Manchester United 1-0 Watford: Juan Mata nets late winner to down Hornets – 5 things we learned

The game appeared to be heading for a draw when the Spaniard whipped a stunning free-kick into the top corner from 25 yards Juan Mata was the hero as Manchester United extended their winning run to four games.

The Spaniard stepped up to whip home a stunning free-kick in the closing stages at Old Trafford, helping Louis van Gaal's men to a hard-earned win over Watford.
The away side enjoyed plenty of the ball throughout and had the better of the chances for much of the match.
But Odion Ighalo did not have his shooting boots on, allowing United to secure maximum points with his moment of genius.
Here are five things we learned:

1. De Gea showed his worth once more Man United fans dare not think where they would be this season had David de Gea joined Real Madrid on deadline day last summer.
Here, he made key saves yet again to deny Ighalo and proved his enduring worth.
Even then, United lived dangerously on occasion, not least when Watford defender Sebastian Prodl headed wide from no more than three yards.
How Watford would live to rue those chances.

2. Mata's dead-ball expertise to the fore again Last week, the playmaker netted a beautiful free-kick to help the Red Devils knock Shrewsbury out of the FA Cup. Here, he was at it again.
Most expected him to go for the near post when he ran up to the ball 25 yards out, with Heurelho Gomes moving to his left in anticipation.
But Mata cleverly went for the far corner, the ball nestling in the net and sending Old Trafford into raptures.

3. Depay continues to frustrate It's a case of one step forward, two steps back for United's £25m summer signing.
Against Midtjylland and Arsenal, Memphis Depay looked like he'd found some form, but he again frustrated here, with another below-par display.
He got into decent positions on occasion, but his slapstick shooting never looked like troubling keeper Heurelho Gomes.

4. Ighalo a constant menace The Watford striker had four chances in the first-half but failed to convert any of them. He also annoyed striker partner Troy Deeney on occasion, failing to pass when team-mates were seemingly better placed.
But his pace, movement and awareness made it an uneasy night for United's defence.
They won't forget this battle in a hurry.

5. Rashford never gave up He may have been unable to maintain his extraordinary goal-scoring exploits, but United's 18-year-old overnight hero never let his head drop and was a major threat in the second-half.
The striker was moved to the right flank and used his pace to good effect, hitting the byline to provide some cutting edge in the closing stages.

Teams Man United: De Gea, Varela, Blind, Rojo (Darmian), Fosu-Mensah, Schneiderlin, Herrera (Lingard), Martial, Mata (McNair), Memphis, Rashford
Watford: Gomes, Nyom, Britos, Prodl, Holebas, Capoue, Watson, Behrami (Anya), Abdi (Suarez), Deeney, Ighalo (Amrabat)

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Arsenal fans boo Wenger for Campbell substitution

Gunners fans let their manager know exactly what they thought of the decision to take off the Costa Rican, who had earlier opened the scoring against Swansea City

Arsenal supporters booed Arsene Wenger for his decision to substitute goalscorer Joel Campbell midway through the second half of the Premier League clash with Swansea.


The Costa Rican winger had opened the scoring for the Gunners but was hooked after 64 minutes, with Danny Welbeck coming on to replace him.


And Arsenal fans were clearly unhappy at the decision, with the boos ringing round the stadium as Campbell made his way off the pitch.

Having been an unused substitute for the defeat to Manchester United on Sunday, Campbell replaced Theo Walcott in the starting XI against the Swans and gave his side the lead inside the opening 15 minutes.

The visitors then equalised courtesy of a Wayne Routledge strike before Wenger rang the changes after half-time as his side struggled to find a goal to put them back in front at the Emirates Stadium.
And it went from bad to worse for the Gunners shortly after bringing Campbell off, as Ashley Williams bundled the ball home following a Gylfi Sigurdsson free-kick to give his side a shock lead.

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Austrian minister retreats on demolition:Hitler birthplace

He had claimed a committee of experts had decided the house should be demolished.
But the committee insists not, saying a demolition would "come close to a denial of the Nazi history in Austria".
On Tuesday Mr Sobotka told journalists the house should be "converted so that it was no longer recognisable".
He said one could debate about whether that entailed a demolition, and added that architects would be invited to put forward proposals to convert the house.

