Solar Film Cells

Cuando Me Enamoro - There has been a lot of buzz lately about solar film, also called flexible or foldable, solar panels. This is an emerging technology and could completely revolutionize renewable energy. Thin film solar most often uses CIGS (copper indium gallium (di)selenide) technology or amorphous silicon, which are much cheaper and easier to manufacture than the standard solar crystalline panels we're used to seeing. Let's break down the different advantages and disadvantages of this new and exciting technology.

Advantages:

* Cost. Flexible solar is leading the way to cheap energy from the sun. Costs for this technology are dropping quickly and with the investment in research and development, these costs will continue to fall.

* Application. The biggest advantages currently with thin film solar is its numerous application options. Unlike traditional panels, flexible panels can be applied to a wide variety of surfaces. In addition to the traditional roof mounted design, these cells are being molded to cars, backpacks, clothing, and even windows. Some companies are even integrating the cells into things like roof tiles and siding, so your house will have solar in it, not just on it.

* Technology Advancements. Many large companies such as Shell, Honda, and Nanosolar are throwing all their research muscle behind thin film solar. This means that the technology will improve greatly over time, and some of the advancements are already coming to market.

* Fewer Defects. Because the manufacturing process is simpler, there are often fewer defects. The highly technical method of building traditional solar panels, sometimes compared to computer chip manufacturing, involves a lot of detailed soldering. This has been historically a place where the traditional panels experienced a lot of warranty issues. Not so with solar film. The process is closer to printing and therefore is subject to fewer defect issues.

* Less Voltage Drop. Electricity in most applications flows better when its cool. When thin film solar cells heat up they tend to loose less voltage than traditional panels.

* Performance in Low-light. Many thin solar panels have better energy production in low-light and shading situations.

* Durability. Since the technology is fairly new, there are some questions about how long these cells will last. But many early-adopters have reported their cells lasting 15 years and more. These cells do not require the glass and aluminum casings of traditional cells because the materials within them are flexible and malleable, not brittle like crystalline silicon. This means they will likely take more abuse and last longer.

Disadvantages:

* Efficiency Questions. Efficiency of these cells has lagged anywhere from 50%-70% behind that of traditional crystalline cells. This is changing quickly however. In 2005, the National Renewable Energy Lab achieved a world record 19.9% efficiency for a CIGS cell. This means that 19.9% of the total energy that fell on the cell was converted to electricity. This is approaching the world record for a common solar panel of 24.7%.

* Space Needed. With the efficiencies currently available, you would need approximately 50% more room with thin film solar to produce the same electricity as a traditional solar setup.

* Heat Retention. Because thin film solar is usually applied directly to a surface, they can retain more hear. Traditional panels are generally installed with a standoff, meaning there is space between the panel and the supporting surface, allowing for air to cool the panels. Thin film solar may retain more heat, creating a balance act between this and its benefit of better performance at higher temperatures.

Ponsel Nokia ‎

Watch Movie Online - Setelah pemunculan ‘Fennec’ yang merupakan browser versi mobile dari Firefox keluaran Mozilla, kini pengguna ponsel Nokia bisa memanfaatkan aplikasi lain untuk menjelajah internet.

Google telah menghadirkan browser Chrome mereka untuk dijalankan pada platform mobile Nokia. Meski demikian, ponsel yang didukung oleh browser tersebut saat ini barulah Nokia N900 yang menggunakan sistem operasi Maemo.

Google sendiri belum mengumumkan secara resmi kehadiran browser mereka untuk platform smartphone Nokia tersebut, akan tetapi pemunculan browser tersebut mendapat sambutan yang hangat di kalangan pengguna internet.

Seperti VIVAnews kutip dari GSM Arena, 12 April 2010, browser Google Chrome tersebut berbasis Debian 32-bit dan sudah bisa diambil dari situs produsennya di sini.

Mengingat aplikasi ini merupakan browser versi desktop yang dikonversikan ke Nokia N900, Anda mungkin perlu meng-overclock ponsel Nokia tersebut agar bisa mulus menjalankan Google Chrome.

