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Guardiola: De Bruyne versatility shows he's good and humble
Pep Guardiola says Kevin De Bruyne's selfless contribution to Manchester City's season shows he is "humble" and that he puts the team ahead of himself.
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Belgium international De Bruyne set up goals for Leroy Sane and Sergio Aguero in Saturday's 3-0 Premier League win at Southampton, taking his assist tally to 13 in the top flight
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De Bruyne played on the right-hand side of City's attack at St Mary's but has spent much of the season as one of two advanced central midfielders alongside David Silva.
The 25-year-old has also played in deeper midfield positions, including on the left of a diamond, and was City's most advanced attacker when Guardiola opted to pack central areas for the Champions League trip to Barcelona.
The manager reported none of this has drawn any complaint from the club's record signing, whose goal tally has suffered in comparison to his debut season in England
De Bruyne has five in all competitions ahead of this weekend's FA Cup semi-final against Arsenal at Wembley, as opposed to 16 in 2015-16, but Guardiola believes any drop-off from the former Wolfsburg star is as a result of him being overused.
"You cannot do that if you are not a good guy, you cannot do that if you are not humble, you cannot do that if you think just of yourself and not the team," he said of De Bruyne's willingness to be versatile.
More assists than any other player in the @premierleague this season! #mcfc pic.twitter.com/UuheAXmAC8— Manchester City (@ManCity) April 16, 2017
"I have spoken many times with him about his favourite position. He said: 'It doesn't matter, I want to play. I adapt.'
"With the quality of this player, how he runs, how he fights… of course he has played a lot of minutes and he was a little bit down recently in terms of missing a lot of easy balls, but that is because he has a lot of minutes in his legs.
"That's where we have missed [Ilkay] Gundogan a lot and it is my mistake not to give more minutes to Fabian Delph, for example.
"Of course, he is an important player for us. In the last metres he is a guy who creates more. We cannot forget he made seven or eight posts. We had 18 posts this season, seven or eight from Kevin De Bruyne. We are a little bit unlucky.
"But he gives us a lot. He is a fantastic player."
By contrast, De Bruyne's countryman Vincent Kompany has again spent much of the season on the sidelines through injury.
But City's captain marked his fourth Premier League start this term with the opening goal and an exuberant celebration, while he was also the kind of reassuring presence at centre-back Guardiola has largely lacked during his time in charge.
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"I would have been done and dusted if I needed time to adapt," Kompany told reporters when asked about his capacity to hit the ground running after a lay-off.
"I have been lucky I can make use of a tremendous amount of experience.
"Where I am at physically does not matter. I know what I have to do and, as long as I can organise the people around, I can always get a performance."


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When armouring the OEM shell, all main surfaces are protected from inside the original shell including the floor, thereby avoiding gaps between armouring inside and outside of the shell and ensuring greater structural rigidity for better blast resistance.
Armouring panels are designed to cover the greatest possible areas to avoid multiple joints and once again favour structural integrity.
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State-of-the-art welding techniques are used to preserve the ballistic properties of the steel and joints are overlapped for extra protection. The armouring of the doors is attached directly to the armouring of the pillars through purpose-built heavy-duty hinges so the weight of the doors is supported by an appropriately strong frame without undue stress on the original shell.
ECU, batteries and fuel tanks are protected with ballistic steel and all armoured vehicles come fitted with run-flats on all wheels including the spare(s) and heavy-duty suspension to handle the extra-weight of the armouring. Various brake-upgrades are available to suit the usage of the cars.
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MSPV's armouring is professionally integrated into the shell and the doors of the vehicles. The result is a complete armoured structure that contributes to reinforcing the original body of the vehicle. The pillars carrying the doors are specially reinforced at the hinge mounting points, which are directly attached to the armouring structure, and the doors are reinforced in a similar way with the hinge mounting-points also directly attached to the armouring of the door. In this way, the whole added weight of the armouring of the door is supported by the armoured structure of the shell thereby guaranteeing the integrity of the assembly and preventing undue stress on the original body structure. Battery and fuel-tank protection as well as suspension upgrades are included in the standard specifications, and customers have a choice of high performance braking systems.
Most of MSPV's production is armoured to level "B6" but MSPV offers a range of protection levels from "B4" to "B7" based on the European CEN standards, and will also provide protection according to other ballistic standards such as NATO STANAG, US NIJ, Russian GHOST or any specific standard required by the customer.
Minerva Special Purpose Vehicles in B6 level are armoured using materials, both opaque and transparent, that meet or exceed the requirements of the European CEN 1522/23 and CEN 1063 standards to the level FB6 for opaque areas and BR6 for transparent areas.
In B6 level, all four sides of the passenger compartment and the roof of the vehicle are protected using high-quality armour steel and glass defeating 7.62x51mm M80 Nato Ball ammunition (U.S. NIJ level III, CEN level B6) and 5.56×45 SS109 ammunition (CEN levels B5 and B6) at 0° incidence (90° to the surface) and 10m range according to CEN1063 and CEN1522.

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Winter doesn't officially start until Dec. 21, but the snow, the cold and the sniffles that come with the season are already here. We can't avoid the snow and the cold, but there are things you can do to help prevent a cold.
Here are a few things to try yourself, along with a few ways that Home Helpers can help make this winter a healthy one for you and your loved ones.
Wash your hands often
Your mother told you, your teachers told you, and they all were right. Frequent and thorough hand washing is your best defense against all kinds of germs, including cold-causing viruses.
To wash properly, use warm water and suds up from fingertips to wrists for at least 20 seconds. Get under your fingernails and between fingers, too.
It's best to use a paper towel for drying. Keep them on hand in your bathrooms at home to encourage good hygiene amongst your own family and friends.
Don't smoke
Smoking does all kinds of bad things to the body, including inhibiting its ability to fight off colds and other illnesses.
If you do catch a cold, smoking can worsen your symptoms, causing your throat to be more irritated and your cough more severe than if you hadn't lit up.
Drink, rinse, repeat
Staying hydrated is so important. Among other things, water helps to flush toxins from our bodies and helps every part of our bodies to work more efficiently.
Drink plenty of water this winter, whether it's in the form of hot herbal tea, chicken noodle soup or plain old H20.
Water isn't just for drinking. Gargling with salt water offers welcome relief from a sore throat by reducing swelling, loosening mucus and flushing out bacteria and irritants.
Rinsing sinuses with a syringe filled with water can rid the body of bacteria that can turn a cold into a sinus infection. Just mix three teaspoons of salt and a teaspoon of baking soda into a cup of water, preferably distilled or boiled and cooled. Neti pots also are made specifically for this purpose.
Keep your house clean
To prevent a cold is to prevent coming into contact with the cold virus.
To decrease your changes of a viral encounter, frequently disinfect objects around the house that are frequently touched. That includes door and faucet handles, television remotes, buttons on appliances, toilet handles and even your cell phone.
Need help keeping the house clean? Give Home Helpers a call. Our caregivers can cook up a batch of soothing chicken noodle soup and also help you keep a germ-free home.
Eat right and sleep tight
Eating right and getting plenty of sleep are crucial to staying healthy. To help prevent a cold, eat a diet high in immune-boosting protein. You'll need lots of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, too.
Need help stocking the fridge with good things to eat? A Home Helpers caregiver can do your shopping and food preparation for you.
Stress is at the root of so many problems, including our susceptibility to illness. Help keep your immune system strong by enjoying regular stress relief.
Try massage, a relaxing bath, soothing music, or whatever calming activity that suits you.
Home Helpers can help with your stress. Our caregivers can give you extra time to relax by preparing meals, shopping, cleaning up around the house, and of course, helping you or a loved one with activities of daily living such as bathing and dressing.


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How do I demonstrate the benefits of sport to health improvement?
Understanding the context
The value of sport and physical activity to local government and communities extends beyond sport for sport's sake.
Sport can, and does, make a profound and positive impact on individuals, communities and wider society. Boosting participation in sport can generate a range of socio-economic benefits for local communities.
In this context we are talking about sport in its widest sense. We see sport as a key part of wider physical activity and will promote and fund activities such as a gentle gym session, informal running groups or led cycle rides through to more structured team activities.
There is a strong body of evidence of the health and physical fitness benefits of sport, for example the link between physical inactivity and obesity and the role of physical activity in reducing the risk of cardiovascular heart disease. Regular physical activity can reduce the risk of many chronic conditions, including coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and increase mental health and well-being. Moving someone from inactivity into just doing something is where the greatest public health benefits can be gained.
"If physical activity was a drug it would be regarded as a miracle, so everyone must take it seriously." Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer
Locally it is important for you to be able to pull this evidence together so it makes sense and resonates for local partners you are seeking to influence and work with.
Facts and Figures
Only 30% of the UK population are active enough for their health.
