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Gervinho finally scores

This Hazard boy ehnnnn. . .at least, we can miss Drogba less now as a tormentor of Assnal.

As far as am concerned, floods in Lagos have to do more with the people than any other government. The orientation of a lot of (il)literates in the city is terribly skewed to not care for the(ir) (immediate) environment or the consequences of their actions. These citizens have made dirty habits look normal that if you worry yourself lloking for the next dustbin to dispose off your nylon, you're suspected to be insane.

"A n yi lara ni idoti
Iwo obun yi o o bojumu. . .
Eko le wa, ibi o s'abule yin
Ilu le wa, ibi o se oko faaaada re o"

- Lagbaja (Dis No Be Your Village)

kariolality: so,what's the correct English o

Born is an adjective, not a verb. It's proper to say "give/gave birth to". iGuess what the guy wanted to use was the past participle of the word 'bear' - borne. "Child bearing"

'Born' means "existing as a result of birth".

mike404: How old is this bros

While I was about to challenge all those 'age and marriage' issue, I confirmed that he's not married -

http://odili.net/news/source/2012/jun/23/317.html



His position in that interview qualifies him as a 'single dad'.

@ the experienced CFA candidates or charterholders, dunno if this may ineterest you -

http://www.300hours.com/be-a-contributor.html

Tokotaya: Plus, he confessed that the longest he has stayed in any company was with MEC Global.

If we consider the month he indicated his intention to resign and when he finally left, he really did stay long

The newsletter I got yesterday had these -

"To avoid a knock at the door from some lawyers, I’ll keep the manager’s name anonymous"


"Mr Allen claimed he was forced to take time off work due to stress after being overloaded with work by the manager and he claimed the manager made him feel like a complete outsider on his return.
We’ve all been overloaded with work at some stage or other so this is initial claim isn’t that exciting."


And then this one you'd lol at if you read the letter -

"It’s probably advisable to make sure you knock on the door of the meeting room on the 3rd floor at MEC before entering it…"

"I advised him some time ago to write Bank A but his letter was quite damaging, listing names and vivid events and I told him there’s no way they would respond."

I don't think you're to blame here. Maybe before he wrote the letter, you could have given him a rough idea of what he should (not) write - that is if you didn't already but you've done your best as a friend here.

yamakuza: maybe they heard car faults are now diagnosed with the aid of computers, so they/you think MS Word is all they'll need.

bottomline: i dont think its ur institution they are looking for, unless ...

That was the thought that came to my mind. It's funny how when I read all those great (read inspirational) stories, the individuals are first laughed at or mocked a la OP

Anyway, you still need to know their needs and if it differs from @yamakuza's, it could still be an area you'd considering exploiting and perhaps, advertise to them - they'll serve as your first 'patrons' for a test course.

Again the dude is getting all the media attention but the oga's name has been protected on some sites - hehehehe. Enjoy the fame for your amazing commitment to MEC Global!


Some are protecting Mr. G 'cos they consider the letter more of a rant than an objective one.

Well, while reading more about this, The Sun has been accused of 'tablogging' even when we know they do tabloids but really, is't the public's business? This draws one's attention to the use of social media by employess too - especially in Nigeria, one won't be surprised if an angry ex-worker starts posting stuff on Twitter/FB.

As much as we have irresponsible journalist who post stuff then crosscheck later on instead of the reverse, we have a lot of quack journalists (cum employees). Just remember that whatever you write could be used against you in the law court.

The oga's career still has the benefit of the doubt for they remain UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS but for Keiran who keeps a diary about his company (like he's the secretary), well, ermmmm

Even when attending an interview for a new job, best practices eschew speaking ill of your last employer. This guy's action(s) may serve as a PRACTICAL case study for the theory.

"It feels quite strange to be writing my leaving speech after 2 1/2 yrs. of loyal service to the company. It’s the LONGEST I have spent at a company and I owe MEC a lot for my training and development."

What a track record. With all the allegations by Keiran in that letter, they still remain UNOFFICIAL and appear a self-serving performance evaluation report - you simply cannot be a judge in your own case inasmuch as you'd like to.

Getting online even makes such person a potential variable of business risk.

