Saturday, March 12, 2016

Taylor Swift Proudly Wears Calvin Harris' Sweet 1-Year Anniversary Gift Close to Her Heart

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Taylor Swift  keeps Calvin Harris close to her heart.
Or actually, her stomach. The 26-year-old pop star was spotted out at The Church Key in Los Angeles Wednesday wearing a gold locket her 32-year-old beau recently gave her for their 1-year anniversary around her neck, resting just above her navel. She paired it with a chic, plunging black outfit.
The locket features an engraving of the date "3-6-2015," the day they became an official couple. Swift had shared a close-up photo of the locket on Instagram last weekend.
"He bought the locket all on his own," a source had told E! News. "Calvin is not a flashy guy when it comes to gifts and he knows Taylor appreciates the small meaningful things, so he thought this would be the perfect gift."
The source added the locket contains "something special," without elaborating.
The two also celebrated their anniversary with a cake, as seen in a video Harris posted on his Snapchat.
This marks Swift's longest known relationship. She had previously been linked to celebrities such as Jake GyllenhaalJohn MayerTaylor Lautner and Joe Jonas.

Penyebab Laptop Cepat Panas (OverHeat)

     Apa Penyebab Laptop cepat panas ?

     Memang ada beberapa faktor yang menjadi penyebab. memang wajar jika sebuah perangkat elektronik komponennya terasa panas seperti TV, Radio, Laptop, Komputer dll. namun kali ini saya akan membahas tentang Laptop.  apalagi jika digunakan dalam jangka waktu yang lama atau selama berjam-jam namun apabila panasnya terlalu over atau katakanlah panas banget itu sudah lebih dari wajar. misalnya seperti laptop teman saya baru nyala beberapa jam sudah panas banget. dan putaran kipas juga sangat kencang. kinerjanya pun serasa berat. nah hal seperti ini perlu segera ditangani apabila tidak bisa-bisa salah satu komponen laptop kita rusak.  lalu bagaimana cara mengatasi laptop cepat panas? untuk mengatasinya yang jelas kita harus tahu penyebabnya terlebih dahulu. mari simak



  Penyebab Laptop cepat panas dan cara mengatasinya
       ada beberapa faktor yang menyebabkan laptop cepat panas

1.         Laptop penuh debu
pasti tidak disangka-sangka jika ternyata setelah laptop dibongkar berisi banyak debu dan ketebalannya bisa mencapai 1 cm lebih. laptop penuh debu ini biasanya setelah pemakain kurang lebih 2 tahunan. cara mengatasinya dengan membongkar laptop dan membersihkan debu yang ada didalamnya. anda bisa ke bengkel laptop atau pergi ke ahlinya. jangan sekali kali membongkar sendiri jika belum berpengalaman.

2.         Kipas Processor tidak bekerja dengan baik
       hal ini berkaitan dengan point pertama yaitu laptop yang penuh debu bisa menyebabkan kipas processsor menjadi rusak/kinerjanya berkurang. karena debu yang mungkin menempel pada kipas bisa menjadikan kipas tersebut terhambat dalam berputar. atau mungkin juga kipas memang sudah rusak dan perlu diganti

3.         Main Game tidak aturan
Untuk main game memang ada laptop yang memang di khususkan untuk bermain game dan tentunya dengan speak khusus untuk main game juga.  saat main game yang terjadi pada laptop kita adalah kinerja hardware seperti CPU, RAM, VGA tentunya akan lebih bekerja keras.apalagi jika gamenya game yang besar seperti membutuhkan resolusi yang besar dll. dan karena saking bekerja kerasnya komponen komponen tersebut panas. jadi jika anda gamers sejati mending beli laptop atau komputer yang khusus buat game atau bisa juga menambah speak laptop yang anda miliki sehingga memenuhi standart untuk bermain game.

4.         Overclock yang berlebihan
       Overclock istilahnya yaitu memaksa laptop atau komputer bekerja lebih cepat dari standartnya. yaitu bisa dengan cara meningkatkan kecepatan CPU dengan pengaturan clock rate yang tinggi. dengan clock rate memang performa menjadi lebih cepat namun kendalanya komponen cepat panas dan apabila pendinginan tidak tepat bisa merusak komponen.

