Jo-Anna Sue Henley Rampas bagged RM 25,000

Although coming 2nd place in Bintang RTM 2009, Jo Ann Rampas bagged a grand total of  RM25,000 apart from being the most popular singer n best peformance RM5,000 each. First place only received RM20,000. I think she will go far. Congrats Jo Ann! Congrats Sabah!

Jordan Chandler LIED about ‘blow job’ Michael Jackson

Two days after the King of Pop, Michael Jackson’s death, an truly sickening news broke out. Jordan Chandler, the child who claimed that Michael Jackson molested him in 1993, went out in public to admit that he LIED. Yes, Jordan Chandler said in an interview that he was never molested by Michael Jackson. He just followed orders from his father Evan Chandler. The case of Jordan Chandler was settled outside court with $20 million. Jordan Chandler said that his conscience was haunting him following the death of the man whose career he destroyed by telling a lie.

Jordan Chandler said that he and his father, Evan Chandler, only did this lies to escape out of poverty. Evan Chandler ordered Jordan Chandler to tell a psychiatrist that he was molested. This maybe the most disgusting lie I have ever heard off. Evan and Jordan Chandler should be put to jail!

Selsema Babi atau Babi Flu oleh Dr Rais

Oleh ANAK MAMI

 

Menteri Penerangan, Komunikasi Dan Kebudayaan Rais Yatim mengesakan selsema Babi adalah penyakit yang membahayakan, beliau tidak mengunakan istilah H1N1 tetapi mencipta istilah baru “Selsema babi’ .
Pihak media prima , RTM Tv tiga suku, Radio TV … semua DJ dan pengacara diwajidkan menggunakan istilah ciptaan Rais Yatim supaya H1N1 digantikan dengan istilah `Selsema babi’, katanya istilah selsema babi boleh memperincikan fahaman untuk orang orang kampong.

Apakah pengertian yang terselindung dlam pengguanaan istilah ciptaannya?
1- Cuba mengelirukan rakyat malaysia , kononnya penyakit ini datang dari BABI
2- Babi dijadikan senjata untuk mempromosikan sikap perkauman antara kaum tionghua dengan golongan beragama Islam.
3- Babi di jadikan bahan lepas geram akibat kekalahan BN dalam tsunami 308 segala bencana akan ditanggung oleh Babi
4- Boleh dikatakan kaum Tionghua ramai yang terlibat dalam kegiatan penternak babi. Sekiranya Rais Yatim dengan niat hati buruk dan bekerjasama dengan Melayu Hipokrik lakukan kacau bilau terhadap penternak babi untuk mengambil tindakan membunuh babi, penternak Babi akan mengalami kerugian yang besar.

Walaupun Rais Yatim salah seorang cerdikiawan yang mempunyai kelayakan PHD, namun otak dan pemikiran tidak kurang sama dengan khinzir, Dia memahami kesensitiviti kaum lain di negara ini, tetapi kenapa hendak mengelirukan rakyat dan cuba memberikan gambaran bahawa selsema babi adalah penyakit dari babi, babi adalah agen penyebar utama…. Tanyakanlah Rais apakah tujuan beliau untuk memalukan kementarian kesihatan , Khasnya Menteri Kesihatan menanggung malu berapakah beratnya juta tan metrik yang di buangkan oleh menteri berotak tahi babi?

Cubalah kita fikirankan kalaulah Rais Yatim bertugas sebagai doktor perubatan, maka beliau akan suruh hospital hospital kerajaan suntikkan ubat babi untuk penyakit H1N1, bagi beliau penyakit haiwan dan penyakit manusia adlaah sama sahaja., ubat suntikan haiwan boleh digunakan oleh manusia juga!!.

Law reforms when one spouse converts to Islam: some solutions?

Islamic law cannot be implemented on those who do not profess Islam. Islamic law and the Syariah Courts must never interfere in any matter in which a non Muslim is involved or which involves non Islamic law matters.

Syariah Courts must only exercise jurisdiction where

    1. ALL parties are persons professing the religion of Islam, and

    2. the matter is a matter of Islamic personal law as expressly legislated by State Assembly, AND

    3. the State Assembly has the power to make such legislation under Item 1 of the State legislative list in the 9th Schedule of the Federal Constitution.

In my view, the Federal Court decisions in Latifah bte Mat Zin v Rosmawati binti Sharibun & Anor [2007] 5 MLJ 101 and Abdul Kahar bin Ahmad v Kerajaan Negeri Selangor (Kerajaan Malaysia, Intervener) & Anor [2008] 3 MLJ 617 have confirmed that the above is the law. Arguments that Syariah Courts somehow have jurisdiction over everything and anything so long as it touches on Islam must now be rejected. We shall see if that actually happens.

Civil Courts must be restored their full judicial power. Civil Court Judges must be especially careful to show that they are deciding these cases without a bias towards the Islamic authorities. The perception now, rightly or wrongly, is that a non Muslim does not get a fair hearing in these situations.

The civil Courts must exercise their supervisory jurisdiction over Syariah Courts which transgress their boundaries. Due respect must be accorded to Article 121(1A) of the Federal Constitution in cases where the Syariah Courts are genuinely vested with jurisdiction and have made a decision. The intention of Article 121(1A), according to Tun Mahathir when moving the Constitutional amendment that gave birth to it, was to prevent Muslim couples who were dissatisfied with Syariah Court orders running to the civil courts to challenge it. It was not meant to immunize the Syariah Court and to allow it to run roughshod over the Constitutional limits on its jurisdiction.

Marriage rights. Either party should be able to petition a civil Court for divorce if one converts to Islam. This is a huge concession by the non Muslim community, given that it is now an easy way for a husband to get a divorce and given the cultural stigma attached to divorced women.

All relief due to a non converting spouse must be determined by civil Courts according to civil law and not Islamic law. There should be no attempt to introduce Islamic law through the back door by making amendments in the civil law, e.g. by creating different provisions or different limitations for women whose husbands convert to Islam. Creating a situation where different rules apply to divorces where a husband converts to Islam will certainly be interpreted as meaning that different principles apply, and it will be a short step to then say Islamic law principles are to be applied. This will then be an incentive to recalcitrant husbands to convert to Islam, and therefore avoid their obligations. It will also not provide a just solution to the families involved.

