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obama agrees with gay marriage

WASHINGTON -- As he weighed a shift in his public position on gay marriage, perhaps no one had as much influence on President Obama as his wife, Michelle. "This is something that, you know, we've talked about over the years and she, you know, she feels the same way, she feels the same way that I do," Obama told ABC's Robin Roberts Wednesday. Even as Obama's position was in a state of evolution, White House advisers say the first lady went out of her way to invite gay, lesbian, transgendered and bisexual couples to the events she sponsored for military families.

 Around the West Wing, there are several gay staffers, and at least one in a committed relationship and raising children. And the Obama daughters have friends with same-sex parents, whom the first family has gotten to know. "There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we're talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn't dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn't make sense to them and frankly, that's the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective," Obama said. One day a few weeks ago, the president told his top advisors that he had reached a personal decision.

He wanted to weigh in on the gay marriage discussion. "He was ready," said one senior administration official who requested anonymity to discuss the private talk. The account offered by White House aides Wednesday gives the impression of a carefully planned rollout of the president's new view.

Before then, the subject was one officials were reluctant to discuss. After Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday that he was "absolutely comfortable" with gay couples being married, the White House was at pains to say the comments were entirely consistent with Obama's position, and swatted away questions about new policy that might be forthcoming.

 Now, following the president's own comments, aides say he wanted to affirm the idea of same-sex marriage before the Democratic National Convention. It would be a subject of discussion in platform talks and in private conversation, the president told his team, and he wanted to be in front of it. He also felt it was right to tell the country that he had arrived at a new place before the election, said a second senior official. Advisers tried to game out how that would play in terms of the election.

Maybe swing state voters wouldn't like it, it would suppress enthusiasm among black volunteers or it would turn off evangelical Hispanics otherwise leaning toward Obama. On the other hand, maybe voters would give him credit for taking a stand. Perhaps young volunteers and donors would be inspired and energized by the move. There was no way to predict the "crosscurrents," said the second official.

 The White House team was planning to take more time to lay their plan, but then the vice president went on "Meet the Press" last Sunday. He wasn't expected to articulate his own view if asked about this but rather to talk about the president's record and evolving viewpoint.

 Because the vice president knew Obama was ready, a senior adviser said, he "leaned in more than he normally would have" when he was asked about the issue. A day later, Education Secretary Arne Duncan surprised the staff by weighing in with his position in support of same-sex marriage.

 The two events combined served to move up the timing, and the West Wing reached out to ABC to give the president a chance to say it himself. "He always planned to do it sooner rather than later," the official said. "This just moved up the timing."

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Tom Gabel

Well, this seems to be a first for punk rock: Tom Gabel, lead singer of Against Me!, announced in a new Rolling Stone interview that he is transgender and will begin living as a woman, via hormone and cosmetic treatments. Future name: Laura Jane Grace.

Gabel plans to stay married to wife Heather — and apparently to keep on rocking: The Florida band has a new album on the way and a national tour headed to the Fillmore in Silver Spring next month.

 “I’m going to have embarrassing moments,” Gabel told the magazine. “But . . . [I’m] hoping people will understand, and hoping they’ll be fairly kind.” We’ll see. There were messages of support on the band’s Facebook page, but some ugly outbursts on other music forums.



The news surprised fans of the band, whose liberal-activist politics are wrapped in a macho aesthetic — growly voices, loud guitars, tattooed lumberjack arms. (Of course, their song “The Ocean” is getting a new listen: And if I could have chosen,

I would have been born a woman / My mother once told me she would have named me Laura / I’d grow up to be strong and beautiful like her.) Truth is, it’s not just new territory for punk rock. Chaz Bono. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images ) The list of VIPs who have undergone gender reassignment in a very public way (excluding those like tennis player Renée Richards, who became famous only after surgery) may begin and end with Sonny and Cher’s kid, Chaz Bono, who announced his transition from female to male in 2009; it later became a theme for his reality show.

(His rep declined “to comment on others’ journeys.”) But Larry Wachowski, half of the publicity-shy sibling team that directed “The Matrix” movies, never discussed her change-of-gender until press materials last year for a new movie casually referred to her as “Lana Wachowski.” A camera-shy Lana Wachowski — then known as Larry — in 2003. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Megan Wallent, a Seattle-based Microsoft executive, decided to chronicle her 2007 transition from Michael to Megan on a blog. With the prominence of her job, “we took the approach the more people know, the easier it’s going to be.”


Advice for Gabel? “The biggest pitfall,” Wallent said, “is making your life be about your transition rather than making your transition about your life.” Which could be tricky for Gabel, who went from being a moderately prominent rocker to That Transgendered Rock Star overnight. No worries, said Wallent, the novelty will wane. “If you’re awesome at what you do, if you’re a great person, that’s what’s going to persist.”

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Where The Wild Things Are author dies

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reflects on the passing of Maurice Sendak, at age 83.

 >> so much. forever changed the way we think of children's literature has died at the age of 83 after complications from suffering a stroke. there were very few happy endings in his stories. his children were permitted to behave badly, even be obnoxious, they explored the dark side of their emotional life. his illustrations were wildly evocative, often frightening. in his world, in his most famous book, where the wild things are, later made into a movie. a boy who is sent to bed without dinner for misbehaving goes on a wild imaginative journey through a land of monsters. it was published in 1963 . it became one of the ten best selling children's books of all time. he said he never intended to write children's books at all.

