Residents Bandung world record angklung with most players. The previous record was held by Jakarta in 2008 with the number of players reached 11,000 people.
"Today, as many as 20 704 citizens of Bandung play angklung. And it broke the world record," said Deputy Director of the Indonesian World Record Museum (MURI), Oscar Universe Susilo Harmony Angklung event for the World 20,000 People Playing Angklung Siliwangi Stadium in Bandung, Thursday ( 04.23.2015).
Oscar explained, independently they cooperate with the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) to calculate participants angklung players. You do this by using the barcode.
"Each player has a number barcode angklung checked at the entrance. With this system can only enter once. Even if the same barcode entry, will not be counted because they do not get into the system," he added.
Until 10:20 pm, Oscar continued, the number of participants according to the barcode has reached 16,000 people. Judging from that, he has had a world record will be solved. Solving this world record to prove to the world that it is owned Indonesian angklung.
In this way also, Indonesia will continue to keep the angklung is not extinct. He hoped that in the future there will be a lot of traditional music that broke the record. Because Indonesia has a wide variety of cultural and traditional arts. Charter Muri was directly submitted to Ridwan Kamil as a representative of the Bandung at around 11:30 pm.
The charter of the Guinness World Records will be given after the meeting in London, England.
"We pray that in the future there is good news we recorded in the Guinness World Records," said Emil.
For sure, a representative of Guinness World Records requested 20,000 participants play angklung back together. Under the command of Ridwan Kamil and representatives Saung Angklung Udjo (SAU), the participants played the song We Are The World Michael Jackson. After playing the song We Are The World, the event was closed with the song In thee State
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The facts of the accident for the death of Paul Walker
Jakarta
( ANTARA News ) - Luxury car Porsche that took the lives of actor Paul
Walker reportedly mutually exchange with the owner last price 359
thousand U.S. dollars ( Rp 3 , 9 billion ) and is called " horrible " to
drive even for the professional rider .Paul Walker died in a terrible car accident Saturday afternoon local time in Santa Clarita , Calif. , at the age of 40 years .
She is a luxury passenger car called the authorities as the Porsche Carrera GT 2005 red output . He was killed in a single accident along with the unknown rider named Roger Rodas .Rodas is financial adviser of Merrill Lynch at the Rodas Group , other than the owner of Always Evolving , car dealer in Valencia , California .
According to Autoweek , the car driven by existing Rodas Always Evolving in spring 2013 after a substitute for the owners in recent years .Last car was released at a price of Rp 3 , 9 billion , while the Autoweek a rider revealed that the Porsche Carrera GT is " horrible " to drive anyone , even by professional riders though .In addition to Saleen S7 Twin Turbo , and Ferrari F40 , Porsche Carrera GT is one of the favorites Rodas , he wrote on the page : Always Evolving .
Rodas met Walker a few years earlier at a racetrack in California and eventually became a financial advisor actor. The testimony disclosed Merrill Lynch .The automotive world is mourning the death of Walker , according to The Hollywood Reporter ." Many of our readers pay homage to Walker and films related to their interest in car culture , " said Matt Hardigree , Jalopnik page editor in chief , told The Hollywood Reporter .
Hardigree added , " Paul Walker is not only car enthusiasts portray on TV , but he's also one in the real world who are interested in culture and race cars . I never had the chance to visit him long to shoot one of the film Fast & Furious , and he never talked screenplay , which he was talking about only about the car . "Editor : M Jafar Sidik -->
She is a luxury passenger car called the authorities as the Porsche Carrera GT 2005 red output . He was killed in a single accident along with the unknown rider named Roger Rodas .Rodas is financial adviser of Merrill Lynch at the Rodas Group , other than the owner of Always Evolving , car dealer in Valencia , California .
According to Autoweek , the car driven by existing Rodas Always Evolving in spring 2013 after a substitute for the owners in recent years .Last car was released at a price of Rp 3 , 9 billion , while the Autoweek a rider revealed that the Porsche Carrera GT is " horrible " to drive anyone , even by professional riders though .In addition to Saleen S7 Twin Turbo , and Ferrari F40 , Porsche Carrera GT is one of the favorites Rodas , he wrote on the page : Always Evolving .
Rodas met Walker a few years earlier at a racetrack in California and eventually became a financial advisor actor. The testimony disclosed Merrill Lynch .The automotive world is mourning the death of Walker , according to The Hollywood Reporter ." Many of our readers pay homage to Walker and films related to their interest in car culture , " said Matt Hardigree , Jalopnik page editor in chief , told The Hollywood Reporter .
Hardigree added , " Paul Walker is not only car enthusiasts portray on TV , but he's also one in the real world who are interested in culture and race cars . I never had the chance to visit him long to shoot one of the film Fast & Furious , and he never talked screenplay , which he was talking about only about the car . "Editor : M Jafar Sidik -->
Lion air failed landing at Bali's Ngurah Rai Airport
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Before the incident an accident in the waters of Bali, aircraft belonging to PT Lion Air Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft with flight number JT 904, could serve two routes of flight, which departed from Palu, Central Sulawesi and ended in Denpasar, Bali.
"The plane was landing three times. Flew from Palu to Banjarmasin, then to London and finally to Denpasar," said Director of Operations of PT Lion Air, Edward Sirait in a press conference at his office in central Jakarta Lion Air, Saturday (04/13/2013) night .
Edward could not be sure, when the aircraft began flying from Palu to Banjarmasin. He only knows airplane from London at 12.30 pm and arrive in Bali at 15.00 pm with the rain bad weather with mist. Naas, before touching the runway Ngurah Rai Airport, the plane crashed into the sea Strait of Bali.
In the pilot steered the aircraft Widodo was there 101 passengers consisted of 95 adult passengers, five young passengers, one infant passengers and seven crew. All passengers survived, although 44 of them need to be treated at two hospitals, namely Sanglah Kasih Ibu Hospital.
Edward insists, worthy to fly the plane. Therefore, the U.S. aircraft manufacturer PT Lion Air was received in March 2013 and has operated one week later so it is still quite good. Moreover, there are no replacement parts and damage.
"Flight-worthy aircraft flown, the pilot was in good health. Pilot landing it could be five times in one day, so pretty, he said.
Edward claimed to have received definite chronological as well as the cause of the accident. He said he handed over the investigation to the National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) and the Department of Transportation.
editor:
Heru Margianto
"The plane was landing three times. Flew from Palu to Banjarmasin, then to London and finally to Denpasar," said Director of Operations of PT Lion Air, Edward Sirait in a press conference at his office in central Jakarta Lion Air, Saturday (04/13/2013) night .
Edward could not be sure, when the aircraft began flying from Palu to Banjarmasin. He only knows airplane from London at 12.30 pm and arrive in Bali at 15.00 pm with the rain bad weather with mist. Naas, before touching the runway Ngurah Rai Airport, the plane crashed into the sea Strait of Bali.
In the pilot steered the aircraft Widodo was there 101 passengers consisted of 95 adult passengers, five young passengers, one infant passengers and seven crew. All passengers survived, although 44 of them need to be treated at two hospitals, namely Sanglah Kasih Ibu Hospital.
Edward insists, worthy to fly the plane. Therefore, the U.S. aircraft manufacturer PT Lion Air was received in March 2013 and has operated one week later so it is still quite good. Moreover, there are no replacement parts and damage.
"Flight-worthy aircraft flown, the pilot was in good health. Pilot landing it could be five times in one day, so pretty, he said.
Edward claimed to have received definite chronological as well as the cause of the accident. He said he handed over the investigation to the National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) and the Department of Transportation.
editor:
Heru Margianto
National Car Name's ESEMKA
Jakarta:The Kiat Esemka Sport utility vehicle (SUV) is not the first car to be produced by Indonesia. According to Wikipedia, national automotive businessmen have developed 16 other brands since the 1990s. Unfortunately, most of the innovative projects collapsed due to problems including the monetary crisis and political turbulence in 1998.
Bakrie and Brothers developed the first national car in 1994. The Beta 97 MPV minibus was designed by UK-based automotive designer, Shado. The prototype of Beta was released in 1997 but the development was terminated due to the monetary crisis.
A year later, President Soeharto issued a policy on the development of a national car, Timor, which was short f orTeknologi Industri Mobil Rakyat. His youngest son, Hutomo Mandala Putra, developed the Timor S515 sedan, which was a derivation of Korea’s Kia Sephia 1995. Further developments were halted due to the monetary crisis.
At the same time, Timor, B.J. Habibie, the then research and technology minister, designed a car called Maleo. The 1,200 cc car was made with 80 percent local components and was supposed to be sold at Rp30 million. The development also ended as the research fund was used for Timor.
However, not all national car projects failed. Besides Esemka, there are currently several brands that are ready to be marketed, such as the GEA mini car produced by PT Industri Kereta Api, Nuri and Tawon produced by PT Super Gasindo Jaya, Marlip electric car produced by the Indonesia Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and off road car, Komodo, which was released by PT Fin Komodo Teknologi.
The Industry Ministry’s land transportation industry director, Supriyanto, said that Indonesia could produce its own cars within the next five years. To support the design development, the government will provide incentives, including research and human development support. “So far, Indonesia only assembled cars, while the designs are made overseas,” he said. FERY FIRMANSYAH | EKA UTAMI APRILIA
Bakrie and Brothers developed the first national car in 1994. The Beta 97 MPV minibus was designed by UK-based automotive designer, Shado. The prototype of Beta was released in 1997 but the development was terminated due to the monetary crisis.
