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STOCKTON - On a Saturday evening a few weeks ago, we were out looking for some grub when we happened to pass by Adalberto's Mexican Food.
STOCKTON - On a Saturday evening a few weeks ago, we were out looking for some grub when we happened to pass by Adalberto's Mexican Food.
We pulled into the parking lot on the north side of Hammer Lane, just east of Interstate 5, and were instantly amazed. There was not a space to be found in the parking lot, and the drive-through lane looked to be backed up to Highway 99. Clearly, based on the crowds, this had to be a culinary paradise, a dining extravaganza worthy of saving for another, hopefully less-crowded day.
That day came early on a recent weeknight, and the conditions were markedly different. There were parking spaces aplenty and the drive-through was eminently drive-able.
We went inside for our Adalberto's experience, which turned out to be a perfectly fine though largely unmemorable repast. To be completely honest, after eating our meal we were more than a little baffled by the long lines we'd witnessed just weeks earlier.
Adalberto's has locations scattered around Northern California, as well as two more in San Diego. The Stockton branch has long been popular, but last March a fire gutted the restaurant's kitchen and counter area.
As a result of the fire, Adalberto's remained closed until early last month, when repair work was completed. When it finally reopened, its legion of fans lit up Twitter and Facebook to buzz about the culinary milestone.
The menu is ample, with a list of 18 combination plates that max out at $9.50, as well as burritos, tacos, enchiladas, tostadas, chimichangas, tortas and nachos. Breakfast burritos, served all day, also are popular.
The three of us ordered a chicken enchilada dinner, a combination plate with a chicken enchilada and chicken taco, a chorizo and potatoes breakfast burrito that was the size of Shaquille O'Neal's foot, an order of carne asada fries and a medium horchata.
All of this cost a shade under $34 and was ready in well under five minutes. The food was served in styrofoam containers, and if you eat in the restaurant, you use plastic utensils.
The servings were large, the kitchen was very generous with the chicken and beef, and the food was hot and hearty, if not remotely distinguishable from many other such places. Lingering thirstiness led us to believe a lot of salt is used in the preparation.
The plates containing the enchiladas and taco included rice and beans, all of which was covered in sauce and shredded lettuce. The carne asada fries were, essentially, nachos with potatoes taking the place of tortilla chips. They were tasty, but the potatoes wilted beneath their blanket of meat, sour cream and guacamole.
Still and all, none of these quibbles will matter to the legion of Adalberto's acolytes. After having to survive nearly a year without it, once again they never need go without - nearly literally. The drive-through window at Adalberto's is open 18 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Dayton Progress Offers $40,000 Prize Package for Promotion of Manufacturing Careers
To combat the shortage of skilled manufacturing workers, Dayton Progress Corp., Dayton, OH, has launched a competition aimed to promote career awareness in industrial manufacturing to Dayton-area high schools. The Dayton Progress Manufacturing Challenge includes a prize package—including three computer workstations and CAD software licenses, and five $1000 scholarships to Sinclair Community College—valued at more than $40,000. The prize package will be awarded to the school with the most effective and creative program for promoting awareness of career opportunities in manufacturing.
Says Dayton Progress president and CEO Alan Shaffer: "We're confident that these awareness programs will result in more students (who are not college-bound) entering manufacturing, as well as more college-bound students choosing a technology and engineering path."
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Americans fall flat in speedskating despite suit change
The U.S. speedskating team, soul-searching and desperate to recover from what has been a disastrous Olympics, ditched its much-hyped high-tech suits and reverted to familiar proven attire for Saturday's 1,500 meters race.
World-class athletes are creatures of habit, and this was one variable they could control, they figured. So, they voted during a Friday night meeting to discard the suits that were years in the making and specially designed by Under Armour and engineers at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. Skaters had begun to second-guess the suits, which had never been tested in race conditions before this Olympics began.
Turns out, the wardrobe change made no difference.
In fact, the Americans did worse than they had in previous days. Shani Davis, who owns the world record in the event and won the past two Olympic silver medals, finished 11th. His teammate Brian Hansen was four spots ahead in seventh place.
For the seventh time this Olympics, U.S. skaters left Adler Arena without any medals. They are 0-for-21 in possible medals and have no top-six finishes. They won 19 medals in the past three Olympics, were expected to win at least a half dozen medals here, and are in danger of being shut out for the first time since the 1984 Sarajevo Games.
"There is absolutely something wrong across the board; the US is underperforming compared to where we could be,'' Hansen said. "Statistically, that's a fact.''
Zbigniew Brodka of Poland took gold in 1:45.006, Koen Verweij of the Netherlands silver in 1:45.009 and Denny Morrison of Canada bronze in 1:45.22.
Neither Davis nor Hansen blamed the suit directly for the U.S. woes, but both suggested the fuss and controversy surrounding the suit was a distraction.
Instead of relaxing and focusing on their upcoming race Friday night, they were debating about what to wear. By the time the decision was made to dump the suits, the damage was done, Davis said.
Tennis players don't test new rackets at the Wimbledon final. Cyclists don't test a new bike at the Tour de France. And speedskaters prefer not to unveil new suits at the Olympics.
"The distractions took a toll on me,'' Davis said. "There were a lot of things going on around me out of my control that could possibly have affected the things I did have in my control…the energy was really bad. I really try hard to not make excuses, but I think if we could eliminate all those distractions and I could have just put that energy into performing and skating, it would have been a totally different outcome.''
His shocking eighth-place finish in the 1,000 rocked his confidence.
"Coming across the line eighth after having one of the best openers of my life not being able to find the speed, it plays with me in my head,'' he said. "It makes me question some of the things I've done leading up to these races. It was really hard for me to build myself up and go out there and think I'm the world's fastest skater and in reality I am coming across the line eighth.
The suit whispers began after the men's 1,000, and got louder after the women's 1,000. Heather Richardson and Brittney Bowe, the 1,000-meter world record holder and former Florida Atlantic University basketball player, were both favored to make the podium. They finished seventh and eighth.
"Things kind of blew up,'' Hansen said. "[Friday night] I think it got a little crazy too. It was a little tough for me to focus on what I was doing. Not that the skin was a big deal, it was more the worries about everything going on around the skin -- the coaches, the media, Under Armour.''