Children. Both parents must decide religion of children until the child attains 18 and can decide for him or herself. It must be clearly stated that there can be no ‘automatic’ conversion, and it must be clearly provided for that both parents must consent if a child is to be converted to Islam, with explicit recognition that the child can choose his or her own religion in due course.

In many matters relating to the custody and care of children, the discretion is ultimately left to the Court to decide in situations where the parents cannot decide. But in this case, if the Court orders that the child be raised a Muslim or be converted to Islam, under Malaysian law as it now stands the child will never be able to revert to his or her former religion and the other parent will not be able to give the child instruction in their own religion, negating their parental rights.

The position in international human rights law can also be considered. That is that the child decides in accordance with his or her evolving capacity, subject to the right of the parents to give instruction in their own faiths. But this can only work if there are no prohibitions on the child changing his or her religion later in life.

Inheritance rights should not be lost just because of conversion. The Baitulmaal (the fund kept by the Islamic authorities to be distributed for the general welfare of Muslims) or certain Muslim family members alone cannot unjustly enrich themselves. That this is the current position is seen in the case of Majlis Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan v Lim Ee Seng & Yg Lain [2000] 2 AMR (20) 2062, HC.

The Distribution Act 1958 should be reformed so that it applies, subject to Muslim family members of the convert taking their share and then distributing it according to Islamic inheritance laws (called faraid).

The convert can make a will disinheriting his non Muslim family. However, this must be subject to the Inheritance (Family Provisions) Act 1971 which must be amended to allow non Muslim dependant family members to apply to Court for monies out of the estate of the deceased convert.

EPF and Insurance nominations and Pension rights must not be lost just because of the conversion

Conversion into and out of Islam should be a painless process, without the requirement of permission or any penal sanction. There should be a simple notification procedure under the National Registration Act for notification of conversions.

No permission from any party should be required either for conversion into Islam or conversion out of Islam. However, a procedure requiring a notification to family members is welcome. Safeguards must be put in place within civil law and through the civil Courts to ensure that all obligations of the convert are fulfilled.

However, conversion either way cannot be an excuse to evade one’s obligations under the previous law governing your personal status. The Federal Court refused to allow the 4 followers of Ayah Pin to escape criminal prosecutions in the Syariah Courts because they had renounced Islam, ruling that at the time they committed the offences there was no dispute that they still professed themselves to be Muslim: Kamariah binti Ali & Lain-lain lwn Kerajaan Negeri Kelantan & Satu Lagi [2005] 1 MLJ 197, FC

Similarly, converts into Islam should also not be allowed to evade their obligations under the law.

No wonder Malaysia A (H1N1) cases are on the rise

The Star

I WAS made to understand, through media reports, that health screening has been put in place at all entry points into the country. To my disappointment, this is not true!

Last Sunday, my colleagues and I returned from Singapore via the Second Link. At the Tuas checkpoint, we cleared Immigration and Customs. However, there was no health screening on the thousands who entered Malaysia via the checkpoint.

This was in total contrast with what we experienced when we entered Singapore. The authorities there did their parts right.

The Malaysian authorities need to buck up or we will be faced with more people coming down with the A (H1N1) influenza.

MN,

Kuala Lumpur.

Residents want Seri Delima rep to quit

GEORGE TOWN: Residents of Kampung Buah Pala – popularly known as the state’s High Chaparral – have called for the resignation of Seri Delima assemblyman R.S.N. Rayer and for a by-election to be held.

Kampung Buah Pala Residents Association secretary J. Steven said Rayer did not deserve to be their assemblyman as he had failed to fulfil his pledge to help them solve their problems.

The residents are facing the possibility of being evicted from their homes within weeks after the Federal Court ruled in the developer’s favour recently.

“He had promised us that our village would be safe and that it would be over his dead body that the village would be taken away from us.

“But now, he’s avoiding us and whenever we request for a meeting with the Chief Minister, he tells us that the Chief Minister is not free to meet us,” Steven said at a gathering of some 30 residents, who protested in front of Rayer’s house in Tingkat Tembaga, Island Park, last night.

Association chairman M. Sugumaran said the residents also wanted to seek advice and an explanation from Rayer on why he had failed to inform them about a writ of possession dated July 2 issued to them.

He said George Town OCPD Asst Comm Azam Abdul Hamid had informed the residents that they were to vacate the village by July 2.

“We were advised not to disturb the court bailiff or to cause any trouble on that day.”

Sugumaran said the residents felt betrayed by both the previous and the present state governments as nothing had been done to help the residents.

Michael Jackson dikebumi secara Islam ?

LOS ANGELES – Raja Pop Michael Jackson akan disemadi dalam majlis pengebumian terbesar sepanjang sejarah dunia hiburan sekali gus mengalahkan pengebumian Elvis Presley dan James Brown, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Berpuluh-puluh ribu peminat dijangka menghadiri majlis itu yang diramal sehebat pengebumian Puteri Diana.

Walaupun pengumuman mengenainya masih belum dibuat, Michael dijangka disemadi mengikut ajaran Islam berdasarkan pengumuman abangnya, Jermaine.

“Semoga Allah sentiasa bersama anda,” kata Jermaine ketika mengumumkan kematian adiknya kelmarin. 

Michael yang mesra dikenali sebagai Jacko sebelum ini seorang penganut mazhab Kristian Jehovah dilapor memeluk Islam dalam satu majlis di kediaman seorang rakannya, Steve Porcaro di Los Angeles hujung tahun lalu yang turut dihadiri penyanyi popular Yusuf Islam dan beberapa rakan lain.

“Seorang imam dipanggil dan Michael kemudian melafazkan dua kalimah syahadah,” kata satu sumber.

Menurutnya, Michael memilih untuk menggunakan nama Mikaeel sempena nama salah satu malaikat dalam Islam.

Penyanyi berusia 50 tahun itu dilapor memeluk Islam setelah menunjukkan minat mendalam terhadap agama suci itu susulan bimbingan pertubuhan Islam utama di Amerika Syarikat, Nation Of Islam (NOI) yang diasaskan olehWallace D. Fard Muhammad pada 1930 selain tunjuk ajar abangnya, Jermaine yang memeluk Islam pada 1989.

