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Balap Mobil Tenaga Surya Jakarta-Surabaya PP

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:40:00 +0000

Balap Mobil Tenaga Surya Jakarta-Surabaya PP

Berbicara mobil bertenaga surya, Amerika boleh dibilang berada paling depan. Tak cuma perkembangan, kompetisinya pun sudah bertaraf internasional. Salah satunya adalah ajang The 2010 American Solar Challange (ASC), Minggu lalu, dengan jarak tempuh Jakarta-Surabaya pergi pulang.

Lomba diikuti 17 mobil bebas emisi antara lain yang berasal dari Kanada, Jerman, Taiwan, dan tuan rumah, Amerika. Balapan dimulai dari Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, sampai Paerville, Illinois, yang terbentang sepanjang 1.770 km (atau setara jarak Jakarta-Surabaya). Peserta bersaing menjadi yang tercepat. Pemenang ditentukan dari desain dan bentuk kendaraan.

Di antara para peserta terdapat produsen sel solar terbesar di AS, SolarWorld, yang diwakilkan kendaraan andalan SolarWorld No.1. Sementara itu, mobil dikendarai seorang mahasiswa dari Universitas Bochum, Jerman, jurusan Teknik Sipil.

Kemampuan SolarWorld No.1 telah dibuktikan dalam serangkaian tes, termasuk penghitungan waktu total. Kendaraan ini dibekali lembaran photovoltaic dengan efisiensi tinggi untuk menangkap tenaga surya dan mengubahnya menjadi energi kinetik.

"Mobil balap tenaga surya kami akan menjadi panutan di seluruh AS dengan tenaga bersih berasal dari matahari. Kami telah mengembangkan teknologi ini sejak pertengahan 1970," ujar Kevin Kilkelly, Presiden SolarWorld California, seperti dilansir autoevolution, kemarin.

Penulis: AGK

Editor: bastian
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54 unit PCX Terjual dalam 5 Hari di PRJ

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:36:00 +0000

54 unit PCX Terjual dalam 5 Hari di PRJ

Kehadiran skuter otomatik (skutik) terbaru Honda PCX di Pekan Raya Jakarta mendapat animo yang positif, bahkan lebih dari yang diharapkan. Hanya 5 hari PRJ berlangsung, PT Wahana Makmur (WMS) Sejati, , telah berhasil menembus target penjualan.

Semula, menurut Inggrid Firmansyah, Corporate Communication Head, dari Dealer Utama Dealer Honda Jakarta dan Tangerang itu, hanya menargetkan penjualan 50 PCX selama PRJ. "Ternyata, sejak diluncurkan 16 Juni sampai 20 Juni sudah laku 54 unit," ujar Inggrid.

Honda PCX adalah skutik untuk segmen premium karena harganya Rp32 juta per unit. "Untuk PCX kami tidak merevisi target. Tetap 50-an unit. Sementara Astra Honda Motor, ATPM sepedamotor Honda di Indonesia, mematok target penjualan 250 unit per bulan.

Penulis: AGK
Editor: zbj
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Gile, "Avatar" 3D Versi Esek-esek Dirilis

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:34:00 +0000

Gile, "Avatar" 3D Versi Esek-esek Dirilis

Majalah porno Hustler dikabarkan baru saja menyelesaikan film Avatar versi film biru alias film porno. Film ini dikemas dalam parodi komedi dewasa dengan judul This Ain't Avatar XXX.

Pihak Hustler mengklaim, film tersebut diproduksi dengan biaya cukup besar. Alasannya, This Ain't Avatar XXX dibuat dalam bentuk 3D, sama persis dengan film versi aslinya yang digarap sutradara kawakan, James Cameron.

Agar persis dengan Avatar, Hustler bahkan menghadirkan para bintang pornonya seperti makhluk Na'vi, makhluk yang muncul dalam film Avatar.

Avatar versi esek-esek disebut-sebut akan dirilis dalam bentuk DVD dan Blu-ray.

Seperti diberitakan slashfilm.com, Hustler dalam film versi esek-esek itu mengangkat adegan percintaan antara Jake Sully dan Neytiri, yang dalam versi aslinya memang telah dihilangkan. Ruang inilah yang kemudian dieksplorasi. Hasilnya, ya itu tadi, lahirlah This Ain't Avatar XXX.

Rencananya, film tersebut akan beredar pada bulan September 2010.

(slashfilm/TFT)
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iPad Gantikan Buku Liturgi di Gereja

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:30:00 +0000

iPad Gantikan Buku Liturgi di Gereja

Dengan dukungan aplikasi yang sabgat banyak, perangkat iPad buatan Apple bisa digunakan untuk bermacam keperluan. Dari perangkat baca, bermain game, akses internet , dan lainnya. Bahkan, seorang pastur di Italia telah menggunakannya sebagai pengganti buku liturgi saat memimpin misa di gereja Katolik.

Pastor bernama Paolo Padrini yang kini menjabat konsultan di Dewan Kepausan untuk Komunikasi Sosial di Gereja Vatikan membuat aplikasi yang fungsinya sama dengan buku liturgi untuk digunakan di berbagai negara. Ia mengatakan aplikasi tersebut akan tersedia gratis mulai Juli dalam Bahasa Inggris, Perancis, Spanyol, Italia, dan Latin.

"Buku dalam bentuk cetak tidak akan pernah hilang. (Tapi), kita seharusnya tidak mempermasalahkan kehadiran perangkat baru di latar untuk mendukung ritual berdoa," ujar Padrini. Ia meyakini hadirnya aplikasi di perangkat seperti itu membantu para pastur yang sering berkeliling dari satu tempat ke tempat lain. "

Bukan kali ini Padrini melakukan terobosan untuk mentransformasikan buku konvensional yang dipakai gereja-geraja ke dalam perangkat digital. Dua tahun lalu, ia juga membuat aplikasi untuk iPhone bernama iBrievary yang berisi buku doa harian yang digunakan para pastor selama ini. Sampai sekarang, aplikasi ini sudah diunduh 200.000 kali.

Aplikasi untuk iPad mirip dengan iBrievary, namun lebih lengkap karena berisi juga bacaan-bacaan dan lagu yang dinyanyikan selama misa sepanjang tahun. Upgrade berikutnya, Padrini menjanjikan bakal menyediakan fitur audio serta komentar-komentar dan saran untuk homili serta iringan musik.

Karena kesuksesan iBrievary pula, Padrini direkrut Gereja Vatikan untuk menjalankan program yang menyasar generasi muda. gereja Vatikan sendiri terbuka dengan hadirnya teknologi baru. Paus Benediktus XVI yang suka musik klasik bahkan sudah menggunakan iPod sejak 2006. Gereja Vatikan juga rutin meng-update kanalnya di YouTube dan Facebook.

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Pengadilan Tentukan Agama Orang Mati

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:28:00 +0000

Pengadilan Tentukan Agama Orang Mati

Sebuah pengadilan di Banglades memanggil teman-teman dari seorang pria yang telah meninggal untuk mengakhiri percekcokan selama enam bulan yang terjadi di antara dua istrinya. Salah seorang istrinya beragama Hindu, dan satu lagi adalah Muslim.

Pihak kepolisian, Senin (21/6/2010), mengatakan, ketika Chandan Kumar Chakrabarty alias Sazzad Hossain (42), seorang wakil prinsipal sebuah perguruan tinggi di Dhaka, ditikam hingga tewas oleh perampok pada Desember lalu, kehidupan rahasianya terbongkar. Dua istrinya pun sejak itu memperebutkan mayat Chandan.