Davis felt the team should have raced in the suits before the Olympics. They were kept under wraps because team officials didn't want any other nations to copy their design.
"I think in any scenario you want to try something out before you try it out on one of the bigger stages of your life,'' Davis said. "I'd much rather try it out, if I had the option, way before the Olympics. The Olympics happens once every four years.''
Hansen agreed. He said psychologically, it helps to know going into a race that he has reached the podium in a particular suit and pair of skates. He felt he was within striking distance Saturday, whereas the 1,000 remains "a mystery'' to him.
"The main thing is that I have confidence with this skin suit that I know I finished top three with it,'' he said. "The other skin suit still may be the fastest skin suit in the world. Part of the problem is that we haven't had the chance to race in it and have the results to know that it's the fastest skin suit in the world, for us personally.''
But U.S. coach Kip Carpenter dispelled the suggestion that the suits were to blame for the team's poor performances.
"A skater does not lose a second [in the 1,000] because of a skinsuit,'' he said after training Friday. "Anyone who thinks that does not know speed skating. In my opinion, the Dutch are just sitting deeper and pushing harder. They are just skating better than us.''
Olympic legend Dan Jansen, working as an NBC commentator, told the Milwaukee Journal that U.S. skaters may be struggling because they trained on very fast ice at altitude in Salt Lake City and then spent 10 days at altitude at Collabo, Italy to get an aerobic boost, rather than preparing at sea level. The Sochi arena is a few blocks from the pebbled beaches of the Black Sea, temperatures have been in the mid-60s, and skaters are competing on "working ice,'' which means it has less glide than the Salt Lake City ice.
Whatever the reason, Davis is extremely disappointed in his results.
"At the end of the day, the paper says I'm eleventh. The paper says I'm eighth. It doesn't say 'because of suit' or because of lack of confidence. It just says eighth and eleventh, so that's what I have to live with for the rest of my life knowing that I had the potential, I had the talent, I did the work, made the sacrifices but I couldn't quite get what I needed to get out of those things in Sochi.''
For much of his career, the 31-year-old Chicago native had a reputation as being prickly and bitter that he was a bigger star in the Netherlands than his home country. But his image improved in the leadup to these Games, he got big-time sponsors, and had a huge following. That, Davis said, makes his performance here particularly painful.
"It kills me inside to know that the attention I'm getting now, these are the things I always wanted since 2002. I wanted to be a speedskater that the Americans knew, loved, followed, and cheered for. I had the whole country behind me, but I come away with nothing to give back to them and say thank you for believing in me.''


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Januzaj will be included in Belgium's preliminary World Cup squad
Manchester United midfielder Adnan Januzaj will be included in Belgium's preliminary World Cup squad, head coach Marc Wilmots has confirmed.
Last week Wilmots revealed Januzaj had pledged his international allegiance to Belgium despite interest from England, Albania, Kosovo, Turkey and Serbia.
Januzaj will have a chance to impress Wilmots at a pre-World Cup training camp next month, although the Belgium coach has warned the teenager he is not guaranteed to make his final 23.
"I have seen him play several times and now I want to see him with the squad," Wilmots told Le Soir.
"I will include him in the list of 30 pre-selected players for the World Cup and he will be one of the 26 or 27 players who take part in training in Genk and then in Sweden.
"I prefer to keep the numbers down but Januzaj will be there."
Januzaj joined United from Anderlecht in 2011 and was promoted to the first-team squad last summer following a series of impressive performances in the youth sides.
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Wilmots has not promised the flexible teenager he will be going to the World Cup, although the Belgium coach conceded his chances had improved following the news that Aston Villa forward Christian Benteke will miss the tournament in Brazil because of a torn Achilles tendon.
"Things were clear between us: he has received no assurance from me of a place in the World Cup squad," Wilmots added.
"I only said he was selectable. Adnan and his entourage were very receptive and understood the message perfectly.
"The truth will come out on the pitch and he will have to win his place like everyone else.
"What is for sure is that the boy is an interesting player in the absence of Christian Benteke.
"Not many people know but in the Manchester United reserve team, he has often played as a number nine. His versatility is an asset."
The Football Association was keen to get Januzaj to commit to England, even though the player would have had to wait until 2018 to pull on the Three Lions due to residency rules.
But Januzaj, who has Kosovar-Albanian parents, instead chose to represent the country of his birth following a meeting with Wilmots.
"With Adnan and his father, we spoke for a bit more than three hours," the Belgium coach revealed.
"I explained to them both that I know well the sensitivity for a family in Belgium who retain links to their country of origin. I told them whatever Adnan decided would be respected.
"Adnan was born in Brussels, went to school here and his education as a young footballer came at Brussels and Anderlecht before he headed overseas."


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According to a 2012 Aberdeen study, Many companies used the video format to interview job candidates for all levels from entry-level to the top ranks. In fact, 52 percent of companies who interviewed using video experienced shorter recruiting times, and 47 percent improved cost per hire.
Why use video? You might wonder, "Have we become so technology oriented that we can't even take the time to sit down and talk with someone face to face?" But hiring managers aren't turning to video out of laziness. They are coming to realize that video interviews offer benefits for both the company and for the job seeker. Aside from convenience, video interviews cut down on costs and save time for companies.
Another advantage is that the one-way interviews (or Spotlight Interviews as we like to call them) make it possible for both the interviewer and the interviewee to accommodate their schedules. The company decides what questions to ask job seekers and submits them to the candidate. The applicant can then, at their convenience, open up the video interview module, record responses and submit them. They don't need to wait for a meeting that suits both schedules. Then, when you're ready to do a more in-depth interview you can invite the candidate to do a live, two-way interview, which is very similar to what you'd do in-person.
Is it effective? The short answer is, yes. It is especially effective for the startup that is looking for young college recruits. Colleges allow companies to recruit at career fairs and conduct campus visits. With students already being technologically-savvy you'll have access to more candidates using video. Recall your days as a 'poor college kid'? Did that limit you from applying for jobs that you couldn't afford to travel to? Taking the initial expense of interview costs out of the equation when first screening your candidates saves both of you the expense.
Also, aside from the information in the candidate's resume that likely grabbed your attention, the video interview provides you an opportunity to see the job seeker's personality and communication skills. You can learn a lot from their body language, and professionalism (dress and grooming habits) as well.
