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| 18-May-2011 13:03 |
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Water supply restored but ... Some residents still squeamish after gruesome discovery in water tank Ong Dai Lin
One of them, who wanted to be known as Mr Kong, said he only used the tap water to bathe and to wash clothes. “But when I think about the body, I still feel a bit squeamish,” the 47-year-old added. SINGAPORE — The water supply to their homes might have been restored yesterday — following the gruesome discovery of a body in a water tank on the rooftop — but several residents at Blk 686B, Woodlands Drive 73, still felt uncomfortable drinking the water: They stocked up bottles of water to drink and are not having their meals at home. |
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| 18-May-2011 12:59 |
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WHEN ONE PARENT WORKED H O M E WAS B E S T WHEN BOTH PARENTS WORKED HOME BECAME WORST
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| 18-May-2011 12:54 |
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Bosses want ‘plug and play’, not creative employees I SAY today Wednesday May 18, 2011 First, Singapore companies would lose out to other countries because of their inability to innovate. Many places already have the technical expertise to compete with Singaporeans or compete with us on labour costs. The only edge that Singapore has is our ability to create and innovate, but employers do not seem to realise that. Lim Chuan Yang |
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| 18-May-2011 12:52 |
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1965 ~ 1985 BLUE SKY Only Father needed to work as SOLE BREAD WINNER Mother stayed at HOME to look after CHILDREN LIFE was not STRESSFUL because only Father was STRESSED at WORK FAMILY could afford cOst Of LivIng with EASE EVERY GENERATION COULD RETIRE AND RELAX 1986 ~~ 2011 R E D SKY Father has to WORK as before with lower income Mother has to WORK TOO to supplement Father's INADEQUATE low income Nobody to look after HOME CHILDREN LATCHED-KEY and STRAYED to Internet Cafe CHILDRED addicted to ELECTRONICS GAMES and TV MOVIES COST OF LIVING UNcopeable ? ? ? ? CANNOT AFFORD TO RETIRE ? ? ? ? WHOLE FAMILY ULTRA-STRESSED ? ? ? ?
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| 18-May-2011 12:19 |
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The ‘it is policy’ approach Letter from Sebastian Ng I AM heartened to note that two Cabinet Ministers have addressed the concerns of Singaporeans on policy-making. Dr Vivian Balakrishnan said that Government policies should reflect the “key concerns and priorities of Singaporeans” and be more sensitive to the needs of the ground. The Minister in charge of the Civil Service, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, exhorted the public service to connect with citizens. I believe the comments reflect a consensus among the Cabinet members that, in the words of the Minister Mentor, it will not be business as usual. As a post-65er and a former junior civil servant who served for more than 10 years, I would like to share my thoughts on why there might be some form of “resentment” among voters, as some ministers have noted. Starting out as a young graduate with high hopes and aspirations, and not readily conforming to the status quo, I had asked why some human resource policies were in place. I will not mention specifics, but when I questioned the HR department over certain policies, the standard reply was: “It is policy”. Not satisfied with such a paltry reply, I forwarded my query to the Prime Minister’s Office. The first reply from the office was that as an over-arching policy it seemed to be fair and just. I was asked to provide more details about my case. Upon receipt of the details came a second reply a few days later, consonant with the one given by the HR department — “It is policy”. The day after, I was chided by my immediate superiors for “biting the hand that feeds me” and was told not to question further. That episode nearly five years ago is still etched in my mind. I reckon that my generation has experienced some form of top-down “It is policy” treatment, and this approach does not resonate well. It is one thing for ministers to give the direction on the crafting of policies, but it can be altogether a different story for civil servants to implement them. Most of us may know the game of “passing the message”. The initial objective of the message may be distorted by the many levels of red-tape and manoeuvring from the level of the most senior Permanent Secretaries down through directors, managers, support officers all the way to the most junior officers. The official feedback channels may not be enough for ministers to gauge the effectiveness of their policies. Ministers may only get to hear only the “good stuff” from their subordinates. Perhaps our ministers could start springing surprise visits to the various departments within their ministry and interview the most junior officers to get a real sense of what is happening on the ground. Such an approach might help ministers explain the rationale of these policies directly and also help to fine-tune or even discard policies that are not working as they should. |
