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Ricky Rubio wants to keep playing basketball in Spain, saying a move to the Minnesota Timberwolves would be too risky and complicate his life.

The 19-year-old point guard was sent from DKV Joventut to Barcelona on Tuesday after the Catalan club paid Rubio's $5 million buyout clause.

Rubio, the Timberwolves' fifth overall pick in this year's draft, agreed to a six-year deal that included a buyout clause that allows him to leave for the NBA after two years.

"Going to Minnesota would have just complicated my life a lot. It was a risk and I didn't see it so clearly," Rubio said. "My priority was the NBA and it was impossible for the Minnesota Timberwolves to pay my buyout clause, so I wanted to stay home."

Timberwolves president David Kahn traveled to Spain three times to try to work out a deal and appeared to have secured Rubio's passage to Minnesota less than 48 hours before the player changed his mind.

"When the season ended, I entered the draft with the intention of going to the NBA," Rubio said Wednesday. "But some things happened that kept me from being ahead of the rest and I ended up No. 5, which I was happy with, but it didn't allow me the chance to go to the NBA. I tried, but in the end it wasn't to be."

NBA guidelines limit the amount of money Minnesota could have contributed to Rubio's buyout at $500,000. Kahn said a package of endorsement deals and sponsorships had helped make the NBA deal attractive enough for Rubio and Joventut to enter into an agreement on Saturday.

"They could only put half a million into it, and I think that the deal with Minnesota had too many obstacles," Rubio said.

Rubio said he was still committed to going to the NBA, even though there is no guarantee the starting point guard spot will still be around.

"I won't lie," Rubio said. "My objective has always been the NBA."

Police in Virginia said that, singer Chris Brown will remove graffiti, pick up trash and wash cars as part of his sentence for beating ex-girlfriend Rihanna.

The 20-year-old Brown was sentenced in California last month to five years' probation, six months of community labor and a year of domestic violence counseling for the February attack. He is performing the labor in Richmond near his home.

In a letter to the judge, Richmond Police Chief Bryan Norwood outlined some of Brown's tasks. They include graffiti removal, trash pickup, washing cars, cleaning and maintaining grounds.

Norwood said Brown will be supervised during his service, but Brown would have to pay for any additional security if the public becomes aware of his presence.

Tasikmala - Rescuers dug through rocks and debris with their bare hands Thursday in search of dozens of villagers believed buried in a landslide triggered by a strong Indonesian earthquake that killed at least 46 people and caused widespread damage.

At least 110 people were hospitalized with injuries from the 7.0 magnitude quake just off the coast of densely populated Java island, Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono said, adding that 10 were in critical condition.

The earthquake Wednesday afternoon caused destruction across West Java province, where 700 buildings toppled or were badly damaged. Many of the deaths and injuries were caused by falling debris or collapsed walls and roofs.

In the village of Cikangkareng in Cianjur district, a landslide buried a row of homes under tons of rock and mud. At least 13 bodies were recovered and villagers were searching for dozens of people believed missing, Kardono said.

"Everything is gone, my wife, my old father-in-law and my house ... now I just hope to find the bodies of my family," farmer Ahmad Suhana, 34, said as he pried at giant stones with a crowbar.

Heavy digging equipment had not reached the remote village, which President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was to visit later Thursday. Police, military personnel and villagers used their hands.

Maskana Sumitra, a district administrator, said 11 houses and a mosque were buried by the landslide and estimated that more than 50 people were trapped and feared dead.

"The chance of survival is so slim ... but we have to find them," Sumitra said.

The prolonged shaking from the quake was felt hundreds of miles (kilometers) away on the neighboring resort island of Bali.

In the capital, Jakarta, 125 miles (190 kilometers) north, thousands of panicked office workers flooded out of swaying skyscrapers onto the streets, some of them screaming.

The Disaster Management Agency said at least 46 people were confirmed dead.

"The earthquake was shaking everything in my house very strongly for almost a minute," Heni Maryani, a resident of the town of Sukabumi, told el Shinta radio. "I grabbed my children and ran out. I saw people were in panic. Women were screaming and children were crying."

Hospitals quickly filled with scores of injured people, most of them with broken bones and cuts.

A tsunami warning was issued after the quake struck at mid afternoon but was lifted an hour later. Several dozen aftershocks were measured by geological agencies.

Indonesia, a vast archipelago, straddles continental plates and is prone to seismic activity along what is known as the Pacific Ring of Fire. A huge quake off western Indonesia caused a powerful tsunami in December 2004 that killed about 230,000 people in a dozen countries, half of them in Aceh province.

