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Atlético midfielder Mario Suárez earned his first start with the senior Spanish national team in their World Cup qualifier against Finland last Friday.
Colchonero midfielder Koke did as well, while veteran La Roja member David Villa also appeared in the fold for his fellow Rojiblancos' debuts.
Villa was removed just before the hour mark, and Koke was utilised in the unusual role of right back by Vicente del Bosque, which, unsurprisingly, prevented the Atleti youth academy product from shining on the evening.
Mario, on the other hand, called up given the injuries to regular starters Xabi Alonso and Sergio Busquets, received overwhelmingly positive reviews from Del Bosque and his Selección peers.
"He's offered us the nerve that the team demanded," Del Bosque told Spanish paper El Pais following the 2-0 victory.
"It wasn't going to be an easy task for him. He performed like a man.
"He had a tough mission and he fulfilled it, defensively and offensively. It has been a good day for him and for the team."
The Spain boss continued: "I told him not to make his life complicated, that he wouldn't have any problems playing with Xavi and with Iniesta, that they're used to playing under pressure, and to pay attention to counters–close attention.
"He's done it very well."
Mario completed a remarkable 86 of 90 passes against the Finns, recovered 9 balls, lost 2, committed 2 fouls, and was booked for a tough challenge.
"He's not rough, he's aggressive, because his role requires him to be decisive," former Sevilla striker Álvaro Negredo said after the win.
"Mario is a warrior in the midfield and he showed it."
Arsenal's Santi Cazorla agreed, saying, "Mario's not a rough footballer. He has a job to do, and against Finland he did it to perfection."
"He positions himself well, offers us tranquility, and links up easily," said Spanish icon Andrés Iniesta.
"He's offered us a lot."
"Rough?" Mario asked. "Sometimes one has to be, but never with ill intention. I believe I'm a player that is defensively aggressive, in the good sense of the word.
"I've only tried to help, because that's what I came for. To help and learn."
The 26-year-old explained what it was like to suit up for his country as a starter.
"I felt comfortable," he said. "It's easy to play when you're surrounded by the best players in the world.
"It's different because the national team retains the ball a lot more. At Atlético, we're much more direct, so with Spain you participate more in the movement of the ball, while at Atlético, you recover more."
Will we continue to see Mario in his nation's colours in the future?
"He couldn't have started better," Del Bosque said.


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The desperate need to improve our treatment of caregivers
If you are a person of relatively sound mind and body, consider the following question tonight as you get ready for bed: If you needed help with that task and had no family members willing or able to fill the role, what would you consider to be a fair wage to pay someone to assist you?
Seriously, think about it. Imagine that someone had to be hired to help you with your most basic personal and physical needs like bathing, using the toilet and dressing. Now, what would you say that a person should be paid to perform such tasks?
Perhaps more to the point, what would you hope to see such a person get paid in order to attract a skilled, intelligent and reliable assistant (i.e., one who is educated, makes enough money to afford reliable transportation and who does not have to work two other jobs when he or she should be sleeping)?
Such questions have rapidly become front burner policy questions in recent years. With the rapid aging of the American population, millions of people who never gave such matters a second thought now see them as intensely personal and important. These people – perhaps most notably, tens of millions of baby boomers and their children – are suddenly aware of a huge problem that confronts the nation: How can we provide the care for elderly and disabled people that they deserve and assure that the people providing it are able to enjoy a decent quality of life themselves?
The situation in North Carolina
The situation in North Carolina is typical of the challenge that confronts the nation. Consider the following facts that were recently compiled by Allan Freyer, Director of the North Carolina Justice Center's Workers' Rights Project and a scheduled presenter at next week's N.C. Policy "Crucial Conversation, Caring for Caregivers":
North Carolina is rapidly aging – the population over 65 is projected to more than double by 2050. The aging of the state's baby boomers will correspond with an increase in community members with functional and cognitive limitations, indicating a growing need for direct care that allows community members to continue to live with dignity.
Direct care occupations, including home care jobs, are some of the fastest growing occupations; but, these jobs offer some of the lowest wages in the state. Median wages in the caregiving occupations pay less than $10 an hour, compared to the state's $15 an hour median wage. That means that half of all home healthcare workers aren't earning enough to rise above the federal poverty line despite working full-time.
Moreover, despite the high occupational injury rates, almost half of home care workers remain uninsured and the majority of workers have no earned paid sick days to take time to recover from injuries or illness.
Low wages increase worker turnover, increase long-run costs for providers, and interrupt the continuity of care for consumers. Additionally, making too little to pay for the basics such as food, housing, and health care can lead to increased dependence on public assistance programs.
Medicaid, administered by the state and jointly financed by the state and federal government, is the primary funding source for long-term services and supports (LTSS) for people with disabilities and seniors. Reimbursement by Medicaid programs, in large part, creates the framework in which employers set wages for direct care workers.
North Carolina's reimbursement rates have been frozen or reduced since 2009 and the most recent reduction places North Carolina rates more than $4 per hour lower than the national average rate paid to provider agencies.
A nationwide crisis
A just-released report by the New York-based Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute entitled "Paying the Price: How Poverty Wages Undermine Home Care in America," offers equally damning data. As the report notes:
"With 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 every day, our nation will need one million new home care aides between 2012 and 2022….
Nearly 2 million aides earn average wages of just $9.61 per hour. For a full-time worker that is $1652.92 per month, barely enough to rent an apartment in many areas of the country, let alone pay for utilities, food, health care, and child care expenses.
And these figures don't even take into account the unpredictable and part-time hours that reduce home care wages even further. The result is median annual earnings of just $13,000 a year.
Not surprisingly, as a result of poverty wages, more than half of home care workers rely on public assistance to support their families….
Low wages — along with inadequate training and the sheer difficulty of the work— result in extremely high turnover. Half the home care workforce turns over every year, disrupting the continuity of relationships that is essential to quality care. To put it simply: workers leave because they cannot afford to stay."
It is, in short, a ridiculous and even tragic situation. Dozens of professions – even in the world of health and human services – earn vastly higher wages. And yet, imagine if you or a loved one needed assistance with bathing and dressing, meal preparation, laundry and other house cleaning, and even other health-related tasks like catheter or ostomy care. Would you really want the person performing such services to make less than the average teenage babysitter? Less than veterinarians' assistants? Less than some McDonald's cashiers?
Beginning to move toward a solution
The plain and obvious reality of the caregiver crisis is that it is not going to abate by itself. Neither the genius of the market nor simple good intentions of aging Americans and/or their families is going to solve this problem. Neither will caregiver pay and benefits rise to living wage levels simply because Americans put more away in retirement accounts or buy more insurance.
The only possible solution, therefore, is the enactment of new and tough public policies. Simply put, policymakers at the federal, state and local levels must enact laws, rules and regulations that are designed to significantly raise pay and benefits for workers and, ultimately, their qualifications.
In the near term, however, there are several specific and concrete steps that can and must be taken to make measurable, if incremental, improvements:
Again, here's Allan Freyer:
"To address these challenges North Carolina must raise the wage floor for paid caregivers in the context of the state's Medicaid program and look to best practices in states like Montana and Maine that tie wage-improvement strategies to reimbursement rates. These include:
- An automatic update mechanism, such as a link to an annual inflation-adjustment.
- A way to ensure enforcement through mandatory reporting and data collection.
- A built-in mechanism for evaluating reimbursement rates, or the wage floor, over time to ensure that the rate remains competitive
Additionally, the state should pursue common sense policies that make work pay by improving workplace standards for the lowest-paid workers, including raising the minimum wage, supporting collective bargaining rights, ensuring paid sick days, expanding Medicaid, and providing career paths for home care workers."
The bottom line: There is a tremendous amount to do and unless we want to find ourselves in a dramatically worse mess a decade from now, it's essential that we raise the profile of this issue and soon. Please join us at next week's luncheon to learn more about how you can be a part of the solution.


