| Aids leaves Africa's grannies to raise children
Skinny and gap-toothed, her nose smudged with black dust, grandmother Kanotu Mumo sorts charcoal into small pots for sale on the stoop of her slum hut. Mumo is an "Aids granny" in Kibera, Nairobi, one of Africa's biggest slums. Like grandmothers all over Africa, they have been left to fend for orphans after their own children and husbands died. Her hut, stacked with sacks of charcoal, measures 3m by 2,5m and it is too dark inside to see more than a few centimetres, even in the middle of the day. Somehow she shelters four grandchildren, two great grandchildren and the child of a dead relative, who sleep on mattresses and two beds. There is no toilet or running water. According to United Nations figures, at least 12-million children in Africa have lost one or both parents because of Aids. This accounts for 80% of all Aids orphans in the developing world.
PRESS RELEASE: Record UK Audience for Gamer TV
Wednesday 30th January//LONDON. Europe’s longest running and most popular dedicated video game show, GAMER TV has just posted its highest ever viewing figures with over 220,000 unique UK gamers watching the show in just one weekend on satellite and cable channel Bravo! This follows a period of impressive audience growth which saw GAMER TV notching a record 1.25 million viewings in December. The series, described recently by Nuts magazine as one of its favourite weekend pleasures, is created entirely from exclusive video game reviews, previews and features covering every major gaming event around the world. Executive producer Richard Wilcox commented, "We’re delighted! When you combine these figures with our growing online audience it’s pretty clear we’ve become one of the most significant routes through to gamers in the UK." In the UK you can catch GAMER TV at the following times.
Wait weighed heavily on him
In the 24-14 wild-card victory at Tampa Bay, he caught seven balls for 74 yards and the fourth-quarter touchdown that finished off the Bucs. Then Toomer produced two huge scores at Dallas, a 52-yard touchdown that put the Giants up less than four minutes in and the 4-yarder that brought them even seven seconds before halftime. "He always seems to make big plays at the right time," observes Manning. That was the Toomer whom Meadowlands fans had seen from 1999 on - more than 70 receptions and 1,000 yards a season, guaranteed. He wasn't the only man running routes; there has always been an Ike Hilliard, a Tiki Barber, a Jeremy Shockey, a Burress to share the ball with. But No. 81 has been the constant, season after season, 12 of them now, and he's still adding to his career marks at 33.
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