Global March to Jeruselam ( Day 1)

Assalamu'alaikum wbt Semuga saudara/i berada di dalam iman yang sejahtera. Alhamdulillah delegasi seramai 23 orang telah berlepas dari KLIA dengan selamat dan kini transit di Kaherah. Flight seterusnya jam 8:30pg waktu tempatan dan tiba ke Amman Jordan jam 10:00pg. Pagi tadi kelihatan delegasi sedang khusyuk menulis mengemaskini fb, email masing-masing. Kini kami telah berada di Hotel Misk, Shmeisani Jordan. Cuaca di sini sejuk sekitar 16 degree Celcius walaupun suasana terang benderang. Kami menghirup udara segar bumi Jordan yang penuh dengan kisah sejarah para anbiya yang diberkati ini dalam musim Spring yang baru bermula. Doakan perjalanan ini diberkati Allah swt. Semuga misi kami membawa amanah rakyat Malaysia untuk membuka mata masyarakat dunia tentang kezaliman Israel tercapai. Pastinya Shahrul Aman dan teamnya sedang bertungkus lumus merancang dan mengatur untuk program besok.  Untuk makluman semua, sepanjang ketiadaan saya, urusan Konvoi MyGMJ akan diambil alih Sdr Aidil Akhbar dan dibantu oleh Ibnu Khalid Jurait (IKJ). Mesyuarat ke-9 bersama team marshall telah diadakan malam semalam selepas mereka menghantar delegasi 23orang ke Jordan. Meriah KLIA malam tadi dengan marshall yang memakai bandana MyGMJ. Antara yang dirancangkan ialah para peserta konvoi berkumpul di 3 tempat berikut jam 5 ptg: Selatan: R & R Awan Besar Timur: Hentian Duta Utara: Hentian Sungai Buluh InsyaAllah 5 marshall bersama 2 polis trafik (kalau dapat, doakan) akan mengiringi setiap kumpulan yang dijangka bertolak jam 5 petang daripada tempat berkumpul. Apapun, sila rujuk Pengarah Konvoi MyGMJ Akhi Aidil untuk maklumat lebih lanjut dan tepat. Tak pasti samada hebahan telah dibuat sebelum ini. Saya mendoakan MyGMJ di Stadium Melawati akan berjalan dengan baik seperti yang dirancag. Juga perjalanan peserta konvoi yang datang dari seluruh pelusuk tanah air, semuga perjalanan antum dinaungi dengan rahmat dan berkat Allah swt. Mohon doakan kesejahteraan kami yang akan berarak ke Jerusalem besok. Rasa ingin sahaja membaling batu kepada tentera yang zalim itu. Satu sejarah sedang tercipta. Oleh anak-anak muda, dewasa, pelbagai agama, bangsa dan negara yang sudah muak dengan kezaliman tentera Israel laknatuLlah. Jom kita berarak ke Baitulmaqdis. From The Mountains To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free!!! Zun Arif Hakim Delegasi MyGMJ Amman, Jordan

Arthur C.Guyton, M.D. (1919-2003)

