PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2018

Wayne Rooney mengaku bahwa karirnya bersama timnas Inggris akan "sia-sia" kecuali ia berhasil memenangkan Piala Dunia.

Rooney yang memiliki 82 caps bersama Three Lions, disebut-sebut sebagai salah satu pemain terbaik yang pernah bermain di timnas Inggris. Namun, penyerang Manchester United ini mengaku semua gelar pribadi tak akan ada apa-apanya bila gagal meraih trofi Piala Dunia.

"Aku bisa mengakhiri karir bersama Inggris dengan menjadi pencetak gol terbanyak dan mungkin juga pemegang caps terbanyak, tetapi jika tidak berhasil (memenangkan piala), maka itu sia-sia," ujarnya.

"Saya ingin medali sebagai pemenang Piala Dunia," tegasnya.

Penyerang berusia 27 tahun ini membidik putaran final Piala Dunia 2014 sebagai kesempatan untuk mewujudkan impiannya tersebut. Selain itu, mantan pemain Everton ini juga berpeluang menjadi top skor sepanjang masa Inggris. Kini, Rooney berada di posisi ke enam dengan koleksi 35 gol. Terpaut 14 gol dari Bobby Charlton yang berada di puncak. (met/dzi)

Saco-Indonesia.com - Selama ini perangkat laptop yang bisa berubah menjadi tablet dikenal dengan nama "convertible" atau "hybrid". Nah, pada gelaran Computex 2013 di Taipei, Taiwan, Intel memperkenalkan nama baru untuk tipe komputer ini agar lebih mudah disebut: 2-in-1 atau dibaca "two in one".

"Konsep dua alat dalam satu kemasan ini mengkombinasikan produktivitas, kemampuan menjalankan aplikasi- aplikasi standar Windows, dan portabilitas," ujar Executive Vice President and General Manager of Sales and Marketing Group Intel Tom Kilroy dalam acara peluncuran prosesor Intel Core Generasi ke-4, Selasa (4/6/2013).

Di masa depan, lanjut Kilroy, komputer 2- in-1 ini akan menjadi tren menggantikan PC dan laptop tradisional. "PC yang lama sudah mati, kini waktunya menciptakan ulang notebook."

Senior Vice President and General Manager PC Client Group Intel Kirk Skaugen menambahkan, komputer 2-in-1 dimaksudkan untuk mengisi celah yang kini ada di antara perangkat untuk konsumsi konten (smartphone dan tablet), dan produktivitas (PC dan notebook).

Prosesor Core Generasi ke-4 yang baru diluncurkan akan menjadi tumpuan Intel dalam mewujudkan fitur-fitur utama pada perangkat 2-in-1, seperti daya tahan baterai yang panjang dan kinerja grafis tinggi. Diharapkan perangkat ini bisa mengkombinasikan aspek produktivitas seperti pada notebook tradisional dan entertainment, seperti di tablet.

Soal harga, Skaugen mengatakan bahwa Intel bersama para partnernya akan terus berusaha membuat perangkat 2-in-1 menjadi alternatif yang terjangkau kantong kebanyakan konsumen.

Harga notebook "convertible" dan "hybrid " selama ini memang relatif mahal dengan kisaran harga mencapai belasan juta rupiah. "Nanti, pada musim liburan tahun ini, sudah akan ada perangkat 2-in-1 seharga 399 dollar (AS)," ujar Skaugen. 

Seharusnya kamu baik -baik saja.. :) 


Bukankah Tuhan telah mengirimmu  pasangannya  masing"
Dan menakdirkanmu untuk bersama...
entah berapa lamanya kita tidak pernah tahu..

Bukankah Tuhan telah menakdirkan kamu  dengan siapa kamu harus  berjalan beriringan....

Bukankah juga Tuhan telah melengkapimu 
dengan kesempurnaan yg belum tentu dimiliki oleh orang lain?? 
Dan seribu bukankah??

Tapi kenapa pada  ahirnya kamu menolak dengan semua tawaran  yang Tuhan berikan
pdahal itu adalah yang terbaik dari apa yg kamu inginkan 
selama ini

Tapi kenapa kamu selalu menyesal telah mendapatkannya 
Padahal apa yang kamu harapkan selama ini belum tentu sebaik apa yang telah Tuhan pilih ...dan Tuhan kirim... 

Periksa dirimu saja... mungkin hatimu sedang sakit karena perasaan marah dan kecewa  yang telah kamu buat sendiri 

Seharusnya kamu memang baik -baik saja ... . 
 

Curug Nangka adalah sebuah kawasan wisata air terjun yang terletak di Ciapus, Bogor, Jawa Barat yang masuk dalam, naungan RPH Gunung Bunder, BKPH Bogor KPH Kabupaten Bogor.  Daya Tarik Utama Wana Wisata Curug Nangka adalah air terjun yang mempunyai 3 tahap, dengan masing-masing telah memiliki ketinggian antara 10-20 m.  Selain Curug Nangka di kawasan ini juga dapat ditemui dua buah curug lagi, yaitu Curug Kawung dan Curug Daun.  Lokasi ketiga curug ini satu dengan yang lainnya berjarak sekitar 100 m dengan urutannya dari bawah adalah Curug Nangka, lalu Curug Daun dan terakhir adalah Curug Kawung.

