Elak polis urus Bank Data DNA

Utusan Online
28 Ogos 2008

KUALA LUMPUR 27 Ogos - Kerajaan disaran mengasingkan pengurusan dan kawalan terhadap Bank Data Forensik Asid Deoksiribonukleik (DNA) daripada pihak polis bagi mengelak tanggapan negatif serta kemungkinan berlaku penyalahgunaan data.

Datuk Halimah Mohd. Sadique (BNTenggara) berkata, Bank Data DNA yang akan ditubuhkan itu wajar diuruskan oleh agensi kerajaan yang lain seperti Jabatan Kimia supaya tidak berlaku konflik kepentingan.

''Saya tidak berniat mempertikai kewibawaan polis dalam hal ini tetapi bimbang akan timbul persepsi dan tohmahan yang jelas telah dibangkitkan oleh pembangkang yang tidak berfikir lain kecuali persepsi negatif kononnya polis akan menyalahgunakan data DNA," ujarnya.

Ketika mengambil bahagian dalam perbahasan Rang Undang-Undang Identifikasi DNA 2008 pada Sidang Dewan Rakyat di sini hari ini, beliau berkata, peruntukan mengenai pelantikan Ketua Bank Data DNA dan timbalannya di kalangan pegawai kanan polis perlu dilihat semula oleh kerajaan.

Menurutnya, oleh kerana siasatan sesuatu kes jenayah melibatkan kerjasama antara polis dan pegawai pengurusan Bank Data DNA yang juga pegawai polis, maka ia boleh menimbulkan konflik kepentingan.

''Walaupun jawatan Ahli Kimia atau pegawai lain bukan polis boleh juga dilantik tetapi mereka tertakluk pada arahan Ketua Bank Data DNA iaitu pegawai polis," katanya.

Sementara itu, Dr. Tan Seng Giew (DAP-Kepong) berkata, rang undang-undang tersebut dikhuatiri menjadikan Malaysia sebuah 'negara polis' dan keyakinan rakyat terhadap pasukan polis semakin terhakis.

Menurutnya, hampir kesemua perkara dalam pelaksanaan rang undang-undang itu melibatkan pasukan polis dan ia memberi imej kurang baik ketika rakyat meragui kewibawaan pasukan tersebut.

Katanya, kerajaan perlu melihat kebimbangan tersebut secara serius bagi menarik balik pembentangan rang undang-undang itu dan dirujukkan pada jawatankuasa pilihan khas bagi dikaji semula.

''Kita tidak mahu rasa berdosa apabila rang undang-undang ini diluluskan, kita mendakwa mereka yang tidak bersalah dan dihukum termasuk hukuman mati," ujarnya.

John Fernandez (DAP-Seremban) pula mempertikaikan Fasal 25 rang undang-undang itu yang memberi kekebalan kepada menteri dan pegawai Bank Data DNA dalam menjalankan tugas berkaitan, daripada tindakan, guaman dan dakwaan jika ia dilakukan dengan suci hati.

Menurutnya, peruntukan itu terlalu luas dan dikhuatiri kemungkinan berlaku salah guna kuasa.

Terdahulu, Datuk Bung Moktar Radin (BN-Kinabatangan) mempertikaikan keraguan pembangkang terhadap rang undang-undang itu kerana ia sebenarnya telah memberi jaminan terhadap demokrasi dan hak asasi manusia.

Selama ini, katanya, pihak berkuasa bertindak dalam hal berkaitan dengan DNA tanpa mempunyai akta yang khusus dan ia boleh menimbulkan keraguan.

Dalam perkembangan sama, Menteri Dalam Negeri, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar menjelaskan, rang undang-undang itu tidak boleh dirujukkan ke jawatankuasa pilihan khas kerana ia telah dibacakan buat kali kedua dan sudah dibahaskan oleh ahli Dewan.

Sementara itu, Yang Dipertua Dewan Rakyat, Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia ketika ditemui memberitahu, beliau akan membuat keputusan esok sama ada rang undang-undang tersebut perlu dirujuk ke jawatankuasa pilihan atau perbahasan diteruskan.

P/S: Aurora bersetuju sekiranya Bank Data DNA ini diuruskan oleh Jabatan lain. Kalau Polis ia pasti akan menimbulkan pelbagai masalah dari semua sudut. Aurora juga rasa Rang Undang-undang DNA ini patut dikaji dan di"study" dengan lebih mendalam supaya tiada loop hole.

Apa dah jadi ni......

