The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italian: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo) is a 1966 Italian epic Spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles. The screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni and Leone, based on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone.

Director of photography Tonino Delli Colli was responsible for the film's sweeping widescreen cinematography and Ennio Morricone composed the famous film score, including its main theme. It is the third film in the Dollars Trilogy following A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965).

The plot revolves around three gunslingers competing to find a fortune in buried Confederate gold amid the violent chaos of gunfights, hangings, American Civil War battles and prison camps. The film was a co-production between companies in West Germany, Italy and Spain.

This follows an additional Sh400 million that the tourism industry will receive from the Catering And Tourism Development Levy.

The country’s tourism marketing is carried out under the aegis of the Kenya Tourist Board.

In the 2011/2012 budget estimates released last week, the government allocated Sh800 million to the department. An extra Sh200 million will be advanced to KTB for the purpose of marketing Kenya as a destination of choice to tourists.

The total allocation to the agency will be a record high in its history coming at a time when it has constantly received less funding. Despite being one of the key foreign exchange earners for the exchequer, tourism sector has consistently been under funded.

Speaking earlier in the year, Tourism minister Mr Najib Balala had indicated that the sector would push for at least Sh1 billion in funding for marketing activities.

Compared to other destinations that Kenya rivals, the funds are however still below what competition offers to market their destinations.

According to Tourism assistant minister Ms Cecil Mbarire, the sector is in the process of engaging partners for funding. “We are in discussion with others to seek ways of ensuring that we get more funding to market destination Kenya,” said Ms Mbarire.The summit is part of a familiarisation programme for the officers to enable them experience first hand local tourist attraction centres they market abroad.

Meanwhile, the Catering and Tourism Development Levy Trustees is set to embrace innovative technology in remittance of dues from its customers.

Unlike previous methods where stakeholders used to line up at CTDLT branches to pay manually, they will now be remitting the same using e-banking, mobile money transfer and better website management.

According to Ms Flora Ngonze the Trust’s ICT manager, these new methods are for instilling agility in the hotel and tourism industry which is a key driver to the country’s economy.

JAKARTA, May 9 (Reuters Life!) -- Environmental group WWF has recorded images of 12 endangered Sumatran tigers, including a mother playing with cubs, in an Indonesian forest that it said is about to be cleared by loggers.

WWF, which estimates that there are only 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild, captured the images on camera traps in the Bukit Tigapuluh forest on central Sumatra island, which has seen rampant deforestation for palm oil and paper plantations.

Karmila Parakkasi, leader of WWF’s tiger research team in Sumatra, said the number of big cats seen in two months of observation was impressive.

“What’s unclear is whether we found so many tigers because we’re getting better at locating our cameras or because the tiger’s habitat is shrinking so rapidly here that they are being forced into sharing smaller and smaller bits of forests,” Parakkasi said.

Still images show six individual tigers and a mother with a cub, while the video shows footage of another mother and three young cubs playfully chasing a leaf.

WWF said Indonesia’s government had pledged to protect this forest area, but it was inside a land concession belonging to a subsidiary of Indonesian paper firm Barito Timber Pacific (BRPT.JK). The firm was not immediately available for comment.

“As soon as pending permits are granted by the government, the company could clear the forest to supply the wood to Asia Pulp & Paper of Sinar Mas Group,” said WWF, adding that it and other environmental groups have opposed the clearance plan.

A spokesman for Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) said Barito Pacific Timber does not provide any pulpwood to its mills, and it fully supported the permanent protection of the area, with no clearing of the Bukit Tigapuluh national park by APP pulpwood suppliers.
WWF said that APP’s mill was the closest to the area with the tigers, and received supplies from nearby firms. Indonesia agreed with Norway a two-year moratorium on new permits to clear forest, under a landmark $1 billion deal to curb greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, but it has yet to be signed into law as ministries wrangle over details.

The moratorium was expected to slow rapid industry expansion by the world’s largest producer of palm oil, used to make everything from biscuits and soap to biodiesel and seeing growing demand from consumers in fast-growing Asia.

