpan barang berharga atau tabungan. Jika emas yang disimpan di rumah tidak terlalu banyak, gunakan kotak atau brankas pribadi. Jika emas tergolong banyak (batangan 1kg ke atas), maka perlu disimpan di kotak deposit di bank. Biayanya tidak terlalu mahal, dan berbeda-beda antara satu bank dengan yang lainnya.

8. Emas Sebagai Jaminan

Bawalah ke pegadaian dan jaminkanlah, emas tersebut bisa ditebus kembali setelah Anda mempunyai uang. Dalam hal ini emas lebih baik digadaikan, bukan dijual, karena jika Anda membeli emas baru dengan ukuran dan kadar yang sama, belum tentu harganya sama.8.

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7 Langkah Menyamarkan Kemaluan yang Menegang

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Jakarta, Menegangnya alat kelamin laki-laki pada saat-saat yang tidak dikehendaki akan sangat merepotkan, bahkan memalukan karena orang lain akan menyangka sedang berpikiran jorok. Agar tidak ketahuan, ada beberapa langkah yang bisa dilakukan.

Ereksi yang tidak dikehendaki paling sering terjadi di pagi hari, yang dalam istilah medis disebut sebagai nocturnal penile tumescenceatau Morning Glory. Namun kadang-kadang, kondisi ini bisa juga terjadi pada siang hari saat sedang berkumpul dengan orang lain.

Beberapa cara yang bisa dilakukan untuk menyamarkannya adalah sebagai berikut, seperti dikutip dari Howcast, Minggu (1/7/2012).

1. Pakai kemeja atau kaos longgarJika sekiranya cukup sering mengalami ereksi yang tidak dikehendaki, biasakan memakai kemeja atau kaos yang ukurannya lebih longgar. Tidak perlu dimasukkan ke dalam celana, justru biarkan ujungnya menutupi celana hingga kira-kira sebatas panggul.

2. Bawa tas selempangTas dengan tali selempang yang agak panjang bisa dimanfaatkan dalam kondisi darurat. Tinggal diletakkan di bagian depan celana, tas semacam ini tidak tampak mencurigakan daripada kalau kalau ditutup pakai tas ransel atau tas jinjing semacam koper.

3. Gunakan celana baggyPotongan celana model baggy punya manfaat ganda dalam menyamarkan ereksi yang tidak dikehendaki. Pertama karena modelnya menggembung sehingga tonjolan alat kelamin agak tersamarkan, kedua tangan bisa lebih leluasa merogoh dari sakunya untuk membetulkan posisi ereksi supaya tidak terlalu menonjol ke depan.

4. Pikirkan hal-hal yang sangat seriusTidak banyak orang yang bisa ereksi saat memikirkan rumus matematika, atau persamaan reaksi kimia asam basa misalnya. Memikirkan kedua hal tersebut, atau hal-hal serius lain yang lebih serius terkadang cukup efektif untuk mengalihkan perhatian dari pikiran erotis sehingga ereksi akan hilang dengan sendirinya.

5. Kencangkan otot pahaSambil duduk atau berdiri, kencangkan otot-otot paha bagian depan atau quadriseps. Langkah ini bisa membantu mengalihkan aliran darah dari yang tadinya terpusat di alat kelamin, menjadi terdistribusi merata di daerah-daerah terdekatnya terutama di bagian kaki.

6. Cubit lengan atau bagian lain kuat-kuatDalam banyak kasus, rasa sakit lebih sering sukses dalam mengalihkan sensasi erotis penyebab ereksi tidak dikehendaki. Lakukan cubitan di bagian manapun yang kira-kira akan terasa sangat sakit, kalau perlu sampai mau menangis maka alat kelamin akan melemas dengan sendirinya.

7. Berjalan dengan memakai tumit
Jika cara lain tidak berhasil, coba cara terakhir yakni berjalan dengan tumit sebab cara ini banyak berhasil pada laki-laki yang sedang kelebihan hormon. Tetapi jangan dipaksakan, kalau memang tidak ada efeknya sebaiknya hentikan saja karena akan terlihat makin konyol kalau sampai ketahuan orang lain.


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Cara Membuat Jam Dinding Berputar Terbalik

Jika kita gugling image dengan keyword " jam unik", maka akan didapat banyak sekali jam dinding yg jarumnya muter ke kiri (Reverse).

Di Kaskus FJB juga banyak agans yg nawarin jam putar kiri ini dengan harga yang sangat terjangkau.

Pertamax
Bongkar casing jam, dan lepaskan semua jarumnya n jangan sampai bengkok / rusak.