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Corey Lewandowski, the controversial former campaign manager for President-elect Donald Trump, announced Wednesday he is opening a political consulting firm down the block from the White House.
The former campaign manager and CNN contributor announced the launch of Avenue Strategies, which opened Wednesday, and will be joined by Barry Bennett, a Trump senior adviser who was formerly retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson's campaign manager.
"I will always be President-elect Trump's biggest supporter," Lewandowski said in the news release. "After considering multiple opportunities within the administration, I informed him and his team I think I can best help him outside the formal structure of the government. I very much look forward to doing that every day."
The group's stated goal is to "ensure the president-elect's agenda is achieved."
It will be located at 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue, right down the street from the White House.
Politico reported Tuesday that Lewandowski was not expected to be included in the first wave of White House jobs.
Lewandowski was originally let go by the Trump campaign after it went into a tailspin in early June, following a lengthy power struggle with then-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, as well as a controversy surrounding his grabbing of a then-Breitbart News reporter at a Trump event.
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Ultrasonic diagnosis, or sonography, is today an established method of diagnosing muskoskeletal diseases. Knowledge of the standardised sonographic examination techniques is essential for reliable diagnostic evaluation. This is a tried and tested method and is regarded as being superior to other imaging techniques in diagnosing a great number of diseases and changes to muscle, ligament and soft tissue and joints in the human body.
In our treatment centre we not only carry out the usual sonographic examinations of soft tissue and joints, but also sonographic examination of babies' hips within the prescribed U3 prophylactic examination. This allows early identification and treatment of hip dysplasia in babies.
Today, sonographic control of a baby's hips is standard procedure.
The advantages of sonography:
Freedom from pressure for both patient and the examining doctor, repeatable as often as necessary, economical, depiction of kinetic processes, left and right sides can be compared during an examination, no disturbance through pieces of metal in the body (as opposed to computer and nuclear spin tomography).


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"Mission: #ChildSavedNotSold" stands out in white letters on the black shirts of former law enforcement officers and Navy SEALs who used their skills to become private investigators. This group formed a nonprofit dedicated to locating missing and runaway children – Saved in America (SIA).
As a former San Diego resident, I can resonate with SIA's work. I remained unaware of the pervasiveness of human trafficking until two years ago, when a friend started a human trafficking club on our college campus. I researched the topic more and discovered that San Diego was one of the top places in the US where human trafficking occurs. The City of San Diego has recognized the problem and has dedicated an entire page on its website to the issue.
Here are some stats on human trafficking.
Human trafficking includes any attempt to force a minor or child into prostitution, pornography, or other forms of sexual exploitation. Around 27 million people are trafficked around the world each year and 18,000 of those are from the United States.
The FBI has placed San Diego on its list of the top 13 cities with the highest sex trafficking areas in the country. Human trafficking is San Diego's second largest underground economy with an annual $810M in revenue.
SIA has helped with the investigation and relocation of 64 children, from California to Florida. The organization states that 100 percent of San Diego County schools reported trafficking and around 2,500 runaway minors roam the streets on any given day. Those in the foster system account for 28 percent of victims and the average age for entry into child commercial sexual exploitation is 15 years old.
Families that SIA has helped have left testimonials on the organization's website.
"My wife and I appreciate the over 300 hours of service that [SIA] donated to us. You stepped up to the plate when we were in desperate need of searching for our missing 16 year old daughter," said an anonymous parent.
In addition, SIA helps with the rehabilitation of rescued victims by providing medical care, therapy, and other forms of trauma care. For example, SIA rescued Briana, a 15-year-old teen from Oceanside, California whom the organization recovered after she went missing for two months.
Human trafficking is a crucial issue that hits close to home for many people, regardless of whether they realize it or not. It's everywhere, and hundreds of people get away with it every day. Organizations like SIA help fight this tragic reality and help children recover from the trauma they've faced.
If you feel passionate about this cause, you can help SIA by volunteering for their investigations team or as a general volunteer. There are also other practical ways to help: donating to the cause, attending events, raising awareness in the community, and educating yourself about the signs of human trafficking.
Anyone who knows of a missing or trafficked child in San Diego should call the organization's tip hotline at (760)-348-8808.
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What are immunological tests?
There are immunological tests for many different medical conditions and purposes – for instance, to test for an allergy, to screen for bowel cancer or to find out if a woman is pregnant. They can be used to carry out routine tests in hospitals and laboratories, to do quick tests yourself at home, as well as in family doctors' and specialists' practices.
How do they work?
Certain substances or pathogens (germs) in your body can be detected with the help of immunological techniques. The things that can be detected include viruses, hormones and the blood pigment hemoglobin. The tests take advantage of the body's immune system: In order to fight germs or foreign substances, the immune system produces antibodies. Antibodies are proteins that can bind to a specific germ or substance, just like a key fits into a specific keyhole. They "catch" the germs or substances, neutralize them and attract other immune cells.
The immunological tests used in laboratories are made by producing artificial antibodies that exactly "match" the substance or germ in question. When these antibodies come into contact with a sample of blood, urine or stool, they bind to the matching substance or germ if found in the sample. This reaction shows that the germ or substance is present.
What happens during the test?
As mentioned above, immunological tests contain specific antibodies that bind to the substance or germ that is being looked for. In some tests this reaction is visible to the naked eye. For example, in tests to determine your blood group, the blood coagulates (clumps together) on the test card. In other tests, the reaction has to be made visible using a fluorescent dye or an enzyme.
Immunological tests can generally be divided into rapid tests and laboratory tests.
Laboratory tests
In laboratory tests, sensitive devices measure the amount of bound antibodies based on the extent of a light or color reaction. The greater the reaction, the more of the substance or germ is present. Laboratory tests take longer than rapid tests but they are also more accurate.
Rapid test
In rapid tests, the antibodies are usually found on paper strips (test strips), but sometimes glass is used too. Rapid tests are easy to use and provide instant results. But they are not as sensitive as laboratory tests and can't determine exactly how much of the substance or germ is present.
Paper strip for rapid test
Rapid tests work based on the principle of "lateral flow" (flowing sideways):
When a liquid sample (such as urine) is placed on one end of the test strip, the antibodies on the test strip bind to the substance you are looking for if it is present. Then the liquid slowly moves along the absorbent paper towards the other end of the strip. The antibodies continue to bind to the substance you are looking for, and this reaction causes a change in color. If enough of the liquid sample is used, it flows all the way along the paper strip until it reaches a control line at the other end. If the control line changes color too, the test was carried out properly.
Paper strip tests: positive and negative reactions
What are immunological tests used for?
Immunological tests are widely used. Their areas of application include:
- Bowel cancer screening: This test looks for the blood pigment hemoglobin, a sign of blood in stool. Blood in stool can be caused by various things, such as hemorrhoids, polyps or even bowel cancer.
- Allergy tests: to detect antibodies against allergy-triggering substances like grass pollen or certain foods.
- Detecting germs causing an infection: If it is thought someone has bacterial tonsillitis or scarlet fever, the test looks for Streptococcus bacteria. In the case of Lyme disease following a tick bite, there are tests that can detect the Borrelia bacteria that cause it, and there are tests that can detect the antibodies to Borrelia bacteria. Immunological tests can also be used to detect viruses. Examples include hepatitis C, HIV or HPV viruses. Pregnant women can have a blood test to find out whether they are protected from (immune to) toxoplasmosis.
- Diagnosing heart attacks and thrombosis: Shortly after a heart attack or if someone has thrombosis , higher levels of a certain protein are found in the blood. These can be detected using an immunological test.
- Urine test: If sugar, blood, proteins or inflammatory cells are found in urine using this rapid test, it could be a sign of diabetes, a urinary tract infection or kidney damage.
- Pregnancy test: Women can use this rapid test to find out whether their urine contains the "pregnancy hormone" beta-hCG.