“Sekembalinya saya dari Mekah, saya memberikan beberapa buku tentang Islam kepada Michael dan dia banyak bertanya soalan mengenai ajaran tersebut lalu saya berkata kepadanya, Islam adalah indah dan mententeramkan,” kata Jermaine. – Agensi

Ex-lover circulates man’s nude pictures

A man is appealing to his former girlfriend to stop circulating his nude pictures and to destroy them.

Ng Lum Heng, 44, of Puchong sought the help of the MCA Public Services and Complaints Department after the woman cut off all contact with him.

He claimed he had been living with the 42-year-old woman for three years.

They had met through a friend. In April, Ng decided to take up a job in Qatar for a month because he was facing financial problems.

However, the woman thought it was an excuse to leave her and they had an argument.

While in Qatar, both communicated through the Internet and used the webcam. Ng claimed the woman had saved images of him in the nude.

On returning from Qatar, he discovered the woman had emptied out the house where they were staying.

He did not suspect anything amiss. They even went on a holiday together but Ng did not see the woman after that.

They still kept in touch through the phone with the woman always urging him to divorce his wife.

He had left his wife of nine years and two young sons due to marital problems.

On June 20, his wife, friends and colleagues received e-mails containing his nude pictures.

Ng lost his job in Qatar as a result.

He does not plan to lodge a police report but will do so if the woman does not stop circulating the pictures.

Department chief Datuk Michael Chong said he had received 22 similar cases since 2006, four of them involving male victims.

In more than half of the cases, the victims were unaware they were being filmed.

Singapore pick 1st ‘Melayu’ Army General

The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) will create history on July 1 when it appoints a Malay general.

Colonel Ishak Ismail, 46, a senior Malay officer who has served for 28 years in SAF, is being promoted to Brigadier General, local media reported today.

He was one of the five SAF colonels (the other four non-Malays) who received their appointment letters as Brigadier Generals and a First Admiral during a function at the Defence Ministry yesterday.

Singapore has been criticised by various parties especially the Malay leaders and communities in and outside the island republic including Malaysia for seemingly practising a policy of not giving Malay SAF personnel opportunities to rise to the highest ranks due to concern over their loyalty.

Col Ishak who is SAF Sixth Division Commander since August last year, is among 464 SAF full time and National Service officers promoted this year.

“If this promotion is seen as something that can inspire others, it will also indirectly motivate them to work hard and achieve excellence every time,” he was quoted by Berita Harian Singapura as saying.

Member of Parliament Zaqy Mohamad was quoted by Today newspaper as saying that Col Ishak’s achievement was a milestone for the Malay community in Singapore.

“It’s been talked about that you don’t see Malays serving in the upper echelons of the SAF. Now you’’ve got one, so it dispels some talk,” said Zaqy who added that Col Ishak’s promotion would pave the way for more capable candidates in time.

“I hope it’s not seen as a token appointment,” he said.

Pemangku Sultan Kelantan: Beri ruang Manohara-Tengku selesai krisis

Pemangku Raja Kelantan berharap krisis rumahtangga adindanya dengan Manohara Odelia Pinot dapat diselesaikan melalui proses undang-undang dengan adil-adilnya.

“Saya berharap juga mereka berdua diberi ruang secukupnya untuk menyelesaikan masalah mereka sendiri,” kata Pengelola Istana Diraja Kelantan, Datuk Abdul Halim Hamad hari ini.

Menurut Bernama, kenyataannya dibuat mengikut titah perintah Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra, yang juga Tengku Mahkota
Kelantan, yang dilantik pemangku ayahandanya yang sedang gering.

Istana Kelantan juga mengulangi penegasannya bahawa isu antara Tengku Temenggong Kelantan, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Sultan Ismail Petra dan Manohara sebagai “isu peribadi mereka berdua”.

Abdul Halim turut dipetik berkata isu itu juga tidak sesekali berkaitan
dengan Sultan Ismail Petra Ibni Almarhum Sultan Yahya Petra, pemangku raja Kelantan dan pejabat Sultan Kelantan.

Beliau juga turut memaklumkan bahawa Sultan Kelantan masih dirawat di Hospital Mount Elizabeth, Singapura dan baginda dalam keadaaan stabil.

Katanya, semua keluarga diraja terdekat berada di republik tersebut.

“Segala aktiviti hiburan di negeri Kelantan khususnya yang berkaitan dengan Pejabat Sultan hendaklah mengambil kira dengan keadaan semasa ini,” Abdul Halim dipetik berkata.

Beliau turut meminta semua pihak berdoa agar Sultan Ismail Petra cepat sembuh dan segala masalah yang berkaitan dengan istana selesai dengan sempurna.

Semalam, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry memberi kata dua kepada Manohara agar pulang ke pangkuannya selewat-lewatnya 2 Julai ini atau beliau akan mengambil tindakan lanjut tanpa merujuk isterinya lagi.

Masalah antara pasangan kerabat diraja ini mula muncul di media hujung April lalu apabila ibu Manohara, Daisy Fajarina, mendakwa anaknya didera dan diculik oleh Tengku Muhammad Fakhry.

Isu tersebut hampir reda seketika sehinggalah Manohara sendiri membuat tuduhan seumpama ibunya apabila melarikan diri ke Jakarta, 1 Jun lalu.

Tengku Muhammad Fakhry selama ini menafikan semua dakwaan isterinya dan ibu mertuanya.

Tengku arah Manohara balik M’sia

Tengku Temenggong Kelantan hari ini mengarahkan isterinya  Manohara Odelia Pinot – yang lari ke Jakarta sejak 1 Jun – supaya kembali ke pangkuannya selewat-lewatnya 2 Julai ini.

Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Sultan Ismail Petra mengarah Manohara taat dan kembali ke pangkuannya sebagai suami yang sah di sisi hukum syarak.

Beliau juga mengarahkan Manohara menjalankan tanggungjawabnya sebagai isterinya dan tugasnya sebagai Cik Puan Temenggong Kelantan sebagaimana yang diperakui oleh undang-undang.

