New Cars in 2010 Prediction
Also available will be a 1.6-litre turbo-diesel 77kW and a 2.0-litre turbo-diesel with 125kW. The top of the pops Quadrofoglio Verde (aka Cloverleaf – likely the replacement for the GTA) will boast a healthy 173kW.
ALFA ROMEO MITO
Another Cloverleaf model that will hit Aussie shores in 2010 is the MiTo Quadrofolglio Verde. It will be powered by a 125kW turbo-charged 1.4-litre Multi-Air engine and all-new 6-speed manual transmission. You can expect this pocket-rocket sometime before October. The MiTo will also have dual-clutch automated manual transmissions across the range by the third quarter.
AUDI A1
Audi’s lips are sealed about the arrival of the Mini-fighting A1, which should be out in Europe next year. Expected to debut at either Detroit or Geneva
CHERY A1
Chinese cars will continue their assault in 2010, with automotive manufacturer Chery expected to release a new small car. The 1.3-litre A1 (not to be confused with Audi’s upcoming A1), is curiously described by the Chinese manufacturer as ‘powerful, like a quickly attacking cheetah’.
CITROEN C3
French manufacturer Citroen will bring its new large-windscreened C3 small-car range to Australia, which will be similar to the current line-up and will arrive in the third quarter of 2010.
The current C3 is still a best-seller for Citroen, having sold over two million units globally since it debuted in 2002.The all-new C3’s appealing appearance, lighter body and more spacious interior along with better technology and fuel figures should entice small car buyers. The new C3 should start at the same price as the outgoing model - $23,990.
CITROEN DS3
Also from Citroen will be the DS3, the French rival to the Mini that cashes in on the current trend for stylish small luxury cars. The C3 based DS3 is likely to have a choice of a few engines, with the top two engine versions destined for our shores by the third quarter of 2010. The variants will likely include a 1.6-litre turbo-diesel capable of 82kW, and a 1.6-litre turbo petrol engine offering 110kW. Both automatic and manual versions of the car should make their way here. Price-wise, the DS3 should be placed in the same range as the Mini, starting at approximately $33,000.
FIAT PUNTO EVO
Fiat Punto Evo - don’t let the Evo tag confuse you: this is not a nod to Mitsubishi’s rally-bred Lancer. Conversely, the Evo moniker is a poke at the evolution of the automobile. In this Punto’s case, the name of the game is efficiency. The Punto Evo should be in Australia by the third quarter, and it makes use of Fiat’s new ‘multi-air’ petrol and JTD diesel engines, meaning an increase in fuel efficiency and a drop in carbon emissions.
FORD FIESTA
The popular Fiesta small car will be sourced from Thailand from the third quarter of 2010. The change to Asian-sourced Fiestas will also bring about new models, and should include the delivery of a Fiesta sedan. The Fiesta range is likely to look the same, but the switch to Asian manufacture will mean leaner pricing for buyers as well as the inclusion of dual airbags and stability control as standard.
GEELY MK / GEELY PANDA
There are still rumours about this Chinese manufacturer’s entry into the market. The word from the likely importer, John Hughes Group in Western Australia, is that they’re hoping for an appearance in the first quarter of 2010. The most likely models to make it to Australia is the Geely MK, a small 1.5-litre four-door sedan, and the cutesy Geely Panda, a 1.0-litre 4-cylinder micro-car.
GREAT WALL MOTORS
In 2010 Great Wall Motors will offer a small passenger car in Australia – the first Chinese-made light vehicle to make it to our shores. On sale in the middle of the year, the exact details of which Great Wall car it will be are still unknown. We’ll just have to wait and see.
HOLDEN CRUZE
Holden will be producing its very own Australian-made small car based on the Cruze, which is likely to sit next to (or perhaps in place of) the Cruze. The car is said to have quite a few changes, and according to Holden it will have an Australian feel to it. Expected late 2010.
For those who’ve seen the new Opel Astra and have been hoping for a return of the German small car, there’s some bad news. Holden has confirmed that it is not going to import the Astra, as it doesn’t currently make economic sense. Holden did say, however, that they are open to any opportunities.
HOLDEN SPARK
Another hotly anticipated Holden arrival is the new Spark. There’s no confirmation of delivery as yet, but according to Holden the Spark could make its way to Australia in the future. Perhaps not in 2010, though.
HONDA CIVIC
Honda’s popular Civic will also be the beneficiary of a mid-model update during the first half of the year. Expect both cosmetic and specification changes.
HYUNDAI i20
Hyundai will release the i20 light car in 2010. Exact timing is uncertain for the Mazda 2 competitor, however the hype surrounding the i20 in the European market should make for an interesting debut. Expect competitive pricing, likely to be around $17,000.
HYUNDAI i10
The Hyundai i10 compact car is still in discussion between Hyundai Australia and its Korean headquarters. Hyundai has told us that they are currently assessing the feasibility of the i10 in the Australian market.
KIA CERATO HATCH
Kia’s Cerato range will be joined by a 5-door hatch in the last three months of the year. The 5-door Cerato will likely offer the same 2.0-litre engine and 5-speed manual and 4-speed automatic gearboxes. The pricing for the Cerato hatch is likely to be close to the $18,990 retail price of its sedan sibling.
KIA RIO
The Rio small car will receive an update in very early 2010. Expect minor changes only.
MAZDA 2
Mazda are keeping quiet on their plans for the year ahead, but we know that the Japanese brand will start manufacturing its 2 small-car from Thailand in 2010.
The shift to cheaper production also ties in with the release a new Mazda 2 sedan variant. It is expected that the currently optional curtain airbags and stability control will now become standard across the Mazda 2 range. New model prices are unknown.
MITSUBISHI COLT
The small Mitsubishi Colt will likely receive the trademark face of the new Lancer and Outlander. The Colt will have both a cosmetic and specification upgrade sometime in 2010.
NISSAN MICRA
Nissan’s small car, the Micra, will be produced in Thailand and India in 2010. An Australian release is in the pipeline, and according to Nissan Australia it could make it here next year, and they are looking into it now. More news on the Micra will be available in the first quarter of 2010.
PROTON S16
Australia’s cheapest car, the $11,990 drive-away Proton S16, will get an expanded range in 2010. All models will include dual airbags, and there will be several spec-levels. The base model will be called the S16 G, and will be joined by a GX, GXR and SE. Most will have optional automatic gearboxes, and should be on sale in Australia in June.
PROTON SATRIA NEO
A new Satria Neo will be out in 2010. The ‘CPS’ will feature an upgraded engine that is more powerful (93kW up from 88kW and 150Nm up from 148Nm), and the car is styled similarly to the old Satria GTi.
SKODA FABIA
Another Skoda on the ‘maybe’ pile is the Fabia. Chances are slim at the moment, with the focus on securing the Yeti, but there’s still a small chance three new Skoda models will be in Australia in 2010.
SUZUKI SWIFT
There is talk of an updated Swift by the end of 2010, though the timing for this is not confirmed as yet.
TOYOTA COROLLA SEDAN
After the recent update to the Corolla hatch, we can expect an updated sedan in early 2010. The sedan is expected to gain an updated look, as well as safety features like stability control and Bluetooth phone connectivity as standard.
VOLKSWAGEN POLO
An all-new Polo range will come to Australia, with the base model three- and five-door versions arriving in the second quarter of 2010, followed by a GTI version sometime in the second half.
Dubbed the ‘mini-Golf’, the new Polo is a vastly improved car to its predecessor. The fifth-generation Polo is sure to appeal to small car buyers, with its younger-twin looks and sophisticated engine line-up. Variants include a 77kW 1.2-litre turbo three-cylinder and a 1.4-litre turbo four-cylinder, and there is also word of a 1.6-litre diesel. Transmissions include a 5-speed manual and 7-speed dual-clutch automatic. Price is likely to be slightly higher than the current model which starts at around $17,000.
VOLKSWAGEN GOLF
New versions of Golf will also hit Australian streets in 2010. The all new Golf R, the most powerful Golf ever, with a 2.0-litre turbo engine, is both quicker and lighter than the V6 R32 model, despite remaining all-wheel drive, having sourced the all-wheel drive system from the Audi S3. It will be out in the middle of the year. The other new Golf to come in 2010 is the Golf Wagon, which should enable to Golf to cater to an even broader market. It should be on the road by February.
VOLVO C30
A facelift to the love-it or hate-it C30 will carry similar swoopy lines and a revised facia including bonnet, grille and headlights. The C30 will also gain a range of petrol and diesel engines, including the new C30 DRIVe with start-stop technology which helps the C30 attain a miniscule 3.8L/100km and a low carbon emissions figure of just 98g/km. The C30 range should be on sale early 2010, and should retail for around the same prices as the current range, beginning at $35,000.
Editor: jimbon / Kompas.com
Source : Sydney Morning Herald
The Amazing From Paper
Peter, 41, cuts intricate patterns from a white sheet of paper and uses the cutout to fold breathtaking designs such as skeletons, insects and buildings. The precision work transforms a piece of paper worth only a few pence into a piece of art that sells for £2,800.
Each model takes up to two weeks to sketch, cut and fold. If Peter makes a wrong cut or realises he is unable to achieve the fold he wanted he has to rethink his design and start the painstaking work again.
Peter likes his models to tell a story and believes transforming a flat piece of paper into a three-dimension model is a 'magical process'.
He said: 'Some of the small paper cuts relate to a universe of fairy tales and romanticism.
'Others are small dramas in which small figures are lost within and threatened by the huge powerful nature.'
Others again are turning the inside out, or letting the front and the back of the paper meet - dealing with impossibility, illusions, and reflections.'
Peter, from Copenhagen, Denmark, likes to use A4 paper in his work because people use it widely in the home and office and can easily relate to it.
He said: 'I find the A4 sheet of paper interesting to work with because it is probably the most common media for carrying information today.
'By removing all the information and starting from scratch using blank white A4 paper I feel I have found a material which we all are able to relate to.
'The thin white paper gives the paper sculptures a fragility which underlines the tragic and romantic theme of the works.'