Ketiga curug ini berada di kaki Gunung Salak pada ketinggian sekitar 750 m dpl dengan curah hujan 4000mm/tahun dengan suhu udara 20-22 C. Selain telah menyajikan obyek wisata berupa air terjun, di kawasan Curug Nangka banyak sekali dijumpai kera-kera liar yang kerap sekali berani menghampiri pengunjung.

Jakarta - Walikota Tangerang terpilih Arief Wismansyah telah 5 kali batal dilantik oleh Gubernur Banten Ratu Atut Chosiyah. Mendagri Gamawan Fauzi angkat bicara.

"Jadi Bu Atut, apabila terus berhalangan ataupun mungkin tidak bersedia maka ia harus kembalikan mandatnya kepada Presiden," ujar Gamawan usai menghadiri Sidang Paripurna di Gedung DPR RI, Senayan, Jakarta Pusat, Rabu (18/12/2013).

Untuk sementara maka pemerintahan Kota Tangerang dijalankan oleh pelaksana tugas (Plt). Menurut Gamawan hal tersebut tidak menjadi masalah.

Sementara itu Arief Wismansyah berharap Mendagri dapat segera melantiknya. Ia kecewa dengan ketidakhadiran Gubernur Banten.

"Sudah 5 kali batal. Sudah diagendakan DPRD karena melihat kebutuhan Kota Tangerang sangat mendesak. Sudah dari tanggal 27, 7, 11, 15 dan 18 (Desember). Ini pun atas pemintaan Ibu Gubernur melalui mekanisme Bamus," ujar Walikota Tangerang terpilih, Arief Wismansyah saat diwawancarai terpisah.

Gagne wrestled professionally from the late 1940s until the 1980s and was a transitional figure between the early 20th century barnstormers and the steroidal sideshows of today

Fullmer, who reigned when fight clubs abounded and Friday night fights were a television staple, was known for his title bouts with Sugar Ray Robinson and Carmen Basilio.

With 12 tournament victories in his career, Mr. Peete was the most successful black professional golfer before Tiger Woods.

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Mr. King sang for the Drifters and found success as a solo performer with hits like “Spanish Harlem.”

The bottle Mr. Sokolin famously broke was a 1787 Château Margaux, which was said to have belonged to Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Sokolin had been hoping to sell it for $519,750.

HOBART, Tasmania — Few places seem out of reach for China’s leader, Xi Jinping, who has traveled from European capitals to obscure Pacific and Caribbean islands in pursuit of his nation’s strategic interests.

So perhaps it was not surprising when he turned up last fall in this city on the edge of the Southern Ocean to put down a long-distance marker in another faraway region, Antarctica, 2,000 miles south of this Australian port.

Standing on the deck of an icebreaker that ferries Chinese scientists from this last stop before the frozen continent, Mr. Xi pledged that China would continue to expand in one of the few places on earth that remain unexploited by humans.

He signed a five-year accord with the Australian government that allows Chinese vessels and, in the future, aircraft to resupply for fuel and food before heading south. That will help secure easier access to a region that is believed to have vast oil and mineral resources; huge quantities of high-protein sea life; and for times of possible future dire need, fresh water contained in icebergs.

It was not until 1985, about seven decades after Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen raced to the South Pole, that a team representing Beijing hoisted the Chinese flag over the nation’s first Antarctic research base, the Great Wall Station on King George Island.

But now China seems determined to catch up. As it has bolstered spending on Antarctic research, and as the early explorers, especially the United States and Australia, confront stagnant budgets, there is growing concern about its intentions.

China’s operations on the continent — it opened its fourth research station last year, chose a site for a fifth, and is investing in a second icebreaker and new ice-capable planes and helicopters — are already the fastest growing of the 52 signatories to the Antarctic Treaty. That gentlemen’s agreement reached in 1959 bans military activity on the continent and aims to preserve it as one of the world’s last wildernesses; a related pact prohibits mining.

But Mr. Xi’s visit was another sign that China is positioning itself to take advantage of the continent’s resource potential when the treaty expires in 2048 — or in the event that it is ripped up before, Chinese and Australian experts say.

“So far, our research is natural-science based, but we know there is more and more concern about resource security,” said Yang Huigen, director general of the Polar Research Institute of China, who accompanied Mr. Xi last November on his visit to Hobart and stood with him on the icebreaker, Xue Long, or Snow Dragon.

With that in mind, the polar institute recently opened a new division devoted to the study of resources, law, geopolitics and governance in Antarctica and the Arctic, Mr. Yang said.

Australia, a strategic ally of the United States that has strong economic relations with China, is watching China’s buildup in the Antarctic with a mix of gratitude — China’s presence offers support for Australia’s Antarctic science program, which is short of cash — and wariness.