“Sekiranya isteri saya tidak kembali taat kepada saya sebagaimana arahan yang tersebut di atas selewat-lewatnya pada atau sebelum 2 Julai 2009, maka saya tidak akan teragak-agak untuk melaksanakan apa jua hak saya yang sah di sini hukum syarak dan undang-undang tanpa merujuk terlebih dahulu kepada isteri saya yang tersebut di atas,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan media khas.

Kenyataan tersebut dikeluarkan melalui firma guaman Tetuan Zainul Rijal Talha & Amir yang difakskan kepada media petang ini.

Sejak kembali bersama ibunya di republik itu, Manohara melemparkan tuduhan-tuduhan serius terhadap suaminya dan membuat aduan polis, termasuk terhadap Sultan Kelantan dan Raja Perempuan Kelantan.

Cik Puan Temenggong Kelantan juga mula berlakon dalam diri drama untuk televisyen di Indonesia.

Tuduhan-tuduhan itu termasuk mendera dan menculik semuanya dinafikan oleh Tengku Temenggong Kelantan, malah membuat aduan polis balas terhadap Manohara.

Berikut kenyataan penuh Tengku Temenggong Kelantan:

Dengan Nama Allah Yang Maha Pemurah Lagi Maha Mengasihani,
Segala Puji Bagi Allah Tuhan Semesta Alam.

Kepada:
Manohara Odelia Pinot,
Cik Puan Temenggong Kelantan.

Bahawasanya saya Tengku Muhammad Fakhry ibn Sultan Ismail Petra, Tengku Temenggong Kelantan, suami yang sah kepada Manohara Odelia Pinot, Cik Puan Temenggong Kelantan dengan ini mengarahkan isteri saya yang tersebut di atas kembali taat ke pangkuan saya, iaitu suami beliau yang sah di sisi Hukum Syarak serta menjalankan tanggungjawabnya sebagai isteri saya sebagaimana yang dituntut mengikut Hukum Syarak dan tugas sebagai Cik Puan Temenggong Kelantan sebagaimana yang diperakui oleh Undang-Undang.

Sekiranya isteri saya yang tersebut di atas tidak kembali taat kepada saya sebagaimana arahan yang tersebut di atas selewat-lewatnya pada atau sebelum 2hb Julai 2009, maka saya tidak akan teragak-agak untuk melaksanakan apa jua hak saya yang sah di sisi Hukum Syarak dan Undang-Undang tanpa merujuk terlebih dahulu kepada isteri saya yang tersebut di atas.

Saya menegaskan bahawa sesungguhnya tempat seorang isteri adalah di sisi suaminya. Isteri wajib mematuhi arahan dan perintah suaminya selagi mana ia tidak melanggar Hukum Syarak dan Undang-undang.

Saya telah melantik Tuan Haji Zainul Rijal bin Abu Bakar, Peguam Sharie dari firma Tetuan Zainul Rijal Talha & Amir yang beralamat di Suite 15-5, Jalan USJ 9/5Q, Subang Business Centre, 47620 UEP Subang Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia bagi mengendalikan kes-kes syariah bagi pihak saya.

Sebarang kemusykilan syariah bolehlah dikemukakan kepada peguam Syarie saya yang tersebut di atas.

Manakala bagi guaman sivil pula saya telah melantik En Mohd Haaziq Pillay dari Tetuan J S Pillay & Mohd Haaziq, Unit B-3A-3, Block B, Megan Avenue 1, 189, Jalan Tun Razak, 50400 Kuala Lujmpur bagi pihak saya.

Sebarang kemusykilan mengenai undang-undang sivil bolehlah kemukakan kepada beliau.

Sekian wassalam.

Yang benar,

(tandatangan)
Tengku Muhammad Fakhry ibn Sultan Ismail Petra,
Tengku Temenggong Kelantan

Farrah Fawcett, 70’s sex symbol actress dies

(CNN) — Farrah Fawcett, the blonde-maned actress whose best-selling poster and “Charlie’s Angels” stardom made her one of the most famous faces in the world, died Thursday. She was 62.

Farrah Fawcett rose to fame in the 1970s, thanks to a best-selling poster and the hit show “Charlie Angels.”

Fawcett’s death was confirmed by Paul Bloch, one of her representatives at Rogers and Cowan, an entertainment public relations firm.

Fawcett, who checked into a hospital in early April, had been battling anal cancer on and off for three years.

Bloch told CNN that Ryan O’Neal, Fawcett’s romantic partner since the mid-1980s, and her friend Alana Stewart were with Fawcett at Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California, when she died. 

“Although this is an extremely difficult time for her family and friends, we take comfort in the beautiful times that we shared with Farrah over the years and the knowledge that her life brought joy to so many people around the world,” O’Neal said in a written statement.  

O’Neal is the father of Fawcett’s son, Redmond O’Neal, born in 1985. Redmond O’Neal is in an intense rehabilitation program conducted in the Los Angeles county jail, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore told CNN on Thursday.

Fawcett’s son was informed on Wednesday night by a grief counselor and a chaplain that his mother’s death was imminent, and a grief counselor and chaplain also told him when she died, Whitmore said.

The young man, who is currently with a chaplain, has spoken with his father, Whitmore said.

Ryan O’Neal had recently told People magazine that the sex symbol was declining.

“She stays in bed now. The doctors see that she is comfortable. Farrah is on IVs, but some of that is for nourishment. The treatment has pretty much ended,” he said in a story posted May 7.

Friends of Farrah Fawcett

 

Fawcett’s cancer journey has been documented in a television special partly shot by the actress. Fawcett began shooting “Farrah’s Story,” by taking a camera to a doctor’s appointment. Eventually, the film expanded to include trips overseas in hopes of treating the cancer.  

 Fawcett’s beauty — her gleaming smile was printed on millions of posters — initially made her famous. But she later established herself as a serious actress. She starred as a battered wife in the 1984 TV movie “The Burning Bed.” She appeared on stage as a woman who extracts vengeance from a would-be rapist in William Mastrosimone’s play “Extremities.”

She reprised the “Extremities” role on film in 1986. Other Fawcett films include “Logan’s Run” (1976), “Saturn 3” (1980), “The Cannonball Run” (1981), “The Apostle” (1997) and the Robert Altman-directed “Dr. T and the Women” (2000).

