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'No coffin, no tears best describes MCA
There is a Chinese idiomBu Jian Guan Cai Bu Luo Lei(You do not see a coffin, we do not strew tears). It aptly describes MCA as well as a leaders' realistic as well as unrepentant ways.
The approach MCA leaders have been demonising as well as sabotaging their former boss as well as Pandan MP Ong Tee Keat is baffling as well as outrageous, to contend a least.
Today, Barisan Nasional (BN), led by Umno as well as a second largest bloc partner MCA, have been struggling for domestic survival. That they have been still in a doldrums after a serious violence by a Pakatan Rakyat (PR) in a Mar 2008 domestic tsunami speaks volumes.
BN as well as a fourteen bloc partners have usually themselves to censure for refusing to accept reality as well as shift with a times for a rakyat (people) after some-more than 4 years.
The people have been a BOSS
BN-Umno, similar to MCA, is also as realistic as well as unrepentant in a ways as well as does not allow to a will of a people which a electorate have been their masters. They have been right divided usually months divided from confronting their stiffest ever national poll as well as their growing fear of losing their charge to rule.
With such a scenario, it goes over logic why MCA continues to aspire to an agenda to finish Ong's domestic stranglehold upon Pandan (formerly Ampang Jaya) a parliamentary chair which he has successfully defended since January 1989 or for a past 23 years.
Only MCA MP to win in S'gor
Ong even bucked a direct! ion by w inning in 2008, notwithstanding a tsunami. Ong won with a 2,900-vote majority though Pandan's dual state seats Teratai as well as Cempaka fell to PR with a combined 10,000 vote-majority.
That victory finished Ong a usually MCA MP claimant to win in Selangor as well as his strong credential as a BN winnable claimant in a 13th ubiquitous election which must be called by subsequent April.
Selfish agenda
Aren't a BN as well as MCA wakeful which when they harm one of their own, they have been also sabotaging themselves? It usually confirms, though doubt, which a MCA as well as BN usually have their own greedy agenda during heart not a people or country's welfare.
The harm as well as blackout of Ong by The Star or MCA's mouth piece have been so apparently clear with a paper's coverage of a media conference called by a obligatory Pandan MP upon Monday (July 16, 2012).
Ong had called for a media conference after officials from five residential areas sought their MP's assistance to criticism a construction of dual 16-storey blocks of condominiums in Taman Nirwana.
The residents were upset as well as undone with a PR elected representatives as well as officials whom they had progressing sought for assistance though with no in effect response or action.
Frustrated, a residents incited to Ong for assistance to intervene upon a argumentative approval of a condominium project. The Star's Jul nineteen inform patrician 'Development in community causing residents problems'(http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2012/7/19/central/11644086&sec=central)deliberately blacked out Ong as well as finished no discuss of a MP's role. Ong only did not exist in a story.
Compare The Star's inform with:
Malay Mail's Jul 17 inform patrician 'Look into argumentative project, residents urge Tee Keat'(http://www.mmail.com.my/story/look-controversial-project-residents-urge-tee-keat-22824);
New Straits Times' Jul 18 inform patrician 'Residents intent to development'(http://www.nst.com.my/streets/central/
residents-object-to-development-1.109159);and OTK's Blog News patrician 'Don't hedge Taman Nirwana's condo issue' (http://ongteekeat.net/?p=6252)
MCA's make use of of The Star to perplex as well as harm a own male comes upon a heels of a paper's June twenty-one research which can be seen as compelling Rafizi Ramli, a PKR strategist who has finished most damage to Umno with a barbarous Cowgate liaison as well as other expose (Visit: http://ongteekeat.net/?p=6063 'Compare The Star's turn story as well as a public's response' for sum as well as viewpoint of MCA's unkind profanation of a own MP).
When a MCA boss Dr Chua Soi Lek can misuse his wife, when his deputy Liow Tiong Lai can be held lying in public over Tung Shin Hospital as well as his bid for car registration No. WWW 15, a Youth chief Wee Ka Siong for failing to honour his words over education issues, can Malaysians as well as a Chinese in particular trust a celebration as well as BN anymore?
This is why Bu Jian Guan Cai Bu Luo Lei most appropriate describes MCA as well as a stream collection of executive leadership.
Malaysia Chronicle
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Daim Zainuddin - How he became so RICH!
Books have been created about Tun Daim Zainuddin, though not many people know who the genuine Daim is. He is critical for being taciturn. Everyone knows which Daim is the wordless type; so silent, in fact, which the victims of his shaping as great as conniving have fallen like ten pins though ever meaningful what strike them.
He has, upon the quiet, done the career of shooting poison darts, laying booby traps. as great as knifing associate or foe in the back. His palm is never seen, though his mark is everywhere. Truth to tell, he has been during the root of many inhabitant crises, though his name has never been smudged, interjection to the resources he wields as great as his bond of loyalty with Dr. Mahathir.
Silent cancer
Most members of Umno's brand brand new generation have been wakeful which Daim is an acquisitive millionaire as great as the macho male with the taste of young women, though they concede him these weaknesses bec au se they see in him the clean as great as efficient Economic Adviser to the Government. But the generation of Harun Idris, Musa Hitam as great as Manan Othman to name usually the few of the aged hands - they have been the ones to ask in sequence to discover who the genuine Daim is.
It was Datuk Harun who plucked Daim up from the depths of disaster in the salt business. Daim's wife, Mahani as great as Harun's wife, Salmah were great friends as great as an successful pair in the early 1970s. It was mother energy which moved Harun to give Daim 160 acres of prime Kampung Pandan land. And to illustrate Syarikat Malur! i was bo rn.
There is no use speculating over how many Daim paid Harun. After all, the dual were quick friends. For the bloody details, usually ask Low Kiok Bow or Thamby Chik. They can relate how Daim deceived the land broker as great as greased Selangor state executive councillor as great as Mahathir's brother-in-law, Ahmad Razali for which piece of land.
Of course, Daim still had to compensate for the land. In those days, it was not easy to borrow from the bank. Hence, he was forced to corrupt Bank Bumiputra. Lorraine Osman as great as Rais Saniman know how many he spent. Manan Othman can no doubt endorse the figure, he was so tighten to Daim which they tried to share the girl friend, with Manan often borrowing the bedroom during Daim's office in Taman Maluri.
Mahathir's choice
Daim's elevation as Senator and, subsequently, Minister of Finance, was part of Mahathir's vital plan. Mahathir's choice should surprise no one, after all the dual were intimate friends from the same kampung in Seberang Perak, Alor Setar. Upon apropos Prime Minister upon sixteen July, 1981, the initial thing upon Mahathir's mind was how to sideline his archenemy, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.
Daim told everybody he had no seductiveness in politics, though all the whilst he was assured of getting the Finance Minister's pursuit after the army with the Senate. A few months after fasten the Senate, Daim became Chairman of Fleet, which owned the New Straits Times. In 1984, he eventually got his mental condition pursuit as great as became the third many critical male in the Federal Cabinet, after the Prime Minister as great as his deputy.
Musa squeezed out
Musa Hitam, the Deputy Prime Minister, was during initial oblivious of the closet ties in in between Mahathir as great as Daim. Innocently, he voiced to Mahathir his disquiet over Daim's wheeling as great as dealing, quite his award of proj! ects as great as contracts to his own associates as great as cronies. It contingency have baffled him when his complaints fell upon deaf ears nonetheless he was Deputy Prime Minister, he has no contend when it came to mercantile matters, quite privatisation as great as the assignment (to supporters) of mercantile projects.
How disappointed Musa contingency have been to find which Daim could not care reduction about his effort to assistance his supporters secure the little projects or contracts. Daim succeeded in making millionaires of such cronies of Wan Azmi, Halim Saad, Tajuddin Ramli, Samsuddin Hassan, Razali Rahman as great as Tan Sri Basir, though Musa in the finish was expel off as the poor ex-DPM.
Musa once complained to Mahathir which Daim had stolen the series of supporters' devise proposals, though again Mahathir abandoned him. These were the initial acts in the eventual breakup of the Mahathir-Musa partnership. As the interests of Mahathir as great as Daim bloated, Musa got squeezed out.
