Monday, April 26, 2010

Cowboys in Paradise

Cowboys in Paradise - Kalangan pariwisata Bali tidak terlalu khawatir dengan dampak beredarnya clip video "Cowboys in Paradise" yang menampilkan sejumlah gigolo di Kuta. "Sebaiknya jangan direaksi berlebihan, nanti malah makin heboh saja," kata Ketua Bali Tourism Board Ngurah Wijaya, Senin (26/4).

Cowboys - Wijaya menganggap, Youtube adalah sebuah fasilitas jejaring sosial yang saat ini sedang populer. Tetapi film-film yang ditampilkan di situ bukanlah film yang dibuat dengan serius sehingga memiliki pengaruh yang luas. Biasanya, kata dia, film seperti itu hanya akan populer dalam sesaat.

Wijaya sendiri mengakui adanya fenomen gigolo di pantai Kuta tetapi jumlahnya tidak seberapa. Sebagian besar turis tetap datang ke Bali karena keindahan pantai dan adat istiadatnya. "Jadi, samasekali bukan karena daya tarik masalah seks. Kalau yang seperti itu yang dipromosikan pasti akan kami tentang," ujarnya.

Tokoh masyarakat Kuta, Made Piping menyatakan hal yang sama. Menurutnya fenomena gigolo di Kuta hanyalah hal yang alamiah ketika tamu asing datang ke Bali dan tertarik dengan pemuda yang ada di pantai. "Tapi ini sama sekali bukan industri seks yang diorganisir secara rapi," kata tokoh surfing di Kuta ini.

Piping justru mempertanyakan, mengapa tidak ada perhatian sama-sekali dari pemerintah terhadap keberadaan anak-anak pantai yang mempopulerkan Bali dengan menyewakan papan dan mengajarkan surfing kepada para wisatawan. Mereka itu, kata dia, sejatinya adalah promotor sejati bagi pantai Kuta karena membuat turis benar-benar jatuh cinta kepada Bali. "Orang yang menjadi gigolo pun sedikit sekali," kata Pimpinan Umum majalah Surfing Magic Wave itu.

Selain itu, kata dia, pemerintah tidak pernah benar-benar berupaya mempromosikan Kuta sebagai pantai tujuan surfing di dunia.

Film dokumenter "Cowboys In Paradise" yang menggambarkan kehidupan gigolo di pantai Kuta Bali bertengger di situs Youtube. Film ini dibuka dengan adegan seorang pria lokal yang mengaku seorang gigolo. Pria berambut panjang dan berkulit gelap itu tengah berseliwear di pantai dan mendekati para turis asing wanita. Ia membuka percakapan santai dan bersahabat. Lalu, sang gigolo pun menawarkan diri untuk menemani mereka berlibur, sekaligus menjadi pemandu.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Blackberry Gemini

Blackberry Gemini 9300 - With WES 2010 just around the corner, you can bet RIM are going to make some announcements about App World and the number of applications currently in their portfolio. Mainstream media are constantly quoting app numbers, and comparing the major smartphone platforms purely based on these numbers, without any real understanding of the value that the smartphone user is getting from these apps.

Harga Blackberry Gemini - Personally, I think smartphone app value comes from its ability to solve a problem. Can I do something faster or more efficiently with the app? Great, then that app provides real value. Am I saving money with this app? Excellent, sign me up. Everything else, be it games, themes or entertainment, is important to a good app economy, but I’d like to make the argument that it’s not where the real value is in smatphones.

Lets take a look at the top paid apps in Android, BlackBerry and iPhone, to get an idea of the tangible value that these smartphones are providing their uers. By taking the top paid apps, we get an idea for where the users are spending their money, and what they’re getting out of it. I’ve only listed the top 10, but I’ve linked to where the rest of the apps can be found, and I’m trying to be as general as possible.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Mobile Phone

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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Medicine

Obat Keputihan - Researchers from Brown University, in Rhode Island, used the machine to provide three months of training. The New England Journal of Medicine reported that many patients had improved quality of life.

Obat - UK stroke experts said the advance was "exciting" but added that robots were still at early stages of development. This is giving stroke survivors new hope
Dr Albert Lo, Brown University

Strokes can leave people with long-lasting disability, which can include limited movement and weakness in upper limbs.

Intensive therapy, starting as soon as possible after the stroke, is the recommended way to maximise the amount of movement recovered.

However, providing the physiotherapist needed for at least a hour per patient per day places large demands on the NHS.

