11/10/2008 17:45 - Dampak Resesi AS

Liputan6.com, Padang: Wakil Presiden Jusuf Kalla kembali mengingatkan para pengusaha di Tanah Air agar tidak khawatir terhadap gejolak pasar modal menyusul ditutupnya Bursa Efek Indonesia selama tiga hari. Anjloknya perdagangan di pasar modal belum menggambarkan terancamnya perekonomian nasional.

Pernyataan itu disampaikan Kalla saat membuka acara silaturrahmi para saudagar Minang di Padang, Sumatra Barat, Sabtu (11/10). Pada kesempatan itu, Kalla justru mengingatkan para pengusaha agar tetap menjaga kekuatan internal. Keberadaan sektor riil pasar tradisional harus tetap dipertahankan.

Sebagai negara besar dengan konsumsi terbesar dan terboros di dunia, krisis keuangan Amerika Serikat tidak hanya merontokkan bursa saham. Tingkat konsumsi juga terus merosot hingga 40 persen. Dampaknya tidak hanya BEI tak kunjung dibuka, ekspor Indonesia ke AS juga terus turun. Gagal bayar makin membayangi eksportir.

Asosiasi Pengusaha Indonesia berharap pemerintah benar-benar memproteksi pasar dalam negeri dan mencari tujuan negara ekspor selain AS. Namun pemerintah justru kebingungan dengan hanya fokus menyelamatkan bursa. Salah satunya dengan membentuk task force untuk mencari penyebar isu yang menyebabkan bursa rontok.

Padahal ada yang lebih penting dari sekadar upaya menyelamatkan bursa. Sektor riil sebenarnya yang paling penting untuk dijaga. Perbankan berharap Bank Indonesia tidak kembali menaikkan suku bunga. Semua berharap keadaan cepat menjadi lebih baik. Seperti yang diminta Presiden berulangkali, agar semua pihak tenang, rasional, dan jernih menghadapi krisis pasar modal.(TOZ/Tim Liputan 6 SCTV)

by: Jason Kay

Whether you are planning to start a brand-new business, expand an existing company, or get financing for a business venture, you will need to write a business plan. A business plan not only lends your business a sense of credibility, but also helps you to cover all your bases, increasing your chances of success.

Although writing a business plan can be a lengthy, intimidating project, it is not necessarily difficult. Here is an overview of how to write a successful business plan.

What to Include in Your Business Plan

Your business plan needs to demonstrate that you have thoroughly considered all aspects of running your business. To that end, the standard business plan has nine major sections, covering everything from your business’s mission statement to a detailed financial analysis.

Executive Summary

The first – and most important – section of your business plan is the executive summary. This section is so important that it should literally be the first thing the reader sees – even before the table of contents! However, it should also be written last, as you’ll have a better understanding of the overall message of your business plan after you’ve researched and written the other sections.

One of the most important parts of the executive summary is the mission statement. The mission statement is only three or four sentences long, but it should pack the most punch out of everything else in your business plan: Those four sentences are responsible for not only defining your business, but also capturing the interest of your reader.

The rest of your executive summary should fill in the important details that the mission statement glosses over. For instance, your executive summary should include a short history of the business, including founder profiles and start date; a current snapshot, listing locations, numbers of employees, and products or services offered; and a summary of future plans and goals.

This section is a candidate for a bulleted format, which allows you to list main points in a manner that is easy to scan. Avoid using too much detail – remember, this section is a summary. A page or two is usually sufficient for an executive summary.

Market Analysis

The next section of your business plan focuses on market analysis. In order to show that your business has a reasonable chance for success, you will need to thoroughly research the industry and the market you intend to sell to. No bank or investor is going to back a doomed venture, so this section is sure to fall under especially close scrutiny if you are looking for financing.

Your market analysis should describe your industry, including the size, growth rate, and trends that could affect the industry. This section should also describe your target market – that is, the type or group of customers that your company intends to serve. The description of your target market should include detail such as:

• Distinguishing characteristics
• The needs your company or product line will meet
• What media and/or marketing methods you’ll use to reach them
• What percentage of your target market you expect to be able to wrest away from your competitors

In addition, your market analysis should include the results of any market tests you have done, and an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors.

Company Description

After your market analysis, your business plan will need to include a description of your company. This section should describe:

• The nature of your business
• The needs of the market
• How your business will meet these needs
• Your target market, including specific individuals and/or organizations
• The factors that set you apart from your competition and make you likely to succeed

Although some of these things overlap with the previous section, they are still necessary parts of your company description. Each section of your business plan should have the ability to stand on its own if need be. In other words, the company description should thoroughly describe your company, even if certain aspects are covered in other sections.

Organization and Management

Once you have described the nature and purpose of your company, you will need to explain your staff setup. This section should include:

• The division of labor – how company processes are divided among the staff
• The management hierarchy
• Profiles of the company’s owner(s), management personnel, and the Board of Directors
• Employee incentives, such as salary, benefits packages, and bonuses

This goal of this section is to demonstrate not only good organization within the company, but also the ability to create loyalty in your employees. Long-term employees minimize human resource costs and increase a business’s chances for success, so banks and investors will want to see that you have an effective system in place for maintaining your staff.

Marketing and Sales Management

The purpose of the marketing and sales section of your business plan is to outline your strategies for marketing your products or services. This section also plans for company growth by describing how the growth could take place.

