Meningkatnya respon dan permintaan terhadap Mobil ini di seluruh dunia , membuat perusahaan BMW Group memutuskan memperluas jaringan produksinya di dunia internasional. Mini modern yang pertama kali akan diproduksi di luar eropa yaitu berlokasi di Chennai India. Sebelumnya , Mini begitulah panggilannya telah membuka lima show room pertama di India pada awal 2012 dan menjual 302 mobil antara maret dan desember tahun lalu.
Diharapkan pasar mobil di india secara keseluruhan dapat mengalami tingkat pertumbuhan yang tinggi untuk jangka menengah dan jangka panjang.
Pabrikan Chenai saat ini merakit BMW seri 3 , seri 5, X1 dan
model X3. Dan akan menjadi Cooper D bertenaga diesel dan Bensin.
Tahukah anda , Ada kelebihan pada Uang Pecahan Rp.50.000 Versi Gambar W.R.SUPRATMAN?
jika anda penasaran mari simak ulasan hal unik berikut :)
Jika anda dulu sering memegang Uang pecahan Rp.50.000 ini di jamin mungkin tidak banyak orang yang tahu kalau ternyata uang pecahan R.p 50.000 ini mempunyai kelebihan, yang suah untuk dipalsukan bagi si pemalsu uang.
Kenapa ? Coba perhatikan gambar berikut ;
Gambar Uang pecahan Rp.50.000
Ada apakah di dalam tanda bulatan Merah itu?
Coba baca ini;
Sebuah Lagu? ya benar sekali . Itulah tulisan yang ada di dalam lingkaran merah yang di tandai di gambar uang Pecahan Rp.50.000 Diatas. ini adalah Liric aslinya ;
Indonesia tanah airku,
Tanah tumpah darahku,
Di sanalah aku berdiri,
Jadi pandu ibuku.
Indonesia kebangsaanku, Bangsa dan tanah airku, Marilah kita berseru, Indonesia bersatu.
Hiduplah tanahku,
Hiduplah neg'riku,
Bangsaku, Rakyatku, semuanya,
Bangunlah jiwanya,
Bangunlah badannya,
Untuk Indonesia Raya.
Indonesia, tanah yang mulia,
Tanah kita yang kaya,
Di sanalah aku berdiri,
Untuk s'lama-lamanya.
Indonesia, tanah pusaka, P'saka kita semuanya, Marilah kita mendoa, Indonesia bahagia.
Suburlah tanahnya,
Suburlah jiwanya,
Bangsanya, Rakyatnya, semuanya,
Sadarlah hatinya,
Sadarlah budinya,
Untuk Indonesia Raya.
Indonesia, tanah yang suci,
Tanah kita yang sakti,
Di sanalah aku berdiri,
N'jaga ibu sejati.
Indonesia, tanah berseri, Tanah yang aku sayangi, Marilah kita berjanji, Indonesia abadi.
S'lamatlah rakyatnya,
S'lamatlah putranya,
Pulaunya, lautnya, semuanya,
Majulah Neg'rinya,
Majulah pandunya,
Untuk Indonesia Raya.
Indonesia Raya,
Merdeka, merdeka,
Tanahku, neg'riku yang kucinta!
Indonesia Raya,
Merdeka, merdeka,
Hiduplah Indonesia Raya.
Mari mengenal sejenak siapakah WR. SUPRATMAN itu.
Nama Lengkap ; Wage Rudolf Soepratman
Lahir ; 9 Maret 1903 . Jatinegara, Batavia, Hindia Belanda Meninggal ; 17 Agustus 1938 , surabaya , Hindia Belanda Kebangsaan ; Masih tercatat sebagai bangsa Hindia Belanda, Namun sekarang yang di kenal sebagai Bangsa Kita , yaitu Indonesia. Tahun Lahirnya Lagu Indonesia Raya ; Lagu indonesia Raya di ciptakan oleh wr.supratman pada tahun 1924 , jauh sebelum indonesia merdeka , di umurnya yang baru berusia 21 tahun, lokasi di bandung. Diperdengarkan di publik perama Kali pada Tahun 1928 pada waktu W.R. SUPRATMAN berusia 25 tahun, di jakarta pada Acara Kongres pemuda II, yang mana pada saat itu tercetuslah SUMPAH PEMUDA di hari penutupan Kongres tanggal 28 oktober 1928. yang sekarang ini selalu di peringati sebagai hari sumpah pemuda di indonesia pada setiap tanggal 28 Oktober. Lagu indonesia raya ini di mainkan oleh W.R SUPRATMAN dengan biola, hasil berlatih dengan kk iparnya , williem van eldik.
Akibat
menciptakan lagu Indonesia Raya, ia selalu diburu oleh polisiHindia Belanda, sampai jatuh
sakit diSurabaya. Karena lagu ciptaannya yang terakhir "Matahari Terbit" pada awal
Agustus 1938, ia ditangkap ketika menyiarkan lagu tersebut bersama pandu-pandu
diNIROMJalan Embong Malang,Surabayadan ditahan dipenjara Kalisosok, Surabaya. Ia meninggal pada tanggal17 Agustus1938karena sakit. [sumber Wikipedia]
W.R SUPRATMAN tidak sempat merasakan kemerdakaan indonesia, Namun begitu, sumbangan yang telah diberikannya sangat lah besar kepada bangsa ini, maka pantaslah jika ia dikenang Sumbangan Jasa nya beserta Fotonya pada Uang pecahan Rp.50.000 Keluaran Ba/nk indonesia.
di dalam uang tersebut tertera lirik lagu Ciptaanya , yaitu "INDONESIA RAYA".
Siapa sangka,Uang kertas Rp 50.000 edisi WR Supratman, sang pencipta
lagu kebangsaan Indonesia yang berasal dari kabupaten Purworejo, tersembunyi
sesuatu yang banyak orang tidak mengetahuinya. Perhatikan tanda panah pada
gambar uang t ersebut yang mengarah ke lingkaran merah. Ternyata pada uang
kertas Rp 50.000 edisi WR Supratman tersebut, ada tulisan kecil/ micro word
teks asli lagu Indonesia Raya hasil ciptaannya
Setelah banyak memperhatikan banyaknya blogger yang masih bingung mencari template apa sih yang bagus untuk blogspot, kali ini saya akan memberitahukan link dan serta contoh templatenya untuk anda.