To many, Fawcett will always be best known for her red-swimsuited image on the pinup poster, which sold a reputed 12 million copies after its release in 1976. Fawcett was a model best known for bit parts, commercials and as “Six Million Dollar Man” actor Lee Majors’ wife when she shot the poster in early 1976 at the behest of Pro Arts, a Cleveland, Ohio, company.

Photographer Bruce McBroom placed Fawcett — then known as Farrah Fawcett-Majors — in the Indian blanket-draped front seat of his 1937 Chevy and snapped away. Fawcett did her own hair — a long, tousled cascade of blonde locks — picked out the red bathing suit and chose the frame later used for the poster, according to a story in the Toronto Star.

The poster, with Fawcett’s million-dollar smile front and center, became a sensation.

Soon after the photo shoot, Fawcett was asked to join the cast of a new Aaron Spelling TV show, “Charlie’s Angels,” about a trio of female detectives who work for a mysterious man named Charlie, whose only appearance in the show was through his voice (supplied by John Forsythe).  Fawcett, who played Jill Munroe, was the last to be cast. Co-star Kate Jackson was the known name at the time, but thanks to her poster, Fawcett became the breakout star.

The highly rated TV series kicked off what came to be known as “jiggle TV,” series full of pretty actresses who appeared in bikinis at the drop of a hat.

 “Denunciations of ‘massage parlor television’ and ‘voyeurism’ only brought more viewers to the screen, to see what the controversy was about,” wrote Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh about “Charlie’s Angels” in their indispensable reference, “The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows.”

ABC’s “Three’s Company” and CBS’s “The American Girls” were among the shows that immediately followed, and shows such as “Baywatch” owe “Charlie’s Angels” a debt.

But Fawcett didn’t stay with “Angels” long. At the end of the first season, unhappy with her contract, she left the show and was replaced by Cheryl Ladd.

Fawcett’s career stagnated for a time after “Charlie’s Angels.” She appeared in a handful of forgettable films and divorced Majors.

But her career received a major boost with her starring role in “The Burning Bed,” a 1984 TV movie co-starring Paul Le Mat. Fawcett played an abused wife who sets fire to her husband’s bed as he lies sleeping. Fawcett received an Emmy nomination for her performance.

Fawcett also became romantically involved with O’Neal around this time. The pair had a son, Redmond, in 1985.

In recent years, Fawcett has appeared sporadically in the public eye. She posed nude for Playboy in 1995. In 1997, she appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” an interview that became notorious for Fawcett’s apparent incoherence. She later said she was just having fun with Letterman.

She reunited with her “Charlie’s Angels” co-stars, Jackson and Jaclyn Smith, for an awards show in 2006.

Fawcett was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1947. She married Majors in 1973; they divorced nine years later.

Michael Jackson dead at 50

The king of Pop is dead.

(CNN) — Michael Jackson, the show-stopping singer whose best-selling albums — including “Off the Wall,” “Thriller” and “Bad” — and electrifying stage presence made him one of the most popular artists of all time, died Thursday, CNN has confirmed.

Michael Jackson, shown in 2008, was one of the biggest pop stars in history.

He was 50.

He collapsed at his residence in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles, California, about noon Pacific time, suffering cardiac arrest, according to brother Randy Jackson. He died at UCLA Medical Center.

Lt. Fred Corral of the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office said an autopsy would probably be done on the singer Friday, with results expected that afternoon.

“Michael Jackson made culture accept a person of color,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said. “To say an ‘icon’ would only give these young people in Harlem a fraction of what he was. He was a historic figure that people will measure music and the industry by.”

Jackson’s blazing rise to stardom — and later fall from grace — is among the most startling of show business tales. The son of a steelworker, he rose to fame as the lead singer of the Jackson 5, a band he formed with his brothers in the late 1960s. By the late ’70s, as a solo artist, he was topping the charts with cuts from “Off the Wall,” including “Rock With You” and “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.”

In 1982, he released “Thriller,” an album that eventually produced seven hit singles. An appearance the next year on a Motown Records 25th-anniversary special cemented his status as the biggest star in the country. Timeline: The life of Michael Jackson »

For the rest of the 1980s, they came no bigger. “Thriller’s” follow-up, 1987’s “Bad,” sold almost as many copies. A new Jackson album — a new Jackson appearance — was a pop culture event. iReport: Share your memories of Michael Jackson

The pop music landscape was changing, however, opening up for rap, hip-hop and what came to be called “alternative” — and Jackson was seen as out of step.

His next release, 1991’s “Dangerous,” debuted at No. 1 but “only” produced one top-ranking single — “Black or White” — and that song earned criticism for its inexplicably violent ending, in which Jackson was seen smashing car windows and clutching his crotch.

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And then “Dangerous” was knocked out of its No. 1 spot on the album charts by Nirvana’s “Nevermind,” an occurrence noted for its symbolism by rock critics.

After that, more attention was paid to Jackson’s private life than his music career, which faltered. A 1995 two-CD greatest hits, “HIStory,” sold relatively poorly, given the huge expense of Jackson’s recording contract: about 7 million copies, according to Recording Industry of America certifications.

A 2001 album of new material, “Invincible,” did even worse.

In 2005, he went to trial on child-molestation charges. He was acquitted.

In July 2008, after three years away from the spotlight, Jackson announced a series of concerts at London’s O2 Arena as his “curtain call.” Some of the shows, initially scheduled to begin in July, were eventually postponed until 2010.

Rise to stardom

Michael Jackson was born August 29, 1958, to Joe Jackson, a Gary, Indiana, steelworker, and his wife, Katherine. By the time he was 6, he had joined his brothers in a musical group organized by his father, and by the time he was 10, the group — the Jackson 5 — had been signed to Motown.

He made his first television appearance at age 11.

Jackson, a natural performer, soon became the group’s front man. Music critic Langdon Winner, reviewing the group’s first album, “Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5,” for Rolling Stone, praised Michael’s versatile singing and added, “Who is this ‘Diana Ross,’ anyway?”

The group’s first four singles — “I Want You Back,” “ABC,” “The Love You Save” and “I’ll Be There” — went to No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart, the first time any group had pulled off that feat. There was even a Jackson 5 cartoon series on ABC.