"Teman-temannya akan bersaksi terhadap keputusan apakah dia telah memeluk agama Islam, sebagaimana diklaim oleh istri keduanya," kata polisi Delwar Hossain kepada AFP. Ia menambahkan, teman-temannya akan muncul di pengadilan tanggal 29 Juni.

Istrinya yang Muslim, yang mengatakan menikah dengan Chandan pada tahun lalu, ingin Chandan dikubur sesuai dengan upacara tradisional Muslim. Adapun istrinya yang Hindu, yang menikah dengan Chandan selama 15 tahun, ingin mayatnya dikremasi dan menuduh istri kedua sebagai istri palsu.

"Jika kami masih belum dapat memutuskan, maka pengadilan akan melihat apakah kami perlu memeriksa kembali mayatnya dan melihat apakah ia telah disunat," kata Hossain. Sunat wajib bagi laki-laki Muslim. Namun, pria Hindu tidak dituntut oleh agama mereka untuk bersunat.

Sebagai informasi, Banglades merupakan negara mayoritas Muslim. Namun, negara itu memiliki sistem hukum sekuler yang diwarisi Inggris, yang sebelumnya memerintah di negara di sub-benua India itu.

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iPhone 4 Pre Orders Begin: Everything You Need To Know

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:58:00 +0000

iPhone 4 Pre Orders Begin: Everything You Need To Know

UPDATE The pre-sale of the iPhone 4 has been plagued by problems.
Customers not only faced long lines at Apple and AT&T retail stores, but also encountered errors trying to order the new iPhone online. These issues that have been blamed on AT&T's overloaded ordering systems, which will affect orders placed through Apple's online store, as these must go through the AT&T servers.

Gizmodo reports that AT&T customers have even suffered security breaches "while trying to access their accounts online" and have mistakenly been directed to other users' accounts. (Read more first-hand accounts of the pre-order problems on Gizmodo.)

Twitter has been buzzing with users venting their frustrations with the pre-order process. @Skottieyoung tweeted, "Trying to pre-order my iPhone 4 but Apple site is not being my friend. D*mn you sir, just let me waste my money like an American should." @AndrewDumont wrote, "This pre-ordering process is an absolute joke. I've tried Apple.com, ATT.com and even calling the store... no luck. #FAIL." Huffington Post commenter FrTown reported troubles earlier today: "The site has crashed a few times this morning. AT&T is updating their site and is inaccessible either. "

The iPhone 4 launch has experienced a handful of hiccups. In addition to the swamped servers, Steve Jobs's unveiling of the iPhone at WWDC hit snafus due to data congestion, and the CEO was even heckled by the audience.
Have you had problems pre-ordering the iPhone? Tell us in the comments section below.
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Don't want to wait in line for the new iPhone 4 come launch day (June 24)? iPhone 4 pre-orders begin Tuesday, June 15th, and we've got everything you need to know to ensure you'll be among the first get to the brand new smartphone.(secure huffingtonpost.com)

iPhone 4 Glass – Will it break

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:54:00 +0000

iPhone 4 Glass – Will it break

We here at iFixYouri did a little science experiment the other day with some of our newest iPhone parts. Many people have been talking that the new iPhone has strong glass, less prone to scratching, 30 times stronger than plastic, etc. Will the new glass prove to be ultra strong and never break?

I’m going to go with a no on this one. Why may you ask? They do say that it is 30 times stronger than plastic, and there is a video of it bending. Bending, yes. They did also state that the iPhone 3Gs Glass was stronger when that came out as well. It may bend more, but can it
handle shock and sudden impact, that is the real question. That is what causes 95% of glass shattering. Not because you bent the glass in your pocket, not because you dropped it and it bent, but really because of sudden impact.

Land it flat on the ground, and it will smash. We have evidence. Before i show you the evidence, I am going to point out a design flaw that will bite them in the future. On the new iPhone, the glass basically sits on top of the aluminum frame. On the old iphone, it was recessed and protected by a chrome bezel.
We have a full iPhone 4(minus the circuit board), here at our shop and decided to do a little drop test. This drop was performed from 3.5 ft up. Mind you that these parts ARE original apple parts. Laser etched and all. The iPhone 4 did survive 2 drops, as expected, but on the 3rd drop there was a loud POP, and yet again, shattered glass.

We will continue to be the leader in iPhone Repair, and now iPhone 4 Repair.
More updates/pictures here!
Since this posting has got waves from many people, we’re going to clear a few things up here.
1) People are saying, “there’s no way you have iPhone 4 parts yet, the phone isn’t even out!”

The fact is, is that we’re a repair shop. Along with other major repair shops, we’re able to receive parts earlier than most. A simple google search will show that not only us, but other top players in the ‘iphone repair’ world, do in fact have these parts. We did put out a press release on June 3rd stating that we had the parts. This is no secret. A rather large competitor had them as earlier as May 19th. This is also widely spread on the internet

2) You hit it with a hammer

Uhmmm…no…we didn’t. That’s the most ridiculous thing we’ve heard.

3) Fake

We’re going to go with a no on this one as well. iPhone 4 Parts are available to all major repair shops…just seek and you shall see. Google ‘iphone repair’ and check some of the top competitor sites…they’re all ramped up and ready to service iPhone 4’s.

Here’s EXACTLY how it went down…if you want to read more into it, go for it. But honestly, and truthfully, this is the EXACT re-enactment of what happened:

It was a hot day on June 7th, 2010 and us here at the shop had just finished listening to the keynote by the great Steve Jobs. He had made a statement that the glass was stronger, more bendable, etc. After hearing that, one of our techs said “We should test a piece of the glass that we have in stock(iphone 4 glass that is).”
We proceeded down the hallway with our assembled iPhone 4(minus the internal circuit board), stepped out the front door and out to the side walk. Our tech held the phone(front facing the ground), and dropped it. Nothing(drop 1-we were very impressed). Drop 2, nothing. Drop 3, smash. He dropped it flat on the face and it popped. The all too familiar pop sound that some of us beloved iPhone users fear for.
As we sat talking about it, we decided to show our results on our blog, so that our readers could see what we had found. Not expecting it to take wind the way it did.

That is all…no ulterior motive…just to show our readers what had happened. That is it.
Please do yourselves a favor and check some competitor sites and you will see that the iPhone 4 parts aren’t as rare and elusive as you may think. There are numerous places out there with iPhone 4 parts already.
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E3 2010: 2K Games Shows Glimpse of 1950s Sci-Fi Paranoia in XCO

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:48:00 +0000

E3 2010: 2K Games Shows Glimpse of 1950s Sci-Fi Paranoia in XCO

Announced a few months ago, 2K's reimagining of the classic PC strategy game changes genres to become a first-person shooter. But the 2K Marin dev studio insists there'll still be strategy involved. The game takes its title from an organization gathering disparate pieces of info regarding a secret alien invasion. The demo we saw started in aircraft hangar, the base of XCOM. You'll play as William Carter, who discovered an alien artifact that led to forming of XCOM. Carter leads XCOM and in tat role, players will decide which missions to take on and which to reject. A tour around the base showed off Illyrium, an alien substance that powers the retro-futuristic tech and weapons the agents use to fight the aliens. The research you do
in the field generates new equipment and weapons, so that's another way the missions you choose can affect progression in the game. Your techician Mal is like a greaser, and you'll get items like a Blobotov from him, which uses weaponized alien mass against them. The game has very limited ammo so you'll need to be careful to conserve it in battle.

