The biohazard threat has not ended: Just when it seemed that the menace of Resident Evil had been destroyed, along comes a new terror to send shivers down player's spines. Chris Redfield, returning Resident Evil hero, has followed the path of the evil literally around the globe. After joining a new organization, Chris heads to Africa where the latest bioterrorism threat is literally transforming the people and animals of the city into mindless, maddened creatures. He is joined by a new partner, Sheva Alomar, who lends her strength, intelligence and sharp-shooting skills to the mission. In order to survive, Chris and Sheva must work together to take on the challenges of discovering the truth behind this evil plot. Utilizing a revolutionary new co-op mode of gameplay, players will be able to assume control of either Chris or Sheva and experience Resident Evil in new ways. In Resident Evil 5, Capcom will have players fearing the daylight as much as they have feared shadow in previous games.
Co-producer and series veterans Jun Takeuchi (Lost Planet) and Masachicka Kawata (Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles) unleashes an unprecedented level of fear for the next generation in Resident Evil 5, the sequel to one of the highest-rated videogames in history, according to Metacritic.com and Gamerankings.com. Promising to revolutionize the series by delivering an unbelievable level of detail, realism and control, Resident Evil 5 is certain to bring new fans to the series. New technology developed specifically for the game, as well as incredible changes to both the gameplay and world of Resident Evil will make this a must-have game for gamers across the globe.

The latest in the Resident Evil series, which has sold over 34 million units since the original game was released in 1996, as well as spawned a multi-million dollar trilogy of films from Sony Pictures. Resident Evil 5 will revolutionize the Resident Evil series, just as Resident Evil 4 did.


* Chris Redfield, protagonist of the original Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Code Veronica, returns
* Chris is joined by new character Sheva Alomar, an African special agent tasked with investigating the epidemic
* 2 player co-op online gameplay means that players are not alone in their fight against the horror lurking around every corner
* Simultaneous global release date for both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 13, 2009
* New enemies bring new challenges: speed and intelligence make adversaries as dangerous singly as they are in groups.
* An arsenal of weapons at the player's command to keep the evil at bay, including knives, pistols, machine guns, sniper rifles and more.
* Lighting effects provide a new level of suspense in both harsh light and deepest shadow
We venture deep into the criminal underground to explore more of this open-world racer.

When we last had a look at Need for Speed Undercover, it was during a visit to the EA booth at last month's Tokyo Game Show. While the relative sanity of EA offered a nice, reassuring slice of home amid the Katamari-rolling cosplayers and broomstick-riding arcade machines, the demo we saw gave us only a quick peek at what this open-world racer will deliver when it's released on November 18. Recently, though, we've spent some time with the first several hours of Need for Speed Undercover to explore some of the things you can do once you go undercover in the Tri-City Bay with little more than a police badge and some sweet driving skills to your name.


One of the coolest things Undercover has going for it is a very thin, often nonexistent line between theatrics and gameplay, and that's evident from the very beginning. The intro cinematic shows a Nissan 370Z leading a frantic police chase. Quick and stylized camerawork shows the freeway chase from all angles, but suddenly the camera swings behind the car and you're thrust into the driver's seat when you were just about ready to grab another handful of popcorn. The only way to evade the police is to put enough distance between you and them so that you can lie low for a while and see your wanted level creep low enough for an escape. But it's not easy: The police in Undercover are a tough bunch who will create roadblocks, lay spike strips, and follow you headlong into oncoming traffic and the narrowest alleys if need be. But they also have a human side, and you can hear their excellent chatter through the radio that reacts contextually to the maneuvers and acts of destruction you pull off.

Once you complete this introductory chase scene, you're given your first taste of the game's video cutscenes. This intro sequence shows two police officers discussing an underground criminal racing club with possible links to an international smuggling ring. Actress Maggie Q plays a police inspector who has come up with the idea to plant an undercover cop deep into this group of thugs, which is where you come in. The rest of the game's cinematics--which are of the low-light, quick-cut style you'd find in a show like 24--tell the story of your progression through the ranks of this auto enthusiast club, and they tend to straddle the line between Hollywood cop films and the delightfully cheesy Need for Speed full-motion videos of old.



Making your way through the game's story missions requires you to build up your wheelman level, which can be done in a variety of ways. You can add points by just cruising around the open-world Tri-City Bay setting and performing heroic driving maneuvers, which is developer Black Box's term for driving on the distant edge of safety without quite falling off. Full-speed 180s, powerslides, nitrous drifts, and brakestands are a few of the heroic driving maneuvers that can be done to add wheelman rep points. This also has the side benefit of giving you driver skills, which increase your abilities with a car outside the usual garage modifications done to the cars themselves.


Another important means of increasing your wheelman level is participating in the dozens of side missions scattered throughout the Tri-City Bay. Events include basic races like Sprint and Circuit, exercises in destruction like Cost to State and Cop Takeout, and one-on-one races like Outrun and Highway Battle. You can also do jobs for car thieves, which require you to take a hot car to a chop shop while outrunning a legion of angry cops, all while making sure you don't damage the car too much. Accessing these events is as simple as hitting up on the D pad to access your GPS map, or hitting down on the D pad to jump straight into the nearest available event. This system of accessing events means you can spend almost zero downtime between the events or take all the time in the world if you want to.
Pulling up the GPS map also gives you access to nearby auto shops--but only once you've befriended the criminal types necessary to gain access to these establishments. Once you get them on your map, you can pop in to customize your car in numerous ways. There's the layman's quick upgrade, where you can choose to upgrade power or handling, the more detailed upgrade packages that let you improve things like drivetrain and forced induction, and some tuning sliders that let you customize those parts you've already purchased. In addition to these options, you can add custom paint and vinyl jobs to your car, purchase aftermarket body mods, or just buy a new car altogether with the cash you've earned in events. Your options in the latter category include the modest Ford Focus ST all the way up to the slightly more upscale Bugatti Veyron 16.4 (zero to 60 in 2.46 seconds).
Anyone new to the world of racing games should find Need for Speed Undercover to be a relatively accessible experience. The handling of the cars is on the forgiving side, events never achieve frustrating status, and police chases are grueling but totally winnable with enough patience and clever route-taking. You can also tip the odds in your favor in both police chases and street races by using pursuit breakers, which are essentially booby traps you can trigger to sabotage competitors. For example, driving through a billboard stand might send the signage toppling onto those tailing you, while clipping a stand holding up concrete pipes could create a similar result.