Pushing Musa to tie up with Razaleigh
Many Umno members pretence which Razaleigh is Musa's series the single enemy. In fact, the reason for the 1986 split in Umno contingency tumble upon Daim. It was he who gathering Musa to the edge until he had no choice though to resign. Again, Daim's male of few difference demeanour to his advantage. Few knew of his behind-the-scenes role in which Umno detonation not many some-more know it today.
One really should not wonder since Musa called the truce Razaleigh as great as the dual motionless to collaborate in the 1987 fight, the a single which in the future c au sed Umno to be outlawed. At which time, Daim was almost invincible, what support entrance from such strongmen as Sanusi Junid as great as Anwar Ibrahim. The affability of the 3 was rock solid, as great as the Musa-Razaleigh camp could do zero solely to have the fun of it by giving them the nicknames AIDS.
The arrangement of the brand brand new Umno, Daim as great as Mahathir had initial to get absolved of the Lord President, Tun Salleh Abas. Again, Daim was the chief plotter in the sacking of the divine as great as respected Tun Salleh, as great as his replacement with Tun Hamid Omar, the seducer as great as ongoing gambler, though Mahathir's as great as Daim's schoolmate. The appointment of Tun Hamid Omar triggered the collapse of the firmness as great as the independence of the judiciary.
Finance Minister, Daim swayed Mahathir to give the Economic Planning Unit as great as Treasury full energy in implementing the privatisation policy. Hence, it was no longer required to call for tenders for supervision projects. Instead, the projects were awarded directly to favoured companies. And so began the epoch of resources accumulation by him as great as his cohorts.
The United Engineers Company, bought for RM2, altered in to the multi-million- ringgit corporation. As Finance Minister, Daim most ordered banks to lend to companies which he himself owned. And no Daim associate each complained of difficulty in securing bank credit. Indeed, bankers lived in fear of Daim. Having allocated Wan Azmi as great as Basir to conduct Malayan Banking as great as Bank Bumiputra, he would give any devise to any of his cronies bec au se funding was not an issue.
If those earthy projects were not enough, Daim additionally took each opportunity to take resources from the share marketplace as well. Every time the Treasury authorized the company for inventory upon the batch exchange, Daim cronies received their lion's shares. That was how Southern Bank, Resort World, Sports Toto, Berjaya, Tanjong as great as scores of alternative blue thinly slice firms landed with Daim as great as Company.
Once, when share values were high, Daim boasted in between friends which his visible resources alone totalled RM65 billion! . To clo se the mouth of Barisan Nasional leaders, Daim gave remunerative projects (CRUMBS) to Samy Vellu as great as Ling Liong Sik so which their young kids could be big-shots in batches.
Free to plunder
Daim managed to dope Umno members in to believing which Mahathir would not let him go nonetheless he had asked to be relieved of his Cabinet post upon the series of occasions. With Musa as great as Razaleigh out of the picture, Daim could squeeze as many resources as he longed for though even Mahathir interlude him. Besides, he was Umno's treasurer as great as he could have it demeanour as if the companies he tranquil were those in which the celebration had the stake.
Daim's covetousness damaged not usually his own picture as finance minister, though additionally Mahathir's as great as Malaysia 's reputation with the general community. It is pronounced which he used to demand exorbitant fees for himself in negotiating contracts involving unfamiliar suppliers. The chairmen of Japan 's dual greatest banks - the Bank of Tokyo as great as Sanwa Bank - once complained to Mahathir which his Finance Minister demanded commissions which were as well tall when negotiating yen loans.
Margaret Thatcher, too, has complained about Daim's role as the consecrated agent. He had - or still has - accounts in Zurich , London , Hong Kong, Tokyo , Singapore , Caymen Island , Channel Island as great as Virgin Island. Indeed, instead of keeping his billions in Malaysia , he has stashed them overseas.
Even conspiring to waylay KTM land in S'pore
With his measureless resources as great as far-reaching influence, Daim in the future became the weight which Mahathir could no longer bear. In each understanding he made, there was something in it for himself. It was not beneath him even to conspire with Lee Kuan Yew to waylay KTM land in Singapore . The Malaysian Cabinet had no believe of this. But th! is emana te of Malaysia being deceived by Lee Kuan Yew as great as Daim is distant from over.
Mahathir in the future realised which he had to finish Daim's lordship over the Finance Ministry. And so he told him to quit.
Mahathir disturbed which if Daim continued as Finance Minister, complaints would come not usually from Vincent Tan, Ananda Krishnan, Arumugam (M's DIRECT CRONIES) as great as alternative members of the Malaysian commercial operation elite, though additionally from unfamiliar leaders.
Signs of the Daim-related liaison were meaningful as great as it could break anytime in Japan or Britain , therefore, Daim had to go.
Daim had to go
Daim's abdication was planned such which it would not crop up as if he had been sacked. Indeed, it does not have sense since the powerful Finance Minister, rich as great as in carry out of so many open companies, would suddenly quit simply since he had mislaid seductiveness in the job. The truth is which he was ordered to resign.
Observers will stop which Mahathir's initial comment upon the supposed greeting was, 'He has asked multiform times for permission to resign, as great as you have eventually authorised it. you goal Daim would not leave the country after resigning'. That matter was profound with meaning. Mahathir knew Daim was sulking. So did Anwar as great as Sanusi. Mahathir defended Daim as Umno Treasurer for the great reason, he longed for to safeguard the safety of Umno money, the lot of which was underneath Daim's control.
But Daim who binds so many of Mahathir's secrets, is usually the wily one. After resigning, he ran off to live in his San Francisco residence. He told the Malaysian open he longed for to investigate during Harvard, though in actuality he longed for to leave Malaysia . Mahathir, who was informed with Daim's antics, pleaded with him to come back, saying he need him to suggest upon mercantile matters.
Da! im retur ned as great as announced which Mahathir had declared him Economic Adviser to the Government. Rafidah asked Mahathir to endorse this, though all she got was silence. Daim was never rigourously allocated as Economic Adviser, the post which Tun Raja Mohar once held. The appointment is the privilege of the Public Services Department. Daim gave himself the job. To keep Daim happy, Mahathir authorised him to open an office during the Economic Planning Unit, as great as this strengthened the open notice which he was still in carry out as distant as mercantile affairs were concerned.
Rafidah some-more honest than Anwar?
When he was to told to renounce as Finance Minister, Daim asked Mahathir to designate Anwar Ibrahim to the job. Obviously, he suspicion this would assistance to safeguard which his skeletons would sojourn closeted. He warned Mahathir of the hazard which Rafidah would be to both of them: the secrets they common would be uncovered.
Daim additionally swayed Mahathir to designate Mustapha Mohammad as Anwar's emissary since these dual could be depended upon to fill up the holes he had left gaping. Anwar is nobody's fool, though he sacrificed his idealism to protect his towkay.
As distant as you know, no Finance Minster in this universe has late the billionaire, solely Daim. In the book Daim yang Diam: Sebuah Biographi (Daim the Silent: A Biography), Daim explains his retirement: 'I am happy in retirement. It was as well complicated the responsibility. In truth, you adore the commercial operation world. Business is in my blood. you adore to have money. you know how to do it. you can do it usually by sitting in this chair. On the propitious day, you can have millions.'
Friend of Soros
According to an inner bank analysis, collaborated by the corporate community, as great as from Daim associate Amin Shah, Daim's wealth, in ringgit as great as unfamiliar currencie! s kept a broad currently amounts to RM20 billion.
With so many income during his disposal, Daim can manipulate the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. He showed his palm in 1991, usually to infer how many change he wielded. After offered off his stocks, he done the matter to the effect which the marketplace would crash. And pile-up it did.
As you can all recall, even Mahathir could not assistance though have the wry acknowledgement when Daim boasted which he invested in KLSE usually for slot money. But to his great friend, Daim pronounced he could spin in distinction upon RM90 million the day when the marketplace was up. When the marketplace plummeted in October 1991 Daim bought during the back of his share upon the cheap. When the marketplace turned bullish again 1995 as great as 1996, Daim done billions of ringgit from it. This, then, is what the work of an mercantile adviser amounts to.