Funny country - when something is for their safety, they wave it away as "Wo, man go still die one day". If they survive an incident that had to do with their negligence, they say "Ehn! Thank God o" then when the incident results in a casualty, it's either "eeyah, and he was so so and so" or they start raining curses.


The fact that the seat belt itself is good for adults doesn't mean it's an absolute measure against accident but a 'safe net'.

@naptu2 that's one thing about Nigeria - we usually don't sustain sensitisation programmes. Well, urrghhh!

Don't get me wrong. I completely agree with your views.

All I'm saying is some are completely oblivious of the #SafetyResponsibility. Such people need a kick in the bottom called the law.

You even have mothers carrying a baby less than one year on her back and her other child with the bike guy on an okada. The worrying trend for me is that on more than 3 occasions, I've seen (wo)men with expensive cars placing the kid on their lap while driving - I mean, one gives them the assumption of literacy/education, how much more for the average okada man or (school) bus driver or a youth

Ok.
Yeah true but common sense ain't common after all and some adults driving children are not always their parents.

Freiburger: What do you mean with not required? So kids does not deserve any form of security just because they can't take decisions on their own. The government should do something about this.

As ridiculous as his statement may have read, it's quite true. A lawyer I asked was not aware of any law regarding them hence, the reason I asked @naptu2 for that article for FRSC quoted some laws there. Perhaps, a lawyer can disprove that.

Personally, I have seen on Nigerian roads, parents driving vehicles with their kids on their laps; a mother sitting on the passenger seat with a child on her lap; a child of about five years left ‘unguarded’ playing in the passenger’s (front) seat – unknowingly, whilst these adults think they are showing the children love, their children would love them more if they knew more about child safety (and pass it on to their own children later on).


Generally, a child can sit in the front seat using the adult seat belt from the age of 12. Prior to that age, if a child is about seven to eight or is of a certain weight or height, s/he can use a booster seat on the front seat. However, the safest approach is to have a child sit at the rear (back seat) till the age of 12 – this is because an exploding airbag can “deliver a massive blow to the young child’s head, causing instantaneously severe fatal to human brain trauma” (Bloch, 1998).

A research conducted by the Journal of the American Medical Association found that “among children under the age of 10, fatalities were 34 per cent higher than expected in frontal crashes. The deaths of three infants and 11 children were attributed to air bags during the study”. Safe Kids, a UK child-safety website, gives the following explanations: “Children of that age (seven) and even older have not fully developed and cannot withstand the force with which the airbag is released. This is because their back, neck and stomach muscles are weaker than that of an adult. A child’s head is also out of proportion to the rest of their body which makes it harder for them to keep an upright position during collisions, resulting in their body being propelled further forward than an adult and thus increasing the impact as they hit the airbag.”

Essentially, when an airbag explodes, “the great forces produced by an inflating air bag can injure or even kill a child”. Furthermore, researchers have estimated that by putting a child in the back seat instead of the front seat, the chances of injury and death are reduced by more than 30 per cent.

Well, these are for seats with airbag. As a kid, our car did not have any airbag and the reality is that in Nigeria, we still have many cars like that (both old and dumped). I remember how we were always cautioned whenever we turned on the hyperactive button or how my parents used to warn other road users if, for example, a child was peeping out of the window or ‘unguarded’. Airbag or no airbag, I was being protected from fatal accidents. A scene from a movie depicting how one could easily be flunged out of the windscreen when hit at the rear readily comes to mind. For the scenarios provided above, the steering wheel would easily become the dangerous tool in injuring the child who’s between the driver and the wheel thus, clogging the wheel of progress of such child. For the second, the individual ‘lapping’ the child would simply become a basketballer throwing the child like a ball outside the windscreen and just like the second, the last kid left ‘unguarded’ may find himself or herself performing a deadly ‘Shina Rambo’ stunt – these are why they are termed accidents. They were never planned for. Just as risks cannot be totally eliminated, they can be reduced via our safety consciousness.

It’s interesting to note that Section 3 (6) of the Lagos State Traffic law, for example, states that “where a rider is convicted for riding or driving on restricted routes … carrying a pregnant woman, a child below the age of 12 years or an adult with a baby or heavy/large load placed on the head or acts which obstruct normal sitting on the motorcycle, the passenger shall also be liable to the same penalty”. It is the responsibility of adults to protect children. The school bus drivers too should take note as it is usually the case that children are jam-packed in school buses.

http://www.punchng.com/opinion/letters/safety-of-the-nigerian-child-in-vehicles/

@naptu2 Which reporter carried the report "Bad news for delinquent motorists ... As FRSC vows to enforce child car seat"?

