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Kano — The survivors of last Friday's attack on polio workers in Kano have recounted and shared their experiences with Sunday Trust.
At least, nine people, mostly women, were shot dead while six others were critically injured after gunmen attacked polio workers in Kano. The attackers stormed a primary health clinic at Unguwa Uku in Tarauni local government area and Hotoron Haye at Eastern by-pass when the vaccination workers were about to go out for mop-up exercise to conclude the four-day polio vaccination campaign.
The twin attacks, which were the first of their kind on health officials in the state, took place about an hour apart at Kauyen Alu Primary Health Care, Unguwa Uku and Hotoron Haye at eastern by-pass of the city.
According to witnesses, the gunmen shot indiscriminately at the workers and assumed that they had killed all of them before setting the clinic ablaze.
A witness in the area told these reporters that he saw about three men alighting from a tricycle, popularly called Adaidaita Sahu. "When I first saw them I thought it was a patient they brought to the clinic, but suddenly they brought out guns and started shooting sporadically into the air," the witness said.
Naja'atu Salisu is the only survivor of the attack at Hotoron Haye in Nasarawa local government area of the State. She is responding to treatment at Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital after a surgery was performed on her to remove the bullet that pierced through her abdomen.
Describing how he received the news about the attack, Naja'atu's father, Alhaji Salisu Dakata said he was at a filling station when his daughter called him and said they were attacked by gunmen. "I was at a filling station around 9am when Naja'atu called me and said they were attacked and that her younger sister Hauwa was already dead. She said I should come and carry her to the hospital before she died," he said.
Salisu added that when he reached the scene of the incident, security men were already there, saying they were the ones that took him with the victim to Nasarawa Hospital. However, Salisu was able to identify his other daughter, Hauwa, 15, among the dead.
He further said the victim was responding to treatment after the surgery, describing her as a brilliant and dedicated worker who has just completed her studies at the School of Health Technology with flying colors.
According to him, Naja'atu, 17, with her sister, Hauwa, had been participating in the polio exercise in the past without any problem.
Similarly, when Sunday Trust visited Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), it was gathered that about four victims that sustained various degrees of injury were receiving treatment at the hospital's emergency unit.
Khadijah Abubakar, who is among the survivors receiving treatment narrated to our correspondents how the incident happened.
"The attack took place around 9 o'clock when we were preparing for a mop-up exercise to round off the four-day polio vaccination campaign. So we were sitted together with my colleagues in a room inside the clinic, waiting to receive materials for the immunization, when we suddenly heard sporadic gunshots. We all lay flat under the benches. In the process a bullet hit me at my lower back." Khadijah recalled.
According to the 22-year-old Economic graduate of Sa'adatu Rimi College of Education, Kano they all laid motionless when the attackers were going round to make sure that they had killed them, after which they splashed petrol on the hospital and set it ablaze before they fled the area.
Sunday Trust gathered that it took the efforts of some survivors and residents of the area to put the fire off from consuming the clinic.
Another survivor, Zahra'u Ayuba, a mother of four also received treatment at the hospital but could not talk to press due to her severe condition. But her husband, Abdulrazak Umar, gave an account on how he received the news. He said he received a call from her asking him to forgive her; a situation that he said made him dumbfounded on what was really going on.
"She called me on phone asking for my forgiveness. Before I could respond the line went off. When I dialed the number someone picked it and informed me that my wife was shot and she was admitted in the hospital," he said.
Abdulrazak stated that he was shocked when he saw her condition, but said he took it as an act of God, he added that she is responding to treatment, their four children he said are now under the care of a younger sister to his wife.
Among those affected in the attacks, Sunday Trust gathered, are siblings, Ibrahim and Sadi, who joined the vaccination exercise to have some money in their pocket. Sadi died on the spot, while his brother, Ibrahim, is still at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of AKTH at the time our correspondents visited the hospital.
Investigations by our correspondents revealed that the polio workers were to be paid N4,600 at the end of the 4-day vaccination exercise. According to the sources who want to remain anonymous the money covers their feeding, transport and allowances.


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The Motorola Xoom launched earlier in the year at CES and is the company's first tablet, and is also expected to be the world's first commercially available Honeycomb tablet to boot.
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Mérimée was born in Paris on 18 September 1803 as the only child in a cultivated, free-thinking, anglophile family (his father Léonor Mérimée was taught drawing at the École polytechnique). The motto he later adopted, Μεμνησο απιστειν ("Remember to be distrustful") is revealing: he preserved a timid and sensitive nature behind an asumed aloofness and formality. A voracious reader in a range of languages (Greek, Spanish, English, later Russian), he studied law in Paris (1819-23). From the age of 20 he mixed with painters and writers in liberal and Romantic salons, becoming (1822) a friend of Stendhal (in 1850 he circulated privately a …
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Before his appointment to the United States District Court, Judge Holderman was a partner in the law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal where he specialized in federal court litigation across the United States. Before his years in private practice, he was an assistant United States attorney in Chicago.