One possible solution is to use machines which help patients reproduce the necessary movements.

The Brown University trial tested a device called the MIT-Manus, specifically designed to help exercise the upper limbs.

The patient sits at a table with their upper arm in the device, and is then instructed to perform tasks with the arm. The robot senses their movement and helps if required.

The researchers described the robots as "power-steering" for the arms.

The study involved 127 patients who, on average, had suffered a stroke five years earlier.

They were split into three groups - one received "robot" therapy over a three month period, the next received the equivalent intensive therapy - carried out by a physiotherapist - while the third received "normal" healthcare, with no intensive treatment.

Quality of life

Both the "robot" group and the other intensive group had significantly improved upper-arm function - measured by how much better they could carry out everyday tasks such as using a knife and fork, opening jars or tying shoelaces.

The researchers involved have said they are delighted with the improvements - particularly given the years between stroke and treatment in the patients used in the research.

Dr Albert Lo, who led the study said: "We've shown that with the right therapy [patients] can see improvements in movement, everyday function and quality of life - this is giving stroke survivors new hope."

Dr Diane Playford, from the Institute of Neurology in London, is part of a team trying to develop similar robotic devices in the UK.

She is hopeful that, at some point, a machine compact enough to be used in the patient's home will be developed.

"The fact that these patients have improved function is exciting.

"We would normally think that patients who began therapy at an earlier stage could do even better."

However, she said that robots were still at an "early development" stage, and some years from full-scale use in the NHS.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Poetry Week

Contoh Pidato - The poem’s tone is that of a diary’s entries. There is no obvious pretension toward “poem”, no consciously literary phrasing. (Except perhaps the imbedded haiku moment of: “Clouds low / over Mt Coot-tha, an ibis / floating through rain”)

It sounds easy, seems deceptively simple, as the lines stagger and chat by, recording the weather, seemingly random personal matters, reading notes.

This is a one week poem: seven sections, Thursday through Wednesday. A narrative is haltingly happening: the plant on the balcony thrives despite its grey-thumbed owners; “huts on low ground” are cleared for “a new suburb”; and a struggle with the wayward self is underway too (“try to read poems / sleep instead”).

The speaker is ruminative, distracted, almost lazy — but also driven, lashing himself forward (“Concentrate!”). Opinionated despite humility, this poet is a student, but also a teacher. He searches for clues, but knows a “stupid” poet when he sees one.

Clues to what? The quandary is how to be a conscious or conscientious citizen.

How does one sustain a dialogue at as many valances as possible; in the daily, local, private and political body; but also in the public/private poem. This sequence may sound like journal entry, but it is also political, and philosophical.

We are meant to miss most of this; none of the poem’s considerable form or wisdom is tagged. Its casual nature and humour sweep us along.

Yet we are not in a barrel going over the “Prosaic falls”. These accomplished quotidian arabesques are jazz. There is shape here and a thesis on two levels: poetics and citizenry. Plus the two are linked.

Duggan knows “We all want the poem to escape / from our lives . . . or at least / for our lives to escape from the poem”. Similarly (later), are citizens of conscience prisoners in their own homes? Where (earlier) “property / is public only below the tidal mark”? Of sleep?

How does such a friendly poem end up disgusted at its end? We have been masterfully brought to knee depth in blue mud.

The last image is of books warping in the damp, turning yellow, their news dated so fast. Are our tongues mud already?

While seeming to just lounge about, take notes, fix the car, go to work (oh, here’s a letter from August — is that Kleinzohler?) — this poem, this poet, is doing the hard work of not simplifying or romanticizing muddle while continuing to celebrate & explore.

The Passenger, the book this poem is from, won for Duggan in Australia the 2007 Queensland Premier’s Literary Award. It is the best book of poetry I read last year. Interested readers might check out the poet’s blog called Graveney Marsh.

Laurie Duggan has renewed my hope that the lyric focus can be used to invite global-scoped essay-poems.

Phil Hall’s new book of poems, The Little Seamstress, is available this month from Pedlar Press.

Saturday, April 10, 2010

BlackBerry Bold 9700

Harga Blackberry - RIM BlackBerry Curve 8530 (RIM Aries)
Release Date: November, 2009
60x109x13.9mm, 105g, RIM BlackBerry OS 5.0 ( 5.0.0.337), 32bit Qualcomm MSM7627, 128MiB RAM, 256MiB ROM, 2.5" 320x240 color transmissive TFT LCD, 3.5mm audio jack, CDMA800, CDMA1900, cdmaOne, CDMA2000 1xRTT, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rel. 0, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev A, microSD, microSDHC, TransFlash, micro-USB port, Bluetooth, WLAN, Built-in QWERTY-type keyb., 1.9MP cam., 1150mAh removable battery.

