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A Tesco job advert offering 'JSA plus expenses' reveals the sinister reality of government work experience schemes.
So now we know. Back in August last year, I wrote a comment piece for the Guardian,
focusing on the increasing noise about people being forced to work in
return for their jobseeker's allowance – an idea whose roots extend well
into Labour's time in government. It focused on two things: so-called
mandatory work activity (MWA), whereby people are forced – via the
threat of their jobseeker's allowance being suspended – to put in 30
hours a week doing work "of benefit to the community"; and other "work
experience" schemes, in which people do up to eight weeks of unpaid
labour, with one proviso: they can refuse to take part or pull out
during the first seven days, but thereafter the work becomes compulsory,
under pain of their benefit being withdrawn.
Yesterday, my colleague Shiv Malik pointed to the numbers of people involved
in the scheme between May and November last year; 24,010 had done MWA,
while 34,200 had participated in the second kind of work experience. The
key revelation, though, was that in the last month for which there were
figures, MWA numbers were outstripping those for non-compulsory(ish)
work experience by 8,100 to 6,600. In other words, MWA seems to be
mushrooming, along with its hardline sanctions regime: the first time
you refuse to take part, you lose your benefit for 13 weeks; the second,
for six months. Subject to the passing of the current welfare reform
bill, rejecting MWA for a third time will mean no benefit for three
years – and, one assumes, destitution.At which point, it's worth
pausing to reflect on what all this actually entails.
Thanks to
referrals by both jobcentres and private-sector Work Programme
providers, it's about people effectively working for nothing, not only
in charities and the public sector, but in huge retail chains. Thanks to
the legal action launched by Cait Reilly,
we all know about Poundland. Asda, Boots, Argos and TK Maxx, and the
Arcadia group (including Topshop and Burton) are also involved. Hats
off, perhaps, to Sainsbury's and Waterstones for announcing that they
have ended their involvement with this kind of work experience, but if
you want an indication that workfare may be turning into an immovable
part of the private-sector economy, consider last night and today's
blizzard of outrage about a Tesco ad
placed on the Jobcentre Plus website. It's for nightshift workers in
East Anglia, who will be paid "JSA plus expenses". In response, Tesco's
Facebook page has been transformed into a glorious example of an online
demo, brimming with anger. "I'll be boycotting your stores with
immediate effect until you stop this exploitation – I will also be
urging all my friends and family and contacts to do the same," goes one
post. "No more Tesco for me until you withdraw from this government
workfare scheme … It is compulsory forced labour," says another.
company are trying to keep a lid on it all, with little success: "You
can delete as much as you like but this will now go viral," offers one
poster.On Twitter, Shiv Malik revealed other adverts for similar roles at Tesco, and Tesco's explanation shifted. As Left Foot Forward reported this morning,
their initial line was that they "are taking part in a government-led
work experience scheme to help young people" which "has already led to
300 permanent jobs". They then put the advert down to "an error made by
Jobcentre Plus" and claimed that it should have been "for work
experience with a guaranteed interview at the end". As far as I can
tell, they still want to employ nightshift workers for nothing.
Whatever the answer, the crucial point is that unpaid work – bad enough when it
applied to supposed "interns", but grim beyond belief when used on the
unemployed – is now being built into what some people call The New
Normal. Given the thousands involved, it clearly represents a boon to
the kind of multinational giants whose profit margins must be creeping
upwards thanks to the plentiful supply of people – and please, all you
free-marketeers, read this bit slowly – effectively paid a pittance to
work for them by the taxpayer. Note also the way that even more sinister
aspects of all this are pointed up by the breakdown of people who've
done work experience, as opposed to MWA: 13% of work experience
"participants" are from ethnic minorities, but when hardened compulsion
is used via MWA, that number rises to 24%.
Last year, a Department for Work and Pensions spokesperson told me the "community benefit"
meant that MWA would be kept out of the private sector – but on the
ground, that doesn't seem to be working, at all. Now the DWP claim only
that they "expect that every placement will offer people the opportunity
to gain fundamental work disciplines, as well as being of benefit to
local communities". Also, if you still think that all this denotes only
short-term arrangements that aren't an offence to public morals and
shouldn't be too onerous for anyone, consider one of the more overlooked
aspects of current welfare-to-work practice: something called the community action programme,
under which people are mandated to work for their benefit for up to 26
weeks. That's six months, to you and me. Such outrages continue to be
rolled out at speed; the horror is only compounded by how little
attention mainstream politics continues to give them.