The benefits of regular physical activity, including sport, have been clearly set out across the life course. In particular regular activity can:
- Prevent ill health and reduce the number of people dying prematurely
- Enhance mental health, quality of life and self-reported wellbeing
- Delay the need for care in older adults (age 65+)
- Reduce health inequalities and improve wider factors influencing health and wellbeing.
In the UK, the incidence of non-communicable disease which can be attributed to physical inactivity includes:
- 10.5% of coronary heart disease cases
- 18.7% of colon cancer cases
- 17.9% of breast cancer cases
- 13.0% of type 2 diabetes cases
- 16.9% of premature all-cause mortality.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has reported on the evidence of Quantifying and Valuing the Wellbeing Impacts of Culture and Sport and https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/quantifying-the-social-impacts-of-sport-and-culture (both 2014), which showed that:
- Sport participation is associated with higher wellbeing. This increase is valued at £1,127 per person per year, or £94 per person per month
- Sports participants are 14.1% more likely to report good health than non-participants.
The economic argument is also strong. In developed countries, physical inactivity accounts for 1.5%-3.0% of total direct healthcare costs. Sport England's research into the economic value of sport showed that the annual value of health benefits from people taking part in sport is estimated at £11.2 billion.
As a first step you need to understand the landscape, who you want to influence and what their priorities are. For more information see How Do the New Structures Work and How Do I Engage?
To influence the health sector it is also useful to understand the Marmot review of health inequalities, Fair Society, Healthy Lives (PDF), which identifies a number of key areas for action to reduce health inequalities.
To demonstrate the benefits of sport to health improvement, it is important to consider:
- The priorities and objectives of your public health partners (understanding the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and Health & Wellbeing Board priorities)
- How you can collect appropriate levels of data, including changes in physical activity status and follow-up information
- That you understand the importance of reducing inequalities
- Being able to show a return on investment or saving to the health system.
How can Sport England help?
We know how active people should be:
- The Department of Health's Chief Medical Officer highlighted that moving people from inactivity to just doing more is where the greatest health benefits lie, in the report Start Active, Stay Active.
We know what works:
- NICE has developed a local authority briefing note which provides a summary of relevant Public Health Guidance That Relates to Physical Activity
- Our review of sport, health and inactivity (PDF) identifies strategies from successful programmes to engage inactive people.
We have good data to help you make the case:
- The Local Sport Profile tool includes a range of local authority-level data sets including inactivity data, costs of inactivity, obesity levels and deprivation
- We are currently developing a health tool which will help in assessing the wider impact of sport.
- The Economic Value of Sport - Local Model provides a snapshot of the indicative economic value of sports activities for a local authority or local enterprise partnership area through participation, non-participation and valuing the wider benefits. It can also be used to assess the economic impact of changes such as an increase or decrease in participation numbers and the effect, for example, on the number of jobs at sports facilities or cost savings to the health service
- The British Heart Foundation National Centre has developed two key advocacy documents on Making the Case for Physical Activity.
We know what data we should be collecting:
- Follow the Standard Evaluation Framework from the National Obesity Observatory (now part of Public Health England), which is a best practice guide on evaluating physical activity interventions.
What's the result?
Using the material from these tools together, supplemented by your own insight and evidence, you will be able to:
- Understand what evidence you need to collect
- Create a local picture of need and input into your Joint Strategic Needs Assessments
- Influence directors of public health and health commissioners by demonstrating the role of sport in delivering public health priorities
- Make a stronger case for investment into sport and physical activity for health benefits.


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Black and white decor in the living room actually is not the real new decoration which is never applied before. Actually there are many types of people who are not able to combine the other color. They will tend to apply both colors to decorate their house. Both colors that eliminate each other can also provide the great harmony after getting the special touch from the creative people.
Some people who are not able to combine the black and white color actually will feel worried about this combination. They cannot imagine about the combination result from the two colors which eliminated each other. It means they will feel worried when they want to this color combination. Actually when they ask the creative people who are able to combine these colors, they can get the great result from these living room design ideas.
The living room which applies this special decoration actually will able to make the people who visit your house feel comfortable and also amazing with your living room decoration. They will ask about your living room decorating ideas source, and also about your motivation why you are applying this living room decoration ideas. Generally when they feel curious about your living room decoration ideas, they will also try to imitate your living room design and applied it in their living room. Black and white living room design actually looks very simple but can generate the unique sense in your living room.
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Started in 2005, Coca-Cola Jeans is an energetic and popular fashion line out of South America. The Coke brand is way more than a beverage in Brazil, as there are 8 Coca-Cola Jeans stores on the streets of Sao Paulo, Rio and Recife and famous Brazilian actors, models and personalities wear the clothes often. The mood is very fashion-forward with embellishments, bold colors and broad design elements, meant for an upscale but street-savvy viewpoint. The brand has lines for both men and women and has participated in several editions of Rio Fashion Week and Sao Paulo Fashion week. Own a bit of Brazil with these fabulously exciting designs from Coca-Cola Jeans!
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This Guy Train-Hopped For Years… And Caught Every Gritty Moment On Camera.
At 17, Mike Brodie hopped on a train from Arizona with plans to visit a friend in Alabama, but headed in the wrong direction. He headed back a few days later, but felt a desire to continue on somehow.
With a group of companions, he traveled for the next four years by foot, train hopping, and hitchhiking, and documented their adventures with a Polaroid camera he'd received. After the film he used was discontinued, he transitioned to a 1980s, 35mm film camera to capture their day-to-day lives.
Nicknamed 'The Polaroid Kidd,' he shared what he saw in a book titled A Period of Juvenile Prosperity through Twin Palms Publishers in 2013 and over the years, his work has been exhibited in multiple galleries.
Although Brodie has never been formally trained in photography, he was given the Braum Award for An Emerging American Photographer. In early 2015, he came out with the follow up book Tones of Dirt and Bone.
Brodie hasn't continued down the road as a photographer, but still exhibits from time to time. Many admire his work, saying that it has made a lasting impact on travel photography and the art world. He currently works as a mobile diesel mechanic and lives in West Oakland, California, with his wife, Celeste.
Scroll below to see some of his romantic captures, untainted by the world of Instagram.
Visit Mike Brodie's official site to learn more.
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Fascia Installation & Repair
Fascia is one of the most important parts of a roofing system. Located along the edges of your roofing, connected to rafters or trusses, fascia is a finishing component that acts as a buffer zone to protect wood along edges from moisture, thereby keeping the entire house/roof moisture-free.
As fascia is one of the shields that keeps other components of your roof dry, it often is subjected to the elements that leave it worn, instead. For this reason, fascia commonly needs replacing, especially in older homes or those that lie in high-rain/storm areas.
When fascia rots, it adds risk to some of the most vulnerable parts of your roof to damage. Water, once introduced into your roofing system, will seep farther in and continue to spread, damaging or adding to your problem. Replacing fascia when it rots or is waterlogged is key in ensuring that both your roof and the interior of your home continue to be water damage-free.
Fascia can also be at risk when heavy storms are a threat in your area. With tropical storms hitting Florida harder than many states, residents and business owners will find the need to react accordingly with the protection of their properties. Roof health is number one in going up against a high-wind, debris-ridden, and moist storm system. Fascia will sometimes incur damage while blocking other parts of your roof from the storm. If you notice damage, No. 1 Home Roofing is ready to replace your less-than-perfect areas with durable fascia in different styles and materials for your preferences.
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Just as James gets back from the Thistle Midwinters (a report from him coming up later), Ian headed south with skipper Ben Fransen for the Bacardi Cup.
This 82nd edition of the Bacardi Cup has brought 62 Star's down to sunny Miami. Incidentally, I discovered that the easiest job in the United States right now must be "Weatherman in Miami", given the forecast this week.
Anyway, known far and wide for his unique literary style, Ian checked in last night after the first race. If any major newspapers out there would like to pick this up for printing, just let us know and we'll be happy to put you in touch with the wordsmith himself.
"Good start at the boat.
Sailed well first beat.
Rounded top 15.
OCS posted at windward mark.
In early.
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Classic black and white elegance makes Amber the perfect invite for a more refined affair. With her beautiful art deco diamanté feature, who wouldn't love to receive her in the mail?!
Size: 140mm wide x 140mm high
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Inclusions: Black or White Blank Envelope (envelope personalistation available)
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Dogs' paths during group walks could be used to determine leadership roles and through that their social ranks and personality traits. Using high-resolution GPS harnesses, we tracked the movements of six dogs and their owner across fourteen 30-40 minute walks off the lead. The dogs' movements were measurably influenced by underlying social hierarchies and personality differences.
Video: Motion patterns in a group of dogs
The study of the Eötvös University, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Oxford University showed that it is possible to determine the social ranking and personality traits of each dog from their GPS movement data. On individual walks it is hard to identify one permanent leader, but over longer timescales it soon becomes clear that some dogs are followed by peers more often than others. Overall, the collective motion of the pack is strongly influenced by an underlying social network.
