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As was indicated in the past two newsletters our Alastair Martin (1967 – 71) contacted us recently. He is secretaries, Mary Margaret Gordon and Elizabeth Spence, living in West Drayton, Middlesex now and runs his own were looking for someone to take on the task of compiling company – Spekkles the newsletter. Well I gather that having sifted through the piles of applications and completed the rigorous selection Ann Swaby (Meiklejohn) (1957 – 65) discovered the procedure I have been appointed to the post – yes I was the Club's website on the internet and re-established contact. only volunteer !! So who am I? I am Andrew Cook. When She is a teacher, now living in New Zealand. the school closed I was just completing my 5th Year, and anticipating a 6th year with some 6 or 7 others, instead of Alastair McNeil (1974 – 75) likewise contacted us by which I transferred to Daniel Stewart's & Melville College email. He is a businessman, living in Singapore and a 6th year of some 60+. Academically I can't claim to have been a neuronal athlete, possibly because I spent too I was delighted to hear from Murdoch Ferguson (1968 – much time indulging in rugby, fencing, squash etc., a 75). Murdoch was another who, when the doors of John situation which continued at Stewart's Melville as Isobel Watsons closed, transferred down the road to Stewarts Wallis can confirm no doubt since she had the dubious Melville. Here he made his mark, not least on the sports pleasure of teaching me there as well. Whilst at Edinburgh field winning Scottish Schoolboy international honours at University, and for many years after, I played rugby with rugby. He tells us he lives in Glasgow and is a Stewart's Melville (FP) RFC. I mention this as it was photographer, capturing the rich and famous on film. Who through the rugby club that my contact with John Watsons says you can't make a living oggling at gorgeous women was kept alive. In days of yore JWS (FP) RFC joined up and spotting famous Trainspotters ! I was amused to with Melville College (FP) RFC and for several seasons unearth a photo of the last sports day at JW in which played under the Melville 'flag' until Daniel Stewart's Murdoch is receiving a trophy from Bill Garlick and Eric College and Melville College combined. The combined Jackson. I had entitled it simply "Egghead–Intermediate rugby club honoured its commitment to the John Watsons Boys Athletics Champion" a title I presume, by default, he contingent; indeed as a staunchly 'closed' club it still holds ! continued to offer membership to pupils leaving John Watsons School up until we closed. At Inverleith and Leslie Spoor (1919 – 25) Sent us a copy of a menu he has Ferryfield I kept in touch with old, and made many new unearthed from the JWI Reunion dinner held in January friends from the school. Sandy Booth, our former 1960. On the back of it are signatures of those present and Secretary, served on the committee up until his death, include: Jack Spruce (1923), who was then a director of Bruce Lewis played and latterly served on the committee, Mackies in Princess Street, Eric Montford a journalist, and other players included Stuart Byrdone, Pete Gilbert Clark (Piggy), who ended up as a wing McKendrick, Bob Kerr, Grant Stein, Hugh (Jars) Commander, Bill Garlick (headmaster), and Sandy Blair, Lockhart Miller, David Johnston, Murray (never Booth, long time secretary of the JW Club. hurry a Murray) Brown, and John Kerr. And there must have been countless others I've failed to mention. Kathy Hardinge (Cook) (1967 – 75) lives in Malvern, Nowadays my leisure activities are more along the line of Worcestershire. Having trained initially as a Medical hillwalking and Scottish Country Dancing which I also Secretary she went on to take a commission in the R.A.F. teach (eat your heart out Mrs Chapman !) where she was a fighter controller. Nowadays she works for a private company designing and testing software for But enough of me. How are you ? Who are you ? Where the air defence industry. It is thanks to her ability to talk are you ? I have to confess to being quite amazed at Mary her computer illiterate brother through the vagaries of Margaret and Elizabeth's abilities to produce a couple of Microsoft software over the phone from vast distances, newsletters a year when they receive so little feedback that we have a newsletter at all (she's really to blame !!) from those who attended John Watsons School. Their keen eye for 'kent' names appearing in the papers and their Diana Cook (1967 – 75) transferred to Mary Erskine diligence at trawling for any news has to be applauded. School and from there trained as a physiotherapist at They will continue to serve as joint Secretaries of the John Addenbrooks Hospital, Cambridge. For the last 13 years Watson Club and to be the invaluable link pin to the she has lived and worked in Vancouver, though this year membership. But with the change in 'editorship' of the she took a sabbatical and has been working in Hereford. newsletter can I appeal to all of you to keep in touch with us. Let us know what you are up to, where you are living, Rosamund Beveridge's husband sought help to celebrate who you keep in touch with from the old school and any her XXth birthday to reproduce a piece she had printed in news you may have of other JW former pupils. It doesn't the JWS magazine, "The Signet". Congratulations to our have to be an epistle; a few brief lines to Mary Margaret archivist, David Drummond, who was able to produce a Gordon or myself would be very gratefully received. copy from Issue 2. Other names of contributors (primary 2 so I'll not embarrass everyone by reproducing the copy) Some one who does corresponds regularly is Rev. Jack were Peter Gray, Ewan MacLeod, Rosalind Sked and Scroggie (1929 – 35) and we were delighted to learn that Louise Rowan. Where are they now ? in May this year he became a great grand father. Congratulations. Jack also tells us he married three We were interested to read in the Scotsman (21st February generations of the family; his wife, his daughter and his 2002) an article about haunted properties in which Archie grand daughter ! Lawrie (1944 – 48) appeared in his capacity as Secretary of the Scottish Society for Phychical Research. 1 The Club's AGM took place on Saturday 14th September • Leslie Spoor has offered to lay the wreath on 2002 at the Menzies Hotel, Belford Road. Present at the Remembrance Sunday at the Dean Church. meeting were; Ailsa Gillett, Jennifer Taylor, Elisabeth • Date of the next AGM was left open until it was Cardinal, Murray Falconer, Leslie Spoor, Hugh known when the Plaque would be ready. Leonard, John Loudon, John Hart, David Drummond, Bob Glaister, Maggie MacGregor, Barry Laing, Ruffy Well that was more or less it. Several questions arose from Fortune, Jean Carmichael, Marjorie Moore, Sheila the meeting, one of which was that concerning a function Benzie, Ian Langdon, Hugh Pollock, Iain Smart, Mary to unveil the Plaque. Since the Plaque is to be installed at Margaret Gordon, Elizabeth Spence and Neil Savage. the Gallery such a function should probably be there or Apologies were received from; Archie Lawrie, John somewhere in the close vicinity. But how should we mark Taylor, Bob Botcherby, Tom Hart, Graeme Brown, this occasion ? How can we attract more of our F.P.'s to Annette Young, Karen Haig, Mike Pestereff, Dorothy come along ? If any one has any suggestions please Fraser, None Hyslop and Richard Gillett. contact either Mary Margaret Gordon or myself. Unlike past years it has been decided not to reproduce the As well as the Club's AGM, many informal get-togethers minutes of the meeting verbatim in this newsletter - take place which, sadly, we hear all too little of. Following anyone wishing a copy of them can contact the Secretary the very successful Centenary Celebration weekend in who will be glad to email it to