Perjumpaan Ahli Majlis MPS bersama Persatuan Penduduk Taman Desa Indah

Tarikh: 8 Feb 2011
Jam: 8 malam
Tempat: Taman Desa Indah, Batu Caves

Perbincangan:

1. Penempatan kilang bersebelahan Fasa 4 Taman Desa Indah.

• Pihak Majlis akan membuat pemeriksaan terhadap kilang tersebut bersama pihak tertentu untuk memastikan status kilang tersebut. Susulan tindakan akan diambil jika kilang tersebut didapati melanggar peraturan yang disediakan.

2. Pusat pelupusan sampah Sg. Kertas masih terdapat lori membuang sampah.

• Pihak Majlis sedang dalam proses mengenal pasti pemilik tanah berkenaan dan akan meningkatkan kawal di jalan masuk ke pusat pelupusan tersebut.

3. Anjing-anjing liar berkeliaran di kawasan pusat pelupusan dan kawasan taman sekitar. 

• Pihak Majlis sedang menjalankan penangkapan dengan menggunakan perangkap disekitar pusat pelupusan.

4. Pemohonan membuat bonggol dan pemasangan pagar di sekeliling taman.

• Pihak Majlis mengesyorkan persatuan penduduk membuat pemohonan secara rasmi dengan menyediakan butir-butir lengkap.

Perbincangan berakhir pada jam 11 malam.
Persatuan penduduk mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepada En. Zul Hamzah yang melapangkan masa untuk mendengar masalah yang dihadapi oleh penduduk.

Segala butiran lengkap mesyuarat boleh didapati daripada Setiausaha Persatuan Penduduk Taman Desa Indah - Azman.

Pusat Pelupusan Sampah di Sungai Kertas, Batu Caves (2)

Lanjutan dari tajuk diatas.

Rancangan Majlis Perbandaran Selayang (MPS) terhadap kawasan sampah berkenaan:-

1. Pemantauan 24 jam oleh pegawai MPS di jalan masuk ke pusat pelupusan.
2. Worldwide Holding, anak syarikat Kerajaan negeri akan membaik pulih kawasan dan membersih sampah.
3. Memasang pagar di sekeliling kawasan berkenaan.
4. Menanam semula pokok-pokok.
5. Mengeluarkan gas Methana.


Anggaran kos untuk kerja-kerja yang dirancangkan sebanyak RM4 - RM5 juta dan mengambil masa satu hingga lima tahun.

Pusat Pelupusan Sampah di Sg. Kertas, Batu Caves

Pusat pelupusan sampah ini telah mengakibatkan pelbagai masalah kepada penduduk sekitar. Berlakunya banjir di kawasan ternakan lembu. Banyak lembu-lembu yang mati di atas bencana ini. Pengusaha ternakan mengalami kerugian.

Seterusnya bencana kebakaran dipusat pelupusan. Kawasan sekeliling diselubungi asap merbahaya selama beberapa hari. Pihak yang berkenaan telah menjalankan kerja-kerja memadamkan api dari merebak ke kawasan sekitar.

Kini kerja-kerja pemulihan dijalankan dengan bantuan dari Majlis Dearah Selayang (MPS). Mereka berkawal di pusat pelupusan sampah tersebut dari 9 pagi hingga 9 malam. Selesai bertugas, lori-lori kecil yang membawa sampah pula akan masuk ke pusat pelupusan itu dan membuang sampah. Sehingga ke hari ini masih berlaku.


Pada 01/02/11, pihak TV3 dan MPS telah ke pusat pelupusan sampah untuk ditemubual mengenai status pembuangan sampah itu. Pada 06/02/11, rencana temubual disiarkan. MPS menyatakan bahawa tiada kerjasama dengan penduduk sekitar bagi menangani masalah ini. TV3 turut menyatakan tiada penduduk yang hadir pada masa temubual dilakukan.

Pengerusi taman telah menghantar emel ke aduan rakyat memberi komen terhadap situasi yang berlaku. Pada 07/02/11, SUK Khusrin telah melawat tapak tersebut bersama pihak tertentu untuk tujuan yang belum diketahui lagi. SUK Khusrin tidak membenarkan pihak media menemurah beliau ketika itu.


