Menakertrans Muhaimin Iskandar Bantah Dakwaan JPU - Kasus Suap di Kemenakertrans

Bantahan terjadi (Senin 20/02/2012), Muhaimin Iskandar duduk di kursi pesakitan sebagai saksi di Pengadilan Tipikor Jakarta. Ketua Umum Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa itu, menjadi saksi dalam Kasus Suap Dana Percepatan Infrastruktur Daerah (PPID) kawasan transmigrasi. Dalam kesaksian itu, Muhaimin mengakui jika kementerian yang dia pimpin tidak paham dengan proyek ini.


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Jeremy Lin = Hope

The Jeremy Lin Column
For: Le Herald de Paris
By: Chuck Balls


Jeremy Lin. I’m surprised you made it this far. In my entire life’s history of sports - one that begins with the Cardinals v. Red Sox World Series of 1967 with Bobby and Ted Kennedy watching from Fenway in the coolest Ray-Bans in the history of Ray-Bans - I’ve never seen anything like the Jeremy Lin phenomenon. Who compares to Lin-Mania? In baseball, the closest I can think of is Vida Blue or Mark ‘the Bird’ Fidrych, In hockey, only the great Montreal Canadiens’ goaltender of the 1970s Ken Dryden comes to mind and even then the Canadiens under their General Manager Sam Pollock were a shrewd outfit, so how bad could a Cornell University grad be as a back-up to Rogatien Vachon?

Basketball...basketball like football bears no surprises. Both are scouted to the point of plastic bag over the head suffocation. Who would one truly pick as a surprise star in football? Joe Montana or Tom Brady? One was the quarterback at Notre Dame (when the Irish were still good) and the other at Michigan (when the Wolverines were still good). That they didn’t freeze at the line and let loose a slowly rolling line of drool on their center’s butt really should not have come as a shock.

Nor should Tebow, who is the closest thing to the beatification of Jeremy Lin. Tim Tebow was and is a highly scouted and borderline highly-rated quarterback from the football factory that is the University of Florida. There was debate over whether Tebow, with a  throwing motion that resembles a grown man tossing his first paper airplane since childhood, could make it as an NFL quarterback. The existence of the debate indicates that the positive outcome is not entirely unexpected.

There really is no way of describing the Lin Phenomenon in anything other than hyperbolic terms. A player whose public consciousness was non-existent at the start of the shortest month of the year who is its biggest star by the end is unique. Unique means something. Is there an etching of the zeitgeist in the world of Jeremy Lin?

Jeremy Lin rolls to the hole...

I suspect there is. Hell, that’s why I’m writing this story. At rock bottom line, the fame of Jeremy Lin - profession: point guard, New York Knickerbockers - is a triumph of man over machine and it couldn’t have come at a better time. We live in a time where we are told that this must be bailed out, that a minimum wage must be slashed, that pensions must be revisited, that this country or another must be bombed because,,,well that’s what we’ve been told, Now whether one’s taxes are less than a billionaire’s, investments vanished like a summer candle or your son is suddenly on a frontline, you have some doubts. You wonder whether there is some alternate vision of the world, one where the experts are Wrong. To paraphrase Paul Simon, Where have you done Jeremy Lin/A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Jeremy Lin graduated from Harvard. Harvard. The school where smart people go. I could Google search and perhaps find another pro athlete who came from Harvard, and there may be one, but that would deny the uniqueness of the moment. It’s Harvard. No one scouts Harvard unless they have press box seats for the Pats the following night.(BTW, I did Google this - the next most famous Harvard Crimson alum athlete is Baltimore Ravens’ center Matt Birk. Oh.)

We need to know that smart people are wrong sometimes, otherwise what is the point of democracy? Whether Jeremy Lin goes on to a Hall of Fame career with two rings like Walt ‘Clyde’ Frazier is beside the point. If he loses his jump shot and makes 12 turnovers a game starting tomorrow is bedside the point. He reminded us that you can beat the odds, beat the scouts and beat the experts. God love him.

Foto Angeline Sondakh Pakai BlackBerry 2009 Punya Gaya Hidup Boros

Pasca sidang di pengadilan Tindak Pidana Korupsi Jakarta Rabu (15/2/2012) Saksi Kasus Suap Wisma Atlet SEA Games Angelina Sondakh terus menuai hujatan dari pihak lawan. Setelah sebelumnya, pengacara Nazaruddin, Elza Syarief, mengungkapkan rencana cerai Angie dengan mendiang suaminya, Adjie Massaid,


"Satu di antara penyebab yang sering memicu pertengkaran dengan Adjie Massaid, adalah gaya

Jadwal Dan Daftar Nama Pembalap MotoGP 2012

Musim MotoGP 2012 sudah dekat. Admin Blogspot Pemula salah satu penggemar berat ajang bergengsi ini. Kami melihat banyak hal yang baru yang terjadi di musim moto gp 2012 ini, perpindahan para rider dengan team mereka yang baru.

