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The proposal is being considered as part of an official review into the handling of storm-related supply disruptions that hit many parts of Britain over Christmas. Around 750,000 premises were without electricity at some point during 24-28 December, including 43,000 properties affected on Christmas Day.
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The review will focus on communications, necessary resources to cope with widespread disruption, and the compensation process. The participants will also investigate "as quickly as possible" the setting up of an emergency telephone number, which households can call if they experience a power cut.
Davey said: "I fully understand the frustration felt by people whose Christmases were spoiled because of power disruptions, but I also want to pay tribute to the hard work of the engineers who battled appalling weather conditions to try to reconnect homes as quickly as possible.
"It's virtually unprecedented for storms to affect such a huge area of the UK for so long, and this prevented network operators helping their colleagues in other regions as would normally happen. So the review will look at the contingency plans and levels of resources required so that operators can be prepared for the worst should an event like this ever happen again."
The review into power disruptions will feed into a wider review of severe weather response and resilience being led by Defra and the Cabinet Office.
After the meeting, ENA chief executive David Smith said: "The networks constantly review the resilience of infrastructure and there are robust plans in place to deal with the damage caused by extreme weather. There is always a thorough assessment after situations such as the one seen over Christmas to look at improving the service to customers."
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(21st Sep 2006) MerLion Pharmaceuticals Announces its new Board of Directors and changes to its senior management team.
MerLion Pharmaceuticals Pte Ltd (MerLion) announces additions to its board of Directors and changes in its senior management team following the recent acquisitions of Combinature Biopharm AG and Athelas SA.
The Board of the newly merged company comprises
Sir Richard Sykes FRS (chairman)
Mr. Boon Swan Foo (deputy chairman)
Dr. Klaus Brandau *
Dr. Tony Buss (CEO)
Ms. Chu Swee Yeok
Dr. Clemens Doppler *
Dr. Harald Labischinski *
Dr. Jürg Meier
Mr. Jean-Philippe Tripet
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Sir Richard Sykes FRS, independent Chairman of the Board of Directors said "It is a great pleasure to welcome Dr Harald Labischinski, Dr Klaus Brandau and Dr Clemens Doppler onto the board. These outstanding individuals will provide us with greater depth and breadth as we move MerLion to the next stage."
MerLion's senior management team will consist of Dr Tony Buss, Chief Executive Officer, Dr Harald Labischinski, Chief Scientific Officer and Mr. Chris Molloy, who is promoted to Chief Operating Officer with additional responsibility for business development.
Dr Tony Buss said "These additions to the MerLion Board further extend the relevant industry expertise, corporate governance and financial network available to the company. MerLion will benefit from the experience and significant international standing of our new and existing Directors."
MerLion is developing a strong anti-infective clinical pipeline whilst retaining an internationally renowned natural product based drug discovery and partnering capability. It has state-of-the art NMR screening facilities in Berlin and owns a proven first-in-class anti-infectives technology. The company intends to finalise the remainder of a US$ 30 million round of private financing at the end of September.
Note to Editors
About Sir Richard Sykes FRS
Sir Richard was appointed Chairman & Chief Executive of Glaxo Wellcome plc in May 1997 and subsequently as Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline from 2000 to 2002. He is currently Rector of Imperial College London.
Sir Richard was knighted in 1994 for his services to the pharmaceutical industry. He holds a wide variety of positions on UK government and international scientific committees and recently accepted the role of Chair of the WHO International Advisory Board which oversees the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform.
About Boon Swan Foo
Mr. Boon is the Managing Director of the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR) and second Deputy Chairman of the Science and Engineering Research Council, A*STAR. As Deputy Chairman and CEO of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd grew into the 7th largest company on the Singapore Stock Exchange, with a market capitalization of S$8 billion. He was also the Chief Financial Officer, and Board Member and ExCO Director of Singapore Technologies Pte Ltd-the parent company of Singapore Technologies Group of Companies.
Mr. Boon is currently serving on the Boards of Health Sciences Authority, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, Singapore Polytechnic, Temasek Laboratories, Management Development Institute of Singapore and NTUC Income Insurance Cooperative Limited. He is also a Member of the Dean's Council of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
About Dr. Harald Labischinski
Dr. Labischinski was formerly the CEO of Combinature AG and held a number of influential academic positions including Vice-Director Robert Koch-Institute of the Federal Health Organisation of Germany until his move to Bayer AG 1993. There he held positions including Department Head Antibacterial Therapy, and Director Anti-infective Research. In 2004 he became Senior Research Fellow Anti-infective Research. He is author of over 160 publications and patents. He has been President (2003-2005), and remains vice president, of the German Society for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM), and Board Member of the German Association of Biological and Biomedical Societies (VBBM).
Dr Labischinski has recently been invited to join the programme committee for the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, the world's largest meeting on infectious diseases, which meets this month in San Francisco. In this role Dr Labischinski will be overseeing the area of New Antimicrobial Agents and New Research Technologies.
