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LONDON (Reuters) - The government said on Thursday it was hopeful of reaching a deal to reform public sector pensions a day after hundreds of thousands of workers walked out over the issue, but unions called for genuine negotiations.
Ministers involved in the discussions appeared to soften their tone after saying for weeks there was no more money on the table and that a "generous" offer made in early November was final and could be withdrawn.
Talks aimed at averting any further strikes resumed on Thursday after union leaders warned more were possible if the government failed to alter reforms they say will make people work longer and pay more for smaller pension pots.
"I think there is a very realistic possibility of reaching an agreement," Treasury Minister Danny Alexander told BBC television. He had previously attacked union chiefs for being "hell-bent" on strikes and had appealed directly to workers to accept a settlement.
The government, trying to turn around a debt-laden economy teetering on the brink of recession, says reform is needed as people are living longer and public service pensions are unaffordable. It wants agreement by the end of the year.
Ministers said scheme-specific pension talks involving civil servants, local government and health workers would resume and ministers described meetings over teachers' pensions on Thursday as "positive and cordial."
But unions repeated that on key issues such as increased pension contributions and a rise in the retirement age, there had been no movement and no meaningful negotiations since early November.
"We've had lots of talks and lots of meetings, but there is a world of difference between meeting and talking and actual negotiations," said Brian Strutton, national secretary for the GMB, the country's third largest union involved in the talks.
"As evidence for negotiations you would expect to see things changing," he told Reuters, adding that to date there had been little progress made.
Strutton said the government wanted union chiefs to agree in principle to an outline deal rather than fully-worked out proposals across all the complex sector-specific schemes.
"We will move heaven and earth to try to achieve that but we have to have people sitting across the table who are able to make some changes to the proposals and not just rearrange how they are delivered."
Union leaders and the government engaged in a war of words on Wednesday over the impact of the mass walkout billed by unions as the biggest in a generation but derided by Prime Minister David Cameron as a "damp squib."
Both sides claimed victory, with labour leaders saying up to up to two million teachers, nurses, and civil servants took part, disrupting vital services and closing thousands of schools.
The government disputed the turnout claim saying it was "wrong" and that the true figure was "significantly less."
It also said "rigorous" contingency planning had mitigated the effects of the 24-hour strike keeping Britain open for business and having only a limited impact on public services.
Editing by Keith Weir


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The lack of taste was a huge issue. But it seems that DB left with no friends because he treated just about everyone as badly as he could get away with (and often he didn't get away with it--see those emails). That adds up to some species of bad person--surely something less than a parricide or rapist, but whether you'd say "piece of shit" or "asshole" is just splitting hairs.
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SPRING LAKE PARK MN, MINNESOTA -- I traded in a 2000 Chrysler lhs that was in great condition because I needed more room. I came in after talking to jake and they showed me a few suvs and after sitting there for about 4 hours they had some guy pull up with a 2000 denali. The deal was done. My payments were only supposed to be under 200 to find out that after I looked over everything that the payments were 270 which would have been fine until the very next day. I showed my brother the truck and he let me know that the 4 wheel was rigged up so that the lights would come on but the line was cut.
I called the lot and spoke with terry nord who is the owner of this scamming car lot. I told him that I did not want this truck anymore and wanted something else for the money I'm paying. He says he has nothing else to offer me until I have this truck for 6 months. But he did tell me to bring the truck in and they would fix but I would have to pay for this so I do then terry calls me and says the truck is fixed so I go pick it up.
A little while after that I go down to the dmv to ask about a title and they let me know that the car lot sent over the info but left some spots blank and they keep trying to get a hold of them at the lot and they get no response, come to find out the dmv shows that there is another lien on the truck besides mine so I have no title. I puts 23 inch rims on the truck and a TV deck and put a lot of money into this truck just to have them come and repo the truck last month.
And come to find out I'm not the first person they have done this to so now I lose my trade in that was paid off all my payments I paid them all the repairs and out 3000 for my rims and deck. And have to take them to court and spend more money just to get some of mine back.
I am a single mother raising 3 kids and do not have money like this. I attend college and my money is tight so please stay away from this lot so this doesn't happen to you, and if this already has happen please speak out so they can stop taking our honest earned money for their scamming business. I apologize for them because they will never do it. Thanks for your time and pass the word on this loot is junk and I hope karma smacks them in the face.
SPRING LAKE PARK, MINNESOTA -- Quality Auto of Spring Lake Park will never get my business. I called and spoke to the owner ** one day about a 2005 Hyundai Sonata that he described as being in "excellent" condition. He said he needed to let me go before I got all of the info I was looking for and that he would get back to me.
He hadn't called me back by the following day so I called again and spoke to a salesman who described the vehicle as being in "good" or "very good" condition. I asked him to provide more of a description regarding the condition of the vehicle's interior and exterior and to be more specific about any scratches or dings or imperfections as there is a big difference between a vehicle in good condition and a vehicle in excellent condition, especially when it comes to the blue book value. Plus I live 130 miles away from the car lot and wanted all the info I could get before driving the distance to take a look at it.
He replied that it was a used car so of course it had been driven and sat in. I asked him to be more specific and he said he couldn't possibly answer my impossible questions. He was rude and condescending in tone and I asked him to please let me speak to someone else. He refused and when I insisted on speaking to someone else he refused again. I hung up and called back and left a message for the owner letting him know about my treatment and asking him to please give me the info I had still not been given. He did not call me back. I don't know if the fact that I'm a woman played a role in my treatment or not, but I would never recommend Quality Auto to ANYBODY.
SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY -- I brought my car to Quality Auto Center of S. Orange on 12/15/07 in order to change my front tires and rotate the current front tire to the rear, at the same time I got an oil and filter change and the bill came out to $327.75. To check my breaks I attempted to remove the front tires, but found out that I could not unscrew all the nuts, and one of the nuts ended up braking off the threading on one of the nuts and bolts. On 8/16/08 I took the car back to Quality and asked them to try to remove the nuts from the tire.
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I mentioned that this was a major safety issue, since if the tire went flat I would not be able to replace it on the road. Then I told him I would report him to the BBB, and at that point he laughed, and threw the broken nut we gave him to the ground and told me to go ahead and do it, and that it was my word against his. His mechanic tried to calm everyone down and said that if we paid for the parts he would charge $40 for labor. I decided I did not want anything to do with the service company and went to another shop for replacement, which cost $180.
Quality not only did not live up to its name, but put my families and my own safety at risk by having me be unable to replace my tires in case of an emergency, the horrible customer service afterwards and the brazen flaunting of my inability to do anything against them, in a he said she said case, was very unprofessional and rude.
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I went to pick it up after several weeks and upon entering my vehicle I noticed that my custom molded floor mats were missing from the front and the back. Quality Auto kept telling me that they would replace them. After several months they failed to live up to everything they promised and chose to ignore me.
SPRING LAKE PARK, MINNESOTA -- My son & daughter in law went to buy a car they had advertised in the Star Tribune. That car was supposedly sold that morning. The first thing they had my daughter in law do was fill out paper work for a credit check before they would show her any other car. This should have been a red flag, but my husband and the children continued. It seems she would qualify for any car on the lot. So, they looked and found a car. The next day my daughter in law told them to go ahead with finding financing.
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So, we decided to cancel the gap insurance which was only going to be approximately $5.00 per month. Well that lowered the payment $20.00. Not sure how. So we checked the fluids in the vehicle only to find out the oil was a quart low. But ** the salesperson has no idea what to do with the oil. We just needed a quart of oil, since my son is a mechanic. Since they had no vehicle and her credit had been run, we had no choice but to buy the car. This was their first major purchase and I did not want their credit score to be affected by this. So, as we are leaving I ask the sales person if there is any gas in the car. He has no clue.
