Beli "Baby Walker"

Petang tadi baru saja beli "Baby Walker" yang baru untuk Afiqah. Terpaksa beli kerana Anwar dan Shafiqah dah patahkan walker lama. Apa tak patah, keduanya naik walker, apa lagi, overloadlah. Nak marah pun tak boleh, budak2... apa yang mereka faham kecuali keseronokan bermain.

Tadi beli walker yang ringkas2 je, sebab Afiqah dah mula start berdiri dan bertatih. Nampak gaya tak lama lagi dah boleh jalan lah tu. So walker yang ada sekadar boleh masukkan baby supaya dia tak merayau2 di bawah kerusi meja.

Tapi apa kata mereka pasal baby walker...


HOUSTON, Sept. 17, 1998 -- Despite continued warnings from physicians and safety advocates about the dangers of baby walkers, 90 percent of children under age two are still put in them. As a result, nearly 20,000 children are treated in emergency rooms each year for baby walker-related injuries.

"Even if a parent is nearby to supervise, a walker greatly increases a child's chances of falling, especially around an open stairway," said Dr. Joan Shook, chief of the Emergency Medicine Service at Texas Children's Hospital. "Nearly half of the children who use the walkers get injured."

The devices, long considered an easy and entertaining way to occupy a child's time and provide exercise, can gather speed quickly -- moving as fast as four feet per second -- and put children at risk for falls and give them access to other hazards.

The majority of children with baby walker-related injuries fall down stairs (80 percent) and many sustain serious head injuries. Other injuries occur when a child tips over in the walker, pulls down hot liquid or food, suffocates or drowns due to increased mobility in a baby walker.

Because baby walkers are so harmful, Dr. Shook recommends the following guidelines for parents:

• Never use baby walkers with wheels.
• Use stationary activity centers or walker alternatives, such as Exersaucers(TM)
• Supervise infants at all times.

Texas Children's Hospital in Houston is a 456-licensed bed, non-profit pediatric specialty hospital, the largest children's hospital in the United States. Founded in 1954, Texas Children's has trained nearly 80 percent of all Texas pediatricians as the primary pediatric teaching and research hospital for Baylor College of Medicine, one of the top 20 U.S. medical schools in research funding.

Within its spectrum of more than 40 pediatric specialties and subspecialties, Texas Children's is known worldwide for developing breakthrough treatments in all areas of children's health care, including childhood cancer, cardiology, neonatology, asthma, diabetes, organ transplantation and gene therapy. More than 3300 physicians, medical and professional personnel care for patients and their families at Texas Children's Hospital, located in the heart of Houston's world-renowned Texas Medical Center.

Another Article Doctors' groups says they're dangerous.

(HealthScoutNews) -- Aside from offering no real benefit to children, baby walkers are opposed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for reasons including:

• They send more than 14,000 children to the hospital every year.
• At least 34 children have died since 1973 because of baby walkers.

The physicians' group says children in baby walkers can:

• Roll down the stairs -- breaking bones or injuring their heads.
• Get burned -- by reaching up to a stove, counter top or table and touching a hot cup, pan or, closer to the ground, a radiator, fireplace or space heater.
• Drown -- by falling into a pool, bathtub, or toilet while in a walker.
• Be poisoned -- reaching for something high off the floor or something lower, such as poisons stored under the sink or in a cabinet.
• Pinch fingers and toes -- by getting them caught, for example, between the walker and a piece of furniture.

The AAP says while walkers do not help children learn to walk sooner than they otherwise would, they do give little ones the ability to zoom around surprisingly quickly.

Sadly, most of the accidents kids have in walkers happen while an adult is watching, the AAP says.

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Persatuan Ulama selar Sister In Islam....

KUALA LUMPUR, 13 Feb (Hrkh) - Persatuan Ulama Malaysia cawangan Pulau Pinang (PUMPP) menyelar penganjuran program Musawah yang membawa agenda Islam Liberal ke Malaysia dan mempertikaikan prinsip-prinsip asas Islam.

Program �Musawah� adalah 'Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family' anjuran pendukung kuat fahaman sesat Islam Liberal di Malaysia iaitu Sisters in Islam (SIS).

Yang di Pertua Persatuan Ulama� Malaysia Dr Wan Salim Wan Mohd Nor berkata pertemua Musawah itu dilihat berhasrat mempertikaikan pelbagai prinsip-prinsip Islam khususnya dalam hukum syariah berkaitan wanita dan kekeluargaan yang dipersetujui dan diterima oleh kesepakatan ulamak muktabar.

