Rabu, 31 Maret 2010

The Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time

#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
spaghetti harvest1957: The respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomatically replied, "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."
Related:
• The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest (full-length article)
• April Fool's Day Botany
• April Fool's Day Hoaxes of the BBC
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#2: Sidd Finch
Sidd Finch1985: Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch, and he could reportedly throw a baseball at 168 mph with pinpoint accuracy. This was 65 mph faster than the previous record. Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the "art of the pitch" in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa." Mets fans celebrated their teams' amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. In reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the author of the article, George Plimpton.
Related:
• Sidd Finch (full-length article)
• April Fool's Day Sports
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#3: Instant Color TV
image1962: In 1962 there was only one tv channel in Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white. The station's technical expert, Kjell Stensson, appeared on the news to announce that, thanks to a new technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to display color reception. All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their tv screen. Stensson proceeded to demonstrate the process. Thousands of people were taken in. Regular color broadcasts only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970.
Related:
• Instant Color TV (full-length article)
• April Fool's Day Television Hoaxes
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#4: The Taco Liberty Bell
Taco Liberty Bell1996: The Taco Bell Corporation announced it had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell was housed to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed when Taco Bell revealed, a few hours later, that it was all a practical joke. The best line of the day came when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale. Thinking on his feet, he responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold. It would now be known, he said, as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial.
Related:
• Taco Liberty Bell (full-length article)
• Unlikely Acquisitions announced on April 1st
• April Fool's Day hoaxes involving national landmarks
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#5: San Serriffe
image1977: The British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement devoted to San Serriffe, a small republic said to consist of several semi-colon-shaped islands located in the Indian Ocean. A series of articles affectionately described the geography and culture of this obscure nation. Its two main islands were named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. Its capital was Bodoni, and its leader was General Pica. The Guardian's phones rang all day as readers sought more information about the idyllic holiday spot. Only a few noticed that everything about the island was named after printer's terminology. The success of this hoax is widely credited with launching the enthusiasm for April Foolery that gripped the British tabloids in subsequent decades.
Related:
• San Serriffe (full-length article)
• Fictitious Geography of April Fool's Day
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#6: Nixon for President
1992: National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation program announced that Richard Nixon, in a surprise move, was running for President again. His new campaign slogan was, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again." Accompanying this announcement were audio clips of Nixon delivering his candidacy speech. Listeners responded viscerally to the announcement, flooding the show with calls expressing shock and outrage. Only during the second half of the show did the host John Hockenberry reveal that the announcement was a practical joke. Nixon's voice was impersonated by comedian Rich Little.
Related:
• April Fool's Day Political Hoaxes
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#7: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi
1998: The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0. Soon the article made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly spread around the world, forwarded by email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, which was intended as a parody of legislative attempts to circumscribe the teaching of evolution, was written by physicist Mark Boslough.
Related:
• Stupid Laws of April Fool's Day
• Religion-Themed April Fool's Day Hoaxes
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#8: The Left-Handed Whopper
1998: Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."
Related:
• April Fool's Day Food and Drink
• Left-Handed Products of April Fool's Day
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#9: Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers
Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer1995: Discover Magazine reported that the highly respected wildlife biologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo had found a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. These fascinating creatures had bony plates on their heads that, fed by numerous blood vessels, could become burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speeds. They used this ability to hunt penguins, melting the ice beneath the penguins and causing them to sink downwards into the resulting slush where the hotheads consumed them. After much research, Dr. Pazzo theorized that the hotheads might have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of noted Antarctic explorer Philippe Poisson in 1837. "To the ice borers, he would have looked like a penguin," the article quoted her as saying. Discover received more mail in response to this article than they had received for any other article in their history.
Related:
• The Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer (full-length article)
• Fictitious Creatures of April Fool's Day
• April Fool's Day Science
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#10: Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity
1976: The British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 AM a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur that listeners could experience in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and lessen the Earth's own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived, BBC2 began to receive hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room.

ASAL NAMA2 perusahaan IT dunia

Mencari nama bagi
perusahaan memang tak mudah.
Sama sulitnya dengan mencari nama
bayi yang baru lahir atau nama
sebuah band musik, misalnya.
Tapi, apakah nama juga akan
mempengaruhi dengan
kelanggengan sebuah perusahaan?
Tidak ada yang bisa memastikannya.
Yang jelas, pasti ada cerita di balik
proses penentuan nama-nama
sebuah perusahaan.
Berikut ini adalah cerita-cerita di
balik munculnya nama-nama
perusahaan besar di bidang TI dan
elektronik, yang dihimpun oleh
Silicon Alley Insider, dari mulai HP,
Cisco, Oracle, Intel, Microsoft, Apple,
hingga Sony.

- HP
Pendiri Hewlett-Packard, Bill Hewlett
dan Dave Packard sempat berdebat
untuk memberikan nama
perusahaan, apakah akan menjadi
Hewlett-Packard, atau Packard-
Hewlett. Akhirnya mereka berdua
mengundinya dengan sebuah koin.

