Perpaduan Melayu, Dr. Mahathir serta Mirzan......

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Leave My Family Alone Too!

Another episode of pleading to leave family members alone is associated to a box of 'overstating his qualifications as a decider of MasterChef Malaysia', an Astro local production.

While a father, a important Chef Wan has admonished his son Chef Riz for cooking up, pun intended, as well as adding a bit as well most 'ingredients' in a CV, all seems not forgiven during least to somme members of a public.

Though a father has forgiven a son, which most father do, as well as to remind a open which everybody creates a mistake, fibbing which is, a critics have been asking which CR does a right thing to repel as a judge.

As reported in a MSMedia CW has hit out during critics who asked which a immature Masterchef Malaysia decider be removed from a jury of a kitchen being show. Questioning their right to abuse as well as demand which Mohd Nadzri Redzuawan be punished harshly, a luminary cook pronounced Astro Ria, which front a programme, had already supposed an apology from his son...source The Star, twelve Nov 2011.

Yes indeed, we all lie, a little can distortion in a open with no compunction, a little distortion because they feel it is what their job gives them this right, this payoff is reserved for those who call themselves politicians. Some distortion to their loved ones to enjoy a little off line indiscretions or these days online a web. Some distortion in their CV to get a job, promotion as well as so on.

It is not so most a sharp talker which is means to cook up a plausible story to turn a have idea into a law of a matter. It is when a distortion is associated to sources, as well as credible sources during that, which creates a distortion lift a complicated shame verdict as well as a harshest of penalty.

In this case, hello, if we wish make make use of of luminary persons to desk pad your CV, have certain they have been not similar to large time international luminary in a likes of chefs Mario Batali as well as Eric Ripert, from a famed New Yor! k's Italian grill Babbo as well as French grill Le Bernadin.

But if we want! to impr ess, we won't discuss important jaguh kampung chefs can we in a likes of mak minah from a little warong kampung keladi or in mambang diawan can you?

The open do not unequivocally caring if we distortion to your alternative half or when a person(s) concerned have been nobody or in a company between nobodies who have been told a lie.

But hello we have been before a national tv assembly as well as with many fans examination TLC as well as a number of food as well as cuizine shows upon Astro, some-more than even a entertainment or sports channels, we must not consider a BolehLand makcik, pakcik as well as missus sitting in front of a simpleton LED as well as plasma simpleton box have been all simpleton fast food McD consumers who do not know who's who dude?

Come to consider of it, I compensate so most for Astro as well as it has some-more food channels than a alternative channels. Makes a single consider BolehLand fellows adore great food as well as streamer to turn ObeseLand, which was reported someday back we have been already there. Or, we adore food so most we need to turn experts to be means to engage with a cook to unequivocally have a dining worth it as well as a cost we compensate for it too!

Astro has forgiven him as well as it is for a demur of CR to repel or not. The judges in this program have been a viewers not those who have been judging a contestants. If noone wants to balance it a programme rating will plummet as well as a programme will be axed!

What is it with BolehLand fellows who similar to to shioksendiri, overstate, under acknowledgement as well as wish to be rub shoulder with Who's Who or Whom or Was Who as well as Would be Who? If we have been good, a rich as well as important will pull to we similar to bees to nectar! Is it a little feudal culture we inherit which we have been somebody if we draw towards along or rsther than need a luminary to confirm we! have 'i si'?

CR is already important in some-more than how he cooks his dish or uncover off his hunk of pecs as well as what not! There was positively no need to exaggerate his certification to have a pudding taste improved by making it demeanour some-more pudding-ish, huh? The prudish action has earned a public's brickbat together with a bat from a dad!
O nly CR can decide if he is brave as well as clever sufficient to sit as judged even though a public's settlement upon him might be rsther than unforgiving. But then, a single needs to weigh one's own credit as well as courage to follow through one's decision contra a usual great or a credit of a programme? Wonder if he faces this scapegoat for a greater great quandary with regard to a show.

Perhaps he can take a evidence from a Brett Ratner associate who stepped down as writer of a Oscars as well as alternative luminary together with humbled politicians in UK who stepped down, repel as well as even resigned for their 'moral failure.' They as well showed distress similar to CR though a disproportion it, they decided to not taint a means they represent etc.

So rsther than than CW, trying to make make use of of a cool suasion argument as well as seek forgiveness, there is a difference. When we hold a cool as well as open post or position, we do owe it to your contestants, who gets judged as well as berated by we as well as a assembly who were sole upon a idea of genuineness, sportmanships, pursuit of excellence as well as eminent beliefs a uncover or means is about, we do owe a open a little form of respect too.

Yes, we all lie, though in conclusion a individual's choice must be made in propinquity to a bigger picture. It is unequivocally immature to make make use of of a 'others additionally do it as well as get away' argument to disagree one's box for station one's ground.

Yes, we have leaders embroiled in misfortune indiscretions as well as actions some-more immorality than a CV really. Hey, a single Minister even did a wo! rse fibb ing upon his Doctorate. Those 'devils' we consider have been leaders have been additionally instigation us as well as priesthood us about morality as well as what not. What's ironical, a unequivocally open who is asking for CR to do a morale thing to withdraw, might be a ones who keep voting a 'devils' for a past 5 decades!

Yes, we should let those 'devils', opps leaders quarrel their own battle as well as it is not a great approach of trying to justify we small 'moral failure' by dragging in these 'devils, right?

So deliberation we have suppor! ted as well as allowed, even treated with colour these 'devils' as gods, compared to CW, his is deliberate 'chicken feed' right? Why have been we sincerely harsh upon CW then?

Or is it because a open is unequivocally fed up which this is how BolehLand society worms its approach out from a open exposure as well as get away with it huh? You be a judge.

Perhaps, right now, CR is fighting his own battle during least in his own conscience. But he has already won over his mistakes as well as sojourn upon a uncover as Astro is giving him another change. Wonder if it might affect his settlement in not being as well 'Simon' similar to towards a contestants as well as give them another change?

So CW as well as CR as well as Astro have all settled a matter. So shall we say, "Let a uncover go upon as well as What's Cooking folks, okay?

And for CW interest to" Leave My Family Alone", can we? Should CW additionally stop talking to a MSMedia or twitter or FB about it. If we can't stop cooking up a storm in these channels, we have been only crucifying yourself dear! The adage, 'the reduction pronounced a better' right?

We consternation what a MSMedia bulletin is in a kind as well as even sort of stating they publish with those per family members. The a single connected with a kid didn't appear to get a MSMedia sympathy, while a family emanate associated to a cow penthouses seemed lukewarm as well a! s this f ather-son rebuke they appear to wish to have a dish out of it, why, why, why?

Or have been we right away seeing which sons right away have improved provender for MSMedia as well as opponents than a ole man huh?

YAHMEH!!!

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Minister never said all items were cheaper

Not all 250 equipment sole during Kedai Rakyat 1 Malaysia is 50% cheaper, says Ministry.

PETALING JAYA: The Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-operatives as well as Consumerism has shielded its stand upon a Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia (KR1M) as a cheaper choice to hypermarkets.

The Ministry's secretary-general, Mohd. Zain Mohd. Dom, told FMT in an email today which Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob 'had never said' which all KR1M products were 50% cheaper.

He was responding to a new article entitled "BN is a a single short-changing us, not PR" in which Petaling Jaya Utara MP, Tony Pua, as well as Lembah Pantai MP, Nurul Izzah Anwar were quoted as accusing BN of dubious people upon these claimed savings.

On November 9 Pua told a media which simple equipment during KR1M could be obtained for a same price or even cheaper during Carrefour as well as Tesco.

"It is critical to admit which when a apportion spoke of assets of up to 50% upon KR1M products he never during any time stated which a assets practical to ALL 250 items.

