PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2017

Betapa nikamatnya di saat penat pulang dari kerja, jalan-jalan, liburan atau belanja dari mall Anda duduk di sebuah ruangan kemudian menekan remote control AC. Beberapa saat kemudian Anda juga akan menikmati udara yang sejuk dan penat pun hilang. Namun Anda juga harus jeli dalam memilih sebelum membeli AC. Jeli dalam arti awet penggunaannya serta efisien kebutuhan listriknya. Berikut ini adalah tips jeli dan teliti dalam membeli AC:

1. Kapasitas AC. Perhatikan kapasitas sebuah AC yang telah tercantum dalam BTUH (British Thermal Unit Per Hours). Satuan BTUH tersebut dapat menentukan kapasitas sebuah AC menarik/menyerap panas dalam satu jam. Karena pada dasarnya AC bekerja dengan cara menarik panas dari ruangan dan bukan mendinginkannya, jadi sebutan yang tepat untuk AC adalah penyerap panas, bukan pendingin ruangan.

2. Hitung daya kapasitasnya. Menurut konversi unit satuan 1 PK = 2.544 btu/h = 746 watt. Unit AC yang telah memiliki kapasitas yang lebih besar tidak selalu lebih baik karena unit yang terlalu besar tidak akan mendinginkan area secara seragam. Pada beberapa jenis air conditioner, unit yang terlalu besar juga akan mendinginkan udara terlalu cepat yang akan dapat menyebabkan air conditioner akan hidup dan mati lebih sering. Hal ini dapat menyebabkan boros listrik dan uang. Sebagai tambahan, unit yang terlalu besar tidak akan beroperasi cukup lama untuk dapat mengurangi kelembaban, bukannya membuat udara lebih nyaman, udara akan malah akan terasa “beku” dan “basah” pada pengaturan thermostat normal. Sebaliknya, Anda juga harus menghindari membeli unit AC yang terlalu kecil. Kapasitas AC yang tidak cukup akan terus-terusan beroperasi namun tidak mampu mendinginkan udara secara optimal. Dalam mengukur kebutuhan AC untuk rumah Anda, pertimbangkan ukuran ruang dan bagaimana ruang tersebut digunakan.

saco-indonesia.com, Shizuko Rizmadhani telah meninggal saat mendaki Gunung Gede, Rabu (25/12) kemarin. Siswi SMA 6 Bekasi itu meninggal karena hipotermia saat mendaki puncak Gunung Gede.

Hal tersebut telah diutarakan oleh Ananto Haryanto, ayah Shizuko. Ia juga menjelaskan bahwa dirinya sudah melihat hasil visum dari dokter bahwa anaknya memang meninggal karena kedinginan.

"Hasil visumnya karena kedinginan, saya juga sudah cek langsung ke dokter kemarin saat menjemput ke Cimacan", ucap Ananto di rumah duka, Jalan Jetstar Blok A Nomor 35, Komplek AURI, Kecamatan Bekasi Timur, Kota Bekasi, Kamis (26/12).

Ananto juga telah menjelaskan bahwa anaknya berangkat ke Gunung Gede dalam kondisi yang sehat dan semua peralatannya telah lengkap. "Semuanya (peralatan) lengkap dan sesuai dengan prosedur, kalau tidak lengkap tidak mungkin diizinkan sama pihak Balai Gunung Gede", tambahnya.

Bapak tujuh anak ini juga mengaku ikhlas dengan cobaan ini dan berharap kasus kematian anaknya telah menjadi pelajaran bagi pendaki-pendaki lain agar lebih hati-hati.

"Saya juga sudah ikhlaskan semua, ini musibah, gak perlu mencari-cari kesalahan orang lain," pungkas beliau.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

saco-indonesia.com, Meski belum kembali dari cedera, dukungan untuk Lionel Messi nampaknya belum surut. Dari Barcelona FC, Gerard Pique kembali menyuarakan opininya tentang kehebatan La Pulga.

Pique telah mengatakan bahwa Messi masih merupakan pemain terbaik dunia saat ini. Kepergian Messi jelas telah memiliki dampak yang terasa di tim Barca. Namun sejauh ini Pique juga mengatakan bahwa Barca telah berhasil melalui ujian tanpa kehadiran messi.

"Leo adalah pemain terbaik di dunia. Tentu jika dia tidak ada di tim, segalanya juga akan terasa berbeda. Namun tim kami telah berhasil melewati ujian dalam beberapa pekan terakhir tanpa kehadirannya. Tetap saja, Leo adalah yang terbaik dan dia sudah memberikan banyak kepada kami," jelas Pique kepada AS.

