Weddings from The Knot and The Nest

The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with the same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive appellation of the White Whale; a name, indeed, literally justified by his vivid aspect, when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled with golden gleamings.<br /><br />Nor was it his unwonted magnitude, nor his remarkable hue, nor yet his deformed lower jaw, that so much invested the whale with natural terror, as that unexampled, intelligent malignity which, according to specific accounts, he had over and over again evinced in his assaults. More than all, his treacherous retreats struck more of dismay than perhaps aught else. For, when swimming before his exulting pursuers, with every apparent symptom of alarm, he had several times been known to turn round suddenly, and, bearing down upon them, either stave their boats to splinters, or drive them back in consternation to their ship.<br /><br />[pgallery] [img alt="Wedding" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKNtP6W7WC1-fmjWPddw9RnwVeSquvmzRGY9tbQtO_UiVJL5X2mx-gNkHvO4I2d0cFyoVqFRQgOYz5-Aujhr0i5oGoMvhoulXLR3c_0KMGbMMaurWuon13o3VR_JsSiQCROC2A5EANjYE/s300/people_4.jpg"][/img] [img alt="Interior" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjba9inbxUXoyOepvZc1-p39l30xjXLKNkCZ-cYBGmYB5hsPw5a5chegblUgS4onJ3qwb10s-K9kZvhNChkJ6NUEpLt_DYkQtjkVTNkBT0mf5NY1R_tw1Rye9VS4Po2BrnzE1lgTwi6b9s/s1600/cars_4.jpg"][/img] [img alt="fashion" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinUlOOO5I9QxsSVY_T5fhrztKdnRO7Z0be7_5P_8sRpAh4a2g-ECtf-zEUz6MUvjzBhKVwnE0z54CNpWonfq0zaqIEU8PxHLE4D5QedBxq9k9ZmUaclvlNQQ1t1secQAAGDMFDTUFsAmc/s1600/foods_4.jpg"][/img] [img alt="flower" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd45a87FbLG3gwOzJ2o2884C8xUm_Z-oudD6mCyHOQPunzi5S5EDW7-HcQKgOrzog4tKn1f8RH2eNBtnXTc_E5O9eZCb8mvxNeO2XSVIyi75wqiTLhisawognd9o1gBOHgH15pZKTynLU/s320/city_5.jpg"][/img] [img alt="other fashion" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYVTNJcbC2wqEbUtt8sNxfrxQFbrTxF0iY40-vZERFIqeR6v5TxhQhEXYXVTMY8E1QZYEP40L_n6mzpujDWVioPgwa0vPJK4Pd6zrFFw1xKdAzTgEYMJH67iLobdlM-sK_xlVIhEk6jcY/s1600/people_5.jpg"][/img] [img alt="cars" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcqz-YzLuZqnCb9Bict5Te06VUWBzhbJ0xMfKZOUaAXBGx1bvcYKsF76eN89Qff7rosBh8tFTUOPKzB2apLd1S5pRjnYaAwGBo73WRvr02ZxlHQkqT5-MbeL3rpUggN6zEdaADi5_jkc/s320/foods_2.jpg"][/img] [/pgallery] Already several fatalities had attended his chase. But though similar disasters, however little bruited ashore, were by no means unusual in the fishery; yet, in most instances, such seemed the White Whale's infernal aforethought of ferocity, that every dismembering or death that he caused, was not wholly regarded as having been inflicted by an unintelligent agent.<br /><br />Judge, then, to what pitches of inflamed, distracted fury the minds of his more desperate hunters were impelled, when amid the chips of chewed boats, and the sinking limbs of torn comrades, they swam out of the white curds of the whale's direful wrath into the serene, exasperating sunlight, that smiled on, as if at a birth or a bridal.