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Opposition cooperation has worsened since elections in 2013
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After Malaysia's opposition fielded multiple candidates for some seats in a state election last month, splitting the vote and giving Prime Minister Najib Razak's coalition a bigger majority, they vowed not to repeat it. Four weeks later, they are at it again.
Two opposition groups on Sunday nominated candidates to run against Najib's United Malays National Organisation in two by-elections this month, increasing the chances of UMNO retaining seats it currently holds by a narrow margin. One seat it won in the 2013 general election by just 1.1 percent in a straight fight, the other by less than 4 percent in a three-way race that included an independent.
The opposition infighting shows how its alliance has failed to capitalize on gains made in 2013, when it won the popular vote for the first time. Najib was returned to office despite the worst performance by the ruling coalition in more than five decades in power, helped by the votes of UMNO's voter base -- ethnic Malays.
In the aftermath of the last election the opposition splintered amid policy differences, with one leader in jail and another investigated by the anti-corruption commission. That disarray, combined with decisions to compete against each other, is enabling Najib to weather a year-long donations scandal, multiple probes into a debt-ridden state fund and efforts by a former leader to remove him.
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"The opposition's back is already broken," said Ibrahim Suffian, an analyst at the Merdeka Center for Opinion Research in Kuala Lumpur. "Despite the scandals, there are no practical means for any political backlash to affect Najib because his opponents have become fragmented and ineffective in mobilizing the public through electoral means."
Parti Islam se-Malaysia, whose conservative faction defeated moderates in internal leadership polls a year ago, left the opposition alliance in 2015. Ties frayed with the mostly ethnic-Chinese Democratic Action Party over efforts to implement the Islamic penal code in a PAS-controlled state. Another group, Parti Amanah Negara is made up of moderates who left PAS last year.
Both PAS and Amanah named candidates for the June 18 by-elections, triggered when deputy plantation minister Noriah Kasnon and Wan Mohammad Khair-il Anuar Wan Ahmad, chairman of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board, were killed in a helicopter crash in Sarawak. PAS has said the seats have traditionally been contested by it.
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The presence of multiple opposition candidates may skew what would otherwise have been a litmus test of the voter mood on Najib. Confidence among consumers, businesses and investors has faltered amid a slowing economy, global investigations into state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd., and residual public anger over the implementation last year of a goods and services tax.
Najib has denied wrongdoing and was cleared by the attorney general this year of graft over revelations that $681 million appeared in his accounts before the 2013 vote. The opposition won that election with 51 percent support, though gained fewer seats due to the country's British style first-past-the-post counting system.
Complaints about Najib's leadership on social media forums and among some UMNO chiefs in private have failed to lure voters to the opposition. Chinese voters who flocked to it before 2013 have expressed concern about the possibility of Islamic law in the state of Kelantan.
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Opposition party leaders have said little in public about their faltering support. Still, the rifts are increasingly apparent.
"It will split the votes of those who disagree with the current administration," PAS vice-president Idris Ahmad was quoted as telling reporters on Sunday, commenting on Amanah's decision to join the race. "However, we are confident and hope that voters will support us and send a strong signal to the government."
Disunity among opposition parties helped hand Barisan Nasional 72 of 82 seats in a state assembly election last month in Sarawak, the country's biggest state. The Democratic Action Party won seven seats, a weaker showing than 2011.
"They just don't learn from past mistakes," said Faisal S. Hazis, head of the Centre for Asia Studies at the National University of Malaysia, of the opposition. "People are just fed up with the bickering."
Even Najib's most vocal critic is exasperated by the opposition infighting. Former premier Mahathir Mohamad led UMNO for two decades and had repeatedly said it cannot win the next election, due before end-2018, with Najib at the helm. After efforts to turn UMNO against Najib failed, he teamed up with political foes to try to force the prime minister out.
'Two Ways'
That soured when his motives were questioned by some in the opposition including Anwar Ibrahim, who was sent to jail again last year for sodomy, a charge he denies. Now, the 90-year-old says the opposition disunity means UMNO is unlikely to be at risk.