Pertama , apakah agan pengen template yang bagus? pasti agan menjawab ya, tapi tahukah agan, bahwa ada pembuat template khusus untuk blogspot yang sangat diminati templatenya di kalangan dunia. karena kualitas template yang baik dan tentunya gratis..
Siapakah dia? dia adalah maskolis. ya dia orang indonesia, jika anda belum tahu maskolis, langsung search saja di google, akan langsung keluar siapa dia.
Link untuk website nya maskolis ada disini http://www.mastemplate.com/.
daripada saya yang banyak bicara lebih baik langsung saja menuju link tersebut. karena sudah banyak template yang menanti agan semua, ane jamin agan2 bingung, memilih template karena bagus semua.
Oh ia , saya rasa sudah lengkap maskolis mengkategorikan templatenya, mulai dari blog biasa, news, sampai ke dagangan.. lengkap dan top markotop.
Satu kata buat maskolis, terus berkarya mas. Indonesia harum karna ada orang-orang seperti maskolis ini ^_^ ane udah sering jalan2 loch, melihat bahwa antusiasme blogger luar yang sangat mengapresiasi kan hasil karya maskolis ini.
Alasan yang sangat sederhana untuk membuat orang lari ke pedagang lain
adalah, harga yang kita tawarkan melampaui harga pasaran yang ada. Atau banyak
bertebaran penjual yang merusak pangsa pasar . yang menawarkan harga lebih
murah.
Ingatlah, bahwa pembeli akan mencari harga yang termurah dan kualiatas
yang terbaik.
Apalagi bisnis Julan yang dilakukan online. Contohnya saja anda menjual
barang anda di Kaskus. Tetapi barang yang anda tawarkan ternyata lebih mahal
dari lapak pedagang yang sama.
Maka hancurlah sudah pasaran anda sekarang sebagai pedagang.
2. kurangnya Promosi
Saya fikir anda lebih paham.untuk promosi termasuk kedalam kategori yang
menandakan maju atau mundurnya suatu bisnis.
3. Up to date terhadap barang
dagangan sendiri
Selalu menyediakan stok baru , itu akan lebih menarik perhatian si
pembeli . karena minat yang selalu dinamis. Melihat yang baru itulah yang
dicari ^_^ , trus barang lama bagaimana? Usahakan juga selalu tawarkan
kelebihan barang lama.
4. Fokus dan selalu berfikir Fositif
Selalu membangun harapan akan sangat berguna untuk memperkuat mental
dalam bisnis berdagang. Yang semakin bertambah pesaingnya, sehingga hanya
mental-mental juara lah yang menang.
5. Perbaiki pelayanan.
Mungkin ini lah yang men jadi pelanggan anda kabur, setelah membeli
satu kali. Maka pada saat itu pelanggan akan menilai penuh kualitas dan citra
barang dagangan beserta pelayanan dagang anda
Saya kira cukup sekian dulu tips dari saya, semoga membantu,. Semoga usaha
anda semakin sukses selalu ^_^
Apakah anda seorang yang berketombean? dan tidak mengetahui penyebab terjadinya ketombe? Mungkin anda adalah salah seorang yang sering mengkonsumsi makanan berikut ini.
Apa saja jenis makanan yang bisa menghasilkan ketombe pada rambut? Simak ulasan berikut ini, semoga bisa membantu anda menemukan jawabannya.
1. Makanan Produk Susu
Bila Anda ingin menghindarkan ketombe muncul di kulit kepala
Anda., coba sementara hindari produk-produk makanan dari susu seperti es krim,
keju dan susu murni. Makanan seperti ini mengurangi ketahanan kondisi kulit
kepala dan memicu munculnya ketombe.
2. Gorengan
Makanan yang digoreng disinyalir menjadi penyebab munculnya
ketombe. Makanan ini tak hanya menimbulkan kolesterol, namun bila berlebihan
juga bisa merangsang minyak berlebihan di kulit kepala dan menyebabkan kulit
kepala tak stabil dari lembab ke kering dan sebaliknya.
3. Makanan
Mengandung Gula Tinggi
Makanan dengan kandungan gula yang tinggi mampu memperparah
kondisi kulit kepala Anda yang berketombe. Hindari konsumsi gula berlebihan dalam
seminggu. Ganti cemilan manis Anda dengan buah-buahan segar yang manis pohon.
4. Makanan Pedas
Makanan pedas memiliki potensi yang sama dengan makanan yang
digoreng. Makanan seperti ini mampu memicu munculnya ketombe karena merangsang
produksi minyak berlebih ke kulit kepala. Akibatnya rambut sering lepek dan
gatal, bahkan hingga rambut patah. Oh nooo..
5. Makanan
Terlalu Panas
Ada baiknya Anda sedikit bersabar sebelum mengonsumsi
makanan. Bila terlalu panas ternyata juga bisa merangsang kondisi tubuh kita
dari bagian kepala hingga pencernaan. Suhu tubuh meningkat dan tubuh melakukan
penyesuaian yang mempengaruhi kondisi kulit dan rambut.
Selain menjaga kebersihan rambut dan produk perawatan yang
kita pilih, penting juga untuk menjaga agar makanan kita tak mempengaruhi
kondisi rambut. Anda boleh mengonsumsi makanan di atas dengan kontrol yang
seimbang. Namun bila ingin rambut cantik dan sehat, perbanyak konsumsi makanan
alami seperti sayur, buah, kacang-kacangan dan ikan.