Altogether, Need for Speed looks like a promising package. It's an open-world racer where you can keep the action going at all times, and its accessibility is complemented by a wide variety of maneuvers and plenty of real-life cars. You can look forward to seeing our final word when the review for Need for Speed Undercover hits right around the November 18 release.
Microsoft Corp. today released the first public beta of Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008, a server operating system and tools designed for the fast-growing high-performance computing (HPC) market. Microsoft also established the Parallel Computing Initiative, a program creating a set of common development tools across multicore desktops and clusters.

Windows HPC Server 2008, the successor to Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, is based on the Windows Server 2008 operating system and is designed to increase productivity, scalability and manageability. Windows HPC Server 2008 has been renamed to reflect its readiness to tackle the most challenging HPC workloads. Key features are new high-speed networking, highly efficient and scalable cluster management tools, advanced failover capabilities, a service oriented architecture (SOA) job scheduler, and support for partners’ clustered file systems. The beta is now available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/hpc; the final version will be generally available in the second half of 2008.

“With the new advancements, Windows HPC Server 2008 can allow customers to achieve the levels of scalability and performance of the most efficient clusters in the Top500 benchmark while making it dramatically more productive to deploy, utilize and integrate the advanced HPC clusters within their environment,” said Kyril Faenov, general manager of HPC at Microsoft. “By upgrading to Windows HPC Server 2008 on our 2,048-core production test cluster, we increased the LINPACK performance by 30 percent and were able to deploy and validate the cluster in less than two hours using out-of-the-box software. Expanding beyond traditional MPI-based HPC applications, Windows HPC Server 2008 enables support for high-throughput SOA applications with its advanced Web service routing capability and paves the way for bringing HPC capabilities to a broad range of enterprise applications.”

This efficiency is currently being demonstrated at the Holland Computing Center in the Peter Kiewit Institute at the University of Nebraska, one of the largest clusters in the world. The new 1,151-node Windows-based cluster is expected to enhance the curriculum and resource capabilities by providing compute cycles for a broad variety of government, research and industry uses.

“We see this as a tremendous opportunity to advance the research capabilities of the institute to meet the growing and emerging demands of the university community as well as our business partners,” said John Callahan, director of technical infrastructure for the Peter Kiewit Institute. “The scalability and demonstrated performance of the Windows platform has empowered us to provide a medium through which we can develop and train students in a new specialization on parallel computing.”

Adding to performance, Microsoft is also showcasing the ways cluster administrators, end users and developers can increase productivity with a common set of tools that span the desktop and cluster. Cluster administrators can save time with Microsoft System Center for application-level monitoring and rapid provisioning and SQL Server Reporting Services for capacity planning and auditing. End users can save time with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for data collaboration and the Windows Workflow Foundation for automating processes across workgroups.

Mixed, dual-boot clusters can also improve cluster efficiency. Because dual-boot clusters flexibly serve both Linux and Windows users, they increase utilization rates by expanding their number of addressable users. Examples of customers deploying large mixed clusters include the University of Iowa, Cambridge University, 3M and Baker Hughes Inc. Leading technology partners that have announced mixed cluster support for Windows HPC Server 2008 include Altair Engineering Inc., Cluster Resources Inc. and Platform Computing. Clustered file system vendors that have announced support for Windows include Panasas Inc., Quantum Corp.’s StorNext, HP PolyServe, and Sanbolic Inc., and IBM Corp. has plans to support IBM GPFS on Windows.

Multicore and the Future of High-Performance Computing

Deepening its investment in developer productivity, Microsoft also created the Parallel Computing Initiative, which encompasses the vision, strategy and innovative developments in systems, runtimes, programming models, libraries, language extensions, and development tools across desktop and cluster. Designed to simplify and enable parallelism for a broad set of commercial applications in the multicore and cluster environments, this initiative adds to currently available standards-based tools such as Message Passing Interface (MPI) and OpenMP and native parallel debugger support in Visual Studio 2008. New technologies include the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework that will enable developers to express parallelism and improve efficiency and scalability of parallel applications. Over the next six months, Microsoft will ship customer technology previews of this technology. Demonstrating how Microsoft’s investment into parallel programming is expanding the high-performance computing market, market leaders in the actuarial insurance software market, such as Milliman Inc. and Towers Perrin, have already announced native support for Windows HPC, introducing a large new segment of performance-sensitive customers to the benefits of parallelism.

These major investments from Microsoft in high-performance computing and parallel programming will enable a broader set of commercial application vendors as well as corporate and research programmers to embrace parallelism and take full advantage of the potential performance gains that are made available through adoption of multicore processors and server clusters.