you. Hopefully the June 1999, several of my year have met up again the following will give you a flavour of what was discussed. following two years. It has been good to re-establish contact with the likes of David Grieve, Pat Grieve • President's welcome (Carstairs), Jacqui Rose (Burnett), Clare Walker • Art prize won by Sam Griffin (Chan), John Ferguson, Richard Watson, Dorothy • 'Destruction' of the cricket pitch Green (Kidd), Lindsay Burns (Gray), Nicol Kerr, • Treasurer's report Christine Cameron (Lymn), Ghillie Strachan (Mackay) • Plaque update – Bill Kirk the artist commissioned to and George Ogilvie. But where are the other faces in those create the memorial plaque, is awaiting slate. Looking oh so embarassing class photos which everyone still seems at a possible date of installation in the spring. There to have. If you have had a get together with some of your was some discussion about a function to unveil the contemporaries please let us know about it, who was there piece (see below). and, if possible, a photo or two (by the next newsletter I • John Watson Foundationers' Trust update – Hugh might have mastered chapter two of my computer book Pollock reported that there were currently 4 pupils at and try to include some photos). George Watson's College and 1 at Kilgraston School. • John Watsons Trust update – there was some discussion on the Trust brochure and the meeting felt What do FP's think of the new look front of the Gallery ? that mention of boarding grants should have been The ponds and surrounding earthwork structure, designed included, especially considering that by the terms of by Charles Jencks, has cost over £380,000 and taken two the Trust one third of the money for dispersal is for years to build. Have you been to see it yet ? Why not take boarding fees. There had been a fundraising dinner a trip up to the 'old place' and check it out. In fact you during the year, and it is hoped to have something could always arranged to meet up with some of your similar annually. contemporaries and have a mini-reunion. (The food in the • John Watson's History – Bob Glaister is negotiating restaurant is really rather good – not an opinion I ever with the Gallery's Retail Manager about the thought I'd be expressing about fare delivered from the possibility of them stocking a pamphlet with a brief kitchens of this building !) Some will doubtless regret the history of the school. Discussion whether this be sold destruction of this site of so many school memories, but or free. Ronald Leckie has offered to scan the original time has marched on since the days when this was the book onto the web – currently investigating the hallowed cricket wicket, rugby and hockey pitches that viability of this. Harry Dakin guarded so jealously. The place is now an art • Archives now dealt with through the City Archivist. gallery not a school. Hopefully visitors will be able to use this structure as a garden , especially if other works by , David Drummond was thanked for all his hard work for example, Henry Moore or Barbara Hepworth can be over many years. incorporated. What think you ? Let us know what your • Constitution of the Club. Following some discussion reaction is. and some minor dotting of i's and crossing of t's the amended constitution was adopted. Jonathan Owen, the John Watson Club Art Prize winner • Discussion document for the committee to investigate of two years ago, has had his work recognised by the the pro's and con's of staying with the current Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. They have arrangement with George Watsons or merging with recently bought the piece which won him the JW prize. the John Watson Trust. • Re-election of office bearers – after some discussion Remembrance Sunday. Are you aware that the JW Club the committee was reelected as a whole. The continue to honour those FP's who died in the service of Secretaries agreed to continue in post at least until the their country ? Leslie Spoor has agreed to represent the installation of the Plaque, with the proviso that the Club and to lay a wreath on the Memorial Plaque, which is Newsletter is taken on by some one else – Andrew now housed in the south gallery (the John Watson gallery) Cook has offered to do this ("mug" – new ed's wife!). of the Dean Church. I am sure Leslie would appreciate the company of any fellow FP's who care to attend the service 2 as well. Having been able to carry out this tribute a couple Before I wind up this newsletter may I make two appeals. of years ago, I can assure you of a particularly warm Firstly, as already indicated, we need you to speak to us. welcome at the Dean – many of the faces who taught Let us know your news and views, where you are living boarders and others at Sunday School are still present in now, what you are up to, who you keep in touch with from the congregation and were delighted to see some of the JW JW. We assume that folk are still interested to hear news pupils return. Those who haven't been to the Dean since from the Club if not let us know – we can take it ! The the school closed might be interested to know that Secretary has asked on several occasions to be informed if mounted on the walls in the stairwell leading up to the old you still wish to receive the Newsletter and details of any JW gallery are many of those plaques etc that one future events. Everyone on the mailing list will receive this sometimes wondered "Whatever happened to ……." letter either by email or traditional post, but here after only including the Dux shield. those who have indicated that they wish to continue receiving mailings from the Club will do so. It is worth noting that more people have registered with the website Having broached the subject of future functions with www.friendsreunited.co.uk than have contacted Mary thoughts of the installation of the Plaque, could the Margaret ! Is this, perhaps, the way of the future ? Do committee seek suggestions for other functions in the F.P.'s prefer to subscribe to something like the friends future. What does the membership wish to see in the form reunited website then contact those they wish to, rather of functions ? What form might the AGM take ? Would than continued contact through the Club. If so please take enough people be interested in an informal dinner or the trouble to put a few lines on paper or on an email so perhaps a ceilidh ? Or is the general consensus to have the committee do not continue to flog a dead (or dying) nothing ? Let us know your thoughts. horse. Secondly in an attempt to keep our costs down and save the forests being felled for paper, may we ask that those on OBITUARIES email, who have not already done so, let us have their email address so we can send them the newsletter by this Eleanor Ailsa Blackburn (Maclachlan) mode rather that snail mail. 1933 – 39 Mrs Sheila Mitchell (Maclachlan) 1933 – 41, wrote to tell us of the death of her sister Ailsa Blackburn, who died on 26th April 2002 Andrew Cook email@example.com Editor, newsletter Thomas Elridge 30 Craigmount Terrace Died on 5th June 2002 Edinburgh EH12 8BW Des Fourie Died 2nd April 2002 Mary Margaret Gordon email@example.com After his schooling at JWS and GW Des returned to South Secretary, John Watson Club Africa at the end of the 2nd WW. Worked with ICI then 28 Craigmount View became a computer analyst in the mid 1960s. In 1970s he Edinburgh undertook missionary work, which led to an EH12 8BT interdenominational pastorship. Nancy Ovens Died September 2002. Whilst neither a former pupil nor member of staff of John Watsons School, Nancy had a strong connection with it through her incredible hard work for many years with the John Watson's Trust. 3
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A Lebanon man is facing charges of second-degree wanton endangerment and endangering the welfare of a minor after a 3-year-old foster child in his care was found walking KY 49 Sunday morning.