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This is not a new idea, in fact the Pharaohs of Egypt used the same scheme to build the Pyramids.
I think we have more slaves today than in any other time throughout history.
I have no issues paying (through my taxes) to retrain or educate young people, mothers returning to work or anybody who needs a job, but to make them work for free is just criminal. Sad really.
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tescos makes billions and is exploiting the poorest and most vulnerable to get free labour paid by the government back door welfare to work 30 hours a week for £67.00 fucking disgrace
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yep my 20yr old is doing this right now 36 hours aweek for fuck all, this time its only for four weeks last time it was 26 weeks for no wage .
our son applys for at lest four to five jobs a week and gets nowhere he did well at school and collage
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@dinglbat Its everywhere i fear for mine in coming years as they get older.
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My daughter (aged 19) has been working on minimum wage at Hobbycraft. She only worked 16 hours per week. They have now cut her (and others in the same situation) hours to 10 p/w.
Yet the government still considers that as working! WTF is going on?
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@allyssa our son is doing work exp and classed as working while in reseat of benofits so there for he is employed ,thats how they re the goverment fiddle the figers
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@allyssa The next step with NHS reforms is to say employers provide top up health insurance for full time employees people say it wont happen but the Tories are obsessed with the USAs health system and British employers will just do what walmart do only employ people below management level as part time hours avoiding the responsibility its coming especially if they get reelected have you noticed all the prime-time tv ads for health care insurance unemployment insurance scary.
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@dinglbat i went for an interview for the new tesco in southbank before xmas but got turned down. then got a call out the blue to do nights on grocery 10-7, start trainin next month (store doesn't open til april) i hope they don't think i'm workin for JSA cos you know if they do i'll have half the fuckin shop in my shed lmao!
p.s apparantly theres an ongoin arguement that they're exploitin the area by paying the lads at teesport depot ALOT less than elsewhere in the country because they despera More..
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Isn't a top-down run economy grand? I would continue looking to your politicians for answers, they will undoubtedly fix everything. /sarc
When you demand your government regulate the economy it will (every time) result in the regulations helping big corporations and screwing the little guy, it's a historic fact. If the market was left to operate and no one got special favors than and only than can the small guy compete with the big boys. Corporations getting taxpayer help is in no way free mark More..
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This is a disgusting policy and very far from Conservatism.
Not only is it unfair to the unemployed (youngsters mainly). This is deliberate interference in the market that favours the giant multinational companies at the expense of small businesses.
How can I, as a person running a small food retail business, hope to compete with these giant food retailers who are able to employ staff for nothing?
Slavery was supposed to be abolished!
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Tescos cant wait to get its fingers into the new NHS reforms imagine the amount of people it can refuse treatment to using the personal data it holds on millions of people through it loyalty card schemes.We have never had one too much information about your lifestyle and habits right there.
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sorry but if you are forced to work then you should be paid minimum wage.
they flood the country with migrant workers, who work for less wages.
then crash the financial system and force the unemployed to become slaves so they can try keep them from loosing there house and feeding the family.
this is how bad it is ...my wife's is reg. disabled with asthma, bad chest,heart attack last year, if she was a pet we would off popped her a couple years ago. :O)
we survived on £159 pounds a week, becaus More..
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I urge anyone who is being hassled by the jobcentre to go to a provider to read this site THOROUGHLY .
You don't have to sign their data protection forms, it is optional and they cannot sanction you for it. Even if you have already signed data approval forms you can retract it on the grounds you were made to sign under duress (i.e threat of benefit sanctions).
And if you don't sign the data forms it makes it very diff More..
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I worked as a cost consultant for Tesco Property for a year. They do not fuck about when it comes to paying out. If they give you money it's because to not do so would in some way be detrimental to them. No morals - must maximise shareholder returns at all costs (except theirs). There are constant management re-shuffles, and 3 month rolling contracts to ensure people are ruthless with suppliers - which results in withholding of payments to small suppliers, which then leads to their eventual bank More..
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The Co op has joined the scheme. They told me off the other day for drinking a take away coffee so I told them of, loudly, in front of a long queue for subscribing to slavery.
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@neutrino The Co OP is the hardest negotiator with the british milk producers they demand a lower price than even Teascos per litre
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they need that in the us.
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For example, since 120 is the maximum number of cardinals allowed to vote in a conclave, No. 121 in age, U.S. Cardinal Edward M. Egan of New York, would be squeezed out of the proceedings along with the 61 other cardinals younger than he is. With the current age restrictions, 117 cardinals are under 80 and eligible to vote.