A year later, President Soeharto issued a policy on the development of a national car, Timor, which was short f orTeknologi Industri Mobil Rakyat. His youngest son, Hutomo Mandala Putra, developed the Timor S515 sedan, which was a derivation of Korea’s Kia Sephia 1995. Further developments were halted due to the monetary crisis.
At the same time, Timor, B.J. Habibie, the then research and technology minister, designed a car called Maleo. The 1,200 cc car was made with 80 percent local components and was supposed to be sold at Rp30 million. The development also ended as the research fund was used for Timor.
However, not all national car projects failed. Besides Esemka, there are currently several brands that are ready to be marketed, such as the GEA mini car produced by PT Industri Kereta Api, Nuri and Tawon produced by PT Super Gasindo Jaya, Marlip electric car produced by the Indonesia Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and off road car, Komodo, which was released by PT Fin Komodo Teknologi.
The Industry Ministry’s land transportation industry director, Supriyanto, said that Indonesia could produce its own cars within the next five years. To support the design development, the government will provide incentives, including research and human development support. “So far, Indonesia only assembled cars, while the designs are made overseas,” he said. FERY FIRMANSYAH | EKA UTAMI APRILIA
The New Blue Planet
KOMPAS.com - Astronomers have discovered the first habitable blue planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a star similar to the Sun.
NASA’s Kepler Mission has been finding new worlds at an incredible rate over the past year but this is the first discovery of what could be a habitable super-earth as it appears to be large, rocky planet with a surface temperature of about 72 degrees Fahrenheit, similar to spring day on Earth.
A team of researchers, including Carnegie Institute's Alan Boss, made the discovery which will be published in The Astrophysical Journal.
The discovery team, led by William Borucki of the NASA Ames Research Center, used photometric data from the NASA Kepler space telescope, which monitors the brightness of 155,000 stars.
Earth-size planets whose orbital planes are aligned such that they periodically pass in front of their stars result in tiny dimmings of their host star’s light, dimmings that can only be measured by a highly specialized space telescope like Kepler.
This discovery is the first detection of a possibly habitable world in orbit around a Sun-like star.
The host star lies about 600 light-years away from us toward the constellations of Lyra and Cygnus.
The star, a G5 star, has a mass and a radius only slightly smaller than that of our Sun. As a result, the host star is about 25 per cent less luminous than the Sun.
The planet orbits the G5 star with an orbital period of 290 days, compared to 365 days for the Earth, at a distance about 15 per cent closer to its star than the Earth from the Sun. This results in the planet’s balmy temperature.
It orbits in the middle of the star’s habitable zone, where liquid water is expected to be able to exist on the surface of the planet. Liquid water is necessary for life as we know it, and this new planet might well be not only habitable, perhaps even inhabited.
Numerous large, massive gas giant planets have been detected previously in habitable-zone orbits around solar-type stars, but gas giants are not thought to be capable of supporting life.
This new exoplanet is the smallest-radius planet discovered in the habitable zone of any star to date. It is about 2.4 times larger than that of the Earth, putting it in the class of exoplanets known as super-Earths.
While the mass of this new planet is not known, it must be less than about 36 times that of the Earth, based on the absence of a measurable Doppler (radial velocity) wobble in the host star.
The masses of several other super-Earths have been measured with the Doppler technique and determined to lie in the range of about 5 to 10 times that of the Earth.
Some appear to be rocky, while others probably contain major fractions of ice and water. Either way, the new planet appears to be habitable.
'This discovery supports the growing belief that we live in a universe crowded with life,' Boss said. 'Kepler is on the verge of determining the actual abundance of habitable, Earth-like planets in our galaxy'.
Meanwhile scientists have started a systematic 'index' to categorise which planets might be 'habitable' - and so far, we've found 47 planets and moons that might fit the bill.
The Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo (UPR Arecibo) judges candidates by where they sit in their solar system, and what type they are. Most of the 700 planets so far detected are no-go zones - but 47 look promising.
Over 700 exoplanets have been detected and confirmed with thousands more still waiting further confirmation by missions such as NASA Kepler.
Most of these are gas giants, similar to Jupiter and Neptune, but orbiting very dangerously close to their stars. Only a few have the right size and orbit to be considered suitable for any life.
'One important outcome of these rankings is the ability to compare exoplanets from best to worst candidates for life,' says Abel Méndez, Director of the PHL and principal investigator of the project.
The catalogue uses new habitability assessments like the Earth Similarity Index (ESI), the Habitable Zones Distance (HZD), the Global Primary Habitability (GPH), classification systems, and comparisons with Earth past and present.
According to Méndez, 'New observations with ground and orbital observatories will discover thousands of exoplanets in the coming years. We expect that the analyses contained in our catalogue will help to identify, organize, and compare the life potential of these discoveries.'
The catalogue lists and categorizes exoplanets discoveries using various classification systems, including tables of planetary and stellar properties.
ne of the classifications divides them into eighteen mass and thermal categories, creating a table similar to a periodic table for exoplanets. Additional resources of the catalogue will include scientific visualizations and stellar maps of exoplanets.
Only two confirmed exoplanets so far match the criteria for habitability in the catalogue, Gliese 581d and HD 85512b - both of which are Earthlike. However, the catalogue identifies over 15 exoplanets and 30 exomoons as potential habitable candidates.
Future observations with new instruments, such as the proposed NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder, will be necessary to confirm the suitability for life of any of these candidates.
'I hope this database will help increase interest in building a big space-based telescope to observe exoplanets directly and look for possible signatures of life,' says Jim Kasting, an expert on planetary habitability science from Penn State.
NASA’s Kepler Mission has been finding new worlds at an incredible rate over the past year but this is the first discovery of what could be a habitable super-earth as it appears to be large, rocky planet with a surface temperature of about 72 degrees Fahrenheit, similar to spring day on Earth.
A team of researchers, including Carnegie Institute's Alan Boss, made the discovery which will be published in The Astrophysical Journal.
The discovery team, led by William Borucki of the NASA Ames Research Center, used photometric data from the NASA Kepler space telescope, which monitors the brightness of 155,000 stars.
Earth-size planets whose orbital planes are aligned such that they periodically pass in front of their stars result in tiny dimmings of their host star’s light, dimmings that can only be measured by a highly specialized space telescope like Kepler.
This discovery is the first detection of a possibly habitable world in orbit around a Sun-like star.
The host star lies about 600 light-years away from us toward the constellations of Lyra and Cygnus.
The star, a G5 star, has a mass and a radius only slightly smaller than that of our Sun. As a result, the host star is about 25 per cent less luminous than the Sun.
The planet orbits the G5 star with an orbital period of 290 days, compared to 365 days for the Earth, at a distance about 15 per cent closer to its star than the Earth from the Sun. This results in the planet’s balmy temperature.
It orbits in the middle of the star’s habitable zone, where liquid water is expected to be able to exist on the surface of the planet. Liquid water is necessary for life as we know it, and this new planet might well be not only habitable, perhaps even inhabited.
Numerous large, massive gas giant planets have been detected previously in habitable-zone orbits around solar-type stars, but gas giants are not thought to be capable of supporting life.
This new exoplanet is the smallest-radius planet discovered in the habitable zone of any star to date. It is about 2.4 times larger than that of the Earth, putting it in the class of exoplanets known as super-Earths.
While the mass of this new planet is not known, it must be less than about 36 times that of the Earth, based on the absence of a measurable Doppler (radial velocity) wobble in the host star.
The masses of several other super-Earths have been measured with the Doppler technique and determined to lie in the range of about 5 to 10 times that of the Earth.
Some appear to be rocky, while others probably contain major fractions of ice and water. Either way, the new planet appears to be habitable.
'This discovery supports the growing belief that we live in a universe crowded with life,' Boss said. 'Kepler is on the verge of determining the actual abundance of habitable, Earth-like planets in our galaxy'.
Meanwhile scientists have started a systematic 'index' to categorise which planets might be 'habitable' - and so far, we've found 47 planets and moons that might fit the bill.
The Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo (UPR Arecibo) judges candidates by where they sit in their solar system, and what type they are. Most of the 700 planets so far detected are no-go zones - but 47 look promising.
Over 700 exoplanets have been detected and confirmed with thousands more still waiting further confirmation by missions such as NASA Kepler.
Most of these are gas giants, similar to Jupiter and Neptune, but orbiting very dangerously close to their stars. Only a few have the right size and orbit to be considered suitable for any life.
'One important outcome of these rankings is the ability to compare exoplanets from best to worst candidates for life,' says Abel Méndez, Director of the PHL and principal investigator of the project.
The catalogue uses new habitability assessments like the Earth Similarity Index (ESI), the Habitable Zones Distance (HZD), the Global Primary Habitability (GPH), classification systems, and comparisons with Earth past and present.
According to Méndez, 'New observations with ground and orbital observatories will discover thousands of exoplanets in the coming years. We expect that the analyses contained in our catalogue will help to identify, organize, and compare the life potential of these discoveries.'
