If you’re an I&O professional, what comes to mind when you say “end user”? If you’re like most of us, your mind has a conjured-up impression of a cosmically clueless person who actually gave you a hard time once, and the picture is now your mind’s own avatar for everyone you support. It’s not usually a positive image, is it? I used to picture a middle-aged, BMW-driving executive with his hair parted on one side wearing an LL Bean sweater, probably an Ivy-league grad, who couldn’t be bothered to actually take responsibility for his own personal computing destiny…he always had servants to take care of trivialities…and hence he was ruining my day with his incompetence. Let’s call him Ascot Rothschild III.

An image like that is a powerful thing, and the painful memory of this individual’s willful, arrogant ignorance then pervades our future thinking about what we’re up against when we set IT policy like BYOC. Ascot becomes the poster child – in our minds anyway – for every garden-variety corporate doofus that we’ll have to deal with if we give people any more rope than we already do. They also give us plenty of reasons to take more rope away. In my case, I used to sit on a helpdesk for Remedy customers, and my team had a collection of “special” customers we wondered how they managed to get dressed and find their car keys in the morning. As I later designed Remedy and Peregrine applications, I did so with these “edge cases” in mind.

In other words, we tend to calibrate our thinking and design infrastructures for the worst case scenarios. We gear our decisions and prioritize our spending toward those who are least likely to truly benefit from the investment, in the hope that they won’t run into trouble and bother us. It’s a peculiar thing really, because it causes us to spend most of our time thinking about problem avoidance and not enough on opportunity creation. Worse…our understanding of these people and their true needs is usually dead wrong.

The interactions with the people we support paint a skewed picture. We hear from people when things aren’t going well, and they’re probably at their worst. We don’t get to see the real Ascot Rothschild III, father of 2 beautiful kids, and loving husband who paid his own way through college, and discovered oil reserves for your company last year worth $500M. These details are lost, along with our willingness to think about what he needs to find the next $500M opportunity. It may be better to dispense with the term “end user” altogether and use the term “internal customer” instead.

So I would like to lay down a challenge to you: As you execute your plans for your BYOC and client virtualization initiatives in 2012, and make critical decisions, such as whether to lock down desktops or not – which Ascot Rothschild III do you really know? Which potential are you designing your infrastructure for: the potential for problems or the potential for innovation and out-sized business results? Can you achieve both? I’d love to hear from those of you who have.

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After nearly 20 years on the road, for them, punk rock is still about saying no and being true to themselves.

Have you ever dug the life of Indonesia’s biggest punk rock outfit? What is it like on a daily basis? Are they still true to what they believe in? Do they really have a good understanding about what punk rock is?

Ask whatever you want, at the end of the day you will still get a positive image of Superman is Dead.

This 100 percent Bali-resident band have been around since the 1990s with their debut album Case 15, a milestone in our local punk rock scene’s history, recorded back in 1997. The members are still the same old dudes who swung around the happy-go-lucky life back in the day — charismatic drummer JRX, flamboyant bassist EkaRock and super good frontman Bobby Kool.

Let us take you back to 2001, 11 years ago. Sometime that year, all of a sudden, Sony Music Indonesia announced they were going to release their first punk rock album produced by a local act.

Jan D. Djuhana — the legendary Sony Music Indonesia icon who discovered Dewa 19, Padi, Glenn Fredly and many other top-notch artists here in Indonesia — thought that this band had the X factor that would shake up the industry.

It was controversial — industry insiders rolled their eyes, thinking that Sony Music Indonesia was making a big mistake by investing money in a punk rock band, while the punk rock scene criticized Superman is Dead for selling out, signing a deal with the capitalist music industry for six albums. But both parties went ahead.

Over the years, this collaboration has managed to silence their critics and provided positive evidence to those who believe that change could be made possible through punk rock.

Look at them now — five albums, hundreds of gigs, thousands of good times along the road and, this is the most important thing, millions of fans from cities all across Indonesia and a significant amount of international acclaim that has kept their connection with the world’s punk rock scene alive.

“The relationship level is still at the green stage,” chuckles EkaRock. “If we meet, Pak Jan still takes us out for a meal. He knows us well, we still need his love,” adds JRX, also in the same humorous tone.

Well, don’t believe it all until you see how big they are on the Internet. Google anything about them and you will be overwhelmed by the facts you will find.

“We’re still the old Superman is Dead, still playing punk rock. Only our ages have moved forward,” says Bobby Kool. “And we now have a bigger responsibility,” continues EkaRock. The band carries a heavy mission to make the world a better place.

 “We want to spread positivity and bring changes, well, big or small we all need to do that. That’s always the motivation behind Superman is Dead,” tells EkaRock.

 “In every smart band’s dream there is always a smart gang of fans. We want to have that and we want them to realize they’re smart. That’s what we want to deliver through our music,” JRX adds.

So far, Superman is Dead has been a massive agent of change where they have made small-but-beautiful gestures on a daily basis. For example, in almost every city they visit, they encourage people to have an afternoon stroll with them to clean the environment by picking up any trash they see.

Their contribution to the community can be considered real. What they stand for is a true representation of how people are willing to opt for a better life under the big roof called punk rock.

Of course, they have been supported by their legions of fanatic fans that have fallen in love with the free spirit the band have been expressing for years. They are a good example of how warm the relationship between a punk rock act and their followers can be.

“We’re trying hard not to project ourselves as a perfect idol figure for those kids; we just show them what we are. You can have so many followers if you’re natural and honest with people,” says full-of-wisdom-punk rocker JRX.

At the moment, their flags are flying high, literally.

“My point of view now has changed. I used to have a short term point of view, two or three years only. Now I have a bigger picture, not focusing on minor details. Clarity,” JRX says.

Looking back, they admit that what they have now on their hands was not even in their minds in day one.

“I never thought of this. I was so busy thinking about the good things in life; how to have wild nights out and a never ending alcohol adventure,” jokes JRX.

As would be expected of happy-go-lucky young punk rockers, life in the early stages of their career was always about having some fun and going wild 24/7. The old saying “everything big starts small” is really appropriate in their case. Don’t think big at the very start.

Small gigs were the best while big stadium or arena gigs were not even on their horizon back then. Well, nowadays, small gigs are still on their agenda but it needs to be discreetly done.

“Police will monitor your behavior while you’re doing big stadium gigs, while a sweet girl will wait for you in the corner in a small gig,” again, jokes JRX. “Raw and devilish energy plus the audience’s sweat are the basic ingredients of chaos.”

“We love the wild energy which actually is the fuel that drives our engine. We want to explode it all without a single fake emotion. That’s how a small gig feels to us,” adds EkaRock.

From any of the anecdotes you read, it’s easy to sense how they have kept their feet on the ground, living their enjoyable life to the fullest. The band still call Bali home despite the major effort to go on tour or promote their work.

“We want to say go on forever by writing as many songs as we can, we want to see places we’ve never been to before and do many things in the future,” says Bobby Kool.

The band is now promoting their newly released vinyl record consisting of eight of their best tracks. The vinyl is the first product from Sony Music Indonesia in this old fashioned but sexy format. The band managed to push yet another boundary by getting their label to fulfill their dream of having a release in vinyl format.

“You cannot call yourself a musician if you don’t have vinyl in your catalogue. We’re fortunate that at this time our label is on crazy mode,” says JRX. This, of course, is a joke, maybe.

Keep watching, because Superman is Dead will probably make another big break while surfing the mainstream industry with their bold punk rock attitude.

*) More info about Superman is Dead can be found at supermanisdead.net.

— Photos Courtesy of Superman is Dead

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Evy Maya Stefany, 21, is waiting for news of her brother, Heru Fendi Angga Akhmadi, 22, who went missing along with another teacher, Rizki Susdiasto, 25, during a school holiday at Tanjung Mas Beach in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, last Wednesday.

“Isn’t there anything else anyone can do to find my brother?” Evy said on Tuesday.

Heru, Rizki and a student named Mundus Mutaebenu, 17, were reportedly carried away by currents while swimming. Mundus’ body was found by a fisherman on Monday, 30 kilometers away from the beach.

Reports said that on the day of the incident, Heru, Rizki and 20 students from state senior high school SMAN 1 in Amfoang Barat Daya were enjoying their Easter holidays. Heru went to cool himself off in the water after playing soccer and was swept away.

Hearing Heru’s cry for help, Mundus and Rizki quickly went to rescue him, but were carried away as well.

The Kupang administration is ending its search today, seven days after the incident, even though Heru and Rizki are still missing,

“The search and rescue team has had difficulties with the bad weather, high waves and strong tides,” Wayan Sukrawarpala from the Ganesha Education University in Singaraja, Bali, told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.

Wayan is Ganesha’s coordinator for the Sarjana Mendidik (Graduates Teaching) program, of which Heru and Rizki were members.

The program was launched by the Education Ministry in 2011 to give an opportunity to people with Bachelor degrees in education to teach in remote and underdeveloped regions for one year.

Heru, along with 67 other teachers, were sent by Ganesha Education University to Kupang, while Rizki was sent by the Jakarta State University to the same regency with 123 other teachers.

So far, the ministry has assigned 2,479 Bachelor-degree holders to 21 regencies and cities throughout Indonesia, including Kupang, Raja Ampat in West Papua and Aceh Besar in Aceh.

The ministry’s spokesman, Sukemi, said that before leaving for their assignments, the teachers underwent training so that they would be able to adapt to the local way of life.

“We invited locals to share their knowledge. We also organized two weeks’ physical training for the teachers. They did not go unprepared,” Sukemi added.

According to Heru’s sister, Evy, her parents were reluctant to let her only sibling join the program.

“My parents wanted him to stay at home, mostly because at that time, my father had just undergone cancer treatment. He suffers from pancreatic cancer,” she told the Post via telephone from her home in Jembrana, Bali.

However, seeing how excited Heru was after being admitted to the program, their parents finally gave him their blessing. “My brother has always been passionate about teaching,” she added.

Heru left for Kupang on Jan. 4.

Evy said that her brother was ecstatic when he arrived in Amfoang Barat Daya the area to which he was assigned. She added that he loved it there and continuously sent pictures to his family.

They received news about his disappearance from a friend of his last Thursday. His mother didn’t believe it at first and tried to call him on his cell phone but a Kupang Police officer answered the call.

Evy told the Post that her family had been devastated by the news. Her mother is so incapacitated by grief that she cannot leave her bed.

Evy turned down Ganesha Education University’s offer to send her to Kupang to oversee the search process because she felt obliged to take care of her parents.

“My parents and I can only wait. I hope the Kupang administration will extend the search because my brother is still out there somewhere,” she said. (tas)

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Abidal dijadwalkan naik ke meja
operasi pada Selasa (10/4/2012) waktu setempat. Bek asal Prancis itu
akan menjalani transplantasi hati untuk mengatasi efek samping pasca
operasi pengangkatan tumor pada tahun lalu.

Tepat di hari
operasi Abidal, Barca bertemu Getafe dalam lanjutan Liga Spanyol. The
Catalans menang telak 4-0 dan kini memepet Real Madrid di klasemen
sementara.

“Kami sangat senang untuk mendedikasikan kemenangan
ini untuk Abidal dan sepupunya Gerard (yang mendonorkan hatinya),”
ungkap pelatih Barca, Pep Guardiola, di situs resmi klub.

“Ini
adalah hari yang spesial karena kami tahu dia sedang dioperasi,”
katanya.

Dua pemain Barca, Andres Iniesta dan Pedro Rodriguez,
juga mengungkapkan hal serupa.

“Saya senang untuk
mendedikasikan kemenangan ini untuk Abi. Ini untukmu,” seru
Iniesta.

“Ini untuk teman kami, Abidal,” ujar
Pedro.
(dtc/mfi) Sumber: detiksport

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Last September I wrote about the announcement that Microsoft apps were coming to Symbian Belle devices and today Nokia announced a software update for several devices that provides Microsoft Office in a native application.

It looks like it is time to pull out my orange Nokia N8 and give it a test run. I am especially interested in trying out Excel with my N8 connected via HDMI to a larger display. I mentioned several innovations still present in Symbian devices and there is still a place for such powerful devices.

Over the years, I have used various 3rd party Office clients and they do a good job for mobile use. Over on the Nokia Conversations site Dinesh Subramaniam mentions a bit about two modules of Office for Symbian Belle:

If you’re a Word user, you’ll appreciate the fact that with Word mobile, you can save or send documents while preserving tables, SmartArt and charts, or the pinch/zoom functionality to easily view and edit documents.

In PowerPoint mobile, you can edit presentation texts and speaker notes, or use the Outline view to quickly browse through slides. With Excel mobile, you can create charts, or insert formulae and view rich data and charts from anywhere.

With the upcoming Nokia PureView device with 41 megapixel camera, it is nice to see Symbian still being supported on some level by Nokia.

Related ZDNet coverage

• Full Microsoft Office Mobile now available on select Nokia Symbian phones
• Some of us care that Nokia is taking Symbian away
• Microsoft Apps coming to Nokia Symbian Belle devices
• MWC 2012: Nokia announces 808 PureView with 41 megapixel Carl Zeiss camera

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Tiga pekan tak meraih hasil maksimal membuat The
Citizens harus tertinggal delapan poin dari ‘Setan Merah’ yang ada di
puncak klasemen. Dengan liga yang masih menyisakan enam pekan lagi,
secara matematis peluang City belum sepenuhnya
tertutup.

Sebelum saling berhadapan di laga derby yang akan
digelar pada Senin (30/4/2012) malam waktu setempat, kedua tim akan
menjalani tiga laga. Jika City tak mampu memaksimalkan tiap
pertandingan sebelum derby, bisa jadi tim arahan Sir Alex Ferguson
yang akan mengunci gelar di Etihad.

“Kami tidak ingin
membiarkan mereka memenanginya di Etihad Stadium. Kami akan melakukan
apapun dalam kekuatan kami untuk tidak membiarkannya terjadi,” ujar
Lescott seperti dilansir oleh Sky Sports.

Laga ini bisa jadi
akan menjadi laga terpenting untuk Sergio Aguero dkk. Meski demikian,
Lescott menilai memenangi pertandingan ini tak akan berarti banyak
jika City gagal menjadi juara liga.

“Ini tidak akan berarti
banyak jika kami memenangi dua laga atas United dan tidak memenangi
liga,” sambung bek berusia 29 tahun itu.

“Tapi saya yakin bahwa
ketika laga itu datang setiap orang akan senang menyambutnya,”
tutupnya.
(dtc/roz) Sumber: detiksport

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Indonesia is expected to have an Air Force that is on par with China and the United States in dominating Southeast Asia by 2045, University of Indonesia defense expert from Andi Widjajanto said Tuesday.

Speaking at the International Air Power Seminar 2012, Andi said that the Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU) capacity for air force dominance in 2012 was slightly below that of Malaysia, with the strongest being the US, quoting Jane’s Southeast Asia Air Force Inventory 2012.

If Indonesia goes to war with the US, the TNI-AU would be put in a state of paralysis against the superpower, being air subordinate relative to the super power.

Air subordination refers to the weakness of a country’s air force relative to other countries. As of 2012, Indonesia is considered subordinate to countries like China, but is considered air superior to countries such as East Timor.

If Indonesia fights against Malaysia, the two countries would be on equal grounds in terms of air force dominance capabilities, or what in military terminology is referred to as air parity.