In a statement sent to the BBC, the committee of experts appointed to decide on the future of Hitler's birthplace said it was against demolishing the house.
Professor Clemens Jabloner and Professor Oliver Rathkolb said the impression had arisen that the committee had recommended the demolition.
"This is clearly not the case. We have made… several proposals for the concrete [definitive] demystification of this place" including a "thorough architectural conversion" so that the house would not have such symbolic power.
"We clearly stated that a demolition would come close to a denial of the Nazi history in Austria."
The statement suggested the house be used for administrative or social purposes but ruled out using it as a museum.

In a statement sent to the BBC, the committee of experts appointed to decide on the future of Hitler's birthplace said it was against demolishing the house.
Professor Clemens Jabloner and Professor Oliver Rathkolb said the impression had arisen that the committee had recommended the demolition.
"This is clearly not the case. We have made… several proposals for the concrete [definitive] demystification of this place" including a "thorough architectural conversion" so that the house would not have such symbolic power.
"We clearly stated that a demolition would come close to a denial of the Nazi history in Austria."
The statement suggested the house be used for administrative or social purposes but ruled out using it as a museum.
Meanwhile, a parliamentary committee is due to discuss a legal amendment to allow them to seize the property, but a vote on the proposal is not expected until later, possibly November, sources told the BBC's Bethany Bell in Vienna.
The future of the former guesthouse has been widely debated, with opinion torn between razing it to stop it becoming a focal point for neo-Nazis or changing its use.
Some in the community want it to become a refugee centre, others a museum dedicated to Austria's liberation from Nazi rule. Others oppose the building's demolition because it is part of the historic city centre and therefore under heritage protection.
Local people say the building still attracts some neo-Nazi sympathisers.

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Territory recaptured from ISIS

Iraqi forces hold a position on October 17, 2016 in the area of al-Shurah, some 45 kms south of Mosul.

Progress was swift on the first day of the operation, as coalition forces advanced on the oil-rich northern city, retaking more than 75 square miles of territory and wresting nine villages from ISIS control.

Forces east of Mosul also secured control over a significant stretch of the Erbil-Mosul road, a key strategic route, the General Command of Peshmerga Forces of Kurdistan Region said, while Iraq's military declared that it had inflicted "heavy losses of life and equipment" on ISIS to the southeast.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said Monday that Iraqi forces had "met their objectives" so far and were "ahead of schedule," while US Central Command spokesman Col. John Dorrian said: "The noose is tightening on Mosul." 

Iraqi forces hold a position on October 17, 2016 in the area of al-Shurah, some 45 kms south of Mosul.

Progress was swift on the first day of the operation, as coalition forces advanced on the oil-rich northern city, retaking more than 75 square miles of territory and wresting nine villages from ISIS control.

For now, the fighting has been restricted to the villages on the city's outskirts. But the going is expected to be tougher once the coalition reaches Mosul's urban center, where ISIS fighters will await them with suicide bombs, car bombs and booby traps.

The 94,000-member Iraqi-led coalition greatly outnumbers its opponents and includes air support from roughly 90 coalition and Iraqi planes, although not all will be directly involved in the assault on the city.

But ISIS, which has been on the back foot in Iraq and some parts of Syria in recent times, has constructed elaborate defenses, including a network of tunnels, in the city. Up to 5,000 ISIS fighters are in Mosul, according to an estimate from US military official, however the terror group's supporters put the number at 7,000.

 

Forces east of Mosul also secured control over a significant stretch of the Erbil-Mosul road, a key strategic route, the General Command of Peshmerga Forces of Kurdistan Region said, while Iraq's military declared that it had inflicted "heavy losses of life and equipment" on ISIS to the southeast.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said Monday that Iraqi forces had "met their objectives" so far and were "ahead of schedule," while US Central Command spokesman Col. John Dorrian said: "The noose is tightening on Mosul."

Iraqi forces hold a position on October 17, 2016 in the area of al-Shurah, some 45 kms south of Mosul.

Progress was swift on the first day of the operation, as coalition forces advanced on the oil-rich northern city, retaking more than 75 square miles of territory and wresting nine villages from ISIS control.