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Rose says most layer cakes are baked fully when they reach between 195 and 205 degrees F.
Would this apply to muffins as well?
Hi paul, I would say yes -)
Thanks Hector!
I seem to always overbake mine.
i could not leave w/o testing cake doneness by temperature. the cake tester wooden pick is thing of the past. thermometers are fast an accurate nowadays, and many are super affordable.
Hector my Thermapen arrived today on your recommendation. Thank you.
Seems to take a bit longer than 3 seconds to measure and the temp is not constant. Moves up and down. Any tips on using it??
what are you taking the temperature on that is taking longer than 3 seconds or the temp moves up and down? this happens to me when i measure ice water.
but during baking or cooking, i do get the 3 seconds and constant reading.
Did the iced water test - have not baked with it as yet.
Working fine now. This is going to be a real pleasure to use!
I have to get one…I"m always looking at that toothpick with a question mark on my face. I seem to underbake more often than over bake.
Bill - the toothpick did not work for me! Probably as I am new to this.
It will be great having at least one constant in this baking process that I can rely on.
for me, the thermapen is the #1 choice, get it if you can, but if you can't, there are less costly thermometers, either made by the same manufacturer or by others. the ones i own are the ones i have listed on my amazon.com store. please don't confuse this with an infrared which are great but practical for other uses. to test cake doneness, i prefer a tip thermometer (one with a needle tip), as taking the temperature with an infrared would only register the surface temperature and you instead need the temperature of the cake center
because i do a lot of new cakes and experimentation, specially baking in different pan shapes, the toothpick method isn't reliable for me. the thermapen (or similar others) make me think i am using a high end toothpick with a digital readout.
i will be posting my last youtube segment for genoise rose, sometime in the near future (need to view it one more time on my editing machine), and you can see me testing the temperature of this cake several times, just to get the point across that 200oF is much better to notice than a clean/unclean toothpick.
happy baking everyone, and so great that electronics for kitchens are now affordable!
Hector what do you use Infrared for?
Could one use them to measure oven temp accurately?
Unfortunately Thermaworks which is geared for offshore sales does not make a suitable simple oven thermometer (one without cables). They have a good range of other types. The other major US thermometer company does not deal offshore. I am still looking for an accurate oven thermometer.
Look forward to genoise rose.
For oven temp I use a variety.
First the little cdn dot2 nsf oven thermometer, stays in the oven. It is slow to read but accurate.
Then I use my pocket ir to read the temp of my oven tiles. When my tiles read the same to the dot2 is when I know my oven is well preheated.
There are some laser guided ir thermometers which people use to read oven temp thru the oven door window but I don't have one nor think is neccessary.
Really, once you know your oven, you won't be checking the temp all the time. Now I mostly just use my cdn dot2 and that is the one I carry when traveling. Plus my little ir which I also use to heat sugar, cream sauces, till about under 25 to 50 oF from desired, then I switch to thermapen.
Hector my problem is that the CDN range is not available to me.
Please take a look at the Thermoworks range on their site and advise on what you think is the best one there for measuring oven temps. I will be most gratefull!!
They don't have one like the dot2.
How about this one??
Paul, I like the looks of that mini infra-red. I would be shooting it at everything if I had it. You could point it at different areas of the oven to check for hotspots, check the temp of the oven floor before putting a pie on it, check countertop temps before working with butter doughs, find a good (warm) spot for bread rising, a good (cool) spot for bigas, and so forth.
That said, if you suspect your oven is off, you could try putting a small container of oil (refined for high heat) in your oven and use the thermapen to take the temp of that as a general indicator of oven temp. Just don't leave the oil in too long (perhaps take it out after preheating, when you put the cake in) or use it at too high temps, you don't want it to start smoking and impart off flavors to your baked goods. It will take a little longer to preheat, to allow the oil and its container to come up to oven temp. Once you have a read on oven temp, you probably won't have to keep doing the oil thing- just occaisionally if you suspect a problem.


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Posted Friday February 18, 2011 9:28 AM GMT
Continuing her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue celebrations, Irina Shayk was spotted at Vanity Nightclub in Las Vegas last night (February 17).
Ms. Shayk hammed it up with fellow hottie Kate Upton as photographers snapped up pics inside The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
Earlier in the day, Irina was busy being sexy at the dedication of "Swimsuit Boulevard" on Las Vegas Boulevard.
Other SI models in attendance included Brooklyn Decker, Esti Ginzburg, Jessica White, Julie Henderson, Anne V, Izabel Goulart, and Hilary Rhoda.
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The NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal has queried claims by power companies that raising regulated retail prices encourages investment in power generation. It says the retailers must explain why they should be allowed to charge customers for power on an estimate of the long-run marginal cost, which is about 10 per cent above current market cost. IPART says efficient investment in the wholesale market is in clients' long-term interests but "this is primarily related to wholesale market conditions, particularly supply and demand and expectations of wholesale prices".
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At Online Marketing Muscle we are continually amazed at how the youth easily and readily adapt and adopt cutting edge technologies into everyday life... that's the kind of talent we love further developing at our company!
Hauppauge, NY (PRWEB) February 27, 2013
While some companies cry "foul" when it comes to the economy, Long Island Internet Marketing Company Online Marketing Muscle takes a dose of its own business coaching medicine and charges forward regardless by tapping into Long Island's best and brightest youth with an internship program.
"In a challenging economy, leverage is a key to growth" says Dean Mercado, Online Marketing Muscle's President and CEO. "Maximizing every dollar is a must and a properly planned out internship program can be just the answer for companies looking to not only survive but thrive."
Bill Baylis, Online Marketing Muscle's COO adds, "We can't forget that it's tough out there on our rising, young business stars. We need to do all we can do to help them acclimate to an rapidly changing business environment."
Baylis continues, "We are a marketing coaching company. Leveraging the very same proven coaching methodologies we use to grow multimillion dollar business clients to grow our youth is a win-win."
Mercado chimes in reflecting on his own personal experience, "I am the product of an excellent internship program. The many gifts that I was given over 20 years ago still serve me, my family, my team, and our clients today. For that I am most grateful! It's that gratitude that solidified for us that instituting an internship program of our own was a move we needed to make."
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Dean Mercado, President and CEO of Online Marketing Muscle is a well-respected marketing coach, strategist, author, and speaker with expertise on helping small business and independent professionals leverage the power of the Internet to increase their visibility, credibility, and reach within their target market.
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Bill Baylis COO of Online Marketing Muscle is a "business-turnaround expert" who has made creating new revenue generation methodologies, operational procedures, sales techniques and marketing strategies for business his life's work.


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Nancy Brickhouse, Ph.D., is Saint Louis University's Provost. Dr. Brickhouse is SLU's chief academic officer, responsible directly to the President for the fulfillment of SLU's mission via the leadership and oversight of all academic, research/scholarship, and enrollment management services.
All academic deans (except the Dean of the School of Medicine) report directly to Dr. Brickhouse, as do the Vice President for Research Services, the Vice President for Enrollment and Retention Management, the Director and Dean of the Madrid Campus, the Dean of the University Libraries, the Director of the Center for Sustainability, the Director of the Center for Health Care Ethics, and the Associate and Assistant Provosts who comprise the Provost's senior staff.