About Dr Klaus Brandau
Dr. Brandau is an active board member for a variety of organizations. In 2001, he retired after a distinguished career at Bayer AG culminating as Corporate Senior Vice President, a role he held for over a decade. From 1989, Dr. Brandau headed the International Cooperation and Licensing Department of the Pharmaceutical Business Group. His responsibilities encompassed the global in- and out-licensing activities in the areas of Research and Development as well as Marketing and Sales. Previous to this position, Dr. Brandau held various management positions in international drug development. Between 1970 and 1971, Dr. Brandau was a visiting scientist in the laboratory of Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Julius Axelrod, at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.
About Ms. Chu Swee Yeok
Ms Swee-Yeok CHU is the Chief Executive Officer of Bio*One Capital, an investment management company of Singapore Economic Development Board (SEDB) which oversees global investments in the biotechnology and medical devices & technology. Bio*One manages one of the largest biomedical fund in Asia, and has some 60 portfolio companies worldwide. Apart from Merlion, Ms CHU's holds several other board directorship responsibilities, including S*BIO, an oncology drug discovery & development company; A-Bio Pharmaceuticals, a biologics process development & clinical contract manufacturing company, CombinatoRx Singapore, a joint-venture focusing on developing infectious disease drugs; Lonza Singapore, a joint-venture in commercial scale contract manufacturing; and the Novartis Institute of Tropical Diseases (NITD) in Singapore.
About Dr. Clemens Doppler
Dr Doppler has been a director at 3i since 2000 and has 10 years of international business experience in the pharma and biotech industries. He started his career in R&D and has worked in business development. He held senior position at Boehringer Mannheim (now Roche) and was in the management team of Swiss Biotech company ANAWA Laboratories AG, which was successfully sold in 1997 to Phoenix International Life Science (now MDS Inc.) a world leading healthcare and CRO services provider. Dr Doppler specialises in biotechnology and life science technology investments and is a member of 3i's core healthcare team.
As well as serving on various boards, Dr Doppler is a member of the German biotech analyst association DVFA. He is also a fellow of the German Cancer Research Centre. Dr Doppler holds degrees in marketing and economics and a MSc and Ph.D. in molecular biology, chemistry and microbiology from the University of Heidelberg.
About Mr. Jean-Philippe Tripet
Mr. Jean-Philippe Tripet is founder and Managing Partner of Aravis Venture, an internationally active venture fund focused on biotech investments. Jean-Philippe Tripet has over 15 years experience as portfolio manager and financial analyst. He has a degree in business administration from the University of Geneva, did graduate studies in San Diego (USA) and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Until 2001, he was a Senior Executive Vice-President and member of Group Management at Lombard Odier & Cie, Geneva. Since 1994, Jean-Philippe Tripet has supervised over 90 private biotech investments. He is also Chairman of the board of directors of Evolva and Athelas, Vice Chairman of Symetis, and a director of Omeros.
About Dr Jurg Meier
Dr. Jürg Meier is the former Executive Director of the Novartis Venture Fund, a position he held from 1998 to 2006. Before taking this position, he had a 25 year career within Sandoz Pharma where he held significant positions in international research and development at Sandoz Pharma Ltd., including head of worldwide R&D, and president of Sandoz Pharma in Japan. Dr Meier is a member of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
About Dr. Tony Buss
Dr. Tony Buss is the President and CEO of MerLion Pharmaceuticals. He has held senior research and management positions with major pharmaceutical and agrochemical companies, including 7 years with Pfizer, 6 years with Schering AG (both in the UK and Germany) and 13 years with GlaxoSmithKline. He joined the Centre for Natural Product Research, Singapore, in 2000 as Head of the Centre, before its incorporation as MerLion Pharmaceuticals Pte Ltd in 2002. Dr. Buss is a graduate of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, London. He was awarded a MSc from the University of East Anglia in 1978 and received his PhD in 1981 from the University of Cambridge, England.
About Mr. Chris Molloy
Mr. Chris Molloy was formerly business development manager at MerLion where he was responsible for the establishment and maintenance of all partnership and business to business relationships. Before joining MerLion, Mr. Molloy had a 14 year career at GlaxoSmithKline in a variety of management roles within preclinical drug discovery and informatics. He is a graduate in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Bradford.
Contact Chris Molloy: MerLion Pharmaceuticals Pte Ltd
Tel: +65 6829 5606
Fax: +65 6829 5601


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Make-ahead breakfast casseroles are perfect for busy mornings. This healthy breakfast casserole recipe is a delicious, lighter twist on an old family favourite, because sometimes you just need some egg and cheese goodness in the morning!
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Breakfast has always been my favourite meal of the day and lately I've loved sharing all my favourite breakfast recipes with you, like these Pomegranate Granola Parfaits or this Mango Citrus Smoothie Bowl! This make-ahead breakfast casserole is a departure from the sweet breakfast recipes I've been posting lately. It's deliciously savoury and full of eggs and cheese, and the best part? It's easy to throw together the night before so there's no fussing the next morning! And really, who wouldn't want to wake up to this?