Walaupun disebutkan masih mengandung sejumlah bug, akan tetapi browser ini cukup stabil dan layak digunakan. Sebagai informasi, browser ini meraih nilai sempurna dalam tes dengan Acid3 dan mendukung penuh Adobe Flash.

Hollywood News

Triunfo Del Amor - Based on Mark Millar's comic book, this satire follows the exploits of hapless teen Dave (Johnson), who wants to be a superhero, despite having no superpowers at all.

Film This is not the DC or Marvel universe, this is the real world where getting shot means bloody pain and apathy rules when small-time hoods shake you down for money. So when he gets out there for the first time, he not only gets laughed at 224 la Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins, but he gets the s**t kicked out of him.

Dave's painful road to hero takes an interesting turn when he starts inspiring all sorts of imitators, including a memorable screen duo in Big Daddy and Hit Girl.

Nicolas Cage inverts all his baggage (but still manages a dorky hairstyle) to be cool again, but it is Chloe Moretz as the prepubescent killing machine who really sends chills down your spine.

As the milkshake drinking Mindy she's as cute as a button, which makes her knife-wielding, gun-toting alter ego even scarier.

Once she gets going the film becomes uncom-fortable to watch not only because of the gratuitous violence but because it is a child doing it.

Mark Strong is the mob boss, Frank D'Amico, who inspires all the mayhem when he decides Kick-Ass is responsible for all his troubles. In yet another memorable performance, Strong is THE bad guy, unravelling in a coke-snorting, whiskey-swilling haze of note.

This film doesn't so much kick you in the behind as knock you out and leave you dangling from a lamppost with a sneaking suspicion that you might just have been had. The violence just looks so Tarantino-esque cool and it's even got all these smart references to how the story plays out on social networking websites.

It's clearly well made, with the computer-generated images used to enhance the movie - and not as the only reason to watch it - plus Red Mist (Mitz-Plasse) has such nifty gadgets. But, maybe Kick-Ass had it right when he (once again) gets the stuffing knocked out of him and is asked why he'd go to so much trouble for someone he doesn't know. He points at the people filming him on their cellphones from the safety of a well-lit restaurant and asks: "And three assholes, laying into one guy while everyone else watches? And you wanna know what's wrong with me?"

Totally relishing its profanity, the film is ultra-violent, vulgar and creates a new set of pulp icons. Heaven help us.

Handphone Nokia

Teresa Telenovela - How do you make a winning product? Take something that has stood through the test of time, give it a nice make-over, throw in and out a few features here and there, and drop the pricing down to an affordable level. That's what seems to be Nokia's strategy with their new C3, C6 and E5 models. Let's start with the Nokia E5 for instance. Take a close look at the specifications, it matches closely to Nokia's currently flagship E series champ -- the E72. But look at the pricing -- 180 Euros converted to INR is roughly Rs. 10,900. That's almost half as much as what the E72 costs right now!

Next -- the C6. Its specs resemble the Nokia N97 mini. The good thing is that the C6 has much bigger and what seems to be comfortable QWERTY keys. It sells for Rs. 13,300 -- again a lot less than the N97 mini. Lastly, the cheaper C3 looks like a toned down version of the E63. But the Series 40 interface (as compared to E63's Symbian smartphone OS) would be the major differentiating factor between the two. It's quoted to be sold at Rs. 5000, half of the E63's current price.

But all three phones have one thing in common -- they are strong on social networking. It wasn't enough when Microsoft announced their 'kin' social networking phones the day before. This sudden surge to create social-phones is possibly to fight back brands like Micromax and INQ invading this space with their sub-Rs.10k so-called social networking phones. Most of these are just basic phones with apps like Nimbuzz, Twitter and Facebook pre-installed. The real trick is when you integrate social networking as part of the OS to make it a seamless experience -- which we hope Nokia has accomplished with the phones mentioned above.