Bagi anda yang mempunyai masalah pada ketombe, mungkin mulai saat ini anda harus meninggalkan jenis2 makanan tersebut. ^_^
Samarinda, 6 April 2013
Banjarmasin, 13 April 2013
Surabaya, 20 April 2013
Malang, 27 April 2013
Purwokerto, 4 Mei 2013
Bali, 4 Mei 2013
Solo, 11 Mei 2013
Semarang, 18 Mei 2013
Yogyakarta, 25 Mei 2013
Medan, 1 Juni 2013
Bandung, 8 Juni 2013
Palembang, 15 Juni 2013
Jakarta, 22 Juni 2013
HONDA Civic Hybrid memasuki pasaran dengan dengan versi hibrid, menampilkan enjin 1.5L i-VTEC yang lebih besar dan bersambung dengan motor elektrik yang lebih ringan, canggih dan berkuasa.
Model ini juga adalah strategi tersendiri Honda yang menggunakan platform sama dengan model enjin konvensional Civic, menjadikan ia tidak menelan kos tambahan jika dibandingkan dengan pesaingnya yang memasarkan varian hibrid dengan reka bentuk model berbeza.
Namun, bagi membezakan dengan varian biasa, Honda Civic Hybrid ini dipasang dengan ciri-ciri kosmetik eksklusif seperti garisan biru pada lampu depan dan jeriji serta lampu belakang dengan lapisan LED. Rodanya juga lebih ringan dan mengandungi reka bentuk yang menekankan aerodinamik.
Untuk varian ini, enjin IMA (Integrated Motor Assist) telah dipertingkatkan dalam pelbagai bidang. Paling penting ialah penukaran kepada bateri jenis lithium-ion yang memiliki prestasi lebih tinggi berbanding bateri jenis besi-nikel hydrida. Bateri jenis lithium-ion adalah lebih tumpat, boleh menyimpan lebih banyak elektrik dan menawarkan Civic Hybrid, 33 peratus kuasa enjin. Aspek lebih menarik bateri ini ialah beratnya embilan kilogram lebih ringan, dan jimat kos, selain aerodinamik.
Ketika mula diperkenalkan pada pertengahan tahun 2000, model Civic Hybrid disifatkan sederhana berikutan tiada pengecualian cukai menyebabkan harganya lebih mahal daripada enjin konvensional.
Berdasarkan pandu uji, prestasi varian hibrid terbaru Civic ini, dirasai lebih baik berbanding generasi sebelum ini. Daya pecutan nyata lebih bagus walaupun tidak dapat dipastikan motor elektriknya benar-benar lebih berkuasa tetapi yang nyata, ia lebih responsif.
Satu ciri pada varian ini ialah mode ECON iaitu butang hijau di sudut kanan papan pemuka. Ia bertujuan mengurangkan penggunaan bahan api, sekali gus bagaikan 'merencatkan' kelajuan. Apabila mod ini dimatikan, terasa daya pecutan kereta ini kembali membuak tetapi tidaklah sama seperti kuasa turbo.
Bagi membantu pemilik mencatat penjimatan bahan api terbaik, Honda menyediakan ciri markah dipanggil ECO Score yang memberi ganjaran 'dedaun ECO' jika gaya pemanduan anda menepati kehendak penjimatan minyak. Dedaun tersebut terdapat pada paparan di papan pemuka. Kaedah ini bertujuan melatih pemilik supaya berusaha meraih seberapa banyak daun tersebut, seterusnya mendidik mereka supaya memandu secara lebih berhemah dan jimat bahan api.
Sebagai petunjuk bagi mendapatkan penjimatan bahan api, terdapat nyalaan warna pada speedometer. Jika ia berwarna biru, bermakna anda sedang memecut dan memang tidak ekonomi. Bila ia berwarna biru-hijau, kecekapan bahan api adalah sederhana. Warna hijau bermaksud anda memandu dalam keadaan penjimatan dan situasinya adalah seperti memacu biasa di lebuh raya dengan tekanan lembut pada pedal. Bagaimanapun, bila melebihi 90 km/j, kadar penjimatan minyak akan berkurangan, semestinya.
Dalam ECO Score itu juga, terdapat satu lagi paparan grafik menunjukkan aliran tenaga yang boleh membantu pemandu mengetahui bila kereta itu bergerak menggunakan kuasa bateri.
Harus anda ketahui bahawa nikmat penggunaan enjin hibrid ialah bila anda tersekat dalam kesesakan jalan raya terutama di bandar-bandar besar. Secara umumnya, kos penggunaan bahan api begitu tinggi semasa dalam kesesakan jalan raya. Varian hibrid memastikan penjimatan kerana pada kelajuan bawah 40 km/j, kenderaan bergerak sepenuhnya menggunakan kuasa bateri.
Untuk terus menjadikan Civic ini sebagai pilihan ramai, Honda Malaysia memperkenalkan pakej servis yang baru dan menarik iaitu jaminan lima tahun dengan jarak perbatuan tanpa had untuk bateri IMA, lanjutan penyelenggaraan pencegahan dari 5,000 km kepada 10,000 km dan percuma khidmat tenaga kerja untuk enam kunjungan untuk setiap satu servis berbayar sehingga 100,000 km.
Sekarang ini blogspot udah bisa ngedetek user yang pake mobile phone / hp buat akses blog kita. Kita juga tinggal setting buat nampilin mobile template buat user yang pake hp tersebut.
Sayangnya, fasilitas blogspot buat ngedetek user yang pake mobile phone itu cuma bisa ngedetek user yang pake browser dengan engine Webkit. Jadi kalau user yang berkunjung ke blog ente pake browser non Webkit, maka blog ente tetep nampilin template reguler yang buat desktop.
Cara ngatasinnya bisa pake javascript. Tenang gan, simpel kok scriptnya. Ini dia.
jangan lupa ganti [removed] pertama dengan tag pembuka javascript dan [removed] kedua dengan tag penutup javascript. sepertinya di kaskus ga boleh nulis tag tersebut
Agan tinggal copas script di atas, terus paste sebelum tag
HTML Code:
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Tenang gan, kaga ada jebakan di script itu.
Cara kerja script di atas cuma ngedetek width dari device yang dipake user buat akses blog agan. kalau width nya kurang dari 1024 pixel, langsung diredirect ke mobile template, karena diasumsikan itu adalah mobile phone / hp
HitLeap adalah situs Exchange yang ampuh untuk meningkatkan Traffic blog,website,atau bisa juga mempromosikan link referral kalian dalam bisnis online, bahkan kalian bisa mendapatkan dollar dari HitLeap ini.