Peter has held a number of exhibitions around the world including London, New York and Seoul. He is represented by the Perry Rubenstein Gallery in New York, United States, and the Helene Nyborg Contemporary in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Editor: jimbon /kompas
Source : The Daily Mail
Insulting at Facebook
The riot has extremely upset the local citizens. At the beginning, it was a parley to mediate the conflict between Lia and Rini, two women who've been friends for quite long, but then it turned into a quarrel. Lia and Rini, the source of the problem, during the brawl were seen hiding behind fences on Pirngadi street.
"I just got back home when I noticed the commotion on the street and there were two frightened women," said Triawan, a citizen of Bubutan.
Chief detective of North Surabaya district police, Police Commissioner Attendant Dolly A. Primanto, explained the chronology that led to the riot. He said that for the last week, Lia, from Simo Kwagean Buntu Lor, and Rini were mocking each other on Facebook. Lia then complained to her husband, Tonny Wijaya. Tonny then told his older brother, Paulus, about it.
Afterward, stated Dolly, Paulus who is now still wanted by the police mocked Rini. To put an end to the matter both parties decided to settle it peacefully and meet on Pirngadi street. Rini, the girl from Ploso, took her boyfriend, Steven Liang, and they went by a Toyota Avanza car, while Lia came with her husband Tonny, Paulus, and dozens of others on motorbikes.
When the two parties met, it's still unclear who started it, but the meeting suddenly turned into a brawl which was triggered by an argument. Due to the uneven numbers, Steven became the living sand-sack for Tonny and Paulus. Steven's car, parked by the street, was also vandalized by Tonny and his group.
Seeing the riot, the locals came to stop it. But, several people who were vandalizing the car got away. The North Surabaya district police, whose headquarter was only 500 meters away, came to the location.
Seeing the police, Tonny who was suspected to have beaten up Steven hurried to his motorcycle, a Yamaha Mio Soul with the license plate number L 6915 NH, and sped to the east. However, Tony's speeding bike tripped over a speed-bump before crashing down on the street. Tonny, having broken his leg on the accident, was apprehended by the police and brought to Dr. Soetomo public hospital.
"We declare Tonny as a suspect involved in the brawl. He's still hospitalized," said the police chief of North Surabaya, Police Great Commissioner Attendant Djoko Hariutomo, accompanied by Dolly A. Primanto, Saturday.
After declaring Tonny as a suspect, the police then caught Wahyuda Mokoagao, 23, a citizen of Setro. Before the investigators, Wahyuda confessed of having smashed the windows of Steven's car and beaten Steven with a helmet. "I just came along," he argued.
For this case, the investigators have declared Paulus as a criminal for being involved in the fight. "Both groups, the suspects and the victims were wrong to try to work out peace in a remote place. They could've got the police the mediate for them." said Police Commissioner Attendant Dolly A. Primanto. (MIF/C17-09)
Editor: jimbon
Source : www.surya.co.id
"I just got back home when I noticed the commotion on the street and there were two frightened women," said Triawan, a citizen of Bubutan.
Chief detective of North Surabaya district police, Police Commissioner Attendant Dolly A. Primanto, explained the chronology that led to the riot. He said that for the last week, Lia, from Simo Kwagean Buntu Lor, and Rini were mocking each other on Facebook. Lia then complained to her husband, Tonny Wijaya. Tonny then told his older brother, Paulus, about it.
Afterward, stated Dolly, Paulus who is now still wanted by the police mocked Rini. To put an end to the matter both parties decided to settle it peacefully and meet on Pirngadi street. Rini, the girl from Ploso, took her boyfriend, Steven Liang, and they went by a Toyota Avanza car, while Lia came with her husband Tonny, Paulus, and dozens of others on motorbikes.
When the two parties met, it's still unclear who started it, but the meeting suddenly turned into a brawl which was triggered by an argument. Due to the uneven numbers, Steven became the living sand-sack for Tonny and Paulus. Steven's car, parked by the street, was also vandalized by Tonny and his group.
Seeing the riot, the locals came to stop it. But, several people who were vandalizing the car got away. The North Surabaya district police, whose headquarter was only 500 meters away, came to the location.
Seeing the police, Tonny who was suspected to have beaten up Steven hurried to his motorcycle, a Yamaha Mio Soul with the license plate number L 6915 NH, and sped to the east. However, Tony's speeding bike tripped over a speed-bump before crashing down on the street. Tonny, having broken his leg on the accident, was apprehended by the police and brought to Dr. Soetomo public hospital.
"We declare Tonny as a suspect involved in the brawl. He's still hospitalized," said the police chief of North Surabaya, Police Great Commissioner Attendant Djoko Hariutomo, accompanied by Dolly A. Primanto, Saturday.
After declaring Tonny as a suspect, the police then caught Wahyuda Mokoagao, 23, a citizen of Setro. Before the investigators, Wahyuda confessed of having smashed the windows of Steven's car and beaten Steven with a helmet. "I just came along," he argued.
For this case, the investigators have declared Paulus as a criminal for being involved in the fight. "Both groups, the suspects and the victims were wrong to try to work out peace in a remote place. They could've got the police the mediate for them." said Police Commissioner Attendant Dolly A. Primanto. (MIF/C17-09)
Editor: jimbon
Source : www.surya.co.id
Monkey can speak?
“This is the first evidence we have in animal communication that they can combine, in a semantic way, different calls to create a new message,” said Alban Lemasson, a primatologist at the University of Rennes in France. “I’m not sure it has strong parallels with humans, in the way that we will find a subject and object and verb. But they have meaningful units combined into other meaningful sequences, with rules imposed on how they’re combined.”
Lemasson’s team previously described the monkeys’ use of calls with specific meanings in a paper published in November. It detailed the monkeys’ basic sound structures and their uses: “Hok” for eagle, “krak” for leopard, “krak-oo” for general disturbance, “hok-oo” and “wak-oo” for general disturbance in forest canopies. A sixth call, “boom,” was used in non-predatory contexts, such as when calling a group together for travel or arguing with neighboring groups.
Impressive as that was, however, it was still relatively one-dimensional, not much different from verbalizations heard in many animal species, from other non-human primates to songbirds. The team’s latest findings, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describe something far more complicated: syntax, or principles of word sequence and sentence structure.
Though some researchers have ascribed syntax to animals, it’s never been formally demonstrated — until now.
“People have criticized the use of ’syntax’ to describe animals just because they produce sequences of sound. They say that each unit has no meaning, that no rules explain how they’re combined,” said Lemasson. “Here we have rules of combination.”
For example, male monkeys called “boom boom” to gather other monkeys to them, but “boom boom krak-oo krak-oo” meant that a tree or branch was about to fall. Adding a “hak-oo” to that sequence turned it into a territorial warning against stray monkeys from neigboring groups. Multiple “krak-oo” calls added to an original “krak” meant not only that a leopard was in the area, but that it posed an immediate threat.
The research raises the question of whether early humans or our primate ancestors combined calls in a similar way, turning a small set of sounds into a rich verbal reportoire. According to Lemasson and to Jared Taglialatela, a chimpanzee communication researcher at Clayton State University, it’s too soon to say whether the monkey talk is proto-human.
“I’d shy away from that. But this is certainly syntax,” said Taglialatela, who was not involved in the study. But he described the proto-human question as secondary to a far more intriguing possibility: that the potential for language is widespread in the animal kingdom.
“People like to draw lines and make boxes and put animals inside them. I don’t like to do that. There are differences and shades of grey. And when you take the time to collect data in a way that allows you to recognize complexity and patterns, than you find evidence of them,” said Taglialatela.
Lemasson’s analysis was based on a vast set of recordings, gathered from 10 monkey groups observed for two full years in their African rain forest homes. Lemasson, who is further investigating Campbell’s monkey talk by measuring their reactions to recorded calls, suspects that a dense jungle environment drove the evolution of syntax.
Since the monkeys had trouble seeing each other, they compensated by talking. The same compensatory dynamic could operate in other species, such as whales that live in mostly sunless waters, he said.
“We can imagine that this ability has evolved in other lineages,” said Lemasson.
Editor: jimbon
Source : wired science
Tiger Woods Had Sex in Church Car Park
But every move of that alfresco encounter was recorded by a surveillance team of reporters and photographers from one of America's biggest-selling tabloid magazines. It was a scoop - the first example of what we now know to be a pattern of infidelity on Tiger's part.
And it was two years ago - two years before the 'outing' of nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel and the bizarre late-night car crash outside Tiger's Florida home that set in motion a chain of revelations. Yet during those intervening years, Tiger had seemed what Tiger always seemed - a family man: the ultimate professional, controlled, focused, even a bit dull - because this was a sting that, were it not for last week's ructions, would never have seen the light of day.
Tiger's management made sure of that. Today, for the first time, The Mail on Sunday can tell the story of the affair that preceded that car park encounter in 2007 and the desperate cover-up that ensued.
It is a story that goes a long way to answering two of the most persistent questions in the whole Tiger Woods scandal: why did a man whose massive earnings depended on him being the ultimate clean-living sportsman jeopardise everything, from career to family, with such apparent recklessness? And how did he get away with it for so long?
Today, Mindy Lawton, 34, knows that she was just one of many mistresses taken by the golfer. But, according to her family, throughout their 14-month affair she laboured under the delusion that what she had with Tiger was special and that they were in love.
Mindy's sister, Orlando primary school teacher Lynn Lawton, said: 'She is extremely, extremely naive, my sister. She is single, never married, never had children and still looking for a relationship. I have to hand it to him. It was brilliant to choose my sister to play his kind of game.'
The unworldly Mindy was easily dazzled and undemanding. She and Tiger met in summer 2006, when Mindy was working as an $8-an-hour manager and waitress at Perkins, a diner only a short drive from Tiger's home in the upmarket Orlando suburb of Windermere. Tiger and his wife Elin would regularly take breakfast there.
Lynn recalled: 'My sister told me they came in regularly. Elin would read the paper while Tiger ogled my sister. She is very bubbly, very outgoing. You couldn't help but notice her, even when she was in her waitress uniform.