I'm pretty sure other manufacturers are going to follow this trend soon -- if they aren't doing it already. But do you think these social phones are just a fad? Do you feel they are just refreshed old phones with a new marketing strategy? Will they last? I feel that with the way digital socializing is increasing by leaps and bounds, these could be the right tools for people who don't want to spend a lot of money on cell-phones.

Hukum Zodiak Bintang

Telenovelas - On Tuesday afternoon, with Vincent C. Gray moments away from addressing supporters after filing papers for his mayoral run, someone had a question: “Any more young people out here?” A Gray supporter, surveying the backdrop for his candidate’s address outside the Frank D. Reeves Center, had apparently noticed the same thing LL had noticed: a surfeit of wrinkles.

Doxie McCoy, Gray’s council press secretary, relayed the call to the back of the crowd: “They’re looking for young people!” A handful of young kids squeezed up front to stand behind the 67-year-old D.C. Council chairman as he delivered brief remarks. A pack of models affiliated with the Greater Washington Fashion Chamber of Commerce also slipped in.

Those stepping aside for the younguns were solidly of the old guard—union chief Geo T. Johnson, longtime friend and supporter Vernon Hawkins, fundraiser Judith Terra, to name a few. The rest of the crowd, more than 100 strong, was rich in union officials, ex-government types, and political junkies, many of them young at heart, few of them actually young. The freshest face in the crowd belonged to Gray’s son, Carlos.

Substitute Gray’s fellow Sharon Pratt veterans (Lorraine Green, et al.) with a couple of key Marion Barry-era characters (Marshall Brown, et al.), you would have found the same crowd standing in the same location behind Gray’s predecessor, Linda W. Cropp, when she kicked off her own mayoral run in September 2005.

We all know how that turned out: Adrian M. Fenty won every precinct in city, sending Cropp into retirement and the city’s old political order into upheaval. So why should things be any different this time?

Where the mayoralty was open in 2006, Gray has the advantage of facing a surprisingly unpopular incumbent. Where Cropp was a listless campaigner, Gray, 67, is more vigorous than his years.

But Cropp was also working with a fundraising advantage that Gray will not have. And what is Gray’s campaign about, exactly? Hard to tell from what was said at the Reeves Center event.

“We can do better in the District of Columbia,” Gray told a crowd chanting, “Run, Vincent, run!” But aside from a nod to “connecting with every voter that we possibly can to get our message out about why I will be the best candidate for mayor in the District of Columbia,” Gray did not venture an explanation of what that message might be.

“We’re gonna talk about all that as the campaign unfolds,” he said, before bring whisked off in a waiting Mercedes.

Anyone familiar with the arc of Gray’s career can take an educated guess. Call it the Rodney King platform: Can’t we all just get along? His famed “One City” logo/mantra appeared Tuesday, with an updated version festooned on signs wielded by supporters. And his new Web site offers this slogan: “One City. Leadership We Need.”

It was an underwhelming start to a campaign that will have to be near-perfect to succeed. Gray, after months of walking into rooms filled with disaffected folks begging him to run for mayor, now faces the reality of beating a younger, better-financed, better-looking Fenty and making them forget that crime is down, schools are better, and ribbons are being cut.

When it comes to physical vigor, the Fenty-Gray comparison is well overstated. Fenty might be an elite triathlete, a fierce competitor in arenas political and otherwise, but Gray isn’t exactly decrepit. LL doesn’t know any 67-year-old as sprightly as Gray. But the generation gap between the thus-far-declared mayoral candidates isn’t physical so much as philosophical. The crowd gathered Tuesday at the Reeves Center sees Fenty’s sins as something approaching the biblical: Thou shall respect your elders.

Ignoring, for all intents and purposes, the public employee unions? Naah. Firing DCPS teachers and having cops escort some out of classrooms? Uh-uh. Blowing off a meeting with Dorothy Height? Hell no.

Gray has dipped his toe into 21st-century campaigning. At the kickoff, he had a “new media director” in attendance, snapping photos later posted to Twitter and Facebook accounts and a slick new Web site. In his remarks, Gray referred to himself as “a dyed-in-the-wool homey.”