Sinar Mas has come under fire from environmentalists over deforestation, leading major consumer firms such as Unilever (ULVR.L), Nestle (NESN.VX) and Burger King to stop buying palm oil from it.

In the last 50 years, Indonesia has lost both the Bali tiger and Java tiger. (Reporting by Alfian and Neil Chatterjee; Editing by Paul Casciato).



Watch the video in a forest in Indonesia where three Sumatran tiger cubs playfully chase a leaf and adult tigers, captured on infrared cameras, roam through a clearing at night. The footage exemplifies why the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is urging logging companies to drop plans to cut down Indonesian forest areas where these critically endangered Sumatran tigers and their cubs live. How rare are these tigers? There are only about 400 left in the wild, according to the WWF, of which 12 live in the Bukit Tigapuluh forest that’s on the chopping block. Unless the Indonesian government enforces its pledge to protect this forest area, the Sumatran tiger will most likely go the way of the Bali Tiger and the Java Tiger, which is to say, gone forever.

While the WWF is applying pressure to reverse the logging threat, we can all take action in support of tiger conservation as individuals, such as reducing paper waste and buying recycled paper and FSC-certified wood products. Recycling isn’t glamourous, and the big picture of how our choices effect a global reality can seem like an abstraction. But a world without tigers is too drab to contemplate. Thankfully, there’s still time to ensure that tigers, with their magnificent stripes, remain part our world’s design. -- Leah Lessard Jeon, Global Animal

Bali Floral Club akan mengadakan pameran bunga gabungan dan kompetisi (17 Mei 2011), seminar bunga dan demonstrasi (18 Mei 2011) dan hands-on workshop tentang desain bunga (19 Mei 2011). Dengan menghadirkan pakar bunga arranger dari Belanda, Bart van der Elsken. "Para seniman dekorasi bunga baik dibuang untuk menyajikan acara ini gratis untuk berbagi pengalaman mengatur bunga yang direncanakan pada 11-13 Mei 2011," kata Humas Bali Floral Club (BFC) Dewi Amunudin untuk ANTARA.

BFC berkala akan mengadakan seminar, lokakarya, kontes, dan pameran mengundang para pecinta seni bunga dalam menghadiri acara-acara bunga di Bali. anggota lain lebih lanjut dapat berbagi pengakuan, pengalaman, dan pekerjaan mereka di bidang seni berbagai bunga. Selain itu mereka juga memperluas hubungan antara arranger bunga di Indonesia. Menurut Dewi van der Bart kehadiran Elsken berharap dapat membuka kesempatan bagi arranger bunga. Dia adalah menjaga promosi seni bunga dan tanaman hias melalui kegiatan seminar, pelatihan, dan "bunga" demonstrasi. Dewi menambahkan kemampuan utama dari Bart van der Elsken adalah tempat pameran bunga dekorasi atau perdagangan, termasuk memberikan saran, dan pemilik toko menyelesaikan masalah. "Dia dikenal dengan kreativitasnya dalam memberikan ide segar untuk pemilik toko bunga itu, pusat-pusat taman, konstruktor berdiri, grosir, dan hotel," katanya.

Seminar ini berisi pelatihan, kontes, dan pameran seni merangkai bunga bertema "Terinspirasi oleh Kebudayaan Bali" akan mengadakan di Danes Art Veranda, Jalan Hayam Wuruk nomor 159 Denpasar. Acara ini melibatkan semua anggota klub yang memiliki visi yang sama dan misi untuk memperkaya seni dan budaya mengatur bunga selain mengundang pecinta bunga dari kota-kota lain. Dewi berharap seminar dan beberapa peristiwa yang terkait dengan merangkai bunga dapat mengikuti perkembangan. "Mereka akan mendapat pelajaran berharga 'master desain bunga' dari Bart van der Elsken yang berpengalaman dalam hal ini sejak tahun 1998. Kesempatan langka dapat mendukung pengembangan kami dalam mengembangkan pariwisata di Bali, "kata dia.