The catalogue lists and categorizes exoplanets discoveries using various classification systems, including tables of planetary and stellar properties.
ne of the classifications divides them into eighteen mass and thermal categories, creating a table similar to a periodic table for exoplanets. Additional resources of the catalogue will include scientific visualizations and stellar maps of exoplanets.
Only two confirmed exoplanets so far match the criteria for habitability in the catalogue, Gliese 581d and HD 85512b - both of which are Earthlike. However, the catalogue identifies over 15 exoplanets and 30 exomoons as potential habitable candidates.
Future observations with new instruments, such as the proposed NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder, will be necessary to confirm the suitability for life of any of these candidates.
'I hope this database will help increase interest in building a big space-based telescope to observe exoplanets directly and look for possible signatures of life,' says Jim Kasting, an expert on planetary habitability science from Penn State.
26th Sea Games
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com -
Indonesian vice president Boediono expressed his optimism that the country would come out as the overall champion at the upcoming 26th Southeast Asian Games.
"I am convinced with the good preparations that I have seen so far our athletes would be able to make their best achievements this time. I think as the host country we must, God willing, be able to become the overall champion," he said before athletes here on Monday.
He met with the athletes after checking their readiness and inspecting the venues that would be used for the 26th SEA Games.Vice President Boediono called on the athletes to maintain their health conditions and fitness so that they could perform well at the competitions and show their best performance.
He also called on them to prepare their mental conditions. Boediono said the event is a prestigious competition among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). During his inspection of venues and readiness of martial art athletes Boediono was presented with demonstrations of karate, taekwondo, wu shu and Povinam.
Several athletes from other sport brachens like athletic and weight lifting were also seen at the meeting. When inspecting the venue for archery Boediono took an opportunity to try shooting a target twice but failed.
Other venues being inspected are the basket ball field in Kelapa Gading and Vellodrom in Rawamangun. The 26th SEA Games which is scheduled to be opened on November 11 and end on November 22 will be carried out in Palembang, South Sumatra, and Jakarta.
The event will compete 44 sport branches and offer 542 gold medals for grab. This year’s bi-annual event will be the fourth hosted by Indonesia. Indonesia hosted the 10th event in 1979, the 15th event in 1987 and the 19th one in 1997 and in all of the events it came out as the overall champion.
HIV Vaksin
VIVAnews - Alan Aderem, Director of BioMed, Seattle and Rino Rappuoli, Global Head of Vaccines Research for Novartis Vaccines and Diagonstics, reviewed the latest progress in vaccine development in a scientific journal, Nature.
They write, it is estimated, by 2020, a vaccine for malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV / AIDS is found. In the journal that they also discussed the new devices include systems biology and structure-based design of antigens that can provide a better understanding of the mechanism of protection.
This device will give clues leading to the rational development of vaccines to alleviate the patient's most terrible diseases in the world.
According Aderem, a pioneer in the field of systems biology, new concepts and technological advances indicate that the vaccine for three diseases terdahsyat it will be developed within the next 10 years.
"The success will greatly depend on our ability to approach biological systems to analyze data generated during testing of evidence," said Aderem, like diktutip from MedIndia, May 28, 2011.
Aderem says, success will also provide new insights such as identifying the relationship between protection or signs of immunogenicity and the acceleration of large-scale clinical trials. Also, added Aderem, new regulatory approaches and innovative clinic will also accelerate the discovery of vaccines that are needed.
In his report, Aderem and Rappuoli also reviews the advantages and disadvantages of systems biology approach, with the major advantages of this approach is the ability to capture and integrate biological data in a very large number that appears to visualize the nature of which is not shown by the parts individually and unpredictable if you only use every single part.
"The advantage of biological systems is its ability to predict the behavior of entire biological systems," said Aderem. "From there, we can optimize vaccine candidates and predict whether the drug or vaccine candidates able to work before the drug was taken to a large-scale clinical trials are very expensive," he said.
Biological systems can also be used to accelerate clinical trials usually last long.
Aderem and Rappuoli predicts that in a trial vaccine for malaria, TB and HIV / AIDS, only one hypothesis successfully tested every eight years in the past three decades. "We can not continue to use this approach if we want to get results in the period immediately," said Aderem.
With this new method, said Aderem, we can accelerate development by conducting clinical trials of more efficacious and to improve the design using a systems biology approach to test several hypotheses in parallel and have an adaptive design to extend the results will prove most promising.• VIVAnews
They write, it is estimated, by 2020, a vaccine for malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and HIV / AIDS is found. In the journal that they also discussed the new devices include systems biology and structure-based design of antigens that can provide a better understanding of the mechanism of protection.
This device will give clues leading to the rational development of vaccines to alleviate the patient's most terrible diseases in the world.
According Aderem, a pioneer in the field of systems biology, new concepts and technological advances indicate that the vaccine for three diseases terdahsyat it will be developed within the next 10 years.
"The success will greatly depend on our ability to approach biological systems to analyze data generated during testing of evidence," said Aderem, like diktutip from MedIndia, May 28, 2011.
Aderem says, success will also provide new insights such as identifying the relationship between protection or signs of immunogenicity and the acceleration of large-scale clinical trials. Also, added Aderem, new regulatory approaches and innovative clinic will also accelerate the discovery of vaccines that are needed.
In his report, Aderem and Rappuoli also reviews the advantages and disadvantages of systems biology approach, with the major advantages of this approach is the ability to capture and integrate biological data in a very large number that appears to visualize the nature of which is not shown by the parts individually and unpredictable if you only use every single part.
"The advantage of biological systems is its ability to predict the behavior of entire biological systems," said Aderem. "From there, we can optimize vaccine candidates and predict whether the drug or vaccine candidates able to work before the drug was taken to a large-scale clinical trials are very expensive," he said.
Biological systems can also be used to accelerate clinical trials usually last long.
Aderem and Rappuoli predicts that in a trial vaccine for malaria, TB and HIV / AIDS, only one hypothesis successfully tested every eight years in the past three decades. "We can not continue to use this approach if we want to get results in the period immediately," said Aderem.
With this new method, said Aderem, we can accelerate development by conducting clinical trials of more efficacious and to improve the design using a systems biology approach to test several hypotheses in parallel and have an adaptive design to extend the results will prove most promising.• VIVAnews
The End Of Saturday?
KOMPAS.com - Usually when we party like there's no tomorrow we wake up with a hangover of biblical proportions. But while fun-loving atheists plan to take two paracetamol as per usual on Sunday, some evangelists will be taking the 'no tomorrow' angle a little too literally.
According to some minority sections of the Christian faith - via one octogenarian's rather embarrassingly unreliable maths - 'The Rapture' will take place at around 6pm tomorrow; Saturday, May 21.
The Rapture, another name for Judgement Day, is supposedly the time when God's chosen people will ascend to heaven and the rest of us are left behind to face apocalyptic scenes of earthquakes and fire.
The 'trial' for non-believers could last six months, but by October 21 they will all be dead, says the prophecy. Just in case the prediction is right, some Americans are making the most of their time left with 'Rapture Parties' across the country.
On the other hand, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the American Humanist Association is organizing a two-day anti-Rapture extravaganza. There will be a party on Saturday and a concert on Sunday - with the tongue in cheek proviso that Sunday's fun could be cancelled due to a natural catastrophe of some sort.
The concept of the Rapture is a relatively new in terms of the Christian faith - first appearing in Christian teaching in the 19th century - but the chosen date is the work of one modern minister.
Harold Camping, 89, came up with the date by adding up numbers in the Bible. He did the same thing once before, stating unequivocally that the world would end in 1994, before apologising and blaming a mathematical error.
His followers have erected billboards across America that have been warning for weeks: 'Judgment Day is coming May 21st, 2011 – The Bible guarantees it!'
Most Christians barely pay the 'prophecy' a second thought but Camping, from Oakland, California, stands by his second Doomsday warning.
'We know without any shadow of a doubt it is going to happen,' said the founder of Family Radio, which broadcasts his forecast around the world.
'There’s going to be a huge earthquake that’s going to make the big earthquake in Japan seem like a Sunday School picnic.'
Camping, a civil engineer who once ran his own construction business, plans to spend the day with his wife in Alameda, in northern California, and watch doomsday unfold on television.
'I'll probably try to be very near a TV or a radio or something,' he said.
'I'll be interested in what's happening on the other side of the world as this begins.'
Camping has based his prediction on his belief that the Noah’s Ark flood happened in the year 4990 BC.
He claims that since 2 Peter 3:8 says that one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like one day to God, there will be seven thousand years between Noah's flood and the end of the world.
The seven days come from Noah having seven days to warn people about the coming disaster, so he assumes there will be seven days, translated to 7,000 years, between the flood and the destruction of earth.
So 4990 plus 2011, minus one because there was no year '0', equals 7,000 years. The prediction has been publicised in almost every country, said Chris McCann, who works with one of the groups spreading the message, eBible Fellowship.
McCann plans to spend Saturday with his family, reading the Bible and praying. His fellowship met for the last time on Monday.
'We had a final lunch and everyone said goodbye,' he said.
'We don't actually know who's saved and who isn't, but we won't gather as a fellowship again.'
The publicity has had some effect outside North America. In Vietnam, a crowd of around 5,000 members of the Hmong ethnic minority gathered near the border with Laos to await the biblical event, but they were soon dispersed by the government.