"Rather his statement has been consistent in which KR1M products have been being sole during prices cheaper by sure percentage margins up to a limit of 50%," Zain said.

Zain added which a price more aged which Ismail alluded to is in between KR1M products as well as likewise branded products in a marketplace place, as well as not with a residence brands of hypermarkets.

"With regards to a RM40 million, a money is used for collateral expenditures to refurbish as well as ascent premises which have been selected as well as identified for KR1M operations," he said.

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Loyalty To The Hand that Feeds Them?

The following post is a criticism sent to me by reader LH in response to my post upon Mahal Tali Dari Lembu. LH has given me accede to repost this as a stand-alone blog post. Readers have been many acquire to send me their papers to mwsmithunplugged@gmail.com

Thanks to LH for being a caring as well as honest Malaysian. Do leave a response to share your views. Have a lovely weekend!

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Loyalty to a Hand That Feeds Them - created by LH

Although to be really honest, you don't see PKR as a great supervision substitute, especially, if Anwar becomes PM. He's proven in a past which a little of a problems were caused by him, e.g. a preparation complement as well as a Sabah ID issues. Personally, you consider he is done to compensate for it all now with his sodomy case (which should be a personal issue as well as left during that). However a crooks of M, D, N etc fear exposure. Although, you don't know what there is to hide, all of Malaysia as well as half a world have been wakeful of these crooks as well as their crimes.

I am not a racist as well as know which you risk of being blasted with a 'racist' title by saying this.

Our bloated polite use is generally to grasp part of a NEP's design i.e. bringing up a vital standards of a typical Malays (i.e. immature kids of fishermen, farmers, felda settlers etc). How? by giving them practice as well as regulating in their minds, they owe it to a BN Government. So you start them off in a polite service, afterwards their immature kids have b! een give n scholarships by MARA as well as a many Petronas saved as well as set up institutions to earn degrees so you have a veteran covering - who perhaps now (some of them anyway), believe they can do better if they were not spoonfed as well as a Government has to ban student activists. But, upon a alternative hand, a alternative half of a NEP: which is upon how to increase a resources of a Malays - ah, which is indifferent for a cream of a Malays (i.e. a *M** leaders, families as well as cronies).

To quote examples of a inefficiency of a polite service: When a Income Tax Dept wanted taxation payers to go online to contention their forms, they couldn't get their website right a first time round . Come to a dialect as well as a staff will assistance you - so you went, you approached a sweet smiling girl in tudung behind a computer - as well as she pronounced fill in this as well as which though in ! a end, she had to call a Chinese senior (one of a singular members in a HDN, contrary to a early 60's when a majority of staff in which dialect were China men) to assistance us out.

That was a first time, though you still encountered problems after starting home to hope for a full form as well as returned to a dialect to contention a form. This time a Chinese woman was not accessible as well as you were attended by a immature Malay male - he was shaken as well as couldn't explain well in English, so an Indian woman came to assistance us, speaking great English (compared to a peculiarity as well as customary of her colleagues). So you have a lot of brand new recruits, generally Malays, sitting around, looking great though not efficient. Never thoughts that, Malaysia provides practice as well as in so doing, raises itself to developed status, or so a BN supervision hopes.

Often, starting by Immigration, my fingerprints do not show up well upon a electronic pass machine, which fails to pick up a poor prints as well as a Immigration Officer min! ding it does not know what to do - alternative than to ask me to go by a usual method of display my passport. This has done me wary each time i have to go by a electronic gates. Digressing here, a electronic machines imported in is not in tip top condition as well as mostly is out of order, even in a LCCT. Why do you invariably outlay income shopping costly as well as inadequate machines?

This new trip, you spied a immature Chinese man, sitting next to a gate as well as you thought, mmm... a Immigration have taken in a China man! as well as theory what? my finger print got picked up upon first try! - you asked a immature man, have been you an Immigration officer? His reply, no, I'm a technician.

So, draw your own conclusion. This vicious round of U*** throwing out some-more compensate increases as well as grant to a polite service, which generally comprise of Malays as well as to illustrate contracting them to be constant to a Hand which feeds them is how they stay in power. Mind you, Malays have been really constant as well as Islam holds them together, rightly or otherwise. Why bother if a supports have been taxpayers money, after all, many Muslims usually compensate Zakat as well as not tax, together with *M** ministers, you assume!

As for a *M** ministers as well as those cronies generally from a D-M era, who benefited. Would their resources be which most if not for U***'s hand. And it would appear which M has not stripped enough from his twenty-two years - he still wants to wrestle all a resources from a belligerent as can be seen from international corporate headlines And now a latest upon he he to get his hands upon a Qatar pipes company around Kanchana - Sapura link up while having no qualms in accusing his successor of corruption as well as burglary (petty, if you compare with what he has done in twenty-two years). Truly, now one can understand because others want as most as they can lay hands upon too.

But a l oyal sufferers of this tussle of easy resources are all a Malaysians (Malays included).

The current blow up upon a NFC - because make S as well as family a scapegoat? Why can't a Opposition expose a REAL RASCALS behind a scene?? There will be a ruckus from a guilty ones as well as alternative whatnot's though these have been a people who have to be done to take a mount of honor as well as take a promise which they did not take a single sen of Government funds. If a small 'fry' like S can take so much, a thoughts flounders during a billions which was palm out during a D-M era.

Let us therefore not be influenced by what those guilty MPs explain or deny. Let us all vote them out. ABU. People of Malaysia wake up prior to a nation is indeed bankrupted by them!!!

Grrr,.. how can you fight them? They have their machinery as well as income to emanate all sorts of diversions.

The answer lies in a BALLOT BOX! VOTE WISELY.

Remember - ABU! (ANYTHING BUT UMNO)

- masterwordsmith

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Is Time to Move Bangkok?

THE DIPLOMAT

The flooding in Bangkok shows little pointer of removing better, as well as its stroke upon Thailand's economy as well as a tellurian supply sequence of many mechanism as well as automotive components has nonetheless to be fully tallied. Japanese companies in particular have made huge investments in Thailand as well as have been quite hard hit by a flooding, though all mechanism hoop expostulate makers as well as many car manufacturers have been affected. People have been stranded via Bangkok, a government's messages have been still treacherous as well as hard to understand, as well as a groups in Thai domestic society have prevented a sort of unity in a domestic complement which should be required during such a time of crisis. In addition, diseases carried by a fetid water have been commencement to be a complaint in Bangkok as well as a outlying suburbs. Many foreign investors will now rethink their decisions to place so much of their supply sequence in Thailand.

But even more worrying, these floods, which have been a worst in Thailand in 50 years, could be a messenger of a future.

In an glorious story by Agence France Presse, reporters in Bangkok inspect why a Thai collateral is likely, in years to come, to face identical if not worse floods. Such floods could repeatedly devas! tate Tha iland's production bottom as well as threaten a millions of people in a capital, which dominates Thailand as a country's political, cultural, as well as economic epicenter. Urbanization in a city's outlying areas has reduced regions of vegetation which engrossed H2O in a past; overbuilding in a city core has finished a same.

The capital, built upon swamp, is still sinking every year, as well as with tellurian temperatures taking flight as well as continue patterns changing, Thailand is likely to face a longer, more heated stormy deteriorate for years to come which would in turn make a city harder to drain as well as would more consistently overflow a Chao Praya River. The OECD has personal Thailand's collateral as a single of the 10 many involved cities in a world, according to a AFP report. "In 50 yearsmost of Bangkok will be next sea level," Anond Snidvongs, an consultant upon H2O management, told AFP.