Acara ini diselenggarakan oleh Bali Floral Club untuk meningkatkan apresiasi dan keterampilan dalam mengatur bunga.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — There are battlefields, and then there's Belle Boyd, teenage temptress and Confederate spy.

The Appalachian Regional Commission is betting Boyd is the sexier Civil War story and that tourists will want to visit the Martinsburg, W.Va., home of the notorious "siren of the South" who used her feminine charms to spy on Union soldiers for the Confederacy.

The Belle Boyd House in the Eastern Panhandle is one of 150 lesser-known Civil War destinations the commission is highlighting on a new 13-state map to be released Thursday, pointing the way to that footnote on history and plenty more.

Timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the war, the guide is aimed at helping states cash in on the growing popularity of cultural heritage tourism and to get those tourists beyond such well-trod battlefields as Gettysburg, Pa., and Antietam, Md.

"Our story here is that there are a lot of jewels in Appalachia, and a lot of great stories about families and communities that we should stop and take a look at," said the co-chair of the federal agency, Earl F. Gohl.

The map and guide are being released at Independence Hall in Wheeling, where some Virginians were so horrified by talk of secession when the war erupted in 1861 that they held their own constitutional convention and formed the breakaway state of West Virginia two years later.

Boyd, who once boasted in a letter to a cousin of her 106-pound "beautiful" form, supplied Union secrets to Stonewall Jackson, who made her a captain and honorary aide-de-camp.

She was arrested and imprisoned twice, then released while suffering from typhoid. The Confederacy sent her to England as a courier, but she was captured before she could complete the mission. Historians say she eventually married a Union naval officer and lived in England until 1866.

Boyd published a memoir and worked as an actress, then became a lecturer. She died in Wisconsin in 1900, on a tour touting her adventures.

Her story is one of many that are often missed, says Gohl. The new guide hopes to draw back the curtain on her house and other locales.

Those include Mississippi's Corinth Contraband Camp, where slaves fleeing Southern plantations sought refuge with federal troops. Union Gen. Grenville Dodge took them on as teamsters, cooks, laborers and eventually, security officers. That led to the creation of the 1st Alabama Infantry Regiment of African Descent.

Then, Gohl says, there is Altoona, Pa., where President Abraham Lincoln convened the states' governors and consulted on the Emancipation Proclamation.

The guide will be a free insert in the spring issue of American Heritage magazine, and copies have been distributed to tourism agencies in West Virginia and the 12 other Appalachian states — Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Although there is enough Civil War history to fill a library, Gohl said relatively little focuses on the lives and lifestyles of noncombatants between 1861 and 1865. The commission and the states opted to focus on farms and factories, railroads and restored houses, even a sprawling cave where soldiers hid out for three years.

"There's another story here — how people lived, how culture developed," Gohl said.

Kentucky's Mountain Life Museum in London features seven pioneer settlement buildings filled with relics from that agricultural era.

At the Gordon-Roberts House in Cumberland, Md., visitors can learn from Priscilla McKaig's journals about her son's enlistment in the Confederate army.

In Ripley, Ohio, tourists can see where ardent anti-slavery activist John Rankin — a Presbyterian minister — sheltered 2,000 slaves escaping to freedom via the Underground Railroad.

And in South Carolina, they can learn how James Clement Furman opened his Greenville college to women when the men went off to war. They paid their tuition with bacon, sugar and lard.

This is the third tourism map the ARC has created, with others focused on thematic driving tours.

Surveys done after those projects suggest the value of a relatively small investment in the latest map — $9,000 to develop and 12 cents apiece to print. After the previous projects, Gohl said, surveyed destinations reported a 15 percent to 50 percent jump in visitation.

"This is an approach that works," he said.

The U.S. Travel Association estimates tourism is a $704 billion industry, and the cultural heritage sector is growing at twice the rate of the overall market. Appalachia is home to six of the 10 most-visited states in that sector.