- Sun Microsystems
Para pendiri Sun: Andy Bechtolsheim,
Vinod Khosla, dan Scott McNealy
adalah sesama mahasiswa dari
Stanford University. Saat itu,
Bechtolsheim mendapat proyek
untuk membuatkan workstation bagi
kampusnya, dan proyek itu bernama
Stanford University Network. Nama
itulah yang kemudian disingkat
menjadi SUN.

- Cisco
Nama Cisco sering dikira merupakan
kependekan dari kata-kata tertentu.
Padahal, Cisco diambil dari San
Francisco yang diharapkan menjadi
tempat selain Silicon Valley. Oleh
karenanya, di masa awalnya,
perusahaan ini selalu memaksa agar
namanya ditulis dengan dengan
huruf kecil semua.

-Apple
Saat itu perusahaan ini sudah telat
beberapa bulan untuk mendaftarkan
nama dan merek dagang mereka.
Lalu, salah satu pendirinya, Steve
Jobs menantang para pendiri
perusahaan lain untuk mengajukan
nama yang lebih baik dari 'Apple'.
Apple sendiri adalah buah kesukaan
Jobs. Akhirnya nama yang diajukan
oleh Steve Jobs-lah yang kemudian
dipilih.

- Intel
Dua pendiri perusahaan ini, yakni Bob
Noyce dan Gordon Moore,
sebenarnya ingin menamakan
perusahaan dengan kombinasi dua
nama mereka 'Moore Noyce'. Sayang,
nama itu sudah didaftarkan sebagai
merek dagang dari jaringan hotel.
Akhirnya mereka memberi alternatif
kedua, dengan menamakan
perusahaan mereka sebagai
kependekan dari INTegrated
ELectronics, atau INTEL.

- Microsoft
Nama perusahaan ini merupakan
kependekan dari MICROcomputer
SOFTware. Dari nama yang ia buat,
terlihat jelas bahwa pendiri
perusahaan Bill Gates sudah sangat
yakin akan potensi dari bisnis
software. Sebab pada saat itu
komputer merupakan teknologi yang
sangat baru dan bisnis software
bukanlah bisnis yang sudah
berkembang.

- Adobe
Walaupun Adobe berarti bata atau
batako, tapi asal nama Adobe bukan
terinspirasi oleh bata. Melainkan,
karena salah seorang pendiri
perusahaan ini, John Warnock,
memiliki rumah di Adobe Creek,
sebuah sungai di Los Altos, California.

- Oracle
Salah satu produk awal yang
dikerjakan oleh pendiri perusahaan
Larry Ellison dan Bob Oats, adalah
aplikasi RDBMS, yang merupakan
proyek pesanan CIA. Proyek ini diberi
nama kode 'Oracle' karena
diharapkan bisa menjawab segala
macam jenis pertanyaan menyangkut
segala hal tentang kehidupan.
Belakangan CIA menghentikan
proyek ini, namun Ellison dan Oats
meneruskannya dan menjadikan
nama proyek itu menjadi nama
perusahaan.

- Sony
Pendiri perusahaan ini, Akio Morita,
menginginkan nama yang tak asing
bagi konsumen target mereka,
Amerika Serikat. Nama Sony sendiri
merupakan turunan dari kata Latin
'Sonus' yang artinya adalah suara.
Selain itu, nama itu juga berasal dari
kata Slang 'Sonny Boy' yang pada
tahun 1950-an di Jepang bermakna
'Anak muda yang cerdas dan
tampan'. Begitulah Akio Morita
memandang dirinya sendiri.

-Yahoo
Nama perusahaan ini dipilih oleh
Jerry Yang dan David Filo, merupakan
kependekan dari 'Yet Another
Hierarchical Officious Oracle'. Tak jelas
apakah 'Officious Oracle' yang
dimaksud adalah proyek Oracle
terdahulu yang sempat dikerjakan
oleh Larry Ellison dan Bob Oats. Yang
pasti, dua mahasiswa Stanford itu
juga menyukai arti kata 'Yahoo' di
kamus, maupun di kisah fiksi besutan
Jonathan Swift berjudul Gulliver's
Travel, yang maknanya adalah 'kasar
atau tak tahu adat'.

- Google
Duo pendiri, Larry Page dan Sergey
Brin, awalnya menamakan
perusahaan ini 'Googol' yang merujuk
pada bilangan 10 pangkat 100. Dua
mahasiswa yang drop out dari
program PhD mereka di Stanford itu,
menamakannya demikian, untuk
menyimbolkan proyek algoritma
pemeringkat website mereka,
sebagai sebuah proyek yang akan
melibatkan data yang sangat masif.
Tapi saat mencari investor dan
bertemu dengan salah satu pendiri
Sun, Andy Bechtolsheim, Nama
'Googol' ditulis menjadi 'Google' agar
lebih menjual.

Katak Bisa Perkirakan Gempa Dahsyat

Katak telah lama menjadi kawan favorit tukang sihir. Tapi kemampuan magis amfibi rendah hati itu kini diharapkan oleh ilmuwan untuk memperkirakan terjadinya gempa.

Peneliti telah menemukan bahwa katak secara umum memiliki indera keenam tentang bencana alam, dan mampu memprediksi ketika sebuah gempa bumi akan menyerang.