- Rapid tests for drugs and medication: Immunological tests can also be used to look for recreational drugs such as cannabis, ecstasy and cocaine. Medical drugs that affect the central nervous system can also be detected in this way. These include sleeping pills (benzodiazepines), amphetamines and morphine.
- Determining your blood group: When blood transfusions are done, the person donating the blood and the person receiving the blood have to have the same blood group. Immunological tests can be used to determine the blood groups before a blood transfusion.
Immunological tests can also be used to diagnose congenital or acquired immune diseases, differentiate between different forms of rheumatoid arthritis, or monitor the progression of an existing medical condition, such as certain tumors (in prostate cancer the PSA levels in blood are monitored).
The antibody principle is also applied in doping tests, food hygiene tests, and tests for toxic substances.
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God Can Help Where Police Do Not
The Voice of the Martyrs received a report from a Christian in a country where most of the people are not followers of Christ. Some people in the country try to stop Christianity from spreading.
The report said:
Again we have had very bad persecution in one of our villages. A teacher from another religion said that Christians are ruining the country with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
So the teacher brought kerosene, paper, and firewood to burn the church. At midnight he set a fire in the Sunday school. It was burned completely.
Other villagers gathered around him to help him finish the job. They gathered all the church instruments and put them in the fire. They told the Christians not to say anything to anyone about the fire. "If you do," they said, "we will hurt you, too."
Some Christians informed the police about what happened. The police said, "It is a religious matter. We cannot help."
Christians from outside the village asked the Christians from the burned church, "How can we help?"
What do you think the Christians answered? They said, "Please pray for us and help us however you can."
To Think About
In countries where Christians are persecuted, the Christians often ask for prayer before they ask for anything else. Why do you think they ask for prayer first?
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Not all projects can get the extensive beauty without courtesy in interior and exterior. Therefore, the owners should not skip the outer tiles while they are rebuilding or establishing their homes. Whether you want to decorate your exterior or reshape the section, you need to divide it.
How many sections can you create under the sun?
Basically, your exterior depends on the area, the weather and the capital. The capital can be adjusted by following the number of sqm.
Short spaces – if you have a small space and you want to fill it with different departments, you can install an outdoor deck (3 or 4 chairs and 1 table), a small garden, some statues or candlesticks and a pool or fountain. Lighting design and exterior tiles can distribute the space colors and mood. It would provide a satisfactory landscape on a budget.
Larger space – if you have enough room to decorate, do not try to collect arrays of ingredients. Be specific and clear about your dream and start to decorate would be the intelligent way. As you can include wooden decks, garden, pool, garage and a beautiful road between sections, therefore, you must not be overxcited. The designers should concentrate on the specific parts and their tiles, candles, decoration and accessories, and then pay attention to the ladder stones or tiles. Thus, a large landscape can pull out the inner beauty.
What types of tiles are used in the exterior?
Blue-lacquered tiles are one of the relevant plates in modern design. If you used this plate, Baleno Pig's floor or Caliber Brown floors can fill the sublimity of legality. Common white LED lights on the city's silver stand can also improve the taste. You can install a wooden deck on this base dimension. The sophisticated white chairs or cream chairs can create excellence. One or two colorful umbrellas get their space.
Tuscany walnut tiles can be an excellent option for creating an innovative exterior wall. This type of decoration needs colorful floors so the outside can keep balance. Therefore, colorful masked stones decorate on the exterior floor would be extremely perfect. Apart from the color balance, this type of external extra durability for the hard stone material. You can also decorate the base of the large trees with meshed pebbles as well.
Manhattan Blend Glass and Metal Mosaic have great use as a 3D exterior. It needs more attention in the specific parts of the house. The tiles can cover both the walls and the floor. Resistance is sufficient for the landscapes. If your home has not taken much pressure, glass and metal mixing plates can earn the pool or deck side. You can leave any land between the garden so that this type of decoration can be balanced.
Focus Graphic is one of the most exterior rustic-style outdoor tiles. The path can be covered with polished stones. The pure black color of graphite and formless stones looks glamorous on the glossy surface. It contains extra enthusiasm on the outside. Owners can use granite materials in their seats. Yellow LED lamps are perfectly matched with this decoration.
Capella Clay Matt Porcelain is another obsessive tile for an exterior. The rectangular bricks in this category provide a cozy atmosphere around the lobby or foyer. You can add some flowers to it so that the simple balcony would look very impressive. The color of this surface creates a different feeling under the sunlight. Simple wooden chairs and tables can be included on the balcony side. People can use blue marble or white stones on the wall.
The outdoor platform has vibrant models and versatile assembly to meet different requirements. The methods of external decoration have no limit. Some examples are in the article so readers can start their own thinking. Every kind of thoughtful design is given in the industry. Yet there are some techniques. If people are aware of it, they can design their exteriors without any designer. The gallery opens with updated collections and accessibility is good. Now is the time to complete the modern, royal or rustic style.


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Steps above the famed Riverwalk, Fogo sits next to the Marriott Rivercenter. Fogo brings its fine dining & rich Southern Brazilian tradition of churrasco (Brazilian BBQ) to the Alamo City.


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The name "dot plot" can refer to a variety of completely different graph styles. Well, they have one thing in common: They all contain dots. For analytic use, the two most prominent styles are what we might call the Wilkinson dot plot and the Cleveland dot plot.
The Wilkinson dot plot displays a distribution of continuous data points, like a histogram, but shows individual data points instead of bins.
Though variations of such plots have been around for more than 100 years, Leland Wilkinson's seminal paper "Dot Plots" largely standardized the form. Last summer, the support for Wilkinson dot plots in JMP was greatly enhanced by an add-in, which is now built-in to JMP 11.1 (see the Wilkinson dot plot blog post).
The Cleveland dot plot is featured in William S. Cleveland's book Elements of Graphing Data and displays a continuous variable versus a categorical variable.
This kind of dot plot is similar to a bar chart, but instead of using length to encode the data values, it uses position. As a result, the dot plot does not need to start its data axis at zero, can use a log axis and is more flexible for overlaying multiple variables. Cleveland breaks down the estimation aspect of graph perception into three parts: discrimination, ranking and ratioing. In general, dot plots help with the first two at the expense of the third, making relative proportions less accessible. For instance, it's easier to see when one bar is twice as long as another without consulting the axis.
Cleveland's books, along with Wilkinson's The Grammar of Graphics, were influential in the creation of Graph Builder, and as a result, the Points element is the default view in Graph Builder for both continuous and categorical data.
Below is a Graph Builder recreation of a Cleveland's display of barley yields . A challenge: Can you spot the odd feature of the data?
The use of dotted lines is presumably a constraint of black and white printing, and it's more common to see faint gray lines in dot plots. Beyond the usual drag-and-drop of variables into roles, the Graph Builder steps to make the dot plot above are:
And now the answer to the challenge: The odd feature of the data is that the 1931 values are generally greater than the 1932 values except for the Morris site, which suggests the values may have been swapped.
For more discussion of Cleveland dot plots, see the article "Dot Plots: A Useful Alternative to Bar Charts" by Naomi Robbins.
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Sam Gardner wrote:
How do you create dot plot in JMP 11.1 without the add-in?
Xan Gregg wrote:
Good question, Sam. It's in the same place as the old (less interactive) dot plot script: Help > Sample Data > Teaching Demonstrations > Dot Plot.
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text: Artist Antal Lakner was born in Budapest, Hungary (1966) where he also earned his degree in Fine Arts from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (1995). He is the recipient of both the Derkovits prize (1999-2002) and the Eötvös prize (2004) and represented Hungry at 2001 Venice Biennale. He has participated in artist's residencies at In and Out of Touch in London (1996), the D.C.A. Gammel Dok, Copenhagen (2000), Cité Internatinale des Arts, Paris (2000), and the International Studio Program at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2000). His work has been exhibited in Japan and extensively throughout Europe. Antal lives and works in Budapest, Hungary and Paris, France.


