| Protege touted to replace Serdang maverick Yap
KUALA LUMPUR: Serdang MP Datuk Yap Pian Hon has been called many things in life but the one nickname that has stuck is a cat with nine lives". Surviving many political obstacles, recent events however appear to suggest that the maverick politician has used up all those lives.
Whats worse for the MCA politician is that his protege-turned-bitter rival Datuk Liew Yuen Keong is the man touted to replace him.
The official line is that Liew, the Seri Kembangan assemblyman, is taking over under the partys plan to inject fresh talent into parliament.
Only rumours. It is up to the partys leadership but my track record speaks for itself, said Yap when met at his office, showing off his daily schedule.
Its a list of programmes taking him to every corner in Serdang, attending functions and addressing problems including flooding, traffic congestion and poor service by the local authority.
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Britney Spears
Sam Lutfi was finally served the restraining order yesterday that effectively requires him to stay 250 feet from Britney Spears and have no contact with her whatsoever. The restraining order was set to expire today, but the judge in the case extended it to March 17, according to the AP: In court papers, Jeffrey Wexler, an attorney for her father, James Spears, wrote that "after three weeks of apparently evading service," Lutfi was served at 11 a.m. outside his Los Angeles apartment.
The order, which requires Lutfi to stay 250 yards away from Spears and her home, was set to expire Friday. Wexler had asked for the order to be extended. Poor Sam Lutfi. He must miss Britney Spears. I bet he walks in on random pap smears just to remember the good times. Surprisingly none of the women really cared until Sam started throwing Cheetos at them and screaming "Where's the checkbook?! I'll feed you to Satan!" Then it got a little weird.
Council considers Airport Zoning Overlay Tuesday
Salisbury City Council will hold a public hearing Tuesday to make some clarifications and corrections to its recently adopted Land Development Ordinance. The council also will consider adding an Airport Zoning Overlay at the Rowan County Airport. In a memorandum, the planning staff has reminded council members the new ordinance "is a working, organic document and not cast in stone." "Staff recognizes that several possibly multiple text amendments will come before the Planning Board and City Council in the early months following adoption," the memo continues. "Most of these early text amendments will address clarification, correction or interpretation issues." The council meets at 4 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 217 S.
Amnesty condemns Guantánamo trials
The charges are the first from the Guantánamo war court alleging direct involvement in the 2001 attacks on the United States and the first involving the death penalty. In a statement today, Amnesty said the move raised "yet more" questions about US conduct in the "war on terror". Amnesty claimed five of the six men charged were held for more than three years in secret CIA custody at unknown locations before being transferred to Guantánamo in September 2006. The CIA has confirmed that at least one of the men, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was subjected to "waterboarding", an interrogation technique of simulated drowning that has been widely criticised as torture. "Waterboarding is torture, and torture is an international crime. No one has been held accountable for such crimes.
Oil barons in talks to buy up the whole of Princes Street
Clearly you have no compunction for the championing of Scotlands talent, resources, wealth of creativity and keeping that as a core from which to reference a truly international perspective, exactly how in your world do you project a non-culture to the world as opposed to a deeply rooted one?Believe me, the deeply rooted, respected and maintained culture will always have a far greater respect internationally than some pseudo Anglo-capilalist NON culture that you very obviously wish to promote.Scandinavian countries have strict rules and a 10/15 year buffer policy(the buyer must live here for 10/15 years and show that he integrates with community and has the contextual interests of the area he wishes to buy).The entire point I make is respect for your own ground and only letting those who champion Scotlands interests here, or - for acquisition of territory- in the same context.As you cannot read between the lines, it is you whose ignorance displays a parochial outlook.Do you wish to be under the thumb of a bunch of greedy anglo/ muslim /arabian parasites? I don't, and I seriously doubt many Scots would, even then those that do, are probably the dafties.This is an Island NOT a continent, perhaps you have over looked this truly ENORMOUS fact and all its permutations.
Adobe gives web, desktop development a breath of fresh AIR
There's something in the air, and this time, it's not from Apple. Adobe announced today the official 1.0 release of Adobe AIR, its technology for merging web and desktop application development, along with Flex 3, its open-source application development framework. With AIR and Flex, the company says that it is staying on top of the development of rich Internet applications (RIA) while enabling developers to create apps for both the Web and the desktop without having to create entirely new code for each. And, of course, the company is using AIR to help port its own applications over to the Web—such as Premiere and Photoshop—while maintaining a desktop userbase. Once the a migration is finished, it will be easier for Adobe to maintain its software both online and off while using the same codebase.
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