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after English clubs were banned from Europe in 1985, the Football League competition created a comfort to them
Have you heard of the English Super League with Liverpool and Manchester United? It may sound like a reminder rib Ian Ayre, has passed. If the big clubs want to form a breakaway competition of their own now 26 years too late. It has already been done.
English football was in the doldrums in 1985. 1966, he became more and more a distant memory, 56 fans died in a fire in the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford City and 39 Juventus fans died in the Heysel disaster when Liverpool fans rioted before the Cup in Europe, which led to UEFA banning all English clubs in Europe for an indefinite period of time. Potentially disastrous financial consequences. After all, it was not a good time to be English.
six clubs, including Liverpool, had qualified for Europe in the 1985-86 season, but the ban has made efforts in the previous season intangible and Everton, who were the champions of League, were denied a place in the European Cup, it means they were dissatisfied with their neighbors Merseyside would be an understatement. Football fans will not be forgotten. I still have not forgiven.
do not worry, though, because the Football League was about to get a brilliant idea: instead of playing European football, instead of the six clubs involved in a super intern named the player as a form of financial compensation and sport. Everton were in the European Cup, Liverpool, Southampton and Tottenham qualified for the UEFA Cup for the championship and the League of Norwich as a champion of the Cup, while Manchester United had been in the Cup Winners' Cup "in As winners of the FA Cup.
for Everton, who could have taken in Barcelona, ??Bayern Munich and Juventus, the opportunity to play in the second division Norwich rise was so comforting as a family holiday in a Spanish villa being replaced by a stay through the summer in a cottage in Norfolk. It is surprising that the tournament was abandoned after one year.
The teams were divided into two groups of three on each side of the game twice, before the top two from each group went to a second semi-final stage, followed by a final two floors a useful distraction when the league season consists of 42 games and the FA Cup and League Cup meant something else. Rumor has it that Everton and Liverpool have been left out in the draw, which means that group 1 consists of Everton, United and Norwich and Liverpool, Southampton and Tottenham made by Group 2.
However, to the surprise of absolutely nobody, the Football League First struggled to find a sponsor for your brain waves. "A lack of a better name, because they have yet to find a sponsor, they call the Super League Cup," wrote David Lacey in the Guardian. "A sponsorship agreement with a brewer fell this week as c ' might be better. No doubt, the brewers have acted in good faith, but do you really want to be associated with an event born of a disaster that followed a hard day of drinking water in Brussels? "
a solution has finally arrived, however, when the cable sports channel Screensport agreed to sponsor the tournament, giving it a new name: the Super Screensport, which sounds less like a serious contender among the teams in the country was more like a five-a-side tournament in the former professionals from more than 50 years.
It was not an encouraging start. Screensport channel was launched as an independent in 1984 and was bought by WH Smith in 1987, before finally being renamed the European Network of Sport. The canal was closed permanently hampered by its new owner, Eurosport in 1993, by which time Sky had a stranglehold on English football.
Interest in the tournament was not high, perhaps a result of breathing the League campaign that grows with him, but also because of the darkness that surrounds the game. Clubs have been in conflict with the BBC and ITV on the money - Games left out of the box until the new year - and the threat of a real Super League weighed heavily
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In fact, the failure of Super capture the imagination is used as an argument for why a Super League could not function. That said, resulted in the same cup full House, designed by the FA so that each club can experience the feeling of the Super essentially a consolation race to lose in a competition of consolation, but that was six years after the competition consolation original was over.
gaming authorities were full of ideas at some point, the negotiations to stop the Super League Super sounds almost replaced by British Cup, a competition for clubs in England and Scotland, but that never happened.
UnitedBefore the opening match of the Super Cup, the chairman Martin Edwards, wrote in his program notes that he hoped that "only last a year" due to the naive belief that UEFA could have lifted the ban on English clubs then. His prediction was correct, but got no points for the job.
UnitedRon Atkinson set a frantic pace in the league at the start of the season and would expect to get through their group with Norwich designated whipping boys. But his first game at Old Trafford in September was against the champions, Everton, who presented a check really strong. United, who won their first eight games, beat Everton last season with the FA Cup final bead Norman Whiteside, but the Toffees, seeking revenge, got a little style.
warning signs were there for the competition. Only 33 859 people attended, according to American standards, despite what the Guardian called "a show full of dramatic incidents, skills and subtle half a dozen excellent goals." Four went to Everton, Kevin Sheedy fastest game of the group with a 25-yard screamer. While States had not been demolished, the team Everton and speed still trapped. The difference of eight points between the parties in the league suddenly seemed abnormal.
Three weeks later, however, the group became the head of Norwich won the second race on the same score to put pressure on United. However, due to strange format, two months elapsed between the first match for United and the next. At home against Norwich, has resisted the temptation to Bryan Robson a break after an injury, but Gordon Strachan is necessary to come to the half and won a penalty, converted by Whiteside, after Wayne Biggins gave visitors an early lead.United
Although United were increasingly listless, the Super Cup was to attract the attention of Norwich, it is necessary only to avoid defeat by two goals in the last game against the The team of Atkinson to qualify for the semifinals. 15,449 fans at Carrow Road to watch Norwich were there to participate effectively reserve with injuries continue to pile up for United, the leader in the First Division was reduced to two points behind Liverpool. Missing eight players to leave Manchester United task has become even more difficult when Jesper Olsen became ill on the team bus.