But can Gray’s ideas keep up? Where’s he at on mayoral control of the school system? What about bike lanes? Performance-based budgeting? Smart growth? Housing first?

It may not much matter. The base that’s thus far stood up for Vince Gray isn’t looking for innovation.

“He’s a steady hand,” says Rick Powell, political director of the Metro Washington labor council, which has yet to endorse a candidate. “He’s not flashy, he’s not computer-savvy, but he’s a steady hand.…Vince says, ‘You took a chance [on Fenty], and it was a disaster,” Powell says. “’Now I’m gonna give you a another chance.’”

But the base may not be enough.



Athletes Stand Up for Fenty



When word leaked Monday that Gray would be running for mayor, political junkies salivated, union officials cheered, and even local athletes took notice.

You see, under Fenty, it’s been a halcyon era for folks who, like Hizzoner, push themselves to the limit in marathons, triathlons, and competitive cycling. Fenty’s opened new recreation facilities, attracted new top-level competitions, and is an accomplished athlete himself.

Gray is an athlete, too, though he prefers different pursuits—baseball and hand dancing, to be precise.

Monday afternoon, Chuck Brodsky, founder of the Nation’s Triathlon and a close ally of Fenty’s, mass e-mailed his fellow competitors and issued a call to arms: “The benefits we’ve enjoyed under Mayor Fenty and our way of life as athletes, cyclists, runners, sports enthusiasts and competitors in the District of Columbia is in jeopardy,” he wrote. “Don’t stand idle. Now is your time to be heard.”

The e-mail continues: “You’ve never allowed anyone to tell you how to live your life. That’s the hallmark of our A type personalities. Now is your time to stand up, be heard, and support Mayor Fenty in his re-election bid to preserve the gains of our city and our quality of life.”

“[Y]our support,” Brodsky writes, “is non-negotiable.” He requested athletes that help with daily door-knocking or post a yard sign to preserve a “robust and athlete friendly city.”

Brodsky, reached Tuesday, deems the response to the e-mail “overwhelming.”

“My inbox is flooded with people who want to help,” he says. “Not just themselves, but they want me to bring a dozen [signs] to give them to their neighbors.”

Brodsky adds: “This is our time to stand up. We’ve never had it so good for athletes…so we want to keep it going.”

Poet and Anti-Poet‎

Cuando Me Enamoro - At a reading I attended in the Smith College science lecture hall a few years ago, Charles Bernstein, famous as a poet and anti-poet, pointed to the giant poster on the wall behind him and said, “I want to thank the Poetry Center for putting up my poem ‘The Periodic Table of the Elements.’ ” He then proceeded to give a mock-dramatic rendition of the symbols, left to right, down the page. “H, He, Li, Be!” he panted, growled and spluttered. “Why!?” he complained when he got to yttrium (Y). “I!” he declared solemnly for iodine, as if toasting his own ego. He slowed down, sped up. “No!” he bellowed for nobelium, then finally whispered “Lr,” the last chemical symbol. He turned to face the audience. “I’ve always wondered if I should have ended with ‘No’ rather than putting that ‘Lr’ on the end. I think it was a mistake. I think it would have been more emphatic with the negation.” This was the funniest, most impromptu-­brilliant, serious moment I’ve ever witnessed at a poetry reading — and very much about sound, language, expression and communication.

With “All the Whiskey in Heaven,” his first book not published by a university or independent press, Bernstein takes his place in the mainstream of American poetry, the very “Official Verse Culture” he’s attacked entertainingly for years — a fate awaiting all our best outsiders. Bernstein is identified with the Language poets, who emerged in the 1970s. Interested in the materiality of language, they are politically left, theoretically grounded and deeply suspicious of the lyric “I” that speaks from the heart in traditional poems without examining its own existence in a sociopolitical power structure. Their work is often most subversive when both joining and satirizing that weary old, dreary old genre, poetry about poetry. Early Bernstein can be opaque, annoying those who see difficulty as elitist and who want poetry to be cuddly and educational. But everyone should love the later Bernstein, a writer who is accessible, enormously witty, often joyful — and even more evilly subversive.