Healthy Make-Ahead Breakfast Casserole Recipe
I've adapted this healthy breakfast casserole recipe from a family favourite by removing most of the fat (who needs 1/2 cup of melted butter poured over their breakfast anyway, right?) and creating more flavour by adding some real bacon, fresh veggies and spice. And instead of a typical layered strata-style breakfast casserole, I slice the bread into large cubes and toss everything together in a large bowl before dumping it into the baking dish. It just doesn't get any easier than that, does it??
Skinny Make-Ahead Breakfast Casserole
- 1/2 loaf French bread, cut into 2-inch cubes (whole grain French bread also works great here!)
- 1 large red pepper, diced
- 1/2 large green pepper, diced
- 1/4 cup chopped green onion, plus more for garnish
- 4 slices cooked bacon chopped
- 1 1/4 cup skim milk
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup reduced fat shredded cheddar cheese farmer's marble cheese also works great!
- 1/2 tsp dried mustard
- 1/2 to 1 tsp of Sriracha
- 1 1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- a pinch or two of salt and pepper
- a few sprays of canola oil for the baking dish (I like to use my Misto Oil Sprayer
- for this job!)
If you're baking the casserole right away, preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. If you're making it the night before, skip this step!
Add the bread cubes, the diced peppers, chopped green onions and chopped bacon to a large bowl.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the milk, the eggs, the dried mustard, the Sriracha, the Worcestershire sauce, and the salt and pepper.
Pour the milk and egg mixture over the bread and veggies and add 3/4 cup of the shredded cheese.
Toss everything together until the bread has absorbed all the liquid and everything is evenly combined.
Spray a square baking dish (approximately 9x9 size) with some canola oil spray. I use my Misto Oil Sprayer for this job, because it allows you to use very little oil and avoid all those unhealthy propellants found in most conventional oil sprays.
Dump the whole mixture into the baking dish, spread it out as evenly as possible and top it with the remaining 1/4 cup of shredded cheese. If you're going to wait until morning to bake the casserole, simply cover it with plastic wrap and place it in the fridge. If you're going to enjoy it immediately, simply place it in your oven heated to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for about 45 minutes until the top is slightly brown and crispy and the cheese is melted and bubbly.
If you're making this casserole ahead of time and placing it in the oven right out of the fridge, it's a good idea to add the casserole straight from the fridge to your cold oven and let the casserole and the dish heat up as the oven preheats. This is a great trick to preventing your casserole dish from cracking and it helps keep the baking time about the same.
When you remove the casserole from the oven, simply let it sit for about 5 minutes before serving, and garnish it with a sprinkling of freshly chopped green onions for added freshness!
Recipe Notes
When you remove the casserole from the oven, simply let it sit for about 5 minutes before serving, and garnish it with a sprinkling of freshly chopped green onions for added freshness!
Like this healthy breakfast recipe? You'll love my Skinny Scrambled Eggs Benedict or these Roasted Red Pepper Phyllo Quiche Cups!
All the cheesy goodness inside this make-ahead breakfast casserole is only 6 Weight Watchers SmartPoints, making it a healthier breakfast option when you're craving comfort food!
I hope you like this recipe! Let me know in the comments below, what's your favourite savoury breakfast lately?


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She's using me
I am sitting on the couch watching TV when she comes to find me. She presses against me, nuzzling my cheek then giving me "the look" that means she is looking for some amorous attention. I begin to caress her face and she closes her eyes, leaning her head back and making little sounds of pleasure. As I continue to touch her, she stretches herself out next to me, limbs extending, pressing herself closer into my fingers as I am touching her. She begins purring with pleasure as I touch her. In the time we have been together, I have learned how she likes to be touched, what it takes to please her. As I continue, she writhes in ecstasy and scratches me, but I know she doesn't mean to. As a tease, I stop and move my hand away. Her eyes fly open and her head whips around to look at me, to find out why I have stopped. I chuckle and go back to giving her what she wants. When I get to that spot on her lower back that really drives her wild, she loses control of herself. I continue until she rolls over, satiated, and curls up on the couch next to me. Sometimes I think all she wants me for is the things I do for her. You know, fresh water in her dish, food dish full, cat toys all over the house and the occasional left over cereal milk. I now know the origin of the phrase "pussy whipped."