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNrFZzFPkzYqAMxEFvoqKeo1umRvCU2ZVmVdRKS794ltUY6_PJf8l7A2bUsbbCo-EC6iV6UlPmR7NJEvYubVWkl10cYHsxKGbQoysFVC6Ozr2JfotFNMkWMclrredqjI36EYn1S-0b16M/s1600/nature_6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Weddings from The Knot and The Nest"><img alt="Weddings from The Knot and The Nest" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNrFZzFPkzYqAMxEFvoqKeo1umRvCU2ZVmVdRKS794ltUY6_PJf8l7A2bUsbbCo-EC6iV6UlPmR7NJEvYubVWkl10cYHsxKGbQoysFVC6Ozr2JfotFNMkWMclrredqjI36EYn1S-0b16M/s320/nature_6.jpg" title="Weddings from The Knot and The Nest" width="248" /></a>His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field. No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming malice. Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung. That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning; to whose dominion even the modern Christians ascribe one-half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of the east reverenced in their statue devil;—Ahab did not fall down and worship it like them; but deliriously transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it. All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.<br /><br />It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at the precise time of his bodily dismemberment. Then, in darting at the monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden, passionate, corporal animosity; and when he received the stroke that tore him, he probably but felt the agonizing bodily laceration, but nothing more. Yet, when by this collision forced to turn towards home, and for long months of days and weeks, Ahab and anguish lay stretched together in one hammock, rounding in mid winter that dreary, howling Patagonian Cape; then it was, that his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad. That it was only then, on the homeward voyage, after the encounter, that the final monomania seized him, seems all but certain from the fact that, at intervals during the passage, he was a raving lunatic; and, though unlimbed of a leg, yet such vital strength yet lurked in his Egyptian chest, and was moreover intensified by his delirium, that his mates were forced to lace him fast, even there, as he sailed, raving in his hammock. In a strait-jacket, he swung to the mad rockings of the gales. And, when running into more sufferable latitudes, the ship, with mild stun'sails spread, floated across the tranquil tropics, and, to all appearances, the old man's delirium seemed left behind him with the Cape Horn swells, and he came forth from his dark den into the blessed light and air; even then, when he bore that firm, collected front, however pale, and issued his calm orders once again; and his mates thanked God the direful madness was now gone; even then, Ahab, in his hidden self, raved on. Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form. Ahab's full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge. But, as in his narrow-flowing monomania, not one jot of Ahab's broad madness had been left behind; so in that broad madness, not one jot of his great natural intellect had perished. That before living agent, now became the living instrument. If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its concentred cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far from having lost his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did now possess a thousand fold more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon any one reasonable object.

