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Eight killed in five-vehicle crash near toll plaza

picture from Utusan Online

NEWS SOURCE: The Star Online

ALOR STAR: Seven members of a family and another person were killed in a horrific accident near the Hutan Kampung toll plaza, near here, yesterday.

The 3.53pm incident occurred after a trailer rammed into a Proton Iswara carrying the family and a Perodua Kancil in front of it.

The family was pinned under the wheels of the trailer as the heavy vehicle crashed into the Kancil, in which the eighth victim was travelling.

All eight died on the spot while a six-month-old boy in the Kancil was left in an unconscious state. The child’s mother, the driver of the car, suffered a fractured right leg.

The impact caused the Kancil to crash into an Isuzu Trooper, which, in turn, rammed into another trailer.

All five vehicles were heading towards Bukit Kayu Hitam, at the Malaysian-Thai border.

The incident, which occurred about 200m from the toll plaza, caused a traffic jam for over two hours.

Among the dead were three children, identified as Mohd Afif Alias, six, Nurul Izati Alias, four, and one-year-old Uzma Daniel Syahril.

They were travelling with their grandfather Ilias Salleh, 54, and three of his children: Suraya Ilias, 32, Mohd Azlan Ilias, 31, and Sawiyah Ilias, 27.

The victim in the Kancil was identified as Wan Rohani Wan Ibrahim, 54, who was travelling with her daughter Umi Syakila Sobri, 23, and grandson six-month-old Mohd Aris Irfan.

The driver and two passengers in the Isuzu escaped unharmed.

Rescuers took 90 minutes to extricate the bodies of the victims from the mangled Iswara.

Ilias and his family, from Kampung Baru in Tasek Gelugor, near Butterworth, were believed to be going to a relative’s house in Changlun.

Wan Rohani and her daughter were on their way home to Kampung Lubok Batu in Wang Tepus, Jitra, after visiting a relative who had delivered a baby at the Alor Star Hospital.

Kota Setar OCPD Asst Comm Zainal Abidin Kasim said the driver of the trailer had lodged a report and told police he could not stop his vehicle in time.

The Truth Behind This Month’s Blue Moon

Source: Yahoo Online

Joe Rao
SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist
SPACE.com

Thursday, May 31 brings us the second of two full Moons for North Americans this month. Some almanacs and calendars assert that when two full Moons occur within a calendar month, that the second full Moon is called the “Blue Moon.”

The full Moon that night will likely look no different than any other full Moon. But the Moon can change color in certain conditions.

After forest fires or volcanic eruptions, the Moon can appear to take on a bluish or even lavender hue. Soot and ash particles, deposited high in the Earth’s atmosphere can sometimes make the Moon appear bluish. Smoke from widespread forest fire activity in western Canada created a blue Moon across eastern North America in late September 1950. In the aftermath of the massive eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in June 1991 there were reports of blue moons (and even blue Suns) worldwide.

Origin of the term

The phrase “Once in a blue Moon” was first noted in 1824 and refers to occurrences that are uncommon, though not truly rare. Yet, to have two full Moons in the same month is not as uncommon as one might think. In fact, it occurs, on average, about every 32 months. And in the year 1999, it occurred twice in a span of just three months!

For the longest time no one seemed to have a clue as to where the “Blue Moon Rule” originated. Many years ago in the pages of Natural History magazine, I speculated that the rule might have evolved out of the fact that the word “belewe” came from the Old English, meaning, “to betray.” “Perhaps,” I suggested, “the second full Moon is ‘belewe’ because it betrays the usual perception of one full moon per month.”

But as innovative as my explanation was, it turned out to be completely wrong.

More mistakes

It was not until the year 1999 that the origin of the calendrical term “Blue Moon” was at long last discovered. It was during the time frame from 1932 through 1957 that the Maine Farmers’ Almanac suggested that if one of the four seasons (winter, spring, summer or fall) contained four full Moons instead of the usual three, that the third full Moon should be called a “Blue Moon.”

But thanks to a couple of misinterpretations of this arcane rule, first by a writer in a 1946 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine, and much later, in 1980 in a syndicated radio program, it now appears that the second full Moon in a month is the one that’s now popularly accepted as the definition of a “Blue Moon.”

This time around, the Moon will turn full on May 31 at 9:04 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (6:04 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time).

But for those living in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, that same full Moon occurs after midnight, on the calendar date of June 1. So in these regions of world, this will not be second of two full Moons in May, but the first of two full Moons in June. So, if (for example) you live London, you’ll have to wait until June 30 to declare that the Moon is “officially” blue.

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Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York’s Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for The New York Times and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, New York.

Dikompaun RM22,500 — Restoran jual Milo ais RM1.80 dikenakan denda maksimum

Adakah KPDNHEP akan bertindak tegas ke atas peniaga yang menaikkan harga 6 bulan dari sekarang.