'Mindy said he and Elin seemed disconnected. There would not be much conversation. Tiger would just sit there, looking at Mindy. She said, "Oh my God, he is so cute!"
'She doesn't know much about golf, but she did know he was married because Elin was sitting there.'
One day, Lynn said, Mindy called in a state of excitement: 'She said he had called her at Perkins and said, "This is Tige," - that's the pet name he always used for himself - "Will you meet me at the Blue Martini?"
'She was very excited but nervous so she asked our next oldest sister, Bobbi, to go with her. She was like, "Oh, I'm going to hang out with Tiger!"'
It is now known that this nightclub and cocktail bar was a favourite haunt of Tiger's - a place where he could entertain, and be entertained, in the relative privacy of the club's VIP section, surrounded by girls, minders and selected male friends.
Again, it is striking how relatively little effort he seemed to make to conceal these clandestine meetings. But, as Mindy was to find out, Tiger's powerful entourage and management were masters in protecting their money-maker's image.
At first, according to Lynn, the bouncer wouldn't let Mindy and her sister into the VIP room. 'They stood there for a while and then all of a sudden, Tiger nods to the guy to let them in. Tiger didn't get up. He just sat there.
'He was with a group of Orlando and Los Angeles basketball players. Bobbi bought him a drink and had one of the bartenders take it over. She said Mindy started dancing with another girl. My sister is a real good dancer and Bobbi said Tiger couldn't keep his eyes off her.'
Tiger and Mindy left the club separately. Mindy drove her sister home then met Tiger on his way to his house. She followed the golfer, driving at a discreet distance, and at the gated development was waved in by the guard.
Lynn said: 'Mindy told me the next day, "We went to his house and had sex. He was extremely good."'
Lynn thinks Elin was out of the country that night. She said: 'That was always the pattern. Mindy would drive her old Saturn car and follow Tiger in his luxurious Escalade.
'My sister was just a little girl on an hourly wage at Perkins. We knew what he wanted her for. But she wouldn't believe it.
'Maybe Tiger thought the security guards would think she was his cleaning lady,' Lynn conjectured. Or maybe they had just seen it all before and knew to turn a blind eye.
Truth be told, however charming and cool Tiger appeared as he sat over his breakfast, there was a different side to him, one only now emerging, which his young wife Elin must surely have been aware of.
As early as 2001, there had been hints of a wilder side to the sportsman when he went on holiday with a group of friends, reputedly calling themselves The Brothers and consisting of basketball players Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley and former professional footballer, Ahmad Rashad.
Together with baseball's most expensive player Alex Rodriguez, they travelled to the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
Jordan gambled, placing up to $5,000 on a single card. Tiger showed his rebellious side, bleaching his hair blond. But that was before he met Elin, before they married in 2004 and before their children, daughter Sam Alexis, now two, and ten-month-old son Charlie, were born.
Once the affair between Tiger and Mindy started, it gathered momentum, with the couple meeting at his house for sex every two or three weeks. Incredibly, he continued to have breakfast at Perkins to the point where, Lynn said: 'Everyone was talking about it because he would wait for Mindy in his Escalade and then she would follow him in her car. He was so brazen it was incredible.
'Everyone in our family knew about it too. I remember one day we were all sitting on our back porch, my parents, my husband and Mindy, and we said, "Do you know he is married?" And she started crying and said yes.
'My husband told her, "The way he is behaving with you, behind his wife's back, I am sure he has a lady in every city."
'It got to the point where our neighbours and friends knew about it too. In a way it was quite clever, him being so open about it because we thought, "Maybe this is just how celebrities behave."
'I am sure Elin knew nothing about it, because she was never home when Mindy was there. But because Tiger was so complacent about it, it never would have occurred to anyone to tell her what was going on. He never said to my sister, "This has to be secret."'
Meanwhile, on the golfing circuit, Tiger's brilliance and sheer earning power meant that he never had to explain himself, or his behaviour, to anybody. However many rumours may have circulated, however uncouth some of his habits - such as spitting and swearing on the greens, and being churlish to caddies - his talent provided all the excuse, or shield he needed.
Tiger was so focused, nobody dared disturb him. At the major championships in Britain, he tended to rent houses rather than join other players at hotels, under the guise of maintaining his privacy. He allowed no visitors and, in recent years, his wife was, at best, an infrequent member of his tournament entourage.
On the course, he stared straight ahead, interacting with no one, except maybe his caddie. He demanded utter loyalty of his friends and the proximity of his management. He never divulged anything about himself and for years it was believed that, far from having something to hide, the former child-prodigy was frankly a little bit dull.
He said nothing, people thought, because he had nothing to say. It was as if he had picked up a golf club at the age of three and - save for the aberration that was his marriage - never showed any interest in picking anything, or anyone else up since.
This was the seemingly impervious image that won him deals with big names such as Nike, Gillette and Pepsi - endorsements that, should he be able to maintain them, could see his fortune increase six-fold to £3billion in the next ten years.
But Mindy - and the others - saw a very different Tiger. Lynn said: 'I saw the texts he sent her. One of them said he was dreaming of being inside of her. Another said, "Do you want to get laid?" It was crude. There was no mention of love. She said he didn't talk about his wife.'
Had Tiger mentioned Elin, it might have meant confronting the sordid reality that his 'romance' with Mindy was conducted while his wife was pregnant with their first child.
Instead, Lynn said: 'He talked very little about anything. She said he never wore condoms. That really broke me up. I was so worried she might catch a disease, especially as we suspected he was promiscuous. But Mindy was in love with him. I think she thought he was faithful to her.'
In fact, it seems likely that Tiger's affair with Mindy overlapped with his relationship with Jaimee Grubbs, the 24-year-old cocktail mistress he met in April 2007 and with whom he had a three-year affair. According to a source close to Jaimee, she very much enjoyed her affair with Tiger - perhaps having less romantic notions than Mindy.
Jaimee simply accepted that theirs was 'a physical, not a cerebral relationship'. She has said: 'Tiger might have started out naive, but sex became like an addiction to him.'
Jaimee has also claimed that the star took the painkiller Vicoden - a prescription he explained as necessary because of a recent knee injury.
Rachel Uchitel, the New York club hostess whose 'outing' as one of Tiger's mistresses supposedly led to last Saturday's marital meltdown, allegedly told one friend that Tiger took Ambien - a sedative prescribed for his insomnia but said to heighten sexual experiences.
Porn star Holly Sampson and marketing director Kalika Moquin, 33, both named as mistresses, do nothing to dispute these depictions of the man or his predilections.
Another as yet unnamed mistress believes: 'His big problem is, ironically, insecurity. He has never felt particularly attractive. From the age of four or five, he was destined to be a golfing legend but no one told him how to be a man.
'He married the dream girl, had the perfect family, but couldn't feel satisfied with that.
'He's not a happy man. When his father died [in May 2006] his moral compass went off. He was caught once and got away with it. He thought he could get away with it for ever.'
Which brings us back to that car park, that surveillance team in the spring of 2007 and the scoop that could have exploded Tiger's myth long before now. So what happened?
Put bluntly, Tiger sold himself to save himself - or at least his management did. With an exertion of power only possible by the very rich and very famous, a deal was struck.
In return for burying the story of Tiger's affair, he would give an exclusive cover interview to a men's health magazine owned by the same company as the tabloid.
According to our investigation, when 'Team Tiger' discovered that the tabloid magazine not only had blurry pictures of him and Mindy in the car park but evidence of the consummation, they went into a panic. Then they went to work.
Neal Boulton, an editor in the tabloid magazine's company at the time, revealed: 'They said, "What do we have to do not to let this get out?"'
The answer was press the magazine's publisher to withhold the story in return for Tiger appearing on the August 2007 cover of its stablemate publication, Men's Fitness. And so Tiger, who regularly declines interviews on the grounds that he is a 'private' person, struck beefcake-style poses and gave tips on diet, exercise and weightlifting.
The tabloid's parent company insisted that the exclusive was not a quid pro quo. But it was enough for Boulton to resign in protest at the editorial interference which he perceived as an underhand 'trade-off'. Ironically, had Mindy voiced her own concerns some weeks earlier, Tiger and his team might have avoided everything which followed.
According to Lynn, her sister had told her of 'a strange car following her at night'. Around the same time, Lynn herself received a call from a reporter at the tabloid. But then nothing came of it – or so the Lawton family thought. And as far as Mindy knew, Tiger simply dropped out of her life.
Lynn said: 'You'd have thought with all his money, he would have paid her off and all the other girls but I guess he thought he had them in the palm of his hand. He treated my sister like a piece of meat.'
Tiger ended his affair with Mindy as soon as his management informed him of the tabloid sting. He just stopped calling. For her, there was no explanation, for him there was no story - and that was what mattered.
In the final analysis, it was perhaps too much for Tiger's management to hope that all his 'Mindys' would go away. And, crucially, cracks were beginning to appear in the one thing upon which everything - his reputation and his shield - depended: Tiger's game.
At the Open at Turnberry in the summer, Tiger missed the halfway cut for only the second time in a major championship in his glittering career.
At the time, the golfing circuit was awash with rumours that he had returned to his rented house and taken out his frustrations on its interior, trashing the place to the tune of £6,000 to £16,000, depending on who one believes, though nothing was ever confirmed.
In recent months, talk of arguments with Elin and a recent ultimatum simply would not be silenced.
Perhaps when the Mindy problem went away, Tiger thought himself immune from exposure. He had been so blatant and emerged without a dent to his image. Perhaps he believed that his image was so artfully constructed that the truth just couldn't punch through it.
Perhaps he didn't think at all - a luxury afforded him by his wealth, his management and his power, and one which from here on in, he'll have to do without.
Has Tiger fled the Florida wreckage?
Tiger Woods was still in hiding last night, amid speculation that he may be living separately from his wife Elin, writes Sharon Churcher.
Unidentified 'friends' of the golfer have said the couple are having marriage counselling. But Woods's continued refusal to speak to police about his bizarre car crash has led to speculation that he quietly has moved out of their mansion in a gated Orlando community.
One source close to the investigation said last night: 'I'd be shocked if Tiger is still in Orlando. The rumour on the PGA circuit is that there was no Wedgwood china left in the house after their blow-up. No one has seen Tiger.
