PT KONTAK PERKASA FUTURES - Supernova are some of the oldest recorded astronomical phenomena in human history. In 185 AD, Chinese astronomers recorded the appearance of a star that appeared suddenly in the night sky, did not move like a comet, and was visible for eight months before fading again. Over 2,000 years the Chinese recorded roughly 20 supernovae, with corroborating sources from Islamic, European, and Indian sources in some cases. PT KONTAK PERKASA FUTURES - While the modern history of supernovae observation is much shorter, we’ve trained telescopes on the areas of sky where the ancient “guest stars” appeared and, in some cases, found likely candidates for the historical event. In all our observations, there’s been one steady assumption–that a supernova is the final cataclysmic death of a star, in which the outer shell of material around the core is blown outwards at up to 10 percent the speed of light. Stars, in other words, don’t go supernova more than once. Except… we’ve found one that has. Repeatedly. Writing in Nature, an international research team discusses the highly unusual case of iPTF14hls, first classified as a Type II-P supernova on January 8, 2015. At first, this appears to have been an open-and-shut designation (II-P supernovas are the only known phenomena that produce the spectra observed for iPTF14hls). The team writes: In a type II-P supernova, the core of a massive star collapses to create a neutron star, sending a shock wave through the outer hydrogen-rich envelope and ejecting the envelope. The shock ionizes the ejecta, which later expand, cool and recombine. The photosphere follows the recombination front, which is at a roughly constant temperature (T ≈ 6,000 K) as it makes its way inward in mass through the expanding ejecta (that is, the photosphere is moving from material that is further out from the exploding star towards material that is further in, but the material inside the photo-sphere is expanding in the meantime). This leads to the approximately 100-day ‘plateau’ phase of roughly constant luminosity in the light curve and prominent hydrogen P Cygni features in the spectrum. But iPTF14hls didn’t play nice. Instead of plateauing over 100 days, it lasted more than 600, with five distinct peaks in its light curve over that time. In the image above, there’s an implicit peak to the far left of the graph (since the light emission continued to decrease after the star was first observed, it must have been higher in the past). We then see it rise, dip, and rise again. Then the star moved behind our sun (that’s the gap in the data), only to re-emerge at a higher apparent magnitude than it had previously. The light plateau of a standard II-P supernova, SN1999em, is shown in the bottom left. Moreover, the temperature has stayed fairly constant, while its brightness varied by as much as 50 percent.
What’s even stranger–and this is already plenty strange–is that we observed a similar phenomenon over 50 years ago. In 1954, a star in the same position as iPTF14hls, as shown in the plate below. By 1993, the explosion had vanished, but now, it’s back again. Supernova are incredibly bright; our feature image above shows a supernova that’s literally outshining the galaxy nearby. But a star that repeatedly explodes? That’s something new.
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PT KONTAK PERKASA - Sebuah tugas berat yang tidak mudah, itu mungkin kalimat yang tepat untuk menjelaskan posisi Ghost Games di bawah bendera raksasa EA saat ini. Developer yang satu ini memang terus disibukkan dengan usaha untuk “membangkitkan kembali” popularitas Need for Speed – game racing super populer yang memang harus diakui, kian meredup di setiap seri yang muncul. Untuk seri tahun 2015 yang lalu misalnya, keputusan untuk mengadaptasikan sistem always-online berakhir mencederai pengalaman bermain yang ada, di atas konsep cerita dan gameplay yang lemah. Istirahat setidaknya satu tahun, Ghost Games kini kembali dengan seri terbaru yang siap untuk menyambut Anda dalam waktu dekat ini – Need for Speed: Payback. PT KONTAK PERKASA - Hadir dengan cerita dan sisi action yang mengingatkan Anda pada film-film Hollywood sekelas Fast & Furious misalnya, Payback yang diperkuat dengan Frostbite Engine memang terlihat memesona. Dirilis secara multiplatform tanpa ada lagi sistem always-online, ini tentu saja menjadi seri yang mungkin sudah dirindukan oleh penggemar game yang sudah eksis selama belasan tahun yang satu ini. Seperti game-game berbasis Frostbite pada umumnya, gamer PC mungkin akan menikmati game ini di format visual terbaik. Tentu saja, Anda harus mempersiapkan spesifikasi minimal yang dibutuhkan. Seperti apa? Ini dia: Minimum Requirements (720p30fps):
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Need for Speed: Payback sendiri rencananya akan dirilis pada tanggal 10 November 2017 mendatang. Bagaimana dengan PC Anda sendiri? Siap menanganinya? Source : jagatplay.com KONTAK PERKASA FUTURES - Beberapa waktu yang lalu, sempat ada rumor yang mengkonfirmasikan akan update terbaru Twitter di mana alih-alih menggunakan 140 karakter dalam 1 tweet, pengguna akan bisa melakukan tweet dengan 280 karakter.