Norwich, who had lost once in 14 games, took the lead in the ninth minute thanks to Kevin Williams to leave United need to score three unanswered. With 19 minutes, Colin Gibson called, but that was by one point from their four matches, the U.S. went out, not you shed a tear. After all, according to the report published in The Guardian, UK "gave the ball with depressing regularity and lack of inspiration," giving the impression that simply do not care.
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the conclusion that the selection of school at the age of 11 years is irresponsible is considered "messianic" and "irrational prejudice" by Dr. Christopher Ray, Manchester Grammar master high school ( Letters, October 24). You might ask some questions. For example, why the average skill level of Hampshire, do not select at 11, much higher than that of Kent, 32 schools? Given that some form of selection at 16 is necessary to have students who do well at this age must have been in a particular type of school before? The answer is no. Schools such as Westminster and Camden school for girls, with a mixture of forms, including sixth students from other schools, no new students is significantly lower than those who entered in a younger age. Or those students who were selected at 11. As in other sixth form colleges, college students Hills Road have not been selected, and how the results of the university compared to those of AMS in terms of admissions at Oxford and Cambridge? As for the "deliberate misrepresentation-tion" that "many independent schools like mine" are the "privilege of the rich" is not aware that most schools most successful independent charge high fees? Academic, MSG used to compete on an equal footing with Westminster, Winchester and Eton. If it still does and is raising a large number of poor children, Dr. Ray is to be commended. But is not it?
Peter Newsam
Thornton-le-Dale, North Yorkshire
. Dr. Ray suffers messianic belief to separate the children were younger as possible in cash or early academic promise. They should consult the state that ranks higher than any other in the English speaking world, ranked by OECD Education - Alberta. Managers cock Edmonton proudly that not only broke the system of private schools, but threaten to fly out of the water for any private school that is trying to win - because the state system is not damn good. They do not set children. As the boss asked, incredulously, why would you do that to a child? Why label them and their potential in such a young age?
Ray has to go and then wonder why it is consumed in the lower half of the international tables. As leaders in Alberta are well aware, is largely because they are loaded with a selective approach, looking back and damage the class based on the private system whose cultural elitism, this government is doing everything possible to imitate destroy our public school system where they could be improved.
Rhonda Evans
London
. Dr. Ray said his school is not the "privilege of the rich." While 50% of households in the UK have an income of 20,000 pounds or less, only those earning £ 18.500 or less, would be entitled to a free place in the AMS. The school offers about 250 scholarships (over 1300 seats in total) at full price set at £ 9,996 per year. Fortunately, with a gross family income of £ 28,750 children would be eligible to compete for a scholarship by offering a 50% discount. I am interested to know how Ray defines "maintain" and "rich."
/ yy> Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Newcastle
Meanwhile, it is good to be sure that AMS is not "the privilege of the rich." With 35% of children eligible for free school meals in Manchester, will be Dr. Ray, let us know how students compare their own use
Michael Pyke
Southampton
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Flanders wants to improve its image by changing its image, but the symbols are to say where we come from, not where we are now
Flemish Belgians calculated they need to change its image. "It's not like them!" You may think. Otherwise, your reaction might be: "How typical!" It's hard for me to be sure, because I have an idea of ??what the image is Flemish Belgians. It's hard enough to get a handle on stereotypes about Belgium as a whole. What is your tulips, cannabis and sausages, corruption and fornication, and genocide, paella and castanets equivalent? And in case you are offended by these references, I would stress that I am not saying that they are accurate - it's just that we know exactly what is not accurate
But in Belgium ... I have the words "Merry Little Belgium" plays around my head, but I think it's something to do with World War I, so I'm not sure that it is still valid. What else? Well, there's a vague sense of chips and mayonnaise, a terrible cruelty in Congo, a lot of chocolate and a known pedophile network - the last two a combination of luck to those who, like me, often looking a joke of bad taste. Otherwise, nothing more than Poirot, a detective invented by an English woman. Belgium seems to have a fairly neutral. Even his own capital more continental nationals connotations. Cultural map, it's just a gray area between France, Holland and Germany, a place to leave if they want to invade everywhere
why Flemish Belgians Good For You worry, you might think. His overall profile is half of a sheet of paper. But that's not why they are concerned. They think they are coming in all Leos and thirst for blood and fear that makes investors. Symbol of the region is a black lion rampant with tongue and claws red blood from the arms of the Counts of Flanders, Kris Peeters, President of Flanders, more user-friendly feel need something to "help the positive image of Flanders. "
Besides the fact that projects itself as a carnivorous predator amoral is exactly the kind of bragging shit big-shot investors think is cool (until their predatory practices fail, even in their evil purposes and are bleating of public money), I do not think this poor piece of heraldry is taken as literally as the international community fears Peeters. If some non-Flemish people have preconceived ideas about Flamenco in all the negatives, I'm sure that has little to do with the image of a lion and a lot to do with local rivalries. One of the remains of other rumors thin ears of the record in the brain marked "Belgium" is that the Belgian French-speaking Belgians and Flemish what I have in the other.