More information on Windows HPC Server 2008 is available at http://www.microsoft.com/hpc.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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System Center: Monitoring Windows Server 2008 with OpsMgr 2007
As you deploy Windows Server 2008 into your environment, you’ll need a way to manage and monitor its health, performance, and availability. Fortunately, you can use the existing System Center tools you are already familiar with. See how you can use OpsMgr 2007 to manage your Windows Server 2008 assets. Pete Zerger
System Center: Using Configuration Manager with Windows Server 2008
The release of System Center Configuration Manager SP1 added full support for managing Windows Server 2008 systems, including such new features as server core. Get a quick overview of deploying the ConfigMgr agent and using ConfigMgr to manage Windows Server 2008 systems throughout your organization. Cameron Fuller
System Center: Granular Targeting in Operations Manager 2007
For every monitoring object you build, you must also decide what target to use. Choosing the correct target is critical, but knowing how to go about choosing the correct target is not always clear. Steve Rachui explores various options for correct targeting in OpsMgr and provides guidance for choosing the appropriate method for each scenario. Steve Rachui
Windows Server 2008: Presentation Virtualization with Enhanced Terminal Services
Virtualization isn’t limited to virtual machines and the virtualization of operating systems. Terminal Services has been abstracting the presentation layer of remotely run applications and desktops for years. Take a close look at key improvements to Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 and get some tips for using these new features. Joshua Schnoll
SQL Server 2008: Tracking Changes in Your Enterprise Database
SQL Server 2008 introduces two new features that allow you to track changes more easily and efficiently. Paul Randal examines the new Change Tracking and Change Data Capture features and discusses the implications these features will have for database administrators. Paul S. Randal

Check out some of the latest gear from Nike's new Sportswear line

Nike has always been on the cutting edge of technology with its footwear and with their new Sportswear collection. The theme of the collection is athletic performance in any weather condition.

Innovations include impermeable no-sew seams, breathable/waterproof fabrics, Storm-FIT fabrics, waterproof zippers, water-repellant soft shell fabrics, no-sew storm flaps and laser-cut cuff adjustability keeps cold out and warmth in. Nike staple the Eugene track jacket is redone; along with “The Standard Tee.” The Nike Windrunner, crew and many more. The winter collection is available at the Nike Sportswear store in New York and at The Montalban in Los Angeles
JAKARTA, Three people suspected Bali bombing case has been sentenced long dead. Amrozi cs execution was announced candidate is done early November. However, until Friday (7 / 11) is they have not faced a team shoot.

"We still have technical problems," said Deputy Attorney General, Muchtar Arifin, Friday (7 / 1), in Jakarta. Muchtar Arifin said, there is still a problem not related to the implementation ekskusi.

Unfortunately, Muchtar would not explain more about the technical problem that caused the execution time they become unclear. However, a clear technical issues, not related to the legal verdicts against them.

"If the case is closed (closed), but businesses will not affect the other," says Muchtar. Legal issues about Amrozi, Ali Gufron and Imam Samudra associated with the death verdicts have been closed.

No more efforts to save them from the verdicts. So, just wait for execution is carried out whether the future, tomorrow, or this evening.


JAKARTA, Meteorological and Geophysics Agency (BMG) in Jakarta and ask the Provincial Government of Jakarta cautious peak rainy season in January and February 2009. Rainfall is expected to reach 400 to 450 millimeters per month can be a risk of occurrence of floods in 12 district se Jakarta.


"Rainfall will increase in December to March 2009. Peak rainfall was in January to February," said Chief Information Line Climatology and Air Quality BMG, Hendro Santoso, in front of the Vice Governor of Jakarta and the Prijanto camat se-Jakarta, Friday ( 7 / 11) in Balaikota Jakarta.

Heavy rainfall have the potential to trigger the occurrence of floods in 12 district se-Jakarta. In South Jakarta, the area that could potentially occur due to heavy rain flooding is the new fire, Mampang Prapatan, and Pasar Minggu.

In West Jakarta, the area is the need to be skeptical Cengkareng, Dover Petamburan and Kalideres. Di Jakarta Timur, Kecamatan Ciracas, Cipayung, Kramatjati, dan Kampung Melayu. In East Jakarta, Subdistrict Ciracas, Cipayung, Kramatjati, and Kampung Melayu. In North Jakarta, Kelapa Gading Subdistrict and Pademangan should be skeptical.

"South Jakarta Regional prospective rainfall occurs more often instead of North Jakarta because of the influence of monsoon winds and near the mountainous area," said Hendro.

The risk of flooding, which is displayed BMG, said Hendro, was caused by the rain. The risk of flooding will be greater if the added factor of high tide sea level.

Head of Information BMG Ahmad Zakir said, in addition to flooding, wind stalk hatchet must also skeptical, especially in North Jakarta. Chance waterspout is very high and difficult to detect.

Alerts will cause wind waterspout can be known from the rain that fell in the morning and afternoon with a short but high rainfall and accompanied by gale.

After viewing BMG, Prijanto ask all Camat and cautious of the threat is the disasters that will occur in their environment. Floods in Jakarta can not be avoided at this time given the many infrastructure facilities and flooding that have not yet awakened.

Technically, the word Prijanto, Jakarta provincial government is taking steps to build anticipation of flooding and folders drainasse repair and dredging rivers. However, the steps that have not been sufficient to overcome the flooding in Jakarta.



JAKARTA, SATURDAY - National Police Headquarter to remind residents of the more powerful drugs and liciknya circulation by the network in West Africa, Southeast Asia, including Indonesia. In Operation Paniki with specific targets for foreign people last October, there are 19 foreign citizens were involved and three people shot dead in them.

Director IV / Crime Drug Agency detective Criminal National Police Headquarter brigadier general (Pol) Harry Montolalu revealed to the press at the Office of National Narcotics Agency (BNN) in Jakarta, Friday (7 / 11). Harry accompanied the Head of the Office for the General Commissioner of the National Police Headquarter, Bambang Kuncoko.

Operations carried out five teams, namely, the BNN and the National Police Headquarter and the four regional teams, namely, the Provincial Narcotics Agency of Jakarta, West Java, Bali and North Sumatra. Of the 498 foreign terjaring, there are 19 people involved in drug cases and three of them shot dead as against escape or be arrested.

Three people shot dead Oliver is Uchechukwu alias Osondo Today Taouray (Nigeria) with evidence of 100 grams heroin, Victor Thembo Macoba (South Africa), which would distribute 59.6 grams of heroin, and Steve alias Richard (Nigeria) are 40 grams of heroin . Total heroin evidence taken from three people is 199.6 grams.

Some 16 other people now being processed so that the law of a total of 19 foreign citizens involved in drug cases, officials successfully seize 370.1 grams of heroin, 28.3 grams of hashish, 13.7 grams of dried marijuana, three trunk marijuana, 25,500 eggs ekstasi, and 200.5 grams sabu. When sold, the value of drugs that reach more than Rp 2,223 billion.

