Fro-Yo Business, Such a Sweet Profit

Frozen yoghurt is an urban trend in Jakarta nowadays. Almost all shopping centres have cafes or take-away booths selling frozen yoghurt, plus some ice cream mix and various delicious toppings. The dairy product is believed to have the property of rejuvenation and clearing one's skin.

Within the last two years, at least 75 brands of frozen yoghurt, or fro-yo, have been circulating in Indonesia. Not all have survived, some rise only to fall into obscurity. But some, are budding and expanding.

One of the fro-yo pioneers in Indonesia is PT Berjaya Sally Ceria (PT BSC), owner of the Sour Sally brand. Though only 1.5 year old, Sour Sally, that serves the premium segmentation, has expanded to 36 outlets. These outlets are spread over several major cities in Indonesia, such as Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, and Denpasar.

Considering the enthusiastic response from people, PT BSC is weighing the option of offering a franchise called Yogu Buzz. "We're deliberately creating a second brand before offering the franchise so that the market segment would spread better," said Sagita Kwee, Brand Marketing Manager for Sour Sally, who is also in charge of the Yogu Buzz franchise.

The plan is to give Yogu Buzz a lighter pricing compared to Sour Sally; around Rp. 14,500 per cup. As a comparison, a cup of Sour Sally yoghurt costs around Rp. 17,500 to Rp. 64,000.

Yogu Buzz's outlets won't be like Sour Sally's boutique cafe concept. They will only be take-away booths. And also, Yogu Buzz only sells personal size fro-yo, or single scoops. "Yogu Buzz's slogan is 'Fro-Yo for Everyone'," Sagita said.

Though a second brand, Sagita ensures that PT BSC, as the master franchiser of Yogu Buzz will supply import quality materials.

The interest for this franchise is tremendous. It was only released last November 2009, but so far there have been 300 people interested in it. But as the starting stage, PT BSC has only chosen 5 to 10 franchisee around Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi. "We don't want to be too aggressive."

If you're interested, no need to worry. You can still join. The next selection process for the Yogu Buzz franchise is next April.

Yogu Buzz has set licensing fees around Rp. 350 million to Rp. 450 million. In return, the franchisee gains licensing rights, free material supplies for a month, production machines, all the professional tools, display booth, and an estimate of the yearly tenant fee. "The rest we would detail during a meeting with the potential franchisee," said marcus Kandou, Marketing Communications and PR Director for Sour Sally.

Sagita estimates that if one Yogu Buzz booth could earn Rp. 3 million per day, then the franchisee's capital would break-even in a year.

According to Bambang N. Rachmadi, franchise observer and also lecturer at the University of Indonesia, the business prospect for frozen yoghurt in Indonesia is still prime. His reason, "The Indonesian people's market potential is very big and the consumers' per capita income is estimated to rise."

Bambang is also very supportive of local franchises such as Yogu Buzz, and advises that "It's better for Yogu Buzz to develop its own simple business format." He also hopes that the new franchise would offer franchise prices that aren't too high. "So it can reach all levels of the people."

Stripping to Bikinis for Controversial Student Newspaper

They go together hand in hand - students and pubs. But Cambridge dons will be having a blue fit after this undergraduate draped herself across a bar in a revealing bikini for a controversial student newspaper.


The girl, who goes under the name Brittany and is studying social and political sciences at Homerton College, is the latest to pose for online students' magazine The Tab.


Previous models have been pictured in a punt and wearing boxing gloves, provoking criticism that the photographs demean women.


But Britanny, who had her photoshoot done at The Maypole, a popular student haunt, defended her decision, saying it showed beauty and brains could be found in the same package.


'Cambridge used to have this preconception that you can't be both smart and beautiful but the Tab's kind of smashing that,' she said.


'It's not like I'm naked, it's just a bit of fun. I was worried that I'd be really nervous but it was actually really casual. No pressure.'


In an interview that was filmed and posted online, Brittany reveals she had briefly considered her father's reaction - but this hadn't dampened her enthusiasm.


She says she chose a pub because she wanted to appear in a traditional English setting and used a hot chocolate instead of alcohol to build up some Dutch

courage.