“We should have no illusions about the deeper agenda — one that has not even been agreed to by Chinese scientists but is driven by Xi, and most likely his successors,” said Peter Jennings, executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and a former senior official in the Australian Department of Defense.

“This is part of a broader pattern of a mercantilist approach all around the world,” Mr. Jennings added. “A big driver of Chinese policy is to secure long-term energy supply and food supply.”

That approach was evident last month when a large Chinese agriculture enterprise announced an expansion of its fishing operations around Antarctica to catch more krill — small, protein-rich crustaceans that are abundant in Antarctic waters.

“The Antarctic is a treasure house for all human beings, and China should go there and share,” Liu Shenli, the chairman of the China National Agricultural Development Group, told China Daily, a state-owned newspaper. China would aim to fish up to two million tons of krill a year, he said, a substantial increase from what it currently harvests.

Because sovereignty over Antarctica is unclear, nations have sought to strengthen their claims over the ice-covered land by building research bases and naming geographic features. China’s fifth station will put it within reach of the six American facilities, and ahead of Australia’s three.

Chinese mappers have also given Chinese names to more than 300 sites, compared with the thousands of locations on the continent with English names.

In the unspoken competition for Antarctica’s future, scientific achievement can also translate into influence. Chinese scientists are driving to be the first to drill and recover an ice core containing tiny air bubbles that provide a record of climate change stretching as far back as 1.5 million years. It is an expensive and delicate effort at which others, including the European Union and Australia, have failed.

In a breakthrough a decade ago, European scientists extracted an ice core nearly two miles long that revealed 800,000 years of climate history. But finding an ice core going back further would allow scientists to examine a change in the earth’s climate cycles believed to have occurred 900,000 to 1.2 million years ago.

China is betting it has found the best location to drill, at an area called Dome A, or Dome Argus, the highest point on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Though it is considered one of the coldest places on the planet, with temperatures of 130 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, a Chinese expedition explored the area in 2005 and established a research station in 2009.

“The international community has drilled in lots of places, but no luck so far,” said Xiao Cunde, a member of the first party to reach the site and the deputy director of the Institute for Climate Change at the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. “We think at Dome A we will have a straight shot at the one-million-year ice core.”

Mr. Xiao said China had already begun drilling and hoped to find what scientists are looking for in four to five years.

To support its Antarctic aspirations, China is building a sophisticated $300 million icebreaker that is expected to be ready in a few years, said Xia Limin, deputy director of the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration in Beijing. It has also bought a high-tech fixed-wing aircraft, outfitted in the United States, for taking sensitive scientific soundings from the ice.

China has chosen the site for its fifth research station at Inexpressible Island, named by a group of British explorers who were stranded at the desolate site in 1912 and survived the winter by excavating a small ice cave.

Mr. Xia said the inhospitable spot was ideal because China did not have a presence in that part of Antarctica, and because the rocky site did not have much snow, making it relatively cheap to build there.

Anne-Marie Brady, a professor of political science at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the author of a soon-to-be-released book, “China as a Polar Great Power,” said Chinese scientists also believed they had a good chance of finding mineral and energy resources near the site.

“China is playing a long game in Antarctica and keeping other states guessing about its true intentions and interests are part of its poker hand,” she said. But she noted that China’s interest in finding minerals was presented “loud and clear to domestic audiences” as the main reason it was investing in Antarctica.

Because commercial drilling is banned, estimates of energy and mineral resources in Antarctica rely on remote sensing data and comparisons with similar geological environments elsewhere, said Millard F. Coffin, executive director of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart.

But the difficulty of extraction in such severe conditions and uncertainty about future commodity prices make it unlikely that China or any country would defy the ban on mining anytime soon.

Tourism, however, is already booming. Travelers from China are still a relatively small contingent in the Antarctic compared with the more than 13,000 Americans who visited in 2013, and as yet there are no licensed Chinese tour operators.

But that is about to change, said Anthony Bergin, deputy director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. “I understand very soon there will be Chinese tourists on Chinese vessels with all-Chinese crew in the Antarctic,” he said.

Mr. Haroche was a founder of Liberty Travel, which grew from a two-man operation to the largest leisure travel operation in the United States.

Ms. Rendell was a prolific writer of intricately plotted mystery novels that combined psychological insight, social conscience and teeth-chattering terror.

Ms. Plisetskaya, renowned for her fluidity of movement, expressive acting and willful personality, danced on the Bolshoi stage well into her 60s, but her life was shadowed by Stalinism.

Mr. Bartoszewski was given honorary Israeli citizenship for his work to save Jews during World War II and later surprised even himself by being instrumental in reconciling Poland and Germany.

Under Mr. Michelin’s leadership, which ended when he left the company in 2002, the Michelin Group became the world’s biggest tire maker, establishing a big presence in the United States and other major markets overseas.

Mr. Pfaff was an international affairs columnist and author who found Washington’s intervention in world affairs often misguided.

“It was really nice to play with other women and not have this underlying tone of being at each other’s throats.”