Google Sure to Shut Down in China


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Google Inc. has draw up detailed plans to shut its search engine in China and is "99.9 Percent" certain of going ahead with the closure, the Financial Times reported Saturday, citing a person it didn't name.

The company may make the decision very soon, while it will take time to carry out a closure to make sure staff don't suffer reprisals from authorities, the paper said, citing the person as familiar with Google, said she had no comment on the report when reached by phone.
Google said on jan. 12 that it will stop it called an infiltration of its technology and the email accounts of Chinese human-rights activist. China yesterday called Google's plan to defy goverment censorship rules "unfriendly and irresponsible".
"The usual headlines is companies are cooming into China , not companies pulling out," said Duncan Clark, Beijing-based Chairman of business advisory company BDA China Ltd. "China wants to be the leading place for research and development. They'd like to have tech companies here but they don't want the content involvement. Bit you can sparate the two".
Google may have to pull out of china pending talks with authorities, it said in january. An exit from the world biggest internet market would cost Google, whose sales growth slowed during the US recesion, US$600 Mollion in revenue, according to estimates by JPMorgan Chase & Co.
China is "a market that no company can ignore, Google included" JP Gan, managing director at Shanghai-based Qiming Venture Partners, wich oversees more than $500 million, said before the FT report. "You have to play by the local rules if you want to operate here".
The resolution of the dispute with Google rests on the company, not the goverment, Li Yizhong, minister of Industry and information of technologi, said on march 12. "if one company violates the Chinese law and is unfriendly and irresponsible, that's unwanted and means the company doesn't merit i ts world class statues".
Talks with the Chinese goverment may yeld result "soon", Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said on March 10.
Google system were targeted by "highly Sophisticated" attacks aimed at obtaining proprietary information, as well as personal data belonging to human rights activists who use the company's Gmail email service, it said in January. At least 20 other international companies in technology, finance and chemicals werw similary targeted, Google said at the time.
Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc.m the world two biggest maker of security software, said this month they are working with the US Goverment on an investigation of the source of the cyber attacks.
China may have 840 million Internet users, or 61 percent of the population, by 2013, according to EMarketer Inc. in New York. The country had 384 million at the end of last year, according to goverment data.

March 15, 2010 The Jakarta Post
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History in 9 March


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1942 - Japanese troops take Java in World War II after heavy fighting against Dutch colonial forces and their british, Australian and US allies









1924 - Italy annexes the independent city of Fiume but abandons claims to Yugoslavia's Dalmatian coast.

1956 - Archbishop Makarios III, leader of the greek Cypriot movement for unification with Greece, is deported from Cyprus to the seychelles by the British colonial authorities, who accused him of supporting terrorism.

1976 -  Forty-two people die in Cavalese, Italy, in the world's worst cable car disaster. One teenage girl survives.

1991 - Yugoslavia deploys tank in Belgrade after clashes between riot police and anti-Comunist Protesters.

1992 - Former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin dies. He shared the 1978 Nobel Prize with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt.

1995 - US President Bill Clinton approves a visa for Gery Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, political ally of the IRA guerrillas who fought to end british rule in Nothern Ireland, to enter the United States to raise funds.

1996 -  George Burns, one of America's best-loved and most enduring entertainers, dies week after his 100th birthday.

2002 - The Month Blanc Alpine tunnel reopens to car traffic after a fire in 1999 that killed 39 people.

2004 - Scientist unvell a picture of the universe taken by the Hubble Space that looked back up to 13 billion years to register galaxies formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

2005 - The spanish serial murdererAlfredo Galan, nick named the "playing card killer" because he left a card at the scene of  his crimes, receives jail senctences totaling 142 years.

2006 - Jhon Profumo, the goverment minister who in 1963 was at the center of one Britain's biggest political scandals, featuring a mix of high-society sex and cold war paranoia, dies aged 91.
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Top Indonesian Terrorist Dulmatin Believed Slain by Police Gunfire


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The body of a suspected terrorist lying near his motorcycle after he was shot by members of the police’s Densus 88 on Jalan Setiabudi in Pamulang, Tangerang. Dulmatin, a mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings, is believed to have beenkilled in the raid. (JG Photo/Yudhi Sukma Wijaya)






Fingerprint analysis has yet to establish a definitive identity, but antiterrorism police officers were already seen praising God and rejoicing on the outskirts of the capital on Tuesday, believing a man they shot dead during a fierce gun battle was Dulmatin, one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings that claimed 202 lives.

Regardless of whether the man killed in an unassuming shop in Tangerang was indeed one of the most wanted terrorists in Southeast Asia, the killing is being seen as a major victory in the country’s fight against terrorism.

“The man who was shot was an influential figure in the history of terrorism in Indonesia. He masterminded paramilitary drills in Jantho [Aceh],” said Brig. Gen. Tito Karnavian, the head of the Densus 88 antiterrorism unit.

Dulmatin, who has gone by a list of aliases, including Asmar Usman, Joko Pitono, Nova and Yahya Ibrohim, is the country’s most wanted terrorist fugitive after Malaysian national Noordin Mohamad Top was killed last September in a police raid.

“We thank God that the man we shot at the Multiplus shop-house [on Jalan Siliwangi in Pamulang] is Dulmatin. His ID card says that he is Yahya,” a source said.

Dulmatin is a leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist organization and an Al Qaeda-trained bomb-making specialist.

Ansyaad Mbai, the head of the antiterrorism desk at the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, said that if the man gunned down was Dulmatin, it will have “significant implications, because the terrorist organization would have lost a very vital figure.”

“He wanted to replace Noordin Top. He was being hunted down via massive operations in the southern Philippines where he had been hiding.”

The man was one of three people killed in two raids just before and after noon in Pamulang, South Tangerang, on Tuesday. Police confirmed later that they had also arrested three suspected militants in Pamulang, including a woman.

National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Edward Aritonang said police were forced to kill the man suspected to be Dulmatin.

“He had taken a shot at police. His revolver had five bullets in the magazine and seven bullets were found in his pockets,” Edward said.

The two others killed, identified only as R and H, were shot on Jalan Setiabudi 12, about a kilo­meter from the Multiplus business service center on Jalan Siliwangi, where the man believed to be Dulmatin was shot dead.