5.         Tempatkan laptop pada tempat yang datar
saat bermain laptop/menggunakan laptop banyak orang yang tidak mengerti. lantas mereka meletakkannya di tempat yang tidak datar seperti di kasur, sofa dll (tempat lembek) hal ini menyebabkan sirkulasi udara pada laptop menjadi tidak lancar. cari tempat yang datar

6.         Suhu Ruangan
suhu ruangan yang panas juga bisa menyebabkan sirkulasi udara pada laptop tidak optimal. alangkah baiknya jika berada pada tempat yang ber AC atau tempat terbuka yang suhu ruangannya tidak terlalu panas.

7.         Install software secukupnya
install software secukupnya saja/yang dibutuhkan apabila terlalu banyak bisa membebani laptop dan laptop  bekerja sangat keras dan bisa juga menyebabkan cepat panas.

'Captain America : Civil War' Trailer Breakdown: Going Through the New Footage Frame-by-Frame

Posted on Thursday, March 10th, 2016 by Jacob Hall
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If you’re the kind of person who clicks on an exhaustive breakdown of the new Captain America: Civil Wartrailer, then you’re the kind of person who doesn’t need an introduction to Captain America: Civil War. In short: the movie looks fantastic and the trailer is a smorgasbord of goodness. Real catnip for nerds stuff.
And because I have a serious emotional problem that can only be assuaged through breaking down movie trailers, I went through this thing frame-by-frame, snagging interesting shots and moments of interest, and have compiling them below with some semi-expert commentary. Let’s take a closer look, shall we?
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The trailer opens in what appears to be a flashback. Here’s some kind of mysterious facility, located in in the middle of the (Russian?) wilderness. And like all mysterious facilities, it has a heavy-duty metal door…
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Behind that door is Bucky Barnes, otherwise known as the Winter Soldier, looking like he’s being woken up out of cryosleep. As you surely remember from Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Bucky was reprogrammed as an assassin and kept in stasis unless he was needed for a specific job, hence his still being alive. Here’s why a small shot like this matters: the fact that the film looks ready to delve into the history of the Winter Soldier makes it clear that this is a Captain America movie, first and foremost, and a direct sequel to the previous film. The gigantic cast of superhero support is nice and all, but this is still a Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes adventure at its core.
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe has seemingly done everything in its power to ignore the existence of The Incredible Hulk, so it’s genuinely weird to see General “Thunderbolt” Ross show up to scold the Avengers for wreaking havoc all over the globe. Did I say weird? I meant great. First of all, his role here ties The Incredible Hulk into the MCU fabric, which is great for us continuity nerds. Second, a familiar face showing up to tell the Avengers that they’re doing a poor job is far more powerful than a stranger. And third, who could possibly say no to more William Hurt?
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Each of the Avengers have their own specific reaction to being shown clips from The AvengersCaptain America: The Winter Soldier, and Avengers: Age of Ultron, but I like this one because poor Steve looks so down on himself. It’s easy to shame such an honest guy.
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How many Iron Man suits is this now? Eventually, they all start to blend together a little bit, but in true Marvel style, Tony Stark has most definitely acquired a new set of armor. Eventually, they’re going to run out of red and gold color schemes. But not today.
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Unless it goes by another name in the film, this certainly looks like The Raft, the Marvel Universe’s super villain prison. In the comic book world, this facility is located near Rikers Island off the coast of New York City, but it appears to be a bit more isolated in the MCU. Plus, it looks like it can submerge, which is awfully handy for a place that’s all about hiding dirty laundry.
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And here’s the interior of The Raft, which looks about how you’d except a comic book bad guy penitentiary to look. It looks brand new here (and the cells are empty), so its creation and existence will probably figure into the plot of the film in some way. Heck, Tony Stark probably helped design it.
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The previous trailer only offered the briefest of glimpses at Black Panther in action and this one is no different. However, we are offered this shot of Wakanda’s leader/personal superhero leaping over a car…
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…and leaping right at Bucky Barnes. It’s fairly obvious that Black Panther has some serious beef with Bucky. Perhaps the Winter Soldier caused some serious havoc in Wakanda in another age. And if you’ll allow some blind speculation, what happened to Black Panther’s father, the former ruler of Wakanda, in the MCU? I’m not saying that puzzle piece belongs in the bigger picture or even exists, but I know that I’m thinking about it.
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I love the expression on Tony’s face in this shot as he realizes that he came within a breath of being shot in the face by Bucky Barnes. After all, his only weapon when he’s not in the Iron Man suit is his tongue and a sharp wit can’t defect bullets.
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The previous trailer revealed a shot of Iron Man cradling the body of War Machine and this trailer lends it more context. At some point in the final battle (and we know this because we see him as part of the climactic line-up revealed at the end of the trailer), James Rhodes is struck by something and plummets to the ground, taken out of commission. Whether this is a mortal blow or just a serious injury is unknown, but it wouldn’t be too surprising if Civil War knocks off a hero or two to raise the stakes (and give Tony another reason to hold nothing back against Cap).