 >> i don't write for children.

 >> you don't?

 >> no. i write and somebody says that's for children. i didn't set out to make children happy or make life better for them or easier for them.

 >> whether he intended it or not, the book has, of course, inspired the imaginations of a generation of children and later their children. it is read and beloved by millions including the president who called it one of his favorite books.

 >> it's the wild rumpus! now stop, max said, and sent the wild things off to bed without their supper. and max the king of all the wild things was lonely. and he wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. entire lives. one a day men's 50+ is









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Rebecca Black

Famous as : Singer 
Birth Date : June 21, 1997 
Birth Place : Anaheim Hills, California, USA 
Claim to fame : Single "Friday" (2011)



Rebecca Black Claim to Fame

Famous as
Singer

Popular for
Single "Friday" (2011)

 Rebecca Black Personal Fact

Birth Date June 21, 1997

 Birth Place Anaheim Hills, California, USA

 Height 5' 5"

 Nationality American Rebecca Black Family Father John Jeffery Black Mother Georgina Marquez Kelly

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20 THING ABOUT PHOTOSHOP YOU HAVE TO KNOW

Photoshop is, undeniably, one of the greatest software applications around. It has been around in one version or another for the last thirteen years, which is longer than I’ve known what CPU stands for. Currently in its eighth version, it has so many functions and features that I simply couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t explain the 20 most important and useful ones to you.

 Layer Sets

 These are a way of organising or categorising common or linked layers in the layers panel. To create a new layer set, expand the Layer menu and select New -> Layer set. The new layer set dialogue box will appear and prompt you to enter a name for the new set. Once you have OK’d this box, a folder icon will appear in the layers panel; just drag and drop related layers into this folder. This is useful to organise your working environment and to apply styles across ranges of layers. This functionality extends to slices in Imageready.

 The Slice Tool

 Residing in the toolbox that appears to the far left of your workspace, and denoted by the knife icon, the slice tool is essential for creating clickable rectangular regions of your image. It is powered by Photoshop’s sister product Imageready (which comes bundled with the latest release of Photoshop), and needs to be used in Imageready to make the most of its potential. Nevertheless, Photoshop lets you add actions when the region is rolled over or clicked, and can be extremely useful in the creation of roll-over image-swaps or expanding menus on image-driven web sites. To create a slice, select the slice tool and drag a rectangle across the appropriate part of your image. That’s it. You can right-click the slice and select Edit Slice Options… to add URL, ALT and other information to the slice. Slicing an image also decreases page load times; a couple of slices download quicker than one large image.


Image Maps


 Image maps are very similar to slices in that you can use them to create roll-overs and hyperlinks. The main differences between slices and image maps are that slices must be rectangular, but image maps can be any shape. They are used only in Imageready, and have no effect on image download times.

 Web Photo Gallery

 This time-saving function can be found under File -> Automate -> Web Photo Gallery… and can be used to quickly put together a high quality, gallery of images in HTML format. You simply select a source directory, a target directory, and let Photoshop do the rest. It creates as many web pages as needed to include all of the pictures in the source directory, which are presented in a tabular layout of thumbnails. Additional parameters such as page titles and ALT text can also be specified. It even makes each image clickable and loads the full size version of the image in a page of its own when the thumbnail is clicked! This can be used to quickly create a product catalogue or portfolio.


 Paste Into

 Accessed via the Edit menu, this function inserts an image into another image, and crops the inner image to make it appear as if inside the outer image. For example, you could draw a rounded rectangle 100 pixels wide and 20 pixels high and then draw another rounded rectangle 40 pixels wide and 20 pixels high directly on top of it. You could then use the magic wand tool to select the area inside the smaller rectangle, and paste a photograph into the selected area. Now only the area of the photograph within the smaller rectangle is visible. Combined with some text, this makes an excellent web page heading.


Perspective Function

 This is grouped with other similar functions under the Edit -> Transform Path menu and is used to add, surprisingly, a perspective effect. It works best with angular images, but can also be used to add the appearance of movement. To use it, select the image you want to add perspective to and choose the function in the above menu. Your image will acquire a border with handles around the edge. Drag these handles in the appropriate direction to add the required amount of perspective. Click the tick at the far right of the tool bar at the top of the screen when done.

 Plugins

 Plugins are like applets that can be installed in the plugins directory and used to add functionality to Photoshop. If there’s something you’re trying to do in Photoshop that is remotely difficult, there is probably a plugin that will help you do it more easily. They can be downloaded from numerous sources on the Internet and are often free.

 Styles

 The styles panel is a repository of pre-set effects; if you draw a shape and then double-click one of the styles, those effects are automatically applied to your shape. There are a number of different categories of styles which can be selected by clicking the right-facing arrow at the top of the panel. There are a number of web styles including push buttons and roll-overs, and they can save you huge amounts of time when creating forms or menus for your site.

Vector Graphics

 For all of you out there who don’t know what vector images are (and I didn’t before I started playing around in Photoshop), they are basically images that can be endlessly scaled up or down with no loss in quality. Absolutely none at all. In Paint, or any other basic bitmap imaging application, draw a circle. Unless you have a monitor that supports an extremely large resolution, it will look a bit blocky anyway, but now magnify the image by as little as ten times. You no longer have a circle; you have a polygon, or many-edged shape. This does not happen with vector graphics. In Photoshop now, open a new image that is 640pixels wide and 480pixels and draw a circle. Now select Image -> Image Size… and change the width to 16400pixels wide (the height should automatically adjust) and click OK. Find an edge, and it should appear just as smoothly as it did before the size increase. This is the essence of vectors, which makes them useful for images that are likely to be required in a range of sizes, such as logos. 