Obama will deliver a major prime-time health care address to Congress next week, opening an urgent autumn push to gain control of the debate that has been slipping from his grasp under withering Republican-led attacks.

Scheduling of the speech next Wednesday night, just a day after lawmakers return from their August recess, underscores the determination of the White House to confront critics of Obama's overhaul proposals and to buck up supporters who have been thrown on the defensive. Allies have been urging the president to be more specific about his plans and to take a greater role in the debate, and aides have signaled he will do that in the address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber.

The speech's timing also suggests that top Democrats have all but given up hope for a bipartisan breakthrough by Senate Finance Committee negotiators. The White House had given those six lawmakers until Sept. 15 to draft a plan, but next week's speech comes well ahead of that deadline.

It follows an August recess in which critics of Obama's health proposals dominated many public forums. Approval ratings for Obama, and for his health care proposals, dropped during the month.

White House senior adviser David Axelrod told reporters Wednesday, "We believe this is the best way to kick off the final discussions, the final debate, and bring this thing to a close in a way that is meaningful."

Listeners to Obama's speech will have "a clear sense of what he proposes and what health care reform is not," Axelrod said. He declined to offer details of what the president might discuss.

Axelrod said earlier that all the key ideas for revising health care are "on the table," suggesting that Obama will not offer major new proposals.

But he may talk more specifically about his top priorities, and perhaps add details to pending plans, to save a high-profile initiative whose defeat would deliver a huge blow to his young presidency.

Many advocates of sweeping health care changes — which would include health coverage for virtually every American, greater competition among insurers and incentives to increase the quality of care instead of the number of medical procedures performed — welcomed the president's more direct role. Obama and congressional Democrats clearly lost momentum during the August recess, they say, and the president's high profile and still-considerable personal popularity are needed to change the dynamic.

"He's got to get into the nitty-gritty and embrace very concrete proposals," said Ralph Neas, head of the National Coalition on Health Care.

Richard Kirsch, national campaign manager for the liberal advocacy group Health Care for America Now, said, "It's really clear they understand they have to provide more presidential leadership, more presidential direction."

Kirsch said Obama doesn't have to provide legislative language, but he must detail "the contours of the reform he needs."

It's far from clear that Obama's speech will satisfy grumbling liberals. For instance, he consistently has refused to insist on a government-run program to compete with private health insurers, a top goal of liberals, even though he says he prefers such an option.

Axelrod called the public option important, but stopped short of saying it was essential to a final bill.

Several lawmakers say Obama must convincingly show that he can reduce the cost of pending health care plans. Nonpartisan budget officials have said Obama's proposals could increase the federal deficit by about $1 trillion over the next decade.

Neas said billions of dollars can be saved by changing health payment practices to discourage unnecessary procedures. He also said insurance and pharmaceutical companies should be required to offer more savings to the nation's health care system because they will benefit from millions of new customers if greater coverage of Americans is mandated.

Such demands could be awkward for Obama. He has praised those industries for the cost reductions — worth tens of billions of dollars over the next decade — they already have pledged to make.

Before Obama's speech to Congress was announced, the Republicans' top negotiator on health care indicated Wednesday that bipartisan talks would continue despite White House suggestions that he and another GOP bargainer have not acted in good faith.

Jill Kozeny, a spokeswoman for Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, said the accusations were unjustified. She said Grassley and the five other Senate Finance Committee members — half Republicans, half Democrats — will hold their scheduled conference call Friday to try again to reach common ground on a health care bill that could win broad support in the full Senate.

Axelrod on Tuesday suggested that Grassley and Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., have not acted in good faith because they sharply criticized Democratic plans during the August recess.

Kozeny said Wednesday: "Attacks by political operatives in the White House undermine bipartisan efforts and drive senators away from the table."

Enzi spokeswoman Elly Pickett said of her boss: "Repeating that you don't agree with plans put together solely by one side doesn't mean you aren't willing to work together on a different plan. He is."

Axelrod had kind words for the third GOP Senate negotiator, Olympia Snowe of Maine. Many lawmakers see her as the likeliest possible Republican senator to support a major health care package if a true bipartisan accord can't be reached.

Obama "has a high regard for her," Axelrod said. "She's made a good faith effort to try and find common ground."

In one measure of the intense opposition Obama and his allies faced this summer, opponents of the Democratic effort outspent supporters on television commercials in August for the first time this year, according to a firm that monitors political advertising.