Although West Virginia's Civil War offerings are relatively well known and within a day's drive of much of the East Coast, Tourism Commissioner Betty Carver said most people still visit for outdoor recreation. But she said a shifting dynamic means even whitewater rafting companies are branching out and finding new business partners to offer a broader experience.

"They're becoming more savvy, doing their homework and finding out who the travelers are," she said. And outdoor adventurers themselves are looking for historic sites, restaurants and music venues to complement the thrill of rock climbing and rafting.

The new map, Carver said, "raises the profile of West Virginia by putting our sites right there alongside the other states."

It also supports places the states are already marketing, like the 10-room Belle Boyd house, already part of West Virginia's Washington Heritage Trail. Inside, visitors will find tea pots, cookie jars and tales of intrigue..

"Our hope," said Gohl, "is that by laying out this story about Appalachia's role in the Civil War and what it's contributed, it's a story that all Americans will want to learn."

People tend to have this assumption that luxury is all about air-conditioning and technology, about owning a big car — but luxury can also be about feeling the wind blow right through your house, being in contact with nature and walking around barefoot in your home.

Effan Adhiwira, a 28-year-old Indonesian who is senior architect and also oversees construction at Green School, the Ibuku team is creating a collection of structures that look more like treehouses and pirate ships than luxury villas.

Three dozen buildings will ultimately form the “Green Village,” which is going up on three hectares, or almost 7.5 acres, of land. One has been completed, and its owner is moving in next week. A second is expected to be finished in a few weeks and several more in the next few months. Five homes have been sold already and the sales of at least four more are being negotiated.

Each one boggles the mind, pleasantly, doing things with bamboo that you would never think bamboo could do.

Indonesia as a whole, and Bali in particular, has become increasingly popular with foreign investors, drawn by the country’s friendly climate and buoyant economy. Foreigners cannot own land or houses directly in their own name in the country but it is possible, and common, for them to arrange ownership through local nominees or surrogates. Another option is to acquire long-term leases of as long as 25 years, which can be transferable and extendable, and are thus an attractive alternative, Mr. Wrathall said.

Possibly the most unusual aspect of the Ibuku houses — apart from the fact that they are 98 percent bamboo — is that their sides are largely open to the elements.

Beneath the canopy-like roofs, which are in turn overshadowed by the jungle, there are only floors and the bamboo support pillars. The houses have 150 to 300 square meters, or 1,615 to 3,230 square feet, of living space, but no walls, no windows.

That may sound unbearably hot and steamy, but there generally is a gentle breeze blowing through the structures.

Buyers can opt to have parts of their houses enclosed — with bamboo walls — so the areas can be cooled and dehumidified. But most areas are free of energy-guzzling air-conditioning and costly insulation materials. Ibuku also plans to take the whole “village” off Bali’s electric grid, providing power from biomass, the energy given off by decaying natural materials — all in line with the green, environmentalist philosophy that pervades the development.

Ngurah Rai Airport is a dual terminal facility, handling both domestic and international flights, with around 25 different airlines in total. Indonesia's very own Garuda Airlines is particularly notable and features flights to Australia, Japan and Singapore.

Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport, also known as Denpasar International Airport, is located in southern Bali, 13 km south of Denpasar. It is Indonesia's third-busiest international airport.
There are banks and currency exchange facilities within both terminals and also in the Domestic Departures Hall, allowing you to easily obtain Indonesian rupiah. Telephones are available throughout the terminals, along with duty-free shops and various Balinese restaurants. The Holiday Inn Resort Balihai is located close to the terminal building at the Ngurah Rai Airport and provides ample facilities for business guests and companies wishing to hold conferences.

Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport  Information: About Bali Tourism
Bali is an Indonesian island and a popular tourist destination that offers visitors a rich cultural experience combined with tropical beauty and a solid tourist infrastructure. The island is famous for its arts, both performing and creative.

Visitors to Denpasar and other popular spots can enjoy local theatrical dance performances, or view wonderful ethnic artworks in medias such as sculpture, leather, metal and paint. Bali's most significant tourist areas include Kuta, Sanur, Jimbaran, Seminyak and more recently Nusa Dua.