Dalam sebuah contoh luar biasa dari penerawangan oleh hewan, 96% katak jantan mengungsikan lokasi perkembangbiakan sejauh 46 mil dari episentrum gempa yang menimpa L'Aquilia Italia tahun lalu, tepat lima hari sebelum serangan terjadi.

Tiga hari sebelum gempa, tidak ada satu pun pasangan katak yang berkembang biak tertinggal di lokasi, menurut studi yang dipublikasikan oleh Masyarakat Zoologi dari Jurnal Zoologi London. Dan tidak ada katak muda yang siap berkembang biak ada di tempat, ketika gempa melanda dengan kekuatan 4,5 skala richter.

Menurut peneliti dari Universitas Terbuka Inggris, katak jantan akan tetap berada di lokasi pembenihan mulai awal musim kawin hingga bertelur dan pemijahan selesai.

Mereka percaya bahwa katak bisa mendeteksi perubahan lingkungan yang dilalaikan oleh banyak orang, seperti pelepasan gas atau partikel khusus dari dalam tanah sebelum terjadi aktivitas seismik. Gempa bumi yang akan muncul tampaknya mendorong aktivitas penetasan dan evakuasinya.

Dr Rachel Grant yang mempelajari dampak perputaran bulan terhadap katak ketika gempa bumi terjadi mengatakan, “Studi kami adalah yang pertama mendokumentasikan perilaku hewan sebelum, selama dan setelah gempa bumi”.

Dr Grant mengatakan bahwa dia sangat terkejut dengan ketidakhadiran katak selama lima hari sebelum gempa menyerang. Dia percaya bahwa amfibi bisa berevolusi mengungsikan dirinya ketika sebuah area dirasakan mengalami perubahan dengan gempa.

Gempa bumi bisa menyebabkan banjir, jatuhnya bebatuan atau longsor yang mampu menghancurkan populasi dalam satu waktu dan katak-katak tersebut pindah ke tempat yang lebih tinggi dan aman.

Sehari setelah gempa, mereka mulai kembali. Jumlah mereka bertambah sampai gempa susulan terakhir terjadi.

Perpindahan katak tersebut berhubungan dengan gangguan di ionosfer, lapisan elektromagnetik paling atas dari atmosfer bumi yang mengeluarkan gas radioaktif radium dan gelombang gravitasi terhadap sebuah gempa.

Gempa bumi fenomena yang jarang, namun katak telah ada di planet bumi selama 450 juta tahun. Rentang waktu yang panjang untuk berevolusi merespon potensi kejadian bencana. Katak yang dipelajari di Italia identik dengan katak yang ditemukan di taman Inggris.[ito]
sumber http://www.inilah.com/news/read/teknologi/2010/03/31/431911/katak-bisa-perkirakan-gempa-dahsyat/

Satgas jadi 'Super Body'

INILAH.COM, Jakarta - Satuan tugas (satgas) Pemberantasan Mafia Hukum kini dipertanyakan berbagai kalangan. Tidak saja karena dipandang hanya sebagai alat politik istana untuk menekan dan meredam lawan-lawan politiknya, juga karena sudah menjadi superbody yang melemahkan institusi hukum. Benarkah?

Pakar antikorupsi UGM Zainal Arifin Muchtar dan Anggota DPR Fraksi PPP Ahmad Yani yang juga mantan advokat, mendesak agar Satgas Mafia Hukum menjamah dan memproses hukum semua pelaku kejahatan baik yang kelas kakap maupun kelas teri.

"Satgas mustinya menjamah koruptor dan penjahat finansial kelas kakap maupun teri tanpa pandang bulu agar tidak dicurigai sebagai alat politik istana," kata Zainal Arifin Muchtar.

Sedangkan Ahmad Yani menilai sejak skandal Century meledak, terbukti satgas hanya dijadikan alat politik istana untuk meredam dan menjinakkan lawan-lawan politik SBY. "Dulu ada Tim 8 yang dibuat istana, tapi tidak bisa dikendalikan. Nah, sekarang satgas yang dianggap efektif oleh istana karena bisa dikendalikan dan dijadikan alat untuk menekan lawan-lawan politik dengan membuka kasus perkara pihak lawan. Tapi kita lihat, satgas cuma berani mengorek Gayus Tambunan dan kasus kecil semacamnya, namun tak berdaya menyentuh konglomerat hitam kelas kakap yang tak membayar utang dalam kasus BLBI dan sebagainya," kata Ahmad Yani.

Satgas, kata Ahmad Yani, mudah diperalat istana karena tunduk kepada kepentingan istana yang bersitegang politik dengan DPR menyusul vonis politik berupa ‘’mosi tidak percaya‘’ dari parlemen atas Boediono-Sri Mulyani terkait skandal Century.

Jadi satgas ini untuk mengamankan kasus Century agar tidak diteruskan sampah Mahkamah Konstitusi. "Bahkan ada kabar dalam soal Century, KPK kini dilemahkan satgas dengan ancaman akan memproses hukum kasus anak Bibit Waluyo, salah satu pimpinan KPK. Jika itu benar, satgas terkesan jelas jadi alat politik," kata Ahmad Yani.

