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Li puts Asia on grand slam map with win Posted: 04 Jun 2011 08:03 AM PDT Li reacts after winning her women's final at the French Open against Schiavone on June 4, 2011. — Reuters pic PARIS, June 4 — China's Li Na beat last year's champion Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 7-6 in the French Open final today to become the first player from an Asian nation to win a grand slam singles title. Sixth seed Li, who lost the Australian Open final earlier this year, grabbed Italian fifth seed Schiavone's tactics sheet and tore it apart in a confident display of power and accuracy. Li, who beat hard-hitters Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova en route to the final, built her success on her lightning-quick backhand and precise serve as Schiavone never hit her stride on the red clay. Li allowed Schiavone, who was hoping to break the pace with her sliced backhand, only five points on her serve in the opening set. She snatched her opponent's serve in the first game of the second set and saved a break point with an ace as she opened a 2-0 lead, only for Schiavone to fight back. Li set up a break point for 5-2 that Schiavone saved with a service winner, and it was game on from there. The 30-year-old Milanese broke back for 4-4, sending the contest into a tiebreak that Li whitewashed 7-0. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

Webber against Bahrain GP, doubts it will happen Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:54 AM PDT LONDON, June 4 — Australian Mark Webber has spoken out against Formula One's controversial decision to race in Bahrain this season and said he did not expect the rescheduled grand prix to happen. "Even though a decision has been made, I'll be highly surprised if the Bahrain Grand Prix goes ahead this year," the Red Bull driver said on his website (http://www.markwebber.com) after the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) agreed unanimously yesterday to restore the race to the calendar. "In my personal opinion, the sport should have taken a much firmer stance earlier this year rather than constantly delaying its decision in the hope of being able to reschedule it in 2011," he added. "It would have sent a very clear message about F1's position on something as fundamental as human rights and how it deals with moral issues." Bahrain was to have been the March 13 season-opener but the race was called off due to unrest and bloody pro-democracy protests in the Gulf Kingdom. The government has cracked down hard on opposition activists during 11 weeks of martial law and military trials of mostly Shi'ite dissidents are continuing. The FIA has re-scheduled the race for October 30, with India moving to a December date, in a move strongly criticised by human rights campaigners and also opposed by teams. "It's obvious that the parties involved have struggled to reach a decision but sadly I feel that they still haven't made the right one," said Webber (picture). "Like it or not, F1 and sport in general isn't above having a social responsibility and conscience. I hope F1 is able to return to Bahrain eventually but now isn't the right time. "As a competitor I do not feel at all comfortable going there to compete in an event when, despite reassurances to the contrary, it seems inevitable that it will cause more tension for the people of that country," he added. "I don't understand why my sport wishes to place itself in a position to be a catalyst for that." Champions Red Bull, owned by Australian energy drinks billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, have been targeted by online petitioners urging teams to boycott the race. By today, some 393,000 people had signed one petition organised by campaigners calling on Red Bull and other teams to declare publicly that they would not race in Bahrain this year. The Formula One Teams Association (FOTA), which groups all the teams except Hispania, said yesterday that they were assessing the situation. "That (FIA) decision is likely to be discussed internally within FOTA, and a more detailed joint position may be defined after those discussions have taken place," it said. FOTA is chaired by McLaren principal Martin Whitmarsh, whose team's biggest shareholder is Bahrain holding company Mumtalakat. Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali is also a member of the FIA world motor sport council that met in Barcelona yesterday. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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Robert Redford and Nick Nolte team up for ‘Walk in the Woods’ Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:03 AM PDT LOS ANGELES, June 4 – On June 1 it was announced that Robert Redford's next project would be an adaptation of Bill Bryson's book A Walk in the Woods, a memoir about a British man's hike on America's historic 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail. Also announced, Nick Nolte (Tropic Thunder) is attached to play Bryson's friend, Stephen, a cranky, crude companion and reformed substance abuser who accompanies him on the trek. The amusing tale follows two middle-aged men's attempt to get fit on a challenging and sometimes dangerous misadventure, as well as a plea to conserve the wilderness. Originally, Redford (picture) planned on producing the project in 2005, according to Collider.com, along with Paul Newman, reuniting the pair after the legendary Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Directors Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) and Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Bugsy) were previously mentioned for the project. Levinson is currently scheduled to direct Gotti: Three Generations with John Travolta and Al Pacino. Redford's recent film, The Conspirator, starring Robin Wright (State of Play), James McAvoy (X-Men: First Class) and Tom Wilkinson (Duplicity) concerned the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. He last directed and starred in 2007's Lions for Lambs starring Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise. Also in April, it was reported that Redford would co-star in a film about African-American baseball player, Jackie Robinson. – AFP Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

British singer Adele cancels US tour to heal throat Posted: 04 Jun 2011 02:58 AM PDT LOS ANGELES, June 4 – Grammy-winning British singer Adele said yesterday she has cancelled the rest of a north American tour to recover from laryngitis. She had already postponed five shows under doctor's orders, but while resting in Los Angeles she saw a specialist "who determined it was imperative that she take the next few weeks to recover with absolute voice rest." The 23-year-old (picture), known for powerful love songs including "Someone Like You," had been due to resume the sold-out tour in San Francisco today, but has now cancelled the remaining nine dates. "I'm really frustrated. I was hoping with a week's rest I'd be better to sing again straight away. However, there is absolutely nothing I can do but take the doctors advice and rest some more," she said in a statement on her website. "I'm so sorry. See you soon, love Adele." Adele said plans to reschedule the cancelled dates were being considered, and more information would be given when available. – AFP Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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‘Perfect storm’ looms for world’s food supplies, says Oxfam Posted: 04 Jun 2011 02:18 AM PDT 'The food system is buckling under intense pressure,' according to a new Oxfam report. — Picture courtesy of Peter Baxter PARIS, June 4 — Oxfam has called for an overhaul of the world's food system, warning that in a couple of decades, millions more people would be gripped by hunger due to population growth and climate-hit harvests. A "broken food system" means that the price of some staples will more than double by 2030, battering the world's poorest people, who spend up to 80 per cent of their income on food, the British-based aid group predicted. "The food system is buckling under intense pressure from climate change, ecological degradation, population growth, rising energy prices, rising demand for meat and dairy products and competition for land from biofuels, industry, and urbanisation," Oxfam said in a report. It added: "The international community is sleepwalking into an unprecedented and avoidable human development reversal." Noting that some 900 million people experience hunger today, Oxfam said the tally of misery could rise still further when a "perfect storm" struck a few decades from now. By 2050, the world's population was expected to rise by a third, from 6.9 billion today to 9.1 billion. Demand for food would rise even higher, by 70 per cent, as more prosperous economies demanded more calories. But by this time, climate change will have started to bite, with drought, flood and storms affecting crop yields that, after the "green revolution" of the 1960s, had already begun to flatline in the early 1990s. The price