The mission we saw had Carter investigating a emergency call in a suburban neighborhood. He got there get there to find a deserted street and followed a scream to a backyard with a trail of goo, with a dead body smothered in the gelatinous mess. Then we saw the first glimpse of the games' extraterrestrials. The Blobs are amorphous tentacled creatures that crawl up walls and ceilings. They've got a black exterior that reveal a white central mass when you shoot ‘em up. If you don't take them out completely, the black jello reforms around the white nugget and keeps on attacking. In short, they're hella creepy. Carter pulled out a sci-fi energy weapon and dispatched the rest of the blobs after a while. You'll be manage a team of agents in the field and as the mission continued, it turned in a slaughter in a mid-century modern split-level ranch. One agent went down in the mission to rescue the woman who called for help. Once that was done, the race was to get back to the car and escape the destroyed suburb. Going back out to car, Carter encountered the Titan, a obelisk shape-shifter with disintegrating blasts. Like the walkers from War of the Worlds, it evaporated everything in its path. The demo ended with the Titan ominously bearing down on Carter. Who knows how he's gonna escape?

Basically, Madmen + The X Files = XCOM. The same kind of attention to style that makes the Bioshock games so good shows up in XCOM. Fedoras, suspenders, high-waisted pants all make the period aspect of the game come alive. The old-school UFO paranoia will be a great element, too. This time period was supposed to be an era where everything was sunny and perfect, so a dark alien threat provides a nice contrast to all the “Leave It to Beaver” nostalgia. XCOM's out in 2011 and we'll have more on it as news becomes available.secure techland.com

Israel Eases but Doesn't End Its Gaza Blockade

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:43:00 +0000

Israel Eases but Doesn't End Its Gaza Blockade

Israel has not voted to end its blockade of Gaza — it would deem such a move a victory for the territory's Hamas rulers and also a vindication of the effort to break the siege by the aid flotilla that was raided by the Israeli military, resulting in the deaths of nine activists. Instead, according to a government statement on Thursday, Israel has "agreed to liberalize the system by which civilian goods enter Gaza [and]
expand the inflow of materials for civilian projects that are under international supervision." In other words, to ease the blockade.

Although the practical meaning of the decision remains unclear, it involves loosening prohibitions on food, toys, school supplies, kitchen utensils, mattresses and other goods entering the territory. Already last week Israel had begun allowing in potato chips, jam, honey, halva and cookies, stung by the negative publicity over the botched raid on the flotilla. But the fact that such benign items had been on a list of prohibited goods in the first place seemed to negate Israeli claims that the purpose of the blockade was simply to prevent weapons from entering Gaza. In fact, Israeli officials had long made clear that the blockade was a strategy of "economic warfare" against Hamas, aimed at squeezing the civilian population of Gaza to turn it against the Islamist movement that seized complete control of Gaza after a power struggle with Fatah militias in 2007. (See pictures of Israeli commandos storming the Turkish ships.)

The change in the terms of the blockade followed talks with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, acting as the representative of the Mideast Quartet — the U.S., the European Union, Russia and the U.N. It was speculated that he was seeking a deal under which Israel would ease the terms of the siege in exchange for Western acceptance of Israel's conducting its own inquiry into the flotilla raid, rather than submitting to an international probe as demanded by Turkey and others.

But the move is clearly limited and falls well short of lifting all restrictions on Palestinian economic activity and simply inspecting all cargoes in and out to prevent the transfer of weapons and military matériel. Speaking ahead of the announcement, Maxwell Gaylard, U.N. deputy special and humanitarian coordinator for the Middle East, told reporters that far more was required than merely expanding the list of items allowed into the territory. "What we need to see is an improvement in Gaza's water, sanitation, power grid, educational and health sectors," Gaylard told Inter Press Service. "Gaza's economy is shot to pieces, and its infrastructure is extremely fragile. Something dramatic has to happen soon if Gaza is to be seriously rehabilitated." (See "Can Israel Learn How to Make Its Case?")

It's not clear that Gaza's economy will be rehabilitated under the deal brokered by Blair, which eases the terms of the blockade without addressing its underlying political logic. "The policy in Gaza," Blair said on Tuesday, "should be to isolate the extremists but to help the people." The U.S. and its closest allies remain committed to a boycott of Hamas until such time as the movement is prepared to renounce rather than simply suspend violence and to recognize Israel and accept previous peace agreements it had no part in. But more pragmatic voices — ranging from former Israeli national security adviser Giora Eiland to Blair's former U.N. ambassador Sir Jeremy Greenstock — have urged the West and Israel to begin engaging pragmatically with Hamas, which remains the only organization that can keep the peace in Gaza and without whose involvement any peace agreement negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians is unlikely to take hold.

The crisis in the blockade strategy created by the flotilla debacle runs deeper: the joint strategy adopted four years ago by the West, Israel, the moderate Arab regimes and Fatah to isolate Hamas and force it out of power has not only failed to achieve its objectives but has ceded the initiative to others to set the regional agenda. Turkey played a leading role in the flotilla, reiterating its newfound independence from the U.S. on regional issues — and its willingness to challenge Washington and Israel. In doing so, Turkey is channeling the overwhelming majority of public

opinion throughout the region and highlighting the fact that rather than Hamas, it is the Arab governments that have cooperated with the U.S.-Israeli blockade strategy that are increasingly isolated and under pressure to distance themselves from the siege. Easing the blockade may relieve some of the immediate political pressure, but it's a decision that affirms that the U.S.-Israeli-Arab strategy to write Hamas out of the Palestinian political equation is in deep trouble. secure Time.com

Calderon defends drug war, many Mexicans skeptical

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:13:00 +0000

Calderon defends drug war, many Mexicans skeptical

Gunmen slaughter 19 men at a rehab clinic. Sixteen bodies are dumped in a northern city. Twelve police officers die in an ambush. Soldiers kill 15 gunmen outside a tourist town.

All this in less than a week, yet President Felipe Calderon believes Mexico is getting a bad rap and wants to hire a public relations firm to improve its image. He might want to start with convincing his own countrymen, who are frustrated by assurances that the drug war is going well.

"No matter how much the authorities want us to believe that they are winning this fight, the reality and the perception is that, on the contrary, it's a lost battle," said Miguel Jimenez, 21, a student in Morelia, the capital of Calderon's drug-plagued home state of Michoacan. "Day after day, it's demonstrated with the increasing violence."

Calderon passionately defended his military-led offensive against cartels this week, pledging not to withdraw the thousands of soldiers and federal police battling gangs across the country.

He acknowledged violence has surged -- often claiming innocent lives -- but insisted it was a war worth fighting and that things are going as planned.

"The strategy is advancing in the necessary direction that was established from the start," Calderon wrote in a long essay posted on his office's website this week. "Some analysts say that it was a mistake to fight crime, that we should not have 'provoked' them. I think this perspective is mistaken."

Calderon said cartels are infiltrating every walk of Mexican life, from police and politics to businesses cowered by extortion demands. He insisted there is no choice but to fight them. If there is more violence, he said, it is because drug cartels are reeling and splintered. And his government is embarking on long-term solutions, including U.S.-backed training of thousands of police and prosecutors in modern investigative techniques.

Some Mexicans agree.