In 1972, he hit No. 1 as a solo artist with the song “Ben.”

The group’s popularity waned as the ’70s continued, and Michael eventually went solo full time. He played the Scarecrow in the 1978 movie version of “The Wiz,” and released the album “Off the Wall” in 1979. Its success paved the way for “Thriller,” which eventually became the best-selling album in history, with 50 million copies sold worldwide.

At that point, Michael Jackson became ubiquitous.

Seven of “Thriller’s” nine cuts were released as singles; all made the Top Ten. The then-new cable channel MTV, criticized for its almost exclusively white playlist, finally started playing Jackson’s videos. They aired incessantly, including a 14-minute minimovie of the title cut. (“Weird Al” Yankovic cemented his own stardom by lampooning Jackson’s song “Beat It” with a letter-perfect parody video.)

On the Motown Records’ 25th-anniversary special — a May 1983 TV extravaganza with notable turns by the Temptations, the Four Tops and Smokey Robinson — it was Michael Jackson who stopped the show.

Already he was the most popular musician in America, riding high with “Thriller.” But something about his electrifying performance of “Billie Jean,” complete with the patented backward dance moves, boosted his stardom to a new level.

People copied his Jheri-curled hair and single-gloved, zippered-jacket look. Showbiz veterans such as Fred Astaire praised his chops. He posed for photos with Ronald and Nancy Reagan at the White House. Paul McCartney teamed with him on three duets, two of which — “The Girl Is Mine” and “Say Say Say” — became top five hits. Jackson became a Pepsi spokesman, and when his hair caught fire while making a commercial, it was worldwide news.

It all happened very fast — within a couple years of the Motown special. But even at the time of the “Motown 25” moonwalk, fame was old hat to Michael Jackson. He hadn’t even turned 25 himself, but he’d been a star for more than half his life. He was given the nickname the “King of Pop” — a spin on Elvis Presley’s status as “the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” — and few questioned the moniker.

Relentless attention

But, as the showbiz saying has it, when you’re on top of the world, there’s nowhere to go but down. The relentless attention given Jackson started focusing as much on his eccentricities — some real, some rumored — as his music.

As the Web site Allmusic.com notes, he was rumored to sleep in a hyperbaric chamber and to have purchased the bones of John Merrick, the “Elephant Man.” (Neither was true.) He did have a pet chimpanzee, Bubbles; underwent a series of increasingly drastic plastic surgeries; established an estate, Neverland, filled with zoo animals and amusement park rides; and managed to purchase the Beatles catalog from under Paul McCartney’s nose, which displeased the ex-Beatle immensely.

In 1990s and 2000s, Jackson found himself pasted across the media for his short-lived marriages, the first to Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie; his 2002 claim that then Sony Records head Tommy Mottola was racist; his behavior and statements during a 2003 interview with British journalist Martin Bashir done for a documentary called “Living With Michael Jackson;” his changing physical appearance; and, above all, the accusations that he sexually molested young boys at Neverland.

The first such accusation, in 1993, resulted in a settlement to the 13-year-old accuser (rumored to be as high as $20 million), though no criminal charges were filed, Allmusic.com notes.

He also fell deeply in debt and was forced to sell some of his assets. Neverland was one of many holdings that went on the block. However, an auction of material from Neverland, scheduled for April, was called off and all items returned to Jackson.

Interest in Jackson never faded, however, even if some of it was prurient. In 2008, when he announced 10 comeback shows in London, beginning in July 2009, the story made worldwide news. The number of concerts was later increased to 50.

Seventy-five thousand tickets sold in four hours when they went on sale in March.

However, when the shows were postponed until 2010, rumors swept the Internet that Jackson was not physically prepared and possibly suffering from skin cancer.

At the time, the president and CEO of AEG Live, Randy Phillips, said, “He’s as healthy as can be — no health problems whatsover.”

Sabahans celebrate Kaamatan in Klang

KLANG: Although the month-long Kaamatan celebration ended more than three weeks ago, Sabahans residing in Klang decided it was still not too late to hold their very own version of the Harvest Festival.

Last Sunday, a group of them together with the Malaysia Momogun Association organised a mini Kaamatan bazaar at the SJK (C) Pandamaran B which was graced by Minister of Plantation Industries & Commodities, Tan Sri Bernard Dompok and his wife Puan Sri Diana.

More than 500 people showed up at the bazaar including local leaders to sample the variety of traditional food and drink as well as enjoy cultural performances.

In his speech, Dompok said he was pleased to note that many Sabahans residing in the peninsular had become successful and had not forgotten their culture.

“I urge them to continue working hard and to make something of themselves here. Be open to ideas and technology to advance no matter what our jobs are,” he said.

Meanwhile, deputy organizing chairman John Gaji said they felt honoured to have a minister from Sabah in their midst.

Francisco Lo, originally from Kg Kionsom in Inanam was happy to be able to get to know other Sabahans in Klang Valley.

“This is the first Kaamatan outside of Sabah for me since coming over here six years ago. It feels good because it doesn’t make me miss home so much anymore,” he said.

SAPP accepts challenge by Tan

SAPP accepts BN’s challenge to re-contest 6 seats issued by Gerakan new national Vice President Raymond Tan

Kota Kinabalu, 25 June 2009: The two assemblypersons and two MPs of SAPP are ready and willing to accept the challenge of Parti Gerakan’s new national Vice President Datuk Raymond Tan to re-contest their respective seats using the SAPP symbol. Raymond Tan has issued this challenge in a local newspaper today.

In a joint press statement, SAPP’s two assemblypersons namely, Melanie Chia Chui Ket and Datuk Liew Teck Chan; two MPs Datuk Eric Majimbun and Datuk Dr Chua Soon Bui said, since Raymond Tan claims moral standing, SAPP reciprocates his challenge to him (Raymond) and his Parti Gerakan colleague Au Kam Wah who is Elopura Assemblyman to resign their seats and re-contest under the BN-Gerakan. This is because they have switched parties after winning their seats which have been held by SAPP ever since 1994.