of staple foods such as corn, also known as maize, which has already hit record peaks, will more than double in the next 20 years, it predicted. "In this new age of crisis, as climate impacts become increasingly severe and fertile land and fresh water supplies become increasingly scarce, feeding the world will get harder still," Oxfam chief Jeremy Hobbs said. The report, Growing a Better Future, trails a campaign for reform that Oxfam is launching in 45 countries, supported by former Brazilian President Lula Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu and actress Scarlett Johansson. Solutions envisaged by Oxfam focus on cutting out waste, especially of water, and curbing agriculture and biofuel subsidies in rich countries. The report also calls for prising open closed markets and ending the domination of commodities and seeds trade by a handful of large corporations. Small farms — traditionally dismissed as a hindrance to food productivity — could in fact drive the renaissance in yield with the help of investment, infrastructure and market access, it argued. Just as important, said the report, is to set up new global governance to tackle food crises, including the creation of a multilateral food bank. "During the 2008 food price crisis, cooperation was nowhere to be seen," lamented the report, saying the disarray ignited a "grab" for agricultural land in Africa by parched countries in the Gulf and elsewhere. "Governments were unable to agree on the causes of the price rises, let alone how to respond. Food reserves had been allowed to collapse to historic lows," it said. "Existing international institutions and forums were rendered impotent as more than 30 countries imposed export bans in a negative-sum game of beggar-thy-neighbour policy making." — AFP-Relaxnews Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

Australia wrestles ‘one-armed-bandits’ addiction Posted: 04 Jun 2011 01:43 AM PDT SYDNEY, June 4 — She's smart, capable and a loving mother to three young children but Rebecca is battling an often hidden feature of Australian society that has taken her to the brink of suicide — a gambling addiction. "I have a hideous gambling problem," the 36-year-old admits. "For someone who can have a family and be very articulate and can be sensible in so many ways ... just to have something that I have no control over — people don't see it. "With alcohol or drugs you see it. With a gambler it's hidden." Australians like a bet — on the horses, football games, at casinos, even on the outcome of coin tosses in the national game of "two up". But the most popular form of betting is on electronic poker machines or "pokies", with the devices installed in pubs and clubs taking more than half of the A$19 billion (RM60 billion) the nation spent on gambling in 2008-09. The country has some 200,000 pokie machines, one of the highest concentrations per capita in the world, and the "one-armed bandits" are hugely popular, contributing some A$5 billion in tax revenues each year. A punter gambling at a one-armed bandit. — AFP pic According to the Productivity Commission, 600,000 Australians — four per cent of the adult population — gamble on the pokies at least once a week, many enjoying the social setting and escapism it can provide. But it found some 15 per cent of regular players were problem gamblers, accounting for about 40 per cent of total spending on the machines which spin so quickly they can take thousands of dollars from a luckless punter each hour. The link between pokies and the social costs of problem gambling are now under the spotlight in Canberra, with the government poised to introduce limits on betting on the machines, outraging the pub and club industry. Key independent MP Andrew Wilkie, whose support for Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard's fragile coalition government is vital to its survival, is insisting on reforms to limit the amount people can bet. Gillard has backed Wilkie's push for a pre-commitment system for all machines that allow a single bet of more than A$1, under which gamblers would be unable to bet beyond a nominated limit. But the decision has prompted outrage from the clubs industry, which has unleashed a furious A$20 million publicity campaign under the war cry "It's un-Australian". "The heritage we are looking to defend is the right of Australians' being able to gamble with their money without being treated like they are doing something shameful or wrong," Clubs New South Wales spokesman Jeremy Bath said. Bath said the reforms, and the