However, the Rapture - the belief that Christ will bring the faithful into paradise prior to a period of tribulation on earth that precedes the end of time - is a divisive belief even among Christians.
Most don't believe in it, and some are actively against it because they feel it makes them look foolish.
'People like this man are over-literalising certain passages that are not meant to be taken in such a strictly literal sense and they're trying to build strict chronologies by piecing together different Bible verses that were never intended to be interpreted in such a fashion,' said Dr. Don Howell, professor of New Testament at Columbia International University.
In an attempt to talk to Camping on his own literal terms, Dr Howell also points to Matthew 24, which says no one but the Father knows when the end will come, not even Jesus or the angels.
The Rapture is often mocked by non-believers in popular culture - the comic strip 'Doonesbury' has tackled the subject - while a Facebook page called 'Post Rapture Looting' has won huge support.
More than 175,000 people have joined the group, leaving comments such as: 'When everyone is gone and God’s not looking, we need to pick up some sweet stereo equipment and maybe some new furniture for the mansions we’re going to squat in.'
Jerry Jenkins, co-author with Tim LaHaye of the 'Left Behind' series of apocalyptic novels that have sold millions of copies worldwide, is among those who has a problem with the prediction.
'As a believer, I'm already a kook compared to most people, so for someone to choose a date and get everyone excited about a certain time, my problem is it makes us look worse,' said Jenkins, 61.
But the very industry in which Jenkins' books are aimed and sold are part of the problem according to Barbara Rossing, professor of the New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
She describes a huge apocalyptic 'prophecy industry' that includes video games, board games and books, and says: 'It is very appealing to people.'
Indeed, according to its tax returns Family Radio, a non-profit organisation, has raised more than $100m over the last seven years. It owns 66 radio stations worldwide and a recent spike in activity has seen it lavish millions on its international billboard advertising campaign.
When asked what the church was going to do with the money when the world ended, Camping told Contra Costa Times; 'When Judgment Day comes, if someone is a billionaire, how will they take their money with them?
'If we have any money left, and we will because we have to pay bills up to the very end... it will all be destroyed because the world will be in a day of judgment.
'The money is not important at all. It's a vehicle to spread the judgment and a vehicle of the Lord.'
But as the true believers prepare for what they hope will be their last day on earth, many atheists are having fun with the anticlimax they anticipate.
In Tacoma, Washington, atheists have organized a party for Saturday night under the banner 'countdown to backpedaling', on the assumption that Camping and Family Radio will change their story if Judgment Day does not come.
At least 100 people are expected at the party, said Sam Mulvey, 33, an organizer of the event and the producer of a weekly atheist radio show in Tacoma.
'If the world still exists the next day, Family Radio is going to have to say something and most of the time they backpedal, and that's what we're counting down to,' he said.
Other atheists have taken a more practical approach to the 'rapture' by turning the 'prophecy industry' on itself to make money.
In New Hampshire, Bart Centre started his company Eternal Earth-bound Pets in 2009.
He offers rapture believers an insurance plan for those pets that won't join them in heaven: 10-year pet care contracts, with Centre and his network of fellow non-believers taking responsibility for the animals after the Rapture.
The fee - payable in advance, of course - was originally $110, but has risen to $135 since Camping's prediction. He has 258 clients.
According to some minority sections of the Christian faith - via one octogenarian's rather embarrassingly unreliable maths - 'The Rapture' will take place at around 6pm tomorrow; Saturday, May 21.
The Rapture, another name for Judgement Day, is supposedly the time when God's chosen people will ascend to heaven and the rest of us are left behind to face apocalyptic scenes of earthquakes and fire.
The 'trial' for non-believers could last six months, but by October 21 they will all be dead, says the prophecy. Just in case the prediction is right, some Americans are making the most of their time left with 'Rapture Parties' across the country.
On the other hand, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the American Humanist Association is organizing a two-day anti-Rapture extravaganza. There will be a party on Saturday and a concert on Sunday - with the tongue in cheek proviso that Sunday's fun could be cancelled due to a natural catastrophe of some sort.
The concept of the Rapture is a relatively new in terms of the Christian faith - first appearing in Christian teaching in the 19th century - but the chosen date is the work of one modern minister.
Harold Camping, 89, came up with the date by adding up numbers in the Bible. He did the same thing once before, stating unequivocally that the world would end in 1994, before apologising and blaming a mathematical error.
His followers have erected billboards across America that have been warning for weeks: 'Judgment Day is coming May 21st, 2011 – The Bible guarantees it!'
Most Christians barely pay the 'prophecy' a second thought but Camping, from Oakland, California, stands by his second Doomsday warning.
'We know without any shadow of a doubt it is going to happen,' said the founder of Family Radio, which broadcasts his forecast around the world.
'There’s going to be a huge earthquake that’s going to make the big earthquake in Japan seem like a Sunday School picnic.'
Camping, a civil engineer who once ran his own construction business, plans to spend the day with his wife in Alameda, in northern California, and watch doomsday unfold on television.
'I'll probably try to be very near a TV or a radio or something,' he said.
'I'll be interested in what's happening on the other side of the world as this begins.'
Camping has based his prediction on his belief that the Noah’s Ark flood happened in the year 4990 BC.
He claims that since 2 Peter 3:8 says that one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like one day to God, there will be seven thousand years between Noah's flood and the end of the world.
The seven days come from Noah having seven days to warn people about the coming disaster, so he assumes there will be seven days, translated to 7,000 years, between the flood and the destruction of earth.
So 4990 plus 2011, minus one because there was no year '0', equals 7,000 years. The prediction has been publicised in almost every country, said Chris McCann, who works with one of the groups spreading the message, eBible Fellowship.
McCann plans to spend Saturday with his family, reading the Bible and praying. His fellowship met for the last time on Monday.
'We had a final lunch and everyone said goodbye,' he said.
'We don't actually know who's saved and who isn't, but we won't gather as a fellowship again.'
The publicity has had some effect outside North America. In Vietnam, a crowd of around 5,000 members of the Hmong ethnic minority gathered near the border with Laos to await the biblical event, but they were soon dispersed by the government.
However, the Rapture - the belief that Christ will bring the faithful into paradise prior to a period of tribulation on earth that precedes the end of time - is a divisive belief even among Christians.
Most don't believe in it, and some are actively against it because they feel it makes them look foolish.
'People like this man are over-literalising certain passages that are not meant to be taken in such a strictly literal sense and they're trying to build strict chronologies by piecing together different Bible verses that were never intended to be interpreted in such a fashion,' said Dr. Don Howell, professor of New Testament at Columbia International University.
In an attempt to talk to Camping on his own literal terms, Dr Howell also points to Matthew 24, which says no one but the Father knows when the end will come, not even Jesus or the angels.
The Rapture is often mocked by non-believers in popular culture - the comic strip 'Doonesbury' has tackled the subject - while a Facebook page called 'Post Rapture Looting' has won huge support.
More than 175,000 people have joined the group, leaving comments such as: 'When everyone is gone and God’s not looking, we need to pick up some sweet stereo equipment and maybe some new furniture for the mansions we’re going to squat in.'
Jerry Jenkins, co-author with Tim LaHaye of the 'Left Behind' series of apocalyptic novels that have sold millions of copies worldwide, is among those who has a problem with the prediction.
'As a believer, I'm already a kook compared to most people, so for someone to choose a date and get everyone excited about a certain time, my problem is it makes us look worse,' said Jenkins, 61.
But the very industry in which Jenkins' books are aimed and sold are part of the problem according to Barbara Rossing, professor of the New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
She describes a huge apocalyptic 'prophecy industry' that includes video games, board games and books, and says: 'It is very appealing to people.'
Indeed, according to its tax returns Family Radio, a non-profit organisation, has raised more than $100m over the last seven years. It owns 66 radio stations worldwide and a recent spike in activity has seen it lavish millions on its international billboard advertising campaign.
When asked what the church was going to do with the money when the world ended, Camping told Contra Costa Times; 'When Judgment Day comes, if someone is a billionaire, how will they take their money with them?
'If we have any money left, and we will because we have to pay bills up to the very end... it will all be destroyed because the world will be in a day of judgment.
'The money is not important at all. It's a vehicle to spread the judgment and a vehicle of the Lord.'
But as the true believers prepare for what they hope will be their last day on earth, many atheists are having fun with the anticlimax they anticipate.
In Tacoma, Washington, atheists have organized a party for Saturday night under the banner 'countdown to backpedaling', on the assumption that Camping and Family Radio will change their story if Judgment Day does not come.
At least 100 people are expected at the party, said Sam Mulvey, 33, an organizer of the event and the producer of a weekly atheist radio show in Tacoma.
'If the world still exists the next day, Family Radio is going to have to say something and most of the time they backpedal, and that's what we're counting down to,' he said.
Other atheists have taken a more practical approach to the 'rapture' by turning the 'prophecy industry' on itself to make money.
In New Hampshire, Bart Centre started his company Eternal Earth-bound Pets in 2009.
He offers rapture believers an insurance plan for those pets that won't join them in heaven: 10-year pet care contracts, with Centre and his network of fellow non-believers taking responsibility for the animals after the Rapture.
The fee - payable in advance, of course - was originally $110, but has risen to $135 since Camping's prediction. He has 258 clients.
