May 19th, 2012
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May 19th, 2012
by Ronnie Teo, ronnieteo@theborneopost.com. Posted on May 19, 2012, Saturday
KUCHING: Kuala Lumpur-based property developer Suez Domain Sdn Bhd (Suez Domain) is offering the corporate office towers of its upcoming project, KL Gateway, to Sarawakians.
During its roadshow organised by its exclusive marketing partner Borneo Real Estate, Suez Domain general manager of retail, Benjamin Leong, outlined the group’s expectations for Sarawakian investors to partake in this project, slated to be completed by 2016.
“I believe that the Sarawak market is very discerning,” he told The Borneo Post.
“Sarawakians are also very strong investment people in terms of investment styles.
“We feel that our product will provide them an opportunity to establish some presence in the peninsula, especially in Kuala Lumpur at a very prime location.”
Leong added that its packages at the premium floors were very competitive, translating to a beneficial price point and would add to the investors’ portfolios without hesitation.
He noted that the KL Gateway project held a gross development value of RM1.7 billion spanning over 7.18 acres and consisting of four sections: Corporate Office Towers, Boutique Retail, Serviced Suites and Managed Service Suites.
KL Gateway is located along the Federal Highway and is connected to other major motorways such as the Sprint Highway/Kerinchi Link and the New Pantai Expressway.
The property is envisioned to be a peaceful oasis in the heart of KL with an outdoor courtyard surrounded by a series of garden spaces designed to be a public room that will attract people from the surrounding neighbourhoods.
Speaking on the target market, Leong hoped to garner investors who were financially savvy and committed to investment purposes.
“This project holds foreseeable returns in the future, being high capital appreciation products,” he said.
“These people are already very vested parties, not just locally but also internationally.
“Secondly, we are also looking at end users such as corporate companies and organisations that want to have a presence in the capital city that would require very prim, very exposed locations.” Suze Domain is a member of Suze Capital Sdn Bhd.
The company’s business division includes property development, property management and property investments.
The company has completed several mixed developments for commercial and residential in the Klang Valley since 1993.
Interested parties can make their way to Hilton Hotel, Kuching today or tomorrow from 10am to 8pm to find out more on this project.
Additionally, the group will host another roadshow to Sibu at RH Hotel from May 25 to 27, 2012.
For further information, contact 010-9772285 or visit www.klgateway.com.my.
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May 17th, 2012
Given a go … Rebels five-eighth Kurtley Beale. Photo: Getty Images
It’s always interesting to note what the perception is and what is written in the public domain. More often than not there is such haste and enthusiasm to announce the next big thing that sometimes it’s missed that it has been staring them in the face for some time.
In the past 10 days one of the bigger stories has been around the revelation that is Kurtley Beale at No.10, while much has also been said of Liam Gill’s play for the Queensland Reds. A great deal has been made about both topics but I’m not sure why there has been so much surprise.
Beale is an extremely good player, can read the game well, and best of all, can bring the players around him into the match. For Gill, only a month ago I was being asked about the possibility of signing David Pocock. At the time I rejected the notion as the Reds have a strong belief in what Gill and Beau Robinson bring to the group. Nothing has changed.
This isn’t about pushing anyone’s agenda for representative honours or otherwise, but more about making a point that amidst all the excitement in the media, more often than not, the answers are right in front of them.
I said it before the Rugby World Cup – if Quade Cooper was injured I would have Beale at five-eighth. They are the same type of player, so you don’t need to change much tactically to make it happen.
What’s forgotten, though, is that Cooper and Beale are the same age and therefore faced a problem at Australian schoolboy level because, logistically, coaches wanted them on the field at the same time. One of them was always going to end up at fullback.
When I was at the Waratahs, I recall the difficulty of finding a No.10. I went to Beale’s manager Glen Ella and, after meeting Beale when he was only 16 while he was in year 11 at St Joseph’s, we signed him to the Tahs. This stopped rugby league chasing him as we waited for him to arrive.