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Rescuing The Spoils #2: The Seed 3 Rollercoaster
Mar 6th, 2012 by Terence Jason Dorman
by Michael (Arcane Tinmen), Owner of The Spoils
These past months, I have been spending a lot of time getting Seed 3 ready. Most of the work was actually done a fair while back, so all that remained was the actual production. It would seem like a simple issue as it is only a matter of getting the graphic files to the printer and then pressing GO! But as with the rest of things in life, the manufacturing of card games apparently isn't as easy as one would hope for.
As most of you probably know, we have had Seed 2 and 2nd Edition printed with Belgian manufacturer Cartamundi. Cartamundi is possibly the leading card manufacturer in the world, so of course we found it fitting that they should also produce "the best card game in the world."
I have been contacted by several card manufacturers in the time we have produced The Spoils. It seems that whenever we go to a trade show new ones pop up. I always give them the same answer, saying that we produce at Cartamundi and that we are not really interested in changing this, but that they are of course welcome to send me samples and pricing information. On most occasions these "n00bs" are either too expensive or lacking in quality, so the choice was fairly simple for me. But then one particularly insisting company changed my mind. We got the usual sample package and it looked pretty good, and then they offered to do a test print of some actual Spoils cards.
I am all for giving new guys a fair chance so I agreed to this, and after some weeks I received some fairly good looking foil cards back from them. Their technique seemed to be different from Cartamundi but they still looked really good. Do not worry, though, as we are not talking Seed 1 foil quality, we will never ever go there! They had just put the card fronts on sheets they were already using for regular playing cards, which was of course just fine for the purpose we needed, and we were happy with what we saw. This means that right now I have a stack of very special Seed 2 foils sitting on my desk!
But as in any fairytale worth its salt, the good guys (that's all of you and all of us playing and working with The Spoils of course) must first endure dangers untold and hardships unnumbered before reaching the castle beyond The Swamp of Hopelessness, and this story is no different. With the antagonists in this fairytale being quasi-intelligent email-eating pits, humorless voids of time loss, and other barriers of great distress, printing a card game is not as easy as it should be.
What this analogy means is that we have spent and wasted a lot of time trying to make things work with the new printing company with lots of delays and lost time as the only thing to show for it. We ultimately had to go back to Cartamundi to produce Seed 3, something I had hoped we wouldn't have to do. Cartamundi may be good, but we have come to realize that they are not perfect. Add to this that they are just so much more expensive than this new company and that the new guys are doing a great job as well and it becomes clear that we would have preferred to produce Seed 3 with the newcomer.
Now this may well seem like the exact opposite of a fairytale and, in many ways, it seems more like a TCG variant of Groundhog Day, but hopefully we will reach a happy ending with it all. The new printer has now deeply, deeply apologized for all the delays and actually offered to do a small production of promos for us free of charge, which we will be using to test them for real. Should they prove themselves right, chances are good that we will be going to them for other future productions.
And just to make sure I shall put your worries to rest once more, the quality of their cards are really good, so now we only need to get the production part working. And when that happens we will be set for smooth sailing in bringing you a lot of new cards starting with the first set of the next block, "Unlikely Heroes."
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on 07 Mar 2012 at 3:14 pm1Rescuing The Spoils: Part 2 | Team Covenant
[...] posts are done, the content is really getting to some exciting behind the scene information. In the latest update, Michael (owner of Arcane Tinmen) tells of the trials and tribulations involved in getting beyond [...]
on 05 Apr 2012 at 1:12 pm2The Spoils: Seed 3 in July? | Team Covenant
[...] judge Terrence Dorman regarding the delay and eventual release of Seed 3. The saga started with The Seed 3 Rollercoaster by Michael, and it looks like the ride is about to end! In short, Seed 3 will be out of production [...]