ASEAN Has Good Single Currency Prospect
Diponegoro University economist Nugroho SBM said in Semarang Friday that ASEAN
remains an important geopolitical and economic power in Asia, and even in the world, and therefore a single currency will strengthen it against pressure from the US dollar for instance.With ASEAN having a single currency, he said, the strong effect of the US dollar in that part of the world would be sterilized and thus strengthening the monetary position of the ASEAN countries.
"It would take a very long time. The European Union alone needed 60 years before agreeing to use the euro as a single currency, bit it would be better to discuss the foundation of an ASEAN single currency from now on," he said.
He said Indonesia
, Malaysia
, Singapore
, Thailand
, and the Philippines
may serve as a driving power for the formation of a single currency because they have a dominating trade volume among the ASEAN member countries.He also said that it is indeed not easy to form an ASEAN single currency because such a great idea will be facing an obstacle from the countries with an already strong currency and did not wish their monetary data be known to other countries.
"The formation of a single currency needs central interbank transparency while not all the central banks of the member countries are open to information. This is one of the serious obstacles," he said.
Nugroho predicted that China and India will be playing an increasing important role in the world economy and in the Asian region which was marked with the huge trade volume of the two countries with the ASEAN member countries.
According to data, ASEAN trade with India in 2010 stood at 50 billion US dollars, while China has since the introduction of the China
-ASEAN free trade set a target of its trade with ASEAN of 500 billion US dollars by 2015. Aisha Gaddafi
KOMPAS.com - Embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has enlisted the help of his glamorous only daughter in his fight to retain power in the war-ravaged country.
Aisha Gaddafi, a 34-year-old lawyer who has represented Saddam Hussein and the IRA, was photographed in the capital Tripoli, dressed in a veil and waving her father's green flag from a vehicle, London's Daily Mail reported.
Mobbed by supporters, her modest appearance was a far cry from the eye-catching designer outfits and voluminous blonde hair that earned her the nickname "the Claudia Schiffer of North Africa".
She told the crowd at the Bab Al Azizia compound that her father was a "great man and leader".
Her appearance came as Gaddafi's troops bombarded the oil terminal town of Ras Lanuf, east of Tripoli, and the United States fired missiles over Taiura, the suburb where the Libyan leader maintains a home.
Ms Gaddafi, her father's only daughter, was named as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador in 2009 but was stripped of the honour in February because of her support of Gaddafi's regime. As a lawyer she volunteered on the defence team that worked for Saddam Hussein before his trial and hanging in 2006.
When London's Telegraph asked Ms Gaddafi what she thought of Iraqis who claimed her client murdered thousands of their countrymen, she replied: "It is only normal that some people are against you and some people are with you. You are bound to meet people who may be against your policies".
According to CNN, she also defended the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoe at former US president George W. Bush. Ms Gaddafi married her cousin, army general Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi, in 2006. The couple have three children.
The newspaper also wrote that she is resentful towards the West after the death of her adopted sister, Hana, who was killed when Ms Gaddafi was nine, during a US raid on Tripoli.
"I woke to the thunder of bombs and the screams of my sister, with blood splattered all over me," she is reported as saying at the time.
During a rare interview with the Telegraph last October she said people "generally gasp" when they find out who she is.
"... and then they become very friendly, and take the chance to send greeting to my father," she said.
"No one has ever reacted badly".
Ms Gaddafi reportedly tried to leave Libya for Malta in January but was turned back when the aircraft was denied permission to land, according to Al Jazeera and the Telegraph.
She denied the reports and told the Libyan public: "I am steadfastly here".
Aisha Gaddafi, a 34-year-old lawyer who has represented Saddam Hussein and the IRA, was photographed in the capital Tripoli, dressed in a veil and waving her father's green flag from a vehicle, London's Daily Mail reported.
Mobbed by supporters, her modest appearance was a far cry from the eye-catching designer outfits and voluminous blonde hair that earned her the nickname "the Claudia Schiffer of North Africa".
She told the crowd at the Bab Al Azizia compound that her father was a "great man and leader".
Her appearance came as Gaddafi's troops bombarded the oil terminal town of Ras Lanuf, east of Tripoli, and the United States fired missiles over Taiura, the suburb where the Libyan leader maintains a home.
Ms Gaddafi, her father's only daughter, was named as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador in 2009 but was stripped of the honour in February because of her support of Gaddafi's regime. As a lawyer she volunteered on the defence team that worked for Saddam Hussein before his trial and hanging in 2006.
When London's Telegraph asked Ms Gaddafi what she thought of Iraqis who claimed her client murdered thousands of their countrymen, she replied: "It is only normal that some people are against you and some people are with you. You are bound to meet people who may be against your policies".
According to CNN, she also defended the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoe at former US president George W. Bush. Ms Gaddafi married her cousin, army general Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi, in 2006. The couple have three children.
The newspaper also wrote that she is resentful towards the West after the death of her adopted sister, Hana, who was killed when Ms Gaddafi was nine, during a US raid on Tripoli.
"I woke to the thunder of bombs and the screams of my sister, with blood splattered all over me," she is reported as saying at the time.
During a rare interview with the Telegraph last October she said people "generally gasp" when they find out who she is.
"... and then they become very friendly, and take the chance to send greeting to my father," she said.
"No one has ever reacted badly".
Ms Gaddafi reportedly tried to leave Libya for Malta in January but was turned back when the aircraft was denied permission to land, according to Al Jazeera and the Telegraph.
She denied the reports and told the Libyan public: "I am steadfastly here".
Stop Violance In Palestine
KOMPAS.com -
Indonesia has called for international cooperation to stop violence against Palestinian prisoners held at a number of Israeli prisons and detention centers. President of the Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians of International Parliamentary Union (IPU) Dr. Nurhayati Ali Assegaf made the call in her keynote speech to the First International Conference on the Rights of Palestinian Prisoners in Geneva recently.
Minister Counselor of the Indonesian Representative in Geneva Dicky Komar said in a press statement issued on Tuesday the conference was initiated by three non-governmental organizations, U-free, Rights for All and North-South 21.
The other speakers of the conference were members of the Palestinian, Greek, Swiss and Irish parliaments as well as former Palestinian prisoners including Sheik Raed Salah who is now Imam of Al Aqsa Mosque.
Also present at the conference were figures, non-governmental organization activists, and academicians from various European countries. Nurhayati who is also deputy chief of the Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Board (BKSAP) of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) further stressed Indonesia’s consistency in encouraging the formation of an independent Palestinian state in what she said was in line with the mandate of the 1945 Constitution.
She also attached the significance of integrated concrete steps involving various elements of the international community to put an end to Israeli violence among others through the mechanisms of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee to allow any of their members to monitor and visit Israeli prisons and detention centers.
She said the fate of female prisoners should also draw special attention because they were highly vulnerable to violence and human rights violation. The conference underscored the need for Israel to comply with international conventions related to prisoners’ rights, ensure that the rights of Palestinian prisoners were fulfilled, and stop violence against them.
In addition, it also underlined the importance of comprehensive solution to the Palestinian conflict by forming an independent Palestinian state. The conference also agreed to declare 2011 as the Year of Palestinian Women Prisoners.
Indonesia has called for international cooperation to stop violence against Palestinian prisoners held at a number of Israeli prisons and detention centers. President of the Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians of International Parliamentary Union (IPU) Dr. Nurhayati Ali Assegaf made the call in her keynote speech to the First International Conference on the Rights of Palestinian Prisoners in Geneva recently.
Minister Counselor of the Indonesian Representative in Geneva Dicky Komar said in a press statement issued on Tuesday the conference was initiated by three non-governmental organizations, U-free, Rights for All and North-South 21.
The other speakers of the conference were members of the Palestinian, Greek, Swiss and Irish parliaments as well as former Palestinian prisoners including Sheik Raed Salah who is now Imam of Al Aqsa Mosque.
Also present at the conference were figures, non-governmental organization activists, and academicians from various European countries. Nurhayati who is also deputy chief of the Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Board (BKSAP) of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) further stressed Indonesia’s consistency in encouraging the formation of an independent Palestinian state in what she said was in line with the mandate of the 1945 Constitution.
She also attached the significance of integrated concrete steps involving various elements of the international community to put an end to Israeli violence among others through the mechanisms of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee to allow any of their members to monitor and visit Israeli prisons and detention centers.
She said the fate of female prisoners should also draw special attention because they were highly vulnerable to violence and human rights violation. The conference underscored the need for Israel to comply with international conventions related to prisoners’ rights, ensure that the rights of Palestinian prisoners were fulfilled, and stop violence against them.
In addition, it also underlined the importance of comprehensive solution to the Palestinian conflict by forming an independent Palestinian state. The conference also agreed to declare 2011 as the Year of Palestinian Women Prisoners.
IMF.Indonesian Economic will Grow
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Indonesian Monetary Fund 
(IMF) said Indonesia will experience good economic growth this year. International financial institutions predict that Indonesia's economic growth in 2011 more than 6 percent.
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Khan said the Indonesian economy is going well, despite facing the same challenge with other countries, such as food and energy price volatility. "Globally, Indonesia's economy is going well and I expect to grow more than 6 percent," Dominique said after meeting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the Presidential Office on Wednesday (02/02/2011).