So maybe this seems a little too "Jetsons" for you. But guess what, video interviewing isn't brand new. It's been around and is just now being adapted and enhanced to better serve you and the job seeker. The job seeker of today is comfortable with the technology and is constantly looking for innovative opportunities to best showcase what they can bring to the table. If you're not ready to step in front of the camera just yet, don't worry (stick to Spotlight Interviews), but if you're ready to get the best talent while saving time and money jump on board and find out for yourself how effective video interviewing can be when getting your startup off the ground!
Josh Tolan is the CEO of Spark Hire, which combines a video job board and online interviewing platform to enrich interaction between job seekers and employers. Connect with him and Spark Hire on Facebook and Twitter.
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At Wimbledon, an Unconventional Champion
Frenchwoman Bartoli Wins First Major Title, Defeating Germany's Lisicki in Straight Sets
WIMBLEDON, England—The Wimbledon women's tournament where anything was possible ended with a fitting reminder: Tennis loves eccentrics.
At the All England Club on Saturday, Marion Bartoli, the 28-year-old Frenchwoman with the two-handed strokes and endless on-court rituals, beat Sabine Lisicki 6-1, 6-4 in a women's final that wasn't nearly as close as the not-so-close score suggests. Bartoli led 6-1, 5-1 before Lisicki, who began to cry in the second set, tried to mount a comeback.
'This has been my dream since I was six years old," Bartoli told the crowd afterward.
It wasn't a dream many believed would come true. Bartoli has been a tennis outsider since childhood. She was trained by her father Walter, a doctor, and plays an unconventional brand of tennis that would never be taught at a tennis academy.
Bartoli is naturally left-handed—that's how she signs autographs—but plays with two-handed strokes and serves with her right hand. She hits most of her shots flat and hard, rather than with a lot of topspin. When she returns serve, she often stands inside the baseline. Her serve begins with a long, swooping motion. In practice, she hits balls in rapid succession and plays with bands strapped to her waist, a tool, her father says, that he employed to hone his daughter's exceptional vision and hand-eye coordination.
And then there's all the bouncing and swaying: After points, before games, before serves, before returns. She takes nearly as many practice swings in her matches as real ones and is particular about her equipment. At one point in the first set Saturday, Bartoli put her racket on the ground and stepped on it, pushing down hard with her heel to loosen the strings.
"It's always been a part of my personality to be different," Bartoli said. "Being just like the other one is kind of boring." As a child, she would often practice from 10 p.m. until midnight, after a full day of school. "Every time I'm stepping on a tennis court I remember those very hard moments," she said.
This year's Wimbledon was Bartoli's 47th Grand Slam singles tournament; no woman in the Open era, which began in 1968, has played more Grand Slam events before winning her first. It happened after Bartoli decided that her father would no longer be her coach. On Saturday, he was in the players' box for the first time this tournament; after she won, Bartoli climbed up through the stands and hugged him.
"A lot of people were saying I was crazy and stupid and it was not possible to be a good tennis player like this," Walter Bartoli said as he sipped champagne in the players' garden after the final. "I tried to find a new way."
Earlier this year, the time came for Bartoli to find her own way. After losing at the Australian Open, Bartoli told her father that she wanted to find a new coach.
"At the beginning, yes I was upset," Walter Bartoli said. "After a couple of days I changed my mind and said 'OK, you are right, try to do it and we will see what happens.'"
The early returns weren't good: Bartoli soon went three straight tournaments without winning a match. Bartoli was practicing in a more traditional way, and it wasn't working. She went back to her father and then eventually back to the French Tennis Federation again, but took some of her father's routines with her.
"Now she has a team around her, but she is also working with my way," Walter Bartoli said. "I think it is a good mix."
Bartoli reached the Wimbledon final in 2007, but she was overwhelmed by the moment and her opponent, Venus Williams. On Saturday, she was the woman with (slightly) more experience. Lisicki, who on her way to the final had beaten Serena Williams, the defending champion, and Agnieszka Radwanska, last year's finalist, had never played in a Grand Slam final before. She didn't hold her serve once in the first set.
"I was just overwhelmed by this whole situation," a teary-eyed Lisicki told the crowd.
Before the final, these two women had won 10 total titles in their careers; that's six fewer than Serena Williams has won at Grand Slam singles tournaments. Bartoli, who won the tournament without losing a set, didn't face a player seeded in the Top 10, a first in the Open era. She is the first woman in the Open era to win Wimbledon while hitting both her forehand and backhand with two hands.
"I kept dreaming," she said. "I kept my head up. I kept working hard, and it just happened."
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This month I started another design from Chatelaine Designs: The Dragonfly Boudoir Casket. It's one of the designs from the so called Designing Ladies. Judy Odell designed and charted the box, and several designers came up with a design for that box. Next to subscribing to the yahoo group from Chatelaine Designs, I also purchased the finishing instructions from Judy Odell.
And I'm impressed about the quality of these instructions. Very detailed. I love it. Judy Odell just published a booklet for several different finishes, and I'm planning to buy this one too. My finishing skills will probably get a good boost from that. And I can surely use that...lol Did you know that Judy Odell is the person who originally invented the flat fold. These days it's a common finishing used by lots of people, and it seems forgotten that Judy invented it couple of years ago.
Anyway, here are couple of pictures of my upcoming Dragonfly Boudoir Box. I'm at the moment busy with the 4 sides. Beads and crystals will be added when all stitching is finished.
One of the small sides
Second long side
I did change the letters a bit here, the original ones were harder to identify as G and L. I hope with these changes it's a bit easier
Here you can see all 4 sides together. Above there are 4 beads attached. I did that to see how the color changes when I use black Nymo instead of white to attach them. And I have to admit that the color of the beads doesn't improve with black Nymo. I'll do it or with white Nymo or invisible thread (which I deeply dislike...lol)
What else on the stitching front:
My floss tag for another exchange got sent off....and can you imagine, I completely forgot to take a picture. Dohh!!! I really hope that the recipient will provide me with a picture of front and back.
And I stitched and finished a Christmas ornament for another exchange. This will get send off to it's new home begin next month. No picture until it arrives there.