“The two were trying to escape on a Suzuki Thunder [motor­cycle],” Edward said, adding that they pointed a gun at police.

After the shootings, police raided a house located on Asem, an alleyway not far from Jalan Setiabudi, and emerged with two men wearing only underwear.

“We believe that those captured today have terror links with the Aceh group. We, however, did not find any explosives on them or the places we raided today,” Edward said.

He added that a woman was later arrested.

“We can confirm that those arrested in Jakarta and West Java [over the weekend] were gun suppliers and financiers [of terrorist activities in Aceh], including the ones shot and captured in Pamulang,” Edward said, referring to the militant group in Aceh that police have been hunting in a massive operation since Feb. 22.

To date, 22 suspected terrorists have been captured in Aceh, West Java and Jakarta since the operation began. The latest suspect, a fisherman identified as Hendri Marlan Saputra, 28, was arrested in Muara Batu, North Aceh, on Tuesday.

Three policemen, two civilians and a suspected militant have been killed in the operation in Aceh so far.

When asked whether Tuesday’s arrests had anything to do with Jemaah Islamiyah, Edward said: “What is for sure is that this group has nothing to do with the separatist Free Aceh Movement [GAM] or its former members.”

GAM disbanded after a 2005 peace pact ended almost three decades of separatist conflict in Aceh.

All three captured in Pamulang were taken into police custody and are being interrogated at the headquarters of the National Police’s elite Mobile Brigade (Brimob) in Kelapa Dua, Depok.


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Time to Put Focus Back on the People


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With the House of Respresentatives clearly defining its position on how to proced with investigation of Bank Century scandal, all the politicking surrounding the controversy needs to stop.

President Susilo Bambany Yudhoyono, Vice President Boediono, Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie and Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) head Megawati Soekarnoputri have all aggreed that the country's law-enforcement agencies should take charge of a fllow-up probe and be allowed to do their job independently.

Clearly, it's time to set the record straight in the bank Century case-punish the wrongdores and leave those found innocent alone. For months, the controversy sucked the energy out of our country and distracted our leaders from attending ti issues what were more relevant to the education system, a better national healt care structure and the assurance that the rule of law was fairly enforced.

The Bank Century case has had it share of attention, but it's now time to focus on and serve a democratic country's primary needs-the people's need.

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KPK Musketeers Must Soldier On


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The House of Representatives rejection of the goverments regulation in lieu of law, or perppu, to fill leadership void in the Corruption Eradication Commossion should not hamstring the law-enforcement agency. With its current four leaders, there should be nothing standing in the way of commission working even more diligently and courageously. There should be nothing standing in the way of commission working even more diligently and courageously. There is nothing in the law that request the agency's decisions to be made colective by five top commissioners.

Opinions differ on the fate of Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean, the acting chairman of the commision, also know as the KPK, who was appointed under the perppu. Some have said the house's rejection mandates his resignation, but other belive that since the regulation was valid when president appointed him, there is no need for him to step down.
We belive that the four KPK musketeers are fully capable of leading the antigraft agency and withstanding the invetable attacks. If Tumpak is replaced, the official who steps into his role must be wholly credible with a spotless track record. The goverment and the house must learn a lesson from the election of Antasari Azhar, wich ended in disaster.

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Muslim Women Protest Segregation in US


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A group of Muslim women were nearly arrested on sunday for trying to pray in the main area of Washington DC's Islamic Center - an area ordinarly reserved exclisive for men.
The protest was the second time women have sought to share the main prayer area at the mosque in washington, after a group of 20 women first attempted it in february. One of the women in sunday's protest said was from Indonesia.

Washington. A group of Muslim women risked arrest on Sunday as they sought to pray in the main area of the Islamic Center of Washington — an area ordinarily reserved exclusively for men. 

“Wooden barriers have to be taken down and women have to be allowed to join, to pray behind the men in the main praying area. That’s our request,” said Fatima Thompson, an American Muslim who converted to the faith 18 years ago. 

“We are against gender segregation, against the fact that women are put aside or in a totally different room at the mosque,” added Thompson, who led the group of female protestors, all self-identified progressive Muslims. 

The Sunday protest was the second time women have sought to share the main prayer area at the mosque in Washington DC, after a group of 20 women first tried in February. 

“The general issue we are pushing is gender segregation and the ramifications it fosters. It’s not healthy, and not reflective of our society here. It’s very reflective of very restrictive, ultra orthodox societies,” Thompson added. 

Their hair covered with head scarves, the group of six women entered the mosque’s prayer area via the main door usually reserved for men and walked through to the room where around 20 men had already arrived. 

Women and children ordinarily enter the Washington mosque, located in the city’s embassy district, through a small door hidden behind a screen. 

“If you are black in this country they can’t tell you to sit in a corner but if you are a woman they can,” said Asra Nomani, a Muslim feminist who has participated in similar protests elsewhere in the United States. 

The imam presiding over the prayer interrupted proceedings to announce by microphone: “We are going to wait, because some people came to disturb the prayer, until the police come and take care of this issue.” 

Within minutes, three police officers arrived and told the women to leave or face arrest. 

“In Indonesia where I’m from, it’s not the way we pray,” said one woman, who declined to give her name, of the segregated prayer setup. 

“I want to make them think about it and make some change,” she added. 

“We may not get to see that in our lifetime but we do that for our daughters,” said Jannah Hannah, who converted to Islam 25 years ago and said she would continue to fight for shared prayer space. 

The group of women agreed to leave the mosque, but performed their prayers on the street outside, facing the metal gates of the building as police looked on.

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How To Quit Smoking Cigarettes


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Your chances of quitting successfully are greatly increased with thoughtful preparation and effective planning.
If you have followed the tips so far you will have learnt about the power of nicotine addiction, why you smoke and how to deal with nicotine addiction, weight gain, cravings and stress.
It is now time to begin putting this together in your personal quitting plan.




