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Police will not give a assent for Pakatan Rakyat to reason a mega convene dubbed 'People's Uprising Assembly' this Saturday in Seremban.
According to Berita Harian, Seremban OCPD Saiful Azly Kamaruddin said 3 Pakatan member had come to a Seremban military district domicile upon October twenty-four to request for a convene but they did not finish a application form.
"The duration given (to finish a form) lapsed and they failed to finish a form. Therefore we have to have a preference not to issue a assent for that rally," he told a press discussion yesterday.
The domestic convene was primarily scheduled to be held during Bukit Jalil National Stadium in Kuala Lumpur prior to it was relocated to Taman Seremban Jaya in Seremban, a state that Pakatan aims to conquer in a next ubiquitous election.
Expecting to capture some 5,000 supporters, a rally, that will be held from 4pm until midnight, will highlight a 8 electoral reform final raised by Bersih 2.0, among other public issues together with a protests against Lynas and a petroleum hub in Pengarang, Johor, as well as a oil kingship demand of a Kelantan state government. Read More @ Source
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Death knell for higher education
31 october 2012
There is a growing obsession with form over piece as well as nowhere is this some-more clear than in a diseased seductiveness taken with university rankings.
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THIS month outlines a 22nd year we have worked as an academic.
In which time, we have seen most changes in a university. There have been, of course, some improvements given those early days.
For a singular thing, record has transformed things for a better.
Let's take a outing down memory lane.
The really initial publication we wrote went through this rsther than painful process.
First, we had to go to a library as well as find a relevant cases as well as journal articles. Then carrying taken copious notes, we went behind to my bureau where we proceeded to write out my thoughts with an ancient device well known as a pen.
Having completed this task, we would send my scratching to a lovely lady in a general bureau downstairs whose pursuit pretension was "steno".
She would sort out what we wrote, give it behind to me to check as well as afterwards we would lapse it to her with any corrections. Finally, it would be placed into a slot made of paper well known as a hammered pouch as well as posted to a publisher.
Now, all cases as well as principle including most journals have been online. we sort my work myself (with a computer checking my spelling as well as grammar) as well as when we am finished we e-mail a stuff to a publisher.
All in a comfort of my bureau where we can fool around Flight of a Hamsters in in between constructing sentences filled with gems of wisdom.
I will be a initial to admit which we am quite old-fashioned in most ways, though we can definitely say which we do not miss a days prior to a Internet as well as Word.
Progress, unfortunately, is not alway! s positi ve. And it saddens me to say which over these last two decades we have seen changes which in my perspective ring! a genocide knell for aloft education.
In my opinion, a pass problem is which those who confirm a direction of our universities have lost track of a values which have to underpin these institutions in sequence for them to fool around a meaningful purpose in society.
There is a growing obsession with form over piece as well as nowhere is this some-more clear than in a diseased seductiveness taken with university rankings.
Politicians harp upon about it, so a Government creates it a priority. Because a Government wants aloft rankings, a vice-chancellors begin repetition about it too.
Rankings have turn a raison d'etre for universities.
The discerning fix afterwards becomes a holy grail, hence universities demeanour to a ranking criteria as well as they focus their efforts upon doing all they can to encounter those criteria.
This blinkered modus operandi afterwards leads to some seriously warped developments which ignore a principles which have been required for a proper foundations of truly good universities.
Academic autonomy is a singular of those principles.
A university is a formidable organisation. It is distinct a factory where there is by as well as vast a singular idea as well as customarily a singular method with which to grasp a pronounced idea with a most appropriate peculiarity as well as efficiency.
Even in a singular faculty, there have been most variations. Take, for example, a Faculty of Arts we have departments as diverse as English as well as Geography; Urban Planning as well as Gender Studies; International Studies as well as Indian Studies; a list goes on.
You can't possibly be laying down a singular criterion for peculiarity for such a diverse group. But which is what happened.
Nowadays, if we want to infer your quality, a usually approach we can do it, which is embr! aced by universities, is if we publish in a journals recognized by a ranking organisations.
It doesn't matter if we have been an English professor who publishes well-received novels, or if we have been a Gender Studies techer who uses you! r knowled! ge for women's activism.
What about a excellent arts? Shouldn't a creation of new ideas in dance as well as entertainment take precedence over an article in some problematic (but concurred by a rankers) journal which usually a handful of people will read?
Increasingly, a meditative of universities is it is our approach or a highway.
Such a top down approach cannot work since any educational unit in a university has its own imagination as well as its own worth system.
This has to be creditable since they themselves should know how to advance their fortify both in an academically as well as socially meaningful manner.
Autonomy brings with it a required coherence for any dialect as well as any educational to chart a required march which will improve themselves as well as their own disciplines.