KONTAK PERKASA FUTURES - Seperti yang ditulis dalam blog resmi Twitter hari Selasa kemarin, pihaknya menyatakan bahwa fitur ini sudah sempat diuji coba sejak bulan September 2017 lalu untuk beberapa pengguna saja. Kini, Twitter pun akhirnya meresmikan fitur 280 karakter tersebut untuk sebagian besar penggunanya. Berdasarkan tuturan Aliza Rosen, Product Manager Twitter, tujuan mereka menaikkan limit karakter dalam 1 tweet tersebut berguna untuk memberikan kebebasan ekspresi para penggunanya dengan lebih baik lagi. Dalam uji coba yang dilakukan September lalu, pihak Twitter menemukan bahwa ketakutan akan terlalu banyak karakter dalam 1 tweet akan menimbulkan beragam permasalahan. Namun dari hasil uji coba tersebut, ditemukan bahwa lebih banyak karakter justru membuka peluang sekaligus engagement yang lebih baik. Para pengguna juga dinilai lebih menyukai keberadaan limit 280 karakter ketimbang 140 karakter sebelumnya, di mana terkadang limit 140 karakter kurang mampu untuk bisa memberikan ekspresi atau pernyataan lebih lengkap. Fitur limitasi karakter yang telah ditambah hingga 280 karakter ini telah diberikan ke sebagian besar pengguna baik untuk mobile maupun desktop, walau masih ada yang belum mendapatkannya. Source : jagatreview.com The 10 finest cuts from Terrorvision's career, as chosen by the man who sang them
MiddlemanPT KONTAK PERKASA - I like the opening line: 'You know I couldn't be me if it wasn't for you'. Sometimes it's all said in those first few notes and noises and it kinda sums up Terrorvision and how we appreciate the fans. Alice What's The Matter?PT KONTAK PERKASA - I love meeting folk who tell me they have a kid called Alice because of the song. Or there are people who say it was the song they'd heard throughout their school life as it was their name – probably still is. A lot of folk ask who Alice is and what's the matter with her? Truth is, she's dead on the kitchen floor and 'Alice what's the matter' is all you can hear from the swinging telephone receiver. My HouseThis is kinda where it all started... not necessarily my house (whose house) but Bradford. And all our houses (whose houses) really. It's one of those true stories in song that's then twisted to become a half-truth now. PerseveranceI like this song because I was right about the whales and the dolphins. Yeah. Discotheque WreckI love the riff and the sentiment. I shut my eyes and I see all that's mentioned in the lyrics. It's fresh everytime we play it and it was a cathartic kinda release to sing at the time we wrote it and still is today. The people who this song is about know who they are and this one's for them… Pretend Best FriendI think we've all had a pretend best friend although today they're probably known as PBFs or something like that. I like the jazz trumpet as it was a chance to stick something completely off the wall into a crazy song. The arrangement and live version sum up Terrorvision’s sound very well – and I can still mashed potato. OblivionI suppose this song was what got us noticed. I remember hearing it in a airport in Spain when we landed and feeling we'd arrived... in Spain. The doo-wops were also something we could do at the time because we were Terrorvision. We brought this song out and suddenly noticed everyone had camped out in our back garden. III WishesIt's a shame but I think the record label put out more adverts than they put stock in the shops. Maybe it was on the back of us saying we weren't happy at EMI at the time and mixed with the fact that Tequila had done so well as the single before so they should've made us happy. Tequila made us happy but the song III Wishes was better than the release campaign for it. Have a listen and you'll see what I mean. Dog Chewed The HandleA mock headline story about a man, a