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Building a Law Firm Practice Area Portal for Business Development Purposes
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The Litigation Support and Practice Management Peer Groups of ILTA are pleased to announce a free webinar titled, "Building a Law Firm Practice Area Portal for Business Development Purposes."Be sure to join us for this webinar on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 12:00 PM Eastern / 11:00 AM Central / 10:00 AM Mountain / 9:00 AM PacificTo register: https://sdma.webex.com/sdma/j.php?ED=92676442&RG=1Building a Law Firm Practice Area Portal for Business Development PurposesThis session discusses and shows how a hosted, Web-based collaboration system can be used to build a repository of information using technologies to support marketing efforts and demonstrate experience in virtually any area of law (IP, insurance, products liability, etc.). This application of collaboration technology is somewhat different than the "traditional" or "typical" use of collaboration technologies in the litigation support theater which provide services like calendaring, document management or case tracking/management.During the session, the Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold E-Discovery Portal will be used as a case study to illustrate these concepts.Presenter:Ken Jones, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP/XERDICT GROUP LLC Ken leads Xerdict Group LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sedgwick that provides litigation support extranets to clients. Xerdict offers Web-based collaboration products that help clients manage complex litigation data, such as litigation calendars, case management data, litigation costs, discovery materials and litigation documents in a secure and efficient online portal. Ken's professional history includes information management and applications development positions in Fortune 500 companies, at which he led efforts to build innovative website content management systems, to construct worldwide Internet-based financial collection and reporting systems and to implement SAP modules in functional areas such as order processing, manufacturing and logistics.


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In this lesson students get to combine the world of literacy and physical movement! As the teacher reads the book "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now" by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully and safely jump up out of their chairs with their hands over their heads every time they hear the word "go." This is a great lesson combining psychomotor, cognitive and affective skills.
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All merchandise returned to Universal Imports FL must have been purchased within thirty days of the request, this includes defective and resalable product. Returned product must be assigned a Return Authorization (RA) number. Any shipment without an RA number on the label may be subject to refusal and no credit will be due.
Q. How do I obtain a Return Authorization number?
A. You can obtain an RA number by one of three ways. Representatives are available to process your request by calling 888-646-5010 and selecting option 2.
Fax your request to the team at 888-268-4196. Fax requests are usually processed within 48 hours.
You can also email your requests to email@example.com
Q. What information do I need to obtain an RA?
A. You will need the invoice number or account number and PO. If you do not have this, a search may be done using the product number and company name and account number,
Q. Am I charged a restock fee?
A. As stated in our terms and conditions, we are happy to take back product ordered in error that has been purchased within the 30 day period. However, Universal Imports FL, does assess a 15% restocking fee for this service.
Q. Once I have my RA number what do I do next?
A. All returns must be labeled with the RA number in order to insure credit. Do not write directly on the product, it must be in resalable condition or Universal Imports FL will not accept it. Reference the number on the shipping label. Product is then shipped back to any Universal Imports FL receiving warehouse facility
Q. Once I send the product back how do I get my credit?
A. The RA number will turn into the credit memo when the product is received and checked in to our return facility. This is done by adding 001 to the RA number.
Q. I am a credit card customer, is my credit applied directly to my card?
A. Yes, it will be applied back to your card. Please keep in mind the complete process takes approximately 7-10 business days.
Q. I'd like to pay my bill, where do I send my payment?
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Q. What else can Customer Service help me with?
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Q. I need product information; can Customer Service help me with this?
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Q. I ordered one product but got something else, what do I do now?
A. Universal Imports FL prides ourselves on having a high accuracy rate. Unfortunately, there are times when a wrong pull of an item occurs. If this happens, call customer service as you would for an RA and explain to the Representative what happened. They will need a part number or a detailed description of the product that was received in error. All errors need to be reported within five business days of receipt of goods.
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Q. Can I get actual copies of invoice?
A. Yes this information can be obtained by sending email to firstname.lastname@example.com. You will need the ship to account number, the date range, Purchase order # (PO) or the invoice # itself.
Clearly mark your Return Authorization number on the shipping label of your return package.
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Micro Cloud Concept
In a Smart Home context, IoTs will not be just personal, and therefore attached to a Smartphone, a Tablet or a PC only. They will need some kind of domestic fixed Hub, readily available for family use rather than just individual driven. Moreover, such multipurpose Hub will have to work even when people are away, or when the telecom line falls down. In other words, such a Smart Home Hub will need to create some kind of offline Micro-Cloud dealing seamlessly with whatever Media, Telecom and IoT patterns people will be mixing and scaling..
Leveraging its long lasting Digital TV experience and legitimacy, HyperPanel has developed a complete software stack empowering a rather advanced Media Home Gateway (MHG) capable of setting up this domestic Micro-Cloud. As a base, it redistributes TV signals, both Broadcast and IP, but also Photos and Music's, on any and all multiple screens at home. Doing so, it makes advanced IPTV and multiscreen use cases truly universal, because both operator independent, and matching the nearly 100% Broadcast reach. Simultaneously, and without jeopardizing the ultimate multiroom Digital TV performances created to enter people's living-rooms, the HyperPanel multipurpose powered MHG also handles seamlessly multiple IoT to unleash Smart Home at everyone fingertips', even using the TV remote control and relying on the intuitive family TV screen to do so.
The Micro Cloud paves the way for new greenfield services Operators to market value added innovative smart home solutions, leveraging whenever possible on popular broadcast channels and NAS type use cases to create an attractive context and a captive ecosystem for consumers. The Micro Cloud can then be tailored to handle over the top multiple IoTs simultaneously, actually thanks to the unique and disruptive HyperPanel Operating System fundamentals that enable this seamless scalability. When combining the truly agile Media Home Gateway together with the Back-Office, not to mention the ability for people to enable smart home monitoring through intuitive TV management, Operators can unleash a whole new IoT business at home.