Since joining SLU in July 2015, Dr. Brickhouse has focused on strengthening SLU's culture of collaborative governance and operational transparency. She has spearheaded and overseen a number of key initiatives, including:
▪ development of new faculty workload policy
▪ implementation of a new academic program review process
▪ development of a new academic program proposal process
▪ development of new academic programs
▪ development of new class scheduling policy
▪ development of new course evaluation policy
▪ implementation of new electronic course evaluation software
▪ implementation of a new course management system
▪ implementation of new data dashboard for senior academic leadership
As Provost, Dr. Brickhouse is responsible for supporting major initiatives advancing SLU's University Strategic Plan. In collaboration with the University Vice Presidents and members of the Executive Staff, Dr. Brickhouse is responsible for the development and implementation of all academic strategic plans, as well as the development and adherence to the academic affairs budget; the building, renovation, and allocation of all academic and research space is also the under her purview.
Prior to her service at SLU, Dr. Brickhouse was deputy provost for academic affairs at the University of Delaware, where she was on the faculty for more than 27 years. Dr. Brickhouse earned her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Baylor University, and her master's and doctoral degrees from Purdue University.
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Five ways I'm a disgrace to Milwaukee
I do my best to celebrate the beauty of this town and to work for change in ways I believe it needs it the most. However, I certainly have my share of Brew City blind spots and am not always the uber Cheesehead I like to think I am.
So, here are five ways that I'm a disgrace to Milwaukee:
1. I am a terrible bowler. There is no excuse for this. I started taking bowling lessons when I was in grade school. Then I went to Shorewood High School where there is a bowling alley on campus and bowling was a frequently offered gym unit. Finally, I have spent many, many nights bowling at Landmark Lanes and Bay View Bowl, and still, I am lucky to break 120. I like to blame it on the fact I never got my own ball and never feel like the ball I pick is quite right for me, but let's face it. I lack the keggling gene. Wah-wah.
2. I don't really like bratwurst. I love grilling them for other people, but I'm just not a fan. It's unfortunate, because I love sauerkraut and I love mustard, and brats seem like the perfect vehicle for consuming these condiments together.
3. I am yet to catch an episode of "Made In Milwaukee." I am really excited about this DIY Network home remodeling show that premiered at the beginning of this month, and I have not had a chance to check it out. I heard the show is quite good. Nice work, Flux Design.
4. I started saying "pop" recently. After a lifetime of calling it "soda," I have slipped into this terrible, unforgivable habit of calling carbonated soft drinks "pop." I blame it on the Minnesotan I live with. I am really trying to resist his other Minneapolis-laced vocabulary like "sack" instead of "bag" and "garbage bucket" instead of "garbage can."
5. I still struggle with the spelling of multiple Milwaukee words. This might be OK for some, but as an entertainment writer, I regularly type "Kinnickinnic" and "Potawatomi" and yet I have to double check the spellings every time. Hell, I just googled both the words right now to make absolutely certain I wasn't misspelling them in a blog about misspelling. I'm hopeless, I tell ya der hey.
buck | Jan. 28, 2013 at 1:53 p.m. (report)
Pop? Sack? Garbage Bucket? Watch out...next thing you know, your kids will be playing "Duck, Duck, Grey Duck."
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Wednesday, Sept. 8
6:30 p.m. (all times Eastern): On the CBS Evening News, anchor Dan Rather previews that night's 60 Minutes program: "CBS News has exclusive information, including documents ... (that) indicate Mr. Bush may have received preferential treatment in the Guard after not fulfilling his commitments." Rather says the "government documents ... are from the personal files of the late Col. Jerry Killian, Bush's squadron commander."
Also at 6:30 p.m.: The White House releases a transcript of a CBS interview with communications director Dan Bartlett, part of which appeared on the CBS Evening News Bartlett does not challenge the documents' authenticity but says the controversy is nothing more than "partisan politics."
6:45 p.m.: Bartlett tells USA TODAY White House reporter Judy Keen, "President Bush met his military obligations and rightfully received an honorable discharge (from the Guard). While the official records show the facts, no one can read the mind of a dead man (Killian) who wrote memos to himself 32 years ago."
8 p.m.: 60 Minutes airs. Midway through his 12½-minute report, Rather comes to "a number of documents we are told were taken from Col. Killian's personal file." He says 60 Minutes consulted a "handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic."
9:15 p.m.: USA TODAY reporter Dave Moniz meets with former National Guard lieutenant colonel Bill Burkett, who will be revealed later as CBS' source for the memos and whom Moniz had dealt with on previous stories related to the National Guard. Burkett gives Moniz copies of the same documents he gave CBS. Moniz faxes them to USA TODAY's Washington bureau. Copies are also faxed to USA TODAY headquarters in McLean, Va.
USA TODAY editors, as they plan the next day's story and discuss how much weight to give the documents, rely in part on 60 Minutes' reporting and on Bartlett's comment about "a dead man who wrote memos to himself." USA TODAY faxes the documents to a person familiar with Guard personnel practices and files. She says it was not unusual for Guard commanders to write such memos, but could not offer additional authentication.
9:30 p.m.: The White House e-mails copies of the four memos in the 60 Minutes report to reporters and editors across the country. The date "09/07/2004" and the words "CBS News" are at the top of each page, indicating they are copies that CBS faxed to the White House the previous day.
Through the night: Internet "bloggers" dissect the 60 Minutes report. Many say the memos look like they were done using a modern computer that didn't exist in 1972 or 1973.
Thursday, Sept. 9
Daybreak: The 60 Minutes report is front-page news in The New York Times and The Washington Post. USA TODAY spreads its story across nearly two-thirds of one page inside its news section and notes that it, too, obtained the memos. There is no discussion in the major news media about whether the memos are authentic.
7:51 a.m.: Powerlineblog.com, the Internet site that has received much of the credit for calling attention to signs that the documents might be forgeries, posts a long analysis of them.
Friday, Sept. 10
Daybreak:The New York Times runs a story (on Page 17) headlined, "Commander's Son Questions Memos on Bush's Service." TheWashington Post headlines a front-page article, "Some Question Authenticity of Papers on Bush." USA TODAY publishes a five-paragraph story headlined, "Officer's son questions Bush memo." Rather says on CNN: "The story is true. The story is true." That day, USA TODAY editors assign reporters to expand the story and investigate the memos' authenticity.
6:30 p.m.: On the CBS Evening News, Rather gives a six-minute defense of the 60 Minutes report. He says many of the story's critics are "partisan political operatives."
Monday, Sept. 13
Daybreak: USA TODAY, pulling from the work of six reporters, publishes a lengthy look into the documents' credibility. "Two retired FBI forensic document examiners who studied the memos at USA TODAY's request said Sunday that they probably are forgeries," the story says. The story also notes that some other experts said that typewriters in use in the early 1970s might have been able to create such documents.
6:30 p.m.: On the CBS Evening News, Rather says, "CBS used several techniques to make sure these papers should be taken seriously."
Tuesday, Sept. 14
6:30 p.m.: On ABC's World News Tonight, two experts whom CBS confirms it consulted before the 60 Minutes broadcast say they warned the network that the documents could be forgeries. CBS says later that it also consulted other experts and that the two who were quoted on ABC did not register strong objections.
7 p.m.: Bloggers call attention to TheDallas Morning News Web site (www .dallasnews.com). A story there says Killian's former secretary, Marian Carr Knox, thinks the documents are fakes. But she also says that they reflect what Killian thought about Bush and that he kept files with similar notes.
Wednesday, Sept. 15
Daybreak: Knox is prominent in newspaper stories across the country, on blogs all over the Web and in TV and radio reports. USA TODAY, which tried but failed to reach her the night before, reports what she's been saying and says her son Pat Carr, whom the newspaper reached, confirmed her comments.