The section should describe your company’s:

• Marketing methods
• Distributions methods
• Type of sales force
• Sales activities
• Growth strategies

Product or Services

Following the marketing section of your business plan, you will need a section focusing on the product or services your business offers. This is more than a simple description of your product or services, though. You will also need to include:

• The specific benefits your product or service offers customers
• The specific needs of the market, and how your product will meet them
• The advantages your product has over your competitors
• Any copyright, trade secret, or patent information pertaining to your product
• Where any new products or services are in the research and development process
• Current industry research that you could use in the development of products and services

Funding Request

Only once you have described your business from head to toe are you ready to detail your funding needs. This section should include everything a bank or investor needs in order to understand what type of funding you want:

• How much money you need now
• How much money you think you will need over the next five years
• How the money you borrow will be used
• How long you will need funding
• What type of funding you want (i.e. loans, investors, etc.)
• Any other terms you want the funding arrangement to include

Financials

The financials section in your business plan supports your request for outside funding. This section provides an analysis of your company’s prospective financial success. The section also details your company’s financial track record for the past three to five years, unless you are seeking financing for a startup business.

The financials section should include:

• Company income statements for prior years
• Balance sheets for prior years
• Cash flow statements for prior years
• Forecasted company income statements
• Forecasted balance sheets
• Forecasted cash flow statements
• Projections for the next five years – every month or quarter for the first year, with longer intervals for the remaining years
• Collateral you can use to secure a loan

The financials section is a great place to include visuals such as graphs, particularly if you predict a positive trend in your projected financials. A graph allows the reader to quickly take in this information, and may do a better job of encouraging a bank or investor to finance your business. However, be sure that the amount of financing you are requesting is in keeping with your projected financials – no matter how impressive your projections are, if you are asking for more money than is warranted, no bank or investor will give it to you.

Appendices

The appendix is the final section in your business plan. Essentially, this is where you put all of the information that doesn’t fit in the other eight sections, but that someone – particularly a bank or investor – might need to see.

For instance, the market analysis section of your business plan may list the results of market studies you have done as part of your market research. Rather than listing the details of the studies in that section, where they will appear cumbersome and detract from the flow of your business plan, you can provide this information in an appendix.

Other information that should be relegated to an appendix includes:

• Credit histories for both you and your business
• Letters of reference
• References that have bearing on your company and your product or service, such as magazines or books on the topic
• Company licenses and patents
• Copies of contracts, leases, and other legal documents
• Resumes of your top managers
• Names of business consultants, such as your accountant and attorney

Writing a Successful Business Plan

Despite the quantity of information contained in your business plan, it should be laid out in a format that is easy to read. Just like with any piece of business writing, it is important to craft your business plan with your intended audience in mind – and the bankers, investors, and other busy professionals who will read your business plan almost certainly won’t have time to read a tedious document with long-winded paragraphs and large blocks of text.

Business plans for startup companies and company expansions are typically between twenty to forty pages long, but formatting actually accounts for a lot of this length. A strong business plan uses bullet points throughout to break up long sections and highlight its main points. Visuals such as tables and charts are also used to quickly relay specific information, such as trends in sales and other financial information. These techniques ensure that the reader can skim the business plan quickly and efficiently.

Think of your audience as only having fifteen minutes to spend on each business plan that comes across their desks. In that fifteen minutes, you not only have to relay your most important points, but also convince the reader that your business venture merits a financial investment. Your best bet is a well-researched business plan, with an organized, easy-to-read format and clear, confident prose.


About The Author
Jason Kay is a former professional business plan writer and provides business start up advice. He contributes to business magazines and websites such as http://BudgetBusinessPlans.com, which provides business plan writing services and business plan samples.

10/10/2008 18:03

Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono menyatakan, krisis yang terjadi belakangan adalah krisis keuangan, belum bisa disebut krisis ekonomi. Karena itu, ia meminta masyarakat tak panik menyikapi kondisi bursa saham nasional yang ikut memburuk.

Yudhoyono menambahkan, krisis global ini mesti ditanggapi secara tenang dan jernih. Pertanyaannya, apakah penyikapan pemerintah Indonesia sendiri sejauh ini sudah membuat tenang rakyat? Kirim komentar Anda

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Ketika sel normal (A) rusak atau tua (2), mereka mengalami apoptosis (1); sel kanker (B) menghindari apoptosis dan terus membelah diri.

Kanker adalah segolongan penyakit yang ditandai dengan pembelahan sel yang tidak terkendali dan kemampuan sel-sel tersebut untuk menyerang jaringan biologis lainnya, baik dengan pertumbuhan langsung di jaringan yang bersebelahan (invasi) atau dengan migrasi sel ke tempat yang jauh (metastasis). Pertumbuhan yang tidak terkendali tersebut disebabkan kerusakan DNA, menyebabkan mutasi di gen
vital yang mengontrol pembelahan sel. Beberapa buah mutasi mungkin
dibutuhkan untuk mengubah sel normal menjadi sel kanker. Mutasi-mutasi
tersebut sering diakibatkan agen kimia maupun fisik yang disebut karsinogen. Mutasi dapat terjadi secara spontan (diperoleh) ataupun diwariskan (mutasi germline).Kanker
dapat menyebabkan banyak gejala yang berbeda, bergantung pada lokasinya
dan karakter dari keganasan dan apakah ada metastasis. Sebuah diagnosis
yang menentukan biasanya membutuhkan pemeriksaan mikroskopik jaringan yang diperoleh dengan biopsi. Setelah didiagnosis, kanker biasanya dirawat dengan operasi, kemoterapi dan/atau radiasi.

Bila tak terawat, kebanyakan kanker menyebabkan kematian; kanker adalah salah satu penyebab utama kematian di negara berkembang.
Kebanyakan kanker dapat dirawat dan banyak disembuhkan, terutama bila
perawatan dimulai sejak awal. Banyak bentuk kanker berhubungan dengan faktor lingkungan yang sebenarnya bisa dihindari. Merokok tembakau dapat menyebabkan banyak kanker dari faktor lingkungan lainnya.