"Currency of the population can be saved, namely, the special enthusiast from beginners evidence that be, is 308,161 people," said Harry.

According to Harry, in a meeting of Interpol related drug network in Bangkok last month, there is one important notes that must be known to the public in Southeast Asia, especially the people of Indonesia. Note that is different from the case revealed, the network Adventures drugs in this area generally dipelopori citizens of West African origin.

Moreover, foreign prisoners because of a drug case in the penitentiary (LP) can still control the circulation of drugs back rail. Cases such as this, among others, found through terpidana Mirke (Nigeria).

They control the children fruit from the LP via cellular phone. Should, napi or suspect cases of drugs can not use the phone.

Bambang added that the mode of foreign, mainly from Africa, quite unique. For best drug circulation, which was first performed by local women marry and have descendants as a bond of blood relationship. Just after the wife made as a courier.

Thus, the vast Indonesian citizens involved in drug circulation network. "Even some of the residents caught in another country because this case drugs," said Bambang.

Drug operation carried out in the previous three months (July, August, September), terjaring 6,383 suspects, including middle school students. There are 54 people uninspiring. "We hope that there is no napi punished lightly, or get remisi," said Harry

Be evidence that during the three months it reached Rp 195,641 billion."Currency of the population can be saved as a junkie beginners from the evidence is more than 69 million people," said Harry.

In addition, the Thousand Islands BNK Friday arrest yesterday of 13, including two high school students because the party marijuana in the Coconut Island pier.



JAKARTA, SATURDAY - Roads damaged in Jakarta began to grasp life, as happened in the Kelvin Winata. This motorcycle rider died when a bus dilindas avoid roads damaged in Mayjend Sutoyo Road in front of the building Kencana Cawang, East Jakarta, Friday (7 / 11) at 07.30.

Polda Metro Jaya record, and during the month of October, three lives every day due to traffic accidents. Police Traffic Accident Jaktim purpose Inspector Two Suwarno explained yesterday, when the victim was driving Yamaha M-6506-HX. Kelvin drive the bicycle motornya from Cililitan the Indonesian Christian University (UKI).

In front of the building branch Kencana, Kelvin setangnya sudden swerve to avoid a series of mountain roads. However, because of a sudden, Kelvin can not control the bike motornya.

Kelvin fall slip below the front right wheel of the bus PPD B-BX-7154 and terlindas. Victims who live in Sida Mukti RT 02 RW 10 Suka Maju, Sukma Jaya, Depok, died at the scene.

Kelvin bones and taken to Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Central Jakarta. Meanwhile, motorcycle and a bus that brought melindasnya to Satwil Traffic Jaktim.



While struggling to gate the highest power in Washington, Barack Obama is known as the political elite, which carry a change. When word of this change starts with Obama immortalize moments hold the results of the calculation of the sound on the night pascapemilu in the U.S. leading online photo site Flickr. Flickr, which can be used and viewed by anyone, anywhere and at any time not more than a digital photo album, which is usually used by families and friends who want to share the results of shooting photos.

Not like other presidents who enshrine hold the moment with a photo journalism class essai high as Life or Time magazine, Obama only rely moment it recorded in the vote. Archive, which is recorded in the vote showed Obama closeness relationship with the family, the friends, ajudan, including the vice president selected Joe Biden in a hotel room in Chicago.

Results catapult camera shows Obama moment, surrounded by his family with a forward calculation of the aid scrolling and voice on television. In one moment that recorded, see sitting relaxed Obama while John McCain rivalnya provide information on the television line of the calculation of the sound.

Results shooting photos taken with digital cameras this diabadikan on Flickr several hours after Obama declared victory. Photographs contain a picture Obama also contains a number of comments on the flood kemenangannya elation as the first black president of the U.S..

YOU know the site Wikipedia, is not it? For you who do not know, this site is a giant online encyclopedia. Various information we can get on this site quickly, without having to bother turn-back books are thick and heavy-weight Encyclopรฆdia Britannica as the volume reaches 32!

Many people who are to benefit from the presence of this Wikipedia. No wonder if the site was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001 is growing rapidly. Wikipedia is able to attract 684 million visitors each year. Then, there are more than 75 thousand active contributor to more than 10 million articles in more than 250 languages. When writing this I make it, there are more than 2.5 million articles in English. Every day there are hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world who marry tens of thousands of articles and create thousands of new articles to enrich the knowledge that this is in Wikipedia.

Yes, this is the excess Wikipedia encyclopedia than the form book. Wikipedia easier for people to access and contribute information at once. In addition, because online, quickly and easily every article that can be updated with the latest information.

Wikipedia's story is an example of what real-called "Collective Wisdom from the crowds." Try it, anyone can contribute new articles. Similarly, every article in Wikipedia can be edited easily. Means that each person also have the opportunity to provide information that is incorrect.

However, the fact Wikipedia's credibility remains intact. Wikipedia is still a reference number one in the Zagat virtual until now. Why? This is because each of the number of visitors Wikipedia millions and tens of thousands of active contributors was by itself will find out if there is information that is incorrect. They can fix quickly.

In the book The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki says that many people alias crowd will be able to produce decisions that are often better than decisions made by each individual. Surowiecki is a staff writer at the weekly magazine The New Yorker open book with a story that is quite interesting about Francis Galton, a scientist from Britain.

Galton is a when walking in a public market. There is a competition to guess the weight and body bison animal followed about 800 people. When the result was announced, there are interesting findings. In fact, on average, the results of conjecture all 800 people only different from the one pound weight of the bison. Guess the average is more appropriate than the estimation of some experts that cattle there.

Now, this introductory description of the next Surowiecki argues that the crowd can make a decision and predicted that better than people per person, or even compared to a group of experts even. However, not all the crowd could give a positive or take a wise decision. For example, only when the riot occurred in the international music or investor panic during the crisis in the capital markets.