"There're only two ways to unseat Najib," Faisal said. "One is through UMNO which Mahathir failed to do. Second is when a united, cohesive and viable opposition coalition wins the next general election. The second option is not what Mahathir is willing to take."
In the meantime, Najib has tightened his grip on UMNO and its divisional chiefs have publicly backed him. Najib is also cementing his hold on power by further wooing the ethnic Malay majority. He has reached out to PAS and proposed the parties work to promote Islam's doctrines, and the opposition group is reacting to his overtures.
At an opening ceremony of a recent PAS youth wing annual meeting, leaders abandoned their usual Arabic robes and came in traditional Malay costumes complete with a Keris -- a dagger regarded as a symbol of the race's supremacy. PAS leader Abdul Hadi Awang said the party will abandon the old political style of opposing for opposing's sake, and will work with anyone who can advance the principles of Islam.
"It's not certain how PAS will reconcile with their former allies," Ibrahim of the Merdeka Center said. Unless they can patch up, "it will be hopeless" for the opposition, he said.


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I'm not sure - I'll probably take jasper with me until hes at least 10.
though I have had the lovely moment in a change room at fitness first after a swim stripping off and realising there is about a 10 year old boy there... that felt a bit awkward!
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Sounds like the swimming lessons are a pain all over. We have resorted to taking an extra towel for the kids, wrapping them in the dry one and bringing them home to change. There are no doors on the showers at this pool either - and I'm clever - buti havent mastered the art of changing two wet kids in a loo cubical......
I am lucky as my kids are nudists and really do not care who looks..
they also dont seem to ogle others, yet...
but my 10 year old will come into parents rooms, change rooms and toilets for the time being.
If I was outside the toilets and saw them go in and was going to be there when they came out I would let a 7 year old use the toilets themselves. Definitely by 10 I would let my children have the independence to use the toilets themselves. There are some really interesting research pieces that have been done around not exposing children to risks like gauging when someone is a bit strange, or being able to problem solve if they come out of the toilets and you're not there to meet them. Tim Gill is an academic who has done a lot of research on the topic (his website is called rethinkingchildhood) and some of his studies have shown that adolescents these days take big risks (like meeting someone they met online! Or trusting people who are a bit "off") because many of them haven't been given the opportunity to develop their own risk assessment processes as a child.
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Bought it in May 2011. Really started using it in August 2011.My husband and I were remodeling our kitchen and a new refrigerator was not in the budget, but I kept complaining about our old/new french door-freezer drawer model we had purchased (Brand unknown). I DO NOT like the design of the freezer drawer-- the bending over and not seeing a clear view of MOST things inside your freezer (picture you dresser drawer trying to find that "one" shirt-- same frustrating feeling with those types of freezers)AND BEHOLD! a freezer that is so well organized and able to see exactly what is in it without digging!!! YAY. Love the ice compartment in the door, I have my drawer system spaced so that the top of the drawers are also shelves, works great!With the refrigerator though they did this funky design where the door shelving units -- there are two types (one narrow and the other deeper) BUT YOU CAN'T put them anywhere on the door. only one size will fit on the top and the other only on the bottom half of the door. This is really frustrating because I wanted to reconfigure it where the drawers in the refrigerator would be all one... kind of confusing and in the end I put it back to the configuration it was when it came, things are great, cold, almost too cold! love the water filter, the LED lights (not too bright) in other words it has turned out to be the perfect Refrigerator- minus my first try at organizing it but I am very happy with it as is.My Husband loves it.The ice maker is audible from down the hall with the door open. Once there was a piece of ice that must have been jammed and melted and fell which was loud and we woke up thinking something was going on... but it was only this piece of ice-- hasn't happened since.