The Preferences Dialogue Box

 Located under Edit -> Preferences the preferences dialogue box is home to the environment settings that control how Photoshop behaves. You can control various settings, including; General, file handling, display and cursors, transparency and gamut, units and rulers, guides, grid and slices, plugins and scratch disks, memory and image caching and the file browser. If you wanted to change the colour of your guides, or allocate more memory to the application, this is where you would do it. Take a moment to have a look through all of the options available to you.

 Shading with the Dodge and Burn Tools

 Highlights and shading can be added to shapes with ease using the effects menu in the layers panel. But what if you only want to add shading to only part of your shape, or add highlights without lowlights? Open a new page and draw a rounded rectangle, rasterize it, and select the burn tool (the one with the fist) from the toolbox. Click and drag the pointer over the bottom right of your shape to create instant lowlights. Now select the dodge tool (the lollipop), and repeat the process over the upper left of the shape to get some highlights. You may be a little sketchy to begin with but after a bit of practice, you’ll be able to add precision shading to images without even thinking about it.

The Window Menu

 The Window menu is all about customizing your workspace and managing your panels. It’s about making your life easier. You use it to switch on available tool panels such as the layers panel or the character panel when they are needed. In addition to switching on or off tool panels as and when they necessary, it is also where you access the Workspace submenu. If you find yourself constantly closing certain panels and opening others as soon as Photoshop has loaded, you can save yourself the bother by saving the current workspace. Your saved workspace then on appears in the Workspace menu. You can also customise existing panels using the tabs at the top of each panel; if you wanted the history tools to be in the same panel as the layers, you simply click and drag the tab with History on it into the desired panel.

 Scripts

 Another time-saving tool here: the scripts function of Photoshop can be used to perform automated repetitive tasks, such as exporting all of your layers to PDF in order to produce a slideshow. Photoshop also contains its very own script debugger and will let you write your own Visual Basic or JavaScript scripts. Photoshop comes with many pre-written scripts that can be accessed via File -> Scripts -> Browse. The scripting tools are supported by a number of PDF reference manuals in the Photoshop CS application folder so before taking on anything big, I suggest having a quick read through these.

 Actions Manager

 Similar in some ways, but nowhere near as powerful to the scripts function, the actions manager can be used to record and playback a series of menu or tool selections and actions, very much like the macro feature of Microsoft products. It comes with a vast library of pre-recorded actions which can be applied with a simple double-click. The actions panel should load into your workspace by default, and to record your own actions simply click the new action button and do whatever it is you need to do. You can set a name for your action and it will from then on appear as an action in the actions panel.

File Browser

 The file browser is like a built-in Explorer that shows only pictures. Well, mostly pictures; it also shows PDF files and zip files, but the PDF is obviously produced by Adobe and can therefore be used natively in Photoshop, and zip archives may well include pictures. It is accessed by clicking the folder and magnifying glass icon at the top-right of the screen.

 The Layers Panel

 It’s hard to imagine using Photoshop at all without having the Layers panel present. Located at the bottom right of the workspace by default, it is home to all of your layers and some of the layer tools. Layers can be switched on or off, making them visible or invisible respectively, or their opacity can be changed to alter their transparency. Both of these features are extremely useful when creating roll-overs or animations. Also, the layers panel is essential for adding effects to layers (see below).

 Effects

 Effects are very similar to styles in that they can uniformly change the appearance of your layers. The main difference between effects and styles is that effects are linked to the layer contents; when you change the layer, the effect changes with it. There is a pre-set selection of effects available to you, ranging from shadows and strokes (outlines), to gradient and pattern overlays.

Animation

 Unfortunately, Photoshop cannot produce animated gifs; luckily, this is another area in which Imageready steps in and takes over. In Imageready, open a new file and draw a shape. Now select Window -> Animation to open the animation panel. By default this should contain 1 frame, which is your image as it stands now. Click the new frame button and the move the shape to the right slightly. Keep adding new frames and gradually move your shape to the edge of the page. There are some control buttons beneath the frames, click the play button and your shape should move across the screen. That is as simple as animation can be, but not nearly as complex. To save your animation, go into File -> Save optimised as… and save it as a gif.

 Defringe Tool

 Ever notice how an image with a transparent back can sometimes have a white edge, or fringe, around it? This can be removed by selecting Layer -> Matting -> Defringe and ok’ing the default of 1 pixel. This is not always 100% successful, and any minor discrepancies can usually be overcome by adding an inside stroke to the image, in the same colour as the edge of the image.

 Save for Web

 The save for web dialogue box, accessed via the File menu can be used to optimize your image for the web as much as possible. Combining the settings at the right of the dialogue box, it is possible to shave precious seconds off of your image download times. Lowering the amount of dither and increasing the amount of web snap both reduce file size, as does reducing the amount of colours and increasing the amount of lossy (when working with GIFs). Be warned however, image size goes hand in hand with image quality, the smaller the image, the lower the quality.

 Conclusion

 These are some of the tools and features that I find myself using on a regular basis when creating images for the web. Some of them you may embrace and use every time you open the program - others you may not find any use for at all. Rest assured however, Photoshop remains of the industry standard when it comes to graphic and web design.












