No tours to Pakistan possible before WC

LAHORE: PCB chairman Ijaz Butt has said the current spot-fixing investigation has diverted resources away from organising tours to Pakistan, and that there is now no space left in the calendar to accommodate a visiting team.
“The ICC Task Force was well on its way to bringing a MCC XI team to Pakistan in which two players of each cricket board were to be included,” Butt said.
“Moreover, Zimbabwe were also interested in sending their national team to Pakistan.
“The current spot-fixing scam, however, has diverted attention to other issues as work of inviting some teams to Pakistan could not be materialised, and there is no appropriate time left for such activities due to hectic schedule of Pakistan till the World Cup.”
Giles Clarke, chairman of the ICC’s Pakistan Task Force, had called for Pakistan to resume hosting international matches back in August and suggested that an ICC World XI would tour the country “in due course”.
Following the floods that devastated the country earlier this year, Zimbabwe offered to tour Pakistan to help raise money for the relief effort, and their visit was tentatively scheduled for November and early December. No international cricket has been played in Pakistan since the March 2009 terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka team. Last month the ICC decided to closely monitor the running of the game in Pakistan.

v Source :

"No tours to Pakistan possible before WC: Ijaz Butt "
thenews 03.11.2010 

Retrieved :
http://www.paperarticles.com/2010/11/no-tours-to-pakistan-possible-before-wc.html





v Summary :


Ijaz Butt said that the current spot-fixing investigation has diverted resources away from organising tours to Pakistan, and that there is now no space left in the calendar to accommodate a visiting team.

·        Name   : Muhamad Ramli Arrahman

·        NIM     :  2010 12 0002

 

 

 

Yousuf regains fitness ahead of SA Tests

KARACHI: Mohammad Yousuf is looking forward to making his Pakistan comeback in the opening Test against South Africa in Dubai later this month after recovering from a hamstring injury that forced him out of the ongoing limited-overs series.
According to sources, the senior batsman has been passed fit by Pakistan Cricket Board’s medical experts and should join his teammates in the UAE ahead of the first Test which will begin from November 14.
Yousuf, 36, ruptured a muscle in his right leg during training last month and had to miss the one-day series against the Proteas.
The veteran batsman, who has played 90 Tests, 287 One-day Internationals and three Twenty20 Internationals, is currently training at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore for the two-Test series against South Africa.

v   Source :

"Yousuf regains fitness ahead of SA Tests"

thenews 03/11/2010 

  Retrieved :

http://www.paperarticles.com/2010/11/yousuf-regains-fitness-ahead-of-sa.html

v   Summary :

Mohammad Yousuf is trying to make Pakistan comeback in the opening Test against South Africa in Dubai later this month after recovering from injury.

·        Name   : Muhamad Ramli Arrahman

·        NIM     :  2010 12 0002

v   Opinion :

Ø    we should try hard to receive an achievement.

Ø health is a vital needs for human. it's easy to get sick, but it's hard to be healthy. nowadays, health become more and more important. therefore, we all should take care of ourselves.

Red states. Blue states. And now voting from a weightless state.

The three Americans orbiting the planet on Election Day have cast their ballots.

Space station astronaut Scott Kelly voted Sunday via a secure e-mail system. Douglas Wheelock and Shannon Walker also voted recently 200-plus-miles up. Kelly said Tuesday it was an "honor and a privilege" to vote from the International Space Station.

As for the six shuttle astronauts headed soon to the space station, they voted back home in Houston before heading to NASA's Florida launch site last week. Discovery is scheduled to lift off Wednesday.

Texas legislators passed a bill in 1997 allowing astronauts to vote from orbit. Space station residents have taken advantage of that many times since.

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Online:

NASA: http://www.nasa.gov

v Source:

"Astronauts cast early ballots from space station"

03/11/2010 06:39:55 AM By MARCIA DUNN

Retrieved :

http://www.mail.com/intl/Article.aspx/science/0/APNews/Science/20101102/U_US-Voting-from-Space?pageid=1

v Summary:

Space station astronaut: Scott Kelly, Douglas Wheelock and Shannon Walker orbiting the planet on Election Day to cast their ballots.

·        Name   : Muhamad Ramli Arrahman

·        NIM     :  2010 12 0002

v Opinion:

it's good to start an invention. 

Huge volcanic blast spurs more Indonesians to flee

A deadly Indonesian volcano spewing lava and smoke for more than a week erupted Wednesday with its biggest blast yet, shooting searing ash miles into the air as soldiers hastily evacuated villages and emergency shelters.

One scientist warned the worst may be yet to come.

Women screamed and children cried as they were loaded into trucks while rocks and debris rained from the sky. Several abandoned homes were set ablaze and the carcasses of incinerated cattle littered the scorched slopes.