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League Matches week commencing 3rd August 2015
WK/C 3rd August.
Division 3 Brandon Axels Postponed date of re arranged game to follow
Division 4 Monday Brandon Crocodiles v Sacriston Charges
Chris Leishman
Jordan Dove
Paul Henderson
Division 4 Thursday Cramlington Jaguars v Brandon Bee's
Jamie Lupton
Paul Lupton
Caroline Lee
Division 5 Wednesday Matfen v Brandon Devils
Val Lough
Abbey Maddison
Will Lindsay
Brandon Crocodiles lost on Monday night against Sacriston Chargers 2-8. Val Lough lost a tight 5 ender going down 11.8 11.7 8.11 6.11 6.11 going down 6.11 in the 5th end.
Paul Henderson also lost in the 5th against Jack Pugh 11.7 8.11 5.11 11.9 going down 8.11 in the 5th but Jordan Dove kept the ship floating playing really well and claiming 2 of his games against Dennis Jennings & Jack Pugh respectively.
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Presentation: Tweet"Machine Me"
From robots that print sculptures, to extruders that birth Play-Doh populations, to machines that make their own drawings, Fernando Orellana has collaborated with robots for over twenty years to make artwork. As a machine designer, a technologist and a user, Orellana has blurred the line between himself and machine in the creative process. The imagery and narrative that Orellana and his robots explore spans a spectrum from the generatively-made to the subconsciously-driven. This talk will cover his walk through this "automatous symbiosis," with a conversation of the various artworks that have been output along the way.


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With attendance at Baltimore schools plumbing 13-year lows, and multiple high schools with zero students proficient in math, it is perhaps no surprise that Baltimore schools delayed implementing a grade policy in August that would have prevented six schools from fielding any sports teams.
The Daily Caller's Rob Smishock reports that Baltimore City Public Schools' (BCPS) policy would have restricted student athletes who had not achieved at least a 2.0 ("C") GPA in summer school or the last quarter of the preceding academic year from competing in fall sports like football, reported The Baltimore Sun. The old rule only mandated that students not have failed more than one class per quarter.
"We're making sure we're being fair to students who are affected by this and may not have fully understood what was at play before," BCPS executive director of whole child services and support Sarah Warren told The Sun.
"There's been situations that have come across my desk where a student may have been living with their grandmother, and their grandmother passes," BCPS chief academic officer Sean Conley said. "This student may have been an A or B student, but then the grades just plummeted. We want to make sure we're looking at the student as more of a totality than at just that one moment."
Over 50 percent of the district's students live in poverty, many are homeless, and many have to deal with the city's high crime rate.
"Our kids face so much adversity outside of school," Benjamin Franklin High School athletic director Richard Jackson told The Baltimore Sun. "I'd hate to have to throw even more adversity when they get to school."
BCPS did not respond immediately to a request for comment regarding whether miscommunication on the district's part concerning the new policy prevented students from being ready to meet the 2.0 GPA standard or why BCPS student athletes could not meet that standard when their peers from neighboring districts have had to meet it for years.
The Sun speculated that the delayed implementation and revision would permit 225 more students to take part in BCPS athletics. But student athletes will need to meet the 2.0 GPA cutoff by Nov. 9, the end of the district's first quarter, to compete in winter sports.
Students who wish to compete in college NCAA sports need to maintain a minimum GPA of 2.3.
We are reminded of Baltimore resident and disabled Army veteran, Victor Able, Sr., outburst of rage last year, fed up with the public education that his son, a 12th grader on the verge of graduation, received from City Neighbors Charter School after he recently tested at 4th grade level in math and 5th grade level in reading. Able says his son was simply passed to the next grade year after year so that his school could continue to receive extra federal funding even though it failed to deliver results. After his complaints fell on deaf ears at city council and the mayor's office, Able has now hired an attorney to address a system he says is "broken." Per Fox News:
According to the IEP report, the 12th grader reads at a 5th grade level; does math at a 4th grade level.
"It's not supposed to happen," stated Able. "I don't want him to fall out into the streets."
"They failed my son," said Able. "Not just my son, a whole lot of kids. The system is broken. They need to stop and fix it."
Able told Project Baltimore he has hired an attorney and has a meeting with the school later this month.
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Bob Lutz, GM Vice Chairman and spokes person extra-ordináire is of course present at the New York International Auto Show where he spoke to the press on several occasions. On one such occasion he told the present reporters that GM is considering to also use the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky Roadster engine for the upcoming Chevrolet Camaro. This 2.0 liter turbocharged, direct-injection four-cylinder engine is capable of 260 hp in the small roadsters.
The four-banger Camaro might just make it into production out of sheer necessity if fuel prices (in the States) continue to rise, to say European levels. GM plans to equip the new American muscle car with a choice of V6 (260 hp) or V8 (400 hp) engine in any case.
The Chevrolet Camaro will be marketed only as a premium muscle sports car, unlike its biggest competitor the Ford Mustang which offers both an entry-level model as well as premium models. Where this 4-cylinder engine would fit seems unclear, but with some tweaking I am sure that it could produce as many, if not more horses than the V6. For comparisons sake, take a look at the Audi S3 4-cylinder engine producing 265 hp but tuners easily tweak it up to (well) over 300 hp.
On a side note, Bob Lutz spoke at the Pontiac revealing ceremony where he said: "We used to say "We build excitement," and we'd show you a four-cylinder Grand Am." A quote like that could throw some serious doubts on the entire topic, but a performance 4-cylinder engine in a modern classic muscle car may just bring about that American Revolution.


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2020's Best Binoculars for Hunting Reviews
OUR TOP CHOICE: Nikon Prostaff 7s Binocular 42mm
The Nikon Prostaff 7s Binocular 42mm is one of the most respected binoculars on the market. These binoculars are built to Nikon's exacting standards and tough enough to handle the rough stuff.
A good pair of binoculars can be the difference between getting that huge multi-point buck you were aiming for and walking up to discover that it was actually just a two-pointer.
It's not practical to glass everything through your rifle scope. So, binoculars are pretty much a necessity for hunting.
SPOILER: There are a ton of options at just about every price. If you just want to cut to the purchase, get the Nikon Prostaff 7s Binocular 42mm. They're reasonably priced, and equipped with the lenses that have made Nikon legendary in the photography and optics industry.
For those of you who want to scan the field a bit before shooting your shot, we'll cover all the best options. That way, you can get the binoculars that suit you best.
Our winning binoculars get the first spot. We'll roll out the rest in order of price, from almost free to debt inducing.
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Editor's Choice: Nikon Prostaff 7s Binocular 42mm
The Nikon Prostaff 7s Binocular 42mm is one of the most respected binoculars on the market. These binoculars are built to Nikon's exacting standards and tough enough to handle the rough stuff.
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The Nikon Prostaff 7s Binocular 42mm is one of the most respected binoculars on the market. These binoculars are built to Nikon's exacting standards and tough enough to handle the rough stuff.
All the lenses are Fully Multilayer coated with Nikon's proprietary lens coatings that deliver excellent image clarity and vivid color. This produces a high contrast image that makes it easy to identify even those animals with effective natural camouflage, so you never miss an opportunity.
Additionally, the 42mm objective lenses and Nikon's ultra clear glass maximize light transmission to help you spot game at dawn and dusk.
The eyecups are adjustable. So, it's easy and comfortable to use these binoculars with or without glasses.
Lastly, the entire exterior is covered in rubber armoring for improved grip in all conditions and with sweaty hands. The rubberized housing also adds impact resistance. So, these binoculars will last through your roughest expeditions.
The overall performance is excellent. However, these binoculars do run on the heavy side. They won't break your back or anything. But, there are lighter options. Also, you may want to replace the included lens caps, as they are a bit flimsy.
But, the downsides are more than worth it. The price and performance makes these binoculars an excellent choice for any hunter, and they might be the best binoculars for western hunting.