Weddings from The Knot and The Nest

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Envato 2020 - Whats Next?

<div class="separator pfeatured" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="450" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kuceVNBTJio" width="600"></iframe></div>So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with large eyes full of tears, but said nothing.<br />'This here young lady,' said the Gryphon, 'she wants for to know your history, she do.'<br />'I'll tell it her,' said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow tone: 'sit down, both of you, and don't speak a word till I've finished.'<br />So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice thought to herself, 'I don't see how he can EVEN finish, if he doesn't begin.' But she waited patiently.<br />'Once,' said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, 'I was a real Turtle.'<br />These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation of 'Hjckrrh!' from the Gryphon, and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very nearly getting up and saying, 'Thank you, sir, for your interesting story,' but she could not help thinking there MUST be more to come, so she sat still and said nothing.<br />'When we were little,' the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, 'we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle—we used to call him Tortoise—'

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Envato Stories - Muhammad (ThemeFusion)

<div class="separator pfeatured" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uQBL7pSAXR8"></iframe></div> <p>Immediately after we resumed the march, and though I realized that in some way I had offended Dian the Beautiful I could not prevail upon her to talk with me that I might learn wherein I had erred—in fact I might quite as well have been addressing a sphinx for all the attention I got. At last my own foolish pride stepped in and prevented my making any further attempts, and thus a companionship that without my realizing it had come to mean a great deal to me was cut off. Thereafter I confined my conversation to Perry. Hooja did not renew his advances toward the girl, nor did he again venture near me.</p> <p>Again the weary and apparently interminable marching became a perfect nightmare of horrors to me. The more firmly fixed became the realization that the girl's friendship had meant so much to me, the more I came to miss it; and the more impregnable the barrier of silly pride. But I was very young and would not ask Ghak for the explanation which I was sure he could give, and that might have made everything all right again.</p> <p>On the march, or during halts, Dian refused consistently to notice me—when her eyes wandered in my direction she looked either over my head or directly through me. At last I became desperate, and determined to swallow my self-esteem, and again beg her to tell me how I had offended, and how I might make reparation. I made up my mind that I should do this at the next halt. We were approaching another range of mountains at the time, and when we reached them, instead of winding across them through some high-flung pass we entered a mighty natural tunnel—a series of labyrinthine grottoes, dark as Erebus.</p> <p>The guards had no torches or light of any description. In fact we had seen no artificial light or sign of fire since we had entered Pellucidar. In a land of perpetual noon there is no need of light above ground, yet I marveled that they had no means of lighting their way through these dark, subterranean passages. So we crept along at a snail's pace, with much stumbling and falling—the guards keeping up a singsong chant ahead of us, interspersed with certain high notes which I found always indicated rough places and turns.</p>

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Envato Stories - Andy Wilkerson (Parallelus)

<div class="separator pfeatured" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EfTUpvxEbqc"></iframe></div> <p>Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air; but to and fro in the deeps, far down in the bottomless blue, rushed mighty leviathans, sword-fish, and sharks; and these were the strong, troubled, murderous thinkings of the masculine sea.</p> <p>But though thus contrasting within, the contrast was only in shades and shadows without; those two seemed one; it was only the sex, as it were, that distinguished them.</p> <p>Aloft, like a royal czar and king, the sun seemed giving this gentle air to this bold and rolling sea; even as bride to groom. And at the girdling line of the horizon, a soft and tremulous motion—most seen here at the Equator—denoted the fond, throbbing trust, the loving alarms, with which the poor bride gave her bosom away.</p> <p>Tied up and twisted; gnarled and knotted with wrinkles; haggardly firm and unyielding; his eyes glowing like coals, that still glow in the ashes of ruin; untottering Ahab stood forth in the clearness of the morn; lifting his splintered helmet of a brow to the fair girl's forehead of heaven.</p> <p>Oh, immortal infancy, and innocency of the azure! Invisible winged creatures that frolic all round us! Sweet childhood of air and sky! how oblivious were ye of old Ahab's close-coiled woe! But so have I seen little Miriam and Martha, laughing-eyed elves, heedlessly gambol around their old sire; sporting with the circle of singed locks which grew on the marge of that burnt-out crater of his brain.</p> <p>Slowly crossing the deck from the scuttle, Ahab leaned over the side and watched how his shadow in the water sank and sank to his gaze, the more and the more that he strove to pierce the profundity. But the lovely aromas in that enchanted air did at last seem to dispel, for a moment, the cankerous thing in his soul. That glad, happy air, that winsome sky, did at last stroke and caress him; the step-mother world, so long cruel—forbidding—now threw affectionate arms round his stubborn neck, and did seem to joyously sob over him, as if over one, that however wilful and erring, she could yet find it in her heart to save and to bless. From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.</p> <p>Starbuck saw the old man; saw him, how he heavily leaned over the side; and he seemed to hear in his own true heart the measureless sobbing that stole out of the centre of the serenity around. Careful not to touch him, or be noticed by him, he yet drew near to him, and stood there.</p>

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Daftar nama 100 orang paling berpengaruh