This unfortunate impulse to correct the symbols and names to better reflect today's reality - a trend that, to its logical conclusion, would mean changing the name of "Marks and Spencer" with a list of the names of thousands of shareholders - remember the recent dispute over the use of CE and BCE instead of BC and AD. It all started when the right-wing press deliberately misinterpreted a sentence of religion on the site of the BBC, which explains the use of the new system, as a tax on the company level. It was learned that the BBC allows programs to use any notes they like, so the newspapers were blocked, perhaps with contractures are prominent in the following days.But I agree with them that AD and BC are preferable. The argument against is that these terms are explicitly Christian - AD (Anno Domini) means "the year of Our Lord" - that could alienate atheists and believers of other religions. Referring to the "Common Era" shows that the use of the birth of Jesus as the basis for numbering the years, a well-established system to distribute, not necessarily that we are also defending their religion. Personally, I do not think it should be clear is that the need to stress that flamenco is not in medieval battles, like the Counts of Flanders, wildebeest or evisceration, like a lion.
hair complex societies of archaic symbolism that says more about where they come from what they represent. In this country, we submit to an old lady and the state claiming to act in his name and honor, but that does not mean that we have a system of values ??around the veneration of retired women.
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Liz Sidwell, the school commissioner, said in the coastal cities, the main concerns
"white working class" communities are one of the greatest challenges of educational reform, Michael Gove, the commissioner of England school, Liz Sidwell, who said that the coastal cities coast and is a major concern.
Sidwell, who was highly respected, veteran director before being recruited by Gove at low-performing schools, said that attempts to transform schools in these areas often struggle against a culture generations who have stopped working and the parents have low aspirations. Communities in the "coastal zone" may not "energy", he believes.
"white working class may be the [culture] more difficult," said Sidwell during a visit to the school of Norwich.
Speaking to The Guardian, said. "In the center of the city, where there are all kinds of cultures, which moves the pot
"In a mono-culture, in particular, coastal areas and coastal areas, which have no energy - not from a culture in which they work, I think that It is least number of things they can not wait.
"You have to open their minds, they can go to the city, may go abroad. You can not turn without turning around a school in a community. "
Department of Education figures show that white children of low income families the worst GCSE results last summer. Just over a quarter of white students eligible for free meals obtained five good GCSEs including English and mathematics.
One third of children eligible African, Caribbean for free meals reached the number of passes in 2010, 45.7% of children in Asia and 68.4% of children of Chinese origin.
When comparing the children of wealthy families, Chinese students still perform better, but white children were ahead of boys African, Caribbean and almost the same as Asian students.
Sidwell made the comments during a recent visit to the victory of Costessy Ormiston Academy, a working class neighborhood on the outskirts of Norwich.
was supported by the head teacher Rachel Souza, who said it was vital to win the support of the community. De Souza spoke about the importance of "mothers out of the PlayStation."
The school reopened as an academy in September, and this was 62% of pupils got five good GCSEs including English and mathematics compared to 38% last year to its predecessor, Costessy high.
The school has introduced a uniform designed in Savile Row, and innovations such as "pizza night" when the children arrive in the clubs after school for homework on a takeaway. He ran revision days before exams in mathematics, when teachers walked home students and accompanied them to school in a minibus.
GCSE achievement in London, where schools are more likely to be ethnically mixed than elsewhere, is above the national average.
Dylan Wiliam, professor emeritus at the Institute of Education, attributed to investment in schools in the capital in the government's strategy for the final challenge in London. However, the racial mix is ??also a factor, he said.
Wiliam said that schools struggling in the coastal stations are linked to the shade, with a population of low income. "I think it's tourist areas, you have to do with the type of people you have there. For many people, which is one of the cheapest places to live"
Sidwell, former director, was given the lead role of intervention in low-performing schools in January. Your task is to push local authorities to ensure that programs face in school and want to work with the Academy sponsors to identify new schools will become academies. A total of 45 sponsored academies opened this month, replacing the weaker schools in the poorest areas of England. Once schools are in coastal areas.
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18% and increases from 16% to the price for gas and electricity, Scottish & Southern Energy has suspended all sales at home, with the loss of 900 jobs
Q & A: Switch, store and protect your supply
British Gas has surprisedhouseholds in the UK to announce an increase in the price of gas and electricity by 18% and 16%, only eight months after it increased its prices by 7 %.
The increase, which affects 9 million customers and to be effective August 18, has prompted Energy Minister Chris Huhne at the request of trade taking place in the market of the electricity in the UK.
At a time when households are faced with the cost of food in the midst of inflation remain high, the price increase will add £ 192 to the invoice average fuel double, which will rise from £ 1096 to £ 1,288 thereafter.
Mike O'Connor, Executive Director of Consumer Focus, said: "The price increase will send shock waves throughout the country the impact on customers will be very serious and has accumulated more pressure budgets Y. highly stretched households pushing hundreds of thousands of families in fuel poverty. "
The news comes the same day as Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) announced it was suspending all its doors sales activity in Britain, with immediate effect, resulting in 900 jobs. Two months ago, the utility giant was found guilty of misleading potential customers at doorstepping in an attempt to get them to change supplier of gas and electricity, after a successful prosecution by trading standards.