Top 10 Tips on Stopping Smoking
  1. Start with some pre-preparation by ensuring that you really do want to quit smoking cigarettes and understanding why you smoke. Are these reasons powerful enough to motivate you when you are faced with those tricky situations? Write down your reasons for quitting. You may want to take a look at some of the benefits of quitting.
  2. Set yourself a date for quitting. Try and choose a date that will be stress free but when you can find plenty to do to keep yourself busy. Try and set a date within about two weeks of reading this.
  3. Ask your doctor for advice. This is especially important if you have health problems or are concerned about issues such as weight gain.
  4. Consider finding yourself a quitting partner relatives, work colleagues and friends are a good place to start. Set a date to quit together and you will be able to give each other support.
  5. Tell your family and friends about your intentions. Ask them for their support before you quit and explain that you may not be yourself while experiencing withdrawal. When you reach your quitting date rely on those that have been most encouraging for support.
  6. Think about starting an exercise program and a sensible eating plan. Again speak to your doctor or dietician. Exercise will give you more energy and help you to relax and relieve stress.
  7. You should know what triggers your desire for a cigarette, such as stress, the end of a meal, drinking in a bar, etc. Avoid these triggers while you are trying to quit or if that's  not possible, decide how you will deal with the triggers.
  8. Decide what you will do when you experience cravings. As we've discussed deep breathing, a short walk and keeping you self busy will help to take your mind off the cravings. Perhaps you can think of other ways. Write them down. Remember these cravings will only last for 3-5 minutes at a time.
  9. If you have tried quitting before maybe you came across a stumbling block which we have discussed such as finding something to do with your hands. If so, you need to arm yourself with a solution to these foreseeable problems. Get yourself a pen, or stress relief aid to fiddle with, if occupying your hands is a problem. 
  10. Be positive and confident you can quit. You have spent time and energy planning how you will deal with the task ahead by following our tips for giving up smoking. Believe you can and you will do it if you persevere.
Ten of thousands of people are quitting every day around the world. You can be one of them.

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Dangers of Smoking


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There are many dangers of smoking to the body, to the immediate family, to the society, to the environment and to the economy. More than 700 chemical additives are found in cigarettes. Some of them are classified as toxic and are not allowed in food.
Once lit, a cigarette reaches a temperature of nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. This high heat helps release thousands of chemical compounds, including poisons like carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide, at least 43 carcinogens, and numerous mutagens. All of these are drawn into the body when a smoker inhales.

Dangers Of Smoking With Nicotine

One of the main dangers of smoking is due to Nicotine. Nicotine is found naturally in tobacco. It has no odor and no color. It is, however, both physically and psychologically addictive, and it causes those who use it to want to smoke one cigarette after another.
Nicotine enters the body as tiny droplets resting on particles of tar in cigarette smoke. Inhaled into the lungs, the drug passes quickly into the bloodstream, reaching the brain within about 10 seconds. In another 5 to 10 seconds the nicotine has spread to all parts of the body.
The nicotine raises both the heart rate and blood pressure. The smoker quickly feels more alert and relaxed. In less than 30 minutes, however, about half of the nicotine has left the bloodstream, and the smoker starts feeling less alert, more edgy.
So he or she reaches for another cigarette to get a new “hit” of nicotine. Over time, the smoker starts needing more cigarettes throughout the day to satisfy the craving.

Dangers Of Smoking With Tar

There are other dangers of smoking as well. The tar from tobacco smoke starts to accumulate on the bronchial tubes leading to the lungs. The hot smoke burns the tiny hairlike projections (called cilia) that trap harmful particles before they enter the lungs.

Carbon Monoxide

One more of the dangers of smoking are Carbon monoxide. Smoking also increases the level of carbon monoxide in the lungs. This poisonous gas is quickly absorbed into the blood, reducing its capacity to carry oxygen.
As a result, the smoker has to exert more physical effort to attain a given task than does a nonsmoker. The heart in particular must work harder, particularly during rigorous exercise. Increased levels of carbon monoxide in the blood can impair vision, perception of time, and coordination.
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Insomnia Treatments


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Healthcare professionals are able to diagnose insomnia and also prescribe insomnia treatments. If the patient does not respond to any insomnia treatment prescribed, then more extensive examinations and further testing might be warranted. Especially if neither the person's physical, emotional, or mental circumstances seem to be the cause. The treatments available are diverse and will invariably seek to improve any physical or emotional difficulties that might be contributing factors to the condition.
The insomnia treatments available include anti-anxiety drugs, antidepressants, tranquilizers, and sedatives, all of which require a prescription. The drawbacks with regards to this kind of treatment are: 1. the drugs can be habit forming/addictive 2. they will often become less effective over time, and 3. they can reduce awareness.
It is important to identify any medical or psychological problems that may be causing the insomnia, as well as rule them out, before a suitable treatment can be found. There are alternative insomnia treatments which can be tried and avenues which can be explored before turning to drug therapy. For many people simply making changes in their lifestyle will often improve the situation.
There are effective and natural insomnia treatments available. Stimulus control therapy involves controlling/changing the sleep environment, a concept often referred to as 'sleep hygiene'. Changes might include: 1. Setting the alarm for the same time everyday, Monday through Sunday, to establish a regular sleep pattern - regardless of how much sleep one managed to achieve 2. Refraining from using the bed for reading or watching TV - reserving bedtime exclusively for bed time 3. Only going to bed when ready to sleep 4. If you cannot sleep within 20/30 minutes, engage in a relaxing activity elsewhere, like reading 5. And no napping during the day.
Sleep Restriction endeavors to equal the time spent in bed with the time spent asleep. This can play an important role in stimulus control therapy. Sleep restriction maintains a precise and inflexible sleep-wake routine. This is one of the insomnia treatments involving a level of sleep deprivation, as well as control. A minimum of 85% of the time in bed must be spent sleeping: If a person can only manage to sleep around 5hrs the maximum time they are allowed to sleep would be around four and a half hours - and they must always get up at the same time. Over a matter of two or three weeks the amount of sleep allowed is gradually increased.
There are many natural insomnia treatments available which are non-addictive and effective. Even so, the first line of defense should invariably be to change elements within your environment, your sleep routine and even your lifestyle..
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Guitar Lesson - 6 Things You Need To Know To Learn A Song