The essay "was received with skepticism among commentators in the press and radio, where it has been commonly accepted that the strategy has failed," wrote columnist Hector Aguilar in the Milenio newspaper Wednesday. But "among the critics, there is nobody proposing an alternative to Calderon's strategy."

But others are tired of hearing the same arguments from the president and seeing little difference on the ground.

"How long is Calderon going to believe that this war will be won or lost by sacrificing lives?" wrote Milenio columnist Ciro Gomez. "Or, as he said last night, that things will change in the medium term?"

RATINGS RAT RACE: Fox's 'Lie To Me' Gains

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:13:00 +0000

RATINGS RAT RACE: Fox's 'Lie To Me' Gains

For a third consecutive off-season Monday, a repeat of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory (2.6 rating/7 share among adults 18-49) was the top program of the night in the adults 18-49 demo, but this time, it shared the honors with ABC’s The Bachelorette (2.6/8)
as several summer originals showed mild growth.
ABC’s unscripted lineup of The Bachelorette and True Beauty (1.9/6) was flat from last week, while NBC’s The Last Comic Standing (2.1/6) at 9PM was up a notch (5%) from its season premiere
last week. That failed to boost its lead-out, Persons Unknown (1.2/4), which was down 14% from its debut last week, an expected decline for a heavily serialized drama, which didn’t open strong. (See Exhibit A, ABC’s Happy Town).

Fox’s Lie To Me (2.0/7) at 8PM saw a promising 11% ratings increase from its summer premiere last week, but, in its third airing, The Good Guys at 9PM (1.3/4), continued to underperform, sliding another .1 rating point from its in-season preview (1.5) and summer premiere last week (1.4)
ABC (2.3/7, 7.4 million) won the night in adults 18-49, while being edged out by CBS’s all-rerun lineup (1.9/6, 7.5 million) in total viewers. (article deadline.com)

Latest UK On-Demand Movie Service Elbows Its Way Into Crowded Market

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:08:00 +0000

Latest UK On-Demand Movie Service Elbows Its Way Into Crowded Market

Projector.tv, the newest internet movie service, is in talks with local distribs Icon and Artificial Eye. It has already licensed 43 films from Metrodome for its video-on-demand business.
The service aims to have 20,000 registered users within two to three years, each buying two to three films each month.
London-based Projector also claims to be the first internet VOD service to be screening films during a major film festival. The Edinburgh International Film
Festival has signed a deal with Projector to show 10 features unspooling during the fest. Viewers at home will
be able to pay £6.99 ($10.49) to watch fest entries during the June 16-27 event. The titles though are pretty obscure, including Chinese film Fog and docus Girl With Black Balloons and Superhero Me. “From the festival’s point of view, it means that more people can see competition films mostly by first-time filmmakers,” says Projector’s Kobi Prempeh.
Rival internet VOD operator Lovefilm streamed London Film Festival feature Vinyan live at the same time as its fest screening last September.

Projector tells me that it is in talks with other British and US film festivals about streaming their entries.
It has already licensed 2,500 films, of which around 500 are currently available to watch.
Lovefilm, the UK equivalent of Netflix, is the dominant internet movie service over here. It has 1.4 million subscribers – all of whom have access to streamed movies as part of their membership -- making it the third-largest subscription movie service after Sky and Virgin Media. There are 5,000 titles available to watch over the internet, compared to 60,000 on DVD. Lovefilm hopes to double the number of streamed titles to 10,000 available by Christmas – half the number currently available stateside on Netflix. It originally thought that download-to-own (DTO) was the way to go, launching its DTO service in April 2006 with King Kong. Instead, the BBC’s on-demand catch-up service the iPlayer attuned customers to streaming.

Projector’s numbers by comparison are miniscule: just 200 people so far have actually paid to watch a movie.
FilmOn is another London-based internet VOD service, run by colourful Greek Coca-Cola magnate Alki David. FilmOn also has a sister porn site, the charmingly-titled FilthOn. David, who is also a movie producer, is away shooting in Los Angeles and unavailable to talk about his streaming service.

Projector sees itself as the VOD destination for movies that have not been picked up for theatrical. But it doesn’t have the money to pay producers upfront minimum guarantees. Instead, it is offering filmmakers 50/50 revenue share arrangements.
As much as I find Projector’s talk of providing a platform for unreleased films laudable, the truth is that there is usually a reason why films are not picked up for theatrical. They’re not very good.

And I suspect “the long tail” -- the idea that people would be buying older, more obscure movies or books because of infinite digital shelf space -- is so much marketing bunk. It’s magical thinking and not how people actually behave. Rather than increase choice, the internet seems to have diminished it. Only big media has the power to punch through internet clutter into people's consciousness. Look at the ubiquity of, say, Toy Story this summer or Stephenie Meyer's The Short Unhappy Life of Bree Tanner in book shops.
Chris Auty, former CEO of film company The Works, says that the numbers of movie streaming do not stack up. Hosting costs for movies are quite expensive, and operators must pay for bandwidth for the entire movie even if – as with porn – most people only watch between 3 and 7 minutes of a streamed feature. “The more people who watch the service, the cheaper hosting becomes,” says Prempeh.

So why all this fuss about internet movie services now? The answer is the launch of internet-enabled TV. The BBC, ITV, BT and others are developing Project Canvas: initially, a set-top box which will plug TVs straight in to the internet. After that, there will be internet TV sets too. The divide between broadcast TV and the web will disappear. This creates an opportunity for thousands of micro TV channels – Deadline TV anybody? – specialising in anything from motorbikes to horse-racing. The UK competition authority waved through Project Canvas last month. It is expected to launch Q2 2011.

Lovefilm has been “very supportive” of Canvas, one TV analyst tells me. And why wouldn’t it be? The set-top box gives Lovefilm a whole new canvas to paint on.
And then there is the much ballyhooed European launch of Hulu, providing it can find British partners.
Simon Morris, Lovefilm’s group marketing officer, believes there will be a tipping point when more people watch movies on-demand via their TVs than buy or rent DVDs. It’s just a question of when.
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Western nations slam Iran over human rights record

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:04:00 +0000

Western nations slam Iran over human rights record

Western nations rebuked Iran over its human rights record Tuesday after overcoming an attempt by Iran and its Muslim allies to block the statement from being read aloud in the U.N. Human Rights Council.
The United States and Norway pressured Iran to make good on its pledge to improve human rights in the country by crafting a statement that won the backing of all 27 European Union nations and more than two dozen other countries.

The statement, delivered by Norwegian Ambassador Bente Angell-Hansen, expressed concern over a "lack of progress in the protection of human rights in Iran," especially since the widespread arrests and bloody crackdowns against dissidents that followed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election on June 12, 2009.

Iran's shortcomings extend to "the violent suppression of dissent, detention and executions without due process of law, severe discrimination against women and minorities including people of Bah'ai faith, and restrictions of expression and religion," said the statement. It was agreed to by 56 nations, less than a third of all U.N. member nations.
"We cannot let this Human Rights Council session go by without marking the one-year anniversary of these events this month," they said.

Iranian Ambassador Hamid Baeidi Nejad had interrupted Angell-Hansen and used a procedural maneuver to quash the statement during a morning session.
Also protesting on behalf of Iran was the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Pakistani Ambassador Zamir Akram, speaking for the 56-nation organization, said it was unfair to single out one country in a discussion that was supposed to be about a landmark human rights conference in Vienna in 1993.
Rights groups also have complained that Iran hasn't allowed U.N. investigators to visit in recent years and isn't fulfilling its obligations under international treaties.