Ohhh....and Michael and I took the opportunity for couple of long hikes. At the moment we're visiting the old Gold Mines here around. And we're totally in awe how these people got the heavy equipment to the mines. You have to climb and hike, and even our dogs are broken afterwards, and only thing we had to carry were backpacks. Can you imagine getting heavy machinery there? Carrying around stones? Steep hills up and down? It's amazing.
Here you can see Mike taking a picture of an oven. This oven was used to create steam for the stamper in order to crush the stones. They then added some chemicals to it which would bind the gold.
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Yeah? Well, what Mr. Qandil doesn't know is that women have breasts that can shut down illegitimate diarrhea and prevent it from happening. I saw a congressman on TV who told me that, I think. It's just science.
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From Fruit Peels and Algae, UML Team Works to Create Less-Toxic Detergent
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LOWELL -- If you ever wonder why many male fish have female parts growing on them these days, Zarif Farhana Mohd Aris suggests you look to your laundry baskets and the dishes in your kitchen.
That's because many detergents and other household products contain what's called nonylphenol ethoxylates, or NPEs. Though effective as cleaning agents, NPEs are toxic substances that degrade into even more toxic compounds when entering the ecosystem and they work as estrogen-mimicking endocrine disruptors, says Mohd Aris, a Ph.D. candidate in plastics engineering at UMass Lowell. NPEs affect not only aquatic creatures but also humans who eat them.
But doing the laundry doesn't have to be such a dirty business. Mohd Aris and her fellow researchers at UMass Lowell say they have found a solution in bacteria-generated polysaccharide -- which scientists believe is responsible for the sudden disappearance of oil plumes in the Gulf of Mexico after the 2010 massive spill at British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon rig. If they can use polysaccharide derived from apple and orange peels that would otherwise go into the trash, they could make greener and inexpensive detergents that can compete with conventional ones in the stores.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency is betting on the UMass Lowell researchers' success, providing the team $90,000 to help perfect the prototype into a commercially marketable product.
"We got fired up," Vishal Bavishi, a team member pursuing a master's degree in plastics engineering, said of winning the competitive funding.
A group of plastics engineering students at UMass Lowell has won the EPA's People, Prosperity and the Planet award, securing up to $90,000 for its research. The team first applied for the award -- which goes to "innovative solutions to some of today's toughest public health and environmental challenges," according to the EPA -- a year ago and won $15,000 in Phase I funding. They worked to turn the idea into something more tangible, and then applied for the second phase of the research.
The UMass Lowell team, which has conducted the research under the guidance of Ramaswamy Nagarajan, associate professor at the Department of Plastic Engineering, was among the 45 university and college groups that the EPA invited to Washington to present their projects to compete for Phase II funding. In the end, only seven were chosen for the award.
Mohd Aris, a Dracut resident who will use the team project for her thesis, said their competitors came from top schools, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University.
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What interested the plastics engineering students in the detergent research is the fact that polysaccharide is polymer. In 2010, scientists figured that naturally existing oil-eating bacteria in the Gulf of Mexico made the plumes disappear by releasing polysaccharide to emulsify oil and water, according to Nagarajan. The UMass Lowell students focused on the polysaccharide's role as a surfactant -- a key ingredient in detergents and other products that reduces the surface tension of liquid. NPE is a surfactant.
Because NPEs are inexpensive, the team knew whatever they make would to have to be a low-cost alternative, Nagarajan said. They also wanted to avoid deriving surfactant from edible parts of food, such as coconut, which is often used in so-called green cleaners, Nagarajan said. So the students turned their attention to fruit peels and algae as the source of polysaccharide.
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These are some interesting points you made. What stands out to me in your comments is that you've further shown (whether you intended it or not) how Perl's OO, while useful, is a hack and has some serious limitations. I've been working on an piece which shows Perl's limitations and uses Java's OO style as an example (because I know Java better than other OO languages, not because Java is the pinnacle of OO). I think some of your points will fit in quite nicely there.
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(Unverified) rumors are starting to fly about 20th Century Fox (possibly) retooling and rebooting their Fantastic Four franchise.
The previous two Fantastic Four films earned a combined total of over half a billion dollars at the box office, but never really succeeded in connecting with critics or fanboys alike.
So, is critical praise and fanboy adoration really worth so much to Fox that they would re-launch the entire Fantastic Four franchise? As the Zen master said, "We shall see..."
Now, just so we're clear on our Hollywood terminology: "retooling" and "rebooting" Fantastic Four would essentially mean getting rid of the previous cast and crew, and pretending 2005's Fantastic Four and 2007's Rise of the Silver Surfer never, ever, happened (how many of us would like to forget that they did?).
So to Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon and director Tim Story: if this (unverified) rumor DOES turn out to be true, (no) thanks for your services, but it's looking like the world would like to go in another direction with Fantastic Four.
And word is that new direction would be more in step with Iron Man: funny, action-packed, with just enough dramatic weight to make the film both a critical darling AND a box office cash-cow. In short: no more kids' stuff. We're talking about a Fantastic Four film that would actually do justice to one of the longest-running comic books around.
IMHO, there is a great deal of potential for a re-imagined take on Fantastic Four. The strength of the comic book was always its premise: outlandish sci-fi-inspired tales of four super-powered explorers, tempered by an easily accessible (dysfunctional) family drama. The comics combined a sense of adventure, wonder, great action, and sentimentality that keep the FF relevant, even today.
Now I know I may be sticking my neck out by saying this, but I'll be sorry to see Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis go. I thought both actors nailed their characters of The Human Torch and The Thing pretty well, as well as having fantastic on-screen chemistry (no pun), playing out the Human Torch/Thing rivalry. However, in the cases of these "reboots" it's pretty much a start from scratch policy, so sorry fellas.
Do you think Fantastic Four deserves another shot at the big screen? Or, with the film still in the hands of Fox, do you just see the potential for even greater disaster?
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Human Rights Watch praised the progress as a major meeting on landmines wrapped up in Phnom Penh. However, the United States' review of its policy has regrettably entered its third year without conclusion, Human Rights Watch said.
"We've largely succeeded in stigmatizing this coward's weapon, but antipersonnel mines continue to claim too many lives and limbs in Cambodia and elsewhere years after they were laid," said Steve Goose, arms division director at Human Rights Watch. "It is very encouraging that more and more countries continue to embrace the movement to ban landmines, and that impressive progress is being made in landmine clearance and stockpile destruction."