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This fast guitar lesson is going to let you know what it takes to learn a song, and no, it's not going to take months to do it either. The reason that beginning players are coerced to learn practice scales and riffs is because this helps to establish a strong foundation to play almost anything later.
However, if you just wanted to dive right into songs, there's a straight-forward method to focus on your skills on just that song and it's simple to learn. So, let's take a look at 6 things you need to know to learn a new song or tune.
  1. How many chords are used and what are they? The odds are that any song that you're attempting to play is based on a simple set of chords and that's what you need to know first. So, get onto the web and type "Your song name's chords" and I'm sure you come up with a long list of results. Try to stick with songs that have four chords at the very most if you're just beginning.
  2. What is the song's tempo? Is this going to be a fast or slow tune? For beginners, it's best to start with something slow or at an average tempo of around 120bpm which is considered andante. Any fast guitar lesson will tell you that it's a good idea to use a metronome when you're practicing to keep up with a tempo as well.
  3. Does it match my skill level? This step is sort of reiterating what has already been said, but by this point, you need to realize if the song you're going for is too difficult. If it is, don't be discouraged. You'll get to that point eventually, but for now you should try something easier to keep your motivation going.
  4. What are the chord progressions and transitions? In this fast guitar lesson I'd like to stress the importance of smooth transitions in a guitar progression. Learn what order the chords come in and how they transition, but as you practice those transitions, make sure that everything is flowing together smoothly. The smoother your transitions, the more you'll be recognized as a professional player.
  5. What is the rhythm of the song? Now that you have the chords and tempo down, it's time to tackle the rhythm. This is more about what variations of strumming patterns are used through each chord. Try to sync up as close to the recording of the song as you can to make your playing authentic.
  6. What defines the song? This is more a subjective section to this fast guitar lesson, but it's about knowing what to add into the song besides just the base chords. Maybe there's a specific intro riff or lead section that really identifies the tune. Think about what creates the originality of the piece and that's the last thing to learn.
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Teens against Parents in the Street Chess Match


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As I waited for hours in college classes .. I hung out first at a coffee shop on the edge of the road located at Jalan Gatot Subroto, Bandung .. while drinking a glass of coffee accompanied my friend .. I saw teenagers and parents who are fighting chess .. teenager holding a white pawn while parents holding a white pawn .. battle took place very tight .. they will not budge .. at start killing each other between a white pawn and the black pawn is walking fast .. but when the pawn is where they begin a real fight .. they begin to think carefully .. steps have been taken very careful and calculating .. but over time I see instead wrote a chess match,, there are actually fighting pliers mouth (such as the cold war meant .. haha ..) but strangely when their mouths shot each other taunts,, their minds can not be separated from the chess match .. and finally driven Itupun teenagers and eventually lost ..ohh .. it is old or young it makes no difference if a matter of logic to play chess .. if often trained human brain will not be dull even to old .. as if we are studying the science that we get will not be exhausted by the time .. but different from the wealth that can run out .. then while we are still alive there is nothing wrong if a surplus property donated to the poor little more needed ..
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Nokia N900 Mobile Phone Review - The GSM Internet Tablet With Linux


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Announced in August and Released in November 2009, the latest in the Nokia family of Internet Tablets is sure to please those who longed for cellular GSM ability in their QWERTY handsets. It still bears the same no-nonsense Nokia appearance, any colour, so long as you like black, but in overall impression it still looks sleek and professional. The Nokia N900 weighs quite a bit - at 181g and measuring a shade under 111mm x 60mm x 18mm, its 113cc volume hangs heavy in your pocket, however, considering the functions it offers, Nokia have done well to keep the weight down as well as they have.
This mighty quadband handset works on both 2G (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) and 3G (HSDPA 900/1700/2100) networks. It features the Maemo 5 operating system running on an ARM Cortex A8 600MHz processor supported by the PowerVR SGX Graphics chipset. Data transfer takes place by means of class 32 GPRS and EDGE technology and runs on 3G at 10Mbps on HSDPA and at 2Mbps on HSUPA. Other connectability includes Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and DLNA WLAN, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP microUSB 2.0 and an infra red port - unusual these days in a handset.
For talking to your friends and work colleagues, messaging is via SMS (threaded view), Email, Push Email and IM. The browser supports xHTML, HTML and RSS feeds.
When you open the box, the package contains the Nokia N900 handset, a microUSB charger, a converter for previous Nokia Chargers, microUSB cable, a TV-out cable and a Stereo headset with two sets of eartips. Also in the box is the User Guide and a very useful and thoughtfully provided cleaning cloth.
The N900 comes with 5 games pre-installed, with more downloadable but it does not support Java. It does, however, feature Skype and Google Talk VoIP integration, MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ music player, TV-out, PDF Document Viewer, Photo Editor and Adobe Flash Player 9.4. GPS is also part of the package with A-GPS support and Ovi Maps, and it does include a Stereo FM radio via third party software and an FM transmitter. The speakerphone with stereo speakers and inbuilt standard 3.5mm audiojack allows for listening pleasure while you are working.
The memory in the Nokia N900 internet tablet allows for practically unlimited entries and fields in the phonebook, Photocall and detailed phone records for a maximum period of 30 days. The internal storage is a very satisfying 32GB with 256MB of RAM. If required, there is also the ability to boost the memory up to 16GB via a microSD card.
If taking photos is one of your pleasures, the Primary 5 megapixel Camera features Carl Zeiss Optics, autofocus, Dual LED flash and even a video light. It does support Geo-tagging and has the capability to take video (WVGA - 848x480) at 25fps. There is also a secondary VGA camera.

We did like:
Nokia as a company really tries hard to produce mobile phones which cater for everyone's taste - they are leaders in the field, and yet - they still provide the little things like a cloth to clean your handset with. Small, but very nice touch.
We didn't like:
The Nokia N900 does not support Java, making it incompatible with lots of things. Perhaps a future model will amend this.
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The Last Remnant Trainer


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file description: Mega Gold, Battle Party HP, Increase/Decrease Character HP, Character AP, Strength, Intellect, Speed, One Hit Kills, Unlimited Timeshift, Unlimited Diggs, Super Speed, Save/Load Position (Teleport). Made exclusively for Cheat Happens. WRITTEN FOR THE ORIGINAL RETAIL VERSION OF THE GAME. May not work with all versions. Read the included readme file with Notepad for important instructions on using the trainer. This trainer features customizable hotkeys.

more information / instructions:
A trainer is a program written to intercept and alter the memory addresses of a game. Trainers usually have to be running in memory the entire time the game is loaded. Since trainers address specific memory locations, they usually only support a specific version of a game. This file is not supported in multiplayer or online games.