So it turns out which Soros is not the usually large time marketplace pimp as great as banking dealer. Daim met Soros twice in London when the ringgit was being hotly traded. Anyway, when the ringgit fell next RM4 to the US dollar, Mahathir asked Daim for assistance and, according to the source in Singapore, he mislaid RM1 billion perplexing to column up the Malaysian currency. To remove which many in banking trading, imagine how many income he had during his disposal.
Mahathir panicked
The falls in banking as great as share values put Mahathir in the feverish panic. He knew his policies as great as his own martial perspective were partly to blame. Seeing Mahathir in such the demoniac state, Daim endorsed which he declare the state of puncture to capacitate him to revive the manage to buy as great as during the same time, bury the corpses which were commencement to stink.
We accost the Chief Secretary to the Government as great as the Solicitor-General for hostile the move. If Daim's devise had been followed, Mahathir woul! d spin t yrant as great as the Malaysian manage to buy would be utterly ruined. Having failed to declare an emergency, Mahathir set up the National Economic Action Council, headed by Daim, with the Economic Planning Unit as the Secretariat.
The strange devise was to give the NEAC finish autonomy, though the Cabinet ministers opposed this for fear which they would remove any heirloom of energy they had left. Eventually, the legislature became merely an advisory body, with the Cabinet carrying last contend upon the recommendations.
Daim eventually found the road-block in Anwar
The investiture of the legislature was the wedge in in between Anwar as great as Daim. Thus, dual aged friends who had together stood during the back of Mahathir opposite Musa were right away turned opposite each other.
All of the council's recommendations were deserted by the Cabinet as great as Bank Negara. Daim plainly assailed Bank Negara for dismissing his proposals, such as those relating to seductiveness rates as great as credit control.
We salute the Bank Negara Governor for maintaining the advantageous financial process in the face of Daim's bullying as great as insults. Unlike Daim as great as his cohorts, Bank Negara's officials have been not self-serving.
Daim's appointment to the NEAC was the major inhabitant mistake. Going by press reports of the deliberations so far, the NEAC's solitary engrossment is with saving mega corporations from bankruptcy. No doubt, these have been Daim-related companies.
Daim has yet to show any regard over the climb in the price of chillies, or the leaps in fish prices or how the price of rice has fully cooked over. Neither has he talked about tiny businesses in their genocide throes. Class F contractors starting bankrupt or kampung road projects being abandoned. In his dictionary, there have been no entries for the tiny man's worries, zero about low-cost houses, H2O cuts or ! investig ate funds for the young kids of poor Malays. In fact, it contains usually billion distance figures.
Jet-setting with his brand brand new mother whilst others fall
While the Malaysian manage to buy is tighten to ruin, Daim remains the billionaire, vital the hold up of glamour, jet setting with his brand brand new mother Naimah as great as the attractive Josephine, an Indian young woman who helps him run the single of his firms, the International Malaysian Bank.
We have merely since the sketch of who the genuine Daim is. A thorough account will shortly be accessible in book form. We recommend the book to Umno members, generally those with large ambitions, bec au se they will learn many from the illusory though true tales of mercantile as great as political intrigues.
We malign the likes of Vincent Tan as great as Tan Phek Khiing for land-grabbing, though maybe you should ask the Menteri Besar of Johor as great as the Menteri Besar of Kedah how many land Daim has taken.
Ask Sanusi how many Daim paid to the Kedah supervision for 12,000 acres in Sungai Petani as great as how many distinction he done from them. For 12,000 acres, Osman Arof had to be sacrificed. The true story of the Daim-Sanusi conspiracy in Kedah will be unprotected in the book.
Crossroad
Umno is during the crossroads as great as has to confirm wisely where it is going. One road heads to glory, where stability as great as democratic use will abide. The alternative leads to division, sovereignty as great as ultimately, utter destruction.
The call for reform, which used to be done usually in whispers during small, sly gatherings, is apropos louder. Umno members, display which they can no longer enclose their restiveness as great as frustration, have begun to plainly discuss the need for change, even during celebration conventions.
Can there be the clearer indica! tion whi ch they have reached their tether's end, which they can no longer stomach the leadership's undemocratic perspective as great as the prevalence - either in the celebration or the supervision - of favouritism, cronyism, nepotism, graft as great as alternative misdeeds? Malay nationalism is dead as great as materialism as great as self-love have been running amok.
We cannot rely upon the Umno Supreme Council to initiate reform since few of the members have the courage to speak up. In fact, the legislature has lately been remade in to the digression theatre. But of march even the digression can wave though great ancillary players - fools, clowns, jesters, attendants as great as the oh-so- critical flatterers.
As distant as these bit players have been concerned, Umno's ideals as great as principles have been not as critical as their jobs. This keep-your-mouth- close set of symptoms serves usually to give courage the celebration care in the conceit, arrogance as great as h au ghtiness. A boss has become the dictator. Woe have been the Malays as great as Umno. What is to become of them? That is the subject usually Umno members can answer.
Professor Mohamed Zain
Professor of Technology & Strategic Management
College of Business & Economics
University of Qatar
- MAILBAG
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Joan Rivers: By the Book
What book is upon your night mount now?
There have been dual books upon my night stand. One is "The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson," by Robert A. Caro. It's erotically appealing which I'm not mentioned during all, deliberation a vehement event we had with Mr. Johnson, or as we called him, Big Lyndy. The alternative book is "The Idiot's Guide to Osteoporosis." we do not review this a single as well often, as each time we pick it up my wrist snaps.
What was a final indeed good book we read? Do we remember a final time we pronounced to someone, "You positively contingency review this book"?
Again, dual choices. The first is a four-volume story of English kings by Thomas B. Costain. It includes "The Conquering Family," "The Three Edwards," "The Magnificent Century" as well as "The Last Plantagenets." we review this each 10 years. It sounds insane, though it's a genuine page turner. The second is a anticipation novel recommended to me by Paula Deen called "The Lord of a Onion Rings."
What's your a a single preferred well review genre? Any guilty pleasures?
My a a single preferred well review genre, seriously, is European history, though only up until Napoleon. The minute Shorty comes upon a scene, I'm not interested. My large guilty pleasure is Ann Rule, a black of true crime. She tells a good story. Did we know which everyone who lives in a double-wide is beautiful?
Who have been a funniest writers you've ever read? Anyone incredibly droll in chairman though a gimlet upon a page?
Funniest? Besides Sylvia Plath? Well, we have to contend (in no order) Steve Martin, Woody Allen as well as Robert Benchley (until we found out he was an anti-Semite). Also, Sarah Vowell interesting, offbeat as well as funny. The funniest in chairman though rsther than boring upon a page is, hands down, Leo Tolstoy. If we listen to a single more time: "How many czars doe! s it tak e to change a light bulb? None; they didn't have them in those days," we consider I'll scream!
What were your most cherished books as a child? Do we have a a a single preferred impression or hero from a single of those books? Is there a single book we wish all children would read?
"Mary Poppins," "The Secret Garden" as well as a single which we consider has all disappeared from a face of a earth though we adored "The Middle Moffat." There is additionally a array of books called "Tales of a Wild West," by Rick Steber. They're almost pamphlets, as well as they enclose true watcher accounts of all kinds of lives lived upon a frontier from a stories of Indians to settlers to towering men. I've review them over as well as over again to my grandson.
Of all a books you've written, which is your favorite? Any we wish you'd never created during all?
I'm very unapproachable of my first book, "Enter Talking." It unequivocally tells of my struggle to have it in a business, as well as we consider somewhere in there is a good doctrine for all young actors/comedians, which is, Just keep going. And of course, my latest book, "I Hate Everyone ... Starting With Me," is my true favorite. What am I, crazy? This is The New York Times. ... I'm not starting to block my book? Please! The book we wish I'd never created is "Joan Rivers's Pop-Up Guide to Gynecology."
Any bad book habits? Do we tend not to finish books? Skim? Scribble in margins? Fall asleep whilst reading?