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I have owned the product one month and I regret the purchase. After having owned my previous side-by-side for nearly 13 yrs without a single issue I was convinced that Whirlpool was my only choice for a replacement when I remodeled the kitchen. I am convinced now that my old unit was the last reliable fridge I would own. In the month I have owned the unit it has only managed to produce three bins of ice. Now that I have done more research I realize I should have stayed with the basic ice and water dispenser with the analog controls for cooling. I even went to the extent to purchase an extended warranty because of my lack of faith in the the control center mounted in the door. My fear is that it will fail making the entire appliance useless and I am hazard to guess what a replacement would cost. Considering that I paid nearly twice the price for this fridge than my last one I would have expected better from the mfg.What sold me on the unit was the capacity and energy efficiency; my wife liked the lighting as well. Beyond this, there is not much that separates this model from the lower-end offerings. Other items of mention, the upper and lower shelves on the door are not interchangeable. I feel they should have provided one additional lower door shelf due to provide additional versatility. I purchased the stainless finish to match my other appliances. If you purchase this model be prepared to clean it constantly. My previous white unit did not show the fingerprints nearly as much as this one does. I have always been happy with my whirlpool appliances in the past and it is a shame this unit has tarnished my opinion.
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we are lucky that Islam prohibits us from doing all that, if not, women in Malaysia now must been under pressure to spend lotta money just to look beautiful. Hurm, sometime this world is cruel that it never allow us to live in reality..
this is second heroin from MY GIRL, Park Shi Yeon. She is already pretty, i wonder why she changed her nose..
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Schooled in universities in Austria, his home country, Paul is a certified Project Manager, ITIL Practitioner and Agile Scrum Master. For more than 20 years, Paul has traveled and worked in Europe, Asia and the two Americas. Most recently, he held program manager and director-level roles in North American consulting and education companies. Paul currently works as a Program Manager on assignment with McGraw-Hill Education.
Paul believes that we need to develop and hone skills that allow us to effectively compete in today's ever-faster changing jobs and integrate that capability into a life that is more fulfilling and feels more stable than it does for many of us today. It is that belief that is driving his desire to help all of us experience and master new techniques that integrate proven tools with newly emerging approaches and findings from areas in business and others that just seem to work in today's environment.
In particular, Paul believes that the Agile movement, born in the quick-paced world of software application development, holds vast promise outside of IT and for many people who find it more and more difficult to not just keep up but to find a new sense of control and meaning in their work and everyday life.


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Robert Novak Journalism Fellowships
The Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program is nurturing a new generation of responsible journalists. This prestigious year-long program awards $75,000 full-time fellowships and $35,000 part-time fellowships for writing projects committed to advancing constitutional principles, a democratic society and a vibrant free-enterprise system. There are also Alumni Fund Fellowships funded by donations from former and current Novak Fellows. Alumni Fund Fellowship winners write one magazine-length article on their topic.
As a young journalist, I was thrilled when I got a job as a researcher for a New York Times op-ed columnist. But I worried about finding the time and energy to do my own research, reporting and writing. A part-time Novak Journalism Fellowship provided the motivation – and resources – for me to keep working under my own byline while I labored behind the scenes at the Times."
– Katherine Mangu-Ward (Novak 05)
Editor-in-Chief of Reason
Our 2017 Novak award recipients will be announced at the 24th Annual Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Awards Dinner on Wednesday, May 10 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. More than 250 prominent journalists and guests attend this annual event to celebrate the best in American journalism. Proceeds from the evening support the Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program.
The evening will also honor Brian Lamb, founder of C-SPAN, with the Thomas L. Phillips Career Achievement Award, and Heather Mac Donald, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute with the Kenneth Y. Tomlinson Award for Outstanding Journalism.
Legendary journalist Robert Novak provided the inspiration for the program, which was named in his honor following his passing in 2009. The Novak program has awarded 135 fellowships over the past two decades to promising young journalists who are climbing the ranks as groundbreaking reporters, editors, editorial page writers, columnists and authors. Novak Fellows include Steve Hayes (AIPES 94, Novak 00) of The Weekly Standard and Fox News, Mollie Hemingway (Novak 04) of The Federalist and Tim Carney (Novak 03) of the Washington Examiner.


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