Paradise Island 7

There are some choices on accommodation in Derawan Island. With the price from one million until the Rp. 400,000 (US $ 40) for so called a homestay, you can rent a house with your friends. Don’ you worry not to get place to stay, at least you can use tent or you can stay in the homestay owner. read more

50 Most Beautiful Female Celebrities

50: Ashley Greene Where you've seen her: On the big screen as a good vamp in the Twilight series Why we love her: She's the bubbly, optimistic vamp in the Twilight series -- which is a nice change form the angst-fest we get from the rest of the fanged ones!

49: Maggie Q Actress and model Maggie Q Why you know her: She's appeared in everything from action blockbusters (Live Free or Die Hard) to art-house fare ( New York, I Love You) Why we love her: She's passionate about PETA and was even responsible for making sure no real fur snuck onto the costumes for the Chinese film Three Kingdoms. Plus, check out her vegetarian recruiting poster!

48: Holly Madison Where you've seen her: On Hugh Hefner's arm on the reality TV show "The Girls Next Door" Why we love her: Hef's former "Number 1 girlfriend" has survived her breakup with Mr Playboy himself -- no mean feat in Hollywood!

47: Danica Patrick Where you've seen her: Going very, very fast around a racetrack Why we love her: Patrick may be the best-known female auto racer in the world, and has the record high finish for a woman at the Indianapolis 500.

Number 46: Gina Carano She is Gina Carano. Why you’ve heard of her: She’s been referred to as “The face of Women’s Mixed Martial Arts” Why we love her: Two words: American. Gladiators. Plus, she could beat the crap out of us with her hands tied behind her back, and we have to respect that.

Number 45: Leona Lewis She is Leona Lewis Why you know her: She went from a singing competition to musical stardom Why we love her: After winning X-Factor (the British equivalent of American Idol), Lewis proved her singing and songwriting chops with the albums Spirit and Echo. Even famously grumpy Simon Cowell is a fan!

Staff and crew of film that ridiculed Muslims say they were 'grossly misled'