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WALL Street's blue chips set a record close in a lackluster session on Friday while the U.S. dollar strengthened against the euro and Japanese yen after the European Central Bank signaled it could deliver fresh monetary stimulus next month.
Global equity markets eased after two key indexes hit record peaks on Thursday, but U.S. markets were lifted by growth stocks such as Facebook Inc, Priceline Group Inc, Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc.
Major U.S. indexes ended the week near their levels of the start of the year. The benchmark S&P 500 is up less than 2 percent for the year and has traded roughly within a 35-point range for two months. The Nasdaq is 2.5 percent lower and the Dow only slightly higher.
"The volatility and the decline in a lot of growth stuff is wearing people out," said Michael James, managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles. "There's a lot of trader fatigue."
The Nasdaq has dropped for three straight sessions in its longest losing streak since early April.
Rick Meckler, president of hedge fund LibertyView Capital Management in Jersey City, New Jersey, said investors are trying to gauge if so-called momentum stocks, whose share prices have been on a roller coaster in recent weeks, will finally stop.
"There's some fear among investors that their steep fall-offs are a precursor of something to the broader market, and when they rebound, even temporarily, it seems to give confidence to the overall market," Meckler said.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 32.37 points, or 0.2 percent, at 16,583.34, the S&P 500 gained 2.85 points, or 0.15 percent, to 1,878.48 and the Nasdaq Composite added 20.374 points, or 0.5 percent, to 4,071.869.
Facebook rose 0.85 percent to $ 57.24, Priceline climbed 2.5 percent to $ 1,135.91, Google added 1.5 percent to $ 518.73 and Amazon.com gained 1.36 percent to $ 292.24.
MSCI's all-country world index fell 0.2 percent after advancing to its highest since November 2007 on Thursday.
In Europe, the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index slipped 0.26 percent to close at 1,355.40, after hitting its highest level since May 2008, also on Thursday.
The euro lost ground after ECB President Mario Draghi gave his clearest signal yet that policymakers might act in June to stem slowing inflation and bolster a fragile economic recovery.
Italian, Spanish and Irish borrowing costs fell to record lows on the prospect the ECB could embark on an asset purchase program if inflation remained persistently low.
The euro fell 0.59 percent to 1.3758 against the dollar. The dollar basket rose 0.63 percent and against the yen the dollar gained 0.14 percent to 101.79.
John Doyle, currency strategist at Temps Inc in Washington, said the euro's fall from Thursday eased a bit and that Draghi has tried in the past to talk down the currency's strength.
"Until the ECB actually acts, I don't see a sustained rally in the dollar. The market has been calling Draghi's bluff."
U.S. crude futures were range bound as support from a drawdown in domestic crude stockpile offset technical sell points. Brent crude was lower.
Brent for June settled down 15 cents at $ 107.89 a barrel. U.S. oil settled down 27 cents at $ 99.99.
Gold fell, pressured by the euro's sharp decline from a 2-1/2 year high. U.S. COMEX gold futures for June delivery settled down 10 cents an ounce at $ 1,287.60.
U.S. Treasuries drifted lower as the 30-year long bond again surrendered price gains after an unexpectedly costly $ 16 billion government auction of new 30-year debt.-Herbert Lash/Reuters


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The worldwide fascination with the British royal family has become such an obvious fact of life in recent years that it is tempting to take its growth for granted. How could it have been otherwise?
Yet in reality there was nothing inevitable about it. As Britain`s standing in the world declined, the monarchy could easily have dwindled into a faded minor attraction, of largely local interest. That it should have evolved instead into one of the greatest shows on earth remains a much more extraordinary business than is commonly acknowledged.
This is the phenomenon that John Pearson has taken for his subject in The Selling of the Royal Family. He is concerned not so much with the well-worn repertory of royal stories as with the story of those stories -- the ways in which they have been presented, and their public impact. A seasoned journalist, whose previous books include biographies of Ian Fleming and the Sitwells, Pearson combines shrewd judgment with a keen eye for social nuance. He has succeeded in pursuing his researches into regions where facts are still frequently elusive, and by virtue of his approach he holds your interest even when dealing with dramas that you might well have felt you never wanted to read about again.
The serving up of monarchy for mass consumption had its origins in the advent of mass politics in Britain in the late 19th century, and the transformation of Queen Victoria from secluded widow into august imperial figurehead. Her son, Edward VII, made the most of the pageantry and plumage of the job, but it took the respectability of King George V and Queen Mary to provide the indispensable foundations for what was to follow.
Queen Mary, in particular, is the predominant figure in the early pages of Pearson`s book, and the first of the strong-willed women whom he sees as setting the course of the British monarchy in the 20th century -- inflexible in her morality and unyielding in her sense of duty. A great-granddaughter of George III, she recognized that in order to flourish in the modern world the royal family had to pull off the trick of appearing awe-inspiring and yet somehow reassuringly ordinary at the same time.