HitLeap menggunakan sistem menit sebagai menit untuk menghitung trafficnya.
Jika kita mendaftar di hitLeap, kita akan menjadi member reguler. Member reguler dapat memasukan 3 Alamat website yang dapat digunakan pada traffic exchange.
Setelah kalian mendaftar, kalian akan mendapatkan Ratio 50%.
Jika kalian ingin memaksimalkan traffic exchange, kalian gunakan Browser Mozilla Firefox dan unduh Add-On untuk Mozilla firefoxnya yang sudah tersedia di Web HitLeap tersebut.
Ket. 1. kalian menginstall Add-On, kalian akan mendapatkan Ratio 10%
2. Kalian menginstall Alexa add-On akan mendapatkan Ratio 5%
3. Dan jika kalian mengupgrade Hitleap, kalian akan mendapatkan Ratio 35%
CARA MENGGUNAKAN HITLEAP
1. Setelah kalian mendaftar, Masuk ke Menu My Websites
2. lalu, Pilih Submit website into the Traffic Exchange
3. Setelah kalian mensubmit alamat website,link referral,atau yang lainnya, kalian dapat memaksimalkannya dengan memanfaatkan 2 slot lainnya. dengan cara, arahkan kursor kalian ke alamat web kamu yang sudah kamu masukan, lalu pilih Boot Hits.
Browser
Kunjungi situs seluler jika memungkinkan
Matikan Ulang Animasi ke setting yang lebih rendah
(Browser – Options – General Properties)
Tutup browser setelah selesai (menggunakan tombol
ESC, bukan tombol End berwarna merah)
Layar/Papan Ketik
Kurangi Waktu Mati Lampu Latar (Options – Screen/
Keyboard)
Kurangi Kecerahan Lampu Latar (Options – Screen/
Keyboard)
Holster smartphone (mematikan LCD secara
otomatis)
Setel Audible Roll ke bisu (Options – Screen/
Keyboard)
Matikan Suara Tombol (Options – Screen/Keyboard)
Gunakan pelindung saat menyimpan smartphone di
saku.
Koneksi Jaringan
Matikan koneksi yang tidak digunakan saat tidak
dipakai, mis. GPS, Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth®
Gunakan Nyala/Mati Otomatis (Auto On/Off)
Gunakan modus tunggal saja (1XEV, 2G saja, 3G
saja).
Pintasan
Gunakan pintasan agar tak perlu mengaktifkan
menu Java® (Browser – Options – Browser
Configuration).
Kamera
Matikan lampu kilat (Camera – Options)
Setel ukuran gambar ke Kecil (Camera – Options)
Setel Efek Warna ke Normal (Camera – Options)
Setel Mutu Gambar ke Normal (Camera – Options)
Aplikasi
Saat keluar, pastikan untuk menutup aplikasi,
jangan meninggalkannya menyala di latar (tutup
dengan tombol ESC, bukan tombol End warna merah)
Keluarlah dari aplikasi pihak ketiga saat tidak dipakai
(Pesan Instan, dll.)
Indikator
Matikan pemberitahuan suara (Profiles)
Matikan lampu LED tanda cakupan sinyal (Profiles)
GPS
Gunakan fungsi zoom out untuk mendapatkan area
terlihat yang masih bisa digunakan.
Pengunjung bisa mendapat banyak potongan harga untuk masuk dan mencoba beragam fasilitasnya. Yuk serbu!
Terletak di utara Jakarta, Ancol adalah tempat rekreasi favorit masyarakat Jakarta dan sekitarnya. Beragam wahana dengan permainan seru dapat Anda dan sekeluarga sambangi. Untuk di bulan Maret dan April 2013 ini, Ancol memiliki banyak promo menarik untuk wisatawan.
"Kita ada beberapa promo, yaitu dari kartu debit BNI yang berlaku dari tanggal 1-31 Maret dan dari voucher Sosro dari tanggal 1 Maret sampai 30 April," ungkap Media Relation dan Promotion Corporate PT Pembangunan Jaya Ancol, Aldhita Prayudi Putra kepada detikTravel, Kamis (14/3/2013).
Bagi pemegang kartu debit atau kredit BNI, Anda bisa menikmati diskon 50 % untuk masuk ke Dunia Fantasi, Atlantis Water Adventure, dan Ocean Dream Samudera. Dengan cara, pembelian maksimal 4 tiket per hari.
Anda juga bisa mendapat diskon 50% untuk menikmati wahana Dunia Fantasi, Atlantis Water Adventure, dan Ocean Dream Samudera dengan voucher Sosro. Untuk mendapat diskon ini, ada beberapa mekanisme yang harus dilalui.
Tiap pembelian 5 item produk Sosro, seperti Teh Botol Kotak, Fruit Tea, Happy Jus atau Country Choice ukuran 200 ml, 250 ml, atau 300 ml, Anda akan mendapatkan voucher diskon 50% tersebut. Juga, tiap membeli makanan dan 2 produk sosro (teh botol sosro, Fruit Tea,TEBS) dengan kemasan botol beling, tetrapack, maupun PET.
"Bisa mendapatkan voucher tersebut di minimarket atau supermarket tempat Anda membeli," kata Aldhita.
Periode untuk mendapatkan voucher tersebut adalah sejak 23 Februari-28 April 2013. Periode penukaran dan penggunaan voucher dapat dinikmati dari tanggal 1 Maret-30 April 2013. Nantinya, Anda dapat menukar vouchernya pada petugas sosro di depan area loket unit rekreasi terkait.
"Vouchernya dapat digunakan setiap hari, baik hari kerja, libur, atau tanggal merah. Promo ini hanya berlaku untuk wilayah Jabodetabek dan Bandung," .. sumber: detik.com
Setelah 3 hotel di Indonesia masuk sebagai hotel termewah se-Asia, kini giliran kategori hotel untuk keluarga. 4 Hotel di Indonesia masuk 10 besar hotel terbaik untuk keluarga se-Asia. Hotel di Bali menduduki peringkat pertama.