And who should know improved what which march should be than those who have trained in which discipline.
I am not opposite a publishing of functions in creditable journals. we admit which they have been important to a advancement of educational thought.
What we am observant is which a farrago of academia equates to which there have been countless methods to establish quality. And a most appropriate approach to grasp peculiarity is by carrying loyal educational autonomy so which those who know most appropriate have been a ones who establish a approach to grasp a best. Read More @ Source
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Tiada royalti minyak untuk Pahang?
The Star telah menghantar SMS explosion yang berbunyi berikut:
30/10 Najib: Oil fields detected 160km offshore Pahang; state approaching to embrace RM100mil a year once production starts in third entertain of 2014/STAR
Pembayaran itu telah menimbulkan salah sangka bahawa negeri Pahang akan menerima royalti minyak sebanyak 5%. Sebenarnya tidak.Perincian laporan The Star ada
Why is it so difficult to give up a seat?
No Love Lost Between Indonesia and Malaysia
If a playing margin was not disproportionate enough, Petronas has additionally had to understanding with negative consumer sentiment: Many Indonesian motorists cannot bring themselves to condescend something which is distinctively Malaysian.
Petronas will not comment, though in further evidence of a unfortunate state of people-to-people family in between Indonesians as well as Malaysians, customer resistance is one key reason why Petronas has been forced to close many of a eighteen stations in recent weeks.
Most analysts snippet a deterioration in ties at a behind of to a presentation of Prime Minister Mahathir Muhammad in 1981 as well as subsequently to a 1997-1998 monetary predicament which unleashed a inundate of bootleg Indonesian displaced person workers in to Malaysia.
Along a way, a dual countries have engaged in sour disputes over a Sipidan as well as Ligitan islands in a Celebes Sea - which a World Court awarded to Malaysia in 2002 as well as over a Ambalat oil-exploration retard off Borneo's easterly coast, which stays unresolved.
Founding Indonesian boss Sukarno's armed oppos! ition to Britain's origination of a Malaysian association in a early 1960s a duration called Confrontation left surprisingly few scars since it had small public support, especially from a generals who sought to have peace at a behind of his back.
Looking at a behind of now, maestro academic Jusuf Wanandi says a years following Confrontation were, in fact, a tall point of a relationship, helped by a bieing born in Aug 1967 of Asean.
Indonesian leaders additionally had clever operative ties with Malaysia's second as well as third prime ministers Tun Abdul Razak, an racial Bugis from Sulawesi, as well as Tun Hussein Onn, whose father founded a United Malays National Organization.
But which era was old school. The some-more mercurial Tu! n Mahathir altered a mood, environment an independent march which brought him in to personal conflict with boss Suharto.
To rub salt in to a wound, Malaysia transient from a 1997-1998 predicament relatively unscathed in partial interjection to controversial banking controls instituted by Mahathir whilst Indonesia saw a meltdown. In Indonesia, hundreds of thousands of job seekers surged in to Malaysia, environment a theatre for a serious as well as wholly avoidable decrease in a approach a dual countries' peoples looked at each other.
The error lies upon both sides. The Indonesian authorities did not hope for their untaught women many of them from a Java hinterland to operate even a simplest of home appliances or try to secure a labor treaty with Malaysia to strengthen them.
The Malaysian supervision was complicit in a ensuing exploitation, not only creation small bid to prevent their abuse, though additionally perpetuating a idea which many of a Indonesian male workers were criminals as well as should be treated as such.
That perspective seems to prevail today. When four purported thieves were shot dead recently under still-unclear circumstances, it brought a number of Indonesian displaced person workers killed by Malaysian m! ilitary in a past 5 years to some-more than 150.
Given their likeness in cultural backgrounds, a back-biting which goes upon in between a dual neighbors sometimes beggars belief, many of it driven by perceived slights and, upon Indonesia's part, by a antagonistic overly patriotic media.
Broadly speaking, it can be put down to a older brother-younger hermit complex. Big hermit Indonesia is huge as well as under-developed, though with a clever clarity of nationhood and, as a economy grows, an increasing certainty in a role as a regional leader.
Younger hermit Malaysia is nine times smaller in conditions of population, though with a per capita income roughly three times higher. It additionally has a better capability to marketplace itself ("Malaysia, Truly Asia" slogan) as well as a sniff of superiority in a approach a republic is managed.
Given a clever family ties which exist opposite a Malacca Strait, a 50 million Sumatrans crop up to be reduction exercised about Malaysia than a dominant Javanese, whose rude perspective often irritates many of their own countrymen.
