Saturday 31 May 2014

GEORGETOWN - DAP mendakwa terdapat tiga faktor yang membawa kekalahan parti itu dalam PRK Parlimen Teluk Intan semalam.

Setiausaha Agungnya, Lim Guan Eng berkata, berdasarkan analisis awal, peratusan keluar mengundi yang rendah iaitu 66.5 peratus adalah antara punca utama DAP kalah.

"Peratusan keluar mengundi menurun kepada kira-kira 66 peratus, iaitu kurang 7,000 hingga 8,000 pemilih berbanding kira-kira 80 peratus pada PRU lepas," katanya kepada pemberita selepas menyampaikan hadiah kepada pemenang acara Penang Run di sini, hari ini.

Beliau mendakwa, kebanyakan pemilih yang tidak hadir untuk mengundi adalah mereka yang propembangkang dan berada di luar kawasan.

Katanya dua faktor lagi yang menyebabkan kekalahan calon parti itu ialah permainan politik Umno ketika berkempen serta hakikat bahawa Dyana Sofya adalah muka baharu di kawasan itu dan tidak mempunyai cukup masa untuk membiasakan diri dengan penduduk setempat.

Dalam PRK itu, BN menang kerusi Parlimen Teluk Intan apabila calonnya, Datuk Mah Siew Keong, yang juga Presiden Gerakan, memperoleh majoriti 238 undi setelah mendapat 20,157 undi, manakala calon DAP, Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud meraih 19,919 undi.

Menurut Guan Eng, DAP akan membuat kajian terperinci tentang kekalahannya di Teluk Intan.

"Kami tidak menyesal meletakkan calon muda Melayu (Dyana Sofya) di Teluk Intan kerana dia telah mempamerkan prestasi yang boleh dipuji," katanya sambil menegaskan bahawa walaupun kalah, Dyana akan terus berjuang dan berkhidmat kepada penduduk kawasan itu. - Bernama

Budak perempuan jatuh dari tingkat 3 pusat beli-belah

KEADAAN budak berumur 7 tahun yang dipercayai terjatuh dari tingkat satu di sebuah pusat beli-belah di Kuala Lumpur, hari ini. - Foto NSTP

KUALA LUMPUR: Seorang kanak-kanak perempuan maut selepas terjatuh dari Tingkat 3, di sebuah kompleks beli-belah di ibu negara, petang tadi.

Mangsa, Nurul Emielda Nadia Sallehuddin, 7, parah apabila bahagian belakang kepalanya pecah dalam kejadian jam 2 petang itu.

Difahamkan, semasa kejadian, bapa mangsa dipercayai terlepas pandang dan mendapati anaknya sudah jatuh ke tingkat bawah.

Mangsa dibawa ke Pusat Perubatan Universiti Malaya(PPUM) untuk bedah siasat.

KEADAAN budak berumur 7 tahun yang dipercayai terjatuh dari tingkat satu di sebuah pusat beli-belah di Kuala Lumpur, hari ini. - Foto NSTP

Difahamkan, semasa kejadian, bapa mangsa dipercayai terlepas pandang dan mendapati anaknya sudah jatuh ke tingkat bawah.

Mangsa dibawa ke Pusat Perubatan Universiti Malaya(PPUM) untuk bedah siasat.

Thursday 29 May 2014

Joshua Smith (10:03 am PDT, May 28th)

One of the best perks about having an iPhone is that it naturally does a pretty good job at running well. Although, after time many users have found that their iPhone runs slower and doesn’t perform as well as it used to. In today’s how-to find out how to help your iPhone run smoother in just five quick tips.

Take a look at the video to see what to do.

$54.75 Will Buy You the World's Most Expensive Starbucks Drink

BY NEHA PRAKASH13 HOURS AGO

Caffeine addicts of the world, meet your leader.

Andrew Chifari claims to have created the world's most expensive Starbucksdrink, containing 60 shots of espresso and costing a staggering $54.75. It's called the Sexagintuple Vanilla Bean Mocha Frappuccino. Yum?