For now, the fighting has been restricted to the villages on the city's outskirts. But the going is expected to be tougher once the coalition reaches Mosul's urban center, where ISIS fighters will await them with suicide bombs, car bombs and booby traps.

The 94,000-member Iraqi-led coalition greatly outnumbers its opponents and includes air support from roughly 90 coalition and Iraqi planes, although not all will be directly involved in the assault on the city.

But ISIS, which has been on the back foot in Iraq and some parts of Syria in recent times, has constructed elaborate defenses, including a network of tunnels, in the city. Up to 5,000 ISIS fighters are in Mosul, according to an estimate from US military official, however the terror group's supporters put the number at 7,000.

 

Forces east of Mosul also secured control over a significant stretch of the Erbil-Mosul road, a key strategic route, the General Command of Peshmerga Forces of Kurdistan Region said, while Iraq's military declared that it had inflicted "heavy losses of life and equipment" on ISIS to the southeast.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said Monday that Iraqi forces had "met their objectives" so far and were "ahead of schedule," while US Central Command spokesman Col. John Dorrian said: "The noose is tightening on Mosul."

 

The largest city under ISIS control in Iraq and Syria, it was the city from which the group first declared the establishment of its so-called caliphate.

Since then, ISIS has gradually lost its other Iraqi cities -- Ramadi, Tikrit and Falluja -- to government forces, with the government's eye ultimately on recapturing the country's second city of Mosul, once a cosmopolitan trade hub of two million residents. Today, about one million are estimated to remain.

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Obama envisions America's economic future and defends free trade

Barack Obama has defended free trade and condemned “crude populism” in what is in effect an open letter to his successor in the White House.

Writing in the Economist, the president does not mention Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump by name but makes clear that he disagrees with both candidates’ opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Obama sets out a vision for America’s future based on boosting productivity growth, combating rising inequality, providing meaningful work opportunities and shoring up the economy against financial storms.

In what the Economist describes as “a trenchant, unapologetically centrist essay” entitled “The Way Ahead”, Obama, who leaves office in January, acknowledges that an anxiety over globalisation had taken hold in the US, not unlike the discontent leading to Britain’s vote in June to leave the European Union.

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At home and abroad, he writes, people ask him: “Why have some on the far left and even more on the far right embraced a crude populism that promises a return to a past that is not possible to restore – and that, for most Americans, never existed at all?”

Obama offers what he believes is a reality check: “The world is more prosperous than ever before and yet our societies are marked by uncertainty and unease. So we have a choice – retreat into old, closed-off economies or press forward, acknowledging the inequality that can come with globalisation while committing ourselves to making the global economy work better for all people, not just those at the top.”

In an election year characterised by a wave of anti-trade sentiment from Trump and Democratic primary contender Bernie Sanders, Obama contends that globalisation has been by far a net positive for the American economy.
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“Lifting productivity and wages also depends on creating a global race to the top in rules for trade,” Obama contends. “While some communities have suffered from foreign competition, trade has helped our economy much more than it has hurt. Exports helped lead us out of the recession. American firms that export pay their workers up to 18% more on average than companies that do not, according to a report by my Council of Economic Advisers.”

Clinton has joined Trump and Sanders in speaking out against the TPP, although some analysts suspect that, should she win the presidency, she will seek to repackage the deal in a manner that allows her to approve it. Obama pledges to keep pushing for Congress to pass the TPP because, he says, it will level the playing field for workers and businesses.

In an obvious swipe at Trump, Obama writes of the current air of discontent: “The anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican, anti-Muslim and anti-refugee sentiment expressed by some Americans today echoes nativist lurches of the past – the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, the Know-Nothings of the mid-1800s, the anti-Asian sentiment in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and any number of eras in which Americans were told they could restore past glory if they just got some group or idea that was threatening America under control. We overcame those fears and we will again.”

But he acknowledges that some of the unrest is rooted in “legitimate concerns” about decades of declining productivity growth and rising inequality resulting in slower income growth for low- and middle-income families. The financial crisis of 2008 only seemed to increase the isolation of corporations and elites.