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Unless I’m mistaken, this looks like the new Avengers HQ that Captain America founded at the end of Age of Ultron (and where Ant-Man and the Falcon had their scuffle). So here’s something to ponder: why is Tony Stark there? Did Team Steve have to flee the premises? And what will become of this shiny new facility when the dust has settled? We barely knew thee, building.
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“You just started a war!” Iron Man yells right after he sucker punches Captain America across the face. As exciting as it is to watch these here go mano-a-mano, this is something I almost don’t want to see. I love these characters. I love them as a team. Watching them get torn apart is going to be a tough watch for anyone invested in the MCU.
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This shot of Black Panther is brought to you by vibranium! Because when you need a superhero outfit that will deflect bullets without looking clunky or even metallic, there is only one option. Available exclusively through Wakanda.
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In the Marvel comics universe, Scarlet Witch and the Vision have a long and complicated relationship – if they’re not totally in love with one another, they’re at each other’s throats. It’s not clear how or if this film will touch on their comic book romance, but there will be at least one scene where she uses her powers to literally bring him to his knees. Then again, this moment would surely be more powerful if they were affectionate for each other and they were forced on to separate sides. But hey, I’m not the one making this movie. I’m just the one examining a trailer in a deeply unhealthy way.
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Oh, hey! Hawkeye gets an action shot. That’s cool and all. Everyone likes Hawkeye, right?
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Wait a second… Yes, that is Ant-Man riding one of Hawkeye’s arrows, which may be the single nerdiest thing we’ve seen in an MCU movie yet. This right here is what I love about Marvel superhero teams – it’s not that a group of cool heroes get together and fight in the same battle, it’s that their powers complement one another in unique and satisfying ways. A splash page depicting a super-brawl is cool, but a series of panels exploring how two minor heroes combine their abilities to do something incredible is what I really want out of a comic book fight.
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And here’s Ant-Man bouncing off that arrow and literally flying between Iron Man’s fingers. I know most of you are here for Spider-Man, but this is my personal Marvel movie nirvana. I need nothing else.
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This is the point in the trailer where you may realize that Marvel is keeping the actual villain of the film completely under wraps. There is no sign of Daniel Brühl’s Baron Zemo anywhere here. Like withIron Man 3, the trailers are painting a very specific picture, leaving some major surprises waiting in the wings. We can safely assume that Zemo is pulling some strings, manipulating the heroes into battling one another, but Marvel’s not going to show us that until we’re sitting in the theater.
In the meantime, the trailer does offer a single shot of Frank Grillo’s Crossbones (last seen horribly wounded at the end ofCaptain America: The Winter Solder) in action. The exact nature of his role remains cloudy, but we do know that he battles Cap’s Avengers team in the opening action sequence, which somehow ends up resulting in an international incident that sets off the rest of the movie.
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“I could do this all day.” Spider-Man is cool and all, but Cap echoing his encounter with that back alley bully from Captain America: The First Avenger feels like the pinnacle moment of this trailer. Even when he’s hopelessly outmatched, Steve Rogers doesn’t back down. He’s our superhero Rocky.
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We’ve already seen individual shots of Team Captain America and Team Iron Man running at each other, but this big group shot is nifty. It also allows you to fully appreciate each side’s line-up. Cap may have the numbers, but Iron Man has the real heavy-hitters.
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Okay, here’s the moment everyone was waiting for. Tony calls in a surprise member of his team, who promptly yanks Captain America’s shield from his hand using some familiar webbing…
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And there he is. Spider-Man, now played by Tom Holland. The new costume was never not going to be controversial(someone will always find something to complain about) but I’m a fan. Mostly. While I’m surprised by the lack of texture on the costume, I love the old school design (look at the tiny spider symbol!) and the bright colors. This Spidey looks like he walked straight out a comic book panel and the result is a little jarring. He almost doesn’t look like he belongs with the more realistically costumed heroes of the MCU, but maybe he shouldn’t. After all, a nerdy kid who fights crime when he’s fumbling through an awkward teenage existence shouldn’t look like an Avenger.
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“Hey, everyone.”
However, my favorite aspect of the costume is undoubtedly the eyes, which can narrow and widen. I’m don’t want to say that previous Spider-Man movies have been marred by a hero with a single facial expression, but this will go a long way to making Spidey’s costumed interactions a little more interesting. Heck, it worked for Deadpool.
Captain America: Civil War opens on May 6, 2016.