Motor tunggangan pun baru dan tentunya kitapun berharap para raider juga akan punya semangat baru dalam menampilkan tontonan berkualitas dan bisa membuat adrenalin

Angelina Sondakh Saksi Kasus Suap Wisma Atlet SEA Games, Muhammad Nazaruddin

Bantahan demi bantahan terus disampaikan Saksi Angelina Sondakh terhadap isi percakapan lewat BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) dengan Mindo Rosalina Manulang membuat geram kubu terdakwa Muhammad Nazaruddin. 



Pengacara Muhammad Nazaruddin pun lalu menunjukkan bukti foto dan sebuah berita di salah satu media yang memperlihatkan bahwa Angelina yang kerap disapa Angie sudah memiliki BlackBerry (BB)

How iPad will Save Television

How the iPad Will Save Television

Inside Television 591
Publication Date: 2-17-12
By: Hubert O’Hearn

A few short celebrity notes before we get on with a few thoughts about the iPad and television. First, if you weren’t around at the time, you have no idea how big a star Whitney Houston was in the mid to late-eighties. At the time, I lived in Toronto and there were three huge record stores on Yonge Street each lit with enough neon signage to make Las Vegas look like a Carmelite nun. For you kids out there who have no idea what I’m talking about, a record store was where you went to buy things that fit in milk crates. In any event I recall one summer afternoon in, I think, 1986 and all three stores had pulled down their Michael Jackson displays for Thriller and replaced them with Whitney Houston. She was that big, both literally and poster-sized.

There’s a quite wonderful line in an equally wonderful novel by the Canadian writer Andrew Kaufman called The Waterproof Bible. One of the underwater humanoids who comes up on land (yes it has its science fiction elements) says that what we humans don’t get is that there are no happy or sad endings. It all depends where you stop telling the story. I’d prefer to end my thoughts on Whitney Houston’s story about 1993. The reasons I think are obvious.

Second note: Is it just me, is it just coincidence, or does it not seem that on the sports side celebrity athletes are going from unknown to meg-maxi-superstars in no time flat? Tim Tebow had started maybe four games in his professional career and he was a featured character on Saturday Night Live. Now Jeremy Lin, who starts at point guard for the New York Knicks in a ‘oh what the hell’ move by coach Mike D’Antoni, becomes a massive phenomenon after two games. At this writing, he’s been quite phenomenal for his first six; but still, they were printing T-shirts and running his picture repeatedly on the back cover of The Daily News after two games. It’s a wonderful story if it sticks. 

Billie Piper as Rose: Doctor Who, that's who!

What I really want to talk about is the iPad. I’m still relevantly new to it, however I am intrigued that one thing I am truly enjoying about it is the one thing I thought I’d never use it for: watching TV. I’ve just never quite understood the pleasure of watching programming likely to be available on a large screen on something 2 to 7 inches diagonal.

Well it does have something going for it and that is dedicated, on-demand channels. When I bought the iPad I immediately turned to the Guardian (guardian.co.uk) for tips on the best apps to load into it. They suggested the BBC iPlayer. What I love about it is that there are masses of free content: included are an excellent HARDtalk interview with Patrick Stewart, Michael Palin’s Pole to Pole, and the start of Jamie Oliver’s career with The Naked Chef. In short, taste stimulators across the spectrum. After a show ends, a very polite reminder comes up asking if one would like to spend a meagre $8.99 a month to have access to the entire BBC archive. Yes, including Doctor Who - the Billie Piper years.

This is what makes the iPad so intriguing in terms to television’s business model. My satellite bill is about a hundred bucks a month and there are times when there’s nothing on. For that same hundred, I could have roughly eleven stations within whose programming I can pick and choose. What seems the better choice to you? The iPad way is clearly the better way for broadcasters as they de facto will be making money off old content with virtually no costs added for delivery. Be seeing you.

Pembunuh Berantai Bermotif Asmara Mujianto, Nganjuk Jawa Timur

Belum lekang dari ingatan kita perihal kasus pembunuhan berantai ala Very Idam Henyansyah alias Ryan asal Jombang, kini hadir lagi Penjagal Manusia baru dengan motif yang sama Mujianto alias Mentok alias Gentong.(Nganjuk, Jawa Timur)


Polisi berhasil membongkar pelaku pembunuhan berantai dengan modus pembiusan yang menewaskan empat orang dan dua kritis di Nganjuk, Jawa Timur. Aksi ini