Tumor (bahasa Latin;
pembengkakan) menunjuk massa jaringan yang tidak normal, tetapi dapat
berupa "ganas" (bersifat kanker) atau "jinak" (tidak bersifat kanker).
Hanya tumor ganas yang mampu menyerang jaringan lainnya ataupun
bermetastasis.

Daftar isi [sembunyikan] 1 Mendiagnosa kanker 2 Riset kanker 3 Lihat pula 4 Referensi 5 Pranala luar

[sunting] Mendiagnosa kanker

Kebanyakan kanker dikenali karena tanda atau gejala tampak atau
melalui "screening". Kedua ini tidak menuju ke diagnosis yang jelas,
yang biasanya membutuhkan sebuah biopsi. Beberapa kanker ditemukan
secara tidak sengaja pada saat evaluasi medis dari masalah yang tak
berhubungan.

[sunting] Riset kanker

Riset kanker
merupakan usaha ilmiah yang banyak ditekuni untuk memahami proses
penyakit dan menemukan terapi yang memungkinkan. Meskipun pemahaman
kanker memiliki tumbuh secara eksponen sejak dekade terakhir dari abad ke-20, terapi baru yang radikal hanya ditemukan dan diperkenalkan secara bertahap.

Penghambat tyrosine kinases (imatinib dan gefitinib) pada akhir 1990-an dianggap sebuah terobosan utama; mereka mengganggu terutama dengan protein tumor-tertentu. Antibodi monoclonal telah terbukti sebuah langkah besar dalam perawatan oncological.

[sunting] Lihat pula

Wikimedia Commons memiliki galeri mengenai:

Kanker

• Daftar pasien kanker
• Onkologi
• Daftar istilah berhubungan dengan onkologi
• Penyakit terminal

[sunting] Referensi

• Catatan 1: Jemal A, Murray T, Ward E, Samuels A, Tiwari RC, Ghafoor A, Feuer EJ, Thun MJ. Cancer statistics, 2005. CA Cancer J Clin 2005;55:10-30. Fulltext
   
  . PMID 15661684
   
  .
• Catatan 2: Cancer: Number one killer
   
  (9 November, 2000). BBC News online. Retrieved 2005-01-29.
• Catatan 3: Questions and Answers About Beta Carotene Chemoprevention Trials
   
• Catatan 4: Bilal A, Treating Cancer with Stem Cells, Medical Engineer, 25 July 2005 Fulltext
   

[sunting] Pranala luar

• Rumah Kanker
   
  - Informasi Pengobatan dan Perawatan Kanker
• Yayasan Kanker Indonesia
   
  —organisasi nirlaba yang bertujuan mengupayakan penanggulangan kanker di Indonesia.
• [1]
   
  informasi kanker paru di Indonesia
• Hasil cari kanker di Medicastore.com
   
• Cancer Facts & Figures 2005
   
  - 2005 United States Cancer Statistics
• American Cancer Society
   
  Patient advocate group
• Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR)
   
  - provides many e-mail lists for patients diagnosed with various cancers
• American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR)
   
  
  - purports to be "the [United States'] leading charity in the field of
  diet, nutrition and cancer", supporting research into dietary methods
  for the prevention and treatment of cancer in addition to offering
  educational resources.
• Cancer
   
  from MedlinePlus
  - provides links to news, general sites, diagnosis, treatment and
  alternative therapies, clinical trials, research, related issues,
  organizations, other MedlinePlus Cancers Topics
   
  and Living with Cancer
   
  , and more. Also, links to pre-formulated searches of the MEDLINE/PubMed database for recent research articles.
• Cancer Medicine, 6th Edition
   
  Textbook
• Inflammatory Breast Cancer
   
  - provides information about signs/symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, a forum, e-mail list, dictionary and much more.
• National Comprehensive Cancer Network
   
  - has free guidelines for professionals and many pages of quality information for patients with all types of cancers
• The World Health Organisation's cancer site
   
  A review of worldwide strategies for the prevention and treatment of cancer.
• US National Cancer Institute
   
  Government organization for research and treatment
• Traditional Chinese Medicine--A Favored Adjunctive Therapy for American Cancer Patients
   
• Cancer Research UK - Information Resource Centre
   
  
  - in-depth cancer information and resources for general interest,
  cancer patients and professionals from the leading cancer charity in
  the UK.

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Perdagangan elektronik atau e-dagang (bahasa Inggris: Electronic commerce, juga e-commerce) adalah penyebaran, pembelian, penjualan, pemasaran barang dan jasa melalui sistem elektronik seperti internet atau televisi, www, atau jaringan komputer lainnya. E-dagang dapat melibatkan transfer dana elektronik, pertukaran data elektronik, sistem manajemen inventori otomatis, dan sistem pengumpulan data otomatis.

Industri teknologi informasi melihat kegiatan e-dagang ini sebagai aplikasi dan penerapan dari e-bisnis (e-business) yang berkaitan dengan transaksi komersial, seperti: transfer dana secara elektronik, SCM (supply chain management), e-pemasaran (e-marketing), atau pemasaran online (online marketing), pemrosesan transaksi online (online transaction processing), pertukaran data elektronik (electronic data interchange /EDI), dll.

E-dagang atau e-commerce merupakan bagian dari e-business, di mana cakupan e-business lebih luas, tidak hanya sekedar perniagaan tetapi mencakup juga pengkolaborasian mitra bisnis, pelayanan nasabah, lowongan pekerjaan dll. Selain teknologi jaringan www, e-dagang juga memerlukan teknologi basisdata atau pangkalan data (databases), e-surat atau surat elektronik (e-mail), dan bentuk teknologi non komputer yang lain seperti halnya sistem pengiriman barang, dan alat pembayaran untuk e-dagang ini.