Keberadaan Satgas Mafia Hukum juga dipandang melemahkan isnstitusi hukum lainnya, seperti polisi,kejaksaan dan bahkan KPK. Fakta bahwa satgaslah yang menangkap Gayus di Singapura (penangkapan ini sendiri membuat heboh pihak keamanan negara Singapura) membuktikan sinyaleman itu

"Ini memperlihatkan tumpang tindih antara lembaga hukum yang ada. Seperti KPK, Kejagung, dan Kepolisian. Ini kegagalan Presiden SBY, mengedepankan reality show," tandas Haris Rusli Moti, mantan Ketua Partai Rakyat Demokratik.(ram)

sumber inilah.com

what becomes of the broken hearted lyrics

This is very popular song , singing by is a hit single recorded by Jimmy Ruffin and released on Motown Records' Soul label in the summer of 1966 then westlife The song originally featured a spoken introduction by Ruffin, similar in style to many Lou Rawls's performances of the same time. The spoken verse was removed from the final mix, hence the unusually long instrumental intro on the released version. The spoken verse is present on the alternate mix from the UK 2003 release "Jimmy Ruffin - The Ultimate Motown Collection" and as a new stereo extended mix on the 2005 anthology "The Motown Box":
A world filled with love is a wonderful sight.
Being in love is one's heart's delight.
But that look of love isn't on my face.
That enchanted feeling has been replaced.

Gayus Diterbangkan ke Indonesia

TEMPO Interaktif, Jakarta - Seorang penyidik di Markas Besar Polri menyatakan, Gayus Tambunan akan diterbangkan di Jakarta Rabu, 31 Maret 2010. Demikian sumber Tempo mengungkapkan.

Gayus ditangkap di Hotel Mandarin, Orchard Road, Singapura, lantai 21 pada pukul 22.15. Namun, Gayus tak langsung diterbangkan di Indonesia. Penangkapan itu dilakukan tanpa perlawanan.

"Penangkapan ini dipimpin oleh Kombes M. Iriawan, Wakil Direktur I Kejahatan Keamanan Trans Nasional", kata seorang penyidik kepada Tempo, Selasa. "Besok akan diterbangkan ke Jakarta."

Kabar penangkapan Gayus itu juga dibenarkan anggota Satuan Tugas Pemberantasan Mafia Hukum Yunus Husein. "Saya dengar dia sudah menyerahkan diri kepada petugas kepolisian di Singapura," ujarnya melalui pesan pendek, Selasa (30/3).

Ketua Pusat Pelaporan dan Analisis Transaksi Keuangan itu tak mau menjelaskan lebih jauh mengenai kabar tersebut. "Lebih baik tanya kepolisian saja," kata dia.

Anggota Satgas lainnya, Mas Achmad Santosa, tak menampik kabar tersebut. Ketika dikirimi pesan pendek untuk mengkonfirmasi, pria yang akrab disapa Ota itu merespon, "Maksudnya siapa, pihak mana yang menjemput?"
Menurut dia, penangkapan Gayus adalah tugas polisi. Ota tak membalas lagi pesan pendek yang dikirimkan Tempo.

Gayus, terbang meninggalkan Jakarta pada 24 Maret 2010 malam. Dia terbang dengan menggunakan Singapore Airlines. Gayus kabur setelah dia terungkap menggelapkan uang pajak Rp 28 miliar. Sebagian uang itu mengalir ke polisi dan pengusaha Andi Kosasih

Sumber Tempo yang berada di Singapura mengatakan hari ini ia sempat berpapasan dengan Ota dan seorang anggota Satgas lainnya, Denny Indrayana, di Bandara Changi, Singapura.

Gayus Ditangkap Polisi Di Hotel Mandarin

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Kementerian Hukum dan HAM (Kemkumham) mulai Senin telah memblokir paspor pegawai Direktorat Jenderal (Ditjen) Pajak, Gayus HP Tambunan, yang saat ini diduga tengah berada di Singapura.

"Saya sudah koordinasi dengan Imigrasi Singapura bahwa paspornya (Gayus HP Tambunan) itu diblokir mulai hari ini," kata Menteri Hukum dan HAM (Menkumham), Patrialis Akbar, di Jakarta, Senin.

Seperti diketahui, Gayus HP Tambunan diduga melarikan diri ke Singapura saat hendak menjalani pemeriksaan internal di lingkungan Ditjen Pajak dan pemeriksaan penyidik Mabes Polri soal keberadaan dana di rekeningnya sebesar Rp24,6 miliar.

Gayus HP Tambunan tersandung dalam kasus pencucian uang, penggelapan, dan tindak pidana korupsi soal adanya aliran dana ke rekeningnya di Panin Bank sebesar Rp24,6 miliar.

Namun perkara yang maju ke pengadilan terkait penggelapan uang dari PT Megah Jaya Garmindo sebesar Rp370 juta, dan putusan majelis hakim Pengadilan Negeri (PN) Tangerang, Banten memvonis bebas dirinya dari jeratan kasus penggelapan.

Menkumham menyatakan meski demikian Gayus adalah Warga Negara Indonesia (WNI) yang tentunya keberadaannya di luar negeri harus dilindungi.

"Karena itu, agar Gayus ini bisa kembali ke Indonesia, kita keluarkan yang namanya SPLP (Surat Perjalanan Laksana Paspor) yang hanya berlaku satu kali, yakni dari Singapura ke Indonesia," katanya.