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While many people this month are focused on the controversy surrounding the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, I have another civil-rights-related 40th anniversary on my mind. On Aug. 11, 1965, the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles broke out in flames on the nation's television screens. Many cherish the memory as the moment when the militant became mainstream in a "fed-up" black America, replacing the nonviolent, gradualist efforts of old-guard civil rights leaders. The Watts riot indeed shaped modern black American history more decisively than the Voting Rights Act. The question is whether it was in a good way.
In comparison with the polite sleeve-tugging and forms of nonviolent protest typical of the earlier civil rights generation, the sea change in 1965 may seem at first glance to have been an overdue response to the injustice that black America had endured for so long. But after researching the riot and the policies established in its aftermath, I have come to a different conclusion. In teaching poor blacks that picturesque battle poses were an "authentic" substitute for constructive intentions, the "Burn, Baby, Burn" ethos ultimately did more harm than good to a people who had already been through more than enough.
The eternal question about the riots has been: Why did they happen just then? Leaders like Martin Luther King were baffled about this at the time, and the question is still relevant to assessing the black condition. In 1965, black Americans had been dealing with the short end of the stick for almost 400 years. If black American history from the early 1600s to 2005 could be condensed to 24 hours, then these riots took place at 10 p.m. Why not before?
The Watts riot began when white police officers stopped an intoxicated black driver in South Central Los Angeles. He resisted arrest and was forcibly subdued. A rumor quickly spread that the officers had beaten a pregnant black woman, and a growing mob started throwing rocks and bottles at the cops. The incident snowballed into a five-day conflagration, with blacks destroying a thousand businesses. Thirty-four people died, more than 1,000 were hospitalized and nearly 4,000 were arrested.
This was the first episode in a series of "long hot summers" in the late '60s, when blacks went on to riot and loot in one city after another. The Detroit rendition two years later was especially horrific, with 43 deaths, more than 7,200 arrests, and about 2,500 stores trashed.
The conventional wisdom at the time was that blacks were rebelling against the conditions they were forced to live in. I was born two months after Watts, but growing up, this was the justification I heard time and again. The Watts rioters lived in an America where about one in three black families lived below the poverty line while just a little more than one in 10 white families did. Twice as many black as white men were unemployed. Redlining policies barring blacks from white neighborhoods were in force until the Fair Housing Act of 1968 -- and under the table, even afterward.
But even so, there were a few too many things about the Watts riot and the later ones that did not quite make sense if they were to be seen as the outcome of injustice.
For one thing, these were the first urban race riots driven by blacks instead of whites. Before this, race riots in American cities involved white bigots storming into black neighborhoods and terrorizing residents, often because of rumors that a black man had "assaulted" a white woman, as was the case when whites torched the prosperous black quarter of Tulsa in 1921. For struggling blacks, burning down their own neighborhoods only became a part of the protest vocabulary in the mid-'60s -- just as the Great Society was getting into gear. Moreover, black rioters in Watts ruined black-owned businesses as lustily as white ones, even when stores had "Soul Brother" signs in the window. How was this a rebellion against racism?
Another strange thing: The worst riots happened in places where conditions for blacks were best. If one had to predict in August 1965 where black-led riots might be most likely, the obvious choice would have been the deep South. And yet, very few of the riots in the late '60s took place in the most bigoted region in America: There was no memorable race riot in Atlanta or Birmingham. As for Watts, just the year before the riots, the National Urban League had rated Los Angeles the best city in the nation for blacks to live in. Several studies have shown no correlation between the destructiveness of the black-led riots in a given city and conditions for blacks there.
Some suppose that the Civil Rights Act had dangled before blacks a promise of improvement that seemed to bear no fruit. But the Watts riot happened just one year after the Civil Rights Act came into effect. It is an insult to say that blacks would burn their own neighborhoods down in fury because America was not a brand-new place just months after passage of this legislation, as if change ever occurs that fast. And there had been smaller black-led riots in a few places such as Harlem and Rochester in July of 1964 -- just after the Civil Rights Act was signed.
In general, black America had been "fed up" for centuries before 1965. A useful black history must identify a different factor that sparked the events in Watts and across the land. This factor was a new mood. Only in the 1960s did a significant number of blacks start treating rebellion for its own sake -- rebellion as performance, with no plan of action behind it -- as political activism.
This did not come from nowhere, to be sure -- and where it came from was whites. In the '60s, it became a hallmark of moral sophistication among whites to reject establishment mores, culminating in the counterculture movement. The movement was based initially on laudable intentions: Few today could condemn young, informed whites for rising up against political censorship, racism and later the Vietnam War, or a newly concerned white ruling class for turning its attention to poverty and its disproportionate impact on black people.