'One story is that he left his lair after the wreck and took a private jet to New York. Maybe he's decided to party some more.'
Woods's attorney Mark Nejame declined to comment when asked if the golfer had left town.
Editor: jimbon
Source : The Daily Mail
Traveling To Bali
In November 19,2009 we come to bali with PT.Wonokoyo Jayakusuma fish feed.The tour with 43 persons who under commited with agen fish feed.This activity is Rafting at Ubud bali,Long river about 10 km .If one day you come to bali,please try this adventure,because this place is very good activity.Make your trip happy and wet.
About 2 hours trip we play this adventure,fun and excaiting.
One boat for 4-6 person with price Rp.300.000 per person included lunch.
Cheap cellphone ? relax............
Though they're 'cloned' products, the Chinese mobile phones that copy the designs of other popular brands are flying off the shelves. It's even reported that their sales is higher than that of the third largest cell phone vendor in the world.
The cause of this rise in sales is the 'clearing' strategy done by the distributors and the high number of sales for second-rate Chinese cell phones without license. These imitated products copy the models of more famous brands and also use similar names those brands, such as "Mokia". Most of these cheap cell phones use chips made by Mediatek.
Gartner calculates that the total sales of those cloned cell phones reaches 150 million units, which is much higher than the sales of LG Electronics, the third largest cell phone producer in the world. The producer from South Korea can only sell 117 million cell phones. Gartner mentioned the calculation based on the sales from stores to the last consumer.
These cheap phones are selling hard in the midst of the globally declining sales of cell phones. However, the declining trend of cell phone sales in the global market stopped in the third quarter. Based on the calculation of Gartner Global, the marketing research institution, the global sales experienced a year on year growth of 0.1 percent at the third quarter of 2009. (Thomas Hadiwinata/KONTAN/C17-09)
The cause of this rise in sales is the 'clearing' strategy done by the distributors and the high number of sales for second-rate Chinese cell phones without license. These imitated products copy the models of more famous brands and also use similar names those brands, such as "Mokia". Most of these cheap cell phones use chips made by Mediatek.
Gartner calculates that the total sales of those cloned cell phones reaches 150 million units, which is much higher than the sales of LG Electronics, the third largest cell phone producer in the world. The producer from South Korea can only sell 117 million cell phones. Gartner mentioned the calculation based on the sales from stores to the last consumer.
These cheap phones are selling hard in the midst of the globally declining sales of cell phones. However, the declining trend of cell phone sales in the global market stopped in the third quarter. Based on the calculation of Gartner Global, the marketing research institution, the global sales experienced a year on year growth of 0.1 percent at the third quarter of 2009. (Thomas Hadiwinata/KONTAN/C17-09)
Movie review: 'Precious' a find full of Oscar-worthy performances
As Hollywood closed specialty divisions that aimed for quality and personal stories, as studios focus more and more on superhero sagas and action blockbusters, cinema fans have rightly wondered, who's left to make great American movies?
For one, the makers of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," who assembled some of the unlikeliest ingredients - Mariah Carey, Mo'Nique, and a lead actress plucked from an anonymous casting call - to create a wondrous work of art.
The film isn't easy to watch and will test your tolerance for despicable behavior as a long history of physical abuse and incest unfolds involving an illiterate, obese Harlem schoolgirl.
Yet "Precious" - both the film and its grandly resilient title character - will steal your heart. Lee Daniels, in just his second film as director, crafts a story that rises from the depths of despair to a place of genuine hope.
This isn't a fairy tale. "Precious" doesn't strain to present some happy-ever-after transformation that simply never could happen considering the harsh reality in which it's set.
Rather, the film reflects an inner spirit everyone can recognize, that role-playing game we indulge in to get us through our big and small hard times, imagining our lives are different, better. That we are different and better.
Claireece "Precious" Jones literally wills it to be so, and as played in a phenomenal screen debut by Gabourey Sidibe, she makes an utterly believable and electrifying rise from an urban abyss of ignorance and neglect.
Adapted from the novel "Push" by Sapphire - who taught reading and writing for eight years in Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx, to students like Precious and her peers - the film is simultaneously tender and savage as Precious learns to apply that simple verb: Push yourself, push your boundaries, if others try to stop you, push them out of the way.
(The film debuted as "Push" at January's Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the top jury prize and the award as the audience's favorite film; the title was changed to avoid confusion with Dakota Fanning's sci-fi adventure "Push," released last February.)
When we first encounter her, Precious is pregnant with her second child by her own father, who raped her repeatedly while her mother, Mary (Mo'Nique), looked the other way and later heaped abuse on her daughter out of jealousy and spite.
by The Associated Press
For one, the makers of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," who assembled some of the unlikeliest ingredients - Mariah Carey, Mo'Nique, and a lead actress plucked from an anonymous casting call - to create a wondrous work of art.
The film isn't easy to watch and will test your tolerance for despicable behavior as a long history of physical abuse and incest unfolds involving an illiterate, obese Harlem schoolgirl.
Yet "Precious" - both the film and its grandly resilient title character - will steal your heart. Lee Daniels, in just his second film as director, crafts a story that rises from the depths of despair to a place of genuine hope.
This isn't a fairy tale. "Precious" doesn't strain to present some happy-ever-after transformation that simply never could happen considering the harsh reality in which it's set.
Rather, the film reflects an inner spirit everyone can recognize, that role-playing game we indulge in to get us through our big and small hard times, imagining our lives are different, better. That we are different and better.
Claireece "Precious" Jones literally wills it to be so, and as played in a phenomenal screen debut by Gabourey Sidibe, she makes an utterly believable and electrifying rise from an urban abyss of ignorance and neglect.
Adapted from the novel "Push" by Sapphire - who taught reading and writing for eight years in Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx, to students like Precious and her peers - the film is simultaneously tender and savage as Precious learns to apply that simple verb: Push yourself, push your boundaries, if others try to stop you, push them out of the way.
(The film debuted as "Push" at January's Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the top jury prize and the award as the audience's favorite film; the title was changed to avoid confusion with Dakota Fanning's sci-fi adventure "Push," released last February.)
When we first encounter her, Precious is pregnant with her second child by her own father, who raped her repeatedly while her mother, Mary (Mo'Nique), looked the other way and later heaped abuse on her daughter out of jealousy and spite.
by The Associated Press
Now Botox for Breasts
It is the 21st century solution for new mothers desperate to look their best for a party or wedding. Injections of Botox into the bust tighten sagging cleavage, giving it back its pre-pregnancy perk.
With the treatment taking just half an hour, it is proving popular with busy young mothers who don't have time to go under the knife. But at £1,000 a session, doctors say it is best used as a one-off confidence-booster ahead of a special occasion, rather than as a regular treatment.
Sach Mohan, a surgeon with cosmetic surgery chain Transform, said: 'A young woman who has recently been pregnant might not have very much in her wardrobe that fits.
'But she is under pressure to look good just weeks after giving birth.
'This is another tool in their armoury.'
Dr Mohan recommends new mothers wait for at least three months after giving birth before signing up for 'Breastox', as it has been dubbed. An anaesthetic cream is used to numb the pain and the patient is given around 12 injections of Botox into the pectoralis minor chest muscle.
The freezing of this muscle causes other muscles in the back to strengthen, and the bust to lift. Wrinkles, caused by ageing, or just too much sun, are also smoothed. But the technique has its limits - breasts are not made fuller.
Gwen Davies, Transform's head of non-surgical treatments, said: 'Wrinkles on the chest area are very ageing and a dead giveaway to a lady's age, and sun-worshippers are most likely to suffer deeper set wrinkles.
'Sun damage rapidly ages the skin, leaving it wrinkly and saggy and unfortunately, while many women are cottoning on to wearing sun cream to protect their faces, they're not paying the same attention to their chests.
'Botox is now an accepted form of anti-ageing for the face, but our practitioners are constantly researching new ways it can be used to create a more youthful look on other parts of the body.' The technique is most suited to women in their 20s and 30s with A and B cup breasts.
The Botox takes around two weeks to take effect and last four around three months. Repeat treatments are possible but doctors say women looking for a more permanent fix would be better to have a breast uplift operation.
Although the initial outlay will be more, it will work out cheaper in the long term. Botox is most often associated with making faces look younger but has numerous other uses, including stemming heavy sweating and preventing teeth from grinding.
It can also be used in the treatment of migraine and is showing promise in easing some of the damage done by strokes. But other experts questioned if Botox has the power to make breasts more pert.
Fazel Fatah, president-elect of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, said that injections were no substitute for surgery when it come so reshaping and repositioning breast tissue.
Source : The Daily Mail
With the treatment taking just half an hour, it is proving popular with busy young mothers who don't have time to go under the knife. But at £1,000 a session, doctors say it is best used as a one-off confidence-booster ahead of a special occasion, rather than as a regular treatment.
Sach Mohan, a surgeon with cosmetic surgery chain Transform, said: 'A young woman who has recently been pregnant might not have very much in her wardrobe that fits.
'But she is under pressure to look good just weeks after giving birth.
'This is another tool in their armoury.'
Dr Mohan recommends new mothers wait for at least three months after giving birth before signing up for 'Breastox', as it has been dubbed. An anaesthetic cream is used to numb the pain and the patient is given around 12 injections of Botox into the pectoralis minor chest muscle.
The freezing of this muscle causes other muscles in the back to strengthen, and the bust to lift. Wrinkles, caused by ageing, or just too much sun, are also smoothed. But the technique has its limits - breasts are not made fuller.
Gwen Davies, Transform's head of non-surgical treatments, said: 'Wrinkles on the chest area are very ageing and a dead giveaway to a lady's age, and sun-worshippers are most likely to suffer deeper set wrinkles.
'Sun damage rapidly ages the skin, leaving it wrinkly and saggy and unfortunately, while many women are cottoning on to wearing sun cream to protect their faces, they're not paying the same attention to their chests.
'Botox is now an accepted form of anti-ageing for the face, but our practitioners are constantly researching new ways it can be used to create a more youthful look on other parts of the body.' The technique is most suited to women in their 20s and 30s with A and B cup breasts.