Keduax
Melepas mesin jam (bautnya di depan Gan, dibawah jarum jam )


Ketigax
Membuka mesin dan membalik posisi inti coil/lilitan/kumparan. Lihat Pic aja gan!
Daleman mesin jam tidak selalu sama dan tergantung merk mesin jam, kadang agan harus mengiris/memodifikasi/bahkan me-lem dudukan inti coil agar stabil. Prinsipnya adalah membalik si "inti".
Tutup kembali mesin jam.


Keempat
Sorry... ngga bagus kalau ditambah x ..
Merubah Angka angka Jam. Pada kondisi tertentu seperti contoh dibawah, agan hanya perlu mengganti/menukar posisi angka 3 dan 9. Lebih bagus kalau agan mau sedikit repot dengan membuat sendiri lay out angka-angka jam dengan bantuan sotosop atau corel dll.

Kelimax
Pasang Jarum, ingat semua jarum harus di angka 12. Kemudian pasang casing jangan lupa kacanya, batre n atur jam sesuai waktu setempat.


Keenam
Tanpa x lagi !!
Contoh contoh jam dinding putar kirinya Mbah Gugel

 




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‘Simple and Advanced Origami’

Origami adalah sebuah seni lipat yang berasal dari Jepang. Bahan yang digunakan adalah kertas atau kain yang biasanya berbentuk persegi. Sebuah hasil origami merupakan suatu hasil kerja tangan yang sangat teliti dan halus pada pandangan.
Origami merupakan satu kesenian melipat kertas yang dipercayai bermula sejak kertas diperkenalkan pada abad pertama di zaman Tiongkok kuno pada tahun 105 Masehi oleh Ts’ai Lun.
Pembuatan kertas dari potongan kecil tumbuhan dan kain berkualitas rendah meningkatkan produksi kertas. Contoh-contoh awal origami yang berasal dari Tiongkok adalah tongkang (jung) dan kotak.
Pada abad ke-6, cara pembuatan kertas kemudian dibawa ke Spanyol oleh orang-orang Arab. Pada tahun 610 di masa pemerintahan kaisar wanita Suiko (zaman Asuka), seorang biksu Buddha bernama Donchō (Dokyo) yang berasal dari Goguryeo (semenanjung Korea) datang ke Jepang memperkenalkan cara pembuatan kertas dan tinta.
Origami pun menjadi populer di kalangan orang Jepang sampai sekarang terutama dengan kertas lokal Jepang yang disebut Washi.


SIMPLE ORIGAMI






ADVANCED ORIGAMI

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How to Discover Your Life Purpose in About 20 Minutes

How do you discover your real purpose in life? I’m not talking about your job, your daily responsibilities, or even your long-term goals. I mean the real reason why you’re here at all — the very reason you exist.
Perhaps you’re a rather nihilistic person who doesn’t believe you have a purpose and that life has no meaning. Doesn’t matter. Not believing that you have a purpose won’t prevent you from discovering it, just as a lack of belief in gravity won’t prevent you from tripping. All that a lack of belief will do is make it take longer, so if you’re one of those people, just change the number 20 in the title of this blog entry to 40 (or 60 if you’re really stubborn). Most likely though if you don’t believe you have a purpose, then you probably won’t believe what I’m saying anyway, but even so, what’s the risk of investing an hour just in case?


Here’s a story about Bruce Lee which sets the stage for this little exercise. A master martial artist asked Bruce to teach him everything Bruce knew about martial arts. Bruce held up two cups, both filled with liquid. “The first cup,” said Bruce, “represents all of your knowledge about martial arts. The second cup represents all of my knowledge about martial arts. If you want to fill your cup with my knowledge, you must first empty your cup of your knowledge.”
If you want to discover your true purpose in life, you must first empty your mind of all the false purposes you’ve been taught (including the idea that you may have no purpose at all).


So how to discover your purpose in life? While there are many ways to do this, some of them fairly involved, here is one of the simplest that anyone can do. The more open you are to this process, and the more you expect it to work, the faster it will work for you. But not being open to it or having doubts about it or thinking it’s an entirely idiotic and meaningless waste of time won’t prevent it from working as long as you stick with it — again, it will just take longer to converge.


Here’s what to do:

1. Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type (I prefer the latter because it’s faster).
2. Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?”
3. Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t have to be a complete sentence. A short phrase is fine.
4. Repeat step 3 until you write the answer that makes you cry. This is your purpose.

That’s it. It doesn’t matter if you’re a counselor or an engineer or a bodybuilder. To some people this exercise will make perfect sense. To others it will seem utterly stupid. Usually it takes 15-20 minutes to clear your head of all the clutter and the social conditioning about what you think your purpose in life is. The false answers will come from your mind and your memories. But when the true answer finally arrives, it will feel like it’s coming to you from a different source entirely.