Ia juga mengaku dirinya sudah memerintahkan seluruh atase imigrasi di seluruh dunia untuk mendeteksi keberadaan Gayus.

"Perintah terhadap seluruh imigrasi di seluruh dunia, karena kita ingin membantu polisi," katanya.

Satuan Tugas (Satgas) Pemberantasan Mafia Hukum menyatakan, pekan depan paling tidak akan terbongkar sindikat pajak terkait kasus pegawai Direktorat Pajak (Ditjen) Pajak, Gayus HP Tambunan.

"Sindikasi ini yang dalam waktu dekat, Insya Allah akan terbongkar," kata Sekretaris Satgas Pemberantasan Mafia Hukum, Denny Indrayana, di Jakarta, Senin.

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Misteri Kerajaan Shambala di antara Puncak Himalaya

Selama ribuan tahun, ada sebuah rumor yang beredar, bahwa di suatu tempat di Tibet, diantara puncak-puncak bersalju Himalaya dan lembah-lembah yang terpencil, ada sebuah surga yang tidak tersentuh, sebuah kerajaan dimana kebijakan universal dan damai yang tidak terlukiskan berada. Sebuah kerajaan yang disebut Shambala.

James Hilton menulis mengenai kota mistik ini pada tahun 1933 di dalam bukunya yang berjudul "Lost Horizon". Hollywood lalu mengangkatnya dalam film produksi tahun 1960, "Shangri-la". Bahkan penulis terkenal James Redfield yang menulis The Celestine Prophecy juga menulis satu buku yang berjudul "The Secret of Shambala : In Search of the Eleven Insight." Shambhala yang misterius ini juga dianggap sebagai sumber bagi Kalachakra, yaitu cabang paling tinggi dan esoterik dalam mistik Tibet.

Konyol! Bosan Jadi Pria, Potong Kemaluan Dgn Pisau Untuk Jadi Wanita

Hanya karena keinginan yang begitu keras untuk merubah kelaminnya menjadi seorang wanita seorang transseksual yang merasa frustasi tidak kunjung berubah kelamin selama 8 tahun akhirnya berbuat nekat dengan memotong alat kelamin pria yang dimilikinya. Berbekal sebungkus obat anastesi (anti rasa sakit/bius) yang diperolehnya entah darai mana pria yang berusia 28 tahun bernama Zhang Heng tersebut memotong penis dan buah zakar yang dimilikinya hingga hilang terpenggal.




Namun apa gerangan yang terjadi? hasil perbuatan coba-cobanya tadi membuat Zhang yag berasal dari Changsia Propinsi Hunan di Cina Selatan mengalami pendarahan hebat. Akhirnya hal tersebut diketahui sang ibu, dan membuat kepanikan bukan kepalang hingga segera ditelpon mobil ambulan untuk membawanya ke Rumah Sakit terdekat.

Harian What’s On Xiament yang dikutip ruanghati.com menyebutkan setelah sampai di Rumah Sakit dan ditangani tim medis, akhirnya tim medis pun berencanan menjahit kembali penis yang terpotong agar bisa kembali seperti sedia kala. namun apa yang terjadi? Hal tersebut membuat Zhang berteriak menolak keras dan malahan meminta dengan sangat dilakukan operasi kelamin menjadi kelamin wanita.

Kejadian yang terjadi tanggal 16 maret 2010 lalu membuat ibu Zhang prihatin, dan meminta anaknya melakukan operasi ganti kelamin setelah memiliki keturunan alias anak. Namun apa tanggapan anaknya Zhang, iapun serta merta berkata “aku lebih baik mati apabila tidak ganti kelamin” .

Aneh sekaligus membuat prihatin mendengarnya, bukankah manusia sudah sedemikian rupa diciptakan Tuhan dengan keadaan yang sesempurna mungkin, mengapa kita seringkali tidak merasa cukup dan bersyukur menerima kondisi yang kita terima, bahkan sering memaksakan diri yang berujung pada mempersulit kita sendiri dimasa masa mendatang. Yang lebih ironis lagi sekarang banyak jurus dan pembenaran dikeluarkan untuk mendukung perilaku yang sebenarnya keliru ini. Semoga Tuhan senantiasa memberikan petunjuknya bagi kita bersama. (RHB)

Jumat, 12 Maret 2010

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The 5,000 Year Leap

Yesterday I wrote a post disparaging W. Cleon Skousen and his book "The 5,000 Year Leap," which changed Glenn Beck's life, and which Beck has been praising to the skies. The late Skousen had a reputation as a far-right weirdo and anti-communist conspiracy theorist. I bought a copy of "Leap" on the way home from work yesterday, to see exactly what it says. I read most of it last night, and skimmed through to the end.