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>Nabi Muhammad SAW</strong> menempati kedudukan nomor satu daftar manusia yang paling berpengaruh dalam panggung sejarah dunia, dihitung sampai sekarang.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hal ini dinyatakan oleh Michael H. Hart, seorang ahli astronomi dan ahli sejarah terkenal di Amerika Serikat dalam bukunya "The 100" yang terbit baru-baru Amerika Serikat.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial;">Menurut Michael Hart, <strong>Nabi Muhammad SAW</strong> adalah orang yang paling berpengaruh di antara milyaran penduduk dunia, karena ia adalah satu-satunya manusia yang berhasil secara luar biasa baik dalam kegiatan keagamaan maupun pemerintahan<br /> </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><em><strong>Daftar nama 100 orang paling berpengaruh itu selengkapnya adalah :<br /> <br /> </strong></em></span><br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;"><tbody> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nabi Muhammad SAW</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">51. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Umar bin Khatab</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Isaac Newton</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">52. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Asoka</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">3. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nabi Isa</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">53. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sam Augustine</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">4. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Buddha</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">54. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Max Planck</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">5. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Confucius</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">55. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">John Calvin</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">6. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Saint Paul</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">56. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">William Morton</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">7. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thai Lun</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">57. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">William Harvey</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">8. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Johan Gutemberg</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">58. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Antoine Becquerel</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">9. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Christopher Columbus</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">59. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Greger Mendel</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">10. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Albert Einstein</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">60. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Joseph Lister</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">11. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Karl Marx</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">61. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nicholas August Otto</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">12. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Louis Pasteur</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">62. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Louis Daguerre</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">13. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Galileo Galilei</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">63. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Joseph Stalin</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">14. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Aristoteles</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">64. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rene Descartes</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">15. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">V.I. Lenin</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">65. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Julius Caesar</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">16. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nabi Musa</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">66. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Francisco Pizarro</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">17. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Charles Darwin</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">67. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hernando Cortes</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">18. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Chin Huang Ti</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">68. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ratu Isabella I</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">19. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Agustus Caesar</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">69. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">William the Congqueror</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">20. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mao Tse-tung</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">70. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thomas Jefferson</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">21. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Genghis Khan</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">71. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jean Jacques Rousseau</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">22. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Euclid</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">72. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Edward Jenner</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">23. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Martin Luther</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">73. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wilhelm Rontgen</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">24. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nicolas Copernicus</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">74. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Johan Sebastian Bach</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">25. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">James Watt</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">75. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lau-tzu</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">26. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Constantine the Great</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">76. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Enrico Ferni</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">27. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">George Washington</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">77. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thomas Maltus</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">28. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Michael Faraday</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">78. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Francis Bacon</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">29. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">James Clerk Maxwell</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">79. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Voltaire</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">30. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Orville dan Wilbur Wright</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">80. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">John F. Kennedy</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">31. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Antoine Laurent Lavoisier</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">81. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Gregory Pincus</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">32. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sigmund Freud</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">82. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sui Wen Ti</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">33. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">lskandar Zulkarnaen</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">83. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mani (Manes)</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">34. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Napoleon Bonaparte</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">84. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Vasco da Gama</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">35. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Adolf Hitler</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">85. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Charlemagne</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">36. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">William Shakespeare</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">86. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Cyrys the Great</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">37. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Adam Smith</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">87. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Leonard Euler</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">38. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Thomas Edison</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">88. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nicollo Machiavelli</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">39. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Anton van Leuwenhoek</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">89. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Zoroaster</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">40. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Plato</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">90. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Menes</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">41. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Gugleilmo Marconi</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">91. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Peter the Great</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">42. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ludwig van Beethoven</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">92. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mencius</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">43, </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Werner Heisenberg</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">93. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">John Dalton</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">44. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Alexander G Bell</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">94. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Homer</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">45. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Alexander Fleming</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">95. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ratu Elizabeth I</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">46. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Simon Bolivar</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">96. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Justinian I</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">47. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oliver Cromwell</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">97. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Johannes Kepler</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">48. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">John Locke</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">98. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Pablo Picasso</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">49. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Michelangelo</span></td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><span style="font-family: Arial;">99. </span></td> <td><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mahavira</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td 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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/O_C5CN1L3Xo"></iframe></div> <p>But the interval I spent in deliberating what to say, was a fatal one. Taking up his tomahawk from the table, he examined the head of it for an instant, and then holding it to the light, with his mouth at the handle, he puffed out great clouds of tobacco smoke. The next moment the light was extinguished, and this wild cannibal, tomahawk between his teeth, sprang into bed with me. I sang out, I could not help it now; and giving a sudden grunt of astonishment he began feeling me.</p> <p>Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again. But his guttural responses satisfied me at once that he but ill comprehended my meaning.</p> <p>"Who-e debel you?"—he at last said—"you no speak-e, dam-me, I kill-e." And so saying the lighted tomahawk began flourishing about me in the dark.</p> <p>"Landlord, for God's sake, Peter Coffin!" shouted I. "Landlord! Watch! Coffin! Angels! save me!"</p> <p>"Speak-e! tell-ee me who-ee be, or dam-me, I kill-e!" again growled the cannibal, while his horrid flourishings of the tomahawk scattered the hot tobacco ashes about me till I thought my linen would get on fire. But thank heaven, at that moment the landlord came into the room light in hand, and leaping from the bed I ran up to him.</p> <p>"Don't be afraid now," said he, grinning again, "Queequeg here wouldn't harm a hair of your head."</p> <p>"Stop your grinning," shouted I, "and why didn't you tell me that that infernal harpooneer was a cannibal?"</p>