I can only see it on NBF online. Can I please get which newspaper featured it and the link?

In spite of sustained campaigns by the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) to promote safety on the Nigerian highways, LEADERSHIP SUNDAY, findings reveal that most road users still throw every caution to the winds while driving. Such people find it very difficult to adhere to the rules of child road safety. Kehinde Ajobiewe and Chibunma Ukwu write

It is common to see a child in the front passenger seat of a car without a seat belt on. Meanwhile the driver of the vehicle which could be either of the parents or the family driver is strapped with his seat belt. This sight goes a long way to show just how careful adults could be with the children. The adults prefer to protect themselves against the hazards of the roads but do not think it is necessary to give equal protection to the children. Parents have the mentality that it is only children between the age of 1 year and below that need to be strapped carefully in their special car seats while in a vehicle. Children above 1 year are usually left carelessly to jump around inside the vehicle while the parents and other adults are carefully strapped with seat belts for the fear of being arrested by Federal Road Safety Officers.
Parents are not the only ones who have neglected the duty of child safety on Nigerian roads. It has also been observed that both primary and secondary schools within the country don’t pay attention to the issue of child road safety as they convey their pupils in buses without making efforts to strap them with seat belts while the driver and teachers carefully strap themselves Also, parents allow their children to jump around inside the moving vehicles when the adults are safety strapped and protected with seat- belts. In an effort to change this attitude of child neglect on the road, and to complement the efforts of the Federal Road Safety Commission -FRSC, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), the Arrive Alive Road Safety Initiative (AARSI) put together a child safety campaign called “click it: why risk it”.

The NGO which has its base in Lagos also involved the Universal Board of Education (UBE) in Abuja, with a promise to take the message to all the states of the federation. Director of ‘Arrive Alive Road Safety Initiative’, Mr. Yinka Bello, who is also a representative of Chevron Nigeria Limited, told LEADERSHIP SUNDAY that child safety is a critical element of road safety because children are the hopes of tomorrow. According to him: “All known measures for safety on the road should involve the children. For instance, we have been told to use our seat belts because when you are strapped to your seat belt and you are moving in a vehicle, in the event of a crash the seat belt will help to protect you. The question we are asking today is, do the children deserve to be protected? “ In the same vein, we have been told to use our helmets when we are riding on a bike, but the riders wear their helmets, but when they are carrying the children, they put them behind without helmets.
In the events of a fall, the helmet is meant to protect your head, but here we don’t do that, we leave our children so exposed to whatever happens, and we are saying enough”. Bello observed that the majority of schools in Abuja use “school buses that are not internationally recommended to convey students to school. “A survey recently conducted by the Federal Road Safety Commission in Abuja, revealed that most schools use mini-buses which fall below recommended standards,” Bello said. He also said that a survey by the FRSC revealed that most government schools have no buses. “According to the FRSC’s report, 86 per cent of the private schools studied have school buses, and it was observed that only 33 per cent of government schools have school buses,”.
He also said that children under the age of 12 years should not be allowed to occupy the front seat of any vehicle. According to him they are not mature enough to handle hazards of the air bag, if the air bag inflates in an accident. The balloon can choke a child while adults can easily struggle out and draw in some breadth. The child cannot do anything, more so, when the child is in shock, so we say don’t carry a child on the front seat”, he said. Mr. Bello added that his company, Chevron , which is also the sponsor of the campaigns, counts it a privilege to get involved in such campaign. “We in Chevron took it as an opportunity to get involved in child road safety campaign.
In Africa, parents do not take the necessary precautions towards child safety. While driving, you see children jumping around inside moving vehicles, and we all know that the roads in Nigeria are bad” “Our programmes at Arrive Alive Road Safety Initiatives are national, we started it in Lagos and we aim to affect every part of this country, the incidence that triggered off this happened in Lagos so we launched it there in July, 2011 and very soon we will go to other states”, he added.
The director, however, called on the government to ensure that laws which uphold road safety measures should be extended to children. The government, he averred should ensure that school buses imported into the country met the standard in the western world. According to him, “In western world, school buses don’t come without seat belts. The government can make it a law that every vehicle that will be used for school bus must have seat belts so that children can be strapped”. In his own reaction, the acting Head of Unit, Special Marshal and Partnership Department, Mr. Peter Gyang Pam disclosed that the FRSC has laws that protect children.
According to him, “we in the FRSC, owing to the Establishment Act 2007, we captured it a long time ago because we see the children as a vulnerable group. And their parents too will always advocate that we teach them all the ideals, so there are laws that protect the rights of the children and they are being implemented”. Gyang lamented that the level of awareness on child safety was still minimal. “It is not everybody that knows these things but we are trying to take the message to the grassroots so that everybody will know, because it won’t do anybody any good if you formulate some laws which people are not aware of”, he added. The Executive Director, Accident Prevention and Rescue Initiative, Prince Fidelis Nnadi, disclosed that World Health Organisation (WHO)’s statistics showed that frequent vehicle accidents on Nigerian roads claim the life of a child every three minutes.
“The World Health Organisation (WHO) statistics confirms that a child is killed in an accident every three minutes in Nigeria, and that about 42 per cent of the children are killed by reckless speeding, drunken motorists and distractions like the use of cell-phones”, he said.