The 80 cast and crew members involved in the making of the movie that has roiled much of the Islamic world said Wednesday they were "grossly misled" about its intent and expressed sorrow over the resulting violence. "The entire cast and crew are extremely upset and feel taken advantage of by the producer," they said in a statement to CNN about the movie, "Innocence of Muslims." "We are 100% not behind this film and were grossly misled about its intent and purpose," continued the statement, which was sent to CNN by a member of the production staff who asked not to be identified for security reasons. "We are shocked by the drastic rewrites of the script and lies that were told to all involved. We are deeply saddened by the tragedies that have occurred." Mystery swirls around anti-Islam film Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed Tuesday in Libya amid a regional furor over the film, which mocks Islam's prophet. A casting call published in July 2011 in Backstage magazine and in other publications for actors identifies the working title of the movie as "Desert Warrior" and describes it as a "historical Arabian Desert adventure film." An actress in the film who asked not to be identified said the original script did not include a Prophet Muhammed character. She added that she and other actors complained that their lines had been changed. The actress said she spoke Wednesday with the producer, who is identified in the advertisement as Sam Bassiel. "He said he wrote the script because he wants the Muslims to quit killing," she said. "I had no idea he was doing all this." Attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya Obama, Romney spar over Libya response Questions surround incendiary Islam film Feinstein: I think this is premeditated "I would never be involved in a film to ever hurt or bring harm to anybody," she told CNN. "This makes me sick to my stomach to think that I was involved in that movie that brought death to somebody else." The actress said the character of Muhammed in the movie was identified as George when it was shot, and that she returned afterward and read other lines that may have been dubbed into the piece. YouTube restricts video access over Libyan violence A member of the production staff who worked directly on the film and has a copy of the original script corroborated the actor's account, adding that it mentions neither Muhammed nor Islam. The Wall Street Journal identified the filmmaker as Sam Bacile, an Israeli-American real estate developer. The Journal reported that, in its telephone interview with Bacile, he characterized his film as "a political effort to call attention to the hypocrisies of Islam." "Islam is a cancer," he told the newspaper. "The movie is a political movie. It's not a religious movie." CNN has not been able to contact Bacile and cannot verify that he made the movie. A CNN search of public records on Sam Bacile came up empty. Israel's Foreign Ministry said it doesn't know who Bacile is. Reaction: Libya, West condemn killing "This guy is totally anonymous. At this point no one can confirm he holds Israeli citizenship and even if he did we are not involved," ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said. "No Israeli institution, government department or office has any involvement in this. This guy acted on his own behalf." In Egypt and Libya, mobs targeted U.S. missions and blamed America for the film. In the end, Stevens and three other Americans in the Libyan city of Benghazi were dead, although it was not clear whether that attack was solely incited by the film. Consultant Steve Klein told CNN he worked with Bacile on the movie and said the filmmaker had gone into hiding. "He's very depressed, and he's upset," Klein said Wednesday. "I talked to him this morning, and he said that he was very concerned for what happened to the ambassador." Klein, however, said it was not the film's fault that protests had turned bloody. Casting further doubt on the filmmaker's identity, The Atlantic quoted Klein as saying Sam Bacile is a pseudonym and "he did not know Bacile's real name." CNN could not immediately reach Klein for his response to that report. An online trailer for the film depicts Islam as a fraudulent religion bent on getting rid of nonbelievers. Cartoonish scenes show Muhammed as a womanizer, child molester and ruthless killer. Other scenes show security forces ordered to do nothing as rampaging Muslims destroy Christian homes, and a donkey anointed the first Muslim animal. Many Muslims find any depiction of Muhammed to be offensive -- a Danish newspaper's publication in 2005 of Mohammed caricatures triggered riots -- and derogatory depictions of the prophet are considered by some to be worse. "The film is offensive to the prophet and immoral," said Egyptian Prime Minister Hashem Kandil. "We call on the great people of Egypt to exercise restraint when expressing their anger." Muslim sensitivities around Prophet Mohammed The prime minister called on the United States to take legal action against the makers of the film, though it was not clear that it violates any U.S. law. According to The Wall Street Journal, Bacile said he raised $5 million from about 100 Jewish donors to make the two-hour movie in California last year. Based on the trailer, the movie appears to have been produced on a low budget. The movie, which was posted in July on YouTube, got more notice after Egyptian television recently aired segments and anti-Islam activists, including Egyptian-born Coptic Christian Morris Sadek, promoted it online. Terry Jones, the Florida pastor whose Quran-burning last year sparked deadly riots in Afghanistan, said he had been contacted to help distribute the film. "The film is not intended to insult the Muslim community, but it is intended to reveal truths about Muhammed that are possibly not widely known," Jones said. "It is very clear that God did not influence him (Muhammed) in the writings of the Quran," said Jones, who went on to blame Muslims' fear of criticism for the protests, rather than the film. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called Jones on Wednesday to ask him to withdraw his support for the film, according to Col. David Lapan, Dempsey's spokesman. "Jones' support of the film risks causing more violence and death," Lapan said. Tensions mounted Wednesday as the United States deployed Marines to Libya. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood -- the former party of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy -- has called for peaceful protests against the film on Friday, Islam's day of religious observance. In Afghanistan, the Taliban charged that the movie was made with the permission of the U.S. government. The First Amendment prohibits the government from interfering with free expression. President Hamid Karzai condemned the film as abhorrent and an act of desecration. "There could be many deaths once news of this video and Pastor Terry Jones' comments get out," said Karzai's deputy spokesman. The issue is sensitive in Afghanistan, where throngs of people this year protested NATO's burning of Qurans at Bagram Airfield. U.S. President Barack Obama said the act was unintentional, but the uproar nonetheless was huge. In America, a Muslim advocacy group called the movie "trashy" and said its producers represented neither the United States nor the Christian faith. "We urge that this ignorant attempt to provoke the religious feelings of Muslims in the Arabic-speaking world be ignored and that its extremist producers not be given the cheap publicity they so desperately seek," said the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Facebook sprouted several pages dedicated to condemning the film, including one called "Israelis, Jews & Americans Against Sam Bacile's 'Innocence of Muslims' Film." A post on that page simply said: "IM-Bacile." Witnessing protests in Libya or Egypt? Share your photos on CNN iReport. Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/anti-islam-film/index.html