Meski mengatakan Messi sebagai yang terbaik, Pique juga tidak mau bicara banyak soal Ballon d"Or. "Siapa pun yang akan memenangkan ballon d"Or nantinya, dia adalah yang berhak mendapatkannya," imbuh Pique.

Messi saat ini juga masih berada di Argentina untuk dapat menjalani fase terakhir pemulihan cederanya. Ia dijadwalkan akan kembali ke Barcelona pada 2 Januari nanti.

Editor : Dian sukmawati

Saco-Indonesia.com, -Ahli budaya Melanesia mengatakan, serangan dan pembunuhan yang berhubungan dengan ilmu hitam meningkat dan mungkin menyebar dari Papua Nugini ke wilayah lainnya di Pasifik.

Sebuah konferensi yang membicarakan pembunuhan yang berhubungan dengan ilmu hitam sedang berlangsung di ibu kota Australia, Canberra.

Beberapa ahli mengatakan, jumlah pembunuhan meningkat di Papua Nugini, yang telah melakukan beberapa langkah perubahan dalam hukum yang mengatur ilmu hitam.

Lawrence Foana'ota dari Museum Nasional Kepulauan Solomon mengatakan ilmu hitam di negaranya telah dipraktikkan sejak lama, tapi kini berubah karena pengaruh dari kawasan.

"Ada beberapa tren yang datang dari negara-negara Melanesia lainnya, seperti Papua Nugini, yang kini terjadi di Solomon...dan saya yakin ini juga terjadi dalam dunia ilmu hitam," katanya.

Ahli tersebut khawatir bahwa rasa takut dan tidak stabil yang disebabkan oleh kepercayaan atas ilmu hitam memperlambat pembangunan regional.

Konferensi mengenai ilmu hitam tersebut akan mendiskusikan bagaimana keretakan masyarakat, balas dendam, dan budaya Barat menjadi beberapa penyebab peningkatan pembunuhan tersebut di Papua Nugini.

Pendeta Jack Urame dari Melanesian Institute mengatakan, pemimpin agama juga bisa bertindak lebih banyak.

Papua Nugini telah mengabaikan kritik internasional dengan memberlakukan kembali hukuman mati untuk mengatasi kejahatan brutal, termasuk ilmu hitam.

Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa dan Uni Eropa telah mengkritik pemberlakuan hukuman mati tersebut.

Saco-Indonesia.com - Hilangnya pesawat Malaysia Airlines MH370 saat mengudara di atas Laut China Selatan mengejutkan banyak pihak. Pesawat yang tengah melakukan penerbangan menuju Beijing, China ini tak pernah sampai ke tempat tujuan.

Tujuh negara di dunia lantas ikut memberi bantuan, berbagai armada kapal perang maupun pesawat militer pun ikut dikerahkan. Namun, sejak dikabarkan menghilang pada Minggu (9/2) lalu, tim SAR belum berhasil menemukan tanda-tanda jatuhnya pesawat itu.

Ternyata, proses pencarian itu tak hanya melibatkan tim SAR yang dikerahkan dari tujuh negara. Seorang dukun terkenal asal Malaysia pun ikut melibatkan diri dalam pencarian tersebut.

Adalah Ibrahim Mat Zin, pria berusia 80 tahun. Lengkap dengan jas dan dasi warna merah melakukan ritual di pintu masuk ruang VIP Bandara Internasional Kuala Lumpur (KLIA). Pemandangan ini menjadi perhatian setiap orang dan calon penumpang yang berada di dalam bandara. Sejumlah media setempat pun ikut meliput.

Bermodalkan bambu dan replika pesawat yang terbuat dari rotan, Ibrahim lantas melakukan ritual singkat. Melalui teropong bambu, dia menyatakan pesawat itu terjebak di alam gaib.

"Saya tidak dapat menjelaskan secara terperinci soal keselamatan mereka (penumpang), tetapi percaya pesawat itu mungkin berada antara dua alam atau disembunyikan di alam gaib," kata dia.

Lalu siapakah Ibrahim Mat Zin?

Penelusuran merdeka.com, Ibrahim memiliki gelar Datok Mahaguru. Tak hanya itu, ia juga menyandang gelar Raja Dukun di Malaysia.

Raja dukun ini mengklaim telah berpengalaman 50 tahun di dunia gaib. Namanya mulai dikenal masyarakat Malaysia ketika menawarkan bantuan pencarian korban pada sejumlah kasus besar, di antaranya runtuhnya Highland Tower, banjir Kuala Dipang dan kasus pembunuhan pakar politik yang melibatkan Mona Fendy.