“So it’s no wonder that so many are receptive to the argument that the game is rigged. But amid this understandable frustration, much of it fanned by politicians who would actually make the problem worse rather than better, it is important to remember that capitalism has been the greatest driver of prosperity and opportunity the world has ever known.”

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Clinton is attempting a broad church election campaign that embraces some ideas from Sanders, a self-proclaimed socialist, but also has the centrist Obama as a leading surrogate. During an electrifying primary campaign, Sanders argued for the breakup of the Wall Street banks. But the president urges against quick fix solutions.

“Further progress requires recognising that America’s economy is an enormously complicated mechanism,” he writes. “As appealing as some more radical reforms can sound in the abstract – breaking up all the biggest banks or erecting prohibitively steep tariffs on imports – the economy is not an abstraction. It cannot simply be redesigned wholesale and put back together again without real consequences for real people.”
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Obama does, however, devote a section of the essay to widening inequality – a key theme of Sanders and Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren – and its negative economic and moral consequences. In 1979, he says, the top 1% of American families received 7% of all after-tax income; by 2007, that share had more than doubled to 17%.
“This challenges the very essence of who Americans are as a people. We don’t begrudge success, we aspire to it and admire those who achieve it. In fact, we’ve often accepted more inequality than many other nations because we are convinced that with hard work, we can improve our own station and watch our children do even better.”
He cites technology, education, globalisation, declining unions and a falling minimum wage as factors in growing inequality. “But I believe that changes in culture and values have also played a major role. In the past, differences in pay between corporate executives and their workers were constrained by a greater degree of social interaction between employees at all levels – at church, at their children’s schools, in civic organisations.
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“That’s why CEOs took home about 20 to 30 times as much as their average worker. The reduction or elimination of this constraining factor is one reason why today’s CEO is now paid over 250 times more.”
He urges the next occupant of the White House: “In the future, we need to be even more aggressive in enacting measures to reverse the decades-long rise in inequality. Unions should play a critical role. They help workers get a bigger slice of the pie but they need to be flexible enough to adapt to global competition.”

He also calls for increasing the federal minimum wage, expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit for workers without dependent children and limiting tax breaks for high-income households.

Obama further notes that in 1953, just 3% of men between 25 and 54 years old were out of the workforce. Today, it is 12%. In 1999, 23% of prime-age women were out of the workforce. Today, it is 26%.
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“Involuntary joblessness takes a toll on life satisfaction, self-esteem, physical health and mortality. It is related to a devastating rise of opioid abuse and an associated increase in overdose deaths and suicides among non-college-educated Americans – the group where labour-force participation has fallen most precipitously.”

Obama proposes increasing access to community colleges and providing wage insurance to those workers who cannot find a job that pays as well as their previous one. He says paid leave and guaranteed sick leave would also encourage flexibility that could lead to more people working.

Championing the achievements of his eight-year presidency, led by preventing the 2008 financial crisis from turning into a great depression, Obama says a foundation was laid for a better future. He suggests that the US should prepare for negative shocks to the economy before they occur and not have to fight for emergency measures in a time of need.

“America must stay committed to working with all nations to build stronger and more prosperous economies for all our citizens for generations to come,” he writes.

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like the country, struggles with race

Race has divided the Roberts court like nearly no other issue.

The justices have wrangled over how openly to talk about their differences. And now, as a new session begins, the court is delving into a set of racially charged cases in the explosive context of the criminal justice system.

The disputes evoke some of the hostile rhetoric of the presidential campaign and real conflicts seen on urban streets: Slurs against Mexican-Americans. Testimony that black defendants are more dangerous than whites. A claim that police used racial epithets during an arrest then fabricated evidence.

The cases could especially test a Supreme Court that has been trying to smooth over differences since the February death of Antonin Scalia and no Senate action on US Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland, nominated by President Barack Obama to succeed him.

The cases also arise as individual justices have been speaking more pointedly about the state of race in America.

 

In an interview soon after the July 7 killings of five Dallas police officers during a protest of police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg voiced distress.

"We never realized what was the promise of the '60s," she said, responding to a question about recent killings. "With all the equality legislation, the Fair Housing Act [of 1968], the Voting Rights Act [of 1965], Title VII [of the Civil Rights Act of 1964], we still live in a highly segregated society. Black communities and white communities. Black schools and white schools."