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if the cherry blossoms are blooming

If you have any plans to travel to Tokyo, Japan, choose the end of March to early April. When the flowers are blooming sakura (cherry blossom), and made the atmosphere so very beautiful city.

 Although a bit late, Kompas Indonesia along with 10 other journalists who were invited to attend PT Garuda Indonesia Garuda 50th Year Fly to Japan on April 12 to 15 and still had time to see the remains of the beauty of the cherry.



 Once inside the toll road to Tokyo, the beauty of cherry blossoms begin to appear on the right side of the road or in between the lush countryside near gerumbul on the highway. In a number of toll roads, seen a long row of cherry trees that still leaves the beautiful flowers.

The flowers are small white to pink. But in another segment, pink cherry blossoms appear among the green leaves menoncolok other trees. "

You can see the cherry blossoms are everywhere, especially when later you're in Tokyo," Kumiko said Nambu, Tokyo Garuda staff, who guide the group for two days in Tokyo. And when we finally entered Tokyo, I was a little disappointed that the path we were on was a lot of cherry blossoms can be enjoyed. "

Later in the Tokyo Tower you can enjoy its beauty," says Nambu entertaining. Magazine cites Wattention Tokyo, at the peak of sakura season, many Tokyo residents, especially young people, to camping in the parks a lot of trees sakuranya.

They were held under a blue tarp while enjoying the beautiful cherry trees are blooming. From a height of 250 meter Tokyo Tower, we are able to see the cherry blossoms are blooming on the right side, but its beauty has not been in line with expectations. "I must apologize, because the sakura here is close up. Tomorrow I will take you to another place, which hopefully can still provide beauty," says Nambu. And indeed, when all day Saturday (04/14/2012) we toured the city, especially around the Imperial Palace Garden, cherry blossoms are still blooming beautifully.

On the right side of the road, the dominant cherry blossom pink, both small-sized or large, seen wrapped around the crown twigs and stems. In some places, we see that is still spread out on tarps under cherry trees despite having no one to sit or lie on it.

 Still according to the magazine Wattention Tokyo, a number of parks that have a beautiful sakura include Rikugien, Sumida Park, Ueno Park, Chinsan So, Edogawabashi Park, Koishikawa Botancical Gardens, Sotobori Park, Kitanomaru Park, Chidorigafuchi, Gyoen Shinjuku, Yoyogi Park, Aoyama Bochi, Hamarikyu, Zojoji, and Meguro River. Also in Inokashira Park, Mt Takao, Senzoku Pond, Ikegami Honmonji, Komazawa Park, and Mizumoto Park.

 In some trees that are relatively large, even cherry blossoms hanging down and flapping when the wind and drizzling rain all day. We even took time to take pictures under the cherry waving. Soft drizzle that soaked our jackets no longer care about. With a white umbrella in hand, we act like artists that are being taken photographs and videos. Along the side of the moat which surrounds the Imperial Palace, we witness a very beautiful blooming cherry blossoms. Unfortunately, we could not take pictures or video of the bridge we passed. That we were riding the bus must not stop.


That said, the trenches that are an integral part of the defense system attacks the palace of the king's enemies like in the past. Finally, all unsatisfied desire when we entered the Imperial Palace East Garden is decorated with bonsai garden where there are cherry trees in some places. Due to limited time, we could not get into the castle of the Shogun's very graceful in the hills. In the midst of an increasingly heavy drizzle, we were only able to capture the castle from afar. A clearing in front of the twin bridges that are part of the castle entrance

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Vikings stadium

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — After years of setbacks, the Minnesota Vikings can finally point to a major victory in the franchise quest for a new stadium. Tuesday could make it two in a row.

 The Minnesota House voted 73-58 on Monday for a stadium financing proposal. In the process, lawmakers substantially raised the required private contribution toward the $975 million facility, a change Vikings' owners find troubling. The state Senate planned to act on a competing version Tuesday. Passage there would send the bill into final negotiations and put the team closer than ever to a replacement for the aging Metrodome. The Vikings have been after a new stadium since the mid-1990s. "

It was the first hurdle, a couple more to go," Vikings vice president Lester Bagley said after Monday night's vote, which would be the first of four needed before a plan can reach a supportive Gov. Mark Dayton. Bagley said the team's owners aren't prepared to shell out $105 million more — beyond a prior $427 million private commitment — toward construction of the stadium in downtown Minneapolis.

But lawmakers will have the final say on how big a taxpayer subsidy is provided. The bill passed with support of more Democrats than Republicans despite the GOP controlling that chamber. It reflects a hard push by organized labor, which promoted the Vikings stadium as a much-needed boost for the construction sector. Dayton hailed the vote by thanking fans who have flooded lawmakers' phone lines, email inboxes and the Capitol itself to push for passage. Several stood outside the House chamber singing the team fight song after the vote. "The voices of the people of Minnesota were heard tonight,"

Dayton said. He urged fans to keep up the pressure in the days ahead. Toward the end of a nearly nine hour House debate, members rose one after another to defend their intention to back or oppose the bill. Rep. Larry Hosch, DFL-St. Joseph, made it personal. He told of being born on a Vikings Sunday, with his dad having to break away from an overtime game to ferry his mom to the hospital.