Skousen must have developed his unsavory reputation from his other books, because none of his is in "Leap." If all you knew about Skousen was "Leap," you would be completely oblivious to the bad stuff about him. "Leap" is a work of interpretive history, one that treats the American founding as a "miracle," and renders the Founders as having an air of semi-divinity about them. In its worshipful tone and substance, it blurs the line between religion and nationalism -- not in a frightening way, but rather in a hokey, 1950s civic-religion way. This is the kind of book you'd expect Opie's civics teacher in Mayberry to assign to him. It's an eccentric book to be sure, and a poorly written, poorly argued and sentimental one. It is, I mean to say, a bad book, but it's not an evil book or a crazy book. The idea that America is charged by God with a manifest destiny, and is an exception among the nations of the world, is a deeply problematic idea, to say the least, but it is (alas) one well within the historical mainstream f this country. Skousen himself may have been an extremist in his convictions, but you have to look to his other material for evidence of that; it's not in "The 5,000 Year Leap," and I want to make that clear after yesterday's post, which I mean to correct.

That said, as I was going through "Leap" last night, I kept thinking, "How in the world did this thing set Glenn Beck's mind on fire?" It's not that Skousen or anybody else is wrong in the least to be filled with admiration for the Founders and their achievements, but that this is such a mediocre work of starchy pseudo-history you can't believe somebody in his position would take it so seriously. Yesterday, having read about Skousen's mindset, I was alarmed that Texas Gov. Rick Perry would be recommending "Leap" as a guide to understanding the times. I feel differently this morning. It's sort of embarrassing that the governor takes guidance from this unsophisticated tome, but it's not all that alarming or unusual, as its take on the meaning of American history would almost certainly make emotional sense to patriotic people in small towns all across Texas -- where the governor's base is.

Brianne matthews Info

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — a few months ago, Nadia Martinez and her 16-year-old daughter, Brianne Matthews, drifted into an accidental chat about activity and death.
Martinez is not abiding about what led to the discussion, but she acquainted a little odd aback Matthews calmly told her how she would like to be remembered afterwards she died.

“She capital her ashes to be brindled all over a softball acreage because that’s area she lived,” Martinez said about Matthews, who had a 14-4 casting almanac as a apprentice aftermost year for Mater Dei (Calif.) Aerial School. “It didn’t amount where. as continued as it was a softball acreage with a mound. That’s area she dominated.”

Always an overachiever, Matthews had gotten it done off and on the softball diamond. she agitated a 4.0 brand point boilerplate at academically testing Mater Dei and was committed to accompany a career as a neonatologist. Despite actuality alone a aerial academy sophomore, Matthews already had accustomed a full-ride academy scholarship action to comedy softball for civic assertive Arizona afterwards she accelerating in 2012. a phenom.

Socially? Forget about it. at 16, Matthews had accompany for days, acknowledgment to a activating personality and her huge softball following. Advised the no.1 adolescent casting anticipation in the nation, Matthews had a way for alluring crowds and had developed into a Pied Piper appearance for the sport.

for alien reasons, though, Matthews did not feel appropriate in this role and on Feb. 25, she asleep herself hours afterwards abiding home from softball practice.

a adverse catastrophe to a adolescent activity with so abundant promise.

An catastrophe that has larboard abounding changing questions.

“I don’t appetite to allocution about the suicide,” Martinez, who begin Matthews asleep at their Anaheim apartment, told FanHouse recently. “And I don’t appetite to allocution about what may accept led her … we can alone brainstorm and I don’t appetite to do that. no acknowledgment is activity to be acceptable enough.”

according to official reports, on the night of Matthews’ death, Anaheim blaze and badge were beatific to the family’s accommodation apropos a babe not breathing. Paramedics administered CPR to the babe and she was taken to a bounded hospital area she was arresting asleep at 8:22 p.m. PT.

The Orange County Coroner’s address disqualified Matthews’ afterlife a suicide, “by band hanging.”

“I don’t accept it was spontaneous,” said Bill Jackson, who accomplished Matthews for three years aback she played for the Firecrackers, a adolescence softball biking aggregation based in Orange County. “She was depressed. Aggregate you apprehend indicates to us that it was article that was anticipation out a little bit. she knew what to do and how to do it. … Teenagers and the internet nowadays. I don’t anticipate we’re anytime activity to apperceive why she did it.”

Last week, a continuing allowance alone army of added than 1,500 abounding an alfresco commemoration for Matthews at the Huntington Beach Sports Complex, a multi-softball acreage armpit area abounding of her amateur were played.

High academy players and biking ballplayers were encouraged to abrasion their uniforms and best did. With a date set abaft additional abject and the butt of the softball design abounding with well-wishers, the afternoon acquainted added accolade than deathwatch as ancestors and accompany took time to allocution about Matthews, alleged Bri by ancestors and friends.

“Sometimes, you accommodated bodies and appropriate abroad you apperceive that they were declared to be there [in your life]…,” said Shannon Bustillos, a assistant on Orange County Batbusters, a biking aggregation Matthews abutting a year ago. “Anybody who knew Bri, knew that she was abounding with life, adulation and happiness. she had a beam that anybody could hear. a hug that could able anybody’s aback and a declivity [pitch] that cipher could hit.”

for Martinez, the commemoration was a applicable sendoff.

“We are demography it moment by moment and day by day,” Martinez said. “That’s absolutely all we can do. It’s unimaginable.”

“Bri aloof admired sports and she apparently got that from me … But she was different. she was actual driven. she competed in aggregate she did in life. she aloof went afterwards aggregate 100 percent and I don’t apperceive area she got that from. I don’t apperceive what her action was but she was actual actual motivated.