“We already have strategic plans [for the air force] for at least until 2024. The government has already planned that and we will reach the country’s minimum essential force requirement by that year,” Andi said. “By that year, we will reach air parity with Singapore and Malaysia.”

“We will have air dominance throughout Southeast Asia by 2045.”

Andi said Indonesia would have air parity with countries such as China, the Five Power Defense Arrangements (FPDA) and the US.

“But we still don’t know how we will be in the position of air dominance with those countries,” he said.

China, for example, has bombers which can reach Australia, he said. (png)

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Madrid butuh kemenangan untuk menjaga jarak empat poin
yang mereka punya atas Barcelona. Jika kembalai imbang, apalagi kalah,
jarak El Real dengan seteru abadinya itu bisa merepat menjadi tiga
atau satu poin.

Selayaknya di belahan dunia lain, laga derby
umumnya menjanjikan pertandingan sengit, namun Derby Madrid adalah
sebuah pengecualian. Catatan tak terkalahkan Madrid dalam 22
pertandingan terakhir adalah buktinya. El Real jauh lebih superior
dibanding Atleti.

Dominasi Madrid atas Atletico diyakini
Casillas akan berlanjut tengah pekan ini. Dia malah berani bertaruh
kalau ‘Si Putih’ bakal pulang membawa kemenangan.

“Itu akan
menjadi pertandingan yang bagus. Setiap tahunnya mereka bersemangat
dan ingin mengalahkan kami. Saya tidak tahu apa yang akan terjadi,
tapi Real Madrid harus tetap menang untuk menjuarai liga,” sahut
Casillas di Mundo Deportivo.

“Saya bertaruh untuk kemenangan
Madrid,” lanjut kiper nomor satu Spanyol itu.

Meski optimistis
menang, Casillas tak memandang remeh lawan. Keberadaan Radamel Falcao,
Diego Ribas dan Adrian Lopez disebutnya membuat Madrid tetap arus
waspada di Vincente Calderon.

“Falcao pemain yang hebat,
seperti halnya Diego atau Adrian, Anda tak bisa melupakan itu,” tuntas
Casillas.
(dtc/din) Sumber: detiksport

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Your words (“Going to hell in a hand-cart”, Sunday Post, April 8 by Duncan Graham) went straight to my heart and I was deeply moved, if not outright stunned. I’m sure many of us readers were very hard hit by what you wrote. What you did took an immense amount of courage and wisdom.

As someone who is also doing the best she can to be a person who feels, thinks, speaks and acts in line with the right things, according to God, may I please be allowed to offer some comments on the excellent soul-baring experience you wrote about?

First, please don’t be too hard on yourself. The Creator Himself is not, you know. The fact that you really saw the hardship the old porter went through, and felt for him, shows that you have a kind and caring heart that beats warmly in sympathy for your fellow souls who are suffering.

Many of the people who also witnessed the old porter pull along his heavy load wouldn’t think twice about what they saw, much less help him. So, in many ways, you, Duncan Graham, are what people highly developed in spirituality would call “an advanced soul”.

Second, I believe that a soul who is sincere in wanting to help always gets another opportunity to do so. So you didn’t get to help the old porter — this time. Perhaps, when you see him again, you can offer him a sum of money that will really and truly be a miracle for him?

Or perhaps the appearance of the old porter served to move you so much that you just had to write the story about him, thereby deeply touching and awakening the hearts of those who read your article? There is no such thing as coincidence, you know. My mother used to say that coincidence is a miracle God performs while remaining incognito.

Third, it is sometimes hard to know when to be helpful! Some suffering people may refuse help outright — perhaps it’s part of their negative karma that they need to erase?

A few weeks ago, on my walk home to meet a waiting friend, I saw an elderly, little beggar lady walk away from a man who ran after her waving a two-thousand-rupiah bill. Since she sat down on the sidewalk, I took some money from my pocket, went to where she was sitting, and offered it to her.

By that time the man had arrived, all out of breath, and said to her: “Here, Ibu, you dropped the money I gave you.” But the old beggar refused all the gifts, wouldn’t take them at all. She even got angry at us, started to utter several curses and tried to hit us. So the man and I finally walked away, and he said sadly: “I wanted to help her, but she refused.” I answered, “Pak, your intention is what counts, isn’t it?” and then we stood and, for a while, had a nice chat.

About 50 meters from that place I encountered another beggar, who was sincerely happy with what I had to share with her. Then I hurried home to meet my friend.

Later on I thought a lot about this incident with the ancient beggar. Perhaps she was mentally ill? Perhaps she needed food and drink more than she needed money? Why didn’t I go out of my way to buy victuals for her? Why did my eagerness to get home soon to meet my beloved friend overshadow everything else, including the more important matter of really helping the old lady?

I really felt terrible, and could have kicked myself. Only after I had promised myself to do better in the future did I begin to feel a bit better, but was encouraged by the saying: “Saints are sinners who kept on trying”.

Duncan Graham, the stone you threw in the still lake has created, and will create, ever-widening circles.

Tami Koestomo
Bogor, West Java

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Seniors at SMK 1 state vocational high school in Central Jakarta rushed to the school’s auditorium last week in need of a break after sitting for final examination tryouts.

Using prayer mats to sit on the floor, they were eager to enjoy a music performance and a movie presented by the Music Syndicate of Earth Dwellers (Simponi), a group concerned with environmental and social issues.

Simponi used the occasion to campaign for the environment and to promote a green lifestyle to students.

Simponi manager M. Berkah Gamulya started with a slide show describing how Jakarta had changed over the last 40 years.

“Through music and film, we want to encourage the students to improve the city’s environment.”

Berkah said in his presentation that only 9.38 percent of Jakarta was green or open space in 2010, down from 49.4 percent in 1974.

Meanwhile, the number of residents of the city had doubled from 4.5 million in the 1970s to around 9 million in 2010, he added.

Traffic in Jakarta was no better. He said that the city’s residents had 9 million motorcycles and 4 million cars and added an additional 1,068 motorcycles and 216 cars everyday.

Berkah said that the uncontrolled development of commercial buildings would make Jakarta’s environmental condition worse.

“There are 132 malls, 279 supermarkets, and only 153 traditional markets in Jakarta. This year, there are 20 malls that are going to be built and all of them will produce waste every day.”

Jakartans could build one Borobudur-sized pile of trash every two days, he added, making a comparison with the world-famous Buddhist temple in Central Java.

Simponi suggested that students take small actions to improve the environment, such as using homemade compost baskets, not littering and planting trees to improve the environment.

The school’s deputy headmaster, Agus Ramdan Rukmana, welcomed the program.

“It is a positive program for the students. We also want ours to be a green school.”

One student, Suciati Delima, 18, said that the event was important.

“We became aware when the comparison to old Jakarta and its recent condition was made. This world is not only for us but also for future generation. We have a responsibility to take care of it,” she said.

Suciati said that the school had a green program requiring every student to bring one tree every new school year to be planted on the school’s grounds.

“We don’t have a wide open space, so we plant the trees in pots and put them in any free spot at the school.” (cor)

Simponi’s “Our Jakarta, Green Jakarta” program is touring 20 local high schools until May. Schools interested in booking a program can email to simponi10@gmail.com or call 08158019813

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If you struggle with RDF triples (Resource Description Framework) and SPARQL (Query language and protocol for RDF) do not despair. SWiPE (Searching WIkiPedia by Example) allows semantic and well-structured knowledge bases to be easily queried from within the pages of Wikipedia.

If you want to know which cities in Florida, founded in last century have more than 50 thousand people you will be able to enter the query conditions directly into the Infobox of a Wikipedia page. Swipe activates certain fields of Wikipedia that generate equivalent SPARQL queries executed on DBpedia.

Swipe is a middleware system that intercepts user’s browser requests for Wikipedia pages to introduce an in-page SBE (Search By Example) user interface.  Swipe answers structured queries posed by the user through the SBE interface. It uses familiar Wikipedia pages to help you construct queries, returning the results to the familiar Wikipedia interface or a standalone web page.

Credit: Swipe

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Derby
Manchester dijadwalkan mentas di Etihad Stadium pada 30 April
mendatang. Sebelum itu, MU masih harus menghadapi Queens Park Rangers,
Wigan Athletic, Aston Villa, dan Everton.

Pertemuan di Etihad
nanti bakal jadi laga keempat di antara kedua tim musim ini.
Sebelumnya, MU dan City sudah bertemu di Community Shield, Premier
League, dan Piala FA. Hasilnya, MU menang dua kali dan City menang
satu kali. Namun, pendukung The Citizens tentu masih mengingat
kemenangan 6-1 di Old Trafford Oktober lalu.

Sejauh ini, City
punya catatan relatif bagus jika berlaga di kandang sendiri. Dari 16
laga di Etihad, skuad arahan Roberto Mancini itu meraih 15 kemenangan
dan satu hasil imbang. Singkatnya, mereka belum pernah kalah di liga
jika bertanding di hadapan pendukung sendiri.

Namun, MU pernah
memberikan kekalahan di Etihad. Itu terjadi ketika The Red Devils
menang 3-2 pada babak ketiga Piala FA Januari silam.

“Kami
jelas cukup bagus untuk mengalahkan mereka di sana,” ucap Rooney di
ESPN Star. “Kami sudah menunjukkannya ketika kami menang 3-2 di Piala
FA.”

“Mereka punya rekor kandang yang luar biasa, tapi kami
berhasil meraih kemenangan di sana,” tegasnya.
(dtc/roz) Sumber:
detiksport

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It has been a whirlwind few weeks for OMGPOP, creators of the mobile social game Draw Something.  In less than two months it has been downloaded over 50 million times and is believed to be the ‘fastest growing original mobile game’ of all time.

OMGPOP, the New York based games company sold Draw Something to Zynga in March after the game knocked Zynga off the top of the social game charts.

The premise of Draw Something is simple enough. Think Pictionary for the iPhone, iPad or Android.  Draw an image on your device and your friends try to guess what you have drawn.

Some of the eye-popping stats from Zynga include:

Credit: OMGPOP

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The recently announced election results for Uttar Pradesh are symbolic in more than one way since the state is considered to be one of the economically backward states. First up, Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav is now Uttar Pradesh’s youngest chief minister. (A quick overview: Akhilesh Yadav’s father was the chief minister before being defeated by rival politician Mayawati.) Samajwadi Party live streamed part of the swearing-in ceremony on their YouTube channel, signifying the growing awareness of newer ways to connect with the citizens. Akhilesh Yadav represents the next generation of political leaders in India, and keeping true to the “Gen Y” rhetoric, he will be distributing tablet computers to students who pass 10th and 12th grade.

This distribution of tablets is a new page in India’s digital adoption. Since 2006, political organisation in South India—DMK—gave out color television sets to lure voters. (The election commission directed DMK to stop the distribution now.) While India is seeing several cheap tablets spamming the market, tablet computers getting into the hands of students is a step in bridging the digital divide. These cheap tablets might not be the best out there and they aren’t meant to be, the intention here is to equip students with newer technologies. Netbooks have failed to pick up and while the Indian government has sanctioned $1000 for tablets for each parliamentarian, a $35 (or less) tablet for students still makes sense compared to no mobile computing device.

Consider it a publicity stunt or a cheap incentive, technology in the hands of more people in the country is for the better.

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In today’s society, for a business to profit from the potential of social networks and to maintain what we consider a modern brand, a positive Internet presence is vital.

For businesses starting up, social media can be a valuable tool in order to gain exposure in a cost-effective manner, as well as potentially gain funding through online sources. Platforms such as Kickstarter. This platform has become one of the main ways students can apply for the backing they need for a product or service, and is only one of the many online services designed with today’s startup in mind.

Starting a business when young is an expensive process — but a good name can go a long way. Social networking is a free and effective way to market your new business, but what mistakes should young people avoid when they are first starting out — and afterwards?

1.) Don’t just broadcast. Engage and be exciting.

Consider creating campaigns and incentives to build your online business profile. When you first set up a business as a young person — potentially fresh from college — you may not have a dedicated client base or relationships to recommend you. Increasing brand awareness through exciting online campaigns and engaging with your potential customers can help bridge the gap.

2.) Corporate versus ‘human’ tweets.

There is a balance that has to be maintained on corporate social media accounts. If the account is used purely for self-promotion, then it may not be an attractive prospect for customers to bookmark or follow. Building customer loyalty by providing engaging and supportive communication can be of more benefit than advertising product promotions.

3.) Proofread your Facebook and Twitter updates.

Although social media networks are informal by nature, it does not mean that spelling mistakes and typographical errors will go unnoticed. If you want customers to increase your sales by purchasing more frequently, then trust has to be based on professionalism.

On social media platforms, it is the small errors that can have the most detrimental effects.

4.) Promote activities properly, but don’t purchase your followers.

A Twitter profile or Facebook page with many ‘likes’ and followers are generally more active, and will seem more trustworthy and worth following to new visitors. Building a network of followers takes time, but it is the quality of followers that is important. Don’t be fooled by ‘pay for follower’ campaigns — they don’t benefit your business in the long run.

5.) Put damage control systems in place.

Social media’s nature as a platform to connect business and consumer comes with a number of risks. A campaign to engage your customers, such as the McDonalds debacle, can turn into a global backlash which is damaging to your brand.

Small businesses that are just starting up don’t have to worry about criticism on this kind of scale, however, just as customers can broadcast positive feedback, it can also be negative. Monitoring this kind of activity and putting systems in place to deal with it is a must as soon as you enter the world of social media.

6.) Complete your social media profile thoroughly.

A simple step, but one that is often forgotten. Personal profiles can afford to miss out steps when you sign up for a social media account; professional businesses cannot. Do not forget to input as much information as possible, and include links to any other online profiles or websites.

7.) Maintaining a clear marketing strategy.

Although using social media platforms is a free option, it still costs time — and this needs to be incorporated within your business strategy. For those who are still studying and working, it is even more crucial to maintain a balance at the beginning, so you have a good base once you leave education to focus on your start-up.

8.) Quality, not quantity.

A recent study suggested that there are certain methods that effective tweeters use to both maintain a valuable following and maximize their click-through rates. By making your social media updates attractive, you will gain more exposure than simply using capitals or obviously PR-based wording.

9.) Schedule time for social media updates.

The trick to building your business’s social media profile is to be consistent, rather than do too much too soon. It is not uncommon to become addicted to the challenge of gaining as many followers or Facebook likes as possible in a short amount of time, but it needs to be kept in mind that doing too much at the beginning could make you lose interest and drive in maintaining it afterwards.

10.) Monitor your websites and accounts on a regular basis.

Using passwords that are easy to guess will render you vulnerable to unauthorized access. Using ‘Qwerty’ passwords, ‘Welcome1′ or ‘Password1′ are some of the most commonly used — and not only is it easy for you to remember, but for others to guess — who would be happy to gain access to your social media accounts.

It is also becoming more common for websites to experience hacker attacks, so checking the status of your websites can mean a problem is detected early.

See also:

• Passwords to become fossils by 2017?
• How do I create a secure password? (infographic)

11.) Keep personal and professional accounts separate.

It may be an idea to link social media organizers — such as Hootsuite — to separate accounts. Once a message is published, it can be the work of a moment to become re-tweeted or commented on, and a screenshot can be no more work than the click of a button.

In order to avoid such mistakes, double check which account you are publishing an update from.