6:50 p.m.: CBS News President Andrew Heyward says on the CBS Evening News, "We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television." But he says CBS will "redouble" its efforts to authenticate the memos.
8 p.m.: On 60 Minutes, Rather says, "Another voice — a credible voice — has entered the debate." He interviews Knox. She tells him that she did not type the memos and believes they are forgeries, but that "the information in those is correct."
Thursday, Sept. 16
Daybreak: "Rather Concedes Papers Are Suspect," a Washington Post front-page headline reads.
Afternoon: Moniz and USA TODAY reporter Kevin Johnson begin a series of interviews with Burkett over five days. Burkett provides additional details on the condition that the newspaper's earlier promise of confidentiality be maintained, saying he expects CBS to identify him in a 60 Minutes interview Sunday. No interview is broadcast, and he waives that confidentiality agreement with USA TODAY on Monday.
12:15 p.m.: In a statement e-mailed to reporters, CBS reveals who provided the documents. The network says Burkett admits he "deliberately misled" CBS producer Mary Mapes by telling her that he got the documents from another ex-Guardsman.
1:25 p.m.: Rather, in a statement e-mailed to reporters, says he is sorry for "a mistake in judgment."
6:30 p.m.: On the CBS Evening News, Rather presents an interview with Burkett in which the former Guard officer admits he misled CBS researchers but also says he "insisted" that they authenticate the memos before using them in a story. Rather apologizes again, saying. "I'm sorry." He says CBS is launching an investigation of its work on the story.


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March 30, 2012 College News - In honor of Women's History Month, the Medical College of Wisconsin has created a series of video vignettes and stories that will be posted on InfoScope during the month of March. The vignettes highlight some of our women faculty, staff and students and the contributions they have made.
In today's video, a special guest to the Medical College of Wisconsin, Linda Pololi, MBBS, MRCP, Senior Scientist at Brandeis University and Director of the National Initiative on Gender, Culture and Leadership in Medicine: C – Change, talks about her time at MCW and how women will play a role in the future of medicine.
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Stuart Lamont was a Sergeant based at Sun Hill, played by Steve Morley.
A member of one of the other reliefs, his character usually appeared when 'A' Relief were off duty, typically as Custody Sergeant or CAD Sergeant. Not much about him is revealed, although he did once apply for the job of Youth and Community Staff Sergeant, losing out to Jane Kendall after a lacklustre performance in the interview.


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Bishops support 'pray the gay away' therapist
A Christian therapist who was found guilty of professional misconduct for using 'gay cure' method has found support from the Church
Church of England bishops have supported a Christian counsellor who tried to 'cure' an undercover journalist who asked to be treated for his homosexuality.
Former archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, Bishop of Chester the Rt Rev Peter Forster and Bishop of Lewes the Rt Rev Wallace Benn are among senior church figures who have signed a letter of support for the 60-year-old psychotherapist Lesley Pilkington.
Pilkington was found guilty of professional misconduct by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) over her treatment of gay reporter Patrick Strudwick.
The writer was investigating therapists who try to 'pray the gay away' using so-called reparative therapy and met Pilkington at a conference for people wishing to teach the controversial method.
Writing in The Guardian last year, he said: 'I asked her to make me straight. Her attempts to do so flout the advice of every major mental-health body in Britain.'
Pilkington has appealed the BACP's decision, arguing the hearing discriminated against her Christian faith.
The clerics' letter claims she was acting in her capacity as a Christian when she treated the journalist, reported the Press Association.
'We believe that people who seek, freely, to resolve unwanted same-sex attractions hold the moral right to receive professional assistance,' they said.
'Whether motivated by Christian conscience or other values, clients, not practitioners, have the prerogative to choose the yardstick by which to define themselves. Not everyone stakes their identity on sexual feelings.'


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The 2017 NATIONAL POSTAL FORUM will be held in Baltimore Maryland, May 21-24th!
The NPF is the only mailing and shipping trade show that delivers qualified business prospects and state-of-the-art technology directly to you — combining a three-day, person-to-person trade show with four days of powerful sessions, workshops and networking opportunities.
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Just in from Showtime: Eddie Izzard and Frances Conroy will guest star on the Showtime series United States of Tara.
Izzard will appear in eight episodes, playing Tara's brilliant psychology professor who is at first a skeptic, but then becomes fascinated with Tara as a subject. Conroy will appear in one episode as Max Gregson's (John Corbett) mother, a recluse with a compulsive hoarding problem. Production on Season 3 begins mid-September in Los Angeles for a 2011 premiere.
Joan Cusack has joined the cast of new Showtime drama Shameless. Cusack, who will appear in all 12 episodes of the new series, will play the role of Sheila, an agoraphobic Chicago housewife with a sexually active teenage daughter who strikes up a special friendship with William H. Macy's character, Frank Gallagher. Production on the first season begins in mid-September, with the series premiering on Jan. 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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Hey, I'm Alice. Me and four of my friends, Sydney, Chelsey, Nichole, and Belle, went to a One Direction concert. (We're kinda obsessed...) We were jumping around to their songs until the concert ended. We were about to leave, but Chelsey had to use the bathroom. We went around, looking for a bathroom, when five people in ski masks came up to us. They grabbed us and covered our mouths and noses with rags so we couldn't breath. I held my breath for as long as I could, but I knew I had to breath sometime. I finally gave in and tried to take a breath, but after a few seconds, all I seem was darkness..... Hi. Like I said, I'm Alice, and me and my friends went to a One Direction concert. Five people kidnapped us. But we found out that we were obsessed with our kidnappers. Or, used to be. Why do they want us? And what will they do?
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The #9 nationally ranked Hudson Valley Community College lacrosse team (8-5) defeated Mohawk Valley Community College (1-9) 15-5 on Wednesday afternoon.
Mason Agosto (Cary Grove/Cary Grove, IL) led the Vikings with four goals and three assists, while Daniel Owen (Guilderland/Altamont) added three goals. David Wilber (Columbia/East Greenbush), Eric Plant (Guilderland/Guilderland) and Paul Bennett (Glens Falls/Glens Falls) each recorded two goals, and Andrew Reilly (Bethlehem/Bethlehem) had 17 saves in goal for the Vikings.
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Freedom Debt Relief's Debt Settlement Program vs. Credit Counseling
Debt Settlement vs. Credit Counseling/Debt Management - While these two services are often confused as interchangeable, they are in fact, very different.
While these two services are often confused as interchangeable, they are in fact, very different. Credit Counseling companies are typically non-profit organizations that have pre-arranged agreements with credit card companies to lower the interest rates on existing debt down to a creditor issued "concession rate"; although the monthly payments required from consumers are lowered, the principal amount owed is not reduced. These interest reduction arrangements allow consumers to lower monthly minimum payments from around 4%, to as low as 2%-3% of debt balances, and are accompanied by a payment plan that, if the consumer is able to stay on it, will satisfy the existing debt in approximately five years. Credit Counseling companies receive money from the consumer each month, and then, using an automated electronic payment process, distribute the money pro-rata to the various creditors each and every month. Credit Counseling organizations collect a fee from consumers each month, and in addition, a revenue share called the "Fair Share" from the credit card companies. The Credit Counseling industry helps a segment of consumers who are just slightly below the minimum payment hurdle for monthly minimum payments, and it was a solution created by the credit card companies themselves in the 1960s to help improve recovery rates on delinquent credit card accounts.