Download Trainer : http://www.ziddu.com/download/8367239/thelastremnanttrainer.zip.html
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Silverchair Biography


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Silverchair are one of the most acclaimed and successful bands in Australian music history.

The group's members were all born in 1979 in the Newcastle surf suburb of Merewether. Singer/guitarist Daniel Johns and drummer Ben Gillies started making music together at primary school and schoolmate Chris Joannou later joined on bass. They got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo competition conducted by SBS TV show "Nomad" and Triple J.

The band changed its name from Innocent Criminals to Silverchair and in August 1994 they released their winning demo - a track called "Tomorrow". The song eventually spent six weeks at #1 on the Australian singles charts and 20 weeks in the top 10. In 1995 it became the most played song of the year on U.S. modern rock radio.

Silverchair's debut album "frogstomp", recorded in just nine days in early 1995, was a raw sounding slab of alternative rock. A #1 hit in Australia and New Zealand the disc went on to become the first Australian album since INXS to hit the U.S. top 10, selling more than 2.5 million copies throughout the world. As "frogstomp" and "Tomorrow" propelled silverchair to music superstardom through 1996 the group juggled memorable performances on the roof of Radio City Music Hall and tours with Red Hot Chili Peppers alongside full time schooling commitments back home in Newcastle.

The trio also found time that year to record their sophomore album "Freak Show" which was released in February, 1997. A more adventurous piece of work than "frogstomp" this disc yielded three top ten singles in Australia - "Freak", "Abuse Me" and "Cemetery". Global sales eventually exceeded 1.5 million copies in spite of the fact that the band had to juggle world tours while trying to finish their final year of high school.

After finally graduating from school the band was able to spend much more time creating their critically lauded breakthrough, "Neon Ballroom" which was released in March 1999. The group's songwriter, Daniel Johns had been battling personal demons as he attempted to adjust to Silverchair's sudden success and he poured these experiences into his new batch of songs. Determined to shake the constant musical comparisons that had previously dogged his band, Johns created a truly original sounding album. Fusing heavy rock with orchestral flourishes and synthetic touches with powerfully emotional lyrics, the dark and haunting "Neon Ballroom" was universally acclaimed as a huge creative leap for Johns and his bandmates.

Silverchair toured extensively in support of the album, propelling it to even stronger worldwide sales than they had achieved with "Freak Show". In Europe and South America it became the group's most successful album to date due to the Comet Award winning "Ana's Song" - a track about Daniel Johns' battles with an eating disorder. Elsewhere, distinctive tracks like "Emotion Sickness" and the aching "Miss You Love" established the group's staying power once and for all.

The band toured Europe and the U.S. throughout 1999 including appearances on leading festivals such as Reading and Bizarrefest. After all this touring Silverchair announced that they would be taking a 12 month break during 2000 to recharge their batteries.

Having fulfilled their initial recording contract the group was pursued by labels for much of this year off. At the end of 2000 they announced that they had signed new deals and as a result their former label released two compilation albums over the following years without the band's involvement.

Silverchair's one and only gig in 2000 was a sold out appearance at Australia's Falls Festival on New Years Eve. It was followed on January 21, 2001 by the biggest show of their lives - 250,000 people at Rock In Rio - a performance which the band describes as the highlight of their career to date.

In June 2001 the band started work on their fourth album, "Diorama". This time Daniel Johns set out to explore even more new musical territory. A range of other musicians were drawn in to contribute to the disc, most notably the legendary Beach Boys and U2 collaborator, Van Dyke Parks who contributed orchestral arrangements to three tracks including a lush epic called "Luv Your Life". Also helping out again were "Neon Ballroom" sidemen, Paul Mac and Jim Moginie.

The album saw Johns embracing melody and combining it with brighter lyrics than most of his previous works. It was a huge creative leap which also saw the band exploring a vast array of instrumentation and musical styles.

Diorama means "a world within a world". It was a particularly apt name as this evocative work lifts you out of the everyday and carries you into a world of its own. According to Rolling Stone magazine in its four and a half star review, the album was "one of the boldest musical statements ever made by an Australian rock band".

"Diorama" entered the Australian charts at #1 in April. It yielded the top 10 singles "The Greatest View" and "Without You" and the top 20 hit "Luv Your Life" as well as the airplay favourites "After All These Years" and "Across The Night".

The album's international performance was unfortunately impeded by the band's inability to tour or do promotional appearances due to Daniel Johns' ill health. The singer/guitarist spent 2002 battling a severely debilitating case of reactive arthritis from which he is now completely recovered. Nevertheless, even without any of the usual promotional support the album has reached #12 in Germany and the top 40 of numerous other countries including Holland, Sweden and Brazil. However, the group's inability to tour in support of the release still made the middle of 2002 a very frustrating period.

This all began to change in October 2002 when the band's work on "Diorama" won them six ARIA Awards (Australia's Grammys) including "Best Group" and "Best Rock Album". In a last minute surprise the trio returned to the stage to deliver a searing performance of "The Greatest View" which catapulted their album back into the national top 10.

Within another two months the disc had sold over 250,000 copies in Australia making it the fastest selling album of the band's career in their homeland. It went on to be certified five times platinum. In spite of the musical challenges presented by the album and the band's inability to tour or promote it, in Australia at least Diorama still managed to attract the biggest audience of any Silverchair release.

From March to June of 2003 Silverchair finally got to play the album live. Their "Across The Night" tour sold out around their homeland in minutes and was the largest of their career. The band also played multiple sold out shows in South America, the U.S, Canada and the U.K..

This remarkable tour capped a roller coaster year for Silverchair - a year which in many ways traced the journey of "Diorama" itself - from bleak times into a much happier new dawn. The event was captured in a multiplatinum CD/DVD set called "Live From Faraway Stables" that was released in late 2003.

The band then went on an indefinite hiatus. Daniel Johns collaborated with Paul Mac to create an acclaimed gold selling album as The Dissociatives and the group toured Australia and the UK. Chris Joannou was nominated for an ARIA award for his production work with The Mess Hall while under the banner of Tambalane Ben Gillies recently recorded an album with some friends that showed his longstanding love of James Brown style funk. Throughout this time the group repeatedly refuted media reports that they had split up - pointing out that they were just taking an open ended break and that they would make music together again when the time was right.