Apa akan jadi kepada harga petrol & toll dalam masa 12 bulan dari sekarang?

//Abu Muhammad

Source: Utusan Malaysia Online

Oleh Rajmah Hasan

KUALA TERENGGANU 27 Mei – Peniaga yang mahu mengambil kesempatan mengadakan ‘pesta naik harga’ ekoran berita kenaikan gaji kakitangan kerajaan bermulai Julai ini perlu berfikir dua kali selepas ini.

Hari ini, Restoran Nasi Kandar Tanjung di Jalan Hiliran di sini yang menjual Milo ais dengan harga RM1.80 segelas melebihi harga biasa, menerima ‘padah’ apabila dikenakan kompaun berjumlah RM22,500 – dua hari selepas kegiatan itu didedahkan oleh Utusan Malaysia.

Ketua Pegawai Penguat Kuasa Kementerian Perdagangan Dalam Negeri dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna (KPDNHEP) negeri, Ab. Ghani Harun berkata, kompaun tersebut ialah bagi dua kesalahan iaitu di bawah Seksyen 3 (1) Akta Kawalan Harga (AKH) 1946 kerana tidak meletakkan tanda harga dan Seksyen 14 (1) Akta Perihal Dagangan (APD) 1972 kerana mempamerkan harga mengelirukan.

Menurutnya, bagi kesalahan di bawah AKH 1946, restoran itu dikompaun RM7,500, manakala bagi kesalahan di bawah APD 1972, nilai kompaunnya ialah RM15,000.

‘‘Ini merupakan kali pertama KPDNHEP negeri mengenakan hukuman maksimum terhadap peniaga yang didapati tidak meletakkan tanda harga pada barangan yang dijual serta menaikkan harga barang sesuka hati,’’ katanya kepada pemberita di sini, hari ini.

Semalam, restoran mamak yang baru beroperasi beberapa bulan lepas itu diserbu oleh sepasukan pegawai penguat kuasa kementerian itu diketuai oleh Azman Adam dan merampas pelbagai barangan makanan bernilai RM750 selepas peniaganya didapati menaikkan harga makanan dan minuman keterlaluan, selain mempamerkan harga mengelirukan.

Ab. Ghani memberitahu, pemilik restoran berkenaan diberi tempoh 14 hari untuk menjelaskan kompaun tersebut sebelum dihadapkan ke mahkamah.

Utusan Malaysia kelmarin mendedahkan sebuah restoran di bandar ini menjual Milo ais pada harga RM1.80 segelas, lebih tinggi antara 20 sen dan 30 sen berbanding harga biasa.

Harga itu juga didapati lebih tinggi berbanding restoran mamak di ibu negara yang menjual Milo ais dan Nescafe ais pada harga antara RM1.50 dan RM1.60 segelas.

Ab. Ghani menjelaskan tujuan pihaknya mengenakan kompaun maksimum itu adalah untuk mengingatkan para peniaga agar tidak menaikkan harga sesuka hati.

Sementara itu, beliau memberitahu, sejak kenaikan gaji kakitangan awam diumumkan pada 21 Mei lalu, pihaknya mengerahkan lebih 90 anggota menjalankan pemantauan harga di seluruh negeri menerusi Ops Gaji.

‘‘Kita telah membuat pemantauan dan pemeriksaan terhadap 2,660 pelbagai jenis premis termasuk kedai runcit, pasar raya dan gerai makan di seluruh negeri bagi memastikan peniaga tidak mengambil kesempatan menaikkan harga ekoran pengumuman kenaikan gaji itu,” jelasnya.

Beliau memberitahu, hasil pemeriksaan pihaknya telah berjaya mengesan 24 kes di bawah AKH 1946, empat kes Akta Timbang dan Sukat dan satu kes di bawah APD 1972 yang melibatkan nilai rampasan bernilai RM6,033.

Katanya, kesemua kes itu dikesan di sekitar bandar Kuala Terengganu dan kesemua peniaga yang terlibat telah dikenakan kompaun berjumlah RM9,650.

Menurutnya, KPDNHEP juga melakukan pemantauan harga terhadap 225 jenis barang harga kawalan harian bagi memastikan tiada kenaikan harga berlaku.

Beliau turut meminta kerjasama orang ramai supaya tampil membuat aduan di mana-mana cawangan KPDNHEP negeri jika mempunyai sebarang maklumat tentang peniaga yang menaikkan harga barang bagi membolehkan tindakan tegas diambil.