Hosch said he can't fathom not having Sunday games to share with his own kids. "It might not make sense in dollars and cents," Hosch said, adding, "I can't imagine a state without the Vikings." Others urged their colleagues not to let nostalgia cloud their decisions on a massive public subsidy. "Let's not build a monument to misplaced priorities," said Rep. Doug Wardlow, a freshman Republican. Many who were against it raised concerns that the gambling money needed to repay bonds wouldn't materialize, putting the stadium debt in direct competition with schools, nursing homes and other valued programs. The plan negotiated last winter by the governor, key lawmakers, the Minneapolis mayor and the team would have the Vikings cover about $427 million of the construction costs.

The state would pay $398 million, with the money coming from an expansion of gambling. The city of Minneapolis would kick in $150 million by redirecting an existing hospitality tax. The amendment raising the team's share won strong bipartisan approval, but even some supporters acknowledged that it could be softened later on. Another added amendment would give the state a bigger portion of any proceeds from a team sale once the stadium is built, a guard against an owner who could cash in on an asset expected to increase the franchise value. A plan to pay the state's share through a gambling expansion survived an attempt to remove it when House members turned back a push to replace that money with fees on tickets, concessions and other fan purchases. The Vikings are no longer under a Metrodome lease, leaving some to worry they would bolt without a new stadium after next season. "


This is your chance to prove you don't want the Vikings to leave," Rep. John Kriesel, R-Cottage Grove, said just before the vote. The House vote was the first test for a proposal that must also clear the Senate and likely would face House-Senate negotiations before another round of votes. If the Twins ballpark votes are any guide, the ground beneath stadium bills can be squishy.

In 2006, the ultimately successful Twins bill lost votes in between the first time the House took it up and the last; it passed the Senate by the barest majority on both votes. Several lawmakers in both chambers switched their votes — some in favor, some against — after final negotiations produced a different product, a cautionary note that Vikings supporters must consider when they merge competing plans later on.


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Tehnologi Mendukung Maraknya Video Porno ABG Indonesia

TEMPO.CO, Yogyakarta – Perkembangan pesat teknologi media komunikasi diduga menjadi faktor pendorong maraknya perilaku remaja Indonesia untuk menjadi aktor dadakanvideo porno amatir.

Hasil pengamatan terhadap 100 video pornoIndonesia berdurasi 9-10 menit, sebanyak 90 persen pelaku merupakan anak muda. Sebanyak 76,3 persen memperlihatkan kegiatan seksual dan 91,4 persen pembuatan film dilakukan di ruangan tertutup.

“Kebanyakan remaja itu senang memproduksi filmnya di hotel atau tempat kos,” kata Peneliti Pusat Studi Kependudukan & Kebijakan Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta, Basilica Dyah Putranti, usai diskusi publik bertema “Remaja, Media dan Pornografi”, Rabu 28 Maret 2012.

Dari penelitian tersebut, Basil menilai sangat sedikit relasi yang menunjukkan adanya unsur keterpaksaan. »Hampir 64 persen film amatir itu memperlihatkan perempuan yang berinisiatif saat berhubungan seksual,” kata dia.

Sementara itu, 71 persen gambar film memperlihatkan hubungan seksual anak muda tanpa sehelai benang. Aktivitas seksual lain yang bisa dibaca dari video amatir ini, 51,6 persen intercourse, 11 persen oral sex, lain-lain potongan adegan ciuman, mandi, striptease dan beberapa pelaku berseragam,” kata dia.

Meski demikian, Basilica mengatakan metodologi penelitian yang dilakukan pihaknya memang belum sepenuhnya menyeluruh. Namun, dari survei awal tersebut ia meyakini bahwa dari 100 video pornoyang dianalisis mengandung banyak informasi.

»Dari analisis tidak ditemukan aktivitas homoseksual, namun terdapat aktivitas seksual lesbian,” kata dia. Sementara untuk perempuan dengan penampilan seksi menggunakan bikini tidak terlalu banyak ditemui.

Penelitian itu dikumpulkan dengan mengambil secara random file di sejumlah warung internet di Yogyakarta. »Saya mengambil secara random, dan 79,6 persen menampilkan sosok tubuh perempuan,” kata dia.

Sementara Rina Widarsih, Manajer Divisi Pendampingan, merasa prihatin dengan survei itu. Dia berpandangan perkembangan teknologi komunikasi memicu meningkatnya jumlah pengakses pornografi di kalangan remaja sehingga terjadi tindak perkosaan dan hubungan seksual di kalangan remaja. “Internet, hand phone menjadi perantara dan menjadi tools terjadinya hubungan sex,” kata dia.

Ia mensinyalir hal ini juga memberi dampak pada maraknya kasus perkosaan remaja seperti terjadi di Kabupaten Gunung Kidul, Bantul, dan Kulon Progo. »Semua terjadi dimulai dengan berkenalan melalui media online atau hand phone. Dari hubungan itu berlanjut saling berkomunikasi, kopi darat dan terjadilah tindak hubungan seksual,” kata dia.

Rina semakin prihatin manakala usia pelaku cenderung masih tergolong anak-anak, sekitar 7-10 tahun. Mereka telah melakukan hubungan seksual karena pengaruh video porno di rumah atau hand phone milik orang tua. “Inilah yang mempercepat anak-anak memiliki pengalaman-pengalaman seperti itu,” katanya.

Sementara itu pengamat Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi Wing Wahyu Winarno menolak jika perilaku remaja itu semua disebabkan kemajuan media komunikasi. Dia menjelaskan seks adalah kebutuhan natural manusia normal, hanya saja hal itu kini ditunjang adanya media komunikasi.