Friday, March 11, 2016

10 Ways to Start Your Story Better


The sentence you are currently reading has the potential to brand itself indelibly upon our cultural consciousness and to alter the course of Western Civilization. OK, maybe that’s an exaggeration. But what author doesn’t dream of crafting an opening line that will achieve the iconic recognition of “Call me Ishmael,” or the staying power of “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth …”? In writing, as in dating and business, initial reactions matter. You don’t get a second chance, as mouthwash commercials often remind us, to make a first impression.
So it’s unfortunate that opening sentences frequently receive short shrift in writing workshops. While drilling aspiring literati on the subtleties of characterization and plot, few, if any, writing instructors offer lessons on crafting a first line, or even an introductory paragraph—though many agents and editors, if not impressed after a sentence or two, will read no further. I started devoting an entire session of my writing class to opening lines when I realized that the last formal instruction I’d had on the subject was the grade school admonition that stories should begin with “a hook.” In the years since, I’ve come to believe that the fate of most literary endeavors is sealed within the initial paragraph—and that the seeds of that triumph or defeat are usually sown by the end of the very first sentence.
Think of every opening line you write as a pebble tossed down a mountainside: The stone may jolt back and forth within a limited path, building up force, but the trajectory of its initial release largely determines its subsequent route. Never forget that the entire course of a story or novel, like an avalanche, is largely defined within its first seconds. To craft a compelling story, you must first launch it in the right direction.
Here are 10 ways to do it.
1. Build momentum.
The first cardinal rule of opening lines is that they should possess most of the individual craft elements that make up the story as a whole. An opening line should have a distinctive voice, a point of view, a rudimentary plot and some hint of characterization. By the end of the first paragraph, we should also know the setting and conflict, unless there is a particular reason to withhold this information.
This need not lead to elaborate or complex openings. Simplicity will suffice. For example, the opening sentence of Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” tells the reader: “The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida.” Already, we have a distinctive voice—somewhat distant, possibly ironic—referring to thegrandmother with a definite article. We have a basic plot: conflict over a journey. And we have a sense of characterization: a stubborn or determined elderly woman. Although we do not know the precise setting, we can rule out Plato’s Athens, Italy under the Borgias and countless others. All of that in eight words. Yet what matters most is that we have direction—that O’Connor’s opening is not static.
Immediately, we face a series of potential questions: Why didn’t the grandmother want to go to Florida? Where else, if anywhere, did she wish to go? Who did want to go to Florida? A successful opening line raises multiple questions, but not an infinite number. In other words, it carries momentum.
2. Resist the urge to start too early. 
You might be tempted to begin your narrative before the action actually starts, such as when a character wakes up to what will eventually be a challenging or dramatic day. But unless you’re rewriting Sleeping Beauty, waking up is rarely challenging or dramatic. Often, when we start this way, it’s because we’re struggling to write our way into the narrative, rather than letting the story develop momentum of its own. Far better to begin at the first moment of large-scale conflict. If the protagonist’s early-morning rituals are essential to the story line, or merely entertaining, they can always be included in backstory or flashbacks—or later, when he wakes up for a second time.
3. Remember that small hooks catch more fish than big ones. 
Many writers are taught that the more unusual or extreme their opening line, the more likely they are to “hook” the reader. But what we’re not taught is that such large hooks also have the power to easily disappoint readers if the subsequent narrative doesn’t measure up. If you begin writing at the most dramatic or tense moment in your story, you have nowhere to go but downhill. Similarly, if your hook is extremely strange or misleading, you might have trouble living up to its odd expectations. As a fishing buddy of mine explains, the trick is to use the smallest hook possible to make a catch—and then to pull like crazy in the opposite direction.