12.) Make a mistake – admit to it.

The world of social media can be unforgiving if a business makes a public faux pas — but it may be best just to admit to it. In some cases, what may be a staff mix-up of personal and corporate accounts can even become beneficial and ‘refreshing’. Don’t pawn it off as ‘hackers’ — just say sorry.

13.) Be careful of licensing rules.

There has been a surge of lawsuits in regard to online activity and licensing — so be careful that your new business is not caught in that trap.

Creating a social media policy is recommended, and copyright disclaimers should be written and checked — get in touch with someone in the legal industry if you need assistance. Avoid defamatory wording or copyrighted material in any published updates.

14.) Tailor activities for your target audience.

If a blog focuses on student funding, then enrich it with interesting links to news concerning student finance or the cost of living — but an image of a dancing cat is unlikely to impress your audience. Keep your activity succinct, valuable and relevant.

15.) Avoid poorly timing updates.

Update social network messages in relation to the audience you wish to appeal to. If you are looking to get a message out to a UK audience, then activity needs to coincide with that time zone, and the times in which you will get the most readers.

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Related:

• How much are your skills worth in social media careers?
• Next-gen consumers: Bringing companies to their knees
• How to get people to click on your Tweets (infographic)
• Harvard announces fund for next generation Gates’ and Zuckerberg’s
• Payday loan firm ‘targets students’ online, the warning remains clear

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Serbian pro-Western President Boris Tadic said Wednesday he is resigning, paving the way for an early presidential election where he will face a strong challenge from a nationalist candidate.

Serbia’s parliament speaker is expected to call the vote for May 6, the same day when parliamentary and local elections are already scheduled.

In the presidential vote, Tadic will be challenged by nationalist candidate Tomislav Nikolic who has received tacit support from Russia.

Tadic, who has worked hard to bring Serbia closer to the European Union, said the challenge will be tough, and called on voters to choose which way they want the country to go.

“I’m offering a road of European integration and preserving the country’s integrity,” Tadic said. “I will run in that election with optimism because of the positive trends in our country.”

Tadic’s presidential term would have expired early next year. But he decided for an early vote apparently to boost the chances of his Democratic Party, which has been slipping in recent pre-election polls against Nikolic’s populist Serbian Progressive Party.

Nikolic expressed confidence he will beat Tadic in the May vote. If no candidate receives 50 percent of the votes cast in the first round, the top two contenders will go into the second round.

“I hope the election campaign will be fair,” Nikolic, who has narrowly lost against Tadic in two previous presidential elections, said Wednesday.

Tadic’s ruling democrats are blamed for the country’s deep economic and social problems. The nationalists also claim Tadic is willing to sell off Serbia’s cherished former province of Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008, at the expense of distant and uncertain EU membership.

“I will never recognize Kosovo,” Tadic said while announcing his resignation.

In recent years, Nikolic has succeeded in attracting disenchanted Serbs by railing against corruption and social injustice. In the process of his political transformation, Nikolic has claimed to have shifted from staunchly anti-Western, to pro-European Union.

There is growing concern among Serbian liberals that the victory of Nikolic, who was deputy prime minister in coalition government with late President Slobodan Milosevic in the late 1990s and backed his wars in the Balkans, could plunge Serbia back into confrontation with the West. (nvn)

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Over the years, I have written tens of thousands of words about the mysterious workings of Microsoft’s Windows activation technology in XP, Vista, and Windows 7. It might be one of the most arcane and misunderstood technologies of the PC era.

Last week, the topic came up again when I published details about Microsoft’s decision to cut the number of Windows and Office product keys it includes with TechNet subscriptions. (See “Microsoft slashes product key allowances for TechNet subscribers.”) Two years ago, a TechNet subscription included 10 product keys for each version of Windows and Office. That number was cut to five in late 2010, and to three earlier this month.

A half-dozen readers left Talkback comments and sent emails telling me that it’s “well known” that each TechNet product key can be activated 10 times. Several quoted Paul Thurrott, who wrote in 2010, without citing a source, “Each product key can be used to install up to 10 versions of the OS or application, for the most part.”

So, they say, no big deal—three product keys equals 30 installations per Windows and Office version.

But is that true?

I’ve fact-checked this issue several times over the years and have never been able to track down a definitive answer.

This policy is not documented on any official Microsoft site. I have found unofficial statements on Microsoft’s public support forums and in private emails, like this example from a front-line tech on a support forum:

You have 2 product keys for most products, and for Windows Retail keys, each of these keys will let you activate at least 10 times (it depends on the key type).

Another customer got this message from a support rep last week, via email:

Thank you for contacting Microsoft regarding your TechNet subscription.

I understand that you are not satisfied with the TechNet product key reduction. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

Our customer research has identified that three product keys are the appropriate amount for TechNet professional subscribers based on subscription usage. As such, please be advised that each product key is good for up to ten activations. Also, most products come with a complimentary 30, 60, or 90 day evaluation period. If you plan on frequently re-imaging machines, please consider using the trial version in lieu of one of your activations. These complimentary evaluation periods should allow you to complete your short-term testing. If you need to do long-term testing, you will need to use one of your activations.

Smoking gun? Well, I’m always suspicious of information that comes from front-line support reps, who often are well meaning but not fully in the loop. In addition, these two messages are actually contradictory. One says each key is worth at least 10 activations, the other says up to 10. Is either statement true? If so which is it?

I asked a few official and unofficial sources at Microsoft. It took 48 hours and much hemming and hawing, but I finally got a Microsoft spokesperson to confirm that 10 activations per subscription key “is not the official policy across all products.” She went on to note that “different products call for different activation parameters.”

That’s something more than a non-denial denial, but it’s still far from clear. And that, as it turns out, is the crux of the problem. The official policy for retail Windows product keys is that you are allowed one activation, with an unlimited number of reactivations on hardware that is substantially the same as the system on which the OS was originally installed.

But the activation servers, which do the grunt work of processing activations over the Internet, aren’t so rigid. There are, in fact, business rules designed to flag unusual behavior and allow or block activations based on those rules. For example, if you activate a retail copy of Windows on a PC and then, 18 months later, try to activate that same key on a different PC, your activation will probably complete without error. Why? Because that’s the behavior of an enthusiast getting a new PC, not a pirate.

If, on the other hand, the same key is used to try to activate Windows on six different PCs in widely scattered geographical locations over a short period, that key is likely to be flagged as stolen.

Microsoft doesn’t like to go into detail about those business rules, because doing so makes it easier for pirates to figure out how to game the system. Crooks who have to guess about how the system works are more likely to screw up and get caught.

In the case of TechNet keys, there isn’t a literal 10-activations-per-key algorithm on the activation servers. Instead, the business rules are set to recognize the way that TechNet subscribers—who are typically enthusiasts and IT pros—are likely to use those licenses. They play with it, reinstall on multiple hardware configurations to test compatibility, and try to see if it breaks things. The upshot is that those TechNet subscribers behave far differently from typical retail customers. As a result, the business rules flag TechNet keys as special. They are indeed able to qualify for more activations than an equivalent retail key would get. And if your legitimately obtained keys fail to activate, you should be able to resolve the issue with a phone call or email to Microsoft support.

Sources at Microsoft adamantly refused to talk on or off the record about specific numbers used as activation guidelines. But they did confirm that the rules are relaxed:

The way we allocate keys for TechNet subscriptions is designed to offer our customers with high flexibility for their software evaluation needs with minimum hassles. In keeping with the spirit of the TechNet Subscriptions program, we go out of our way to ensure that legitimate subscribers are able to fairly test and evaluate our technologies.

My experience with TechNet downloads and product keys over the years bears that out. I keep good records about which keys are used where, and I can’t remember ever being denied activation because a key had been used too many times.

The lack of transparency in the process is frustrating, but it’s also understandable. Software pirates have proven, time and again, that they’re willing to treat each unique key as an asset that can be resold against the TechNet terms of service. Reducing the number of keys in a subscription means there are fewer of those assets to bootleg. As long as legitimate subscribers find a relaxed and tolerant attitude when activation time comes around, this might turn out to be a non-issue.

In the wake of the TechNet product key reduction, I’m interested in hearing firsthand reports about your experience with Microsoft’s activation servers. If you’ve had recent experience that can help make sense of how this activation works, please send me an email or leave a comment below.

Related:

• Windows Activation Technologies: an unauthorized inside look
• Confessions of a Windows 7 pirate
• Microsoft slashes product key allowances for TechNet subscribers
• Microsoft releases details on Vista activation

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Mari Elka Pangestu: Tourism and Creative Economy Minister. JP/Nurhayati

Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Mari Elka Pangestu says the Bandung Tourism Institute (STP Bandung) in West Java is going to be Indonesia’s very first culinary research center.

“This is part of our effort to develop local cuisines, as well as to find the standard of tastes of our cuisines,” Mari told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.

Culinary was included as one of the creative industry’s sub-sectors at the end of last year because food was inseparable from tourism.

She said that the school is currently developing 15 local dishes, such as Indonesia’s favorite rice dish nasi goreng (fried rice), traditional beef soup (soto), West Sumatran beef stew (rendang) and a sweet nutmeg delicacy.

“Now they are trying to create the best chocolate praline with nutmeg filling, upgrading local dishes to be an international dish,” she said.

She said that more tourism institutes in Indonesia will follow in the footsteps of STP Bandung once they are ready.

In addition, she said that the ministry and culinary experts were currently finishing a blue-print on culinary development. (nfo)

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Karangasem, one of the poorest regencies on the resort island as recorded in 2011, has boasted success in bringing down the poverty rate, thanks to poverty-reduction efforts.

Data generated by the National Statistics Agency (BPS) through Social Safety Net Program Data Collection (PPLS) showed that by the end of 2011 the number of poor families in Karangasem was 17,061, far smaller than 33,199 recorded in 2010.

Karangasem Regent I Wayan Geredeg called the nearly 50 percent decrease as “a source of pride”.

“The poverty reduction program has become our priority over the past few years. The decreasing number of poor families has made us proud,” he said during the monthly public meeting organized by the provincial administration.

The simakrama public meeting, Pastika’s local adaptation of the western’s town hall meeting, has been organized at regular intervals in Denpasar and other major cities across the island since Pastika was installed as governor. Pastika uses the meeting as a medium to gain raw, unfiltered inputs from the public.

Geredeg acknowledged that he had yet to receive the census data in detail. “We are still waiting for the detailed data on poor families. Hopefully, the data would be really accurate and could direct the course of our next program,” he added.

He also attributed the sharp drop to Pastika’s policy to accelerate developments at the island’s poorest regencies, which include Karangasem, Buleleng, Bangli and Jembrana.

“Governor Pastika has treated Karangasem as his first priority, directing the provincial budget to finance development programs at the regency’s poor and drought-affected villages,” Geredeg said, adding that mobile free health services and clean water supply are among the best programs.

Pastika has launched several major poverty-reduction initiatives, including free healthcare for all registered residents of the island, free house renovation for poor families, a scholarship program for poor students and the integrated farming system (Simantri), which offers cash and technical assistance to farmers’ groups willing to adopt to organic farming and alternative energy sources.

“We were thankful to the provincial administration that has been helping us in reducing the poverty rate,” Geredeg added.

Geredeg said most of the regency’s poor families were living in drought-affected areas and experiencing difficulty in accessing clean water.

The regency-provincial administration joint program had gradually solved this problem.

“Families in Seraya village now have easy access to 60 liters of clean water. We will continue to improve the program in order to alleviate poverty in our region,” Geredeg said.

Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika praised the success of Kara-ngasem on reducing the poverty rate in the region. Pastika acknowledged that many villages in Bali were still in poverty due to lack of clean water.

“Supply of clean water has an important role in preventing poverty. If a family doesn’t have sufficient access to clean water, they are not able to improve their conditions. That is why access to clean water has to be the first step in solving the country’s problems with poverty,” Pastika said.

Lack of clean water, he said, had also caused economic inequality between southern Bali and other parts of the island.

“If we seriously observe, why southern Bali experiences faster growth and progress, that’s actually because the region has more and easier accesses to clean water supply,” he argued.

— JP/Ni Komang Erviani

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The Jazz standard ‘It Ain’t What you Do‘ is well known by musicians as a classic chord sequence to improvise over, and it occurred to me the other day the lyrics are also a great analogy for making collaboration work over time within enterprises.

While many people focus on technology as a magic solution to enhance communication, collaboration and connections inside companies, the reality is that it’s the way that you do it that makes all the difference for success or failure. Enabling technologies are not hard to find these days – what’s difficult is making them work for the contexts of your business, and along with, or instead of, all the other ways people chose to network with each other and to share information.

Large technology companies whose employees are ‘dogfooding’ the product offerings they hope end users will buy (dogfooding meaning employees using the online software products they also sell) obviously works very well when your salary depends on your obedience and adherence to internal organizational models. Successful use of the tech is a very different proposition when endusers have no skin in the game and have other options and agendas.

Happily we’re now entering more mature and informed times where existing enterprise technologies and associated processes are starting to be melded with Enterprise 2.0/Social technologies by users. Aiming to achieve specific value propositions is taking precedence over experimental adoption of new ideas and fashions at a departmental collaboration silo level.

One of the attractions of encouraging collaborative practices in enterprises is fostering innovation. With the relationship between musical creativity and the technology world at a high right now (SXSW and major league bands as support acts for Marc Benioff’s barnstorming Salesforce events for example) it’s worth exploiting my musical analogy a bit further.

It takes a strong rhythm section and people willing to carry the chords that shape the melody before anyone can draw attention to themselves by playing the melody and/or improvising. Jazz musicians often take turns soloing before dropping back into the background texture of a tune, while we frequently hear about rock groups breaking up due to ‘artistic differences’, which is often about individual band members hogging the limelight.

The way that we organize to ‘do’ collaborative activities, developing mindful behaviors to help others, is at the heart of successfully working together. The ways, times and places we work together, putting relevant information into the flow of work to help others is transforming the ways in which we work.

The ways in which you use social networks for our personal use is all about you, and you can spend as much of your personal time as you want interacting and consuming with friends. Working together collectively uses very similar technologies for very different end results. As we all know there are plenty of shovel leaners, armchair quarterbacks, digital talkers and meeting mavens in companies and not enough unsung heroes who complete tasks. Much like the way jazz musicians (who may have never played together before) collaborate around the basic musical framework for ’It Ain’t What you Do’, giving each other room to shine while making sure they simultaneously carry the tune together all the way through is at the heart of the musical ethos.

Anyone can buy a musical instrument and make random noises, the challenge is in feeling you are expressing yourself in harmony with others, and that’s also where the real power of orchestrating the modern enterprise resides. Even though overcoming the political fiefdoms and personality conflicts in a company to realize these benefits can be as tricky as handling a group of divas, creating a collective way of working together which everyone enjoys and understands is a timeless differentiator for achieving optimum performance. This is as true for musicians, sports teams and other groups of highly skilled individuals as it is for business performance.

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The newly established antipornography task force says it will crack down on women wearing skirts that fall above the knee as such clothing will be included in the group’s universal definition of pornography.

Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali, the task force’s chairman, said Wednesday that the definition would be universally applied to all regions in the country, regardless of cultural background.

