Salah satu sarana untuk menuju Haji Mabrur adalah memilih biro perjalanan haji yang bonafide, mau melayani jamaah haji dengan se
Salah satu sarana untuk menuju Haji Mabrur adalah memilih biro perjalanan haji yang bonafide, mau melayani jamaah haji dengan sepenuh hati, dan membimbing ibadah haji sesuai ajaran Nabi saw.
Trevel haji seperti itulah yang senantiasa dibutuhkan oleh para jamaah haji, sehingga ketika jamaah haji ingin melaksanakan ibadah, mereka bisa lebih khusyuk dan meresapi nilai-nilai ibadah.
Di antara sekian banyak biro trevel yang ada, yaitu Hikmah Sakti Perdana yang sudah berpengalaman dalam mengurusi jamaah haji dan umroh. Banyak paket-paket umroh yang ditawarkan kepada para jamaah.
Bagi yang ingin berhaji atauh umroh, dapat menghubungi kantor perwakilan Hikmah Sakti Perdana di: Pondok Pesantren Syafi’i Akrom, desa Jenggot Kota Pekalongan. Nomor kontak: 081542179705 (Yasir).
Ukuran alat kelamin
tak dimungkiri masih menjadi salah satu parameter penting dalam seksualitas pria.
Saco-Indonesia.com —Ukuran alat kelamin tak dimungkiri masih menjadi salah satu parameter penting dalam
seksualitas pria. Hal itu pula yang membuat sebagian kaum Adam merasa "tak puas"
selalu berupaya mencari cara untuk memperbaiki ukuran kelaminnya.
Meski
demikian, minimnya pengetahuan tentang kesehatan reproduksi menyebabkan banyak pria terjebak
pada prosedur pembesaran yang sembarangan terhadap alat kelamin. Tak semua prosedur pembesaran
dapat memberikan hasil yang diharapkan, terutama pelayanan sembarangan yang tidak berdasarkan
pada ilmu kedokteran. Alih-alih mendapat ukuran sesuai keinginan, layanan ini justru akan
menyebabkan kerusakan permanen pada alat vital.
Spesialis urologi Fakultas
Kedokteran Universitas Indonesia (FKUI) Rumah Sakit dr Cipto Mangunkusumo (FKUI/RSCM) dr Nur
Rasyid mengingatkan, kaum pria sebaiknya tidak mencari upaya untuk membesarkan alat kelaminnya.
Pasalnya, alat kelamin pria dewasa sebenarnya sudah mencapai ukuran yang maksimal sehingga
tidak mungkin dapat diperbesar lagi.
Kecuali pada anak dalam usia
prepubertal atau sebelum memasuki usia puber, alat kelamin pria masih dapat bertumbuh sehingga
masih dapat dilakukan upaya pembesaran.
"Umumnya pria setelah berusia
21 tahun, organ vitalnya sudah mengalami pematangan sempurna," ujar Nur dalam seminar
media bertajuk "Disfungsi Ereksi (DE): Mengapa Pria Enggan Membicarakan serta
Mengonsultasikannya ke Dokter?" di Jakarta, Rabu (22/5/2013).
Hanya
saja, ukuran organ vital pria dapat bertambah besar saat mengalami ereksi. Nur mengatakan, hal
ini terjadi karena peningkatan suplai darah di pembuluh darah penis. Volume darah pada penis
saat ereksi dapat mencapai empat kali volume darah saat penis tidak ereksi.
"Maka, jika ereksinya lancar, ukuran penis seharusnya tidak menjadi masalah karena akan
membesar sendiri," kata Nur.
Sayangnya, imbuh Nur, tidak semua pria
mengetahui ukuran penis yang normal. Masih banyak yang merasa ukuran yang dimilikinya kecil,
padahal sebenarnya normal.
Kata Nur, ukuran penis rata-rata orang Indonesia
yang dianggap cukup untuk memenuhi fungsi organ seksual mencapai 9 sentimeter saat ereksi. Maka
dari itulah, pentingnya artinya kaum pria untuk mendapatkan informasi tentang kesehatan
reproduksi yang tepat.
Berbahaya
Nur
mengingatkan masyarakat akan bahaya prosedur pembesaran alat kelamin yang masih banyak
ditemukan. Upaya pembesaran penis yang berbahaya di antaranya adalah dengan melakukan
penyuntikan penambahan volume di bawah kulit penis. Penambahan volume dapat dilakukan dengan
menyuntikkan silikon, bahkan hingga minyak tradisional.
Nur mengatakan,
pengisian volume dengan bahan berbahaya mungkin terlihat baik pada awalnya. Namun, efeknya tidak
akan lama. Paling lama sekitar enam sampai dua belas bulan. Setelahnya, bentuk dan kulit penis
bisa mengalami kerusakan.
"Mungkin mirip dengan penyuntikan silikon di
dada atau wajah. Jika sembarangan, tentu akan buruk hasilnya. Melakukannya pada organ vital
akan berakibat kerusakan fungsi dari alat vital," paparnya.
Rhapsody, a Lofty Literary Journal, Perused at 39,000 Feet
Last summer at a writers’ workshop in Oregon, the novelists Anthony Doerr, Karen Russell and Elissa Schappell were chatting over cocktails when they realized they had all published work in the same magazine. It wasn’t one of the usual literary outlets, like Tin House, The Paris Review or The New Yorker. It was Rhapsody, an in-flight magazine for United Airlines.
It seemed like a weird coincidence. Then again, considering Rhapsody’s growing roster of A-list fiction writers, maybe not. Since its first issue hit plane cabins a year and a half ago, Rhapsody has published original works by literary stars like Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Moody, Amy Bloom, Emma Straub and Mr. Doerr, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction two weeks ago.