He hit the scene in 2007 where he was to be the understudy to Mat Rogers. Rogers left early to league so Beale started at five-eighth for NSW in his first year out of school. It was a tough for him but the talent was clearly there.
The Tahs struggled in 2007 but went to the 2008 final against the Crusaders when Beale was at No.10. The final was in Christchurch and we were leading the Crusaders before an ankle injury forced him from the field with half an hour to go. We ended up losing to Dan Carter’s boot but Beale had helped create two tries to the Crusaders’ one. The evidence was always there that Beale would be very useful in the key playmaking role. I subscribe to the theory that the best ball players need to touch the ball the most, so it’s good to see the Rebels giving him a go.
Another player lauded recently is Gill. While people are clamouring to figure out if he indeed has the highest number of steals in the competition, it’s forgotten that a year ago he produced a man-of-the-match display against the Chiefs in Hamilton – an honour he again earned against the same last Sunday. He announced his abilities in that match against the Chiefs last year and has replicated it on each opportunity since.
What’s important when young players hit the scene is managing their exposure to the game while allowing them to develop physically and emotionally. The best players are the ones who play better each time they experience a higher level of rugby. They get better when the task is greater.
During the past three weeks Gill has gone up against the Braid brothers for the Blues, McCaw and Todd in the Crusaders, and Messam and Latimer for the Chiefs. He has done very well and influenced the game each time. The best part is he is only 19 and there’s plenty more to come.
Lastly, there will be much written this week about the return of Cooper. It’s always good to see great players get back on the field. The public don’t see the pain, suffering and dedication that goes into long-term rehabilitation. For this reason alone I hope Saturday is all good for him.
It’s also important to note that there is a youngster on the bench set to make his debut – Chris F’Sautia. He just turned 18 but is a highly talented outside back. He is one of the most capped Australian Schoolboy players and has played at that level since year 10.
He had been plagued by a hamstring injury but is raring to go. I’m confident we will be talking about him enthusiastically in a year’s time. Just don’t be surprised.
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May 17th, 2012
scetrone@heraldonline.com
After Republican criticism of Winthrop University’s widely published surveys of public opinion, a former state GOP official has asked the school to turn over all records related to the last three Winthrop Polls, including respondents’ identities.
Kurt Pickhardt, who worked for the S.C. Republican Party and then for former GOP presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty, requested a broad bundle of documents, including records of how respondents were chosen and who questioned them.
Citing academic freedom, Winthrop declined to provide many of the details Pickhardt requested, including faculty emails, according to documents the school sent to media Wednesday.
Pickhardt, now a Washington, D.C.-based political consultant, told The Herald he wanted details about how Scott Huffmon, a Winthrop political scientist and poll director, conducts the surveys.
“Winthrop is a state institution and therefore is subject to the Freedom of Information Act,” Pickhardt said via email. “Their polling has an impact on the public domain, and I am interested as to how Mr. Huffmon came to his conclusions – conclusions that get published far and wide and that many South Carolinians take as fact. Now I have an entirely different interest: What is he hiding?”
Huffmon said Pickhardt’s request was “over-reaching” and demanded “essentially everything written by everyone, in any email, about anything.
“This is an assault on academic freedom and tips the hand of the requester,” Huffmon said. “Everything of substance – methodology, all clients (ever), and training materials – have been provided and are accessible by anyone with a computer.”
Huffmon pointed to several places on Winthrop’s website where information Pickhardt requested about how the poll is conducted is available.
“All of these fundamental questions have been answered and put out in the open; therefore, it seems claims that we are ‘hiding’ something are disingenuous, at best,” Huffmon said.
Both parties complain
In December, state GOP director Matt Moore disputed Winthrop Poll findings that showed Republican Gov. Nikki Haley had lower approval ratings in the state than Democratic President Barack Obama.