1. Mengapa tidak ditutup pusat pelupusan itu?
2. Mengapa pembuangan sampah tidak terkawal?
3. Masalah debu, asap pembakaran, lalat, bunyi bising, penyakit, anjing liar dan bau busuk terpaksa ditanggung oleh penduduk sekitar.

Menurut penduduk sekitar isu sampah ini sudah berlanjutan selama 5 tahun hingga kini tiada penyelesaian.

Mahathir: Upheaval in Arab countries are cries for change

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 5, 2011): Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the revolution and upheavals in some Arab countries showed the people wanted a change of government or leader as they were unhappy with the leadership of their largely authoritarian governments.

The former prime minister said the revolution had succeeded in Tunisia and now the world was witnessing upheavals in Egypt.

Should these revolutions succeed, he said there would be new governments, adding that it was worthwhile to remember that change was not always for the better.
 
As such, he stressed that it was incumbent upon those bent on effecting change to have some idea about the kind of government they want or otherwise they might get the same kind of government that they tried so hard to get rid of.

"This is because most leaders upon achieving power would change and would forget the struggles and sacrifices which enabled them to be in power.

"Power corrupts, as we all know," he said in his latest entry on his blog chedet.co.cc entitled 'The Domino Effect'.

Dr Mahathir noted, whatever it was, the new government must not forget the people who so courageously rose against the previous government.

"They (the people) had done so because they expect a better government which will care for the people. I am told that high unemployment rate is one of the major causes."
 
"This problem must be given priority or the same fate will be met by the new government. This will require better management of the economy, in particular, the creation of more jobs," he said.
 
Mahathir pointed out that a democratic leader could be changed merely through voting, but at the same time, the system could be abused.

"Either the elected leader would fix elections to perpetuate his office or there would be a series of ineffective governments as the people reject each one with their votes. This will cause instability. The country would be no better," he said.

To avoid this, Dr Mahathir observed, the electorate must not allow themselves to be manipulated where they must exercise their voting rights judiciously.
 
"But this would be something new to them and they may not be skilled enough in exercising their power to choose," he said.

He said corruption in the administration must be reduced and to achieve this, drastic measures were needed.

"For this, the most important thing is for the new ruling elites, particularly the leader, however chosen, should demonstrate they are not corrupt," he said.
 
Dr Mahathir also expressed sadness that not a single Muslim country in the world was classified as developed.

"Almost invariably, it is due to government incompetence. We see some hope in the progress made by Turkey. But even Turkey is far from being a developed country," he said. --Bernama

Thailand Cooking Oil Shortage: Imported RBD palm oil to be sold in market next week

By mded

28/01/2011 (Mcot), Bangkok - Thirty-thousand tonnes of RBD refined palm oil (refined, bleached and deodorised) which the government ordered earlier were imported from Malaysia to be sold in the Thai market next week, according to the director-general of the Internal Trade Department.

Director General Watcharee Vimuktayon said the RBD palm oil arrived in Thailand and will all enter the country by Jan 31. Thai producers have taken the palm oil to the refinery, and resale is expected at retail stores and department stores next week.

According to Ms Watcharee, the imported palm oil are to be packaged in bottles and one litre plastic bags.

The bottled imported palm oil of all brands will have blue lid covers but the price will still be at no more than Bt47 per unit.

The palm oil in plastic bags will be sold at no more than Bt45, while there will also be the tag of a manufacturing date in blue.

Commerce Ministry will closely monitor on this merchandise in term of production process, transportation of goods and retailing.

In addition, the ministry will propose on Feb 1 to the Palm Oil Policy Committee, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, at least 100,000 more tonnes of palm oil will be imported to compensate for the palm oil shortage in the country.

The latest arrival of the imported RDB palm oil is expected at the beginning of March.

Is the Facebook Fad Ending at Last?

By John R. Quain

It has a stratospheric valuation, an Oscar-nominated movie about it, 600 million fans, and its CEO just appeared on Saturday Night Live. So where's Facebook going to go from here? Down.

Okay, so maybe not right away.

But it certainly feels like the social-networking site is beginning to sag under its own ponderous weight and prodigious Netscape-era hype. In fact, Facebook is so overhyped that a recent $1.5 billion injection of capital from Goldman, Sachs and others meant it now has an estimated market valuation of approximately $50 billion. 

Indeed, Facebook could be even bigger based on trading in the secondary market (the one for wealthy folks) where according to SharesPost the company is worth over $82 billion -- making it more valuable than Amazon.com.