According to Dominique, no significant issues that could hamper the Indonesian
economy to grow. In addition, he said, the budget deficit by 1.8 percent in 2011 is still in a reasonable level. "Because, will help the level of investment and development in Indonesia," he said.
For your information, the government sets the economic growth of 6.4 percent in the Income and Expenditure Budget (APBN) in 2011. Growth rate was up 0.1 percent from the year 2011 state budget draft targets of 6.3 percent.
Dominique added, the political disputes in Egypt
will affect world oil and food prices. The result will affect economic growth world countries even if only temporary. (Hans Henricus / Cash)
(IMF) said Indonesia will experience good economic growth this year. International financial institutions predict that Indonesia's economic growth in 2011 more than 6 percent. IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Khan said the Indonesian economy is going well, despite facing the same challenge with other countries, such as food and energy price volatility. "Globally, Indonesia's economy is going well and I expect to grow more than 6 percent," Dominique said after meeting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the Presidential Office on Wednesday (02/02/2011).
According to Dominique, no significant issues that could hamper the Indonesian
economy to grow. In addition, he said, the budget deficit by 1.8 percent in 2011 is still in a reasonable level. "Because, will help the level of investment and development in Indonesia," he said. For your information, the government sets the economic growth of 6.4 percent in the Income and Expenditure Budget (APBN) in 2011. Growth rate was up 0.1 percent from the year 2011 state budget draft targets of 6.3 percent.
Dominique added, the political disputes in Egypt
will affect world oil and food prices. The result will affect economic growth world countries even if only temporary. (Hans Henricus / Cash)
Indonesian Legend WarShip Dewa Ruci Will Change This Year
SURABAYA, KOMPAS.com - RI warships that had been used as a trainingsailing ship, KRI Dewa Ruci, eventually retire. Procurement of new trainingsailing ship was made in 2011.
This was conveyed by TNI Commander Rear Admiral Agus Suhartono inspectorafter a handover ceremony in the position of TNI Commander General of theAcademy at the Naval Academy
, Surabaya, on Friday (28/01/2011).
Lieutenant General (Mar) Nono Sampono handed military academy Danjenposition to Sru Astjarjo Andrew Young Marshal. Nono now he is Head of the National SAR, whereas before it was the Governor Astjarjo Air Force Academy.
According to Agus, the procurement of substitute training sailing
ship KRI DewaRuci processed in 2011. Problem where purchased sailboat is not yet knownbecause it depends of the tender.
"What is clear, the ship was to be bigger screen, can accommodate 150cadets, 150 crew, and can travel the world very well," said Agus.
KRI Dewa Ruci built HC Sohn Stulchen and Hamburg, Germany
, in 1952-1953.This ship weighs 847 tons, 58.5 meters long and 9.5 meters wide.
This was conveyed by TNI Commander Rear Admiral Agus Suhartono inspectorafter a handover ceremony in the position of TNI Commander General of theAcademy at the Naval Academy
, Surabaya, on Friday (28/01/2011).Lieutenant General (Mar) Nono Sampono handed military academy Danjenposition to Sru Astjarjo Andrew Young Marshal. Nono now he is Head of the National SAR, whereas before it was the Governor Astjarjo Air Force Academy.
According to Agus, the procurement of substitute training sailing
ship KRI DewaRuci processed in 2011. Problem where purchased sailboat is not yet knownbecause it depends of the tender."What is clear, the ship was to be bigger screen, can accommodate 150cadets, 150 crew, and can travel the world very well," said Agus.
KRI Dewa Ruci built HC Sohn Stulchen and Hamburg, Germany
, in 1952-1953.This ship weighs 847 tons, 58.5 meters long and 9.5 meters wide.
Extreme Weather Alert to June
Environment Minister Gustavo Mohammad Hatta:
Extreme Weather Alert to June
Extreme Weather Alert to June
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Environment Minister Gustavo Mohammad Hatta reminded constantly alert for citizens to remember that predicted the extreme weather will last until next June in Indonesia
. Extreme weather could cause flooding and landslides in some areas that are prone to disaster. Therefore, local governments, particularly the region including the area of disaster areas in red, is expected to always prepare ourselves. Hazard map with three colors, namely red, green, and yellow, which has been distributed is expected to be followed to handle anticipated disaster.
It was reminded by Gusti Muhammad Hatta told the press after the meeting about the safety of maritime transport and associated with extreme weather crossing at the Vice Presidential Palace, Jakarta, Wednesday (01/12/2011).
"Today, the weather and climate can no longer predictable. So, there is no other way except the local government and residents is always on hand to anticipate them. We expected until next June of extreme weather persists," said Gusti Muhammad Hatta.
According to Gusti Muhammad, his side has provided maps to the entire region vulnerable to disaster. As flash floods Wasior, Wondama Bay, and West Papua
is already reflected in disaster-prone map in red. "However, that's what happened. Therefore, we expect each local government can be on hand to deal with extreme weather," he added.
Gusti Muhammad also hope the Bureau of Meteorology
, Climatology
, and Geophysics
(BMKG) can continue to inform changes in the weather to the community and local government. World not yet have a solution
While at the same place, a spokesman for Vice President Yopie Hidayat said the weather extremes that occur in Australia and causing flash floods and the recent extreme weather in Europe
and the United States shows that the world does not have a solution to anticipate climate change is happening now. Therefore, the vice president when meeting with new Australia
n Ambassador, Greg Moriarty, expressed concern with the disaster that hit Australia. "Flash floods that occurred in Australia is also the impact of extreme weather that has not been able to find a solution by mankind," said Yopie, who joined the meeting accompanied by Ambassador of the Australian Vice President Vice President Palace, Jakarta.
According Yopie, what is happening in Australia is also a warning to the nations of the world to continuously anticipate and prepare for natural disasters due to extreme weather.
Merapi Volcano image
image by Reuters
Mount Merapi volcano erupts, as seen from Manisrenggo village in Klaten of Indonesias central Java province November 12, 2010.JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano has killed 206 people since it began erupting late last month, with more than 380,000 people in makeshift camps, an official said Friday. “The death toll from Merapi has reached 206 people. And about 380,000 people have fled their homes,“ disaster management official Heriyanto said, updating the previous official toll of 194.
He said rescuers had been able to recover more bodies in the central Java area where the volcano is located.
Mobile Phone Users Enlisting YouMail "Digital Secretary"
SAN FRANCISCO, KOMPAS.com - Ranks of mobile phone users are enlisting the services of a “digital secretary” that automatically snubs unwanted callers, transcribes messages, and gives loved ones special handling. California startup YouMail said Monday that it has passed the half-billion-call mark and now manages more than 1.5 million calls daily.
“The growth is strong and steady,” YouMail founder and chief executive Alex Quilici told AFP. “It is almost more convenient to not answer the phone with YouMail.”
YouMail lets users personalize greetings to specific incoming telephone numbers. A spouse whose call is missed might be greeted with recorded words of affection while a boss could be reassured a project is nearly complete.
A “DitchMail” feature lets users bash telemarketers, troublesome ex-paramours, or other unwanted callers in recorded greetings and then have the calls automatically disconnect. YouMail users have an online community that shares digital recordings of greetings tailored for various occasions.
Snippets lifted from movies or television shows along with music or official-sounding advisories were among the array of downloadable greetings available at greetings.youmail.com on Monday.
“The fingers you have used to dial are too fat, to obtain a special dialing wand please mash the keypad with your palm now,” said a greeting taken from a popular animated comedy television show “The Simpsons.” Another greeting featured a woman calmly advising callers they had reached the devil’s answering service then telling which buttons to hit to sell one’s soul, get directions to hell, or speak with a demon.
“When we started YouMail there were no solutions for voice mail that were fun to use,” Quilici said.
“We thought we could do a better job by letting people leave personal greetings tailored to each caller.”
DitchMail was the Southern California company’s first offering, mobile phone greetings for people users didn’t want to hear from, according to the founder. The list of DitchMail options included recordings titled “Die in a fire” and “Lying, cheating, bastard” along with an “ear-splitting whistle” and an authentic sounding “this number is no longer in service.” Telemarketers that use blocked or private numbers aren’t necessarily protected from YouMail users’ scorn.
Telemarketers phone numbers are shared in the YouMail online community, and the service lets users automatically notify callers that messages from blocked numbers will not be accepted. YouMail has expanded beyond Ditchmall to add categories for holiday, celebrity, political, inspirational, sports, polite, and foreign language greetings.
About two years ago, YouMail added machine-based conversion of voice messages to text but found “it sometimes worked wonderfully and sometimes it was completely misleading or gibberish,” Quilici said. “A phone in a crowded bar is a recipe for disaster; you get the dog died instead of the dog tried,” Quilici said of relying purely on machines to transcribe voice messages. YouMail added humans into the equation, having people edit and refine messages transcribed to text.
“We thought we could organize messages visually on computers, smartphones, iPads, iPods...true multi-platform visual voice mail,” Quilici said.
“Our goal is to provide it on every device.”
YouMail saw a boost after Google launched its Voice service that lets people have one number that rings at all of their telephones; converts voice mail or text messages into email, and allows for toll-free calls to the United States and Canada, according to Quilici. Last month, Google added Voice to its free Web-based email service Gmail and logged more than a million calls in the 24 hours after its launch.
“A category is being created of better voice mail,” Quilici said.