Dogs that consistently took the lead were more responsive to training, more controllable, older and more aggressive than the dogs that tended to follow. Dogs that led more often had higher dominance ranks in everyday situations, assessed by a dominance questionnaire.
On average, an individual took the role of the leader in a given pair in about three quarters of the time during walks. Using this qualitative data over longer time scales allows researchers to see the more subtle relationships that might otherwise be missed. Of course, hierarchies are likely to vary across breeds and individual groups, so we hope to use this technology on other animals in future to investigate further.
Reuters video: http://reut.rs/1msA111
More info on the project's website: http://bit.ly/1fXHCMR
Journal reference: Ákos et al., 2014, PLOS CB, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003446


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"...A fun-as-hell rock trio with a heavy side. Mt. Vengeance is basically blue-collar Philly rock royalty, with members whose résumés include Valsalva, Uptown Bones, Latimer, Ashtabula and Electric Love Muffin." - Patrick Rapa - Philadelphia Magazine
"mt vengeance sounds like pavement meets the thermals with a little built to spill thrown in for good measure. guitar riffs remind me of parquet courts at times. pixies influence definitely present. little bit of archers of loaf as well. quality indie music." -Andrew Ginsberg - WCUR
"...if you love the timeless indie rock anthems of The Thermals and their brethren but wish Portland wasn't so very far away, fear not — there's never been a shortage of that here in Philly, and new trio Mt. Vengeance nails the vibe remarkably powerfully." - John Vettese - The Key, WXPN
"...Mt Vengeance, they play around often." - Jackie Zahn - WKDU
"...listening to Mt Vengeance makes me want to strap on my Jazzmaster and stomp a Big Muff and let my noise flag fly. Bravo to Rich and the band!" - Jim McGuinn - The Current
"Mt. Vengeance is a good album, although I wouldn't know the difference if it wasn't because I know fuck-all about music. I liked 'Trigger Happy' the best." - Matt Taibbi - Rolling Stone
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Then, Sunday night, they learned Osama bin Laden was dead.
Many of their classmates carpooled to the White House to celebrate. The university put out a press release, headlined "America's Most Political Students React," that spotlighted a student who checked in to "Post-Osama Bin Laden World" on Foursquare.
Jubilation broke out on dozens of other college campuses, too, and the celebrations stunned many and prompted some criticism.
"[N]o man's death is something to celebrate. No man's death is a party," Iowa State University senior Pantelis Korovilas wrote in the Iowa State Daily on Tuesday, criticizing the celebrations.
Why did college students react the way they did? Were they just looking for an excuse to party during a stressful finals week — or are there deeper reasons?
The AU project, "Growing up in the shadow of 9/11," offers some context. The undergraduate and graduate students in the class used social media to recruit more than 1,000 people between the ages of 18 and 29 from across the country to take an online survey.
Just over 70 percent of those surveyed said that Sept. 11 changed their lives. That number was higher in the Northeast, closer to the site of the attacks. Those surveyed were in elementary, middle or high school at the time, so their perceptions were greatly influenced by what teachers and parents told them, according to the report.
"We were just on the cusp," said Lindsey Anderson, 21, a rising senior journalism major from Arizona who worked on the project. "We were old enough to remember, but we were young enough that we don't remember a time when you could walk through airport security with your shoes on."
Despite the impact of the attacks, more than 70 percent of those surveyed said they weren't worried about another terrorist attack. And 83 percent said they weren't hesitant to fly because of the attacks.
The attacks did prompt students to be more likely to follow the news, study foreign relations, learn foreign languages and be politically active, according to the survey.
As for the Sunday night celebrations, the two graduate students who led the project said they weren't surprised.
"For 10 years, for as long as we can remember, we've been looking for this man. He's the face of everything that happened that day," said Cara Kelly, 24, who was the managing editor of the project.
"We have spent half of our lives in a time of war,"said Ashley Bright, 25, the project's assignment editor. "This is the first victory, the first tangible victory."
You can see the full project at www.growingup9-11.com.
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Romantic Love Poems BiographySource(google.com.pk)
If ever two were made for each other surely it is love and poetry: the infinite variety of love meeting the boundless capacity of poetry to embrace it. There is something both sweet and intense about all aspects of romantic love, a combination that is ideally suited to poetry's marriage of the music of speech with compressed content. This is true from love's first blush through to its heady consummation.
"It is a surprise, however, to find that the straightforward romantic paean is comparatively rare amongst great love poems. Perhaps this is because the self-satisfied I'm-so-happy-now-we-twain-are-one approach can cloy. For the most part, great love poems are either ones of wily courtship, unrequited love, or the bitterest regret. There is something delicious about these marginal states in which Desire (for it is he) is constantly unsatisfied, confounded or denied. I would hazard a shaft that it is just this strange quality of desire to persist in the face of its own negation that we find compelling. With that in mind, and with the exception of the Shakespeare (he seems to be able to carry it off), all the poems I've chosen, in no particular order, are of this type. "This is a truly subversive poem, whose first three lines signal the arrival of literary modernism and which can be practically read as its credo. Prufrock is a miscast troubadour of the Edwardian drawing room who fails to raise his lute or his voice due to simple lack of courage. The poem is an anthem for all those who have failed through inaction, which probably includes us all at some time, and which no doubt is what provides it with its great poignancy.A latter-day warrior is beguiled to his inevitable fate by, as her name suggests, a temptress in the mythic tradition. The quiet stroke of brilliance in this poem is just that fact that Betjeman makes the narrator a soldier, trained to repel any military assault no doubt, but defenceless in the face of "strenuous singles" with the athletic young Joan Hunter Dunn. She runs out the "victor", not only in the tennis, but in all regards. A caveat on the hazards of mixing hormones with physical activity.When Henry VIII announced that he intended to marry Anne Boleyn, Wyatt wrote to the king in an effort to dissuade him, saying he himself had had knowledge of her. This poem portrays a hind that the speaker and others pursue vainly and which wears a necklace of jewels that spell out "Noli me tangere [Do not touch me], for Caesar's I am." In the event, Henry took no notice of the letter, thinking perhaps that Wyatt had written it out of jealously. The rest is monumental history.If there are a number of great conceits in the Marvell, then there is a single one in this, at first sight tasteless masterpiece. Almost, one feels, as an exercise in virtuosity, Donne turns a human flea into a persuasive romantic symbol. Said flea has just bitten both himself and the object of his attentions and so becomes an improbable erotic crucible: Donne argues disingenuously that, as the two of them are now conjoined in the flea, they might just as well get on with the grosser physical details.A poem of bitter ruefulness with the ex lover addressed as "Criminal". This is an exuberant rehearsal of various curses around the thief-of-the-heart motif. It knowingly protests too much, however, which is what lends it its great charm.The unusual thing about this poem is that it is contextualised externally: the reader needs to know that, by the time of writing, Milton is blind. There is one place he can still see however: in dream. This paradox is used to provide the poem with a truly devastating denouement.The end of many a relationship has left a sour taste in the mouth; in this case it is that of single-malt whiskys. Our insomniac narrator sets a fairy ring of nips about a room and the sad circle begins where it ends via unfulfilled potential and sorry recollection blended with acid judgment of the betrayer. It concludes with as bitter a toast to a woman as was ever offered by man.


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Sunday, 11 April 2010
Like many London non-league grounds East Ham United's old home has long been demolished and is now another housing estate. The Manorway is now long forgotten amongst the expensive semi-detached and terraced dwellings that are now built in the area - I suspect many people who live in the area don't even know a football ground once stood there.
Like their Football League neighbours East Ham were known as The Hammers but actually played in the heart of Beckton with their local rivals Beckton United playing just up the road at the Sports and Leisure club in the shadow of the Beckton Alps ski-slope. United's ground is still associated with the beautiful game, West Ham United have a floodlit artificial pitch and facilities used by the local community all through the year.
East Ham United, formed in 1933, completed their last campaign in the Essex Senior League in 2000/01 season winning 12 of their 30 games finishing in 11th place of 16 clubs. This was the season prior to Enfield Town's formation and acceptance into the the ESL. The club moved a short distance East on the A13 to join up with Barking FC to form 'Barking and East Ham United' who existed until 2006 when the club reformed solely as Barking. East Ham United's best finish in the ESL was in the 1979/80 season when they were 5th out of 16 clubs. In the 1976/77 season they had a run of glory in the FA Vase beating East Barnet Old Grammarians, Dartford Glentworth, Basildon United, Edgware Town, Alma Swanley and Epping Town in a replay before losing at home 0-4 to Sheffield in the Quarter Final. Sheffield went on to the final losing to then ESL side Billericay Town.
