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Peter a 34-year-old office administrator says: There are no experts no preaching

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Published: July 30, 2010

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Peter, a 34-year-old office administrator, says: “There are no experts, no preaching. People share their experience rather than a theory a counsellor might use. At HA meetings there are other people who think or act in the same way and there is a certain amount of camaraderie. You don’t feel so loony.”For some, attending a HA meeting is an alternative to counselling. I can find myself drinking six cappuccinos or obsessively checking to see if my rings are still on my fingers or calling my answer machine 10 times a day if I’m expecting a man to call. I go to HA because I can talk about any of my addictions or obsessive thoughts – it is also very easy to switch addictions.

I’ve been at Cartier International polo matches and felt so much pressure to be glamorous, sitting next to well-groomed women dripping in gold, that I’ve needed a drug to cope with my feelings of inadequacy and low self- esteem.”At school we are not taught to express our emotions yet most people have anxieties about themselves. The only way you can do this is by suppressing what you really feel. “When you put down the alcohol and drugs, all the problems that drove you to use them come to the surface.”As part of the social scene you have to project a certain image. “You cannot solve emotional problems overnight – no matter how privileged, rich and famous you might be. We’re all obsessed with glamour, yet being featured in Hello! and OK! magazines doesn’t bring happiness – those people are just as likely to need help.”Amanda, 32, a recovering HA member, party girl and victim of the Tara Palmer-Tomkinson “having it all” syndrome, would vouch for this. The first step to recovery for sufferers is to admit that they are “powerless over their addictive and compulsive patterns of thought and behaviour.” For many people, compulsive traits may not be life threatening but they still need help to solve their problems on a day-to-day basis.”With addictive disease the problem is genetic and affects a cross-section of the community,” claims Dr Lefever.

You don’t need substances to have obsessional and addictive behaviour and thought processes. What is behind all these tendencies is usually depression which people try to cover up in some way. He adds: “I’m not in favour of a confessional society but if you have an addictive nature, you do need somewhere to go to talk about your obsessions.”At HA meetings, participants are encouraged to share their feelings and identify with others with similar experiences. But what is supposed to underlie these addictive and obsessive thoughts and behaviours is an inability to cope with life’s realities.According to Dr Robert Lefever, GP and director of Promis Recovery Centre in Kent, which treats obsessive-compulsives as well as addicts: “Whether you drink alcoholically, snort cocaine or go back to the house three times because you think you have left the iron on – it is all part of the same thing. A spin-off of the 12- step group Alcoholics Anonymous participants introduce themselves at HA meetings as “My name is John…I’m a human” – which is comforting on days when you feel more like an alien.
Ten per cent of the population is now thought to have an addictive andcompulsive personality – and among these a dependency on alcohol, food, sex, gambling, drugs or cigarettes is usually the common denominator. Demand is so high in Brighton that a second group has just been set up Bristol also has its own HA. But if your anxieties are turning you into a character out of Woody Allen – fear not – there is a new support group which can help.

Humans Anonymous (HA) in Brighton has been set up to help people in the grip of compulsive and addictive patterns of thought or behaviour. Do you worry all the way to work about whether or not you left the iron on? Do you lock the front door, and then return to check that it’s locked five minutes later? Do you avoid the cracks in the pavement? Most of us have irrational thoughts or behaviour from time to time. But there is no need to drink bottled water to top up your fluid level. Tap water will do just as well.Publishing the Drinking Water Inspectorate’s ninth annual report, which showed that 99.78 per cent of samples of tap water tested complied with national standards, Michael Rouse, chief inspector of the nation’s tap water said the overall standards of drinking water in England and Wales are now so high that if customers were to stand a jug of tap water in the fridge for a couple of hours to let any chlorine clear, “they will never be able to taste the difference between that and the water they buy in bottles.”. The authors of the study, Dr Dominique Michaud and colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, US, suggest that drinking plenty of fluids dilutes cancer- causing chemicals in the urine.”Concentrated urine, or less frequent micturition [peeing], will increase the exposure of the bladder urothelium [lining] to urinary carcinogens.”The mineral water industry claims that as a nation, Britain has much to learn from the rest of Europe since we drink nine times less bottled water than the Italians.