http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/12641/2012/01/08/saving_nigerian_child_road_accidents.html

naptu2: Bimpe, her husband and their six-month-old baby were returning from a social function when their car had a head on collision with another vehicle somewhere in Ajah, Lagos.

The baby who was sleeping on Bimpe’s lap was immediately ejected through the windscreen

Eewwww

I was gonna post this topic till I 'StumbledUpon' this. Thanks for the 2 articles @naptu2 - I've been searching for the relevant laws concerning this.

I mean, what are people thinking? It's customary for Nigerians to 'wash' a new vehicle and then pray, "may we not kill anyone with this vehicle, may we not have accidents" bla bla bla but we're distancing our prayers from our actions.

It's really annoying when I see this on our roads today. Some even consider it 'fashionable' - seeing such kid in an expensive vehicle for example, except the owner is a robber or the sorts, one would expect their level of education to apply to basic safety rules.

As usual, Nigerians are also of the habit of not reading manuals, we seem to be proving the theory of "put in a book if you wanna hide it from them" right.

Methinks many are thriving in ignorance.

https://www.nairaland.com/989551/dont-let-happen-child-pics

The answers have been provided. You could use PDF softwares of MS Word 2010. The softwares may have some added features over MS Word however.

Da kingpin: so what should i do. Should i start boiling beans

So, like Biafra, you also want to declare your Beans republic ehn? It has graduated from garri to beans abi .

"Akintunde Ibitayo (Tayo) Akinwande is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Professor Akinwande received a B.Sc. (1978) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Ife, Nigeria, a MS (1981) and Ph.D. (1986) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, California.

He adapted the thin-film edge for the fabrication of a high brightness lamp that can be used as a backlight for avionic active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs) that are sunlight readable and can adapt to any environmental conditions."

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/computer-science/akinwande_akintunde.html

http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~akinwand/index.html



"An active-matrix liquid crystal display ( AMLCD) is a type of flat panel display , currently the overwhelming choice of notebook computer manufacturers, due to low weight, very good image quality, wide color gamut and response time. The first functional AMLCD display was made by Dr T Peter Brody at Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1973."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active-matrix_liquid_crystal_display

1978 and 1973

[quote author=x-fire]...in Nigeria, such advanced knowledge has not proportionally resulted in advanced development in the Nigerian society.[/quote]*

[quote author=x-fire]Knowledge without application to better the society either in the short or long run is a waste. Only applied knowledge is useful knowledge. Carrying advanced knowledge in the brain in Nigeria without utilization is of little importance.[/quote]*
Well, this article would suffice

It is very fashionable these days in the world of arts and entertainment to create prequels. As opposed to sequels that tell readers or viewers what happened next to their favourite characters or plots, prequels go back in time. I now find myself following this trend and writing a prequel to my post for Inside Higher Ed on how to avoid PhD drop-out.
One of the comments on that post made me think that one of the best ways to minimize PhD drop-out rates is to select the best candidates in the first place. The next logical question is then: Why go for a PhD in the first place? There are as many reasons as there are people, you might say, but perhaps their motivations can be grouped into some general categories.