Washington's envoy to the council said the statement was initiated by her government and its release was timed to come after last week's adoption of new U.N. Security Council sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.
"In the end, the statement itself was a victory," Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe told reporters. She acknowledged, however, that she hadn't completely understood the procedural maneuvering that had taken place in the chamber.

It was little over a year ago that the United States won a seat on the 47-member body whose purpose is to assess the rights records of U.N. member nations. Nations that are not members can still speak and sign onto statements. artilce mail.com

Larang Anak-anaknya Idolakan Ariel-Luna

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:11:00 +0000

Shanaz Haque Larang Anak-anaknya Idolakan Ariel-Luna

JAKARTA -- Agar tidak terjadi penurunan terhadap masalah pendidikan anak-anaknya karena pemberitaan, Shanaz Haque tidak memanjakan mereka dengan televisi dan koran. Apalagi pemberitaan tentang video mesum mirip Ariel, Luna Maya dan Cut Tari."Mereka saya jauhkan dari pemberitaan itu, anak-anakku sudah punya acara sendiri dan koran sendiri,"ucapnya.

Karena dengan menyebarnya video tersebut dapat menimbulkan dampak negatif terutama bagi anak-anaknya."Saya prihatin dengan video itu, dan bagaimana pengaruh ke depannya nanti buat anak anak, pasti sangat negatif. Beruntung saya, mereka belum tahu, lihat koran dan lihat televisi tentang pemberitaan itu. Makanya mereka masih aman, tapi bagaimana dengan anak anak yang lain. Coba bayangkan bagaimana akses yang
mudah bagi mereka untuk menyentuh video itu,"terangnya.

Bagaimana mudahnya mengakses internet, menurutnya harus jadi perhatian yang penting bagi orangtua untuk mengawasi anak anak. "Saya sangat sangat prihatin tentang itu. Berita itu harus diungkap, tapi kita sebagai orangtua harus bisa menjawab dan menyampaikan jawaban yang benar ketika anak-anak kita bertanya nanti," paparnya.

"Saya takutnya mereka terinspirasi dari kelakuan-kelakuan idolanya mereka. Jadi keprihatinan buat saya sebagai ibu. Ini momen yang bagus juga buat kita membentengi anak-anak dari pengaruh negatif," imbuh Shanaz yang melarang anak-anaknya mengidolakan Ariel dan Luna Maya" tandasnya. (Fiyan).
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Ariel, Luna dan Cut Tari, Inikah Babak Terakhir

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:06:00 +0000

Ariel, Luna dan Cut Tari, Inikah Babak Terakhir

Meski hampir dua minggu berselang, kasus video asusila yang diduga dilakukan Ariel, Luna Maya dan Cut Tari masih menghangat di media. Kini, kasus video yang memperlihatkan adegan percintaan orang yang mirip ketiga artis itu sudah tidak lagi menjadi monopoli pribadi orang Indonesia dan media tapi menjadi domain pemerintah.

Jika media semula ramai memberitakan soal konten video, komentar para seleb, kini sudah bergeser pada pernyataan Polri dan pejabat publik.
Bahkan menteri dan wapres pun ikut menanggapinya. Wakil Presiden Boediono merasa prihatin atas tersebarnya video itu. Dia menyatakan keprihatinan sebelum menggelar rapat Komite Pendidikan Nasional di Istana Wakil Presiden.

Keprihatinan Boediono ini disampaikan sebelum ia memimpin rapat kabinet yang antara lain juga dihadiri Menteri Pendidikan M Nuh, Menteri Agama Suryadharma Ali dan Menteri Keuangan Agus Martowardojo, yang dikutip hampir di seluruh media di tanah air. Yah, masih lebih baik, dibandingkan kemarin yang menceritakan tentang konten video.

“Jika media semula ramai memberitakan soal konten video, komentar para seleb, kini sudah bergeser pada pernyataan Polri dan pejabat publik.”

Tapi yang memprihatinkan, spekulasi gosip ketiga artis ini menjadi tidak karu-karuan. Kabar yang tidak dapat pertanggungjawabkan itu mengalir melalui Yahoo Messenger, BlackBerry Messenger dan situs blog mikro, Twitter tentang masih ada 23 video serupa yang melibatkan artis top lainnya, laptop milik Ariel yang dicuri, bahkan soal keterlibatan seorang sosialita yang juga istri pemilik tempat hiburan terkenal di Jakarta dalam video serupa. Dan sudah bisa ditebak, gosip seperti inilah yang menjadi santapan media.

“Orang-orang yang semula tidak tahu tentang video ini akan menjadi tahu, sehingga perburuan video ini terus tinggi.”

Tapi yang bikin heboh lagi, selama dua hari berturut-turut topik Ariel Peterporn menjadi nomor satu. Bahkan media asing dari Australia hingga ke Eropa ikut-ikutan memberitakan kasus ini. Tentunya, Indonesa akan makin terkenal saja di dunia, setelah korupsi dan pelanggaran HAM.

Tapi syukurlah, dengan masuknya kasus ini menjadi domain pemerintah, semoga segalanya bisa menjadi terang benderang. Sebab, Kementerian Komunikasi dan Informatika (Kemenkominfo) telah mengumumkan bahwa pemosting video seks itu diketahui identitasnya oleh pihak kepolisian RI.

Disebutkan, dari dua video mesum tersebut, dipastikan pelakunya adalah dua orang yang berbeda. Video pertama yang memperlihatkan video mirip Ariel dan Luna Maya telah dihosting sejak 10 hari yang lalu. Sementara video kedua, yang mempertontonkan adegan dua yang mirip Ariel dan Cut Tari diposting sekitar enam hari yang lalu. Polisi pun kini tengah mengincar keduanya.

Semoga saja polisi bisa menangkapnya. Jika polisi mampu menyeret pelaku, tentunya patut diapresiasi. Sebab, tingkat kesulitan untuk mencari pelakunya cukup tinggi.

Tapi selalu ada sisi buruk, meski media gencar memberitakan berbagai langkah pemerintah ini. Sebab orang-orang yang semula tidak tahu tentang video ini akan menjadi tahu, sehingga perburuan video ini terus tinggi. Tak salah jika Penulis menilai media mainstream punya andil besar atas meluasnya peredaran video porno ini.

Apalagi sosok Luna Maya, Ariel dan Cut Tari seorang selebritis yang menjadi idola banyak orang. Pastinya fans mereka yang mungkin kebanyakan pelajar punya fantasi sendiri terhadap ketiganya. Mahfum, di usia 16 - 20 tahun adalah masa puber mereka dimana hormon testosteron (pria) dan hormon estrogen (wanita) tengah tinggi-tingginya. Semula, mereka yang biasanya ke warnet untuk bermain game online, kini berburu video mesum.

Harusnya gerak polisi yang cepat tidak hanya memanggil Ariel, Luna Maya dan Cut Tari pada 15 Juni 2010 mendatang. Tapi juga memberi efek jera dengan menangkap siapa saja yang mengunggah dan mendistribusikan video porno itu. Sebab video porno ini sudah menjadi komoditas di sejumlah daerah. Contoh di Yogyakarta sudah dikemas dalam bentuk kepingan CD dan DVD dengan harga Rp 5 ribu.

