Ini merupakan tugas terakhir saya dalam mata kuliah Bahasa Inggris Bisnis (softskill) di semester ini..
Berikut adalah hasil tugas saya yang dapat dilihat pada link di bawah ini:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQoizW_BXQ&feature=youtu.be
Kamis, 19 Januari 2017
Jumat, 13 Januari 2017
Humanitarian Crisis
Over
The Past 12 Months, The Humanitarian Crisis In The Chad Basin Region Has Grown
"In Dramatic Fashion"
The humanitarian crisis triggered by Boko Haram’s “violent
and inhuman campaign” is worsening, with 10.7 million people in need of aid in
northeast Nigeria and parts of Cameroon, Chad and Niger, the U.N. humanitarian
chief said Thursday.
Stephen O’Brien told the U.N. Security Council that although
Boko Haram has lost much of the territory it once controlled as a result of
military campaigns in the region, its raids and suicide bombings targeting
civilians are still causing widespread death and destruction in those four
countries which comprise the Lake Chad Basin.
Over the past 12 months, he said, the crisis has grown “in
dramatic fashion,” with the number of people needing humanitarian help, rising
from about nine million in July.
Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft urged the Security
Council to visit the Lake Chad Basin region in the coming weeks to shine a spotlight
on the depth of the crisis, stressing that it is not only humanitarian but also
about politics, development and “countering terrorism.”
“What started as a protection crisis,” O’Brien said, “has
become also a major food and nutrition crisis — today one of the largest
humanitarian crises in the world.”
He said a year ago, three million people across the Lake
Chad Basin were “severely food insecure,” meaning they had very little to eat
and needed assistance. “Today there are 7.1 million,” despite the response of
the U.N. and its partners, he said.
In addition, some 2.4 million people are displaced,
including 1.4 million children, O’Brien said. And in northeast Nigeria alone
“over 7,000 women and girls have been subjected to Boko Haram-related
violence.”
He urged stepped-up donations to help the millions in need
saying the 2016 U.N. appeal received $238 million — just 49% of what was needed
— and the 2017 appeal will be $1.5 billion, reflecting the deteriorating
situation in the region.
Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Taye-Brook
Zerihoun told the Security Council that the region suffers “from the combined
effects of violent extremism, and a serious humanitarian crisis as well as
human rights abuses and violations by terrorist elements and counter-terrorism
measures.”
Despite “the commendable military efforts by the region
against Boko Haram,” he said the ongoing violence has destroyed lives,
livestock and food stocks and paralyzed local economies. The economic impact is
estimated at about $9 billion in northeast Nigeria alone, he said.
Zerihoun
warned that “a military approach will not bring an end to Boko Haram.”
“Affected countries must simultaneously tackle the
humanitarian consequences as well as the root causes that led to the emergence
of the group,” he said. “Military operations should be followed with
stabilization measures, the restoration of state authority and addressing the
social, economic and political grievances of marginalized communities.”
Why Stress Makes You More Likely to Have a Heart Attack?
It's All In Your Brain
Stress
might seem like an unavoidable reality of modern life, but your body isn’t as
quick to write it off as such: in fact, being stressed takes a serious—and
lasting—toll on your life, and according to a growing number of studies, it
also increases your risk of heart disease.
Now, according to a new years-long study published in The Lancet, scientists report that
having a more active amygdala—the brain region triggered during moments of
stress—is linked to a higher risk for heart disease and stroke.
In the study, 293 people without heart problems were given a
PET/CT scan to measure brain activity, bone marrow activity and inflammation of
the arteries. These three areas interact in important ways in animal models,
says study author and cardiologist Dr. Ahmed Tawakol, co-director of the
Cardiac MR PET CT Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Stress, it seems,
triggers the amygdala, which then activates bone marrow and inflammation of
arteries.
Scientists don’t yet know whether the same is true for
humans. But if it were, then people with the most active amygdalas would be the
ones with the highest risk of heart attack and strokes. That’s exactly what
Tawakol and his team found almost four years later when they followed up. In
people with more active amygdalas, these bad heart events also seemed to happen
sooner. They also had increased bone marrow activity and inflammation in the
arteries.
You may not even need a brain scan to find out your true
stress levels. In a small separate study, the researchers asked 13 people with
higher-than-usual stress to rate how stressed they generally felt using a
psychological questionnaire. “We found that their perception of stress nicely
related to activity in their amygdala,” Tawakol says. Those who said they were
the most stressed really had the most active amygdalae. The researchers also
found that a person’s perceived stress was related to their levels of
inflammation.
The study is purely observational and needs to be substantiated
in larger trials. But this intriguing new pathway for how stress may take a
toll on the heart presents a powerful case for stress relief. “So far, it
appears that things like mindfulness and other stress reduction approaches seem
to really nicely tamp down on the amygdala, and they appear to even cause
benefits in other areas of the brain,” says Tawakol.
“When I talk to my patients, I tell them that we’re learning
that diet, exercise, and stress reduction are some of our most compelling
tools—it’s a little humbling,” he adds. “Even though it’s unsexy and doesn’t
really show the best technology that we have to offer our patients, at the end
it is probably the best advice.”
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