“We have yet to set a standard definition of pornography on which we will base our work. However, there must be a set of universal criteria to define something as pornographic, one of which will be when a woman wears a skirt above the knee,” Suryadharma told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting with the House of Representatives’ Commission VIII overseeing religious and social affairs on Wednesday.

When asked whether the task force would give leniency to women living in non-Muslim provinces, such as Bali and Papua, Suryadharma said that the task force would ensure the standards were universally applied.

“I know that some parts of the country have unique cultures, such as Bali and Papua. Nevertheless, we think that we must set universal criteria to be implemented in all parts of the archipelago. Requiring women to wear skirts that fall below the knee is one such criterion,” he said.

The plan was swiftly condemned by top politicians and activists.

House Deputy Speaker Priyo Budi Santoso said Suryadharma had gone too far in defining pornography.

“This will obviously make female lawmakers furious. I don’t think that the task force should make a fuss about women’s skirts. I think the definition of pornography must be based on principles with regards to how people should behave,” he said.

Rieke Dyah Pitaloka, a lawmaker from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), said that the government ought to deal with more important problems than telling women what to wear.

“The way women wear their skirts, below or above the knees, will not impact others. It’s nothing compared to the fuel-price hike plan, which undoubtedly will impact a majority of the people,” Rieke said.

National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) deputy chairwoman Masruchah opposed Suryadharma’s definition of pornography.

“Defining pornography based on women’s skirts is only a way to subordinate women. I regret that such an idea comes from state officials,” Masruchah said. She also called for the task force to consider the country’s cultural diversity.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono set up the task force on March 13 to implement the 2008 Pornography Law. The task force was given a mandate to curb the distribution of pornography.

The President appointed Coordinating People’s Welfare Minister Agung Laksono to lead the task force. Other members include Communications and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring, Law and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin, and Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Linda Gumelar.

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Pada Rabu
(28/3/2012) dinihari WIB lalu Los Blancos memenangi laga leg I babak
perempatfinal Liga Champions di kandang APOEL NIkosia dengan skor 3-0.
Kemenangan ini membuat peluang mereka lolos ke babak semifinal menjadi
sangat terbuka.

Akhir pekan ini Madrid harus melakoni laga
tandang ke markas Osasuna, Sabtu (31/3/2012) malam waktu setempat,
dalam lanjutan La Liga. Laga ini digelar empat hari sebelum Madrid
menjalani laga le II babak perempatfinal Liga Champions.

Pada
pertemuan di paruh pertama lalu, Karim Benzema dkk. meraih kemenangan
telak 7-1. Tapi Osasuna saat ini sedang dalam laju yang cukup bagus.
Tim besutan Jose Luis Mendilibar itu tak terkalahkan dalam enam laga
terakhir dan menduduki peringkat enam klasemen, atau batas akhir zona
Liga Europa.

Madrid punya catatan yang tak begitu bagus jika
bermain di kandang Osasuna. Dari tiga kunjungan terakhir ke Pamplona,
Madrid takluk dua kali dan satu kali bermain imbang.

Beberapa
jam setelah Madrid bertanding, Barca akan menjamu Athletic Bilbao di
Camp Nou. Tim besutan Josep Guardiola itu juga baru bertandang ke
markas AC Milan di leg I babak perempatfinal Liga
Champions.

Meraih hasil imbang di San Siro, tugas Lionel Messi
cs. di leg II tak akan mudah. Namun tiga hari sebelum laga leg II
digelar, Barca harus meladeni Bilbao.

Pada pertemuan di paruh
pertama lalu kedua tim bermain imbang 2-2 di San Mames. Namun catatan
statistik enam pertemuan terakhir lebih memihak pada Azulgrana. Dari
enam pertemuan terkahir, Barca menang tiga kali dan tiga laga sisanya
berakhir imbang.

Madrid dan Barca kini terpisah jarak enam
poin. Baik Madrid maupun Barca tak boleh kehilangan fokus jika tetap
ingin berada di jalur juara. Sedikit saja terpeleset maka perbedaan
poin keduanya bisa melebar atau makin merapat.
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Suryadharma Ali: Religious Affairs Minister. (Tribunnews.com/Herudin)

Following the establishment of the anti-pornography task force, Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said that skirts that fall above the knee would be included in the working group’s definition of pornography, on which it would base its future work.

“We will arrange meetings with different stakeholders from the public to get input on how they understand pornography, and I’m sure that they will come up with different definitions [of pornography]. However, there must be a set of universal criteria to define something as pornographic, of which one will be when someone wears a skirt above the knee,” Suryadharma, who was tapped by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to run the body on a daily basis, said on the sidelines of a hearing with the House of Representatives Commission VIII overseeing religious and social affairs on Wednesday.

Once a standard of pornography was established, the task force would apply it nationwide across all ethnicities, he added.

Attempting to curb the distribution of pornographic materials across the country, the President recently established a task force on the management and prevention of pornography as a body to implement the 2008 Pornography Law.

The President appointed Coordinating People’s Welfare Minister Agung Laksono to lead the task force and Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali to manage day-to-day operations.

Members of the task force include other Cabinet members such as Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring, Law and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin, Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Linda Gumelar, Education and Culture Minister Muhammad Nuh, as well as Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi.

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“Woman should be more educated to achieve welfare
for their family,” she expressed.

Moreover she said that
Jakarta DWP has big challenges to create welfare and eradicate
poverty. Due to high population number, various problems are emerging
in the city.

Meanwhile, according to City Secretary Fadjar
Panjaitan, Jakarta DWP is able to assist Jakarta Provincial Government
in eradicating poverty. Through its programs that directly touch
low-level societies, Jakarta DWP can effectively provide assistance on
the right targets.

“The first point of Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) is poverty eradication, which is very in line with the
government’s programs,” he stated

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The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Google will begin selling co-branded Android tablets, attempting to slow Apple’s massive market share growth with the New iPad and a reduced-price iPad. Instead of getting into the OEM game, Google is expected to work with existing Android tablet-makers to market Google tablets through an online store and traditional brick and mortar retail outlets. But will it be enough to change public perceptions and get people to start purchasing Android-powered tablets instead of iPads?

Naysayers have been quick to point out the dismal failure of Google’s initial efforts to sell their Nexus One smartphone direct to consumers and, as Jason Perlow noted recently, even their highest profile devices (including those from soon-to-be subsidiary Motorola) suffer from fragmentation, bloatware, and miserable update records. How will Google-branded devices (reportedly from Asus and Samsung) sold direct by Google and in retail channels (often right next to Apple devices) solve this problem that seems to be inherent in Android?

According to the WSJ article,

Google believes the current model for selling tablets is broken, said people familiar with its strategy. Google has watched as wireless carriers, who helped Android become the No. 1 mobile operating system for smartphones, have struggled to replicate that success with tablets…

…This time, however, Google won’t have to worry about pairing with wireless carriers because tablets are primarily used with WiFi connections in people’s homes.

The article also cited what may be a more effective strategy (one that has worked for Amazon with their Kindle Fire tablet): subsidizing the cost of the hardware sold under the Google brand. Google will also have the opportunity to heavily market the tablets and take advantage of its considerable reach online and, more recently, in traditional media, to capture potential customers and educate the market on the value of Android tablets. Unfortunately, many customers and more than a few analysts are skeptical about whether Android has any value at all in the tablet space.

I’ve argued for some time that Android will ultimately win the tablet wars, at least in terms of market share. Google’s ability to market directly to consumers, though, is dubious at best. If it’s going to keep new customers from simply defaulting to iPads, then it will be the potential for differentiation and market segmentation provided by Android and many OEMs that does it (just as it has in the smartphone wars); a Google online store won’t exactly turn the market upside down.

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AllThingsD’s Ina Fried published an article today indicating that the observations of unusual charing behavior with the iPad 3 aren’t so unusual after all.

Yesterday I noted that if you unplug your iPad 3 as soon as the battery indicator says “100%” you’re actually missing out on as much as 1.2 hours (10 percent) of additional run time. But Apple says that this is the expected behavior and that the iPad battery is designed to work this way.

Fried explains it this way:

Apple does, in fact, display the iPad (and iPhone and iPod Touch) as 100 percent charged just before a device reaches a completely charged state. At that point, it will continue charging to 100 percent, then discharge a bit and charge back up to 100 percent, repeating that process until the device is unplugged.

Soneira, President of DisplayMate Technologies Corporation, first discovered that the iPad 3 experienced a net loss of 1.2 hours (around 10 percent) of battery run time if unplugged as soon as its battery indicator displayed 100%. His essential point was that if the iPad 3 is fully charged (i.e. overnight) it will run 11.6 hours, which is 1.2 hours longer than if it is only charged to 100% (10.4 hours).

Apple VP Michael Tchao tells AllThingsD that Apple decided not to keep changing the battery status “so as not to distract or confuse users,” explaining:

That circuitry is designed so you can keep your device plugged in as long as you would like, It’s a great feature that’s always been in iOS.

So there you have it. The iPad battery displays “100%” a little prematurely because Apple didn’t think that it would be wise to show the battery constantly fluctuating between 90 and 100 percent as the battery goes through its normal trickle charge/discharge cycle to keep it topped off. Makes sense to me.

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Tuntutan mereka ajukan dalam unjuk rasa yang mereka lakukan
bersama masyarakat untuk menolak rencana penaikan harga bahan bakar
minyak (BBM) subsidi pada 1 April mendatang.

“Penaikan harga
BBM sarat dengan kepentingan asing. Kami menuntut pemerintah untuk
menasionalisasi aset-aset strategis yang kini dikuasai asing,” kata
koordinator aksi Bersatu Mahasiswa Peduli Rakyat (Bemper) Hendro Salim
di Kantor DPRD Riau di Kota Pekanbaru, Jumat (30/3).

Menurutnya, pemerintah saat ini bersikeras menaikkan harga BBM
subsidi karena dalam tekanan pengaruh kapitalisme asing. Alasan
pengurangan subsidi untuk menyelamatkan APBN merupakan pembodohan.
Sebab dari kebocoran anggaran di APBN lebih banyak digunakan untuk
pemborosan birokrasi dan aparatur negara.

“Sebagian besar
rakyat di negara ini selalu yang menjadi korban kebijakan yang pro
kapitalisme. Sedangkan segelintir orang menikmati penindasan terhadap
rakyat,” paparnya.

Dalam pernyataan sikapnya, para mahasiswa
bersama sejumlah LSM menuntut pemangkasan anggaran pejabat dan
birokrasi, nasionalisasi aset, meminta SBY-Boediono bertanggung jawab
atas kerusuhan yang terjadi, dan menolak keras rencana penaikan harga
BBM subsidi.(MI/RIZ)

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PT Medco Energi Internasional says it will join forces with two other firms to buy two oil and gas blocks operated by US-based ExxonMobil.

Medco, state gas distributor PT PGN and state fertilizer maker PT Pupuk Sriwijaya (Pusri) have submitted a formal bid for ExxonMobil’s Block B and the North Sumatra Offshore (NSO) block, Medco president director Lukman Mahfoedz said in a message on Thursday.

“If the acquisition is successful, the share composition for the two blocks will be 40 percent for Medco and 30 percent for PGN and Pusri, respectively,” he said.

Contacted separately, ExxonMobil declined to name of companies interested in its 100 percent stake in both blocks or its 30 percent stake in liquefied natural gas producer PT Arun NGL.

The assets produced a combined 215 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (mmscfd) in 2010, ExxonMobil said in a statement sent to The Jakarta Post in August last year.

“We can’t comment further because the [acquisition] is still underway. We will ensure that the decision to sell the shares is consistent with the company’s long-standing practice of continuously reviewing assets for their contribution to the company’s operating and financial objectives,” the company said in the statement.

ExxonMobil is now concentrating its attention on developing the Cepu block in East Java.

Cepu’s Banyu Urip field will produce 165,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) by 2014 and may be one of the most important blocks in Indonesia’s effort to produce 1 million bpd of oil by that year, according to reports.

ExxonMobil has been operating in Indonesia for more than 100 years. Its current projects cover the Cepu block in Central Java, East Natuna in Riau Islands and the coal bed methane (CBM) evaluation project in Kalimantan.

Gas in Aceh was discovered by Mobil Oil Indonesia in 1971. After studies, the government and its partners set up an LNG plant in Arun and began exporting LNG to Japan in 1978.

State oil and gas firm PT Pertamina currently holds a 55 percent stake in the Arun LNG plant, ExxonMobil owns 30 percent and a consortium of Japanese buyers owns 15 percent.

According to upstream oil and gas regulator BPMigas’s data, the Arun LNG plant exported 362 cargoes of LNG in 2011, down significantly from 427 cargoes in 2010.

— JP/Rangga D. Fadillah

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The number of private vehicles increased dramatically recently. Unfortunately, the growth is incomparable with the development of road infrastructure.  

In my opinion, accidents happen due to three problems. The first is human error. Reckless drivers, who do not have enough skill in operating a car, find it very easy to obtain driving licenses in some region as long as he/she has enough money.   

The second factor is poor road infrastructure, alongside minimally maintained roads — the visibility of traffic signs is sometimes neglected. We know that not all drivers are familiar with the condition of a local road. Therefore observable traffic signs are important. While driving in the countryside, I frequently find that many signs are difficult to see immediately, because they are obscured by tree branches.  This might cause drivers failing to anticipate road conditions.

Third factor is the vehicle’s condition itself. Sometime people do not care about the passenger capacity allowed in the car. For the sake of togetherness, safety is not a priority. The condition is worse when the vehicle is not properly maintained.

Usually after any major accident, attention from respective departments toward the cause increase. However, due to a lack of financial capacity or capability, the actions taken sometimes do not address the root problem.

If one of the three factors is missing, the potential risk of having an accident will remain high.  

Coordination among relevant government institutions play important role. Intense supervision by those institutions should be conducted and monitored regularly.

The institutions may give rewards for those who perform and put sanctions on those who neglected their responsibility.  

I Gede Edy Purwaka
Yogyakarta

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Tak sedikit kemudian yang menilai Liverpool
menunjukkan penurunan kualitas performa. Tapi Kenny Dalglish menampik
anggapan itu.

Menurut manajer asal Skotlandia itu, Liverpool
sudah menunjukkan perkembangan besar dalam 12 bulan
terakhir.

“Semua tergantung bagaimana orang melihat
kesuksesan,” ujar Dalglish yang dikutip Sky Sports.

“Saya
melihat sukses dengan melihat klub terus bergerak maju, dan itulah
yang kami lakukan. Kami maju ke depan dalam banyak cara,”
paparnya.

Dalglish mengakui performa timnya belakangan ini tak
mengesankan, tapi semua sistem di klub terus berkembang, mulai dari
tim utama hingga akademi.

“Kami hanya harus membuat hasil laga
kami di liga lebih baik lagi dan semuanya akan menjadi cerita yang
indah,” tandas Dalglish.(goal/DNI)

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SOA may help government agencies become more service oriented.

Federal Computing Week’s Alice Lipowicz reports that two federal government agencies within the US Department of the Interior — the the US National Park Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service are integrating their six separate scientific data systems into a single, SOA-enabled system.

Keeping everyone aligned: Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan, part of the SOA-aware National Park Service. Photo by the author.

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“Mereka yang diamankan berasal dari berbagai kampus dan
terlibat bentrok dengan aparat ketika berunjukrasa di gedung DPRD
Sumbar,” kata Kepala Kepolisian Resor Kota Padang, Komisaris Besar
Polisi M. Seno Putro, di Padang, Sumbar, Kamis (29/3).