I use books all for my pleasure. If we do not suffer them, we do not finish them. They're not assignments. They're my happiness. we do have a bad habit, however, of scribbling in a margins (I've already ruined dual perfectly good iPads).
What's a a single book we wish someone else would write?
"Stephen Hawking Explains Both a Universe as well as Bad Fashion Choices."
If we could encounter any writer, dead or alive,! who wou ld it be? What would we want to know? Have we ever met an author as well as been bitterly disappointed?
The writer we would adore to encounter a most is God. I've been a outrageous fan of his work given a Ten Commandments. I'd similar to to know what influenced his rise preference as well as because he engraved in mill as well as not silver.
Read any good Hollywood tell-alls lately? What book, in your opinion, unequivocally gets Hollywood right?
Most of them have been as well soft as well as as well phony. But a single great, genuine Hollywood review is Nathanael West's "The Day of a Locust." There is additionally an extraordinary book by William Goldman called "Adventures in a Screen Trade," which tells a inside pain which even a most successful screenwriter goes through.
Do we similar to to review about fashion?
Yes, if there is an chronological aspect to it. For example, we desired Caroline Weber's "Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to a Revolution." It showed how conform unequivocally can change history. And let's not forget Sacha Baron Cohen's "The Dictator," which is based upon a Anna Wintour biography.
Do we as well as your daughter, Melissa, have shared tastes in literature?
Totally. We have been constantly passing books behind as well as forth. Our latest is "Destiny of a Republic," by Candice Millard. we unequivocally was never which meddlesome in President James A. Garfield, though this turned out to be unequivocally fascinating. The alternative a single we both fell in adore with was Hlldobler as well as Wilson's "Journey to a Ants." We both have been zealous bookstore browsers, though more than that, we have been bookstore buyers. Every Saturday night for years my husband as well as we would end up during a old Doubleday store upon Fifth Avenue in between 56th as well as 57th Streets. We would take Melissa, as well as a understanding was, we could buy any book we lon! ged for (don't look during a price) as prolonged as we betrothed to review it. Other people went home installed with drug as well as booze. We went home installed with shopping bags filled with books.
What do we plan to review next?
I have 3 books waiting in a wings: "Life Itself," a memoir by Roger Ebert; "The Chaperone," by Laura Moriarty; as well as "Unbroken," by Laura Hillenbrand (I'm ashamed to contend which we still haven't gotten around to this one, though we listen to it's wonderful). And of course, a 3 pages of instructions from my proctologist upon how to stop a itching.
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A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers
Where is our new-millennium Norman Mailer? It's startling, 50 years on, to look during a back of during a work of Mailer in a 1960s from "The Presidential Papers" to "The Armies of a Night" as well as see such unabashed ambition, such reckless insolence as well as such a realistic American readiness to try to save a Republic from itself as well as move it during a back of to a strange promise. Mailer's really titles "Advertisements for Myself," "An American Dream" told us he was upon a mission, committed to a transformation of nation as well as self, as well as even as he gave himself over to unremittingly in isolation (and epic) meditations upon God, a Devil, cancer as well as plastics, he was additionally dynamic to reconstitute a county order. He ran for mayor of New York City, he attempted his hand during directing cinema as well as in 1955 he helped begin an pick weekly well known as The Village Voice. Part of a enthusiasm of Mailer was which he cared so ravenously even when he failed; he was shooting for a moon even when he shot himself in a foot.
A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING
By Dave Eggers
312 pp. McSweeneys Books. $ 25.
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!Dav e Eggers
Dave Eggers comes from a most more sober, humbled, craft-loving time, as well as his ultimate novel is a opposite of a failure: it's a clear, supremely readable parable of America in a global economy which is haunting, beautifully made as well as sad. But for all a difference between their generations, we can feel in Eggers a little of a hunger, a operation as well as a unembarrassedly serious rendezvous with America as well as a ideals which gave Mailer's work such force. Eggers asserted his bravado along with a little tonic self-mockery in a really pretension of his initial book, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" (a pretension of which Mailer would have been proud); he followed it up with a really different kind of book, a novel, "You Shall Know Our Velocity," about a obdurate integrity of dual immature Americans to travel a universe giving income away. Yet even as he has written 7 estimable books in 12 years, Eggers has additionally determined his own edition house, alive with with attitude as well as backward-looking invention. He's proposed dual magazines whose names (Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern as well as The Believer) plainly acknowledgement their seductiveness in homemade caprice as well as optimism or, we could say, in a past as well as in a future. He's determined nonprofit essay as well as educational centers opposite a nation and, in his spare minutes, helped write dual feature movies, "Where a Wild Things Are" as well as "Away We Go."
Like Mailer, he's almost underrated precisely since he's so entire as well as dares us to mock him with his unapologetic ambitions. Yet where Mailer was consciously working in a deeply American grain, with his talk of revolution as well as transcendence, Eggers speaks for a new America which has to think globally as well as can't be certain where a nation fits upon a planetary screen. And where Mailer was focussed upon showing us how America could reconstitute a world, Eggers, with ferocious e! nergy as well as versatility, has been studying how a universe is remaking America. Most of our good contemporary examinations of cultural sampling as well as bipolar belonging come from writers with immigrant backgrounds. It's invigorating, in which context, to see how Dave Eggers, innate in Boston to classic fifth-generation Irish stock (his mother was a McSweeney) as well as lifted in Lake Forest, Ill., has devoted himself to chronicling a changeable melting pot, seeming to discuss it others' stories more than his own.
In his fourth major book, "What Is a What," he gave us a nonfiction novel about Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese "Lost Boy" who survives wars during home as well as refugee camps abroad only to find which his problems are by no equates to during a back of him when eventually he gets to Atlanta, as well as a Land of a Free. Some critics may have bristled during a notion of a immature white American essay a story of a real-life African villager, though it took a writer of Eggers's dexterity (and vulnerability) to give Deng's story a distressing power. In his next (nonfictional) work, "Zeitoun," Eggers turned a story of Hurricane Katrina in to a brilliantly structured as well as propulsive account whose all-American male lead only happened to be a Muslim house-painter brought up in a Syrian coastal locale of Jableh, tied together to a former Southern Baptist from Baton Rouge as well as fervent to erect a new life by tough work as well as given to others. The American Dream, a writer was reminding us, is coming to us right away in Arabic.
Pico Iyer is a writer of 10 books, together with The Global Soul and, most recently, The Man Within My Head.
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SEDA: Solar power deals fair and transparent
Pua (left) as well as Nurul Izzah questioned how a firm with "no lane record" was given a "lion's share" of a solar appetite deals. File pic
DAP's Tony Pua as well as his PKR ally, Nurul Izzah Anwar, last week highlighted which Suzi Suliana Mohd Sidek together with her husband, Todd Morath, as well as dual commercial operation partners tranquil twelve out of 32 companies which had won a "lion's share" of a nation's solar appetite quota.
Suzi's father, Mohd Sidek, had retired as a Chief Secretary to a Government last month prior to being appointed to chair a state oil firm.
But a Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA) insisted which a deals were done in a "fair as well as transparent" demeanour as a association owned by Suzi as well as her father was not a usually a single which had won some-more than a single of a feed-in tariff (FiT) solar-power contracts.
"The capability of an person submitting application to secure mixed quotas is not rare to Sun Energy Ventures Sdn Bhd only, there are other companies which have additionally been equally successful," SEDA pronounced in a matter today.
To inspire a internal industry's growth, SEDA pronounced which it usually imposed restrictions on unfamiliar tenure for a applications.
Companies had to submit their applications to a e-FiT online system, which SEDA pronounced was "designed to process a application in a transparent as well as fair demeanour with no human involvement on first-come first served basis." The "fully automated" online complement usually allows a "single application per person submitting application at a single time", pronounced SEDA.
Applicants in a online queue with "complete information as well as ancillary documents will get a pre-allocated quota."
Pua had previously slammed SEDA for awarding 32.4 per cent of a share to companies related to Suzi, observant which they had "no capital" as well as "no lane record".