Melalui aku facebook miliknya, Ibrahim mengaku mendapatkan keahliannya dari sebuah ritual khusus saat masih berusia 10 tahun, yakni melalui tujuh ujian berat.

Cara pertama yang dilakukannya adalah melakukan pertapaan selama 100 hari. Selama pertapaan itu, dia diwajibkan memakan jagung sehari sepotong serta seteguk air zam-zam yang keluar dari dalam gua.

Selama pertapaannya, Ibrahim mendapat tujuh godaan, yakni munculnya berbagai binatang, seperti katak, ular, kalajengking, beruang, harimau dan naga. Selama pertapaannya, sempat muncul sesosok perempuan cantik yang sedang menikmati masakan lezat.

"Kalau (ikut) makan, batal pertapaan itu," tulis Ibrahim.

Tak hanya memperkenalkan diri melalui Facebook, Ibrahim juga rajin membuat video tentang dirinya sendiri. Video tersebut diunggahnya di situs berbagi Youtube.

Salah satu videonya yang berjudul 'Jasa & Bakti Raja Bomoh Kepada Negara Malaysia' itu, Ibrahim mengaku sudah berbakti pada negerinya sejak 1949. Dia mengklaim ramalannya soal kemenangan Barisan Nasional pada pemilu di Malaysia terbukti.

Editor : Maulana Lee

Sumber : merdeka.com

The 6-foot-10 Phillips played alongside the 6-11 Rick Robey on the Wildcats team that won the 1978 N.C.A.A. men’s basketball title.

The career criminals in genre novels don’t have money problems. If they need some, they just go out and steal it. But such financial transactions can backfire, which is what happened back in 2004 when the Texas gang in Michael

Over the last five years or so, it seemed there was little that Dean G. Skelos, the majority leader of the New York Senate, would not do for his son.

He pressed a powerful real estate executive to provide commissions to his son, a 32-year-old title insurance salesman, according to a federal criminal complaint. He helped get him a job at an environmental company and employed his influence to help the company get government work. He used his office to push natural gas drilling regulations that would have increased his son’s commissions.

He even tried to direct part of a $5.4 billion state budget windfall to fund government contracts that the company was seeking. And when the company was close to securing a storm-water contract from Nassau County, the senator, through an intermediary, pressured the company to pay his son more — or risk having the senator subvert the bid.

The criminal complaint, unsealed on Monday, lays out corruption charges against Senator Skelos and his son, Adam B. Skelos, the latest scandal to seize Albany, and potentially alter its power structure.

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The repeated and diverse efforts by Senator Skelos, a Long Island Republican, to use what prosecutors said was his political influence to find work, or at least income, for his son could send both men to federal prison. If they are convicted of all six charges against them, they face up to 20 years in prison for each of four of the six counts and up to 10 years for the remaining two.

Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, of Long Island, who serves as chairman of the Republican conference, emerged from a closed-door meeting Monday night to say that conference members agreed that Mr. Skelos should be benefited the “presumption of innocence,” and would stay in his leadership role.

“The leader has indicated he would like to remain as leader,” said Mr. LaValle, “and he has the support of the conference.” The case against Mr. Skelos and his son grew out of a broader inquiry into political corruption by the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, that has already changed the face of the state capital. It is based in part, according to the six-count complaint, on conversations secretly recorded by one of two cooperating witnesses, and wiretaps on the cellphones of the senator and his son. Those recordings revealed that both men were concerned about electronic surveillance, and illustrated the son’s unsuccessful efforts to thwart it.

Adam Skelos took to using a “burner” phone, the complaint says, and told his father he wanted them to speak through a FaceTime video call in an apparent effort to avoid detection. They also used coded language at times.

At one point, Adam Skelos was recorded telling a Senate staff member of his frustration in not being able to speak openly to his father on the phone, noting that he could not “just send smoke signals or a little pigeon” carrying a message.

The 43-page complaint, sworn out by Paul M. Takla, a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, outlines a five-year scheme to “monetize” the senator’s official position; it also lays bare the extent to which a father sought to use his position to help his son.

The charges accuse the two men of extorting payments through a real estate developer, Glenwood Management, based on Long Island, and the environmental company, AbTech Industries, in Scottsdale, Ariz., with the expectation that the money paid to Adam Skelos — nearly $220,000 in total — would influence his father’s actions.

Glenwood, one of the state’s most prolific campaign donors, had ties to AbTech through investments in the environmental firm’s parent company by Glenwood’s founding family and a senior executive.