This selection of Bernstein’s work doesn’t neglect his early experiments. “Lift Off,” apparently transcribed from a typewriter correction tape, begins “HH/ ie,s obVrsxr;atjrn dugh seineopcv i iibalfmgmMw.” A sympathetic reader appreciates the grunting “dugh,” the fortuitous trip to Paris implied by “seine,” the broken “s ob,” the loneliness of the lowercase “i.” This is a conceptual poem — you may be more excited to know it exists than to read through it.

A hilarious, addictive untitled series of sentences sounds cribbed from TV Guide: “Comradery turns to rivalry when 12 medical students learn that only seven of them will be admitted to the hospital. . . . Henrietta Hippo believes she can predict the future by reading the letters in her alphabet soup.” No mere joke, this prose poem gets at the strange dream-normalcy of television, the absurdity of narrative, the tragicomedy of human desire.

“Of Time and the Line” combines prosodic theory, stand-up comedy, and personal and political history by considering uses of the word “line”: George Burns and Henny Youngman punch lines, Bernstein’s father’s “line of ladies’ dresses,” his mother’s hemline, long lines in Russia, soup lines in the United States, Chairman Mao’s political line, “abandoned (most- / ly) for the East-West line of malarkey / so popular in these parts.” In all, there are 40 indefatigably punning, quasi-blank-verse lines — cold war references, hammy delivery, satire of sentimental family history. The sillier Bernstein gets, the more it’s a sign of the poem’s seriousness:

Nowadays, you can often spot a work
of poetry by whether it’s in lines
or no; if it’s in prose, there’s a good chance
it’s a poem.

“Thank You for Saying Thank You” lampoons critics of difficult poetry, beginning, “This is a totally / accessible poem,” satirizing the claims built into certain kinds of lyric poetry and describing itself into existence: “It fully expresses / the feelings of the / author: my feelings, / the person speaking / to you now.” Some claims are bald falsehoods:

It
celebrates the
triumph of the
human imagination
amidst pitfalls &
calamities.

The poem is gleefully about nothing but itself, an extremely funny, cruel, ultimately profound comment on poetic falsification, and what poems can and should and cannot do.

When Bernstein arrives at his own style of lyric beauty, his means are slant. “A Test of Poetry” is a gorgeous catechism of questions, but no answers, posed by a translator to the author of a poem we get only in fragments:

What do you mean by rashes of ash? Is industry
systematic work, assiduous activity, or ownership
of factories? Is ripple agitate lightly? Are
we tossed in tune when we write poems? And
what or who emboss with gloss insignias of air?

This riveting poem, more than five pages long, does everything a lyric aims to do — it creates linguistic excitement, mystery and emotion — without resorting to tiresome epiphanies.

The prose poem “Report From Liberty Street” is one of the few poetic responses to 9/11 to avoid false consolation and the taint of catastrophe-exploitation. “I took a walk on Liberty Street today. Only it was not the same place as I had known before,” the poet reports from Lower Manhattan. He narrates what he sees, thinks and hears, repeating at intervals the chilling refrain, “They thought they were going to heaven.” Because Battery Park is closed, “it’s impossible to get to the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.” Meanwhile, “At Pier A on the Battery, there are two giant Apple ‘Think Different’ ads with blown-up pictures of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, who preside over the scene with unflinching incomprehension.”

“Unflinching incomprehension” seems the right phrase for the way Americans watched the events of 9/11, and also for our country’s simplistic, war-justifying stance toward complicated geopolitics. The hijackers are “Not cowards. Men of principle” but “No one deserves to die this way. I think that goes without saying and yet I feel compelled to say it.” How to respond to the events is on Bernstein’s mind. He invokes “Ozymandias,” Shelley’s sonnet about the remains of the statue of an ancient ruler, borrowing and corrupting a phrase from Shelley, “These vast and hollow trunks of steel,” to describe the ruins of the World Trade Center.