4. Open at a distance and close in. 
In modern cinema, films commonly begin with the camera focused close up on an object and then draw back panoramically, often to revelatory effect, such as when what appears to be a nude form is actually revealed to be a piece of fruit. This technique rarely works in prose. Most readers prefer to be “grounded” in context andthen to focus in. Open your story accordingly.
5. Avoid getting ahead of your reader. 
One of the easiest pitfalls in starting a story is to begin with an opening line that is confusing upon first reading, but that makes perfect sense once the reader learns additional information later in the story. The problem is that few readers, if confused, will ever make it that far. This is not to say that you can’t include information in your opening that acquires additional meaning once the reader learns more. That technique is often a highly rewarding tool. But the opening should make sense on both levels—with and without knowledge the reader will acquire later.
6. Start with a minor mystery. 
While you don’t want to confuse your readers, presenting them with a puzzle can be highly effective—particularly if the narrator is also puzzled. This has the instant effect of making the reader and narrator partners in crime. An unanswered question can even encompass an entire novel, as when David Copperfield asks, “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
7. Keep talk to a minimum. 
If you feel compelled to begin a story with dialogue, keep in mind that you’re thrusting your readers directly into a maelstrom in which it’s easy to lose them. One possible way around this is to begin with a single line of dialogue and then to draw back and to offer additional context before proceeding with the rest of the conversation—a rare instance in which starting close up and then providing a panorama sometimes works. But long sequences of dialogue at the outset of a story usually prove difficult to follow.
8. Be mindful of what works. 
Once you’ve given some concentrated thought to your own opening line, obtain copies of anthologies likeThe Best American Short Stories and The PEN/OHenry Prize Stories and read only the first sentence of each story. As with any other aspect of writing, openings are their own distinct art form—and exposure to the masterwork of others is one of the best ways to learn. (Of course, the challenge of this exercise is to avoid being lured into a story with such a compelling opening that you aren’t able to put it down!)
9. When in doubt, test several options. 
Writers are often advised to make a short list of titles and try them out on friends and family. Try doing the same with opening sentences. An opening line, like a title, sometimes seems truly perfect—until you come up with several even better choices.
10. Revisit the beginning once you reach the end. 
Sometimes a story evolves so significantly during the writing process that an opening line, no matter how brilliant, no longer applies to the story that follows. The only way to know this is to reconsider the opening sentence, like the title, once the final draft of the story is complete. Often a new opening is called for. That doesn’t mean your first opening needs to be scrapped entirely; instead, file it away for use in a future project.
Needless to say, a brilliant opening line cannot salvage a story that lacks other merits, nor will your story be accepted for publication based on the opening alone. But in a literary environment where journals and publishing houses receive large quantities of submissions, a distinctive opening line can help define a piece. A riveting opening can even serve as shorthand for an entire story, so that harried editors, sitting around a table as they evaluate the crème de la slush pile, may refer to your piece not by its title, but as “the one that begins with the clocks striking 13” (as does George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four). Even after the rest of the story has evaporated from conscious memory, the opening may stick with editors, an iron peg upon which to hang their hats—and, with any luck, it will have that effect on readers, too.
My own personal favorite opening is the first line of Elizabeth Graver’s story “The Body Shop,” which appears in The Best American Short Stories 1991. It begins: “My mother had me sort the eyes.” I dare you not to go out and read what comes next.