SEDA defended a approvals, observant which it longed for to equivocate "market domination by unfamiliar companies" if field were required to have "extensive experience in solar power".
It pronounced it had longed for to give internal players a probability as a renewable appetite attention is still new in Malaysia, with no designation of solar appetite plants in a past 10 years.
It additionally confirmed which most of a field had "formed a special purpose vehicle (SPV) as well as a little with RM2 paid up collateral since there is no guarantee they will get a quota."
The authority added which it would be "unreasonable" to "require a high paid-up capital" at a time of application when a companies are unsure if they will be successful.
SEDA pronounced it is "continuously improving" a complement as well as "steps are additionally being taken to minimise a probability of monopolisation" of a renewable appetite quota.
It pronounced authorized projects will be revoked if field fail to encounter scheduled milestones, which includes a enlarge of paid up capital
An person submitting application with deficient supports will be removed as well as a share will be "released as well as done accessible to others", SEDA said.
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SELAMAT BERPUASA (HAPPY FASTING)
Selamat Berpuasa (Happy Fasting)
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Arnold Palmer and The British Open Golf
July 21, 2012
Arnold Palmer as good as The British Open Golf
(CNN) Even during a age of 82 a work ethic still burns bright in Arnold 
Palmer, a man who desirous a era of baby-boomers to take up golf as good as whose await of a British Open valid pivotal for a destiny success.
The chosen of universe golf accumulate during Royal Lytham as good as St. Annes this week upon a 50th anniversary of Palmer's abrasive attainment during Scottish links march Troon in 1962 as good as "The King" still exerts a significant influence upon a competition he once dominated.
"I would similar to to be remembered for bringing golf to a worldwide audience," Palmer told CNN. "Players currently have no boundaries." As partial of golf's "Big Three," Palmer helped pioneering player representative Mark McCormack take a competition around a creation in a 1960s, capitalizing upon a ever-growing strech of television.
Why U.S. golf has a healthy future
The tournament Palmer still proudly hosts in a last week of March, during his Bay Hill march in Florida, attracts a stellar general lineup as good as was won this year by Tiger Woods.
He is a really hands-on host, creation certain a march is in top condition as good as appearing each day upon a radio coverage of a event. This year, he suffered a illness shock after leaving a TV tower upon a last day a red blood vigour problem, according to his family as good as could not give out a prizes as has been tradition.
But Palmer has done a full liberation as good as now,! half ce ntury upon from his second British Open triumph, a spotlight has again depressed upon his trailblazing achievements.
A personality of men
When he initial played golf's oldest tournament in 1960, it had depressed out of
preference with American pros. Ben Hogan in 1953 was a last from a U.S. to win it, as good as usually 3 entered in 1959 put off by a long journey as good as partially low prize money upon offer.
Again there were usually 3 Americans in a 74-man field during St. Andrews, a single being a legendary Gene Sarazen still playing late in to his 50s upon a lifetime grant dating back to his 1932 success.
Palmer failed to obey Hogan's triple-major feat, falling a single shot reduced of Kel Nagle following progressing victories during a Masters as good as U.S. Open, though he returned to a UK a next year as good as claimed a desired "Claret Jug" during Royal Birkdale.
Palmer had already won his third Masters crown prior to romping to attainment during Troon in 1962. "I got it going in a last round as good as it was really enjoyable," he told CNN.
Ever modest, Palmer's domain of attainment over Nagle was 6 shots as good as he was a remarkable thirteen strokes clear of third place.
His 1961 exploits had desirous a immature Jack Nicklaus to have his British Open entrance during Troon, as good as a "Golden Bear" won it for a initial time in 1966 dual years after fellow citizen Tony Lema additionally triumphed during St. Andrews.
By afterwards Palmer had been represented by McCormack for multiform years, as good as their partnership helped changed a face of golf as good as modern sports.
Famous Deal with Mark McCormack
McCormack was a Cleveland attorney, usually a year older than Palm! er, as g ood as they famously struck their understanding in 1960 with usually a handshake. McCormack had seen his client's potential, as good as a increased radio coverage of golf was fluctuating his appeal to a wider audience.
"He was really smart. He was a motivator as good as went after it, as good as that was something you enjoyed," removed Palmer.
McCormack after swayed Nicklaus as good as South Africa's Gary Player to stick upon Palmer during his International Management Group (IMG) as good as a "Big Three" was born, popularizing golf worldwide in a series of made-for-television events.
But Palmer held a really special place in a affections of a golfing galleries as good as it is easy to see because with his aggressive fool around as good as flamboyant style. He was a initial golfer to capture his own special following "Arnie's Army" doctrinaire fans who surrounded each immature to hearten him on, win or lose.
Woods in his pomp had a similar fan bottom decades later, though Palmer was a initial as good as he appreciated their support. "They usually speedy me to go upon to do a things you was you do as good as gave me a certainty you needed," he said.
Charismatic star
But it was not usually his fine fool around that drew them in. He had that "something" 
an aura, charisma total with great looks. A hitch of his firmly wise pants followed many shots, as good as his in vogue outfits done him stand out from a average pro.
"It was not something you really planned," Palmer admitted. "I liked a sharp double in my slacks, my boots discriminating to shine, while my shirts were co! nservati ve with a true collar.
"It was a character you stuck with for many of my career." Intentional or not, it has valid popular. GQ Magazine declared him a single of a "50 many in vogue group of a past 50 years" as good as Esquire had him in a list of a "75 best-dressed group of all time."
Golfers are frequency remembered for their conform sense, usually a exact opposite, though a outfits he wore in 1962 have been recreated for a brand new operation of Arnie Apparel.
Palmer wanted promising PGA Tour player Ryan Moore to enclose a outfits "I took a particular fondness to him when he won a U.S. Amateur, a really polite immature man" as good as he has got his wish.
Moore has won once upon a lucrative U.S. calendar, in 2009, though if he can grasp a fraction of Palmer's achievements in golf, he will count himself lucky.
Seven major wins, 62 in all upon a PGA Tour, not to discuss his after exploits upon a Seniors circuit that he more than any alternative golfer helped publicize as good as give legitimacy to a thought of golfers aged 50 plus still competing during a top level.
Endorsing success
With a commercial operation acumen of McCormack promoting his off-course activities, Palmer lent his picture to a horde of products as good as services, apropos a initial diver to show that income from commercial endorsements could outstrip prize-money earnings.
"Mark was really great during marketing," Palmer said, as good as where he led, others were discerning to follow.
With a "Big Three" dominating golf, McCormack branched out in to alternative sports such as tennis as good as afterwards in to a universe of showbiz. He even marketed a pope tour of Britain in 1982.
By a time McCormack died in 2003, IMG was a many absolute sports ! selling company in a universe as good as had Woods as a star client.
Palmer's own commercial activities have helped him amass an estimated $ 675 million fortune, that is still flourishing despite his retirement from rival golf in 2006.
He is unapproachable of his bequest upon as good as off a course, as good as is confident for a future, particularly with golf winning inclusion to a 2016 Olympics in Rio.
"We will see more Third World countries participating. you think that's
important, as good as you will see interest removing to a indicate when you can rival soccer as good as tennis," he predicted.
Palmer may good get his wish, though he has already forged his place in golfing history as a true trailblazer.
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Another missing case
Special Branch should do genuine review instead of making up rumours about PKR.Everyday young kids are going missing.PDRM, Defence, Home Ministry, Immigration contingency work together to fight tellurian trafficking.So for God consequence stop aggressive antithesis parties as well as do genuine crime busting prior to it is as well late. ... Read More
New May 13 movie courts controversy
Tanda Putera, a ultimate charity from local executive Shuhaimi Baba, has received flak over what some say is a lopsided re-telling of what happened during a 1969 competition riots.
Some accused a RM4.8 million film of demonising early leftist movements as well as some-more hero-worship than reverence to former premier Abdul Razak Hussein, who is Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's father.
The trailer for a film - entirely funded by a National Film Development Corporation (Finas) as well as a Multimedia Development Corporation (Mdec) - showed scenes of Chinese mobs marching by a streets of Kuala Lumpur after their success in metropolitan elections.One group was depicted temperament a Labour Party flag, whilst which stage as well as others additionally showed Chinese Malaysians temperament banners proclaiming anti-Malay slogans.