When the conclave begins April 18, many over-80 cardinals will be organizing and leading prayers either in Rome or in their home dioceses, calling on the Holy Spirit to aid the cardinal-electors in their task of choosing the next pontiff.
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Here's how the Newegg email address was spoofed on the Creative forum over the weekend: Creative has a security protocol in place where you have to verify your email address before you can post. However, after you publish a post you can go back and change your address to anything you like. You won't be able to verify the spoofed address and therefore won't be able to post anything new—but anything you already posted will now display the spoofed address. Maybe you can get Daniel_K to fix your forum boards, Creative. (Thanks to Jawaad!)
Newegg Doesn't Deliver PS3 With Spiderman 3, Blames Sony
Okay, everyone together in Moe Szyslak's voice: "Whaaaaa?" We're just as confused as you are. Newegg, which has one of the most stellar reputations of any retailer, online or b&m, apparently sent a customer a regular PS3 box instead of one with a Blu-ray copy of "Spiderman 3." Here's where it gets all evil alternate universe: when the customer called to complain, the CSR told him it wasn't Newegg's problem and for him to talk to Sony.
Update-3/7/08: Newegg contacted the OP and resolved the issue—see the OP's comment below.
Newegg Honors Rebate For Out-Of-Business Company
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CompUSA Unaware of So-Called 'Internet'
Rick CC'd us on a letter he wrote CompUSA after trying to get them to price match Linksys NSLU2 network storage drive. He could get the drive at Newegg for $84, versus CompUSA's $100, but kinda wanted it that day instead of waiting for shipping. The clerk said they only price-match competitors in the area. As in, the geographic space surrounding the physical store.
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This is Emily, currently living as a New Zealander in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is popping in with us today to share a little about her journey from New Zealand to Denmark and what it has been like to move to another country as a single girl, which I think is something that so many would be intimidated by. Emily is a great friend who is a blast to hang out with because of her larger-than-life personality and contagious laugh. One minute she is at the door laughing about the fact that all the Danes were looking at her like she was crazy for wearing shorts on a freezing day (it does get hot riding a bike, even in the snow!) and the next she is this drop dead gorgeous red head who is sweet, courageous, smart, and super inspiring.
Can you tell us a little about yourself? Where are you from?
Well I'm Emily, I'm 26 years old and I'm from that little island at the bottom of the world called New Zealand. This is my third time living in Copenhagen and I guess I keep coming back because of the wonderful friends I have, the great size of the city and the opportunities it offers to travel in Europe so easily.
What inspired you to first want to leave your own country?
I first left New Zealand when was 19. I just had this insatiable desire to explore new countries and cultures and see what else this world had to offer. It was a restlessness inside of me that wouldn't subside until I got on that first flight to leave. I think it's a restlessness and a curiosity that most New Zealanders have as we are so isolated. I often describe it feeling like the rest of the world is having a party and you were left off the invite list.
What was your first job in Copenhagen?
My first job in Copenhagen was in a little town just outside the city called Hillerød where I worked as an au pair for three great children and a mischievous dog. I will never forget sitting down for my first meal with them and hearing Danish, Swedish and English spoken at the same time – it opened my eyes to how international this world really is.
Did you find it hard to cope with the differences between your own country and Denmark?
Initially I didn't find it hard at all as loved how different it was and embraced it. But after a while I did find it hard to get used to the reservedness of the Danes and their private ways of life. I missed the openness and friendliness of New Zealanders and the drive they have to build a connection with people very fast. Making friends here is a slow process and privacy about you and your life is something that Danes value highly.
How did you end up back in Denmark and what are you currently up to?
There must be something in the water here because I just keep coming back. After leaving Denmark in February 2012, I went home. Sadly my city had been destroyed in an earthquake the previous year so job opportunities were not plentiful. I ended up getting a job as a journalist in Sydney, but after experiencing the big city, rat-race lifestyle there I longed for Copenhagen and my friends. So I literally just quit my job, booked a flight and applied for 52 jobs in the hopes that one worked out.
I eventually found one as a social media editor for a marketing company called Lost Boy International. Here I work with international companies, creating their social media content and basically trying to establish them as 'social- media rockstars'.
I'm also writing a monthly column for the English speaking newspaper, The Copenhagen Post, on Danish culture.
Is it a struggle to be a single girl so far from home? Are there advantages and disadvantages?