Bushnell has a long standing reputation for producing affordable, high-quality gear. The Bushnell Falcon 7×35 Binoculars offer a blend of affordability and performance that's hard to find anywhere else.
The lenses are fully multi-coated for superior light transmission. And, Bushnell has equipped these binoculars with an Instafocus feature that makes it easy to focus quickly when shifting targets or following moving animals.
These binoculars are also equipped with fold-down eyecups, which make it easier to get a clear focus with or without glasses.
Although the optics are impressively clear, these binoculars only offer 7x magnification. Also, the 35mm objective lenses collect a good amount of light. But, the image might be a little dark in very dark environments.
Overall, these binoculars produce an excellent image. But, some hunters may want more powerful binoculars.
Even so, these are an excellent option for hunters on a budget, and those who primarily hunt in daylight and don't need extremely powerful optics.
If you're looking for an excellent set of binoculars for under $100, the Nikon 8×42 Prostaff 3S Binocular is hard to beat. There just aren't many binoculars that offer such high quality and performance in this price range.
First, the binoculars come in two configurations:
- The 8×42 variant, which is an excellent all-purpose binocular that's suitable for almost any type of hunting.
- The 10×42 variant, which is the best option for hunters who need more magnification for hunting in wide open landscapes or to identify smaller animals. These are also an excellent binoculars for birding.
Both variants feature Nikon's proprietary full multicoated lenses and ultra clear glass. And, the 42mm objective lenses collect a lot of light. So, the image is bright and clear enough to pick out game in low contrast environments.
The eyecups are adjustable to accomodate prescription or protective eyewear.
Like many other Nikon binoculars, the exterior is coated in rubber armoring. So, these are easy to hold onto, even in wet conditions. And, the rubber coating provides good impact resistance, in case you do drop them.
Unfortunately, the lens caps are pretty cheap. So, you may want to replace those.
And, some users have noticed a little bit of distortion around the edges of the image. It doesn't interfere with viewing. But, you may want to get something else if you plan on using your binoculars for pictures or video.
But, these are a great option for budget-minded hunters who want binoculars capable enough for any terrain or game at a decent price.
Interested in other scope and optics options?
The Bushnell Green Roof Trophy Binoculars 10×42 offer a moderate step up from Bushnell's budget binoculars. They're still in the budget-friendly zone. But, these binoculars punch above their weight in terms of performance.
The 10x magnification and fully multi-coated lenses produce a clear image that's excellent for spotting game from really far away. There's also a fast focus feature that helps you dial in the focus quickly when you're panning or switching to new targets.
Additionally, the 42mm objective lenses collect a lot of light for a bright image in dawn and dusk environments. All the optical features make these binoculars excellent for hunting in any terrain, at any time of day.
The exterior is coated in a rubber layer to make these binoculars more grippy and impact resistant. You're less likely to drop them. But, if you do, they'll hold up.
These binoculars also come with flip up lens covers, which are convenient. Unfortunately, the lens caps are not particularly durable. Also, these binoculars come in at just over two pounds, which is a bit on the heavy side.
Even with the downsides, these are some of the best binoculars for the money, for any type of hunter.
Vortex Optics equipment usually runs on the high end of the price spectrum. But, the Vortex Optics Diamondback Roof Prism Binoculars come in at a middle-of-the-road price point, and deliver great performance.
First, they're available in a whole bunch of configurations:
- 8×42 is the optimal all-purpose binocular for hunting.
- 10×42 for those who need a bit more range on their optics or who hunt smaller game.
- 12×50 for those who need extreme long-range optics and excellent image clarity in low light conditions. If you bump up to the 12×50 variant, you'll bust above $200 by a few dollars.
- If you have the budget, you can bump up to the Vortex Optics Viper HD Roof Prism Binoculars. They're similar to the Diamondback binoculars, but have better lens coatings for a clearer image and better color fidelity.
So, there's an option for everyone.
No matter which variant you get, the fully multi-coated lenses and excellent glass will produce a bright and clear image in any landscape. And, 42mm or 50mm objective lenses take in enough light to spot animals at dawn and dusk.
To help you customize the fit, the eyecups are adjustable. So, these are comfortable with or without glasses. Also, the focus of each eyepiece can be adjusted individually, to really customize the focus for your eyes.
The only trouble with the focus adjustments is that there are a lot of them. Some users have found these to be tricky to focus. But, Vortex provides instructions in the box.
On the exterior, the housing is coated in rubber armoring to give you good grip and improve the durability.
Overall, these binoculars are a great buy for anyone who wants excellent performance, but isn't quite ready to fork over the money for super high-end binoculars.
The Athlon Optics Midas Roof Prism UHD Binoculars pack in a lot of lens technology without jacking up the price too much.
The lenses feature three different technologies:
- ED glass for maximum light transmission and minimal color diffusion.
- ESP dielectric coating for more vivid colors and higher image resolution.
- Full multi-coating transmits 99% of the available light to your eye.
That's a lot of techy words. What it all means is that these binoculars produce a clear enough image to find and identify animals in any terrain. And, the image is bright enough that you'll be able to use your binoculars at the very edges of dawn and dusk.
Also, these binoculars are available in a few configurations:
- 8×42 for all-purpose hunting use.
- 10×42 for long-range hunters.
- 10×50 for long-range hunting in low light.
- 12×50 for ultimate long-range, low-light performance.
The 10×50 and 12×50 models are going to run you a bit more than $300. But, the other two are totally doable on a $300 budget.
No matter which variant you get, you'll get twist-up eyecups for viewing with or without glasses. And, each eyepiece has an adjustable focus for a customized focus.
These binoculars are waterproof. There's texturing to help you keep a hold of them. However, there's no armoring on the exterior. But, they're still plenty durable.
All in all, the drawbacks are very minor. The image quality and configuration options make these binoculars an excellent choice for any hunter who's willing to spend a little to get top-notch optics.
Heading Back to Camp
You can hunt without binoculars. But, it makes your life in the field a lot harder. And, you can use your hunting binoculars for lots of other things like bird watching, viewing sports games from the nosebleed section, and long-range sport shooting.
If you want a pair of binoculars that hits all the important points without hitting your wallet too hard, get the Nikon Prostaff 7s Binocular 42mm. They've been tried. They've been proven. You can't go wrong.
Now that you've scanned all the options, get yourself some binoculars and stop squinting off into the distance.
Best Binoculars for Hunting Overall
The Nikon Prostaff 7s Binocular 42mm is one of the most respected binoculars on the market. These binoculars are built to Nikon's exacting standards and tough enough to handle the rough stuff.


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In his own words: The power to indict, and to destroy
My trial in Chicago is almost upon me, even as this is published. It is a great relief to be finally going to court on the main issues, and I have full faith in the outcome, which will allow Barbara and me to return to a
normal life in London and in Canada. After four years of pummelling from all directions, much of it below the belt, one wants to set the record straight. I've seen myself depicted as a greedy, flamboyant crook who stole money from his company to finance a pretentious lifestyle and feed the insatiable materialism of his harridan wife. An added fillip to this has been the notion that this theft has been at the expense not only of the shareholders, but of the journalists the company employed.
This monstrous caricature has been diluted in the U.S. and largely erased in Canada, as the controversy has received some serious analysis here, but in Britain it has been spoonfed to and amplified by journalists who had no appetite to do even the most basic research. Supposedly reputable journalism seemed like the tabloids, some of which scraped depths I had not seen before. I'm not going to reveal my defence, except to say that the charges are false and the poverty of them will be exposed in court. I know I am innocent of the allegations against me, as does almost anyone who actually knows me, and I am about to prove it.
My strenuous maintenance of my innocence, though, is widely viewed as "denial," as it inconveniently contradicts the instant judgment that I was another corporate crook and a carrier of the Enron virus. I hope it will be useful to give some background to the case. American business was hit in the last decade with several terrible frauds, Enron among them, that wiped out scores of thousands of jobs and pensions and billions of dollars of stock market value, including the life savings of thousands of people. Public indignation was understandably considerable.