Beckton United were formed as Ceevor FC in 1966 becoming Beckton United in 1975 and regular members of the London Spartan League up until 1996 when the club unfortunately folded. In 1985 they enjoyed a run to the Third Round of the FA Vase beating Eastbourne United, Romsey Town and Gorleston being losing to Stevenage Borough at home.
They played in the Premier Division of the London Spartan League in the 91/92 season alongside Barkingside, Cheshunt and Waltham Abbey to name a few clubs. Division One of the league at the time was at Intermediate level and contained Ilford (making their way back up the Pyramid after being reformed), Leyton County and Walthamstow Trojans amongst others. United played in Green and White diagonal striped shirts with black shorts and green socks.
*Pen-Pictures of the 1991/92 Beckton United Squad.
The area is now represented by London APSA (formed 1993) whose roots lie within the Asian community of East Ham - They play at the near-by Terrance MacMillan Stadium in Plaistow. APSA have averaged a crowd of just 18 this season for their ESL fixtures.
The Newham borough is also represented at non-league level by Clapton in the ESL and three clubs in the Essex Olympian League. Canning Town who share with APSA at the TM Stadium in the Premier Division, Cranes United who paly at Clapton FC's Spotted Dog ground in Forest Gate and Newham United in the Third Division whose pitch is a stone's throw from The Boleyn Ground.
* Local press article from 2000 regarding East Ham's Manorway ground.
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Beckton started out as 'Geevor' not Cleevor.ReplyDelete
I played for them from 1968 until 1979...we bacame Beckton United in 1972, not 1975.
Contact me if you want any more info.
- Anonymous17 August 2013 at 22:00
do you remember who played in goal for geevorDelete
I can remember two Geevor goalkeepers.Delete
Clive Smith and Curt Josephs.
- Anonymous30 September 2013 at 21:21
i played in goal for geevor in the 60s when we were in the stock exchange league before going to the barking and district league players t iverson b lamb j weirDelete
- Anonymous30 September 2013 at 21:26
did you ever play against pendeen in cornwallDelete
Hello could you provide me with the date/newspaper of the article re flytipping at East Ham United. I am doing some research and need a copy of the article with these details on.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous31 October 2010 at 21:11
is this the tony quinlan who I played a handfull of games with at beckton, before i wrecked my knee playing against the london fire brigade.You may remember me as I was out for nearly 18 months with the injury. John West was our captain and Bobby Broomfield was our manager. I can still remember the team that day and I think the game was around late October 1975. You and Ronnie Allen along with Greig Lawrence were the strikers.ReplyDelete
Yes it's me mate....shame you never said who you were!ReplyDelete
Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
- jon wiggins24 March 2011 at 18:19
i am jon wiggins and playe for east ham. i also played in the fa cup first roundReplyDelete
Names from the past there....all good mates of mine in the 60's and 70's.ReplyDelete
Barry Lamb, Terry Iverson, John Weir, Jimmy Quayle, Johnny West and many more.
Sadly, Johnny Weir and his brother Steve (who also played for Geevor and Beckton) have both died in the last 4 years...both aged 58.
- Anonymous3 October 2013 at 11:13
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- malcolm phillips30 October 2013 at 21:39
i playerd many times with all the names mentiond sad to hear about the weir brosReplyDelete
I married Denny Bowhill in 1981. Sadly he passed away 7th February this year. Sadly missed. XReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous25 April 2014 at 14:05
My father Harry Fisher was a trainer for the East Ham United football club..They converted a football pitch by the old Beckton Gas Works that was many years ago now.ReplyDelete
- Mick Waite9 August 2014 at 18:01
I played for Beckton Utd in the 2 seasons previous to the 91/92 match programme above. I remember playing with most of those names on there, i owe a lot to Ronnie English who unfortunately is no longer with us as he pursueded me to come over and play for Beckton after watching me play on a sunday morning.ReplyDelete
Some of the other names that are not on that programme were the Swan Brothers (Paul and Terry), Robbie O'Brien, Kevin Pearce, Alan Shirley, Mark Reed and Bill Reed our manager(RIP).
Does anyone know if Harry Cripps was manager or coach of East Ham United and if so the period involved, please?ReplyDelete
I remember harry cripps coaching the east ham team of an evening at St. Johns church centre in North Woolwich. The five a side pitch next to dunedin houseReplyDelete
My dad took me down to the fence one week and called him over to get me his autograph.
I still have the autograph somewhere i hope.
I could watch the five a side matches from the side window of our flat.
Think it would have been around 1975 when harry played for charlton - the team I supported.
Hope this helps.
- Anonymous30 March 2019 at 02:14
Can anybody remember Alfred Smith playing for East Ham UnitedReplyDelete


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New Rules: February 15, 2013/
Every week, Bill lays down his own laws. Here is the latest set of New Rules from the last episode:
New Rule: Whoever hacked into George Bush's emails to expose his self-portrait also has to go into Dick Cheney's to show us his. [slide of black-hooded demon-mask wearing figure]
New Rule: Someone has to tell Marco Rubio something I learned a long time ago: never get high before a show. You wind up making no sense, and you develop a bad case of cotton mouth.
Plus, the next time Rubio panders by Latinos by releasing an all-Spanish version of his speech, when he stops for a water break, he has to drink from the hose. [doctored slide of Rubio with hose]
New Rule: If Lil' Kim continues with this weird transformation from "strong black sister" to "crazy Asian lady," she must change her name to "Kim Jong Illin."
Also, after Michael Jackson turned white, and now this, other races must give some of their pop stars to the black community, starting with "Justin Biebro." [slide of Justin Bieber with Afro]
New Rule: [slide of Senators, McCain, Schumer, Graham] Senator Lindsey Graham must stop blowing off rehearsal. Come on, Lindsey, the choreography is not that complicated. It's "point," then "the hitchhike," pivot, chest-bump, crotch-grab, jazz hands. And if this is what bipartisanship looks like, I'll stick with the gridlock.
Sorry, but this doesn't say, "We represent the United States of America." [slide of Munchkins] It says, "We represent the Lollipop Guild."
New Rule: Rand Paul must either admit he wears a toupee or explain why pubic hair is growing out of his head. Man, you know you've got a bad rug when it doesn't even look real in a painting! [slide of painting of Rand Paul]
Man, even your dad's fake eyebrow is thinking, "What is up with that hair?!"
And, finally, New Rule: Hey, Catholics, news flash! If the pope can quit, it's okay for you to quit, too.
Now...as you all know, this week, Pope Benedict told Vatican Radio -- you know, Vatican Radio, playing the hits from the 8th century, 9th century and today -- Benedict told them he was going to resign because the Church needs a fresh, young face, somewhere other than a priest's lap.
Now, the pope's decision leaves so many questions unanswered. Is he resigning to hide something? Who will replace him? Will the Church try to modernize? All of which are interesting questions. Just not to me. I, and millions like me, just don't care. Which is good news, because it means that the institution of the Catholic Church is losing its importance and dying off just like Moose Lodges and the Masons; Blockbuster and moderate Republicans.
And how could it not be? Every poll of American Catholics shows they find most Vatican teachings to be irrelevant. Catholics use birth control. They get divorced. They have premarital sex. They masturbate. Sometimes all in one night.
The typical Catholic these days doesn't look like this. [slide of devout matron praying] She looks like this. [slide of Madonna in performance]
And, maybe Benedict realized that he'd just become a figurehead like Queen Elizabeth in a better dress. And, by telling his flock, "I'm getting too old for this sh**," he's actually ahead of the game. Maybe it's time for American Catholics to ask if they're getting too old for this sh**.
I mean, if you're Catholic but you don't follow anything the Church says, what are you staying for? The stained glass windows?
It's okay to let go. No one can fault you for losing faith in an organization that won't even allow women as priests, because, the reasoning goes, Jesus didn't have any female apostles. Yeah, you remember the Last Supper: a total sausage party.
The fact is that any enterprise that excludes women almost always descends into sexual deviancy. At least at my bathhouse.
Whether it's the Boy Scouts, the Penn State locker room or on Wall Street, sooner or later, a bunch of innocent folks get f**ked.
Show me any culture that's traditionally hostile to women, and I will show you a culture that is screwed up. Like the Taliban. Like our military with its enormous rape problem. And like the Catholic Church.
This Church needs a woman pope. Hillary Clinton just finished up her stint as Secretary of State. Oh, yeah. Maybe "Pope Hillary" could clean up the Church. If there's anyone who knows how to handle a guy who can't keep his hands to himself, it's her.
And, if Hillary won't do it: "Poprah!" [slide of Oprah in papal vestments] Jesus turned water into wine. Oprah whines about retaining water.
Plus, she's practiced at hearing confessions, [slide of Oprah with Lance Armstrong] and of course, she's celibate. [slide of Oprah with Stedman].
And, if she won't do it, I have one more candidate. No, not a woman, but someone born and raised Catholic. Yes, of course, I'm talking about me.