One resolution which some Thai environmental experts have started to suggest: Move a total collateral to land that's higher, more secure from flooding, as well as easier to protect with dikes. Some think that, over time, this is a usually resolution as well as which even with one after another groundwater pumping, improved dikes, as well as more in effect flood government strong in a single government group Bangkok is still too uncertain to survive tellurian climate change. And a Thais have changed their collateral before from a city of Ayuthaya to! Bangkok . But which was in 1782.

Joshua Kurlantzick is a associate for Southeast Asia during a Council upon Foreign Relations. He blogs during Asia Unbound, where this piece originally appeared.

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FT: BNM taking major risks with inflation, but maintains interest rates

KUALA LUMPUR, November 12 The executive bank's decision to keep seductiveness rates upon reason offers a little await for expansion whilst taking "major risks" with inflation, a Financial Times says.

The daily pointed out that Bank Negara Malaysia's (BNM) distinctly reduction hawkish tinge when making a proclamation yesterday additionally referred to increasing worries about tellurian mercantile growth.

"Sustained made during home demand is approaching to underpin growth, but a bank is obviously concerned about a slack in Europe, notice that 'critical process issues sojourn unresolved as well as pose further downside risks to tellurian growth'.

"Still, a bank had much reduction to say about acceleration than has turn usual, merely noting that it was approaching to brace during a current rate of 3.4 per cent for a rest of this year before descending in 2012," FT noted in a beyondbrics blog.

BRICS is a organisation of rising economies Brazil, Russia, India, China as well as South Africa.

Despite this, a executive bank was expected not nonetheless prepared to move in to full easing mode, it said.

BNM kept a key seductiveness rate unvaried during 3.00 per cent during a final financial process assembly for 2011 yesterday but warned of risks to expansion as a little analysts likely a probable easing subsequent year.

It joins Bank of Korea in keeping rates upon hold, even as executive banks in Indonesia as well as Brazil have switched process to progress expansion from fighting acceleration as a tellurian slack threatens exports.

Inflation clocked in during 3.4 per cent in Sep as well as has been in check since June,! when it touched a 27-month tall of 3.5 per cent.

Food inflation, however, remains high, increasing to 5 per cent year-on-year in Sep from 4.6 per cent in August.

Some economists have already cut their forecasts for mercantile expansion this year that a supervision estimates will come in during in between 5.0 as well as 5.5 per cent.

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KHABAR HAJI DARI TANAH SUCI! ARAFAH SENTIASA DALAM INGATAN!

Benarlah kata mereka yang pernah menunaikan haji, kenikmatan mengerjakan haji adalah ketika berada di Arafah. Manakala ketika berada di Mina ianya banyak mengajar kita erti kesabaran. Berada di Arafah tidak selama berada di Mina. Paling lama joke lebih kurang thirty jam. Manakala berada di Mina paling cepat 2 hari dan paling lama 3 hari. Disitulah kesabaran kita benar-benar teruji. Kepada yang tabah

1Malaysia shop now faces hazardous products claim

Fresh from a revelation by Pakatan Rakyat which products sold during government-subsidised Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia were not cheap as claimed, Petaling Jaya Utara member of parliament Tony Pua forsaken an additional bombshell.

This time, Pua pronounced products sold during KR1M were vulnerable for tellurian consumption, citing lab exam which discovered a presence of E-coli as well as Coliform in a uninformed milk.

"This is not a domestic issue. This is of consumers' interest. What has a Health apportion finished a final 5 months, given KR1M proposed a operation with products unwell a regulation set by a ministry?" asked Pua, during a press conference accompanied by PAS's Kuala Selangor MP Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad as well as Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar.

Pua did not reveal a names of a labs which conducted a test, but pronounced they were approved by a Health method as well as could have their formula available upon requests, suggesting which this was to avoid harassment to a labs.

He pronounced besides a bacteria find, a little products during a KR1M emporium violated Health method regulations upon product labelling.

He added which checks were additionally conducted upon oyster sauce, pineapple jam, ice cream, creamer, precipitated milk, canned sardines, curry duck as well as ghee.

"All these products violate a 13, 13B, 14, 15 as well as sixteen clause a! ccording to Food Act 1983 as well as Food Regulations 1985. Have they been tested to establish whether they have been suitable for public or has nothing been finished due to conflict of interest?

"I demand a Health Minister to investigate this immediately. Stop sleeping!" he urged.

'Comparison unfair'

Yesterday, a same contingent pronounced products during an additional hypermarket were labelled cheaper than identical ones bought during KR1M, which is a government-endorsed mi! ni marke tplace chain operated by a nation's largest hypermarket Mydin.

Domestic Trade, Cooperatives as well as Consumerism apportion Ismail Sabri Yaakob however denied a claims, as well as accused a antithesis of lying.

Ismail pronounced comparing a products during KR1M with those of Carrefour was astray as a latter has a own brand.

"When making comparison, have sure to review an apple with an apple.

"You can't review KR1M prices to Carrefour's house brands because our pricing benchmark is based upon which of branded products. Compare products of identical peculiarity as well as content. You can't review a package of Ceylon tea with black tea as well as contend a Ceylon tea is some-more expensive," pronounced Ismail.

- Harakahdaily

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Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia: House brand, sales puff or sub-standard goods

I was personally really flattered to review which my initial article as the columnist for ! the Mala ysia Chronicle, "Who is the the single short-changing Malaysians - BN or Pakatan", had garnered the reply from Mohd Zain, the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-operatives as well as Consumerism. This is the fastest I've seen the polite service conflict to anything I've put out, so once again let me express my gratitude.

What the Secretary-General has completely longed for is the complete context of my comments about Kedai 1Malaysia (KR1M). First of all, for the Minister Ismail Zabri to discuss which some equipment were "up to 50%" cheaper, is misleading in itself. This is the usual ploy used by supermarkets as well as video stores. You can go up to the raise of DVDs which say "up to 70% off" though find the ones essentially value watching usually 10% off.

Again, the gusto for open relations or sales puff

When the Minister as well as the Prime Minister had voiced the complete KR1M judgment which would aggressively fight opposite rising costs, as well as referred to which they would have 250 products available, naturally the single would pretence which you would be able to save the integrate of bucks. However, by entrance out as well as trying to 'clarify' the nature of the comments, we would contention which the Minister has misled the open with his "up to 50%" comment.

Furthermore, the matter unsuccessful to essentially bring examples as to the products which were essentially 50% off! What is more puzzling ! is which there was no attempt to settle what the benchmark prices have been in the initial place. Could it be which discounts have been formed upon Recommend Retail Prices (RRP) of certain products? Is the Minister unknowingly which hypermarkets as well as supermarkets suggest discounts of RRP equipment upon the every day basis? If so, how have been the 'discounted' prices found in KR1M any different?

Must be allied to other residence brands

Let's talk about his claim which KR1M products have to be compared opposite identical branded products, though not residence brands. So then, what's the point? we can buy Dettol if we could afford it rsther than than residence code disinfectant. Or we could buy Coca-cola rsther than than Tesco cola. This is upon the basis which we have the preference as the consumer to squeeze equipment as according to my budget.

But isn't the point of KR1M to save money? How afterwards can your KR1M brand, which is obviously the residence brand, not be compared to other residence brands? This in itself defies logic. Who defines 'similar branded items' anyway? Is there any declaration which the peculiarity of the KR1M code is better or exceeded the other so-called 'similar branded items'?

Don't things the open with sub-standard poor peculiarity goods

It has only been reported which equipment found in KR1M have been ! think for quality. Tony Pua, who was the single of those responsible for uncovering the liaison in the initial place, today voiced which uninformed milk had been sold at the stores contained E. Coli, as well as was backed up by Dzulkefly Ahmad. Furthermore 8 equipment out of the 250 had been found to contravene the Food Act 1983 as well as the Food Regulations 1985. How can the Minister urge this, generally as the Ministry is ostensible to overlook the operations of KR1M directly?