So if people could be persuaded to drink more, we might save upwards of 1,500 lives.The protective effect of water is simple to explain. “Now comes a seemingly simple way to reduce the risk of bladder cancer, the fourth most common in the US: drink more fluids,” it said.There are more than 9,000 new cases of bladder cancer and 3,500 deaths in the UK a year. With every extra drink, their risk fell by 7 per cent.The Journal compared the finding to the discovery that cigarettes caused lung cancer and the sun caused skin cancer. Those who drank more than two and a half litres of fluid a day – including coffee, tea and alcohol – also had half the risk of developing the cancer. Now there is hard scientific evidence it protects against the fourth most common cancer – of the bladder.Six cups of water a day halved the rate of bladder cancer in men compared with those who drank less than one cup, according to a major study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.The 10-year investigation of 48,000 men found it was not only water that was protective. It is key to treating infections of all sorts – flushing out the toxins.

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But as the new settlers arrive, thousands of young Scots head south in search of qualifications and jobs Most never return. They were determined to reform the reforms, he said.In a thinly disguised attack on Mrs Bottomley’s ‘vision-of-the-future’ speech in Brighton last month, he said: ‘There is a fatuous irrelevance in envisioning the future with disregard for the realities of the present.’ Referring to her predicted 40 per cent reduction in beds within 10 years, he said: ‘To crown the absurdity, the author of that study now announces that the real estimate was 25 per cent, but he rounded up to be more impressive.’Dr Macara went on to say that the Government’s plans for local pay arrangements could destroy the NHS ‘The divisive and outdated device of local pay bargaining. THERE is a villain stalking the pages of Mark Almond’s book about the new Balkan War, but it is not President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, or even that ghastly parody of the psychiatric profession, Radovan Karadzic It is the sinister figure of M Jacques Poos. Pocket Opera of Nuremberg does cut-down versions of standard works the way children blithely make space-rockets out of egg-boxes. Only eight ‘B’ shares have so far been listed in Shenzhen and, of the 15 companies listed on the Shanghai exchange, only four have ‘B’ shares.

Similarly, those who decide which pupils to admit to their universities might look more at the person’s fitness for that course and that institution. The reasoning behind this is that Yorkshire have three times been in a winning position without being able to finish off the opposition. He said: ‘We don’t have one word from Mr Mathew that Mr Aspinall has got a shred of evidence.’He raised doubts about whether Mr Aspinall’s objections were based on altruism and public interest. You have to understand that when I try to find answers to things my immediate instinct is to reach for the poem, not for discursive dialogue.’In so much as there is a confidence now it’s to do with finding a more prophetic voice. Faced with rising costs, he has slammed the lawyer’s door shut on thousands of people by cuts which begin this year.

Europe needs Britain.”
Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s centre-right coalition has never concealed its desire that Britain play a more positive role in the European Union. However, Mr Kinkel’s statement, which appeared as part of a new year’s message summarising key issues for German foreign policy in 1997, was unusually blunt for a minister to make publicly about another country, especially a close ally.Pro-Europeans said they feared that the statement might play into the hands of Euro-sceptics, who are keen to portray continental Europeans as bullies and busybodies issuing instructions to Britain. Even Paddy Ashdown, the unambiguously pro-European Liberal Democrat leader, criticised Mr Kinkel, saying his remarks were “unhelpful and almost certainly unwise”.The German foreign ministry denied the statement represented interference in British politics and said that it had been intended as an expression of goodwill. “In a European Union which aspires to become a political union, interference in [another country's] internal affairs is by definition hardly possible.

But even if it were possible, it is certainly not intended,” a spokesman said. “Britain must become clear on what depth of integration it wants to reach and, as Mr Kinkel said, we want Britain to be among those countries which, together with others, achieve as deep an integration as possible.”Conservative Party chairman Brian Mawhinney seized on Mr Kinkel’s remarks as evidence that Britain’s EU partners wanted a Labour victory rather than the re-election of a Tory government, which he said would “defend British interests”. And he accused Labour leader Tony Blair of having “already said that ultimately he will do what the other European leaders tell him”.Labour ridiculed the assertion but said Mr Kinkel should not have made his comments. Alistair Darling, Labour’s Treasury spokesman, said: “It is up to the British people to choose their next government. Klaus Kinkel’s comments are a kind of desperate message from Europe that there is a British case to be put, and that British case is not being put just now because the Conservatives have weak leadership.”. Klaus Kinkel is, as they say, no stranger to controversy. A trained lawyer and civil servant, he became Germany’s foreign minister in May 1992 and quickly earned a reputation for impatience and saying the unsayable in public.