The accusations in the complaint portray Senator Skelos as a man who, when it came to his son, was not shy about twisting arms, even in situations that might give other arm-twisters pause.

Seeking to help his son, Senator Skelos turned to the executive at Glenwood, which develops rental apartments in New York City and has much at stake when it comes to real estate legislation in Albany. The senator urged him to direct business to his son, who sold title insurance.

After much prodding, the executive, Charles C. Dorego, engineered a $20,000 payment to Adam Skelos from a title insurance company even though he did no work for the money. But far more lucrative was a consultant position that Mr. Dorego arranged for Adam Skelos at AbTech, which seeks government contracts to treat storm water. (Mr. Dorego is not identified by name in the complaint, but referred to only as CW-1, for Cooperating Witness 1.)

Senator Skelos appeared to take an active interest in his son’s new line of work. Adam Skelos sent him several drafts of his consulting agreement with AbTech, the complaint says, as well as the final deal that was struck.

“Mazel tov,” his father replied.

Senator Skelos sent relevant news articles to his son, including one about a sewage leak near Albany. When AbTech wanted to seek government contracts after Hurricane Sandy, the senator got on a conference call with his son and an AbTech executive, Bjornulf White, and offered advice. (Like Mr. Dorego, Mr. White is not named in the complaint, but referred to as CW-2.)

The assistance paid off: With the senator’s help, AbTech secured a contract worth up to $12 million from Nassau County, a big break for a struggling small business.

But the money was slow to materialize. The senator expressed impatience with county officials.

Adam Skelos, in a phone call with Mr. White in late December, suggested that his father would seek to punish the county. “I tell you this, the state is not going to do a [expletive] thing for the county,” he said.

Three days later, Senator Skelos pressed his case with the Nassau County executive, Edward P. Mangano, a fellow Republican. “Somebody feels like they’re just getting jerked around the last two years,” the senator said, referring to his son in what the complaint described as “coded language.”

The next day, the senator pursued the matter, as he and Mr. Mangano attended a wake for a slain New York City police officer. Senator Skelos then reassured his son, who called him while he was still at the wake. “All claims that are in will be taken care of,” the senator said.

AbTech’s fortunes appeared to weigh on his son. At one point in January, Adam Skelos told his father that if the company did not succeed, he would “lose the ability to pay for things.”

Making matters worse, in recent months, Senator Skelos and his son appeared to grow wary about who was watching them. In addition to making calls on the burner phone, Adam Skelos said he used the FaceTime video calling “because that doesn’t show up on the phone bill,” as he told Mr. White.

In late February, Adam Skelos arranged a pair of meetings between Mr. White and state senators; AbTech needed to win state legislation that would allow its contract to move beyond its initial stages. But Senator Skelos deemed the plan too risky and caused one of the meetings to be canceled.

In another recorded call, Adam Skelos, promising to be “very, very vague” on the phone, urged his father to allow the meeting. The senator offered a warning. “Right now we are in dangerous times, Adam,” he told him.

A month later, in another phone call that was recorded by the authorities, Adam Skelos complained that his father could not give him “real advice” about AbTech while the two men were speaking over the telephone.

“You can’t talk normally,” he told his father, “because it’s like [expletive] Preet Bharara is listening to every [expletive] phone call. It’s just [expletive] frustrating.”

“It is,” his father agreed.

Hockey is not exactly known as a city game, but played on roller skates, it once held sway as the sport of choice in many New York neighborhoods.

“City kids had no rinks, no ice, but they would do anything to play hockey,” said Edward Moffett, former director of the Long Island City Y.M.C.A. Roller Hockey League, in Queens, whose games were played in city playgrounds going back to the 1940s.

From the 1960s through the 1980s, the league had more than 60 teams, he said. Players included the Mullen brothers of Hell’s Kitchen and Dan Dorion of Astoria, Queens, who would later play on ice for the National Hockey League.

One street legend from the heyday of New York roller hockey was Craig Allen, who lived in the Woodside Houses projects and became one of the city’s hardest hitters and top scorers.

“Craig was a warrior, one of the best roller hockey players in the city in the ’70s,” said Dave Garmendia, 60, a retired New York police officer who grew up playing with Mr. Allen. “His teammates loved him and his opponents feared him.”

Young Craig took up hockey on the streets of Queens in the 1960s, playing pickup games between sewer covers, wearing steel-wheeled skates clamped onto school shoes and using a roll of electrical tape as the puck.

His skill and ferocity drew attention, Mr. Garmendia said, but so did his skin color. He was black, in a sport made up almost entirely by white players.