Lastly, the RM40 mill! ion subs idy paid for CAPEX purposes for refurbishment as well as ascent of the premises. Let's look at the numbers. According to their website, there have been currently six KR1M stores in operation, with the latest the single opening in Melaka.

With an announcement of 22 more stores upon the way, this brings it up to twenty-eight stores. With the RM40 million subsidy, the cost of restoration for any store would be RM1.4 million value of restoration for e! ach stor e. I'm certain the crony-contractors would be rubbing their hands with glee. Having been to the KR1M located at the Kelana Jaya LRT station, we can confidently say which the restoration would certainly not cost which much. This is the Ministry, once again, pulling the quick the single upon us.

Other counts including Khairy Jamaluddin

Since we have the government's attention, as well as they have been so keen to review my columns, can the Defence method insist about the Skudai land deal? Can the MACC let us know because they have been so keen to examine Petronas though not the National Feedlot Centre? Or get the right people from the Port Klang Free Zone? Can the Ministries give explanations about the perfect insufficiency in procurement, as the MACC has declared there was no crime involved?

Khairy Jamaluddin has fed us with the loyal cock-and-bull story today, by saying which the Rakyat's income is well spent when invested into the RM10 million condominium. If it was such the good investment, because didn't they proudly shout about it before?

Stop being so sour about the opposition land press conferences to talk about their achievements when it is transparent which Barisan Nasional is you do really little to do things right. While you're at it, stop trying to feed us lame excuses by job them clarifications.

Douglas Tan is the DAP part of as well as the Malaysia Chronicle columnist

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Don't the cops have better things to do? - Malaysia Kini

Don't a cops have better things to do?
Malaysia Kini
Artchan: Guilty or not, BN, especially Umno, is alienating a rakyat with its "overkill" . Ask any one upon a streets and you would know a people have been peeved off with a relentless persecution of one chairman though a large crime highlighted ...

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Don't call the cops if your iPhone f**ked up

Mugshots Of The Day - Man Arrested For Calling 911 Five Times to Say His iPhone Is Broken !

You know who will never work during a Genius Bar? Or see his name anywhere near a word "genius" in his lifetime? Michael Alan Skopec. The 48-year-old from Bristol, Illinois, was arrested during 1 a.m. on Wednesday morning, for, according to the sheriff's bureau report, calling "911 on 5 occasions to inform which his iPhone was not working."

Man Arrested For Calling 911 Five Times to Say His iPhone Wasnt Working

When military arrived during his residence, he was intoxicated, as well as was arrested before long after as well as charged with obstructing or facing a assent officer.

If it creates him feel any better, you once called AppleCare to assistance me chase a taste of Granny Smith which had gotten caught in my windpipe. It took 35 minutes as well as caused a little mild brain damage, but Kevin eventually talked me by a self-administered Heimlich fix which unequivocally finished up saving my life! [The Smoking Gun, Mugshot via Kendall County Sheriff's Dept.]

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November 12, 2011

The Time to Relax is on us: Enjoy

Friends,

Dr Kamsiah as well as you decided which for this weekend you should underline a little outstanding singing organisation from a 40s to a 80s. Why? Well, singing in harmony is a plea as wel! l as the se groups appear to have it easy, balmy as well as really entertaining.

Let us start off with a mythological Four Aces with their famous number, Love's a Many Splendoured Thing. The Andrew Sisters as well as The Platters follow in sequence as well as you have been in to memory lane, generally those of us who have been roving in to a crimson sky of a sunset (Din is reminded of a novels of Zane Grey Mickey Spillane as well as Earl Stanley Gardener).

The McGuire Sisters sing a hit, Sincerely as well as you have enclosed The Fifth Dimension rendering one of their renouned numbers, as well as you consternation why Marliyn McCcoo was not means to nap final night. Let her explain. We follow which up with The Lettermen as well as The Stylistics.

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Lab test shows bacteria in 1Msia milk, say Pakatan MPs

Nigel Aw (MKini)
12:39PM Nov 11, 2011

DAP inhabitant publicity cabinet member Tony Pua currently suggested which uninformed divert sold during a Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia (KR1M) were allegedly tainted with E ccoli.

This, he said, was based an independent lab exam upon a product consecrated by Pakatan Rakyat.

NONE E coli or Escherichia coli is a vital micro-organism which can exist in food which has not been baked well enough as well as can means critical illness or even death.

However, Pua (left) declined to reveal a two labs which were engaged to do a tests, though stressed which they were credible.

"If a (Health) Ministry requests a lab reports, you will hand them over, though you do not wish a labs to get in to trouble given their licences are from a Health Ministry," he said.

Also benefaction were Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar as well as Kuala Selangor MP Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad.

Pua, together with Nurul Izzah, had upon Wednesday claimed which a supervision had grossly exaggerated a intensity savings from shopping KR1M products.

However, Domestic Trade, Cooperatives as well as Consumerism Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has denied a claim, stressing which a some-more aged should be apple-to-apple.

"Any some-more aged should be as a whole, taking in to consideration weight, packaging as well as many importantly, quality," Sabri has been quoted as saying.

'Product can means food poisoning'

Dzulkefly, who is a healing scientist by training, pronounced a formula were alarming as E Coli causes serious food poisoning.

NONE "The coliform in a divert is additionally many higher than a permitted levels, as well as additionally causes a same effect," Dzulkefly (right in photo) said.

However, a particular product appeared to have been discontinued, pronounced Pua.

"We wanted to do some-more tests though you can't find a divert any some-more given two to 3 weeks ago. Maybe they found out about it as well as withdrew it.

"We asked them (KR1M operator) though they pronounced a divert was no longer accessible given they are changing suppliers."

Conducting a live examination in front of a Bandar Tun Razak KR1M, Pua suggested an additional 8 products which went opposite a Food Act 1983 as well as Food Regulations 1985.

They are:

Rich creamer Lab exam shows 9.07 percent of fat (the law requires during slightest 10 percent)

Ghee Label says it contains palm oil (law requires 100 percent animal fat)

Ice thickk cream Lab exam contains 8.87 percent of fat (law requires during slightest 10 percent)

Canned sardines Live examination shows a sardine calm is 37 percent of a nett weight (law requires during slightest 55 percent)

Canned curry chicken Live examination shows chicken beef as well as potatoes make 54 percent of nett weight (law requires during slightest 90 percent)

Evaporated divert Label says it contains 6 percent divert fat (law requires during slightest 8 percent)

Oyster salsa Lab exam shows no oyster extract, only pepper as well as protein levels during 0.6 percent (Law requires healthy oyster remove as well as during slightest 2.5 percent protein)

Pineapple jam Lab tests shows 8.87 percent fruit (law requires during slightest 35 percent)

Aside from these, Tony said, multiform other products additionally breached a law or regulations by not having correct labelling.

'Health Ministry contingency act'

"This i s not only about a Domestic Trade, Cooperatives as well as Consumerism Ministry; this is additionally a illness issue. I wish to ask what Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai has finished about this?

"Have his officers been conducting checks upon these products? How does a supervision check upon a own products? Of course, it will say a own products are good."

Pua further pointed out which a breaches carried fines of up to RM100,000 as well as prison conditions of up to 10 years.

"If a rakyat humour food poisoning, who is starting to take responsibility? Can a minister be charged? The ministers have been compelling these products there has to be ministerial accountability."

Pua called upon a supervision not to practise stand in standards as well as to action opposite KR1M shops, as it would opposite other businesses which breach a law.