Foes of the Democratic drive spent $12.1 million last month, compared with $9.1 million for backers of the effort, according to Evan Tracey, president of the Campaign Media Analysis Group in Arlington, Va. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several conservative groups were the biggest advertisers against the health care overhaul, while the drug industry, labor and AARP spent the most on the effort's behalf.

Setelah Real Madrid mendatangkan Kareem Benzema, Kaka, Christiano Ronaldo, dipastikan posisi Klaus Jan Huntelaar akan tersingkirkan di lini depan. Hal ini membuatnya gerah karena tentunya pemain asal Belanda ini akan sering duduk di bangku candangan.
Melihat hal itu, banyak klub yang meminati mantan striker Ajax Amsterdam ini. Di antara mereka adalah AC Milan dan MU.
Milan dan MU sangat bernafsu untuk meminang Huntelaar karena kedua klub tersebut sama-sama kekurangan amunisi di lini depan.
Kabarnya, Milan telah mengajukan proposal penawaran kontrak kepada Madrid untuk mengikat Huntelaar secara resmi. Namun belum ada kepastian apakah Huntelaar akan berlabuh dimana.

Welcome CR9!! adalah kata-kata yang diucapkan sekitar 80.000 pendukung Real Madrid yang memadati stadion Santiago Bernabeau kandang 'Los Galaticos' dan menyambut pemain baru mereka Christiano Ronaldo.
Sebelumnya Christiano Ronaldo disapa CR7 waktu masih membela Mancahester United karena di sana pemain berusia 24 tahun ini mengenakan nomor punggung 7 yang merupakan angka spesial buat bintang The Red Devils.
Musim depan Ronaldo akan mengenakan nomor punggung 9. Nomor ini sebelumnya dikenakan mantan pemain Real Madrid asal Brasil yang juga bernama Ronaldo. Jadi bagi para fans Madrid yang telah memiliki kaos Real Madrid era tahun 2004 hingga 2006 tidak perlu membeli yang baru, karena nomor dan nama mereka sama.

Pada dasarnya bagi Anda yang ingin mencari & menangkap kerang sebaiknya dilakukan pada awal musin dan akhir kemarau. Hal ini disebabkan karena pada musim tersebut keadaan gelombang laut tidak terlalu deras. Sehingga kerang-kerang biasanya berpindah tempat ke pinggir pantai untuk mengadakan proses perkawinan. Umumnya kerang yang sering dijumpai di daerah pesisir pantai adalah kerang batik yang berukuran kecil mirip batu kerikil.
Tahap yang pertama yang sebaiknya Anda lakukan adalah membuat sebuah galah yang dimana ujungnya dibuat sebuah jaring yang ditopang oleh cincin besi berdiameter 30 cm (menyerupai ring basket)
Tahap kedua yaitu carilah kerang di kedalaman 30-100 cm dengan cara menekan ujung galah yang telah diberi jaring ke dalam pasir pantai seperti gaya menarik mobil-mobilan. Lakukan cara ini dalam jarak 10 meter. Silahkan dicoba. Semoga sukses!

Musim 2005 hingga 2009 adalah masa-masa di mana Michael Owen tidak lagi menjadi ancaman bagi bek-bek lawan. Terhitung setelah mengenakan kaos The Magpies, Owen berulang kali mengalami cedera yang serius. Tidak banyak lagi klub yang meliriknya.
Setelah digaet oleh MU kini Owen akan bermain untuk menjadi teman Wayne Rooney di lini depan. Namun, striker yang bulan Desember ini genap berusia 30 tahun masih kurang fans. Indikator dari hal tersebut karena sudah 4 tahun terkahir Owen tidak menunjukkan permainan terbaiknya seperti era piala dunia 1998 hingga dari Liverpool ke Real Madrid

Lebih dari 80.000 pasang mata menjadi saksi datangnya Christiano Ronaldo sang mega bintang sepakbola saat ini.

Kabar mengejutkan datang dari kubu MU. Media di Inggris mengklaim bahwa akhir pekan lalu telah menyodorkan tawaran kepada striker timnas Kamerun dan Barcelona, Samuel Eto'o.

Mantan bintang Liverpool dan Real Madrid yang terkahir membela Newcastle United yang terdegradasi musim lalu, Michael Owen, akhirnya resmi berseragam Manchester United musim depan untuk bermain selama 2 tahun.

Juara bertahan liga primer Inggris 3 tahun beruntun, Manchester United saat ini tengah bimbang dalam mencari duet Wayne Rooney untuk musim depan. Setelah melepas Carlos Tevez ke rival sekotanya, Manchester City, kini The Red Devils tengah memburu striker jangkung asal Belanda, Klass Jan Huntelaar yang dibuang oleh Madrid Juni lalu.