I think it's an advantage to have a complete sense of independence to focus on whatever you want to without having anyone else to consider. It's meant I can make decisions about my career that have put me in a really strong position and allowed me to travel a lot and meet a lot of various people. The downside is that it can be lonely sometimes especially having your family so far away and relationships can be more difficult here as there is the extra consideration of thinking if this works out then which country will we live in.
What it is like to live abroad? Has it taught you anything?
Living abroad will change your perpective on life forever. Already I've started thinking how New Zealand could improve their social welfare system to be more like Denmark's or how I could encourage more Danes to be a little more open to strangers.
I don't think it's for everyone though. I'm very independent, always have been, and I have trained myself to have a resilience that gets me through even the toughest times. You sometimes feel like you're straddling two worlds as well and not commiting to either one of them. So if you can live with the tension then I think you're be great at living abroad.
I honestly couldn't imagine living anywhere else and I love that everyday I wake up and face something new and challenging.
Thank you so, so much, Emily for your openness and honesty! If anyone has a question for Emily, please feel free to leave a comment!
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Maybe Investors Just Want an Excuse to Sell
Maybe they just want an excuse to sell.
The red ink in U.S. stocks so far today is surprising given the general tenor of the markets overseas, where everybody seems to have yen fever. The weakness in U.S. stocks isn't all that surprising, however, given the ramifications of Friday's jobs report, and the start of yet another earnings season that is universally expected to be weak.
Stocks have certainly weathered worse since the latest growth spurt began in mid-November, the fiscal cliff, the sequester, Cyprus, a flat fourth-quarter GDP report, and a few weak quarters of profit growth. All the Dow, S&P 500 and the other majors have done in that time is hit a series of record highs.
The Dow is down 43 points (0.3%) this afternoon; the S&P 500 is down just 1 point, and the Nasdaq Comp is down 3 points. Given the market's seesaw nature lately, don't be surprised if the markets is in the green by the closing bell. The S&P 500 is in the middle of an odd run: It's alternated up and down days for the past 12 sessions, the longest such streak of its kind in the index's history.
If that streak gets broken, though, it may be because investors just want an excuse to sell, Dow Jones' Tomi Kilgore said on the Markets Hub this morning. The expectations for Alcoa aren't high — Street consensus is just 8 cents a share, down all the way from 27 cents a year ago — but even if Alcoa hurdles that low bar, it may have to do more than just inch over it to satisfy the market.
"They (Alcoa) have to beat, they have to say things are getting better, it has to be a really nice report for the market to really feel good about it," Tomi said.
"I think they want it to be bad," he said of traders, "because they're looking for excuses to take profits here."
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Seshadri Bharathan, MD & CEO, KSEMA Fincon Ltd. in an interview with ET Now talks about Edelweiss.
Where does Edelweiss stack up on the list?
Definitely with the capital market sentiments improving in past 6 months time, we have seen most of these capital market companies also doing well. Edelweiss had posted very strong set of numbers in Q4 52% jump in the profit and also the top line they saw was around 262 Crores. Yes, the company is doing well and stock has reacted to the stock split bonus news.


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What advice can someone give me on how I get back into the work force as an x-ray tech. left to raise my daughter?
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Preech it brother, Preech. It seems like nobody gives a darn anymore. It pays to do research on these things before you go into them. I'm not even going to get into my situation because its another lost cause with a very dismal ending. All of the acrediting agencies and schools talk about ethics. Huh, if any of these people had ethics they wouldn't let all of these schools pump out billions of graduates each year. I am so sick and tired of hearing that their are "to many applicants for the same job". Someone really oughta do something about this. Good luck with our new president because I really doubt he gives a rats you know what.
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Downton Abbey Executive Producer Gareth Neame tells Entertainment Weekly that PBS's decision to delay the season opener of Masterpiece Classic hit from September, when it airs in England, to January is "unrealistic" — yet "sensible and pragmatic." (Here's the interview, with this spoiler alert warning: If you haven't yet watched the Season 3 finale that aired Sunday, back away now because he talks about it in detail.)
Here's what Neame specifically said about PBS's scheduling decision, which is still being debated at headquarters in Crystal City:
"[T]the idea that in this day and age people have to wait four months before watching a show that has aired in another part of the world is clearly unrealistic. I think this is one of the first really big test cases that just shows this doesn't work.
"Now all of that said, this is not a complaint about PBS and their programming, because they have very, very tough competition and by airing in January, as you may have observed from the ratings . . . in terms of just regular Sunday night viewing, I think the only network show that beats us is The Good Wife.