But political rebellion always leaves in its wake people who are moved more by the sheer theatrics of acting up than by the actual goals of the protest. At the University of California at Berkeley in 1964, for example, the Free Speech Movement rose up against indefensible suppression of students' speaking truth to power. But on the same campus the following year, a new bunch started the "Filthy Speech Movement," based on emblazoning curse words on placards and watching the suits squirm. It was rebellion for rebellion's sake.
That kind of unintentional by-product of genuine activism hit black America between the eyes. Seasoned black civil rights leaders like Bayard Rustin and A. Phillip Randolph -- who had made real, if gradual, progress in the struggle -- watched as younger sorts shunned their brass-tacks lobbying and rhetorical persuasion in favor of high-profile altercations, preferably involving getting arrested on television. In 1963, Rustin told the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) that "the ability to go to jail should not be substituted for an overall social reform program." But Rustin's speech didn't go over too well with SNCC that night, and three years later, the group edged out undramatic but proactive John Lewis as its leader in favor of rabble-rousing polemicist Stokely Carmichael. Acting out was now the main point.
The idea that rebellion for its own sake was the soul of black authenticity began with some charismatic figures like Carmichael and H. Rap Brown, but soon imprinted a new generation of black artists and intellectuals. The new mood was seductive in its visceral impact, especially to a people whose history had given them so little else to base an identity upon.
Certainly not all blacks fell for it. But enough did that some hotheads surrounding some police cars in Watts one night could spark a vast rebellion instead of being shouted down and ignored.Why not just embrace August 1965 as the time when black America, for whatever reason, started "speaking up?" Because to settle for this is to ignore the destruction of black communities that the new mood left in its wake.
This was not only the physical destruction still on view in the black sections of cities like Detroit, or in less renowned cities like Indianapolis, where solid businesses never returned after the 1967 riot, leaving once-fabled Indiana Avenue hard to imagine as anything but the downmarket stretch that it has since been. There is the deeper destruction that was ultimately wrought. The hopeless plight of today's black inner city is often blamed on the flight of low-skilled factory jobs and the rise of drugs in poor urban neighborhoods. These factors surely contributed to inner-city misery, but my research leads me to conclude that they were hardly the leading causes of the psychic deterioration that soon overtook poor black America. That, instead, was the urban welfare state that was in large part the product of the model of high-pitched, menacing protest that had now been established.
That model was quickly taken up by the National Welfare Rights Organization the year after Watts. As has been documented in many studies, Columbia University professors Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven declared to the press and beyond that poor blacks would be better off seeking welfare payments than working in low-level jobs. They explicitly predicted that if they brought enough people onto the welfare rolls, it would force the government to give a guaranteed income to all poor people. They taught a squadron of activists, many of them black women, to stage rallies across the country and disrupt public meetings calling for welfare to be easier to get, more generous and easier to stay on.
Rarely has radical idealism had such a destructive effect on so many lives. Before the '60s, welfare payments had been intended for widows and women whose children's fathers were nowhere to be found. But in the wake of the new agitation, municipal governments relaxed the old requirements bit by bit.
The new politics of protest was a potent weapon. The riots loomed always as a threat (partly because the Black Panthers loomed menacingly at many of the rallies), and many politicians knuckled under. From 1966 to 1970, the number of people on welfare nationwide doubled from under 500,000 to almost a million. This was not part of Washington's Great Society agenda, which focused on job creation and training. It was a radical side effort, with grievous consequences.
The change was most profound in black communities -- because blacks had been the main target of the recruitment efforts. In Indiana from 1964 to 1972, welfare recipiency tripled in only 11 of 92 counties. Of those 11, only one did not have a heavy black population -- in a state where about 75 counties were almost all white and poverty widespread in about 30 of them.
Over the next 30 years, multigenerational families lived on government money, fathers had no incentive to take care of the children they made, and poor black communities devolved from shabby but stable slums into hopeless, violent deathscapes. This lasted for so long that the precarious stability of old-time black communities was all but forgotten. But while communities changed, black attitude and political protest as performance has come to seem normal. The models for leadership are not Shirley Chisholms, but talkers like Al Sharpton. And when a spark falls, like the Rodney King verdict in 1992, the same impulses and often the same type of violence travel through black communities as did in Watts.
These are the sad examples of what happened when agitprop went mainstream in black activism. The Watts riots were useful in helping push racial injustice further into the national conversation. But the kind of protest model Watts exemplified would best have been left on the margins, as it had always been.
The new mood that the Watts riots inaugurated was a tragedy for black America, dragging poor blacks into depths of malaise they might never have known otherwise. This is why the Voting Rights Act is not the only reason that 1965 is the year that black America must never forget.
John McWhorter, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is the author of "Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America," to be published by Gotham Books in February 2006.


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Grappling with civic-mindedness
Posted on 11 August 2017 - 07:32am
THERE was a price check machine at the biscuit isle, when a grown man walked by with two large tubs of yoghurt. Stopping to scan the bar code of each tub, he proceeded to leave one of the chilled tubs of yoghurt on a biscuit isle shelf and proceeded to the checkout counter. Stunned, I was about to alert him that he had left a chilled item in an un-chilled area.