Debt Settlement is a more aggressive approach for consumers than Credit Counseling. There are no pre-arranged settlement terms with creditors, and the consumers do not make monthly payments to their creditors. Each debt is negotiated individually, which involves multiple phone calls, faxes, paperwork and negotiation over months, or even years, depending on the creditor and the consumer's particular situation. Debt Settlement firms do not make payments to creditors on behalf of consumers. They negotiate balances down on the consumer's behalf, receive confirmation that the settlement will be binding on the creditor and then they rely on the consumer to make the lump sum settlement payment directly to the creditor. The process of Debt Settlement is significantly more labor intensive than Credit Counseling (which is essentially a pre-arranged and automated bill payment service). A Debt Settlement company with 25,000 clients would require over 300 employees to support it, whereas a similar sized Credit Counseling organization would require approximately 40 employees. Furthermore, Debt Settlement firms are paid directly and solely from the consumer and collect no fees or Fair Share distributions from creditors.


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The Lady Raiders (4-0) held their fourth consecutive opponent under 50 points and ran away from their second straight Top 25 rival. Tech defeated No. 18 UC Santa Barbara 68-41 Friday night in the WNIT semifinals.
Tournament MVP Jia Perkins added 15 points for the Lady Raiders. She was joined on the all-tournament team by teammate Jackson; Cappie Pondexter and Dawn McCullough of Rutgers; Kristen Mann from UC Santa Barbara; and Michigan's Stephanie Gandy.
Texas Tech led Rutgers 33-21 at halftime, then held the Scarlet Knights to eight points in the first 8:30 of the second half en route to a 49-29 lead.
The Scarlet Knights got no closer than 16 points the rest of the way. Rutgers was led by Pondexter with 15 points. Michelle Campbell added 11 and McCullouch had 10.
In the first half, the Lady Raiders scored on 10 of 11 possessions to build a 22-11 lead at the 9:03 mark.
Rutgers scored six straight to pull within 22-17 on an inside basket by Pondexter with 7:11 left in the half, but a 3-pointer by Brooke Baughman with 6:52 left ended the run and gave Tech breathing room.


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Here's a question to the Planet Eclipse audience...
I have 23 Eclipse projects (most of them plugin projects) for one product. Is it possible to run all of the JUnit Test Cases in those projects at once in Eclipse? In the run configuration all I can see is the option to run either a single Test Case or all of the Test Cases in a single project.
I suppose I could maintain a giant JUnit Test Suite class but I'd rather not have it span projects. My fallback right now is to run my product Ant build script and read the JUnit report with the consolidated results of all projects. The downside is that Ant test running is not integrated into Eclipse's test runner view so it is more mouse clicks to see the test results.
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For each of your projects do they have a "AllTests" class? If you wanted to run all the tests you could just have it run those. You would only have to change it if you added / removed a project.
I like your idea of being able to run all tests in a working set (based on a pattern).
Does that make sense? I'm sick with a cold so I don't know if I'm being clear or not. Here, let's draw it out.
Yeah, I could maintain Test Suites like that but I'd rather not have to... if I add more Test Cases I'd like them to be picked up automagically if they are already in the working set.
Besides, having it based on working sets makes them more dynamic.» Posted by: Ryan at March 30, 2005 07:37 PM
Another way is to use TestNG + its Eclipse plug-in, which lets you invoke as many testng.xml as you want in a launch configuration...» Posted by: Cedric at March 31, 2005 10:07 AM
But then I have to maintain test.xml files? Or annotations? Or...
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An Architecture of Urban RevitalizationFriday, May 16
Lackawanna Heritage Valley headquarters, 213 S. 7th Avenue
Marywood University's graduating Bachelors of Architecture fifth year students will present their final projects from the course "An Architecture of Urban Revitalization." This is their capstone studio course which examined urban conditions and how architecture can integrate into a neighborhood to help build community, economy, and opportunities.
For the project students studied six blocks on Cedar Avenue in Scranton's South Side, focusing on three underutilized sites: an infill site at 409 Cedar Avenue, an adaptive reuse site of the old Penn Security Bank Building at 526 Cedar Avenue, and a corner site at 804 Cedar Avenue where the Avenue jogs at Birch Street. Through research and working with a local charity focusing on revitalizing South Side the students identified three major programmatic needs in the area: a branch library, an arts incubator, and a youth center. After conducting a neighborhood-wide site analysis students developed their own designs following zoning ordinances and code.
Their work shows how new life and promise can be created in a neighborhood by designing with care and consideration to existing conditions while recognizing unmet needs of a community. All student projects will be displayed for the public beginning May 16th with an opening from 5:00-7:00 PM at Lackawanna Heritage Valley headquarters, 213 S. 7th Avenue. The exhibition stays open for regular business hours through June 6th.


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Catfish fest gets under way Saturday in Yantis
Fifth annual parade and fish fry expected to draw hundreds of people
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July 11, 2008 - If you enjoy a good catfish dinner with all the fixings, the place to be Saturday evening is Yantis, where the community's population could easily triple during its Fifth Annual Yantis Catfish Day.
In addition to adding a fun evening to the lake community, the event also helps generate funds for a worthy cause -- the town fire department.
"This is the one time a year Yantis is shut down," said Wesley Crist, Yantis Volunteer Fire Department Chief. "Bring some water -- it's going to be hot."
That's part of the reason the celebration is held at this time of the year, Crist added.
"In July there's not much to do because it's so hot, and by now the 4th of July celebrations are over," he said. "The catfish tournament is Saturday and Sunday, so we're doing the parade and fish fry to go along with that."
If the turnout in recent years is anything to go by, the time is perfect. Last year more than 600 people -- nearly twice the town's population -- turned out for Catfish Day. This year, more than 1,800 fliers telling of the event were mailed to Yantis residents and those receiving letters on Yantis mail routes.
The festivities begin Saturday at Yantis Community Center with a parade. Selected to act as grand marshal for this year's procession is Keith Gilbreath, Wood County's newly elected Precinct 1 Commissioner.
"He's a local guy, grew up here in Yantis," Crist said. "We figured he's a local guy, a public officer, so why not make him the grand marshal."
Line-up for the parade is at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, and all are welcome to participate. Area pageant winners and rodeo royalty, civic groups and others are invited to join the city council and other elected officials, Masonic Lodge and churches in the parade. Everything from horses to bikes and anything on four wheels is welcome, but parade organizers ask that those on all-terrain vehicles not get too wild and horse riders go to the back of the line. Winnsboro Fire Department's new tanker will be featured in the parade and at the Catfish Day, as will Yantis VFD's fleet. Some other fire departments that recently acquired new equipment have indicated they'll be displaying them in the parade, as well.
"If they want to be in the parade, tell them to come on. We'll let them," said the chief of YVFD. "Tell them to be at the community center at 3:30 to get in line."
For those interested in watching, the colorful caravan will start at 4 p.m. at the community center, then proceed south on State Highway 154 for two to three blocks before turning east and eventually wind its way to Yantis school to the cafeteria.
After the parade, Yantis Volunteer Fire Department will be holding a fish fry in Yantis school cafeteria, the second year the event has been held in the air conditioned school facility. The menu includes Delta Price catfish with all the fixings, including fries and homegrown vegetables. There will also be plenty of home-baked sweet treats, including cobblers.
As an added treat, live entertainment will be provided by Dale Cummings, or "The C" as he's also know. He'll be singing all the old favorites, including Elvis tunes, from the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
The cost for the feast is simply a donation to benefit the fire department. Food will be served beginning at 5 p.m. until it's gone. All proceeds from the fish fry will go to Yantis VFD toward to purchase of a tanker truck, similar to the one Winnsboro's Fire Department will display.