The Botox takes around two weeks to take effect and last four around three months. Repeat treatments are possible but doctors say women looking for a more permanent fix would be better to have a breast uplift operation.
Although the initial outlay will be more, it will work out cheaper in the long term. Botox is most often associated with making faces look younger but has numerous other uses, including stemming heavy sweating and preventing teeth from grinding.
It can also be used in the treatment of migraine and is showing promise in easing some of the damage done by strokes. But other experts questioned if Botox has the power to make breasts more pert.
Fazel Fatah, president-elect of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, said that injections were no substitute for surgery when it come so reshaping and repositioning breast tissue.
Source : The Daily Mail
Do Men REALLY Think about Sex Every 7 Seconds?
Over rated! Yes, men think about sex more often than women. But nearly half don't dwell on it even once a day
It has become an accepted truth that men think about sex a lot. Depending on which version you've heard, it could be every few minutes or every seven seconds. On the face of it, this is simply ludicrous.
If we assume that the average male is awake for 16 hours a day, each man would have to think about sex more than 8,000 times a day. That's about as many times as a person breathes while awake.
The most comprehensive survey ever completed on sexuality, The Social Organisation of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States found that 54 per cent of men reported thinking about sex every day or several times a day, 43 per cent a few times a month or a few times a week, and four per cent less than once a month.
When asked the same question: 19 per cent of women reported thinking about sex every day or several times a day, 67 per cent a few times a month or a few times a week, and 14 per cent less than once a month. Women do think about sex less than men, but the difference is not as great as men think.
Sumber : The Daily Mail
It has become an accepted truth that men think about sex a lot. Depending on which version you've heard, it could be every few minutes or every seven seconds. On the face of it, this is simply ludicrous.
If we assume that the average male is awake for 16 hours a day, each man would have to think about sex more than 8,000 times a day. That's about as many times as a person breathes while awake.
The most comprehensive survey ever completed on sexuality, The Social Organisation of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States found that 54 per cent of men reported thinking about sex every day or several times a day, 43 per cent a few times a month or a few times a week, and four per cent less than once a month.
When asked the same question: 19 per cent of women reported thinking about sex every day or several times a day, 67 per cent a few times a month or a few times a week, and 14 per cent less than once a month. Women do think about sex less than men, but the difference is not as great as men think.
Sumber : The Daily Mail
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Is Alien Here ? How To Find Them
DO ALIENS pollute their planets? Let's hope they do, as this would give us a promising way of spotting where they live.
Radio noise may be too short-lived to help us find aliens, if our own activity is any guide. During most of the 20th century, our television transmission antennas leaked a lot of their energy into space.
More recently, they have begun to be supplanted by satellites that beam their transmissions at the ground, as well as by cable. Inquisitive aliens searching for signs of intelligent life on Earth may soon have to look elsewhere.
Light pollution from cities might still give us away. "Observed over interstellar distances, they would reveal to the observer the presence of a technology," say a team of astronomers led by Jean Schneider of the Paris Observatory at Meudon, France. In a paper to appear in Astrobiology, they suggest we should look for a similar glow on alien planets.
This wouldn't be easy. Even if all the electricity we generate was used to produce light, it would still be thousands of times fainter than the glint of sunlight reflected from Earth's surface. To reliably detect even this massive amount of artificial light on a planet orbiting a relatively nearby star - say 15 light years away - would require an array of telescopes with a combined light-collecting area of 1.5 square kilometres, Schneider's team calculates.
Our presence on Earth also leaves other traces that could be observed from afar. The chemicals known as CFCs strongly absorb infrared light at characteristic wavelengths, making them detectable in the atmosphere even when present at concentrations of only parts per trillion. CFCs do not form naturally, so detecting them on a world orbiting another star would be good evidence of alien technology.
"CFCs are a very interesting idea to look for advanced civilisations," agrees Lisa Kaltenegger of Harvard University. But an exceptionally sensitive telescope would be needed to pick them up - more sensitive even than NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder and the European Space Agency's Darwin mission, the most ambitious space telescopes now being planned.
Kaltenegger says it may be feasible "in the far future with a flotilla of infrared telescopes in space". There is, of course, no guarantee that any alien civilisations will have been spewing CFCs into their planet's atmosphere.
The damage CFCs have done to Earth's ozone layer in the few decades they have been used led to a worldwide ban on their manufacture, and they are slowly disappearing from our atmosphere. "Do all intelligent civilisations make the same mistakes?" Kaltenegger wonders.
Other artificial compounds, including less damaging substitutes for CFCs, also have characteristic infrared fingerprints, says Jim Kasting of Pennsylvania State University, University Park. "There's a whole host of things we make industrially as solvents, cleaners and refrigerants - they certainly have absorption lines," he says.
"If you had a big enough telescope, you could detect them."
Sumber : NewScientist
Radio noise may be too short-lived to help us find aliens, if our own activity is any guide. During most of the 20th century, our television transmission antennas leaked a lot of their energy into space.
More recently, they have begun to be supplanted by satellites that beam their transmissions at the ground, as well as by cable. Inquisitive aliens searching for signs of intelligent life on Earth may soon have to look elsewhere.
Light pollution from cities might still give us away. "Observed over interstellar distances, they would reveal to the observer the presence of a technology," say a team of astronomers led by Jean Schneider of the Paris Observatory at Meudon, France. In a paper to appear in Astrobiology, they suggest we should look for a similar glow on alien planets.
This wouldn't be easy. Even if all the electricity we generate was used to produce light, it would still be thousands of times fainter than the glint of sunlight reflected from Earth's surface. To reliably detect even this massive amount of artificial light on a planet orbiting a relatively nearby star - say 15 light years away - would require an array of telescopes with a combined light-collecting area of 1.5 square kilometres, Schneider's team calculates.
Our presence on Earth also leaves other traces that could be observed from afar. The chemicals known as CFCs strongly absorb infrared light at characteristic wavelengths, making them detectable in the atmosphere even when present at concentrations of only parts per trillion. CFCs do not form naturally, so detecting them on a world orbiting another star would be good evidence of alien technology.
"CFCs are a very interesting idea to look for advanced civilisations," agrees Lisa Kaltenegger of Harvard University. But an exceptionally sensitive telescope would be needed to pick them up - more sensitive even than NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder and the European Space Agency's Darwin mission, the most ambitious space telescopes now being planned.
Kaltenegger says it may be feasible "in the far future with a flotilla of infrared telescopes in space". There is, of course, no guarantee that any alien civilisations will have been spewing CFCs into their planet's atmosphere.
The damage CFCs have done to Earth's ozone layer in the few decades they have been used led to a worldwide ban on their manufacture, and they are slowly disappearing from our atmosphere. "Do all intelligent civilisations make the same mistakes?" Kaltenegger wonders.
Other artificial compounds, including less damaging substitutes for CFCs, also have characteristic infrared fingerprints, says Jim Kasting of Pennsylvania State University, University Park. "There's a whole host of things we make industrially as solvents, cleaners and refrigerants - they certainly have absorption lines," he says.
"If you had a big enough telescope, you could detect them."
Sumber : NewScientist
The Most Expensive SUV
This is the world's most expensive SUV - but with three bottles of the world's most expensive vodka included in the price tag, it actually appears to be a bargain.
The £1million Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition has gold-plated windows, pure tungsten exhausts, and the speed gauges are encrusted in diamonds. The seats are not for the squeamish. They are made of one of the softest materials around - leather from a whale's penis.
And, just to send the bling factor right through the roof, this SUV also comes complete with an exterior bulletproof Kevlar coating. But that's nothing compared to the vodka that comes with it.
The car company has thrown three bottles of Russo-Baltique, the vodka brand it created this year to mark its100th anniversary, Motor Authority reported.
Last year, a bottle retailed for £790,000. It is not a meant to be drunk, the company's website explains - instead it should be displayed as art. That's because the bling of the bottle frankly puts the SUV to shame.
According to the Dartz company's website, the flask, a replica of the radiator guard used for the Russo-Baltique cars, is made from gold coins minted between 1908 and 1912. This is around the time the company manufactured its first car.
The flask cap is made from white and yellow gold and contains a diamond-encrusted replica of the Russian Imperial Eagle. And finally, the bottle itself is made of bulletproof glass 30cm thick - just in case. The car - and vodka - were produced especially for the mega-exclusive Top Marques luxury motor show in Monaco next year.
The car is made by the company that produced armoured vehicles for Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Tsar Nicolas. The seats are indeed of 'real whale penis leather,' says a spokesperson for Dartz Kombat.
'It is inspired by the original playboy Aristotle Onassis' yacht Christina O, which had bar stool seats made from sperm whale foreskin.
'Some people have called us crazy because of this, but we think we must make a luxury car till the end.'
Weighing four tons and powered by a V8 engine capable of 450 horse power, the Pombron's maker also claim the car is 'rocket grenade proof'.
'In the past our customers have included Lenin and his revolutionary partner Trotsky,' explains the Dartz spokesperson.
'In fact we are launching a version of this new model in 2012, just for Latin America.
'This will commemorate the fact that Trotsky was killed in Mexico with an ice pick in 1940.
'As such, the Latin version will come with a gold ice axe to mark this fact.'
Keeping the exact details of the car secret, the Pombron's makers say the SUV will be unveiled to Prince Albert of Monaco at the Top Marques opening in April of next year.
Sumber : The Daily Mail
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The £1million Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition has gold-plated windows, pure tungsten exhausts, and the speed gauges are encrusted in diamonds. The seats are not for the squeamish. They are made of one of the softest materials around - leather from a whale's penis.
And, just to send the bling factor right through the roof, this SUV also comes complete with an exterior bulletproof Kevlar coating. But that's nothing compared to the vodka that comes with it.
The car company has thrown three bottles of Russo-Baltique, the vodka brand it created this year to mark its100th anniversary, Motor Authority reported.
Last year, a bottle retailed for £790,000. It is not a meant to be drunk, the company's website explains - instead it should be displayed as art. That's because the bling of the bottle frankly puts the SUV to shame.