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| 18-May-2011 12:05 |
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Why schemes for the jobless need to target their spouses, too Couples comprising an unemployed spouse need to be mindful that stresses from searching for a new job can adversely affect their relationship. Not unexpectedly, how deeply they are affected depends on the state of their marriage: Couples in highly satisfied marriages tend to cope better as they have a higher level of concern and sympathy for their partners, while those with rocky marriages tend to be more cynical toward their spouse and of his or her job-seeking efforts. |
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| 18-May-2011 12:01 |
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B E S T PAP GOVERNANCE PROAVTIVE AND PREVENTIVE [PAP] STOP ALL OVERSEAS HOTEL ACTIVITIES INITIATE SKYPE VIDEO CONFERENCING
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| 18-May-2011 11:59 |
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The walls have ears In the cat-and-mouse game of authorities and insider traders, tech and tactics are getting more sophisticated Brooke Masters and Kara Scannell Unbeknown to Danielle Chiesi, the financial world was just weeks away from collapse. It was late August 2008 and the hedge fund trader had something rather more particular on her mind. Having gleaned secret corporate information about Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Chiesi’s worry was that she would attract the authorities’ attention when trading in the chipmaker’s shares. So she turned to her trusted ally, Raj Rajaratnam. “Do you think that I should be showing a pattern of trading AMD?” Ms Chiesi asked the founder and head of the Galleon hedge fund firm, according to a secretly recorded wiretap. “I think you should buy and sell, and buy and sell, you know,” was Rajaratnam’s response, the recording shows. |
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| 18-May-2011 11:54 |
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B E S T PAP GOVERNANCE PROAVTIVE AND PREVENTIVE [PAP] STOP ALL OVERSEAS HOTEL ACTIVITIES INITIATE SKYPE VIDEO CONFERENCING WITHOUT TRAVEL MAXIMISE VALUE @ LEAST COST MORE FOR COUNTRY'S RESERVES PRIVATE BOSSES [OWN MONEY WHAT ? ? ? ?] conducting Own BUSINESSESS USING SKYPE WHY NOT THE REST OF PEOPLE ? ? ? ? OTHER PEOPLE MONEY [OPM] MENTALITY ? ? ? ? |
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| 18-May-2011 11:46 |
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O V E R H E A R D: In 2010 Pretty Lady Indonesia Finance Minister was HEAD-HUNTED to IMF ? ? ? ? RAW TALENT TRANSFER ? ? ? ?
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| 18-May-2011 11:42 |
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ORGANIC is INORGANIC ? ? ? ? Organic Foods: Understanding Organic Food Labels, Benefits, and ClaimsIs organic food really healthier? Are organic foods more nutritious? ... Organic farming refers to the agricultural production systems that are used to produce food ..... Organic or Not? – Is organic produce healthier than conventional? ...
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| 18-May-2011 11:35 |
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It’s no bad thing for the IM F Strauss-Kahn’s fall might bring about rethink of doomed strategy of throwing good money after bad It gives me no pleasure at all to jump up and down on Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s grave. Nor should we yet presume him entirely dead. The man must be presumed innocent until proven guilty and, in any event, there is still some chance that the whole sordid affair turns out to have been a political set-up, in which case he might even emerge from this bizarre scandal with credit and sympathy. Yet it is about time Europe’s ownership of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and particularly France’s apparently divine right to the top job, was brought to a close. If Strauss-Kahn’s nemesis in a New York hotel room loosens Europe’s grip, then that may be no bad thing. WHAT If such SCANDAL happens to Our Ministers or MPs when overseas ? ? ? ? |
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| 18-May-2011 11:23 |
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wOUld the intestines BURST ? ? ? ? wOUld the nanO vIens in the BRAIN BURST ? ? ? ? BEWARE BURSTING WATERMELON US YELLOW KIWI FRUITS US BIG GRAPES
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| 18-May-2011 11:17 |
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When prevention is better than relief People are willing to donate to help after a disaster — but not to save lives before one strikes When the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in March, Mr Brian Tucker was in Padang, Indonesia.save hundreds of thousands of lives when a tsunami strikes.
IT’S NOT GOOD TELEVISION Nevertheless, GeoHazards International lacks the resources to build anything like enough TEREPs to meet the need. After 20 years of operation, the organisation remains tiny, especially when compared to organisations like the Red Cross, which primarily do disaster relief work.