No new casualties were reported immediately after the booming explosion, which lasted more than an hour.

"This is an extraordinary eruption, triple from the first" on Oct. 26, said Surono, a state volcanologist.

More than 70,000 villagers have been evacuated from the 9,700-foot (3,000-meter) Mount Merapi's once-fertile slopes since it began erupting just over a week ago, killing 38 people and injuring dozens, most with severe burns.

Almost all have packed into crowded camps well away from the base.

Djarot Nugroho, the head of Central Java's disaster management agency, said funding for the refugees would run out in five days unless a national disaster was declared.

There have been more than a dozen strong blasts in recent days -- including a smaller one Wednesday morning -- prompting some scientists earlier to say pressure building up behind a magma dome in the crater was slowly easing.

By nightfall, however, all bets were off.

The danger zone was widened from six miles to nine (10 kilometers to 15) from the glowing crater because of the heightened threat. Soldiers and police blocked all roads leading up the mountain, shooing away television crews and reporters.

The last eruption, which occurred during a heavy downpour, raised Merapi's status to "crisis" condition, said Andi Arief, a staffer in the presidential office dealing with the disaster.

Merapi, one of the world's most active volcanoes, has erupted many times in the last century, killing more than 1,400 people.

Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 235 million people, is prone to earthquakes and volcanos because it sits along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a horseshoe-shaped string of faults that lines the Pacific.

As a reminder of that, a 6.0-magnitude quake hit waters off the eastern province of Papua on Wednesday evening, rattling several villages but causing no known damage or casualties. At the time, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was wrapping up a visit to Papua New Guinea -- on the same island as Papua province. She was in the capital, about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) east of the epicenter, and no shaking was felt there.

The volcano's initial Oct. 26 blast occurred less than 24 hours after a towering tsunami slammed into remote islands on the western end of the country, sweeping entire villages to sea and killing at least 428 people.

There, too, thousands of people were displaced, many living in government camps.

In both cases, relief operations are expected to take weeks, possibly months.

Helicopters and boats were delivering aid to tsunami survivors in the most distant Mentawai islands, more than 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) west of the volcano.

The islands, popular among surfers, lie almost directly over the fault that spawned the 2004 Indian Ocean monster quake and wave.

There has been talk in recent days about relocating villagers away from vulnerable coastlines.

"I'm all for it," said Regen, who lives on Pagai Utara island and goes by one name. "We're all terrified now, especially at night, and wouldn't mind moving further inland."

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Associated Press writers Irwan Firdaus, Ali Kotarumalos and Niniek Karmini contributed to this report from Jakarta

v Source:

"Huge volcano blast spurs more Indonesians to flee"

reported by : Irwan Firdaus, Ali Kotarumalos and Niniek Karmini

written : 04/11/2010 09:25:21 AM By SLAMET RIYADI

Retrieved: : http://www.mail.com/intl/Article.aspx/science/0/APNews/Science/20101103/U_AS-Indonesia-Disasters?pageid=2&pCurr=1&pNext=2

v Summary:

Deadly Indonesian volcano spewing lava and smoke for more than a week erupted Wednesday with its biggest blast yet, shooting searing ash miles into the air as soldiers hastily evacuated villages and emergency shelters.

There have been more than a dozen strong blasts in recent days -- including a smaller one Wednesday morning -- prompting some scientists earlier to say pressure building up behind a magma dome in the crater was slowly easing.

The danger zone was widened from six miles to nine (10 kilometers to 15) from the glowing crater because of the heightened threat.

·        Name   : Muhamad Ramli Arrahman

·        NIM     :  2010 12 0002

v Opinion:

People should be more alert to the occurrence of natural disaster phenomena.High anticipation was required when living in areas that are unstable or prone to natural disasters.

Lima Strategi Belajar yang Fun Buat Anak (http://sediadisini.com/pengembangan-diri/ilmu-pengetahuan/515-lima-strategi-bagi-anak-anda-agar-belajar-jadi-menyenangkan)

Lima Strategi Belajar yang Fun Buat Anak

Kamis, 30 September 2010 07:58 Pap 

 

 

Menyenangkan

Aku sulit berkonsentrasi. Aku cepat lupa. Dua kalimat ini pasti mengingatkan Anda akan kenangan tempo doeloe di sekolah. Besar kemungkinan sekarang anak Anda juga mengeluh seperti Anda. Sekarang saatnya melenyapkan kedua kalimat tersebut dengan lima strategi belajar hebat dari para ahli. Strategi ini meliputi bagaimana angka, sejarah, dan fakta bisa gampang dicerna dan diingat.