Why can this happen? According to Surowiecki, there are a number of key criteria that a crowd could act with wisdom. The first is the diversity of opinions. Everyone should have the information that is unique to ensure the variation of thought. Second is the freedom of speech. Thus, the opinion of someone not determined by the opinion of the people around them.

Then the third criteria is decentralization. Each person is able to inject opinion based on his local knowledge. And the last criteria is the method to collect the opinions of each person and processed into a collective decision.

In the case of investor panic in the capital markets, can be seen that there is no diversity and freedom of speech. Investors consider the opinions of people too and not able to act independently. Then they began to imitate the actions of other people think and act differently. Conversely, we can see that the four criteria was able to be fulfilled by Wikipedia.

Wisdom of the crowds this will increasingly affect every aspect of marketing. Opinion of a group of elite people will be losing a lot of opinions from people like this. This is the process horisontalisasi occurred in the era of New Wave Marketing. So, never once was ignoring what it is said by many people!
Washington, International Monetary Fund cut back estimates of global growth. Institutions also warned that the economic growth of the industrial countries will be minus forward in 2009. Contraction is the first time since World War II.

The IMF estimates, industrialized countries will be weakened to a negative 0.3 percent compared with its previous estimate at 0.5 percent. Global growth also was revised to only 0.8 percent estimate from the newly announced last month, 2.2 percent.

"The prospect for global growth to weaken in the last one month because of the financial sector continued to decline and falling consumer confidence," said a statement the IMF in Washington, Thursday (6 / 11) local time Friday or WIB.

"Our estimate is based on the current situation and the policies that have been taken so far. We estimate that there will be many policies are made. The IMF will also participate in the meeting of the G-20 this month, "said the head of the IMF economist Olivier Blanchard.

Coordination

French President Nicolas Sarkozy also stressed that Europe must have a coordinated economic measures, although recognized that there are some things still controversial.

"I emphasize, in the face of this crisis, policy coordination is an obligation. There are no other options to understand and listen and work together to maintain our economic growth, "said Sarkozy spoke before a meeting of high-level European Union in Brussels, Belgium, Friday.

Meanwhile, South Korea yesterday again cut the interest rate, the third time in the last one month, to lift the economy. England also cut the previous interest rate.

However, the central bank cut interest rates can not stop the decline in the stock market. Investor shares in mainland Europe because of fear panic on the performance of the economy to worsen.

Some stock prices rise in Europe in mid-trade yesterday. FTSEurofirst 300 Index rose 1.1 percent after a 5.8 percent fall on Thursday. FTSE 100 up 1.8 percent, the German DAX rose 1 percent, and the French CAC 40 rose 0.9 percent.

"I do not believe this increase will be sustainable," said Ryan Kneale, analyst at BetsforTraders.com.

In Asia, shares in Tokyo closed down 3.55 percent, Sydney weakened 2.4 percent, Hong Kong rise 3.3 percent, and Seoul rose 4 percent. (AP / AFP / joe)
TAIPEI, Chen Yunlin, the most senior Chinese official ever to visit Taiwan in 49 years, leaving Taiwan on Friday (7 / 11). However, the protest action groups prokemerdekaan Taiwan continued during the five-day visit Chen.

Chen historic visit to Taiwan produce a number of economic agreements. Both parties also agreed a meeting to further reach other agreements.

However, Chen still visits greeted the action of protest groups prokemerdekaan Taiwan. China still claims Taiwan as a region since the two parties separated 1949.

Relations of China and Taiwan continue to improve last year because of the policies Taipei a more friendly with the Chinese mainland this year. Visiting senior Chinese officials this may not happen a year ago when the relationship the two parties reached the lowest level.

However, demonstrations action-demonstration group prokemerdekaan continue Chen presence throughout. Peak protest action is redirecting hard collision police and demonstrators on Friday early morning. More than 110 people injury.

Around 2,200 police antihuru-burly that supported the water cannon were to the Grand Hotel Taipei, where Chen stay. Action to control some 1,000 demonstrators.

When leaving the airport, Chen said his visit as a big success for the relations across the Taiwan Strait.

"We completed the mission of the older people want from the cross-strait," said Chen, who did not mention political issues are at Taiwan. (AP / AFP / IN)
London, FRIDAY - the automotive industry such as the global crisis caused at least more consumers who buy new vehicles. Result, several companies have announced profits and reduction of employees. Automotive sector is often used as a reference for the economy, more and more cars means that the consumer economy is built and vice versa.

Producer cars from Japan, Toyota, cut the estimated annual profit of 12.6 billion U.S. dollars to be only 5.5 billion U.S. dollars. Is the main cause of global crisis and the strengthening yen exchange rate.

"This financial crisis hit the real economy and automotive markets. Especially in developing countries that economic growth terkontraksi, "said Executive Vice President Mitsuo Kinoshita in Tokyo, Friday (7 / 11).

Toyota Motor Corp. reported a net profit in the July-September decreased 69 percent to 1.4 billion U.S. dollars. The contraction occurred in the U.S. market, the crisis in the credit markets, and increase exchange rate of yen to press income from abroad is a serious challenge for producers of vehicles from Japan is the largest.

In Britain, the automotive manufacturing industry report states that 23 percent decline in car sales in October 2008 compared with October last year. Throughout October only sold 128,352 units, down from 166,797 units in October 2007. Decrease the lowest since the recession of 1990.

U.S. car producers, Ford, yesterday announced the loss of 129 million U.S. dollars in the third quarter and 10 percent will reduce staff. The figure is better compared with losses of 380 million U.S. dollars in the third quarter last year. Sales of Ford in U.S. market share also dropped 30 percent in September and October this.

Similar incidents also occurred in Europe. German car manufacturer, Daimler, the decline of Mercedes luxury car sales in October of 21 percent to 82,500 units compared with the figure last year.