The banners written in Chinese characters portrayed slogans which translated in to 'Malays go behind to a village', 'Malays go die' as well as 'Take revenge'.
Garnering some-more serious brickbats have been snippets from a movie's officialFacebookpage which minute scenes assumingly slated to be included in a final cut of a movie.
One apparent stage was which of DAP parliamentary personality Lim Kit Siang purportedly urinating upon a flagpole in front of a then-Selangor menteri besar's residence.
"Lim Kit Siang telah kencing di bawah tiang bendera Selangor yang terpacak di rumah menteri besar Selang! or ketik a itu, Harun Idris, (Lim Kit Sing had urinated during a foot of a flagpole temperament a Selangor dwindle during a afterwards Selangor MB's Harun Idris' house)" read a heading of a print of a actor portraying Lim being manhandled.
The print was posted in a album titled 'Peristiwa-peristiwa yang dimuatkan di dalam filem ini' (Events depicted in this movie).However, a print as well as heading has given been private from a movie's central page, thoughMalaysiakinihad prisoner a screenshot of a earlier posting.
Those in a attention who have watched a film in a special preview upon Wednesday to concentration groups additionally pronounced which no urinating stage was included in a preview cut.
There was additionally no mention of a stage in a movie's script, a copy of which was obtained byMalaysiakini.
Lim Kit Siang had vehemently denied which a DAP was involved in instigating a competition riots of 1969, as well as had pronounced which he was away from KL upon May 13 when a initial assault took place.
Director: Better for people to watch it first
When contacted, Tanda Putera's executive refused comment upon a matter, arguing which a film should be screened to a open initial prior to it can be reviewed.
"I am loath to answer which question as people have not watched a film yet. It is better for them to have watched it first. we goal you can watch this movie," pronounced Shuhaimi.
Scheduled for recover two months from right away upon Sept 13, Finas has however had put off a recover of a film until a after date, nonetheless to be announced.
Some netizens has additionally attacked a movie's storyline for assumingly being an attempt during brown-nosing to a powers-that-be as well as a promotion piece to drum up await for a statute coalition.
The film has been screened to concentration groups given last week, gaining brickbats from some as well as praise from others such as Umno-linked bloggerPapagomo, who posted a glowing examination of a mov! ie after examination it with associate bloggers.
"We who have watched a film strew tears multiform times as well as indeed we feel which a film shall hold a hearts of not only a Malays about May 13, but additionally all races in Malaysia," wrote a blogger in a posting.
Shuhaimi (left) told a media which a film focused upon what she claimed is a special relationship in between Razak as well as his afterwards deputy Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, both aristocrats who sacrificed a lot to work together to save Malaysia from radicals as well as communists.Hence this is probably a message behind a title of a movie,Tanda Puteraor signs of a greatness of princes or perhaps a legacy of princes.
Speaking to a media, Shuhaimi has defended her depiction of a scenes as being from a central version of history as well as from in! terviews with personalities who were present then.
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Tee Yong: Turn land into fishpond to make money
The Selangor supervision should demeanour in to making money from 438-acre underwater land it purchased from Talam Corporation in Bestari Jaya by branch it in to a fishpond.
MCA's immature professionals business chairperson Chua Tee Yong, who is additionally a agriculture as well as agro-based industry deputy minister, done this suggestion after a visit to a site today.
Chua told a journalists who accompanied him which he has seen no vital developments in a surrounding area.As such, Chua pronounced sarcastically: "In sequence to generate a little returns, I introduce to a Pakatan state supervision which it should contact a Ministry of Agriculture to see if a of mining ponds is suitable for aquaculture."
Chua as well as Hulu Selangor MP P Kamalanathan arrived during a site in a morning, where a organisation of twenty held two giant posters with a disproportion "RM181 million - Total underwater land over 438 acres."
The poster was a anxiety to Chua's recent explain that! a sta te governmentoverpaid by RM42 millionfor a squeeze of 2,263 acres of land underneath a debt restructuring deal with Talam Corporation Bhd in 2010, of which 438 acres were underneath water.
Chua serve suggested today which a state association Kumpulan Hartanah Selangor Bhd (KHSB) had valued a property in Bestari Jaya in 2009 during RM 36,000 an acre.
The state government, he said, needed usually compensate RM81 million for a land if it had followed a KHSB gratefulness as well as not RM181 million or RM80,000 per acre.Chua questioned a reason for a huge disproportion of RM100million in a gratefulness as well as a volume a state paid for a land.
Asked if MCA will board a inform with a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on a land deal, Chua pronounced "not during a moment" as well as he was "now concentrating on discovering some-more information" .
Chua pronounced he was aware which a little NGOs had announced their skeleton to board reports with a MACC as well as which MCA would furnish these NGOs with a relevant papers if they needed them.
Despite Selangor Mentri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim has denied a state supervision has took over a underwater land, Chua said, he still stick to his original information.
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Nurul Izzah: Faulty radar supplier awarded KLIA2 contract
Nurul Izzah pronounced AAT did not encounter a technical mandate indispensable for it to secure a contract. File pic
Citing papers in her possession, PKR vice president Nurul Izzah Anwar purported currently which Advanced Air Traffic Systems (M) Sdn Bhd (AAT), a organisation concerned in a inadequate air trade carry out complement in Subang, has right away been awarded a similar plan for KLIA2.
She pronounced AAT was awarded a stipulate even though an additional firm, AMP Corporation (M) Sdn Bhd (AMCOP), had been identified by qualified consultants as some-more befitting for a job.
"After Malaysians were shocked over a problems of a radio detector complement developed by Selex Sistemi Integrati (SELEX) as well as AAT during a National Air Traffic Control Centre (NATCC) in Subang, PKR right away understands which a single of these firms was awarded a plan for KLIA2 even though they were a losing bid," pronounced a Lembah Pantai MP told a press discussion here.
AAT is related to Ikwan Hafiz Jamaluddin through a association called Tirai Variasi, of which he is a largest shareholder. Ikhwan is a son of Jamaluddin, Malaysia's Ambassador to a US with ministerial status. SELEX is additionally purported to own 30 percent of AAT.
According to a Lembah Pantai MP, her allegations were based upon a report she sourced from Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd's hired consultant, AECOM.
"For a KLIA2 project, a organisation called AECOM was hired as consultants to MAHB as well as began collecting information, interpretation as well as reports since Fe! bruary 2 010 in sequence to present a extensive opinion, especially in 3 aspects which are a air carry out system, procedures as well as equipment," she said.
She combined which AECOM additionally had reservations with a potency of SELEX's complement as well as endorsed which it be upgraded in sequence to cope with expected flight genius once KLIA2 starts operations.
"According to a technical valuation report by AECOM antiquated Dec 9, 2011, they recognised a ability of AMCOP to carry out a pronounced stipulate better as well as had endorsed them, but in a end a stipulate was handed to AAT a organisation that, according to a report, did not encounter a technical specifications indispensable for this project," Nurul Izzah said.
She additionally pointed out which whilst a price of AAT's bid was reduce compared to AMCOP's, approval could only be since if AAT met all technical aspects listed, which they did not.
According to Nurul, MAHB's special procurement committee meeting had additionally obviously since their valuation as well as recommendation for AMCOP to be selected upon Mar fifteen this year.
"The choice of AAT is surprising since prior to this, AAT was already embroiled in a controversy which questioned a effectiveness as well as safety of Malaysia's air trade complement as well as air ride passengers, through inner memos which lists a flaws as well as stability upkeep of a MIP-2 radio detector complement for a Subang Airport," she said.
Nurul Izzah additionally pronounced which MAHB as well as a Transport Ministry must right away clear awarding a air trade carry out complement for KLIA2 to AAT since a firm's lane record.
Last month, a PKR leader had highlighted which a method awarded a RM128.4 million stipulate around "closed tender" to Selex as well as AAT to develop a radio detector complement for a NATCC.