"Now that means PBS is massively punching above its weight to beat all the networks and if you were to go in September like it does in England, then you probably would have much stiffer competition against the networks. So I think they're being sensible and pragmatic in their programming."


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JEH: A Life of J.R.D. Tata (Book review)
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worst most boring biography I've ever read. First of all, I prefer autobiographies to biographies because it gives you a glimpse of a great person. The only reason I had this in my possession, is because AKL gave it to me as a gift before I left for the US. At that time I was reading Richard Branson's, Losing My Virginity (this is a wonderful autobiography) and AKL wanted me to read about Indian businessmen and visionaries.
I have a couple of observations to make. You know how, once you have been through the system, and are reasonably ingrained in the system, you can can see how connections are made and how the underlying politics of the system work. Money pretty much governs and influences the majority of the decisions, (assuming basic criteria are met) in both industry and academia. Not to mention connections. I say that with a certain amount of conviction, because I have had the privilege of experiencing it first-hand.
So, to put it crudely, that's what this is all about. Rich guy. Born in affluent family. Parents name him Jehangir or 'Conqueror of the World'. Reasonably well-educated. Experiences various positions in fathers empire. Father has a stroke. The boy steps us and becomes THE MAN a.k.a. J.R.D. TATA. And then smartly leverages existing steel empire, political connections and vision to create an empire (basically his dad left him with 14 enterprises and he upped the ante to 95 enterprises under the Tata Group conglomerate). In comparison, Richard Branson, or Steve Jobs, started from scratch and made it equally big if not bigger.
Secondly, there is one cool thing that I realize. What you do is an outcome of your experiences. Let me explain what I mean. So, while JRD is a kid, the family spends their holidays on the coast of France, in a place called Hardelot. They have a villa there which they call 'La Mascotte' and guess who's their neighbor ? None other than Louis Blériot himself. Now, here is where it gets super interesting. Louis Blériot is a French aviator and inventor who was the first the person to go across the English Channel in an aircraft and successfully build a monoplane (one set of wings compared to a biplane). Now, assume, you are fifteen years old, back in 1919, and lived next to a villa, in who's beach hangar, planes landed and took off. This is 1919, remember. Barely after the First World War. Where flying was the luxury of a few. (It's like living next door to Steve Jobs in 1970's in the Silicon Valley. And playing with Macintosh's when you were 15.) And then you come to India (where people have just heard of planes and seen them in pictures), as the big boss of the largest steel conglomerate. Why should it surprise me that you'd be the first ever person to be issued a flying license in India, first ever to own a plane in pre-Independent India and then start India's first airline (Air India).
I'm not trying to down play the great man's achievement. Hey, I would've been the happiest guy in the world if my dad was a billionaire. I just feel that it's unfair to compare with these people. Look at the head-start he's got. Plus he's smart and surrounded by smart people. How in the world would you compete with a guy like him. So, if I dream of becoming the next Tata or Birla, then I know that it's just realistically not possible. Not at least in one generation. There's only one name that comes to mind when I think of this – Dhirubhai Ambani. I guess, his autobiography is the next I should read.
The most inspiring part in this book was his solo flight in a single engined Puss Moth from Karachi to Bombay in 1932. This is pretty much India's first flight. That is the single most kick ass thing I've heard of.
Interesting and a very nice read, but, I would have still loved to read his autobiography. The biography just seems like one big schmooze-orgy to JRD Tata. Not a single mention of his failures or mistakes.
It's like eating rice without salt. Bland.
"I wish, I were big enough, like Einstein, to do what he did on one occasion. A hundred-dollar-a-plate dinner was organised for him to speak, and leaders of America in all fields, particularly in the field of science, were invited to hear the great man. When his turn came, he rose and said:'I've nothing to say,' and sat down. You can imagine the consternation, quite apart from the wasted cost of the dinner! Realising the frightful effect his remarks had on the audience, Einstein got up again and said: 'When I've something to say, I'll let you know." ~ JRD Tata
P.S. The next post is going to be a guest post by a very good friend of mine, Rishi Bhatnagar. He's a med student at Stanford and one of the fastest runners I know. Stay tuned!
P.S.S. MC, I think you'll like JRD. He seems to have your passion for flying. Also, you should listen to this podcast from NPR on Lincoln Beachey (another superstar pilot you'd never have heard of)


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This .900 Silver pocket watch is inscribed on the rear case with Japanese characters which translate as "Army" or "The Army".
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Lovely "bamboo" coloured face and "oriental" numerals.
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The movement is definitely Swiss but is not marked. I have asked an Horologist to try and identify the maker. When I have this information I shall update the detail.