dead burglar, a dog and a gun with teeth marks on the handle... stinks of harsh justice. I don't know where our heads were at when that one got out of the bag, but it probably did come out of a bag of something. If I Was YouEnding as we started – and I like the way this song finishes. The words at the end say, 'if I was you, well I'm not am I? If I'm not you, who the hell am I? Then it's back to the start of Middleman... Source : teamrock.com KONTAK PERKASA FUTURES - Matematika, denger namanya udah bikin kita ngeluarin sejuta keluhan. Ketika lihat soalnya, wah, rasanya mau terjun payung aja deh. Buat para pelajar, matematika emang bisa menjadi 2 pilihan; pelajaran yang asyik dan pelajaran yang zonk abis.
KONTAK PERKASA FUTURES - Di sekolah, kita belajar matematika dari SD sampai SMA. Bahkan matematika selalu menjadi salah satu pelajaran yang bakal masuk di Ujian Nasional. Mau gak mau, kita tetap harus ngerjain soal-soal matematika dong? Ada 4 tipe murid yang bisa kalian temukan ketika lagi ngerjain soal matematika. Apa aja sih? Si Sabar Nah, biasanya anak yang satu ini adalah bank jawaban temen-temennya. Dia anak yang paling sabar nyari hasil dari X yang jalannya bisa ngabisin satu halaman penuh dan rela bagi-bagi hasil kerja kerasnya buat temen sekelas. Si sabar ini biasanya nggak bisa kasih komentar apa-apa ketika temen-temennya udah dateng ke meja dia buat nyalin jawaban. “Yah, itung-itung dapet pahala lah bagi ilmu ke orang lain,” aku salah satu murid di SMA Negeri di Jakarta Selatan. Si Jenius Berbeda sama si sabar yang rela bagi-bagi hasil kerja kerasnya, si jenius ini cenderung menutup diri. Biasanya ketika mereka selesai, mereka bakal diem aja pas ditanya. Nanti ketika udah saatnya ngumpulin tugas, eits, ternyata dia yang paling depan. Ngaku, pasti pada punya kan temen kayak gini? Si Pasrah “Ah, kalo nggak bisa paling gue biarin aja soalnya.” Si pasrah yang satu ini emang bener-bener pasrah. Berawal dari rasa mager ngerjain soal matematika yang bikin pusing 7 turunan, biasanya murid yang termasuk tipe ini memilih untuk nunggu jawaban temennya atau nggak ngerjain sama sekali. Mereka bener-bener udah pasrah sama yang namanya matematika. “Rasanya pengen nikah aja kalo udah ketemu integral,” cerita salah satu murid kelas 12. Si Pejuang “Ngerjain matematika tuh nano-nano, gampang-gampang susah deh pokoknya. Kalo gak tau rumusnya rasanya susah banget,” aku Mitha, salah satu siswa SMAN 37 Jakarta. “Tapi gue harus tetep kerjain biar gue bisa,” lanjutnya. Bisa dibilang, Mitha masuk ke tipe yang satu ini nih. Si pejuang biasanya dengan rasa ingin tahu dan kemauannya tinggi, dia bakal ngerjain soal matematika yang dikasih dengan maksimal. Masalah bener atau nggak jawabannya itu urusan belakangan, yang penting tugas kelar dan dapet upah ngerjain dari sang guru. Source : hai.grid.id KONTAK PERKASA FUTURES - According to Bruce Dickinson, only three or four other journalists in the world possess copies of his new memoir when he speaks to Revolver on Labor Day. In fact, he says his own bandmates in Iron Maiden have yet to read it. The book is so top secret at this point that we had to agree both verbally and via email that we wouldn't show our copy — which isn't even the final version — to anyone else. Then we had to sign a legally binding non-disclosure agreement. If that sounds like a lot of red tape just to read the life story of one of heavy metal's most revered singers, well ... it was worth it. Surprisingly funny and penned without the help of a co-writer — longhand, no less — What Does This Button Do? follows Dickinson's rise from anonymous grade-school troublemaker in Worksop, England, to world-class fencer, commercial airline pilot, beer magnate and — oh, right — frontman of one of the world's greatest metal bands.