That time finally came when Silverchair and their management helped pull together the unforgettable Waveaid benefit concert at the Sydney Cricket Ground on January 29, 2005. The event drew a sold out crowd of 55,000 people and saw a 'who's who' of Australian music raise over $2,500,000 for the victims of the Asian tsunami. The undeniable spark that the band felt together in the rehearsal room and onstage at that extraordinary show rekindled their desire to start making another album together later that year.

And so the decision was made to regroup but to "remove all the pressure" that had surrounded the band since the explosive reaction to their first CD. Not only did that involve an unhurried and quite secretive creative approach, it also meant the band taking the highly unusual step of choosing to fund the entire album themselves so as to avoid a repeat of the creative clashes that occurred with their US label during the recording of "Diorama". The focus was on the three guys recapturing the "sense of endless possibilities" that they had when they first started out.

The group did a few big Australian shows in March/April '06 to roadtest some new songs and to help build a war chest to fund the venture. Then they headed to another house in LA where tracking commenced in a backyard studio called Seedy Underbelly. The album that eventuated - Young Modern - melds elements from each of the band's previous works while somehow seeming more cohesive than anything they've done since their debut.

The disc will be released in Australia on March 31, 2007 with overseas releases to follow in June/July on a label to be announced.

This time around Daniel shared the producer role with Nick Launay who had helmed earlier 'chair albums Freak Show and Neon Ballroom. Diorama producer, David Bottrill was brought in as mixer on Young Modern. Paul Mac was again on hand for keyboard duties as he was with the group's two previous albums and legendary Beach Boys collaborator Van Dyke Parks reprised his Diorama role penning orchestrations for three songs. In keeping with the free spirited nature of the process his sections were recorded in Prague... as you do when you're seeking 80 piece orchestras.

(By the way, this seems as good a place as any to mention that in addition to being a fine summary of the intent behind the album, "Young Modern" is also the nickname that Mr Parks has used for Mr Johns since they first met.)

Silverchair's intent is clear from the brash guitar wail and the pounding drums and bass that give lift-off to the album's opening track, "Young Modern Station". "The band is back together" exclaims an exuberant Daniel Johns a few seconds into the song and it's impossible to argue the point. Then it's straight into the slow burning epic "Straight Lines" - the first single to be lifted from the album - and on through an album full of melody, invention and exuberance.

Of course Young Modern has big shoes to fill. Even though the members of Silverchair are still only 27 years old the trio has already had four consecutive number 1 albums in their homeland. They've received 39 ARIA Award nominations over the last 12 years and they've sold over 6 million albums around the world.

To top it all just a few months back they were the only artist other than U2, Radiohead and The Beatles to have three of their albums make the top 100 most popular Australian CD's of all time in a big ABC TV poll (Diorama came in just behind Midnight Oil's classic 10...1 as the most popular Aussie album on the list).

But the challenge of living up to this amazing history is not one that Daniel Johns finds daunting.

"It took me a long time to realize that the sound Ben, Chris and I make when we play my songs is something special", says the Silverchair frontman. "I've been thinking a lot since we finished the album about were this fits into the other stuff we've done. The way I see it the first album was naivety, the second one was anger, the third one was depression and the last one was escapism. Young Modern is all about acceptance. It's about embracing who we are as band and just really enjoying ourselves because that's all that really matters. Hopefully listening to this album will make other people feel what we feel when we play these songs together because I've finally figured out that that's a very special feeling.
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Nirvana Biography


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Core Members: Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl
Formed in: 1987, Aberdeen, Washington
Key Albums: Nevermind (1991), In Utero (1993)
Nirvana are one of the most well-known and successful rock groups in the history of recorded music. The trio from Seattle were fronted by Kurt Cobain (born February 20, 1967, died April 5, 1994), and featured future Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl on drums. Their second and third albums, 1991's Nevermind and 1993's In Utero, are two of the biggest selling records in history. With their legacy preserved by the shotgun suicide of Cobain in 1994, Nirvana retains the air of legend.
Background
Nirvana were born in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1985, when Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic were introduced by their mutual friend, Buzz Osborne, of The Melvins. Osborne had been instrumental in Cobain's musical growth, taking along the 14-year-old Kurt to his first-ever rockshow: Black Flag. Growing up in the "redneck, backwoods" logging town, Cobain was an intense loner who sought refuge in records.
"I was so antisocial that I was almost insane," said Cobain, of his teenage years, in a 1993 interview with Howl. "I felt so different and so crazy that people just left me alone. I wouldn't have been surprised if they had voted me Most Likely To Kill Everyone At A High School Dance." Fittingly enough, Cobain's early songs —inspired by '80s hardcore bands like Scratch Acid, Rapeman, Flipper, and Black Flag— were, by his own admission, "really angry." Beginnings
Playing gigs around Aberdeen and Olympia, the budding Nirvana developed a strong local following. Recording demos with Jack Endino, the band caught the attention of nascent Seattle label Sub Pop. They agreed to put out Nirvana's debut album. The $606.17 it cost to record such —cemented in legend on the liner-notes— was donated by Dylan Carlson, a friend of the band who was listed as having played 'guitar' on the recordings, but was really more a patron. Grohl, such a signature part of Nirvana, didn't arrive until the next album.
Bleach, the finished record, was released in 1989; its raucous garage-rock topped off with lyrics about "life in Aberdeen." Playing on the role of outsider, Cobain's lyrics immediately struck a chord with disenfranchised youth in the US and Europe. Whilst Bleach's initial sales of 35,000 copies seem scant compared to later Nirvana albums, it represented an underground breakthrough. Championed by bands like Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr., and receiving intense critical acclaim, Nirvana were courted by major labels. At the recommendation of Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, they signed with David Geffen's DGC.