For those who are very entrenched in low-awareness living, it will take a lot longer to get all the false answers out, possibly more than an hour. But if you persist, after 100 or 200 or maybe even 500 answers, you’ll be struck by the answer that causes you to surge with emotion, the answer that breaks you. If you’ve never done this, it may very well sound silly to you. So let it seem silly, and do it anyway.


As you go through this process, some of your answers will be very similar. You may even re-list previous answers. Then you might head off on a new tangent and generate 10-20 more answers along some other theme. And that’s fine. You can list whatever answer pops into your head as long as you just keep writing.


At some point during the process (typically after about 50-100 answers), you may want to quit and just can’t see it converging. You may feel the urge to get up and make an excuse to do something else. That’s normal. Push past this resistance, and just keep writing. The feeling of resistance will eventually pass.
You may also discover a few answers that seem to give you a mini-surge of emotion, but they don’t quite make you cry — they’re just a bit off. Highlight those answers as you go along, so you can come back to them to generate new permutations. Each reflects a piece of your purpose, but individually they aren’t complete. When you start getting these kinds of answers, it just means you’re getting warm. Keep going.


It’s important to do this alone and with no interruptions. If you’re a nihilist, then feel free to start with the answer, “I don’t have a purpose,” or “Life is meaningless,” and take it from there. If you keep at it, you’ll still eventually converge.


When I did this exercise, it took me about 25 minutes, and I reached my final answer at step 106. Partial pieces of the answer (mini-surges) appeared at steps 17, 39, and 53, and then the bulk of it fell into place and was refined through steps 100-106. I felt the feeling of resistance (wanting to get up and do something else, expecting the process to fail, feeling very impatient and even irritated) around steps 55-60. At step 80 I took a 2-minute break to close my eyes, relax, clear my mind, and to focus on the intention for the answer to come to me — this was helpful as the answers I received after this break began to have greater clarity.


Here was my final answer: to live consciously and courageously, to resonate with love and compassion, to awaken the great spirits within others, and to leave this world in peace.


When you find your own unique answer to the question of why you’re here, you will feel it resonate with you deeply. The words will seem to have a special energy to you, and you will feel that energy whenever you read them.
Discovering your purpose is the easy part. The hard part is keeping it with you on a daily basis and working on yourself to the point where you become that purpose.


If you’re inclined to ask why this little process works, just put that question aside until after you’ve successfully completed it. Once you’ve done that, you’ll probably have your own answer to why it works. Most likely if you ask 10 different people why this works (people who’ve successfully completed it), you’ll get 10 different answers, all filtered through their individual belief systems, and each will contain its own reflection of truth.


Obviously, this process won’t work if you quit before convergence. I’d guesstimate that 80-90% of people should achieve convergence in less than an hour. If you’re really entrenched in your beliefs and resistant to the process, maybe it will take you 5 sessions and 3 hours, but I suspect that such people will simply quit early (like within the first 15 minutes) or won’t even attempt it at all. But if you’re drawn to read this blog (and haven’t been inclined to ban it from your life yet), then it’s doubtful you fall into this group.


Give it a shot! At the very least, you’ll learn one of two things: your true purpose in life -or- that you should unsubscribe from this blog.




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50 Tips for Improving Google Adsense Site Monetization

Collected from various sites, sources and Google forums, this list presents an aggregate of strategies and techniques to helping a web site improve on its ability to make money using Google Adsense. Some of these tips you may have seen before, some may be new. But if you have a site or are planning on starting one this list is a good starting point to making sure that you at least have the basics covered.

Tips #1-5

1. Google’s Optimization Essentials really does work and deserves the full attention of those who’ve ignored it. It’s really helped me improve my CTR. The AD placement diagram shows the best places to position ads on your site to maximize CTR.
2. The actual content of your website is crucial. Dont simply cut/paste somebody elses content and hope to pick up the odd click here and there. Personally, I read other articles, extract the bits I think are interesting or pertinent and write an article adding my thoughts on the process at hand. This will help you avoid duplicate content penalties, increase the stickiness to your site, and put out more 3,4,5, etc. keyword combinations that you can pick up traffic on.
3. If your site is specifically targeting Google Adsense revenue then clear off the website clutter and other bells whistles. Focus on relevant ads and the opportunity for visitors to only click ads with premium ratings rather than leaving to surf other websites because of the clutter on yours.
4. Only use 1 ad block per page to keep the highest paying clicks in view and avoid .03 clicks (not worth leaving your site for .03 in my opinion)
5. Blend ads in to design (but still displayed prominently) as to not offend your visitors. Frequently overlooked, I just revamped a hobby website (from my Triumph motorcycle) to restyle the ads. Click through has improved almost immediately.