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Volume 150 / Number 2 / May 2005 / Pages 153-161
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A concept of pyroprocessing light water reactor (LWR) spent fuels based on an electrochemical reduction technology is proposed, and the material balance of the processing of mixed oxide (MOX) or high-burnup uranium oxide (UO2) spent fuel is evaluated. Furthermore, a burnup analysis for metal fuel fast breeder reactors (FBRs) is conducted on low-decontamination materials recovered by pyroprocessing. In the case of processing MOX spent fuel (40 GWd/t), UO2 is separately collected for ~60 wt% of the spent fuel in advance of the electrochemical reduction step, and the product recovered through the rare earth (RE) removal step, which has the composition uranium:plutonium:minor actinides:fission products (FPs) = 76.4:18.4:1.7:3.5, can be applied as an ingredient of FBR metal fuel without a further decontamination process. On the other hand, the electroreduced alloy of high-burnup UO2 spent fuel (48 GWd/t) requires further decontamination of residual FPs by an additional process such as electrorefining even if RE FPs are removed from the alloy because the recovered plutonium (Pu) is accompanied by almost the same amount of FPs in addition to RE. However, the amount of treated materials in the electrorefining step is reduced to ~10 wt% of the total spent fuel owing to the prior UO2 recovery step. These results reveal that the application of electrochemical reduction technology to LWR spent oxide fuel is a promising concept for providing FBR metal fuel by a rationalized process.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The No. 31 Indiana University men's tennis team (9-2) will travel south for a pair road matches during spring break, beginning with a Monday afternoon contest at No. 65 Southern Methodist. The Hoosiers are also set to take on No. 19 Texas A&M on Wednesday, March 12th.
"Both SMU and Texas A&M are very good teams," said Head Coach Randy Bloemendaal. "Both matches are scheduled outdoors and on the road for the third week in a row. We have had no cooperation with our weather for preparation of outdoor play so these situations will be even more difficult than normal."
Indiana vaulted up 25 slots in the latest ITA national polls, going from 56th the week before to 31st this week. It marks the highest ranking the Hoosiers have had since 2001, and just 10 spots away from their all-time high of No. 21 in the nation.
"Our guys have gained some momentum in the last week, but it very difficult to keep it going," said Bloemendaal. "Of course that is our goal."
SMU (9-5) is ranked No. 65 in the country and has two individuals in the singles rankings. Robin Fahgan is slotted at No. 62 while David Kuczer comes in at No. 117.
The No. 19 Aggies of Texas A&M (6-4) are a top-20 program, having played all 10 matches versus other nationally-ranked opponents thus far. Their Monday match against No. 20 Wake Forest will be no different. Conor Pollock represents the Aggies in the singles rankings, currently at No. 31.
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Breeze on Tour is back in west Leeds for a 'Green' spectacular
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Young people looking for something different to do this summer need to get to Breeze on Tour at Armley Park where, for one week only, they will be able to try out fresh and funky new 'green' workshops.
At the fourth Breeze on Tour of the summer young people will be able to try out lots of new things and also learn how to turn recycled materials into new useful items and then carry on creating when they get home!
So if they want to 'pimp their granny's vinyl' or turn their old threads into the latest fashion accessory then they need to go along to Armley Park on Wednesday 12 August and Thursday 13 August to try out this week's new activities.
For those who would prefer to take in the entertainment the Performance Marquee is the place to be with spectacular performances in the Breeze Has Talent semi finals.
People who want to learn some new moves can go straight from Breeze to Bollywood with the Bhangra dance workshops or try a bit of breakdancing with Breakers Unify, who return to carry on the positive messages about Hip Hop culture.
The Sports and Challenge Zones will see the return of the Breeze Olympic Challenge. Young people who enter the challenge will be in with a chance of winning a mountain bike (all prizes donated by Edinburgh Cycle Cooperative, Chapel Allerton).
Children and young people aged 8 to 18 can just turn up with their Breezecard and can get in for free at every location on every day. There's a whole load of different activities including dancing, arts and crafts, music, football, giant inflatables, DJing, movie making, performances from international and local artists and bands, competitions …and so much more. If people can't make it to Breeze on Tour they could try one of the mini Breeze events – it's just like Breeze on Tour only a little bit smaller!
All Breeze on Tour events take place between 12 noon and 5pm, the last few events of the summer are as follows:
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So I was sitting discussing with my colleague (JS) various different topics when we stumbled across old films we used to watch as children. There is not a significant age gap between us, only 5 years, but our choices in favourite films does differ quite considerably.
Once we had finished listing our favourite films, JS touched on the main actor in one of her films (The Indian in the Cupboard) and how she used to have a crush on him when she was 3 years old! I was more shocked at the age of her first crush then the fact she had a crush on Henri from the film.
After controlling my laughter, JS added fuel to the fire by declaring two further crushes: the first, Neville Longbottom from Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone and the second, Buzz McCallister from Home Alone. This send me into an uncontrollable fit of laughter, some of the others joined me. JS literally smiled and joined in with us.
The dreaded question fell on me when on of the girls asked me who I had a crush on when I was younger? I could honestly say I went blank and could not think of a single crush at such a young age.
So now I've had time to think about it, I think it only fair I declare my crushes from childhood films:
1. Allie from The Karate Kid Part I (She also appeared in Back to the Future)
2. Andy from The Goonies
3. Jessica from The Karate Kid Part III
So there you have it, my three choice.