S.A.B Bangkok were Rolex affiliates in Siam (pre-Thailand) and there was quite a large Japanese community in Siam with solid trading links.
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A family mourns the loss of their 15-year-old son, after an early morning hunting accident in Henry County.
"He's sick; he's bad. He says he'll never hunt again at this time." That's what Henry County Sheriff Will Maddox said of 18-year-old Michael Newman, who fatally shot his friend and hunting partner Joey Dresher.
The two had split up over an area of about a square mile in a wooded area north of Shorterville. Their trip came to an end when a round from Newman's bolt action high powered rifle struck Dresher in the upper chest.
"At the time he shot, he could not see the victim," said Maddox. "He was shooting at the deer and he heard the victim holler; that's when he started looking for him."
That was the story from Newman in the morning. But later that afternoon in the Sheriff's Office, the emotional teenager told investigators there was no deer.
Dresher was walking through thick brush and Newman fired on movement; at the last second realizing he hit his friend.
"It was a case of a victim being mistaken for game," Maddox said. "He thought that Joey was a deer and he fired at him, hit him in the chest and killed him."
Initially, investigators thought the distance between the two was over 100 yards, but that distance was considerably shortened after Newman changed the story.
Hunters orange could have made a difference, but Dresher's hat was covered by his camouflage hood.
"This one this morning, if they had communications and if he'd a stayed in his tree stand and not walked in front of the other hunter, he might still be here today," Maddox concluded.
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Carriage Clock
This clock is very heavy, evidently a fairly solid piece of metal. Just underneath the 6, on the face, the word 'Westwood' is printed.
I removed the backplate and on the mechanism the words 'Westwood Chadwick' and 'made in Germany' are printed. Also, I think it says 10 jewels. I can make out the 0 but not the first digit.
It's a key wound clock and it works but it's a little fast. I bought it at an antique shop for $40 and I'm curious if it's worth that or if I paid too much.
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White House says it will offer a response to Texas secession petition, but not when or what it will say
For those wondering, the Texas-secession petition on the White House website now sits at 66,070 signatures (and counting), well more than the 25,000 needed to elicit a response from the White House. And from the sound of it, yes, there will be a response out of D.C. But when, we cannot say.
Speaking on background this morning, a White House official says that "every petition that crosses the threshold receives a response." But the person with whom we spoke this morning can't say when that'll be; the phrase "up in the air" was used more than once. Says the official, "We get to all of them, but it depends on how many other petitions are out there."
And, yes, as many have pointed out, the We the People website does offer a few outs should the administration choose to let this pass without comment. In its terms of participation, the White House says it may "decline to address" certain issues that are "within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government." And it could always up the signature threshold at any time.
And, as ABC News points out, "The White House has refused to comment on a requests for an investigation into allegations that Rep. Chris Dodd took bribes, clemency for Native American activist Leonard Peltier and the release of accused WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning."
But for now, we've been told, a response is likely. Not definite, just likely. As for what it'll say …
Says the official this morning, "The White House doesn't get into the substance of the responses before they're issued."
Governor Rick Perry's office told The News late yesterday that he's against all this splittin'-off talk, as he "believes in the greatness of our Union and nothing should be done to change it."
In the meantime some recommended reading, Alan Erwin's 1979 novel The Power Exchange, which sounds like it was written tomorrow:
A 1980s political thriller exploring what could happen if, in the wake of a federal energy crisis, Texas exercised its right to split into five states and ultimately opted to temporarily secede from the union. Lieutenant Governor Margaret Coursey, later President of the Second Republic of Texas, attempts to guide her newborn nation to a peaceful reunification with the United States, but assassinations, international politics, and betrayal from within may bring the new Republic down before she can succeed.
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The Vatican in Rome announced Rev. Joseph Kopacz will replace long-time Bishop Joseph Latino. Latino submitted his resignation.
Latino submitted his letter of resignation on Oct. 21, having reached the age limit of 75 for bishops in the Catholic Church.
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She's at it again! Diane Abbott flaps her gums and spews weapons grade bollocks. According to the headline she reckons that broken families, obesity and alcoholism are partly down to people like…erm…herself.
Scratches head. That can't be right, can it?
Oh, wait, this is what she said…
Ms Abbott, the shadow public health minister, urged the left to recognise that problems such as obesity and alcoholism, often stem from such breakdown.