Tips #6-10

6.Use an adlink in addition to an adblock, and consider placing it at the end of your page’s text. If the text you’ve written is sufficiently focused on your keywords, the adlink should have no problem with relevancy. The adlinks really work great and seem to add significantly in many cases to the bottomline. They sometimes subtract from the number of clicks you’d receive from a single adblock, but the dollar amount earned at the end of the day can be greater.
7.when placing adblocks, consider choosing alternating color schemes so repeat visitors to certain pages will see a different ad appearance on repeat visits. this might help alleviate ad blindness.
8. Use the channels astutely to test and do more testing – keeping in mind you can’t compare just 1 day against another – you have to look at bigger blocks of time. This is the key to focusing your CTR.
9. Match your ad style to your page style sheet. Simple, effective and it looks great.
10. Your traffic sources can impact your CTR. If you are bringing generic, run of network traffic to your site, you will have lower CTR. If you bring targeted traffic focused on your topic to your site, you will see higher CTR.

Tips #11-15

11. Keep an open mind and keep trying different things
- sometimes even if you think you are doing well you can still do better – colors – layouts – positioning – ad types etc. Sometimes something that sounds like a really stupid idea might actually do really well.
12. Keep each page on a single topic (where possible) and split large content into multiple pages – lots of highly targeted ads and good proportion of ads to content (obviously don’t drown your content with ads).
13. Be willing to revisit your site and redesign and reposition your ads based on the results of your test. Keep an open mind and dont be to proud to change things.
14. Don’t be afraid to ugly up your site a little bit to make your Adsense ads really stick out to get a better CTR. You’ll get a few complaints, but the increased CTR will help you sleep better at night.
15. Adlinks can work in various different formats. Try mixing it up a little.

Tips #16-20

16. Keep your website fresh with regular updating of content.
17. Regular website promotion through link backs and/or search engine submission.
18. Open mind for experiments within Adsense TOC. Dont break the rules but see how bendy they can be!
19. Is someone stealing your content and diluting its worth. This can be done a number of ways, including tracing back-links from your site, monitoring your serps, doing searches for unique text on your pages, and using a content monitoring system. This may not overtly seem to be an adsense tip, but do you really want the unique value of the content YOU created to start popping up elsewhere on other adsense sites, thereby diluting it’s value (ASA, will google ever devise a registration system so site/content owners can at least certify that, on a certain date, the content was on their site and not on a thief’s. this would even be a good revenue stream since many webmasters would pay a nice fee for the added protection)
20. Do not prejudge your pages! It’s greating seeing pages you had little hope for suddenly generating dollars. Hell, I enjoy getting a dollar a month of simple little pages.

Tips #21-25

21. Try to get targeted traffic. This is crucial and pays dividends. Properly targeted and relevant traffic can really affect CTR and earnings.
22. Broaden your view of your content topics. Dont discuss the same old thing in every article. Well paying, relevant, subjects are completely missing on many sites.
23. As the old saying goes “Less is more” Don’t be tempted to splatter each and every page on your site with three adsense banners, one adlinks banner and a google search box! Use channels to track every banner, and if it isn’t paying then dump it. The resulting increase in CTR will probably feed through to an increase in earnings.
24. Don’t be afraid to experiment with different banner types and placements. If it doesn’t work then restore it to the previous version. If a banner doesn’t work on a page, don’t assume that the page will never work with adsense. Give it a few weeks then try something different inthe way of banners/adlinks.
25. “Don’t assume the ads selected are always the best payers” Google targets ads based on what they *think* will be the best financial bet – not on highest bidder. This usually works well, but you may find that there is some really bad targeting on occasions. Use the adsense preview tool to look at the ads that appear, and if they are scrapers, directories or webmasters buying traffic as opposed to people selling things then consider dumping them. WARNING – this is against the conventional wisdom, but the technique has worked well for myself and others here. It won’t work for everybody, so if you intend trying this please be careful to dump advertisers sparingly and slowly.



Part II of the previous posting on how to monetize your web site using Google Adsense. Also, if you enjoy this post, click on the Adsense tag for related articles.

Tip 26-30

26. Diversify your sites.
27. Listen to the pros.
28. Keep up-to-date with Google SEO. Read other websites to find out whats current.
29. Work out your business case. Calculate the ROI from one article in a month, three months, a year. Calculate your outlays and investments, set your targets based on realistic hard facts only.
30. Plough your income back into content. Think of every $ you don’t spend on beer now as $10 next year.