NONE Nurul (right in photo) additionally took to task a Federation of Malaysian Consumers Associations (Fomca) communications executive Mohd Yusof Abdul Rahman for encouraging a people to buy KR1M products, claiming which they were poor as well as of quality.

"Have they finished any exam upon a products?" Nurul asked.

She pronounced today's revelations were not meant to score domestic points though were intended to assist a supervision in ensuring a illness of a people.

"We do not wish a public to be exposed to products which can discredit their health, so a supervision should take this positively."

Describing a products as "extremely irresponsible", Dzulkefly pronounced a many exposed groups would humour as a result of this.

"Most of a people who visit a 1Malaysia shops come from low income families how can you offer them with these kinds of products?

"Compromising a illness of a rakyat as well as food peculiarity is not a way," Dzulkefly added.

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Teach your kids financial responsibility Koh Noi Keng

NOV twelve Research suggests which children as immature as three years aged are able to sense a judgment of money. By 12, they would have shaped habits which will take them in to adulthood. You might be astounded three years old?. Yes, like everybody else, kids learn best though play. Playing readily available games such as counting or classification ... Read More

KGNS land caveat lapsed to keep presidents ties with Putrajaya, says report

By Jahabar Sadiq Editor

November 12, 2011

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov twelve A charge force in Kelab Golf Negara Subang (KGNS) allowed a premonition to relapse upon a leased land final Jun ! in sequence to safety a bar president's ties with a Najib administration, according to documents performed by The Malaysian Insider.

The panel's pierce without seeking a members' capitulation could right away price a bar billions as a central land owner, a Federal Land Commissioner, has gone to court to compel them to compensate market rates for a 330 acres of land that sits squarely in a center of both determined as well as rapidly developing areas such as Subang Jaya, Ara Damansara, Kelana Jaya as well as Bandar Sunway.

The clubs's land issue charge force met upon Jun seventeen this year, 6 days before a premonition filed in 2004 was due to end when it motionless not to magnify a caveat. That assembly was chaired by bar boss Tan Sri Megat Najmuddin Khas as well as attended by multiform other members.

"We have been not intimidating a Government who is a legitimate owner of a land.

"Avoid embarrassing a President of KGNS who has upon multiform occasions briefed both a PM as well as Deputy PM upon a land brawl as well as a need to demeanour for an amicable solution," according to a minutes of a charge force assembly upon that date.

The minutes form partial of eighteen annexure that is being sent to all members forward of an unusual general assembly (EGM) upon Nov twenty to discuss a club's land dispute.

It is learnt that a bar members were not told that a premonition was allowed to lapse. Even a land authorities did not know as they filed their imagining summons upon Aug 23, 2011, seeking to remove a caveat.

The supervision official is additionally asking for damages as well as other costs deemed fit by a court.

But a members disagree that a bar has already paid for a 99-year fra! nchise a s well as a annual quit franchise of RM9,900 since a inception. The bar paid a sum of RM1.8 million at RM5,000 monthly between 1980 as well as 2010 for a RM1 million loan since with 5 per cent interest to rise a golf course in 1968.

It is understood that some members have been additionally deliberation suing a charge force members for dereliction in avocation in not receiving caring of a club's interests in a negotiations with Putrajaya.

"They appear more interested in receiving caring of a president's ties than a club's. That's wrong," said a bar member who did not wish to be named.

The golf club, that is seen as an iconic institution for those living in as well as around a township of Petaling Jaya, was non-stop in 1968 as well as entered into a 99-year franchise agreement for a land with a sovereign supervision in 1971.

The Malaysian Insider understands that discussions over a standing of a land have been going upon for multiform years but things came to a head when a sovereign supervision motionless to file a authorised case for a land.

When KGNS initial moved to a benefaction site, a land was distant less valuable as it was in a center of rubber estates as well as former tin mining land, as well as a golf bar currently with a matur! ed lands cape presents a much appreciated green lung in a burgeoning Kelana Jaya area.

The authorised fit has additionally since rise to conjecture that a land has been earmarked by a supervision for sale to developers to build high-end properties.

Numerous politically-connected businessmen live in beautiful mansions conflicting a bar as well as could be opposed to any pierce to feature development in a area.

The Singapore Straits Times, that additionally reported upon a government's authorised suit, said a Subang golf bar land, that boasts two 18-hole golf courses, is worth an estimated RM5 billion or more in blurb value.

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Higher Gossip - Essays and Criticism - By John Updike.Edited by Christopher Carduff - Book Review

It is a fate of some writers to be accused of writing as well well. In a single form or another, a charge has been lodged opposite authors as different as Vladimir Nabokov (too clever), Richard Wilbur (too elegant) as well as Garry Wills (too authoritative). But between major American well read total of brand brand new times, John Updike is a the single about whom a censure (too fluent, as well lavish, as well prolific) is many common. Between his first book, "The Carpentered Hen" (1958), as well as his death in 2009, Updike constructed some-more than 60 volumes: novels; story collections; nonfiction upon anything from writers as well as artists to baseball, dinosaurs, Broadway as well as golf; children's tales; poetry; a chronological play; forewords; afterwords; as well as all in between.

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HIGHER GOSSIP

Essays as well as Criticism

By John Updike. Edited by Christopher Carduff

Illustrated. 501 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $ 40

Now comes a posthumous collection entitled "Higher Gossip" a phrase that a editor, Christopher Carduff, borrows from Updike's outline of a practice of book reviewing. For some readers, this book will presumably endorse that Updike was a bard so preoccupied by his own talent that he couldn't reason anything back, even from over a grave.

In fact, "Higher Gossip" is a skilfully edited sign of what a prodigy you have lost. In a face of a depot cancer diagnosis, Updike had hoped to lift something like this book together from previously published functions starting back to a early 1970s. He had organised them in three shirt boxes (one for book reviews; an additional for art criticism; a third for what he called "oddments"). As was his practice whenev! er refug ee pieces had accumulated amply to fill a brand brand new volume, he was not formulation simply to imitate a texts from rip sheets of a strange published versions. He had already revised many of them upon his personal mechanism as well as printed them afresh. Carduff's selection is some-more than a available assemblage of functions once sparse between periodicals trimming from Golf Digest to The New Yorker to a AARP repository (from that he draws a pleasing essay, "The Writer in Winter"). He also includes some virtually unknown essays, notably a thoughtfulness upon on vacation a football factory, published in 1989 in a Sunday repository of The Observer of London, as well as after in a tiny edition secretly printed in Finland.

Updike was a bard of vacillating moods, as well as all have been upon arrangement here. He could be sentimental about childhood, vicious about "old ladies entertainment in dusty parlors to pool a titillations of their dwindling days," as well as pityingly hostile of a young, "no better during extracting complacency from their animal illness than you were." Perhaps a many serious charge opposite him is that he viewed a tellurian universe from a disdainful distance watching, with a certain voyeuristic pleasure, as people botched their lives.

It is a slander. He was unstintingly rapt to a significance with which, sometimes desperately, you deposit a smallest incidents as well as sensations generally in retrospect, when "customary reticence is discarded, as needless baggage from a secluded universe of midlife responsibilities," as well as "our tears fatten upon a memories of joy." He wrote with tactile power about everything, be it a boy petting with his first girlfriend in a car as moonlight "anointed her bare front with a shadows of raindrops still sticking to a windshield" or a feel of fingering a "merry dimples" of a golf ball.

But he wrote best, we think, about a gray universe of shut off end that his relatives inhabited in a barely middle-class town of Shill! ington, Pa., where his mom was an unpublished bard as well as his father a schoolteacher during a time when teachers were "well subsequent machinists as well as full-fashioned knitters in a scale of prestige." In his memoir "Self-Consciousness" (1989), Updike explained that it was a enterprise for dutiful revenge not against, though upon interest of, his relatives that gathering him out of Shillington to make his name by lifting their cramped universe in to renown. And so he did, with an artistic balance of cognisance as well as detachment, in "The Centaur" (1963), "Olinger Stories" (1964) as well as a tetralogy of novels about Rabbit Angstrom, from "Rabbit, Run" (1960) through "Rabbit Redux" (1971), "Rabbit Is Rich" (1981) as well as "Rabbit during Rest" (1990).