Buster Hein (11:02 pm PDT, May 28th)

Now that Apple’s acquisition of Beats has finally been made official, Eddie Cue and Jimmy Iovine took the stage at the the inaugural Code Conference tonight to give a peak behind the scenes of deal, as well as glimpse at what’s to come in 2014 – including the best product pipeline the company has seen in 25 years.

Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg led the conversation with Eddie Cue starting things off by parroting Tim Cook’s statements that Apple acquired Beats for three reasons: Talent, Headphones, and a Music Subscription Service, before revealing these eight new tidbits on the deal as well as the future of Apple:

Apple’s 2014 product line is going to be incredible.

“Later this year, we’ve got the best product pipeline that I’ve seen in my 25 years at Apple” boasted Eddie.

The Beats deal took 10 years to happen

“This isn’t something that just happened over night,” said Cue. “Jimmy and I have talked about working together for a decade.”

Beats chose Apple because it gets culture.

“We met the guys at Apple. They get it. When I met Eddy and Steve, in 2003, 2005, I came back and said ‘these guys get it,’” recalled Iovine, who admitted the HTC/Beats partnership was a culture clash.

“They respect what we do. They respect copyright. They respect the entire food chain. We built Beats. We built Beats Music, and we got lucky.”

Eddie Cue thinks TV sucks

“The reason there’s so much interest in TV in general is that the TV experience sucks. All we have today is glorified DVRs,” Cue ranted. “TV is a hard problem to solve. No global standards, lots of rights issues. It’s a complicated landscape to solve.”

Apple bought Beats because the album is dying:

“The album is going away,” Jimmy said. “Music is made in bite-sized pieces. But you need an hour’s worth of music. These services (Spotify, Rdio, etc.) are based on algorithms, and algorithms can’t do the job alone.”

“This is the new album. To create a listening experience that goes 30 minutes, 45 minutes that moves people? That will work.”

Apple didn’t buy Beats to try to be cool:

“I don’t think you can buy cool. I think you just have to make the best products,” claimed Cue. ” But Beats is really cool. We make great products, and we’re going to make great products together. I don’t know what buying cool means.”

Beats already has 250k subscribers

“We have 250,000 subscribers,” claimed Iovine. “From what I understand in the tech business, you get to try something out for awhile before you figure out if it works. So Apple is going to help us. We don’t know the exact model yet, but we need to put steroids into this thing.”

Jimmy Iovine hates Jony Ive’s EarPods

After Mossberg noted that Apple already earphones, Jimmy shot down the EarPods.“They make those to make sure the machine works.” You listen to Apocalypse Now, and the helicopter sounds like a mosquito,” replied Jimmy after Mossberg noted Apple already makes earphones. “It’s not their responsibility to make good headphones, concluded Iovine. “They make phones.”

The full video of Iovine and Cue’s interview will be available later in the week, but until then you can catch a full rundown of the event on the Recode Liveblog.

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Buster Hein (11:02 pm PDT, May 28th)

Apple’s 2014 product line is going to be incredible.

“Later this year, we’ve got the best product pipeline that I’ve seen in my 25 years at Apple” boasted Eddie.

The Beats deal took 10 years to happen

“This isn’t something that just happened over night,” said Cue. “Jimmy and I have talked about working together for a decade.”

Beats chose Apple because it gets culture.

“They respect what we do. They respect copyright. They respect the entire food chain. We built Beats. We built Beats Music, and we got lucky.”

Eddie Cue thinks TV sucks

Apple bought Beats because the album is dying:

“This is the new album. To create a listening experience that goes 30 minutes, 45 minutes that moves people? That will work.”

Apple didn’t buy Beats to try to be cool:

Beats already has 250k subscribers

Jimmy Iovine hates Jony Ive’s EarPods

The full video of Iovine and Cue’s interview will be available later in the week, but until then you can catch a full rundown of the event on the Recode Liveblog.

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Eddie Cue and Jimmy Iovine talk Beats deal and future of Apple

by Buster Hein

Buster Hein (11:02 pm PDT, May 28th)

Apple’s 2014 product line is going to be incredible.