Or can be the cause of them perhaps? But let's not let that little worm of a fact get in the way of HMS Titanic Diane as her hulk chugs magisterially into yet another iceberg of leftist folly. Let's not forget stuff like this. The State runs its own lucarative sideline in busting up families because Nanny knows best and not always for the better.
Feminists should be able to talk about these issues and they should not be confined to the pages of women's magazines, she argued.
That's all we need, more vapid pedlars of leftist, man-hating, groupthink twaddle in the mainstream. Thanks, Diane.
She told The Guardian newspaper: "As a feminist, perhaps we have been ambivalent about families.
Actually, your party has done it's level best to make sure that the State interferes in family life at the most basic level, usurping the authority of parents. What are you, Hatty and your legion of feministas going to say about that?
"In the 1980s, we used to say: 'A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.'
That's because you were, and still are, deeply stupid.
"The more academic version was: 'The family is the site of women's oppression.' So those of us who came of age at the height of feminism had very mixed views about the family, since it seemed to be defined as a heterosexual thing with a certificate, children and mum at home."
I come from a long line of working class women. They didn't have the luxury of staying home and playing at happy families. They had to get off their arses and work hard as well as bring up the kids and run the home. They didn't moan about oppression, they just got on with it. As a result they worked themselves out of poverty to the point where their descendants enjoy all the trappings of a middle class existence. But it didn't stop there, Diane. We descendents still work hard because we want to keep what we've worked so hard for. We work to counter the tax everything and then tax it again spite your Labour rabble heaped upon us in the name of "fairness". We don't down tools and fuck off to some arty farty, women's supplement to produce reams of snide shite about the sisters who refused to abandon their responsibilities.
But "some kind of stable family structure" was vital and was what most people want around them, she said, adding: "I do not think we should abandon that terrain to the right."
But isn't that exactly what you did? For bloody generations? Now all of a sudden the Right, when it comes to preserving the structure of the family, is no longer wrong because it suits your nu-puritan authoritarian agenda? You double-dyed, hypocritical sack of offal!
Ms Abbott also called for local authorities to be given greater powers to stop fried chicken shops and other fast food outlets from proliferating, and to stop alcohol from being sold cheaply, especially near schools.
Yes, because high street names like KFC and Micky D's are destroyers of families everywhere. All you have to do is look through their propaganda covered windows and see families enjoying ripping themselves apart eating poison that the staff are forcing down their throats because no one in their right minds would do it by choice. After all, the kids should be eating healthy food so that they can remain thin and whip-like just like you, Diane.
As an aside, anyone advocating more power to government, local or otherwise, should be stewed for eternity in a vat of their own statist venom.
She claimed young people were not only eating fast food on a regular basis but that their lives were also being "saturated with porn and sex" to a much greater degree than children's lives were two decades ago.
Wow, Diane's on a roll! But where is the evidence for this porn "saturation"? We only get her big, fat lefty opinion. However, she has an answer to the problem. Oh, yes indeedy.
She called for tighter controls on children's access to the internet to help tackle this.
Which, reading between the lines, means tighter access to the internet for everyone because…think of the cheeeeeldren! I think that sorely abused guilt horse is ready for the knackers yard because it's plumb worn out.
Parents also had their own part to play, she argued, accusing some of being guilty of "McParenting," compensating for a lack of parental responsibility by buying consumer goods for their children.
Because let's NOT support the industries and workers who make such trinkets that people actually want? Because buying presents for our kids is evil and the worst kind of parental abuse and must be stamped out? What a load of McBollocks.
Instead of reading to their children or taking them to a library, such parents might be dressing their children in branded clothing and mistakenly believing they were fulfilling their parental duties in so, she said.
You could begin with removing the VAT from books and stop closing libraries. You could also stop encouraging the never have nor never will have a job underclass to produce kids they have no intention of working to keep.
At what point of buying children clothes they like does parental abuse/neglect begin? Or should everyone refrain from buying nice stuff for their kids because they don't vote Labour Diane abused her own brat with buying him nice stuff and sending him to a private school and is now laying a lefty guilt trip on us by way of redemption? What frigging planet does this moron inhabit?
She starts off blaming the family busting femininist agenda yet somehow ends up blaming breakups on parents being nice to their kids. As a bonus she gets in wedges of the lefty ban everything we disapprove of agenda between the cracks. This shambolic piece of tosh is something we should pay attention to?
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Dehra Dun: Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi today showered praise on the Indian Navy for its spirit of valour and sacrifice especially during the wars with China and Pakistan.