Saat traveling bersama keluarga, pemilihan hotel yang tepat tentu jadi pertimbangan utama. Mulai dari kamar yang nyaman, hingga berbagai fasilitas untuk anak.
TripAdvisor, situs pencarian traveling kembali mengeluarkan surveinya yang diberi nama Travelers' Choice 2013. Salah satu kategori yang diberikan adalah Top 10 Hotel for Families in Asia.
4 Hotel di Indonesia pun masuk dalam peringkat 10 besar ini. Bahkan, Hotel Club Med Bali di Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia berada di peringkat pertama. Bahkan hotel ini mengalahkan Hotel Hong Kong Disneyland.
"Anak-anak bisa mencoba segala hal di sini. Mereka bisa bermain golf, tenis, basket, snorkeling, bahkan ping pong, dan masih banyak lagi," ulas TripAdvisor dalam situsnya, Senin (11/3/2013).
Tak hanya itu, traveler asal Malaysia, Jasmin juga memuji hotel di Nusa Dua ini. "Tempat yang nyaman. Tempat ini aman untuk bermain anak-anak karena hotel ini memiliki kelompok khusus untuk balita dan remaja," tulisnya.
Hotel lainnya di Indonesia yang juga masuk dalam 10 besar hotel terbaik untuk keluarga se-Asia adalah Club Med Bintan Island. Hotel yang berada di Pulau Bintan, Kepulauan Riau ini berada di posisi ketiga.
"Ini adalah kesempatan pertama kali keluarga kami menginap di Club Med Bintan. Semuanya di luar perkiraan semua orang. So great!" tulis traveler asal Singapura, Emma dalam review TripAdvisor.
Selanjutnya, ada Hotel Dynasty Resort di Kuta yang masuk dalam peringkat 10 besar. Hotel di Bali ini berada di posisi kelima. "Saya menikmati menginap di Dynasty. Anak-anak senang dengan seluncuran dan para staf di sana," tutur traveler bernama Nics.
Masih di Bali, hotel terbaik untuk keluarga lainnya adalah Novotel Bali Nusa Dua Hotel & Resort. Hotel di Nusa Dua ini berada di posisi ke-8. "Tempat terbaik untuk tinggal bersama keluarga dan teman," tulis seorang traveler asal Perth, Australia.
Berikut 10 besar hotel terbaik untuk keluarga se-Asia versi Travelers' Choice 2013 oleh TripAdvisor:
1. Club Med Bali, Nusa Dua, Indonesia
2. Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel, Hong Kong, China
3. Club Med Bintan Island, Pulau Bintan, Indonesia
4. Four Seasons Resort Maldives, Kuda Huraa, North Male Atoll, Maladewa
5. Bali Dynasty Resort, Kuta, Indonesia
6. Sherwood Residence, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
7. Disney's Hollywood Hotel, Hong Kong, China
8. Novotel Bali Nusa Dua Hotel & Residences, Nusa Dua, Indonesia
The rooftop bar at the ME hotel. Photograph: Francisco Guerrero/ME London
I exit a black lift into a low, black lobby, pass through an opening and, without warning, find myself inside a steepling pyramid – a near-tetrahedron in fact – also dark and shiny. It is lit from a single triangular opening at the top. An implausibly vast book lies open on a stand, with a quotation from Aristotle on its page. Images of jellyfish, projected on to the walls, shimmer, as do monochrome attendants.
This is Bond villain/weird cult scenography, and it vaguely recalls a shrine I once saw in Brasilia that was dedicated to the belief that that 1960s city was the fulfilment of some ancient Egyptian prophecy. This, however, is the middle of London and it is nothing more exotic than the lobby of a hotel, albeit one with high ambitions of design and £400-a-night rooms.
The ME hotel in the Aldwych, London. Photograph: Francisco Guerrero/ME London
Silken bought Marconi House, a 1904 building in the Aldwych, which has been converted into flats, and a 1950s building next door which was demolished to make space for the hotel. In 2003 the phenomenon of the designer hotel was still fairly new in London, the field dominated by the Sanderson and St Martins Lane, whose designer, Philippe Starck, had previously developed his brand of interior in New York. By hiring the very big name of Foster, Silken would have wanted something comparable to Starck's wacky Gallic machismo, but different.
Construction started, the British part of Silken went the way of the bubble and construction stopped again. Another group, Sol Meliá, bought the London site, asked Fosters to make some changes to the interior and the project proceeded. In particular, a large restaurant was installed on the ground floor of the central atrium, displacing the reception to the first floor, which requires arriving guests to be guided along an extended route to the mystic tetrahedron. It makes arrival all the more like an initiation ceremony, but is not necessarily the worse for that.
Its complicated history, plus the accumulated pressures of building on central London sites, makes the hotel an alliance of different intentions, unified by the themes of luxury and Foster-ness. It sits in an area where the dominant style is bulky Edwardian neo-baroque, and the multi-level mansard and ornate gablets of Marconi House have been dutifully restored, while the hotel's new elevations are English Heritage-approved – solid, substantial, load-bearing Portland stone. There is plenty of roach bed variant of the material, which teems with fossils. It's like a venerable cheese, cut with a sharp wire.
Here the style is updated baroque – that is, with putti, swags and bosoms omitted. There are still curves, and a slightly silo-like corner tower through which you enter, albeit also crystalline bay windows that suggest there is something different inside. So you go in, past an execrable abstract sculpture that presumably symbolises creativity, and the black marble begins. There are also wave-like screens of chrome rods to guide you on the way.
Things stay dark – black lifts, black reception, black foyers and corridors – until you get to bedrooms (a bit narrow, but nicely done) lined in pale leather and lit by the crystalline windows you see on the outside. The joins in the glass are minimal, so you have the vertiginous experience of standing on a small triangular projection over the street. Alternatively you can go to another bright space, the rooftop bar, from where you get an exceptional view of London and of its multibillion-pound car-boot sale of trophy towers – Walkie-Talkie, Cheesegrater, Philishave.