Tip 31-35

31. if you have high EPC pages and low EPC pages remove adsense from low EPC pages. This will make your site less predictable and more interesting to the users.
32. advertise your high EPC pages with link on the low epc pages
33. split long pages into several smaller pages with one ad block on each page. Optimize for slightly different keywords (within subject) on pages.
34. READ THE ADSENSE TERMS & CONDITIONS AND THE HELP PAGES FROM COVER TO COVER and then don’t rely on answers from others when you are unsure about borderline issues, ask Google directly as they are the only ones that can give you a definitive answer that won’t get your site banned.
35. Mix advertising and content. This stops visitors from getting ad blindness.

Tip 36-40

36. Don’t mess with the generated adsense code. You will get caught and you will be kicked our of the program, period.
37. Put keyword relevant images above or beside your ads, so they are lined up properly (Google allows this).
38. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Try to replace your google ads with affiliate ads over time. The greater the number of affiliates you use, the less chance that losing one will harm your overall income. That’s the biggest risk with Adsense. Look to see what ads are appearing on a page and being clicked through often (using channels), then find an affiliate program similar to that ad (you can use the same ad copy!). This is a lot of work, but sooo worth the insurance, and probably the extra income in the long run.
39. Make your pages validate. Otherwise you may find that one syntax error means that the spider ignores vast chunks of content, resulting in poor targeting.
40. Force yourself to take a break very now and again. Don’t take it so seriously and don’t expect it to pay the bills or the mortgage, for example. Walk away and do something else for a while – maybe a couple of weeks. Then come back with fresh eyes and try again.

Tip 41-45

41. Service your site users. Give them what they want. If your site has intrinsic value, users will come back, and you’ll earn far more than you would from a single visit. (You’ll also benefit from word of mouth and unsolicited links from other sites.)
42. Be fair to advertisers. If you try to artificially boost your click-through rate by disguising ads as content or overwhelming the visitor with ads, your clicks won’t convert well for advertisers. This may result in higher “smart pricing” discounts for your clicks (meaning less money for you), and you’ll be a poor candidate for site-targeted CPM ads.
43. Think long-term. Ask yourself what will happen if you’re dropped by AdSense, if advertisers get more control over where their ads appear, if “smart pricing” becomes more aggressive in cutting revenues for sites whose clicks don’t convert, or if other changes affect the status quo. It’s tempting to go for the quick and easy money, but unless you have the technical and business smarts to earn a lot of money that way, you’ll probably be better off with content that can earn revenue in multiple ways over the long haul.
44. Watch your server logs – I have noticed that sometimes I will just mention something in an article for one sentence that brings in a lot of visitors so I go and write an entire article on that subject. The results have been stellar. You’ve been given a big hint that people are interested in this and if you ignore it you are missing a big opportunity. I have more than a few articles that have been linked to all over the web because they are almost the only decent material on this subject.
45. Don’t worry when your income and/or traffic are low for a few days. These peaks and valleys are normal and simply a good excuse to refresh old content to get the ball rolling again.

Tip 46-50

46. Use a dictionary. Use proper grammar and spelling so that your articles are professional. Use bullet points and bold headings for sections.
47. Write content that is as specific as possible. Don’t write an article that is super long unless it is necessary. If you can break it up if it seems logical to do so.
48. break articles up and span them over a few pages breaking down the subject into cotext sensitive blocks: Ads will be better targeted and users will enjoy the read in simpler smaller chunks.
49. Have patience. You may have good ideas that won’t even start to pay for six months from now.Use good title and description tags, plus Urls that look static even on a dynamic site. Helpful not just for Adsense, but for search engine traffic as well.
50. Dont click your own ads. Or Google might make you go and sit on the naughty step, disable your account and not hand over any funds that are still in your account.




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Terapi Ear Candle

Ear candle apa sih? Nah buat yang belum mencoba terapi lilin ini, gue saranin buat dicoba deh. Selain efek kuping bersih yang didapat, juga bisa relaksasi loh. Tapi apa perlu melakukan terapi ini di salon-salon atau klinik kecantikan? Engga, terapi ini bisa kalian lakukan sendiri dirumah tapi dengan bantuan orang lain tentunya.