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first and only Hispanic justice, has increasingly referred to racial divisions.

"[I]t is no secret that people of color are disproportionate victims of this type of [police] scrutiny," she wrote as she dissented in a June police-stop case. "For generations, black and brown parents have given their children 'the talk' -- instructing them never to run down the street; always keep your hands where they can be seen ... all out of fear of how an officer with a gun will react to them."

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The justices have been riven more broadly on race, in cases covering school integration plans, municipal hiring, voting rights and college affirmative action.

In June, when Justice Anthony Kennedy voted for the first time to approve a university admissions program favoring minorities, he voiced new concerns about racial isolation and stereotyping.

Chief Justice John Roberts dissented then and has been firmly on the other side of the issue. He has expressed skepticism for remedies intended to promote diversity or counter historic discrimination. In 2013, he won a narrow majority to limit the reach of the Voting Rights Act in the Shelby County, Alabama, dispute. Race has divided the Roberts court like nearly no other issue.

The justices have wrangled over how openly to talk about their differences. And now, as a new session begins, the court is delving into a set of racially charged cases in the explosive context of the criminal justice system.

The disputes evoke some of the hostile rhetoric of the presidential campaign and real conflicts seen on urban streets: Slurs against Mexican-Americans. Testimony that black defendants are more dangerous than whites. A claim that police used racial epithets during an arrest then fabricated evidence.

The cases could especially test a Supreme Court that has been trying to smooth over differences since the February death of Antonin Scalia and no Senate action on US Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland, nominated by President Barack Obama to succeed him.

The cases also arise as individual justices have been speaking more pointedly about the state of race in America.

 

In an interview soon after the July 7 killings of five Dallas police officers during a protest of police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg voiced distress.

"We never realized what was the promise of the '60s," she said, responding to a question about recent killings. "With all the equality legislation, the Fair Housing Act [of 1968], the Voting Rights Act [of 1965], Title VII [of the Civil Rights Act of 1964], we still live in a highly segregated society. Black communities and white communities. Black schools and white schools."

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first and only Hispanic justice, has increasingly referred to racial divisions.

"[I]t is no secret that people of color are disproportionate victims of this type of [police] scrutiny," she wrote as she dissented in a June police-stop case. "For generations, black and brown parents have given their children 'the talk' -- instructing them never to run down the street; always keep your hands where they can be seen ... all out of fear of how an officer with a gun will react to them."

Supreme Court starts new term with more questions than answers

The justices have been riven more broadly on race, in cases covering school integration plans, municipal hiring, voting rights and college affirmative action.

In June, when Justice Anthony Kennedy voted for the first time to approve a university admissions program favoring minorities, he voiced new concerns about racial isolation and stereotyping.

Chief Justice John Roberts dissented then and has been firmly on the other side of the issue. He has expressed skepticism for remedies intended to promote diversity or counter historic discrimination. In 2013, he won a narrow majority to limit the reach of the Voting Rights Act in the Shelby County, Alabama, dispute.

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Makonda calls for eye screening

DAR ES SALAAM Regional Commissioner (RC) Paul Makonda has called upon more health stakeholders to join hands with the government to facilitate initiatives geared towards attaining the Global Vision 2020: The Right to See.

Mr Makonda made the plea in the city yesterday.He said that about 80 per cent of causes of sight problems were preventable. “The public should cultivate the habit of having frequent sight screening to prevent sight problems,” said the RC in a speech read on his behalf by the Regional Medical Officer, Dr Grace Magembe at free sight screening event at Mnazi Mmoja grounds.

The event was organised by Standard Chartered Bank through its ‘Seeing is Believing’ Project to mark the World Sight Day (WSD). The WSD is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October to focus global attention on blindness and vision.

Mr Makonda hailed Standard Chartered Bank for organising the three-day sight screening event to city residents, saying free sight screening would contribute to initiatives being carried out by the government to attain the Global Vision 2020.

“I call upon other health stakeholders including private sector to emulate the bank by conducting free sight screening to support the efforts,” he said.