Toward the poem’s end, Bernstein says, “The question isn’t is art up to this but what else is art for?” I can think of a lot of things art might be for, including — taking a cue from “All the Whiskey in Heaven” — documentation, commemoration, celebration, satire, theory mongering, genuine sentiment. But Bernstein refuses the responsibility of having the last word on this century’s most vicious and problematic tragedy, instead quoting “Ozymandias” again with tremendous resonance to end his own poem: “The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

I’m not sure whether art is up to the task of dealing with 9/11 and its aftermath. I do know that this calculating, improvisatory, essential poet won’t tell you the truth wrapped up in a neat little package. He might show it to you when you’re least expecting it.

Daisy Fried’s most recent book of poems is “My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again.”

Tiger Woods Neighbors Daughter

Watch Movie Online -Tiger Woods Neighbors Daughter – Raychel Coudriet Photos – 17th Alleged Woods Mistress. With the Masters in full swing, the Tiger Woods scandal continues. Raychel Coudriet is the daughter of Tiger Woods’ neighbors. Allegedly, he had an affair with her making her the 17th woman to step forward.
Too bad she missed the Howard Stern beauty pageant.

Tiger Woods - The alleged mistress claims that she and Tiger had a one-night stand when she was 21 (she’s now 22), and that she feels “used and violated” because she meant “nothing more” to the golfer than a casual fling.

Tiger did, however, try to hook up again sending suggestive text messages to her phone. Coudriet claims she ignored them and that their alleged affair lasted no more than one night.

Most of the alleged mistresses so far have been cocktail waitresses or even adult entertainers. This is the first college student and the first girl so close to Tiger’s home to come forward and admit an affair.

The tabloids report that Woods and Coudriet shared some adult beverages, he came on to her and then they had a one night stand in his office. Of course, Tiger hasn’t commented on the stories.

The reports also note that Tiger has known the Coudriets since Raychel was 14 years old!

Of course, it’s surprising that all of a sudden this young woman comes forward during the opening of the Masters.

Memalak Kader PDIP

Bikini - Pihak keamanan Kongres III Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan di Sanur, Denpasar, Bali, membawa seorang pemuda bernama Binsar ke polisi, Rabu (7/4) malam. Ia diduga sedang meminta uang secara paksa kepada salah seorang kader PDIP di arena Kongres.

Binsar sempat mengaku aktivis Benteng Demokrasi Rakyat (Bendera), organisasi yang ikut meramaikan Kongres dengan berunjuk rasa. Tapi, Andi Julius, Koordinator Lapangan Bendera Jakarta Utara, menepis bahwa Binsar adalah anggota Bendera. "Saya tahu dia sering nongkrong di DPRD Jakarta dan mengaku anggota Bendera," kata Andi. Ia memang berangkat bersama aktivis Bendera lain, tapi ia bukan anggota.

Kini, pria berkaus hitam bergambar Soekarno itu menjalani pemeriksaan di pos polisi setempat. Malang benar nasib Binsar Simbolon. Karena ketahuan memalak seorang peserta Kongres III PDI-P di lokasi kongres di Hotel Inna Grand Bali Beach, Rabu (7/4/2010), Binsar dibekuk oleh Satgas Pecalang yang mengawal jalannya kongres dan diarak ke pos polisi di depan hotel.

Binsar juga sempat digebuk sehingga bibirnya bonyok. Binsar lalu dimasukkan di salah satu ruangan untuk menghindari amuk para satgas yang geram karena merasa dipermalukan dengan tindakan Binsar di lokasi kongres. Salah satu satgas mengatakan gerak-gerik Binsar memang sudah dipantau sejak pukul 15.00 WITA tadi.

Meski belum dapat memastikan, Penghubung Bidang Umum Kongres Bambang Sukri mengatakan ada yang aneh dengan sorot mata Binsar. Bambang menduga Binsar juga dalam keadaan mabuk. Identitas Binsar sendiri masih rancu.