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- Finland's minister of international development, Heidi Hautala, announced that her government will join the treaty in the coming weeks;
- Somalia declared that it would join in the next few months, if not sooner;
- The two newest treaty members – South Sudan, the world's newest nation, and Tuvalu – actively participated in the meeting;
- Turkey announced it has completed the destruction of its stockpile of 2.9 million antipersonnel landmines, a very significant achievement since it had missed its treaty-mandated deadline of March 1, 2008;
- Belarus, which also missed its stockpile destruction deadline of March 1, 2008, said it would complete the job in May 2013;
- Burundi and Nigeria declared the completion of their mine clearance obligations, bringing the total of mine-free states parties to 18.
"The United States needs to stop sitting in the back row as an observer in Mine Ban Treaty talks," Goose said. "The US needs to conclude its landmine policy review, join the rest of the international community that has rejected this weapon, and play a positive leadership role."
In late 2009, the US began a comprehensive landmine policy review "initiated at the direction of President Obama." The Clinton administration, in 1998, set the objective of joining the Mine Ban Treaty in 2006, but the Bush administration reversed course in February 2004, and announced that it did not intend to join.
The US and nearly all of the 38 other states that remain outside the ban treaty are in de facto compliance with most of the treaty's provisions. Every NATO member has foresworn the use of antipersonnel mines except for the US, as have other key allies, including Afghanistan and Iraq.
The United States has not used antipersonnel mines since 1991, in the first Gulf War, has not exported them since 1992, has not produced them since 1997, and is the biggest donor to mine clearance programs around the world. But it still stockpiles millions of antipersonnel mines for potential use.
Cambodia, the host of the meeting, is one of the most mine-affected countries in the world. According to Landmine Monitor, Cambodia has approximately 44,000 survivors of landmines and explosive remnants of war.
An extensive mine action program established in 1992 has resulted in a dramatic decline in the number of new mine victims, but lives continue to be lost. There were at least 286 Cambodian casualties in 2010 from mines, explosive remnants of war, and cluster munitions.
Landmines and explosive remnants also place thousands of hectares of agricultural land off-limits in affected countries such as Laos and Cambodia.
- Human Rights Watch, HUMNEWS staff


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22.10 Sadly, although perhaps not surprisingly, it doesn't look like Rafa Benitez is going to speak to the TV cameras about the game, by which I mean "about Eden Hazard booting the ball boy in the ribs". No doubt we will be reading about this one for some time. Just to recap, the ball boys were being slow to give the ball back to Chelsea late in the second half as they searched for a goal. One lad was especially languorous, Eden Hazard tried to get the ball off him, the kid went down and ended up lying on top of the ball. Hazard kicked him in the ribs, perhaps in a fit of temper, perhaps trying to hook the ball back off him like a rugby player in a ruck. He was sent off, the kid looked really upset and possibly hurt as well.
Football-wise, Chelsea were on top in the first half but Swansea kept them quiet in the second and overall the visitors never really looked like scoring the multiple goals they needed to overturn a 2-0 deficit from the first leg. Swansea reach their first major cup final but, like it or not, that's not what this game will be remembered for. Thanks a lot for following it with us, and for all your emails. Goodnight.
Philip Hayes: "No doubt Hazard will get the book thrown at him, but if the ballboys are being instructed to hold up the game then I rather hope Swansea (and any other team who do it) get fined too."
R Salmon: "Welsh heartlands – a ruck had been formed and the ball boy failed to release – Hazard was on his feet and entitled to ruck the ball"
22.05 Anyhow, Swansea are going to Wembley to face Bradford in the Capital One Cup Final. Laudrup: "We have beaten the European Champions over two legs without conceding a goal. Fantastic. They had their moments, we had to defend deep because of their quality. But we had chances. We started so well and that gave me confidence. Everyone told me [coming to manage here] would be very hard and, yes, this has gone better than I could have expected.
"I saw the incident from the bench. I think when Hazard sees the incident he will regret it." Asked if the club had instructed the ball boy to slow the game up, Laudrup says "no, we did not."
Mike: "I reckon both should have been sent off- blame the people who instruct ball boys to waste time. Why was he diving on the ball rather than letting go of it?" Wait, what? The ball boy should have been sent off? Is that even a thing.
Michael O'Leary: "Hazard should get a longer ban than Cantona did, only if the ballboy is not a minor. If the ballboy is a minor, then Hazard has to do jail time."
David Lewis with the opposite view: "This why ive gone off the beautiful game. Even the ballboys are acting!!! What a disgrace. All hazard did was kick the ball from under him as he was time wasting and he goes and emulates his heroes by doing a slaven bilic!!!"
Marc: "Eden kicks ball boy. Can you Adam and Eve it?"
David Gordon: "How is this different from the Eric Cantona incident? Hazard should receive a very very lengthy ban. Is this not a criminal offence? However it is Chelsea so he will get off."
Peter Littley: "Michael O'Leary should remember this is South Wales, of course the boy is a miner, everyone is. DUH." Is that a racism? I thought it was quite funny. Sorry if it is offensive.
21.55 I cannot wait to hear Rafa B on this one, I must say. The Sky folks diligently talking about the game in the meantime. I'll join in. Good solid effort from Swansea. Oh look, we're back on ze incident. Prior to the Hazard thing, another ballboy was desperately slow to give it back, and the speculation is that they had been instructed to slow the game up. Then our kicked ballboy, looking at it again, really did lie on the ball and make it as hard as possible for Hazard to get it back off him. Obviously which is not to justify kicking a child.
SWANSEA 0 CHELSEA 0 (SWANSEA WIN 2-0 ON AGG) Swansea have done it! I'll get to the football in a minute, but I mean, come on. Eden Hazard kicking a ball boy in the ribs to get the ball back off him is pretty special stuff. The lad was slow to give him it back, tumbled over, and Hazard - whether deliberately or not - kicked the kid in the ribs. I guess the best you can say is that Hazard was trying to hook the ball off him like a rugby player in the scrum. But not really, if I'm honest. Eden Hazard has been sent off for kicking a child in the ribs. Oh, football.