Breakthrough
In 1991, Nirvana became the biggest band in the world. Essentially on the back of one song: "Smells Like Teen Spirit." With its title taken from a piece of graffiti spray-painted by Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna, the song was Cobain's attempt to "rip off The Pixies." When the band first played it to Butch Vig, the producer in charge of their second album, he could barely contain his excitement. "It was awesome sounding," Vig would tell Rolling Stone. "I was pacing around the room, trying not to jump up and down in ecstasy."
The cut was a monstrous hit, setting the table for the incredible success of record number two, Nevermind. Geffen, proving they had no idea what they were onto, initially only pressed 400,000 copies. It has ended up selling over 26 million copies. Of course, its growth was slow; having debuted only at #144 in the US.
Though others could see the writing on the wall (the Village Voice called Nevermind "the catchiest, chock-full-o-anthems record since [Bon Jovi's] Slippery When Wet"), Cobain remained defiant. "I'm not into ambition or salesmanship," Cobain said, at the time. "I don't see Nirvana getting as big as Metallica or Guns n' Roses," he'd later offer, even after his band was on its way to Gold Status.
In some ways, this foreshadowed Cobain's contentious relationship with the masses. "I just can't accept that mainstream macho-dickhead attitude. I wouldn't be comfortable having that many people in my audience every night that are like that," he lamented. Speaking to Shark zine in 1991, he burned with resentment, saying he was "disgusted" at "how spineless, lethargic, and guilty" Generation X was. If this was Cobain being spokesperson for a generation, he wasn't pulling any punches.

Contention
In 1992, to capitalize on Nirvana's astonishing success, Geffen cobbled together a collection of unreleased tracks, demos, rarities, and alternate versions. Cobain, ever the provocateur, called it Incesticide. The frontman seized the opportunity to write a withering broadside in the liner-notes that proved so controversial it was omitted from later pressings. "At this point, I have a request for our fans," Cobain wrote, in his 'open letter.' "If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different colour, or women, please do us this one favour for us - leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows, and don't buy our records."
Cobain's vocalized frustrations came at the culmination of a year in which the band, having grown into a corporate behemoth, had to deal with criticism from their initial audience: punk-rock fans. As someone who loved nothing more than "pure underground music" —his favorite bands at the time included The Vaselines, The Raincoats, Os Mutantes, and Young Marble Giants— it hit Cobain where it hurt. "I felt terrible," he told Sassy, "to be shunned by this claim that just because you are playing the corporate game you are not honest."
"I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout," Cobain said, in a '92 interview with Rolling Stone. "I understand that. Maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock n' roll identity so righteously."
In February of 1992, Cobain had married his girlfriend, Courtney Love of the band Hole. In August of that year, their daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, was born. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times in 1992, Cobain credited that union with helping keep him off the edge. "I guess I must have quit the band about 10 different times in the last year," he said. "I'd tell my manager or the band, but most of the time I would just stand up and say to Courtney, 'OK, this is it.' But it would blow over in a day or two."
Cobain lamented that "the biggest thing that affected [him] was all the insane rumors, the heroin rumors," yet, both he and Love had gone on the record confessing to using the drug. "To escape from it all I did heroin for quite some time," Cobain told Dutch magazine OOR.

Legacy Cemented
Out of that dark period came In Utero, one of the bleakest albums ever to debut at #1 worldwide. Having wanted to "record a really raw album for almost a year," Nirvana hooked up with producer Steve Albini, the former Big Black and Rapeman frontman renowned for his simple, unfettered approach to production. Said Cobain, to OOR, of the album: "the image of the group had been hyped up to outrageous proportions, we had the idea it didn't matter what we recorded: it would sell anyway."
The results didn't go down well with Nirvana's vested corporate overseers. "My A&R man called me up one night and said, ‘I don’t like the record, it sounds like crap, there’s way too much effect on the drums, you can’t hear the vocals.’ He didn’t think the songwriting was up to par," Cobain told Melody Maker. "A few other people —our management, our lawyers— didn’t like the record either."
Though Cobain felt like he didn't make "negative record" —lead single "Heart-Shaped Box"'s chorus of "Hey/Wait/I’ve got a new complaint" was him joking about his portrayal in the media— in Utero is clearly the chronicle of a troubled soul.
If Nevermind's leadoff song, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," set the tone for that album, so, too, did In Utero's opening track "Serve The Servants." Though Cobain claimed the album was "about disease, bad health and the feeling of being trapped," it plays like a meditation on self-loathing. Its sardonic, cynical, ironic opening lines —"Teenage angst had paid off well/Now I'm bored and old"— set the tenor for the record, which Cobain initially wanted to call I Hate Myself And I Want To Die.

Things Fall Apart
At the time, that shelved working-title seemed like comedy, but less than a year later, it seemed like a sad cry-for-help. After Nirvana had played their legendary MTV Unplugged set in November of 1993 —later enshrined on both album and video— Cobain tripped into a downward spiral of drug-abuse and sickness.
After one heroin overdose, and another on Rohypnol and alcohol, all of Nirvana's immediate tour-dates were cancelled. Cobain, at the behest of his wife and friends, checked into a rehab center in Los Angeles. After only one day, Cobain climbed a fence, took a taxi to LAX, and flew back to Seattle. His whereabouts unknown by family and friends, Cobain committed suicide in his Lake Washington home on April 5, 1994, although his body was not located until three days later.

"I haven't felt the excitement of listening to [and] creating music," his suicide note read, in part, "for too many years now." Seemingly thinking about the power and integrity of his music until the very end, Cobain's legacy as devoted genius was sealed.
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What's a Blog ?


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There are different descriptions of that concept. According to most of the articles on the Internet 'blog' is short for 'weblog', a frequently updated publication of comments and thoughts on the web. Usually it is reflecting the views of the blog's creator. Blogs consist of text and images and are sorted by date. The newest information is on the top and there is an archive of the old one. People create blogs to share their thoughts with the world. A person writing in the journal is called a 'blogger'. Bloggers write about different topics: from the typical daily situations to the progress of some scientific researches. The readers also can leave comments and thus make the whole blog more interesting and useful.