Why me?! Well, I have this hat. Plus, everybody has always known I have absolutely no interest in children whatsoever.
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Today I had a doctor's appointment to discuss some of the recommendations I received at the NMF conference as well as to talk about some new things that are beginning to crop up. My doc knows me well enough now to realize that it's sometimes necessary to book two appointment slots just for me. This way we can talk about everything that we need to talk about without making other patients wait. She is always really good at wanting to know how everything is going and chat instead of rushing me out the door like some doctors do.
The most concerning thing that I wanted to go over with her is this tremor that I've gotten within the last month or so. It has been getting progressively more prominent and disruptive as time goes on. Sometimes it's also less of a tremor and more of a difficulty in getting my hands or legs to do what I want them to do. For example, sometimes when I'm driving I have to put noticeably more effort into getting my leg to move from the gas to the breaks then I usually do. Or, sometimes I notice it's way harder than it normally is to make small movements with my hands/fingers like trying to open a package or to type on the keyboard. When drawing it's more obvious that I can't do a smooth straight line anymore without lifting up my hands every few seconds. Hand tremors run in my family on my dad's side. My dad and his mom both have them as well as some other members of his family. My brother has also recently begun to experience the same thing. Mine differs only in the speed that it's progressed and the fact that it also effects my legs and feet. My doctor did some quick neurological tests (finger to the nose, different types of hand movements) which didn't indicate anything too worrisome. She thinks that it's an essential tremor and the fact that it runs in the family makes it a familial essential tremor. She said to keep an eye on it and that if it continues to become more severe or too disruptive that treatment to minimize the symptoms is an option. She also said that if it's noticeably bad at the time not to drive. Which isn't too helpful because it mostly comes on while I'm in the middle of driving. So, that's that for now. It's a bummer but not life threatening which is good news. It'll make some of my hobbies more of a challenge but I'll work my way around that.
An MRI of my spine has been booked to check on my scoliosis and screen for dural ectasia. I've been contemplating asking for an MRI to check for dural ectasia for a few years now because of the link between the condition and headaches.
Tomorrow I go see my optometrist about the drops to restrict my pupil and see if that helps my double vision. I don't know why but for some reason I think that it's been suggested before but wasn't an option. So, I'm not getting my hopes up, I don't want to be disappointed if I can't try them.
In august I have a pelvic and abdominal ultrasound. One is to check out a polyp that was found on my gallbladder and to get a better look at my common bile duct because it was a bit dilated. A few other ducts have also been noted to be dilated over the years but personally I'd assume that it can be attributed to my tissue disorder in the same way that a dilated aorta is. They also want to have a look at my abdomen because of the nausea and cramps I've been getting daily. Also, in august I have an appointment with a connective tissue specialist.
Now you're all good and updated. Until tomorrow's eye appointment anyways. Maybe tomorrow I'll have good news.
Happy Wednesday.
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Week 7: December 8 – December 14
Original Weight: 197.6 lbs
Week 7 Starting Weight: 191.8 lbs
Current Weight: 190.2 lbs
Weekly Weight Loss/Gain: –1.6 lbs
Total weight loss: –7.4 lbs
Current Goal: 183.7 lbs
Ultimate Goal: 155 lbs
Week 6 Goals:
*Focus on my goal every time I feel myself falling down the rabbit hole of Oreos:
I probably made a solid "B" on this goal. A good 85% percent of the time I stopped myself from bingeing/eating excessively by just thinking about where I want to be on August 23, 2015 when I turn 30 – the best version of me possible.
After two weeks of gains, it was nice to step on the scale this morning and see a loss. I think talking about my own emotional eating last week helped really put things into perspective for me. It was a lot easier telling myself to stop (no binges!) and focus on my long-term goal after typing/talking it out.
I also received some really great advice that helped take the pressure I was putting on myself to LOSE LOSE LOSE by Miss Nutralicious (check her out, she's wonderful!):
Also, real thing that I learned at nutrition school:
We were taught to help clients focus on maintaining weight instead of losing weight during November and December. Everyone gets so crazy busy during the holidays that they usually gain weight, so maintenance is a bigger goal. So don't beat yourself up if you maintain weight instead of lose during this month. Keep doing your healthy thang and you'll get where you want to be! :)
I decided that instead of beating myself up or telling myself NO during holiday shenanigans (we had two work parties last week I attended) – I would eat what I wanted but really listen to my hunger cues and not just blindly eat/snack. I'm going to still track my points, work on eating more filling foods and do everything else but move my focus more to maintenance over the holidays. I want to enjoy this time with my friends and family without having everything dictated by food. It worked this past week, so I feel good about this plan until after the New Years.
Another part of the emotional eating I didn't address last week is that sometimes I think that, "Wow, I HAVE to eat this because I may never get to eat it again" – we just never knew how much food or what was going to be available to us growing up. I don't ever remember being hungry growing up but then again, maybe it was just normal to us to have little, so we did with it what we could?
Just another aspect to this weight loss thing I have to remind myself about – my food intake is only dependent on me at this point. No one else. I buy the food, I prepare the food, I put the food in my mouth – anything beyond that is blaming someone else for my mistakes. I don't like doing that in any other aspect of my life, so why should I do it when it comes to my nutrition?
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This may be simply a US expression, but it describes anyone who is just a mean son-of-a-gun. (being PC here) The comparison with the junkyard dog refers to the guard dogs used to patrol wrecked auto parts lots where the losses to midnight thievery would be great without the dogs presence. They are usually Dobermans or German Shepards, and are bred and trained to be rather intimidating and downright dangerous.
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My three year old daughter has had type 1 diabetes for 18 months, and I am having difficulty potty training her. She urinates three or four times an hour, even if her glucose level is in range. She never has a bowel movement in her underwear, only urine. She does pretty well at home, but has a hard time when not near a toilet. Is this normal for a toddler with diabetes?
I don't think you should be concerned that at age three, your daughter is not yet toilet trained for urine, regardless of her diabetes diagnosis. There is no doubt that having higher blood glucoses leads to increased urination and fluid losses and can make the whole toilet training experience more prolonged and frustrating for everyone.
You did not indicate what her insulin regimen is or what her hemoglobin A1c is. However, the addition of a longer lasting insulin might help matters a bit. In a child of this age, I would consider Ultralente before Lantus (insulin glargine) [ED: Lantus is recommended for children 6 and over]. Be certain to address your questions and concerns with your daughter's diabetes team.
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2014 Birthing Instincts Review/
014 was a good year for Birthing Instincts and Dr. Stu. There was growing awareness in the media and community that out of hospital birthing is a reasonable choice for many women. Articles supportive of the benefits of home birth were numerous and at least as prevalent and as prominent as some of the anti-home and anti-water birth articles. Especially timely were the research articles emphasizing the benefits of the microbiome and the long term risks to both mother and baby of cesarean section. Dr. Stu was a guest speaker in June at the "Life in the Microbiome" conference in Wisconsin and gave many talks on normal birth and breech birth locally in Southern California.
AB1308 was passed in Sacramento allowing midwives the freedom to practice without supervision only placing a restriction against them assisting at breech, twin and pre and post term deliveries. Birthing Instincts was able to assist some of these clients in collaboration with the SoCal midwives. In the last few months we had beautiful home deliveries in several women well beyond 42 weeks. Breech deliveries were up in 2014 with 16 families choosing the vaginal route at home with 14 (87.5%) thus avoiding cesarean section. We traveled to Bakersfield, Temecula, Newhall, Ventura and Orange County to support birth choices. In December Dr. Stu traveled to Sacramento for the interested parties meeting on AB1308 and found the process tedious but supportive of the ability of midwives to practice independently within the scope of their guidelines.
Birthing Instincts web site www.birthinginstincts.com continues to act as a resource for women around the world. The volume of emails requesting information on birth choices has grown steadily. Our Facebook page, Dr. Stuart Fischbein, OB/Gyn, passed 1000 likes and some of our posts were viewed by nearly 20,000.
Dr. Stu's Podcast www.drstuspodcast.com with Brian Whitman took at a look at the issues from a humorous point of view with some great guests including Jen of VBAC Facts, Ana Paula Markel and Dr. Elliot Berlin to name a few. We were on hiatus over the fall but are set to resume at the end of January 2015. We spent time with luminaries in our field such as Sarah Buckley, Barbara Harper and Kelly Brogan. Holistic Parenting Magazine featured us in an interview.
The Mother-Friendly Childbirth Symposium 2015 which will be held October 14 & 15, 2015 at California Endowment Center, invited Dr. Stu to be a panelist and speaker. We recently submitted a paper for publication as a clinical series titled, "Home Birth With an Obstetrician, A Series of 100 Births". We are hopeful that it will be published in early 2015 and are optimistic that the coming year will show growing acceptance of the logic of trusting normal pregnancy and birth as a normal mammalian function, a growing awareness of the detriment of such a high and unnecessary cesarean section rate and the continued realization that home birth is a reasonable alternative for many of us.