“Later this year, we’ve got the best product pipeline that I’ve seen in my 25 years at Apple” boasted Eddie.

The Beats deal took 10 years to happen

“This isn’t something that just happened over night,” said Cue. “Jimmy and I have talked about working together for a decade.”

Beats chose Apple because it gets culture.

“They respect what we do. They respect copyright. They respect the entire food chain. We built Beats. We built Beats Music, and we got lucky.”

Eddie Cue thinks TV sucks

Apple bought Beats because the album is dying:

“This is the new album. To create a listening experience that goes 30 minutes, 45 minutes that moves people? That will work.”

Apple didn’t buy Beats to try to be cool:

Beats already has 250k subscribers

Jimmy Iovine hates Jony Ive’s EarPods

The full video of Iovine and Cue’s interview will be available later in the week, but until then you can catch a full rundown of the event on the Recode Liveblog.

Jurassic World plot details revealed

by Luke Dormehl

Luke Dormehl (3:00 am PDT, May 29th)

Anyone who read my review of Jurassic Park Builder for iOS knows that I’m a fan of theJurassic Park franchise – and like a lot of fans of the series I’m eagerly awaiting Jurassic World, the forthcoming movie sequel set to stomp into movie theatres June 12, 2015.

For those of us craving plot details like a t-rex craves human-sized snacks, director Colin Trevorrow recently shed some light in an interview for SlashFilm.

Jurassic World, he says, takes place 22 years after the events of the first film, on a fully functional park on Isla Nublar which has been successfully completed and now sees more than 20,000 visitors per day.

The director confirms that leading actor Chris Pratt’s character Owen is engaged in behavioural research on the park’s raptor population. “They aren’t trained, they can’t do tricks. He’s just trying to figure out the limits of the relationship between these highly intelligent creatures and human beings.”

Trevorrow also confirmed that “there will be one new dinosaur created by the park’s geneticists” — adding that, “I know the idea of a modified dinosaur put a lot of fans on red alert, and I understand it. But we aren’t doing anything here that Crichton didn’t suggest in his novels. This animal is not a mutant freak.”

So a fully operational park, smarter-than-ever raptors and a brand new dinosaur? Sign me up. Hopefully the 14 years that will have elapsed since 2001’s disappointing Jurassic Park III will make this a sequel worthy of original author (and noted Mac fan) Michael Crichton.

Nurul Izzah wants custody of children

MAY 29, 2014

Four months after her application for a divorce from her husband, Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar now wants custody of her two children.

Nurul Izzah (pic) filed an application for custody of her daughter, aged seven, and son, aged four, at the Kuala Lumpur Shariah High Court today, Malaysiakini reported.

Judge Amran Mat Zain fixed June 17 for her husband Raja Ahmad Shahrir Iskandar Raja Salim to officially appoint lawyers to represent him in the custody case, as he is currently overseas.

Nurul Izzah had filed an application to divorce her husband of 11 years on January 22 at the Lower Shariah Court under Section 47 (amicable divorce) of the Islamic Family Law (Federal Territories) Act 1984.

On April 1, Nurul Izzah and Raja Ahmad Shahrir were ordered by the Lower Shariah Court toappoint members for a reconciliation committee over their divorce case.

Lower Shariah Court judge Ab Malek Awang then fixed June 12 for the presentation of a report on the reconciliation committee's decision on the outcome of discussion.

According to Malaysiakini, the reconciliation committee chaired by the shariah officer is supposed to submit a report to the Lower Shariah Court on the possibility of the couple's reconciliation.

If the reconciliation committee fails to come to a decision, the court will appoint a hakam or arbitrator. – May 29, 2014.

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alaskancod147p· 4 hours ago

Private matter. Should stay that way. ABU

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lauya138p· 5 hours ago

Divorce normal in any marriage, but kids should not be affected.
Woman and Mother should have prior preference for kids below 18 yrs custody, as men not known to be able to do house works and child care. There should be no need to fight over kids. When kids turn 18 above, then it's up to them as they are adults but most likely grown ups prefer to be independent and stay with neither father nor mother.

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