Nurul Izzah pronounced which a complement commissioned during a NATCC by AAT as well as ! Selex wa s "so injured controllers return to a aged complement of not using radar," putting a lives of millions of passengers during risk.
The KLIA2 low price airport began reception inspection final year when a price of construction ballooned from RM1.9 billion to RM3.6 billion as well as its opening was behind from Sep 2011 to April 2013.
Earlier this month, AirAsia group arch executive Tan Sri Tony Fernandes posted upon his blog which a price may right away reach RM5 billion.
DAP's Tony Pua blamed a price enlarge upon a relocation to a airport's stream site, which he pronounced compulsory extensive as well as dear earthworks which would not have been required during a strange location.
Transport Minister Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha responded to a claim by syaingt a change was in line with a KLIA Blueprint Dec 2008.
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Group moots plant upgrades to allay Selangor water shortage
Santiago asked Syabas to yield empirical interpretation to concede for an objective integrity of Selangor's stream H2O situation. File pic
Last Saturday, Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) pronounced which it was asking a National Water Services Commission (SPAN) to concede an evident H2O rationing exercise for areas inside of a Klang Valley due to a in isolation utility's inability to say uninterrupted H2O supply to a region.
The sovereign supervision is additionally lobbying for a building a whole of a brand new multibillion ringgit H2O diagnosis plant, Langat 2, to address a public's need.
But a Coalition against Water Privatisation insisted currently which short-term measures could be taken immediately, including a upgrading of existent diagnosis plants.
"Now a supervision has a choice, they can ascent a SSP1, SSP2, SSP3 (plants at Sungai Selangor dam)," pronounced a coalition's co-ordinator Charles Santiago, adding "it could be a cheaper option" which can be completed "within a month."
He referred to which a supervision use a Swedish innovation called "Dissolved Air Floatation", claiming it could assistance enlarge a production of treated with colour with colour H2O by twenty-five per cent.
Santiago, who is additionally DAP's MP for Klang, approved which a technology could be "costly" but gave his assurance which a extra price would not be passed upon to consumers.
The coalition additionally demanded an end to Syabas's "monopoly" of report upon H2O supply as well as production, observant which this would ! capacita te its experts to establish if a imminent H2O predicament was real or "manufactured."
It urged Syabas to yield scale readings which uncover a volume of raw H2O entering diagnosis plants, as well as a volume of treated with colour with colour H2O being produced.
Santiago additionally asked for approved record books as well as calibrated meters, physical phenomenon bills as well as containing alkali usage annals for a duration from January to this month.
"Show it to us. Prove it to us. We have been afraid this (water crisis) is manufactured to get Langat 2," pronounced Santiago, adding that: "If they (Syabas) have been not hiding, if they wish to clear their name, they should have this public.
He pronounced a "independent verification" of these interpretation would be able to uncover a tangible situation, instead of observations upon whether dams or H2O diagnosis plants have been full.
"When someone points out a dam is full, it equates to nothing; it could have rained in a morning."
"When someone points out a H2O diagnosis plant is half full, it additionally equates to nothing; someone could have shut off a single side."
The state supervision has disputed claims of a H2O necessity by Syabas, observant a dams in a state have been superfluous in a stream rainy season. But Syabas pronounced it was referring to a H2O diagnosis plants which have been at full capacity.
On Monday, Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim voiced which a state supervision would be regulating clause 32 of a concession agreement with Syabas to take over operations of a H2O supplier, accusing them of being amateurish for failing to reduce non-revenue H2O (NRW) to next twenty per cent as well as overdue RM2.8 billion in arrears.
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'Suzi's not only firm to get multiple solar power quotas'
Companies allegedly owned by a daughter of a recently late arch cabinet member to a supervision are not a usually ones which secured multiple quotas for a fledgling solar energy feed-in price tag (FiT) scheme.
"Other companies... have also been equally successful" in securing multiple quotas, Sustainable Energy Development Authority (Seda) pronounced in a matter today, but it did not yield details.
"This is possible as prolonged as a person submitting application complies with a application process as well as a support required.
"The time difference between a little of a submissions is usually a millisecond as well as a solar PV share allocated for non-individuals was tired within dual hours after Seda launched a e-FIT," it said.
In a extensive press matter late this evening, Seda combined which no extent had been set for any investor as Seda longed for to encourage in isolation investment in a new industry.
Improvements were ceaselessly being done to a seven-month-old system, with stairs "also being taken to minimise a possibility of monopolisation of renewable energy share available for application".
T he system is also completely automated as well as does not involved humans, as per tender processes.
Seda also pronounced which it places no smallest order for knowledge or paid-up collateral as FiT is a very new industry.
"If a Feed-in Approval (FiA) is usually postulated to companies with extensive knowledge in solar power, this would have resulted in a marketplace dominated by foreign companies, as well as to illustrate extent a capability of a local players to grow."
It combined which companies which apply have no way of knowing either they would succeed, so it would be astray to de! sign the m to have huge investments beforehand.
"Most of a companies which participate in a FiT programme shaped a special purpose car as well as a little with RM2 paid-up collateral because there is no guarantee they will get a quota," it said, on condition which examples of share applicants.
Companies need to meet requirements
It pronounced which usually after a share was postulated would Seda monitor their progress as well as ensure which a companies meet "requirements... as well as assorted milestones by sure dates" prior to a comm! encement of a FiT.
"For example, to beget electricity as well as sell to a placement licensee, a association contingency be protected by Suruhanjaya Tenaga, where to acquire a era licence, a successful person submitting application contingency have a smallest RM200,000 in paid-up collateral or dual percent of a project cost, whichever higher," it said.
It pronounced failure to meet any order or miracle would result in a revocation of a FiA."Seda regrets a accusations as well as allegations by (Lembah Pantai MP) Nurul Izzah Anwar as well as (Petaling Jaya Utara MP) Tony Pua as well as is of a perspective which such allegations are obviously unwarranted as well as unjustified."
Nurul Izzah as well as Pua had questioned how companies related to Sun Energy Ventures Sdn Bhd, pronounced to be owned by Suzi Suliana Sidek, who is a daughter of former arch cabinet member Sidek Hassan, secured a "lion's share" of a quotas.
Suzi Suliana is alleged to be in carry out of twelve companies which in spin carry out 32.4 percent of 45.9 megawatt (MW) of ! a quot a set for a solar ene! rgy unde r a scheme, above a extent of 1MW to 5MW for any company.
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Amity and Goodwill for National Peace and Stability
July 20, 2012
Amity as well as Goodwill for National Peace as well as Stability
by A. Lin Neumann
One man hardly survived an assassination attempt. Another was severely beaten as well as imprisoned for 6 years upon forged charges. The third was suspended from energy by a troops manoeuvre as well as forced in to exile given his opponents could not better him democratically.
These 3 group Jose Ramos-Horta, a former President of Timor Leste; Anwar Ibrahim, a Malaysian Opposition Leader; as well as Thailand's former Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra appeared upon a same stage in Jakarta this week for a forum upon settlement put together by Strategic Review, a quarterly biography of process as well as ideas published in Jakarta. It is my wish to be associated with Strategic Review as well as to have had a possibility to encounter all 3 of these leaders.
The forum upon Tuesday, which was non-stop with a keynote residence by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, finished for a stunning print op of a 3 invited leaders speaking their minds quite plainly during an eventuality which could never happen at a back of home for two of them, Thaksin as well as Anwar.
Indeed, this was domestic theatre of a very tall order. Having been hauled in to probity regularly upon a most forged of sexual charges, Anwar is seeking towards a general choosing later this year as he tries to reinstate a coalition which has governed Malaysia given independence.
The billionaire Thaksin is involved in his own high-stakes gambit. With his sister right away Prime Minister, he is betting which he can a single day lapse to Thailand notwithstanding a bullheaded opposition of absolute troops as well as domestic figures.
But along with ! Ramos-Ho rta, these 3 group all brought a summary of
forgiveness to Jakarta. Anwar praised Indonesia for a capability to "not be saddled by a baggage of a past." He resisted a titillate to call for payback as well as appealed instead for Malaysia to simply concede satisfactory elections as a trail to reconciliation.