The Yantis department currently answers about 20 calls a month, including rescue and medical calls, with their 2005 pumper truck, an older model engine, two brush trucks and rescue truck. They cover an 83 square mile area, and sometimes assist in neighboring areas such as Hopkins County on request. When large water supplies are needed, they currently have to rely on tankers from Quitman, which is 12 miles away, although the volunteer fire department at Land's End will be installing a new tanker in October, according to Crist.
For more information about the parade, contact Yantis Mayor Jerry Miller at 903-850-9500 or Crist at 903-348-5980. Crist may also be contacted for more information about the catfish dinner.
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The use of breathing device like incentive spirometers will help improve your condition. It encourages you to take slow, deep breaths until you return to the normal breathing rhythms. By inhaling deeply, you also help mobilize secretions and open areas of the lungs that may have collapsed. After major surgeries, it's important to take your spirometer home with you and continue your breathing exercises at home. Not only will this help restore your regular breathing rhythm, but it will also help you avoid lung complications like pneumonia.


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Straits Times
May 15, 2016
Shortly after I arrived in Kuala Lumpur in 1991 as newly appointed bureau chief for the Far Eastern Economic Review, I was introduced to a Malaysian journalist then working here for The Straits Times in Singapore. We worked in a country well known for its disdain for the foreign media; and we were particular targets because our publications were deemed by the government to be biased against or even hostile to Malaysia.
Partly because of the common challenges we faced, but perhaps mostly because we enjoyed eating nasi kandar and roti canai at street- side stalls in Kuala Lumpur or on the many outstation reporting trips we took together, we became good friends.
A quarter of a century later, my close friend Kalimullah Hassan is no longer a journalist – neither am I. Our beloved profession has been much affected by the decline of advertising revenues and the rise of social media. But Kali, as all his friends know him, remains as passionate and concerned about his country as he was when we drove for long hours around rural constituencies in out-of-the-way parts of Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu covering by-elections.
So when I read his newly published collection of columns and recollections, many of those earnest discussions and arguments we had over steaming cups of teh tarik in the 1990s came flooding back to me. There is his great pride in Malaysia's ethnic diversity, his deep concern about the divisive racist rhetoric of contested politics and the corrosive impact of patronage and corruption in high places.
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Malaysia is going through "the worst of times". Are there enough Malaysians to make it "the best of times"?
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahathir, Malaysian Dream, Najib Razak, nation building on Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Never before has Malaysia been in such a mess.
What is devastating is that there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
Malaysia's spirit cannot soar and reach for the skies, to seek and attain an ever-higher level of national achievement and human excellence.
Instead, we are daily bogged down by the mundane and sordid details of one scandal after another, as if we need constant reminders as to how far Malaysia has fallen from grace from the era of Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak and Hussein Onn.
Dominating the landscape of scandals is the 1MDB "mother and mother of all financial scandals", a hydra-headed monster capable of unending combinations and permutations to unveil the gravity of the collapse of an ethical government and the principles of accountability, transparency and good governance in the country. Read the rest of this entry »
Excerpt #4: The Future: From Blue Chip To Penny Stock
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Bakri Musa, Mahathir, Najib Razak, UMNO on Monday, 27 April 2015
by Bakri Musa
Malaysia's Wasted Decade 2004-2014. The Toxic Triad of Abdullah, Najib and UMNO Leadership.#4
April 26, 2015
Long before the twin tragedies of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 (shot down in eastern Ukraine in March 2014) and MH370 (disappeared literally from thin air over the South China Sea less than four months earlier), the company's shares were already languishing at the bottom floor of the KLSE at around 22 sen. Yes, that is sen, as in cents, or pennies. Even bottom feeders were shunning MAS shares.
To think that less than two decades earlier the Mahathir Administration paid RM8.00 for those same shares! Factoring in for inflation and devaluation, it should be about RM32.00 in today's devalued ringgit. If you add in the expected appreciation as per the KLSE Index, the shares should be trading at around RM100 today.
From RM100 to 22 sen! Formerly blue chip MAS now a penny stock! It would be cheaper to use MAS shares to wallpaper your bathroom; they are useless for toilet paper. Read the rest of this entry »
Excerpt #3: Intra Racial (Specifically Intra-Malay) Conflict The Greater Threat
by Bakri Musa
Malaysia's Wasted Decade 2004-2014 Excerpt #3
April 19th, 2015
In an inaugural Millennium Essay for The New Straits Times (November 1999) I wrote, "The greatest threat to Malaysia's social stability is not inter-racial confrontation rather intra-communal, specifically among Malays." There are three potential fault lines along which Malays could fracture: religious, cultural, and socioeconomic. Conflict on any one is unlikely to trigger a severe crisis but a confluence of any two or all three could be cataclysmic.
Interracial conflict is bad, and Malaysians already had a taste of it many times. The May 13, 1969 incident was only the most bitter. Bad as it was, the intra-ethnic or intra-racial variety would be far worse. More Arabs had been killed by their fellow Arab brethrens than by the Israelis. The carnage of the 1956 Arab-Israeli War pales in comparison to the current intra-Arab strife in Syria. Read the rest of this entry »
Excerpt #2 The Decay Long In The Making
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Bakri Musa, Mahathir, Muhyiddin Yassin, Najib Razak on Monday, 27 April 2015
by Bakri Musa
Malaysia's Wasted Decade 2004-2014. The Toxic Triad of Abdullah, Najib, and UMNO Leadership. #2
April 12th, 2015
Abdullah and Najib squandered Malaysia's precious first decade into the new millennium. It was a wasted if not lost decade. It would be academic to judge who is worse, Abdullah or Najib. When both scored "Fs", it matters less whether one is F minus and the other simply an F.
There is little prospect for change, at least until the next election due no later than mid 2018. Even if there were to be divine intervention, Najib's deputy, Muhyiddin, is no better. Malaysia is doomed; it cannot escape its present sorry trajectory.
If nations do not progress, then ipso facto they regress. Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable, noted Martin Luther King. Read the rest of this entry »
Excerpt #1: Chicken Coop At Dusk
by Bakri Musa
Malaysia's Wasted Decade 2004-2014. The Toxic Triad of Abdullah, Najib, and UMNO Leadership #1
April 5th, 2015
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad stunned his followers when he announced his resignation at his UMNO's General Assembly in June 2002. He had been in office for over 22 years. The unexpected announcement triggered mass hysteria among his followers. Senior ministers and party leaders openly wept, and pandemonium broke out in the hall.
The scene resembled a chicken coop at dusk when the birds were settling down in their comfort zone when suddenly their head rooster flew the coop, or attempted to. The cacophony settled down and calm returned only after senior leaders cajoled Mahathir to delay his retirement until October 31st the following year, and he agreed.
That collective hysteria and mass crying were reflective of how dependent UMNO members were on Mahathir. He was their messiah, and now he was abandoning them. Read the rest of this entry »
Excerpt #1: Chicken Coop At Dusk
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahathir, Najib Razak, UMNO on Monday, 6 April 2015
by Bakri Musa
6th April 2015
Malaysia's Wasted Decade 2004-2014. The Toxic Triad of Abdullah, Najib, and UMNO Leadership
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad stunned his followers when he announced his resignation at his UMNO's General Assembly in June 2002. He had been in office for over 22 years. The unexpected announcement triggered mass hysteria among his followers. Senior ministers and party leaders openly wept, and pandemonium broke out in the hall.