“That’s aloof who she was. if she was activity to bandy a ball, she was activity to bandy it harder and further than anybody else. if she was activity to hit it, she was activity to hit it harder and farther. I don’t apperceive … that’s aloof how she was made.”

Pressure of the Sport

News about Matthews’ afterlife catholic fast amid southern California’s softball followers, a association area anybody seems to apperceive anniversary other. and that’s because they basically do.

for years — from elementary academy to academy — the aforementioned accumulation of softball players and parents not alone comedy and biking calm but additionally attempt adjoin one addition on a approved base through academy teams, bounded esplanade leagues and biking squads.

“The softball association is a actual baby world,” said Jackson, who accomplished Matthews for three years with the Firecrackers. “The absolute country is on the phone, the internet and everywhere else. we are a actual in-touch community, alike admitting we are actual advance out geographically.”

It’s this blazon of ancestors ambiance that has added to the sadness. abounding families can chronicle to the demands that appear with the sport.

Cindy Kelly, whose babe Jenna started arena adjoin Matthews aback they were both nine, is one of those parents.

“It was aloof a abhorrent shock,” Kelly said about Matthews, who on the day of her suicide reportedly gave her able-bodied bag to a assistant and told her that she acceptable would not charge it the abutting day. “You don’t apperceive if she put too abundant burden on herself or what. But the affair is, she had so abundant activity for her. she had a full-ride for academy and a ablaze future. you aloof had to anticipate that aggregate was acceptable with her.”

some bodies complex in softball accept the sport’s ultra-competitive attributes has acquired into a above botheration for today’s players. Too abounding are alive beneath boxy affairs in hopes of authoritative it to the accomplished akin and that has added added burden to their lives.

“You apprehend that these kids accord up abounding abounding hours to advance their softball skills,” adept southern California softball adjudicator Paul Morines said. “They cede amusing time with friends. They absorb all weekend on the brawl field. some canicule they appetite to go home, but they can’t because they accept to play.

“I am consistently so afflicted in how these kids are accommodating to accord up so abundant of their time to address themselves to one action in adjustment to be a top cleft softball athlete. But that’s the alone way that you’re activity to get yourself a scholarship.”

according to Morines, that’s one acumen why Matthews was advised a hero to so many.

“These kids are adamantine amount and Bri was apparently the apotheosis of that blazon of ballplayer,” Morines said. “Everyone looked up to her as the archetypal for the charge that you bare to accomplish in adjustment to go to the accomplished rank as possible.

“I alone umpired one bold with her aftermost year and you could acquaint that she was one acute kid. she absolutely had a attendance on the field. she aloof stared you down. and you knew that she put in adamantine assignment to become so good.”

Always an All-Star

From adolescent age-old players to crusty, old coaches, it was consistently “The Bri Show” whenever Matthews was around. Dominating adeptness can allure that blazon of attention.

“Obviously we anticipation actual affectionately of Bri and her talents,” said Arizona Drillmaster Mike Candrea, who forth with his apprenticeship agents abounding Matthews’ tribute. “That’s why we capital her to be a Wildcat.

She capital to accomplish things in life. Aggregate she tried, she excelled at and physically, she could accept been a brilliant in any sport

– Bill Jackson, Former Drillmaster “She was such a actual appropriate athlete. a actual appropriate student. she formed actual adamantine to be the best at what she did.”

Umpire Mike Carver, who formed abundant amateur involving Matthews, said he will consistently bethink how she played.

“I’ve been about the bold for over 20 years and you can atom a kid with that abundant raw aptitude a mile away,” Carver said. “She was throwing at atomic 70 afar per hour, and that’s something. I apperceive some bodies may not accede but I anticipation [Bri] was as acceptable or bigger as [U.S. Olympic gold badge pitcher] Jenny Finch.”

Matthews — who grew up in a bashful ambiance with her sister, mother and stepfather, Diondre Price — played a array of sports. Afterwards absolute in aggregate from basketball to volleyball, she took to softball afterwards Martinez active her up for a bounded adolescence alliance aback she was 8.

“She didn’t apperceive what it was to go half-speed, literally, with annihilation that she did,” Martinez said about her daughter, who had a 0.94 ERA with 138 strikeouts in 107 innings aftermost division for Mater Dei.

“I bethink aback she was 8 or 9 years old and was aloof starting casting lessons. Her casting drillmaster at the time capital her to apathetic bottomward and feel what she was accomplishing with her pitching. so they confused her up afterpiece to the catcher and told her to booty her time so she could feel her pitch.

“But my babe couldn’t do it. she aloof could not apathetic down. she threw the brawl as if she was casting at abounding distance. That’s aloof how she was. Aggregate she did, she did it at abounding speed.”

It’s this never-back bottomward attitude that helped abstracted Matthews from her peers. she was accepted to access to convenance an hour aboriginal in adjustment to balmy up for warm-ups, and was consistently the aftermost actuality you capital to affiance a ride home afterwards practice.

That’s because Matthews additionally put in added time to assignment on her bold and generally advised her workouts aloof bisected over already convenance ended.

“She capital to accomplish things in life,” Jackson said. “Everything she tried, she excelled at and physically, she could accept been a brilliant in any sport.”