Menurut
dia, mahasiswa yang dicokok terbukti melempari Gedung DPRD Sumbar
dengan batu.  “Akibat pelemparan dari mahasiswa tiga pintu kaca
gedung dewan pecah,” katanya.

Para mahasiswa yang ditangkap
kemudian digiri ke Markas Polresta Padang untuk dimintai keterangan.
“Kita mengamankan barang bukti berupa batu, kayu yang digunakan
mahasiswa ketika aksi demo penolakan kenaikan harga BBM,”
ungkapnya.

Untuk mengamankan unjuk rasa ini, ratusan personel
kepolisian diturunkan. “Personel polisi yang diturunkan terdiri dari
jajaran Polresta Padang, Brimob Polda Sumbar, serta dibantu dari
Polres Padangpariaman,” katanya.

Ikut disiagakan pula mobil
water cannon, mobil Rantis, serta senjata peluru karet untuk
mengantisipasi kerusahan yang dipicu aksi tersebut.  “Kita tidak
meminta bantuan dari pihak TNI dalam pengamanan aksi demo mahasiswa,”
katanya.

Polisi juga mengamankan obyek vital seperti Stasiun
Bahan Bakar Umum (SPBU) yang berada tidak jauh dari Gedung DPRD
Sumbar. “Kita takutnya aksi mahasiswa ini menguasai SPBU dekat gedung
DPRD itu, sehingga mengganggu kendaraan yang mengisi bahan bakar,”
katanya.

Kabag Humas DPRD Sumbar, Edi Janur membenarkan tiga
pintu kaca Gedung DPRD Sumbar pecah. “Aksi lemparan batu dari
mahasiswa, mengakibatkan pintu kaca gedung dewan mengalami kerusakan,
kita belum tahu berapa kerugian,”katanya.

Ia mengaku rusaknya
pintu kaca gedung dewan ini telah dilaporkan ke Ketua DPRD Sumbar.
“Tidak ada mobil anggota DPRD Sumbar yang rusak ketika aksi demo
mahasiswa menolak kenaikan harga BBM,” katanya.(Ant/BEY)

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The Tangerang District Court sentenced on Wednesday the principal of the Umar bin Khattab Islamic boarding school in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, to 17 years in prison for his preaching on jihad that led to terrorism acts.

The panel of judges said that defendant Abrory bin Al Ayub, alias Maskadov, had misled his pupils with his teachings and even had ordered one of them to kill a police officer during a raid at the school.

Sya’ban was sentenced to 15 years in jail for the murder in a separate hearing on the same day.

“The defendant’s deeds caused many people to suffer from injuries and he tainted the good reputation of Indonesia which has promoted the eradication of terrorism,” presiding judge Iman Gultom read from the sentence.

Based on testimonies heard at the court, Abrory was also proven guilty of assembling homemade bombs and ordered his pupils to arm themselves when police raided the school.

However, the court did not find that Abrory had links to any terrorist cell, although the National Antiterrorism Agency believed that Umar Patek, the country’s most-wanted terrorist suspect, had had dealings with the Bima boarding school.

A bomb exploded at the school on July 11 last year, killing the school’s treasurer. The police seized homemade bombs, along with weapons and VCDs with lessons about jihad in a follow-up raid. The case was tried in Tangerang due to security reasons.

Abrory’s lawyer, Asruddin, regarded the punishment as too harsh.

“What comes to be our objection to the verdict is that the panel of judges made assumptions about the possible impact of my client’s teachings, but they could not prove that my client was a perpetrator of terrorism acts,” he told reporters.

In a separate session, the judges also handed down a 42-month prison term to each of four other defendants, the pupils and relatives of Abrory, for abetting in harboring Abrory while he was on the run from the police. They are Rahmat Ibnu Umar alias Rahmat bin Effendi, Asraf alias Tauhid, Furqon and Rahmad Hidayat.

Another defendant, Mustakim Abdullah, 16, had been previously sentenced to a 15 months’ jail term. The Tangerang District court accelerated his trial because the defendant was still underage.

— JP/Multa Fidrus

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Peringatan itu disampaikan para
ahli dari CHEM Trust, sebuah LSM Inggris yang bekerja untuk melindungi
masyarakat dan lingkungan dari bahan kimia berbahaya. CHEM Trust
menemukan, zat berbahaya (pestisida, komponen cat, solar, penghambat
api, komponen plastik yang digunakan untuk wadah makanan) sangat
mungkin memengaruhi obesitas dan peningkatan kasus diabetes di negara
maju.

Berdasarkan Review of the Science Linking Chemical
Exposures to the Human Risk of Obesity and Diabetes, zat kimia dapat
masuk melalui makanan dan mengendap ke tubuh. Hal itu menyebabkan
terjadinya penumpukan lemak dan menurunkan tingkat metabolisme.

Penulis review adalah akademisi dari University of North
California dan North Korean National University. Mereka mencatat,
anak-anak dan ibu hamil juga akan menghadapi risiko tertentu akibat
zat kimia pada alat-alat rumah tangga tersebut.

Mereka
mendesak pemerintah negara-negara maju mempertimbangkan kemungkinan
perubahan kebijakan tentang kesehatan, terutama pada pencegahan
gangguan endokrin.(geniusbeauty/***)

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JAKARTA: Actress Ayu Azhari says she is a big fan of jamu, the traditional Indonesian herbal health drink.

“I like to consume jamu. After I give birth, I always like to have jamu. Jamu Madura, jamu delima, I like all jamu for women,” she said on Sunday as quoted by kompas.com.

Ayu added that she is starting to introduce the habit to her children as well.

The 42-year-old, who is married to a member of the rock band White Lion, said she also tries to keep fit by maintaining a positive mind-set.

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Tomat
bukan buah. Tapi tomat merupakan sayuran yang lebih baik disimpan di
suhu panas ketimbang dingin. Lemari es bukan tempat yang ideal untuk
menyimpan tomat. Bila disimpan di kulkas, tomat jadi bertepung dan tak
bisa dimakan mentah-mentah. Jadi simpanlah tomat di meja yang terpapar
langsung oleh sinar matahari.

Selain tomat, ada pula beberapa
sayuran yang tak disarankan disimpan di kulkas, sebagai
berikut:

a. Kemangi
Sama seperti tomat,
kemangi juga tidak baik bila disimpan dalam suhu dingin. Menyimpannya
terlalu lama di kulkas akan menyebabkan layu sebelum waktunya. Kemangi
akan tetap segar bila disimpan di meja dengan suhu
ruangan.

b. Kentang
Kentang menyukai suhu
yang sejuk, tapi tidak dingin. Sayuran ini akan segar bila disimpan
pada suhu sekitar 10 derajat lebih hangat daripada suhu rata-rata
kulkas. Simpanlah dalam kantung kertas dan taruh di tempat yang sejuk.

Mengapa kertas? Ini akan membuat kentang bisa bernapas,
sedangkan plastik membuat kentang membusuk lebih mudah. Menyimpan
kentang pada suhu dingin akan mengonversi pati untuk gula lebih cepat
yang dapat memengaruhi rasa dan tekstur.

c.
Bawang
Untuk menjaga agar kulit bawang tetap kering,
simpan dalam ruangan kering seperti dapur yang tidak lembap seperti
lemari es. Kurangnya sirkulasi udara dalam kulkas juga akan
menyebabkan bawang rusak.

d. Avokad
Avokad
tidak akan matang sampai setelah mereka dipetik dari pohon. Jika Anda
membeli avokad, jangan menyimpannya di kulkas karena memperlambat
proses pematangan. Di sisi lain, jika avokad matang dengan sempurna
dan Anda tidak siap untuk digunakan, menyimpannya dalam kulkas bisa
menundanya menjadi busuk. (MI/RRN)

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At the heart of the conflict minerals issue is the regulatory mandate that electronics manufacturers must carry out supply chain due diligence yet there has been no corresponding governmental led schemes to certify that source mines are indeed conflict free. Some firms have simply pulled out of the region altogether rather than try to cross over a high hurdle of operational & brand risk with compliance complexity. As a result these poverty stricken regions of eastern Congo have seen their incomes drop further.

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Now the US State Department is stumping up some cash and expertise to try and kick start a certification programme. Yesterday Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero while visiting Kinshasa, announced the formation of the Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA) and a $3.2 million grant from USAID with the expectation that the industry will cough up another $2 million.

The PPA will focus on three main priorities:

• assist with the development of pilot supply chain systems that will allow businesses to source minerals from mines that have been audited and certified to be ‘conflict-free.’ 
• provide a platform for coordination amongst government, industry, and civil society actors seeking to support conflict-free sourcing from the DRC. 
• establish a website designed to serve as a resource for companies seeking information regarding how to responsibly source minerals from the DRC.

It’s a good start but there are some open questions and concerns. First, so called public-private partnerships can be unstable working devices with a multitude of stakeholders working as much against one another as with. Manufacturers, above all, need to guarantee their consumers that products sold are conflict free and to be able to do so quickly. Governmental aid agencies are in the business of long term humanitarian assistance and basic economic development. These two objectives maybe conflicting, at least in the short run. Secondly, its not at all clear who will develop the audit protocol, by when it will be developed and which agency exactly will have the skill, security and authority to carry out the audits & provide certification.

Certainly, the US government has legitimate trade interests in helping the predominately US based industry work through this problem. It remains to be seen though whether USAID is just providing air cover for the industry or actually does have the know how and will to see this process to a workable solution for the long run. $5.2 million may seem like a lot of money but with producers and manufacturers outnumbered by almost two to one with NGO’s, think tanks, network operators, industry groups and government agencies, it’s a veritable conga for the Congo.  There is serious risk that the pool of money will be burned through quickly in exhaustive talking phases without much in the way of robust & actionable process coming out the other side. Colour me sceptical.

Still, kudos to all below for signing up although Dell, Microsoft and Apple are curiously absent given that its a US government process. The kick off event for the PPA will be in Washington in November and after that we should soon see if this thing has legs.

Advanced Micro Devices
Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC)
Enough Project
Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI)
H.C. Starck
HP
International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR)
Intel
ITRI on behalf of the iTSCi project
Jewish World Watch
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Nokia
Pact
Partnership Africa Canada / Partenariat Afrique Canada
Responsible Sourcing Network
Sony Corporation
Sprint
Telefónica
Toshiba Corporation
Verizon Communications
World Gold Council

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SOA may help government agencies become more service oriented.

Federal Computing Week’s Alice Lipowicz reports that two federal government agencies within the US Department of the Interior — the the US National Park Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service are integrating their six separate scientific data systems into a single, SOA-enabled system.

Keeping everyone aligned: Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan, part of the SOA-aware National Park Service. Photo by the author.

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Taufik Kiemas: Chairman of People’s Consultative Assembly. Kompas/Totok Wijayanto

Around 500 members and sympathizers of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the main opposition party, joined many others at the HI Roundabout in Central Jakarta on Monday to protest the government’s plan to increase fuel prices on April 1.

The protest by the Volunteers of Democracy in Struggle (Repdem) apparently did not have the full support of the party; with senior PDI-P politician Taufik Kiemas warning that it could undermine ongoing debates in the House of Representatives.

“What is the purpose of having a faction in the House if they still take to the streets?” Taufik, who is also the chair of the People’s Consultative Assembly, was quoted as saying by kompas.com. Taufik, the husband of PDI-P Chair Megawati Soekarnoputri, has been known to depart from party lines in the past.

The PDI-P faction in the House has come up with a counter proposal that would entail higher spending on the energy subsidy while retaining fuel prices at current levels.

Faisal Rahman of Repdem said he received the instruction from the PDI-P Central Board to mobilize people to oppose the increase in fuel prices. “We will come out with more people tomorrow,” he said.

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Masa depan Del Piero dispekulasikan setelah
kontraknya habis pada bulan Juni mendatang. Sementara pada Desember
lalu, Presiden Juve Andrea Agnelli mengatakan bahwa musim ini akan
menjadi musim terakhir ikon Bianconeri itu.

Sampai saat ini,
Del Piero belum angkat bicara mengenai rencananya musim depan. Yang
ada, dia malah tampil oke belakangan. Setelah mencetak gol ke gawang
AC Milan, akhir pekan lalu giliran jala Inter Milan yang
dibobolnya.

“Dia adalah seorang juara yang hebat, namun saya
ingin menunjukkan bagaimana Alex sangat profesional sepanjang tahun
ini. Dia menerima peran ini dan tidak pernah membuat masalah atau
kontroversi, bekerja keras saat latihan dan membayar kepercayaan
pelatih saat dimainkan,” ucap gianluigi Buffon.

Jumlah
penampilan Del Piero musim ini memang terbatas, tetapi ia mengaku
menikmatinya. Ia bahkan mengaku belum mau memikirkan masa depannya dan
lebih memilih untuk menikmati satu pertandingan ke pertandingan
lainnya.

“Apakah perpisahan saya sudah ditentukan? Itu bukan
kata-kata yang tepat,” ujarnya di Football Italia.

“Saya tidak
sedang memikirkan masa depan saya. Masa depan saya adalah pertandingan
melawan Napoli. Saya ingin menikmati setiap detik dari petualangan
yang menakjubkan ini. Baru setelahnya, kita lihat saja
nanti.”
(dtc/roz) Sumber: detiksport

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Versi obat generik
pertama yang dikeluarkan oleh Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc and privately
held Apotex Inc ini direkomendasikan untuk dikonsumsi dalam satu bulan
sekali.

Dalam situs Drugs.com (19/3) disebutkan bahwa Boniva
atau Ibandronate efektif untuk membantu memperlambat kerapuhan tulang,
meningkatkan massa tulang, dan juga mempercepat siklus pertumbuhan
tulang.

Berikut adalah informasi penting mengenai Boniva
:
1. Boniva merupakan obat pencegah osteoporosis yang khusus
digunakan bagi perempuan.
2. Boniva dapat menyebabkan masalah
serius di perut atau kerongkongan. Pastikan Anda tetap tegak
setidaknya selama 60 menit setelah minum obat ini.
3. Saat meminum
Boniva, Anda hanya diperkenankan untuk mengkonsumsi air putih. Tidak
disarankan untuk makan atau mengkonsumsi vitamin setidaknya satu jam
setelah mengkonsumsi obat ini.(MI/DSY)

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Sekitar pukul 13.00 WIB, sidang diskors untuk makan
siang. Namun, penasihat hukum Nunun meminta sidang disudahi karena
kliennya tak enak badan. Penasihat hukum mengatakan, Nunun sakit sejak
semalam. Itu dikuatkan keterangan dokter dari Rumah Sakit Abdi
Waluyo.

Hakim Sudjatmiko meminta surat dokter tersebut. Namun
ia tak lantas mengabulkan menunda sidang. Sudjatmiko memutuskan sidang
tetap diskors, sambil pihaknya mendatangkan dokter dari Komisi
Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) untuk memeriksa Nunun.

“Saat ini
sidang diskors dulu, nanti kalau dokter bilang tak memungkinkan baru
kita tunda sidang ke lain waktu,” kata Sudjatmiko.

Tak lama
setelah sidang diskors, Nunun muntah-muntah di toilet lantai 1
Pengadilan Tipikor. Pantauan Metrotvnews.com, Nunun berada cukup lama
di toilet perempuan yang cuma satu-satunya di lantai itu. Nunun
kemudian diperiksa dokter KPK, Johannes Hutabarat.