Poll results at the time showed 34.6 percent of South Carolinians approved of Haley’s job performance, while 43 percent disapproved. Obama had a 44.8 percent approval rating in South Carolina.
Moore called the Winthrop Poll “highly questionable” and alleged that questions were biased. Moore couldn’t be reached Wednesday.
Pickhardt denied that his request was affiliated with any organization and didn’t respond to questions about his opinion of the Winthrop Poll.
Huffmon defended the poll in December, calling the criticism “unfounded.”
“Our methodology has been vetted by the Associated Press polling unit in the past,” he said Wednesday. “I am not sure the same can be said of whichever polls lead some to believe that our results are inaccurate. Although the Democrats criticized our poll as inaccurate when we predicted Nikki Haley would win the gubernatorial election, the people who would later claim our numbers were inaccurate were oddly silent.
“What could be more legitimate than studying the opinions of citizens toward their government by someone whose discipline studies governments?”
Huffmon started the Winthrop Poll in 2006. Funded in part by the John C. West Forum for civic engagement, the survey is intended to be “a regular snapshot” of residents’ opinions.
Trained interviewers, often Winthrop students, administer the polls in the telephone survey research lab on campus.
Respondents answer questions about public policy, social issues and current events. Media outlets nationwide cover the results.
In his April 25 emailed request, Pickhardt cited the state’s open records law. He asked for “any materials in the university’s possession, control or custody that reference or relate in any way to any poll conducted by Winthrop University, its faculty, its staff or its employees that references the ‘April 2012 Winthrop Poll,’ the ‘February 2012 Winthrop Poll,’ and/or the ‘December 2011 Winthrop Poll’ in any way.”
Winthrop pointed him to Web pages that included some of the information he requested and agreed to provide additional information that officials deemed public for a fee of $2,827.39 for staff time and printing costs, according to a response to Pickhardt signed by Winthrop spokeswoman Rebecca Masters.
Masters said she sent copies of Pickhardt’s request and the school’s response to media as part of a series of “courtesy contacts” to anyone who might be impacted by the issue.
Pickhardt specifically requested copies of any correspondence between Huffmon and members of the media.
‘Chilling effect’
Masters also forwarded a letter from the American Association of University Professors that called Pickhardt’s request a “probing and pervasive inquiry for sensitive information” that would “not only have a chilling effect on the immediate custodian of the targeted materials, but will also almost certainly have a broader import for academic freedom and free inquiry across the Winthrop University community.”
Pickhardt did not respond to questions about what he plans to do next.
Refusing to release documents claiming “academic freedom” is rare, said Bill Rogers, executive director of the S.C. Press Association and an open records law expert who reviewed Winthrop’s response for The Herald.
But the university is likely allowed to withhold much of the information Pickhardt requested.
“The Freedom of Information Act shields the release of research done by faculty members, and this likely applies to most of this request,” Rogers said. “However, any financial records of the poll involving the expenditure of funds would likely be open.”
Rogers added that correspondence with the media would not likely be covered by the academic exemption to the open records law.
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May 15th, 2012
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Digital Domain Media Group (NYSE:DDMG – News) management will present at the 11th
Annual JMP Securities Research Conference at 1:00 PDT (4:00 EDT) on
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At its foundation is Digital Domain Productions, an award-winning
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major motion pictures, including Titanic, the Transformers
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commercials. The company, its work and its employees have been
recognized with numerous awards, including seven from the Academy of
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is currently in production on the upcoming live-action sci-fi feature
film Ender’s Game. DDMG is also applying its CG expertise to
produce original, family-friendly animated feature films at its
subsidiary Tradition Studios. The first movie, The Legend of Tembo,
is in pre-production and two more features are in development. The
company’s education subsidiary, the Digital Domain Institute, sets a new
standard in digital media education through a pioneering public-private
partnership with The Florida State University College of Motion Picture
Arts. DDMG is expanding its global footprint of the highest quality
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May 15th, 2012
The Chicago-based business incubator, Empresario, has announced the availability of its premium domains Mama.com and Mama.ca. Both domains are currently available through Moniker’s Spring 2012 Premium Domain Auction, which is open now thru May 17th. The sale of Mama.com also includes the Twitter handle @mama. Learn more at Empresario.com.
