More disturbing Roo-ne

The rich still asks the poor to "eat bread".

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As Rooney cashes in, his adopted city prepares for worst of cuts

Unsettled striker will earn up to £200,000 a week for next five years, whilst in Manchester alone, 40,000 workers are expected to their lose jobs by 2014.

So, too, has the amount of money he will be paid. According to sources within the game, Rooney will now be awarded up to £200,000 each week for the next five years to kick a ball for United. It is a weekly pay packet from which he could still expect change if he was planning to buy a red-brick, three-bedroom, semi-detached home in the neighbourhood of Manchester United's ground, Old Trafford, an area with deprivation and high numbers of poor immigrant families which by historical quirk has provided the setting for the most popular football team in the world since the patch of land was carved out from beside the Cheshire railway line in 1910.

It is now estimated that 40,000 people in the Greater Manchester area will lose their jobs as a result of Chancellor George Osborne's plans to cut £83bn from public spending to fight the deficit. Those cuts will translate into the loss of 30,000 public-sector posts and a further 10,000 job losses from private businesses.

For those disembarking from the coaches outside Old Trafford in the drizzle last night under the watchful gaze of the United Trinity – statues of George Best, Denis Law and Bobby Charlton – most could only wonder at the riches on show. Igor Michurin, 34, a doctor from Novosibirsk in central Russia, emerged from the megastore clutching a pair of Manchester United pyjamas for his daughter. He said his club, FC Sibir, could never afford to sign a Rooney. "Yes, he is a very good footballer, but he needs to grow up. He makes mistakes, but that is natural when you are young." Bayu Chang, a 33-year-old banker from Malaysia, was less understanding: "For me, he should go, because he has the intention to go. It's too much money, of course, at such a young age." Read more at www.independent.co.uk

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Another take on Rooney's u-turn

This just go to prove that SAF's desperate to get MU some semblance of a credible challenger. MU need Roo more than the other way round it seems. Shameful. I don't think Roo's that great this season.

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Wayne Rooney paid £50m ransom to stay at Manchester United

Wayne Rooney has signed a staggering £50 million five-year deal to stay at Manchester United after effectively holding the club to ransom.

Just two days ago Rooney said he had refused to sign a new contract because he was worried about the “future squad”. But last-minute talks involving manager Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United's chief executive David Gill and the club's owners, the Glazer family, persuaded Rooney to stay after his pay was doubled.

The five-year deal is worth about £180,000 a week, making Rooney, who turns 25 on Sunday, the second-best paid footballer in the Premier League after Manchester City's Yaya Touré.

With image rights and other payments on top of his basic salary, the new deal will pay Rooney about £50 million before tax by June 2015. The only English player making more money than Rooney is David Beckham. Read more at www.thisislondon.co.uk

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Botched ATM heist

Police should also investigate where did they get the explosives. Alarm didn't go off? Could be inside job.

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Attempt to blow up ATM fails

PETALING JAYA: A failed attempt to blow open an automated teller machine (ATM) at the Giant hypermarket in Kelana Jaya, here, early this morning, left four robbers empty-handed.

In the 4am incident, the robbers broke into the premises through the front entrance and bored into a wall to remove the ATM before using explosives to break it.

He said the hypermarket had two alarm systems but both failed to go off when the robbers broke in. "Both alarms didn't react even when the robbers cut the wires. This should not have happened and we are investigating," he said. Arjunaidi said their investigation revealed that the robbery attempt was committed by a skilled gang who knew their way around the premises. Read more at www.nst.com.my

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Raya ad that backfired

TV3 should learn from this. They have very popular Islamic themed program before and they had resorted to this type of ad; why?

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TV3 fined RM50,000 over Raya ad

Deputy Minister of Information, Communication and Culture Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum told Parliament yesterday that MCMC had completed investigations into the complaints under Section 206 (3) of the Communication and Multimedia Act 1998. MCMC decided to fine TV3 a maximum of RM50,000, he said, when answering a question from Zulkifli Noordin (Independent-Kulim Bandar Baru). Read more at www.nst.com.my

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The Star Online: Urologist: Banana can improve male fertility

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MEN can improve their fertility by eating a banana every three days, reported Sin Chew Daily.

Quoting a Singaporean urologist, the daily reported that the fruit can increase sperm count as it contains high level of magnesium to produce sperm cells.

Taking food like cashew nuts, potato, spaghetti and seafood will also have a similar effect, according to the doctor.

He advised men to avoid drinking alcohol, smoking, taking a hot shower or spending time in a sauna as these can affect the production of sperm.

The daily also reported that devotees have to wait for more than eight hours before they could seek blessings from spiritual adviser Master Kin Nam, whose followers include some Hong Kong superstars.

Some of them started queuing outside the temple in Bangkok since midnight on Friday.

They were only allowed to go into the temple at 6am before Master Kin Nam, popularly known as Bai Long Wang, who had just recovered from a lung infection attended to them about two hours later.

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Startup Lessons Learned From a 20-Year-Old CEO | BNET

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This girl got smarts and guts. Tons of lessons I could learn from here.

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Job performance and ambivalent thinking

I think the researcher need to also look at the work environment that the employer is creating. If the employer are risk tolerant, then the employee will be more willing to take chances and make decisions. Else they'll be at pains making up their mind and being productive. Me? I'm ambivalent no matter what environment I'm in. Kinda like "half empty" mindset?

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How Ambivalence Shades Your Thinking and Productivity

In the workplace, employees who are highly ambivalent about their jobs are more erratic in job performance; they may perform particularly well some days and poorly other times, says René Ziegler, a professor of social and organizational psychology at the University of Tübingen in Germany whose study of the subject is scheduled for publication in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. Positive feedback for a highly ambivalent person, such as a pay raise, will boost their job performance more than for someone who isn't ambivalent about the job, he says. Read more at lifehacker.com

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