The scene resembled a chicken coop at dusk when the birds were settling down in their comfort zone when suddenly their head rooster flew the coop, or attempted to. The cacophony settled down and calm returned only after senior leaders cajoled Mahathir to delay his retirement until October 31st the following year, and he agreed.
That collective hysteria and mass crying were reflective of how dependent UMNO members were on Mahathir. He was their messiah, and now he was abandoning them. Read the rest of this entry »
Get it right this time, Tun M
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahathir, Najib Razak on Monday, 23 February 2015
Fa Abdul | February 23, 2015
Free Malaysia Today
Mahathir has so far been wrong in his choice of deputies and handpicked successors.
When I was eight, I used to utter bad words. "Basket" was my favourite, if you get what I mean. Mom would first warn me. And the second time, I'd have chilli paste all over my mouth.
I grew up learning that it is okay to make a mistake once. But when you repeat it, it is no longer a mistake.
However, some people tend to make mistakes over and over and over again, especially when they can get away with it.
This reminds me of Tun M. He first chose Musa Hitam as his deputy. It did not work out. He then chose the late Abdul Ghafar Baba. Also did not work out. And then, it was Anwar Ibrahim. But that ended tragically.
Frustrated and having to make a decision, he handpicked Pak Lah. Big mistake. Accusing him of betraying his trust, Tun M told Pak Lah to step down. However, this isn't anything new in our political scene. Tunku at one point did express his regret over choosing Tun Abdul Razak. And Tun Hussein Onn also regretted his choice of Tun M as his successor. So Tun M regretting his choice of Pak Lah is completely understandable. Read the rest of this entry »
Malaysian Dream Phase 2 – Call on Malaysians, regardless of political party, race, religion, region, gender or age to unite and stand up as patriots and moderates of Malaysia to practise the politics of inclusion to save the country from extremism, intolerance and bigotry
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, DAP, Mahathir, Malaysian Dream, Najib Razak, nation building, UMNO on Wednesday, 10 December 2014
When I contested Gelang Patah in May last year in the 13th General Elections, it was in pursuit of the Malaysian Dream which envisions Malaysia as a plural society where all her citizens are united as one people, rising above their ethnic, religious, cultural, linguistic and regional differences as the common grounds binding them as one citizenship exceeds the differences that divide them because of their ethnic, religious, linguistic, cultural and regional divisions.
Nineteen months after the 13th General Elections, the Malaysian Dream is more relevant and even more important than ever.
The UMNO General Assembly in the last week of November is the classic example of the divisive and deleterious politics of exclusion in Malaysia, which emphasises and deepens the differences among Malaysians especially over race and religion, which will even condemn Malaysia to the fate of a failed state if these trends are not checked and arrested, with worsening disunity and greater racial and religious polarisation as happened in the past 19 months since the 13GE.
In the UMNO General Assembly, as well as at the various conferences running up to it, Malaysians saw the worst examples of the politics of fear, hate and lies, creating imaginary fears and fighting imaginary enemies – that the Malays and Islam are under threat, that the Chinese are out to grab the political power of the Malays, that "if UMNO loses, Malays may never rule again", that the Malays have become slaves in their own land, that the Malays could suffer a fate similar to Red Indians in the United States and the "mother of all lies", that the Chinese in Kedah burnt the Quran "page by page during a prayer ritual".
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Call on all Malaysians to unite to expose The Big Lie that after 57 years of UMNO government under six Umno Prime Ministers, Malays and Islam are under threat and facing life-and-death struggle
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahathir, Najib Razak, UMNO on Monday, 8 December 2014
I fully endorse what the DAP MP for Raub, Datuk Mohd Arif Abdul Aziz, said in the latest entry in his blog Sakmongkol AK47 that all right-thinking Malaysians must expose The Great Lie – that after 57 years of UMNO government under six UMNO Prime Ministers, Malays and Islam in Malaysia are under threat and facing a life-and-death struggle.
In the recent UMNO General Assembly, The Great Lie was the underlying theme of all the UMNO, UMNO Youth, Wanita and Puteri assemblies, even in various State UMNO Conventions and UMNO-sponsored conferences in the run-up to the UMNO General Assembly proper.
This was why both before and during the UMNO General Assembly, the rhetoric and politics of fear, hate and lies were in full swing, full of racist, extremist, provocative but baseless statements and warnings which do not bear up to a second of scrutiny, like "If Umno loses, Malays may never rule again", "We have become slaves in our own land", call for the use of "1Melayu" in replacement of "1 Malaysia" slogan and the lie of all lies that the Chinese in Kedah burnt the Quran "page by page during a prayer ritual".
Of the six UMNO Prime Ministers, the first three have passed away – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak and Tun Hussein.
Tonight, I want to challenge the three remaining UMNO Prime Ministers, Tun Mahathir who was the longest PM of Malaysia for 22 years from 1981 to 2003, Tun Abdullah who was the fifth Prime Minister for five years five months and Datuk Seri Najib Razak who has been Prime Minister for five years eight months to explain to all Malaysians, and in particular to the Malays, how Malays and Islam in Malaysia are under threat and facing a life-and-death struggle after 57 years of UMNO government, and specifically, after 33 years of Mahathir, Abdullah and Najib as Prime Minister?
If Mahathir, Abdullah and Najib cannot explain how after 57 years of UMNO government, and 33 years of their stewardship as Prime Minister, Malays and Islam in Malaysia are under threat and facing a life-and-death struggle, it is then the patriotic duty of all Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region, to unite to expose The Big Lie which will be the greatest poison of united Malaysian nation-building. Read the rest of this entry »
UMNO must draw the line in the sand and the UMNO General Assembly this week is the last opportunity for UMNO to demonstrate whether it stands for moderation or extremism
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahathir, Najib Razak, UMNO on Tuesday, 25 November 2014
The Prime Minister and UMNO President, Datuk Seri Najib Razak asked the very pertinent question on Sunday at the Federal Territories UMNO Convention on Sunday, "Where have we gone wrong?", lamenting that whether UMNO had built mosques, set up parent-teacher associations or provided housing, none of these efforts had translated into political support because UMNO leaders hoarded handouts for their own supporters instead of giving it to the community.
Two former Prime Ministers and UMNO Presidents have given different responses to Najib's question.
In his blog, Malaysia's fourth Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad blamed the "warlord" mentality in UMNO, and urged the UMNO delegates at this week's UMNO General Assembly to criticize the party leadership on several issues which are "hot" now.
He said previous UMNO Presidents had also been criticized and emerged victorious afterwards, citing as examples Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak and Tun Hussein.
He said he himself was "attacked and almost lost my position". Read the rest of this entry »
Pak Lah's inaugural blog most welcome but is he prepared to consistently take up the cudgel to champion moderation against baneful developments like the upsurge of intolerance and extremism and the sedition dragnet which have created a climate of fear
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Najib Razak, nation building on Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's inaugural blog on Malaysia Day yesterday is most welcome, especially as it addressed the biggest issue haunting Malaysia since his premiership – the rearing of the ugly head of intolerance and extremism among a raucous few preaching the politics of hatred and falsehoods, causing the worst racial and religious polarization in the history of plural Malaysia.
As a result, we have the sad spectacle yesterday of the former Higher Education Minister, Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, who as Chief Executive Officer of the Global Movement of Moderates Foundation (GMM), which is one of the initiatives of Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who have to ask for no media coverage of a forum on the country's future co-organised by GMM because of the climate of fear engendered by the recent selective and malicious sedition dragnet.