costs of implementing them, would undermine the future of the industry without helping problem gamblers who would be pushed to online betting, which he said studies showed was more addictive. "This technology, through its punishment of the recreational gambler, will decimate club revenue by at least 40 per cent. This is a figure no business, let alone one that is not for profit, could ever hope to survive," he said. Bath points out that clubs with pokies are not-for-profit businesses which channel part of their revenue back into the community by funding sporting and recreational facilities among other things. Critics also say the pre-commitment idea is a "nanny state" measure that could allow the government to keep a tab on gamblers through the mandatory card system, resulting in a loss of freedom and privacy. Wilkie's supporters, however, argue that clubs reliant on problem gamblers do not deserve to be in business, and the loss of privacy argument is hypocrisy given that clubs closely monitor their clients through their loyalty schemes. The idea of a pre-commitment card has been welcomed by some in the counselling field as a step forward even if it fails to solve the problem. "It may prevent people to slip towards a full-blown addiction in the first place, but for problem gamblers the way out is motivation and therapy," said Christopher Hunt, who works at a Sydney University treatment clinic. Baptist minister Tim Costello, a long-time campaigner against the pokies, said he has done too many funerals for people who committed suicide after losing their marriages, jobs and homes to gambling. "The fruit machines in Britain, you can lose A$30-40 an hour, it's a £50 (RM250) payout per maximum," he said. "(In Australia) you can lose four or five grand an hour, maximum is A$15,000 actually, from pokies and the average losses per hour are something around A$2,000. Who spends A$2,000 on an hour's entertainment?" Clubs NSW disputes the A$15,000 figure, saying the most a person could lose in an hour in New South Wales was estimated by the Productivity Commission at A$1,200 and this was if they were betting the maximum of A$10 each time. Rebecca, not her real name, has lost count of the number of times she has pawned jewellery, or been unable to pay bills or fund a night out because of her addiction to the pokies. Over the years her relationships, work, finances and health have suffered, to the point where she found herself in hospital two months ago after trying to kill herself. She is dealing with her problem through Gamblers Anonymous but says she knows, from her experiences in Sydney's pubs and clubs, that there are a lot of other addicts who are not receiving help. "You see it. You see the fury of the money going in and (people) not pulling at a win but continuing to play or pulling out and going to another machine and losing it all," she said. "It's quite scary the amount of people that are out there in pubs that if you were to look at their faces, they look absolutely miserable. And they don't seek help." — AFP-Relaxnews Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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To record or not to record? Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:45 PM PDT JUNE 4 — One of the biggest dilemmas facing independent musicians right now is the ongoing albums vs. singles debate. With the Internet pretty much entrenched as an essential part of everyday life nowadays, what this has meant for most struggling independent acts is that while it may be easier to spread the word regarding your music because of the increased accessibility afforded by the world wide web, it has also meant that business-wise, making money from albums can now be considered as an obsolete practice. In reality, most articles about the albums vs. singles debate or the effects of the Internet on marketing and business plans of independent acts do not even apply to the real life dilemmas facing the average independent act out there, simply because most of the case studies used as examples are acts that never had to face the same dilemmas as the average independent act. Take the much lauded move by Radiohead to go independent and sell digital downloads on their own website on a pay-whatever-you-like basis for example. The reason it'll undoubtedly work out well for them is that they're already a world famous band with a devoted following, a result of years of hard work (and surely much expenditure) by their former major label departments. If they're an unknown band, releasing the