'I considered beer but I thought at 11 in the morning I would probably barf,' she added.


Readers have posted appreciative comments, with one who identifies himself as Will saying: 'Shotgun a bar stool at the Maypole. Glad the Tab has kept its

sense of humour.'


Another fan, called James, wrote: 'The Maypole barman never looked so good.'


The Tab was launched in May last year to 'shake up' traditional student journalism at the university in the year it celebrated its 800th anniversary.


Its so-called Tab Totty has included a blonde student, Becky Adams, standing in a punt wearing a pink bikini and high heels, a brunette English graduate from Downing College called Heidi dressed in a kickboxer outfit, and 'size 12 stunner' Emmalina Thompsell, from Gonville and Caius, who was pictured in a bikini on her college lawn.


Courting controversy has helped it pass the one million online hits mark, compared to a print run of 20,000 for each edition of traditional student newspapers Varsity and The Cambridge Student.


Cambridge Student Union women's officer Natalie Szarek has called for the editorial team to remove the photos, saying: 'Tab Totty plays into the idea of  women as sexual objects.'


But co-founder George Marangos-Gilks, 22, a third-year politics student from Downing College, said yesterday:


'The purpose of The Tab was to get away from the patronising and dull style of other student papers. We want to give students what they want. The university declined to comment.

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"Split the Sack"

By Jalaluddin Rumi


Why does the soul not fly

when it hears the call?

Why does the fish, gasping on land,

but near the water,

not move back into the sea?

What keeps us from joining the dance

the dust particles do?

Look at their subtle motions

in sunlight.

We are out of our cages

with our wings spread,

yet we do not lift off.

We keep collecting rocks and broken bits

of pottery like children

pretending they are merchants.

We should split the sack

Of this culture

And stick our heads out.

Look around.

Leave your childhood.

Reach your right hand up

and take this book from the air.

You do know right from left, don’t you?

A voice speaks to your clarity.

Move into the moment of your death.

Consider what you truly want.

Now call out commands yourself.

You are the king. Phrase your question,

and expect the grace of an answer.

Superman Saves Girl from Bar Date-Rape

DATE-rape drug victim Elizabeth Caulwell was rescued - by a real-life Superman. The mum of one collapsed in a bar when her drink was spiked with a substance, thought to be Rohypnol.

But she was carried safely to an ambulance by the mystery hero who then vanished - leaving her wrapped in his red cape, the only clue to his identity. After recovering from partial paralysis in hospital, Elizabeth, 26, made an appeal to track down her Superman using the local paper in her hometown of Wigan, Lancs.

Modest hero Paul Longmire came forward. He had been out with pals in the costume borrowed from a friend. The marketing executive, 23, said: "We saw Elizabeth stumble and go down face first. I tried supporting her but her legs kept giving way so I just picked her up and carried her outside before the ambulance came.

"She was shivering so I wrapped my cape around her then left. It wasn't heroic. I just helped someone."

Married Elizabeth, who had been out with pals and her sister, said: "I'd drunk three drinks when I collapsed. I woke hours later in hospital.

"Doctors were certain I'd been spiked, probably with Rohypnol or maybe GHB.

"I was determined to find who Superman was to say thanks and return his cape.

"Now we're pals on Facebook. I dread to think what could have happened without him."

This Mother Helped Her Daughter Die after 17 Years of Suffering

A mother cleared of attempting to murder her incurably ill daughter says that watching her die felt like 'having her heart ripped out'. Former nurse Kay Gilderdale, 55, wept after a jury found her not guilty - to cheers and applause from friends and relatives in the public gallery.

The trial judge questioned whether the week-long hearing should have been held at all since Mrs Gilderdale had already admitted assisting in her daughter Lynn's suicide. The case was in stark contrast to that of Frances Inglis, the mother given nine years last week for injecting her brain-damaged son with a lethal dose of heroin, because Lynn had said she wanted to die.