Because of ancestral migrations, some Malaysian states additionally have large Indonesian populations, particularly Minangkabau (West Sumatrans) strong in Negeri Sembilan, Bugis in Pahang as well as a mix of Sumatrans as well as Javanese in Johor.
Unlike a Sumatrans, a Javanese see themselves as culturally opposite from a Malays, with their own particular language as well as a heritage colored by Hindu as well as Buddhist influences starting at a behind of to a first century. Javanese love poking fun at a approach their neighbors improvise Malay, as well as snigger over their anthem, ! "Negarak u" ("My Homeland"), whose melody they cruise derived from a Indonesian love ballad, "Terang Bulan" ("Shining Moon").
But they lose their clarity of humor when Malaysia seeks to patent a technique of creation batik maybe a many egregious cultural crime in Indonesian eyes as well as lays explain to important Indonesian song like "Rasa Sayang" as well as traditional dance Reyog Ponorogo.
All this keeps patriotic emotions upon a bring to boil as well as both countries clearly upon edge. "What we're doing is important," says Wanandi, who played a behind-the-scen! es role i! n bringing an end to Confrontation. "Otherwise, it will get even worse."
Reprinted pleasantness of The Straits Times
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Ini Kalilah!
T. Adnan Mansor is a UMNO secretary General. What's a T for? If mental recall serves me sufficiently, a certain reptilian with a prefix T has turn extinct. The same fate awaits T Adnan's celebration come a subsequent GE.
Clearly he is relishing his purpose as a justice punch in Najib's court. He comes up with a most weird of claims when a King is depressed. Judging from a tall magnitude of implausible claims arising onward from a bureau of this chief justice jester, a king contingency be pang from visit bouts of depression.
He says BN expects to win more than a 140 sovereign seats it took in a Elections of 2008. He is quoting trusted Government sources. Ah ha. Now, pray tell- can supervision sources discuss it us otherwise- which BN will lose? That would be doing an Anwar Blackeye- a self-inflicted wound. What just are supervision sources? Intelligence report? Reports from Kemas, Jasa or from something originating from Rais Yatim? If from Rais Yatim- which would be understandable. He is never well known to be numeric.
Despite admitting to a possibility of losing 6 seats in Sabah as well as 7 seats in Sarawak, BN says it can get more than 140 parliamentary seats?
If BN loses thirteen seats in East Malaysia, PR will be getting 122 seats to BN's 22. How so? Because in Peninsula Malaysia, PR is set to win 109 seats. With Ibrahim Menudin set to win in Labuan, PR has 110 seats already.
What T Adnan dares not exhibit is that, BN can lose up to 12 seats in Sabah as well as up to thirteen seats in Sarawak, creation a total loss of 25 seats from a East Malaysian states.
Now lay back as well as suffer a horror story of BN being reduced to a celebration with 87 seats. Not possible? Let's educate T Adnan with some mathematics.
Group 1: The Northern States.
no
state
PRBN
Total
1
Perlis
1
2
3
2
Penang
12
2
14
3
Kedah
12
3
15
4
Perak
17
7
24
42
14
56
Look at a 4 northern states. Out of 56 seats, PR wins 42 as well as BN wins 14.
Group 2: a west coast states.
State
PR
BN
total
5
Selangor
20
2
22
6
Negeri Sembilan
4
4
8
7
Melaka
2
3
5
8
Johor
9
17
26
35
26
61
PR wins a west coast states with 35 seats to BN's 26.
Group 3: The East Coast States.
no
state
PR
BN
TOTAL
9
Kelantan
13
1
14
10
Terengganu
4
4
8
11
Pahang
5
9
14
22
14
36
Out of a 36 parliamentary seats in a East Coast states, PR can win twenty-two to BN 14.
The New Territories.
no
constituency
PR
BN
TOTAL
1
WP
10
1
11
2
Putrajaya
0
1
1
3
Labuan
1
0
1
11
2
13
PR! has alr eady won 110 seats not including those from Sabah as well as Sarawak. Like a Sabahans say- ini kalilah!
Ini Kalilah is listened loudly across a whole country.
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Jelajah Merdeka Rakyat is hold currently atTaman Banting Baru, Jalan Jugra, Banting, Kuala Langat, Selangor.
Among a leaders participating Opposition leader,Anwar Ibrahim; Deputy President KEADILAN,Azmin Ali; Member of Parlaiment for Kuala Krai,Dr Hatta Ramli; Member of Parliament for Rasah,Anthony Loke Siew Fook; Member of Parliament for Kuala Langat,Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid; Chairman of Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM), Badrul Hisham Shahrin atau CheguBard and renouned artistDayangku Intan.
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Jamal even met a Secretary to a Perak Mentri Besar to find his assistance, but even this failed as no payment was perceived until today.
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