But, more than ever in commercial matters, the power to indict became the power to destroy. It has been wielded by a New Class of belligerent lawyers and supporting experts, using two features of the American legal system only pallidly replicated in the U.K. or Canada: the plea bargain, and the criminal prosecution of corporations.
Under the first, the prosecutors single out an individual, grill and threaten and harass him, and then offer a light treatment in exchange for denunciation of higher-ups, and roll upward through an organization as if toppling dominoes, until all fingers are pointed at the top. In our own case, the press has noted the defection of only one executive, for a minimalist sentence, despite pressures on others that the uninitiated cannot imagine. Innocent people can be hounded and threatened night and day, to compel them to accuse others and save themselves. Every possible aspect of a person's life can be pried open and misrepresented in defamatory leaks to
'Innocent people can be hounded night and day to compel them to accuse others'
the press. For our part, we will, if we must, demonstrate that even government-suborned perjury is hazardous.
As for the threat of criminal prosecution, what has befallen me could assail any controlling shareholder in the U.S., as the outrages inflicted on Maurice "Hank" Greenberg of AI G demonstrate. He built and controlled the greatest insurance business in the world over 40 years and was thrown out like a dead mouse when the attorney general of New York (now the governor) threatened to prosecute his directors if they did not remove the chairman. Companies can be completely destroyed by prosecution, as was the great accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, in an action the U.S. Supreme Court eventually determined to be illicit, after the company had collapsed, and nearly 100,000 people in dozens of countries had been disemployed.
Our company had a flourishing business. There had been no bankruptcy or lost jobs or pensions or life savings. The attack required the orchestrated hostility of the lower courts, security regulators and tax collectors, the entire lower echelon of constricting official harassment. This was achieved in large measure by the climate created by eager accomplices in the press, who turned our case instantly into a sort of journalistic Ponzi scheme in which lies and myths, fed by the prosecutors and their informants, were pyramided on top of each other to create a Manichaean epic.
It was a vintage American "shock and awe" campaign. Those in the crosshairs of the system are terrorized and exhausted by endless official impositions, cascading charges, confections of moral outrage, and slanders leaked to the press, without any chance to face and rebut actual charges, for years, while our reputations and careers are destroyed and our means relentlessly sapped. The companies we built became platforms for our enemies as they tormented us and filled their own pockets, to the general delight of, especially,
the British media.
In the name of protecting shareholders, some $250 million of their money (especially mine, as the largest shareholder) has been spent by the self-nominated and courtapproved protectors of the public shareholders. In the process, 70 per cent of the stock market value of our American company, and 90 per cent of the stock market value of our Canadian company, have been dissipated. The shareholding victims of it are finally becoming restless. My accusers took over and have largely ruined our companies, while grossly enriching themselves. I have involuntarily, as the chief shareholder, effectively been forced to pay to persecute myself.
It has been very tiresome, but also very informative, and surviving it in good heart and spirits has been rather reassuring. Phys-
ically, I feel as I did 35 years ago. Barbara and I have struggled through a great many difficulties almost every day. We have resumed writing, and despite this unholy onslaught, though there have been some disappointments, we have maintained almost all the friendships and possessions that we had valued. Our marriage is impregnable, and family relationships are even closer and more highly valued than they had been before.
THE PRESUMPTION of innocence is the basis of our criminal justice system in the U.K., Canada and the U.S., and the treatment of accused people is one of the most reliable criteria of the decency of any civilized society. In practice, the presumption of innocence in this case has been a risible fiction. And I believe that my bond, now $38 million, is the highest in U.S. history, illustrative of the frenzied and failed attempt by the U.S. government to prevent me from exercising the constitutionally guaranteed right to defend myself. (I have been able to finance my entire, very costly, defence. A particularly gratifying series of asset sales had to be conducted in the most difficult commercial circumstances I have known, fending off unheard-of numbers of bottomfeeders, hucksters and charlatans, as well as spurious official meddlers.)
From a public relations standpoint, we were fortunate in our opponent. Not everyone (including most Americans) loves the U.S. government. Constitutionally questionable American legislation directed against organized crime and terrorism is frequently misapplied against completely improbable people. Chunks of my assets in the U.S. were immobilized on the basis of these statutes. Proceedings were then stayed by being subsumed into new charges. Constitutional guarantees of due process, and against unlawful, uncompensated property seizure, and the assurance of the grand jury system, have not lived up to what I believe James Madison and his fellow authors of the U.S. constitution had in mind.
In our company, we built a fine business of quality products. But the creators of value were systematically and instantly demonized, and then the profiteers handed the task of trying to prove that we had acted illegally to the prosecutors, stretching out the time of their own self-enrichment, the prejudice to the shareholders, and the mockery of the presumption of innocence, to almost four years.
There is no chance of recovering the more than $250 million it cost to investigate everything that went on as we built up our companies (with the utmost probity, as the evidence will reveal). When we are acquitted, the question of the justification for this orgy of self-directed largesse will finally replace, as the real issue, the malignant canard of possible criminal behaviour by the present defendants. And my libel suits, the largest in Canadian history at over $3 billion, especially those against my accusers on the Hollinger special committee, which have been patiently waiting like racehorses at the starting gates, will finally proceed.
This current U.S. corporate climate is part of a pattern that is identifiable in American history. From the early and imperishable optimism of the country comes the notion
We were fortunate in our opponent. Not everyone loves the U.S. government.'
that any perceived wrong can be instantly put right by legislators. This regularly leads to extreme solutions more damaging than the problems they were meant to address.
Prohibition was based on the consensus that there was too much alcoholism in the United States. Alcohol was declared to be illegal, placing one of the country's largest industries in the hands of gangsters. In the thirties, the desire not to be drawn into another European war was so great that neutrality legislation was adopted that would have made it impossible for the administration to make any moral distinction between Hitler and the British and French, had not the president been the most agile politician in the country's history. In the late forties and early fifties, there was understandable concern about Communism in government and the film industry, but the best answer was not McCarthyism and the mindless persecution of people who had been social democrats at university.
Now there is concern about corporate ethics, but the current American response is to hound and monitor corporations and frighten their officers and directors. At the same time, the issue of distribution and disparity of wealth is a legitimate public policy question, but instead of it being made the subject of a serious debate, there is a policy of totemistic tokenism: wealthy defendants are to be sacrificially pursued and thrown to the mobs, or to the beasts in the coliseum, as if this addressed the issue of why such a rich country, with thousands of (mainly meritocratic) billionaires, has 40 million poor people. America's wealthiest citizens dress in corduroy trousers and Viyella shirts, driving SUVs between campuses and junk-food emporia, to show that they are not really interested in money, other than to combat AIDS in developing countries and promote other charities. The executive class is muted and intimidated. The plea bargain system can crack almost anyone.
When the life I had worked for 35 years to
build came under attack from this source in 2003, there was nothing for it but to conduct an orderly retreat to a defensible perimeter in Canada, refinance myself, and await the point when human decency requires that people fighting against years of press abuse and government harassment have a right to be heard. Now, I have never felt so welcome in Canada.
I MUST ADD a word about the British media, which I knew. Some have commented that I must be upset that so many that accepted my hospitality have so assailed me. I never imagined I was buying anyone's amiability, and the fact of being in someone's home doesn't oblige the visitor to be pleasant after they have left. I am a little more disappointed in the pompous self-levitations and in some cases rabid antagonism of people who obsequiously sought my favours, and often received them, and particularly of those whom I helped through personal crises of health, marriage breakups, financial problems, and even more personal matters.