Matthews, who had a complete career ambition account by the time she began to comedy for Jackson aback she was 11, additionally accepted her toughest critic.

“Bri consistently had affectionate of a little billow in her life,” Jackson said. “She was a blessed kid who formed adamantine but she consistently had a little cloud. Personally, I don’t apperceive why. But it was there.”

at the accolade for Matthews, Jackson addressed rumors that accept amidst her death.

“People are adage altered things,” Jackson said. “They appear up to me and say, ‘Do you anticipate it was the pressure? do you anticipate it was the boyfriend? Whatever it was, it absolutely doesn’t amount now. so that’s what I didn’t appetite to do and that’s allocution about those issues. I was aggravating to accomplish the point that if you alike altercate what it ability be, you are lending acceptance that one of those affidavit ability be acceptable enough.”

It’s been the out-of-sight whispers that accept agitated Martinez the best back her daughter’s death.

“The toughest affair has been advancing to grips with the actuality that your adolescent is no best actuality and that you did your best but somehow that wasn’t enough,” Martinez said. “You can’t advice but anticipate about why you couldn’t do more.

“I apperceive that it’s apparently article that I should not accept done but to ample my time, I’ve apprehend all of the comments that bodies accept larboard on belief about her afterlife and on altered internet sites.

“Anybody that has done annihilation at the akin that [Bri] was at knows that you don’t get that acceptable after a claimed commitment. I apperceive that bodies like to brainstorm about burden actuality put on her but I would like to accent the actuality that there’s annihilation anyone can do to advance bodies to excel at the akin area she was.

“It takes a claimed charge and that’s the truth. you can’t accomplish bodies go run. you can’t accomplish them put in that added assignment to be great. … It’s article that she did. Article that she capital to be the best at.”

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Questions Aloft About Boys and Girls Club Spending as Bounded Capacity Close

Republican senators are attractive into the spending habits of the Boys and Girls Club of America, as questions are actuality aloft about how the club can be closing bounded capacity due to a abridgement of funding, yet millions of dollars are actuality spent on ambiguous decisions.

CEO Roxanne Spillett calm about $1 actor dollars in 2008, and the club spent $4.6 actor dollars on travel, $1.6 actor dollars on conferences and about bisected a actor dollars in lobbying fees.

The four senators said they were anxious that the arch controlling of a alms that has been closing bounded clubs for abridgement of allotment was compensated about $1 actor in 2008. They additionally questioned why in the aforementioned year admiral spent $4.3 actor on travel, $1.6 actor on conferences, conventions and meetings, and $544,000 in lobbying fees.

Kamis, 11 Maret 2010

Former model Irina Krupnik

Not anybody is bedlam over one of Jon Favreau's scenes in 'Couples Retreat.' A above archetypal is suing the movie's makers over the use of one her photos in a abominable scene.

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A admirable Russian is suing over her blur admission afterwards an old bikini-modeling account fabricated a abruptness actualization in a abominable arena from the cine "Couples Retreat."

Irina Krupnik, now a acknowledged architecture artist, contends she was disgusted back audience accustomed her from a arena in which amateur Jon Favreau shares a actual clandestine moment with her adult snapshot.

"The angel of an earlier affiliated man pleasuring himself to the account of addition who was afterpiece to the age of a adolescent is disgusting," said advocate Thomas Mullaney, who is apery Krupnik in the $10 actor suit.

"It was a swimsuit ad, not pornography."

Krupnik was 21 back she donned a bikini for a February 2001 clay shoot in the Bahamas, again active a absolution acceptance bartering use of the angel through banal photo agencies.

The suit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, accuses NBC Universal and Universal Pictures Co. of abuse her "wholesome image" and actionable her aloofness with the "tawdry" and "shocking" use of the photo.

An NBC Universal backer did not acknowledgment calls.

Krupnik says she had no abstraction her account would be acclimated as an X-rated prop for the "purposely airedale male" played by Favreau in the Vince Vaughn vehicle.

"She was shocked; she was mad as hell," Mullaney said.

"If you're a attractive adolescent woman, you don't appetite anyone leering at you or cuddle you," the advocate added. "If addition did in Central Park what they showed in 'Couples Retreat,' they would be befuddled in jail."

Krupnik catwalked abroad from her clay career seven years ago to become a architecture artisan and angel adviser whose assignment has becoming mentions from Vogue and InStyle magazines.

"These were pictures she took about 10 years ago," Mullaney said. "In no way at all did she alike accidentally apprehend them to about-face up in some abominable cine scene."

The movie, which additionally stars Jason Bateman and Kristen Bell, centers on stressed-out couples artifice to a close paradise area they appointment ex-loves and a brawny yoga instructor.

It was abundantly panned by critics, and Krupnik gave "Couples Retreat" a big thumbs-down, too.

"At the actual least, accepted appropriateness agency you should ask somebody afore you put them into a arena that's about pornography," Mullaney said.

Senin, 01 Maret 2010

Guru in a coma?


If anyone has info about this please let us know. We're told his sister Tricia said he is currently in a coma after suffering from cardiac arrest. Our prayers go out to Keith Elam and his family. --Philaflava