My mind thought of what would happen to that tub of yoghurt if it sat there till the end of the day.
What if after being kept out of its cold space for hours, that tub of yoghurt was then placed back into the chiller area. And what if I were to buy that tub of yoghurt after it had been sitting out for most of the day.
I also imagined the pain of proving that the yoghurt was already off when purchased.
But when I was about to speak up, I felt an involuntary sense of paralysis stopping me. I was too scared in case it caused a scene.
Instead I then took this orphaned tub of yoghurt back to its cold home. I hadn't thought about the incident until now when I was speaking to a friend who said, you chose your battle with that one. I didn't agree because I felt more like a scaredy-cat than a wise person.
In an ideal world, price tags would be visible and if we had to take items to the price check machine, we would know to return the unwanted items to the rightful place where we found them. But here I was scared to speak up over a tub of yoghurt. I was disappointed at myself.
I've been thinking about this for a few days now but it comes back to how we behave as a country. The vandals on the MRT. The state of our public toilets. The conditions of our playgrounds. The mentality of the person who throws rubbish out of a moving car.
On one hand we want better public amenities but on the other hand, what we also need is a change in mentality not to vandalise.
How do you teach a smoker that cigarette butts thrown into a flower garden do not grow into a cigarette tree. Or that the rightful place for a used tissue paper is the bin. Or that the trees that line our roads are not billboards in disguise, they are in fact real trees and not a space to crucify advertisements for plumbing, property advertisements or even adult toys and supplies.
When Singapore banned the humble chewing gum, the world laughed. How limiting to be policed about something as small as chewing gum. But it also made people more aware. It wasn't that chewing gum was banned, gum for personal use was permissible. But it was that people did not dispose of the gum properly. You don't stick used gum wherever you please. It needs to be wrapped and placed in a bin as to not inconvenience anyone else. If you go to Singapore today, you'll find that there is an underlying mentality of a more socially conscious people and a cleaner state in general.
You might say well, it is a false sense of civic-mindedness when there are so many laws – even one that does not allow for people to harvest fruits of public fruit trees. But it is the enforcement of the laws that has made Singaporeans more civic-minded. And maybe that's the more effective way of making people more civic-minded as unpleasant as it sounds.
How often do we see a huge pile of rubbish below a large sign that states RM500 fine (or more) for littering. Admittedly you can't place an enforcement officer at each signpost to wait for the perpetrators but clearly these not-so-subtle signs are ignored because there is no repercussion. Perhaps there is something in our subconscious too that tells us nothing much will be done, just like year after year when the Auditor-General's Report is made public, as we see the amount of corruption and waste that happens.
Yes, we can call someone out for bad behaviour but let's face it, we're quite a hot-tempered and entitled bunch, and the outcome of telling someone who has inconvenienced you by say parking illegally might not be as idealistic and peaceful as we imagine.
The challenge for Malaysia is not how to teach children civic-mindedness but how adults need to be better model citizens who at the very least put yoghurt tubs back on the right shelves.
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I really didn't think about documenting it too much when we bought the house, so my before pictures are the ones James took during the inspection. I wish I had taken empty room pictures or saved the MLS photos, but this is what I've got. On the plus side, it makes the before and after pretty dramatic, because the previous owners were in the midst of packing, and there is stuff everywhere. I'd say they were teetering on the hairy edge of hoarding.. They were the original owners of the house and had lived here 19 years, so that's a lot of time to accumulate. But to be fair, they did at least have everything put away when we first viewed the house. There was still a ton of stuff, but it wasn't covering every surface like this
This is a picture packed post. I have tried my best to take photos at the same angles so you get a true before and after, even though this isn't always the best view of the room. Most of the rooms, I only have one angle, which means some of the updates we've made aren't visible in these pics. Bear with me, because these are all phone photos, which frankly isn't ideal for home photography.
Front of house, before
The kitchen, before.
The kitchen, now.
Despite the table you see in the before pic, it's not really an eat-in. And although the cabinets and counters are the same, we've actually done a quite a bit in this room so far. James tore out the vinyl flooring. We had bamboo flooring installed. Over the course of the five years, we've replaced all the appliances, including replacing the vent hood with an over the range microwave. I eccentrically chose white rather than the popular stainless. We also replaced the faucet
Kitchen/dining area before.
Dining area, before.
Family room, before.
The entryway, before.
The entryway, now.picture above the coat rack is the printable letter art I made for a Pinterest challenge.
The hallway, before.
Hall bath, before.
Spare 'oom, before.
Second bedroom, before.
Master bedroom, before.
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Master closet, before.
Master bath, before.
So, that's our house! Hope you enjoyed the tour. Even after five years there are still so many things I want to do. One thing that's funny to me is that we've replaced the flooring and windows in all of these rooms, but hardly any of the light fixtures. Also, I'm afraid it's really time to start painting again. It will be fun to see what it looks like in another five years.