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Arthur Phillips on New Books About Ernest Hemingway

It would be tough to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's change over American literature, though his change upon a lives is probably incomparable still. Here he is in a minute to his mother, Jul 1924, describing a San Fermn bullfighting legal holiday in Pamplona, Spain: "It is a purely Spanish festa . . . as well as there have been practically no foreigners." Two years later he published a novel set in Pamplona, as well as from which impulse upon his letter's description of a sleepy town would never hold true again. The 2012 college grad who will be gored using with a bulls in Pamplona subsequent July, as well as a thousands of others safely celebration as well most during a back of a barriers, have been all living out a fantasies of one man.

Ernest Hemingway Collection during a John F. Kennedy Presidential Library as well as Museum, Boston

A photograph of Ernest Hemingway from "Hemingway: A Life in Pictures."

That male seems to hold a interest, as well as enthuse imitation, in ways alternative writers don't. His personality as well as his travels continue to intruigued as most as, as well as maybe some-more than, his fiction. A broad Gulf Stream of books about him flows upon as well as on, year after year, withdrawal him, we fear, some-more review about than read.

This abiding seductiveness in a man, as against to his books, has three causes: a undeniably dauntless as well as outsize sum of his tragic life; his conscious civilised world of luminary (and a resulting mountain of documentary records); as well as a actuality which he wrote novella so closely tied to a tangible places, people as well as sum of his life. We feel we know him since we have review his stories of protagonists unequivocally most similar to him we do things he essentially ! did in p laces he unequivocally lived with characters unequivocally most similar to his family as well as friends.

This is unfortunate, though, since it kills or during least weakens a power of his fiction, limits how we consider of it. We start to review it small, view it as merely well-pruned memoir. It becomes an illustration of his hold up ("Oh, which character's unequivocally his initial wife"), when of course a most appropriate of his novella is singular since it is not only one man's story. It is good art since of a operation of possible meanings as well as effects. His excellent novella is vast, universal, open to interpretation, fanciful as well as debatable, purposely opaque, impersonal. It is ours, not his.

Three new books in which tide of Hemingway iconography present opposite glimpses of him, as well as imply opposite relations between his hold up as well as his art.

"The Letters of Ernest Hemingway," covering a years 1907-22, is a initial of some-more than a dozen programmed volumes, collecting only about all he ever wrote which was not meant for publication. And, to be clear, those of us who admire his novella should take a impulse to admit which these letters were not dictated for us. To his executors: "I hereby request as well as approach we not to publish, or consent to a announcement by others, of any such letters." We have been snooping. If we adore a artist's work, if we apply oneself what we consider we know of a man, then we can honor his wishes as well as stop reading right here. On a alternative hand, Pauline, a second of his four wives, burnt her share of a letters, as well as their son Patrick said of which decision: "At least she was logical. She didn't wish her association to be immortalized. That was a way to understanding with it."

The life of a small of these papers (predating Hemingway's fame) is tighten to a miracle, as well as "The Letters" is but question a spectacular scholarly achievement. Letters about boyhood fishing trips in Michigan which res! emble hi s early Nick Adams stories; notes passed in class; dauntless as well as self-important letters home from a sanatorium in Italy after his wounding in World War we with descriptions of artillery which prefigure "A Farewell to Arms"; wooing letters to his initial wife; gossipy letters from Paris describing a well read world he was discovering: these have been extraordinary. From 1922, to Sherwood Anderson: "Gertrude Stein as well as me have been only similar to brothers. . . . Joyce has a most goddamn wonderful book. . . . I've been teaching Pound to box with small success." Sigh.

Arthur Phillips is a writer of 5 novels: "Prague," "The Egyptologist," "Angelica," "The Song Is You" as well as "The Tragedy of Arthur."

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The Sense of An Ending - By Julian Barnes - Book Review

Many well read careers have been made, as well as presumably some-more will be, by conveying the inwardness, awkwardness as well as amicable stress which shackle British mores similar to the very tightly wrapped cummerbund. This suffocating self-consciousness lies at the heart of British humor, either in the farcical hasten of perplexing to keep up appearances or the risible though sincere terror of being mocked which sniping English schoolboys still fear, even when they're grown up, bald as well as 70.

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THE SENSE OF AN ENDING

By Julian Barnes

163 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $ 23.95

It takes the dauntless writer to mine this dynamic for pathos instead of sniggers. Evelyn Waugh did it in "Brideshead Revisited," as did Philip Larkin in "Jill." (Think of the grant child John Kemp, who "tingled as well as shuddered" with annoyance when his posh Oxford roommate's crony caught him looking at her with desire.) And Kazuo Ishiguro did it in "The Remains of the Day," which won the Man Booker Prize in 1989. Now, with his strenuously compact new novel, "The Sense of an Ending" which has just won the 2011 Booker Prize Julian Barnes takes his place among the subtly assertive practitioners of this quiet art.

Barnes, it goes but saying, is the much-decorated maestro of English literature's romantic battlefields, the single who has covered this turf most times before. But in "The Sense of an Ending" his 14th work of fiction he engages with the untidy collisions of the tellurian onslaught some-more directly than ever, even as he remains specially light upon his feet. In most of his progressing novels, Barnes tackled passionate jealousy, distrust as well as foe in a! n roughl y jaunty manner. When the father in "Before She Met Me" guzzles booze as well as weeps, worried by thoughts of his wife's past lovers, the crony dryly remarks, "Doesn't receptive to advice most fun." In "Talking It Over" as well as "Love, Etc.," in which two group take turns marrying the same woman, all 3 members of the mnage are as well worldly to uncover most pique. And in some-more elaborately scaffolded novels similar to "Flaubert's Parrot" as well as "Arthur as well as George," Barnes encases any sharp-edged questions of adore in the sheathing of plots about historical figures. But in "The Sense of an Ending," he has dispensed with unconcern as well as shed his armor plating.

The new book is the mystery of mental recall as well as missed opportunity. Tony Webster, the cautious, divorced male in his 60s who "had wanted life not to worry me as well much, as well as had succeeded," receives an astonishing leave from the lady he'd met only once, 40 years earlier. The mom of his college girlfriend, Veronica, has bequeathed him 500 the legacy which unsettles Tony, pulling him to get in hold with Veronica (their relationship had ended badly) as well as find answers to sure unresolved questions.

Had he desired Veronica? (At the time, it was an emotion he had lacked the spine to own up to.) What had happened to the energetic child he used to be, "book-hungry, sex-hungry, meritocratic, anarchistic," who suspicion of himself as "being kept in the little kind of land pen, watchful to be released" in to an engaged adult life of "passion as well as danger, ecstasy as well as despair"? And what ever became of the crony he as well as Veronica both knew back then, the brainy, idealistic child declared Adrian Finn? Gradually, Tony assembles his with malice aforethought forgotten past impressions as well as actions, joining together the links which connect him to these people, as if perplexing to form the "chain of particular responsibilities" which might insist how it happened which his life's medium w! ages had resulted in "the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss."

Adrian had tender Tony when he announced his exasperation with their country's inhabitant pose of perpetual insouciance. "I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, we really hate it," Adrian declared. Hearing this, Tony had felt the "throb of vindication." But his clearance was unfounded; it belied his own noncommittal nature.