“If not for SAPP, they would not have been candidates in previous elections. And if not because of the efforts of members and supporters, they would not have been YBs holding high and lucrative posts in the government today. Raymond Tan and Au Kam Wah were never members of the BN because there is no provision for individual members in BN. They were members of SAPP who used SAPP’s party machinery and members to win elections.

“As a lawyer and four term YB, Datuk Raymond is not so ignorant that Article 17 (5) of the Sabah Constitution and Article 48(6) of the Federal Constitution forbid a member of the House from re-contesting in an election for five years if he resigns his seat.

“Therefore, SAPP calls on Parti Gerakan to get the BN government to put into effect:

(a) The amendment to the Federal and Sabah constitutions to allow for members of the State Assembly and Parliament to re-contest their seats in by-elections after their respective resignations,

(b) The simultaneous resignations of Datuk Raymond Tan (Tanjong Papat) and Au Kam Wah (Elopura) with the SAPP’s assemblypersons Datuk Liew Teck Chan (Likas), Melanie Chia Chui Ket (Luyang) and members of parliament Datuk Eric Majimbun (Sepanggar) and Datuk Dr. Chua Soon Bui (Tawau).

Dokumen kes ibu Manohara, Daisy dibongkar?

Blog – yang sering mempertahankan seorang putera Sultan Kelantan – mendedahkan beberapa dokumen yang didakwa menunjukkan ibu Manohara Odelia Pinot pernah lari daripada kes mahkamah di Perancis.

Truth Appeared, blog yang menerbitkan siri foto peribadi Manohara dengan suaminya Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra sejak April, semalam menerbitkan 25 halaman dokumen satu kes di mahkamah majistret.

Satu sumber yang dekat dengan kerabat diraja itu, ketika dihubungi Malaysiakini, berkata dokumen yang didedahkan “100 peratus benar”.

Dokumen-dokumen itu yang asalnya dalam bahasa Perancis, diterjemahkan ke bahasa Inggeris oleh Pusat Bahasa Perancis di Kuala Lumpur, dipercayai dibuat baru-baru ini.

Dokumen asal bagaimanapun tidak ditunjukkan di blog tersebut dan oleh itu tidak dapat disahkan secara bebas.

Dokumen terjemahan itu menyatakan, antaranya, ibu bekas model muda itu Daisy Fajarina tidak pernah menghadiri kes tersebut dan didapati bersalah dengan hukuman penjara 18 bulan.

Beliau didakwa gagal membayar pembantu rumahnya, seorang warga Indonesia bernama Shaliha Lanti, sewaktu tinggal di Nice selama tiga tahun sejak 2004.

Waran tangkap

Dokumen yang sama menyatakan waran tangkap dikeluarkan terhadapnya pada 26 Jun 2007.

Blog itu juga mendedahkan beberapa siri dokumen mahkamah itu, antaranya laporan-laporan perubatan dan sosial Shaliha serta kertas pertuduhan terhadap Daisy.

Menurut dokumen itu, mahkamah daerah Grasse juga mengeluarkan perintah supaya polis mencari dan memenjarakan Daisy mengikut peruntukan undang-undang negara Eropah itu.

Suaminya ketika itu Jurgen Reiner Noack-Pinot turut didapati bersalah melakukan serangan seksual terhadap bekas pembantu mereka itu pada awal 2007 dan dijatuhkan hukuman empat bulan penjara.

Mahkamah juga memerintahkan Daisy dan dan Noack-Pinot membayar sebanyak 16,000 euro (RM79,600) sebagai ganti rugi terhadap Shaliha, kini berumur 25 tahun.

Shaliha sebelum itu dalam aduannya kepada polis di Perancis mendakwa menjadi mangsa penganiayaan majikannya – menyebabkan beliau sakit kepala, lengan dan bahagian bawah tubuh, perut dan pinggul, paha serta mengalami kejutan psikologi.

Laporan perubatan

Laporan perubatan Saliha yang dikemukakan kepada mahkamah mengesahkan terdapat beberapa kecederaan di tubuhnya serta menderita kejutan psikologi yang serius.

Peguam Manohara di Malaysia, Mohamed Zaini Mazlan ketika dihubungi enggan mengulas perkara itu.

Manohara dan Daisy sering melemparkan dakwaan Tengku Muhammad Fakhry pernah mendera isterinya.

Bagaimanapun putera Sultan Kelantan itu menafikan semua dakwaan tersebut, termasuk yang terbaru melalui stesen televisyen republik tersebut, TVOne, semalam

Dalam rakaman temubual ringkas itu, dipercayai di Malaysia, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry mempertikaikan dakwaan Manohara pernah diseterika di bahagian leher dan mengingatkan Manohara bahawa dakwaan negatif boleh menggugat peluang isterinya mendapat pekerjaan.

Kenyataan terbuka putera sultan itu kali pertama sejak dakwaan-dakwaan berat dihadapkan padanya 20 April lalu

H1N1: Flu burung lebih banyak korban?

Kadar kematian akibat selesema A (H1N1) hanya satu peratus, jauh lebih rendah berbanding kadar 60 peratus bagi wabak selesema burung, kata menteri kesihatan.

Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai dengan itu meminta orang ramai supaya jangan bimbang dengan virus A (H1N1) selagi pesakit yang dijangkiti mendapatkan rawatan dalam tempoh 48 jam, lapor Bernama.

“Jika pesakit mendapatkan rawatan selepas tempoh 48 jam, maka mereka berdepan dengan beberapa risiko walaupun kadar kematian hanya satu peratus,” beliau dipetik berkata hari ini.

Liow juga menggesa media khususnya televisyen agar tidak menggunakan istilah selesema babi tetapi sebaliknya menggunakan istilah influenza A (H1N1), istilah perubatan yang diperakui oleh Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia (WHO).

“Virus ini bukan disebarkan dari khinzir kepada manusia. Pihak media
perlu memberi perhatian kepada istilah tersebut supaya orang ramai tidak keliru,” katanya.

Sementara itu, Persatuan Ulama Malaysia (PUM) meminta masyarakat Islam di negara ini mengadakan solat hajat serta doa tolak bala bagi memohon perlindungan daripada Allah dalam menghadapi wabak ini.