“Meski cukup sulit membatasi akses pornografi, tapi semua itu bisa dimulai dari lingkungan lebih dekat seperti keluarga. Makanya keluarga seharusnya juga melek teknologi,” kata dia.

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Rangers Orioles

The two-time defending AL champion Texas Rangers dominated the last-place Baltimore Orioles last season, outscoring them by 29 runs over six games. The teams don't appear to be as mismatched in 2012. Baltimore has won five straight over traditional powers to seize the AL's best record, though it might be a bit fatigued as it looks to extend that streak Monday night in the opener of a four-game set against visiting Texas.

The Rangers (18-10) beat the Orioles five times in 2011 while Baltimore finished at the bottom of the AL East for the fourth straight season. Texas outscored the Orioles 46-17 while plating 13 runs three times and Michael Young went 12 for 20 while the Rangers won the series' final five games.

Baltimore (19-9) seems like it might provide a bit more resistance this season. After beating the New York Yankees on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Orioles completed a sweep in Boston with Sunday's 9-6 win in 17 innings. Former Ranger Chris Davis - who struck out five times and went 0 for 8 as Baltimore's designated hitter - pitched the 16th and 17th and Adam Jones' three-run homer allowed Davis to become the first AL position player to record a win since Rocky Colavito in 1968. "


Just when you think you've seen it all, some days you come out here and just assume the position. That was fun,'' manager Buck Showalter said. "It was a long day, but you like to get something good out of it.'' Monday is the first chance for Davis, who came into Sunday's game hitting .400 (14 for 35) with four homers and 10 RBIs in his last 10, to face the team that traded him as part of a package for Koji Uehara at last season's deadline. His old club has lost four of five after falling 4-2 in Cleveland on Sunday.


Texas went 1 for 7 with runners in scoring position after coming in hitting .326 on the road with men on second or third. "All of our problems could be solved if we would just drive in some runs in situations," manager Ron Washington said. "The name of the game is scoring runs.'' Josh Hamilton is hitting .395 with two homers in his last nine games against the Orioles, and Nelson Cruz is batting .361 with six homers and 28 RBIs while hitting safely in 24 of 28 career contests versus Baltimore.


 They'll face Brian Matusz (1-3, 4.67 ERA), who hopes his last outing is a sign of things to come. Matusz allowed one run in 6 1-3 innings of a 7-1 victory over the Yankees on Tuesday, ending a streak of 14 consecutive winless starts. He went 0-12 with a 10.47 ERA during that stretch dating back to a win June 6 against Oakland. "Game by game, I'm feeling like I'm getting better and better," Matusz told the team's official website. "

It feels good to be able to go out there and attack the zone with confidence, to be able to come away with (a win)." The left-hander is 2-1 with a 6.64 ERA in four lifetime starts versus the Rangers, though he held them to five hits in eight innings at Camden Yards on Aug. 19, 2010, in his most recent outing. Cruz is 4 for 7 with two doubles and a homer off Matusz, while Hamilton is 0 for 7.


Texas counters with Matt Harrison (3-2, 5.40), who after winning his first three starts with a 1.66 ERA has pitched miserably in back-to-back outings. Harrison allowed seven runs and 14 hits in five innings of an 8-4 loss to Tampa Bay on April 27, then gave up a career-high-tying eight runs in 3 1-3 of an 11-5 loss at Toronto on Wednesday. The left-hander is 3-0 with a 4.68 ERA in four starts against Baltimore.

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slower austerity

ROME, May 7 (Reuters) - Italy should respond to Francois Hollande's victory in France's presidential election by easing austerity, raising deficit goals and delaying approval of new EU rules on public finances, the economic spokesman for a major ruling party said on Monday.



 Stefano Fassina, economic spokesman for the centre-left PD, one of the two parties which technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti depends on for his majority, told La Stampa daily that Hollande's victory marked an opportunity for Italy to end "mistaken economic policy choices".

 Monti should now "delay parliamentary approval of the EU fiscal compact (on tougher budgetary rules) and at the same time slow the process towards deficit reduction", Fassina said, calling for a sharp increase in public investment.


 Hollande has pledge to swing policy away from simple austerity to growth. More than half the vote in Greece in Sunday's election also went to anti-austerity parties.

 Only last month, Monti delayed by one year the goal of balancing the budget in 2013 which his predecessor Silvio Berlusconi agreed with Italy's partners last summer.

 Fassina, one of the more leftist members of the PD, is responsible for the party's official line on economic policy, though his views may not be shared by some of the party's more centrist members.

 Hollande's victory marked "a defeat for the blind austerity advocated by the European Central Bank which is dragging everyone down, and so we must go in the opposite direction, the one that can save us from a shipwreck," Fassina said.


 The PD forced Monti to compromise on his original labour market reform proposal which is still before parliament, insisting that he modify a plan to ease firing restrictions. Monti, however, has been among the forefront of European leaders saying that growth policies much not be forgotten in the drive for austerity.

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Bryce Harper

In the eight games Nationals fans have gotten to see Bryce Harper, they’ve seen an array of plays. And before a national audience on Sunday night against a division rival, he added more. He stole home in the first inning after being plunked in the backside. He was the only National player to solve Phillies starter Cole Hamels, notching two hits off of him. He stretched a soft single to left field into a double. He helped save a run with a sliding catch and with the threat of his strong arm.