Keep reading and I'll keep you posted on my life as The Odd One Out.
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Well when you work with a group of women, anything can happen. Everyday brings a new adventure, sometimes a challenge, and as always I am at some point left scratching my head at something one of them has said to the group during the working day... hence this latest post.
Well at the time I was writing this, I was sitting on a leather couch in the suburbs of San Jose, California drinking juice and looking at my notes from previous weeks. I was literally another world away from where I usually am when I encounter my issues as 'The Odd One Out.'
Today's weird and wonderful post is surrounding the inner workings of a colleague of mine when she uses MSN Messenger. (MSN Messenger, for the computer illiterate, is principally an instant messaging service that allows contacts to talk to each other - a sort of text messaging service that is online).
So the women and I were discussing things that annoy us about Facebook when one of them suddenly said 'Do you remember MSN Messenger? We all responded with a unitary nod.
MSN was great when I first used it, in fact it's how I first began talking with my soon to be wife (She is American and lives in San Jose), but after 4 years we grew tired of the breakages in connection and service and chose to move to Gmail. (Google Mail is awesome).
Anyway... my colleague then proceeded to say aloud to the rest of us "Yeah, did you ever do the sign in, sign out thing?"
I was confused and raised my eyebrow. What shocked me more was that my other colleague said "Oh yeah, I used to do that."
I continued to stay quiet, trying to focus on the invoice I was processing. I didnt want to get drawn into another strange discussion. One a week is enough for me!
Then came another comment "I used to love MSN, I've had some great conversations on there."
The conversation continued, going back and forth across our pod desks. Different pros and cons were listed and they also discussed all the features they enjoyed using. (I can say now, I hated the 'nudges', which shook your computer screen when people wanted to talk to you when you had been idle for 5 minutes or so).
I couldn't take it anymore, I had to interject otherwise I would just look ignorant or worse still, they would draw me into the conversation at a point where it would become uncomfortable for me to back out and they would tease me about it.
"Yes, Jess and I first began chatting on MSN after my holiday to San Francisco in 2007." I said. "But what the hell is the 'Signing in and signing out' thing?"
Curiosity got the better of me.
The two girls laughed, knowing it would send me into a frenzied rant, as most things do. The others in our group sat silently, waiting to hear.
"Come on what is it?" I persisted.
"The 'Signing in and signing out' thing is where you're already signed in, chatting to other people and you see a guy you like come online. He will obviously look down his contact list and see who is online and talk to who he wants. What I did was to sign out of messenger and then sign back in again." [Cue my long pause and thought] - What the hell for, I thought? "That way, he will see the little notification box that pops up in the bottom right hand corner, signally that I have just come online. That way he is more likely to talk to me."
To say I was thinking of the movies 'Fatal Attraction', 'Obsession' & 'Misery' while she was explaining would be pretty harsh. I was a little disturbed originally but the more I thought about it, the more I thought that this was a pretty clever tactic to get a guy to notice you. In fact, it was bordering on genius.
The good thing to add to that is that my colleague appears to know where the line is and is not hovering over it, ready to hop into the weirdo territory. As long as she stays behind it, I am happy to continue sitting next to her.
So that's the latest from me - keep checking in to see my posts and remember, if your on MSN, either remain invisible or sign out first and stay offline before JS sees you.
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So, I have been observing the behaviour of the women in my work team over the last few months and it has been interesting to say the least.
We have had quite a few personnel changes, with three great colleagues leaving us, which I would like to highlight on before I start this post.
Our wonderful Chair's PA, 'PJ', left us for another role. When she left, we felt the pressure. She was the 'Oracle' and a fountain of all knowledge. Whenever we had a problem or needed an answer, we would always ask PJ. That proves beyond any doubt how vital she was to the setup of the office. The Admin team will never be the same again, seriously!
'Leads' was next to leave us. She was the life and soul of the secretariat. Despite not officially being placed within our team on the hierarchy, Leads was definitely considered to be a main cog in our working machine. She was bubbly, fun and showed us all how to make a 'real' salad at lunch time - Sainsbury's iceberg lettuce sales were up during her secondment period.
'Roondog' departed from our team and the glue that held us together seemed to lose it adhesiveness. Her wedding checklist and housekeeping emails have been sorely missed and our team has struggled to get to grips with not having the benefit of a kick ass Office Manager around to look after our interests.
Ladies although you have gone, you will forever remain honourary members of the admin team. (I need a few minutes - ).
So, now I've dried my eyes, it's time to get on with the official first post.
I have updated you on the changes in my office but now it is time to move on to my observations, and my reasoning for why I am 'The Odd One Out'.