E-dagang pertama kali diperkenalkan pada tahun 1994 pada saat pertama kali banner-elektronik dipakai untuk tujuan promosi dan periklanan di suatu halaman-web (website). Menurut Riset Forrester, perdagangan elektronik menghasilkan penjualan seharga AS$12,2 milyar pada 2003. Menurut laporan yang lain pada bulan oktober 2006 yang lalu, pendapatan ritel online yang bersifat non-travel di Amerika Serikat diramalkan akan mencapai seperempat trilyun dolar US pada tahun 2011.
Daftar isi
[sembunyikan]

* 1 Sejarah perkembangan
* 2 Faktor kunci sukses dalam e-commerce
* 3 Masalah e-commerce
* 4 Perusahaan terkenal
* 5 Kecocokan barang
* 6 Lihat pula
* 7 Pranala luar
* 8 Referensi

[sunting] Sejarah perkembangan

Istilah "perdagangan elektronik" telah berubah sejalan dengan waktu. Awalnya, perdagangan elektronik berarti pemanfaatan transaksi komersial, seperti penggunaan EDI untuk mengirim dokumen komersial seperti pesanan pembelian atau invoice secara elektronik.

Kemudian dia berkembang menjadi suatu aktivitas yang mempunya istilah yang lebih tepat "perdagangan web" — pembelian barang dan jasa melalui World Wide Web melalui server aman (HTTPS), protokol server khusus yang menggunakan enkripsi untuk merahasiakan data penting pelanggan.

Pada awalnya ketika web mulai terkenal di masyarakat pada 1994, banyak jurnalis memperkirakan bahwa e-commerce akan menjadi sebuah sektor ekonomi baru. Namun, baru sekitar empat tahun kemudian protokol aman seperti HTTPS memasuki tahap matang dan banyak digunakan. Antara 1998 dan 2000 banyak bisnis di AS dan Eropa mengembangkan situs web perdagangan ini.

[sunting] Faktor kunci sukses dalam e-commerce

Dalam banyak kasus, sebuah perusahaan e-commerce bisa bertahan tidak hanya mengandalkan kekuatan produk saja, tapi dengan adanya tim manajemen yang handal, pengiriman yang tepat waktu, pelayanan yang bagus, struktur organisasi bisnis yang baik, jaringan infrastruktur dan keamanan, desain situs web yang bagus, beberapa faktor yang termasuk:

1. Menyediakan harga kompetitif
2. Menyediakan jasa pembelian yang tanggap, cepat, dan ramah.
3. Menyediakan informasi barang dan jasa yang lengkap dan jelas.
4. Menyediakan banyak bonus seperti kupon, penawaran istimewa, dan diskon.
5. Memberikan perhatian khusus seperti usulan pembelian.
6. Menyediakan rasa komunitas untuk berdiskusi, masukan dari pelanggan, dan lain-lain.
7. Mempermudah kegiatan perdagangan

[sunting] Masalah e-commerce

1. Penipuan dengan cara pencurian identitas dan membohongi pelanggan.
2. Hukum yang kurang berkembang dalam bidang e-commerce ini.

[sunting] Perusahaan terkenal

Perusahaan yang terkenal dalam bidang ini antara lain: eBay, Yahoo, Amazon.com, Google, dan Paypal.

[sunting] Kecocokan barang

Ada beberapa barang yang cocok dijual secara elektronik seperti barang elektronik kecil, musik, piranti lunak, fotografi, dll. Barang yang tidak cocok seperti barang yang memiliki rasio harga dan berat yang rendah, barang-barang yang perlu dibaui, dipegang, dicicip, dan lain-lain.

[sunting] Lihat pula

* M-dagang
* L-dagang
* Manajemen
* Pemasaran

[sunting] Pranala luar

* Informasi umum
o CIO's Ebusiness Research Center
o NetAcademy on Electronic Markets

* Berita ecommerce
o Ecommerce Guide
o Ecommerce Best Practices (B2B)
o Ecommerce Times

* Keamanan
o ECommerce Safety - A Quick Overview

* Kewaspadaan dan pendidikan konsumen
o North American Consumer Project on Electronic Commerce (NACPEC)

[sunting] Referensi

* Chaudhury, Abijit & Jean-Pierre Kuilboer (2002), e-Business and e-Commerce Infrastructure, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-247875-6
* Kessler, M. (2003). More shoppers proceed to checkout online. Retrieved January 13, 2004
* Seybold, Pat (2001), Customers.com, Crown Business Books (Random House), ISBN 0-609-60772-3

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Rabu, 8 Oktober 2008 | 11:45 WIB

JAKARTA, RABU - Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI) melakukan penghentian sementara perdagangan saham karena penurunan indeks yang terlalu besar, mencapai 10,38 persen. "Ya, perdagangan disuspen," kata Direktur Utama BEI Erry Firmansyah secara singkat, Rabu (8/10).

BEI melakukan suspensi perdagangan pada pukul 11.06 karena Indeks Harga Saham Gabungan (IHSG) turun tajam sebesar 168,052 poin menjadi 1.451,669 dan indeks LQ45 terkoreksi 38,261 atau 11,86 persen ke posisi 284,236.

Penurunan indeks BEI ini mengikuti bursa global regional yang diakibatkan oleh krisis keuangan AS, apalagi The Fed, bank sentral AS, juga tidak bisa meyakinkan para investor sehingga bursa AS dengan indeks Dow Jones-nya yang melorot 5,11 persen atau 508,38 poin menjadi 9.447,11. Anjloknya bursa AS ini langsung diikuti oleh bursa regional dan termasuk Indonesia yang terkoreksi paling dalam sehingga suspensi diberlakukan oleh otoritas bursa.