At 9 a.m. June 21, the Kentucky State Police received a report of a toddler walking in the road on KY 49, south of Lebanon. The 3-year-old female was found without any injuries and was kept safely at a residence until state troopers arrived.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Green River Lake announced June 26 that it plans to re-open the beach located at Smith Ridge Recreation Area.
Mellwood H. Robinson of Lebanon is listed in stable condition as of Monday afternoon at University Hospital in Louisville, where is recovering after a motorcycle accident that occurred Friday.
Robinson, 74, of Lebanon was riding his a 1981 Honda motorcycle when he was involved in an accident at 7:06 p.m. June 19 in front of 690 Metts Drive in Lebanon. According to the Lebanon Police, Robinson told the police that someone ran him off the road.
Christopher D. Spalding, 21, and Charles J. Webb, 29, both of Lebanon have been arrested on charges of third-degree burglary and first-degree criminal mischief after they allegedly broke into Corner Food Mart in Loretto in the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 30.
Animals, games, food, pageants and rides will return to the Marion County Fairgrounds June 27 through July 4.
The 2015 Marion County Fair began Saturday, June 27, with the open dairy show.
Starting Monday, June 29, the carnival will open at 5 p.m. each night through July 4 (weather permitting). Admission is $10 per person, and it includes the rides and nightly events.
At 2:38 p.m., July 1, the Marion County Sheriff's Office received the report of a one-vehicle collision with injuries on Highway 49 (Loretto Road) approximately two miles south of Loretto. Hope Riggs, 18, of Loretto was operating a 2002 Pontiac traveling north when she lost control of her vehicle, left the roadway and came to rest in a creek. Riggs was transported to Spring View Hospital by Marion County EMS for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. Deputy Sheriff Courtney Deering investigated.
The Washington County High School Commanderettes, who are coming off a dismal 2-23 season, are about to get a much-needed spark – Saint Catharine College's womens' basketball coach, Lena Bramblett.
She's replacing the Commanderette's last head coach, Mike Holt, who took the reigns for only one season.
Bramblett, who is leaving the Patriots after 15 years, said the switch was an opportunity for her and her family.
Marion County emergency personnel and Spring View Hospital staff responded to a simulated meth lab explosion Wednesday, June 17, on Fairgrounds Road in Lebanon.
According to Marion County Emergency Management Director Hayden Johnson, the disaster exercise went very well.
"There were three out-of-county evaluators that had nothing but praise for the responders of Lebanon and Marion County," Johnson said.
Lynne Robey had some good news for the Marion County Fiscal Court last week.
Central Kentucky Community Action Council continues to improve its financial condition. When Robey took over as the CKCAC director a few years ago, the agency's future was uncertain.
Thanks to support from local governments in the agency's service area and changes within the office, the agency is getting back on its feet, according to Robey.
Imagine tens of thousands of people attended events at the YUM Center in Louisville, including a Selena Gomez concert, and FFA convention and an AAU basketball event, all within a week of each other.
Now imagine within days of those events, thousands of people starting coming to emergency rooms in Louisville and counties within driving distance with flu-like symptoms, only when they are tested, their results show they do not have the flu.
Now imagine that public health officials determined that anthrax, not the flu, was the cause of the outbreak. What would you do?
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Bécassine: Le Trésor VikingBécassine: Le Trésor Viking (2001) Feature Length Theatrical Animated Film
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- Cartoon Characters: Loulotte, Bécassine, Charlotte, Edmond d'Ermonville, Gaspard, Gari, Baldi, René Taillefer, Horace Taquouere, Marie Serpentin.
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University of Nottingham physicist Philip Moriarty is one of the few scientists who has been able to do extensive research into molecular mechanosynthesis. In 2004 Moriarty engaged in a debate with Chris Phoenix over the feasibility of molecular manufacturing. In 2008 Moriarty received a grant from the British Government to examine the viability of mechanosynthesis. In this Next Big Future interview with Sander Olson, Moriarty discusses the progress that has been made during the past decade, the challenges of working with diamond, and the prospects for building components out of silicon and diamond.
Question: You began the project for experimental work on molecular mechanosynthesis about five years ago. How is the project going?
Answer: The mechanosynthesis project has actually only been running for about 2.5 years http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/G007837/1 now and the initial goal was to explore the possibility of atom-by-atom assembly on diamond surfaces , i.e. to test the viability of Drexler's original vision of making components out of diamond. But as Drexler himself recently pointed out diamond is a very difficult material to work with. As a result, in Nottingham we have a parallel effort focused on silicon, which is much, much easier to work with than diamond. For example, we only very recently achieved atomic resolution using non-contact atomic force microscopy on a hydrogen-passivated diamond surface. Moving beyond imaging to atomic manipulation of the diamond surface is going to be much more challenging than for silicon.