Lynn, 31, who suffered from the chronic fatigue disease ME for 17 years, begged her mother 'to end her pain' after taking an insufficient morphine overdose and she answered the plea by giving her additional drugs. The charge was attempted murder because it could not be certain whether the drugs administered by Lynn or her mother were what killed her.

Mrs Gilderdale, from Wadhurst, East Sussex, did not give evidence during the trial at Lewes Crown Court, UK. But describing her terrible dilemma in an interview, she said: 'You are torn apart. You have one part of you wanting to respect your daughter's wishes and understanding everything they have been through.

'You have got your heart being ripped out at the same time because all you want to do is to get them better and keep them alive.'

Following the not guilty verdict, Mr Justice Bean gave Mrs Gilderdale a conditional discharge for assisting the suicide, to which she pleaded guilty last July.

He said: 'I do not normally comment on the verdicts of juries but in this case their decision shows that common sense, decency and humanity which makes jury trials so important in a case of this kind.'

In tense courtroom scenes, he was told by the Crown Prosecution Service barrister that the decision to prosecute had been taken at the 'highest level'.

This is believed to be a clear reference to Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, who has been at the forefront of the 'right to die' debate since drawing up guidelines for prosecutors on assisted suicide last year.

Lynn Gilderdale had been in pain for 17 years, had previously attempted suicide and placed a Do Not Resuscitate note on her medical records.

The judge said Lynn had made a 'fully informed decision that she wished to die'. He added that her mother had acted 'selflessly and with exemplary devotion for 17 years'.

In an interview with the BBC's Panorama programme, to be shown next Monday, Mrs Gilderdale said helping end her daughter's life was the hardest thing she had ever done.

'There will be nothing that compares to that pain and heartbreak of watching my beautiful daughter leave this world.'

Her only other child, Stephen, 35, hugged his mother on the courtroom steps.

Standing alongside his father Richard, 56, who divorced his wife in 2002 but still took an active role in caring for their daughter, he said: 'These actions exhibited the same qualities of dedication, love and care that mum unwaveringly demonstrated during the 17 years of Lynn's severe illness.

'I am very proud of her and I hope she will now be afforded the peace to rebuild her life and finally grieve the death of her daughter.'

Esther Rantzen, whose daughter Emily suffered from ME for 14 years but has recovered, said she supported the verdict 'with all my heart'.

She told ITV News: 'The jury has shown yet again that ordinary people can empathise with this sort of tragic case, understand its uniqueness and realise it serves no purpose to put away a devoted mother into prison.'

Lynn was a musical and sporty teenager until she contracted ME as a teenager. In the final years of her life she developed a fear of hospitals after a botched operation left her with a punctured lung which filled up with blood.

She also told her father and mother in her final year that she had been sexually abused by a doctor at a London hospital when undergoing treatment at the age of 14.

The court heard that Lynn had previously carried out a failed suicide attempt in 2007 and had also been in touch with Dignitas, the Swiss assisted-suicide clinic.

At 1.45am on December 3, 2008, she attempted a morphine overdose - injecting herself with 210mg at the bungalow she shared with her mother.

After trying for an hour to talk her daughter out of it, Mrs Gilderdale gave her two further ampoules of the drug, which her daughter injected into a Hickman line - a tube connected to directly to her veins.

Her mother also gave her some powdered sleeping tablets through a tube in her nose. She later told her family's GP she had also injected her daughter with syringes of air in the hope of sending a fatal air bubble into her heart.

At a pre-trial hearing, Judge Richard Brown invited prosecution lawyers to drop the attempted murder charge in the light of Mrs Gilderdale's guilty plea to assisting suicide, adding that he felt a trial would 'not be in the public interest'.

He said: 'Wouldn't it be better to accept it now rather than let this defendant get tangled up in a messy trial for the sake of some legal mumbo-jumbo?'

But the CPS insisted in proceeding with the charge.

At the trial, Mr Justice Bean asked Sally Howes, QC: 'Why was it in the public interest to proceed with attempted murder rather than accepting the plea of assisted suicide?'

Miss Howes said: 'It was thought at the highest level this should be a case that should be canvassed before a jury.'