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11/22/63 By Stephen King Book Review

In all of Stephen King's work there is an accretion of a ordinary as well as a abnormal call it a uncanny quotidian. In his brand brand new novel, "11/22/63," it is a rabbit hole in to a past which pops up in Lisbon Falls, a woebegone dilemma of Maine.

On a single finish is 2011. An but a friend diner has finally been paid for out by L. L. Bean. The diner as well as a time portal inside it may final a couple of more weeks in a footprint of a burned textile mill.

On a other finish is America under Eisenhower. The indent churns out white smoke. "Vertigo" is display during a outdoor movie theater upon its initial run. The Kennebec Fruit Company isn't a curio for tourists; it sells oranges. And John Kennedy, a immature senator from Massachusetts, is still alive.

The rules of a rabbit hole in to a past have been outlined in a initial pages of a novel. Al Templeton, a owners of a diner, explains them to Jake Epping, an English teacher during a local high school. Walk to a behind of a pantry. Mind a 60-watt bulb overhead. Expect a smell of sulfur. And keep upon feet until we feel your feet fall.

Suddenly you're behind upon Sept. 9, 1958. It's 11:58 a.m. There are, Al says, usually dual conditions. One, it's not a one-way trip. It doesn't have to be. But when we return, no make a disproportion how long you've stayed in a past dual days, five years, whatever usually dual minutes have left by in a present. Two, any time we go behind to a past, there is a reset. Like a Magic Slate. It's 11:58 a.m., as well as everything we did upon your previous outing has been erased.

With that, King dispenses with most of a mechanics of time-travel as well as thank God for it. There is no extended contention of a "grandfather paradox." ("What if we killed your grandfather?" "Why upon earth would we do that?") The rules have been simple.

There is a reason for this: King is after something bigger. "11/22/63" is a imagining upon memory, love, loss, giveaway will a! s well a s necessity. It's a blunderbuss of a book, abundant with answers to questions: Can a single male make a difference? Can story be changed, or does it snap behind upon itself like a rubber band? Does adore conquer all? (The big stuff.)

Al a hearsay is which he is serving burgers done of dog, or cat is failing of lung cancer. Coughing up red blood in to a pile of maxi-pads. He enlists Jake to do what he couldn't: stop Lee Harvey Oswald. It's a fabulous pitch. "Save Kennedy, save his brother. Save Martin Luther King. Stop a competition riots. Stop Vietnam, maybe. . . . Get absolved of a single unlucky waif, buddy, as well as we could save millions of lives."

Jake Epping is a burned-out teacher with a severely alcoholic ex-wife as well as zero better to do than disappear in to a past. The shame outing works. And Epping falls in to a past with a brand brand new name, George T. Amberson as if time-travel required a brand brand new temperament as well as a clear mission. Correct a past. Undo some of a evils of a 20th century.

Once in 1958, however, Amberson is rught away confronted by a double mystery: a mystery of what unequivocally happened then, as well as a mystery of what might be otherwise.

Before George/Jake can shift a march of history, he has to know what actually occurred. Was it Oswald, shooting from a depository? Was it a conspiracy? Another shooter upon a grassy knoll? How about George de Mohrenschildt, a single determined minor impression in swindling thinking? They have been a nightmare uncertainties of an eventuality which has been over-examined, as well as never understood. Jake is a great person. He cannot kill Oswald but initial knowing whether he was a responsible party, as well as a great part of a adventure is a investigation.

Once in Dallas, Amberson has years to get to know Oswald, but he can't just bust down a door. History is fragile; he has to peer around corners. He buys tape recorders as well as long-distance listening devices, moves in to filth! y neighb orhoods, trails Oswald as he stashes his rifle. What he learns is no surprise. Oswald was unpleasant in ordinary ways. Emotional, violent with his wife, uncertain of himself as well as desperate to shift a broken world.

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George F. Kennan - An American Life - By John Lewis Gaddis - Book Review

While writing this essay, we asked several young group as good as women what George F. Kennan meant to them. As it incited out, nearly all were essentially oblivious of a man or his purpose in moulding American unfamiliar policy. Yet Kennan had fashioned a concept of containment in a name of that a cold fight was conducted as good as won as good as roughly concurrently had additionally voiced a little of a many sharp critique of a way his own speculation was being implemented. To a benefaction generation, Kennan has receded in to a vague past as has their parents' onslaught to bring forth a new international sequence amid a awesome, rare energy of chief weapons.

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George F. Kennan in 1969.

GEORGE F. KENNAN

An American Life

By Henry A. Kissinger

Illustrated. 784 pp. The Penguin Press. $ 39.95.

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George F. Kennan in 1952, after a Soviet Union demanded his stop as ambassador.

For a surviving participants in a emotions of that period, this state of affairs inspires melancholy reflections about a aptitude of story in a age of a Internet as good as a 24-hour headlines cycle. Fortunately, John Lewis Gaddis, a distinguished highbrow of story as good as strategy during Yale, has brought again to life a dilemmas as good as aspirations of those main decades of a mid-20th century. His magisterial work, "George F. Kennan: An American Life," bids satisfactory to be as tighten to a last word as possible upon one of a many important, comple! x, movin g, challenging as good as exasperating American public servants. The reader should know that for a past decade, we have occasionally met with a students of a Grand Strategy seminar John Gaddis conducts during Yale as good as that we encounter each other upon amicable occasions from time to time. But Gaddis's work is seminal as good as beyond personal relationships.

George Kennan's thought suffused American unfamiliar process upon both sides of a egghead as good as ideological dividing lines for nearly half a century. Yet a top in front of he ever held was envoy to Moscow for five months in 1952 as good as to Yugoslavia for dual years in a early 1960s. In Washington, he never rose upon top of executive of process formulation during a State Department, a in front of he occupied from 1947 to 1950. Yet his precepts helped figure both a unfamiliar process of a cold fight as good as a arguments of a opponents after he renounced early upon a duplicate of his maxims.

A shining analyst of long-term trends as good as a singularly means poetry stylist, Kennan, as a relatively youth Foreign Service officer, served in a entourages of Secretaries of State George C. Marshall as good as Dean Acheson. His fluency in German as good as Russian, as good as his believe of those countries' histories as good as literary traditions, combined with a commanding, if contradictory, personality. Kennan was stern yet could additionally be convivial, personification his guitar during embassy events; divine though since to love affairs (in a supervision of that he later instructed his son in writing); endlessly introspective as good as ultimately remote. He was, a critic once charged, "an impressionist, a poet, not an earthling."

For all these qualities as good as maybe because of them Kennan was never vouchsafed a opportunity essentially to govern his supportive as good as farsighted visions during a top levels of government. And he blighted his career in supervision by a tendency to recoil from a implications! of his own views. The debate in America in between faith as good as realism, that continues to this day, played itself out inside Kennan's soul. Though he mostly voiced doubt about a ability of his fellow Americans to grasp a complexity of his perceptions, he additionally reflected in his own person a very American ambivalence about a nature as good as purpose of unfamiliar policy.

When his analytical luminosity was rewarded with ambassadorial appointments, to a Soviet Union as good as afterwards to Yugoslavia, Kennan self-destructed whilst disregarding his own precepts. The author of sharp analyses of Soviet morbid attraction to slights as good as of a Kremlin's penchant for parsing every word of American diplomats, he torpedoed his Moscow mission after just a few months. Offended by a constrictions of everyday living in Stalin's Moscow, Kennan compared his hosts to Nazi Germany in an brusque criticism to a journalist during Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. As a result, he was spoken persona non grata a only American envoy to Russia to suffer this fate. Similarly, in Belgrade a decade later, Kennan reacted to Tito's confirmation of neutrality upon a emanate of a Soviet threat to Berlin as if it were a personal slight. Yet Tito's was precisely a kind of neutralist balancing act Kennan had brilliantly analyzed when it had been destined opposite a Soviet Union. Shortly afterward, Kennan resigned.

