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Selasa, 22 September 2009

IKAN

IKAN
Ikan adalah anggota vertebrata poikilotermik (berdarah dingin)[1] yang hidup di air dan bernapas dengan insang. Ikan merupakan kelompok vertebrata yang paling beraneka ragam dengan jumlah spesies lebih dari 27,000 di seluruh dunia. Secara taksonomi, ikan tergolong kelompok paraphyletic yang hubungan kekerabatannya masih diperdebatkan; biasanya ikan dibagi menjadi ikan tanpa rahang (kelas Agnatha, 75 spesies termasuk lamprey dan ikan hag), ikan bertulang rawan (kelas Chondrichthyes, 800 spesies termasuk hiu dan pari), dan sisanya tergolong ikan bertulang keras (kelas Osteichthyes).

Ikan memiliki bermacam ukuran, mulai dari paus hiu yang berukuran 14 meter (45 ft) hingga stout infantfish yang hanya berukuran 7 mm (kira-kira 1/4 inci). Ada beberapa hewan air yang sering dianggap sebagai "ikan", seperti ikan paus, ikan cumi dan ikan duyung, yang sebenarnya tidak tergolong sebagai ikan.

EKOLOGI IKAN
Ikan dapat ditemukan di hampir semua "genangan" air yang berukuran besar baik air tawar, air payau maupun air asin pada kedalaman bervariasi, dari dekat permukaan hingga beberapa ribu meter di bawah permukaan. Namun, danau yang terlalu asin seperti Great Salt Lake tidak bisa menghidupi ikan. Ada beberapa spesies ikan dibudidayakan untuk dipelihara untuk dipamerkan dalam akuarium.

Ikan adalah sumber makanan yang penting. Hewan air lain, seperti moluska dan krustasea kadang dianggap pula sebagai ikan ketika digunakan sebagai sumber makanan. Menangkap ikan untuk keperluan makan dalam jumlah kecil atau olah raga sering disebut sebagai memancing. Hasil penangkapan ikan dunia setiap tahunnya berjumlah sekitar 100 juta ton.

Overfishing adalah sebuah istilah dalam bahasa Inggris untuk menjelaskan penangkapan ikan secara berlebihan. Fenomena ini merupakan ancaman bagi berbagai spesies ikan. Pada tanggal 15 Mei 2003, jurnal Nature melaporkan bahwa semua spesies ikan laut yang berukuran besar telah ditangkap berlebihan secara sistematis hingga jumlahnya kurang dari 10% jumlah yang ada pada tahun 1950. Penulis artikel pada jurnal tersebut menyarankan pengurangan penangkapan ikan secara drastis dan reservasi habitat laut di seluruh dunia.


Source : Wikipedia.org

Selasa, 07 April 2009

3 Easy Ways to Treat Body Acne!

3 Easy Ways to Treat Body Acne!

by: Venkata Ramana
Are you suffering from Body acne? or Zits below the neckline? Don't worry. You are not alone! Lot's of teen get body acne. It is common in the winter months, when you are wearing piles of heavy clothing.

Sweat can clog skin pores and lead to breakouts all over. Other things that can cause body acne are tight fitting clothing ( It traps sweat against the skin, leading to clogged pores and blemishes) stress and hormones. Body acne commonly pops up on the chest and back.

Ø To zap body acne and prevent it from coming back, you can wash your body daily with a salicylic acid based cleanser. Look for this ingredient on product labels.

Ø Shower daily and be sure to shower as soon as possible anytime you have been sweating - such as after playing sports, working outside or just being in the sun. After your shower, you can follow up by a body moisturizer that contains Alfa Hydroxy acid. This will exfoliate skin and help prevent breakouts, without drying skin out.

Ø At Nighttime you can treat body acne just like facial acne, by applying an acne zapping gel or cream at the effected parts.

Ø If your body acne is particularly bad and wont respond to this treatment after about a month, you will probably need to see a dermatologist.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Venkata Ramana is a Fitness Enthusiast and a Professional Body Builder. Visit his http://www.awacne.com/ and http://www.awdepression.com/ websites and gain maximum Information to stay fit and healthy.

3 Essential Tools for Starting and Maintaining a Small Business

3 Essential Tools for Starting and Maintaining a Small Business

by: Ryan Hough
We believe that there are 3 factors that drive the success of small businesses.


1) Acquiring start-up capital
2) Finding customers
3) Accounting for, budgeting and controlling sales and expenses



The following resources will help your small business achieve these success factors.

Acquiring Start-Up Capital


An adequate supply of capital is essential as many profitable businesses fail because they don’t have enough cash to pay their employees and suppliers. But what is an adequate supply of capital? The only way to tell is by doing a significant amount of research on your potential market and formally documenting this in a business plan. I’m sure you know that a business plan is a very important document that is crucial to convincing your banker to lend you money.


There are two ways to obtain a business plan.


1) Do it yourself by amending a business plan template, or
2) Hire a professional to do it for you.


Obviously obtain 1) will be a great deal cheaper.


Our research led to a website that has over 60 high quality and free business plan templates. We also found a directory that you can use to easily find a business plan writer in your city – where ever you live in the world.


Finding Customers


Finding customers is a difficult and expensive task for service business owners such as accountants, lawyers and plumbers. We believe that a cost effective marketing strategy for service business owners is to simply give all their personal contacts a few business cards.


Our research led to a few websites that have pre-designed business card templates. We felt that the diversity and quality of these designs was outstanding. In addition, we found that you can obtain a significant saving by finding a printing service on the Internet. We found that you could get 2,000 full color business cards for as little as US $150.


Accounting For, Budgeting and Controlling Revenue and Expenses


Accurate accounting is very important for small business owners. It’s essential that you have timely access to information that could make or break your business. If stocks are running low – you need to know about it. If a large proportion of your debtors haven’t paid – you need to know about it. If you do not react to these situations quickly you may have a situation where you don’t have enough money to pay your employees – or worse still someone is stealing cash out the till.


Our research led to a website that compares and reviews top accounting software for small businesses. The cheapest software cost US $89.99 and the most expensive software cost US $1,499. It was interesting to note that the top 3 ranked websites were not the most expensive and cost between US $250 - US $300.


Hopefully you now have an idea of some of the tools that you can use to grow and maintain your small business. If you would like to benefit from our research please visit our website. We do not charge for this research and offer the content freely on our website.


About the author:
http://www.best-quality-small-business-resources.com/

Ryan Hough is the webmaster of best quality small business resources.com, who's aim is to help you save time and money by finding reviews and case studies that will enable you to choose the best resources at the right price.



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