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MIAMI GARDENS, FL - FEBRUARY 07: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell watches teams warm up prior to the start of Super Bowl XLIV between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints on February 7, 2010 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
Twitter.com Hard to believe, but the Pro Bowl just got funnier. During Train's performance, one of the Pro Bowl dancers got a little excited and exaggerated her jump, letting her shirt ride up and showing off an elite level camel toe in the process. Commissioner Roger Goodell may opt to suspend her for leading with the lobster claw. She looks naked, but she's not naked; just pants clinging snugly after the long weekend in Honolulu. Looks to us like Peyton Manning could throw a football into that thing. Filed under: Football, NFL, Uncategorized
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Considering the announcement that the phone will be available sometime in late March (thanks for the specificity, T-Mobile), you're probably thinking there's no way it will come rocking anything less than Ice Cream Sandwich, right? Well, think again. Get ready for a blast from last year with Android 2.3 (aka Gingerbread). TmoNews contacted T-Mobile in regards to the possibility of an ICS update, and here's what they got in response: The Galaxy S Blaze 4G is expected to be upgradeable to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. T-Mobile is committed to enhancing customers' experience with our devices, including providing upgrades to the latest Android operating system — Android 4.0. We are actively working with our OEM partners, like Samsung, to ensure that a number of eligible T-Mobile devices are upgraded to Android 4.0 in the coming months and will communicate updates as we have additional details to share. Well, rudy-freakin'-pooh! Here's an idea: why not focus on bringing a device to your shelves that comes with Android 4.0 out of the box? We've heard rumors about a T-Mobile Galaxy Nexus, but there's been nothing solid and I honestly don't expect anything anytime soon. So, before anyone chimes in Magenta's defense, I don't even want to hear it — there's absolutely no excusable reason for T-Mobile to release anymore Gingerbread-based devices. Get on the ball, or I'll take my business elsewhere, possibly before my contract ends if this taste in my mouth for T-Mobile grows bad enough. Again, the Blaze 4G will be available sometime in March for 149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate (if you care). I'm so ticked about the situation, I'm not even going to post more pictures of the phone. If you want to see more or read the full press release, make sure to hit up the source link below. /end rant Source: TmoNews Tony I just find it strange that ICS was announced or released months ago and no one has jumped to release a phone with Android's current version of the OS. It's like releasing the next iPhone with the previous version of iOS. The Angry Apple fanboys would never allow it! It would be like the London riots all over again if Apple did that. Yet phone after phone after phone keeps coming out with the last version of Android & they expect us to sign on for 2 years & not say anything about it. http://androidspin.com Tony Simons You're absolutely right. It disgusts me. Tony *Other than the Galaxy Nexus, of course. (I had to add that before I got all trolled up over it by someone). http://androidspin.com Tony Simons Which is available on how many carriers? =D Tony Exactly! http://androidspin.com Tony Simons I'm still jealous and bitter, can't you tell? LOL Lawless_1 HTC Sensation FTW! highdefdinardo If you are unhappy with T-Mobile. Switch Carriers. It is not a carrier problem, nor is it a manufacturer problem. The lack, and speed in which we receive or don't receive OS updates in a timely fashion is a direct result of how Android/Google allows the carriers and manufactures to retool and modify the OS. After the carriers & handheld manufacturers tinker with the OS, such as ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich), it still has to be approved by Android/Google to be a release candidate. Once that is approved, then testing begins, and from there if it is all good, an update schedule is made for each carrier. If you want updates quickly, switch to an iPhone, Blackberry or Windows Mobile Device (probably not, WIn Mobile, because I hear thats just as bad). I have an SGS2 that I purchased back in October 2011, and my device isnt eligible for the ICS update until late in Q1 of 2012 or early Q2 of 2012. If the Samsung Blaze is being released in March, then realistically, the FCC did not pass this device for production/sale until probably November/December 2011, at which time, ICS (Android 4.0) was not readily available. This problem with each carrier and manufacturer being able to tool, and modify and input bloatware for each device will not be rectified for 2-3 years, and even then it still may be a problem, because ANDROID very well may not even be in existence in 2 to 3 years due to all the lawsuits, haggling and complaining. I have an SGS2 with T-Mobile. I am curious about the updates as well. In the meantime if you are not happy with your current device/carrier/OS, then switch. http://androidspin.com Tony Simons Well said, though you missed the part of the post where I threatened to do exactly that. You also missed the part where I said I don't care to hear any T-Mobile defense posts, but I won't hold that against you. http://gurnted.wordpress.com Awdahelwidit I completely feel your pain. Just "settled" for a T989 last month. Best bet if it's that big of a deal, get on Ebay, or Amazon, and buy a Galaxy Nexus. This (selling devices loaded with well tested, stable software) is nothing new to the technology business. Hell, there are still notebooks sold today that come with XP, lol. Just be patient, and you will see handsets come along eventually. If you fiend for ICS that bad, get a handset with a CM9 or AOSP port. I would be a lot more concerned if they were constantly releasing obsolete hardware (but as you said, h/w ain't that bad). In the end T-Mobile is still the lesser of the evils. We magenta customers pay only half what the competition charges for service, have the fastest wireless broadband (even if the tech behind it is dated), and NEVER have to worry about getting a used handset with "bad esn" issues, or anything like that. Besides, what other viable options really exist in the carrier world? Two evil empires, a few mom & pop shops, and Sprint (who's CS is so awful they scared everyone off years ago). So you might as well just ride it out with T-Mo, and start buying devices based on the development/hacking community trends, rather than putting faith in, or having any expectations from carriers. logan I come to android spin for news, not a childish rant about the software on his latest budget super phone. Dissapointing that ithas gingerbread? Yeah. Is it really something worth making yourself have a temper tantrum for? By your rationale, perhaps we should look to other sites for news. I don't want to hear any dissenting opinion, I mean android spin apologists, either. Sounds kinda stupid, doesn't it? Bob I think the point Tony was shooting for, but slightly missed is, not the just the fact of the device launching with Gingerbread, but the same lame corporate crap about an update. I fully expect to see another 10 phones launched before T-Mobile, or any other carrier really, gets a device with ICS on other than the Gnex. By that I mean at launch, not upgrades. To make matters worse is that T-Mobile is adding another device, that they have to worry about supporting, or failing to support. You can see it across the board for all carriers. AT&T did the same thing with their Galaxy S II and launched the Skyrocket. You can't blame the carriers though. It's the consumers fault. We demand whatever looks and sounds the coolest. Instead of letting the carriers and manufacturers work it out. Had we all not wanted the Galaxy II to land stateside and bug and nag to make it happen, maybe the carriers would have waited a little longer and brought the 4G device in first instead of second. Once we get past blaming the manufacturers and carriers for problems that we created on our own, then we can all move forward. On the flip side of the coin, had Samsung and T-Mobile launched the Blaze with ICS built in, you still wouldn't be happy because it would would be a TouchWiz UI overlay, still not true ICS. Which I know is exactly what you want. Face it, Gnex and Nexus S are your only choices for official updates to true ICS, other wise, get to cracking on custom ports and build your own ROM for the device that has the specs you want. Everyone needs to quite worrying about the OS version installed and look to the community and the developers. Base your device purchase on community activity. Its the only way we will survive what the carriers and manufactures do. thecityboy781 wheres galaxy nexus?