same album with the exact same method (with the same expensive limited edition boxsets also offered), would it have worked out as well? Personally, I doubt it. Take most other examples of Internet independent marketing success stories, and more often than not a label's financial muscle would have been involved there somehow. Arcade Fire? Well, they're on Merge Records. An independent label they may be, but they've had previous big successes with bands like Spoon, which have surely enhanced their budgets. The Shins? Well, everyone knows of Sub Pop Records by now. Vampire Weekend? Well, they signed to XL Recordings to release their albums. These are examples that would've meant nothing to an independent band in Malaysia trying to make music and who are also hoping not to lose that much money in the process. True, nowadays you can record everything on a computer or laptop (a pirated recording software CD would cost you no more than RM10), but anyone who's done home recording before will tell you that to amass the proper soundcards or interface, pre-amps, mixers and proper microphones (not to mention guitar and bass amps) would still cost you an arm and a leg and is something that the average new band can never afford. You can cheat a bit by using drum programming and all sorts of sonic software, but I can assure you the results would still not be as authentic and as warm as what you'll get in a proper studio with proper recording equipment. And to use a proper recording studio will cost you money too. So like it or not, if you want to make a proper recording, you'll have to spend proper money too, which is in quite short supply for the average Malaysian independent band. That is why some bands have decided to go the singles route and record their songs one song at a time (so that their pockets wouldn't be hurt so much as compared to recording a whole album in one go) and release them as singles every few months. Combine the cost factor with the fact that CDs just don't sell much nowadays, the argument that releasing singles is the way to go does make business sense, because you can release your singles as ringtone downloads and it's ringtones that have been bringing in the money for most people nowadays. But there's also a fallacy in this argument because unless you're someone like Aizat, Yuna, Hujan or Bunkface who sell hundreds of thousands of ringtone downloads (surely due to the fact that their singles get gargantuan mainstream radio airplay), the average independent act still won't make that much money from ringtones, whether it's singles or albums, unless you get lucky and your song somehow gets a huge amount of mainstream radio airplay. So really the actual dilemma facing the average Malaysian independent act nowadays is how to get by with little money and still sound "proper" so as to be considered serious enough with your music because for most bands the reality is that making an album is nothing more than just wanting to leave a recorded legacy for memory and history's sake. I wish I know the exact answer to this dilemma too. But so far the only way I know how is to either do that home recording thing (and risk not sounding professional enough) or spend as little money as we can in a proper recording studio by recording as fast as we can (also risking not sounding professional enough because you know what might happen when you rush things). If we manage to come out of the whole album making process without being too broke and the album sounding professional enough, then I'll consider it mission accomplished already. Whether it'll sell or not, well it is mission accomplished already, isn't it? * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

Turn down the volume, please Posted: 03 Jun 2011 04:41 PM PDT JUNE 4 — I have a bad habit. I talk too loud. And I have a knack of doing this especially when revealing something embarrassing about myself. At the dinner table with my girlfriends, I blurted out a particularly frustrating aspect of my life, much to the amusement of the men at the next table. While I flipped my hair on to my face to cover the shame, one of them, naturally, decides to announce where I work and my position. After swearing at her and waiting for the cheeks to stop their blushing, I resumed the conversation at a much lower volume. But I had forgotten this some weeks later when I yelled into the phone in the middle of One Utama: "The maintenance, electricity and water bill payments are up-to-date right?" When I walked back into the boutique and told a girlfriend that