"I am usually means to forgive," Anwar pronounced from a stage, "and pierce on. Not indispensably forget, though pierce on. If you have been all committed to [democracy], you don't have time for retribution."
Thaksin spoke of a need for calm in doing a domestic predicament in his country. "I consider you need truth, though a law contingency not lead to future conflict," he said. "We contingency learn from the past failures, though you additionally contingency pierce on."
The most appropriate e.g. was Ramos-Horta, who has actually finished what a alternative two have been so far usually articulate about. In 2008, whilst President, he pardoned a group who attacked him.
He remarkable which after a 1999 autonomy referendum as well as a bloody withdrawal of a Indonesian military, he as well as autonomy fighter Xanana Gusmao finished assent with Indonesia a initial priority notwithstanding calls for an general judiciary to investigate a crimes committed in Timor Leste. "I pronounced 10 years ago which Indonesians will be a ones who look in to their souls as well as find solutions," he said, adding which he prefers "restorative justice. Sometimes you have to swallow this enterprise for retributive justice."
Similarly, there is huge intensity for chaos in Myanmar should popular
annoy be unleashed against a long-ruling generals. It is to a credit of Aung San Suu Kyi which she is negotiating a approach forward.
I hope a summary of forgiveness as well as reason which was expressed upon a stage in Jakarta this week will be realised in both Malaysia as well as Thailand, as well as which Thaksin as well as Anwar infer to be group of their word should they climb to power.
It has worked in Indonesia as well as in Timor Leste; it is starting to bear fruit in Myanmar. In a words of Yudhoyono during his residence to a forum: "There is no peace, no freedom, no fortitude unless you take out a cancerous seeds of conflict as well as loathing from the multitude as well as reinstate them with seeds of compatibility as well as goodwill." Jakarta Globe-Malaysian Insider
* A. Lin Neumann, first editor of a Jakarta Globe, is a horde of a "Insight Indonesia" talk show upon BeritaSatu TV. He is additionally a publisher of Strategic Review.
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Arnold Palmer and The British Open Golf
July 21, 2012
Arnold Palmer as well as The British Open Golf
(CNN) Even during the age of 82 the work ethic still burns splendid in Arnold Palmer, the male who inspired the generation of baby-boomers to take up golf as well as whose support of the British Open valid main for its destiny success.
The elite of universe golf gather during Royal Lytham as well as St. Annes this week upon the 50th anniversary of Palmer's abrasive victory during Scottish links march Troon in 1962 as well as "The King" still exerts the significant influence upon the sport he once dominated.
"I would like to be remembered for bringing golf to the worldwide audience," Palmer told CNN. "Players today have no boundaries." As partial of golf's "Big Three," Palmer helped pioneering player representative Mark McCormack take the sport around the creation in the 1960s, capitalizing upon the ever-growing reach of television.
Why U.S. golf has the healthy future
The contest Palmer still proudly hosts in the last week of March, during his Bay Hill march in Florida, attracts the stellar general lineup as well as was won this year by Tiger Woods.
He is the really hands-on host, creation sure the march is in tip condition as well as appearing each day upon the television coverage of the event. This year, he suffered the health shock after leaving the TV tower upon the final day the red blood pressure problem, according to his family as well as could not give out the prizes as has been tra! dition.< /p>
But Palmer has made the full recovery as well as now, half century upon from his second British Open triumph, the spotlight has again fallen upon his trailblazing achievements.
A personality of men
When he initial played golf's oldest contest in 1960, it had fallen out of favor with American pros. Ben Hogan in 1953 was the last from the U.S. to win it, as well as customarily 3 entered in 1959 put off by the long journey as well as partially low esteem money upon offer.
Again there were customarily 3 Americans in the 74-man margin during St. Andrews, the single being the mythological Gene Sarazen still personification late in to his 50s upon the lifetime grant dating behind to his 1932 success.
Palmer failed to emulate Hogan's triple-major feat, descending the single shot reduced of Kel Nagle following earlier victories during the Masters as well as U.S. Open, though he returned to the UK the subsequent year as well as claimed the desired "Claret Jug" during Royal Birkdale.
Palmer had already won his third Masters climax before romping to victory during Troon in 1962. "I got it going in the final turn as well as it was really enjoyable," he told CNN.
Ever modest, Palmer's margin of victory over Nagle was six shots as well as he was the conspicuous 13 strokes transparent of third place.
His 1961 exploits had inspired the young Jack Nicklaus to have his British Open debut during Troon, as well as the "Golden Bear" won it for the initial time in 1966 dual years after fellow citizen Tony Lema additionally triumphed during St. Andrews.
By then Palmer had been represented by McCormack for several years, as well as their partnership helped changed the face of golf as well as complicated sports.
Famou! s Deal with Mark McCormack
McCormack was the Cleveland attorney, customarily the year comparison than Palmer, as well as they famously struck their deal in 1960 with just the handshake. McCormack had seen his client's potential, as well as the increasing television coverage of golf was fluctuating his interest to the wider audience.
"He was really smart. He was the motivator as well as went after it, as well as which was something you enjoyed," recalled Palmer.
McCormack after swayed Nicklaus as well as South Africa's Gary Player to stick upon Palmer during his International Management Group (IMG) as well as the "Big Three" was born, popularizing golf worldwide in the series of made-for-television events.
But Palmer hold the really special place in the affections of the golfing galleries as well as it is easy to see because with his attacking fool around as well as decorated style. He was the initial golfer to attract his own special following "Arnie's Army" diehard fans who surrounded each green to cheer him on, win or lose.
Woods in his resplendence had the similar fan base decades later, though Palmer was the initial as well as he appreciated their support. "They customarily speedy me to go upon to do the things you was you do as well as gave me the certainty you needed," he said.
Charismatic star
But it was not customarily his excellent fool around which drew them in. He had which "something" an aura, charisma total with great looks. A hitch of his firmly wise pants followed many shots, as well as his in! vogue o utfits made him stand out from the average pro.
"It was not something you really planned," Palmer admitted. "I liked the sharp double in my slacks, my shoes discriminating to shine, while my shirts were conservative with the true collar.
"It was the character you stranded with for many of my career." Intentional or not, it has valid popular. GQ Magazine declared him the single of the "50 many in vogue men of the past 50 years" as well as Esquire had him in the list of the "75 best-dressed men of all time."
Golfers have been frequency remembered for their fashion sense, customarily the expect opposite, though the outfits he wore in 1962 have been recreated for the brand new operation of Arnie Apparel.
Palmer longed for earnest PGA Tour player Ryan Moore to don the outfits "I took the sold fondness to him when he won the U.S. Amateur, the really respectful young man" as well as he has got his wish.
Moore has won once upon the remunerative U.S. calendar, in 2009, though if he can achieve the fraction of Palmer's achievements in golf, he will count himself lucky.
Seven major wins, 62 in all upon the PGA Tour, not to mention his after exploits upon the Seniors circuit which he more than any alternative golfer helped ventilate as well as give legitimacy to the idea of golfers elderly 50 plus still competing during the tip level.
Endorsing success
With the business astuteness of McCormack promoting his off-course activities, Palmer lent his picture to the host of products as well as services, becoming the initial diver to show which income from commercial endorsements could outstrip prize-money earnings.
"Mark was really great during marketing," Palmer said, as well as where he led, others were quick to follow.
With the "Big Three" dominating golf, McCormack branched out in to alternative sports such as tennis as well as then in to the universe of showbiz. He even marketed the papal debate of Britain! in 1982 .
By the time McCormack died in 2003, IMG was the many absolute sports selling company in the universe as well as had Woods as its star client.
Palmer's own commercial activities have helped him amass an estimated $ 675 million fortune, which is still growing notwithstanding his early retirement from opposition golf in 2006.
He is unapproachable of his bequest upon as well as off the course, as well as is confident for the future, particularly with golf winning inclusion to the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
"We will see more Third World countries participating. you think that's important, as well as you will see interest getting to the point when you can opposition soccer as well as tennis," he predicted.
Palmer may well get his wish, though he has already forged his place in golfing story as the true trailblazer.
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