The First 6 Months of Envato: How We Started a Multimillion Dollar Marketplace

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Kapan Negara Kita Bebas Utang?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post"> <h2> Kapan Negara Kita Bebas Utang?</h2> <div align="left"> <b>Kahanan</b> perekonomian negara kita saya ora karuwan jun­trungé – yèn ora arep diarani morat marit. Nilai <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_rupiah" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Indonesian rupiah">rupiah</a> mrosod nganti sakndhuwuré Rp. 11.000 / dollar AS, senajan pertum­buhané isih ± 6%. Rakyat anané mung sambat ngaru-ara awit reregan saya mumbul. Cethané, sanggan rakyat saya abot, saya tambah mlarat. Minangka wong lumrah, indikatoré kemakmuran bisa dideleng yèn urip kita kecukupan sandhang pangan lan pa­pan, awak séhat, lan sing ora kalah pentingé : ora duwé utang! Urip rasané tentrem yèn ora tansah di-oyak-2 tagihan utang sing <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudu" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Kudu">kudu</a> dibayar.</div> <div align="left"> Nanging béda karo pemerintah kita, sing durung kasil ngén­dhani jiretan utang. Nganti pertengahan taun 2013 utangé wis 2.023 Triliun. Lan iku ateges saben wong Indonesia nyangga utang Rp. 8,5 yuta. Cetha banget, rakyat saya mlarat. Taun 2004, utangé pemerintah SBY lagi 1.299,50 Trilliun. Saiki mundhaké wis 724,22 Triliun. Undhak-2an sing gedhé banget awit kudu mbayar cicilan pokok lan bungané. Taun iki kwajiban mbayaré 299,708 Triliun, = 17,3 % saka total blanjané negara ing APBNP 2013. Kamangka total anggaran kemiskinan mung 115,5 Trilliun, = 6,7 % saka total blanjané negara. Genahé, pemerintah luwih nengenaké maringi subsidhi wong sugih sing nduwèni SBN (<a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=21.17,72.83&spn=0.1,0.1&q=21.17,72.83%20(Surat)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Surat">Surat</a> Berharga Negara) tinimbang nyubsidhi BBM kanggo wong miskin.</div> <div align="left"> Utang secara bilateral, sing paling akèh saka Jepang, rata-2  259,64 Triliun / taun, 38,3 % saka total utang / taun. Utang hu­bungan multilateral saka Bank Dunia sasi Mei 2013 ±122 Triliun, = 21 % saka total utang. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saka" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Saka">Saka</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.adb.org/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Asian Development Bank">ADB</a> 95,77 Triliun = 16 % saka utang luar negri, durung kalebu SBN lan Valas. Kita sing ngarep-arep lan ngimpi kapan bisané negara ora duwé utang rasané wis pupus.</div> <div align="left"> Wiwit jaman <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.8833333333,8.61666666667&spn=0.1,0.1&q=44.8833333333,8.61666666667%20(Orba%20%28river%29)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Orba (river)">Orba</a>, rasané warisan utang sak gunung wis dadi tradhisi sing bakal dadi sanggané pemerintah rezim saterusé. Kahanan ngono mau tetep mutawatiri. Kanthi sanggan utang sing saya akèh saben tauné tanpa ditimbangi mundhaké pendhapatan, APBN bisa jebol lan negara bisa bangkrut. Taun 2005 –2012, total pembayaran cicilan pokok lan bunga utang 1.584,88 Triliun.