Berikut barang yang digunakan :1. Sepasang ear candle
2. Korek api
3. Kertas tebal

Caranya :-Lubangi kertas tebal di bagian tengahnya, untuk pembatas telinga dan juga untuk melindungi telinga dari serpihan abu pembakaran ear candle
-Posisi tidur telentang dengan wajah menghadap ke kanan ataupun kiri terserah kalian, diusahakan tiduran senyaman mungkin karena terapi ini lumayan lama dilakukan
-Masukkan 1 buah ear candle (bagian yang berdiameter kecil) kedalam kertas tebal yang sudah dilubangi tengahnya tadi dan masukkan kedalam telinga, posisikan sampai tegak lurus dan tidak goyah
-Bakar ujung bagian atas (bagian berdiameter besar) ear candle dengan korek api. Pada saat pembakaran ear candle akan terdengar seperti suara air hujan dan ini yang membuat kita rileks saat melakukan terapi
-Tunggu sampai apinya mencapai garis pembatas pada batang ear candle dan sisakan sekitar 2cm dari bagian kertas tebal
-Angkat dari telinga dan matikan api dengan cara ditiup
-Lakukan seperti langkah diatas pada telinga yang satunya lagi

Kalian bisa melihat sendiri kotoran yang ada pada telinga kalian dengan cara membuka gulungan ear candle yang tersisa tadi. Pada pemakaian ear candle pertama, kotoran pada telinga akan banyak terangkat.

Ini bisa kalian praktekkin dirumah seminggu atau sebulan sekali tergantung aktifitas yang dikerjakan. Kalo lebih sering beraktifitas di luar sebaiknya seminggu sekali.




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How to Have an Out-of-Body Experience (OBE or OOBE)

Many people try to induce OBEs without success because they don't know what to do. Unfortunately, most books on the subject don't contain instructions. The few books that contain instructions are typically vague and incomplete. In the exercises given with each chapter, I have already suggested many things to try. In this chapter, I want to fill in some of the gaps, and also provide a detailed description of my most successful method. Of course, I can't guarantee positive results. Your success depends on the amount of effort you put forth.

Conditioning

Most OBE authors agree that your subconscious takes you out of your body every night. With practice you can use this to your advantage: You can train your subconscious to "wake you up" after it has left the body. I have used many methods for impressing this idea on my subconscious: affirmations, reading books, listening to subliminal OBE suggestion tapes, playful visualizations and listening to music that has OBE-suggestive words. 

	TRIVIA: The term out-of-body experience (OBE or OOBE) was introduced in 1943 by G.N.M Tyrrell in his book Apparitions, and adopted by, for example, Celia Green and Robert Monroe as a bias-free alternative to belief-centric labels such as 'astral projection' or 'spirit walking'.

The first method, affirmations or self-suggestion, is to tell yourself, "I want to have an out-of-body experience," "I want to leave my body" or similar suggestions. The best times to do this are right before you fall asleep and especially right after you wake up in the morning. At these times you are in close contact with your subconscious. I wake up very slowly. For about a half hour I'm in contact with my subconscious mind. When I give myself suggestions then, they are very effective. Make these affirmations several times a day. 

The second method is to read OBE books. I usually have more OBEs when I've recently been reading a book on astral projection. Reading about OBEs and thinking about them as you read makes an impression on your subconscious mind that can often be more effective than self-suggestion. 

The third method is to use suggestion tapes. The Monroe Institute now has sets of "Gateway" tapes to aid the would-be astral traveler. Valley of the Sun Publishing has a set called "Astral Projection" which contains one hypnosis tape and one subliminal suggestion tape. Other tapes are also available. 

The fourth method is to use playful imagination. Affirmations that use visualization are even better than verbal affirmations. Visualize yourself separating from the body. As you do, think to yourself, "Yes, I can do that." Imagine elaborate scenes where you are either flying through valleys like a glider, or shooting away from your body into outer-space. Again, this should be done frequently throughout the day, and especially right after you wake up in the morning. 

The fifth method is to listen to music with words that suggest OBEs. I made a tape for myself, full of such songs by various artists. The songs might not be about OBEs, but they still remind me of them enough to make an impression on my subconscious mind. Some examples are: "Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin, "Astral Traveler" by Yes, "The Wall" by Kansas, "Lights" by Styx, "Fly By Night" by Rush and "Backwards Traveler" by Paul McCartney. 

SPIRITUAL PSYCHOLOGY: Recent (2007) studies have shown that experiences somewhat similar to OBEs can be induced by direct brain stimulation. Some of those who experience OBEs claimed to have willed themselves out of their bodies, while others report having found themselves being pulled from their bodies (usually preceded by a feeling of paralysis). In other accounts, the feeling of being outside the body was suddenly realized after the fact, and the experiencers saw their own bodies almost by accident. OBEs often occur during the borderline stage between REM sleep and arousal when sleep paralysis may persist and dream imagery may mingle with sensory input.

Physical Preparation

The best time to attempt an OBE is in the morning, after you have woken up naturally (i.e., not from an alarm clock.) Since most of us work during the week, it's easier to try on the weekends. Give your body plenty of rest. Each person needs a different amount of sleep. The trick is to make your body tired enough to stay in a relaxed state, but not too tired. If I don't sleep enough, I'm too tired and fall back into a deep sleep while practicing. If I oversleep and then practice, I am too wide awake and can't focus well. The body should be well rested but relaxed, and the mind must be alert. 