“It’s fun to watch,” Manager Davey Johnson said of Harper’s aggressiveness.


Harper’s impact has not only added spark to the Nationals, especially at a time when the offense has been ravaged by injuries, it has shown that his game and style of play make him among the most electrifying and potent players in baseball.


Since his debut on April 28, Harper is tied for the most doubles in the major leagues with five. (Chicago Cubs first baseman Bryan LaHair also has five doubles in that span.) “I think our whole team, we all bust our butt every day,” Harper said. “Our organization preaches that. It really gets going and plays hard.
 That’s all you can ask for.”


In the eighth inning, Harper, 19, did what he has, in a week, already become known for around here: play aggressively. He smacked a high, inside changeup from Hamels over the shortstop and into shallow left field. Halfway to first base, Harper looked ready to stretch the single into a double. And it helped that Juan Pierre, not known for his arm, in left field. Harper slid head first into second base safely.


Harper also singled in the third inning, his first at-bat after his brush up with Hamels, taking an inside pitch and hitting it the other way.

 Much has been said and written about Harper not only as a prospect but since his debut over a week ago. But, in all fairness, the Kid, as Johnson calls him, has shown why already and endeared himself to many, including his veteran teammates. “

A lot of times, whether it’s coaches or media, you get caught up and you go, ‘Wow,’ ” Porter said. “Is it ‘wow’ because he’s playing the game unlike other people? Or is he playing the game the way it’s supposed to be played? You ask me, he plays the way it’s supposed to be played. Not many guys have the ability he has.”

 Harper is still learning to harness some aspects of his talent. He tracked down a deep fly ball to left field in the ninth inning, reaching for it with Bryce Harper hustled to try to make this catch in foul territory at the beginning of the weekend, and narrowly missed a tough catch in the ninth inning on Sunday night. (Jonathan Newton - The Washington Post) his glove and dropping it, narrowly missing what would have been a tough catch. “


He’s smart,” third baseman Ryan Zimmerman said. “I think his baseball IQ, the way he adjusts and the things he does at his age are impressive. The double as well, to know what kind of arm you have in left field, just kind of the knowledge. He’ll learn. It’s only the beginning of it, that’s the scary part. He’s only going to get better.”


 At first, Nationals officials were worried that Harper was being rushed into major league action too soon because of a need to spark an injured offense and may have to be sent back to the minor leagues. Even though he was hitting .250 at Class AAA Syracuse, his performance in the major leagues since has alleviated those concerns. “

He’s been good,” Werth said earlier this week. “He’s focused. I think he’s where he needs to be. Minor leagues is tough. Sometimes it’s tougher than people realize. I like him here with the right coaches, the right manager, the right teammates. I think that’s going to help his development than with him being anywhere else.”

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Jayson Werth Injury

WASHINGTON -- Washington Nationals right fielder Jayson Werth broke his left wrist Sunday night trying to make a sliding catch against the Philadelphia Phillies. "It's a clean break," Washington manager Davey Johnson said after the Nationals' 9-3 loss.



"He's going to be out for a while." Johnson said Werth will see a specialist to evaluate the injury. Werth was injured in the sixth inning. The right fielder's glove got caught underneath him and he bent his wrist backward trying to grab Placido Polanco's sinking liner. Werth stayed on the ground briefly before throwing the ball back to the infield. He walked off holding his left wrist.

 Werth wasn't available to speak to the media after the game. This is only the latest in a string of injuries that have already hit the Nationals this season. Michael Morse, slated to be the team's cleanup hitter, hasn't played because of an injured back muscle.

 Third baseman Ryan Zimmerman has been on the disabled list with a shoulder injury, and fill-in cleanup hitter Adam LaRoche has missed the past four games because of a sore right side muscle. Zimmerman and LaRoche are hoping to return for Washington's next game, Tuesday night at Pittsburgh.

 "All of a sudden we seem to be getting a little more healthy and then boom, another one of our main guys goes down," Johnson said. "We've dealt with it before we'll deal with it again. We're not alone. It seems like it's rampant right now. It's a tough blow."

 Werth missed the entire 2006 season after an injury to his left wrist which placed his career in jeopardy. He broke the wrist in spring training 2005 with the Dodgers and played 102 games that season before undergoing surgery to repair a torn ligament in the wrist. 

He joined Philadelphia in 2007 and became an All-Star outfielder in his four seasons there before signing a $126 million, seven-year deal with the Nationals before the 2011 season. The injury took some of the luster off another spectacular performance by 19-year-old Bryce Harper, who went 2 for 3 with a double and stole home in the first inning. "That's really bad," Harper said. "That's a big loss for us." Zimmerman took batting practice on the field before Sunday's game and said he felt good. Now, instead of building toward a full lineup Zimmerman's return will just plug the


We're a resilient team," Zimmerman said. "It's frustrating. Anytime anyone gets hurt it's tough, but it's part of the deal. It's a long season and we're going to have to go through adversity this team has the talent and the capability to do that." LaRoche was also looking forward to joining a near-full strength lineup until Werth's injury. "Never a good time to lose anybody, especially a guy in the heart of your lineup," LaRoche said. "We were looking forward to this next series, this next week, being together again. Now we're obviously short another big bat and a big part of this team. So, time for everybody to step up and make up for it as much as we can. Nationals starter Jordan Zimmermann (1-3) took the loss Sunday for the NL East-leading Nationals, giving up three runs and seven hits. His disappointment over his night was matched by his concern for his latest injured teammate. "It's a sad thing for him," Zimmermann said. "He's one of our leaders and he's going to be gone for a few months. We'll have to just battle until he gets back.