The sudden loss of Dr. Arthur C. Guyton in an automobile accident on April 3 2002, stunned and saddened all who were privileged to know him. Arthur Guyton was a giant in the feilds of physiology and medicine, a leader among leaders, a master teacher, and an inspiring role model throughout the world. Arthur Clifton Guyton was born in Oxford,Mississipi, to Dr. Billy S. Guyton, a highly respected eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, who later became Dean of the University of Mississippi Medical School, and Kate Smallwood Guyton, a mathematics and physics teacher who had been a missionary in China before marriage. During his formativ years Arthur enjoyed watching his father work at the Guyton Cinic, playing chess and swappin stories with William Faulkner, and building sailboats (one of which he later sold to Faulkner) . He also built countless mechanical and electrical devices, which he continued to do throughout his life. His brilliance shone early as he graduated top in his class at the University of Mississippi. He later distinguished himself at Harvard Medical School and began his post graduate surgical training at Massachusetts General Hospital. His medical training was interrupted twice - once to serve in the Navy during World War II and again in 1946 when he was stricken with polioyelitis during his final year of residency training. Suffering paralysis with poliomyelitis during his final year of residency training. Suffering paralysis in his right leg,left arm, and both shoulders, he spent nine months in Warm Springs, Georgia, rcuperating and applying his inentive mind to building the first motorized wheelchair controlled by a 'joy stick', a motorized hoist for lifitng patients, special leg braces , and other devices to aid the handicapped. For those invensions he received a Presidential Citation. He returned to Oxford where he devoted himelf to teaching and research at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and was named Chair of the Department of Physiology in 1948. In 1951 he was named Chair of the Department of Physiology in 1948. In 1951 he was named one of the ten out standing men in the nation. When the Unversity of Mississippi moved it's Medical School to Jackson in 1955, he rapidly devloped one of the orld's premier , and devoted father is detailed in a biography published on the occasion of his 'retirement' in 1989. A great Physiologist. Arthur Guyton's research contributions, which include more than 600 papers and 40books are legendaryand place him among the greatest physiologists in history. His research covered virtually all areas of cardiovascular regulation and led to many seminalconcepts that are now an integral part of our understanding of cardiovascular disorders, such as hypertention, heart failure, and edema.It is difficult to discuss cardiovascular physiology without including his concepts of cardiac output and venous return and edema, regulation of tissue blood flow and whole body blood flow autoregulation of tissue blood flow and whole bod blood flow autoregulation concepts of cardiovascular regulation are found in virtually evry maor text book of physiology.The have become so familier that their origin is sometimes forgotten. One of Dr. Guyton'smost important scientific legacies was his application ofprinciples ofengineering and systems analysis to cardiovascular regulation. He used mathematical and graphical methods to quatify various aspects of circulatory function before computers were widely available.He built analog computers and pioneered the application of large-scale systems analysis to modeling the cardiovascular system befor the advent of digital computrs. As digital computers became availabl,his cardiovacular models expended dramamtically to include kidnes and body fluids, hormones and the autonomic nervous system, as wellas cardiac and circulatory functions. He also provided the first comprehensive systems analysis of blood pressure regulation. This unique approach to physiological research preceded the emergence of biomedical engineering - a feild that helped established and to promote in physiology, leading the discipline into a quantitative rather than a descriptive science. It is a tribute to Arthur Guyton's genious that his concepts of cardiovascular regulation often seemed heretical when they were first presented, yt stimulated investigators throughout th world to test them experimentally. They are now widely accepted. In fact, many of his concepts of cardiovascular regulation are integral components of what is now thought in most medical physiology courses. They continue to be the foundation for generations of cardiovascular physiologists. Dr Guyton received more than80 major honors from diverse scientific and civic organiations and universities throughout the world. A few of these thaht are especially relevent to cardiovascular research include the Wiggers Award of the American Physiological Society, the Ciba Award from the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, the William Harvy Award from the American Society of Hypertension. It was appropriate that in 1978 he was invited by the Royal College of Physicians in London to delivera special lecturing honoringth 400th aniversary of the birth of William Harvey, who discovered the circulation of the blood. Dr. Guyton's love of physiology was beautifullyarticulated in his presidents'saddress to the AmericanPhysiological Society in 1975, appropriately entitltled Physiology a beauty and Philosophy. Let me quote just one sentence from his address: What otherperson, whethr be a theologian, a jurist, a doctor of medicine, a physicist, or whatever, knows more than you, a physiologist about life?For physiology is indeed an explanation of life. What other subject matter is more facinating, more exciting, more beautifull than the subject of ife? A MAster Teacher . Although Dr. Guyton's research accomplishments are legendary, his contributions a s an educator have probaby had aneven greater impact.He and his wonderfull wife Ruth raised 10 children, all of them became remarkable educational acheivement. Eight of the Guyton children graduated from Harvard Medical School, one from Duke Medical School after receiving a Ph.D. from Harvard. An article publishedin reader's Digest in 1982 highlighted their extraordinary family life. The success of the Guyton children did not occur by chance. Dr. Guyton's philosophy of education was to 'larn by doing'. The children participated in countless family projects that included the design and costruction of their home and it's heatng sstem, the swimming pool, tennis court, sailboats, go-carts,household gadgets, and electronic instruments for their Oxford Instruments Company. Television pROGRAM SUCH AS good Morning America and 20/20 describd the remarkable homeenvironment that Arthur and Ruth Guyton created to raise their family. His devotion to family is beautifully expressed in the dedication of his Textbook of Meidcal Physiology: My father forhis uncompromising principles that guided my life My mother for lading her children int intellectualpursuits My wife for her magnificent devotion to her family My children for making everything wothwhile. Dr. Guyton was a master teacher at the University of Mississippi for over 50 years. Even though he was always busy with service responsibilities, research, wirting, and teaching , he was never too busy to talk wth a student who was having difficulty. He would never accept an invitation to give a presitigious lecture if it conflicted with his teaching schedual. His contributions to education are also far reaching through generations of physiology graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. He trained over 150 scientist, at least 29 of whom became presidents of the American Physiological Society. He gav students confidence in their abilities and emphesized the beliefe that "People who are really successful in the research world are self-taught." He insisted that his trainees integrate their experimental findings into a broad conceptual framework that included other interacting sstems. This approach usually led them to develop a quantitative analysis and a bettr understanding of the particular physiological systemsthat thy were studying. No one has been more prolific in training leaders of physiology that Arthur Guyton.