The disinterested reason most often given is that people start a PhD because of their thirst for knowledge. Simply put, PhD students are those with a high degree of personal motivation that stems from their natural curiosity and love of intellectual pursuits. It is expected that after they obtain their degree they will metamorphose into scholars for whom also the temptation of researching new and exciting subjects is irresistible, or at least preferable to all other choices. But is it really to satisfy the desire for deeper understanding that one enrols on a PhD programme? Are there no other avenues for the interested mind than university-based research programmes?
Certainly there are other opportunities to drive research projects outside academia. Sometimes having obtained a PhD provides access to these research opportunities, but I would not claim this to be the absolute rule. Thinktanks and research institutes do hire capable minds with or without the diploma.
There are other reasons given for pursuing a PhD, let's call them the more pragmatic reasons. In this sense, the doctoral degree is not just a passport to a world of research and new knowledge, it is also a valuable asset that increases one's chances of earning higher paid in more satisfying jobs. It is an investment, a certificate of one's special abilities that can give them an advantage on the job market. While it is true that PhD holders do get higher salaries, the higher education market is not one of the most rewarding in terms of financial stability. There are few available jobs, there is a lot of tough competition and the salary of a professional is lower here than in the industry.

So the PhD is valuable if its possessor is interested in the non-academic job market. However, how many Fortune 100 people hold a doctorate? Not many. On the contrary, there are numerous among these who are drop-outs (even before finishing a undergraduate course). So if you want to be really financially prosperous, then PhDs are not for you .

There are other reasons that motivate students to continue their education to PhD level. Harking back to a time when these diplomas were reserved for a minuscule segment of the population, the doctoral degree is a seen as a prestige marker, the recognition of one's exceptional talents and the certificate of belonging to the intellectual elite. The non-material rewards that a PhD is supposed to bring, at least theoretically, are connected to social standing; PhDs can be used as a vehicle for upwards social mobility, and for the fulfilment of personal and family ambitions. The prestige power of the PhD is however on the wane.

With mass education, the number of doctorate holders has increased exponentially, so that the elite membership and the high social status that comes with it is weakened. Especially in connection with a decrease in salary size for university professionals, doctorate holders are perhaps now not seen as exceptional but quirky: why choose to specializes narrowly, work so many hours, and for so little pay when one could get a more lucrative employment elsewhere?

Lastly, there are those who out of necessity start a PhD. If the job market offers up nothing attractive, or if entry to the job market is prohibited because of one's immigration status, then pursuing the highest academic degree becomes a viable choice for students who under different circumstances would have opted for a life in the industry and not in research. Do other motivations come into play? Why did you choose to pursue a PhD, or perhaps decide against it?

Not for love or for money – why do a PhD?

Well, methinks this article summarises some points made so far. Have you wondered why the number of those who come to this board to ask "Should I go for PhD" varies from those of "Should I go on with my PhD"?
Usually, there is a way the wheat gets separated from the chaff. Some know what they want already and why they're 'wanting' it!

AjanleKoko: PhDs are not for everyone is what I am saying. It represents a symbol of high academic achievement, and should not be bastardized, in my view.

Consensus.

porka: I think the president said the right thing in a very wrong way.

The protest itself was spontaneous.

There is no where in the world that subsidy would be removed the it was and there would not be demonstration.

And people were genuinely, absolutely right to demonstrate.

We are not in North Korea and nobody should tell the masses not to demonstrate as long as it's peaceful.

But the aspect of calling musicians to perform each day was highly political.

When t-shirts started appearing and people being fed daily, it was obvious that politicians had hijacked the protest.

Some politicians who lost elections to Jonathan less than a year earlier, Bakare, Odumakin etc, suddenly started another round of campaign, after election, hoping to get to office through the back door.

Joe Ajaero was on record to have said they would start making political demands if by a certain date the government refused to listen.

And money were being distributed everyday at NLC secretariat.

Now, those were political activities that went beyond the intent of the demonstration.