Meski kasus video panas ini sudah memasuki babak baru di wilayah penyelidikan polisi, tapi semoga saja, isunya akan terkalahkan oleh Piala Dunia yang digelar Jumat malam. Karena bagi Penulis pertandingan Piala Dunia tak kalah serunya dengan video tak bermanfaat seperti itu.

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Ada Lelaki Lain Dalam Video Porno Mirip Ariel dan Luna

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Roy Suyo: Ada Lelaki Lain Dalam Video Porno Mirip Ariel dan Luna

JAKARTA – Sebagai seorang pakar telematika, Roy Suryo memang dituntut jeli. Ia menyampaikan temuan baru bahwa dalam video mirip Ariel dan Luna Maya yang beredar dalam dua versi (2 menit 37 detik, dan 6 menit 49 detik), terdapat tiga orang pelaku. Mereka adalah lelaki mirip Ariel, perempuan mirip Luna Maya, dan seorang lelaki berperut buncit.

Siapa gerangan lelaki berperut buncit yang dimaksud Roy? “Saya tidak bisa menjustifikasi sekarang. Tunggu saja. Saya berusaha mengidentifikasinya secara lebih cepat,” jawab Roy dalam sebuah perbincangan dengan C&R di kediamannya, kawasan Slipi, Jakarta Barat, Minggu (13/6/2010) lalu.

Dalam kesempatan itu, Roy mengutarakan bahwa kasus tersebut bukanlah ranah privat, melainkan sudah menjadi ranah publik. Penjelasan Roy sekaligus membantah pendapat yang menyebut video porno mirip Ariel-Luna merupakan ranah privat.

“Masalah ini sudah melibatkan banyak orang, termasuk Wakil Presiden Boediono, sejumlah menteri, pemuka agama, dan Komisi Penyiaran Indonesia (KPI). Jadi, persoalan tersebut sudah menjadi milik publik,” katanya.

Atas dasar itu, Roy bersedia membantu pihak kepolisian untuk mengungkap siapa saja yang bersalah dalam peredaran video porno itu. "Jika yang mengedarkan, maka akan dikenakan Undang-Undang ITE, mereka yang mencuri akan dikenakan pasal pencurian, mereka yang melakukan perbuatan asusila akan digunakan Undang-Undang Pornografi," ujarnya. (Komar)

Ariel-Luna Dapat Tawaran Wawancara di CNN

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:01:00 +0000

Ariel-Luna Dapat Tawaran Wawancara di CNN

Pascaberedarnya video mesum mirip wajah artis papan atas dan kehadiran Nazriel Ilham alias Ariel dan Luna Maya di Mabes Polri, keduanya justru mendapat tawaran wawancara ekslusif di stasiun televisi berita asal Amerika, Cabel News Network (CNN).

Kepada CNN, pasangan sejoli ini dijadwalkan akan mengungkapkan hal-hal di balik kasus yang membelit mereka,
termasuk merebaknya kabar yang menyebutkan bahwa pelaku yang terekam dalam video mesum yang telah beredar luas di masyarakat diduga adalah mereka.

"Dia mau berbicara kepada CNN. Itu CNN yang menawarkan, bukan permintaan kita''

"Dia mau berbicara kepada CNN. Itu CNN yang menawarkan, bukan permintaan kita," ujar kuasa hukum Ariel-Luna, OC Kaligis di Pengadilan Tipikor, Jakarta, Selasa (15/6/2010).

Namun, OC Kaligis mengaku, jika Ariel dan Luna belum menyetujui tawaran CNN tersebut. "Belum disetujui mereka," katanya.

Sebelum melayani wawancara dengan tv asing tersebut, Arie-Luna dijadwalkan akan wawancara dengan sebuah stasiun televisi swasta nasional. "Besok, di Metro TV dulu," ujarnya.

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Porn actor sought in slaying dies in hillside fall

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:14:00 +0000

Porn actor sought in slaying dies in hillside fall

A porn actor suspected of killing a colleague died Saturday after falling some 40 feet from a rocky hillside after a standoff with police, officials said.

A "less than lethal munition" was used against Stephen Clancy Hill just before he fell, said police Officer Bruce Borihanh, who had no other details about the weapon that was used.
KABC-TV video of the incident showed Hill moving to the edge of the outcropping from a seated position and then letting himself drop as police closed in on him.

SWAT officers had spent part of Saturday afternoon trying to talk Hill down from the hillside as he clutched a sword.
It was unknown whether the sword was the murder weapon in Tuesday's deadly attack at a DVD production center that also left two people injured.

Hill, 34, fled to the Chatsworth neighborhood hillside after leaving a house where he was barricaded for most of Saturday.

Murder and attempted murder charges had been filed against Hill Friday after Eric Jover, who runs the Ultima DVD production house, offered a $2,000 reward on the company's website for information leading to his arrest.

Hill attacked a colleague with a sword that was used as a film prop during a social gathering at Ultima's studios about a week after being told he was being fired and that he would have to move out of the production facility, where he had been living, authorities said.

He then turned on two others who rushed to their co-worker's defense. One of those who attempted to help, Herbert Hin Wong, 30, was killed in the attack.

Hill, whose professional name is Steve Driver, fled in an SUV with the murder weapon, authorities said.
Ultima is located in the San Fernando Valley, known in the adult film industry as Porn Valley for its large number of porn businesses. The small company produces niche films featuring fetishes and sexual domination of men.

Hill was convicted of second-degree assault and a handgun charge in March 1999 in Maryland, according to court records.
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Wreck of WWII freighter believed found off Albania

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:11:00 +0000

Wreck of WWII freighter believed found off Albania

Using undersea scanning devices, archaeologists from the U.S. and Albania believe they have found the wreckage of an Italian ship that British forces torpedoed during World War II when Albania was occupied by Mussolini's Fascists.

The remnants -- found just off Albania's coast last weekend -- probably were part of the 8,000-ton Rosandra freighter, which was hit by a British submarine on June 14, 1943, the team said on Monday, the 67th anniversary of the sinking.

The vessel was located 260 feet (80 meters) beneath the surface of the Ionian Sea near Albania's
Karaburun Peninsula, 90 miles (140 kilometers) southwest of Tirana, the capital, during a survey of the country's seabed that began four years ago.
Expedition coordinator Auron Tare of Albania said the size of the wreck, and sonar images of two holes apparently caused by torpedo explosions, matched information from Italian and British sources on the Rosandra.

"If the data coincide with the conclusions of the further study of that archaeological relic, then we may say the expedition has discovered the Italian Rosandra ship," Tare told The Associated Press.
Six people died in the attack on the Axis vessel, which was carrying 400 tons of food and military supplies to Italian occupation forces in neighboring Greece, but 173 were safely evacuated to land, 400 meters (yards) away.

A freighter converted to a refrigerated ship, the Rosandra had been headed from the Albanian port of Vlora -- 70 miles from Italy -- to Patras in Greece.
Albania was under Fascist Italian occupation from 1939 until September 1943, when Italy surrendered to Allied forces. During the Second World War, Italy lost about 90 percent of its merchant fleet.
Albanian archaeologists and the RPM Nautical Foundation of Key West, Florida, have found 18 wrecks from ancient, medieval and modern times in their survey off the Balkan country's coast.
"This important discovery once more shows the important relics hidden deep in Albanian waters," the expedition said in a statement.