But it seems like Facebook's days may already be numbered. Why? Facebook started out as a simple, fun place to digitally cavort and post silly, unflattering pictures of one another. It quickly transformed into a miasma of lurking dangers, threats to our personal security and safety, and a great way to get fired -- or worse, prosecuted for goodness-knows-what. Everyone should be a little more cautious about the "social" part of social networking, these days, and for good reason.

Jilted partners use Facebook to stalk the objects of their unrequited love. Mean girls use it for cyberbullying. Avaricious divorce lawyers use it to skewer fighting couples and tip the balance in child-custody battles. The police use it to catch criminals. Criminals use it to find out when victims are away from home and rob them. With FB friends like these, who needs FB?

Even the relatively innocent concept of posting a cheerful picture on the site has become fraught with potential disaster. The problem is that photos are often tagged with date and location information, which it is not necessarily a good thing to share if the pic is of your fancy car parked in front of your home (as a member of the Mythbusters TV show discovered). 

More disturbing yet, face-recognition algorithms are being applied to some photos online. So if someone has identified you in one photo, programs may fan out and automatically tag you in others (at least one erroneous photo of me keeps cropping up online, putting me at an event that I did not in fact attend).

Perhaps Facebook's biggest problem, however, is that it's too bloated to manage any more. Just ask yourself how many times you've hesitated to post some snarky remark because it might be misinterpreted by some FB "friends"? Or thought twice about sharing a vacation picture because an old boyfriend or girlfriend or jealous business colleague might see it? Or even decided not to add a funny shot of your child to your digital album because, well, you don't know who's out there.

The truth is, once you accumulate a certain number of FB friends, you can't be sure who will see what you post -- or what they're going to do with it. And that's Facebook's biggest problem going forward.

Facebook fans will point out that there are ways to solve these social-networking problems. You can set up multiple accounts, for example, and use one profile for business, another for friends. Or you can restrict subgroups of friends from seeing certain comments or pictures by setting up separate friend lists. 

In other words, you can create one list of only family members, another list of business friends, and presumably another list of your "real" friends. Then when you post something, you only post it to the appropriate list (a photo of you playing beer pong, friends only; a shot of you moderating an important business panel, definitely family friendly).

There are several problems with this approach, however. It's about as easy to use as the blinking cursor on an old-school computer -- and about as much fun. It's also not reliable; Facebook keeps changing its privacy settings, so unless you stay on top of the changes you may end up sharing more than you planned. 

Moreover, managing a variety of lists can quickly become a part-time job. You have to remember to move people from one list to another, should their relationship with you change; today's friend is tomorrow's frenemy, after all. And just try explaining to someone why they are on the "co-workers" list and not on your "friends" list. Even remembering who is on which list is a problem. 

Complexity is the enemy of social networking, and complexity is killing Facebook. The beauty of the ancient bulletin board systems from the eighties was that there were so few people on them you didn't need to worry. And no one thought about using something you posted against you in a job interview; they flamed you in ALL CAPS and that was that.

Facebook realizes it has a problem. There's already a "what's the next big thing?" vibe permeating its pages, as if everyone knows we've stopped honestly sharing things on the site because we're either too fearful or simply tired of friending and unfriending romantic partners (or just unfriending people who post too many funny possum videos -- you know who you are). 

So the site is trying its hand at e-mail. It's also trying to work more closely with the world's largest Internet calling service, Skype, and in the process made exactly the same mistakes as eBay. It's even tried to mimic location-based services like Foursquare. None of these moves has been particularly successful.

On the other hand, when Facebook tries to use all that valuable customer information it has accumulated to make money, users holler bloody murder -- and security experts decry any changes as an incursion against our personal liberties. Just wait until Netflix connects to Facebook and the company tries to track all the movies and programs you watch. When you're as big as Facebook, people notice when you start selling their likes and dislikes.

So you can't use Facebook for fun any more. It's also not really for business. And it certainly isn't a safe place to pick up a date. So is the Facebook fad already over?

A lot of big money is betting that the answer is "not yet." But there's no such thing as brand loyalty on the Internet. Remember Prodigy? Remember Pointcast? Remember AOL and Yahoo? They were are all darlings of the digital age, too. 

FB friends can be fickle, and if people from my list of truly cool FB friends join another site, I'll probably go too. After all, nobody wants to miss the next big thing.