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Christina Sauer

Contoh Pidato - Christina Sauer loves acting and performing, but when she heard about the American Legion Kentucky State Oratorical Contest, she wasn't interested. “I enjoy being up in front of people” when playing a role because she's someone else.

Naskah Pidato “I'm not used to being up in front of an audience being me,” said the 18-year-old Presentation Academy senior.

But Christina changed her mind and decided to enter the contest, both last year and this year, and “fell in love” with public speaking.

She won the state contest in February for the second consecutive year. She will advance to the national competition to be held in Indianapolis April 9-11.

Christina lives in Corydon, Ind., with her parents, Joseph and Cynthia Sauer, and her younger sisters Sarah and Rebecca.

When Christina was a junior, her U.S. history teacher, Deborah Hall, told her about the contest. “I looked at the Web site and saw you had to speak eight to 10 minutes about the Constitution with no notes,” she remembered, and quickly decided not to enter.

But over Christmas break, she began reading “Founding Sisters of the 19th Amendment,” a required book for her history class. “I spent three days reading that book; it was fantastic,” Christina said.

She liked the book because it turned facts into story. Also, she was inspired by Susan B. Anthony, herself an orator, and decided to give the speech contest a try.

Christina said she went through 10 drafts of her speech. Each time it sounded like a “boring history lecture.” So she returned to her original thoughts on the subject, the memory of enjoying Disney's “Mary Poppins.” She remembered the mother in the story “marching around wearing a banner” and singing about the suffragette cause.

“The wonderful world Disney created was far from reality,” she said. “What the suffragettes did was an incredible feat.” She said she admires those women for “taking responsibility for democracy, responding to a need and a call for action.”

Christina said she was surprised to learn of “the cruelty — what those women endured to get their basic rights.”

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Pedagang Tradisional ‎

Zodiak - Manajemen Carrefour membantah merugikan pedagang tradisional. Menurut mereka, pangsa pasar modern, termasuk Carrefour, dengan pasar tradisional berbeda. "Pasar modern untuk belanja bulanan sedangkan belanja harian di pasar tradisional," kata Juru Bicara Carrefour Indonesia Hendri Satrio di Carrefour Lebak Bulus, tadi.

Primbon - Oleh karena itu, kata Hendri, pesaing Carrefour bukan pasar tradisional, tapi sesama pasar modern. Ia mencontohkan, di Bandung ada hipermarketnya yang ditutup karena kalah bersaing dengan pasar modern. Ia juga membantah tudingan bahwa Alfa Retailindo masuk ke pelosok kampung sehingga merugikan pedagang lokal. "Yang kami akuisisi adalah Alfa Ritelindo, Gudang Rabat, kalau Alfamart itu bukan milik Carrefour," katanya.

Puluhan massa mengatasnamakan Forum Pedang Tradisional (Forpeta) didampingi oleh Front Mahasiswa melakukan aksi di depan pintu masuk Carrefour Lebak Bulus. Mereka menolak putusan Pengadilan Negeri Jakarta Selatan yang menyatakan bahwa Carrefour tidak melakukan monopoli perdagangan.

Mereka menuding Carrefour memonopoli dan merugikan pedagang tradisional. Carrefour juga dianggap melanggar aturan zonasi, yang mewajibkan pasar modern memiliki jarak tertentu dengan pasar tradisional. "Di Depok, Carrefour membelakangi pasar tradisional Kemiri Muka, pedagang kecil ikut tergencet," kata juru bicara aksi Gatot Ahmad.

Hendri membantah tudingan Carrefour melanggar aturan zonasi. Carrefour, kata dia, selalu mengikuti aturan daerah. Di Jakarta, misalnya, Carrefour sudah berjarak 2-2,5 kilometer dari pasar tradisional yang dinaungi oleh PD Pasar Jaya. "Soal di Depok mungkin perlu dilihat peraturan daerahnya seperti apa."

Carrefour adalah salah satu pasar modern terbesar saat ini. Perusahaan itu memiliki 79 toko yang tersebar di 23 kota seluruh Indonesia dengan jumlah karyawan tidak kurang dari 20 ribu orang. Di Jabodetabek terdapat 42 toko, 26 diantaranya berada di Jakarta.