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May 13th, 2012
London, May 12 (IANS) Singer Adele escaped attention from fans by venturing out in public wearing pyjamas.
Adele, whose second album “21″ sold 21 million copies worldwide, is desperate to keep her private life out of the public domain, and manages to walk among her fans incognito by donning her bed wear.
“I have managed to stay out of the public eye recently. The other day I walked through Trafalgar Square. I was in my pyjamas. I had floral tracksuit bottoms on, a green coat and pink pumps,” contactmusic.com quoted her as saying.
“Luckily I had a massive umbrella so no one recognised me. I don’t want to be in people’s faces. I just want to make music,” she said.
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May 13th, 2012
Is not the Atwater Elementary School District part of the public school system? If it is still a part of the public school system; then, the general public still has a right to know just what is happening in the public domain. If board members Lena Mendoza, John Hall and Sheila Whitley want their actions to remain secret, then let them; but, at the same time let action be taken to immediately fire them from their positions of trust. There would be no secret about their being fired as the general public would already know just why such action was taken.
PAUL D. JENSEN
Winton
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May 11th, 2012
EAST BAY The Warren Town Council joined several other area towns Tuesday night in expressing concern over legislation that would create a nine-member East Bay Energy Consortium — and give it the power of eminent domain.
Town council members took no action on the legislation, but said they’ll meet with Warren’s representatives and senator to discuss what could happen if the current bill to officially establish EBEC as a quasi-public agency is approved by the General Assembly. At issue? Fear by some that if passed, the legislation would give EBEC broad powers to seize land under eminent domain.
The prospect “makes me very uneasy,” councilor Scott Lial said Tuesday. “There’s no guarantee it’s not going to be used in a dangerous fashion.”
Warren and Barrington Rep. Jan Malik has pulled his support from the current legislation, saying that while the idea of EBEC is good, the eminent domain mechanism “is not good for Barrington or Warren.”
Why eminent domain?
EBEC was founded by area town councils several years as a way to promote and establish alternative energy production in the East Bay area, from Newport to Barrington. The organization’s main push is to establish a wind farm in Tiverton. Power not used by local municipalities would be sold back to National Grid, and any profits would be returned to the member towns.
However, the organization is not yet an official quasi-public agency. It’s an important distinction, said EBEC’s Eric Bush, because National Grid will not enter into contracts with the organization if it’s not quasi-public. In order to reach that level, he said Tuesday, the organization has to be granted one of three state-mandated powers: The power to police, the power to tax or the power of eminent domain.
He said it became clear in recent months that EBEC would have to choose one of those three, and officials settled on the power of eminent domain as the lesser of three evils.
Settling on that power was “clearly not something we went through lightly,” he said. “Eminent domain … was considered the least offensive power.”
That doesn’t mean that some residents are not offended, and a handful spoke Tuesday night, as they also did last week at the Portsmouth Town Council meeting and at Monday night’s Tiverton Town Council meeting.
Bristol resident Marina Peterson spoke against the legislation Tuesday, saying she doesn’t trust the creation of any new quasi-public agency given the area’s recent experience with another similar entity, the Bristol County Water Authority. Adding eminent domain to the mix makes it even more unpalatable, she said.
“It’s just too scary,” she told the council. “I think (energy creation) should be done by private industry.”
Touisset resident Andy Shapiro agreed, speaking as a representative of Apex, a private renewable energy company. He warned the council that National Grid will not work with private industry on energy projects when quasi-public agencies, like EBEC, are already established in an area.