Untuk bursa regional yang mengalami penurunan besar, di antaranya bursa Hongkong dengan indeks Hang Seng yang terkoreksi 944,21 poin (5,62 persen) ke 15.854,17, bursa Tokyo dengan indeks Nikkei 225 terpangkas 584,35 poin (5,75 persen) ke 9.571,54, dan indeks Straits Times di bursa Singapura yang anjlok 108,17 poin (4,97 persen) ke 2.069,37.

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Category: Humor Umum
Suatu hari, telepon berdering dan seorang anak kecil menjawab.

"Apakah saya bisa bicara dengan orang tuamu?" "Mereka sedang sibuk."

"Oh. Apakah ada orang lain di sana?" "Ada.. Bapak Polisi."

"Apakah saya bisa bicara dengannya?" "Maaf..Mereka sedang sibuk."

"Oh. Apakah ada orang lain lagi di sana?" "Ada..Petugas pemadam kebakaran."

"Apakah saya bisa bicara dengannya?" "Mereka juga sedang sibuk."

"Coba saya luruskan -- orang tuamu, polisi, dan petugas pemadam kebakaran ada di sana, tapi mereka semua sedang sibuk? Apa yang sedang mereka lakukan?"

"Mereka menjagaku semua."

09/10/2008 18:52 - Tradisi

Liputan6.com, Jepara: Ribuan warga Jepara, Jawa Tengah, Kamis (9/10), mengikuti pesta lomban yang merupakan bagian dari tradisi tahunan Syawalan. Puncak Syawalan itu dimeriahkan dengan larung sesaji ke laut dan perang ketupat yang dilakukan masyarakat nelayan.

Didahului doa-doa, sesajen kemudian dilarung di tengah laut. Sontak para nelayan terjun ke laut saling berebut sesajen. Sebagian nelayan mengambil air laut tempat sesajen dilarung untuk disiramkan ke perahunya agar ikan tangkapan mereka melimpah.

Kemeriahan belum usai. Saat perang klepet dan ketupat, para nelayan melemparkan makanan itu ke para penumpang sebuah kapal yang baru merapat di pelabuhan. Meski kaget dan sebagian terkena lemparan tidak ada penumpang kapal yang marah mendapat serangan mendadak ini.

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Traders in London on October 8
Shares earlier got a brief respite before investors resumed selling.

Stock markets have lost ground, erasing earlier gains as nervous investors remained concerned that the financial crisis would lead to a world recession.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones was down 0.43% despite opening higher.

European shares followed their US counterparts lower, with the FTSE 100 ending down 1.2% and France's Cac 40 down 1.55% by the close of trade.

Investors had earlier taken some comfort from Wednesday's co-ordinated rate cuts and a UK bank rescue plan.



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As the turbulent week continued, in other developments:

* The IMF head said the world economy was on the "cusp of a recession". Dominique Strauss-Kahn called on countries to work in joint action and forecast that a slow recovery would begin in the second half of 2009.

* The British Bankers' Association said the interbank cost of borrowing overnight had fallen - a day after interest rate cuts and governments provided additional liquidity. However, longer-term lending rates rose to their highest this year.
* Iceland suspended trading on its OMX Nordic Exchange until Monday, citing "unusual market conditions". Earlier, its largest bank, Kaupthing, became the third financial institution to be taken over by the country's government in the past week.
* Ireland extended its guarantee of bank deposits to cover savings in Irish branches of five foreign-owned institutions Northern Ireland's Ulster Bank, British-owned First Active and HBOS, Belgium's IIB Bank and German-owned Postbank.
* Gordon Brown wrote to G7 and EU leaders suggesting that the UK government's bank rescue plan could be a template for other nations to help unfreeze credit markets.
* US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned that some banks will still fail despite the $700bn (£406bn) rescue package to shore up the financial system.
* Dexia shares jumped 25% after France, Belgium and Luxembourg announced they would provide state guarantees for its borrowings.
* UK Chancellor Alistair Darling flew to the US to discuss the co-ordinated cutting of interest rates by six central banks.

* In Asia, Japan's Nikkei index ended lower after Prime Minister Taro Aso urged more action to boost the country's economy - on top of a 2 trillion yen ($19.5bn; £11.5bn) stimulus plan already put forward.

* After trading on Russian stock markets had been suspended following sharp share falls earlier this week, they were again halted - this time after stocks climbed too high after trade resumed.

'False dawns'

Seven central banks on Wednesday cut interest rates in an effort to steady the faltering global economy.

It came after the UK government's announcement of a package of measures aimed at rescuing the banking system.

This package makes available £400bn ($692bn) of fresh money.

There was "an air of cautious optimism" that such measures would have some impact on the financial crisis, said Richard Hunter, head of UK equities at Hargreaves Lansdown stockbrokers.

"Banking shares have been the main beneficiaries of the UK's rescue plan, and the interest rate cuts," he added.

"We've had a few false dawns over the past couple of months and it's too early to call a complete recovery, but there's hope that these measures will get some traction at some point."

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More rate cuts

Japan's benchmark Nikkei lost 0.5% or 45.83 points to close at 9,157.5.

Shares had been ahead for most of trading after the Bank of Japan injected two trillion yen into the money markets in an effort to calm fears.

But Mr Aso's call for further action prompted a sell-off.

The Nikkei had suffered its biggest one-day drop in 21 years on Wednesday, with the index shedding nearly 10% of its value.