While sales of car Smart city car that is usually not too many have been sold since last year it increased 6.5 percent to 11,300 units. Since January, Smart sales rose 41 percent, while Mercedes sales down 1.7 percent. The small car fuel sparingly more of a choice than the luxury car.

Competitors Mercedes, BMW, also said sales declined more than 8 percent in October. Sales in the markets in developing countries mengompensasikan decrease in sales in western European countries. Throughout October, BMW sold 113,000 units, down 8.3 percent compared with sales in October 2007. (AP / AFP / Reuters / joe)

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Stoped associated with the delivery of the program in the Four Eyes Trans7, Entertainer Tukul Arwana not know the fate of events that dipandunya that, whether or later will be really stopped forever.

"Until this day I can not hear anything. Perhaps more fitting check directly Trans7 same, "said Tukul. Ia mengaku sedang santai-santai di rumahnya. He admitted to being relaxed, relaxed in his home. With dihentikannya while Four Eyes, the original owner's name Tukul Riyanto is not disavow honornya Rp 20 million per episode, which should meet the candidate kantongnya, automatically stopped alias follow-up evaporate.

"In the covenant is no clause saying that when things happen like this (discontinued) due third parties and included in the force majeur, the remuneration is not paid. So it is not paid, "said Tukul.

Until now this has been driving Tukul Four Eyes for 2.5 years and has been appearing in more than 600 episode. Contract work is updated every year and, now entering the third year.
However, this smacking haired men do not feel disappointed if honornya reached Rp 400 million for a month to the next (5 x 4 weeks episode x Rp 20 million) eventually drift with four Mata stoped program.

For years this road would have six months. Tukul mengalami potential lost pemasukan sebesar Rp 2,4 miliar! If the truce until just a month to six months before (the event stopped at all-red) in the rough calculation, Tukul have lost potential income of Rp 2.4 billion! "I am not at issue. That means I'm not a fortune. And I believe that God does not sleep and will always provide sustenance through the streets to watch the other. So just relax Mas, "he said.

Meanwhile, this news has not revealed any definite information from the parties Trans7 whether future events would be stopped or at all.

As supposedly, the event would be asked to stopped for a month by the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI), Tuesday (4 / 11). Events that appear every Monday-Friday at 21:30 it stopped running since Tuesday (4 / 11) night.

This event is considered to have violated Code of Conduct for Broadcast, and the Broadcasting Standards Program, namely in the episode of the show Sumanto, the corpse eater, which also show the scenes that is vulgar guests who eat frogs alive (not that Sumanto eat frogs, Warta Kota 4 / 11 -Red).

KPI Chairman of the Center Prof. Sasa Djuarsa Djuarsa said, "This decision was taken after, the program has received letter of reprimand from the KPI Center three times, namely on 5 May, 27 September, and 25 August 2008. So with this we ask Trans7 to stop these impressions.


Warga kulit hitam Amerika bersorak emosional begitu mengetahui kemenangan Barack Obama dalam pemilu AS, Rabu (5/11). Residents of black America cheer so emotional to know Barack Obama victory in the U.S. election, on Wednesday (5 / 11). Obama akan menjadi Presiden pertama Amerika dari kulit hitam. Obama will become the first President of the United States from black leather.

U.S. ready to prove themselves have stepped penetrate the limit. Millions of voters, black and white, old, young, male female, Hispanic and African descendants, are willing memercayakan their future into the hands of Barack Obama, an Illinois senator descendants of the original black leather.

During the two years served as a senator, Obama can see what can be seen by few people. United States ready to accept the changes.

He came to Capitol Hill two years ago with the "mission" to clean what seen as a political stunt modern America. The fierce partisan attitudes and disunity that has been studied for at least two bercokol period presidency.

While the opportunity staggering in the journey toward White House, with the mantras "change", Obama has made this fight becomes all the elements of the nation merger.

"He has to find the way back from politics for this. This is a revolution, such as the election of Franklin D Roosevelt years 1932 and John F. Kennedy 1960," said Paul Levinson, political experts from Fordham University, New York, as cited by news agency AFP.

Obama is not big victory as the victory of President George W Bush in 2000 and 2004, according to observers, wicker divisions and make people fighting one another.

"We have successfully overcome all the things that count more people are obstructions that can not be destroyed in our politics. We succeeded in creating a national coalition. That's what we want and that we do, "said David Axelrod, Obama strategists.

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The enthusiasm of voters to vote shall invite click amazed apart. Mentioned, the number of voters this time is the most historic election in the U.S., namely around 135 million people.

My eyes water up specifically to see the queue," said Bob Haskins, a worker at a church in Atlanta, as cited by the International Herald Tribune (IHT).

"For children that young, this is the call. All that said Martin Luther King become a reality today, "he said, when young people enthusiastic sent to vote.

Tobey Benas, a retired teacher in Chicago, also impressed with the moment of the election this year. "I do not believe we can until this far. This is very touching, "he said, as quoted IHT.

Issues of race in the U.S. have not become part of the chestnut. Racial sentiment still haunt, although the U.S. claim as a democratic country that exceeds all the difference.

The winner in a speech in Chicago, Obama stressed that the boundaries separating the obvious can not dilompati. "If there is someone out there who still doubt that the United States is a place where things may happen, that dream still wonder if the founders of our country are still living, still questioned the strength of democracy, the night is the answer," said Obama.

That is evidenced by the sound of the white voters that Obama was obtained, namely 43 percent. While the lost earnings from the panda (55 percent), Obama surpass earnings from the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, John Kerry, who is also white.

Some years this U.S. citizens abroad to become familiar targets of invective and cemoohan blessing "war against terrorism" that President Bush diusung. Sentimen anti-AS kian merajalela di berbagai belahan dunia. Anti-US sentiment remains rampant in various parts of the world.

Not long after Obama won the election, William J kole, an Associated Press journalist in Austria, get a kiss on the cheek from foreign people in the bus, only because he was American. "He did not say anything, but the message is very clear. Today we all the American people It feels like a long journey on the road wave that eventually stopped, "he said.