Reading the British press comments on my travails, I am grateful for those who have recalled my times as a London newspaper chairman favourably. I note, though, that even some of my supporters confine their support to Daily Telegraph editorial matters and defer to the notion that I perhaps have
blotted my ledger financially, and feed the myth that my wife exercised an undue influence. She did her jobs, as editorial vice-president and columnist, conscientiously and discreetly, and was fiercely loyal to our journalists. Her professional scruples have been very sadly unrequited. She is a magnificent person and it would normally go without saying that she deserves better.
Even the well-disposed and intelligent have been gulled by the onslaught of American corporate McCarthyist propaganda. I see, in reviews of Tom Bower's recent defamatory novel about my wife and me, that even fine publications like the Economist and the Fina?icial Times, while panning the book as any honest or even sane person would, assume that I am financially culpable and likely to go to jail. Until the emptiness of the charges is revealed, as they are about to be, these are the lies agreed upon, even by people untainted by malice, and innocently duped.
The British pay a heavy price for having national media that are so narrowly concentrated and uniform in their group-think, so conditioned to truckling to head boy, whether it's an incumbent newspaper chairman, or any conventional wisdom. And they have gone on too long substituting stylistic flourish for research.
My impression is that the British national press bought almost completely into the theory that non-competition payments were fraudulent; that I had milked the Telegraph and starved it and its journalists to pay for an opulent life for myself; and that my wife was a force for extravagance, pretension and political extremism. As I have written, I invite everyone who is interested to observe the debunking of all such allegations when our enemies have to prove them, instead of just thriving off the gullibility of the ignorant and the malicious, using many of the levers of the U.S. government to disseminate their message.
I look back on my days at the Telegraph and Spectator with pleasure. I caught the end of the era of the newspaper and the individualistic newspaper chairman. We took over an insolvent enterprise and made it the greatest title in Europe and the highest quality and most-respected title in the U.K. Politically, I am proud of having gone all the way with Margaret Thatcher, and then with John Major, and of having supported Tony Blair at times, especially in Ulster. I am proud also of our role in assuring that the Conservative party did not fall into the hands of Euro-integrationists, and I think most Conservatives, and most British voters, would also be happy with that today.
The imbecility of much of official U.S. policy since I left the Telegraph, and the moral and military failure of Israel in Lebanon last year, make our views on the subject of those countries less presentable than they were when I was urging a more generous treatment of American and Israeli official policy than was then fashionable in the British media. I believe that they were the right opinions at the time. I am also proud of the Daily Telegraph's undoubted victory in the price war, where we retained our market-leading status despite a furious assault from News Corp.
In Canada, I'm proud that we gave the country a first-class written daily press, and an alternative to the orthodoxy of the longgoverning Liberal party and the incumbent national media. We helped importantly to unite the federal Conservatives, who are now governing very effectively. Above all, in both
Bower's book plumbs profound depths of mendacity, libel and prosaic clumsiness'
countries, I am proud that we tried to separate comment from reporting, tried to be fair, and emphasized good writing. I wish all the titles well, and almost all those whom I knew in them. I liked the traditional newspaper business, and was faithful to its better standards, but I lost faith in it commercially and started to depart it in the late nineties, very advantageously. I had naturally not foreseen such a perturbed exit strategy.
THE FINAL NADIR in the plunge to defile my wife and me, the last lap in bilious and oafish defamation, and the last and lowest of the animals unleashed against me by News Corp., was Bower's book. It plumbs profound depths of mendacity, libel and prosaic clumsiness. I have seen a great many libels, but I have never seen anything as contemptible as this. The most annoying of all Bower's infamies were his attacks on my wife, and on my parents, who have been dead for 30 years. Barbara is falsely accused of being slatternly, screeching, fanatical and money-grubbing, and my father of being an unscrupulous, bigoted drunkard and failed executive. Barbara is a perfect wife and a fine writer who has never raised her voice in her adult life. My father was a universally respected and utterly honest and tolerant man, an original and decent person of high intellect and a marvellous sense of humour, which an hour's research would have verified.
To be fair, Bower engages in no-fault, equal opportunity disparagement. Henry Kissinger
and Lord Carrington, William F. Buckley and George Will, were all gulled or bought: my directors were failed fiduciaries, and the highly capable Marie-Josée Kravis, now president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, is a "scatterbrain." I was amused to be described by an unnamed source as a "wooden bulldozer" (it reminded me of Andrei Gromyko's description of Anwar Sadat as a "paper camel"). Less acceptable was Bower's criticism of my book on Franklin D. Roosevelt, which has been well-received, for excessive reliance on secondary sources. That is bunk in itself, but especially hard to take from this myth-making sleaze-merchant. His book comes close to Mary McCarthy's famous review of Lillian Heilman, that "every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.' "
I prefer to take the flattering opinions Bower expressed to me in his obsequious
emails in his unsuccessful quest for an interview, which will be produced in court, along with a great deal of other evidence he will find uncongenial. Since I have sued him, I will not argue the case here, but anyone who wants to see my very extensive statement of claim, detailing scores of distinct libels, should know that it is a matter of public record.
But here again, the fetid solidarity of Fleet Street is evident. While most of the London reviews were negative, most also subscribed to some version of the Big Lie about financial chicanery, while acknowledging that I had saved the Telegraph from insolvency and strengthened it as a product in the hands of the readers. By contrast, American and Canadian reviewers have been almost universally censorious of the author. A distinguished Canadian law professor wrote that "Bower has the unusual knack of eavesdropping on prayer: 'Black would consult the Almighty and be reassured that whatever course of life he decided upon—any plan, ruse, or conspiracy—would improve mankind.' One wonders if Bower would like to see God indicted as a co-conspirator." Another eminent law professor wrote that it was a "drive-by smear." The New York Times called it "a sad little... squeak;" the Globe and Mail "an assassination."
I have never had the slightest doubt of the outcome of a fair trial, knowing that the judgment of the legality of my actions will lie in the hands of 12 American citizens, in one of that country's greatest cities, more or less at the bar of Abraham Lincoln and Clarence Darrow. Those with any interest will soon be able to determine whether the braying, hideous tricoteuses among my accusers, especially in the British press, the prosecutors' most obedient cheering section, or my supporters and I, have spoken the truth. It will be a relief to expose my accusers and their parrots and their false charges.
Barbara and I look forward to returning to London when I have been vindicated, later this year, and then dividing our time between London and Canada. There is life after the Telegraph, as increasing numbers of people are discovering, and personnel depart my successor regime in droves. I will note some of the constructive remarks of some British commentators, and promise to be more observant of British sensibilities, though I thought I got on well with almost everyone I actually knew there, and our British friends have been splendid in their solidarity. After all that has happened in the last four years, and no longer having much to do with the media, we will be ready for a quieter life. We think of our return happily at the end of each full day, grateful though we are to be in Canada. Being falsely accused may be characterbuilding, but it is not much fun. M


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FOR more than 20 years, The Furniture Mall has been helping Singaporeans create their dream homes. With 40 stores and over 70 brands, it has earned the reputation of being a one-stop destination - mixing quality furnishings with top-notch customer service. But few know about the mall's unique set-up: that it is actually run by the Singapore Furniture Association (SFA), which first mooted the concept in the 1990s. Back then, the SFA had been looking for a solution to an increasingly costly and competitive environment - a result of big furniture stores entering the local market.
Following a study mission to the United States to learn about new retailing concepts, The Furniture Mall was established in 1995 at Beach Road. The idea was to group furniture retailers together, under the same roof - enabling them to pool resources for maximum benefit.
Says Paul Keng, first vice-president of SFA and managing director of The Furniture Mall: Tenants who are also SFA members pay a nominal advertising fee, as a collective effort towards joint promotions and marketing campaigns. This way, everyone benefits. Indeed, by joining forces, members are able to enjoy cost-savings that would otherwise be impossible, if they operated independently. This includes lower rentals through the block leasing of retail space, and cost-effective advertising and promotions.