The Bank’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr Sanjay Rughani, said the bank through its Seeing is Believing Project would reach out to 17 million children in the country. He said that the project is aimed at improving child eye health service delivery.

“Standard Chartered Bank believes that avoidable blindness and uncorrected vision impairment can be prevented through investment in establishing better eye care services for everyone,” he said.

Mr Rughani pointed out that the project covers six regions namely; Mbeya, Rukwa, Tabora, Mwanza, Manyara and Dar es Salaam.

He pledged to donate 300 million/- to purchase modern technology eye care equipment which will be distributed to various hospitals in the country, pointing out the equipment to be purchased will include surgery sets to handle glaucoma and squint eyes cases.

DAR ES SALAAM Regional Commissioner (RC) Paul Makonda has called upon more health stakeholders to join hands with the government to facilitate initiatives geared towards attaining the Global Vision 2020: The Right to See.

Mr Makonda made the plea in the city yesterday.He said that about 80 per cent of causes of sight problems were preventable. “The public should cultivate the habit of having frequent sight screening to prevent sight problems,” said the RC in a speech read on his behalf by the Regional Medical Officer, Dr Grace Magembe at free sight screening event at Mnazi Mmoja grounds.

The event was organised by Standard Chartered Bank through its ‘Seeing is Believing’ Project to mark the World Sight Day (WSD). The WSD is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October to focus global attention on blindness and vision.

Mr Makonda hailed Standard Chartered Bank for organising the three-day sight screening event to city residents, saying free sight screening would contribute to initiatives being carried out by the government to attain the Global Vision 2020.

“I call upon other health stakeholders including private sector to emulate the bank by conducting free sight screening to support the efforts,” he said.

The Bank’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr Sanjay Rughani, said the bank through its Seeing is Believing Project would reach out to 17 million children in the country. He said that the project is aimed at improving child eye health service delivery.

“Standard Chartered Bank believes that avoidable blindness and uncorrected vision impairment can be prevented through investment in establishing better eye care services for everyone,” he said.

Mr Rughani pointed out that the project covers six regions namely; Mbeya, Rukwa, Tabora, Mwanza, Manyara and Dar es Salaam.

He pledged to donate 300 million/- to purchase modern technology eye care equipment which will be distributed to various hospitals in the country, pointing out the equipment to be purchased will include surgery sets to handle glaucoma and squint eyes cases.

DAR ES SALAAM Regional Commissioner (RC) Paul Makonda has called upon more health stakeholders to join hands with the government to facilitate initiatives geared towards attaining the Global Vision 2020: The Right to See.

Mr Makonda made the plea in the city yesterday.He said that about 80 per cent of causes of sight problems were preventable. “The public should cultivate the habit of having frequent sight screening to prevent sight problems,” said the RC in a speech read on his behalf by the Regional Medical Officer, Dr Grace Magembe at free sight screening event at Mnazi Mmoja grounds.

The event was organised by Standard Chartered Bank through its ‘Seeing is Believing’ Project to mark the World Sight Day (WSD). The WSD is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October to focus global attention on blindness and vision.

Mr Makonda hailed Standard Chartered Bank for organising the three-day sight screening event to city residents, saying free sight screening would contribute to initiatives being carried out by the government to attain the Global Vision 2020.

“I call upon other health stakeholders including private sector to emulate the bank by conducting free sight screening to support the efforts,” he said.

The Bank’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr Sanjay Rughani, said the bank through its Seeing is Believing Project would reach out to 17 million children in the country. He said that the project is aimed at improving child eye health service delivery.

“Standard Chartered Bank believes that avoidable blindness and uncorrected vision impairment can be prevented through investment in establishing better eye care services for everyone,” he said.

Mr Rughani pointed out that the project covers six regions namely; Mbeya, Rukwa, Tabora, Mwanza, Manyara and Dar es Salaam.

He pledged to donate 300 million/- to purchase modern technology eye care equipment which will be distributed to various hospitals in the country, pointing out the equipment to be purchased will include surgery sets to handle glaucoma and squint eyes cases.

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Trump blames 'establishment'

Donald Trump on Friday called himself a "victim" as more women continued to come forward on Friday accusing him of sexual assault and harassment.