President Jonathan should know how to communicate his message properly.

One problem we have in Nigeria is our insecurity. Before anything else, Bakare for example is a citizen of this country. These hijackers you're talking about - are they debating issues or what? It's our failure to focus on issues that debar us from progressing. Ignore the messenger, dissect the message.

Inasmuch as some people hate OBJ with a passion, they agreed with his position on NGN5000 note - that's an example of separating the wheat from the chaff.

What can I say? Errrrrrmmmmmmmm I see your point but you now went on and on so that what I've gotta say next is "Ye! He yaf finish me with eggsamples"

Anyway, this part "the degree has little or no use in the non-academic public or private sector" has one kind of K-leg o for some of these researches are carried out on practical, 'on-the-work'/ on field basis so it's kind of a contradiction that it's of 'no use'. What the science guys do for example, is to seek alternatives to some processes, inherent problems, state the effect etc. For the management guys, I remember a Dr. saying some of these their projects are like 'report panels' - they're not usually practical and guys from the 'real world' in management have also said that it's better at times for these guys from the academia to come and 'practise' for some time out there before going back so they can experience the variance of some teachings and the real world. I hope I've ended up not derailing from your article, but just that point sha.

It's not about starting a career in research, I inferred that PhD involves research - I don't think any Tomiwa, Dickson and Haruna would just "voila", out of a desire to know why x has not been able to produce y embark on a research - Msc, PhDs are more structured than the former ('formal' approach I'd say).

Could the moderator please modify the title of this thread to "session".

How many times do you guys wanna kill this dude uhn

This question appears more like trying to carry out sensitivity analysis/a case study/ a futuristic question/ 'testing testing' question. Looks more like the OP tryna get us to solve a 'crackle' when the scenario ain't real.

Go through the website first, read what they've got there on foreign-trained students and contact them.

http://www.nysc.gov.ng/emailadd.php

First Impression as I read the title "Doing A Phd Is Often A Waste Of Time, Says The Economist" - that's if you're not into academics

obowunmi: You can teach at a Uni without a PhD. All you need is to have connections. Probably for most things in life.

Are you serious? As in, for Suya University? Am sure you're joking. Whilst I've got no evidence to disprove your statement if it does occur in some Nigerian institutions, what's obvious is that the minimum requirement is MSc. Moreover, NUC has been at loggerheads with Universities as per the minimu requirement being PhD - I think they set a timeline of 2014 or so.

@topic again sha, well there's also an oversupply of graduates

In the academic world, methinks PhD is necessary for lecturers to have - conducting research in a particular field is an indication of a 'deep' commitment to the 'zeta' of the course. However, it's of note that some people embark on it 'cos it's a 'necessity' for career advancement and not necessarily out of passion. What I like about it is when a PhD holder has a good grasp of a topic area and s/he's willing to do more or make new discoveries or find answers to recent challenges/development.

Well that's for the academia. For the business world, errm ermm ermm, it's kind of a misnormer (if am permitted to use that word) the way success has been equated with academic progression. I still insist on application - often times, Africans especially are 'bagging' 'em degrees for personal aggrandizement rather than contribution to at least, the nucleus environment. The orientation has been skewed to assume that the higher the degrees, the better the person is (if you knoweth what I mean) - am sorry but e.g. Mr. Olusegun Aganga and his stay as Finance Minister.

Lastly I remember the article about Africans and their craze for titles only for the writer himself (an African) to end with "Mr. Chachangi, BSc, MSc, PhD" e remain small for GCE sef

It's not a matter of exclusivity, rather it's about tapping into opportunities - if the other network providers wanna do this to, they can.

Very funny dude. This ought to be in the Jokes section. Hope some people don't end up scratching the surface of their phones?

iLike Yamazuka, Yamakuza or is it Yokozuna Anyhow sha, if I see your name I know say na you. I think @prettyspice abi na @spicev or so dey ask why him AWOL for here.

Am considering nominatimg Mustay since even when he's time-constrained, he still peruses this board longer. He's gonna be busy till December but leveraging on the availability of murdering 'modding' this board via his phone - that comes in 'mobily handy'.

It's not a do-o-die (Baba OBJ e ma binu) but if personal commitments don't permit me to be effective, then I'd throw in the trowey towel.