Mr Keng stresses that The Furniture Mall's set-up is truly one-of-a-kind, in that it's a mall run by a trade association which is not profit-making. "Whatever balance we have at the end of the year, we contribute back to the association. This is the only such model in the world," says Mr Keng.
New challenges, new solutions
In its 21 years of operations, Mr Keng and his fellow association members have witnessed a sea change in the furniture industry. Apart from the perennial gripes about higher business and rental costs - which affect all companies, regardless of their sector - tenants at The Furniture Mall have seen first-hand the disruptive power of the Internet.
The trend towards e-commerce, in particular, has proven particularly tricky. Notes Mr Keng: "People no longer really need showrooms to visualise furniture. They can now go onto the Internet and have 360-degree views of the space!"
To make matters worse, he has noticed a growing trend of shoppers visiting physical showrooms to suss out items in person - before buying the exact item online.
Some online retailers have also surprised of late, by entering the furniture space. This has only served to heighten competition, says Koh Sok Yan, honorary secretary of SFA and director at The Furniture Mall.
But the mall is adapting its own strategies to deal with the new challenges - including the savvy use of social media, as well as strategies to differentiate themselves from their competitors.
For one, the mall has a healthy online presence. This is important because, as Michael Tan, honorary treasurer of SFA and director at The Furniture Mall, notes: "How customers find you is important. Before they come to your showroom, they will often do a search online - so if you don't have a website, you will lose."
The mall also has an active Facebook page, which it uses to not only conduct promotions, but to also stay in touch with customers. Updates on tenants' stocks are frequently shared on Facebook, so that would-be customers are aware of available pieces and can plan their visit to the mall ahead of time. Feedback from consumers is also dealt with in a timely manner, with the quick turnaround time underscoring the mall's commitment to its visitors.
And unlike some online marketplaces that sometimes leave consumers with little recourse if and when things go wrong, The Furniture Mall works hard to ensure that customer-seller disputes are resolved amicably.
It does so through the Furniture & Interior Renovations Advisory Committee (FIRAC), which was set up in 1997 to act as an intermediary between consumers and retailers. All tenants at The Furniture Mall and SFA members enjoy free mediation service from FIRAC.
This helps to prevent disputes from escalating. While consumers' interests are protected by ensuring they receive value-for-money products and quality customer service, FIRAC also acts as a quality trademark for retailers. On top of this, FIRAC has also worked closely with the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) over the years - bringing quality assurance to customers.
Grand expansion plans
But beyond these "here and now" strategies, SFA also has one eye trained on the future. It plans to open a second mall sometime in the next two years, with a wholly different concept. A location is currently being sourced somewhere downtown or in a suburban area, with a size of about 100,000 square feet.
While the sheer size sounds impressive, what really sets the new mall apart is its concept. Explains Mr Keng: "We want to bring together the entire supply chain - from when materials come in, to when furniture is shipped out - to truly become a one-stop service provider."
His vision is to form an alliance with various trade associations - an idea that has popped up in his discussions with the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCCI). Already, SFA has had a history of close collaboration with the Singapore Renovation Contractors and Materials Supplies Association (RCMA) - and ties are expected to deepen further.
This would mean a grouping with timber merchants, renovation contractors, logistics and warehousing providers, and even delivery services providers - in addition to SFA's members - for greater cost savings. "Having all of this centralised would be good for our retailers; they won't have to source for sub- contractors to get things done, because all the services they need will be together. There is more synergy this way," says Mr Keng.
The tenant mix may also evolve to include more than just furniture sellers - lighting and appliance shops, or carpeting and curtain retailers could also be featured. This would offer consumers a more holistic shopping experience.
Mr Keng and his team are even thinking of teaming up with developers to create pre-furnished properties. "Imagine if you can team up to develop 500 hundred homes - straightaway your sales will increase by 500 times," notes Mr Keng.
The layout of the mall is likely to be vastly different, too. While The Furniture Mall's current space at 10 Toh Guan Road features small partitioned units for each tenant, Ms Koh is pushing for a more open concept.
"We may have surrounding boutiques selling high-end products, while the centre follows an exhibition style with mid- to slightly-cheaper products. It will help to have a wide range of products, so that we can cater to a diverse customer profile," says Ms Koh.
In fact, Mr Keng is even thinking of adopting an integrated showroom concept. This means retailers will no longer operate in silos - instead of a shop dedicated to couches and another to tables, the new mall could feature different themes of bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens. Suppliers will then be able to display their wares prominently, and alongside other goods. "This will really help customers visualise what their entire home can look like - because it's not just about one sofa or one dining table. It's about how everything works together," says Mr Keng.
It is exactly this imaginative spirit that has kept The Furniture Mall going for 21 years. Despite all the competition and headwinds the industry may be facing, SFA is proving that the future continues to look bright. As Mr Keng says: "There's no point talking about the past already. The future - that is the question."
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Doha, Qatar: The World Energy Council launched the 2012 World Energy Trilemma report during the UN climate talks at COP18, which are being held in Doha till December 7. The study ranks the 93 World Energy Council member countries on their performance in energy and climate policies, and details recommendations for policymakers in order to provide clean, affordable, and secure energy. The top three Arab countries on the Energy sustainability Index were Qatar in the 41st place, UAE in the 44th and Saudi Arabia in the 46th. The index is based on each countries scores in the three criterias, Energy Efficiency, Enviromental Impact Mitigation and Social Equity — the Energy "Trilemma".
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text: Sheffield History 451 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 TONY CAPSTICK 1944-2003 Tony Capstick (July 27, 1944 � 23 October 2003) was a British comedian, actor, musician and broadcaster. He was born in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England and for over 30 years he was a presenter on BBC Radio Sheffield. Outside Sheffield, he is perhaps better known as one of the policemen in the sitcom Last of the Summer Wine. A regular performer on folk circuits, in 1981 he reached number 3 in the UK singles chart with "The Sheffield Grinder" / "Capstick Comes Home". As a comedian he had an eight-part television series, Capstick's Capers, on Channel 4 in 1983. Capstick was also a prolific bit-part actor, with a career including minor roles in the soap operas Emmerdale and Coronation Street. In the latter he played the recurring character of the brewer Harvey Nuttall. His career at Radio Sheffield came to an end in January 2003, when he was dismissed for an alleged drop in quality, following the latest in a string of drunk driving offences. He continued to write a regular column in a local weekly newspaper, the Rotherham Advertiser, but his mood and health never recovered from the sacking. His record Capstick Comes Home was based on the well-known Hovis Wholemeal Bread commercials directed by Ridley Scott. He was found dead at his cottage in Hoober, near Wentworth, Rotherham. He was survived by wife Gillian, and first wife Carol, mother of his children: son James and daughter Vicky. Capstick was author, with Paul Donoghue, of a book on the Appleby Horse Fair. Quote Link to post Share on other sites


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Oops!… She did it again!
Selena Gomez is having the time of her life getting tatted up these days. Early Thursday morning (January 16), the musician unveiled yet another work of body art to her fans, this time with a new design on her neck. In a video shared to Instagram, the 27-year-old gave her followers the first glimpse at her latest ink just behind her ear on the right side of her neck, which now boasts the word "Rare."
"Did it again," the "Lose You to Love Me" artist wrote with a butterfly emoji and a clip of her wearing a tie-dye sweatshirt as the camera pans at her new ink, which was done by the artists of Bang Bang Tattoo in New York City. With upwards of 2 million likes on the pic, it's clear Selenators approve.
The illustration was without a doubt inspired by Gomez's long-awaited third studio album, Rare, which officially arrived last week four years after releasing her last project, 2015's Revival. This isn't the only tattoo she's gotten since marking her new album era.
Ahead of the weekend, the vocalist debuted another significant tattoo to commemorate her the date she underwent her life-saving kidney transplant as a result of her battle with lupus, presumably in June 2017. The ink — first teased in her "Rare" music video — is that of the number "6," which appears on the backside of her right arm. In case you missed it, see it again here.
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