Sekitar satu
jam kemudian, skors selesai. Sudjatmiko menanyakan apakah Nunun bisa
dihadirkan di ruang pengadilan. Namun, penasihat hukum mengatakan
Nunun tak sanggup dan kondisinya tidak memungkinkan.

“Tidak
memungkinkan yang mulia, karena maaf banyak air liur di bajunya
(Nunun),” kata Ina Rachman, salah satu penasihat hukum Nunun, kepada
majelis hakim.

Sudjatmiko lalu meminta dokter KPK dihadirkan di
persidangan. Sudjatmiko meminta Johannes menerangkan hasil pemeriksaan
terhadap Nunun. Johannes mengatakan, Nunun menderita sakit sedang dan
dikhawatirkan memburuk bila sidang dilanjutkan.

“Dari
pemeriksaan saya, pasien sakit sedang. Tekanan darahnya 140/100 dengan
nadi cukup cepat. Ada keluhan muntah, sampai saat ini dua kali muntah.
Saya anjurkan berobat ke dokternya karena ada riwayat hipertensi,”
kata dokter Johannes.

Mendengar keterangan itu, Sudjatmiko
memutuskan untuk menunda sidang. Ia juga mengizinkan Nunun berobat ke
dokternya. Namun, Sudjatmiko mengingatkan agar Nunun melapor bila
diharuskan menjalani rawat inap.

“Kami izinkan, tapi
sebagaimana izin berobat jalan ya. Setelah berobat kembali ke Rutan.
Kepada Penasehat Umum saya ingatkan, kalau berobat jalan ya setelah
berobat jangan nginap, Kalau harus nginap bilang kepada majelis. Tentu
Rumah Sakitnya majelis yang tentukan karena itu akan jadi tanggungan
negara,” kata Sudjatmiko.

Sebelum menutup sidang, Sudjatmiko
juga meminta dua saksi yang belum dihadirkan, Wita dan Krisna untuk
dipanggil ke ruang sidang. Kepada keduanya, Sudjatmiko memerintahkan
untk hadir kembali pada Senin depan.

“Hadir tanpa surat
panggilan lagi. Ini merupakan perintah,” kata Sudjatmiko.(IKA)

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Contemporary: Dancers show current lifestyles of a Chinese-Indonesian family in Kabaret Oriental “Anak Emas Juragan Batik”. JP/Wendra AjistyatamaIt’s not easy being rich. What if your sister refuses to wear that glitzy dress you got her and you have to come up with another one? What if your face looks so tired that you need to drop by a beauty salon for a touch-up? What if your know-it-all brother wants to misuse the family company’s money and you might end up (gasp!) poor because of his antics?

Kabaret Oriental “Anak Emas Juragan Batik” [The Oriental Cabaret – The Golden Child of a Batik Master], produced by the Eksotika Karmawibhangga Indonesia (EKI) dance company, tells the story of a wealthy Chinese-Indonesian family in turmoil through dancing, singing and wit.

The story follows the children from the four wives of late Hwang Cin Hin, who are now in charge of the family batik company.

William, the oldest son from Hwang’s first wife, is in the boss’ seat, running the company with a somewhat conservative attitude. He is content with the local market and often grants budget requests from his wife, Melisa, and others in the family, by mere spoken approval, thus making the company’s book-keeping a tricky task.

Robert, who is a son from Hwang’s fourth and only living wife Lusiana, returns from studying overseas and demands that the company opens up to ideas such as tight budget control and expansion into the international market. His moves stir up controversy within the company, and ,of course,
the family.

And then there is the mysterious woman who is rumored to be getting closer and closer to Robert. Paired with the fact that Robert’s bills lately involve plenty of luxurious trips overseas, could it be that he is involved with a gold digger?

Despite the upper-class setting, the cabaret features issues that occur across classes, such as value clashes, prejudice and family ties.

In a hip, lighthearted way, it also unabashedly touches, albeit briefly, upon subjects such as homosexuality, relationships between different ethnic groups and corruption.

The dialogue, which often involves witty jokes, is carried out with various Indonesian dialects, such as Manado (from North Sulawesi) and Javanese, portraying how the Cina Peranakan (Chinese-Indonesian) culture itself is heterogeneous.

The cabaret stars noted names such as Cynthia Lamusu, Uli Herdinansyah, Sarah Sechan and Ary Kirana.

It features exquisitely designed costumes, especially the ones involving the use of batik, and vibrant, creative graphical works, multimedia and stage settings.

One of the scenes that drew big applause from the audience during Monday night’s showing at the Jakarta Art House (GKJ), saw shadow-puppet techniques combined with dancing, to tell the story of a lavish lifestyle.

Scenes performed by members of Sahita dance troupe, comprised of four women from Surakarta, Central Java, also drew applause and laughter due to their satirical lines that occasionally involve sexual humor.

“We showed the lives of Cina Peranakan because, actually, they have played a large role in developing Indonesia’s culture. We think it is about time that Indonesians admit that there are plenty of foreign elements that complete the country’s culture,” the program handed out to audience members says.

Nanang Hape, who directed the cabaret alongside Rusdy Rukmarata, says that some of the characters are based on real ones. “That [those characters] went through a little distillation because this is a show, that is true, but such characters, more or less with those characteristics, do exist,” he says.

Anak Emas Juragan Batik succeeded in providing insight of various issues in a fun, colorful way.

However, for a cabaret, it may need to be even more daring, especially in its choreography. The dances, although already dynamic, still seemed a little guarded and at times still left the stage feeling a bit empty.

Several characters in the play also left questions hanging in the air. Maureen, Robert’s younger sister, for example, is supposed to be a 17-year-old, but at times her lines sounded like they belonged to a much younger character. The character El, who is depicted as Maureen’s friend, is also still apparently in need of stronger statements to clarify her role in the story.

The cabaret, which is the 22nd production of EKI Dance Company, is set to play from March 20 to 24 at the GKJ. It is fully supported by Djarum Apresiasi Budaya foundation.

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Los Blancos membidik pemain
Belanda itu setelah usahanya mendatangkan bintang Santos Neymar
terancam gagal. Pasalnya, sang bintang akan lebih memilih untuk
melanjutkan karir di Camp Nou.

Seperti dilansir The Daily
Express, Ahad (25/3), van Persie masuk daftar terpenting buruan
Real Madrid pada bursa transfer musim panas mendatang.

Pihak
The Gunners bakal dites apakah mereka lebih memilih mempertahankan
sang striker atau menerima tawaran tersebut.

Selain van Persie, striker Manchester City Sergio Aguero juga menjadi incaran penting El Real. (Goal/RIZ)

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Searching for evidence: Police officers work at the site of a bomb explosion near the Indonesian Embassy, in Paris. A package bomb exploded at the Indonesian Embassy in Paris on Wednesday, causing minor damage but no injuries, police said. (AP/Thibault Camus)

A Paris police official says that a package bomb has exploded at the Indonesian Embassy, causing minor damage but no injuries.

The official says an employee at the embassy discovered a suspicious package Wednesday and stepped back in time before the package exploded. The official says no one was injured.

The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to Paris police policy.

The source of the package is not immediately clear.

Police are on site at the embassy in an elegant neighborhood of western Paris.

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Menara masjid terbesar di Malut yang menaranya diduga miring
berada di dalam laut atau pada posisi kanan masjid. Bagian bawah
menara setinggi 30 meter lebih itu terlihat mengalami
retak-retak.

Menurut Ridwan, pengurus masjid sudah menggelar
rapat dengan Dinas Pekerjaan Umum (PU) Ternate untuk membahas masalah
ini. Dalam rapat disepakati akan dibentuk tim untuk meneliti secara
menyeluruh kondisi menara, termasuk bagaimana cara terbaik untuk
memperbaikinya.

Ia mengatakan, pengurus BKM Masjid Raya
Al-Munawar telah memasang penghalang di sekitar menara itu untuk
mencegah kemungkinan terjadinya hal-hal yang tidak diinginkan,
terutama saat adanya angin kencang.

Masjid Al-Munawar yang
sebagian bangunannya berada di atas laut selama ini merupakan
kebanggaan pemkot dan masyarakat setempat. Masjid yang usianya belum
genap 10 tahun ini dibangun dengan dana lebih dari Rp40
miliar.

Angin kencang yang melanda wilayah Ternate pada Jumat
sore (23/3) juga merusak belasan rumah warga serta menumbangkan
puluhan pohon dan baliho kandidat Gubernur Malut di sejumlah lokasi di
daerah bekas pusat Pemerintahan Kesultanan Ternate ini.

Angin
kencang tersebut juga mengakibatkan gelombang tinggi di perairan
Ternate sehingga memaksa Adpel Ternate melarang semua kapal dan speed
boat berlayar meninggalkan sejumlah pelabuhan di Ternate.(Ant/ICH)

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Adalah penelusur gua bernama Sidiq
Harjanto dari Matalabiogama Universitas Gadjah Mada yang kali pertama
mendapati spesies itu. Temuan sudah dipublikasikan dalam jurnal
taksonomi Zookeys pada 9 Januari 2012. Artikel ditulis Cahyo Rahmadi
dan Jeremy Miller, naturalis dari Leiden, Belanda. Mereka menyebut
spesies itu Amauropelma Matakecil.

Sesuai namanya, laba-laba
yang hanya ditemukan di tiga gua di perbukitan Menoreh itu punya mata
kecil, tak seperti kerabat lain yang umumnya bermata besar. Begitu
kecilnya, bagian mata spesies ini hanya menyisakan bintik putih
transparan di bagian kepala.

Tapi, kata Cahyo, tak seperti
jenis laba-laba lainnya, laba-laba berwarna coklat pucat itu punya
kaki panjang. Lebih panjang ketimbang laba-laba dari luar
gua.

Para peneliti menyatakan, laba-laba gua dari Famili
Ctenidae (laba-laba pengembara) yang hanya ditemukan di lantai gua
dengan substrat lumpur mengering itu paling cocok dimasukkan ke marga
Amauropelma. Tapi, menurut Cahyo, pengelompokan itu belum tepat. Namun
hingga saat ini, marga itulah yang paling cocok.

“Amauropelma
merupakan salah satu marga dari famili Ctenidae yang sebaran utamanya
ada di Australia. Temuan di Jawa merupakan catatan baru untuk Marga
Amauropelma,” kata Cahyo Rahmadi.

Amauropelma Matakecil juga
dianggap unik karena dalam beberapa kali usaha koleksi dari gua-gua di
Menoreh, peneliti hanya memperoleh spesimen betina. Spesimen laba-laba
Matakecil jantan, sangat penting untuk memastikan
identitasnya.

“Ini masih menjadi pertanyaan besar buat saya.
Sekiranya jenis laba-laba itu memang tidak memiliki jantan, mungkin
Amauropelma Matakecil jenis laba-laba gua parthenogenetik yang
berkembang biak dengan telur tanpa proses pembuahan,” jelas
Cahyo.(Ant/Wtr4)

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McLaren Formula One driver Jenson Button, left, of Britain chats with Force India Formula One driver’s Paul di Resta of Britain and Nico Hulkenberg, right, of Germany after the third practice session at the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix at Sepang, Malaysia, on Saturday. (AP/Mark Baker)

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JAKARTA: The country’s largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), says it has thrown its weight behind a new outfit set up to counter the onslaught of firebrand organizations like the Islam Defenders Front (FPI).

NU secretary-general Marsudi Suhud said that the new outfit, called the Ahlussunnah Wal Jamaah (Aswaja) militia, had a similar mission to that of the NU in promoting pluralism, moderation and justice.

“The two institutions must work together to protect the ideology of pluralism against those who threaten violence and use bullying to scare off the public,” Marsudi said in a statement.

On Sunday, more than 2,500 activists joined a rally at the Declaration of Independence Monument on Jl. Proklamasi in Central Jakarta to support the establishment of the Aswaja militia.

Also present at the declaration were chairman of the National Awakening Party Muhamimin Iskandar and the leader of Aswaja militia, Marwan Jafar.

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Jumlah poin Madrid dan Barca sempat terpisah hingga 10
poin. Namun saat Madrid hanya meraih hasil imbang melawan Malaga akhir
pekan lalu, Barca mampu memaksimalkan peluang untuk memotong selisih
poin menjadi delapan dengan kemenangan dari Sevilla.

Tim
besutan Josep Guardiola itu makin memberi tekanan untuk Madrid dengan
kemenangan dari Granada, Rabu (21/3/2012) dinihari WIB tadi. Tiga poin
yang diraih Barca makin mengurangi selisih angka kedua tim menjadi
tinggal lima poin.

Madrid bisa saja tertekan dengan selisih
poin yang semakin memendek. Namun Karanka menyebut jika timnya tidak
memikirkan hal itu. Ia menegaskan El Real hanya fokus untuk meraih
tiga poin kala menyambangi markas Villarreal, Kamis (22/3/2012)
dinihari WIB.

“Kami hanya menghitung tiga poin yang
diperebutkan di setiap laga,” sebut asisten pelatih Madrid itu di
situs resmi klub.

“Kami tidak tahu akan seperti apa Villarreal
saat ini karena mereka punya pelatih baru, tapi kami melakukan kerja
yang baik dan harus terus menjaganya.”

“Kami akan tetap bekerja
dengan cara yang sama tanpa memperhatikan jarak delapan atau lima
poin,” tutupnya.
(dtc/a2s) Sumber: detiksport

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Neymar memang menjadi salah satu buruan banyak
klub top sejak musim panas lalu. Selain Barcelona, Real Madrid juga
dikabarkan tertarik mendapatkan penyerang berusia 20 tahun
itu.

Akan tetapi Los Cules lah yang berhasil mendapatkan pemain
berbakat ini. Laporan Radio Cadena SER mengklaim bahwa El Barca telah
membayar biaya transfer sebesar 14,5 juta euro dari total 58 juta euro
kepada Santos.

“Menurut sejumlah sumber-sumber yang terpercaya
Barca telah membayar seperempat dari 58 juta euro kepada Santos untuk
menjamin transfer si pemain,” bunyi klaim yang dikutip oleh
AFP.

Disebutkan pula bahwa transfer akan dituntaskan setelah
pagelaran Piala Dunia 2014 di Brasil. Sementara itu transfer ini
sendiri dilakukan Neymar bersama ayahnya dan bertentangan dengan
keinginan sang agen Wagner Ribeiro.
(dtc/rin) Sumber: detiksport

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Game Group, in the wake of closing around half of its high-street retail stores, is heading for collapse as the company is set to enter administration.

The gaming giant, which sells platform and PC games to consoles, suspended shares on the London Stock Exchange this morning after it said there was “no equity value” left in the business.

Game acquired GameStation in 2007, bolstering its position on the UK’s high street. Now with 1,300 stores across the continent, including 600 in the UK, it could soon lose its title as Europe’s largest gaming retailer.

Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games at IHS Screen Digest, speaking to the BBC, said that with hindsight Game punched above its weight.

Amidst a world of Amazon, supermarkets, in-console gaming stores and the great recession of 2008–2010, Game failed to adapt its business model and compete with its competitors.

Game’s decline was initially felt in February when it failed to acquire key game titles, such as Electronic Arts’ Mass Effect 3 and Nintendo’s Mario Party 9.