SSEthe Commission based on sales at home "is no longer an effective way to gain long-term customer" as consumer confidence in the way companies sell door to door, and how providers are paid is low. He said it would close its doors on sales of arms because the sales process "with the due guarantees quality customer requires more and more important."
Alistair Phillips-Daviesof SSE, said: "The world has changed .. We know that fewer people are willing to commit to traditional vendors is "
Richard Lloyd, executive director in which he congratulated SSE:. "Few people think about energy suppliers are trustworthy, so it's good news that the ESS is listening to consumers and attempt to restore its reputation as suppliers of energy policy have their home sales, it is important not just move their efforts to other forms of cold calling.
"We found that almost half (44%) of people were on the phone for an energy company in the past 12 months, and six in 10 felt compelled to change , so that suppliers should focus on high-value products and customer service, rather than hard sell. "
Bad timing, but not surprising, " Robinson said: "The impact on family budgets will be enormous, but it will be difficult for people living on fixed incomes, and we urge the government and suppliers to start thinking now about how can provide some support.
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Bayes is a mathematical equation used in court cases to analyze statistical data. However, a judge ruled he can not be used. Does it lead to more miscarriages of justice?
not often that the silent world of mathematics is shaken by a murder case. But last summer, I saw a trial sent to academics in free fall, and has since swelled to a confrontation between science and fever law.
Basically it is a matter of chance. And it starts with a convicted murderer, "T", who took his case to the Court of Appeal in 2010. Among the evidence against him was marked by a shoe of a pair of Nike shoes, which seems to coincide with a couple in their home. While calls to discover the evidence was often weak, it was different. This time, a mathematical formula was rejected by the court. The expert in shoes made what the judge believes they were poor calculation of the possibility that the party, aggravated by a poor explanation of how he came to his opinion. The conviction was overturned.
But most importantly, what mathematicians are concerned, the judge ruled against the use of similar statistical analysis on the courts in the future. This is not the first time the judges were hostile to the use of formulas. But the real concern, forensic experts say is that failure could lead to miscarriages of justice.
"The impact will be very overwhelming," says Professor Norman Fenton, a mathematician at Queen Mary University of London. Over the last four years has been an expert witness in six cases, including the Levi Bellfield's trial, 2007 for the murder of Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange. He claims that the decision in the case of tests Imprint threat of harm to come to court because the experts because it can no longer use the mathematics they need it.
Specifically, it refers to a statistical tool called the Bayes theorem. Invented by a 18th century English mathematician, Thomas Bayes, the probability of an event occurring, given the likelihood of other related events. Some mathematicians refer to simply as logical as the Bayesian reasoning is something we do naturally. If a husband tells his wife not to eat the cake in the refrigerator, but the points of chocolate on his face, his estimate of his guilt increases. But when many factors are involved, a Bayesian calculation is more accurate for forensic scientists to measure the change in the guilt or innocence.
In the case of the murder of footprint, for example, to verify the ability to print at the crime scene came from the same pair of Nike shoes such as those found in suspect's house, given the common of this type of shoe size, how the plant had been worn or damaged. Between 1996 and 2006, for example, distributed 786,000 pairs of Nike sneakers. This could suggest that the party does not mean much. But if you consider that there are 1200 different models of Nike sneakers exclusive and sold about 42 million pairs of shoes each year, a pair becomes more important.
The data needed to perform these calculations, however, is not always available. And that's where the expert in this case was attacked. The judge complained that he could not say exactly how much a particular type of Nike Trainer in the country. The figures for domestic sales of the shoes are only rough estimates.
"We hope that the appeals court to reconsider this decision," said Colin Aitken, professor of forensic statistics at Edinburgh University, and President of the Working Group of the Society Royal statistical statistics and the law. It is customary, he explains, by forensic experts to use Bayes' theorem, even when the data are limited, so that the assumptions and make reasonable estimates of what figures could be. Being unable to do that, he said, could run the risk of miscarriages of justice.
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It is not clear how the lessons of Vista and Winterbourne Southern Cross will learn. The whole system is broken
The Care Quality Commission finally closed Winterbourne View, privately run home care in which patients with learning difficulties abused. Up a program Panorama revealed the abuse, the regulator was nowhere, admitting that "it does not first take effective action." This week, the Commission also recognized that only half of the 23 other houses Castlebeck acceptable standards. The recent collapse of another provider of home care, the Southern Cross, with 700 homes, will see its 31 000 inhabitants aged transfer to new landowners. Ministers described the process as "closing orderly. "
expansion of the UK sector ofhome care is clearly in disarray. However, there is little evidence that the deep flaws in the policy, funding and design will be reformed. The controller is no more the fight against fires. Home care operators have learned from the banks that are "too big to fail" can mean "too weak to fail." They know the government is the operator of home care of last resort. The result, they have no incentive to improve performance. The Ministers discussed the insurance policies and performance obligations. It may be that the way to talk about the stable door and horse studs.
reform begins with the first identification of gaps in policy. Reflection on the care of seniors in the coalition is a disaster. Health, purchasing services from the private sector is supposed to be a bad thing, but in health care (in which health plays an important role), is promoted as a good thing. In fact, it is practically the only thing. Local authorities now have a decrease of only 10% of "market". While local councils and government are complicit in the private provision of a large public service of increasing importance. But companies such as Southern Cross and Castlebeck whole system collapses.