Setelah mengalahkan lawan-lawannya di babak penyisihan hingga semifinal, akhirnya petenis tunggal putri asal AS Serena William dan Venus William akan bertemu di partai final tunggal putri Wimbledon bertajuk "William's battle".

Setelah resmi hijrah ke Spanyol dan akan membela Real Madrid musim depan, Ronaldo dipastikan akan jauh dari hal yang berbau MU. Termasuk canda tawa bersama mantan bosnya, Sir Alex Ferguson, yang tak lain adalah pelatihnya di MU selama musim 2003 hingga 2009.

Salah satu media Spanyol menyatakan bahwa Madrid telah menggaet penyerang muda asal Prancis dan klub Lyon dengan nilai transfer yang tidak disebutkan.

Bimbang dan bingung perasaan yang saat ini dialami oleh gelandang bertahan Liverpool dan timnas Spanyol, Xabi Alonso. Menurut pernyataan media Inggris bahwa gelandang yang terkenal dengan ketenangannya dalam bermain bola itu ingin hengkang dari The Reds.

Berita yang tak sedap diterima oleh fans 'The Gunners'. Pasalnya, pemain baru mereka yang direkrut awal tahun ini, Andrei Arshavin kabarnya akan meninggalkan Emirates Stadium (markas Arsenal).

Sudah beberapa musim terakhir La Liga di dominasi oleh tim Catalan, Barcelona. Bahkan musim lalu Barca meraih gelar 'treeble'. Yaitu Juara La Liga, Piala Raja dan Liga Champions Eropa.

Luar Biasa! Suasana yang cukup menegangkan bagi seluruh orang yang hadir menjadi saksi mata pertandingan final antara AS melawan Brazil di kota Johannesburg. Pasalnya, ini merupakan pencapaian yang tinggi bagi masing-masing tim. AS ingin menorehkan prestasi internasional lewat sepakbola, sementara Brazil ingin menjadi juara bertahan sekaligus melengkapi koleksi piala konfederasinya yang ke 3 kali.

Akhirnya Carlos Tevez angkat bicara tentang isi hatinya selama di MU. Setelah membela tim Setan Merah hampir 2 musim, Carlitos (julukan Tevez) telah mempersembahkan 5 gelar (2 juara liga primer, 1 liga Champion, 1 piala Carling & 1 piala Toyota). Namun, pemain berusia 24 tahun ini ternyata menyimpan sakit hati terhadap rekan se-timnya sesama striker, yaitu Dmitar Berbatov.

Luar biasa! kata yang paling pantas yang diberikan kepada Valentino Rossi. Setelah menjadi rider nomor 1 di sirkuit Assen, Belanda dalam lanjutan Moto GP yang berlangsung sekitar 43 menit ini.

Masyarakat dan penggemar berat MU di Indonesia betul-betul akan dimanjakan oleh kedatangan juara liga Inggris 3 tahun beruntun.
Pasalnya, pasukan Red Devils akan membawa serta trophy liga Primer musim 2009 ke Jakarta untuk dipamerkan.
Pihak penyelenggara memberi keleluasaan masyarakat Indonesia untuk datang melihat trophy kebanggaan tim-tim Inggris ini dari dekat. Bukan itu saja, setiap orang pun diberi kesempatan untuk berfoto dengan trophy tersebut.

Manchester United akhirnya meluncurkan kostum baru mereka untuk musim 2009-2010.
Desain kostum ini mengandung sejarah MU di mana dituangkan sejarah 100 tahun kostum United.

MU siap kembali mendatangkan Guiseppe Rossi setelah 2 musim lebih merumput di La Liga bersama Villareal.
Hal ini tentunya membuat pihak Villareal geram. Pasalnya Rossi sudah menjadi salah satu bomber yang menakutkan di La Liga yang terkenal sebagai liga yang mempunyai teknik total football.
Namun, MU tentunya merasa yakin dengan niatnya menarik kembali pemain ini karena masih mempunyai klausul kontrak dengan Rossi, di mana MU berhak menentukan klub mana yang boleh dibela oleh Rossi

Setelah mendatangkan Kaka dan akan mengikat CR7 dalam hitungan hari ke depan, Madris telah mencapai kesepakatan dengan Valencia untuk menboyong Raul Albiol dengan banderol 15 juta euro.