When the time comes to practice, try to detect how tired you are. If you're too tired, stretch a little in bed or shake the sleep off. Some people may want to get up first and have a cup of coffee first. This will usually keep you from falling back to sleep during practice. It is better to wake yourself up completely before starting. 

Music is wonderful for relaxation and calming the mind. It's okay to listen to relaxing music during your OBE practice, but this can also work against you: Listening to external sounds can distract you from focusing inward. Also, if you listen to music before bedtime, you may be too relaxed and sleepy to practice the next morning. 

When you practice, make sure you have good circulation. Get into a position where your limbs won't "fall asleep" because of poor circulation. 

Make sure you won't be distracted during practice. Keep your windows closed to keep noises out, unplug the telephone, turn off all televisions, radios and other noisy things. Don't set any time limits on your practice. It is counter-productive to check the time and wonder if your time limit is up. Also, make sure your bladder is empty before practice; The need to go to the bathroom can ruin a good practice. 

STEP 1. Relaxation

The next important condition for OBE induction is a completely relaxed physical body. Relaxation is important because if you aren't relaxed, you'll have too much consciousness focused in your body. Laboratory tests on astral travelers have shown (with the help of BSR and GSR skin resistance monitors) that the physical body is more relaxed during an OBE than during sleep. Ideally, your physical body should be completely relaxed in every respect during practice. I recommend practicing relaxation every day until you can completely relax your physical body in a few minutes. 

Relax your body from limb to limb, working from your feet up to your head, until even your face is completely relaxed. Use any technique you are comfortable with to relax completely. If you don't know any relaxation techniques, do this: Systematically tighten each muscle and make it tense until there is a slight fatigue, then let go and feel the muscle relax. After you've relaxed every muscle, start over and check every muscle again. 

You may notice that the more relaxed your body is, the less you can actually "feel" it. Encourage this feeling: While you're relaxing, pretend as vividly as you can that you do not have your left arm; as if it's been cut off and you can't feel it. When the sensation of having no arm becomes quite real to you, that arm is very relaxed. Next, pretend that your other arm does not exist. Next, your legs. Have some playful fun by pretending that your arms are in different positions, and see how vividly you can imagine these things. If you are able to lose all feeling in your arms and legs, or imaginarily feel they are in different positions, your body is very relaxed. 

Next, relax your face completely. Here's one way to relax your face: With your eyes closed, stare deeper and deeper into the blackness, while very slowly tightening your eyebrows and rolling your eyes up slightly until your eyebrow muscles become tired. Then completely relax your facial muscles for about 15 seconds. Repeat the process again until your eyebrow muscles are tired again, and relax again for another 15 seconds. Repeat this process about six or seven times. Completely relax your whole body again and then try to make your mind blank and relaxed too. The vibrations may even come at this point, making the rest of the process unnecessary! After you're completely relaxed, pay no more attention to your body. 

STEP 2. Quiesce and Focus Your Mind

This is the Single Most Important step. There are five key points to focusing your mind for OBE induction. They are: state of mind, realism, motion, receptivity and passivity. 

When you are trying to leave your body the most important thing is your state of mind. When I've been in an "ideal" state of mind, leaving my body seems like child's play, as easy and natural as breathing. But when I'm not in that state of mind it seems very difficult. I can't "teach" this state of mind but I can describe what it's like. Once you've experienced astral projection you'll know what state of mind to aim for. The best state of mind is one in which you are a quiet, completely passive, single-minded observer. In this passive state, your mind does not wander. You are not emotional. You are not analytical either. You are merely an observer. Visualization is important in many OBE techniques and this passive state of mind makes it easier to visualize images a long time without your mind "wandering." 

The second point, realism, has to do with the degree of focus. This world seems real to us because we are so focused here. You should learn to focus outside your body to such a degree that it all becomes real. Focus your mind into that single thread of consciousness. 

The third point, motion, concerns the swaying motion you feel within your body. I start an inner "swaying" sensation in my imagination that later becomes quite real. Then I use the momentum of the swaying to propel myself out of my body. Pretend that your body is gently swaying back and forth, or left to right in a regular motion. Try to make this swaying feeling as vivid as possible. 

The fourth point is receptivity. This receptive state of mind is important in calling or inducing the vibrations. You should learn to make yourself receptive to whatever comes during practice. 