While Game store staff will continue to operate in its remaining 300 stores, its 10,000 staff face being laid off. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is expected to be appointed as the company’s administrator, but no timeline has been planned out.

In 2010, Game made £90 million ($142m) profit. The company needs to pay a £21 million ($33m) rent bill before Sunday, and a further £12 million ($19m) to pay its staff, the Guardian reports. It also faces a £10 million ($16m) tax bill that lines the pockets of the Treasury, and a further £40 million ($64m) to its supplies.

While talks of a takeover from a rival firm are rumbling, any potential investor would have to pay up to £100 million ($160m) for the pleasure of buying the financially-crippled firm.

Image source: Mykl Roventine/Flickr.

Related:

• CNET UK: Report: Game faces administration
• CNET: U.K. retailer Game ain’t got game–or games
• Game sales hit lowest point since October 2006
• EA losses drop, but sales and outlook decline
• ZDNet: Mac games get a shot in the arm from iOS

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Sampul depan
album menggambarkan empat personil grup legendaris ini menyeberangi
Abbey Road. Kini, setelah lebih dari 40 tahun, Abbey Road masih
menjadi magnet bagi para pencinta The Beatles.

Wisatawan lokal
dan manca negara pun masih datang untuk berfoto. Mereka tidak segan
menghentikan arus lalu lintas, hanya untuk menyeberangi jalan dan
berpose meniru sampul album The Beatles.

Seorang turis dari
Chicago, AS, Tom Goddard mengatakan ia dan teman-temannya adalah
penggemar The Beatles. “John Lennon adalah seorang jenius. Ia
merevolusi musik, ia seperti dewa buat saya,” kata Tom yang berprofesi
sebagai aranser musik.

Sedangkan Rachel Iwasaki seorang warga
negara Kanada yang menikah dengan pria Jepang mengatakan ia memiliki
kenangan manis dengan salah satu lagu The Beatles.

“Mendiang
suami saya melamar saya dengan lagu ‘Something’ 23 tahun yang lalu.
Saya tahu lagu itu direkam di Abbey Road dan saya bahagia bisa datang
ke sini,’” kata Jane.

Untuk mencapai Abbey Road, wisatawan bisa
naik kereta bawah tanah dan turun di Stasiun Saint John’s Wood dan
berjalan kaki melalui ruas jalan Grove End sebelum mencapai
persimpangan antara Garden Road dan Abbey Road.

Tidak ada papan
pengumuman atau rambu petunjuk yang secara khusus mengarah ke Abbey
Road. Satu-satunya pertanda didapat dari sebuah warung kopi di depan
stasiun yang juga menjual pernak pernik resmi The Beatles seperti
gelas, kaos, CD dan aneka poster seperti magnet kulkas.
abbey
road

Majalah musik Rolling Stones menyebut album Abbey Road
sebagai “salah satu album terbaik di dunia.” Hampir seluruh lagu dalam
album tersebut menjadi hits klasik, seperti ‘Come Together,’ ‘Oh
Darling,’ dan ‘Here Comes The Sun.’

Penggarapan album ini
dilakukan di Abbey Road Studio, salah satu studio rekaman tertua di
dunia. Selain The Beatles, grup Pink Floyd juga pernah membuat album
mereka di studio berusia 80 tahun ini.

Tembok di halaman studio
penuh dengan coretan tangan para turis selama bertahun-tahun dan
umumnya berisi kekaguman dan cinta mereka untuk The Beatles.(BBC/Wtr2)

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“Woman should be more educated to achieve welfare
for their family,” she expressed.

Moreover she said that
Jakarta DWP has big challenges to create welfare and eradicate
poverty. Due to high population number, various problems are emerging
in the city.

Meanwhile, according to City Secretary Fadjar
Panjaitan, Jakarta DWP is able to assist Jakarta Provincial Government
in eradicating poverty. Through its programs that directly touch
low-level societies, Jakarta DWP can effectively provide assistance on
the right targets.

“The first point of Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) is poverty eradication, which is very in line with the
government’s programs,” he stated

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Dalam laga
yang dihelat di Camp Nou, Rabu (21/3/2012) dinihari WIB, Messi
mencetak satu gol di babak pertama dan dua gol sisa di babak
kedua.

 Dengan trigolnya itu Messi pun melewati catatan
Cesar Rodriguez, pencetak gol terbanyak Barca dengan 232 gol. Torehan
gol Messi saat ini adalah 234 gol sejak debutnya tahun
2004.

Dua gol Barca lainnya dicetak Xavi Hernandez dan Carlos
Tellos. Granada sempat menyamakan kedudukan lewat dua penalti
Guilherme Siqueira dan Mainz.

Dengan raihan poin penuh ini maka
Barca kembali memangkas jarak dengan Real Madrid di puncak menjadi
lima poin dengan perolehan angka yakni 66 dari 28 pertandingan. Madrid
baru berlaga esok hari melawan Villarreal. Sementara itu Granada di
urutan 15 dengan 31 poin.

Jalannya pertandingan

Baru
empat menit laga berjalan Barca sudah membuka skor. Diawali umpan
Isaac Cuenca, bola mengarah ke Messi yang kemudian menyundul bola dan
Xavi langsung menyambar bola tersebut untuk dikonversi jadi
gol.

Di menit ke-17 Messi mencetak gol pertamanya di laga ini
sekaligus membawa Barca unggul 2-0. Messi melepaskan sepakan terukur
ke pojok kanan bawah gawang Granada dari dalam kotak
penalti.

Di menit ke-23 Xavi mengirimkan bola ke Dani Alves dan
Alves kemudian meneruskan dengan sepakan keras yang masih menyasar
sisi kanan gawang Julio Cesar. Tak ada lagi peluang berbahaya tercipta
dan skor 2-0 tetap bertahan hingga turun minum.

Delapan menit
setelah restart Messi kembali membahayakan pertahanan Granada setelah
sepakannya masih menyamping di kanan gawang. Cuenca kembali
menginspirasikan serangan Barca.

Granada memperkecil kedudukan
di menit 55 lewat gol Mainz. Free kick Carlos Martins disundul Mainz
dan Victor Valdes tak mampu menghadangnya. Di menit 62 Granada bahkan
menyamakan kedudukan lewat penalti Siqueira menyusul pelanggaran Alves
kepada Daniel Benitez.

Barca berbalik unggul lagi di menit 68
setelah Alves melepaskan umpan lob dan diterima dengan baik oleh
Messi, sebelum mengakhiri dengan sebuah chip ke dalam gawang tanpa
bisa dihalau siapapun.

 Dengan dua golnya ini Messi pun
resmi jadi pencetak gol terbanyak sepanjang sejarah klub asal Catalan
itu dengan 233 gol, menggeser Cesar Rodriguez.

Di menit 82
Tello membuat Barca memimpin 4-2 setelah memaksimalkan bola rebound
hasil sepakan Messi yang ditepis oleh Cesar.

Messi! Empat menit
setelahnya penyerang asal Argentina itu membuat gol ketiganya di laga
ini sekaligus membawa Barca unggul 5-2. Umpan terobosan Alves digapai
Messi dan dengan tenang dikirimkan bola ke dalam jala.

Barca
harus bermain dengan 10 orang di menit 88 setelah Alves mendapat kartu
kuning keduanya karena handball. Wasit menghadiahi tendangan penalti
dan Siquiera sukses mengecoh Valdes.

 Skor 5-3 untuk
keunggulan Barca menutup pertandingan itu.

Susunan
pemain

Barcelona: Valdes, Alves, Pique, Puyol, Adriano
(Mascherano 45′), Thiago (Iniesta 72′), Xavi, Keita, Sanchez, Messi,
Cuenca (Tello 72′)

Granada: Cesar, Cortes, Mainz, Gomez,
Siqueira, Hurtado (Abel 70′), Rico, Jara (Uche 45′), Martins, Benitez,
Ighalo (Geijo 79′)
(dtc/mrp) Sumber: detiksport

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Rieke Dyah Pitaloka: (JP/Ricky Yudhistira)An expert and a lawmaker have questioned the Bureaucratic Reform Ministry’s plan to dismiss civil servants who fail the competency test by granting them early retirement packages.

“Many tax office employers are smart, meaning that they are likely to pass the competency test easily. But who is going to guarantee that these people will perform well as civil servants,” House manpower commission lawmaker Rieke Diah Pitaloka told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.

She said that a stricter monitoring system and law enforcement should be applied as well.

Commenting on this, Siti Zuhroh from the Indonesian Science Institute (LIPI) said that the government should design follow-up programs for those who hadn’t passed the competency test and were granted early retirement.

“These people should be trained so that they are able to be financially independent or else they will become another problem later on,” she said.

Deputy Bureaucratic Reform Minister Eko Prasodjo earlier stated that the ministry intended to hold competency tests for civil servants. Those who passed the test would be rewarded with follow-up training to improve their skills, while those who didn’t would be granted early retirement packages.

The plan was a response to a survey that unveiled that 40 percent of the 4.6 million civil servants nationwide are incompetent.

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Gamers yang ingin bergabung dalam beta-testing Mists of
Pandaria dapat mendaftarkan diri melalui akun Battle.net. Mereka yang
terpilih untuk bermain, akan mendapat undangan eksklusif dari Blizzard
via surat elektronik atau email.

Belum diketahui berapa banyak
gamers yang akan diundang dalam beta-testing. Yang jelas, Blizzard
memprioritaskan pemain yang mempunyai kartu WOW Annual Pass.

Mists of Pandaria adalah ekspansi keempat WOW. Sebelumnya,
Blizzard telah mengeluarkan The Burning Crusade (2007), Wrath of the
Lich King (2008), dan Cataclysm (2010). Ekspansi terbaru bertempat di
kontinen Pandaria dan memfokuskan cerita pada tokoh Pandaren dan
karakter kelas monk. Mists of Pandaria menambah batas level karakter
pemain menjadi 90.(gamespot/wtr6)

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At their annual Forum and member Meeting event, the Green Grid announced the availability of additional tools, standard documentation, and educational course targeted at building more efficient and effective datacenters. The Green Grid Academy also provides coursework to develop a standard level of knowledge among operational employees of datacenter providers.

The announcements include the release of white papers, policy analysis, survey results, the Data Center Maturity Model Tool, and presentations from their conference. Unlike many organizations this type, much of the information presented at their conference is now available online and can be downloaded by non-members. This is despite the fact that they have recently introduced a lower price individual membership which gets the user access to everything and access to their annual conference.

Two of the most interesting forum presentations available online are the Data Center Design Guide and the Data Center Life Cycle Analysis. The Design Guide is described as “a guide for the standardization and evolution of key capabilities” and is based on five core tenants:

• Fully Scalable:

All systems/subsystems scale energy consumption and performance to use the minimal energy required to accomplish workload.

• Fully Instrumented:

All systems/subsystems within the datacenter are instrumented and provide real time operating power and performance data through standardized management interfaces.

• Fully Announced:

All systems/subsystems are discoverable and report minimum and maximum energy used, performance level capabilities, and location.

• Enhanced Management Infrastructure:

Compute, network, storage, power, cooling, and facilities utilize standardized management/interoperability interfaces and language.

• Policy Driven:

Operations are automated at all levels via policies set through management infrastructure.

• Standardized Metrics/Measurements:

Energy efficiency is monitored at all levels within the datacenter from individual subsystems to complete datacenter and is reported using standardized metrics during operation.

Using these five core principles for datacenter design seems to cover the majority of the issues encountered when creating good datacenter operations.

The Life Cycle Analysis Study presentation offers a fairly comprehensive outline of a datacenter lifecycle analysis and provides a good reference point for organizations looking to perfrom this same type of study.

Lots of well presented, useful information continues to become available of the Green Grid website, on a regular basis

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The government announced Thursday a 275 million Australian dollar ($288 million) subsidy for General Motors Co. to guarantee it continues to manufacture cars in Australia for another decade through its subsidiary Holden Lt.

As part of the deal, U.S.-based GM said in a statement it has agreed to invest more than $1 billion in car manufacturing at its Melbourne and Adelaide plants until at least 2022.

Holden will use the government assistance to design and build two new cars for the global market after 2015, the statement said.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard said GM had considered closing its entire design and manufacturing operations in Australia.

Australian manufacturers including Holden have been losing exports due to the strong Australian dollar, which has been bolstered by record Chinese industrial demand for minerals and energy.

Holden is one of seven global GM operations that designs, builds and sells vehicles for domestic and international markets.

The federal government will provide AU$215 million while the Victoria and South Australia state government will provide the remainder.

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While the majority of readers and Larry gave me the win in the latest ZDNet Great Debate I have to say I think the road to success may be harder for Microsoft than for Apple. The new iPad is simply gorgeous and the excitement generated by Apple’s quality products will be tough for Microsoft to overcome. Apple is working to get apps and services that support the enterprise and since they already have the majority of the tablet market that seems easier to accomplish than Microsoft introducing a new operating system.

As pointed out in detail by Adrian Windows 8 has a lot of work to do before release. Microsoft needs to have a consistent user interface and also show us why the Metro UI is better than Windows XP and Windows 7 that already both work well in the office.

I won the debate, primarily based on the fact that you still have to compromise with an iPad at the office, but I bought a new iPad and am going to have to see a lot more reasons from Microsoft and their hardware partners before I buy a Windows 8 computer.

Related ZDNet coverage

• Great Debate: Windows 8 slate or new iPad?
• Windows 8 beta: What works, what still needs work
• Is there a Plan B if Windows 8’s Metro fails?
• Here’s what’s wrong with Windows 8
• Microsoft: What’s new in IE10 in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview

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The Depok District Court on Monday sentenced M. Saat Dalimunte, the defendant of a public minivan rape case, to 10 years in prison.

Johanes Brian Richo and Deden Rosadi, the other two defendants in the case, are still waiting for their verdicts.

Presiding judge Wahyu Fitria said that Dalimunte, 19, was found guilty for raping RS, a vegetable vendor, and forcefully taking her earrings. Dalimunte was also guilty of driving the vehicle, which was used on the Bekasi–Kampung Melayu route, without a license.

Dalimunte said that he was still considering filing an appeal.

The prosecutors previously demanded 11 years for Dalimunte, eight years for Johanes and six years for Deden. The three were charged for allegedly breaching the Criminal Code’s Article 365 on armed robbery and Article 285 on rape.

Johanes and Deden, both 18 years old, were taken to the same trial as the judges considered their young age.

The three defendants allegedly assaulted RS, who was on her way to a traditional market in Depok at 3 a.m. on Dec. 14 last year.

RS reportedly had been beaten and suffered substantial injuries to both her genitalia and her forehead.

The rapists also took her earrings and Rp 500,000 (US$55) she was carrying before dumping her on Jl. Alternatif Cibubur, 2 kilometers from the Cikeas precinct post. RS was found by patrol police officers.

Less than two weeks after the incident, the City Police, along with the Depok Police, arrested Johanes and Deden in Bandung, West Java.

The two had moved to several places to avoid arrest, including to Bekasi, Cikampek and Bogor. Dalimunte was caught in Medan, North Sumatra, few days later.

Police said that the three had robbed on numerous occasions before the incident with RS, who was their seventh victim.

Another trial on public minivan rape is taking place at the West Jakarta District Court.

Four men accused of raping and killing Livia Pavita Soelistiyo, a student of Bina Nusantara (Binus) University who was found dead in August last year, stood at their first trial in December.