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By Craig Hoyle on 15 January, 2013 in Uncategorised
With some of the Armee de l'Air's aged C160 Transall and C-130H Hercules tactical transports currently supporting its Operation Serval activity in Mali, MSN7′s move towards first flight and a mid-year delivery date provides a promising glimpse of what its future inventory will hold. No surprises, though, in the Airbus Military-provided shot depicting an aircraft in typically drab military transport livery.
While some French troops and equipment have arrived at Bamako airport near the Malian capital aboard a Royal Air Force Boeing C-17, France's eventually 50-strong fleet of A400Ms will deliver a real increase in payload-lifting capability over the coming years: certainly enough for it to move its own armoured vehicles by air next time.
I reckon that the chances of Airbus Military's A400M press briefing at this year's Paris air show including more than a few range/payload charts depicting how the Atlas would have aided its African intervention is a 100% certainty. But will we see France's first example in the static line or flying display, I wonder?
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UKIP is not terribly keen on unelected quangos and there is one in particular that it would really like to scrap: the Electoral Commission, an organisation charged with overseeing all elections and ensuring they are properly run.
Why? Well, it is clearly a quango and Ukip's policy appears to be that all such appointed bodies should be wound up to save taxpayers' money. There is, in the case of the scrap to become the next MP for Thanet South, an additional reason.
The commission has just ruled that the FUKP party created by comedian Al Murray can be registered and the name can be used on ballot papers but its logo cannot. This decision turns on the issue of whether voters could confuse FUKP with UKIP. The commission says not - but has said that the acronym won't be allowed on the ballot paper and neither will the party's logo, an inverted version of UKIP's own emblem.
UKIP is irritated because it feels there will be some confusion among voters and Thanet South is likely to be a tight contest which could turn on just a few votes.
This is not to say that Al Murray has any chance of winning. It is about whether the votes he gets, coupled with the votes other minority parties secure, could deprive Nigel Farage of victory.
There are already eight listed candidates for the seat and the possibility that there will be more to come before the deadline of April 8. Add in the fact that Al Murray's FUKP party will appear before UKIP on the ballot paper and you can understand why the party is annoyed.
Still, UKIP has had a small boost with a Survation poll giving Nigel Farage an 11 point lead in Thanet South - and that lead is over Labour rather than the Conservatives. The poll is interesting because respondents were asked not just the party they would support but named the individual candidates.
While Nigel Farage is very much a Marmite politician, he obviously has greater voter recognition than his rivals. As interesting was the fact that Labour leapfrogged the Conservatives in this poll. That is probably a reflection of the efforts its candidate Will Scobie - a genuinely local person - has and continues to put in to the campaign.
Why is David Cameron apparently digging his heels in over a decision about plans for a grammar school annexe in Sevenoaks? Reports have suggested that he has ruled no announcement will be made this side of the election.
Many Conservatives are baffled by his reluctance, given that giving the scheme the green light would send a strong signal the party had not turned his back on selection completely as UKIP continues to promise "a grammar in every town."
One explanation may be that the case presented by The Weald of Kent Girls Grammar, which is proposing the scheme, is not so clear cut as some have made out, not least because of the 10-mile distance between the site in Sevenoaks and Tonbridge.Would that qualify as an annexe?
Another may be a cold political calculation that however many parents there are who would like more grammars, there is a perception that they are not the agents of social mobility they once were in giving bright children a "good" education they could not otherwise afford.
UKIP says it would give 20% of places to children from poorer backgrounds, although no-one has explained what would happen if fewer than 20% of such children did not pass.
And, at the end of the day, the Conservatives probably believe this is a decision that will have very little impact on the outcome of the election - not least because Sevenoaks and Tonbridge and Malling are about the party's safest seats in the county.
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It has been a tumultuous year in Kent politics and 2015 is shaping up to be just as turbulent. Here is how the politicians saw things - in their own words:
"We have picked up the jigsaw pieces from different boxes and put them in new boxes where there is real synergy." Some mystifying jargon from John Burr, the KCC director in charge of re-organising the way the council is run.
"We are not the masters now, the people are the masters. We are the servants of the people. We must never forget that." Newly-elected Rochester and Strood UKIP MP Mark Reckless victory speech has uncanny echoes of Tony Blair in 1997.
"By-elections are different; there is a chance for people to vote in way they haven't done before." Conservative leader David Cameron calls for people to vote tactically to stop Mark Reckless in the by-election.
"You should tell that to Mrs Cameron" The Prime Minister's retort to a reporter on the campaign trail in Rochester who said he was looking fit and whether he had been working out.
"People who have got through [to Britain] call and say 'We've got through. This is El Dorado and we're staying here'. Natasha Bouchard, Mayor of Calais addressing MPs on why hundreds of migrants were gathered in the French town.
"It was poor judgement and naivety on my part rather than words spoken with any malice." Janice Atkinson Ukip MEP and prospective parliamentary candidate for Folkestone and Hythe after being caught on camera describing a supporter as "a ting tong from somewhere."
"I did ask about the mafia issue" - Thanet council officer Mark Seed on reports that potential investors in ferry firm TransEuropa had crime links.
"The only reason I agreed to do the documentary was to help people better understand the role of police and crime commissioner." Kent crime commissioner Ann Barnes on that Channel 4 documentary.
Women of the UK: burn your bras...Or not." Chatham and Aylesford MP Tracey Crouch tweet in response to a Ukip claim that for every bra bought in the UK, £1 went to the EU.
"These statistics, while accurate, could lead to an entirely misleading impression being given about how hard members work for their communities." Cllr Gary Cooke, KCC cabinet member for democratic services explains why the council stopped publishing meeting attendance figures.
"Conclusions were drawn where there was no evidence to support those conclusions." Kent County Council leader Paul Carter on why he withdrew a report suggesting government welfare reforms were behind rising crime, homelessness and food banks.
"It is now not beyond the bounds of possibility that we hold the balance of power in another hung parliament." Ukip leader Nigel Farage after his party's crushing European election victory in May.
"Nigel Farage is a pound shop Enoch Powell and we need to watch him." Comedian Russell Brand on BBC 'Question Time' takes a dig at the party leader
"As we entered the studio, and his personal make-up artist straightened his chest hair for him, I kid you not, I realised that perhaps he might be a bit lighter weight than expected." Nigel Farage retort at Russell Brand on BBC Question Time.