In Sydney, Australia's main share index fell 1.8%, but Hong Kong's Hang Seng index added 3.3% after its central bank announced a half a percentage point cut to its interest rate, taking it to 2%.

South Korea's stock market climbed after the central bank announced an interest rate cut of a quarter of a percentage point.

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks jumped at the open Thursday, as investors welcomed IBM's earnings report and talk that the government could take a stake in troubled banks, in the latest attempt to stabilize financial markets.

A rally in European markets helped too.

The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU), the Standard & Poor's 500 (SPX) index and the Nasdaq composite (COMP) all gained in the early going.

Markets have gotten hammered this week, with the Dow industrials shedding roughly 1,600 in the past week. And Wednesday wasn't much better. It was another disappointing session despite a half-point rate cut from the Federal Reserve. Stocks were volatile amid market turmoil in Europe and Asia. The Dow ended trading with a slump of 200 points, or 2%, while the Nasdaq dropped nearly 1%.

The Labor Department said initial claims for unemployment fell by 20,000 to 478,000 in the week ended Oct. 4. That's slightly worse than the 475,000 expected by economists surveyed by Briefing.com.

Much of what had been pushing markets higher was "the IBM effect and a technical bounce from new lows" in the stock market, said Peter Cardillo, economist for Avalon Partners, before the jobless report came out.

On Wednesday, IBM (IBM, Fortune 500) surprised investors by releasing its quarterly results earlier than expected.

Big Blue reported a 20% jump in third-quarter profit to $2.05 a share, handily topping analyst estimates by 4 cents a share. IBM also reaffirmed its full-year outlook. Shares of IBM rose 3% Thursday morning.

Cardillo also said the markets could also be getting relief from "a new government intervention by taking a stake in some of the banks."

To help bolster the markets, the Bush administration is considering taking ownership stakes in certain U.S. banks, as part of the $700 billion bailout package that was approved last week, according to the Associated Press.

Also, the New York Federal Reserve said late Wednesday that it is lending up to $37.8 billion to AIG, just three weeks after the Fed extended an $85 billion taxpayer-funded credit line to the troubled insurance giant. AIG (AIG, Fortune 500) recently disclosed that it had already taken out $61 billion of the debt.

Meanwhile, credit markets remain tight as lenders stay wary of taking on any unnecessary risk. Libor, the overnight bank lending rate, slipped to the still-high 5.09% from the previous rate of 5.38%, according to Bloomberg.com data. The 3-month Libor rate rose to 4.75% from 4.52%.

Economy: At 10 a.m. ET, the Census Bureau will report its August sales and inventory statistics for wholesale inventories. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com expect a gain of 0.4%, compared to a gain of 1.4% in July.

Markets, money and oil: The Nikkei closed down about 0.5%, but markets were higher in London, Frankfurt and Paris, rallying after a dismal Wednesday that was trailing the turmoil of the U.S. markets. The U.S. dollar slipped against the euro and the British pound but rose against the yen. The price of oil traded within a narrow range, dropping 32 cents a barrel to $88.63.

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Skipper Terry is desperate to be fit for Saturday's sell-out tie at Wembley

England captain John Terry remains a major doubt for Saturday's World Cup qualifier with Kazakhstan because of a recurring back injury.

The 27-year-old Chelsea defender did not train on Thursday after failing to complete Wednesday's session.

It is the second day of training Terry has been forced to miss after he sat out the workout on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Wigan striker Emile Heskey resumed training after also suffering from a back problem and is set to play.

The 30-year-old had joined Terry on the sidelines on Wednesday.

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Reports suggest the 27-year-old will not be fit in time for the game with Kazakhstan and could struggle to recover in time for Wednesday's match against Belarus in Minsk.


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Either Matthew Upson or Joleon Lescott could come in to partner Rio Ferdinand in central defence.

If Terry is ruled out, Ferdinand is also likely to be given the chance to lead out his country again.

The Manchester United defender was in the running to become the permanent England captain before Capello decided to hand the armband to Terry in August.

BBC Radio 5 Live football correspondent Jonathan Legard said: "It now appears Terry's problem needs more than the three days' rest as recommended by his Chelsea coach Luiz Felipe Scolari.


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"On club form, you would have thought Upson rather than Lescott would be favourite to replace him alongside Ferdinand, who would wear the captain's armband."

With Joe Cole out with a foot injury, it is believed Capello will ditch the plan of having a holding midfielder, the role Gareth Barry performed against Croatia, and pair Steven Gerrard with Frank Lampard in central midfield.

Theo Walcott is set to retain his place on the right after scoring a memorable hat-trick against Croatia in Zagreb in September.

Heskey, if passed fit, is again expected to partner Wayne Rooney in attack, although Capello also has the recalled Peter Crouch as an option up front.

How do you deal with criticism? The first reaction for many of us is to defend ourselves, or worse yet to lash back. And yet, while criticism can be taken as hurtful and demoralizing, it can also be viewed in a positive way: it is honesty, and it can spur us to do better. It’s an opportunity to improve and build up our true talents.