Finally, Dr. Stu and all his staff want to express their gratitude to all the mothers and fathers and birth professionals who have supported the Birthing Instincts mission. Your trust is heartfelt and provides the sustenance that keeps us going at all hours of the night. Thank you!
We have included the 2014 Birthing Instincts Statistics for you to review. Comments & questions welcome.
2014 Birthing Instincts Statistics
Total Clients in care: 48
Transfer of Care prior to labor (TOC): 5
1) Breech, Oligohydramnios, 41 weeks - cesarean
2) Breech –Dr. Fischbein Out of Town - cesarean
3) 42 weeks, Unfavorable Cervix - successful induction SVD
4) Breech, Oligohydramnios, 41 weeks – cesarean
5) IUFD, 39 weeks – induction SVD
Deliveries: 43 (Where the primary responsible practitioner is Dr. Stu)
Vaginal: 40 (Rate 93%) (Home Success Rate 90.7%)
Primips: 32 (Includes 1st time mothers and VBAC mothers)
Multips: 11
Vacuum Assisted VD: 3
Twins: 3 (All Vertex/Vertex)
Breech: 14 (2 assisted with Piper Forceps)
VBA2C: 1 (vacuum)
Transports: 4 (Rate 9.3%)
Cesarean: 3 (Rate 7%)
Vaginal: 1 (vacuum)
Summary: 48 clients entered into care in 2014, many late in their pregnancy because of newly discovered breech position or beyond 42 weeks. 5 of these women developed problems prior to labor and so their care was transferred to a hospital based physician. Of the 43 remaining, 40 delivered vaginally, 93%, including 87.5% of breech labors at home. Overall home success rate including VBAC, twin and breech deliveries was 90.7%. The transport rate was 9.3%. There were no newborn transports. Dr. Stu was also called to 9 deliveries postpartum to assist the midwife in a repair of a laceration. We continue to act as a consultant to many California midwives to answer questions or perform ultrasound and fetal testing. Birthing Instincts, Inc. is honored to be of assistance and provide these services to the families of Southern California.


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Queen – Denmark News (Wardour-048)
Denmark News (Wardour-048) Falkoner Theater, Copenhagen, Denmark – April 13th, 1978 Disc 1: We Will Rock You (slow / fast), Brighton Rock, Somebody To Love, Death On Two Legs, Killer Queen, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, I'm In Love With My Car, Get Down Make Love, The Millionaire Waltz, You're My Best Friend, Spread Your Wings, It's Late, Now I'm Here Disc ...
- 25 July
Queen – Pop Spectacular (Wardour-016)
Pop Spectacular (Wardour-016) Golders Green Hippodrome, London, UK – September 13th, 1973: Intro., Procession, Father To Son, Son And Daughter, Ogre Battle, Member Intro., Liar. The Stadium, Liverpool, UK – November 17th, 1973: Procession, Father To Son, Son And Daughter, Ogre Battle, Hangman, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar Wardour visits the ...
- 24 July
Queen – One Sweet Moment (Wardour-032)
One Sweet Moment (Wardour-032) St. James' Park, Newcastle, England – July 9th, 1986 Disc 1: One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Tear It Up, A Kind Of Magic, Day-O, Under Pressure, Another One Bites The Dust, Who Wants To Live ...
- 24 July
Queen – Spectacular (Wardour-043)
Spectacular (Wardour-043) Hippodrome De Vincennes, Paris, France – June 14th, 1986 Disc 1: One Vision, Tie Your Mother Down, Day-O, In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Tear It Up, A Kind Of Magic, Under Pressure, Another One Bites The Dust, Who Wants To Live Forever?, I Want To Break Free, impromptu, guitar solo, Now I'm Here Disc 2: Love Of My ...
- 24 July
Queen – Champions Shoot (Wardour-036)
Champions Shoot (Wardour-036) New London Theatre Centre, London, England – October 6th, 1977 Bob Harris' first speech, Bob Harris' second speech, We Are The Champions, Tie Your Mother Down, Keep Yourself Alive, Somebody To Love, White Man, The Prophet's Song, Liar, Bohemian Rhapsody, Now I'm Here, Jailhouse Rock, See What ...
- 24 July
Queen – Dressed To Kill (Wardour-033)
Dressed To Kill (Wardour-033) International Hall, Kobe, Japan – April 23rd, 1975 Procession, Now I'm Here, Ogre Battle, Father To Son, White Queen, Flick Of The Wrist, Doin' Alright, In The Lap Of The Gods, Killer Queen, The March Of The Black Queen, Bring Back That Leroy Brown, Son ...
May, 2011
- 30 May
Jeff Beck – O'Keefe Master (Wardour-045)
O'Keefe Master (Wardour-045) O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada – July 23rd, 1975 (early show) (65:06): Introduction, Constipated Duck, She's A Woman, Freeway Jam, Definitely Maybe, Superstition, AIR Blower, keyboard solo, 'Cause We've Ended As Lovers, Jeff's Boogie, Power, Got The Feeling, You Know What I Mean, Diamond Dust / Jeff's ...
- 29 May
Jeff Beck – O'Keefe Master II (Wardour-046)
O'Keefe Master II (Wardour-045) O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada – July 23rd, 1975 (late show) (67:21): Introduction, Constipated Duck, She's A Woman, Freeway Jam, Definitely Maybe, Superstition, AIR Blower, keyboards solo, 'Cause We've Ended As Lovers, Power, Got The Feeling, You Know What I Mean, Diamond Dust / Jeff's Jam ...
- 28 May
Beck, Bogert & Appice – Encounter Velocity (Wardour-088)
Encounter Velocity (Wardour-088) Budokan, Tokyo, Japan – May 14th, 1973 Disc 1 (43:44): Introduction, Superstition, Livin' Alone, I'm So Proud, Lady, Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You, People Get Ready, Morning Dew / Drums Solo Disc 2 (59:53): Sweet Sweet Surrender, Lose Myself With You / Bass Solo, Black Cat Moan, Jeff's Boogie, Why Should I Care, Plynth / Shotgun, Going Down, Oleo, Boogie The ...
April, 2011
- 7 April
Queen – At Palace (Wardour-086)
At Palace (Wardour-086) Palace Theatre, Providence, RI – April 27th, 1974 (45:50): Procession, Father To Son, Ogre Battle, Son And Daughter, Great King Rat, Liar, Keep Yourself Alive, Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll, Big Spender, Bama Lama Bama Loo Queen's first US tour with Mott The Hoople has ascended into ...
- 4 April
Queen – BBC Sessions 1973-1977 (Wardour-087)
BBC Sessions 1973-1977(Wardour-087) (62:16): See What A Fool I've Been, Liar, Son And Daughter, Keep Yourself Alive (Langham 1 studio London – July 25th, 1973). Modern Times Rock And Roll, Nevermore, White Queen (Langham 1 studio London – April 3rd, 1974). Bob Harris MD, Now I'm Here, Bob Harris MD, Stone Cold Crazy, Bob Harris MC, Flick Of ...
January, 2011
- 2 January
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Your Long Journey (Wardour-063)
Your Long Journey (Wardour-063) Merriweather Post Pavillion, Columbia, MD – June 13th, 2008 Disc 1 (71:42): Rich Woman, Leave My Woman Alone, Black Dog, Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us, Through The Morning Through The Night, It's Goodbye And So Long To You, Fortune Teller, In the Mood/Matty Groves/In The Mood, Black ...
December, 2010
- 14 December
David Bowie – Blackout (Wardour-084)
Blackout (Wardour-084) NHK Hall, Tokyo, Japan – December 12th, 1978 Disc 1 (48:29): Warszawa, "Heroes", What In The World, Be My Wife, The Jean Genie, Blackout, Sense Of Doubt, Breaking Glass, Fame, Beauty And The Beast Disc 2 (79:35): Five Years, Soul Love, Star, Hang On To Yourself, Ziggy Stardust, Suffragette City, Art Decade, Alabama Song, Station To Station, TVC15, Stay, Rebel Rebel. Bonus, David Bowie interviews in Japan 1978 David Bowie ...
October, 2010
- 17 October
Queen – Best Of Montreal (Wardour-022)
Best Of Montreal (Wardour-022) The Forum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada – December 1st, 1978 Disc 1: Intro., We Will Rock You (fast), Let Me Entertain You, Somebody To Love, If You Can't Beat Them, Death On Two Legs, Killer Queen, Bicycle Race, I'm In Love With My Car, Get Down Make ...
- 17 October
Queen – A Day At The Court (Wardour-021)
A Day At The Court(Wardour-021) Earls Court, London, England – June 6th, 1977 Disc 1 (63:13): Procession, Tie Your Mother Down, Ogre Battle, White Queen, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, The Millionaire Waltz, You're My Best Friend, Bring Back That Leroy Brown, Death On Two ...