KONTAK PERKASA FUTURES - "There was an awful lot of stuff stacking up," he says while reflecting on his experiences — to which he can add launching a second signature Maiden beer, "Hallowed," and a new vinyl box set, Soloworks, of his solo music. "My original manuscript was something like 170,000 words, but we chopped it back to 105,000. I could've probably done another 60 or 70,000 on top of that comfortably had we included all kinds of other stuff in there. But it would've been a pretty unreadable book." WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO WRITE A MEMOIR? YOU DON'T USUALLY TALK ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL LIFE IN INTERVIEWS, AND NOW YOU'RE SUDDENLY DIVULGING ALL THESE PERSONAL DETAILS IN ONE GO. BRUCE DICKINSON It's interesting that you say that, because there're a lot of personal details that I deliberately didn't go into because I didn't want the book to turn into some sort of bizarre public therapy session. And also because a lot of things to do with family — births, marriages, deaths — if you write about that stuff, you start impinging on a lot of other people's personal space that's not actually to do with you. Whilst it might be good for gossip magazines and things like that, it doesn't advance the narrative of the story. THE BOOK IS VERY FUNNY. I WASN'T EXPECTING THAT FOR SOME REASON. Well, that's my life. [Laughs] That's the way I look at the world. Everyone assumes Maiden are kind of serious, but I find huge chunks of what I do to be very funny in an ironic kind of way, like, "Fuck, I can't believe I'm doing this!" YOU WROTE THE ENTIRE BOOK OUT LONGHAND IN A STACK OF NOTEBOOKS. WHAT POSSESSED YOU TO DO THAT? I just found it easier than typing. I'm a terrible typist. The only thing worse than my typing is my handwriting, but I actually make fewer spelling mistakes when I write things out. And I hate typing on laptops, anyway. I like a big, old-fashioned PC with a big, clattery keyboard. But you just can't take that down to the pub. YOU WROTE THIS THING IN THE PUB? Quite a bit of it, yeah. I'd just take my little notepad, go have a couple of beers and write about 1,200 words at a time. I was giggling to myself as I was doing it. [Laughs] I wrote it on trains, on planes, in hotel rooms — and in pubs. The one place I hardly ever wrote it was at home. I find it very difficult to do any kind of work when I'm home. I do stuff everywhere else, but when I get home I don't do anything. MOST MUSICIANS TEND TO WRITE THEIR MEMOIRS WITH A GHOSTWRITER OR A CO-WRITER. WHY DIDN'T YOU GO THAT ROUTE? Never gonna happen. I know I can write, so I thought, "I'll do this myself." What's the point of filtering it through the lens of someone else? There's a couple of bits in there, just like two or three lines, that Rod [Smallwood], our manager, had actually changed. When it came back from the printers, I was reading through it, and those lines stuck out like a sore thumb because stylistically it wasn't my voice. It sounded like someone had just written a press release and put it in the middle of it. It was like, "Who the fuck wrote this? I would never put those words in that order like that." I said to Rod, "Did you fucking write this?" And he said he did it to fix an inaccuracy. [Laughs] We changed that, so now it's 100 percent me. THERE'S A MOMENT IN THE BOOK THAT STRUCK ME AS ESPECIALLY PIVOTAL FOR YOU. YOU'RE A TEENAGER AND YOU SHOW YOUR DAD THE PAUL WHITEHEAD ARTWORK ON YOUR VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR ALBUM. HE CALLS IT "DEGENERATE," AND YOU IMMEDIATELY