I was going the next day to see a condo I was interested in buying, she laughed: "Yes, I heard … the whole shopping mall heard it, too." Or the other time when a girlfriend and I were discussing confidential matters – potential nominees for an award. Who knew the chances that a potential nominee would be seated at the next table would be quite high? His date must have thought so too, considering she was leaning closer to us than him. Those experiences, and after hearing a conversation on the airplane recently, I hope I've learned my lesson. Well, at least I look around first before shooting my mouth off. On board a flight back to KL, I was both amused and irritated by the conversation among four young men in the row behind me. A range of topics were covered, among them: How Mukhriz Mahathir will never be Prime Minister, and how the loudest of the group wanted to buy a Ferrari and build petrol stations along the East Coast Highway. I must admit I nearly pumped my fist in the air when the loudest one said he had a craving for "ikan goreng cecah cili padi (fried fish dipped in bird's eye chilli)". At one point when my ears had tired out (being forced to listen in an enclosed environment must have been used as some form of medieval torture tactic), I wanted to tell him to use my dry cleaning service instead of the incompetent one he was stuck with. But the passengers very soon grew annoyed at the loudness that accompanied us on the almost three-hour night flight. While they may not have understood airplane etiquette, I soon realised that the boys were probably also too dense to realise there were Malaysians on board (the entire conversation was in Malay). When one of them asked another why the flight attendant had turned on the light above me, he soon realises, "Oh, dia nak baca (Oh, she wants to read)." Hmm, I thought, they can't be that foolish to think nobody on this flight understands BM. Then they started comparing — loudly — which of the female flight attendants had the better figure. Then burst out laughing when they realised the flight attendant assisting them was Malaysian. As we descended, much to my horror, the boys started discussing which one of them got "lucky" in Yangon. Details were discussed. But it was when the loudest said: "I don't like using rubber, so I didn't use rubber…" was when I slapped my forehead, shook my head and slumped into my chair. He must have spotted me because he then said: "Eh, I think there are Malaysians on this flight, and they understand us." It dawns. Finally. Considering it was KLIA we were descending into. "Isn't your name Azhar?" his friend booms before the boys rip up in laughter. While I hoped for their sake they didn't bring back anything more than pretty gifts for their loved ones, I do hope that Azhar uses condoms the next time. And me? Shhhhhhh…. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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Perkasa dakwa barisan baru PAS ‘suara’ Anwar Posted: 04 Jun 2011 02:39 AM PDT GOMBAK, 4 Jun – Presiden Perkasa Datuk Ibrahim Ali mendakwa suara Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dalam PAS ekoran keputusan pemilihan 2011-2013 ditentukan dan dicerminkan oleh pengaruh Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang dan Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat. "Suara Anwar dalam PAS ditentukan oleh (Mursyidul Am PAS) Datuk Nik Aziz dan (Presiden PAS) Haji Hadi (yang) jadi pak turut... yang lain tidak releven... memang ada yang Erdogan, ulama dan macam-macam lagi. "Tetapi semua tidak beri apa-apa kesan kecuali Datuk Nik Aziz dan pak turut Haji Hadi," kata Ahli Parlimen Bebas (gamber) dari Pasir Mas, Kelantan ini dalam satu kenyataan SMS mengulas keputusan pemilihan pusat PAS yang diumumkan pagi tadi. Pada pilihan raya umum 2008 Ibrahim bertanding di kerusi Parlimen Pasir Mas menggunakan lambang PAS. Mohamad Sabu dipilih sebagai timbalan presiden menewaskan penyandang Nasharudin Mat Isa dan Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man. Kerusi naib presiden dimenangi oleh Salahuddin Ayub, Datuk Paduka Husam Musa dan Datuk Mahfuz Omar. Dalam pada itu, Setiausaha Agung Perkasa Syed Hassan Syed Ali pula berkata kemenangan Mohamad atau dikenali sebagai "Mat Sabu" pasti akan mengecewakan Nik Aziz, Hadi dan puak ulama dan puak Erdogan. "Mat Sabu hanya belajar di ITM dan tidak tamat, bukan lulusan pengajian agama Timur Tengah. Ianya memalukan gulongon ulama PAS kerana Mat Sabu tiada kelulusan akademik manakala puak Erdogan juga lagi kecewa kerana Mat Sabu tidak