Perjumpaan ini katanya bakal dihadiri oleh pelbagai tokoh Liberal Muslim yang dipertikaikan oleh ulamak Islam muktabar iaitu antaranya Muhammad Khalid Masud, iaitu pengerusi Majlis Ideologi Islamik dari Pakistan, Farida Bennani dari Morocco, Sana Benachour (Tunisia), Hussein Muhammad (Indonesia), Ziba Mir-Hosseini (Britain), Zainah Anwar (Malaysia), Siti Musdah Mulia (Indonesia) dan Nur Rofia (Indonesia) dan aktivis bukan Islam seperti Cassandra Balchin (UK) dan lain-lain.

Kata Dr Wan, 200 Liberalis Muslim telah dijemput dari 40 buah negara dan berkumpul di hotel mewah (bertaraf lebih lima bintang) The Prince Hotel, Kuala Lumpur pada hari ini bagi menghadiri mesyuarat lima hari tersebut.

"Perjumpaan tertutup ini juga tidak membenarkan penyertaan dari pihak luar selain dari jemputan tertutup mereka. PUMPP melihat perjumpaan dengan dana besar ini berkemungkinan disokong oleh kepentingan Barat dengan tujuan meliberalkan Islam dan mengharapkan pihak penguatkuasa dapat menyiasat punca sumber-sumber dana membiayai program terbabit.

"Perjumpaan ini juga akan memberi persepsi yang negatif kepada Malaysia yang bakal digambarkan sebagai negara yang mengamalkan undang-undang Syariah yang mendiskriminasi wanita, terutamanya apabila perjumpaan ini bakal dibawa perhatian kepada wakil Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu dengan kehadiran Professor Yakin Erturk (The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women) yang akan merasmikan perjumpaan tersebut," katanya dalam satu kenyataannya kepada Harakahdaily.

PUM PP katanya juga menyelar kehadiran pimpinan negara bagi merasmikan program tersebut seolah-oleh tidak merujuk terlebih dahulu kepada pihak autoriti agama dalam negara seperti JAKIM dan Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan.

"Kertas kerja dan bengkel-bengkel yang bakal dibentangkan semasa perjumpaan dilihat berhajat untuk menginterpretasikan semula al Quran dan Hadith dari sudut pandang wanita yang selama ini dikatakan bias pada lelaki.

"Musawah juga bakal mengenengahkan isu hak samarata antara lelaki dan perempuan dalam kekeluargaan Islam melalui hukum-hakam seperti poligami, faraid, ketaatan isteri, izin keluar rumah, aurat wanita, dan sebagainya. Hukum-hakam ini bakal dipertikaikan dengan melanggar segala Syari�at yang dibawa oleh al-Qur�an dan al-Sunnah," kata Dr Wan.

PUM PP katanya berharap kumpulan-kumpulan dan masyarakat bukan Islam tidak terpengaruh dengan propaganda kumpulan liberal Islam ini dan tidak campur tangan dalam urusan Aqidah dan prinsip-prinsip ajaran Islam sepertimana Islam mengajar penganutnya untuk tidak campur tangan dan menghormati dalam ajaran agama-agama lain sepertimana penegasan al Quran.

"Kita menyelar pelaksanaan program ini dan dilihat bakal merosakkan lagi aqidah umat Islam di Malaysia seterusnya membawa perpecahan kepada umat Islam dan memberi persepsi yang salah kepada Islam kepada semua pihak, termasuk masyarakat dunia yang hadir dan melihat perkembangan di Malaysia," katanya

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KERAJAAN PERAK DI ROMPAK

Alamak, tiba2 kerajaan Perak yang telah diberi mandat oleh rakyat pada pilihanraya ke12 yang lalu telah di rompak sehingga berlakunya pertukaran MB. Ternyata di negeri Perak ketika ini sedang panas dan kecoh.

Semiconductor sales fell

A resumption of sales growth will depend in part on the effectiveness of various measures now under consideration by the federal government to restore consumer confidence, improve liquidity, and stimulate economic growth," SIA President George Scalise said.

As expected, December 2008 saw a massive drop in chip sales, bringing down the full year's results with a 22% year-over-year decline in revenues for the month.

According to the SIA (Semiconductor Industry Association), sales fell from $22.3 billion in December 2007 to $17.4 billion in December 2008. December sales declined by 16.6% from November 2008 when sales were $20.9 billion



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