As airlines try to distinguish their high-end service with luxuries like private sleeping chambers, showers, butler service and meals from five-star chefs, United Airlines is offering a loftier, more cerebral amenity to its first-class and business-class passengers: elegant prose by prominent novelists. There are no airport maps or disheartening lists of in-flight meal and entertainment options in Rhapsody. Instead, the magazine has published ruminative first-person travel accounts, cultural dispatches and probing essays about flight by more than 30 literary fiction writers.
An airline might seem like an odd literary patron. But as publishers and writers look for new ways to reach readers in a shaky retail climate, many have formed corporate alliances with transit companies, including American Airlines, JetBlue and Amtrak, that provide a captive audience.
Mark Krolick, United Airlines’ managing director of marketing and product development, said the quality of the writing in Rhapsody brings a patina of sophistication to its first-class service, along with other opulent touches like mood lighting, soft music and a branded scent.
“The high-end leisure or business-class traveler has higher expectations, even in the entertainment we provide,” he said.
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Some of Rhapsody’s contributing writers say they were lured by the promise of free airfare and luxury accommodations provided by United, as well as exposure to an elite audience of some two million first-class and business-class travelers.
“It’s not your normal Park Slope Community Bookstore types who read Rhapsody,” Mr. Moody, author of the 1994 novel “The Ice Storm,” who wrote an introspective, philosophical piece about traveling to the Aran Islands of Ireland for Rhapsody, said in an email. “I’m not sure I myself am in that Rhapsody demographic, but I would like them to buy my books one day.”
In addition to offering travel perks, the magazine pays well and gives writers freedom, within reason, to choose their subject matter and write with style. Certain genres of flight stories are off limits, naturally: no plane crashes or woeful tales of lost luggage or rude flight attendants, and nothing too risqué.
“We’re not going to have someone write about joining the mile-high club,” said Jordan Heller, the editor in chief of Rhapsody. “Despite those restrictions, we’ve managed to come up with a lot of high-minded literary content.”
Guiding writers toward the right idea occasionally requires some gentle prodding. When Rhapsody’s executive editor asked Ms. Russell to contribute an essay about a memorable flight experience, she first pitched a story about the time she was chaperoning a group of teenagers on a trip to Europe, and their delayed plane sat at the airport in New York for several hours while other passengers got progressively drunker.
“He pointed out that disaster flights are not what people want to read about when they’re in transit, and very diplomatically suggested that maybe people want to read something that casts air travel in a more positive light,” said Ms. Russell, whose novel “Swamplandia!” was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.
She turned in a nostalgia-tinged essay about her first flight on a trip to Disney World when she was 6. “The Magic Kingdom was an anticlimax,” she wrote. “What ride could compare to that first flight?”
Ms. Oates also wrote about her first flight, in a tiny yellow propeller plane piloted by her father. The novelist Joyce Maynard told of the constant disappointment of never seeing her books in airport bookstores and the thrill of finally spotting a fellow plane passenger reading her novel “Labor Day.” Emily St. John Mandel, who was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction last year, wrote about agonizing over which books to bring on a long flight.
“There’s nobody that’s looked down their noses at us as an in-flight magazine,” said Sean Manning, the magazine’s executive editor. “As big as these people are in the literary world, there’s still this untapped audience for them of luxury travelers.”
United is one of a handful of companies showcasing work by literary writers as a way to elevate their brands and engage customers. Chipotle has printed original work from writers like Toni Morrison, Jeffrey Eugenides and Barbara Kingsolver on its disposable cups and paper bags. The eyeglass company Warby Parker hosts parties for authors and sells books from 14 independent publishers in its stores.
JetBlue offers around 40 e-books from HarperCollins and Penguin Random House on its free wireless network, allowing passengers to read free samples and buy and download books. JetBlue will start offering 11 digital titles from Simon & Schuster soon. Amtrak recently forged an alliance with Penguin Random House to provide free digital samples from 28 popular titles, which passengers can buy and download over Amtrak’s admittedly spotty wireless service.
Amtrak is becoming an incubator for literary talent in its own right. Last year, it started a residency program, offering writers a free long-distance train trip and complimentary food. More than 16,000 writers applied and 24 made the cut.
Like Amtrak, Rhapsody has found that writers are eager to get onboard. On a rainy spring afternoon, Rhapsody’s editorial staff sat around a conference table discussing the June issue, which will feature an essay by the novelist Hannah Pittard and an unpublished short story by the late Elmore Leonard.
“Do you have that photo of Elmore Leonard? Can I see it?” Mr. Heller, the editor in chief, asked Rhapsody’s design director, Christos Hannides. Mr. Hannides slid it across the table and noted that they also had a photograph of cowboy spurs. “It’s very simple; it won’t take away from the literature,” he said.
Rhapsody’s office, an open space with exposed pipes and a vaulted brick ceiling, sits in Dumbo at the epicenter of literary Brooklyn, in the same converted tea warehouse as the literary journal N+1 and the digital publisher Atavist. Two of the magazine’s seven staff members hold graduate degrees in creative writing. Mr. Manning, the executive editor, has published a memoir and edited five literary anthologies.
Mr. Manning said Rhapsody was conceived from the start as a place for literary novelists to write with voice and style, and nobody had been put off that their work would live in plane cabins and airport lounges.
Still, some contributors say they wish the magazine were more widely circulated.
“I would love it if I could read it,” said Ms. Schappell, a Brooklyn-based novelist who wrote a feature story for Rhapsody’s inaugural issue. “But I never fly first class.”
Jean Nidetch, 91, Dies; Pounds Came Off, and Weight Watchers Was Born
A 214-pound Queens housewife struggled with a lifelong addiction to food until she shed 72 pounds and became the public face of the worldwide weight-control empire Weight Watchers.