However, local authorities have reduced their monthly payments for residents of nursing homes. Sure, blame the government for the general strictures. However, squeezing the margins of care homes awaiting humanitarian standards must be maintained, is untenable. Poor training and low pay rates were factors in Winterbourne Vista. Therefore local authorities have to pay their fair share of actual costs of care. (Dilnot Commission's recommendations for funding will cost an extra £ 2 billion. Do not hold your breath.)
the complete dependence on the private sector affects the national infrastructure for nursing homes, too. In the absence of a single currency, the government is required to attract private capital in the sector. For that, investors need to make a profit, keeping operating costs at affordable levels. Recently, the Treasury offered a "buy now, pay later" deal with homebuilders. The lure is in the public domain. Why not spread sweetness of imagination to the attention of national operators who wish to promote innovation, the use of thousands of redundant assets NHS property
However, innovation is hard to find. A model of corporate governance introverted in which local authorities play an active role not dominate the area. The typical design model is "closed" instead of "open" (an approach that allows the disinfectant of light and fresh air in the management). Privacy and dignity - and the preferred class regulator "backup" - will be enhanced, not compromised by a commitment to good design course, homes should be places of affirmation of life that ensures privacy and dignity. But who will insist on this point? Many new nursing homes today are warrens of corridors and rooms pokey. Yet to reach microscopic dimensions by the application of the Disability Discrimination Act fortuitous. Good architecture by registered architects (as opposed to local builders) is singularly absent. Local planning authorities covers only the appearance of buildings. His interest in parallel (as the body to pay for the care of residents) is totally disconnected. And planning of new government proposals announced this week, the boards will be deterred from offering an opinion on the design that is not to act as a brake on development.
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comments editor of the Guardian at the time of 9 / 11 in a violent response to those who had anticipated the reality of a war against terrorism
the moment the second plane hit the World Trade Center, the battle to define the attacks of 9 / 11 had already started on both sides of the Atlantic. United States President Bush made the fateful call for a war against terrorism, as the media joined in the flag. In Britain, Tony Blair, and their cheerleaders enthusiastically fell in line. Inevitably, they faced the opposition a little more absurd claim that the atrocities that had emerged from a clear blue sky, and the country must always follow superpower was injured.
But not much. The political response and media related to anyone what happened in New York and Washington in the U.S. and Western intervention in the Muslim world, or the issue of training for war, was wild.
From September 11, 2001, The Guardian (almost exclusively in the British press), however, indicated that these voices are heard, no doubt a major debate on the reasons for these attacks had taken place and how United States and the West should respond.
brushed reaction crazy. Curiously a decade later, the fact that The Guardian allowed writers to connect politics U.S. attacks in the world was treated as a traitor to his alleged "anti-Americanism."
Michael Gove, now a Conservative minister, wrote in The Guardian that he had become a "Prada-Meinhof" of the "fifth column". The novelist Robert Harris, then there is a big Blair denounced us to host a "babbling idiots" unable to understand that the world is now in a repeat of the war against Hitler.
The Telegraph has published a regular "useful idiots" column addressed to The Guardian, while Andrew Neil told the paper should be called the "Journal of terrorism" and the Sun by Richard Littlejohn we have been criticized as "anti-American propaganda fascist left-wing press."
that the Guardian has published articles only connecting points of U.S. policy against imperial or British-American attacks in Afghanistan. Nearby, in the early days, we find pieces of James Rubin, the Clinton administration assistant secretary, former NATO commander Wesley Clark, William Shawcross ("We are all Americans now") and columnist for the Jim Hoagland Washington Post, calling for revenge - including military retaliation support
But it is precisely in those early days, when the U.S. government was the creation of a catastrophic event, it was more urgent to refute Bush and Blair lying spin that it was an attack the "freedom" and our "lifestyle" - and nothing to do with what the United States. UU. (And Britain) had imposed the Middle East and elsewhere. And most of the 5000 emails I received in response, including the American readers, the argument goes.
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jail Fraill Joanne is a clear indication of why we must protect the eternal value of the jury
last week Fraill Joanne, a former member of the jury, was sent to prison after contacting a defendant in Facebook during the trial. Fraill not only revealed the details of the jury that the accused, who also used the Internet to discover information about another accused in the same case. The cost to the taxpayer to pursue the case and retry the defendants was 6 million pounds.
many reports focus on the fact that Ms. Fraill is the first juror to be found guilty of contempt of court by his use of a social networking site. That's it. Fraill using Facebook is neither here nor there. The real problem is this case revealed that, in this Internet age, is becoming more difficult to treat cases without prejudice.
This is not the first time a trial in jeopardy because the jury took matters into their own hands.
In 2008, a murder suspect free market of the court after his trial collapsed. A juror had visited and photographed the scene of the alleged crime, investigated the case on the Internet, and share their discoveries with their peers of the jury. He even sent the judge a Google Earth map of the scene of the alleged crime and 37 questions on the case. The judge had to stop the trial and dismiss the whole panel.