- 12 October
The Who – Chicago 1979 Definitive Version (Wardour DVD Series 001)
Chicago 1979 Definitive Version (Wardour DVD Series 001) International Amphitheater, Chicago, IL – December 8th, 1979 Intro, Substitute, I Can't Explain, Baba O' Riley, The Punk And The Godfather, My Wife, Sister Disco, Behind Blue Eyes, Music Must Change, Drowned, Who Are You, 5:15, Pinball Wizard, See Me Feel ...
August, 2010
- 18 August
Jeff Beck, Santana, Steve Lukather – Sound Market '86 (Wardour-083)
Sound Market '86(Wardour-083) After participating in the 1983 ARMS tour with Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and a multitude of others Jeff Beck went silent in terms of live performance. He played a handful of shows with Rod Stewart in 1984 and worked on his LP Flash. His return to the stage ...
- 4 August
Jeff Beck – Thank The Lord (Wardour-082)
Thank The Lord (Wardour-082) The 1980s were a period where the big rock acts flirted with a manufactured pop style then popular. There were a heavy reliance upon keyboard arrangements, sultry saxophones and attempts at hooks with every song to the exclusion of individual expression and experimentation. For twenty years (since 1966's Roger The ...
- 3 August
Jeff Beck – The Moving Finger (Wardour-080)
The Moving Finger (Wardour-080) Furitsu-Taiikukan, Osaka, Japan – December 5th, 1980 Disc 1 (39:42): Opening, Star Cycle, El Becko, Too Much To Lose, The Pump, Cause We've Ended As Lovers, Space Boogie, Led Boots Disc 2 (57:12): Freeway Jam, Diamond Dust, Scatterbrain, drum solo / Scatterbrain, Blue Wind, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, You Never Know, Going Down, outroduction Touring for the 1980 album There ...


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Capitol Alert
Key Schwarzenegger aide nabbed in ethics probe
Susan Kennedy, a former aide to Govs. Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, has agreed to pay a $32,500 fine from the state ethics watchdog for failing to register as a lobbyist while advocating for Lyft and a Southern California water company.
The Fair Political Practices Commission said Kennedy lobbied her former colleagues at the California Public Utilities Commission from 2012 to 2014 and did not register her activities with the state. She received $201,500 in payments from Lyft and the San Gabriel Water Valley Water Co. during that time.
Lyft hired Kennedy, a Democrat who served as a commissioner from 2003 to 2006, months after the agency sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company in August 2012 for operating without the commission's authority.
Kennedy contacted then CPUC President Michael Peevey and other staff members to persuade them to work with ride-sharing companies instead of shutting them down, according to an agreement between Kennedy and the FPPC. Lyft paid Kennedy $76,500 as she lobbied the commission to engage in a rulemaking process for ride-sharing companies and attempted to influence regulations.
"The efforts of Kennedy and Lyft were successful as the resulting rules and regulations adopted many of the suggestions and positions put forward by Kennedy and Lyft during the rulemaking process," the FPPC states in the stipulation.
The San Gabriel Water Co., an investor-owned public utility that had a pending rate-setting case before CPUC, paid Kennedy $125,000 for consulting services to work on government regulations, legislative and public affairs issues in the first half of 2014, according to the agreement.
The FPPC said the company sought to increase water rates for customers in the city of Fontana, which the city and school district opposed, and recover costs related to a Sand Hill treatment plant.
Kennedy met with Peevey and Commissioner Michael Picker to discuss the San Gabriel case and attempt to influence the commission's decision related to the treatment plant. The commission eventually approved a modified rate increase.
As part of the settlement agreement with the FPPC, Kennedy agreed that she lobbied the commission on behalf of both companies. She was also required to register as a lobbyist and file late lobbyist disclosure forms.
"Ms. Kennedy moved immediately once the discrepancy was identified to provide the necessary information requested by the FPPC," said her attorney, James Harrison. "Integrity and character are hallmark principles in how Ms. Kennedy conducts herself in business, which is why she is acting swiftly and looks forward to its resolution."
Kennedy served as chief of staff to then-Gov. Schwarzenegger from 2007 to 2011. She previously held titles of cabinet secretary and deputy chief of staff under former Gov. Davis, communications director for U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and executive director of the California Democratic Party.
The FPPC is expected to vote to approve or reject the settlement at its next meeting on Feb. 15. A spokesman for the agency said the case was referred to the FPPC by the Attorney General's Office.
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Hobart Tasmania is surprisingly "non-foreign". Yes, most everyone has an Australian accent, they drive on the other side of the road, and the money and the licence plates look weird, but there has been no culture shock at all. The architechture and the climate and the water and the drought make it feel like its just an coastal exurb college town in Southern California.
Sessions are still way fun. I'm right now in a session presented by Tridge on automatically setting up virtualized Samba clusters for testing.
Last night's social activity was a dinner at the local brewery, Cascade, which claims to be the oldest brewery in Australia. I wonder if I can arrange having some of their product shipped home.
I ended up sitting next to Linus for dinner. Topics of discussion ranged from living in Bay Area vs Portland, the growing comfort by ordinary companyies and IP lawyers with open source licenses, handwriting, SCUBA, skydiving, and Hawaii.
The night before last the dinner ended with a fundraising auction for research to save the Tasmanian Devil. The auction got every complex, as various people and groups started pledging various matching contributions condictional on other auction values, matches, and events. At the end of it, over 20K was raised, and an appointment was made to have Linus shave off Bdal's beard. News:ITwire News:LinuxJournal.
Wierd dreams last night and this morning. The backbone story was some sort of happy relationship story that exists in multiple versions across the multiverse, and how it's being disrupted by someone who in multiple versions is crossing around the multiverse and hypertime, breaking each strand of it. And it was seen from multiple points of view.
My friend Kim just published a book on Lulu, Honour Blackmore, An Honest Maid.


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Chairman of Banque Misr Mr. Mohamed Eletreby inaugurated the Egyptian Banking System Model (EBSM) in cooperation with the Faculty of Commerce at Ain Shams University.
The inauguration was held in the presence of Prof. Dr. Khaled Qadri, Dean of the Faculty of Commerce; Dr. Suzanne Hamdi, Head of Financial Markets and Investment Sector at Banque Misr; and Mr. Hesham Talaat, Programs Manager at the Egyptian Banking Institute, as well as a number of professors and media professionals.
The EBSM is an effective way to transfer experiences and applicable knowledge, and to simulate the real-life working environment of the banks operating in the Egyptian banking sector. Thus, Banque Misr sponsored and applied several simulation models of the Egyptian banking sector.
The first was in collaboration with the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. Later, the EBSM was extended to other universities in Egypt, including the German University in Cairo in 2016/2017. The latest iteration was the EBSM at the Faculty of Commerce at Ain Shams University in 2017/2018.
The Central Bank of Egypt and the banking sector are key pillars in achieving financial inclusion, in line with the state's plans. Indeed, economic growth cannot be achieved without the integration of all segments of society into the financial system. Financial inclusion is a fundamental pillar of Egypt's Vision 2030.
Banque Misr considers the ideal of financial inclusion to be a main target in light of its effects on achieving financial and social stability, enhancing growth opportunities, and creating comprehensive and sustainable development in our homeland. As such, the bank aims to offer diverse financial and banking services that will attract new clients from the non-banking segments of the community, serving the state plans towards financial inclusion and the transition towards a cash-free society.
For the past five years, Banque Misr has applied the EBSM, which transfers practical experience alongside the academic studies provided to students through training at the bank's branches on various banking activities. The students can apply these skills themselves through professional training programs that allow them to do so, and they are provided with electronic payment cards, in light of the bank's mission to change the culture to a cashless one. This is in addition to summer internships provided by the bank to university students on an annual basis.
Banque Misr has been a pioneer in spreading the culture of financial inclusion since its inception in Egypt, as it boasts the largest network of branches, with more than 600 branches spread across all governorates of Egypt. Further, it offers a wide range of products that meet all the needs of customers of all ages and incomes. Banque Misr has also implemented the first model "School Bank" in Egypt and the Middle East, with the aim to spread over the upcoming years to be available to more students.


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See sample pages from this book at Wink.
It's only right that Stan Lee's memoirs arrive in comic book form. The 93-year-old ambassador/mascot of Marvel Comics has been in the funnybook business since 1939 - back when they still were called funnybooks. Back then, the medium was seen as silly at best, vile at worst. But today, comics, or graphic novels as some highfalutin folks call them, have attained a status of near respectability. People of all ages read and love them, and their characters generate billions of dollars via their appearances on TV and in films. Lee, along with other key figures, has been at the forefront of this evolution. And though he's interviewed almost daily, it's interesting to hear what he has to say about his career and all the changes he's seen.
Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir by Stan Lee, penned with the help of veteran comics writer Peter David and zippily illustrated by Colleen Doran, does a fine job of charting Lee's trajectory to the top of his field. We see how the stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle seized Lee's early imagination, making him want to become a writer. And we observe him in his early years at Atlas Comics, the company that became Marvel, and how he, in collaboration with artists such as Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, helped create the Marvel Universe.
Lee is often criticized for stealing the spotlight and not giving due credit to Kirby, who co-created the Fantastic Four, Avengers, X-Men, Thor, Captain America and many others, and Steve Ditko, who co-created Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and more. Read the rest


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We are honored to be invited to a cocktail reception and an art auction in support of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art at Equinox Gallery.
Yishu is the first English language journal to focus on Chinese contemporary art and culture. It offers a platform for a wide range of voices who are living and telling the story of contemporary Chinese art from a diversity of perspectives, and who provide dialogue and debate around current visual and literary forms produced within what constitutes an expanded understanding of contemporary Chinese art.
The artworks were generously donated by renowned artists, collectors, and galleries. Featured artists include Xu Bing, Wang Dongling, Ken Lum, Gu Xiong, Paul Wong, Lisa Birke, Michael Edward Miller and Summer Xia.
这些作品都来自一些知名艺术家、收藏家和画廊的慷慨捐赠。重点艺术家有:徐冰、王冬龄、林蔭庭、顾雄、黄柏武、丽莎 • 比尔克、迈克尔 • 爱德华 • 米勒和夏慧雯。
We are pleased to win the auction on Paul Wong's limited edition art prints. Paul Wong is an award-winning Canadian artist, curator, and organizer of public interventions since the mid-1970s. He is known for his radical approach and engagement with issues of race, sex, and death.
We immediately saw the connection with this piece, combining Eastern and Western culture. It conveys oversea living based on historical, family, and contemporary photographs of Chinese Café culture in Western Canada. It is classy and traditional. The Daoist system of "The five energies" – wood, fire, earth, metal, and water – and it's corresponding colours influence the aesthetics of the series.
我们立即从这一作品感受到了中西合并的链接。它以加拿大西部中国咖啡馆文化的历史、家庭和当代照片为基础,向我们传达了海外生活的状态。作品既经典又传统。并以"五能"的 木、火、土、金、水,及其相应的颜色影响了这一系列的美学。
Chinese contemporary art undoubtedly attracts more and more attention in the international art market. Nowadays, auctions and other related supporting activities gradually promote Chinese contemporary art "going global", which has a very good standing in the international art market.


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In Chapter 6 of 15 of her 2010 Capture Your Flag interview, non-profit executive and Students of the World founder Courtney Spence answers "What have you learned about successful story telling through your nonprofit efforts?" Spence shares how listening and curiosity enable more successful storytelling. Spence has learned this over time creating her non-profit, Students of the World, that sends student documentary filmmakers abroad to work with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and the communities they serve across the globe. She highlights how both curiosity and listening provide individuals the space and security to open up and share their story.
Erik Michielsen: What have you learned about successful story telling through your nonprofit efforts?
Courtney Spence: I think the most important aspect to successful story telling comes from an honest and sincere sense of curiosity and from listening. I think a lot of times you read in books and you read articles and you go into a situation and you think you know the issue or you know the organization but we really tell our students to arm yourself with this knowledge but once you get to the ground and you meet the individuals that are dealing and facing these battles everyday, throw everything that you thought out the window and spend some time to just get to know the person, get to know where they live, get to know their families, really before you try and tell their story for them let them tell their own story and I think that that is hard to do in this day and age but I also think that when you find yourselves in these opportunities, particularly with the right individuals, they will open up so that you will be struck with the stories that come from them.


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When I ask people what their biggest struggle is with gardening, one of the most common answers I get is watering the garden. Vegetable garden irrigation is one of the most crucial aspects of successfully growing food, and it can make or break your growing season.
I know this might come as a surprise to you, but there is a right way to water your vegetable garden, and there is a wrong way.
It seems like watering a vegetable garden would be a total no-brainer… but it's not. In fact, when it comes to growing vegetables, one of the biggest mistakes that new gardeners make is improper watering.
There's not doubt that vegetable garden irrigation is a super important part of growing food. So when Gilmour reached out to me and asked me to test out some of their products this summer, I said heck yes!
The high quality Flexogen heavy duty garden hose is super lightweight and kink resistant, and their watering accessories are top-notch. These great Gilmour products really do make a huge difference to help with the difficult chore of watering the garden!
Watering Your Vegetable Garden
Vegetables need a LOT of water in order to produce tons of yummy food for us. If they don't get enough water, they won't produce as much fruit.
Not only that, but improper watering can cause lots of problems, including disease issues and fungus growth. Blossom end rot and cracking vegetables are also very common problems caused by inconsistent watering.
So, if your vegetable garden isn't producing as much beautiful food as you would like, it might be a sign that you're not watering it correctly.
Oh, and if you have an underground lawn irrigation system, you might think you're good to go. But think again!
An underground watering system for lawns is great for keeping your yard green, but unfortunately it doesn't provide enough water for a vegetable garden.
How To Water A Vegetable Garden
The best way to water a vegetable garden is by directing the water at the base of each plant rather than over the top of the leaves.
When you water at the base, the leaves won't get wet, which helps prevent fungus and mildew growth.
Watering plants at the base also helps to reduce weed growth because you're only watering your vegetables, and not the entire garden (including all the weeds).
When To Water Your Vegetable Garden
The best time of day to water your vegetable garden is in the early morning. That way, the leaves of the plants can dry out during the day, preventing disease and mildew problems.
Watering in the morning also helps to conserve water since it won't evaporate quickly like it can in the hot afternoon sun.
The second best time of day to water your vegetable garden is in the evening. But, if you do water in the evening, take extra care not to get any water on the foliage.
Water sitting on the the leaves overnight is a breeding ground for fungus and disease.
How Often Should You Water Your Garden
The good news is that you don't need to water your vegetable garden every day, even during the hottest and driest months of the year!
In fact, you shouldn't water your garden that often. Daily, shallow waterings will cause the roots to grow shallow, which means the plants will become dependent on you for more frequent watering.
I know it sounds backwards, but it's best to water your vegetable garden less often, with deeper waterings.
A plants roots will grow where the water is, and you want your vegetable plants to have deep roots!
So, if you water your vegetables correctly with infrequent but deep waterings, the roots will grow deep, and the plants won't need to be watered as often.
Related Post: A Beginner's Guide To Companion Planting
How Much Water Do Vegetable Plants Need?
The general rule of thumb to keep in mind is to give your vegetable garden about one to two inches of water on a weekly basis.
Put a rain gauge in your garden to help you measure how much rain it's getting, and then keep track of it through the week.
If it gets less than one inch of rain, then you know that you will need to water your garden.
Vegetable Garden Irrigation Methods
Watering your garden by hand is one great way to ensure that it's done right.
But let's be honest here… we don't always have time to stand out in our vegetable garden with the hose watering each plant by hand!
The good news is that there are other vegetable garden irrigation methods that can help to make our lives easier.
One way to make watering vegetables easier (and to get the consistency and timing right!) is to plug your hose into a garden watering timer. Then you can set it and forget it.
It's simple to install a DIY automated irrigation system on a timer, and it doesn't have to be super fancy.
You can hook your hose up to sprinklers, a soaker hose, or even take it a step further and install a vegetable garden drip irrigation system.
And the best part… any of these DIY garden irrigation systems can be hooked right up to your garden hose, no tools necessary – easy peasy.
Related Post: How Do Rain Barrels Work?
More Vegetable Garden Watering Tips
- Use mulch to help the soil retain moisture so you don't have to water as often. Mulch acts as an insulator so the moisture is held in the soil, and it won't evaporate in the hot sun.
- To conserve water, don't use irrigation sprinklers during the heat of the day because most of the water will likely evaporate before it hits the ground.
- Mulching the vegetable garden also helps to keep soil from splashing up on the leaves, which prevents soil borne diseases like blight from infecting your plants.
- To help with weed control, direct the water to the vegetable plants only, rather than watering your entire garden.
- Depending on the type of soil you have in your garden, you may need to water more often. Sandy soils drain faster than clay soils, and will need to be watered more often.
- Amending your soil with compost will also help the soil retain water, and is perfect for improving any type of garden soil.
Vegetable garden irrigation is one of the most important things to pay attention to when you're growing your own food. So, if your vegetable garden isn't growing very well, then you might be watering it wrong.
Just remember to water deeply every week, and you'll notice a big difference in both the health and the productivity of your vegetable garden!
More Posts About Watering The Garden
- Plant Watering Devices For Your Garden
- 5 Tips for Watering Your Vegetable Garden
- How To Set Up A Rain Barrel
- What Is Rainwater Harvesting? (And How To Get Started)
Share you vegetable garden irrigation tips in the comments section below!