[edit] StepsStop your first reaction. If your first reaction is to lash back at the person giving the criticism, or to become defensive, take a minute before reacting at all. Take a deep breath, and give it a little thought. For example, let a critical email sit in your in-box for at least an hour before replying. Or walk away from someone instead of saying something you’ll regret later. That cooling off time allows you to give it a little more thought beyond your initial reaction. It allows logic to step in, past the emotion. This is not a criticism against emotion, but when it’s a negative emotion, sometimes it can cause more harm than good. So let your emotions run their course, and then respond when you feel calmer.
Turn a negative into a positive. One of the keys to success in anything you do is the ability to find positive things in things that most people see as a negative. Sickness forces you to stop your exercise program? That’s a welcome rest. Tired of your job? That’s a time to rediscover what’s important and to look for a better job. Super typhoon ruined all your possessions? This allows you to realize that your stuff isn’t important, and to be thankful that your loved ones are still alive and safe. You can do the same thing with criticism: find the positive in it. Sure, it may be rude and mean, but in most criticism, you can find a nugget of gold: honest feedback and a suggestion for improvement.
See it as an opportunity to improve — and without that constant improvement, we are just sitting still. Improvement is a good thing. For example, this criticism: “You write about the same things over and over and your blog posts are boring and stale", can be read: “I need to increase the variety of my posts and find new ways of looking at old things.” That’s just one example of course — you can do that with just about any criticism. Sometimes it’s just someone having a bad day, but many times there’s at least a grain of truth in the criticism.
Thank the critic. Even if someone is harsh and rude, thank them. They might have been having a bad day, or maybe they’re just a negative person in general. But even so, your attitude of gratitude will probably catch them off-guard. Thanking a critic can actually win a few of them over. All because of a simple act of saying thank you for the criticism. It’s unexpected, and often appreciated. And even if the critic doesn’t take your “thank you” in a good way, it’s still good to do — for yourself. It’s a way of reminding yourself that the criticism was a good thing for you, a way of keeping yourself humble.
Learn from the criticism. After seeing criticism in a positive light, and thanking the critic, don’t just move on and go back to business as usual. Actually try to improve. That’s a difficult concept for some people, because they often think that they’re right no matter what. But no one is always right. You, in fact, may be wrong, and the critic may be right. So see if there’s something you can change to make yourself better. And then make that change. Actually strive to do better. You'll end up being glad you made the extra effort.
Be the better person. Too many times we take criticism as a personal attack, as an insult to who we are. But it’s not. Well, perhaps sometimes it is, but we don’t have to take it that way. Take it as a criticism of your actions, not your person. If you do that, you can detach yourself from the criticism emotionally and see what should be done. But the way that many of us handle the criticisms that we see as personal attacks is by attacking back. “I’m not going to let someone talk to me that way.” Especially if this criticism is made in public, such as in the comments of a blog or on a forum. You have to defend yourself, and attack the attacker … right? Wrong. By attacking the attacker, you are stooping to his level. Even if the person was mean or rude, you don’t have to be the same way. You don’t have to commit the same sins. Be the better person.
Stay calm and positive. If you can rise above the petty insults and attacks, and respond in a calm and positive manner to the meat of the criticism, you will be the better person. And guess what? There are two amazing benefits of this:


Others will admire you and think better of you for rising above the attack. Especially if you remain positive and actually take the criticism well.
You will feel better about yourself. By participating in personal attacks, we dirty ourselves. But if we can stay above that level, we feel good about who we are. And that’s the most important benefit of all.
Rise above the criticism. How do you stay above the attacks and be the better person? By removing yourself from the criticism, and looking only at the actions criticized. By seeing the positive in the criticism, and trying to improve. By thanking the critic. And by responding with a positive attitude. A quick example:

Someone criticizes something you have written by saying, “You’re an idiot. I don’t understand what x has to do with y.” A good typical response should be to ignore the first sentence. And second, to say something like, “Thanks for giving me an opportunity to clarify that. I don’t think I made it as clear as I should have. What x has to do with y is … blah blah. Thanks for the great question!” And by ignoring the insult, taking it as an opportunity to clarify, thanking the critic, using the opportunity to explain your point further, and staying positive, you have accepted the criticism with grace and appreciation. And in doing so, remained the better person, and you will feel great about yourself.



[edit] TipsIf the criticism persists, use nonviolent communication to make it stop. There are some people who are difficult to deal with, but when they fail to get a reaction from you, they will eventually stop or leave you alone. Plus, others will learn from your example.



[edit] WarningsIf you are being constantly attacked, bullied, or verbally abused, you will need to take greater measures to make it stop, such as reporting the person to an authority figure.



[edit] Related wikiHowsHow to Accept Criticism
How to Accept Criticism While at Work
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Big Blue's preliminary results show a healthy bottom line in spite of sales that were virtually flat compared with the previous year.

By Paul McDougall
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October 9, 2008 10:18 AM


IBM said Wednesday that third-quarter earnings per share rose 22% year over year to come in at $2.05, beating Wall Street's estimate of $2.01. Revenue, however, fell short of analysts' forecasts. Sales for the quarter increased just 2%, excluding currency benefits, to $25.3 billion, falling short of the $26.53 billion average estimate.
IBM also said it's on track to meet earlier guidance on its full-year results for 2008. It reaffirmed earnings per share of at least $8.75, up 22% from the previous year.

IBM's gross profit margin for the third quarter was 43.3%, up 5% from a year ago. Pre-tax income rose 19% year over year to 3.9 billion. As of the end of the period, the company's free cash flow stood at $6.4 billion while its cash balance was $9.8 billion.

"Our results demonstrate that the combination of a steady base of recurring revenue and profits, investments for growth in emerging markets, a range of products and services that deliver value to clients, and a strong and flexible financial foundation give IBM a competitive edge in good times and tough times," said IBM chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano, in a statement.

"We remain confident in our full-year outlook," Palmisano added.

IBM released the numbers ahead of schedule, a sign that the company is anxious to signal its health to nervous financial markets. IBM plans to deliver a full earnings report on Oct. 16.

Shares of IBM were up 1.84% to $92.22 in morning trading Thursday as technology stocks led a modest rebound in the financial markets.