Within this journey from light to dark to light there are other elements, such as a two-level, cylindrical, rock-star penthouse on top of the silo, and the ground-floor restaurant is a big noisy place run by the One Group, which started off in New York. Here the theme is a blokey version of sexiness – "a steak house with lots of girls" is how Nigel Dancey and Giles Robinson of Foster & Partners describe it.
The overall effect is of something expensive, well-made, containing surprises, sometimes enjoyable, sometimes strange, not always cohering. The switch from fogey-friendly Portland stone to the magic pyramid is a drastic one and not entirely smooth. There is an obsessive, not quite explicable geometry of triangles similar to that in the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation in Astana, Kazakhstan, which came out of the Foster office at about the same time that the hotel was being designed. There is a tendency, common among architects, to use overly architectural means to make interiors: chrome rods, for example, are a bit of a clunky way to achieve what might be done with a curtain.
The lift lobby at the ME hotel, with the external wall of the tetrahedron visible.
You get the feeling that Fosters is trying to be a bit Starck-y at times, and it doesn't come naturally to this once-sober practice. What the ME hotel is not is a modern incarnation of the SAS Royal in Copenhagen, of 1960, where the architect and designer Arne Jacobsen governed everything from the exterior to door handles and developed chairs and cutlery that would become design classics. The ME hotel is the product of a time when there are many constituencies to be satisfied – the restaurant franchise, the image-makers, English Heritage – and even an outfit as powerful as Fosters has to tack and trim to please them all.
But it also has much of what is good about Foster, including a certain ruthlessness in the details. And, to London's treasury of remarkable if bizarre spaces, the black tetrahedron is a notable addition.
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Jadi begini Ceritanya Sob, Pada Januari 2009, penyerang Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo pernah menghancurkan sebuah mobil mewah Ferrari 599 GTB miliknya dalam sebuah kecelakaan di terowongan dekat Manchester Airport. Beruntung, pemain yang akrab dijuluki CR7 tidak mengalami luka serius.
Kondisi mobil bernilai sepekan gaji Ronaldo saat di Manchester United tersebut rusak parah. Roda depannya copot dan bagian mesin penyok parah. Butuh ribuan poundsterling untuk memperbaikinya. Celakanya, dengan alasan tertentu pihak ansuransi tidak bersedia menanggung perbaikan mobil mewah tersebut.
Ronaldo pun memutuskan untuk menjualnya kepada pembeli asal Prancis, Renaud Bettcher. Mobil berwana merah menyala dengan mesin 6.0-liter V12 itu dilego dengan harga £33 ribu atau setara dengan Rp477 juta.
Seperti dilansir Metro.co.uk, mobil tersebut kini kembali muncul di situs lelang online, eBay. Bettcher kini berharap mampu menjualnya kembali hingga dua kali harga baru mobil dengan jenis yang sama.
Bettcher nyaris mencapai targetnya saat pertama kali menayangkan rongsokan tersebut di situs eBay. Sayang, angka penawaran yang sudah mencapai £110 ribu terhenti setelah pengelola eBay memutuskan untuk menghapus iklan itu dengan alasan persoalan kelayakan barang.
Belakangan, pengelola eBay meminta maaf atas keputusan tersebut dan bersedia merilisnya kembali. Bettcher juga mendapat ganti rugi £20 ribu atas insiden pencekalan iklan itu.
Keputusan ini kembali membuka peluang bagi para penggemar CR7 untuk mendapatkan rongsokan tersebut. Namun, perlu diingat, siapapun pembelinya kemungkinan bisa mendapatkan mobil Ferrari 599 GTB baru dengan harga yang lebih lebih murah.
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In 1995, Amazon.com sold its first book, which shipped from Jeff Bezos' garage in Seattle. In 2006, Amazon.com sells a lot more than books and has sites serving seven countries, with 21 fulfillment centers around the globe totaling more than 9 million square feet of warehouse space.
The story is an e-commerce dream, and Jeff Bezos was Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1999. The innovation and business savvy that sustains Amazon.com is legendary and, at times, controversial: The company owns dozens of patents on e-commerce processes that some argue should remain in the public domain. In this article, we'll find out what Amazon does, what makes it different from other e-commerce Web sites and how its technology infrastructure supports its multi-pronged approach to online sales.
Amazon.com Basics
Amazon.com sells lots and lots of stuff. The direct Amazon-to-buyer sales approach is really no different from what happens at most other large, online retailers except for its range of products. You can find beauty supplies, clothing, jewelry, gourmet food, sporting goods, pet supplies, books, CDs, DVDs, computers, furniture, toys, garden supplies, bedding and almost anything else you might want to buy. What makes Amazon a giant is in the details. Besides its tremendous product range, Amazon makes every possible attempt to customize the buyer experience.
When you arrive at the homepage, you'll find not only special offers and featured products, but if you've been to Amazon.com before, you'll also find some recommendations just for you. Amazon knows you by name and tries to be your personal shopper.
The embedded marketing techniques that Amazon employs to personalize your experience are probably the best example of the company's overall approach to sales: Know your customer very, very well. Customer tracking is an Amazon stronghold. If you let the Web site stick a cookie on your hard drive, you'll find yourself on the receiving end of all sorts of useful features that make your shopping experience pretty cool, like recommendations based on past purchases and lists of reviews and guides written by users who purchased the products you're looking at.
The other main feature that puts Amazon.com on another level is the multi-leveled e-commerce strategy it employs. Amazon.com lets almost anyone sell almost anything using its platform. You can find straight sales of merchandise sold directly by Amazon, like the books it sold back in the mid-'90s out of Jeff Bezos' garage -- only now they're shipped from a very big warehouse. Since 2000, you can also find goods listed by third-party sellers -- individuals, small companies and retailers like Target and Toys 'R Us. You can find used goods, refurbished goods and auctions. You could say that Amazon is simply the ultimate hub for selling merchandise on the Web, except that the company has recently added a more extroverted angle to its strategy.
In addition to the affiliate program that lets anybody post Amazon links earn a commission on click-through sales, there's now a program that lets those affiliates (Amazon calls them "associates") build entire Web sites based on Amazon's platform. They can literally create mini Amazon Web sites if they want to, building on Amazon's huge database of products and applications for their own purposes. As long as any purchases go through Amazon, you can build a site called Amazonish.com, pull products directly from Amazon's servers, write your own guides and recommendations and earn a cut of any sales. Amazon has become a software developer's playground.