EBEC’s Joseph Depasquale said residents need not worry, assuring the council that there will be checks and balances to make sure that the power of eminent domain, if ever used, would be used responsibly.
“This is a municipal project to bring revenue to the municipalities generated by a clean power source,” he said . “We are not trying to create a land-grabbing entity.”
Still, it was not enough to alleviate all councilors’ concerns. Said council president Chris Stanley:
“Most people are in favor of the spirit of what is here,” he said. “But the mechanics …. I don’t want to say we’re opposed, but suspicious.”
Mr. Malik said he’s looking forward to meeting with councilors to discuss the current state of legislation. He noted that there has been talk that a new piece of legislation is being written up that would give the agency its needed status without requiring eminent domain.
“I don’t know how they’d get around that,” he said. “But that’s what they’re working on. I haven’t heard the details of it yet.”
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May 11th, 2012
Vancouver, BC, May 14th, 2012 – Monday
May 14th marks the 25th anniversary of the dot-CA
domain name for Canada. On this date twenty five years ago the management of the
dot-CA country code domain name was officially delegated by Jon Postel, operator
of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), to Canadian Internet pioneer and
Webnames.ca co-founder John Demco.
The most recognizable symbol of Canadian identity on the
Internet, dot-CA was conceived in 1987 and for 13 years, John Demco, with
the assistance of a group of dedicated volunteers, managed the dot-CA domain
space out of his University of British Columbia office on behalf of all
Canadians, allocating and administering dot-CA domain
names at no charge to users on a voluntary basis. By 2000 an amazing 100,000
dot-CA domain names had been registered under John’s care, exceeding the
capacity of a volunteer undertaking. “In the very early days of .CA, it wasn’t
apparent that the registry would grow so quickly,” said John Demco, “However, by
the late 1980′s the academic and research networks had begun to grow rapidly,
even though the absolute numbers weren’t yet large. With the introduction of the
web and commercialization, things really took off.”
In December 2000, the Canadian Internet Registration
Authority (CIRA), a not-for-profit corporation took over operation of dot-CA.
Since that time CIRA has accredited more than 90 registrars (including
Webnames.ca) to act as retailers of dot-CA domains to the Canadian public.
The dot-CA domain name has become an important symbol of
Canadian identity and presence. “Canadians prefer to do business with fellow
Canadians and support the local economy,” says Webnames.ca President and
Co-Founder, Cybele Negris. “Dot-CA shows website visitors that they are shopping
locally, will pay in Canadian funds and receive product shipped from within the
country. May 14th is a special day and we should all celebrate the success of
the Canadian Internet. I’m proud to have been involved with John and the
transition of dot-CA to CIRA back in 1999/2000 and I look forward to see what
the next 25 years will bring.”
The dot-CA domain name has celebrated many milestones over
the past 25 years including the celebration of one million dot-CA domains
registered in 2008. We are anticipating the two million dot-CA registration some
time in 2012. “One never knows what might happen, especially in an environment
as dynamic as the Internet. However, dot-CA has been performing well since its
inception, and particularly well during the past few years, and we can look
forward to continued strong growth” anticipates John Demco. “There is also
ample room to grow. The dot-CA domain will soon surpass 2 million registrations,
but it should be kept in mind that the dot-COM domain has approximately 100
million. Thus although dot-CA has grown rapidly there are many, many excellent
names available.”
Webnames.ca will be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of
dot-CA with a weeklong $9.00 dot-CA domain promotion for new dot-CA
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information.
About
CIRA
The
Canadian Internet Registration Authority is the not-for-profit Canadian
corporation responsible for operating Canada’s dot-CA Internet country code Top
Level Domain. With over 1,913,650 dot-CA domain names registered to individuals,
companies and government agencies, Canada’s dot-CA Internet domain has quickly
become a critical part of Canada’s Internet infrastructure. For more
information, visit www.cira.ca.
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