So this week's topic: the bizarre statements they come out with.
My Evidence
I have come across a series of strange and bizarre statements in my time with these women. I present my evidence for your judgement: (I have included the initials of my colleagues for their own amusement)
Does the lump on the back of my neck look big? (SK)
Believe me, I had to keep a straight face for this one because she was deadly serious.
Wedding shoes are expensive but can still be worth every penny. You just dye them black to get 'wear out of them' (KR)
Or you could purchase a cheaper pair of shoes and not have the guilt of the huge cost spent on them & the additional cost incurred to dye them black!
My friend is trying to lose weight. She is on the Pre Heart Op diet! (SK) - yes, someone actually said this to me.
***Speechless with a grin***
I'm going to take a cheeky trip to Wilkinson. Does anyone want anything? (RL)
I'm still trying to work out what a 'cheeky trip' is but it sounds amusing whatever it is.
I just sometimes do not know how to react. It takes me off guard and I have to just think of the first thing that comes to mind. e.g. 'What are you talking about?', 'Are you nuts?' 'Jess is exactly the same!'.
Don't get me wrong, they provide me with 5 day a week amusement but sometimes I am absolutely stunned at the information being portrayed to me. I also sometimes think that because I am the only man in our team that they forget I am pumped full of testosterone and not oestrogen. The things they say to me may fall on deaf ears because I am not a woman and do not have the working of a female brain.
Sometimes this can be a hindrance more than a help but most of time I seem to get away with it and we quickly move on.
Well I will give you a while to digest the last 3 minutes of your life that you have spent reading this blog that you will never get back!
Keep checking in on my blog, I still have plenty more to talk about.
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I am seventeen years old. I've just begun the second and final year of my A levels, and all I hear day in day out, are the words, "personal statement", "degree" and most irratating of all "UCAS". At this point in time, if I could just find the individual responsible for the word "UCAS" I would most definitely fight them. Fisticuffs.
The way I see it, I have just endured 14 years of education- beginning with finger paintings and egg and spoon races, with a slow progression to where I am now- corsework, essays and ultimately two hour exams (of course via the albhabet, sex education and algebra). To get this far, the idea of another possible four years or more of attending lectures and meeting essay deadlines, kills me. This isn't even touching on the inevitability of walking away with £50,000 of debt.
However, even as a 'nay-sayer' of University, I am still told by my teachers and peers, "Oh, you've still got to at least apply, otherwise if you change your mind you'll have nowhere to go!" at which point a small part of me dies inside. This is because despite my sheer dislike and contempt for the idea of University, I still have to spend hours of my time attending open days- none of which I believe will interest me considering the whole concept they are offering seems utterly depressing, despite the courses themselves- I must also write a personal statement: a document expressing my passion and desire for a place at said Uni, and through means of flattery, bragging and a bit of grovelling, I must then plead my case for how much I would LOVE to go to University. This process by the way, takes many months and usually several drafts are needed before the final product; I can't wait to get cracking on that bad boy...
Throughout my GCSEs and my A levels, myself and my peers have been drip fed ideas of Universities and degrees directly into our absorbant young brains, and I must admit, after that, it did take me a while to even imagine a post-school future for myself where a Uni wasn't present. However, even though I am heavily leaning towards not going to Uni, around 80% of my peers are all planning to head off to University next year. If this is roughly the case for all schools, and the majority of these students come out with a degree, just how credible is a degree going to be anyway? I mean, in the dark, dingy abyss that the economical future of my generation seems to be, there will of course be 'less jobs', 'less money' and 'more unemployment', so if EVERYBODY has a degree, what good will it do anyway? I'd much rather get out there (give or take) four years early with my youth on my side- lower sallery, easy to for the boss to manipulate, full of child-like enthusiasm- and get a head start on all these other competitors trying to take my job with a piece of paper and a silly hat with a square on the top. Another reason not to graduate: the hats look ridiculous.
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by Peter Cook
The defining principle of work is that you get paid for it. If you don't, it's either charity, self-sacrifice or slavery.
All these schemes to "break the cycle of unemployment" by getting people to carry out unpaid work like stacking shelves, are meaningless, if that essential ingredient of a wage is not included.
What do politicians think unemployed people do all day? Lounge around in bed watching the Jeremy Kyle Show?
Most people want to work. But the reason they want to work is that it gives them the independence, self respect and freedom of choice that goes with earning a living wage.
When I had my business I reluctantly took on a work experience lad from a local school for a fortnight.
This lad was brilliant. When he'd done the things I asked him he found other tasks for himself. I would have taken him on permanently if that had been possible.
At the end of his fortnight I handed over an envelope with a couple of banknotes in it. "Oh no," he said. "We're not allowed to accept money."