Although the "no media coverage" was to protect the participants at the GMM forum from falling victim to the current sedition spree, there is the feeling that even Saifuddin himself may not be safe from the sedition dragnet, although he was former Deputy Minister and hand-picked by the Prime Minister himself to be the CEO of GMM!
It would appear that the only persons who need not fear the sedition dragnet are those who had since Abdullah's premiership and who have become more blatant in the Najib premiership been inciting racial and religious hatred and conflict through lies and falsehoods, the very people who had succeeded in forcing Abdullah's early retirement as the fifth Prime Minister of Malaysia in the first place. Read the rest of this entry »
Comeuppance or deja vu, Najib feels the heat from old Umno hands
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahathir, Najib Razak, UMNO on Tuesday, 4 February 2014
February 04, 2014
Just after the 2008 elections, Datuk Seri Najib Razak watched as the then prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi got skewered for Barisan Nasional's (BN) abysmal showing at the polls, with Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad leading the campaign to oust Pak Lah from office.
The constant hammering took its toll and in March 2009, Abdullah made way for Najib. Until today, Abdullah's supporters believe that the so-called groundswell against the PM was not as widespread as painted by Dr Mahathir and his instigator-in-chief, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
But Abdullah had little drive to stay and fight, concerned that a war with his nemesis would mortally wound Umno.
Truth be told, he also never recovered from that day in March when BN lost five states and the two-thirds control of Parliament. Read the rest of this entry »
In Nazir's paean to dad, a call to action for all Malaysians
Posted by Kit in 1Malaysia, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahathir, Malaysian Dream, Najib Razak on Wednesday, 15 January 2014
January 14, 2014
It happens all the time. Whenever someone writes or talks about the golden generation of Malaysian leaders, it is a bittersweet experience for citizens of this blessed country.
There is pride that individuals such as Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Tan Siew Sin, Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman once charted the fortunes of Malaysia.
And there is deep longing for such men of integrity, principle and fairness.
Yet, there is also numbing sadness that such men no longer exists in government, replaced long time ago by inept individuals with a ravenous appetite for self.
Make no mistake, Razak and friends were flawed men, at times drive by political interests of their parties. But they loved this land above everything else. Above enriching their family members. Above nurturing crony capitalism. Read the rest of this entry »
Umno polls show that what goes around comes around
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahathir, Najib Razak, UMNO on Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Bridget Welsh
Oct 20, 2013
COMMENT The results are in. Despite the last-minute swing to Mukhriz Mahathir due to the sympathy factor associated with the false reporting of vote-buying and buoyed by his father's support, the count clearly shows that Dr Mahathir Mohamad's personal influence in Umno has waned.
In fact, when one looks at the election of the 25 spots for the Supreme Council, Mahathir loyalists have lost badly. The question arises whether this party election indeed spells the end of an era, a changing of the guard of sorts within Umno.
While personal loyalties may have moved on and Mahathir's influence has been checked, his legacy persists within the party and given the competitiveness of the results, Mahathir's own role will continue to shadow Najib's premiership. Read the rest of this entry »
After all these years, Malaysia still held hostage
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahathir, Najib Razak, nation building on Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Ooi Kee Beng
The Malaysian Insider
September 04, 2013
In thinking about 2013, the year the Federation of Malaysia celebrates its 50th anniversary, one cannot but compare the national atmosphere to that in 2007, the year the Federation of Malaya celebrated its 50th anniversary.
I remember that the New Straits Times under Datuk Seri Kalimullah Hassan ran a week-long serialisation in January that year of my book The Reluctant Politician: Tun Dr Ismail and His Time (ISEAS 2006) with the express purpose of putting the country into a contemplative mood and reminding Malaysians of what nation building is all about.
Given the faltering reform programme of then prime minister Tun Abdullah Badawi, 2007 couldn't help but be a contemplative — and agitative — year for many Malaysians in any case. Be that as it may, to be fair to Abdullah, much change had come to the country after he took over from Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in October 2003.
Otherwise, the latter would not have been using his considerable political acumen back then to undermine his successor's position. Only Dr Mahathir's bad health that year limited his attacks on the prime minister. Read the rest of this entry »
Najib's getting off this tiger's back
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahathir, Najib Razak on Tuesday, 13 August 2013
AB Sulaiman
Aug 12, 2013
COMMENT In the Malaysian public domain one issue seems to be taking a lot of attention; its source, of all things, is a book.
For a people not known to read much, this is bizarre. For it to be written purportedly by Abdullah Badawi, as some have assumed, more bizarre still.
Actually 'Awakening: The Abdullah Badawi Years in Malaysia' is not a book written by Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at all; it's one about him but edited by Bridget Welsh and James Chin.
In it Abdullah makes comments about his tenure as prime minister, about how he dared go against the wishes of predecessor Dr Mahathir Mohamad who apparently was holding the reins of power in the background.
Abdullah was commenting on how he was hounded by Mahathir but stood his ground anyway, and even cancelled some Mahathir-conceived mega projects. Read the rest of this entry »
The greatest PM we never had
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Elections, Mahathir, Najib Razak on Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Mariam Mokhtar
Aug 12, 2013
Malaysian prime ministers display fascinating quirks and characteristics; Dr Mahathir Mohamad assumes the role of the Pied Piper of Hamelin who leads the children (Malays) to a catastrophic end; Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is like Rip van Winkle who slept when he should have been working to improve the nation; and Najib Abdul Razak appears to act like Nero who fiddled while Rome burned.
Najib's entry into politics is a lacklustre, predictable story which might explain his inability to inspire the nation. His role in undermining Malaysian democracy is pivotal.
He places more emphasis on sound-bites and slogans, than on sound policies. Najib is English educated, and a well travelled man. Some consider him a roué but he comes from a family with an impeccable political pedigree. The reason he failed as PM is simple.
Najib lacks leadership. Read the rest of this entry »
A time when Utusan Malaysia didn't get away with everything…
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Media, UMNO on Wednesday, 7 August 2013
The Malaysian Insider
August 07, 2013
In a book about his years in power, former prime minister Tun Abdullah Badawi makes a startling revelation about how he dealt with Utusan Malaysia, in stark contrast to how the strident newspaper is managed by its Umno backers now.
Abdullah was known for liberalising news media in an attempt to restore their credibility after the severe damage that mainstream media took under the Mahathir years, but Abdullah still kept a firm line on racial and religious issues.
Referring to his appointees, he said, "I did not interfere with their work as I believed that they had a professional job to do and I allowed them the space to do it. But when they abused the openness by playing up racial and religious issues, like when Utusan Malaysia did, then I would call them and warn them."
He revealed that he made a phone call to the editor-in-chief of Utusan Malaysia and left him with a stark warning: the newspaper had crossed the boundary with an editorial that smacked of racism and he should expect no favours from Putrajaya if charged with sedition.
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Kit Siang praises Pak Lah, seeks government post for defeated rival Ghani
Posted by Kit in Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Elections, UMNO on Thursday, 9 May 2013
By Ida Lim
May 09, 2013
KUALA LUMPUR, May 9 — DAP's Lim Kit Siang today praised former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, while also asking that his polls rival Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman be given a post in the new Barisan Nasional (BN) administration.
Lim described Abdullah's statement yesterday as being the "most sensible, level-headed and statesmanlike" comment on the results of last Sunday's polls.
Despite holding on to power with its win of 133 federal seats, BN lost the popular vote and had a poorer showing this time round, which led the current Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to suggest that it was due to a "Chinese tsunami".
The DAP advisor also said Ghani was a moderate and rational man, saying that the former Johor Mentri Besar had contributed to the state and country's development during his four terms of service. Read the rest of this entry »