Ada yang mengatakan dia wartawan, ada yang mengatakan dirinya aktivis Bendera, salah satu organisasi sayap PDI-P, karena menggunakan ID Card Bendera.

Koordinator lapangan Bendera Jakarta Utara Andi Yulius mengakui Binsar memang ikut rombongan Bendera dari Jakarta. Rombongan Bendera yang datang ke Denpasar berjumlah delapan bus atau sekitar 80-an orang. "Kita tahunya sih dia wartawan di DPRD DKI Jakarta di Kebon Sirih. Tapi enggak tahu juga medianya apa," tuturnya.

"Dia biasa malak kayaknya. Tadi juga minta uang. Ya uang transportlah. Kita ngelihatnya biasa awalnya. Tadi ke lantai dua nyari sasaranlah," tandasnya.

Campur Tangan Alam ‎

Bikini - Ramalan cuaca memprediksi bahwa akhir pekan ini kawasan Selangor di mana Sirkuit Sepang berada bakal diguyur hujan. Kondisi cuaca bisa menentukan jalan cerita dari GP Malaysia nantinya.

Seperti detiksport kutip dari situs departemen meteorologi Malaysia (www.met.gov.my), akhir pekan ini negara bagian Selangor akan diguyur hujan dan juga badai guntur.

Ini berarti GP Malaysia yang digelar pada Minggu (4/4/2010) petang waktu setempat boleh jadi bakal ditemani oleh cuaca buruk.

Langkah antisipasi sudah dilakukan oleh panitia pelaksana dengan memajukan waktu start. Di balapan musim lalu, cuaca buruk membuat lomba di Sepang harus berhenti ketika baru memasuki lap ke-32.

Namun faktor cuaca menjadi hal yang cukup ditunggu oleh para penggemar F1. Pasalnya faktor alam ini bisa membuat lomba menjadi seru.

Di balapan pertama musim ini yakni di Bahrain, race berlangsung membosankan di bawah siraman sinar Matahari. Selanjutnya di balapan kedua yakni GP Australia, balapan berlangsung seru di atas trek yang basah akibat diguyur hujan.

Dari polling detiksport hingga Jumat (2/4/2010) pukul 05:00 WIB, balapan dalam kondisi kering mendapatkan suara paling sedikit yakni 54, atau 25,84 persen dari total 208 suara yang masuk.

Bagaimana dengan hujan? Ada 64 suara (30,62%) yang berharap bisa menyaksikan pertarungan di Sepang berada dalam guyuran hujan.

Mayoritas suara yang masuk mengharapkan lomba berada dalam situasi hujan lalu kering. Jumlah responden yang memilih opsi ini adalah 90 atau 43,06% dari total suara yang masuk.

Cathy Sharon Pasrah

Bikini - Sejak putus dari Eno 'Netral', Cathy Sharon memang belum terlihat menggandeng pasangan baru. Namun, belakangan tersebar kabar, kakak Julie Estelle ini sedang dekat dengan seorang personil band. Apa benar?

Cathy berucap "Saya masih nyaman dengan status jomblo. Tapi, kalau memang saya nanti dapat pacar dari kalangan anak band, kenapa tidak?" katanya saat ditemui di Warung Desa, Tebet, Jakarta, Jumat lalu, menanggapi rumor itu.

Menurut presenter cantik ini, apapun yang ia lakukan dan alami, baik itu pekerjaan, rezeki, maupun jodoh, semua itu diatur Tuhan. "Jadi, siapapun pacar saya nanti, tidak harus anak band, dan bisa dari kalangan manapun, saya tidak masalah. Yang penting, 'chemistry'-nya ketemu, orangnya baik dan pengertian. Karena,saat ini, waktu saya lebih banyak buat bekerja."

Soal gosip itu bagaimana? "Kalau ada omongan tentang saya, saya terima dan pasrah saja," ujarnya sambil tertawa.