Lau Gek Poh (b. 1917 - 4 April 2008) in Tawau Sabah, was a philanthropist, industrialist and also a founder and chairman of the Lau Gek Poh Foundation.
Lau Gek Poh was 19 when he arrived in 1936 in the then British North Borneo where he started off as a shop assistant in Sandakan before moving to Tawau. In 1946, Lau formed the Hap Seng Co in Tawau. Hap Seng, which means “Unity and Success”, was primarily involved in the timber business then. The astute entrepreneur, later became the largest exporter of round logs from Sabah and earning himself the title "timber tycoon of Sabah”. Lau also diversified by holding dealerships in the Mercedes-Benz marque and entered into property development and investment, fertiliser and general trading, financial services and built a vast plantation empire.
Lau Gek Poh foray in business came in the early 1970s when he founded the Hap Seng Group of Companies which mainly was involved in the timber business. In 1991, He incorporated the Lau Gek Poh Foundation.
On April 2008, Lau Gek Poh died at Kuala Lumpur Prince Court Medical Centre.
Lau Gek Poh was 19 when he arrived in 1936 in the then British North Borneo where he started off as a shop assistant in Sandakan before moving to Tawau. In 1946, Lau formed the Hap Seng Co in Tawau. Hap Seng, which means “Unity and Success”, was primarily involved in the timber business then. The astute entrepreneur, later became the largest exporter of round logs from Sabah and earning himself the title "timber tycoon of Sabah”. Lau also diversified by holding dealerships in the Mercedes-Benz marque and entered into property development and investment, fertiliser and general trading, financial services and built a vast plantation empire.
Lau Gek Poh foray in business came in the early 1970s when he founded the Hap Seng Group of Companies which mainly was involved in the timber business. In 1991, He incorporated the Lau Gek Poh Foundation.
On April 2008, Lau Gek Poh died at Kuala Lumpur Prince Court Medical Centre.
Muzza is an Australian English slang word generally used in Melbourne, Victoria to describe the young male subculture that has developed in the city's suburbs. Use of the term muzza came to light in the mid to late 1990's, as an evolution of the 1980's Mario culture.
History
The muzza began to emerge as a distinct subculture in Australian society in the mid 1990s. Coinciding with the increased popularity of electronic music, as well as the large influx of Japanese imported vehicles into Australia, the muzza represented the generational evolution of the 1980s.
Widespread awareness of the subculture was subsequently boosted by films such as Nick Giannopoulos's The Wog Boy, while the Sydney-based television program Fat Pizza brought the current stereotype to the attention of a more mainstream audience.
===As an offshoot of "Wog"===
Wog is a racist term in Australian English, denoting Australians of Eastern and Southern European ancestry. This meaning came into popular use in the 1950s when Australia accepted large numbers of immigrants from Southern Europe. Although originally used pejoratively, the term is increasingly used more affectionately, especially by the individuals the term is used to describe. Wog is a word with definite and widespread currency in contemporary Australian English, although it recently sparked up a dilemma through its use during the Cronulla race riots. It must be noted that the term wog is simply descriptive of ones ethnicity; however the term muzza denotes a type of wog who follows a certain lifestyle. Thus all muzzas are wogs, but not all wogs are muzzas.
Characteristics
The term muzza is usually associated with the male gender (female equivalents are known as Marias or Muzzettes, and 'nerdy' equivalents are usually known as Muzza Mark). They are generally between 12 and 20 years old, and usually of Southern European, Mediterranean or Middle Eastern descent. The muzza is normally from around metropolitan Melbourne mostly Western, Eastern and Northern suburbs, Melbourne, Australia, and is of first to third generation Australian.
It is difficult to pinpoint what characteristics define a muzza, however there are consistencies between muzzas that are common traits, including: a very vocal pride in their heritage, a love of cars, a general distaste for any kind of rules or authority, an obsession with house/dance music, and a strong interest in loitering around local fast food outlets.
The word muzza can also be used as a prefix to indicate if someone is a muzza - for example, Muzza John.
Appearance
Muzzas take obvious pride in their appearance, and maintain utmost efforts to look like they belong in their respective social groups. This generally culminates in all members dressing similarly, usually in outfits comprising:
* Caps tipped up on an extremely steep angle, sitting on top of the hair, rather than over it, often held in place with a bobby pin
* Heavy use of hair product in a mullet hairstyle
* Fluorescent/ bright coloured t-shirt/ tank top or some form of athletic-branded (Everlast, Lonsdale, Champion) shirt
* White shoes with black stripes or lining
* A puffy black or camouflage ski-jacket, preferably with faux fur on the collar
* Black with three white stripes (also inverted white with black stripes), Puma, Adidas tracksuit pants.