"Over the past few decades, flood defences in many areas have been neglected, and local people left to fend for themselves.Those days are coming to an end." Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg visiting Kent to announce £17m of flood defence work
"I am out but not down" Ashford MP Damian Green after losing his job as policing minister in what was culled a cull of middle-aged ministers from the cabinet
"I don't think it would have made much difference" - Liberal Democrat candidate Geoff Juby on whether the presence of his party leader Nick Clegg on the Rochester and Strood campaign trail would have helped. He went on to lose his deposit in the party's worst result in a by-election
"The New Ways of Working Programme has progressively implemented the approved phased redevelopment of several key hubs" - what else but a Kent County Council officer's report on "re-organisation"
Tags: Mark Reckless, David Cameron, UKIP, by-election, Rochester, Strood, Kelly Tolhurst, quotes, flooding, Nick Clegg, KCC, Paul Carter
Here's my round-up of the top political stories of the week in Kent and beyond:
1. After trying to stave off calls to quit, Maria Miller capitulated to the inevitable and quit her job as culture secretary. Few Kent MPs seemed prepared to comment in public about the saga which left Mr Cameron facing questions about his judgement. One that did was Tracey Crouch, the Chatham and Aylesford MP, who said Mrs Miller was right to resign but expressed frustration that MPs elected in 2010 were being tarred with the same brush despite the expenses rules being tightened.
2. Rarely out of the political spotlight, the definitely not shy or retiring UKIP leader Nigel Farage had another week in the headlines. A poll suggested that if he chose to stand at the general election in Folkestone and Hythe against Conservative incumbent Damian Collins, he would run him close but may not win. Bring it on, said Mr Collins. Mr Farage dropped an even heavier hint that he was eyeing up a Kent seat in 2015 but declined to say which one. Our bet? It will be Thanet South.
3. There may have been a spectacular increase in people cycling but Kent's track record on encouraging more people to use two wheels rather than four was under the spotlight. Census figures suggested fewer people were cycling to work than ten years ago - compared with more forward-looking places like Brighton and London. The Green county councillor Martin Whybrow denounced the county council for its track record, altlhough given that the Conservative leader of KCC is an enthusiastic rally car driver, maybe he shouldn't have been that surprised.
4. An unfortunate piece of timing left some people wondering whether David Cameron was "running frit' after a scheduled and heavly trailed interview with Radio Kent was abruptly cancelled - supposedly so he could make a telephone call to a fellow unnamed Prime Minister. Was it coincidence that the interview was due to take place the day after Maria Miller quit? Who knows.
5. Uncertainty continues over the fate of Manston Airport as the final flight by KLM took off on Wednesday and the airline boss of the Dutch operator made clear the carrier would most definitely would not be coming back. There continue to be talks over a possible buyout and owner Ann Gloag has agreed to consider a rescue plan drafted by staff. A case of watch this space.
Tags: Maria Miller, David Cameron, Radio Kent, expenses, Manston, cycling, Martin Whybrow
Categories: Liberal Democrats | Politics | Precept
There are not many issues where David Cameron and Nigel Farage agree. But fracking is one: both believe that shale gas has the potential to drastically reduce energy prices in the UK and that benefit is one that trumps the enivronmental arguments made against it.
The UKIP leader was in characteristically forthright mood on a visit to Kent to rally his troops when asked about fracking, saying it was a "God-given" opportunity for the county and whatever hazards the process of extracting shale gas may have, they are no worse than other industries, such as coal.
Farage: fracking in Kent a God-give opportunity>>>
This UKIP/Conservative consensus over energy is revealing.
Both parties clearly feel the case for lower energy prices has more resonance for hard-pressed families and pensioners who may consider that the anti-fracking protest movement is a luxury they cannot afford.
Their stance also reflects the scepticism that both have over renewable energy sources, particularly wind energy and is a less-than-subtle acknowledgement that many communities fear the blight of wind turbines littering the landscape.
It is a calculated risk. Events in Balcombe suggest that local communities, presented with the prospect of even just exploratory drilling actually taking place on their doorstep, will find the lower energy bills argument rather less persuasive when contrasted with the disruption.
This means there is politically a lot at stake for both parties. Fracking itself won't determine the outcome of the next general election.
But on the back of Balcombe, it is easy to see how revolt in the shires once companies get the go-ahead for licences could swing votes away from both.
Will he, won't he? Nigel Farage is batting away questions about whether he intends to stand as a candidate at the next general election in Kent.
He says speculation will detract from his focus on the European elections next year.
My suspicion is he that he doesn't actually know or has a few seats in his mind but can't decide. The list may include a few Kent constituencies.
Had the long-standing Roger Gale opted to retire from Thanet North, he might have fancied his chances there.
While UKIP has taken votes away from Labour in recent elections, its support will probably hold up better at the general election, meaning seats like Dover and Thanet South are probably out of the question.
Which leaves Folkestone and Hythe as one possibility, but even here he would face an uphill battle.
Still, it does incorporate Dungeness, where he does like to fish for sea bass.
Tags: fracking, Nigel Farage, David Cameron, UKIP, Dover
Categories: Medway
by Peter Cook
You can rely on governments to take something quite simple and turn it into a mass of complexities that no one understands. What is all this nonsense about gas?
Gas is gas – right? The gas that cooks your Sunday roast is pretty much the same as the gas that warms my living room.
It comprises the same molecules, comes out of the same hole in the ground, and travels through the same pipes for most of its journey.
So why should your gas cost more or less than that consumed by the people next door, even though, sometimes, you might be signed up to the same company.
This all started back in the Thatcher era. Before that the gas industry was nationalised and we all paid the same per therm – whatever a therm is.
Then came the holy grail of privatisation. The gas remained the same, but the people to whom we paid our bills changed. The whole set up was fragmented into a number of companies all vying for our custom.
When it comes to gas, or electricity and water come to that, you can't really compete on quality – gas is gas as I said.
There isn't a "Cosytherm" product that will warm your room more enticingly. Or a "Cookwell" gas, guaranteed to produce mouthwatering meals.
So all the gas companies can work on is price. The idea was competition would make them more cost effective, and so bring down the price.
But one company is pretty much as smart as the next, so before long the efficiency options are used up. Now what have they got?
The only thing is a tariff system which becomes so horrendously confusing that only they can understand it. And each company produces a different one, so that comparing like with like is an impossibility.
This makes customers vulnerable to high pressure sales staff who ring us up at inconvenient times, such as in the middle of a football match, to bamboozle us into believing they can offer gas at cheaper rates than the next lot.