“You will see more carriers offering us as an option.”
Basic YouMail is free, but transcriptions are a premium service with a typical monthly plan costing seven dollars and transcribing a maximum of 50 messages from voice to text. Unlimited message transcription can be had for 30 dollars a month.
“The growth is strong and steady,” YouMail founder and chief executive Alex Quilici told AFP. “It is almost more convenient to not answer the phone with YouMail.”
YouMail lets users personalize greetings to specific incoming telephone numbers. A spouse whose call is missed might be greeted with recorded words of affection while a boss could be reassured a project is nearly complete.
A “DitchMail” feature lets users bash telemarketers, troublesome ex-paramours, or other unwanted callers in recorded greetings and then have the calls automatically disconnect. YouMail users have an online community that shares digital recordings of greetings tailored for various occasions.
Snippets lifted from movies or television shows along with music or official-sounding advisories were among the array of downloadable greetings available at greetings.youmail.com on Monday.
“The fingers you have used to dial are too fat, to obtain a special dialing wand please mash the keypad with your palm now,” said a greeting taken from a popular animated comedy television show “The Simpsons.” Another greeting featured a woman calmly advising callers they had reached the devil’s answering service then telling which buttons to hit to sell one’s soul, get directions to hell, or speak with a demon.
“When we started YouMail there were no solutions for voice mail that were fun to use,” Quilici said.
“We thought we could do a better job by letting people leave personal greetings tailored to each caller.”
DitchMail was the Southern California company’s first offering, mobile phone greetings for people users didn’t want to hear from, according to the founder. The list of DitchMail options included recordings titled “Die in a fire” and “Lying, cheating, bastard” along with an “ear-splitting whistle” and an authentic sounding “this number is no longer in service.” Telemarketers that use blocked or private numbers aren’t necessarily protected from YouMail users’ scorn.
Telemarketers phone numbers are shared in the YouMail online community, and the service lets users automatically notify callers that messages from blocked numbers will not be accepted. YouMail has expanded beyond Ditchmall to add categories for holiday, celebrity, political, inspirational, sports, polite, and foreign language greetings.
About two years ago, YouMail added machine-based conversion of voice messages to text but found “it sometimes worked wonderfully and sometimes it was completely misleading or gibberish,” Quilici said. “A phone in a crowded bar is a recipe for disaster; you get the dog died instead of the dog tried,” Quilici said of relying purely on machines to transcribe voice messages. YouMail added humans into the equation, having people edit and refine messages transcribed to text.
“We thought we could organize messages visually on computers, smartphones, iPads, iPods...true multi-platform visual voice mail,” Quilici said.
“Our goal is to provide it on every device.”
YouMail saw a boost after Google launched its Voice service that lets people have one number that rings at all of their telephones; converts voice mail or text messages into email, and allows for toll-free calls to the United States and Canada, according to Quilici. Last month, Google added Voice to its free Web-based email service Gmail and logged more than a million calls in the 24 hours after its launch.
“A category is being created of better voice mail,” Quilici said.
“You will see more carriers offering us as an option.”
Basic YouMail is free, but transcriptions are a premium service with a typical monthly plan costing seven dollars and transcribing a maximum of 50 messages from voice to text. Unlimited message transcription can be had for 30 dollars a month.
Sexual Harased In A worked Place
KOMPAS.com - Nine in ten women have suffered some form of sexual discrimination in the workplace, a study has found. A vast majority of women workers have experienced ‘gender harassment’, which includes offensive sexist remarks or being told that they could not do their job properly due to their sex.
This more common, low-level sexist behaviour was just as damaging and distressing as overt advances, experts suggest. The researchers at the University of Michigan found that 10 per cent of the women surveyed had experienced the most severe form of harassment, in which they were promised promotion or better treatment if they were ‘sexually cooperative’.
The study questioned women in two male-dominated environments – the US military and the legal profession. It found that although few were subjected to actual advances, such as being groped, 90 per cent had been subjected to gender harassment.
This included offensive remarks about being female, their appearance, body or sexual activities. The researchers argued that this ‘leads to negative personal and professional outcomes and as such is a serious form of sex discrimination’.
Gender harassment ‘creates a hostile environment that disadvantages women’, they said. Often dismissed as a misguided attempt to draw women into romantic relationships, such behaviour actually rejects women and drives them out of jobs, they said.
The findings, in Springer’s journal of Law and Human Behaviour, concluded that harassment victims fared poorly at work. They were far more likely to develop health problems that affected their performance.
This more common, low-level sexist behaviour was just as damaging and distressing as overt advances, experts suggest. The researchers at the University of Michigan found that 10 per cent of the women surveyed had experienced the most severe form of harassment, in which they were promised promotion or better treatment if they were ‘sexually cooperative’.
The study questioned women in two male-dominated environments – the US military and the legal profession. It found that although few were subjected to actual advances, such as being groped, 90 per cent had been subjected to gender harassment.
This included offensive remarks about being female, their appearance, body or sexual activities. The researchers argued that this ‘leads to negative personal and professional outcomes and as such is a serious form of sex discrimination’.
Gender harassment ‘creates a hostile environment that disadvantages women’, they said. Often dismissed as a misguided attempt to draw women into romantic relationships, such behaviour actually rejects women and drives them out of jobs, they said.
The findings, in Springer’s journal of Law and Human Behaviour, concluded that harassment victims fared poorly at work. They were far more likely to develop health problems that affected their performance.
Long-Haul Revolution
KOMPAS.com - Steve McKenna takes the rough with the super smooth on a rail epic through the Middle Kingdom.
WHEN I told her I was planning to zigzag across her country to savour Avatar-esque countryside, ancient imperial capitals and metropolises that never sleep, my Chinese friend Nan had a morsel of advice.
"Use eLong.net," she beamed. "It's amazing. Super-cheap flights. Cheaper than trains or buses, some of the time."
I didn't want to be rude but I had to tell her that she was wasting her breath. I'd already decided that I was going the whole hog by rail: from Guangzhou in the south, to Qingdao in the north, with stops at Guilin, Shanghai, Xian and Beijing along the way.
Despite the vagaries of long-haul train travel - I'd turned the air blue on occasions during previous trips across Europe, India and Vietnam - I've never been a big fan of flying internally, especially when you have time not to and particularly in a country such as China.
As well as its astonishingly rich history and culture, the Middle Kingdom has made no secret of the fact it wants to develop one of the world's greatest high-speed rail networks. The government is investing accordingly, with billions of yuan being splashed on new infrastructure, the target being a drastic cut in journey times and a further boost to the country's already rocketing economy. I felt it would be a shame to visit China and not see how it's all coming along.
Yet, as I stood in what was, frankly, a ridiculous queue in Guangzhou's steamy, clapped-out old railway station, I was reconsidering my grand idea. The prospect of having to endure these crowds every time I wanted to buy a ticket made me sweat even more.
"Don't all these people have to work? Where are they going on a Monday afternoon?" asked Mai, a chirpy, Mandarin-speaking Spanish tourist I'd met, who had offered to come to the station with me. An hour later, we were both standing at the counter, wiping our sodden brows. As I leafed hopelessly through my Mandarin phrase book, Mai spoke to the ticket women and the information flickered on the computer screen in front of us.
My ticket to Guilin - some 1030 kilometres west of Guangzhou - was 215 yuan ($38) for a hard sleeper, which is ostensibly a spot in a moving six-bed dorm room with no doors. The cheapest flight I could find on eLong, incidentally, was 450 yuan.
The following evening, after passing through airport-like security (bags are scanned, X-ray-style, at every station in China), I found myself in a terminal that was busy but nowhere near as chaotic as India - and much cleaner. Despite a few token English signs, nearly everything was written in Chinese characters. Fortunately, the times and train codes on the giant neon display of arrivals and departures were easy to fathom. Mine read: "T38: 19:47". Train services starting with the letters Z, C and D tend to be the best; with T and K more of a lottery, I found.
Compared with stations in Europe, Guangzhou's had sparse dining and shopping options - just a tiny KFC kiosk and a few mini-marts. The waiting rooms were packed with families, hunched together, scoffing pot noodles, while the smoking areas were full of men puffing away on cigarettes while playing cards.
As an indecipherable voice crackled over the PA system, railway staff marched along, barking into loudspeakers. Everyone gathered their things. I followed them and we were soon on a train that looked distinctly 1980s.
My cramped berth was filled by an elderly Chinese woman and four men - including a young chap in military uniform who pirouetted around the small compartment with the elasticity of a gymnast. I'd paid a little extra to have the bottom bunk and there was just enough room for my backpack and me.
As the train left the station, I began to explore. There was a mix of (fairly grotty) squat and Western-style toilets, rooms with washbasins and mirrors and several areas with warm-water taps - for drenching those pot noodles. I passed through the soft-sleeper carriages, which were carpeted and had four-bed, airconditioned rooms with lace curtains (these were almost twice the price of hard sleepers).
I sought out the dining carriage, where the menu comprised a dozen traditional Chinese options (25-40 yuan). I chose sour spicy beef with rice and vegetables. And green tea. "You no want beer?" asked the cheerful young waitress, who seemed shocked when I said no. She then struck up a little conversation, asking where I was from and whether I liked China.
"Sorry for my bad English. I'm trying to learn more," she said, immediately, and unintentionally, shaming me for my near non-existent Mandarin.