Fashion
Generally a muzza wears clothing such as Lonsdale, Champion, Everlast, Adidas, Puma or Kappa during the day, while at night while they cruise they wear designer clothing such as Diesel. Muzzas are also often seen wearing bum bags. The usual hairstyle is a mullet type haircut with a straightened fringe that is put to the side. Generally a muzza has a at the back or just longer hair.
A muzza generally favours athletic apparel as listed above. This is generally used to show off their "muscular physique". More formal or upmarket attire includes Diesel, Dolce & Gabbana (often imported and non-genuine) P.O. Box, Industrie, Cotton On, Box Canyon.
Muzzas usually have a strong scent to attract the ladies. Most use lynx or a common deodorant but the richer types often prefer upmarket scents like Calvin Klein, Versace, and Joop Homme.
Bum bags are also common, to keep mobile phones, MP3 players, smokes, wallets, hair wax, and other personal belongings at hand.
A muzza will generally always be found wearing trackies even if everything else they are wearing is clean and tidy.
Cars
A muzza is also closely associated with cars. The Holden VL Commodores and Nissan Skylines are by far the most commonly associated car in muzza culture. Ex-highway patrol Holden VL Commodores, commonly known as Interceptors, are an especially sought after prize in Muzza culture. These cars are generally easily distinguishable through their canary yellow duco, 5-spoke mag wheels, and rather low rear ends - the result of either the placement of one or more bags of cement into the boot of the vehicle, or through cutting of the suspension springs.
Muzzas also commonly add disproportionately large subwoofers and/or rims to their vehicle. They also decorate their rear view mirror with fuzzy dice, although generational changes have seen the ubiquitous fuzzy dice slowly phased out.
Although the Commodore is the most popular choice of muzzas, it is not an exclusive choice, and muzzas can be seen driving a wide variety of cars. "Hotted up" Nissan Silvias, Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo's, Subaru WRXs and Nissan Skylines are also often associated with muzzas, due to their affordability, and ease of modification. These cars are often branded with personalized number plates advertising (within the limitations of six letters or numbers) the "toughness" of the particular vehicle.
Victoria Police have cracked down in recent years on hooning and street racing, much of which is associated with the muzza subculture.
Vocabulary
Muzzas often adapt words from their culture/nationality, such as "uleh/yuleh" "yulla habib" "kuff" (Lebanese Australians), "re" "malaka"(Greek Australians), "bro", "fully sick", "ciccio" or its shortened version "chich" (in the Italian language), "lan" Turkish Australians) and among Macedonian Australians the terms "chojek", "lele chojek", "chiche", "mochan", "drapach", "sick mate", "sick man" "beh/breh Macedonian, "lesh", "minchia",
As well as developing their own slang words, such as "zomg", "sick", "mad", "hektik","omg", "kouta", "tuff", "crazy", and "that's all", all indicating approval over something. Other completely unique words such as "dose", (the sound of on a turbo-charged vehicle) have evolved as a result of the muzza culture.
Music
Muzzas are generally known for their love of trance or hardstyle, but their taste is not strictly limited to one genre, with artists such as 2Pac and Bon Jovi proving popular.
Another contributing factor to the increased public awareness of the muzza subculture were the releases of Melbourne DJ Dixie, a self professed muzza, who combined the sounds of hardstyle music, with the compressor surge "dose" noise of a VL Commodore Turbo.
Beginning in 2004 with Release The Muzzas, Return Of The Muzzas, and Unleash The Muzzas, culminating with a full mixtape release in 2006 entitled Bringing Muzza Back, these remixes proved popular with muzzas, and non-muzzas alike, thus putting a positive spin on the long standing negative perception of muzzas, as self-obsessed, Commodore driving hooligans.
Another driving force in the mainstream emergence of muzza culture has been the releases of Weapon X & Ken Hell's Scar Non Mixtapes, featuring various muzza versions of well known songs, including Snoop Dogg's Drop It Like Its Hot - (Drive It Like Its Hot), Dr Dre's Still D.R.E - (Still HSV), the Black Eyed Peas My Humps - (My Subs), and the newly released muzza version of Fergie's Fergalicious, entitled Wogolicious.
History
The muzza began to emerge as a distinct subculture in Australian society in the mid 1990s. Coinciding with the increased popularity of electronic music, as well as the large influx of Japanese imported vehicles into Australia, the muzza represented the generational evolution of the 1980s.