Irwan Soleh, 22, Rohman Setiawan, 20, Muhammad Fahri, 19, and Apriyadi, 22, allegedly robbed Livia, gang-raped her and killed her on board a M24 public minivan plying the Srengseng to Kebon Jeruk route before dumping her body in Cisauk, Tangerang, on Aug. 16.

Prosecutors said the suspects breached Criminal Code Articles 340 and 338 on premeditated murder and Article 365 on armed robbery.

The defendants may face anything from 20 years in prison to life.

Rampant rape cases on public minivans prompted the Jakarta Transportation Agency to strengthen strict regulations on public transportation drivers.

The city administration started to enforce a 2003 Transportation Ministry decree on public transportation on Jan. 9 in an effort to curb crimes on public minivans. The agency also sanctioned public minivan drivers without identity cards.

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Turn the clock back to 2008: Google solidified its high-profile partnership with wireless Internet provider Clearwire with an investment of $500 million. But on Friday, citing changing market conditions, Google has announced that it’s seeking to sell its 6.5 percent stake in Clearwire for about $47 million – a discount of 94 percent, representing a $453 loss for the search giant.

“Google periodically rebalances its investments based on its goals and its evaluation of market conditions,” Google said in its filing. No other explanation was given.

The search giant is giving other Clearwire investors – including Time Warner, Intel, Comcast and especially Sprint, which holds a 49 percent voting share in the company – the chance to purchase its 29.4 million shares at that discounted price before offering them up to the general public (at less of a discount, thus lowering the potential loss).

It’s not hard to see why Google might be trying to escape its obligations to Clearwire – the nine-year-old company has warned that it may need to acquire more capital to continue operations into 2013, even as it harbors ambitions to build a 4G LTE mobile broadband network of its own. Sprint reportedly owes Clearwire $600 million for unlimited access to its WiMax network.

WiMax never caught on in the way Clearwire hoped, and while I don’t know for sure, it sounds like Google doesn’t have much faith in the company’s transition to 4G. With the Google Fiber project underway, the search giant may find that it has enough ISP problems to worry about.

If I’m right, this move is a risky bet on Google’s part, as its essentially hedging $453 million against Clearwire failing to successfully make the transition to LTE. If Google is wrong, that would be a costly mistake. But if Google is right, well, it could have lost a lot more than $453 million.

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Sick of it all: Graft defendant Muhammad Nazaruddin is seen vomiting inside the waiting room of the Jakarta Corruption Court on Monday. JAKARTA: The panel of judges at the Jakarta Corruption Court ruled on Monday that graft defendant Muhammad Nazaruddin be detained at National Police Soekamto Hospital for a week to seek medical treatment for abdominal problems.

During Monday’s trial session, the court was actually scheduled to examine the defendant for his alleged role in a high-profile bribery case centered on a rigged bid for last year’s SEA Games’ facility in Palembang, South Sumatra.

However, Nazaruddin, who since last Friday has been admitted to Abdi Waluyo Hospital for the same abdominal problem, has not yet recovered since he was brought to the court building by Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) officers and prosecutors at around 2 p.m.

KPK doctor Yohanes Hutabarat escorted Nazaruddin, who was waiting for his trial to begin.

“Considering references from a KPK doctor, a letter and medical records from doctors at Abdi Waluyo Hospital and a request from Nazaruddin’s team of lawyers, as well as the panel’s own observation, we declare that Nazaruddin is indeed ill,” presiding judge Sudharmawatiningsih said. “The panel has decided to impose hospital detention against him for a week starting today.”

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Masalah ini bermula pada
tahun lalu saat ditemukan tumor di hati Abidal. Operasi pun harus
dilakukan untuk mengangkat tumor tersebut. Sebagai konsekuensinya,
Abidal absen selama beberapa pekan untuk memulihkan diri.

Meski begitu, Abidal bisa pulih dan kembali ke lapangan hijau
sebelum musim lalu berakhir. Bahkan, dia diberi kehormatan untuk
menerima trofi Liga Champions saat Barca jadi kampiun di
Wembley.

Namun, masalah ternyata tak selesai sampai di situ
saja. Operasi pengangkatan tumor ternyata menghasilkan efek samping
yang masih dirasakan oleh Abidal hingga sekarang.

Sebagai
solusi, Abidal pun harus kembali naik ke meja operasi dan menjalani
transplantasi (pencangkokan) hati.

“Dalam beberapa pekan ke
depan, si pemain (Abidal) akan menjalani transplantasi hati,” demikian
pernyataan Barca di situs resminya.

“Transplantasi adalah
pilihan yang sudah muncul sejak awal perawatannya setahun yang
lalu.”

Belum diketahui berapa lama Abidal akan absen karena hal
ini. Namun, dibek berusia 32 tahun ini diragukan bisa kembali sebelum
musim berakhir. Partisipasinya bersama Prancis di Piala Eropa pun juga
dalam tanda tanya.

Kehilangan Abidal tentu akan jadi masalah
tambahan buat Barca. Los Cules kini tengah memasuki fase krusial dan
terus diburu waktu untuk bisa memangkas jarak 10 poin dengan Real
Madrid di Liga Spanyol.

Di ajang Liga Champions, Barca juga
menjejakkan kaki di babak perempatfinal. Sementara di Copa del Rey,
mereka akan menghadapi Athletic Bilbao di final.
(dtc/mfi) Sumber:
detiksport

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Tuesday morning I officially heard that Sameer Patel, one of the key thought leaders in the collaboration space and one of the few who understood the convergence between collaboration and Social CRM, became the SAP Global VP, Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Solutions. Thing is,  he is also a very dear friend of mine, someone I love to pieces.

Because its something that I think is meaningful to the industry AND to me personally, it got me thinking.

Sameer has been for the last several years an independent thought leadership beacon. Arguably one of the most important leaders in the space, he has been outspoken, intelligent, a conceptually clear thinker, but always mindful of the fact that we are always dealing with human beings, not just concepts and abstraction. He is widely followed by a very large number of people.

He’s been independent and now he is going to SAP.

So I began thinking, what does it/that mean for thought leaders who do go to the corporate side? Is that bad? Good? Neither?

In his announcement on his blog Pretzel Logic (which incidentally will remain his blog), he said the following (Italics and different colors are mine. Just confirming a strong belief of mine):

Many of you are familiar with my strand of social in the enterprise, as seen on this blog, client work and on stage at industry events. As I wrote last week, the first innings of social in the enterprise is over. Those organizations that are pre-disposed to experimentation have done so. And a good many have seen the light through the work of some amazing practitioners and leaders who have given social and collaborative constructs a shot. Yet at a majority of organizations, executives who generally invest in concepts and technology only when they easily see direct and obvious impact on performance objectives haven’t yet had their “aha” moment. And if they were tempted by the promise around social business, many are still looking for that bridge that practically takes them from a world designed around structured process to one that gets them to blend collaboration at every step of business tasks and processes and in a way that drives revenue and margin, lowers cost and mitigates risk.

Why SAP

My assessment of what it would take to execute this – specifically, aligning core business activity, data, process and exceptions with the right people and insights at the right places, quickly winnowed down the list of organizations that could most logically make this transition a reality for customers. With a pedigree in core business process, business intelligence and industry solutions, and a decisive go forward strategy that now includes real time processing, cloud and mobility, SAP’s product and solution portfolio is one of the few that affords the needed canvas to improve how we engage with customers and partners and how work really gets done internally. The right design will come from the proper infusion of collaborative constructs right where business context emerges for individual users at every customer – a) not just inside or along side but across applications that power complete each business activity, b) when and where real time business intelligence emerges, and finally, 3) at the right (device agnostic) points of consumption. Each of these contextual elements are core to SAP’s portfolio of offerings today – both directly and via its partners.

My work in this market over the years has given me a clear sense of what a product portfolio needs to offer to deliver what I describe above. And as important, the kind of program design follow-through to make sure customers can truly change how they connect employees with each other and to customers and partners. I’ve got a superb team that I’ve already started to get to know over the last few days. I’ll say more about our plans over the weeks and months to come.

Needless to say, this generated some ideas of what the relationship between the company and the newly hired thought leader should consider because it is under no circumstances a “typical” hire and is one that can be hugely beneficial in multiple ways for the company (and the new hire) if done well but a real drain if not.

Sameer, because he is SO prominent in his space – and because he is a friend who I know extremely well – is going to be my example.

So lets start with some IF statements.

IF SAP is smart, they will not only give Sameer the latitude he needs to continue to be the thought leader he is, but they will encourage that.

WHY? Because as we’ve seen in the cases of people like Mitch Lieberman at Sword-Ciboodle, Chris Bucholtz at SugarCRM and in a different vein Anthony Lye at Oracle, when the leeway is there, the value is enormous because the thought leader garners new respect or maintains the respect they had. That respect becomes part of the universe of the company that they work for, in addition to the respect that is maintained independently. The halo effect.  See the above for proof.

IF SAP is smart, they will give Sameer a fair amount of internal leeway to do what he is primarily hired to do

WHY? Because he brings a combination of that thought leadership with strong operational skills and that is pretty rare for a thought leader. He has experience with large project teams on enterprise level products. Personally, I’d suck at his job.  But he can star. He fills an interesting hole for SAP because his skills extend beyond just the conceptual. He can fix the broken and create the new when it comes to product, and honestly, given my experience with Streamwork, it needs fixing and some true creative thinking about it if its going to be competitive in a marketplace already dominated by products like Chatter and Yammer among others.  Sameer is an ideal choice – if SAP lets him be.

What that means generally is that I have to presume when a thought leader is hired by a vendor to do something, that the vendor understands that they can do that something. He/she isn’t being hired as a thought leader per se but as someone who is competent to accomplish specific objectives. The thought leadership (unless they are being hired strictly as an evangelist) is almost secondary to the reason they are being hired. But its easy to let what they have been affect what they need to be by focusing on the evangelical part of the job to the near exclusion of their actual work responsibilities. This shouldn’t happen of course, but it can and I’ve seen it happen.

I think in this case, if SAP gives Sameer the leeway and resources that he needs, they will get a person that exceeds their expectations.  While this seems self evident, we are dealing with a massive corporation. While its one that I respect a great deal, I also have seen the politics, the stodgy thinking and the aspects of the culture (though in general they have a culture better than many) that can throw bottlenecks in the way. When you’re dealing with someone who is both operationally proficient and a highly respected leader in an entire field, the more freedom of action provided, devoid of politics, the better results you get. And that is a blessing.

I think this in general too. Sameer is a great example but its the same wherever. If you hire a thought leader to carry out a particular responsibility AND you let them execute without the commonplace interferences that you see in corporations, then  you’re likely to get better than planned. If you let the same old same old get in the way, well…..

Congrats to Sameer Patel on his new post! This time job post, not blog post.

For a great post on this, please see fellow ZDNetter Dennis Howlett’s post on Sameer’s hiring

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Jakarta governor candidate Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and running mate Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) rode a Kopaja minibus to the Jakarta General Election Commission (KPUD) on Monday to register for the gubernatorial election.

Jokowi currently serves as Surakarta mayor in Central Jakarta while Ahok is the former East Belitung Regent in Bangka Belitung Islands province.

The commission will open registration for the election until midnight on Monday.

The pair was accompanied by a team from the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party along with 24 coalition parties, kompas.com reported.

Aside from the Jokowi-Ahok pair, three other candidates have registered for the race that will be held on July 11.

They are Faisal Basri and Biem Benjamin as well as Hendardji Soepandji and Achmad Riza as independent candidates, and Alex Noerdin and Nono Sampono, who are backed by a coalition of the Golkar Party and the United Development Party (PPP).(iwa)

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The 2011 editions of Oracle Open World and Dreamforce were typically heavy on showmanship and entertainment with each pulling in about 45,000 attendees. But the conference season may come to remembered as the time when the conflict between the environmental efficiency of the cloud versus concerns over its security and privacy was brought into sharpest relief.

In 2008 the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) defined ten major sustainability issues for the ICT industry as follows:

• Climate change
• Waste and materials use
• Access to ICT 
• Freedom of expression 
• Privacy and security
• Employee relationships
• Customer relationships
• Supply chain
• Product use issues (including health, safety and wellbeing) 
• Economic development.

Now in 2011 two of the major players in the enterprise market have seized on two of these issues as points of pretty fierce competitive differentiation.

First Salesforce. At Dreamforce Mark Benioff warned against the ‘false cloud’.   

Salesforce back up the environmental claims with a report they commissioned from hired in guns from WSP who estimate that the Salesforce multi tenanted cloud architecture is 64% more carbon efficient than a private cloud. Intuitively this would seem to stack up but Tom Raftery of Greenmonk, the authoritative analyst in this space, recently poured a big jug of ice cold water over such claims: 

The mistake here is presuming a direct relationship between energy and carbon emissions. While this might seem like a logical assumption, it is not necessarily valid.

If I have a company whose energy retailer is selling me power generated primarily by nuclear or renewable sources for example, and I move my applications to a cloud provider whose power comes mostly from coal, then the move to cloud computing will increase, not decrease, my carbon emissions……….

………The main problem though, is that cloud computing providers still don’t publish their energy and emissions data. This is an issue I have highlighted on this blog many times in the last three years and until cloud providers become fully transparent with their energy and emissions information, it won’t be possible to state definitively that cloud computing can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Now to Oracle. As Larry Dignan reported from Oracle Open World – itself produced as a ‘green event’ under the watchful eye of Paul Salinger - Larry Ellison went on the offensive against Salesforce’s multi tenanted cloud architecture not by arguing the toss on environment, but by emphasising the supposed inferior interoperability, privacy and security architectural features of the Salesforce platform.

They put your data at risk by co-mingling it with your competitor’s data, ………you can check in, but you can’t check out. I like to think of it as the roach motel of clouds. Now that is a false cloud………. You have a choice, and I’m pro-choice. The guys at Salesforce are not pro-choice.

With the appointment of a Chief Sustainability Officer at Oracle and Salesforce’s sudden and recent commitment to environmental transparency, watch for the sustainability war of rehetoric to escalate. Corporate sustainability has heretofore been a genteel game practiced with a plenitude of hand wringing. For the enterprise market at least it looks as if the gloves are off.

Disclosure: I am an employee of SAP and Greenmonk has been an occasional supplier to SAP. Views expressed are my own. See my bio.

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Hingga saat ini Muamba masih berada
dalam kondisi kritis setelah mengalami serangan jantung ketika berlaga
di perempat-final Piala FA di kandang Tottenham Hotspur pada Sabtu
lalu.

“Doa dari Aston Villa untuk Fabrice Muamba dan
keluarganya,” demikian bunyi pengumuman resmi yang dilansir dari laman
Aston Villa.

“Pikiran kami juga tentunya ditujukan pula kepada
rekan-rekan satu timnya, staf manajemen dan semua pihak di Bolton
Wanderers yang kini tengah berduka.”

“Kami tanpa ada keraguan
telah menyepakati permintaan Bolton untuk menunda dulu laga Liga
Primer yang telah dijadwalkan Selasa mendatang di Villa
Park.”

“Kami juga untuk ingin mengucapkan terima kasih kepada
para suporter kami yang telah menyampaikan simpatinya dan dukungannya
kepada keluarga Muamba dan semua pihak di Bolton.”(goal/DNI)

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