Exasperated by the inability of German and other Western governments to end the conflicts in former Yugoslavia, Mr Kinkel, 60, once said: “One can be filled with cold rage because of one’s helplessness.”
His outspokenness forms a contrast to the quiet but effective diplomacy of his predecessor, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who served 18 years as foreign minister. Only last week Mr Kinkel issued a public warning to President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia not to crack down on opposition street protests, saying: “He should keep his hands off the rights of the demonstrators.”However, Mr Kinkel’s new year’s message, with its implicit appeal to Britons to vote for pro-Europeans in next year’s general election, was not especially controversial in Germany. Most politicians there would heartily concur that Germany wants Britain to overcome its internal divisions on Europe so it can join in building the European Union.For all his brusqueness, Mr Kinkel is seen as something of a lightweight in domestic German politics. It is unlikely that he would have become foreign minister were it not that he belonged to Mr Genscher’s Free Democrats (FDP), the junior centrist coalition partner of Helmut Kohl’s Christian Democrats (CDU). Yet he did not even join the FDP until 1991, and during his two-year spell as the party’s leader from June 1993 the FDP came close to electoral oblivion.. The victims of a horrific Boxing Day double rape are to take part in interviews with a police artist over the next few days to help draw up an E-fit likeness of their attacker.

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Emma Watson may have wanted to just blend in when she started her freshman year recently at Brown University, but it seems not everyone has the same idea.

His wife Elin Nordegren won’t be there, but Tiger Woods said Monday that his comeback at the Masters is not just about playing golf but about turning his life around after all the lies and betrayals of recent years.

Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock has filed for divorce from Jesse James in a Texas court, saying their marriage “has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities.”

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National Westminster Bank has forecast that unemployment in London and the South-east will rise by 18 per cent to almost 1 million by June next year. The Syrian Foreign Minister, Farouk al-Shara, emphasised in an official statement the long-standing view that ‘Syria rejects any partial solution and stresses the necessity of Israel’s full withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories’.Taken at face value, this allows no room for negotiation and means that Syria will not go down the road Egypt took in 1979 and sign a separate peace with Israel, but will only reach an agreement with Israel as part of a comprehensive settlement which includes the other states with bilateral disputes with Israel – Jordan and Lebanon – and which includes the Palestinian issue.Furthermore, there is no departure from Syria’s rigid, maximalist interpretation of United Nations resolution 242 passed by the Security Council after the Arab-Israel war in 1967 and referring to Israel’s withdrawal from territories occupied during the conflict.However, Israeli officials have reported a marked change of atmosphere in discussions with the Syrians in Washington. THE BBC Horizon Special series about the Soviet space programme, screened nearly two years ago under the title Red Star in Orbit, has won its second major international award for its producer, Windfall Films. It employs 450 people.The deal has yet to receive US anti-trust approval to clear the merger on competitive grounds.Smiths shares fell yesterday as doubts about BAe dominated the sector The shares closed at 308p, down 5p.. It is less flexible at storing telephone numbers, and lacks the scanning capability of Winfax Pro. Anybody can understand Jonathan Raban, and Helen Forrester is a doddle. This would not absolve them of parental responsibility, but it would mean that they did not have rights over the child.

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Since then he had made several more court appearances for dishonesty and drug offences, receiving fines and suspended sentences.
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WhileExelon has no knowledge that any such information is inaccurate or incomplete,Exelon has not had the opportunity to verify any of that information. Not only did they get the best available player, but at a great position of need.At 6” 2” and 337 lbs., he can step in and play the 3-4 nose tackle spot. ) This was supposed to be the warm-up series for the Celtics on their way to the inevitable clash with the Cavs in the Eastern Conference Finals.Unfortunately, nobody informed the Bulls about that.The teams split two tight games in Boston. The deal fell apart after opposition to the deal fromHudBay stakeholders, and SRM launched a proxy battle that willsee shareholders vote on a new slate of directors on March 25. A sprinkling of memories to be cherished for a lifetime, if not more.Is there a game more beautiful than my beloved tennis, I ask myself. Yeah, he only went 13-8, and struck out not even 100, and yes he finished with an ERA of 4.45, but he finished near the top of the league in quality starts and save for a few bad games, kept his team in nearly every single game.Feinstein’s depiction of his race to 300 wins and the joy of all when he finally got there are one of the books many highlights. While Glavine’s season was filled with highlights, Mussina’s was filled with turmoil and disappointment.

