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Friday, August 3, 2012
Destinations
Tihingan Village IBP
Tihingan Village in Banjarangkan sub district is the center of Gong gamelan production. Its production is start with crude work then expert work to synchronize the gong sound. This, the most important thing is the expertise to synchronize the gong sound. In Tihingan village there are 2 pande (expert) gong maker groups. This Village is location in Banjarangkan sub district and can be reached with 2 wheels or 4 wheels vehicles. About 3 km go to the west of Semarapura city. The road to Tihingan is well enough. The people of Tihing village are very famous in Bali as they are expert of making gamelan instrument like Gong, Other Gamelan instrument gende. Except Gong, The people in this village can make all kind of gamelan Bali like: Semara Pegulingan, Gender puppet, Kelentangan/ Angklung and other, made of kerawang metal. Their expertise may descended by their ancient from hundred years ago. It can be approved by looking at Gamelan instrument having by many villages. Their village (Tihingan) is written on those gamelan. The gamelan has become famous in the world and many foreign tourists come to Tihingan and reserve Gong to be brought to their country.
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Friday, August 3, 2012
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McLaren: Double DRS still a possibility
McLaren is continuing to evaluate the introduction of a double DRS for later this year, despite the concept being banned for 2013. Mercedes was the first to pioneer the design at the start of this season and, although a number of outfits gave up on copying it - because of costs and question marks about its ultimate benefit - Lotus is now planning to race its own version soon. With great intrigue about the potential benefits that Lotus’s system will bring – with it hoped it can deliver a big straight-line speed advantage in races – McLaren has revealed that it is still keeping its own project on the back burner. Sporting director Sam Michael told AUTOSPORT that McLaren was being mindful about where best to focus its resources – but that double DRS was on the list of developments it could introduce over the remainder of the year. “It’s not like the Lotus one, but we have got a system like that,” he explained. “As for the chances of us bringing it, I don’t know yet. “We will look at all the programmes and see if it is feasible, because it requires work and it detracts from normal upgrades as well. So it is quite difficult to make the system work, as Lotus are discovering. “But like anything in the pit lane, if we see a new idea then the guys jump on it, they analyse it and, if we decide that it will be a benefit to the team, then we will bring it.” F1 teams have agreed to a number of regulation changes for 2013 that will effectively ban teams from pursuing double DRS, which means any work done on it this year will not be carried over for next year. Michael said that that was another factor to be taken in to account – as would the amount of benefit Lotus will get out of its own system. “There is possibly the question of a waster resource on it,” he explained. “As for Lotus, they are damn quick already, and if they add that then they will be even quicker.”
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British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of McLaren Mercedes in the pits during the 2012 Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix at the Hungaroring race track in Mogyorod near Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, July 29, 2012.
Analysis: Glazers may make a killing on Man Utd investment
Reuters
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Manchester United Ltd’s owners stand to make about three times their investment in the British soccer club if it successfully goes public. The club, one of the most popular in the world, has kicked off the marketing for its U.S. initial public offering, which will value the club at $3.3 billion if the sale is at the high end of the pricing range of $16-to-$20 per share. The owners, the Glazer family, bought the team for 790 million pounds ($1.2 billion) in 2005 in a leveraged buyout. In terms of equity, the Florida-based family, whose other interests include shopping centers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers football
team, has invested at least 521.1 million pounds ($813.7 million) in Manchester United. Through the IPO, they will initially get up to $167 million from their sale of 8.3 million shares. They will also still own 89.8 percent of the shares, which will be worth nearly $3 billion at a $20 a share price. The Glazers have already received a 10 million pound dividend, which was used to pay back money they borrowed from the club in 2008. The huge profit for the family could make Manchester United the latest poster child for potential problems faced by companies that become targets of leveraged buyouts. To critics, such deals load companies
with debt to supercharge the owners’ profits, while sometimes leaving the companies worse off than they were before. The risk may be greater for a sports team, where finances can turn on how well the team does on the field, which can depend on a club having enough money to buy and pay top players. Poor performance can quickly feed through to lower revenue from ticket sales and TV rights, and eventually hurt commercial revenue from sponsorships and sales of merchandise, such as team shirts. Manchester United, which was debt-free before the Glazers bought it, had 437 million pounds ($682 million) of debt as of June 30.
Shoppers walk past a Manchester United merchandise store at a mall in Singapore June 14, 2012.
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Roberto Carlos retires to become Anzhi’s director
Reuters
MOSCOW - Former Brazil and Real Madrid fullback Roberto Carlos, famous for his booming free kick, has officially ended his playing career, the Anzhi Makhachkala player said on Wednesday. The 2002 World Cup winner, who joined the wealthy Russian Premier League club in February 2011, has not played since being taken off the team’s squad in March. “Roberto had been a world class player, but unfortunately he doesn’t play any more,” said former Russia boss Guus Hiddink, who was appointed Anzhi coach in February. “Fortunately, Roberto will now take up a role to develop this club for the good of the game in the Dagestan region and the whole of Russia.” The 39-year-old said he was planning a farewell game against his former club Real. “We had met Real president Florentino Perez and discussed such a match between Real and Anzhi,” he told a news conference. “We need to set up a date that suits both clubs. I would like to have my farewell to be played in Makhachkala.” Anzhi’s billionaire owner Suleiman Kerimov said last year he wanted to make the Brazilian the club’s world-wide ambassador. Roberto Carlos, a twice Copa America winner, won 125 caps for Brazil and played at the 1998, 2002 and 2006 World Cups. He quit the national side following the latter competition after being villanised in Brazil where he was blamed for allowing Thierry Henry to score the only goal in their quarter-final defeat to France. Raised at provincial club Uniao Sao Joao, he made his name in Brazil during three seasons with Palmeiras, moved to Inter Milan for one season and then Real Madrid, where he spent 11 seasons. After that, he still had time for a stint in Turkey with Fenerbahce before moving home to play for Corinthians.