DECIDE TO START SPENDING MORE TIME OUT OF THE HOUSE. It's only a small part of the book, but it's interesting that you raise it as a big thing, because it was a big thing. To me, he was dissing all the shit that I thought was really important. And of course, what makes it hurt is the fact that you offer it up naively and it just gets thrown back at you. It's like, "OK. I guess I'll just go and do stuff without you, then." IT SEEMS LIKE THAT EXCHANGE MARKED YOUR FINAL BREAK WITH HOME. Well, I kind of lingered around the edges for a little while longer. Some people have terrible, awful, abusive things going on at home, so it could've been a whole lot worse. It wasn't such a bad existence, really. It's just the shit that happened to me — and how it happened. IN ANOTHER TEENAGE INCIDENT, YOU PISSED IN A POT OF BEANS THAT WERE LATER SERVED TO YOUR SCHOOL'S ADMINISTRATORS ... [Laughs] That was the end of my school career. One of the photographs we'll have in the book is actually of my end-of-term school report from having been thrown out. It makes for some good reading. There's a telling phrase in there that says, "His voice will be his undoing." IN THE STORY ABOUT YOUR FIRST TIME IN THE STUDIO WITH MAIDEN — WHICH WAS TO RECORD THE "RUN TO THE HILLS" SINGLE — YOU MENTION THAT SOME MEMBERS OF THE BAND WERE DOING COKE. HAVE I NOT BEEN PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION, OR IS THAT THE FIRST PUBLIC MENTION OF COCAINE USE IN THE MAIDEN CAMP? Absolutely. But look, just about the entire music industry was awash in the stuff in the Eighties. For all I know, the music industry is awash in it now — if it's not some other drug. I'm so long gone with anything except beer that I don't even know what half the drugs are out there now. They just hold no interest for me whatsoever, and never have. They just seem to turn people into idiots. I don't particularly enjoy being stoned, anyway. Real life is much more interesting. DID ROD OR ANYONE IN THE BAND ASK YOU TO LEAVE THAT PART OUT? No, but there are quite a few things we took out. [Laughs] With drugs, all you have to do is mention it once or twice to let people know it was going on. Of course it was going on. Did it affect what we were doing? Not really. In the book, I made the point with Clive [Burr, former Maiden drummer]: Him and some of his buddies would do a bit of hoovering on the side back in the Eighties, and while people would stay up all night and do whatever they did, it didn't really seem to materially affect things. And I certainly don't think it was a factor in Clive leaving. YOU TELL SOME REVEALING ANECDOTES ABOUT HOW YOU AND YOUR MAIDEN BANDMATE STEVE HARRIS DIDN'T GET ALONG VERY WELL AT FIRST. DO YOU THINK HE'LL READ THE BOOK AT SOME POINT? I don't know. I hope so. The thing with Steve and I is that we started out not quite understanding each other. But over the course of 30 years, we've just about got to an understanding. [Laughs] I think it's the same with everyone in the band, which is why I liken it to being a band of brothers. I don't mean we're all united and fighting together on the same side and all that bollocks. Most brothers aren't like that. Most brothers fight like hell. If they're really brothers, the fact that they came out of the same organism is random. The organism that birthed us is Iron Maiden, and we've actually grown into each other's company over the years. We weren't joined at the hip — despite what press releases would have you believe. Source : revolvermag.com |
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