"Listen," I said. "If you don't get paid, you haven't had work experience. Getting paid is the whole point of it. If people don't get paid, how can they live? How can they pay their rent, their mortgages, their food bills, their travel expenses, or stand a round down the pub?"
If you don't have a decent wage at the end of the month, then you rely on others for the necessities of life. That might be the state, your family or your friends. It's not a healthy way to be. You lose self respect and it saps your self confidence.
I've had a job of sorts since I was 10. It started with a butcher's round – 8s. 6d. for a hard Saturday afternoon's work. Then, in addition, I got a morning paper round. In the school holidays I did farm work and at weekends I milked cows.
So what do I want a medal? No. I got my reward. It was cash which enabled me to do all sorts of other things I would otherwise not be able to afford.
Only once did I get a handout from the state. It was after I had left school and been fired from my first job for complete and total incompetence. A nice lady asked me if I minded factory work. I was glad of anything.
She then reached into a drawer and found 16s., which she gave me to tide me over. I went up the pub and blew the lot.
I then spent six months doing the mind numbingly tedious job of keeping peas cascading through a hopper into a water flow, so they could be floated off to the canning factory.
On occasions the boredom of this was relieved by being allowed to pour baked beans through an electric mincing machine so they could be used for baby foods. I could get overtime by sitting by a conveyor belt and picking out bad peas as a river of green went unremittingly by. But at least I was being paid at the end of each week.
I would hate to be applying for jobs now. In my day you just wrote a letter, they interviewed you, and you were either chosen or not. Bosses relied on their judgement.
The last time I applied for a job, the process of filling in an endless and pointless on-line application form sent me almost catatonic with fatigue and boredom.
But I have wandered off the point. The only real way to break the cycle of unemployment is to create jobs. It shouldn't be hard. There's plenty needs doing.
When people have jobs they contribute to the economy, rather than becoming a drain on it. That way we can get growth and start to reduce the deficit.
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So Fred Goodwin has joined traitor Anthony Blunt in the Hall of Infamy wherein languish the handful of once revered people stripped of their gong.
But what has the former Sir Fred the Shred done to deserve a criminal's fate?
He had hubris - what successful businessman hasn't? He shredded jobs. Nothing unusual there then.
He wanted to expand his company's global reach and market share. So what's strange about that? We criticise local business people for lacking ambition, and preferring a lifestyle enterprise.
By many accounts, he was not the nicest of people. But show me a nice boss and I will show you an under-performing business. Yet he has ex-racing ace and nice bloke Jackie Stewart as a friend who obviously shares a love of life in the – former - fast lane.
So why has Fred been shredded by the Establishment?
One reason only of course, Political symbolism. Somebody had to pay for the crash, for the misery inflicted on so many, for the taxpayer bailout, and frankly, for embarrassing politicians who deserve to be embarrassed.
I'm assuming that Fred did not set out to wreck the economy, to ruin the Royal Bank of Scotland with a takeover too far. With hindsight, military planners would not have asked our troops to go a Bridge Too Far at Arnhem with disastrous consequences. How many generals were demoted and ridiculed after that Dutch debacle?
Did Fred set the level of his own pension pot? It was more likely a remuneration group, Have they been stripped of their honours for living in a false world of astronomical rewards?
Stephen Hester is used to six-figure payouts. That's what happens in financial services yet their practitioners do not merit the remuneration so out of kilter with rewards for people in equally necessary jobs and craftspeople paid little or nothing beyond their normal salary, wage or fee. Hester and his kind would get nowhere without the support of the humble teller at his local branch.
These bankers may well give away lots to charity and keep employees of Rolls Royce and Lamborghini happy. But the public don't see that.
Fellow banker Stephen Hester should have had the wit to see the storm that would brew over his bonus. Why didn't his PR people see it coming and advise appropriately?
Perception in today's world is reality. He would have earned plaudits for either turning it down or giving it to charity. In the end, he was forced to yield by media and political denigration.
Fred's public humiliation was symbolic and political and in a fairer world undeserved. Hester's decision was forced and should have been taken earlier.
Both episodes damage business credibility and, when it is only business that creates the wealth of the country to help the sick, the young, the jobless, the elderly and the disadvantaged, that is an unhappy place for our wealth creators – and there are many in Kent.
In his rags to riches to rags disgrace, Fred is only human, a risk-taker who ultimately got things wrong. That's what happens to entrepreneurs.
However much we deplore banking greed, he deserves a measure of sympathy rather than the gleeful grins of a crowd cheering a public hanging.
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They say if you can remember the 1960s then you weren't there.
They say if you can remember the 1960s then you weren't there.