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Kupang rice cake, a traditional food from East Java, especially from Sidoarjo or Surabaya, which exactly in Kenjeran. These foods are usually foods coast. Kupang rice cake is made up of kupang; Kupang is the kind of small oysters or clams, rice cake or rice cake and completed by shrimp pasta sauce. Similar to Lontong racing, kupang lontong also have Lento or fried cassava for the topping and satai shellfish.

Kupang rice cake is an all-time appetite, hot and spicy flavor with swinging between sweet and salty taste. Materials in Kupang lontong simple, just garlic, shrimp paste and chilli. shrimp pasta plays an important role to present lontong Kupang, to get a special taste and add these delights. They also mixed ingredients and pour kupang, the rice cake and dress up with lento.

In each of stalls offering rice cake kupang in their menu, the seller also provides a green coconut ice. Freshness will abolish the taste of coconut spicy-hot and not feeling comfortable from consuming garlic after Kupang.

The list of the Seven Wonders of the World has changed many times over the years, and often Borobudur has been included. UNESCO added the monument to its list of World Heritage Sites in 1991, and has been of great influence in restoring the monument to its former glory.

Borobudur temple is built to represent many layers of Buddhist theory. From a birds eye view, the temple is in the shape of a traditional Buddhist mandala. A mandala is central to a great deal of Buddhist and Hindu art, the basic form of most Hindu and Buddhist mandalas is a square with four entry points, and a circular centre point. Working from the exterior to the interior, three zones of consciousness are represented, with the central sphere representing unconsciousness or Nirvana.

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Rujak Cingur is a vegetables salad with spicy sauce. There is none of Surabaya or East Javanese people that are not fond of this dish. As the name, rujak, it is a vegetable and fruit dish with sauce. On the other hand it is a one-dish meal. It consiststempe or tempeh, tofu, beef cingur. Cingur is a cow’s nose. For the sauce, it is enriched with peanuts, chili, tamrind, water, pisangbatu (unripe/green cooked banana), and petis. Petis is another East Javanese special ingredient. It’s made from shrimp, fish or clam. It has dark glossy color with strong smell .

This food has become the unique taste of Surabaya. The flavour is really unique, because it combines of slices of cooked buffalo or beef lips, yam bean (bengkuang), young raw mango, pineapple, cucumber, bean sprout, kangkung ( water convolvulus), lontong (compressed rice), fried tofu and tempe, all served with black sauce made from fried garlic, chillies, a slice of young banana, petis (black fermented shrimp paste) and ground peanuts.

Bromo mountain is located in Tengger, in East Java. It is one of the most famous and most beautiful volcanoes in Indonesia. Standing at a height of 2392 meters, Mount Bromo isn’t the tallest mountain in Java. That title goes to 3676 meter tall Mount Semeru, located to the south of Mount Bromo and within sight. Also called Mahameru, meaning “great mountain”, Mount Semeru is one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia constantly belching steam from its peak.

Mount Bromo is one of two volcanoes that were created following a massive eruption which created an enormous caldera in which are the active Mount Bromo and the non-active Mount Batok.The caldera has seen been filled with grey sands, and is called Laut Pasir or Sand Sea. Trekkers walk through this expanse on their way to Mount Bromo.

The major access point is Cemoro Lawang at the northeastern edge of the caldera, but there are also trails from Tosari (northwest) and Ngadas (southwest). The village of Ngadisari, on the road from Probolinggo about 5.5 km before Cemoro Lawang, marks the entrance to the national park. Both Cemoro Lawang and Ngadisari are rather picturesque, with brightly-painted houses and flower beds outside. The nearest airport to Mount Bromo is Surabaya, about 3 hours away by bus. Most visitors to Mount Bromo access it from Cemoro Lawang, at the foot of the mountain.