A trial involving charges of child cruelty was dismissed in similar circumstances, when a jury found what turned out to be false information about the defendant and shared online with your colleagues jurors. The case was tried later, at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers.
The Internet and the ease with which an overzealous allows jurors to conduct their own "research" is a real threat to the integrity of our criminal justice system and particularly the jury trial . We can not allow this to happen. Trial by jury is a cornerstone of a free society and recent research has demonstrated efficacy are jury trials in the delivery and defense of justice.
First, although the statistics suggest that jurors are more likely to condemn certain crimes than others, research shows that the logical meaning of the exercise and municipalities. The conviction rates are highest where they are most likely to be physically strong evidence incriminating the accused. For example, juries to convict more than nine out of ten people accused of taking indecent photographs of children and four out of five people accused of drug possession.
However, jurors are more reluctant to convict in the case becomes in the opinion of one word against another person or where it should reach a conclusion on the state of a defendant of the mind. This is one reason why the conviction for rape can be difficult for tax purposes. However, when there is sufficient evidence, a jury found the defendant guilty. Jurors convict in 55% of rape cases.
Second, juries show no racial prejudice. Recent research confirms that black and Asian defendants were more likely to be convicted by a jury that the accused whites and ethnic minorities are underrepresented on juries.
that juries can not understand complex issues. This issue has been pushed to the fore in 2005 when a high profile case of fraud £ 60m - the "Jubilee Line" trial - has collapsed. The prosecution alleged that the problems with the jury forced the judge to leave the test.
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No one debates whether Hubble was worth the delays and budget overruns, and yet his successor, James Webb Space Telescope is now facing the ax, for similar reasons
Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 as the flagship of the Observatory of NASA, and was the more important to be flown in space at that time. In the early stages of the project, the Hubble telescope has been hampered by technical delays and budget problems. His problems continued after the launch, and a manned rescue mission was sent to repair Hubble optics at an enormous cost. Twenty years later, it is difficult to overstate the impact that Hubble was in science, and in the public imagination. However, today the U.S. government is about to give the successor to Hubble NASA, the billionaire James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
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Telescopehave graced the covers of our newspapers, inspired thousands to look and reflect on our place in the universe. They even made couture dresses worn by the wife of British Prime Minister, Samantha Cameron. If you have seen pictures of stars, nebulae and galaxies over the past 20 years, there is a good chance they were taken by Hubble.
not let the rather silly pictures: Hubble observatory is a great scientist, and data has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Competition for the use of their instruments is stronger than ever. But at 20 years, Hubble is about to retire. JWST's primary mirror is more than six times the size of Hubble telescope and is designed specifically to advance in areas where Hubble made his most advanced contributions. Performance we can expect JWST is much better than any other similar instrument or a telescope on the horizon. Its impact is almost certain to rival that of Hubble.
Thursday, the subcommittee appropriations U. S. House for Science, Commerce and Justice of the budget has passed a law in little fanfare to remove all funds for the mission, after criticism from senior managers and budget overruns. This is only the first step in what may be a long drama, in which the bill will be bouncing between the various committees of the House and Senate in the coming months. A fierce battle for the survival of JWST is to come.
What is the cancellation of science and society? For me, the experience of Hubble is the key. What we have lost over the last 20 years without Hubble
Hubble observations have been crucial in many scientific advances largest in recent history, with important contributions covering all fields of astronomy. His remarks at the beginning of 1990 galaxies in the distant Universe have launched one of the most active areas of research in astrophysics, the study of galaxy evolution through cosmic history. For the first time, other nearby galaxies that our neighbors could be reflected in such detail as we can see its shape, size, even to see their stars twinkle and operate, and measure their distances. With Hubble's new instruments, we were able to look back over 13 billion years in time when the universe was only a few hundred million years. It's just incredible.
exquisite quality Hubble image also provided the first visual confirmation of the existence of planets around other stars in the Milky Way. This provided a great impetus to the rapidly expanding field studies of exoplanets and the search for life elsewhere in the universe. Importantly, all data from Hubble archive is open to all, and NASA hosts a huge archive of images that are free to download and use. As a result, Hubble has found its place in popular culture, fashion, art and education, more than any other scientific instrument before. The observatory has inspired a generation of children, including myself and many of my colleagues to take an interest in science and technology. This for me is as important as the scientific results of Hubble has produced. Today, mid-infrared James Webb Space Telescope Instrument (MIRI), I worked for several years, is nearing completion. The instrument is now in its final test at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, before sending it to our colleagues at NASA for integration with the telescope.
The crucial point for the budget, is that the money made by the JWST has been removed from NASA's budget completely. I will not go on other missions or research grants. $ 3 billion was spent in the United States alone, only to be discharged. About 2,000 American jobs are thought to be on the line. The European Space Agency is a partner of 15% in the JWST, his Canadian counterpart will contribute more than $ 100 million. What is at stake here in Europe are too high.
Hubble has cost several million dollars more than originally planned, and its release was delayed for nearly a decade. But now, 20 years later, no debate as to whether the funds are well spent. This will be his successor, leaving the same legacy? And, more importantly, we can not know? is difficult to see who will be the best if you really JWST is drawn. For scientists, the loss will be slow progress in the understanding of physics that govern the universe at a time when major advances are within reach. Engineers who have successfully completed many aspects of the observatory is more than a decade of work go to waste.