Perhaps the O2's new nightclub Proud2 is pushing for a similar slogan, judging by the incredible party they threw for their press launch on Thursday.
Yes Thursday. Four days ago and I still can barely remember anything past 11.30pm from that night. The occassional free bar is a wonderful perk of the journalistic world but they never lose their devastating potential.
And on Thursday, it felt like they caused Armageddon for my liver.
Ok, so I fell fowl of having a few too many glasses of champagne and can barely report on The Bees, Nero and The Mystery Jets, pictured left, who performed on the night to the, shall we say, enthusiastic crowd.
That doesn't make me a criminal but it did make me ponder my attitude towards drinking.
Did I go out with a couple of my mates on Thursday with the intention of getting mind-bogglingly bladdered at the free event? No I didn't. Did we decide we were going to take advantage of the free booze on offer? You bet!
There lies the problem. Although we claim to know our limit, all notion of moderation went out of the window once what was on offer became free.
Was my shaky camera work at the opulently laid out and impressive club a sign of unprofessionalism? Or did I just have a few too many on a night where I was letting my hair down?
Perhaps we deserved the raging hangovers (mine suffered at work) the following day. But should we feel bad about it?
I was still at work at 8am and able to report on what was going on. Work hard, play hard is a philosophy that has served many before me well and will serve many well in the future.
Should I have felt naughty for arriving at my desk bleary-eyed the next day, even though I got on with the task in hand? Answers on a postcard please.
In Strictly news, Tom Chambers appears to be the main star set to grace the stage at the New Marlowe Theatre when their first programme of events gets underway in October.
He will don his dancing shoes once again for Top Hat, the first ever stage version of the 1935 film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Tom was never my favourite Strictly Come Dancing champion. Lisa Snowden or Rachel Stevens should have won that year but no one could deny he was a charmer.
Also Tom made no secret of claiming Fred and Ginger were his dancing idols during his run to the glitterball in 2008.
Which surely means his toe-tapping antics will be a coup for the new Marlowe, who will stage the show before it goes on a West End run.
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Heroine and villain.
The contrast in the news coverage of Miriam O'Reilly, the ex-BBC presenter axed allegedly on age grounds, and Bob Diamond, the fabulously wealthy Barclays boss, could hardly be more stark.
Backing for Miriam was of course a good way of getting at the BBC, never much liked by other media. But the welcome verdict underlines the perception, maybe even the reality, that Auntie has dumped women – and men - of a certain age far too quickly.
Moira Stuart and Arlene Philips top the list. There was no good reason to get rid of any of them. They were doing a perfectly good job and with an ageing population, many viewers relate to them. Closer to home, BBC South East axed popular presenters Beverley Thompson and Geoff Clark and replaced them with the younger pairing of Rob Smith and Polly Evans.
The Beeb always denied accusations that the decision was made on age grounds, but the suspicion remains that wrinklies are not welcome on the box. Yet ITV Meridian is happy to keep lovable Fred Dinenage.
Esther Rantzen struggled to get a word in edgeways in a Newsnight debate last night (11), perhaps illustrating further subliminal prejudice. Yet, she was the ideal person to speak for the older person. Dame Joan Bakewell would have been another.
Youth is not everything but media businesses are desperate to pander to an audience that watches less television than most. It's high time that a few grey hairs were not a quick route to the television graveyard.
As for Bob Diamond, he did banking no favours during his MP grilling yesterday (11), reinforcing the image of a select clique of greedy vastly over-paid bankers. "Shameless" was one stark - and pretty accurate - headline.
I know investment specialists are a minority who create wealth for the bank and nation, but their bonus levels tarnish their colleagues in humble branch operations. They can never live down their apparent culpability in the global financial crisis and, especially in bailed-out banks, should expect little if any bonus.
Diamond no doubt gets fed up being asked to apologise and thank the taxpayer, but like other senior bankers he has done nothing to show he is in touch with other folk who are lucky to get a Marks & Spencer voucher. Let alone a £5 million cheque. Many only receive a P45 and all are squeezed by higher taxes and food inflation.
Diamond exists in a culture where vast sums of money are the norm.
If only the bankers would show they "got it," slashed bonus levels for a year or two, just to show they are in the real world, they would earn more respect from a wider population who now despise their apparent greed in a time of austerity.
But every time they defend the bonus culture, they shoot themselves in the foot. They are a PR disaster that tarnishes an otherwise decent profession. Bank managers and counter staff across Kent must be fuming.
Banks and the BBC are in the firing line because they have not squared reality with perception. They may feel hard done by, but they need to recognise that perception is often more important than reality.
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On Christmas day the Real Housewives of Atlanta star tweeted, "OMG he gave me an amazing all Diamond Letter N necklace! I love it."