How to go there ?
From Surabaya’s Juanda International Airport, take the Damri shuttle bus to the Bungurasih Bus Terminal. From there, take the Patas air-conditioned bus to Probolinggo. At Probolinggo, it is another one hour to Ngadisari, a town about 6km northeast of Mount Bromo and the base camp for Mount Bromo trips. Another base camp is Cemoro Lawang, about half an hour from Ngadisari. The foot of Mount Bromo is a 3-km hike from Cemoro Lawang.

Istilah pedagang kaki lima diubah menjadi pedagang kreatif lapangan dan tetap disingkat PKL, demikian salah satu keputusan Surat Keputusan Bersama (SKB) tiga menteri tentang sinergi program pengembangan ekonomi dan penataan lingkungan perkotaan melalui penguatan usaha mikro.

"Sekarang bukan pedagang kaki lima, tetapi pedagang kreatif lapangan (PKL)," kata Menteri Perdagangan Mari E Pangestu ketika menjelaskan SKB Tiga Menteri antara Menteri Dalam Negeri, Menteri Perdagangan, dan Menteri Koperasi dan UKM di Kantor Menko Perekonomian di Jakarta, Senin.

Tujuan nota kesepahaman tiga menteri itu untuk mengefektifkan program pemberdayaan PKL dengan mensinergikan program pemberdayaan usaha mikro yang dimiliki oleh masing-masing kementerian.

Dari sisi perdagangan, Kemendag akan mengambil peran melakukan fasilitasi sarana usaha produktif, bimbingan teknis dan pelatihan kewirausahaan kepada usaha mikro dan PKL setelah mendapatkan usulan dari Pemda.

Pemerintah dan pemda dalam menumbuhkan iklim usaha bagi UMKM, menetapkan kebijakan yang meliputi aspek pendanaan, sarana dan prasarana, informasi usaha, kemitraan, perijinan usaha, kesempatan berusaha, promosi dagang, dan dukungan kelembagaan.

Partisipasi dunia usaha dan masyarakat juga penting dalam menumbuhkan iklim usaha UMKM sehingga selalu dikembangkan pola kemitraan.

Menurut dia, wujud nyata kemitraan UKM dengan usaha besar yang sudah dilaksanakan oleh Kemendag adalah kemitraan UKM dengan ritel modern.

Dalam hal memfasilitasi bantuan sarana dan prasarana, Kemendag bermitra dengan PT Sinar Sosro dalam pengembangan dan pemberdayaan usaha mikro dan PKL sekaligus penataan lingkungan perkotaan melalui perbaikan dan penataan sarana dan prasarna usaha PKL lebih layak bagi 59 PKl di Jakarta.

"Ini merupakan prototype kemitraan pemerintah dengan usaha besar yang diharapkan dapat diikuti pemda lain di seluruh Indonesia dengan menggandeng perusahaan lain melalui program kepedulian," kata Mendag.

Ia menyebutkan, PT Sinar Sosro bersedia melakukan perbaikan sarana usaha yang dimulai dari lima lokasi binaan Pemprop DKI Jakarta.

"Diharapkan ini menjadi cikal bakal program kemitraan pemerintah dan swasta dalam membangun ekonomi dan khususnya PKL secara lebih baik di masa yang akan datang," kata Mendag.

BERBAHAN tempe busuk, nasi tumpang mempunyai cita rasa semangit yang memikat penggemarnya. Inilah salah satu kekayaan kuliner Indonesia. Dari bahan busuk, terciptalah masakan sedap mengundang selera.

Nasi tumpang populer di beberapa daerah di Jawa Tengah dan Jawa Timur, mulai dari Solo, Sragen, Klaten, Kediri, dan Nganjuk. Di DIY, nasi tumpang tak terlalu populer. Tak banyak penjualnya.



Salah satunya di warung makan ”Gandhok Solo” di Jalan Raya Tajem-Ngemplak, Sleman, tepatnya beberapa ratus meter utara Pasar Tajem. Sesuai namanya, warung makan kecil di antara sawah itu menjual berbagai masakan khas Solo.