According to the Dartz company's website, the flask, a replica of the radiator guard used for the Russo-Baltique cars, is made from gold coins minted between 1908 and 1912. This is around the time the company manufactured its first car.
The flask cap is made from white and yellow gold and contains a diamond-encrusted replica of the Russian Imperial Eagle. And finally, the bottle itself is made of bulletproof glass 30cm thick - just in case. The car - and vodka - were produced especially for the mega-exclusive Top Marques luxury motor show in Monaco next year.
The car is made by the company that produced armoured vehicles for Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Tsar Nicolas. The seats are indeed of 'real whale penis leather,' says a spokesperson for Dartz Kombat.
'It is inspired by the original playboy Aristotle Onassis' yacht Christina O, which had bar stool seats made from sperm whale foreskin.
'Some people have called us crazy because of this, but we think we must make a luxury car till the end.'
Weighing four tons and powered by a V8 engine capable of 450 horse power, the Pombron's maker also claim the car is 'rocket grenade proof'.
'In the past our customers have included Lenin and his revolutionary partner Trotsky,' explains the Dartz spokesperson.
'In fact we are launching a version of this new model in 2012, just for Latin America.
'This will commemorate the fact that Trotsky was killed in Mexico with an ice pick in 1940.
'As such, the Latin version will come with a gold ice axe to mark this fact.'
Keeping the exact details of the car secret, the Pombron's makers say the SUV will be unveiled to Prince Albert of Monaco at the Top Marques opening in April of next year.
Sumber : The Daily Mail
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Indonesia : President Picks new Cabinet
Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Trade Minister Mari Pangestu, two economists who have raised the profile of Indonesia, a Group of 20 (G20) member, kept their posts.
Another technocrat, Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, will head a new, presidential delivery unit to drive reform of the civil service, the judiciary and push through infrastructure projects.
The new unit, which some analysts say could be modelled on former British prime minister Tony Blair’s delivery unit, or the “West Wing” in Washington, could help improve coordination between the various ministries and resolve many of the bottlenecks holding back economic growth.
Yudhoyono, a reformist ex-general who was sworn in for a second, five-year term on Tuesday, announced a cabinet containing few surprises as most future ministers had been seen visiting the president in recent days to be interviewed for their jobs.
Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, is forecast to expand between 4 and 4.5 percent this year, and has lagged its larger rivals, China and India, for years in terms of growth and its ability to attract investment.
Clearing up corruption, red tape
Investors frequently cite corruption, red tape, legal uncertainty and shoddy infrastructure as the main deterrents to investment. Yudhoyono has promised to address these areas in his second term in order to turn Indonesia into a more attractive investment destination.
“Annual economic growth could hit 6 percent in the next five years but if the government has new policies in place such as ones regarding infrastructure, growth could even be higher,” said Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, economist at Danareksa in Jakarta.
Analysts had welcomed the selection of key technocrats but expressed disappointment at some of the political selections, particularly of Darwin Saleh, the new energy and mining minister, who is relatively unknown and appears to have little experience of this important sector.
Fauzi Ichsan, senior economist at Standard Chartered Bank in Jakarta, said the credibility of Indrawati, Pangestu and Vice President Boediono should calm any market nerves.
“Their credibility should help ease worries over the capability of the new faces in the economic team,” said Ichsan.
Hatta Rajasa, one of the president’s trusted aides, was appointed Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy, while M.S. Hidayat, who heads the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will be Industry Minister.
Gita Wirjawan, a former banker at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, will head the Investment Co-ordinating Board with a mandate to attract more investment.
Sumber : Reuters
Bandung : The Trade City of Jeans
Bandung is a capital city of west Java-Indonesia.Located about 2 hours drive from Jakarta.Bandung is one of the most student city,and always called " Paris Van Java" because architecture and flowers everywhere.These are our Bandung Information:
Foto's and Video's Miyabi Ozawa
Ozawa was born in Hokkaido, Japan on January 8, 1986. Her mother is Japanese and her father is French-Canadian[2]. Since she attended an international school from Primary School to High School, she claims that her English reading and writing ability is better than her Japanese.[3] While at school, she played hockey every day, and often went to karaoke after class.[3] [4] Ozawa had her first sexual experience at the age of 13,[3] and learned the "48 sexual positions" through a book that she bought herself.[3]
In 2002, while still in high school, Ozawa appeared in a short (30 second) Japanese TV commercial for DARS Chocolate with the two members of the Japanese pop group KinKi Kids. The commercial has her sharing chocolate with one of the duo while secretly holding hands with the other.[5]
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In 2002, while still in high school, Ozawa appeared in a short (30 second) Japanese TV commercial for DARS Chocolate with the two members of the Japanese pop group KinKi Kids. The commercial has her sharing chocolate with one of the duo while secretly holding hands with the other.[5]
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Speed at A Price but Is It Affordable?
Ever wondered why the old lady of the skies, the Boeing 747 jumbo, has such an odd, oblong shape with a bubble at the front? It's because Boeing feared that it would be a short-lived design that would be overrun by the faster, sexier supersonic Concorde flying at twice the speed of sound.
The 747, therefore, was designed primarily for a second life as a freighter where its entire contents could be loaded and unloaded through a huge front door by putting the cockpit on a giant hinge that swings upward.
You can actually see this marvellous configuration regularly on the freight apron at Sydney or Melbourne airport when a 747 freighter is in town.
The demise of the 747 and the rise of supersonic flight was actually forecast before the 747 first flew 40 years ago but, unlike the relentless march of new technology in all other fields of endeavor, the human race has collectively decided to go backwards when it comes to air transport.
We had the technology to fly us to London in 12 hours instead of 24 or to Los Angeles in six hours instead of 13 hours in the early 1960s: it was just a matter of getting the price right and putting a lid on the noise it would create.
In the 1990s, the supersonic revolution seemed a certainty to begin early this century. America's space agency, NASA, had spent about $US1 billion in the 1990s proving the technology for a 300-seat plane that could fly at twice the speed of sound for only 20 per cent more than the price of a subsonic airline ticket.
The sticking point was that such a supersonic transport (SST) would still be limited to over-water routes while research continued on new body shapes limiting the sonic boom - a shock wave of noise that radiates from an aircraft flying supersonically for up to 40 kilometres radius.
Researchers now believe they can minimise the sonic boom for flights over land and maximise the fuel economy for supersonic flight - but the horse has already bolted. In the 1990s, the airlines told the manufacturers that economy was king and they weren't prepared to wait for technology that could deliver supersonic flight if it cost any more than the fare for subsonic flight. Soon after, supersonic research programs in Europe and the US were abandoned.
Ironically, one of the manufacturers, Boeing, is now in deep strife as a result of an ambitious program to certificate the airliner with the cheapest unit operating costs in the history of flight, the 787 "Dreamliner", which is running at least two years late because "plastic" composite materials designed to radically reduce the aircraft's weight keep failing stress tests.
It's doubly ironic that the 787 design started life as as the "Sonic Cruiser", designed originally to fly faster than any other subsonic design, saving up to 20 per cent on flight times.
Now the voice of 26 million Australians and New Zealanders may not count for much on a global scale, but I'm tipping that people Down Under, already probably the most travelled in the world, are getting heartily sick of the time it takes to get where they're going.
The same goes for Europeans and Americans, for whom 12-18 hours is a major disincentive to get to the Asia Pacific region, which is expected to be accounting for more than half the world's air travel in the next few years.
Sumber : sidney morning herald
The 747, therefore, was designed primarily for a second life as a freighter where its entire contents could be loaded and unloaded through a huge front door by putting the cockpit on a giant hinge that swings upward.
You can actually see this marvellous configuration regularly on the freight apron at Sydney or Melbourne airport when a 747 freighter is in town.
The demise of the 747 and the rise of supersonic flight was actually forecast before the 747 first flew 40 years ago but, unlike the relentless march of new technology in all other fields of endeavor, the human race has collectively decided to go backwards when it comes to air transport.
We had the technology to fly us to London in 12 hours instead of 24 or to Los Angeles in six hours instead of 13 hours in the early 1960s: it was just a matter of getting the price right and putting a lid on the noise it would create.
In the 1990s, the supersonic revolution seemed a certainty to begin early this century. America's space agency, NASA, had spent about $US1 billion in the 1990s proving the technology for a 300-seat plane that could fly at twice the speed of sound for only 20 per cent more than the price of a subsonic airline ticket.
The sticking point was that such a supersonic transport (SST) would still be limited to over-water routes while research continued on new body shapes limiting the sonic boom - a shock wave of noise that radiates from an aircraft flying supersonically for up to 40 kilometres radius.
Researchers now believe they can minimise the sonic boom for flights over land and maximise the fuel economy for supersonic flight - but the horse has already bolted. In the 1990s, the airlines told the manufacturers that economy was king and they weren't prepared to wait for technology that could deliver supersonic flight if it cost any more than the fare for subsonic flight. Soon after, supersonic research programs in Europe and the US were abandoned.
Ironically, one of the manufacturers, Boeing, is now in deep strife as a result of an ambitious program to certificate the airliner with the cheapest unit operating costs in the history of flight, the 787 "Dreamliner", which is running at least two years late because "plastic" composite materials designed to radically reduce the aircraft's weight keep failing stress tests.
It's doubly ironic that the 787 design started life as as the "Sonic Cruiser", designed originally to fly faster than any other subsonic design, saving up to 20 per cent on flight times.
Now the voice of 26 million Australians and New Zealanders may not count for much on a global scale, but I'm tipping that people Down Under, already probably the most travelled in the world, are getting heartily sick of the time it takes to get where they're going.
The same goes for Europeans and Americans, for whom 12-18 hours is a major disincentive to get to the Asia Pacific region, which is expected to be accounting for more than half the world's air travel in the next few years.
Sumber : sidney morning herald
Batik Is Real Indonesian Dress
But today is special because President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on all Indonesians to wear batik on that day to celebrate UNESCO’s decision to include batik in its list of "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" items.