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No one uses comments and revisions tracking because they're fun. So how can you make these workplace tools work better for you?

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If you collaborate on documents, you already know that Word's reviewing features—Comment and Track Changes—are vital tools. But you don't have to accept the default configurations for these tools. With a few clicks, you can customize them to your liking.




To begin, click Review in the menu bar to reveal the Review bar. Highlight a word and click New Comment, then type a comment. By default, Word uses the Calibri typeface in comments, but you can change this just as you would with regular text, in the Font slab of the Home ribbon. For a permanent change, modify the style called Comment Text: On the Home bar, click the small expansion icon on the bottom right of the Styles section, and click the Manage Styles icon at bottom middle of the resulting Styles window. Scroll to the Comment Text entry and double-click to bring up the Modify Style dialog. Make your change to the typeface, and click OK. Your comments will now appear in that typeface.





If you used the options available in the Home tab to change the typeface of a single comment and want to update the style, you can change Comment Text by right-clicking on the comment in the Reviewing Pane, then choosing Styles | Update Comment Text to Match Selection.

Better Revision Tracking

Word's Track Changes feature shows you not only everything that's been changed in the document by other collaborators but also everything you change as you type. Toggling the feature on is a simple matter of clicking the Track Changes icon on the Review bar, but you don't have to accept the default configuration—you can customize it in numerous useful ways.

Before diving in to the customizations, I need to address an odd decision Microsoft made with Word 2007. Users of previous versions may have been used to clicking the small TRK icon in the status bar at the bottom of the Word window. One click to track changes, one click to stop—convenient. To get that function back, right-click on the status bar and click Track Changes.





You have several options for displaying changes within a document, and most people find they have a definite preference. Decide whether you want your changes to appear inline (in the text itself), in a separate reviewing pane, or as balloons outside the text. If the last, you can have all revisions appear in balloons or only your formatting changes and your comments. To toggle the Reviewing Pane on and off, click the Reviewing Pane item on the Review bar; click its down arrow to switch between a vertical (left-side) or a horizontal (along the bottom) pane.




Revisions shown inline.




Comments in the reviewing pane.




Comments and revisions shown in balloons.




Revisions shown inline, comments shown in balloons.

No matter where your edits and comments appear, you can act on them identically: Right-click the edit in the balloon, the Reviewing Pane, or the text, and accept or reject the change. (A very unfortunate change in Word 2007 is the elimination of the plain old Accept and Reject buttons; clicking on Accept or Reject performs the chosen action and then moves on to the next revision. To avoid moving on, you must click the arrow next to the button. It's a whole procedure; I find right-clicking easier.)

The most generally overlooked set of customizations appears under the Show Markup item on the Review bar. Clicking this item reveals a list of items you can include or exclude in your document when reviewing is turned on. Most are immediately clear: You can show—or decline to show—comments, insertions and deletions, and formatting changes. You can remove the vertical highlight (the shaded area) in the markup area on the right side of the screen. The other two items are less obvious. The first lets you show or hide Ink annotations (made by a stylus on a tablet PC). And the bottom choice, Reviewers, is the most useful. As collaborators change the document, it can fill with text and annotations of various colors; Reviewers lets you hide the comments from whichever reviewers you wish, letting you zero in on the work of specific collaborators. You can even check one or more reviewers and then use the rest of the Show Markup menu to display only specific types of markups from them.





Clicking the Track Changes label below the icon and then choosing Change Tracking Options gives you access to a wide range of options. By default, for example, Track Changes displays each insertion with an underline and each deletion with a strikethrough, but you can make either or both of these bold, italic, or double underlines instead or simply display it in a specific color. Also by default, text that you move from one location to another in the document is displayed with a double strikethrough at its origin point and a double underline at its destination, but you can change these designations as well, including hiding the original (useful with large text moves, which otherwise can make the document nearly unreadable). Moved text also appears in green by default, but a drop-down menu lets you customize the color for both the original text and the text once it's moved.





Finally, several options are available to you at print time. Near the bottom left of Word's Print dialog is a drop-down menu labeled Print what:. Clicking here reveals two options tied to the reviewing features. Document Showing Markup prints your document with all the changes you've tracked. List of Markup prints only the changes made in the document and the username of the person who made each change, without any context.

Word's reviewing features are powerful. But with numerous collaborators your documents can become difficult to read and interpret. Using the numerous customization features lets you select only the features you need.




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Men may wince at the thought, but biopsies from human testicles have yielded stem cells that can be turned into virtually any cell in the body.

The hope is that tissue created from stem cells derived from a patient's testicles would not be rejected when implanted elsewhere in the body. What's more, such cells would avoid the ethical concerns surrounding embryonic stem cells (ESCs), which have the same therapeutic potential.

A team led by Thomas Skutella at the University of Tübingen in Germany harvested spermatogonial cells, which normally mature into sperm, from men and used a series of chemicals to turn them into various cell types (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature07404). "We made them into skin, structures of the gut, cartilage, bone, muscle and neurons," says Skutella.

Taking cells from the testicles sounds painful, but Skutella says such biopsies are routine in men undergoing infertility treatment. "Skin biopsies might sound more acceptable, but it hurts just as much as from the testes," he says.

In 2006, it was shown that mouse spermatogonial cells are ESC-like. Skutella's corresponding feat in humans is "a home run" that "bypasses the ethical and immunological problems associated with ESCs", says Robert Lanza, a stem-cell specialist at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Other researchers caution that more work is needed, as Skutella's cells do not express all the molecular markers associated with ESCs. "They are not identical to embryonic stem cells," says Austin Smith of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research at the University of Cambridge.

Stem Cells - Learn more about the promise and the controversy in our cutting edge special report .

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