Sepintas, nasi tumpang mirip nasi pecel. Bedanya, sayuran rebus pada nasi tumpang disiram kuah berbahan dasar santan dan tempe busuk. Di ”Gandhok Solo”, rasa kuah cenderung gurih dan diramu bumbu kencur, serai, daun salam, daun jeruk, bawang merah, dan bawang putih.

Ditambah lauk rempeyek rebon (udang kecil yang kering) dan telur mata sapi, membuat nasi tumpang hangat di Gandhok Solo makin sedap.

Asli Solo

Pemilik ”Gandhok Solo”, Ch Heny Triharwati (40), mengatakan, nasi tumpang buatannya mempertahankan versi asli Solo: rasa cenderung gurih plus kulit sapi (krecek) dan tahu. Ini beda dengan masakan lain yang menjadi manis saat ada di Yogya.

Masakan dipertahankan gurih agar nasi tumpang itu menjadi obat rindu bagi orang-orang Jawa Tengah yang kebetulan tengah berada di Yogya. ”Banyak orang asal Klaten, Solo, dan Sragen datang ke sini. Mereka bilang rasanya pas,” kata Heny, yang berasal dari Tawangsari, Sukoharjo, Surakarta, Jateng.

Heny memasak sambal tumpang dua hari sekali. Sekali memasak, ia butuh 25 kg tempe, campuran antara tempe biasa dan busuk. Khusus tempe busuk, perempuan dua putra itu membusukkan sendiri di rumahnya untuk menghasilkan rasa sempurna. ”Biasanya tempe umur 4-5 hari yang paling enak digunakan. Kalau tidak pas, rasanya pahit. Kalau beli sudah busuk sering kali rasanya pahit dan aroma tidak enak,” katanya.

Nasi tumpang di warung itu laku 10-15 porsi dalam sehari. Memang, nasi tumpang bukan masakan paling favorit di warung itu. Nasi timlo lebih laku, 20-30 porsi seharinya. Namun, setiap hari ada saja orang yang menanyakan masakan semangit itu.

Selain kedua masakan itu, Gandhok Solo mempunyai menu es dawet dan cao. Kedua minuman itu segar dan legit karena tetes tebu sebagai pemanis. ”Tetes tebu khusus saya datangkan dari Solo. Di Yogyakarta tidak ada yang jual,” kata Heny.

Saat erupsi Merapi, warung yang berjarak 22 km dari puncak Merapi itu tutup dua pekan. Selain ditinggal mengungsi, warung itu jadi tempat pengungsian. Baru dua hari ini kembali dibuka.Usai Merapi reda, nasi tumpang segera mengobati kerinduan.

LOS ANGELES- Avril Lavigne akhirnya menetapkan tanggal rilis album keempatnya ‘Goodbye Lullaby’. Album ini direncanakan rilis 8 Maret 2011, untuk single jagoannya What The Hell diluncurkan 31 Desemeber mendatang.

Meskipun telah bercerai dengan Vokalis Sum 41’s, Deryck Whibley, mereka berdua masih saling membantu penggarapan album ‘Goodbye Lullaby’.  Di album ini Avril juga berkolaborasi dengan Evan Taubenfeld dan Butch Walker serta melibatkan penulis lagu dan produser Max Martin.

Menurut lansiran Aceshowbiz, Rabu (8/12/2010). Pelantun Girlfriend ini terus berbagi pengalaman pribadinya melalui tulisan dan musik. Album ‘Goodbye Lullaby’ tersebut merupakan sebuah evolusi dari seorang Avril, di mana suaranya terdengar lebih matang dengan musik yang lebih bervariasi. Album ini juga mengejawantahkan seluruh emosi Avril selama beberapa tahun belakangan.

Selain menyampaikan pesannya tentang kebebasan individu dalam What The Hell, Avril juga mengekspresikan rasa terima kasihnya untuk orang-orang teristimewa di hidupnya di nomor lagu Smile.