</div> <div align="left"> Généya pemerintah kita tetep tumindak kaya mengkono? Pemerintah duwé alasan 4 perkara :</div> <div align="left"> <b>Sepisan</b> : Utang dibutuhaké kanggo nutup biaya deficit APBN. Dadi kanggo nutup kekurangan ing APBN, kita bayar nganggo dhuwit utangan, alias gali lubang timbun lubang.</div> <div align="left"> <b>Kapindho </b>: Senajan angka nominalé mundhak, nanging rasio marang <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_Data_Bank" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Protein Data Bank">PDB</a> ing posisi aman.</div> <div align="left"> <b>Katelu </b>: Utang pemerintah diarahaké kanggo ngolèhaké pembiayaan publik kanthi biaya lan risiko endhèk lan jangka panjang.</div> <div align="left"> <b>Kapapat :</b> Pengelolaan fiskal lan utang pemerintah kita bisa saya apik. Senajan bab mau ora bisa dirasakaké sacara langsung déning <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_cilik" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Wong cilik">wong cilik</a>.</div> <div align="left"> Patang perkara mau sing dadi wadanané, pemerintah tetep “wani” utang. Mangka argumentasi mau yèn dijoraké tanpa di­dan­dani bakal nyasaraké. <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_Me_Try" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Let Me Try">Sistem</a> gali lubang timbun lubang, cetha budaya ora apik. Kuduné rancangan belanja ditata mateng, aja kegedhèn empyak kurang cagak. Penerimaan negara kudu diupayakaké mundhak. Yèn isih durung bisa, pengeluarané sing kudu disuda. Tanprabéda uripé wong cilik, luwih becik nyèlèngi dhisik lagi blanja, tinimbang nampa blanjan dhisik nanging di-oyak-2 utang. Bab ratio karo PDB sing katoné cilik, tetep waé abot. Apamanèh yèn digatèkaké, PDB (Produk Domestik Bruto) iku total produksi dalam negri lan asing. Yèn dibandhingaké karo ratio PNB (tanpa asing) mesthi asilé séjé banget. Yèn bab risiko endhèk lan jangka panjang, pancèn katoné ènthèng, mang­ka yèn kita deleng obligasi rekap BLBI jatuh tempo ing taun 2033, kanthi nilai 127 Triliun. Iki jan nyumelangaké. Kaya peram­pokan déning pengusaha, sanggané utang ditanggung negara !</div> Kita ngajap, DPR mèlu tumindak nglèrèni utang. Kita ora kena ke-dlarung-2 nggoné utang, ndadèkaké rakyat saya miskin. Kita wajib nglèrèni utang. Saiba ayemé yèn negara kita ora duwé utang, tanprabéda wong cilik sing uripé bakal ayem tentrem yèn kecukupan butuhé tur ora di-oyak-2 kudu nyarutang. <b>(<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Watt">MW</a>)</b></div> <div class="zemanta-pixie"> <img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=42c7fae0-3435-4de1-98de-5939c3914232" /></div> </div>

Kapan Negara Kita Bebas Utang?

Kapan Negara Kita Bebas Utang? Kahanan perekonomian negara kita saya ora karuwan jun­trungé – yèn ora arep diarani morat marit. Nilai ...

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