"Batik is regarded as a cultural icon with its own uniqueness. It conveys certain symbols and a profound philosophy, including man’s life cycle, and it has been touted by Indonesia as a non-material element of its cultural heritage," Coordinating Minister for people’s welfare Aburizal Bakrie told a press conference at Bogor State Palace on Sept. 7, 2009.
"We’ve been told that batik has been recognized as an element of global cultural heritage produced by Indonesians. The President has called on all Indonesians to wear batik on Oct. 2, to celebrate batik," the minister said.
Indonesia’s Batik, together with the Tango of Argentina and Uruguay, the traditional Ainu dance of Japan and France’s Aubusson tapestries were among the 76 elements inscribed on 30 September in UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, WAM, the United Arab Emirates’ news agency, reported on Wednesday.
These 76 inscriptions were decided by the 24 Member States of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage, currently holding its 4th session in Abu Dhabi, from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2, 2009, under the chairmanship of Awadh Ali Saleh Al Musabi of the United Arab Emirates.
UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization)’s list describes Indonesian Batik as: The techniques, symbolism and culture surrounding hand-dyed cotton and silk garments known as Indonesian Batik permeate the lives of Indonesians from beginning to end: infants are carried in batik slings decorated with symbols designed to bring the child luck, and the dead are shrouded in funerary batik.
The president’s call for batik dress has been supported by regional heads in a number of provinces and district, such as the Jakarta Governor, the East Java governor, and the Cirebon district head.
Earlier, on September 25, Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo had issued an official appeal to all Jakarta residents to wear Batik on October 2.
"Students, people who work in hotels and bars as well as those who work for private companies are also urged to wear Batik although there will be no sanctions if they fail to do so," said Aurora Tambunan, deputy for cultural and tourism affairs to the Jakarta governor, recently.
UNESCO has already acknowledged the Keris (ceremonial dagger) and the Wayang (puppet show) as part of Indonesia`s cultural heritage. "Traditional music instruments namely Angklung and Gamelan are also in the process of being registered with UNESCO," Aurora said.
In the spirit of supporting Jakarta residents who wear Batik on October 2, the Jakarta city government would give special discounts to those entering recreation centers in the city. "Museums run by the Jakarta regional government will give free tickets in the period October 3-7, 2009 only for those who wear Batik," chief of Jakarta city’s culture and tourism office, Arie Budhiman, said.
Among the museums to give free tickets are the Jakarta History Museum, Ceramic and Art Museum, Maritime Museum, Joeang Museum, MH Thamrin Museum and Textile Museum. "We will also distribute Batik pins among visitors wearing Batik to the museums," Arie added.
On October 5, Ragunan Zoo would give free tickets only to those who come wearing batik dress. On the same day, Ancol recreation park will give a 50-percent discount on tickets at its main gates, Atlantis and Gelanggang Samudera park. Dunia Fantasi would also give a 40-percent discount on the same day.
Batik, which has been developed for centuries particularly on Java Island, is cloth which traditionally uses a manual wax-resist dyeing technique. But, thanks to modern advances in the textile industry, the term has been extended to include fabrics which incorporate traditional batik patterns.
Some scholars believe that batik was originally reserved as an art form for Javanese royalty in Central Java around Yogyakarta and Solo under the patronage of the Sultan and his court. But, other scholars disagree and believe that batik was prevalence even to the common folk.
It was regarded an important part of a young ladies accomplishment that she be capable of being able to skillfully hand draw batik using the canting (the pen-like instrument used to apply wax to the cloth). Batik or fabrics with the traditional batik patterns are also found in several countries such as Malaysia, Japan, China, India, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal and Singapore.
But, unlike in other countries, Indonesia is particularly very proud of its batik which is considered as formal dress in official functions. Batik are usually made of cotton or silk, which are comfortable to wear. And this benefits not only Indonesians, but also some foreign diplomats who prefer to use batik, and avoids suits, amidst Indonesia’s heat.
The government, through some of its agencies concerned, was giving special attention to batik makers as part of the efforts to perpetuate and develop the Batik trade. The government, according to Cultural and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik, has provided the batik-making industry with assistance in the form of low-interest credits and training in production processes and design making in several potential areas across Indonesia.
First Lady Ani Yudhoyono recently had called on all parties to expedite the regeneration of traditional batik craftsmen and women so as to preserve the craft as part of the nation’s cultural legacy. "It is a pity that batik development does not happen hand in hand with the regeneration of traditional batik craftspeople. Doing batik work actually needs patience but the skill can be bequeathed to the younger generation," Ani Yudhoyono said.
She said the younger generation should be immediately involved in the development of batik craftsmanship so that they can keep the craft alive and even make masterpieces themselves, and prevent batik from being claimed by other countries. "UNESCO itself has asked Indonesia to ensure regeneration in the craft as a precious world cultural heritage," the first lady said.
Meanwhile, neighboring Malaysia, which shares a number of similar cultures with Indonesia including on batik but with its own unique specification, said it would study UNESCO’s decision, said Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin in Kuala Lumpur on Sept 17.
The government would make the study to ensure whether the decision would have a bearing on the traditional batik making in the country, he said.
"I do not have the full details (UNESCO’s decision) because Malaysia too has batik. We will analyse the actual meaning of the decision and whether the decision will affect the production of batik here," Yassin told reporters.
Sumber : Antara
Bali-Indonesia
BALI
Bali Island, the perfect holiday destination for all ages offers something for everyone. Bali offers not just various customs but also various "adrenalin pump" parks. Many exciting amusements are available in Bali, with something new opening all the time. The number of offshore and inland attraction are on the rise because many tourists want them. This tropical paradise has a unique blend of modern tourist facilities combined with wonderful shopping and a rich past and heritage. After white water rafting that has gained popularity in Bali, comes offshore rafting or ocean rafting. The more adventurous sort of amusement has now become an alternative sport for tourists. Meanwhile white water rafting is still a popular activity with trips on Ayung, Telaga Waja, Unda Rivers, etc. The tourists can refresh their mind by watching beautiful scenery along the route. Those are not enough, some of the best surfing beaches in the world can be found on the western side of the island whilst conversely the eastern side is a wonderful haven for families, with beautiful white sand beaches and gentle seas.
Bali is small island, just 140 Km by 80 Km and lies between Java, the most highly populated and influential of all the islands, and Lombok, one of the quieter and moderately slower paced islands. Like many islands, Bali has developed a world of its own. It not only captures what is special about Indonesia but also has a uniqueness of its own.As for recreation, there is no shortage of options. Nature walks, horseback riding, diving, surfing - even bungy jumping and white water rafting - await the adventurous here.
Geographically
Bali is volcanically active and extravagantly fertile. Bali has an area of 5620 sq km, measures approximately 140 km by 80 km and is just 8 degrees south of the equator. Mount Agung known as the 'mother mountain' is over 3000 meters. South and north of the central mountains are Bali's fertile agricultural lands. The southern region is a wide, gently sloping area where most of Bali's abundant rice crop is grown. The south-central area is the true rice basket of the Island. The northern coastal strip is narrower, rising more rapidly into the foothills of the central range, but the main export crops, coffee, copra and rice, are grown here. Cattle are also raised in this area.
Info : indonesia-tourism.com
Bali is volcanically active and extravagantly fertile. Bali has an area of 5620 sq km, measures approximately 140 km by 80 km and is just 8 degrees south of the equator. Mount Agung known as the 'mother mountain' is over 3000 meters. South and north of the central mountains are Bali's fertile agricultural lands. The southern region is a wide, gently sloping area where most of Bali's abundant rice crop is grown. The south-central area is the true rice basket of the Island. The northern coastal strip is narrower, rising more rapidly into the foothills of the central range, but the main export crops, coffee, copra and rice, are grown here. Cattle are also raised in this area.Info : indonesia-tourism.com
Explore Giorgia
Georgia offers some of the most diverse, fishing opportunities in the Southeast. Whether it’s fly fishing, deep sea fishing or the unending quest for the next world record bass, Georgia’s 500,000 acres of reservoirs and over 12,000 miles of warm water streams give all the opportunity to GO FISH. Head to Florence Marina State Park to get in on some of this “rod and reel” action. Situated at the northern end of 45,000-acre Lake Walter F. George, this park offers the perfect setting for those who love water sports. It is adjacent to a natural deep-water marina with an accessible deep-water fishing pier, boat slips and boat ramp.
While at the park, be sure to check out its other great amenities. Birders are sure to see herons and egrets, and possibly bald eagles. Perfect for the kids, the park’s Kirbo Interpretive Center teaches visitors about Native Americans, nature and local history, and it displays snakes, turtles, fish and artifacts from the prehistoric Paleo-Indian period through the early 20th century.
While at the park, be sure to check out its other great amenities. Birders are sure to see herons and egrets, and possibly bald eagles. Perfect for the kids, the park’s Kirbo Interpretive Center teaches visitors about Native Americans, nature and local history, and it displays snakes, turtles, fish and artifacts from the prehistoric Paleo-Indian period through the early 20th century.
Why I Turn Down PlayBoy
'I once turned down $500,000 to pose naked for Playboy. The magazine was even prepared to pay me $500,000 to pose with my clothes on,' said Nelly Furtado
- You wouldn’t dare accuse Nelly Furtado of lacking enthusiasm. Energy flows from her like a military laser. She’s a constant whirl of restlessness, barely waiting to hear the sense of each question before diving in mid-sentence, her answers pinging off in all different directions.
So girlish is her excitement that it’s easy to forget Furtado is something of a pop veteran who’s been recording for a decade.
The daughter of Portuguese parents (who emigrated to Canada in the late Sixties), she made her breakthrough with the single I’m Like A Bird in 2000, and her genre-hopping debut album Whoa, Nelly! sold seven million copies.
Now 30, she lives in Toronto with her husband and six-year-old daughter from a previous relationship. Her latest album, Mi Plan, is sung entirely in Spanish.
Britain rules the world.
I adore all things British. I can’t get enough of shopping for vintage clothes on Portobello Road and I love eating fish and chips in Liverpool. The best thing I’ve ever tasted was mango chutney from a Kensington market.
Also, the British media make up the best stories about me; they always make me sound a lot more exciting than I really am. I read in one paper that at a music awards show in Copenhagen I was presented with a toilet that had an aquarium in the cistern. Totally untrue, sadly.