By now, the train was doing 150km/h, which is snail-slow compared with the Chinese trains of the future and even the present.
China already boasts the world's fastest train: the Maglev that bullets from Shanghai's Pudong airport to the city centre - covering 30 kilometres in just eight minutes at a top speed of 430km/h. Within a decade, it's hoped that this will be more or less the norm.
The lights in my carriage went out at 10pm (standard procedure) and eventually I dozed off. Next morning I was nudged by the guard as we approached Guilin and the joy of rail travel once again revealed itself.
Glancing out of window, half-asleep, I was greeted by a landscape of beguilingly beautiful limestone karst peaks that reminded me a little of Pandora in the movie Avatar. Much better than the ceiling of a hotel room.
Traditionally, the Chinese are sticklers for punctuality; this is reflected in its rail service. Not one of my trains was late during my month-long, 6000-kilometre-plus adventure. Though sometimes gruelling, venturing around China by rail was an ultimately rewarding experience - and a fascinating insight into a country that's destined to stamp its mark on the 21st century.
You really get a feel for the sheer enormity of the place, as well as the fact that, despite new millionaires being created every day, most Chinese are not wealthy. More than 300 million farmers eke out an existence in the countryside, while millions more migrate to and try to find work in the sprawling cities.
While foreign tourism is increasing, you'll still be very much in the minority if you take the train. Because of this, curious stares will likely follow you everywhere but most Chinese I encountered were unfailingly polite. Although most Chinese travellers won't speak English, some will give it a go. Of course, it always helps to carry a Mandarin phrase book.
For the last leg of my adventure - Beijing to Qingdao - I headed to the capital's sparkling new southern railway station.
Compared with where I'd started my trip, it felt like I'd been propelled 20 years into the future.
Beijing South is a spotless, shiny, airy arena, sprayed by beams of sunlight and dotted with spindly palm trees. Self-service ticket machines and desks with bilingual staff sit alongside rows of coffee shops and restaurants.
Unlike in Guangzhou, the giant electronic departures and arrivals screen displays information in Chinese and English. The messages that drift from the PA system are in both languages, too.
Every 10 minutes or so, rapid-fire inter-city trains depart here for Tianjin, the 120-kilometre trip taking just 30 minutes.
I boarded the D55 to Qingdao, home of the famous Tsingtao beer and a launch pad to South Korea by ferry. Like the best trains in Europe, it was sleek, comfy and fast, (covering 888 kilometres in just over five hours and costing 275 yuan). Classical Chinese music was played over the carriage speakers and the toilets were super clean.
Anyone who visits China and merely plies the routes from Shanghai Airport or Beijing South may think the Chinese have already cracked the art of 21st-century rail travel. They haven't. The network is a work in progress, however, things are heading in the right direction.
WHEN I told her I was planning to zigzag across her country to savour Avatar-esque countryside, ancient imperial capitals and metropolises that never sleep, my Chinese friend Nan had a morsel of advice.
"Use eLong.net," she beamed. "It's amazing. Super-cheap flights. Cheaper than trains or buses, some of the time."
I didn't want to be rude but I had to tell her that she was wasting her breath. I'd already decided that I was going the whole hog by rail: from Guangzhou in the south, to Qingdao in the north, with stops at Guilin, Shanghai, Xian and Beijing along the way.
Despite the vagaries of long-haul train travel - I'd turned the air blue on occasions during previous trips across Europe, India and Vietnam - I've never been a big fan of flying internally, especially when you have time not to and particularly in a country such as China.
As well as its astonishingly rich history and culture, the Middle Kingdom has made no secret of the fact it wants to develop one of the world's greatest high-speed rail networks. The government is investing accordingly, with billions of yuan being splashed on new infrastructure, the target being a drastic cut in journey times and a further boost to the country's already rocketing economy. I felt it would be a shame to visit China and not see how it's all coming along.
Yet, as I stood in what was, frankly, a ridiculous queue in Guangzhou's steamy, clapped-out old railway station, I was reconsidering my grand idea. The prospect of having to endure these crowds every time I wanted to buy a ticket made me sweat even more.
"Don't all these people have to work? Where are they going on a Monday afternoon?" asked Mai, a chirpy, Mandarin-speaking Spanish tourist I'd met, who had offered to come to the station with me. An hour later, we were both standing at the counter, wiping our sodden brows. As I leafed hopelessly through my Mandarin phrase book, Mai spoke to the ticket women and the information flickered on the computer screen in front of us.
My ticket to Guilin - some 1030 kilometres west of Guangzhou - was 215 yuan ($38) for a hard sleeper, which is ostensibly a spot in a moving six-bed dorm room with no doors. The cheapest flight I could find on eLong, incidentally, was 450 yuan.
The following evening, after passing through airport-like security (bags are scanned, X-ray-style, at every station in China), I found myself in a terminal that was busy but nowhere near as chaotic as India - and much cleaner. Despite a few token English signs, nearly everything was written in Chinese characters. Fortunately, the times and train codes on the giant neon display of arrivals and departures were easy to fathom. Mine read: "T38: 19:47". Train services starting with the letters Z, C and D tend to be the best; with T and K more of a lottery, I found.
Compared with stations in Europe, Guangzhou's had sparse dining and shopping options - just a tiny KFC kiosk and a few mini-marts. The waiting rooms were packed with families, hunched together, scoffing pot noodles, while the smoking areas were full of men puffing away on cigarettes while playing cards.
As an indecipherable voice crackled over the PA system, railway staff marched along, barking into loudspeakers. Everyone gathered their things. I followed them and we were soon on a train that looked distinctly 1980s.
My cramped berth was filled by an elderly Chinese woman and four men - including a young chap in military uniform who pirouetted around the small compartment with the elasticity of a gymnast. I'd paid a little extra to have the bottom bunk and there was just enough room for my backpack and me.
As the train left the station, I began to explore. There was a mix of (fairly grotty) squat and Western-style toilets, rooms with washbasins and mirrors and several areas with warm-water taps - for drenching those pot noodles. I passed through the soft-sleeper carriages, which were carpeted and had four-bed, airconditioned rooms with lace curtains (these were almost twice the price of hard sleepers).
I sought out the dining carriage, where the menu comprised a dozen traditional Chinese options (25-40 yuan). I chose sour spicy beef with rice and vegetables. And green tea. "You no want beer?" asked the cheerful young waitress, who seemed shocked when I said no. She then struck up a little conversation, asking where I was from and whether I liked China.
"Sorry for my bad English. I'm trying to learn more," she said, immediately, and unintentionally, shaming me for my near non-existent Mandarin.
By now, the train was doing 150km/h, which is snail-slow compared with the Chinese trains of the future and even the present.
China already boasts the world's fastest train: the Maglev that bullets from Shanghai's Pudong airport to the city centre - covering 30 kilometres in just eight minutes at a top speed of 430km/h. Within a decade, it's hoped that this will be more or less the norm.
The lights in my carriage went out at 10pm (standard procedure) and eventually I dozed off. Next morning I was nudged by the guard as we approached Guilin and the joy of rail travel once again revealed itself.
Glancing out of window, half-asleep, I was greeted by a landscape of beguilingly beautiful limestone karst peaks that reminded me a little of Pandora in the movie Avatar. Much better than the ceiling of a hotel room.
Traditionally, the Chinese are sticklers for punctuality; this is reflected in its rail service. Not one of my trains was late during my month-long, 6000-kilometre-plus adventure. Though sometimes gruelling, venturing around China by rail was an ultimately rewarding experience - and a fascinating insight into a country that's destined to stamp its mark on the 21st century.
You really get a feel for the sheer enormity of the place, as well as the fact that, despite new millionaires being created every day, most Chinese are not wealthy. More than 300 million farmers eke out an existence in the countryside, while millions more migrate to and try to find work in the sprawling cities.
While foreign tourism is increasing, you'll still be very much in the minority if you take the train. Because of this, curious stares will likely follow you everywhere but most Chinese I encountered were unfailingly polite. Although most Chinese travellers won't speak English, some will give it a go. Of course, it always helps to carry a Mandarin phrase book.
For the last leg of my adventure - Beijing to Qingdao - I headed to the capital's sparkling new southern railway station.
Compared with where I'd started my trip, it felt like I'd been propelled 20 years into the future.
Beijing South is a spotless, shiny, airy arena, sprayed by beams of sunlight and dotted with spindly palm trees. Self-service ticket machines and desks with bilingual staff sit alongside rows of coffee shops and restaurants.
Unlike in Guangzhou, the giant electronic departures and arrivals screen displays information in Chinese and English. The messages that drift from the PA system are in both languages, too.
Every 10 minutes or so, rapid-fire inter-city trains depart here for Tianjin, the 120-kilometre trip taking just 30 minutes.
I boarded the D55 to Qingdao, home of the famous Tsingtao beer and a launch pad to South Korea by ferry. Like the best trains in Europe, it was sleek, comfy and fast, (covering 888 kilometres in just over five hours and costing 275 yuan). Classical Chinese music was played over the carriage speakers and the toilets were super clean.
Anyone who visits China and merely plies the routes from Shanghai Airport or Beijing South may think the Chinese have already cracked the art of 21st-century rail travel. They haven't. The network is a work in progress, however, things are heading in the right direction.
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