Turning to the football, Chelsea were on top in the second half and had several threatening moments without really carving out too many definite chances. Their attacking players were not quite at their sharpest, and Swansea defended manfully via Williams and Rangel especially. Swansea had their moments on the break. In the second half, the home side were largely comfortable.
Paul says: "Can football sink any lower, kicking a child and sky pundits thinking its funny WTF?"
Salman says: "Excellent commentary as usual but all the talk will be about Hazard. I just hope the inevitable chants go like:
"he thinks he plays for the Champions of Europe,
Instead its more League 1,
And as a result our friend Eden,
Kicks ball boys for fun"
90+ mins: Chelsea have committed loads of men forward and that leaves Nathan Dyer with time and space when the ball flies to him on the edge of the box. He takes his time and drives it hard at goal. Fine save from Cech.
90+ mins: Long ball from Torres dribbles apologetically through to the keeper.
90+ mins: Halfway through those six minutes and Swansea are looking pretty comfortable here. Chelsea cannot get hold of the ball. Those in the "Frank Lampard must stay" camp should NB that the admirable veteran has done naff all this match.
90+ mins: Great break by Dyer and well done to Plastic Bertrand for matching him stride for stride and getting in a good last-gasp tackle. Chelsea clear the corner.
89 mins: Going to have six minutes of added time.
Mike Turney: "Dont reckon the ball boy will take as long to get up next time. Hazards at fault but he hardly tried to get up..... He looked about the same size as Hazard to be fair". Excellent. Our first "the ballboy made a meal of it" email.
87 mins: Sky's Rob Hawthorne says: "It will be a shame if the sending off overshadows this". Dream. On.
86 mins: Ki bursts into the area, seems unsure whether to pass or shoot and instead flops down onto the ground.
85 mins: Oh, Rafa has played the last of his hand: Bertrand on for Cole. It's not the most inventive substitution you'll ever see, is it?
81 mins: Returning reluctantly to football, Ki breaks and slips it to Guzman and he has an easy chance to wrap this up. He hits it straight at Cech.
80 mins: Dear me, the NIGHT THAT SHAMES SOCCER brigade are going to have a field day with this one. In the middle of all that, Fernando Torres has come on in place of Oscar.
78 mins: EDEN HAZARD HAS BEEN SENT OFF! A red card for kicking a child. That is remarkable work. Violent conduct is the technical term, but I think "kicking a child" has more of a ring to it.
76 mins: Ha! This is excellent! The ball goes out of play and a ball boy has it. Eden Hazard tries to get it off the lad, and the boy has gone down. Eden Hazard uses his feet to get at it - and the boy seems to have been struck in the ribs. Now I'm not saying that Chelsea's Eden Hazard has kicked a ball boy in the ribs. But I'm not saying he hasn't kicked the ball boy in the ribs either. Anyhow, Ashley Williams has gone across to have a word. Looking at it again... Eden Hazard has kicked the ball boy in the ribs! OMG, football. Even by your own standards, this is sensational stuff.
74 mins: Deep cross in... Cahill lurking... but Tremell leaps and makes it his. Alarming moment - he came a long way.
73 mins: Ooh, shot from Mata! Plays it into Ba, gets the return ball - via Ba's hand? - and lashes a good shot. Decent save from Tremmel.
72 mins: Azpilicueta crosses it from the right, and my man Ashley Williams clears it with no fuss.
71 mins: De Guzman finds some space and time in the centre of the park, slips it to Dyer. He floats a cross .... too high. Swansea 20 minutes away from their first major final.
69 mins: Quiet little passage apart from that Hazard burst, and Swansea are looking quite comfortable. The head-bandaged Britton heads an Oscar cross clear. That must have hurt!
A full ten minutes have gone by at the Emirates without Arsenal scoring
68 mins: Good interplay from Lampard and Hazard and the latter gets to the byline down the right. Swansea concede the corner. Demba fouls his man, Michu, from the corner.
67 mins: So halfway through the second half, Rafa has made his first change. It's Ivanovic off and Luiz on.
65 mins: The game has become scrappy, Chelsea not looking like the attacking force they were in the first half. Time for a Chelsea change, I would imagine.
64 mins: There was quite a delay for treatment there on the former European Trade Commissioner, and when we resume, Rangel bursts down the right and lofts a cross too long over the penalty area. Nathan Dyer comes on to replace Wayne Routledge. Yay! Rafa is talking to David Luiz. Please bring him on, Rafa.
60 mins: Crikey, that is an awful long-shot from Frank Lampard. That practically flew out of the stadium.
59 mins: Britton and Ramires leap for a ball and, of the two number sevens, it is Britton who comes off the worst. He needs some treatment for a cut above the eye.
Olivier Giroud has struck again and Arsenal have scored four goals in ten minutes!
57 mins: Lampard slips it to Oscar who jinks it through to Cole. He chips it into the area and Mata volleys. It wouldn't quite drop for him, and it's charged down. Chelsea's work in the Swansea box has been a little scrappy, jumpy, whatever you want to call it. They haven't quite had the break of the ball, either.
53 mins: Stong showing from Swansea at the start of the second half, the visitors haven't really been able to get going as yet.
Crikey, and now Theo Walcott has made it three goals in seven minutes. Goodnight, West Ham.
50 mins: After withstanding some pressure, Swansea break. It's three on three. Routledge feeds Hernandez, but he dithers too long.
Olivier Giroud and Santi Cazorla have scored in quick succession for Le Arse, who now lead the not-so-happy Hammers 3-1.
48 mins: Good spell from Swansea, but now Chelsea can break. Williams and another Swans defender get in each other's way, and it runs to Demba Ba, who has time to place his shot... the wrong side of the post. Rather a moderate effort, that.
47 mins: Heh. Love it. Williams has absolutely crunched Hazard there. Perfectly fair challenge, but one of those real "man AND the ball jobs" leaves the tricksy Belgian not knowing if he's Poirot or Tintin. He's up, eventually, poor little thing looking rather sorry for himself.
46 mins: Swansea enjoying a spell of the ball early on, they need to try and take the sting out of the Chelsea attackers. Chelsea fans do their charming "We know what we are.." song. "Champions of Europe", in this iteration. Guzman slips it through... but Hernandez is offside.