People are willing to donate hundreds of millions of dollars to help people after a disaster — even after a disaster in a wealthy country like Japan — but are unwilling to invest anything like the same amount to save lives before a predictable disaster strikes.
One reason for this is that preventing a disaster does not make good television.
People give to identifiable victims. If we build raised earth parks, we will never see the people who, but for our aid, would have died: No orphans in desperate need will appear on the nightly news.
But is it not much better to keep parents safe than to help orphans after their parents have been killed?
This is a situation in which we must stretch our imagination, to understand and be motivated by the good that we are doing.
Unfortunately, not everyone can do that.
Another reason why we do not give to prevent disasters should be familiar to anyone who has ever delayed going to the dentist because the prospect of serious pain in the coming weeks or months just was not as motivating as the reluctance to face some more immediate slight discomfort.
We tell ourselves that maybe we wonuld not get a toothache after all, even though we know that the odds are that we will.
Most of us are not very good at giving proper weight to future events, especially if they are uncertain. So we may tell ourselves that the geologists could be wrong and perhaps no tsunami will hit Padang in the next 30 years, and by then perhaps we will have new and better technologies for predicting them, giving people more time to get to higher ground.
Instead, we should be guided by the best estimates of the chances that an intervention will save lives, as well as by the number of lives that would be saved and the cost of saving those lives.
The evidence suggests that building raised earth parks in places like Padang is very good value indeed. PROJECT SYND ICATE Peter Singer is Professor of bioethics at Princeton University. His most recent book is The Life You Can Save. Preventing a disaster does not make good television.
People give to identifiable victims. If we build raised earth parks, we will never see the people who, but for our aid, would have died no orphans in desperate need will appear on the nightly news. But is it not much better to keep parents safe than to help orphans after their parents have been killed? Mr Tucker was working with a colleague to design a refuge that could save thousands of lives if — or rather, when — a tsunami like the one in 1797 that came out of the Indian Ocean, some 600 miles south-east of where the 2004 Asian tsunami originated, strikes again. Mr Tucker is the founder and president of GeoHazards International, a non-profit organisation whose mission is to reduce death and suffering due to earthquakes in the world’s most vulnerable communities. Padang is one of those communities. Just to its north-west, in Banda Aceh, 160,000 lives were lost in the 2004 tsunami. Now, geologists say, the fault that triggered that tsunami is most likely to rupture farther south, putting low-lying coastal towns like Padang, with a population of 900,000, at high risk of a major earthquake and tsunami within the next 30 years. In Banda Aceh, the tsunami killed more than half the city’s population. In Padang, according to an estimate by the director of the city’s disaster management office, a similar tsunami could kill more than 400,000 people. Mr Tucker says that he has stood on the beach in Padang, looking out at the ocean and trying to imagine what it would be like to see a 5m-high wall of water stretching across the horizon, bearing down on the city. Now that we have seen the footage of the tsunami that hit Japan, the demands on our imagination have been lessened — except that we have to imagine away the sea walls that Japan had built to reduce the impact of the tsunami. True, those walls did not work as well as had been hoped but Japan was nonetheless much better prepared for a tsunami than Padang is. In Padang, even with advance warning of a tsunami, higher ground is too far away and the narrow streets too choked with traffic, for many people to get to safety in time. GeoHazards International is therefore working on a more practical idea, which it calls a Tsunami Evacuation Raised Earth Park (TEREP). The idea is to build small hills in low-lying parts of the city, with level tops that could be used as parks or sports fields. With the few minutes’ warning that an earthquake’s strong shaking would automatically provide, people could walk to a TEREP and be safe above the highest level a tsunami could reach. Such raised earth parks are a low-cost solution to the tsunami danger in low-lying coastal areas. They use only local materials, provide a valuable community resource in normal times and have the potential to
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| 18-May-2011 11:01 |