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Prime Minister Leveson looking to escape his own "no opinion" on the hiring of Andy Coulson, former editor says Sun
Former editor Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie, said the research ethics Leveson of the press was set up by the Prime Minister in an attempt to "get out of their own lack of personal judgments" in about his recruiting world news editor Andy Coulson old.
MacKenzie, now a columnist for the Daily Mail, told a seminar organized by the Lord Justice Leveson, David Cameron made a mistake when he appointed Coulson as his director of communications in an attempt to s' attract the favor of Rupert Murdoch.
"It was clearly a gesture of friendship policy directed at the head of Rupert Murdoch Andy," he said. "A couple of calls from people in the office, I said smelly lying in the New World. "
describe the investigation as "ridiculous," MacKenzie said: "This is how our Prime Minister is hoping he can escape his own lack of personal trial that he knows , and Andy knows that it should be. has never been involved in the heart of government. I do not blame Andy for taking the job. I blame Cameron for the offer. "
MacKenzieattacked "obsessive-ass kiss in the last years of Rupert Murdoch. Cameron, Tony Blair ... it was very good, and Brown was not too bad. But Cameron was the father of all . "
said Cameron was wrong to believe that the sun helps to ensure victory in general elections last year and there should be courted its executives in the UK so assiduously.
MacKenzie also said there was Murdoch's decision to abandon the support of Gordon Brown Sun two years ago. "Whoever made this decision should be ashamed. I point the finger at a mix of management Rebekah Brooks and James Murdoch. "
said Murdoch had said the day's edition of newspaper reported that Brown had called the media mogul said. ". You are trying to destroy me and my party I will destroy you and your business "MacKenzie added:" The approval of this day was a terrible mistake. "
earlier in the day, Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, addressed the audience, telling an audience of Fleet Street executives, lawyers and regulators, who will present some corrections and clarifications column of page two of the document next week. The titles of the sister of the Mail on Sunday and Metro will follow.
The editor of the Daily Mail, the main problem facing the press today is the acute trade, taking into account "the fact that the depressing newspaper industry is in financial ill." The consequence of this, especially at the local level, he added, is that: "The courts are not covered, the tips are not held accountable." Dacre said he was a "democratic deficit, it deserves an investigation."
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artistic director Nicolas Kent said his revolutionaries in north London is facing a £ 350,000 cut in funding Playhouse next year
One of the oldest in the UK and most respected artistic directors standing outside the theater, which led for 27 years as a direct result of the art of cutting.
Nicolas Kent has been artistic director of the Tricycle in Kilburn, north London, since 1984, making it a highly successful theater known for his political work and work cultures.
But Kent told the Guardian that the cuts in subsidies and the government's insistence on philanthropy were untenable theater.
"I resigned in March due to cuts in government funding," he said. "The tricycle will receive nearly £ 350 000 less next year than we did in the last exercise of statutory bodies. Maintain the quality of work that we published is extremely difficult and probably more suited to new hands. "
Kent is confident replacement was found to keep the hits tricycle.
He is 66 years but says he has reasons for its decision. It is their frustration with the decline of public funding and difficulties in attracting philanthropic money for the type of game where you will find the tricycle.
said tricycle had slipped behind other similar theaters in terms of funding. "I think we have become victims of our own success. People look at us and think that the tricycle remained with them all these years, is in good hands, is a success, we can move forward. We were able to we lurch from one crisis to the crisis, but slowly and sadly, seem to get less money. "
The theater has become particularly famous for its politicians textual parts, including the Guardian journalist Richard Norton-Taylor dramatization of the Hutton inquiry and investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence Macpherson.
"The cuts fell unfairly and ignores the fact that it is a double whammy - the art is to be beaten by the two directions, both the central and local government, "he said." It does not affect large organizations, which affects the entire regional countries. " There is little chance of Kent views to ask the government of its course to try to increase philanthropy to the arts.
The drama takes place in New York was unforgettable. Men of power have all been ordered
I will long remember the statement that the lawyer Kenneth Thompson P delivered to a group of reporters on the sidewalk in front of the New York State Supreme Court at noon on Friday. I was in New York that day and took in live television. Thompson is the Guinean woman who says she was raped by Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a suite at the Sofitel New York in May. The lawyer just to see if they begin to retire, the prosecution acknowledged many inconsistencies and outright lies in the history of women and suspicious circumstances around it.
Thompson, who specializes in employment discrimination and sexual harassment cases, relentlessly detailed what he said were the undisputed facts of the assault: the violence that had torn a Women shoulder ligament (the defender touched his shoulder to reinforce the point itself), the bruising of her vagina, stockings torn. Then, the following: "The next thing I want to say is that when it was hard to escape when she was on her knees and was sexually assaulted after I finished, got up and ran to the door and began to spit semen, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, his mouth in disgust over the hotel room.