I was thrilled to see the Phillies realize what they have in this guy. Truck Bryant, Alex Ruoff, and Da’Sean Butler will all provide very interesting matchups for Fields, Jermaine Dixon, and Young The Butler-Young matchup is particularly interesting. He has been a constant scorer for the aging Pistons, and may be the spark they need to make a second half run.Since the beginning of December, Stuckey has scored in double figures in all but three games and has had outbursts of 40, 38, and 30. Just look at last week to see how in sync these two are.Despite just completing nine passes, four of Flacco’s completions went Mason’s way, good for 71 yards.

He’s a former Eagles assistant, and Jim Johnson’s influences are clear. He is big enough to fight off Loadholt in the run game and has the ability to use his speed to get around the edge on the tackle. Whether this faith ismiss-placed or not, remains to be seen.Should a team like LDU Quito face a surprise Champions League winning side in the future, a team who are not held in such high regard as Manchester United, AC Milan, or Real Madrid, then the FWCC’s stock will fall dramatically. SEATTLE (Reuters) – Drugstore company Walgreen Co said on Monday it would pull almost half its pharmacies in Washington state from the U.S. (photo courtesy of indycar )Its Election Day here in America. That is enough of a warning.I don’t see him getting another one of these “warnings” next time; so, for his sake, he had better watch out for the numbers or there won’t be any way around it He’ll be gone, and he deserves to be..

The last survivor of a galaxy of British and Irish stars who dominated international racing before the Second World War, Woods was also the most successful Isle of Man TT rider of the era with 10 wins, a record he held for over 25 years until the late Mike Hailwood beat it. ‘Look, you elected me,’ he can say, as Chamberlain never could, ‘and I remain the legitimate leader until you reverse that decision.’ Meanwhile, MPs go on holiday, tempers cool, the economy picks up. There’s very little standing apart from the core wall.’At the nearby NatWest Tower, security guards and workmen were on 30 different floors at the time of the explosion. ‘I’m disappointed because I know the kid and I don’t believe he could have done that.’Leicester were lucky not to lose a second player four minutes later when Walsh, the stopper-turned- striker who had earlier been booked for fouling Martin Ling, lunged in late to leave Ross MacLaren needing extensive treatment.

He accuses Clinton of having ‘an incredible desire to say anything on all sides of every issue, depending on who you are trying to please’. France, for example, has threatened to retaliate against New Zealand’s other exports if New Zealand kiwi fruit remains on sale in Britain and other EC countries from 1 November when French and Italian kiwi fruit reach the market.But all may not be lost. Some reported cases in which children clearly required legal protection, but where no action was taken through lack of evidence to satisfy a court.Many felt unable to act in cases of neglect or emotional cruelty because of magistrates’ lack of understanding.More than half claimed they did not have adequate opportunity to discuss giving evidence with lawyers and felt ‘inadequately prepared’ for court hearings.Six out of ten of the professionals interviewed were unclear about their legal powers.The report’s recommendations include a call for magistrates and witnesses to be given training in court procedures and for courts to become more user-friendly. THE chances of Chris Lewis, the England all-rounder, being fit for the fourth Test against Pakistan at Headingley on Thursday are ‘much better than even’, according to Sheila Ball, the Nottinghamshire physiotherapist. But Galinski decided to remain in Germany and help to rebuild the Jewish community.He became head of the tiny Jewish community in West Berlin in 1949 and concentrated his efforts on ensuring that the few thousand Jews who survived should not be lost among the German population. They took on Mike Atherton, Nick Speak and Graham Lloyd all at once. The weight of health evidence is now sufficiently strong to require an immediate response.’The lobby group has drawn up a code of practice, obliging businesses signing up to cut petrol consumption, restrict parking spaces and give staff incentives to take cash options rather than company cars..