 

Strategi Pertama: Bagaimana Mengingat Bacaan Teks. Lima langkah berikut ini dilakukan guna mengingat teks, misalnya pelajaran sejarah atau ilmu bumi:

 

Langkah 1: Memahami Secara Umum.
Baca dulu bagian buku berikut ini: kata pengantar, pendahuluan, dan daftar isi. Lalu setiap judul bab. Dengan mengetahui isi buku secara umum ini dapat dengan mudah dipahami apakah buku tersebut nantinya bakal berguna sebagai pembantu pemecahan soal tertentu.

 

Langkah 2: Mengajukan Pertanyaan
Membaca aktif sama artinya dengan menanyakan teks yang dibaca. Namun banyak siswa yang tak punya pertanyaan gara-gara kekurangan pengetahuan awal. Oleh sebab itu, nasehat para pakar, tulis kata-kata asing atau yang kurang dimengerti. Dilanjutkan dengan mencari hal-hal yang terkait. Satu trik yang membantu: menandai kalimat yang kurang dipahami dengan tanda tanya.

 

Langkah 3: Membaca Secara Mendalam
Mengulangi lagi bacaan yang sama, lalu mencoba menjawab pertanyaan yang mungkin ada. Kata-kata kunci digaris-bawahi.

 

Langkah 4: Menyimpulkan
Setelah langkah ke-3 selesai dilaksanakan, mencatat kesimpulan dalam kalimat sederhana yang ringkas. Kemudian ini didalami dengan menjawab semua pertayaan yang ada di buku.

 

Langkah 5: Mengulangi
Di langkah terakhir ini semua poin penting hendaknya diingat dalam pikiran. Supaya lebih dalam lagi, bisa memakai bantuan perekam MP3 yang saat ini sudah cukup murah. Pada waktu luang rekaman tersebut dapat didengar kembali. Dapat pula menandai teks yang penting dengan pensil warna. Satu hal yang sangat penting adalah mendengar atau membaca ulang catatan-catatan kecil sebelum tidur. Sebab perbuatan ini akan menjadikan anak tidak mudah melupakannya.

 

Strategi Kedua: Pidato di depan Kelas.

 

Pada awalnya harus jelas dulu, apa tujuan berpidato di depan kelas? Tanpa teks? Telusuri bahan bacaan yang akan dipidatokan. Tulis ringkasannya. Lalu buatlah urutan tematik yang akan disuarakan. Beri nomor urut dari awal sampai akhir. Ringkas bahan bacaan menjadi tematik utama pidato. Waktu berpidato tidak lebih dari 15 sampai 20 menit.

Adalah penting untuk menambahi dengan anekdot dan contoh-contoh. Adakah yang akan ditampilkan saat pidato? Misalnya gambar, fotocopy, karikatur, model, guntingan video, dan lainnya? Jika ya, maka harus dilakukan rencana, kapan nantinya tampilan tambahan itu muncul. Buat ringkasan pidato di secarik kertas kecil, terutama urut-urutan isi pidato. Bicara cukup keras agar teman yang duduk di bangku paling belakang juga bisa mendengar.

 

Strategi Ketiga: Bantuan Menghafal Sajak.

 

Langkah 1: Mengerti
Mengenai apa sih sajak tersebut sebenarnya? Tulis catatan kecil di bagian kanan sajak, tentang apa saja isi sajak tersebut. Ini akan membangkitkan pemahaman anak.

 

Langkah 2: Menulis Komentar.
Menggaris-bawahi kata-kata kunci dan yang berkaitan. Mewarnai kata-kata di awal paragraf sajak sebagai karcis masuk.

 

Langkah 3: Menciptakan Film tentang Sajak dalam Pikiran.
Pelahan membaca setiap kalimat sajak dengan suara cukup keras, lalu berfantasi di pikiran dalam wujud video.

 

Langkah 4: Belajar dengan Konsentrasi.
Gunting bagian tengah sehelai kertas yang lubangnya tepat untuk bisa membaca setiap 4 baris bagian sajak. Baca dengan suara keras dan pelan silih-berganti guna menghidupkan suasana seperti yang ditulis dalam sajak.

 

Langkah 5: Mengulangi.
Kira-kira 2 jam kemudian langkah-langkah di atas diulangi. Sebelum tidur dibaca lagi dan dihayati.

 

Strategi Keempat: Angka, Data, dan Fakta bakal Gampang Diingat.

 

Metode Loci (dari bahasa Latin “locus” yang artinya tempat) sudah diterapkan oleh pembicara Yunani dan Romawi kuno. Mereka menemukan bahwa urutan dari isi pidato dapat diingat berbantuan jalan setapak yang biasa dilewati sehari-hari.