20.46 This could get really lively if Chelsea can get one. You would imagine that a Swansea goal would kill it. No changes that I can see at half-time. We're off!
20.45 You don't see Laudrup batey too often, but he looked pretty annoyed about that Ramires tackle. I wonder if Ki Sung-Yeung will come out after HT.
HALF TIME: SWANSEA 0 CHELSEA 0 (SWANSEA WON FIRST LEG 2-0) Quiet start, but it durned into a decent game. You would think that Chelsea are at home, they have had a lot of the ball and have come close several times to breaking through the Swansea backline. Rangel has been especially good in defence, but there have been some narrow squeaks. Swansea, for their part, have had their moments on the break, Routledge and Michu both getting stinging shots in. Demba Ba reckoned he should have had a pen when he went over Davies's leg after six minutes, but he went down rather expansively and I think that might have stayed the ref's hand. Chelsea look like scoring, but you wouldn't rule a Swansea breakaway out either. It's tight! Remember: away goals only count at the end of extra time, not 90 minutes. So I guess that would mean that 2-0 or 3-1 takes it to extra time.
Meanwhile, it's 1-1 at the Emirates. Jack Collinson gave the Hammers the lead after 18 minutes, but Lukas Podolski evened things up for the Arsenal just four mintues later. That's 1-1 there at the half.
Maurice Sampson says: "Marc Melander forgot "The Big Sleep" one of Chandlers best....quite appropriate tonight ??"
45 mins: Swansea are clinging on for the half-time whistle as Mata nearly gets free in the area. They manage to clear, and here is that whistle.
44 mins: Ball into the box - Davies and Routledge get in each other's way. Calamity! They've neatly bodychecked each other out of the game like a couple of blockers in American football. It falls to Demba Ba, who lashes the shot wild and miles over the bar. A let-off.
43 mins: Couple of mintues until half time and Chelsea are still probing and picking at Swansea. Now a break for the homeside, and De Guzman should have done better with that pass, Michu was making a good run.
41 mins: I am sorry, I will never tire of the fact that Swansea have a player called Leon Britton. Anyhow. The former Tory grandee turned Eurowonk par excellence pumps it forward and Ivanoic clears.
Marc Melander writes: "If I may be allowed to develop the Chandler theme - three of his finest works could be Chelsea (est 2003) themed. 'Farewell, My Lovely' dedicated to Frank Lampard, 'The Little Sister' a Torres/Britney homage and 'The Long Goodbye' a paeon to the Departures Lounge of Stamford Bridge and the revolving door fitted to same."
39 mins: Swans are down to ten for a while, but Ki is okay to come back on now.
38 mins: Swansea think Hazard is injured and seem to stop playing. Not so Cheslea. Ramires clatters Ki. Nasty, painful tackle - straight leg into the ankle. Ouch. Not saying he was trying to hurt him, but he has.
"With Pep now at Bayern just leaves Nigel Adkins as the only viable candidate for Chelsea," says Andy.
36 mins: Lampard slips it to Mata. He jinks past Flores, but Rangel - who is having a big game - shuts him down just in time.
34 mins: Mata starting to tick, he slides it out to the left and the ball is drilled back in. It drops to Ba but he cannot connect properly.
33 mins: Awful botched clearance from Hernandez nearly drops for Lampard but the high ball won't come down in time. Swansea, starting to look a bit frantic, pump it clear but Michu hasn't quite got the turn of foot to catch up.
32 mins: Swansea cannot get it away and are relieved when Ramires overhits a ball for Hazard by ten yards. Swansea just need to slow it down here, take the wind out of Cheslea's sails.
30 mins: Chelsea come forward. They have the ball in the area, Mata lashes a shot in and the ball breaks kindly for Oscar. These boys are too pretty for a goalmouth scramble. Swansea eventually manage to bundle it away.
28 mins: Poor clearance from Tremmel picks out Mata. Chico busts a gut to get back and Mata is oddly ponderous as he comes into the area.
25 mins: Ooh, lovely from Mata, a tiny flick into the path of Oscar and Angel Rangell has to use all his reactions to nip in and muscle the forward off the ball. Chelsea looking dangerous, but Swansea not without threat on the break: this is the game we expected to see. Enjoyable fare for teh last 20 minutes after a very quiet start. You would fancy both teams to score.
Over at the Emirates, Lukas Podolski has levelled the score
22 mins: Hernandez threads it through for Michu but overhits the pass. Ashley Cole, prominent of late, tucks it inside to Ramirez, who gets a good shot away from outside the box. A small deflection, but Tremmel saves down low.
21 mins: Chelsea still have the ball and continuing to ask questions of the hosts.
In the other game tonight, Jack Collinson has given West Ham a 1-0 lead at Arsenal
17 mins: Chico Flores has his hair in a bun. It's an unconventional take on masculinity, but none the worse for that. Solid defending from him though to break up a rare Chelesa forray. The Bluse have a corner, which is defended without much alarm. Now Ashley Cole bursts into the area, and drives to the byline. Swansea bundle it away. From the resulting corner, Cahill gets above his man and heads at goal - but it is a looping header. Rangell heads it off the line. Mata tries to squeeze a shot through, but it is easy for the keeper. Good little spell from the visitors, their best couple of minutes of the match.
16 mins: Good link-up play sees Michu head it down for De Guzman. Snap shot is blocked by Gary Cahill throwing himself in the way. He's obviously been picking up some tips from England's Lionheart, John Terry.
15 mins: Chelsea really having a hard time getting a toe-hold on this game.
13 mins: Ivanovic pumps it long, no threat from that. Looking at that pen shout again, Demba Ba was deffo looking for the penalty there.
12 mins: Chelsea sitting quite deep and allowing Swansea a good spell of possession. Chelsea not getting a lot going as yet.
9 mins: Lovely through ball from Routledge! He's onto a good pass from Britton, and he has sent Michu racing clear. The forward gallops onto the ball and lets fly first time with the left. Good shot - and a good save from Cech, who manages to beat the ball away. Two good bits of work from Swansea, who are looking attractive and dangerous, like a dame in a Raymond Chandler story.
7 mins: Swansea counter right away. Good ball in from the right and Routledge connects with a sweet volley. Azpilicueta throws himself in the way of it and it's a corner. Cleared. That was on target and really travelling.