"Obama showed its extraordinary capacity for the United States to update and adapt to a world that is changing," said former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

When I return home, on the day of Idul Fitri my friend for me, that he will aspire to become entrepreneurs (Entrepreneurs). A year later I met my friend again, and then I asked "What is so businessmen." He said "not yet, I have my capital (capital)." Nevertheless, he still aspire to be entrepreneurs. On the day of Eid ul-Fitr next I met my friend again, and the iapun not become entrepreneurs. I remember the story hehe. He said in front of the King Aaron Ar-Rashid that he will be flying. Hehe hear the word of the King Aaron Ar-Rasid said in his heart "So this is my opportunity to defeat hehe." Then Aaron King Ar-Rashid said, "O hehe. What was katamu? ". "Sorry, the King, when the stage gave me a high, the servants will be flying from the stage" said hehe. "Let hehe, I will make a higher stage, but after the Friday prayer front of you should have been preparing to fly" said the King should be Ar-Rashid. "The servant ready to" answer hehe. A week later, after the Friday prayer, people have gathered in the plaza to witness hehe will be flying. Hehe wait to be king of the Ar-Rashid under the stage around the tower 12 meters high. Shortly Aaron King and the Ar-Rashid arrived in the plaza that dielu welcome by the people, then approached hehe. "You are ready Abu?" Ask Aaron King. "It is the" responsibility hehe. Hehe then climb the stage to the high above. Then he was greeted with a standing-please please panic, "How hehe flying from the stage without bringing any equipment. If the fall hehe surely die "gumam in their hearts. Hehe lift one foot and swing-ayunkan both hands like a bird will fly. Then replace the one who appointed one foot and tilt-sliding his hands again. The act was hehe repeated so that people feel bored hehe see the whimsy, and they cry "He said you will be flying. Kok only once. " Hehe replied "I only said I will be flying. During this I see. I will be flying now. " Aaron see him smiling behavior and answers hehe, and the feel lost. Hehe be given prizes. That is, if you will only become a businessman, then forever will be the only businessman and never become a businessman. This is because there are legal start a business.

Start a legal business such as law styles of a String object. It is my style, since my high school class one. My teacher said that the objects that have a quiet style String relatively higher compared with a moving object. Style It occurred when the objects will move. Similarly start in the business (business). When will start a business, big obstacle. After running the business, the obstacle is relatively small. Bottlenecks occurred during the first day of opening a business. My neighbor says to me "Pak Yanto when I open the shop on the first day, a horror house gusty once. But after running my shop, I do not seribut on the first day I open the shop. " That is the law to start a business.

Specialty, organically grown, arabica Wamena coffee. Specialty, organically grown, Arabica coffee Wamena. Kopi asli Indonesia ini mempunyai kualitas setara dengan Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Coffee native Indonesia has a quality equivalent to the Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee
Almah, in the 11 century, a goat herd in the morning to find an Ethiopian goat-kambingnya moving more sprightly and energetic usually from a tree near the red fruits. Their behavior is not always rise to a sense of curious on the herd. Interested, he eat the fruits of the small now known by the name of coffee. Immediately body just felt more fresh.

Not long, a Sufi origin of Yemen, Shaikh ash-Shadhili are around Ethiopia, through accidental. See the effects arising from the fruits of it, he and explore, from the boil until memanggangnya. The result, ancha drink coffee a drug to improve the drowsiness before the prayer and a favorite beverage in the mosque to mosque, eventually spread to all over the world.

Indonesia is known as one of the best coffee producing countries in the world, both types of Arabica and Robusta. Unfortunately, the quality of the original premium coffee Indonesia can be enjoyed even less because most imported directly to several countries.Indonesian society, can only enjoy coffee with the quality of the second or third.

Not many know that Indonesia has the equivalent of Arabica coffee with the Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, one of the best coffee and termahal in the world. In the far eastern tip of Indonesia, Wamena, Papua, at a height of 1,600 meters above the sea, there are gardens, coffee-owned native Papuans.

"Pieces of coffee in Wamena with the same quality coffee beans from Jamaica. In the colonial era, there was the Dutch who brought coffee beans from the Blue Mountain and planted in Papua. With the contours of land and the weather is similar, coffee and this can have a quality similar to the original , "Said Muhammad Abgari, owner of Coffee Anomalies some time ago in Jakarta.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Arabica coffee is planted in the area of Blue Mountain in Jamaica. Conditions are cool mountains, thick and fertile land which at the height of 1,700 meters above sea makes Blue Mountain as the ideal place to produce premium quality coffee.

Among other Arabica coffee, coffee contains caffeine, at least, soft, not too bitter, sour taste that the content fits. Well balanced. Well Balanced.

Thus, the Indonesian DANG should inherit the seeds, because seeds of the best quality coffee in the world. This Help of two young lovers make coffee, Ray and Kevin Muhammad Abgari bertekat preserve coffee and mempopulerkannya to various parts of bumi. Dream great start to realize that by opening the tiny coffee shop in the area Senopati, Jakarta, with the name of Anomalies Coffee, coffee, which is not normal . Want to know?


CHICAGO - Barack Obama announced Thursday that fellow citizens of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel candidate to become head of staff at the White House, typical burners." He said, "There is no other better that I know for this job."

This is the first decision Obama made after the presidential election. Although not want to announce this decision, was also out of this spiel.

"I will do everything to provide all the United States needed to change." Emanuel says that once the servants of political policy in the field of White House during the Clinton administration before entering Congress.

Department head office staff is important. Who will be appointed to act as one of the closest advisers to the president, and specifically to decide who will get access to the president, is also building a government policy.

Emanuel, like Obama, who is close to Chicago that Obama and many of the assessments. In his role as leader of the political commission to assist the Democrats gain seats in Congress, Emanuel is considered as important players develop in the U.S. House of Representatives, 2006. He served on the commission is very influential, which determine tax policy.