Begini caranya: jalan ditandai dengan ciri khas yang berbeda dan digambar (misalnya pos satpam, pertigaan, lapangan bermain, tempat sampah, dsb). Cari sampai sejumlah antara 7 sampai 9 ciri khas karena jumlah ini sesuai dengan kemampuan alami otak kita untuk mengingat. Pada setiap ciri khas kaitkan dengan bahan tertentu (data, angka, atau fakta dari buku). Kelak saat ulangan pasti akan jadi sangat mudah untuk mengingat bahan pelajaran.

 

Strategi Kelima: Membuat Struktur dan Peta Umum Bahan Pelajaran.

 

Tulis di secarik kertas gambaran umum dari mata pelajaran. Tambahi dengan tabel, rumus, dan daftar. Gambar bila perlu. Otak kita lebih mudah mengingat gambar daripada teks. Agar dapat berhasil dengan baik, maka 5 pertanyaan ini harus dijawab:

1. Apa yang harus aku ketahui?
2. Di mana kelemahanku? (misalnya sulit menghafal, atau tidak suka rumus matematika)
3. Bantuan apa yang dapat kubuat?
4. Bagaimana aku menyimpulkan bahan pelajaran secara singkat dan jelas?
5. Bagaimana aku dapat membuat kesimpulan lebih pendek lagi?

 

Jika hal tersebut sudah dilakukan, tidak ada lagi yang namanya lupa atas bahan pelajaran sesulit apa pun. Ini garansi dari para ahlinya. Selamat menerapkan lima strategi jitu ini!

Breaking news[1]

Bali police question Australian man Michael Sacatides over alleged drug importation

• By Adam Gartrell
• October 11, 2010 8:16PM

BALI police have spent a second day questioning an Australian man who is facing a possible death penalty for drug importation.

Michael Sacatides, 43, was arrested at Bali's international airport on October 1 after customs officers found 1.7kg of methamphetamine, or ice, concealed in his luggage.

The kickboxing trainer from Sydney's west arrived on a flight from Thailand, where he currently resides.

But Mr Sacatides denied the drugs - worth an estimated $A390,000 - belonged to him, telling officials he had borrowed the bag from an Indian business associate in Bangkok. Bali police are now working with Interpol to try to find the man.

Mr Sacatides underwent interrogation for the second time today, with the identity and whereabouts of the Indian man a key focus.

Lawyer Erwin Siregar said his client continued to maintain his innocence throughout the questioning at Bali's police headquarters.

“He said he did not know anything about the drugs," Mr Siregar said.
Mr Sacatides could be charged under article 113 of the narcotics laws which carries a maximum penalty of death where the volume of drugs exceeds five grams.

Three Australians - Scott Rush, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran - are currently on death row in Bali's Kerobokan Prison over a 2005 attempt to smuggle more than 8kg of heroin from Bali to Australia.

All three currently have final appeals before the Indonesian courts.

Another six members of the so-called Bali Nine are serving sentences of between 20 years and life in prison over the foiled plot.

The Gold Coast's Schapelle Corby is also serving 20 years for smuggling 4.1kg of marijuana into Bali in 2004.

Journal week

v     Source    :

“Bali police question Australian man Michael Sacatides over alleged drug     importation”  

by : Adam Gartrell

Retrieved :  http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/bali-police-question-australian-man-michael-sacatides-over-alleged-drug-importation/story-e6frfku0-1225937339040

v     Summary :

         POLRI arrested Australian man name Michael Sacatides because Bali Police found 1.7 kg of methamphetamine, or ice, concealed in his luggage on October 1, 2010 in Ngurahrai Bali. He refused the drugs is his, he told that the bag got from an Indian business associate in Bangkok and possibility he sentenced a maximum penalty of death based Indonesia law under article 113 of the narcotics laws.

         Beside that POLRI also arrested International network of drugs in year 2004&2005 and the punishment for them were Jail (2004) and penalty of death (2005).

·        Name   : Muhamad Ramli Arrahman

·        NIM    : 2010 12 0002

v     Opinion :

Ø      Indonesia Government in this case POLRI have to force the illegal drugs  by the law forceful, we can not tolerance for drugs because it can break our generation continuously, drugs is danger as like as corruptions, so I think the punishment for these criminal is penalty death. Better we lose one soul because of himself  by his criminal than this country lose it generations continuously because of  drugs.

Ø      POLRI also do not want to be bribed by criminals, in order Indonesia Police have dignity in  establishing law in Indonesia criminally.

Ø      We as new generation of this country and world must keep and avoid ourselves and environment from drugs, and always make create good relation with our apparatus to protect our country from an unlawful deed, wherever and whenever.

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[1] http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/bali-police-question-australian-man-michael-sacatides-over-alleged-drug-importation/story-e6frfku0-1225937339040