Before we dig deeper into Amazon's e-commerce methods, let's take a quick look at the technology infrastructure that makes the whole thing possible.
Amazon's Progress
Amazon has four software development centers worldwide. These units are constantly creating new features for Amazon.com and developing the technology to support them.
Amazon Technology
The massive technology core that keeps Amazon running is entirely Linux-based. As of 2005, Amazon has the world's three largest Linux databases, with a total capacity of 7.8 terabytes (TB), 18.5 TB and 24.7 TB respectively [ref]. The central Amazon data warehouse is made up of 28 Hewlett Packard servers, with four CPUs per node, running Oracle 9i database software.
The data warehouse is roughly divided into three functions: query, historical data and ETL (extract, transform, and load -- a primary database function that pulls data from one source and integrates it into another). The query servers (24.7 TB capacity) contain 15 TB of raw data in 2005; the click history servers (18.5 TB capacity) hold 14 TB of raw data; and the ETL cluster (7.8 TB capacity) contains 5 TB of raw data. Amazon's technology architecture handles millions of back-end operations every day as well as queries from more than half a million third-party sellers. According to a report released by Oracle after it helped migrate Amazon's data warehouse to Linux in 2003 and 2004, the central task process looks something like this:
In the 2003 holiday season, Amazon processed a top-end 1 million shipments and 20 million inventory updates in one day. Amazon's sales volume means that hundreds of thousands of people send their credit card numbers to Amazon's servers every day, and security is a major concern. In addition to automatically encrypting credit card numbers during the checkout process, Amazon lets users choose to encrypt every piece of information they enter, like their name, address and gender.
Amazon employs the Netscape Secure Commerce Server using the SSL (secure socket layer) protocol (see How Encryption Works to learn about SSL). It stores all credit card numbers in a separate database that's not Internet-accessible, cutting off that possible entry point for hackers. Customers who are particularly cautious can choose to enter only a partial credit card number over the Internet and then provide the rest by phone once the online order is submitted. Aside from the usual security concerns regarding online credit-card purchases, Amazon suffers from the same phishing problem that has plagued eBay and PayPal, so watch out for fake e-mails asking for your Amazon.com account information. Check out Anti-Phishing Working Group: Amazon.com for details on how to recognize a fake.
Now let's get back to the business of selling stuff. Amazon's approach to e-commerce is one that leaves no stone unturned.
Amazon Patents
Amazon has tried to patent nearly every aspect of its e-commerce architecture, drawing more than a little controversy for the affiliate program patent it won back in 2000. Reportedly, other e-commerce sites were already using affiliate programs that looked a lot like the one Amazon developed and patented. Here are just a few of Amazon's dozens of patents:
Amazon.com has always sold goods out of its own warehouses. It started as a bookseller, pure and simple, and over the last decade has branched out into additional product areas and the third-party sales that now represent a good chunk of its revenue (some estimates put it at 25 percent).
Both retailers and individual sellers utilize the Amazon.com platform to sell goods. Large retailers like Nordstrom, Land's End and Target use Amazon.com to sell their products in addition to selling them through their own Web sites. The sales go through Amazon.com and end up at Nordstrom.com, Land's End.com or Target.com for processing and order fulfillment. Amazon essentially leases space to these retailers, who use Amazon.com as a supplemental outlet for their online sales.
Small sellers of used and new goods go to Amazon Marketplace, Amazon zShops or Amazon Auctions. At Marketplace, sellers offer goods at a fixed price, and at Auctions they sell their stuff to the highest bidder. Amazon zShops features only used goods at fixed prices. If an item listed on zShops, Marketplace or Auctions is also sold on the main Amazon.com, it appears in a box beside the Amazon.com item so buyers can see if someone else is selling the product for less in one of the other sales channels.
The level of integration that occurs on Amazon is a programming feat that few (if any) online sales sites can match.
Another sales channel called Amazon Advantage is a place where people can sell new books, music and movies directly from the Amazon warehouse instead of from their home or store. Sellers ship a number of units to Amazon, and Amazon handles the entire sales transaction from start to finish. In all of these programs, Amazon gets a cut of each sale (usually about 10 percent to 15 percent) and sometimes charges additional listing or subscription fees; in the case of Amazon Advantage, the company takes a 55 percent commission on each sale. The Advantage channel is something like a consignment setup, a sales avenue for people who create their own music CDs or have self-published a book and are simply looking for a way to get it out there.
One of the latest additions to Amazon's repertoire is a subsidiary company called Amazon Services. Through Amazon Services, Amazon sells its sales platform, providing complete Amazon e-commerce packages to companies looking to establish or revamp their e-commerce business. Amazon sets up complete Web sites and technology backbones for other e-commerce companies using Amazon software and technology. Target, for instance, in addition to having a store on Amazon.com, also uses Amazon Services to build and manage its own e-commerce site, Target.com.
Target.com homepage
But selling goods isn't the only way to make money with Amazon.com. The Web site's affiliate program is one of the most famous on the Web. Through Amazon's Associate Program, anyone with a Web site can post a link to Amazon.com and earn some money. The link can display a single product chosen by the associate, or it can list several "best seller" products in a particular genre, in which case Amazon updates the list automatically at preset intervals. The associate gets a cut of any sale made directly through that link. The cut ranges from 4 percent to 7.5 percent depending on which fee structure the associate signs up for (see Amazon Associates for complete program details). The associate can also take advantage of Amazon Web Services, which is the program that lets people use Amazon's utilities for their own purposes. The Amazon Web Services API (application programming interface) lets developers access the Amazon technology infrastructure to build their own applications for their own Web sites. All product sales generated by those Web sites have to go through Amazon.com, and the associate gets a small commission on each sale.
Check out Amazon Web Services to learn more about what you can do with Amazon's e-commerce platform.
In the next section, we'll take a look at how all of these programs and channels come together to create a sales and marketing powerhouse.
Updated: Now with thoughts on how well the phone's design ages, iOS 6.1 and GoogleMaps.