Since then, Emanuel has served as the Democrats held the most high fourth kaukus as party leader. Emanuel is an important adviser and former president Bill Clinton and most recently as a negotiator legislation funds talangan Wall Stret 700 billion dollars.


ISSUES global warming is still menghangat in all areas of life. Efforts continue to hamper Buana warming, climate change is extreme, and degradation of environmental quality.

Currently, after improvement up the environment, the global economic crisis back swing-joints and joint life of our city, including the property sector. The crisis came beruntun and repeatedly should be able to move our awareness.

The shape of the architecture of buildings (housing, buildings) should go, response, and provide solutions. One is to explore the building (houses, buildings) are energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

Bath like body, we need to do to reduce the rate of dietary cholesterol in the building and make the building more slender and fresh that can make healthy self (a bag of savings, the building of) and environment (residents, the city) and avoid social stroke complications. For that, we need to recognize the basic issues and efforts that can be done.

Development of building energy-efficient and environment-friendly should be cheap, easy, and broad impact. The development of the city green (green city), the property green (green property), building green (green building), office / school green (green school / office), to use green products (green products) continues to contribute to reducing the global warming crisis and global economy.

Law No. 28 Year 2002 on Building encourage development using local building feels more environmentally friendly and harmonious with the environment of origin. Design building (green building) energy efficient, limiting the land established, simple layout, room flow, quality of building quality, materials efficiency, materials and environmentally friendly (green products).

Building green requires the layout design of buildings (10 percent), consumption and management of water (10 percent), fulfilling the electric energy (30 percent), building materials (15 percent), air quality in (20 percent), and breakthrough innovation (technology, operations) by 15 percent.

How big building (houses, buildings), which will be built? Enough is enough. Volume is maintained so that the cost of building the development, operation, maintenance and restrained and more cost-efficient.

The building is designed with the mass space, space openness, and the outer-space relationships in the liquid, wide terrace, bersilangan ventilation, and the void that is comparable klimatik tropical circulation pengudaraan to work and natural lighting evenly across the room to energy-efficient.

Utilization of alternative energy

To save electricity usage, we can use energy-efficient lighting, air conditioning to maintain the temperature at 25 ยบ C, open windows when the curtains to allow light, and turn off electronic equipment when not needed (not a stand-by position).

Invited to make use of alternative energy in meeting the electricity needs of a cheap and practical, and support the development of technology, solar energy, wind, biomass or for building houses / buildings.

The use of local materials would be more cost (cost of production, transportation). Creativity is needed to design the building of local produce to become more interesting, unique local specialties, and easily replaced and obtained from the place around. Blend material time or stone bricks for the foundation and walls, walls of wood or modern gedeg (bamboo), the roof, floor and teraso not good with building a wall of concrete and glass, steel frame and roof, floor and ceramics, marble, or granite. Motif dan ornamen lokal pada dekoratif bangunan juga memberikan nilai tambah tersendiri. Motifs and decorative ornaments on the local building also provides value-added material.

Utilization of materials used or the rest of the renovations to the building materials can also produce a beautiful building and functional. Kusen, doors or windows, glass, teraso, to the stairs and iron fences can still be used, given the new touch, and that can be reused to provide a new atmosphere in the building. Cheaper and remains strong.

The scale of the building and the proportion of open space should be observing the basic building coefficient (KDB) and the coefficient basic green (KDH), which ranges from 40-70 percent 30-60 proportionate space awakened percent for green space to breathe and absorb water. Whole or part of the roof the building restored as green space instead of the land mass that is used in the building underneath. Roof-roof buildings to be developed into park roof (roof garden) and wall crawl plant Creep (green wall) so that the air temperature outside and in the fall, reduced pollution, and increasing green space.

Glogal Warming

The existence of parks and trees important in the warming of the earth. Ruang dalam bangunan diisi tanaman pot. Space in a building filled with pot plants. Green space to be processed vegetable garden and a pharmacy and live trees planted fruit sufficient for the needs of day-to-day. Of the can maintain and protect the tree and be adopted by foster parents trees of the road in front of the front of the building (houses, buildings) we.

deally, the rain water can be absorbed into the soil as much as 30 percent. With many concrete buildings, asphalt roads, and little green open space, the city (such as Jakarta), only 9 percent are able to absorb rain water. Then, when the rainy season flooding, summer droughts. Meanwhile, consumption of water from taps only 47 percent, while the water reaches 53 percent.

The building must begin to reduce water use (Reduce), re-use of water for different purposes at once (reuse), recycle waste water (recycle), and re-fill water (recharge) resapan wells with water (1 x 1 x 2 meters) and / or hole resapan biopori (10 centimeters x 1 meter).

All waste water is inserted into the wells with water, processing resapan conventional order not to be too dependent on the existing system environment. How frugal use of water is close the tap when not needed, do not let the tap water has, water sparingly when washing hands and washing cups / plates, to select dual-flush toilets, always spend your drinking water.

In the process culture of waste, provide the building where the processing of waste from independent sources. Asked to reduce the (Reduce) the use of the goods difficult to unravel. Dipilah inorganic waste and re-used or sold to scavengers. Processed organic waste into compost to fertilize crops. No wasted waste (zero waste).

According to the WHO (2006), 70 percent of the pollution in Jakarta comes from motor vehicles. 5 Planting trees can only absorb CO2 emissions issued by 1 car! And emissions per person each for presume kilometers with a private car is 15 times the bus. We need to reduce the use of private vehicles, equipment to switch to environment-friendly public transport, car pooling, call colleagues clockwise, eco-driving. Lucky if the buildings near schools, markets, or the office, we just ride a bicycle or walk.

We can apply environmental management systems from homes, schools, to the office practical and simple to assist and support the realization of building energy-efficient and environmentally friendly, the responses in implementing environmentally friendly practices, to help reduce the cost of household, reduce consumption of natural resources, promote sustainable practices through improvement of the kesadartahuan, promote ways of mitigating climate change by saving energy and the use of renewable energy.

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