Widespread awareness of the subculture was subsequently boosted by films such as Nick Giannopoulos's The Wog Boy, while the Sydney-based television program Fat Pizza brought the current stereotype to the attention of a more mainstream audience.
===As an offshoot of "Wog"===
Wog is a racist term in Australian English, denoting Australians of Eastern and Southern European ancestry. This meaning came into popular use in the 1950s when Australia accepted large numbers of immigrants from Southern Europe. Although originally used pejoratively, the term is increasingly used more affectionately, especially by the individuals the term is used to describe. Wog is a word with definite and widespread currency in contemporary Australian English, although it recently sparked up a dilemma through its use during the Cronulla race riots. It must be noted that the term wog is simply descriptive of ones ethnicity; however the term muzza denotes a type of wog who follows a certain lifestyle. Thus all muzzas are wogs, but not all wogs are muzzas.
Characteristics
The term muzza is usually associated with the male gender (female equivalents are known as Marias or Muzzettes, and 'nerdy' equivalents are usually known as Muzza Mark). They are generally between 12 and 20 years old, and usually of Southern European, Mediterranean or Middle Eastern descent. The muzza is normally from around metropolitan Melbourne mostly Western, Eastern and Northern suburbs, Melbourne, Australia, and is of first to third generation Australian.
It is difficult to pinpoint what characteristics define a muzza, however there are consistencies between muzzas that are common traits, including: a very vocal pride in their heritage, a love of cars, a general distaste for any kind of rules or authority, an obsession with house/dance music, and a strong interest in loitering around local fast food outlets.
The word muzza can also be used as a prefix to indicate if someone is a muzza - for example, Muzza John.
Appearance
Muzzas take obvious pride in their appearance, and maintain utmost efforts to look like they belong in their respective social groups. This generally culminates in all members dressing similarly, usually in outfits comprising:
* Caps tipped up on an extremely steep angle, sitting on top of the hair, rather than over it, often held in place with a bobby pin
* Heavy use of hair product in a mullet hairstyle
* Fluorescent/ bright coloured t-shirt/ tank top or some form of athletic-branded (Everlast, Lonsdale, Champion) shirt
* White shoes with black stripes or lining
* A puffy black or camouflage ski-jacket, preferably with faux fur on the collar
* Black with three white stripes (also inverted white with black stripes), Puma, Adidas tracksuit pants.
Fashion
Generally a muzza wears clothing such as Lonsdale, Champion, Everlast, Adidas, Puma or Kappa during the day, while at night while they cruise they wear designer clothing such as Diesel. Muzzas are also often seen wearing bum bags. The usual hairstyle is a mullet type haircut with a straightened fringe that is put to the side. Generally a muzza has a at the back or just longer hair.
A muzza generally favours athletic apparel as listed above. This is generally used to show off their "muscular physique". More formal or upmarket attire includes Diesel, Dolce & Gabbana (often imported and non-genuine) P.O. Box, Industrie, Cotton On, Box Canyon.
Muzzas usually have a strong scent to attract the ladies. Most use lynx or a common deodorant but the richer types often prefer upmarket scents like Calvin Klein, Versace, and Joop Homme.
Bum bags are also common, to keep mobile phones, MP3 players, smokes, wallets, hair wax, and other personal belongings at hand.
A muzza will generally always be found wearing trackies even if everything else they are wearing is clean and tidy.
Cars
A muzza is also closely associated with cars. The Holden VL Commodores and Nissan Skylines are by far the most commonly associated car in muzza culture. Ex-highway patrol Holden VL Commodores, commonly known as Interceptors, are an especially sought after prize in Muzza culture. These cars are generally easily distinguishable through their canary yellow duco, 5-spoke mag wheels, and rather low rear ends - the result of either the placement of one or more bags of cement into the boot of the vehicle, or through cutting of the suspension springs.
Muzzas also commonly add disproportionately large subwoofers and/or rims to their vehicle. They also decorate their rear view mirror with fuzzy dice, although generational changes have seen the ubiquitous fuzzy dice slowly phased out.
Although the Commodore is the most popular choice of muzzas, it is not an exclusive choice, and muzzas can be seen driving a wide variety of cars. "Hotted up" Nissan Silvias, Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo's, Subaru WRXs and Nissan Skylines are also often associated with muzzas, due to their affordability, and ease of modification. These cars are often branded with personalized number plates advertising (within the limitations of six letters or numbers) the "toughness" of the particular vehicle.