It is creating an underwater cultural heritage map of the Albanian coastline with the aim of opening an underwater archaeological museum in Porto Palermo in what is regarded as Albania's Riviera, a 90-mile (140-kilometer) stretch of coastline from Vlora to Saranda.
On Monday, the expedition expanded its mission north to cover waters off neighboring Montenegro.
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Mafia Used Sinatra and Monroe in A Plot to Smear Kennedys

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:07:00 +0000

Mafia Used Sinatra and Monroe in A Plot to Smear Kennedys

he intention was to work through "associates" of the two stars to lure the Kennedys, as well as Peter Lawford, their British actor brother-in-law and fellow member of Sinatra's "rat pack", into actions they would regret.

Papers released in the US yesterday contained reports of a rumour from an informant suggesting elements of the mob wanted smear the men. An FBI statement accompanying the released of the papers said: "[The file] contains report of a rumour from an informant suggesting that elements of the Mafia wanted attack the character of Edward and Robert Kennedy and their brother-in-law Peter Lawford by working through associates of Frank Sinatra to compromise them at a New York party. Both Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe were to be involved."

After looking into the claims, the FBI is said to have decided the information was not "solid" enough and no other mention of it appears. The plot is thought to have fizzled out, but it is consistent with other accounts of the extraordinary links between America's greatest political dynasty, the country's biggest stars and organised crime.

Monroe, who died in 1962, allegedly had affairs with both Bobby Kennedy and John F Kennedy, the former president who was assassinated in 1963. It has previously been claimed that she passed on pillow talk from Bobby Kennedy to Sinatra who in turn passed them on to his mafia friends.

Joseph Kennedy, the family patriarch, allegedly made much of the family fortune through his connections with organised crime, while the CIA under President Kennedy was rumoured to have explored ways of killing Cuban leader Fidel Castro with the mafia's help. However as attorney general Robert Kennedy launched several investigations into the mob which it may have felt warranted a measure of retribution.

From early on in his four-decade career in the senate, Edward Kennedy, the youngest of the three brothers, was known for his affairs with women and extravagant drinking habits. Papers released earlier this year the library of former president Richard Nixon showed that in the early 1970s he discussed with the aides the possibility of discrediting Kennedy by leaking news of his infidelities.

Agents in Milwaukee took the information from an unidentified source "who had furnished reliable information in the past," according to the memo. However, the informant could not verify the truth of any of the rumor's details.

"This is allegedly to be accomplished by working with outfit associates of Frank Sinatra to arrange for their women to be placed in compromising situations in the presence of any or all of the two Kennedys and Peter Lawford," the Aug. 3, 1965, memo stated.

The FBI files include a one-page document generated about the same time that talks about sex parties at the Hotel Carlyle in New York City. Among those mentioned as participants were the Kennedy brothers along with Lawford, Sinatra, Monroe and entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.

The 2,352 pages of FBI documents dated from 1961 to 1985 and released under a freedom of information request, showed the late senator suffered a steady flow of death threats even after his last bid at the presidency failed in 1980.

They showed that Sirhan Sirhan, the man who shot Robert Kennedy dead in 1968, tried to recruit a fellow prisoner who was about to be released to kill Edward, offering him "a million dollars and a car". .

Death threats originated from multiple sources, including individuals, anonymous persons, and members of radical groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, "Minutemen" organisations, and the National Socialist White People's Party.

They files also included letters from self-proclaimed psychics saying they wanted to meet the senator to tell him when he was going to die. He finally died in August 2009 at the age of 77 after suffering from brain cancer.

The release of the documents had been highly anticipated by historians, scholars and others interested in the life and long public career of one of America's most prominent and powerful politicians.

The files also showed that the FBI did not investigate Kennedy's car crash on Chappaquidick Island off the coast of Massachusetts. It however knew about the incident immediately and colluded in initially keeping his identity secret.
His 19-year-old passenger Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in the incident, which effectively ended his presidential ambitions. In his memoir, "True Compass," Kennedy wrote that his actions on Chappaquiddick were "inexcusable".
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Giliran Bollywood Diguncang Video Hot

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:24:00 +0000

Giliran Bollywood Diguncang Video Hot

Panas Bollywood Bipasha Basu dilaporkan menghebohkan jagad entertainment India setelah promosi film lamanya dengan posenya seronok. Dia tampil berani di situs Youtube. Di film itu juga tampil aktor tampan Bollywood, Vivek Oberoi.

Film itu dibuat pada tahun 1999. Saat itu Bipasha dan Vivek sedang berusaha keras mendapatkan tempat di industri entertain. Video itu kemudian diposting oleh art director Ken Nahoum.

Bipasha manajer mengatakan, “Bipasha melakukan promosi ini di tahun 1999 untuk Ford Modelling Agency di New York.

“Promosi itu ditujukan untuk pasar internasional. Saya tidak tahu mengapa hal yang lama ini muncul sekarang.”

Bipasha, yang pacaran dengan John Abraham, sebelumnya kepergok sedang berciuman dengan pemain bola Portugal, Cristiano Ronaldo. Ternyata, gaya berganti pasangan tidak hanya di Indonesia saja. Tapi sudah seperti gaya hidup mereka yang bertabur bintang. (*)

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MUI Mendukung Cekal Ariel-Luna-Cut Tari

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:21:00 +0000

Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) Provinsi Jabar, mendukung pencekalan yang dilakukan Pemkot Bandung terhadap artis Nazriel Irham atau Ariel, Luna dan Cut Tari terkait beredarnya video porno yang diduga melibatkan mereka.

"Saya meminta agar masyarakat menghargai keputusan Pemkot Bandung yang mengeluarkan pencekalan terhadap Ariel dan kawan-kawan," kata Ketua Umum Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) Provinsi Jawa Barat Ustad Hafidz Utsman, ketika dihubungi melalui telepon selularnya, Senin (14/6/2010).

Dia mengatakan, MUI selaku salah satu institusi yang peduli terhadap moral dan akhlak bangsa, sangat menghormati keputusan Pemkot Bandung yang mengeluarkan cekal kepada artis yang diduga melakukan tindakan asusila.

"Kami sangat menghargai dengan hormat putusan itu, karena hal tersebut merupakan tanggung jawab Pemkot Bandung untuk menjaga akhlak masyarakatnya," katanya.

Ia menilai tindakan Pemkot Bandung merupakan upaya untuk menghindari hal-hal yang tidak diinginkan terkait beredaran video mesum yang diduga melibatkan Ariel, Luna Maya dan Cuti

"Kalau saja, Ariel tampil di Bandung dan ada masyarakat yang emosi, maka dikhawatirkan akan terjadi sesuatu yang tidak diinginkan. Nah, pencekal ini dinilai tepat untuk mengantisipasi hal tersebut," katanya.

Ditemui usai menghadiri acara Pencanangan Bakti TNI KB Terpadu Kodim 0618/BS di Pendopo Kota Bandung, Senin, Wali Kota Bandung Dada Rosada, mencekal artis Nazriel Irham atau Ariel, Luna Maya dan Cut Tari, terkait peredaran video porno yang diduga melibatkan mereka.

"Terkait dengan peredaran video tersebut, Ariel akan kami cekal. Hanya Ariel saja, bukan kepada band yang digawanginya, yakni Peterpan," kata Dada Rosada.

Ia menjelaskan, Ariel akan dicekal jika melakukan aktivitas di Kota Bandung. Hal itu sebagai bentuk sanksi moral terhadap artis yang berbuat mesum.