"The history of Indian Navy is one of valour, sacrifice, and nationalism. During the two World Wars, and particularly in our conflicts with Pakistan and China, we have seen the true spirit of the illustrious tradition of the Indian Navy. I salute them and bow my head and pay my deepest regards to their valiant services," Qureshi said, inaugurating the three-day International Cartographic Congress here.


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Preppy with a dash of Islamaphobe: Abercrombie & Fitch 'wrong' for firing hijab-wearing girl
A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that retailer Abercrombie and Fitch was wrong to fire a Muslim store employee for wearing a hijab.
The firm had fired Hani Khan from its Hollister store in San Mateo in 2010. At the time, Abercrombie claimed that the outfit violated the policy governing the look of its employees, the Associated Press reported.
The firm had argued that a consistent look across all stores was a crucial part of its marketing strategy. In her ruling, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said that the firm had failed to show that Ms. Khan's had affected the company's sales.
The First Amendment of the US Constitution makes religious freedom a guaranteed right of every person residing in the United States. However, since 9/11, Muslim women wearing hijabs have been singled out in public spaces and workplaces on religious grounds. Most recently after the Boston marathon bombings, a Palestinian woman wearing a hijab was assaulted and abused in public.
Unlike the French government which has banned the wearing of hijab in public schools, the American government has protected the rights of Muslim women to be faithful to their religious beliefs. In his famous speech in Cairo in 2009, President Obama memorably said:
Freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state of our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it.
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Prompted by the October deaths of two BART workers in Walnut Creek and new "urgent" recommendations by federal investigators, the head of the Federal Transit Administration pledged Thursday to issue new rail worker safety guidelines across the country by the end of the year.
The move came hours after the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board issued two "urgent" safety recommendations to beef up worker safety requirements and eliminate track access policies that place accountability for safety solely on ground workers, as BART's now-defunct "simple approval" policy once did.
"The FTA shares the (NTSB's) sense of urgency when it comes to protecting the safety of transit workers and passengers at BART and around the country," Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff said Thursday in a statement. "We are currently evaluating the NTSB's recommendations. Before the end of this year, we will issue new safety-related guidelines to all rail transit agencies, including BART."
A BART employee and contractor were inspecting track between the Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill stations on Oct. 19 -- during the latest strike -- when they were hit and killed by a train operated by a manager receiving driver training. An autopsy report revealed last week that the two men failed to follow BART safety rules then in place that required one person to act as a lookout while working on the tracks.
The train hit both men from behind, according to the coroner's report.
Since the workers' deaths, BART eliminated the controversial "simple approval" policy and now "single-tracks" trains around work areas at slow speeds. BART, which spent years fighting to keep simple approval despite state regulators' concerns, seeks a permanent resolution to trackway access issues.
In her sweeping recommendation Wednesday, NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman urged the FTA to require extra layers of protection for wayside workers, such as improved technology monitoring train locations, wearable electronic alert devices and "shunts," a safety device attached to tracks that signals oncoming trains to stop.
She also recommended the elimination of any work for which workers must gain access to the tracks and take all responsibility for avoiding oncoming trains.
"Having redundant protection measures in place for track workers is not only a best practice but common sense," Hersman wrote. "A positive safety culture is not a solo act -- everyone needs to look out for each other."
A BART spokeswoman Thursday said officials were reviewing the recommendations but offered no comment.
Service Employees International Union Local 1021, which represents rail workers for BART, released a statement late Thursday praising the recommendations
"We welcome the NTSB's move to ensure that BART and similar transit agencies adopt rules that would ensure the safety of the hard-working men and women who transport hundreds of thousands of riders each day," said Saul Almanza, a 17-year BART employee who trains workers on trackway safety procedures and protocols, in the statement. "Workers at BART have repeatedly raised concerns about the procedure known as 'simple approval' and how it contributed to the tragic and unnecessary deaths of four trackway personnel."
The NTSB is still investigating the fatal Oct. 19 accident, and no probable cause has been determined. But Hersman's letter provided some new details about the accident.
Hersman wrote that on Oct. 18, the day before the accident, a "minor defect" was noted on one of the two tracks between Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill stations, and that two employees planned to take measurements there.
Hersman explained in her letter that BART's automatic train control system "is designed to maintain train separation but does not provide redundant protection."
At time of accident, two trains were operating on the entire system, both for maintenance and training purposes. Six workers were on the train that hit the men -- an operator/trainer/supervisor, two student train operators and three equipment maintenance employees, she wrote.
"(The BART accident) has re-energized concerns about the need for improved roadway worker protection in the rail transit industry," she wrote.
Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni.


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