Victoria Police have cracked down in recent years on hooning and street racing, much of which is associated with the muzza subculture.
Vocabulary
Muzzas often adapt words from their culture/nationality, such as "uleh/yuleh" "yulla habib" "kuff" (Lebanese Australians), "re" "malaka"(Greek Australians), "bro", "fully sick", "ciccio" or its shortened version "chich" (in the Italian language), "lan" Turkish Australians) and among Macedonian Australians the terms "chojek", "lele chojek", "chiche", "mochan", "drapach", "sick mate", "sick man" "beh/breh Macedonian, "lesh", "minchia",
As well as developing their own slang words, such as "zomg", "sick", "mad", "hektik","omg", "kouta", "tuff", "crazy", and "that's all", all indicating approval over something. Other completely unique words such as "dose", (the sound of on a turbo-charged vehicle) have evolved as a result of the muzza culture.
Music
Muzzas are generally known for their love of trance or hardstyle, but their taste is not strictly limited to one genre, with artists such as 2Pac and Bon Jovi proving popular.
Another contributing factor to the increased public awareness of the muzza subculture were the releases of Melbourne DJ Dixie, a self professed muzza, who combined the sounds of hardstyle music, with the compressor surge "dose" noise of a VL Commodore Turbo.
Beginning in 2004 with Release The Muzzas, Return Of The Muzzas, and Unleash The Muzzas, culminating with a full mixtape release in 2006 entitled Bringing Muzza Back, these remixes proved popular with muzzas, and non-muzzas alike, thus putting a positive spin on the long standing negative perception of muzzas, as self-obsessed, Commodore driving hooligans.
Another driving force in the mainstream emergence of muzza culture has been the releases of Weapon X & Ken Hell's Scar Non Mixtapes, featuring various muzza versions of well known songs, including Snoop Dogg's Drop It Like Its Hot - (Drive It Like Its Hot), Dr Dre's Still D.R.E - (Still HSV), the Black Eyed Peas My Humps - (My Subs), and the newly released muzza version of Fergie's Fergalicious, entitled Wogolicious.
The Sabsay Favourite Kaun awards are India's biggest opinion poll awards. They are international as well as national now. The winner in each category is decided by the number of votes each nominee receives. The recipient with the largest amount of votes is declared the winner.
Categories
1) Sabsey Favourite Film
2) Sabsey Favourite Hero
3) Sabsey Favourite Heroine
4) Sabsey Favourite Comedian
5) Sabsey Favourite Naya Hero
6) Sabsey Favourite Nayi Heroine
7) Sabsey Tez Sitara
Trivia
a) Shahrukh Khan has won the Sabsay Favourite Hero awards since the day the awards started.
b) The first ceremony was held in 2004.
c) Rani Mukherjee has won the Sabsay Favourite Heroine award three times in a row. 2005, 2006, and this year a shared award with Katrina Kaif.
d) Paresh Rawal won the Sabsay Favourite Comedian award from 2004 to 2006.
2008 WINNERS
Sabsay Favourite Film - Om Shanti Om
Sabsay Favourite Hero - Shahrukh Khan
Sabsay Favourite Heroine - Rani Mukherjee & Katrina Kaif
Sabsay Favourite Comedian - Arshad Warsi
Sabsay Favourite Naya Hero - Ranbir Kapoor
Sabsay Favourite Nayi Heroine - Deepika Padukone / Sonam Kapoor
Categories
1) Sabsey Favourite Film
2) Sabsey Favourite Hero
3) Sabsey Favourite Heroine
4) Sabsey Favourite Comedian
5) Sabsey Favourite Naya Hero
6) Sabsey Favourite Nayi Heroine
7) Sabsey Tez Sitara
Trivia
a) Shahrukh Khan has won the Sabsay Favourite Hero awards since the day the awards started.
b) The first ceremony was held in 2004.
c) Rani Mukherjee has won the Sabsay Favourite Heroine award three times in a row. 2005, 2006, and this year a shared award with Katrina Kaif.
d) Paresh Rawal won the Sabsay Favourite Comedian award from 2004 to 2006.
2008 WINNERS
Sabsay Favourite Film - Om Shanti Om
Sabsay Favourite Hero - Shahrukh Khan
Sabsay Favourite Heroine - Rani Mukherjee & Katrina Kaif
Sabsay Favourite Comedian - Arshad Warsi
Sabsay Favourite Naya Hero - Ranbir Kapoor
Sabsay Favourite Nayi Heroine - Deepika Padukone / Sonam Kapoor
A POJO Application Server is a container that hosts entire Java Applications in contrast to Java Beans.