The fifth point, passivity, is also very important. The more passive you are, the easier it is to enter the OBE state. As long as you have a conscious "controlling interest" in your experience, you are too focused in this reality. Develop the attitude of doing the exercises, not because you are interested in watching them, but just for passive reasons: Just to see what happens next, or just for the sake of doing it. While practicing, you should only be concerned with the current moment in time. Be accepting of what comes. Try to assume an attitude where you really don't care what will happen. Be completely in the present moment, with no thoughts of what will happen next. The American Heritage Dictionary defines "passive" as: 

1. Receiving or subjected to an action without responding or initiating an action in return. 
2. Accepting without objection or resistance; compliant. 
3. Not participating, acting, or operating; inert.... 

By this definition, you should be in a state where you can be subjected to weird feelings without responding, physically or mentally. No matter what hits you, you should be in such a passive state that, when something hits you, you think, "Oh. That's nice," and just continue to lie there and visualize. 

In this passive state, you can initiate actions (like the visualizations) without responding to them. You fall asleep by becoming interested in, and responding to your own thoughts and visualizations. If you can initiate that state and keep your consciousness out of that dream-trap, you can retain your consciousness after it leaves your body. You just want to become a passive observer. 

I've talked before about needing to suspend a certain portion of your consciousness to leave your body. Suspend the portion that has a vested interest in what's happening. 

Slow your thoughts and bring yourself into that passive and receptive state of mind. Clear your mind of all thoughts: There are many techniques for doing this. If you don't have a method, try the following: With your eyes closed, pretend that you're looking for something that might appear directly in front of you. Just quietly watch your mental viewing screen. Stare into the blackness. 

STEP 3. Wander the Edge of Consciousness

The next step is to "wander the edge of consciousness," exploring the border between waking and sleeping. Allow yourself to start falling asleep, but then "catch" yourself and rouse yourself again and make sure you're fully conscious. Let yourself start to fall asleep again, this time allowing yourself to get a little closer toward sleep, then rouse yourself again. Do this several times until your body is very relaxed and your mind is in that "passive" framework that I discussed. 

Step 4. Visualize an object



Next, visualize a small object, such as a small cube, about six feet directly in front of your face. Visualize this as clearly as you can. Don't continue until you can see this object clearly in your mind's eye. 

Step 5. Sway the Object a Small Amount



Then begin to move the object back and forth so that it appears to come a little bit closer to you and then moves back to where it began. At first, visualize only a tiny amount of movement, as if the object is merely slowly swaying toward you and away from you. 

Keep the object swaying constantly. Don't let it stop moving. Keeping the object in motion will help to stabilize the image in your mind and give it more realism. 

Step 6. Increase the Amount of Swaying



Slowly increase the distance the object sways. Keep swinging the image back and forth toward you, each time bringing it a bit closer to you. As you do this, the image may seem to become more real. Make sure your visualization has a sense of perspective and depth. Each time the object comes closer, it should look bigger. Each time the object pulls away, it should look smaller. Remember, you must also keep that passive, quiesced state of mind during the entire exercise. 

Step 7. Sway Opposite To The Object

  

Try to feel as if you are swaying in the opposite direction as the object. Imagine the object has a strong gravity which affects your swaying. As the object swings closer to you, you are pulled toward it. As it swings away from you, you sway back to your original position within your body. 

As the object gets closer and closer with each swing, feel its gravity pull you more and more in its direction. 

Step 8. Grab The Object And Let It Pull You Out

 

After the image becomes very vivid, when it swings close to you, "grab" onto the image with your mind. As the image swings away, your consciousness will follow it and will be consciously pulled away from your body. 

At this point you will be out of your body. Then you can "let go" of that quiesced state of mind, expand your consciousness and you will be very wide awake and very alert. You are then free to explore the nonphysical world! 

It is important to examine your consciousness during the experience to make sure that you are not dreaming. During the experience, ask yourself, "Is this really happening, or is it a dream?" After you return to your body recall how conscious you were during the experience.

Learning to leave your body is something that takes a lot of time, practice and patience. Don't expect results over night. This chapter has a lot of information to absorb at once. You may spend several attempts just trying to remember all the subtleties involved. Some people don't have any OBEs until they have spent years trying. And some people don't get results because they try too hard; learn to let go. The good news is, the first OBE is the hardest. Once you've had an OBE, it's easier to induce more. 

Also, don't be afraid to experiment and try new things. Develop your own techniques. Use whatever works best for you. 

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Robert Bruce is an internationally respected author, mystic, and speaker.For over 30 years, Robert has explored the mechanics, energetics and dynamics of paranormal and spiritual phenomena (how things work); especially Out-of-Body Experience, the human energy body, healing and self-healing, spiritual development, psychic self-defence and higher-self communications.




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