Setiausaha PUM Dr Mohd Roslan Mohd Nor berkata, sehubungan
itu, pengurusan masjid serta surau di seluruh negara diminta mengadakan solat hajat di kawasan masing-masing, lapor agensi berita yang sama.

“PUM juga menyarankan agar masjid menggunakan waktu khutbah Jumaat untuk memberi maklumat dan ingatan kepada masyarakat tentang virus influenza A(H1N1) ini,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan.

Rais ‘berkeras’ unakan Istilah Selesema Babi

(Bernama) — Menteri Penerangan Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim mencadangkan supaya semua pengamal media kembali menggunakan istilah selesema babi bagi menggantikan istilah influenza A(H1N1) yang digunakan sekarang.

Rais berkata ini bagi memastikan orang ramai sedar akan bahaya selesema ini dan mesej mengenainya dapat disampaikan dengan lebih tepat kepada mereka.

“Bila dalam Bahasa Melayu pula ada juruhebah yang enggan nak sebut H1N1, jadi kalau selesema babi, kan senang,” katanya kepada pemberita selepas mengadakan lawatan rasmi ke Pos Malaysia di sini, Khamis.

Rais juga berkata kementeriannya akan memantau program-program yang menyiarkan iklan-iklan yang berkaitan dengan kesihatan agar tiada kekeliruan mengenai ketepatan mesej serta kefahaman orang ramai mengenai selesema babi.

“Hal yang berkaitan dengan kesihatan kita tidak harus campur aduk dengan gara-gara atau cara-cara iklan yang mengelirukan. Kami akan pantau iklan yang disiarkan di televisyen dan melihatnya dari sudut ketepatan mesej serta fahaman orang,” kata Rais.

Son of Sabah Deputy CM infected with H1N1 virus?

Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Peter Pang and his family have put themselves on home quarantine after his son, who returned to Sandakan from Melbourne, was confirmed to be the state’s second Influenza A( H1N1) case. “As responsible citizens, Pang and his family have taken the immediate step to quarantine themselves as a precaution,” his political secretary Jason Tan said. Pang, his wife and two daughters are in self isolation after Pang’s 17-year-old son was confirmed by Health authorities on Jun 24 to have been infected and put in the isolation ward of the Duchess of Kent Hospital here. Tan said that Pang’s son condition was stable. Pang, who is state Youth and Sports Minister, was scheduled to launch the state level students’ forum competition at SM Tshung Tsin Thursday but was represented by state Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Masidi Manjun.

“Non-Muslims have no locus standi”

By Deborah Loh, The Nut Graph

The non-Muslim family members of Mohan Singh a/l Janot Singh cannot be a party to the dispute over his body as the core issue of his religious status at the time of death can only be determined by the Syariah Court, the High Court here heard.

Lawyer for the Selangor Islamic Council (Mais), Hanif Khatri Abdullah, said only “in the event” that the Syariah Court determines Mohan as non-Muslim at death, would his family members have lawful claim over his body.

“The argument of the applicants that they cannot be made a party in the Syariah Court is a non-starter … the applicants do not have locus to be a lawful party on this issue,” Hanif said in his submissions to the court which began hearing arguments on jurisdiction on Friday, 19 June. The court will also continue hearing submissions tomorrow.

Hanif’s submission was adopted in total by the federal government and the Selangor government which are also respondents in the judicial review filed by Mohan’s family, who are all Sikh.

The federal government is represented by senior federal counsel Shamsul Bolhassan and the Selangor government by deputy state legal adviser Md Azhari Abu Hanit.

Mohan’s body is still being held at the Sungai Buloh Hospital mortuary. His family has filed for a judicial review on the hospital’s refusal to release his body to them for burial. The case is being heard by judge Rosnaini Saub.

Besides Mais, and the federal and Selangor governments, Mohan’s family have also named as respondents, the Health Ministry director-general, the Sungai Buloh Hospital director-general, and the Malaysian Consultative Council for Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism.

Film director Mohan, who died of a heart attack on 25 May, had allegedly converted to Islam on 11 Aug 1992.

Salary cut for GLC confirm! Government salary remains.

The 400,000 workers in government-linked companies (GLCs) have been forewarned to brace for a salary cut by September because of the economic downturn, MTUC vice-president Mustafa Maarof disclosed today.

This was conveyed to the unions when the management of these companies headed by Khazanah Nasional met the workers’ representatives recently.

Mustafa, who is also the executive secretary of the Malaysia Airlines System (MAS) Employees Union, told Bernama that the management also told them that “if the salary cut does not improve the companies” results, then they should expect to be subjected to either a mutual separation scheme (MSS) or voluntary separation scheme (VSS)”.

Besides MAS, 90 other companies are also categorised as GLCs, among them, Sime Darby, Tenaga Nasional, Telekom Malaysia, Felda, Felcra, Pos Malaysia and Bernas.

Almost 200,000 of the workers in these companies are former civil servants who opted for the new entities when their departments were privatised in the early 80’s and 90’s.

Mustafa said the GLCs should not use the economic downturn as a reason for their move to reduce their workforce.

“We understand that some of the companies are doing very well and their top executives are highly paid and enjoy excellent perks like large bonuses and entertainment allowance.

“What they intend to do is to retrench the middle and lower-level staff.
“But why should the general workers be penalised for the weakness in management?” he said.

Moreover, he added, the government had assured that as far as possible it would prevent job cuts and had allocated sufficient money under the second economic stimulus package.

Meanwhile, the president of the newly-formed Congress of Unions in GLCs Malaysia, Mohamed Shafie B.P. Mammal, said the workers would soon submit a memorandum to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on their grouses, particularly the pension formulas and pensionable age and promotional opportunities.

According to him, almost 80 per cent of workers in the GLCs who were former civil servants were getting pensions of less than RM200 per month.

“We will be asking the government to increase the minimum pension to RM720 per month as being enjoyed by their counterparts in the civil service,” he said.

Mohamed Shafie said the other demands were to raise the pension age to 58 years, and to stop the frequent restructuring and reorganisation of GLCs and the frequent change of CEOs of the GLCs.

He said promotional opportunities were also much less for the workers because the management were bringing in new workers from outside and putting them in higher positions.

This, he pointed out, was detrimental to the morale and productivity of the workers. – Bernama