"So when he heard forensic evidence, DNA testing, he spits the sperm into the wall, she spat on the ground - and guess what, when her supervisor came, he saw? that. Security personnel at the Sofitel, which saw him. Detectives from the NYPD, as. And there was a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney, who entered the hotel room the day arrived, and showed him where the semen was. "
If the woman and her lawyer say the truth, then he has an idea of ??what a violent sexual assault by a powerful man in a vulnerable woman appears. Everyone must face the reality of it disgusting. If, however, do not tell the truth, then it was the murder of a man's character, in broad daylight on a sidewalk in New York. Nothing that man could be president of France can now take its reputation back to him. Every time you mention his name, the first thing anyone thinks that in this case.
As the case against DSK is in question, and can even be pulled in a few weeks, so that the Franco-American heated recriminations. "Whether or not DSK is free," the American journalist Peter Beinart in the Daily Beast, "his case is a good reflection of American justice. We can hold our heads high. "It was a" very inspiring "example of equality before the law. In the other corner, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy rails against" the cannibalization of Justice for the Sideshow ", referring to Thompson a sidewalk news conference, saying that his friend DSK must be given" not only their freedom, but - more important to restore his honor -. "
What we have here are the echoes of a profound difference between French and American attitudes to issues of privacy and reputation. The Yale lawyer James Q Whitman argued that the essence of the American tradition is a race to the bottom while the French (and German) is the tradition of leveling up. "We are all aristocrats now," said the spirit of Paris. Even the poorest women of immigrant origin should be entitled to civility, respect and, yes, the honor, as a noble past. (Note the unexpected reappearance of the word "honor" is in the old BHL
If it were true that the powerful and the weak are truly equal under the law of the United States. It is the symbolic message sent by the killer in New York unforgettable journey of the man who would otherwise become the president of France. (Perp, incidentally, stands for the author.) But the message is doubly misleading. First, it is true that the humiliation is applied equally to all. The rich, powerful and well connected, you can often avoid walking murderer, and spend time and money making sure they do. The story of the murderer walk in New York is also the story of political ambition of District Attorneys, as Rudy Giuliani. Second, the media in today's world, where images are far more powerful than words, which is equivalent to a conviction without trial. And a sentence in the Court of Appeal does not support YouTube.
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Although Chomsky has ruined self-deception in public life, too often, the fall of Ratko Mladic and Rupert Murdoch for optimism
thousands gathered in Srebrenica on Tuesday to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the massacre perpetrated by death squads of Ratko Mladic is 8,000 Bosnian Muslims, the worst war crimes seen in Europe since 1945. Genocide always produces a heated debate and the mass murder of 1995 was challenged not only by the Serbian assassins eager to escape justice, but what many people call the "left" intellectuals - but "Western" or "West to hate" are "more accurate. / Aa>
Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, the late Harold Pinter and the writer Arundhati Roy has defended a grumpy call Diana Johnstone. She had decided that "mass deception and self-deception of the media and politicians" had deceived the gullible public to believe that the West had intervened in the Balkans to save lives instead of Bosnia to expand borders of the empire in the United States. Srebrenica does not justify the decision by NATO to increase its air strikes against Serb targets. "To the extent that the Muslims were executed in reality" - and Johnstone believes that the Serbs had been killed only 199 - ". These crimes are all signs of spontaneous acts of revenge rather than a project of "genocide" "After the editor of a Swedish magazine left Johnstone gave a platform, its staff and the board upheld the best traditions of the left and revolt. In response, in an open letter for publication, Chomsky et al Swedish journalists reprimanded for his impertinence. They simply said that Johnstone had the right to express their views, but his writing hailed as "an excellent work, dissenting from the prevailing view, but do so by an appeal to facts and reason."
which carries the memories of this sad affair that Chomsky is co-author of "propaganda model" of journalism, a theory supported by a surprisingly large and disparate group. Chomsky believes that the corrupt journalists follow the agenda of his wealthy business owners and advertisers to brainwash people to believe the lies of the political and business elites. The poverty of the mass graves of Srebrenica should be discredited forever. Because your
Fixed Idea forced to believe that the lackeys of U.S. imperialism was to invent stories of Serb atrocities to justify expansion of power on the west side which calls for as long as he could. Not directly, but by dishonest means at once clever and reputation of an author who said "genocide" in quotes, and said no organized slaughter took place.The belief that the media manipulate the masses to the resources of the left and their supporters must explain why you can not win or come close to winning a democratic election. Instead of accepting that voters reject them because their ideas are wrong or stupid, they decide that the company puppeteers pulling the strings of the population and encourage them to vote against their interests "real."
and Telegraph everywhere, disappointed and outraged insist that a conspiracy of the media has become the head of the stupid voters. Instead of trying to win the arguments in the open competition, bleating that the party is set.
I do not claim that media bias does not exist. I'm just evidence that partisan newspapers and broadcasters are just preaching to the converted is weak, to say the least. Weighted by traffic, 74.8% of the press supported the Conservatives in recent elections, but only 36.1% voted for David Cameron. Only 13.3% of Brown supports, but 29% of the electorate voted for Labour. Except as dictatorial states, and perhaps Berlusconi's Italy, the citizen also connected to the Internet has many sources of information for the propagandists of the order. The only way out for those who believe in the propaganda model is that it does not matter if I work or the Conservatives won the election because their policies are identical. After the experience of Cameron and Clegg to power, no serious person can believe that now.
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