"As you have seen, I am a victim of one of the great political smear campaigns in the history of our country," he said at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Friday night. "They are coming after me to try and destroy what is considered by even them the greatest movement in the history of our country."

Trump's comments came as he once again alleged it's "all false stuff" and there is a "concerted effort" to take down his campaign, ignoring calls from his campaign advisers to focus on economic issues rather than responding to the allegations.

 

"My people always say, 'Don't talk about it, talk about jobs, talk about the economy,'" Trump explained to his supporters in Greensboro earlier on Friday. "But I feel I have to talk about it because you have to dispute when somebody says something."

And during his two rallies on Friday, Trump did just that, forcefully denying the allegations that he kissed and groped several women without their consent -- actions he had bragged about being able to do in a 2005 tape -- and arguing that if just a sliver of voters believe those allegations, he will lose the election. 

 

That comment came in Greensboro, which took place less than two hours after two women came forward alleging Trump groped them without their consent. One of the women, former "Apprentice" contestant Summer Zervos, made her accusation during that rally.

In Greensboro, Trump disputed the account of the other woman, Kristin Anderson, calling her story "nonsense" and "false," arguing that he rarely sits alone, even though Anderson never claimed Trump was sitting alone at the time of the incident.

"I was sitting alone by myself and then I went wah to somebody," Trump said at his Greensboro rally, motioning to his side as he attempted to re-enact Anderson's account of his behavior.

He also proposed that his supporters boycott People magazine after a reporter wrote a story alleging Trump began kissing her without her consent in 2005 when the two were alone for an interview at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

"I think maybe what we should do, boycott that issue of People Magazine," he said in Charlotte.

Trump also accused Clinton of "character assassination," saying in Charlotte that it's Clinton's "specialty."

"And her specialty, if you look over the years, has been character assassination and really personally just going after people, that's her specialty," he said. "She's been doing it her whole career. The only force strong enough to smash Clinton's corrupt criminal syndicate is you, the American voter, November 8th."

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JPM wants central railway built fast

PRESIDENT John Magufuli yesterday pushed for faster implementation of Tanzania-China joint projects in the country as he met the Chinese Vice-Minister for Commerce, Mr Qian Keming for talks.

The Central Railway construction project was at the centre of their discussion, with Dr Magufuli insisting that its construction should begin this year.

During the talks at the State House in Dar es Salaam, President Magufuli was keen on speedy execution of the projects, noting that his government entertains ‘acting than preaching’, according to a statement issued yesterday by the Presidential Directorate of Communications.

“My government wants to see things happening and bearing results without delay and we would like to see our development partners, particularly China which is the best friend to Tanzania to go with that speed,” he told Mr Qian.

He mentioned the Central Railway Line which connects Dar es Salaam to Mwanza, Kigoma and neighbouring countries of Rwanda and Burundi as one of the projects that China should implement at the same speed with his government.

The government had earmarked one trillion shillings from this year’s budget for construction of the railway. “Honourable Qian, we have decided to start the construction and 32 contractors have already applied for a tender to construct a 200 kilometre length of the railway from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro and we will use our own funds,” he said.

“We want this project to start this financial year because a feasibility study has already been conducted, so you just speed up and make the project complete. I want it complete before I step down,” he told Mr Qian.

He said the project was essential for Tanzania and other countries that depended on Dar es Salaam port and thus its completion would largely contribute to Tanzania’s economic growth, hence be in a good position to realise its vision of becoming industry-based economy country by 2025.

Mr Qian showered praise on President Magufuli for what he described as a great job that he has been doing to boost the country’s economic growth, fighting corruption and his outstanding will to strengthen relations between Tanzania and China.

He pledged that China would push for increased speed in the implementation of the development projects, including the Central Railway construction. “Honourable President, I have understood your intention and thirst.

I can even see enough political will inside you. Now what we are supposed to do is to push our experts to increase the speed. I promise you to move at 200 km per hour up from 100 km per hour,” he told Dr Magufuli.

In attendance during the talks were China Ambassador to Tanzania, Dr Lu Youqing, Exim Bank Vice-President, Sun Ping, Tanzanian Minister for Industries, Trade and Investment, Mr Charles Mwijage and Minister for Finance and Planning, Dr Philip Mpango.

