Apple's marvel and NICE driver's honesty
23 October 2014 By Abi Giwa
A NiCE bus
Apple's tracking technology and a Nassau Inter County Express, NICE,driver's honesty led to recovery of a Mini-Ipad I lost on a NICE bus on Sunday, September 19. The Apple's tech enabled remote locking of the device and allowed me leave my phone number for whoever may have found it to call me.
"Are you Mr. Giwa. Someone found your Ipad on the bus and gave it to me," a NICE driver called and told me on Monday evening. "Please go to NiCE depot and pick it up, he further instructed.
Losing a bag that contained an iPad, a hand written notebook and other valuables, coming back from an event for a news report can be traumatic.
Activities in and out of the office since last week have been exhausting, arising from an an effort to master desk and reporting works. Tracking press releases in the mail; editing the releases and creating a folder on weekly basis for the editors to track the releases for use when you are not there.
It is a great gain for a training journalist to be familiar with theses procedures. Working to provide materials to fill spaces in a newspaper that requires information strictly from a small area of the society. There are times of searching for press releases in the mail for a a whole day without desirable result.
In that circumstance, one has to begin reading through the newspapers of the area of the newspaper's coverage to fish out information that will lead to possible event coverage. Another avenue of searching is making cold calls to schools, fire departments and public relation offices that specialize in tracking events in the newspaper coverage area.
When there is no result after one may have exhausted all avenues, the senior editor or the executive editor becomes the last resort to ask for an assignment for a news event to cover. When you talk to the senior editor, the senior editor asks you to wait that the executive editor has an event he need you to cover. The time is running out and the closing hour nearing.
Eventually, two information arrived on my desk. One was about a street fair and another was about an open house in a fire department. I chose to cover the street fair. And on Sunday morning September 19, I traveled to Franklin Avenue for the street fair. And it was a heck of an interaction and interviews.
I had wonderful interviews and I thought of writing two or three different stories, based on my interviews. But on my way home with two bags on the bus, an experience in cognitive psychology sets it. I forgot one of the bags I carried on the bus and the bag contained my mini-ipad, a hand written notebook and complimentary cards that would help in names of my interviewees.
I remembered to pick up a bag that I take out everyday and had been recorded in my memory when I alighted from the bus and forgot a new bag I acquired at the fair which was not recorded in my memory. The fatality of my forgetfulness or lack of my memory of the lost bag was that all the information I required for my report lost.
I stood transfixed in confusion on the street at the entrance of 169 Street Train station, where I discovered I had lost a bag and the valuable content. I made a detour to 165 Street NICE bus station in search of the bus on which I had lost the bag. The bus was nowhere in the station. Consequently, I jumped into another arriving bus back to Hempstead.
I lodged a complain at the Hempstead Rosa Part bus station and also called the NiCE office number and left a complain. The following morning on a Monday on y way back to Hempstead still in search of the lost bag, I called my senior editor and told him my ordeal. He said the first concern is getting the lost bag, because I needed to get the bag to get information to write a report.
My trip to the NICE bus office in Garden City on Monday yielded no result. But while on my regular job in the evening, a phone call came through with a bus driver's announcement that a passenger found my bag in his bus and that he had handed it over to the NICE office, where he directed me to go and retrieve it.
I thanked the driver for his honesty, without which my tracking of the ipad on the icloud would have no fruit, despite my marvel and wonder for Apple's technology. Now I have information to write my reports. Apparently, the loss of my bag and the search for it merely gave me additional work, it did not stop me for going to the office to search the mail for press releases, stories to develop and events to cover as a reporter.
"Are you Mr. Giwa. Someone found your Ipad on the bus and gave it to me," a NICE driver called and told me on Monday evening. "Please go to NiCE depot and pick it up, he further instructed.
Losing a bag that contained an iPad, a hand written notebook and other valuables, coming back from an event for a news report can be traumatic.
Activities in and out of the office since last week have been exhausting, arising from an an effort to master desk and reporting works. Tracking press releases in the mail; editing the releases and creating a folder on weekly basis for the editors to track the releases for use when you are not there.
It is a great gain for a training journalist to be familiar with theses procedures. Working to provide materials to fill spaces in a newspaper that requires information strictly from a small area of the society. There are times of searching for press releases in the mail for a a whole day without desirable result.
In that circumstance, one has to begin reading through the newspapers of the area of the newspaper's coverage to fish out information that will lead to possible event coverage. Another avenue of searching is making cold calls to schools, fire departments and public relation offices that specialize in tracking events in the newspaper coverage area.
When there is no result after one may have exhausted all avenues, the senior editor or the executive editor becomes the last resort to ask for an assignment for a news event to cover. When you talk to the senior editor, the senior editor asks you to wait that the executive editor has an event he need you to cover. The time is running out and the closing hour nearing.
Eventually, two information arrived on my desk. One was about a street fair and another was about an open house in a fire department. I chose to cover the street fair. And on Sunday morning September 19, I traveled to Franklin Avenue for the street fair. And it was a heck of an interaction and interviews.
I had wonderful interviews and I thought of writing two or three different stories, based on my interviews. But on my way home with two bags on the bus, an experience in cognitive psychology sets it. I forgot one of the bags I carried on the bus and the bag contained my mini-ipad, a hand written notebook and complimentary cards that would help in names of my interviewees.
I remembered to pick up a bag that I take out everyday and had been recorded in my memory when I alighted from the bus and forgot a new bag I acquired at the fair which was not recorded in my memory. The fatality of my forgetfulness or lack of my memory of the lost bag was that all the information I required for my report lost.
I stood transfixed in confusion on the street at the entrance of 169 Street Train station, where I discovered I had lost a bag and the valuable content. I made a detour to 165 Street NICE bus station in search of the bus on which I had lost the bag. The bus was nowhere in the station. Consequently, I jumped into another arriving bus back to Hempstead.
I lodged a complain at the Hempstead Rosa Part bus station and also called the NiCE office number and left a complain. The following morning on a Monday on y way back to Hempstead still in search of the lost bag, I called my senior editor and told him my ordeal. He said the first concern is getting the lost bag, because I needed to get the bag to get information to write a report.
My trip to the NICE bus office in Garden City on Monday yielded no result. But while on my regular job in the evening, a phone call came through with a bus driver's announcement that a passenger found my bag in his bus and that he had handed it over to the NICE office, where he directed me to go and retrieve it.
I thanked the driver for his honesty, without which my tracking of the ipad on the icloud would have no fruit, despite my marvel and wonder for Apple's technology. Now I have information to write my reports. Apparently, the loss of my bag and the search for it merely gave me additional work, it did not stop me for going to the office to search the mail for press releases, stories to develop and events to cover as a reporter.