Perhaps they can, perhaps they can't. Who would know? You would need to go on a training course to understand the system. And even if you did understand it, that would be irrelevant, because next month they are going to change it all again.
Politicians make it worse by saying we have a responsibility to shop around in order to bring down prices. If we did that for everything we'd never do anything else. Life's too short. Especially at my age.
They tell us what we – the consumer – want is choice. Rubbish. What we want is an efficient service at the lowest possible price.
I can't believe the employment of a massive sales force brings down the price of gas. Nor do advertising campaigns and all the deceitful connivance of marketing.
So I hope Mr Cameron sticks to his guns and really does insist that energy companies are compelled by law to offer their lowest tariff.
If he does, of course, it will destroy the tariff system. Who's going to opt for anything but the lowest? And they'll have to offer the same or go out of business.
So if he does what he says we'll all be better off. But don't hold your breath.
Tags: David Cameron, gas, cooking
Categories: Moans and groans
Politicians face a conundrum whenever they talk about welfare reform. On the one hand, it can pay to talk tough and vow to cut spending; on the other, they risk being seen as uncaring about those in genuine need at the bottom of the ladder.
David Cameron tried to strike a careful balance when he came to Kent for a set-piece speech on his thoughts about welfare reform - conscious that early trails of his speech had already characterised it as being the end of 'compassionate Conservatism.'
He made clear his thoughts were not yet policies and he wanted "a big debate" about the issue - a tactic beloved of politicians when they are floating contentious ideas.
But he will have calculated that when it comes to benefits, most polls indicate that the public do generally feel too much money is spent on welfare and the bill needs to be cut.
The difficulty with welfare reform is that it can be very tricky deciding what the cut off point should be - there are enormous variations in people's circumstances and reasons for being reliant on benefits.
It may be unpalatable that young adults can claim housing benefits without, as it is claimed, putting in to the system. But sending them scurrying back home to take up residence with their parents might not go down well in some quarters.
The difficulty is deciding what the cut off points should be and avoiding the law of unintended consequences - as has happened with the housing benefit limits that have been introduced.
But it cannot, as Cameron said, be right that in the UK, one in six children are from workless households. That is not evidence of a welfare system working properly.
KCC has a role to play safeguarding the county's heritage and its important historical assets but even so, it is a surprise to find they are together worth close to £6m. Even more surprising is the collection of art it possesses, worth £2.3m.
It is hard to conceive that all this art has close connections with or origins in Kent. Perhaps it's time to call the auctioneers - or the TV producers of 'Cash In The Attic'.
Tags: David Cameron, welfare reform, benefits, KCC, arts
Categories: Politics
THERE will be considerable dismay in some quarters that the Prime Minister appears to have agreed that the idea of an airport in the Thames Estuary should be fully investigated.
Government to consult on Boris Island airport scheme>>>
But there ought not to be surprise - even if opponents will throw back at him his declaration more than a year ago that the government had 'no plans' to build such an airport. A similar commitment was given to the Rochester and Strood MP Mark Reckless by new transport secretary Justine Greening in precisely the same terms.
But it was George Osborne who paved the way for the idea of examining the scheme in November when he announced the government would 'explore all the options' for tackling the problems around aviation capacity.
Even so, today's news will be seen as a U-turn and a politically awkward one given the deep hostility among his own MPs in Kent.
It is worth pointing out that there has never been any likelihood the government itself would 'build' an airport - that would be for private investment consortiums.
Some will see it as a shot in the arm for Boris Johnson's campaign to be re-elected as London Mayor although I've never been persuaded that aviation capacity is something that preoccupies London voters as much as issues like tube fares or crime.
Politically, Mr Cameron will have to confront the fact that among the county's Conservative MPs, there is universal opposition. The Conservative controlled Medway Council remains wholly unconvinced - although there have been recent hints that Kent County Council may not be quite as implacably opposed as it once might have been.
He may also be seen as having performed an about-turn and of betraying those who took him at his word that the government was not interested in the idea. Never an ideal position for a PM or for backbenchers who, in some cases, have marginal seats to defend in 2015.
What has changed? Underlying the news appears to be the feeling that aside from addressing the problem of capacity, a new airport would deliver a huge jobs boost and regenerate a part of the south east in a way no other project could conceivably get close to.
Perhaps it is no coincidence the news has come out on the day that unemployment figures have shown another rise in both Kent and Medway.
Those arguments will inevitably have to be balanced against the fact that an airport would have huge environmental consequences.
One thing is clear from today's news. Whatever one thinks of the idea, it can no longer be dismissed as 'pie in the sky.'
Tags: Boris Island, Medway Council, Boris Johnson, David Cameron
Categories: Precept
by David Jones
Have you ever tried to persuade your Christmas dinner to come down from a tree? It's not easy, I can tell you. But more of that later.
Alan Watkins' splendid Codgers' Club piece last month about growing up as a kid and the complete absence of the health and safety police struck a chord with me.
Strange, isn't it, that as Codgerdom arrives, it's easier to remember events more than half a century ago than to recall what happened last Wednesday.
Having fun required a great deal of creativity when you were growing up, as I did, in the early to mid-Fifties. Britain was a drab place then, still in the grip of post-war austerity.
Hard to believe now, but many people were still wearing the suits and coats they had worn during the war years. Of course, I didn't know that then, aged only 10 or so, but later I realised that domestic life in Britain had barely changed at all between 1939 and 1955.
We lived in what could be described, in estate agent's parlance, as a semi-rural location. Our small, old-fashioned bungalow had a large, rambling garden, about the size of half a football pitch.
My dad worked, just like everyone else, but we also had a smallholding. My parents kept chickens, rabbits and half a dozen geese in that large garden. It was wise not to upset the geese. They would advance, like a line of infantry, necks extended and hissing furiously. They were scary.
To the left at the bottom of our garden was a cornfield, swarming with rabbits. My father owned a shotgun and occasionally he would bag a couple for Sunday lunch. I had an air rifle but never managed to shoot anything. To the right was a meadow, with a grassy path leading down to a couple of unmade roads.
Like Codger Watkins, we made our own fun. Bike rides, daring each other to run through a field with a bull in it and endless fun with fireworks in the run-up to Bonfire Night.
Penny bangers which exploded with a thunderous crack and jumping jacks which would leap about unpredictably were affordable even on limited pocket money. Oh, and I'd also better mention the catapult I made to fire at old tin cans, using stones picked up from the beach as ammunition.