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I'm sure he would like to have a rocket ship on wheels in the off road department, but I think that his school thing and his need to do some off road stuff will work out good on a simple DRZ 400. I would like to have a KTM, but Western Canada prices don't permit this at $12 300 out the door for the 690 compared to the $7 600 out the door.
School is coastly, and bikes are just toys, so keeping it real is the best bag for the buck. I ride with the ADS Alberta dudes on my DRZ, and I follow, and lead at times. They kill me on the open stretches, but this is not what he is asking either being that it is not a race bike he is looking for.
One bike/ Better off roading then his KLR/ and School !!!
From Jeathrow Bowdean
Life is full of compromises, and they'll usually tend to put greater pressures on your motorcycling pursuits as time goes by...marriage, kids, job, etc. While bikes can be classified as toys by some, to some of us it's a critical part of quality living. Sometimes "now" is better than hoping for "later". Nothing wrong with a Suzy 400, but it'll never fill the sportbike function that the OP seems to like. I've only gotten to ride a KTM690 enduro model once, but it was fairly eye-opening. It may be the bike that might be the "one" capable of real performance on pavement and dirt. With the spare wheels/tires, it would be like cheating.
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RALEIGH - United States Attorney George E.B. Holding announced that in federal court on January 21, 2011, LIAL MCKOY, 33, DONTE JONES, 22, and DUSHAUN UTLEY, 30, of Raleigh, North Carolina, were sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy. MCKOY was sentenced to 294 months' imprisonment; JONES received 303 months' imprisonment; and UTLEY, 157 months' imprisonment. All three received five years of supervised release following their terms of imprisonment.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Sherwood Brown scored 24 points and Bernard Thompson had 23 to lead Florida Gulf Coast to an incredible NCAA tournament debut, a 78-68 win over second-seeded Georgetown on Friday night in the second round of the South Regional.
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Anda, anda...... Tírate de la motoooo.....
I've been looking for a 348 trail for years..... I'll believe this when I see it.... But definitely will not buy a bike without a seat.
I don't have a lot of use for a trials bike with a seat, but it'd make the perfect technical-trails bike for someone not in a hurry - for that matter it'd make a good technical trail bike for my wife. I hope they build it and would personally get all hot and bothered if they did a competition-level, light, 6spd, two-stroke off road bike with DI. :evil Still waiting for someone to make a two stroke that's better than my '01 CR. Some of the pumpkin bikes are close I think, but not enough difference to make the change.
I'm in love!
Do I see lights/gauges/etc? Street legal?
Ossa might be out of business, (slight chance) already,
they needed investors to keep going, investors expect "guarantee" so they (ossa) applied to the city/country the plant is in, for guarantee. Nobody has said anymore yet about how that is going?
sure, could be seen 2 ways, they could just move and be ok, in this case just trying to get more "help" when just about every country is sick and tired of helping the super rich investors make guaranteed moneys...
Or they need money/investors badly to stay open?
Marc Colmer left, (all my above is from the "web" so dont have a cow on me). It was uncertain if it was salary issues? they said personal reasons.
It dont take much to "bet" it was becuase possibly (even if slight and a guess on my part) about getting paid, and or seeking employment with a future in his opinion?
I would love to see that company keep going, and produce those bikes, but Ill be damned if Warren Buffett and his ilk should be "guaranteed" that they wont lose money investing in the company. :thumb
I mean shit, I could use a deal like that, for a company I'd like to start, sheesh.
This isnt supposed to be a politcal rant, just a finance rant,
Make it street legal, rack on the rear fender, easy to ride trails and momma can go on a dual sport ride with boys. :wink:
One too few- I ain't got one.
I just did some checking around on prices. The OSSA site says that the Explorer will be 5,900 Euros. I'm surprised that it would be less than the trials version.
The 2011 OSSA TR280i trials bike sells for 6,640 Euros. It's $8495 here in the States.
The math would indicate that the Explorer would be ~ $7548.
with the "rendering" we dont know much about what part is where.
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In the press release it also hinted at a future "Enduro" model - maybe a new Pioneer?
The old Ossa Explorer was the Mick Andrews Replica trials bike with a bigger fuel tank and more padded seat so the next logical step would be to recreate the Super Pioneer model and make it more of a dual purpose bike.
Still got the 1972 Pioneer I bought new.... would love to add one of these to the garage.
NEW PICTURES, looks like actual bike?
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He's not that funny looking! It's just oddly retouched. Cute kid, looks kinda like my nephew.Alien mix baby ... ?
My god that is an ugly kid
I thought the before & after pictures got reversed.
Anyway, while I don't know of some magical filter that could automatically do this, I wouldn't call it a fake. It's certainly possible to do retouching of this degree.
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