Last night a CPS spokesman said: 'There is no doubt that Mrs Gilderdale was a devoted mother who cared for her daughter up to the end of her life and we accept the jury's decision in this case.

'However the law does not allow someone to take the life of another, regardless of how compassionately they do it.'

I Didn't Mean to Park There

This is the moment a pensioner tried to reverse out of her garage but drove forward by mistake - and smashed through a wall before landing in a river.

Pat Dancer, who is in her 70s, was trying to reverse her blue Vauxhall out of her garage when she clipped the side wall. But she then hit the accelerator and shot forward - smashing through the rear garage wall and plummeting into a stream behind her home.

The car landed on its front bumper with the back in the air and Ms Dancer was trapped inside at the scene in Chillaton near Lifton, Devon.

Police were called by a neighbour and she was cahttp://stat.k.kidsklik.com/data/photo/2010/01/22/1043225p.jpgrried from the car and taken to hospital with leg injuries and mild hypothermia. A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall police said: 'The woman had been trying to reverse the car out of the garage when she struck the side wall.

'She panicked and floored the accelerator which shot the car forward at speed and straight through the back wall. The wall was destroyed.

'Her car was found in the river with the front wheels under water but luckily she was largely unhurt.'

Ms Dancer is now in a stable condition and being treated for minor injuries at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.

New App Translates Baby's Cries

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Next time your baby cries, you might want to hold the little one up to your iPhone. A new app could translate those yells into adult-speak, telling you whether it's a cry for food or perhaps a nap.

After 10 seconds of crying, the Cry Translator (patented by Biloop Technologic, S.L.) will light up one of five icons to indicate, the company claims, whether your baby is hungry, tired, bored, sleepy, stressed, or in some kind of discomfort.

While you might think the cry decoder is as valid as having a conversation with your dog or cat, some research suggests there is meaning behind those wails.

For instance, scientists have found the pitch and frequency of a baby's cries can indicate health problems and even the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), according to research published in 2005 in the journal Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.

Other more recent research has shown the cries of newborns already bear the mark of the language their parents speak. For instance, one study showed French newborns cry with rising melody patterns, slowly increasing in pitch from the beginning to the end, while German newborns have falling melody patterns, both of which are consistent with their prospective languages. That suggests infants are already picking up bits of language in the womb.

And while newborns may not have language for some time, pediatricians have known they cry to communicate.

"Babies do cry; it's their main form of communication," said pediatrician Jamie A. Freishtat, adding that over time parents tend to figure out what certain cries mean. "I know that anecdotally a lot of parents, after time, say, 'Ah she must be wet,' by a certain cry. I think pain [is something] parents tend to pick up on."

That "I'm in pain" cry could be higher pitched or more shrill, said Freishtat, who is also a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

Even so, all babies sound different, just like adults. "I'm not sure if you had ten babies and they were all hungry if you would get the same cry from each baby," Freishtat told LiveScience.

The Web site set up for the new baby-cry app acknowledges the variability of cries, explaining that rather than tone or pitch, the technology relies on some kind of pattern in the cries.

The company cautions, however, that the technology is meant to help parents and caregivers understand what their infant is trying to communicate and is not a stand-in for a medical doctor.

Freishtat echoed this caution: "Regardless of how a parent is trying to interpret his or her baby's cry, if a baby is ever crying inconsolably (won't stop regardless of interventions, such as offering a feed, changing a diaper, holding the baby, etc.) then it is very important to contact or go to the doctor immediately because that can mean there is something more serious going on."

David Beckham squeezed penis

What woman does not fascinated by AC Milan midfielder, David Beckham? body physically handsome and sexy, making many women admire, even obsessed. A United States television journalist, Elena In Cioccio, no exception. He even looked exasperated and intrigued by Beckham. So "gemasnya", genitals squeezed Cioccio Beckham.

The incident happened when Beckham came out of the restaurant to the car. The journalist was immediately scrambled. Beckham even welcoming the reporters questions. When the conversation was warm, suddenly came over and squeezed Cioccio Beckham pubic.

Suddenly Beckham surprised. He slowly backed away, then some of his bodyguards swiftly straight forward and pulled the journalist.