The iPhone 5, like all iPhones
before it, is an evolution rather than a revolution but it’s at least on
the surface the biggest evolution we’ve seen for years with a new
design, a larger screen size and superfast 4G connectivity. But, with a high price and the usual Apple-restrictions, is it
enough of a leap to outpace the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S3, LG Optimus 4X HD or the Nokia Lumia 920? With several months of use now under our belt, it's high time to find out, for a second time.
iPhone 5 - Design
As
ever, we'll kick off with the phone's design and external features.
When the phone first arrived, we proclaimed it "the most beautiful and
best built phone on the market", and for the most part that still holds
up. It remains the case that no other device comes close to matching the
fit
and finish Apple has achieved on the iPhone 5.
It all kicks
off with the etched aluminium back. Gone are the glass back and steel
sides of old to be replaced with a single piece of aluminium that’s hewn
to form the back and sides. This is etched on the back and sides to create a matt
look. As well as looking great it also makes the phone easier to grip
and keeps it from slipping quite so easily – the iPhone 4/4S had a remarkable ability to slide off even the flattest looking surface.
Contrasting
nicely with the matt back and sides are the shiny diamond cut bevelled
edges, glass front and glass inserts on the back. These angled edges
make the iPhone 5 a bit more comfortable to hold compared to the very
square ones on the iPhone 4S, which is definitely a welcome tweak.
However,
not all is well. Very early on there were complaints that the black
version chipped quite easily, showing the shiny metal beneath, and this
has proved to be such a common issue that we'd stongly advise
opting for the white version instead. That said, our white version is
also looking surprisingly battered after only four months use. The whole
back and sides are peppered with small dings and scratches that are
surprisingly noticeable.
The main problem areas are the shiny bevelled edges
and the Apple logo on the back, where any scratch is immediately
noticeable against the pure shiny surface. And while we haven't kept the
phone in a case it has always been confined to an otherwise empty
pocket. As has a two year old iPhone 4 that remains looking near
flawless - see below.
Frankly, compared to the glass and steel build of the iPhone 4 and 4S,
the iPhone 5 is a signiifacnt step backwards in terms of durability.
Sure, the glass back is slippery but it's demonstrably tougher too, and
perhaps it could've been etched or something to make it less slippery.
Hammering home the point are the black or white little glass inserts on
the back of the iPhone 5 which, months on, are spotless. Obviously, if
you're particularly
careful and use a case the iPhone 5 will stay pristine for longer but
it's nonetheless a concern.
All that said, the iPhone 4/4s are somewhat of the exception that proves
the rule with most shiny plastic and anodised aluminium competitors
suffering just as much from scratches. In fact it only goes to justify
our recent complaints about the Nokia Lumia 920 having mostly shiny
rather than matt plastic finishes while the HTC One S is another famoursly flawed anodised example.
Pick
the iPhone 5 up and it's noticeably thinner and lighter than the iPhone
4S, despite packing in a larger 4-inch screen. Specifically the iPhone 5
is 20 percent lighter (112g compared to 140g) and 18 percent thinner
(123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6mm compared to 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3mm). This makes a
surprising difference when you actually handle and compare the two
devices, with the iPhone 5 almost feeling a bit too light at first,
compared to the reassuring solidity of the 4S. This impression soon
fades, though, as you realise it is still a very well built phone.
With the iPhone 5 screen size having
increased the big concern would be that the whole phone becomes
cumbersome to use but Apple has avoided this by only increasing the
height of the screen, upping it by about 12mm. This small increase makes
minimal difference to the usability of the phone, with you still able
to reach the full expanse of the screen easily enough.
Contrary to many a rumour, below the screen there is
a home button that along with near identical volume, mute and power
buttons will make existing iPhone users feel right at home. A few other
features have been tweaked though.
Apple
has moved from a now fairly standard microSIM to an even smaller
nanoSIM, so if you’re buying the phone without a contract/SIM you’ll
need to contact your network to get a new SIM or get the scissors out.
You should be able to chop down most newer SIMs as the layout of the
contacts is the same.
Other changes include the headphone jack
which has now moved from the top edge down to the bottom. Having it here
does make some theoretical sense as when held in the hand the headphone
cable hangs straight down out the way and when you go to put the phone
into your pocket you don't have to change your grip to do so -
give it a go and you'll see what we mean. However with long term use
we've generally found it to be a bit annoying, getting in the way of
your hand when using the phone. It's not a major concern but neither is
it really a step forward.
Alongside
the headphone jack are newly designed microphone and speaker grills and
of course the new Lightning dock connection. The former are now covered
by small drilled holes, rather than one large opening, while the latter
is a replacement for the wide, 30-pin dock connector of old.
The
new connector will carry audio, HD video, data and of course charge the phone, with adapters available to convert the
signal to just about any other type of connection you could name.
Lightning is also reversible so you don’t need to worry about which way
round you’re plugging it in, and it's a sturdier plug too
Concerns about having to buy new adapters to fit existing docks and
chargers remain, as does the fact that Apple didn't simply opt for
microUSB like every other phone, but there is no doubting it is a better
connection than the old one, which is something we suppose.
An adapter is available that converts the new connector to the old one
but one is not included in the box. You get just the new USB cable, UK
plug and the SIM removal tool. The adapter will set you back an
insultingly hefty £25.
To
comply with EU regulations that stipulate microUSB must be used as the
standard connection for all new phones, Apple does offer a Lightning to
microUSB adapter too, but it again costs a rather grimace-inducing £15.
Getting back to the phone itself,
the final pieces of the puzzle are the cameras. The rear one retains the
same core specs as the iPhone 4S but it’s 30 percent thinner, to allow
the phone’s overall thickness to come down. As for the front facing one,
it now sits above the earpiece rather than off to the side, and it can
shoot 720p video, up from 480p.
All told then, as a piece of
industrial design, the iPhone 5 looks like a triumph, though with long
term use it has been shown to have a number of drawbacks such as the
scratching and headphone position. But overall there's still a lot to
like and still no other phone matches it for that initial wow factor.
But what of that new screen...