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George Lindsey dies at 83; 'The Andy Griffith Show's' Goober Pyle

The character actor played Mayberry's genial auto mechanic, the cousin of naive gas station attendant Gomer Pyle. He also was a regular on 'Hee Haw.'




George Lindsey, the Southern-born character actor who played dim hayseed Goober Pyle, the genial gas station auto mechanic on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Mayberry R.F.D.," died early Sunday morning.

He was 83. Lindsey, who later was a regular on the long-running country music comedy show "Hee Haw," died at a healthcare center in Nashville after a brief illness, said his manager and booking agent, Carrie Moore-Reed. "George Lindsey was my friend," Andy Griffith said in a statement. "I had great respect for his talent and his human spirit." Noting that he had his last conversation with Lindsey a few days ago, Griffith said: "I am happy to say that as we found ourselves in our 80s, we were not afraid to say, 'I love you.' That was the last thing George and I had to say to each other. 'I love you.' "

 "The Andy Griffith Show," the classic 1960s situation comedy starring Griffith as the kindly sheriff of Mayberry, N.C., was in its fourth season in 1964 when Lindsey first appeared as the cousin of naive gas station attendant Gomer Pyle, played by Jim Nabors. Lindsey's character became more prominent after Nabors left the show to star in the spin-off series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." in 1964. As Goober, Lindsey wore a brown felt beanie with turned-up scalloped edges and had a tire gauge, pens and pencils stuffed into the pocket of his work shirt and a rag hanging out of the back pocket of his high-wasted pants. "I had a lot of trouble with that part," he said in a 2005 interview with Alabama's Montgomery Advertiser newspaper. "

I'd been playing a lot of heavy character roles. I'd done them on 'Alfred Hitchcock,' and 'Twilight Zone' and some others, and at first I found myself just doing an impersonation of Jim Nabors doing Gomer. I finally said, 'Look, tell me about this guy and who he is.' " Lindsey often recalled that Griffith told him, "Goober's the kind of guy that would go into a restaurant and say, 'This is great salt.' "

 "Andy Griffith turned out to be the greatest teacher I've ever had," Lindsey, an Alabama native, told The Times in 1968. "He kept tellin' me to play myself, to let it happen to me, instead of trying to be funny." Over the years, fans of the show often would ask Lindsey to repeat a line he said during his first appearance on the series: a scene in Sheriff Andy Taylor's office in which Gomer asks Goober to do his "take-off on Cary Grant" for Andy. The bashful Goober quickly gives in and delivers a humorously terrible: "Judy, Judy, Judy, Judy, Judy." "Couldn't you just swear Cary Grant was right here in this room?" an impressed Gomer says. 

"Yeah, that was good, Goober," says Andy. One of Lindsey's favorite episodes was the one in which, as a practical joke, young Ron Howard's Opie and a friend hide a miniature walkie-talkie under the collar of the stray dog Goober has adopted. "Goober thought he had a talking dog," Lindsey said in a 1985 Associated Press interview. "It revealed Goober's childlike qualities; it made you laugh and cry." Lindsey believed "The Andy Griffith Show," which earned Don Knotts five Emmy Awards as Deputy Barney Fife, was popular because "it was honest and simple." "At that time, we were the best acting ensemble on TV," he said. "The scripts were terrific." After Griffith left the high-rated CBS series in 1968, Lindsey continued to play Goober on the sequel series, "Mayberry R.F.D.," starring Ken Berry. It was canceled in 1971.

 An only child in a poor family, he was born in Fairfield, Ala., on Dec. 17, 1928, and grew up in Jasper, Ala. He majored in biological science and physical education at what is now the University of North Alabama. After graduating in 1952, he spent four years in the Air Force and another year as a history teacher and head basketball coach at Hazel Green High School in Alabama before moving to New York City, where he studied acting on the GI Bill at the American Theatre Wing. One of his first jobs on TV was as one of the liars on the quiz panel show "To Tell the Truth."


He did a stand-up comedy act to make ends meet and later played opposite Ray Bolger in the 1962 Broadway musical comedy "All American." After landing in Hollywood that same year, Lindsey actually auditioned for the role of Gomer Pyle — and, he later said, was told he had the part — before it went to Nabors, a fellow Alabama native. Lindsey's later credits included providing voices for characters in the Disney animated features "The Aristocats," "The Rescuers" and "Robin Hood."

 He also had a long run on the syndicated "Hee Haw." "I really don't do Goober on 'Hee Haw.' I do George Lindsey," he told the Associated Press in 1982. "Maybe I don't know where George Lindsey stops and Goober begins.


If you're in a series, as I was for seven and a half years, you draw on every personal experience for that character." Although he once resented being typecast as Goober, Lindsey learned to embrace the role that brought him fame and provided the title for the 1995 book "Goober in a Nutshell," which he wrote with Ken Beck and Jim Clark. As Lindsey said in the 1985 AP interview, "Goober is Everyman.

Everyone finds something to like about ol' Goober." Lindsey, who was divorced, is survived by his son, George Lindsey Jr.; his daughter, Camden Jo Lindsey Gardner; two grandsons; and his longtime companion, Anne Wilson.

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