It turned out pretty journalist action is not without reason. He was curious about the pubic Beckham. Curiosity was born because Beckham becomes an Armani underwear ad and has been a while starring in the ad. However, Beckham has now shifted Cristiano Ronaldo.

In an underwear ad, Beckham once wore tight pants and "stuff" very prominent so beautiful. In fact, his wife, Victoria Beckham, admitted the beauty of "somebody" Beckham's. He called it "Golden Ball".

Cioccio more curious and want to prove myself. In addition, the results of these actions will also be displayed in the program that he brought, namely Le Lene. Therefore, he has prepared yellow gloves to support its action. These sensations will increase the ratings show.

"His image may have shifted slightly because, for an Armani ad, he was replaced by a younger star, Cristiano Ronaldo. However, we want to know what was there in the pictures is true. It can be proved by touch," beber In Cioccio.

Without a sense of shy, outspoken in expressing Cioccio knickers Beckham. "I touched it, it was small. Beckham, you've lied to us all. What do you use the (ad) that? Yarn wool? It's all just a trick," Cioccio attack.

Strangely, La Lene aired on Italian television station, Uno, owned by AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi.

A source at AC Milan says, "Beckham a little angry because of the action. He did not know at all and luckily bodyguards acted quickly and prevented her to do the next touch."

Meanwhile, sources in La Lene says, "It's just a joke and we hope that Beckham react as a joke, too."



Ah, so if you found out deh "golden balls" Beckham was small.

Green Canyon

 

 

 

Green Canyon, or often called by locals Cukang Taneuh (land bridge), located in the Village Kertayasa, District Cijulang, Ciamis, West Java. The distance is about 31 kilometers from Pangandaran, or about 393 kilometers from Jakarta. Near the tourist attraction there are also tourist attractions as well as the Airport Batukaras Nusawiru.

Green Canyon is a combination of rivers, green valleys, forests, various kinds of stalactite-stalakmit, bathing pool (supposedly trusted anyone who bathe in it will be forever young, smooth soul mate and rejekiny, wkwkwk: D), the "Eternal Rain" ( because walalupun drought, water coming out of the cliff wall was never subsided) and waterfall, one of them tejun Palatar water.

Here, tourists can perform a variety of activities, such as: swimming, diving, rock climbing, boating while fishing, and for those who like to challenge adrenaline, can jump from a large stone with a height of 5m to the bottom

Shade trees

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In a journey with his son, a tall, distant tree turned out to be an interesting thing to refer them. Both were stopped in the shade of the tree.

"My son," his father said suddenly. Teens are also staring at him. With a greeting like that, the child understand that his father would say something serious.

"Are there any lessons that can you tell from a tree?" Continued the father said, his right hand reaching for a nearby tree trunk.

"I think, the tree can be a comfortable shelter, clean water storage of dirt, and balancing the cool air," replied the boy said, his eyes waiting for a certainty.

"Good," replied the father spontaneously. "But, there are other interesting things we refer to from a tree," added the father said, his face suddenly looked up to the end of the top branch.

"Look at the end of the trees that you see. Everything is perpendicular to the same direction. Although he was on the sloping ground, the tree will force him to stay straight at the light, "explained the father.

"My son," said the father as he suddenly grabbed the back of his right hand his son. "Make yourself like a tree, although any circumstances, continue straight to follow the light of truth," said his father was so memorable.
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Ground state of life that we foot this time, sometimes not at the vast expanse of flat nan. There's always things are not as we want. There are steep cliffs, distant, there was an exhausting climb, there are derivatives of melenakan sloping, and there are holes that appear unexpectedly.

Trees, as his father said to his son, always positioned themselves on the robustness to always perpendicular to follow the light source of truth. Although the threat was in the cliff, climb obstacles, a derivative of temptation, and the hole trap.

"Make yourself like a tree, although any circumstances, continue straight to follow the light of truth."

Law enforced in the Desert

Jeddah   Saudi Arabian citizens were arrested for allegedly holding a foreign workers (expatriates) and then forced to graze the camels in his pasture in the desert outside Riyadh.