THE SUCCESS of the Hungarian Socialist Party in the first round of the general election seems to confirm a trend towards the return of former Communist parties to power in the area. Young ladies in the carriage could not but remark him: the coal curls, the perfect candour of his pale blue eyes, the sweet hoarseness in the voice, the way worry would pucker his chin. It has been said that two yachts, who no one named, were reluctant to go to the aid of Brooksfield.
The boats concerned are Yamaha and Galicia. A further 500,000 holidaymakers – a 6 per cent increase – will have bought a package holiday this year.’ Airtours’ bookings are at present running 23 per cent higher.Owners yesterday announced an interim loss of pounds 38.6m, including the bid costs, against a loss in the previous first half of pounds 27.2m. It will seek equity stakes and a management role in other foreign counterparts as they are privatised, and is also looking at projects in Malaysia and New Zealand.NGC has swollen the ranks of electricity companies wishing to expand beyond their regulated core businesses in the UK. The Government must now accept that their policies on law and order have failed and adopt Labour’s proposals for a new national programme for crime prevention.’What is of particular concern is that the gap between recorded and detected crime is widening.

Initially, they pulled in only a small number of sceptical and sometimes scoffing fans (‘The ground’s a little light today because there’s a tractor show in town,’ an announcer explains in A League of Their Own). If we can reach the right agreement, maybe I can drive with one of them.’Ferrari, competing in their 500th world championship event here, have named Senna as their No 1 choice for next season but have lined up his current team- mate, Gerhard Berger, as an alternative. Its shareholders included Trinity and Jesus College, Cambridge, and local notables such as the Earl of Dalkeith, Mary Archer, Andy’s Records and a regional newspaper group.This approach sometimes produces great local radio. Both capsules were bought by an anonymous American bidder for dollars 1.6m ( pounds 1.1m) and dollars 552,500 ( pounds 371,000).Among the oddities was a guitar that has been circling the Earth since 1987 aboard the Russian space station Mir.

On close inspection the US has failed on arguably the crucial point, unable to extract from Japan a promise to reduce its trade surplus to a specific percentage of GDP But earlier talk was that nothing would be achieved. An off-campus rape recently led to all 1,500 first-year women being supplied with free screamer alarms of the kind recommended by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust: when dropped they continue to ’scream’.Stuart King, vice-president of the students’ union, says it has tightened up on the timetable of its free bus, which he admits used to be unreliable. In chapel, another boy hands him a note confessing to being the headmaster’s ‘bitch’, together with an incriminating letter in Onslow’s hand. They then tour to Cambridge, Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Cardiff and Birmingham.

Louis Rams’ Offensive Line Dear Marc Bulger, It really just hasn’t been that much fun being you the last couple years. Having been born and raised on the north side of Chicago, this was natural. Iwatsubo is being honoredfor his work on the histopathology and protein biochemistry of postmortemhuman brains with Alzheimer’s, which has led to the establishment of cellularand genetic models that help explain the key steps in the pathological cascadeof neurodegeneration. “I hope we can do it within the year.” The company also plans to go into the broadband business,Ang said, by tapping on Meralco’s power lines to deliverhigh-speed Internet to households and has committed to bringdown electricity rates by maximising power from suppliers. airlines; and to more than200 corporate aviation customers, as well as to the U.S Government. Stewart joined the Department of Commerce in September 2001 and served aChief of Staff to then Assistant Secretary for Market Access and Compliance,William Lash In that role, Mr. He was drafted in the two prior MLB drafts by the Mariners and Rangers, but didn’t sign with either club.

The company declared a final dividend of 200 cents, bringingthe total divdend for the year to 375 cents compared with atotal dividend of 160 cents last year.($1=10.015 Rand) (Reporting by Agnieszka Flak; Editing by Hans Peters) Stocks. The declining US economy and slower-than-expected revenue growth at MySpace aretwo reasons for the lowered near-term social network ad forecasts. Orc provides sales and quality support services from its offices across EMEA,Americas and Asia Pacific. 5, 1941 in Pfeffikon in central Switzerland * Graduated from Zurich’s science and technology universityETH with a degree in engineering * Served as a member of governing Swiss Federal Council for15 years, including as finance minister from 1995 to 2003 * Two terms in largely ceremonial role as Swiss president,in 1995 and 2002 * Retired from politics in 2003, after which he joined theboards of directors at Swiss Re, Nestle and newspaper NeueZuercher Zeitung(Reporting by Sam Cage in Zurich; Editing by Dan Lalor) Stocks Regulatory News Funds News ETFs News. Inaddition to the development, production and distribution of new content, RHIowns rights to over 1,000 titles and more than 3,500 broadcast hours oflong-form television programming, which are licensed to broadcast and cablenetworks and new media outlets globally. A few months ago, I thought the Mets were going to come out of the league and win it all.I still do.So there you have it, I have the Mets over the Twins for the World Series title.And that’s where the fun begins, my friends.The award races are one of the most fun things to predict. The company begancollecting detailed hiring demand data in October 2002, and currentlymaintains a database of hundreds of millions of unique job listings.