MU telah lama mengincar pemain yang dijuluki "New Ronaldinho" yang masih berusia 20 tahun. Kabarnya Douglas Costa telah mengikuti latihan selama 20 hari di Carrington.

Setelah menemui jalan buntu mengenai kesepakatan harga dengan Real Madrid, Barcelona dan Manchester United, Valencia mengurungkan niatnya untuk melepas bombernya David Villa ke klub mana pun.

SEO atau biasa dikenal dengan sebutan Search Engine Optmization, pertama kali ditemukan pada sebuah pesan spam yang diposting di Usenet pada 26 Juli 1997.
Pada periode tersebut algoritma yang digunakan mesin pencari belum terlalu kompleks sehingga sangat mudah untuk dimanipulasi. Versi awal algoritma pencarian Search Engine didasarkan sepenuhnya pada informasi yang disediakan oleh webmaster pada meta tag di situs atau blog mereka. Meta tag menyediakan informasi tentang konten yang terkandung pada suatu halaman web dengan serangkaian kata kunci (keyword).

Sebagian webmaster melakukan manipulasi dengan cara menuliskan kata kunci yang tidak sesuai dengan konten situs yang sesungguhnya, sehingga mesin pencari salah menempatkan dan memeringkat situs tersebut. Hal ini menyebabkan hasil pencarian menjadi tidak akurat dan menimbulkan kerugian baik bagi mesin pencari maupun bagi para internet surfer yang mengharapkan sebuah informasi yang relevan dan berkualitas.

Teknik - teknik optimasi SEO sebenarnya bisa anda pelajari sendiri diantaranya melalui sebuah e-book berjudul “BLOG SUPER SEO PENGHASIL UANG“. Pada buku elektronik yang bisa anda dapatkan di http://blogsuperseo.com tersebut anda bisa mempelajari bagaimana cara membangun struktur sebuah blog menjadi sebuah blog super seo yang bukan hanya akan membawa para pencari dari search engine tapi juga bisa menghasilkan uang bagi anda pemilik blog tersebut.

Larry Page dan Sergey Brin, dua mahasiswa doktoral ilmu komputer Universitas Stanford, berusaha mengatasi permasalahan tersebut dengan membangun Backrub, sebuah mesin pencari yang sepenuhnya mengandalkan algoritma matematis untuk memeringkat sebuah halaman web. Algoritma tersebut dinamakan Page Rank, yang merupakan nilai fungsi matematis yang kompleks hasil dari kombinasi antara perhitungan jumlah link yang mengarah pada suatu halaman web dengan analisis atas bobot masing-masing link tersebut, dengan skala antara 1–10.

Berdasarkan prinsip kerja Page Rank, secara umum bisa dikatakan bahwa halaman web yang memperoleh peringkat tinggi adalah halaman web yang banyak di-link oleh halaman web lain. Nilai Page Rank juga akan semakin tinggi apabila halaman web yang mengarah kepadanya juga memiliki peringkat yang tinggi. Jadi nilai sebuah link dari situs terkenal seperti adobe bernilai lebih besar daripada kombinasi nilai link dari 100 situs yang tak dikenal.

Backrub adalah cikal bakal berdirinya Google. Pada tahun 1998 Larry Page dan Sergey Brin mendirikan Google yang merupakan versi “dewasa” dari Backrub. Dalam waktu singkat Google memperoleh reputasi dan kepercayaan dari publik pengguna internet karena berhasil menyajikan hasil pencarian yang relatif bersih (tidak dimanipulasi), cepat, dan relevan. Page Rank yang kemudian dikenal dengan sebutan Google Page Rank lalu menjadi sebuah sistem standar baik bagi mesin pencari lain maupun bagi web master yang berusaha agar situsnya memperoleh nilai Page Rank setinggi mungkin sehingga menempati posisi tertinggi pada hasil pencarian search engine.

Valencia mata duitan juga..... setelah ditawar oleh Real Madrid dengan Rp. 520 Milyar, Valencia menaikkan harga David Villa menjadi Rp. 680 Milyar. Hal ini mengurungkan niat klub 'Los Galaticos' ini untuk menggaet salah satu striker terbaik dunia ini.
Di lain pihak, datang tawaran segar dari klub terkaya kedua dunia, Manchester United. MU menawar striker ini Valencia & Spanyol ini dengan harga yang menggiurkan sebesar Rp. 720 Milyar. Bila tawaran ini disetujui oleh kedua kubu, maka David Villa akan memecahkan rekor transfer Robinho sebagai pemain termahal Inggris tahun lalu dari Real Madrid ke tim sekota MU, yaitu Manchester City.