Actress sues California man linked to anti-Muslim film

Actress Cindy Lee Garcia is accusing him of duping her into appearing in the video she had been led to believe was a desert adventure movie. Ms Garcia also named Google and its YouTube unit, where the film was posted on the internet, as defendants in the case, citing invasion of privacy and other allegations. The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court also requested that the film be removed from the internet. Meanwhile, Sudan has ordered the blocking of access to YouTube to prevent people watching the film, a senior government official said. Google has already blocked access to the film in Egypt, Libya, India and Indonesia after deadly protests in several countries, but it has rejected a request by the White House to pull it from the site altogether. The film "Innocence of Muslims", clips of which were posted on the internet, portrays the Prophet Muhammad as a womaniser and has provoked an outcry among Muslims and triggered violent attacks on embassies across North Africa and the Middle East. The Sudanese government decided to block YouTube after failing to remove the film, Azz el-Din Kamel, head of the country's telecommunications authority told Reuters. He said: "We sent a letter to Google on Saturday requesting to remove the film that insults Prophet Muhammad from YouTube but when we didn't get any response we tried blocking the film. "Since blocking the film faced some difficulties we were forced to block the entire YouTube website. This freeze will stay in place until the film gets blocked from the site." For many Muslims, any depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous and caricatures or other characterisations have in the past provoked protests in many countries.

Actress Daryl Hannah arrested in Keystone pipeline protest

Actress Daryl Hannah was arrested in Texas on Thursday after she stood in front of an earth-moving machine clearing ground for the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, her representative said. The protest took place outside Winnsboro, Texas, about 80 miles east of Dallas, said Hannah's agent, Paul Bassis. Hannah, 51, a longtime environmental activist, was arrested last year outside the White House in another protest against the pipeline. The Keystone XL pipeline, a project of TransCanada Corp, would ship more than half a million barrels a day of oil sands-derived crude to the Texas Gulf Coast from Canada. On Thursday, Hannah stood in front of an excavator being used to clear trees and brush in order to build the pipeline, Bassis said. Joining her was the site's property owner, Eleanor Fairchild, 78, whose land was taken by eminent domain for the project, he said. "Ms. Hannah and Ms. Fairchild were defending Ms. Fairchild's property from eminent domain abuse by TransCanada," Bassis said. A spokeswoman for the Wood County Sheriff's Office said no officials were available to discuss the incident. Booking information from the Sheriff's Office said Hannah was held on charges of trespassing and resisting arrest. A representative for TransCanada could not be reached for comment, but a company statement said the pipeline would be "safe and reliable." The southern section of the pipeline - the project Hannah was protesting - will take oil from the glutted Cushing, Oklahoma, storage hub to refineries in Texas. President Barack Obama lent his support to the project, which is being built. But the northern section of the $7.6 billion project, which would take crude across the Canadian border into the United States, was rejected by Obama last year on environmental and water supply grounds about its route through Nebraska. TransCanada has reapplied to the State Department for approval of the full project. The State Department has jurisdiction because the line would cross a border. Hannah played the mermaid in the 1984 film "Splash," and also had roles in films such as "Wall Street" and "Blade Runner."

Paradise Island 6

Tarakan is just a little island, a city which located near Sabah, Malaysia frontier. At Second World War between Japan armies and Australian army, 235 Australian armies died at the battle. In Tarakan there is Australian army cenotaph in location, which is become a military complex. This cenotaph is built in memory of coping to die Australian army to free Tarakan from Japan occupying. In other location there is Japan grave residing in ex Japan bunker in hilly area. About 4 Km from the downtown, in Masjid Markoni Street Gang III there is Monument that built in 1933. This monument is square equipped with article Kanji and is place of obsequies the dying Japanese corpse. Read More

Paradise Island 5

It is really like in paradise here. You are right, you are in tropical paradise Island now. You can feel the warm of atmosphere with a view of the beach of fine white sand, palm trees swaying, the pure sea change color from green to dark blue. Underwater life here is outstanding, you will find giant turtles, dolphins, manta rays, dugongs and barracudas, stingless jellyfish. Shark Derawan here is one of the world's biodiversity. Not surprisingly, Derawan island is known as the best diving in the world. Read More http://healthytourism.blogspot.com/2012/09/derawan-most-beautiful-island-in-borneo.html