Anwar Ibrahim angkat sumpah sebagai ahli Parlimen

28/08/2008 10:22am
Utusan Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR 28 Ogos - Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim hari ini mengangkat sumpah sebagai ahli Parlimen Pemantang Pauh.

Anwar yang memenangi pilihan raya kecil Pematang Pauh pada Selasa lepas mengangkat sumpah pada pukul 10.05 pagi di hadapan Yang Dipertua Dewan Rakyat, Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia.

Beliau memasuki Dewan Rakyat pada pukul 9.50 pagi dengan diiringi oleh Penasihat DAP, Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timur), Mohamad Azmin Ali (PKR-Gombak) serta beberapa ahli Parlimen dari PKR dan DAP.

Acara angkat sumpah itu hanya disaksikan kira-kira 70 ahli Parlimen iaitu 30 orang dari Barisan Nasional (BN) dan 40 lagi dari parti pembangkang. - Utusan

P/S: Aurora pelik la. Dah la BN kalah di Permatang Pauh, kenapa nak kena tunjuk kalah di Parlimen juga.... Tolong la Ahli Parlimen BN semua. Please work together to show to the Opponent MPs that we are strongger n not sour loser.

Walio's The Frog Pond Cafe

Located at 1601 Providence Ave., Chester, PA.
Just found out that they demolished this joint! A place I associated with this song:
Mary Hopkin's Those Were The Days My Friends

Once upon a time, there was a tavern
Where we used to raise a glass or two
Remember how we laughed away the hours,
Think of all the great things we would do
Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we'd choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way
La La La La La La

Then, the busy years went rushing by us
We lost our starry notions on the way
If, by chance, I'd see you in the tavern,
We'd smile at one another and we'd say
Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we'd choose
We'd fight and never lose
Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days
La La La La La La

Just tonight, I stood before the tavern
Nothing seemed the way it used to be
In the glass, I saw a strange reflection
Was that lonely woman really me?
Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we'd choose
We'd fight and never lose
Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days
La La La La La La

Through the door, there came familiar laughter
I saw your face and heard you call my name
Oh, my friend, we're older but no wiser
For in our hearts, the dreams are still the same
Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we'd choose
We'd fight and never lose
Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days
La La La La La
La La La La La La

The Starry Night

The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Oil on canvas
73 × 92 cm, 28¾ × 36¼ in
Museum of Modern Art, New York City

The Starry Night (Dutch: De sterrennacht) is a painting by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The painting depicts the view outside his sanitarium room window at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. Since 1941 it has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Widely hailed as his magnum opus, the painting has been reproduced many times and is one of his most renowned paintings.

Vince Papale

Overview
Vince Papale was a 30-year-old high school teacher when he joined the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles in 1976. Papale's story was remarkable: he had no NFL experience and had run track, not played football, at St. Joseph's University. In 1974 he caught on with the Philadelphia Bell of the World Football League, which folded the next year. In 1976 the Eagle's rookie coach, Dick Vermiel, held open tryouts for players. Papale tried out for Vermiel, was invited to training camp and, against all odds, made the team. Papale spent three seasons with the Eagles (1976-78) as a special teams player and wide receiver. His story was retold in the 2006 movie Invincible, with Mark Wahlberg as Papale.Papale is sometimes compared with Jim Morris, who became a major league baseball rookie at age 35. Morris's story was told in the 2002 film The Rookie... Because he's from Philadelphia, Papale is also sometimes compared with the fictional comeback kid Rocky Balboa... Dick Vermiel coached the Eagles to a Super Bowl loss in 1981 and then won the Super Bowl with the St. Louis Rams in 2000.

The City of Brotherly Love
There are few facts that crosses our path. I was born in 1976, the year Papale became an Eagles. The summer that he went to the camp at Widener. 20 years later, I was halfway of my sophomore year at Widener; but Eagles no longer held their training camp there. (It was in Lehigh in Bethlehem, PA).
It was the One University Place in Chester, PA that changed him, and I believed me too. It rumored that one of the hourly chimes from the Old Main was a tribute to Papale.
As most of the Philadelphians (Phillies?), the downtown at your feet from the Museum of Art (The Rocky's Steps) creates some goosebumps, the priceless sensation. The feeling of believing in yourself!
I lived to that even after quite a time away from the museum, Kelly Drive and the Fairmount park. I am missing countless nights that I spent stargazing there, and the Sundays (free entry) viewing Picassos and Van Goghs. A poster print replica of Van Gogh's Starry Night dominated my dining table, as a tribute to the good old days. Those were the days.

I saw The Invicible with Wahlberg sometime last year, and just finish reading the book by Papale and Millman. Honestly, the book is much more better. A very good inspirational piece.