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The boom and bu(r)st of China’s watermelons BEIJING About 20 farmers around Danyang city in Jiangsu province were affected, losing up to 46.5ha of melons, according to the Prices over the past year prompted many farmers to jump into the watermelon market and those that saw their melons explode were apparently first-time users of the growth accelerator forchlorfenuron. The drug is allowed under Chinese regulations and it is used in the United States on kiwi fruit and grapes. Professor Wang Liangju of the College of Horticulture at Nanjing Agricultural University said that the drug had been used too late in the season and heavy rain had raised the risk of the fruit cracking open. Also, the melons were of a thin-rind variety that tended to split. Intact watermelons were being sold in Shanghai, even ones that showed signs of forchlorfenuron use: Fibrous, misshapen fruit with white instead of black seeds. Other farmers resorted to feeding it to fish and pigs. — Watermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave them overdoses of growth chemicals during wet weather, creating what state media called fields of “land mines”.China Central Television (CCTV) investigative report.AP |
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| 18-May-2011 10:55 |
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‘If things are going well, that’s when you leave’ TANYA FON G SINGAPORE And while Mr Lee did get his way, Assoc Prof Ho nevertheless believed — till this day — that he was right to speak his mind. Mr Lee, who is one of Singapore’s founding fathers, has offered to resign from Cabinet on Saturday for a younger generation to “carry Singapore forward in a more difficult and complex situation”. Assoc Prof Ho, who was formerly a Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs, was speaking to MediaCorp in a candid interview last month, before the General Elections (GE). He had requested that the interview — in which he looked back on his political career — be published after the elections. In the interview, Assoc Prof Ho, 57, recounted the famous incident during the 2001 GE at the now-defunct Nee Soon East single-member constituency, when Mr Lee had to step in to resolve tensions between temple regulars and Assoc Prof Ho over administrative procedures. Assoc Prof Ho subsequently won the seat, garnering 73.38 per cent of the votes against his Workers’ Party opponent Poh Lee Guan. Assoc Prof Ho revealed that he had declined Mr Lee’s help. He said: “I didn’t think it was necessary because I basically stood on my own track record and on my approach. Some people probably out there still feel if (Mr Lee) didn’t come in Ho Peng Kee would have lost. “To this day I feel it’s unfair but it’s water under the bridge. All’s well that ends well.” He reiterated that he could understand where Mr Lee was coming from — and he respected Mr Lee’s views. Assoc Prof Ho added: “It’s his style of doing things because he’s really a fighter.” On hindsight, Assoc Prof Ho believes that the fact that it was then his first time facing an electoral contest, had partly contributed to the PAP’s anxiety over his chances. Other factors could also be the perceived advantages that Dr Poh, including how he was more fluent in Hokkien and had closer ties to the temple regulars, said Assoc Prof Ho. Assoc Prof Ho successfully defended his Nee Soon East seat in the 2006 GE — winning with 68.7 per cent of the votes. That result was a vindication to him, he said. “It was the fourth best overall result for the party and best result against the Workers’ Party.” — Not many PAP MPs would stand up to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew but Associate Professor Ho Peng Kee, 57, who retired from politics before the recent General Election (GE), was one who did. |
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| 18-May-2011 10:45 |
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Lifting the Party Whip:
LEON G WEE KEAT In some cases, especially where the policies affect a broader range of people, the party Whip could be lifted more often than not, because this would give the Government a sense of whether policies are in the right direction. Newly-elected PAP MP Edwin Tong
If the debate is robust enough, party leaders will stay cognizant to your views and make adjustments accordingly. |
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| 18-May-2011 10:08 |
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From hotel suites
NEW YORK
Strauss-Kahn was transferred from a detention centre attached to the Manhattan Criminal Court to Rikers Island on Monday and held in protective custody in a 3m-by-4m cell, a spokesman for the New York City Department of Correction said.
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| 18-May-2011 09:41 |
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iFLYER at RWS Universal Studio WHY is the iFLYER Operations Licence nOt IssUed ? ? ? ? Any gOOd reasOn ? ? ? ? |
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| 18-May-2011 09:23 |
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SECURITY LAPSE & HEALTH RISK & LIFE THREAT are thrEE bIggest wOrrIes ? ? ? ? rIght intO HDB HOMES ALL WATER TANKS ACCESS must be under LOCKS & KEYS And nO One is allowed tO ACCESS WATER TANKS A L O N E IMAGINE If someone drops some pOIsOns whole block of residents will be DEAD ? ? ? ? |
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