“Roller hockey was a white kid’s game, plain and simple, but Craig broke the color barrier,” Mr. Garmendia said. “We used to say Craig did more for race relations than the N.A.A.C.P.”

Mr. Allen went on to coach and referee roller hockey in New York before moving several years ago to South Carolina. But he continued to organize an annual alumni game at Dutch Kills Playground in Long Island City, the same site that held the local championship games.

The reunion this year was on Saturday, but Mr. Allen never made it. On April 26, just before boarding the bus to New York, he died of an asthma attack at age 61.

Word of his death spread rapidly among hundreds of his old hockey colleagues who resolved to continue with the event, now renamed the Craig Allen Memorial Roller Hockey Reunion.

The turnout on Saturday was the largest ever, with players pulling on their old equipment, choosing sides and taking once again to the rink of cracked blacktop with faded lines and circles. They wore no helmets, although one player wore a fedora.

Another, Vinnie Juliano, 77, of Long Island City, wore his hearing aids, along with his 50-year-old taped-up quads, or four-wheeled skates with a leather boot. Many players here never converted to in-line skates, and neither did Mr. Allen, whose photograph appeared on a poster hanging behind the players’ bench.

“I’m seeing people walking by wondering why all these rusty, grizzly old guys are here playing hockey,” one player, Tommy Dominguez, said. “We’re here for Craig, and let me tell you, these old guys still play hard.”

Everyone seemed to have a Craig Allen story, from his earliest teams at Public School 151 to the Bryant Rangers, the Woodside Wings, the Woodside Blues and more.

Mr. Allen, who became a yellow-cab driver, was always recruiting new talent. He gained the nickname Cabby for his habit of stopping at playgrounds all over the city to scout players.

Teams were organized around neighborhoods and churches, and often sponsored by local bars. Mr. Allen, for one, played for bars, including Garry Owen’s and on the Fiddler’s Green Jokers team in Inwood, Manhattan.

Play was tough and fights were frequent.

“We were basically street gangs on skates,” said Steve Rogg, 56, a mail clerk who grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, and who on Saturday wore his Riedell Classic quads from 1972. “If another team caught up with you the night before a game, they tossed you a beating so you couldn’t play the next day.”

Mr. Garmendia said Mr. Allen’s skin color provoked many fights.

“When we’d go to some ignorant neighborhoods, a lot of players would use slurs,” Mr. Garmendia said, recalling a game in Ozone Park, Queens, where local fans parked motorcycles in a lineup next to the blacktop and taunted Mr. Allen. Mr. Garmendia said he checked a player into the motorcycles, “and the bikes went down like dominoes, which started a serious brawl.”

A group of fans at a game in Brooklyn once stuck a pole through the rink fence as Mr. Allen skated by and broke his jaw, Mr. Garmendia said, adding that carloads of reinforcements soon arrived to defend Mr. Allen.

And at another racially incited brawl, the police responded with six patrol cars and a helicopter.

Before play began on Saturday, the players gathered at center rink to honor Mr. Allen. Billy Barnwell, 59, of Woodside, recalled once how an all-white, all-star squad snubbed Mr. Allen by playing him third string. He scored seven goals in the first game and made first string immediately.

“He’d always hear racial stuff before the game, and I’d ask him, ‘How do you put up with that?’” Mr. Barnwell recalled. “Craig would say, ‘We’ll take care of it,’ and by the end of the game, he’d win guys over. They’d say, ‘This guy’s good.’”

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

Hired in 1968, a year before their first season, Mr. Fanning spent 25 years with the team, managing them to their only playoff appearance in Canada.

A lapsed seminarian, Mr. Chambers succeeded Saul Alinsky as leader of the social justice umbrella group Industrial Areas Foundation.

Mr. Paczynski was one of the concentration camp’s longest surviving inmates and served as the personal barber to its Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss.

Ms. von Furstenberg made her debut in the movies and on the Broadway stage in the early 1950s as a teenager and later reinvented herself as a television actress, writer and philanthropist.

Mr. Miller, of the firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, represented companies including Lehman Brothers, General Motors and American Airlines, and mentored many of the top Chapter 11 practitioners today.

A 214-pound Queens housewife struggled with a lifelong addiction to food until she shed 72 pounds and became the public face of the worldwide weight-control empire Weight Watchers.

Mr. Alger, who served five terms from Texas, led Republican women in a confrontation with Lyndon B. Johnson that may have cost Richard M. Nixon the 1960 presidential election.

A former member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Smedvig helped found the wide-ranging Empire Brass quintet.

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