TJ Ward and Walter Thurmond are back to help improve this part of the defense.Oregon has a highly favorable schedule That is after the season opener at Boise State. McAfee is relentlessly committed totackling the world’s toughest security challenges. I saw in his eyes how proud he was, and I only hope he saw the same look in return.He died two days later. I think he held on long enough for me to say those words to him. It was just like him to make sure I would be okay before he left.So thank you, Dad, for your encouragement through the years.  I will never experience envy the way I do now, when I see daughters with their Dad’s laughing and talking.  Walking down the aisle will be a great thing for me in the future, but there will always be the white elephant in the room, unless I do something about it.As Randy Pausch has once said, “It’s time I introduce the elephant”My Dad, Richard C. If Ryan Grant and Greg Jennings continue to make plays for Rodgers, there’s should be no reason why you don’t see Green Bay in the playoffs next season. New England PatriotsDoes anyone honestly think the New England Patriots will fail to make the playoffs for two consecutive seasons? No, I don’t either.Despite an 11-5 record in 2008, somehow, some way, the Patriots found a way to miss the postseason for the first time since 2002. MFI-Mod Squad discovered:* Lionstar Financial is in direct violation of California Department of RealEstate guidelines, which require all modification companies that charge anadvance fee to be approved and have their fee agreements approved Lionstarhasn`t been approved. The talk of the Chip Ganassi and Dale Earnhardt Incorporated merger.It was announced that they would share information to give both teams a technical boost. The court ordered Poulsen’s 30-yearsentence to be served concurrently with the 10-year sentence for witnesstampering Rebecca S.

If the administration stresses its focus on combating al Qaeda too much, it risks exacerbating Afghans’ fears that the West is not interested in their welfare and will abandon them That could play into the hands of the Taliban. He left the Timberwolves with no talent to surround Kevin Garnett, and no talent for the future. Key Players This section provides business overview of several prominent players in theindustry, including Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik, Yapi Kredi Emeklilik, GarantiEmeklilik ve Hayat and Aviva Hayat ve Emeklilik. Last year he struck out 100 times in 389 at-bats.Even with the strike outs, he is still a good bat. I took a lot of heat from Seattle fans about how I didn’t know what I was talking about, having Seattle missing the playoffs.

Eurostat said the number of euro zone jobless in Februaryrose by 319,000 to 13.486 million and by 478,000 to 19.156million in the whole of the 27-nation European Union. Drive Up Standards is a national campaignto improve safety, service and work standards in the private school bus andtransit industry. “We are very pleased to work with this group of outstanding researchers.Allof us at N30 look forward to the many contributions each will make to thescientific direction and overall development of the company.” Marc Elia, President of N30 Pharma, expects to work closely with the SAB asthe company moves forward.”As we move our compounds into human studies, wewill look forward to addressing many translational issues with our SAB,” Mr.Elia said. Neolane received topcredit in Raab`s vendor comparison matrix for its powerful campaign management,broad reporting capabilities, and advanced lead scoring and distribution. In Somalia’s Haradheere port, an associate of the piratessaid they were armed and ready to defend themselves. Although it is a rumor by many sites, TNA is playing it up as a fact, mainlybecause of their storyline they had between them.They were however seen backstage getting along just fine, so I don’t know what to make of it myself. Steinbrenner chose to pursue the trade of Williams between ‘93-’95 in the midst of mediocrity.