We had a huge poplar in our garden and I built a crude tree house in one of the massive forks in the branches. It was a 20ft climb to reach the platform. I never once put a foot wrong. We walked to school and back, on our own. There were no parental obsessions about paedophiles lurking round every corner.
It was a different, safer era, not least because there were far fewer cars on the roads. The real dangers for today's kids are nearly always created by someone other than themselves.
At this point, I know that this Codger's contribution is beginning to sound like an episode of the Darling Buds of May. It wasn't idyllic as in the fictional world of Ma and Pa Larkin, but it was a pleasure growing up where there were more fields than houses.
Like all good things, it eventually had to come to an end. We grew up and our parents moved to a more urban location. Today, all the fields around our old bungalow are now housing estates and even our large garden has three or four houses on it.
But back to that Christmas dinner in the tree. One year, my parents bought a young turkey in Maidstone Market – not a frozen one but a turkey very much alive and kicking.
It used to run around with the chickens. It was one of my jobs to feed it and it grew rapidly. Every evening, as dusk approached, it would fly up into a tree and refuse to come down, despite my best efforts to persuade it to rejoin the chickens by doing a passable impression of a turkey calling to its mate.
There were no credit cards then and if your parents didn't have the money, it didn't get bought. There were no supermarkets either, shelves bursting with festive goodies – just butcher's shops, greengrocers, corner stores and the occasional toy shop.
Britain today is a land of plenty compared to those grey days of the Fifties. The range of festive food, toys, and Christmas decorations now available and affordable to some degree by virtually everyone would have seemed like a fairytale paradise to a kid growing up in the Fifties.
This Christmas, however much you might moan about your stretched family finances, however hard-up you claim to be, I can guarantee that your home will be stuffed with more festive treats than any average youngster in the Fifties could ever have imagined.
It was in 1957 that the then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan famously, or perhaps infamously, remarked: "You've never had it so good."
For most families then, that was sheer nonsense. More recently, Lord Young, David Cameron's adviser, was sacked for using almost identical words. But in my view, Lord Young got it right.
Today, most families have a far better standard of living than could ever have been dreamed of 50 years ago, despite the problems caused by recession.
That said, did we enjoy ourselves just as much on Christmas Day 1957, when the food and the presents were far less lavish, when life was far less complicated, and the festive fun simple?
The answer to that is a resounding "yes".
Tags: Christmas, Fifties, football, rabbits, lunch, Bonfire Night, Darling Buds of May, Maidstone Market, Harold Macmillan, Lord Young, David Cameron
Categories: Moans and groans
by Alan Watkins
Grab the New Jerusalem (I gather that's this week's in-phrase for the World Wide Web). Seize the communications powers..... I did (puff). I have (puff). I will – if only I can keep up with developments.
These days my legs don't move as quickly as they used to. Did you know we Codgers now blog and tweet? Now in my younger day tweets were certainly an insult, and might have been grounds for selecting weapons at dawn in Gillingham Park.
Having blagged for most of our lives, we are having to get used to calling ourselves bloggers. Back in the early Eighties I was one of the first to have a computer attached to the internet.It allowed me to send quick letters to customers and clients. It was a strange device, however, big, grey, extremely hot and noisy.
It needed lots of words set inside funny brackets that might have escaped from a British Railways misguided notice board.
Now, as it happens, I have been blogging for a little time, picking up various tales from Gun Wharf and relaying them to the wider world for Medway Messenger's on-line readers.
Incidentally, I thought playing on line was dangerous: my old gramp told me you should never play on railways, then took me to a loco shed to look at the brutes on which he worked. I also Google (but the doctor says it is all right providing I keep it under control).
In the past few years new words have appeared, and old ones have been corrupted (something that apparently happens occasionally to hard drives).
There are things I draw the line at undertaking. I refuse to socially network on something called Facebook (whatever it is). I even have a tag (which, for Mr Cook's benefit, we used to call a handle).
I have a digital camera. It has a piece of plastic the size of an undernourished thumbnail. Somehow it holds 16,000 pictures, and thanks to an army of pixies (I think that's what they call themselves) can be uploaded to a computer in a matter of nanoseconds.
You can let loose a Paintshop professional who lives inside your computer. He can turn them green, add faces, words and nu merous other things to distort your original image.You can write a document using a similar number of fonts in different sizes.As for vocabulary, heaven help my 20-month-old granddaughter. She already knows how to choose TV channels, call grandma on her parents' mobile phones (another device that deserves kicking into touch) and change the music on the multiplayer at home.
What will she have to confront when she is a Codger herself? It is time for Codgerdom to demand: Bring back the quill!
At least David Cameron should be delighted at the savings that will achieve for the British economy.
Tags: blog, tweet, Gillingham Park, computer, Gun Wharf, Google, Facebook, digital camera, Paintshop, David Cameron
Categories: Moans and groans
I'm always suspicious of anyone in a senior public role called Dave.
The name is used in a pejorative sense about the Prime Minister - "Dave" Cameron - but it does not sit easily on the shoulders of a PM. Then there is Dave Prentis, the trade union leader - but that sounds more appropriate.
So when David Hartnett, permanent secretary to HM Revenue and Customs, is introduced as Dave, somehow his stature is diminished.
Should we trust this Dave? Like many tax officials, he comes over as arrogant and his initial failure to apologise for a catastrophic computer error affecting six million people, was contemptible.
No wonder his political masters got him to change his stance and issue a belated apology. But because it was only made after this pressure, the slice of humble pie was distinctly lukewarm.
Dave should have been savvy enough to realise that apologies are the stuff of politics these days. Everyone does it. So he was out of step and out of order.
The most fatuous advertising strapline is - sorry Moira - is "tax isn't taxing." That's a falsehood for it is a huge headache for millions. We have one of the most complex tax systems in the world, and the claim should be reported to the Advertising Standards Authority.
It's a shame that HM Customs and Excise had to merge with the Revenue. They had a reputation for being slightly more human than income tax collectors. The whole department is now too unwieldy and prone to error.
Dave needs to be taught some social skills if his attitude is to come into line with the friendly tone of his department's advertising. The debacle has brought stress to millions and it is time he recognised it as much more than routine "reconciliation."
Perhaps we would have more respect if he restored the name he presumably was given at birth.
Tags: Prime Minister, David Cameron, HM Revenue and Customs, Advertising Standards Authority
Categories: National Politics | Business
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