History of the blog

Blogs are part of the World Wide Web since its creation. In the beginning they did not have a defined name, but their purpose was more or less the same as that of contemporary blogs. Here is a list of the first blogs:

    * Dawn of Internet: Tim Berners-Lee at CERN begins keeping a list of all new sites as they come online.
    * June 1993: NCSA's oldest archived 'What's New' list of sites.
    * June 1993: Netscape begins running it's 'What's New!' list of sites.
    * January 1994: Justin Hall launches Justin's Home Page which would become Links from the Underground.
    * April 1997: Dave Winer launches Scripting News.
    * December 1997: Jorn Barger coins the term 'weblog''.
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Music History


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The Medieval Era
(800 - 1400 C.E.)

     The Medieval Era is the longest and most remote period of musical history. It is important to note that this musical era consists of almost a thousand years worth of music. For most of the middle ages, the Church was the focal point of social life, learning, and the arts. Saint Gregory, who was pope from 590 - 640 C.E., is said to have organized a huge repetoire of chants that developed during the first centuries of the Christian church. Thus the term of "Gregorian Chant" came about.

     Early Medieval music notation did not look like the notation that is used in present day music. The earliest signs of a notational system notational system for music used neumes. For a long time, musical notation consisted of the pitch or note that was to be sung. Other musical notation, such as rhythm didn't begin until the 12th or 13th centuries.

     Gregorian Chant is monophonic , having one melodic line without an accompaniment. It is said to be very serene, with pure shapes of melody. It is not known who wrote the melodies of the Gregorian Chant. Similar to folk melodies, it probably changed over time as it was passed down through generations.

     Toward the latter part of the Middle Ages, music consisted of two or more melodic lines that were heard simultaneously, called polyphony . This appeared around the 1200s. Polyphony was more difficult to compose than the monophonic chant, because a composer had to combine multiple melodic lines in a way that would be pleasing to the listener. Most of the Medieval polyphonic music was anonymous, as the names of composers were never written down. However, there are a few exceptions, as some composers had works so important that their names were preserved along with their music.

     Although little of it has been preserved, secular song was important to the medieval era.. Secular song was monophonic and stylistically more diversified than plain song. It was stronger, and utilized regular rhythms, and had short rhythmic patterns. It was generally modal but favored major (Ionian) and minor (Aeolian) modes.


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L'arc en Ciel Biography


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L'Arc~en~Ciel (Raruku an Shieru, "The Rainbow" in French) is a Japanese rock band, that formed in 1991. The group has sold over 13 million albums, 16 million singles, and millions of other units, such as videos. They were ranked at number 58, in a list of Top 100Japanese pops musicians, provided by HMV Japan in 2003.



History
1991–1996: Early Career
In February 1991, bassist Tetsu, later band leader, recruited vocalist Hyde along with guitarist Hiro and drummer Pero, and formed a band under the name of L'Arc~en~Ciel. After a year of gaining notoriety in their hometown of Osaka, Hiro left the band on June 12, 1992. Tetsuyaa convinced his friend Ken to quit his university studies (he was an architecture major at The Nagoya Institute of Technology) and join the band as the guitarist. Pero soon left the band on December 30, 1992. In 1993, a new drummer, Sakura, joined the band.
On April 1, 1993, the band released their debut album Dune under the indie label Danger Crue. The album was a success and rose to number one on the Oricon indies charts, catching the attention of some major labels. In 1994, L'Arc-en-Ciel signed on with Sony's Ki/oon division, releasing their second album, Tierra that same year. Heavenly followed in 1995. True, released in 1996, became their first number-one, million selling album.

1997: Sakura's departure
In February 1997, drummer Sakura was arrested for illegal drug possession. He officially quit the band on October 4, 1997. This proved to be the lowest point in the band's history. When news of Sakura's arrest became public, there was an immediate official response and CDs were removed from the shelves. "The Fourth Avenue Cafe" for Rurouni Kenshin was immediately replaced with former theme "Heart of the Sword" after only six episodes of running time. Their next single "The Fourth Avenue Cafe" was postponed. It was eventually released in 2006.

Over the next few months the group continued to be featured in magazines, but only as a trio. "The Zombies", which was notionally recorded as the "copy band", sang their songs. They also covered Marilyn Manson's "Irresponsible Hate Anthem". The return from the break was marked by the appropriately named Reincarnation 97 Live in Tokyo Dome, with their new drummer, Yukihiro (former drummer with Zi:Kill and Die in Cries). The first concert in Tokyo Dome had an attendance of 56,000, which sold out in four minutes, a record at that time.
In 1997, "Niji", the first single after Sakura's departure, was released with Yukihiro listed as a supporting member. Not long after the release of the single, Yukihiro was signed on as the official drummer for L'Arc-en-Ciel.

1998–2000: Blockbuster success in J-pop market
Their 1998 single "Winter Fall", became their first number-one single on the Oricon charts. They released the album Heart on February 25, 1998. Ark and Ray were released simultaneously on July 1, 1999, and became the first Japanese albums to be released simultaneously in many other Asian countries. Both topped the Oricon music charts, with Ark occupying number one and Ray at number two. The release of arkand ray marked the commercial high point of the band's career, with each selling over two million copies.
Their next album Real was released on August 30, 2000. However, it was their last studio album for some time. "Stay Away" from the albumReal was featured in DrumMania 4th Mix, making the song playable on the machine.



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Luna Sea Biography


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Luna Sea is a Japanese rock band. It was formed in 1989 by Ryuichi Kawamura, Yasuhiro "Sugizo" Sugihara, Shinobu "Inoran" Inoue, Jun "J." Onose and Shinya Yamada, a lineup that remained consistent until the band's breakup in 2000. They released seven studio albums and several singles and VHS/DVD releases throughout the 90s.

History

1989-90: The Origin

The band was formed in August 1989 by J and Inoran when they were in high school, using the name "Lunacy." Together with some senior members, they played at occasional live houses and radio music contests. When the senior members were graduated from school in 1989, Lunacy recruited Sugizo and Shinya from the band Pinoccio to be guitarist and drummer, respectively. After searching for a few months, the band recruited Ryuichi from the band Slaughter to be the lead vocalist.
That year, Lunacy debuted on stage at the 100-seat capacity Machida Playhouse on May 29. They released their first demo including "Time Is Dead" and "Nightmare" for the sold out 100 copies. The band's second demo would be released three months later including "Suspicious," "Shade," and "Search for reason," which again sold out for 1,000 copies. On December 17, the band played their first official live concert at Machida Playhouse with all 150 tickets being sold out.

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