BY PAUL WALLACE

Economics Editor
Investors’ eyes will be turned on the United States this week, with particular attention being paid to the jobs figures that come out on Friday. But perhaps of even greater interest to investors is the requirement that directors make a declaration on whether there are suitable internal controls within the company and provide confirmation that it remains a going concern.On the question of directors’ pay, Sir Adrian has passed the buck to the Greenbury committee. Was it in the public interest, he asked, for suitable corporate governance structures to be established at such entities, given their importance to the communities in which they operate and the economy generally?Another area of possible interest is whether it should be made easier for shareholders to put resolutions to annual general meetings. Sir Adrian posed the question whether the guidelines were appropriate for the full spectrum of listed companies which looked to the public for money. He suggested size could be a legitimate issue for Cadbury mark two to look at.Jonathan Charkham, a committee member and a non-executive director on several boards, also highlighted the role of unquoted companies, some of which were very large. “There would seem to be a major job to do in looking at what has happened, reactions to the code and examining smaller companies,” he said.He pointed out that the number of non-executive directors – a key part of the Cadbury code – tails off as company size diminishes.Boards with three or more non-executive directors drop from close to 100 per cent in companies valued at pounds 1.4bn and above to under 40 per cent in companies capitalised at between pounds 1m and pounds 10m. He and his team on the Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance found there had been a big increase in companies complying with the terms of the code he helped create in 1992.
Their findings are supported by a survey by Coopers & Lybrand, the accountants, which suggests the rate of compliance among listed companies had risen to 70 per cent in December from 55 per cent a year earlier.But while Sir Adrian said a key part of his role was to provide the successor body, to be appointed next month, with the information on which to base its decisions, he and his fellow members gave little detail on what this body would do.Sir Adrian said he did not want to tie the hands of his successors, but he did give a few clues as to where they might like to dig.

BY MAGNUS GRIMOND

Sir Adrian Cadbury bowed out as monitor-in-chief of corporate governance last week heartened by the experience. A survey in 1994 showed that 39 per cent of urban residents now own gold ornaments.. Accurate figures are hard to come by at the moment and the country is still many years away from being driven by the home-shopping phenomenon, but a halving in the consumption tax on gold jewellery at the start of this year has boosted sales. Although jewellery only accounts for 2 per cent of sales at the moment, Wal-Mart intends to roll out more jewellery to its stores to capitalise on the gold consumer rush.But before long, China is likely to challenge the dominance of the US market.

The well- known US discount chain Wal-Mart is the largest single retailer of jewellery. While the children decide which solid gold hero turtle to add to their playroom collection, their mother can also buy a few necklaces and rings for herself.The US, which remains the largest developed consumer market for gold jewellery, showed a steady increase in demand of 8-9 per cent in the first quarter of this year. In Saudi Arabia, the biggest manufacturing centre for jewellery in the Middle East, the popularity of a children’s television cartoon series based on the Ninja Turtle characters has pushed gold sales up by three tonnes in the first three months of this year. It aims to capitalise on the novelty of the convenience of home shopping in ex-Communist states to sell watches and jewellery on television.Television is proving influential in other ways. Television and electronic home shopping accounts for some 28 tonnes of gold per year.So great is the appeal of all that glitters to the home shopper that US-based Factory Sales Associates has announced its intention to conquer the huge Russian market. Although it does not separate its sales figures, the station took 9,000 orders on one day at the end of last month. You can be sure that more than 40 per cent of these sales will probably have been jewellery and not Hoovers.In the US, television sales through the two big home shopping services – QVC and the Home Shopping Network – now add up to half a billion dollars of jewellery and watches a year.

Buying trinkets the television way became so popular that the station developed its own simulated gem stone – Diamonique, set in 14 carat gold and silver.With prices starting at pounds 12, QVC UK can rack up big sales. BY LUCY ROBERTS

Gold as an investment may have lost its shine, but armchair shoppers are pushing up demand for gold jewellery as insomniacs and channel-surfers make the most of new television home-shopping channels.
QVC, the home shopping service launched in 1993, says more than a third of its live 17 hours of transmission in Britain is dedicated to the sale of jewellery. Some 7,000 shareholders have notified the company that they will be attending the AGM at the London Arena.. He also wants boardroom pay rises linked to those made to all British Gas employees.The written guarantee was extracted from the company after Mr Salmond had been told by Professor Lamb that the company was threatening him with a possible bill for costs on the eve of the deadline for submitting resolutions.Mr Salmond then went to see the company’s Secretary, John Jackson, and warned him that unless he gave a written undertaking not to charge the shareholders he would raise the issue in the House of Commons.Wednesday’s meeting promises to be one of the most eventful and best attended in British corporate history. He is calling for a new advisory body to be set up to monitor the standards of corporate behaviour at the company. With 1.8 million shareholders, the costs could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.In addition to the key resolution from PIRC, there is one from Professor Joseph Lamb, a retired university lecturer, who has been given 500,000 proxy votes. Others said they would abstain.In a separate development, Mr Salmond yesterday revealed that he has received written guarantees from British Gas that it will not charge two groups of shareholders for the printing and posting costs incurred in circulating shareholders’ resolutions in advance of the AGM.


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