I was inconsolable when Oasis split up.
That band meant the world to me. As a 16-year-old I would write letters to Liam with my photo attached and pray that he would ask me out on a date, but he never did. At college I learned to play guitar to Wonderwall. Oasis were everything I loved about pop music. They could express emotions with the most simple song structures. They had the kind of brash attitude I could completely relate to
When I meet Ronaldo I’ll tell him to stop diving.
After singing the anthem for Euro 2004 I’ve become a massive football fan. I adore Ronaldo because he plays with so much natural fire and passion.
It’s like watching an incredible dancer. His movement on the ball is breathtaking. But he has to stop diving.
Fame took me by surprise and I ended up having a breakdown.
It was too much too soon. After two years of intense touring and partying I’d spend hours alone in my LA home, just staring at the floor. I felt like a fraud, believing that people liked me for my image and not my music.
I once turned down $500,000 to pose naked for Playboy.
The magazine was even prepared to pay me $500,000 to pose with my clothes on. I didn’t want Playboy on my resume at the age of 22. If they ask me when I’m 40 I’ll probably say yes.
It’s important to fail in order to evolve.
I wouldn’t say my second album was a failure but, commercially, it wasn’t as good as my first [it sold less than two million copies].
That was the best thing that could have happened to me. It meant that everything slowed down and I was finally able to take stock of my life.
You know you’re in the presence of genius when you’re in a room with Timbaland.
We worked together on my Loose album and we’re currently working on a new one too. Of all the great talents I’ve worked with, he’s got the genius touch.
The man is a snake-charmer. He knows exactly how to draw the best out of someone. And like everyone touched with genius, he has a touch of madness about him, too.
I’ve always been obsessive-compulsive.
As a kid I had the whole don’t-step-on-the-pavement-cracks thing going on. I was an awkward, paranoid child.
There are times when I long to be a hermit living in a cottage.
I often crave that sort of solitude. But having a husband and a daughter tends to get in the way of that…
Nelly Furtado’s new album ‘Mi Plan’ is out now on Polydor
Sumber : The Daily Mail
Porn Actress Killed
At 19, Felicia Lee (left) started to model for fashion catalogues and bikini calendars while pursuing a course in marketing and business administration in college.
Police were called to the apartment of Miss Felicia Lee, 31, better known by her stage name Felicia Tang, on Sept 11 at noon. She had been beaten and suffocated.
Her boyfriend, Brian Lee Randone, 45, whom she was living with, was charged with torture and murder last Tuesday. Randone called the police to report that his girlfriend was unconscious, said the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, the area's newspaper.
It reported that Randone is a former preacher and once starred in a Fox reality television show called The Sexiest Bachelor In America.
His next hearing will be on Sept 29 in the Pasadena Superior Court and he is being held in lieu of a US$2 million (S$2.8 million) bail. He has no previous police records in the area.
Neighbours did not report anything unusual on the day Miss Lee's body was found. Investigators interviewed said there was no known history of domestic violence between the couple. It is not clear how long they were together.
According to her biographies on the Internet, Miss Lee was born on Oct 22, 1977, and was raised in Singapore. She later moved to Perth, Australia, where she attended a private Catholic girls' school for two years.
Her family moved to Los Angeles, California, when she was 13. At 19, the 1.68m-tall teenager started to model for fashion catalogues and bikini calendars while pursuing a course in marketing and business administration in college.
She was reportedly an online adult top draw from 2001 to last year. She starred in several Playboy TV shows such as Naked Sports, 7 Lives Xposed and Buckwild, and appeared in several erotic DVD movies, including Asian Fever and Hotel Decadence.
Sumber : Straits Times
Indonesia goverment declare Idul Fitri 2009
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The government declared here on Saturday that this year`s Idul Fitri or end of the fasting month of Ramadhan will fall on Sunday, September 20.
The declaration was contained in the decision of the minister of religious affairs issued based upon the results of calculation and observation by various Islamic organizations submitted to the meeting to determine the end of the fasting month at the ministry of religious affairs Saturday evening.
In the decision read out by the chairman of the calculation and observation agency, KH Hadi Abdul Fatah, it was stated that all experts on calculation and sighting of the new moon determined that the end of the fasting month fell on September 20.
"The new moon has been sighted at Pelabuhan Ratu, Sukabumi, and at Grand Mosque in Semarang," he said.
Based on the decision, Moslems in the country are allowed to conduct Idul Fitri prayers on Sunday.(*)
The declaration was contained in the decision of the minister of religious affairs issued based upon the results of calculation and observation by various Islamic organizations submitted to the meeting to determine the end of the fasting month at the ministry of religious affairs Saturday evening.
In the decision read out by the chairman of the calculation and observation agency, KH Hadi Abdul Fatah, it was stated that all experts on calculation and sighting of the new moon determined that the end of the fasting month fell on September 20.
"The new moon has been sighted at Pelabuhan Ratu, Sukabumi, and at Grand Mosque in Semarang," he said.
Based on the decision, Moslems in the country are allowed to conduct Idul Fitri prayers on Sunday.(*)
Little Girl Performs Striptease
Lady of the night: Susan Sarandon's daughter Eva Amurri stars as a stripper and student, in the latest series of Californication with David Duchovny
But her mum can hardly complain, for she is none other than Susan Sarandon, who cut her acting teeth in very similar roles more than 20 years ago.
In The Hunger in 1983, she peeled off for a controversial lesbian love scene with Catherine Deneuve and she has never shied away from nudity in films.
Now Eva, at the tender age of 24, appears to have taken a leaf out of momma's book as she bids to kickstart her own acting career.
Eva, a product of Sarandon's relationship with an Italian director during the Eighties, shows off her acting skills in a racy guest appearance.
She stars as Jackie, a student who moonlights in a strip club, during the third season of the show starring David Duchovmy.
And she certainly seems to have caught Duchovny's eye. The 24-year-old writhed around for his college professor character Hank Moody, peeling off a corset to dance for him topless.
And before she knows it, she's back at his place taking their relationship to the next level. But whether Eva will have the staying power of her mother's acting career remains to be seen.
Susan Sarandon, now 62, has been in dozens of roles since first starring in Joe in 1970, including the straight-laced Janet in The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975 and in Thelma and Louise as the latter. She won an Oscar in 1995 for Dead Man Walking.
She married Tom Robbins after meeting him on the set of Bull Durham in 1988 and it was his film Bob Roberts, about a guitar-playing politician, that saw the first appearance onscreen for Eva.
Her roles subsequently have been limited to a guest appearance in Friends (season 7) and The Banger Sisters, in 2002, in which her mother also starred. But it is in Californication that she is likely to gain most attention, parading as she does so many of her inherited features.
Sumber : The Daily Mail
Long trip story of Noordin before he Died
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, has been hit by a series of terrorist attacks in recent years blamed on Islamist militants. Here is a brief look at major developments:
— August 2009 — A 16-hour siege at a farmhouse in central Java kills a hotel florist, Ibrohim, who allegedly helped carry out bomb attacks at two luxury hotels in Jakarta the previous month that killed seven and wounded more than 50. Police also fatally shoot two alleged militants and confiscate hundreds of pounds (kilograms) of explosives and bombs.
— Nov. 8, 2008: Government executes three Islamic militants for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people.
— June 2007: Authorities arrest the alleged leader of regional terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, Afghan-trained militant Abu Dujana, and seven other suspected terrorists in raids on Java.
— November 2005: Bomb-making expert Azahari bin Husin is killed during a police raid on a terrorist safe house on Java island. Information from that raid leads to other arrests. Fugitive militant leader Noordin Top appears on video soon after, threatening more attacks.
— October 2005: Triple suicide bombers kill 20 in attacks on restaurants on the resort island of Bali.
— September 2004: A suicide bomber detonates a ton of explosives packed into a delivery van outside the Australian Embassy, killing 11 and wounding 200.
— August 2003: Suicide bomber attacks the J.W. Marriott Hotel, killing 11.
— October 2002: Police arrest Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah and a fiery Islamic preacher, but he is later acquitted.
— October 2002: Triple bombings on Bali kill 202, mostly foreign tourists, including 88 Australians. Police say al-Qaida helped fund the attacks.
— 1999-2001: Bloody fighting between Muslims and Christians in eastern Indonesia kills 9,000 and draws in al-Qaida combatants from the Middle East and Europe. Many Indonesian fighters go on to become members of Jemaah Islamiyah.
Sumber : AP
— August 2009 — A 16-hour siege at a farmhouse in central Java kills a hotel florist, Ibrohim, who allegedly helped carry out bomb attacks at two luxury hotels in Jakarta the previous month that killed seven and wounded more than 50. Police also fatally shoot two alleged militants and confiscate hundreds of pounds (kilograms) of explosives and bombs.
— Nov. 8, 2008: Government executes three Islamic militants for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people.
— June 2007: Authorities arrest the alleged leader of regional terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, Afghan-trained militant Abu Dujana, and seven other suspected terrorists in raids on Java.
— November 2005: Bomb-making expert Azahari bin Husin is killed during a police raid on a terrorist safe house on Java island. Information from that raid leads to other arrests. Fugitive militant leader Noordin Top appears on video soon after, threatening more attacks.
— October 2005: Triple suicide bombers kill 20 in attacks on restaurants on the resort island of Bali.
— September 2004: A suicide bomber detonates a ton of explosives packed into a delivery van outside the Australian Embassy, killing 11 and wounding 200.
— August 2003: Suicide bomber attacks the J.W. Marriott Hotel, killing 11.
— October 2002: Police arrest Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah and a fiery Islamic preacher, but he is later acquitted.
— October 2002: Triple bombings on Bali kill 202, mostly foreign tourists, including 88 Australians. Police say al-Qaida helped fund the attacks.
— 1999-2001: Bloody fighting between Muslims and Christians in eastern Indonesia kills 9,000 and draws in al-Qaida combatants from the Middle East and Europe. Many Indonesian fighters go on to become members of Jemaah Islamiyah.
Sumber : AP
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