Lalu ia juga menceritakan tentang sisi kehidupannya yang rapuh pada Wish You Were Here dan ia juga mendeskripsikan saat menemukan kembali kekuatan dalam hidupnya melalui Goodbye.

MUNDUR ke masa puluhan ribu tahun yang lalu, sebuah letusan maha dahsyat menciptakan kawah gunung berapi yang besar. Seiring waktu, kawah tersebut terisi air yang kemudian menciptakan sebuah genangan besar bernama Danau Toba.

Meski tercipta dari letusan yang menyebabkan musnahnya hewan, manusia dan tumbuhan, Danau Toba menjelma menjadi objek wisata yang mempesona. Ini menjadikannya salah satu obyek wisata terpopuler di Sumatra bahkan di Indonesia.
JIka dilihat, Danau Toba nampak seperti lautan dengan luas lebih dari 1.145 kilometer persegi. Ini membuatnya terlihat indah jika dilihat dari ketinggian. Ditambah lokasinya yang dikelilingi perbukitan, membuat suasana di sekitar danau terasa nyaman karena udaranya segar dan sejuk.

Anda dapat menikmati keindahannya dengan berenang atau pun menyewa perahu motor, mengitari sekitar danau. Sementara itu saat hari beranjak sore, Anda dapat menikmati suasana yag lebih hening dengan pemandangan cahaya matahari terbenam yang begitu indah.

Danau yang luas ini juga dikenal memiliki nilai magis dan kosmologis, karena dipercaya sebagai tempat berdiamnya leluhur Suku Batak. Bilamana masyarakat Suku Batak ingin menggelar acara adat di sekitar danau, mereka harus terlebih dahulu memohon izin kepada para leluhur

Seperti dalam perayaan Pesta Rakyat Danau Toba yang setiap tahunnya digelar, beberapa ritual dilakukan terlebih dahulu sebagai bentuk penghormatan terhadap leluhur.

Oiya di tengah danau, Anda juga akan menemukan sebuah pulau besar bernama Samosir yang berada pada ketinggian 1000 meter di atas permukaan laut. Mengenai keberadaan Pulau Samosir, itu terbentuk karena tekanan magma secara terus-menerus yang belum keluar dari perut bumi.

Pulau Samosir mempunyai beberapa obyek wisata alam yang populer, yakni danau di atas danau (Danau Sidihoni dan Danau Aek Natonang), obyek wisata sejarah di komplek makam Raja Sidabutar Desa Tomok, dan wisata arsitektur komplek rumah tradisional Batak Toba Samosir.

Untuk mencapai lokasi wisata Danau Toba, Anda dapat melalui rute Kota Medan-Parapat atau pun melalui rute Medan-Berastagi yang berjarak lebih kurang 176 kilometer dengan waktu tempuh kurang lebih empat jam dengan kendaraan roda dua/ empat.

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There are 12 handicap people from Senang Hati Foundation who succeeded flagged merah-putih – Indonesian for national flag color of red and white – underwater on the Independent Day celebration of 65th Indonesian Republic on August 17th, Tuesday.
Those 12 handicap people were accompanied by tens divers as their companions. They succeeded flagged merah-putih at a depth around 7 meter in Tulamben Sea of Karangasem.
Although they have physical obstacle, those handicap people could give independent gift through showing their spirit and physical fighting spirit.
The team consists of four flag officers, Gusti Lanang Wirawan, Komang Astawa, Aris and Wayan Sugianto. Then are 2 flag carriers, Dayu Wiadnyani and Wayan Parwati.
The remaining members are Sang Ayu Nyoman Puspa, Kadek Candrawasih, Keutu Sudianti, Nyoman Rudiawan and Nyoman Budiarsa.
“Merdeka” screamed Aris – freedom – one of the member who looks so happy after conducted that ceremony underwater.
For several weeks they were trained under the guidance of Afandi Junaedi, dive master who helped them trained for the last three years.
Underwater flagged on the independent day was the second time conducted by Senang Hati. The first one was in 2008 at Sanur Beach, Denpasar.
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