6 mins: Mata plays it to Ba in the inside right channel Ba goes down in the box! Did Davies stick out his leg? Ref says not. I reckon there may have been some contact but Ba looked like he made the most of it, which might have been a turn-off for Foy.
5 mins: Rangel looks lively to cut out a Lampard-Oscra one-two down the left. Hopeful ball forward from Ivanovic. Fair to say it has been a quiet start.
4 mins: Good neat possession football from Chelsea, around the halfway line.
3 mins: Some booing for Ashley Cole. He raises his arm, perhaps to acknowledge the crowd.
2 mins: Plenty of ball for Swansea but no territory to go with it. Chelsea happy to let them play it around.
1 mins: It's not snowing. No team has managed to overturn a two-goal deficit in 11 semi-final attempts in this competition. Swansea pass the ball around before it is hit down the channel. Early easy clearance for Cech. He will be hoping that Ivanovic doesn't have another episode tonight.
19.44 It will be Chelsea to kick off.
Limey Expat says: "If you are a Chelsea fan I would suggest praying that he starts Ba !!!!"
19.43 Students of comedy saddened to see that David Luiz rides the bench alongside Torres. Always the suggestion of possible slapstick when those two get on.
19.40 The teams are in the tunnel. Who do you fancy? They're playing 'Thunder' by AC/DC as the teams walk out, which is very much to be encouraged. Is that a standard Liberty Stadium thang?
19.35 Glenn just refered to the Swansea midfielder as "Little Britton". I don't think it was a deliberate joke, but who knows. Good old Glenn. What an odd life it must have been for him. He seems to have been not doing much of anything for about a 35 years now, but I guess it wasn't so very long ago that he was managing Wolves. Those post-England gigs always had the smack of semi-retirement about them to me, though. He's still only 55.
19.30 Rafa won't be drawn on leaving out Torres and says that "when you haev two strikers you have to manage them."
19.25 Chelsea have a super record under Rafa away from home: played seven, won six. Those are THE FACTS. I would have thought if there is a side ideally well suited to this tough task, it might actually be the Blues. Swansea face the decision of how much to attack or be expansive.
19.20 TV punditry duties are being handled by Chris Coleman and Glenn Hoddle. Talking of the former Swindon Town boss (shoehorn, shoehorn), here's an article what I wrote about Swindon Town and lower league teams in the League Cup. On the matter in hand, Glenn is of the opinion that Michu up front on his own might be easier to handle than a Michu dropping off into the pocket. He reminds Glenn of someone he knew in a previous life: Teddy Sheringham.
19.15 Swansea have only lost by more than two goals on one occasion this season, when they were dispatched 0-3 by Everton. And if Chelsea are to go through without recourse to penalties then that's what they need to inflict upon the home side.
19.10 So where is your money for the game tonight? Those of a betting persuasion can back Chelsea to progress at 11/5, with the Swans at 2/5. The Blues are odds-on to win in 90 minutes, though.
19.01: Teams. So no Torres. Demba Ba has got his game.
Swansea: Tremmel; Rangel, Williams, Chico, Davies; Routledge, Britton, De Guzman, Ki, Hernandez; Michu
Chelsea: Cech; Azpilicueta, Cahill, Ivanovic, Cole; Ramires, Lampard; Oscar, Mata, Hazard; Ba
19.00 It looks bitter at Swansea, and it is snowing.
There is no issue with playing surface at the Liberty Stadium, which has undersoil hearing, and referee Chris Foy has declared himself happy for the game to take place.
The roads around the stadium have been gritted although some bus services in the area have been suspended.
A Swansea statement said: "Despite the snow, the Liberty pitch is in good condition with referee Chris Foy happy with the surface following an inspection.
"The surrounding areas outside the stadium have been classed as safe but we do ask supporters to be cautious when travelling to the stadium and entering the Liberty due to the current weather conditions.
"Some bus services have been cancelled, so we advise fans to check with their local travel operator."
18.57 The Swans have never reached a major final. They led the League for a bit in 1982, though.
18.55 Team news as we have it. Talking of news, an important bit of it for Swansea this week: the mighty Michu has signed a new four-year deal.
18.52 The other function of that story is to make us all feel very old. Even so, nothing this season can top the shock of seeing ROB LEE'S SON playing on the TV (for West Ham v Man U in the Cup). I mean, boyish Rob Lee, for heaven's sake.
18.50 On the subject, very loosely, of Chelsea - did y'all see this story about his son Brooklyn having a trial at the London club? I guess it's one of those sport-celeb crossover stories that either makes you go "ha, cute" or makes your blood pressure rise sharply. The former for me, but I can see where others are coming from. Here's the People's Becky himself on the matter of kids with megastar mums and dads.
"They've got a great life set up for them," he told The Times. "Obviously our boys and little girl are very lucky. But I think, as a parent, you always worry: 'Have they got the hunger that I had as a kid?'"
He added: "I'm as hard on my boys as my dad was. They always ask, 'Did I play well?' I'll say, 'You did alright, could have done better..."'
18.45 Good evening football fans, thanks for joining us. Who will meet Bradford CIty in the final of this year's Capital One Cup? Swansea pulled off a fine win at Stamford Bridge a fortnight ago and lead Chelsea 2-0 on aggregate. If the tie is level on aggregate after 90 minutes tonight, extra time will be played. Only after extra time will away goals come into play. If that doesn't do the trick, it's penalties.
"13.5 In the Semi-Final ties, if the aggregate score is level at the end of the second game an extra half-hour shall be played. If the aggregate scores are still level at the end of extra time the tie shall be decided by goals scored away from home counting twice. If the teams remain equal after this procedure the tie shall be determined by the taking of kicks from the penalty mark in accordance with the Laws of Association Football."
So by my reckoning, only Chelsea can go through on away goals. Anyhow, enough of this rules and regulations, health and safety jibber-jabber. Who's going to win the match?
Enjoyed the quotes from Rafa Benitez offering some advice, as it were, to Michael Laudrup: "The style of football the team had under (Paulo) Sousa, Roberto Martinez and Brendan Rodgers was good for him because it's the way that he likes to play. But when you're managing in the middle of the table it's easy to bring in young players, it's easy to play a certain style. It's when you're at the top or the bottom when it's harder to impose your ideas." Worth a read, here.