Incident, said Arabnews.com, Wednesday, starting at Noushad (28 years), an Indian who worked in one factory floor tiles, was waiting for a bus in the area of Al-Raslan, about 60 km outside the city of Jeddah, to his residence.

While waiting for a public car that would take him into his residence, the police said Noushad, someone who claim to police approached him, then dragged him into the person's car.

Noushad tried to contact the appropriate leaders he worked with his cell phone, but the kidnappers threatened to kill him and keep him driving up in the desert pasture kidnappers belonged to a camel, some 180 km outside the city of Jeddah.

Noushad there and forced to keep the kidnappers belonged to a camel herding, but eventually he managed to contact the community worker
social in Al-Kharj region through a Lebanese citizen who served to feed the camels.

Local police finally managed to detect the position of shepherding the Noushad kidnapped by Lebanese workers mobile phone using a satellite tracking system.

Noushad confessed to police that he had been imposed by the kidnappers as a slave without being fed properly. 

"If the police do not come to save me, I might die cold and hard living here," said the bad experience tells Noushad held hostage for 28 days, as he would like to thank the social workers and police.

F1, Michael Schumacher

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BERLIN - seven times world champion, Michael Schumacher, Thursday (14 / 1) said he did not expect to be world champion in the first season when he returned the race. But, he wanted to win the eighth title in three years.

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41-year-old driver had signed a three-year agreement to race for Mercedes GP again, after racing in Formula one in 2006 to strengthen the Ferrari team.

"In the long-term target with a Mercedes, we have a clear goal: I want to be world champion again," said Schumacher told Bild.

"Maybe it does not happen in my first season back racing, but realistic in three years (his contract until 2013).

Prior to resign in 2006, Schumacher won 91 Grand Prix races and he admitted he missed the reverberations of Formula One, although he had considered returning to the track last year.

"When I go to Formula One (of retirement), I was more annoyed than frustrated not race," said the German driver.

"Schumi" Schumacher calls, says age is not a factor when he returned on March 14 race in Bahrain.

"Apparently, I have succeeded in holding the influence of age, I should have a 'gene' is good," said Schumacher.

Beauty Women

 

To form a charming lips, say the good words. To get beautiful eyes, look good in every person you meet. to obtain a slim figure, share their food with the hungry. To obtain beautiful hair, ask a small child with her fingers to comb it every day. To get a good posture, walk with all of science, and you'll never walk alone.

Humans, far exceeding all other creatures. Changing needs, updated, reshaped, and forgiven. So, do not ever reduce a person from your heart. If you've done all that, remember always. If an when you need help, will always have his hand outstretched. And with your age, you will be more grateful had given two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.

Beauty women lies not in the outfit, not the body shape, or the way she combs her hair. Beauty is in the eyes of women, the way he sees the world. Because the eye is the gate leading to every human heart, where love can grow.

Beauty women is not on the face of subtlety. But in pure beauty, reflected in her soul, who with loving attention and love she gave. And the beauty that will grow over time.

Too often Watch TV Accelerate Death, Really?

Watching television is an everyday habit that seems so simple. Who would have thought watching habits can lead to excessive risk of early death. The more often you watch television the higher the risk of death caused by heart disease.

Based on studies that followed 8800 adults who have no history of heart disease, people who watch television four hours or more, 80 percent of which may have an increased risk of death from heart disease.

"Watching television in a long time means you are not doing muscle movements due to sitting too long. And, if you still do not activate the muscles too long, then it can interfere with your metabolism, "says David Dunstan, Ph.D., laboratory chief Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Australia, as reported by cnn news agency, Monday (11 / 1) .

Dunstan added that studies show that television would lead to an increase in energy consumption due to too banyakanya solid food consumed while watching television. According to him, the bad habits that do not effect either umtuk body due to the absence burning calories.

For that, Dunstan suggested for those who like to watch television, you should use the moment of delivery of commercial body muscles separately after sitting too long.

"Going from your seat, then move your leg muscles and body in a few minutes. The more you move, the more burning calories, "said Dunstan.