Siling Hospital Sultan Abdul Halim pula runtuh

Source: Utusan Malaysia Online

Oleh OPAT RATTANACHOT

SUNGAI PETANI 27 Mei – Kakitangan wad kanak-kanak, Hospital Sultan Abdul Halim (HSAH) di sini terkejut apabila lima keping siling runtuh di bilik penyusuan di tingkat dua, bangunan utama hospital berkenaan.

Kejadian yang dipercayai berlaku pukul 2 petang itu menyebabkan ibu yang menemani anak mereka di hospital tidak dapat menggunakan kemudahan di bilik berkenaan.

Hospital baru bernilai RM468 juta itu siap pada Julai tahun lalu dan proses perpindahan dilaksanakan secara berperingkat-peringkat sejak 10 Disember tahun lepas.

Pemangku Pengarah HSAH, Dr. Shariff Ishak berkata, tidak ada kecederaan dilaporkan kerana semasa kejadian tidak ada orang di bilik tersebut.

Menurutnya, kejadian itu disedari oleh beberapa kakitangan wad terbabit setelah ternampak beberapa keping siling jatuh secara tiba-tiba.

“Berikutan itu, sepasukan pekerja penyelenggaraan terpaksa dikejarkan ke bilik terbabit,’’ katanya ketika dihubungi di sini malam ini.

Menurut Shariff, siasatan awal mendapati hanya lima keping daripada keseluruhan siling bilik terbabit didapati terjatuh.

“Pasukan penyelenggara telah memperbaiki siling terbabit dan keadaan kini adalah terkawal,’’ katanya.

Beliau yang juga Ketua Jabatan Kecemasan HSAH memberitahu, pihaknya telah memaklumkan kejadian tersebut kepada kontraktor bangunan bagi menjalankan siasatan lanjut.

“Buat masa ini terlalu awal bagi kita mengesan punca kejadian,’’ ujarnya.

Pada Januari lalu, para pengunjung HSAH dikejutkan dengan kejadian kafeteria dilimpahi air najis ekoran saluran paip kumbahan bocor.

Sebelum ini, kejadian siling runtuh berlaku di Kompleks Mahkamah Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur melibatkan bilik Setiausaha Mahkamah Tinggi Sivil 6 dan siling Dewan Serbaguna Kementerian Pembangunan Usahawan dan Koperasi di Putrajaya.

Friday Nasiha 25 May 2007

Living the Quran

Al-Imran (The Family of Imran) Chapter 3: Verse 14 (Partial) Curbing Desires “Fair in the eyes of people is the love of things they desire” As there is no limit to human desire, the pursuit of pleasure and material goods can continue. In reference to this, the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, pointed out that if a man has a valley of gold, he would most likely wish for another one (al-Bukhari). Thus, if greed is not controlled, ultimately it can lead people into a senseless chase after pleasures, material goods, wealth and power, never reaching a point of satisfaction. It is regrettable that the whole edifice of our society today and our way of life is raised on these foundations. Materialistic thought will, therefore, give rise to a culture where individuals are most likely to be indifferent to the problems of others, since each person becomes mainly concerned about their own pleasures. The social tensions, conflicts and evils emerging from such a world-view are not, therefore, difficult to comprehend. Source: “Building a New Society” – Zahid Parvez, pp. 77,78

Understanding the Prophet’s Life

Excellence in Cordial Relations Ihsan adds beauty and excellence to cordial relations. No relationship can be established on measuring constantly whether one has fulfilled one’s obligations. One should not be very particular about one’s own rights, with a view to ensuring that one gets all that is one’s due. Rather, one should be ever-ready to do favours for others. A strictly business-like relationship may work. However, this would be lacking in mutual love, gratitude, sacrifice, sincerity and warmth, which are so important in life. Doing good stands for excellent conduct, generous dealings, a sympathetic attitude, good manners, forgiveness and making allowances. One should be prepared to accept less than one’s due and give others more than what they deserve. This point is eloquently made in the following hadith: “O Allah! Let me maintain ties with him who severs these. Let me grant him his due that deprives me of what is due to me. Let me forgive him who wrongs me.” (Mishkat) In other words this character trait demands that one should give others over and above what is their due. More importantly, one should do good to him who wrongs one. For true believers are those who repulse evil with their good deeds. Source: “Inter Personal Relations” – Khurram Murad, pp. 14,15

Towards Better Writing

Problems Among the most common mistakes that writers make are: researching and collecting too little or too much data organizing the subject matter poorly failing to revise the first draft using words or sentences that are too long expressing a writer-centred point of view directing the writing to the wrong audience In addition to the above, there are mistakes of grammar and style that include: redundancy run-on sentences cliches and overused expressions lack of structure archaic language inadequate introduction and conclusion weak transitions Writing is a powerful and effective tool and a very important means of Dawa. As such, we should pay personal attention to developing our ability to write well. Compiled From: “Training Guide for Islamic Workers” – Hisham Altalib, pp. 166