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Soi Lek tries to damage control but reveals MCA is just as keen to cheat as Umno

Soi Lek tries to repairs carry out but reveals MCA is only as penetrating to lie as Umno

MCA boss Chua Soi Lek attempted to repairs carry out after "my man" pronounced abroad vot! ing shou ld not be authorised as Malaysians living abroad were out of touch with what was starting on in a country.

But notwithstanding all a talk, during a end of a day, a MCA is still opposite abroad voting. It is mocking as Soi Lek's explanation might be even lamer than which supposing by celebration central cabinet part of Ei Kim Hock.

Soi Lek's motive was a 'high' cost as well as 'logistical nightmare' involved. To a Malaysian diaspora - many who left due to disgust over a Umno-BN's autochthonous crime - this can usually further alienate them.

News which RM10 million of open income was outlayed by a inhabitant beef prolongation plan to buy a super-plush apartment house in Bangsar for Women's Minister Shahrizat Jalil's family can usually rub some-more salt to a wound. Especially, given a plan to supply cheap beef to Malaysians was awarded to her family without any publicly voiced open tender.

Indeed, Soi Lek might be even some-more "out of touch" with a stream mindset of Malaysians, who have been fed up of excuses as they suffer continually taking flight prices as well as difficult living conditions.

"My man didn't insist it properly. They came on Wednesday dusk to contend there must be somebody representing MCA. So you picked one of a nine guys who was willing to go," was a explanation Soi Lek offering for Ei's acknowledgement which has be! en slamm ed as "boorish" as well as "backwards".

Remember "camera angle"

This is not a initial time which S! oi Lek h as! attempt ed to uncover off as well as unsuccessful miserably in a process. In a aftermath of a Jul 9 Bersih rally for free as well as fair elections, MCA deputy boss as well as Health minister Liow Tiong Lai had insisted a military did not glow tear gas or acid water in to a compound of a Tung Shin hospital. Given a huge amount of video as well as detailed evidence to a contrary, Liow was flayed.

White knite Soi Lek came to his rescue with a corner press conference, where Soi Lek told reporters which a visuals usually seemed as if a military had attacked a Tung Shin, but in actual, it was only "camera angle". Eventually, Liow apologized for his mistake although Soi Lek has kept mum.

On Friday, Soi Lek pulled opposite rabbits out of his hat, possible as skinny as a Bersih ones. He simplified which a MCA did not agree with abroad choosing by casting votes since it presented a "logistical nightmare" as substantial resources would have to! be devo ted to ensure its success.

He gave a e.g. of list boxes, about 800 of which would have to be supposing during any Malaysian foreign mission, to concede Malaysians abroad to opinion for their specific constituency. Such a complement would also be open to abuse, So Lek said, noting which there were opportunities for opinion tampering if list boxes were not properly cumulative during all times.

But he unsuccessful to convince.

"Are 800 countries in a world? Cannot choosing by casting votes be centralized in a main goal of any country? Isn't which a great start? If Malaysia cannot means to do this, it is a shame. How many would it cost seriously? And if confidence cannot even be supposing given which a goal is already ostensible to be a secure place, it speaks very feeble of BN's organization skills," PKR vice boss Chua Soi Lek told Malaysia Chronicle.

"Also, if you look during what Ei said, it is very revealing. It is not only Umno wanting to lie their approach through, MCA as well as a total BN gang have been in cahoots. They as! well wi sh to win desperately to a extent they will sacrifice a rights of a people."

The Ei give-away

Ei had told a parliamentary choosing reform row which Malaysians living abroad were not 'qualified' to opinion as MCA's research had shown which many Malaysians abroad usually received report from controversial sources, which might not reflect a true conditions on a ground.

"What they review about Malaysia might therefore be inequitable as well as is a wrong information. It does not give them a total truthful picture about what is starting on in a country. The destiny of Malaysia should be dynamic by those who have faith as well as still remained in a country," pronounced Ei.

Not usually that, Ei further suggested a MCA's weak beliefs when he stressed which a existing electoral complement should be confirmed as well as there was no need for reforms alternative than cleaning up a electoral roll.

Additionally, Ei pronounced a MCA was opposite ! automati c voter registration since "if a citizen does not wish to register manually in a initial place, there is not many point in forcing an particular to be in a electoral roll".

Malaysia Chronicle

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Bug-eyed aliens rule Putrajaya

Nanoo, Nanoo

Shock! Owners of "New" Straits Times suggested as bug-eyed aliens!

The owners of which "new" Malay paper you see in a print on top of were positively having fun in Putrajaya yesterday backing up a marketing debate for their flagship newspaper (70,000 copies a day as good as dropping), as good as a million-dollar (US) redesign. That amount is small change, of course, compared to what APCO has been paid, as good as a trifle compared to a large moolah which Alan Friedman as good as FBC received, for between alternative things softball questions as good as kid-glove doing by John Defterios as good as others of which ilk.

At this rate Mario Garcia good qualifies to be a next large cheese on a list of media advisers to a 1Najib Tun Razak. (After all, he's American. These days that's all you need.)

The initial thing a brand new adviser should do is to tell a owner of a "New" Straits Times to compensate attention to a news as good as not to a uncover business.

Oh wait, we forgot. Putrajaya, a "New" Straits Times, TV3, Media Prima they are in uncover business.

Ah yes. So, what else is new?

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11-11-11 almost over BUT no G-13 Announcement

November 11, 2011

11-11-11 roughly over But no G-13 Announcement

by Hafiz Yatim@www.malaysiakini.com

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has laughed off conjecture which he will announce the retraction of a Parliament today, as eleven is his portentous number.

Speaking to reporters after chairing a BN supreme council assembly this evening, Najib pronounced a day has roughly gone, as well as Parliament had not been dissolved.

"As you can see, Parliament is not dissolved yet as well as you have been deliberating currently about strengthening a Barisan Nasional coalition," he said, laughing.

The series eleven has a big purpose in Najib's life as he is a Orang Kaya eleven Pahang, a in front of he took upon after a death of his father, second Prime Minister (Tun) Abdul Razak Hussein.

Speculation has been rife which Najib would call for Parliament to be dissolved currently as a date is November 11, 2011, as well as eleven is his favourite number.

Najib, who is additionally UMNO President pronounced there was additionally no discussion at today's assembly upon a grant of seats between member parties which had additionally been highly speculated.

He additionally denied which there was any discussion currently between a BN member celebration leaders upon a possibility of deciding an choosing date. Speculation remains which a 13th ubiquitous choosing will be called sometime in a progressing part of next year.

'MCA's perspective not BN's position'

Najib was additionally asked about a BN's in front of upon a perspective of MCA, presented to a parliamentary select committee upon electoral reform this sunrise which a celebration does not await a p! roposal which Malaysians living abroad be allowed to vote.

"MCA may have a differing view, as a perspective is in terms of a worry of logistics. However, this does not mean which it is a perspective of BN. BN is not against to it, but wants to highlight a problems," he said.

Asked to comment upon a book, Kesilapan-Kesilapan Najib, which calls upon him to renounce prior to a next ubiquitous choosing is called, a prime minister pronounced he did not wish to comment upon it.

"There have been a lot of books (tak usahlah) what for you give inflection to this book?" he said. "We do not have a time as well as day for books similar to this."

The author, former Wangsa Maju UMNO leader Shahbudin Husin, lists Najib's "mistakes" in a book as well as calls upon him to renounce from UMNO as well as as Prime Minister prior to a next ubiquitous election.

The Prime Minister additionally pronounced he does not know of any Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission investigation against national oil corporation Petronas.