The Central Railway construction project was at the centre of their discussion, with Dr Magufuli insisting that its construction should begin this year.

During the talks at the State House in Dar es Salaam, President Magufuli was keen on speedy execution of the projects, noting that his government entertains ‘acting than preaching’, according to a statement issued yesterday by the Presidential Directorate of Communications.

“My government wants to see things happening and bearing results without delay and we would like to see our development partners, particularly China which is the best friend to Tanzania to go with that speed,” he told Mr Qian.

He mentioned the Central Railway Line which connects Dar es Salaam to Mwanza, Kigoma and neighbouring countries of Rwanda and Burundi as one of the projects that China should implement at the same speed with his government.

The government had earmarked one trillion shillings from this year’s budget for construction of the railway. “Honourable Qian, we have decided to start the construction and 32 contractors have already applied for a tender to construct a 200 kilometre length of the railway from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro and we will use our own funds,” he said.

“We want this project to start this financial year because a feasibility study has already been conducted, so you just speed up and make the project complete. I want it complete before I step down,” he told Mr Qian.

He said the project was essential for Tanzania and other countries that depended on Dar es Salaam port and thus its completion would largely contribute to Tanzania’s economic growth, hence be in a good position to realise its vision of becoming industry-based economy country by 2025.

Mr Qian showered praise on President Magufuli for what he described as a great job that he has been doing to boost the country’s economic growth, fighting corruption and his outstanding will to strengthen relations between Tanzania and China.

He pledged that China would push for increased speed in the implementation of the development projects, including the Central Railway construction. “Honourable President, I have understood your intention and thirst.

I can even see enough political will inside you. Now what we are supposed to do is to push our experts to increase the speed. I promise you to move at 200 km per hour up from 100 km per hour,” he told Dr Magufuli.

In attendance during the talks were China Ambassador to Tanzania, Dr Lu Youqing, Exim Bank Vice-President, Sun Ping, Tanzanian Minister for Industries, Trade and Investment, Mr Charles Mwijage and Minister for Finance and Planning, Dr Philip Mpango.

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Use and Illness Rates Across America

By definition, pesticides kill. They aim to kill insects, weeds and fungi, among other things, but they can also threaten the lives of humans. Though most people agree that pesticide use has contributed to immense gains in agricultural production and human nutrition, pesticides may also pose health risks to people.

This could be due to many factors. There are many types of pesticides, and changing their chemical composition could make them more toxic. Additionally, dispersing them by new methods (such as by airplane instead of ground level) could affect how many people are exposed.

Those most at risk for pesticide-related ailments are children, who consume more food, air and water relative to their body weight, and those who work in agriculture. Because of this, one might expect the top ten agriculturally producing states to have the highest rates of pesticide-related illness, but according to the CDC, this is not the case.
By definition, pesticides kill. They aim to kill insects, weeds and fungi, among other things, but they can also threaten the lives of humans. Though most people agree that pesticide use has contributed to immense gains in agricultural production and human nutrition, pesticides may also pose health risks to people.

This could be due to many factors. There are many types of pesticides, and changing their chemical composition could make them more toxic. Additionally, dispersing them by new methods (such as by airplane instead of ground level) could affect how many people are exposed.

Those most at risk for pesticide-related ailments are children, who consume more food, air and water relative to their body weight, and those who work in agriculture. Because of this, one might expect the top ten agriculturally producing states to have the highest rates of pesticide-related illness, but according to the CDC, this is not the case.

By definition, pesticides kill. They aim to kill insects, weeds and fungi, among other things, but they can also threaten the lives of humans. Though most people agree that pesticide use has contributed to immense gains in agricultural production and human nutrition, pesticides may also pose health risks to people.

This could be due to many factors. There are many types of pesticides, and changing their chemical composition could make them more toxic. Additionally, dispersing them by new methods (such as by airplane instead of ground level) could affect how many people are exposed.

Those most at risk for pesticide-related ailments are children, who consume more food, air and water relative to their body weight, and those who work in agriculture. Because of this, one might expect the top ten agriculturally producing states to have the highest rates of pesticide-related illness, but according to the CDC, this is not the case.

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