Product features
* The Java application is built outside of the container, as a normal POJO application.
* It is capable of running any Java Application.
* Complete Java Applications are hosted by the container, including the User Interface.
* Simplicity of design, is attained through a design pattern.
Theory
A POJO container is able to move some classes out of a POJO application and run them remotely.
This gives it the ability to move the User Interface out of a running application to a remote machine.
Although the application is identical to the stand-alone (independent) application, the running version of the application is split, with some classes running remotely and some classes running on the server.
A POJO container uses an extended Model-view-controller design pattern idea.
The technique used to do this has been coined "Coherent Diffusion".
The way this works is the container is able to mine the wiring internal to a POJO application.
When one Java class calls another Java class in an application, effectively there is a wire or conduit from the one class to the other. This is what the POJO container is able to intercept and extend across a network.
Concept
The concept of splitting an application into client and server side components is radically different from most other application server methodologies. Most apply the technique of starting with components such as beans and then applying the required infrastructure to weave it into a net workable application.
The splitting technique "Coherent Diffusion", recognizes that a stand alone POJO application is already a coherent whole application, and externalizes the internal class linkages (wiring).
The idea of splitting a POJO application is an ingenious technique, because the classes left behind in the container, immediately become web services, and behave as a server.
This all happens without changing a single line of code in the original stand-alone POJO application. This is why it is also known as the Plug and Play application server.
Coherent Diffusion
This technique is applied to the stand-alone application outside of the container.
The M.V.C technique is almost identical to this design pattern.
Typically the main server class and main client class are given Java Interfaces.
These classes are then instantiated in a controller class.
In the M.V.C model it is used to divorce client side from server side. The idea is that the server side may be changed with no affect on the client side.
In the POJO Application Server this is also true, however the controller class also represents the place where all the class linkages, wires or main arteries of the application come together.
Its then a simple matter to tell the POJO Application Server which classes must be run remotely, and which must be run on the server. The wires that connect these classes are already exposed in the controller, and the server extends the linkages that connect remote and server classes across the network. Once this technique has been applied, the stand-alone application may be deployed to the server.
POJO Application Servers
; Harbor : The original Pojo Application Server.
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Product features
* The Java application is built outside of the container, as a normal POJO application.
* It is capable of running any Java Application.
* Complete Java Applications are hosted by the container, including the User Interface.
* Simplicity of design, is attained through a design pattern.
Theory
A POJO container is able to move some classes out of a POJO application and run them remotely.
This gives it the ability to move the User Interface out of a running application to a remote machine.
Although the application is identical to the stand-alone (independent) application, the running version of the application is split, with some classes running remotely and some classes running on the server.
A POJO container uses an extended Model-view-controller design pattern idea.
The technique used to do this has been coined "Coherent Diffusion".
The way this works is the container is able to mine the wiring internal to a POJO application.
When one Java class calls another Java class in an application, effectively there is a wire or conduit from the one class to the other. This is what the POJO container is able to intercept and extend across a network.
Concept
The concept of splitting an application into client and server side components is radically different from most other application server methodologies. Most apply the technique of starting with components such as beans and then applying the required infrastructure to weave it into a net workable application.
The splitting technique "Coherent Diffusion", recognizes that a stand alone POJO application is already a coherent whole application, and externalizes the internal class linkages (wiring).
The idea of splitting a POJO application is an ingenious technique, because the classes left behind in the container, immediately become web services, and behave as a server.
This all happens without changing a single line of code in the original stand-alone POJO application. This is why it is also known as the Plug and Play application server.
Coherent Diffusion
This technique is applied to the stand-alone application outside of the container.
The M.V.C technique is almost identical to this design pattern.
Typically the main server class and main client class are given Java Interfaces.
These classes are then instantiated in a controller class.
In the M.V.C model it is used to divorce client side from server side. The idea is that the server side may be changed with no affect on the client side.
In the POJO Application Server this is also true, however the controller class also represents the place where all the class linkages, wires or main arteries of the application come together.
Its then a simple matter to tell the POJO Application Server which classes must be run remotely, and which must be run on the server. The wires that connect these classes are already exposed in the controller, and the server extends the linkages that connect remote and server classes across the network. Once this technique has been applied, the stand-alone application may be deployed to the server.
POJO Application Servers
; Harbor : The original Pojo Application Server.
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