"Pencekal ini juga diberlakukan untuk Luna Maya dan Cut Tari, Pencekalan ini, dilakukan selama proses hukum ketiga artis itu belum selesai," katanya.

Menurutnya, pencekalan akan diberlakukan hingga proses hukum selesai. "Pencekal ini merupakan bagian konsekuensi dari apa yang diduga dilakukan Ariel dengan kedua artis tersebut," kata Dada.

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Orang Indonesia Tewas Mengenaskan di AS

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:17:00 +0000

Seorang perempuan yang diduga berasal dari Indonesia tewas mengenaskan, diduga sebagai korban pembunuhan. Umi Southworth (44), yang disebut-sebut berasal dari Banyuwangi, Jawa Timur, ditemukan dalam kondisi luka parah tak jauh dari rumahnya di 1400 Meadowthorpe, Lexington, Kentucky, pada Rabu (9/6/2010) malam lalu.

Namun, Kementerian Luar Negeri RI belum dapat memastikan identitasnya. Setelah berkoordinasi dengan KJRI di Chicago, Juru Bicara Kemenlu Teuku Faizasyah mengatakan, nama Umi tidak terdapat pada basis data KJRI ataupun KBRI di Washington DC.

"Menurut informasi kepolisian AS, yang bersangkutan adalah warga negara AS," ujar Juru Bicara Kemenlu Teuku Faizasyah kepada Kompas.com, Senin (14/6/2010). Ketika ditanya kapan Umi mendapatkan status warga negara AS, Faiza mengaku belum mendapatkan informasinya. "Saya belum dapat informasi ini. Kita cek dulu ya," katanya.

Umi Southworth (44) mengembuskan napas terakhirnya di Rumah Sakit Universitas Kentucky pada Kamis (10/6/2010) sore waktu AS. Polisi setempat, sesuai dengan yang dilansir laman Kentucky.com, yakin bahwa Umi tewas dibunuh. Polisi mengatakan, ketika ditemukan, kondisi wanita yang bekerja sebagai tenaga pembukuan di sebuah restoran cepat saji di negara bagian tersebut mengenaskan. Kepalanya terluka parah akibat pukulan benda keras. Wajahnya juga dipenuhi luka-luka.

Informasi bahwa Umi berasal dari Indonesia didapat dari para tetangga Umi. Namun, mereka mengatakan tidak terlalu mengenal ibu beranak satu tersebut. Dikatakan, Umi dan suami, Don Southworth, serta putrinya, Almira Fawn Southworth, tidak banyak bergaul dengan para tetangganya.

Masih berdasarkan Kentucky.com, Don, yang berprofesi sebagai sopir truk, telah diperiksa polisi terkait meninggalnya Umi. Namun, Don telah diizinkan kembali ke rumahnya. Polisi mengatakan, pihaknya mencari Umi atas laporan rekan-rekan kerjanya pada Rabu silam. Pasalnya, Umi, yang sedianya hendak mengadakan pesta perpisahan karena ingin pindah ke negara bagian lain, tak kunjung datang. Proses pencarian dilakukan pada Rabu pukul 18.30. Dalam waktu singkat Umi ditemukan dan segera dilarikan ke rumah sakit.

Hingga saat ini, polisi masih menyelidiki pelaku pembunuhan yang disertai dengan tindak kekerasan. Namun, belum ada tersangka yang ditetapkan berkaitan dengan kasus ini.
secure Kompas.com

Anak Sendiri Dinodai

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:16:00 +0000

Istri Jadi TKW, Anak Sendiri Dinodai

Wagiono, 45, warga Desa Paldaplang, Kecamatan Widodaren, Kabupaten Ngawi tega memerkosa anak kandungnya sendiri, Mekar (bukan nama sebenarnya),
19, sejak tahun 2003. Aksi bejat tersangka ini, diduga disebabkan tersangka karena tak kuat menahan birahinya setelah ditinggal istrinya bekerja sebagai Tenaga Kerja Wanita (TKW) ke Arab Saudi sejak 2002. Meskipun begitu, Mekar tidak sampai hamil akibat perbuatan ayah kandungnya itu. Karenanya dia dapat menyelesaikan sekolahnya hingga kelas 12 sekolah menengah kejuruan (SMK).

Setiap kali melakukan perbuatannya, Wagiono selalu mengancam anak tunggalnya itu akan dibunuh jika tak mau melayani. Kasat Reskrim Polres Ngawi, AKP Sujarwanto mengatakan, ulah bejat tersangka terhadap anak kandungnya sendiri itu, dilaksanakan sejak Mekar masih duduk di bangku SMP. Saat itu, tersangka yang pengangguran tak tahan, menahan nafsunya.

“Tersangka mengaku tak kuat ditinggal istrinya, selanjutnya menjadikan anaknya korban dengan cara mengancam akan membunuhnya jika tidak melayani nafsu bejat tersangka,” terangnya kepada Surya, Selasa (4/5/2010).

Tersangka Wagiono, 45, mengakui semua perbuatannya. Menurut pria pengangguran ini, dia tak ingat sudah berapa kali menggauli anak perempuannya. Dia juga mengaku tak pernah memaksakan anaknya untuk melayani nafsunya. Semua itu dilakukannya berdasarkan kebutuhan. “Kalau mau dihitung berapa kali, ya sudah nggak ingat lagi. Kan sejak dia masih SMP dulu,” kilahnya. (surya)

Editor : anthonius_iwan

Sumber Berita

http://www.tribunnews.com/2010/05/05/istri-jadi-tkw-anak-sendiri-dinodai

ABG Pria Perkosa Sapi di Bali

noreply@blogger.com (Liputan Berita - Berita Terkini) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:12:00 +0000

Ya Ampun... ABG Pria Perkosa Sapi di Bali

Entah pengaruh video mesum artis yang telah marak beredar secara luas atau memang tanda-tanda akhir jaman, seorang ABG pria di Bali nekad menyetubuhi sapi. Tak ayal, aksi remaja berinisial GA (18) tersebut menghebohkan Bali beberapa hari ini. Remaja itu kedapatan telah menyetubuhi seekor sapi di Kabupaten Jembrana, Bali.

Peristiwa ini terjadi Minggu 6 Juni 2010, di Desa Yeh Embang Jembrana, yang kerap digunakan untuk menggembala sapi. Peristiwa itu makin gempar, karena sapi merupakan hewan sakral di Bali.

Saat peristiwa terjadi, GA kepergok sedang melakukan hubungan badan dengan seekor sapi milik Wayan Yasa. Dia tertangkap basah Gusti Ngurah Dinar, yang tengah melintas tepi pantai dengan kakaknya.

Melihat peristiwa yang sangat ganjil itu, kemudian Dinar melaporkannya langsung kepada petugas desa setempat.

"Kami datangi anak itu dan meminta keterangannya, juga saksi. Dan kami sudah jajaki keluarga pelaku berikut pemilik sapi," kata Ida Bagus Legawa, Kamis 10 Juni 2010.

Perbuatan ini pernah terjadi sebelumnya di Buleleng. Perbuatan ini termasuk kategori dianggap buruk dan merusak kesucian Bali. Sanksinya, aparat desa akan menggelar upacara pensucian dengan membuang sapi ke laut

Editor : olan_gultom

Source : tribunmanado.co.id

Sumber Berita

http://www.tribunnews.com/2010/06/11/ya-ampun...-abg-pria-perkosa-sapi-di-bali