sokong Anwar," katanya dalam kenyataan berasingan. "Malah Mat Sabu yang mengelar Anwar Al-Juburi... kehebatan Mat Sabu, namanya Muhamad sama nama Rasullulah, tapi nama bapa Sabu.. tiga naib presiden pula adalah tokoh duniawi iaitu dua ada ijazah dan satu lagi dikatakan hanya SPM saja. "Pada pendapat saya barisan pimpinan PAS baru ini semakin menyukarkan usaha ke arah perpaduan Melayu," kata beliau lagi. Kata Syed Hassan, lebih dikesali Hadi terus mengajak ahlinya PAS menjauhi Umno sedangkan terus menegaskan akan setia bersama DAP dan PKR dalam Pakatan Rakyat. "Tidak satu ayat pun semasa ucapannya pada majlis perasmian Muktamar PAS semalam boleh diertikan PAS sedia ke arah persefahaman seluruh umat Melayu dan Islam. "Serangan Hadi terhadap Umno dalam ucapannya itu tidak menghairankan sebab pemimpin Umno juga kerap menyerang PAS di setiap kali perhimpunan Umno," katanya sambil menambah, namun PAS dengan imej Islam sepatutnya memulakan langkah perpaduan kerana Islam menuntut umatnya mengikat dengan kukuh perpaduan semasa Islam. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

Hadi: ‘Perubahan pimpinan PAS biasa, macam alih perabot rumah’ Posted: 04 Jun 2011 01:36 AM PDT Ahli-ahli PAS mengambil kesempatan memohon kad keanggotaan parti pada hari kedua Muktamar Tahunan Ke-57 di Taman Melewar dekat Kuala Lumpur hari ini. – Foto oleh Choo Choy May GOMBAK, 4 Jun – PAS tidak akan mengalami perubahan dasar sebaliknya hanya akan mengubahsuai strategi sesuai dengan keputusan pemilihan kali ini yang menyaksikan kemenangan besar calon barisan profesional, kata Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang. "Sekali lagi, dasar tidak berubah tetapi strategi yang kita ubah," kata Presiden PAS pada sidang media hari kedua Muktamar Tahunan PAS Ke-57 di sini hari ini. Hasil pemilihan semalam, PAS menerima timbalan presiden yang baru iaitu Mohamad Sabu manakala Datuk Paduka Husam Musa pula kembali sebagai naib presiden manakala Salahuddin Ayub dan Datuk Mahfuz Omar mengekalkan kerusi naib presiden masing-masing. Selain Mohamad Sabu, Salahuddin, Mahfuz dan Husam, seramai 12 daripada 18 ahli jawatankuasa kerja pusat PAS yang baru dilihat daripada kalangan kumpulan profesional. Hadi menambah, walaupun ada beza pandangan dalam penentuan calon, tetapi tetap menghormati keputusan perwakilan kali ini. "(Saya) terima apa sahaja keputusan dan hadapi untuk pilihan nanti, kepimpinan kali ini terdiri daripda pelbagai latar belakang, AJK pusat wakili semua pihak," kata beliau yang telah mempertahankan jawatannya tanpa saingan. Mengenai komposisi barisan yang memihak kepada kumpulan profesional, Hadi menjelaskan, ia bukan benda baru dan "PAS memimpin secara kolektif." Hadi juga berkata, keputusan yang diumumkan pagi tadi menunjukkan kematangan ahli-ahli dan perwakilan dalam memilih pemimpin-pemimpin untuk berada di saf hadapan menghadapi pilihan raya umum ke-13. "PAS adalah parti berpengalaman, parti tertua. PAS juga pernah jadi kerajaan di peringkat pusat, negeri dan menghadapi cabaran di peringkat negeri," katanya. Sehubungan itu Hadi juga berkata, bukan pemimpin-pemimpin politik yang membuat perubahan tetapi para perwakilan manakala "matlamat, acuan tetap sama dan tidak akan berubah." "Perubahan pucuk pimpinan, biasalah... sama macam alih perabot rumah," katanya lagi. Menjawab soalan timbalannya bukan seorang ulama, Hadi memberitahu, ia bukan satu masalah kerana kerajaan Uthmaniyah juga bukan daripada kalangan ulama. "Ulama ini sebenarnya bermaksud orang berilmu termasuk dalam pelbagai bidang... contoh Ibn Khaldun, beliau seorang yang berilmu dalam bidang agama dan sosiologi. Sekarang ini susah nak cari pemimpin yang tahu dalam semua bidang, jadi PAS buat pimpinan secara kolektif," katanya. Berkenaan dakwaan bahawa calon-calon yang pro-Ketua Umum Pakatan Rakyat Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menang kali ini, Hadi juga mengetepikan tanggapan sedemikian. "Tidak, pemimpin dipilih untuk, kerana kita mahu pemimpin yang rapat dengan NGO, rapat dengan semua pihak," katanya yang turut menolak tanggapan bahawa pemimpin-pemimpin pusat kali ini dilihat sebagai golongan agresif. "Kita ikut suasana," kata Hadi yang turut memberi jaminan bahawa calon yang tidak terpilih, tetap sama membantu pimpinan yang lain. "Saya akan melantik AJK baru, enam orang tapi itu semua kena tunggu dahulu. "Saya tidak guna kuasa mutlak, dulu bila Mat Sabu (Mohamad) kalah, dia tetap jadi AJK pusat," katanya lagi. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price.

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