Thursday, March 08, 2012
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
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Manchester United FC and England forward Wayne Rooney has had his say on Twitter about Barcelona's Lionel Messi: "Messi is a joke. For me the best ever."
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Monday, March 05, 2012
:)
El presidente del Comité Técnico de Árbitros, Victoriano Sánchez Arminio, volvió a criticar las declaraciones de Gerard Piqué al término del partido entre el Barcelona y el Sporting el pasado sábado en el Camp Nou.
Sánchez Arminio: "Ellos también fallan goles y no se les dice nada"
LOW BATTERY :)
A young man saved his girlfriend's phone number on his mobile as "LOW BATTERY".
Whenever she calls him in his absence, his wife takes the phone and plugs it to the charger.
Sunday, March 04, 2012
fragging
In Vietnam, they called it "fragging": the deliberate killing of a commanding officer by his own men. It happens in all wars when experienced foot soldiers lose respect for their leader and put their own survival before loyalty. And now it has happened at Chelsea. Twice.
Richard Williams
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 4 March 2012
Richard Williams
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 4 March 2012
Saturday, March 03, 2012
Where’s the omelet?
When communists and sympathizers made excuses for Stalin’s terror, they said, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.” To which George Orwell responded, “Where’s the omelet?”
By George F. Will,
http://www.washingtonpost.com
March 1, 2012
Friday, March 02, 2012
cara, lucio dalla
Cosa ho davanti, non riesco più a parlare
dimmi cosa ti piace, non riesco a capire, dove vorresti andare
vuoi andare a dormire.
Quanti capelli che hai, non si riesce a contare
sposta la bottiglia e lasciami guardare
se di tanti capelli, ci si può fidare.
Conosco un posto nel mio cuore
dove tira sempre il vento
per i tuoi pochi anni e per i miei che sono cento
non c'è niente da capire, basta sedersi ed ascoltare.
Perché ho scritto una canzone per ogni pentimento
e debbo stare attento a non cadere nel vino
o finir dentro ai tuoi occhi, se mi vieni più vicino.........
La notte ha il suo profumo e puoi cascarci dentro
che non ti vede nessuno
ma per uno come me, poveretto, che voleva prenderti per mano
e cascare dentro un letto.....
che pena...che nostalgia
non guardarti negli occhi e dirti un'altra bugia
A..Almeno non ti avessi incontrato
io che qui sto morendo e tu che mangi il gelato.
Tu corri dietro al vento e sembri una farfalla
e con quanto sentimento ti blocchi e guardi la mia spalla
se hai paura a andar lontano, puoi volarmi nella mano
ma so già cosa pensi, tu vorresti partire
come se andare lontano fosse uguale a morire
e non c'e' niente di strano ma non posso venire
Così come una farfalla ti sei alzata per scappare
ma ricorda che a quel muro ti avrei potuta inchiodare
se non fossi uscito fuori per provare anch'io a volare
e la notte cominciava a gelare la mia pelle
una notte madre che cercava di contare le sue stelle
io li sotto ero uno sputo e ho detto "OLE'" sono perduto.
La notte sta morendo
ed e' cretino cercare di fermare le lacrime ridendo
ma per uno come me l' ho gia detto
che voleva prenderti per mano e volare sopra un tetto.
Lontano si ferma un treno
ma che bella mattina, il cielo e' sereno
Buonanotte, anima mia
adesso spengo la luce e così sia
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Even Oscar Wilde was a fan.
Our idea of inalienable style rights: life, Liberty and the pursuit of florals. These artful, eye-popping blooms from London’s Liberty Art Fabrics, the British house famous for its fabric collection since 1875 (even Oscar Wilde was a fan), are our current obsession. Our design team revived this drawn-from-life floral of garden perennials like wild grasses, oxeye daisies and forget-me-nots from the archives of Liberty’s Regent Street, London, emporium. So celebrate spring a little sooner and button up to brighten up.
http://www.jcrew.com/index.jsp
Obama and Santorum share the same prayer.
The prospect of four more years of President Barack Obama holds some appeal for many Americans but probably not for most Republicans. It may give doubters among them some comfort, however, to know that Obama and Santorum share the same prayer: that Santorum be the Republican nominee.
Kathleen Parker
www.washingtonpost.com
Very smart, very emty.
1,200 guests, surrounded by 65,000 empty seats.
The Detroit Economic Club arranged the event and sold tickets for it ($45 for members; $75 for non-members), and when two indoor venues sold out quickly, club officials moved the speech to Ford Field.
Beth Chappell, president and chief executive of the Detroit Economic Club, said in a statement: “The original plan was to host the Romney meeting in the atrium, which is where we host DEC meetings when at Ford Field. During our walk through with the security team there were further issues raised due to the size of the crowd so we moved the event to the field.”
washington post
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
decibel
Il debutto del coro del San Paolo sulle note dell'inno Uefa è rimasto "storico". La prima volta mandò in distorsione l'audio di Sky Sport per l'incredibile quantità di decibel prodotti dai tifosi della curva che accompagna l'ultima strofa. Quel rito si rinnova a ogni partita di Champions del Napoli a Fuorigrotta, così come è consuetudine cantare "O surdato 'nnamurato", diventato l'inno della squadra.
http://video.repubblica.it/sport/napoli-in-champions-l-urlo-della-curva/88722/87115
http://video.repubblica.it/sport/napoli-in-champions-l-urlo-della-curva/88722/87115
Monday, February 20, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
The Treaty of Versailles
The Italian
police on Friday arrested eight people on charges related to the seizure of $6
trillion in fake United States Treasury bonds, in a mysterious scheme that
stretched from Hong Kong to Switzerland to the southern Italian region of
Basilicata.
The value
of the seized bonds is in the neighborhood of half of the United States’ entire
public debt of $15.36 trillion, but only the uninitiated would have accepted
them as real securities. Rather than counterfeit, they were what officials call
fictitious, printed in 6,000 units of $1 billion each, a denomination that does
not exist and the equivalent of $3 bills, American officials said.
In a
statement on Friday, the United States Embassy in Rome said its experts had
examined the bonds, which bore the date 1934, and determined that they were
fictitious and apparently part of a scheme intended to defraud Swiss banks. [...]
The
prosecutors said they had found the bonds — along with a fake copy of the
Treaty of Versailles, signed by European powers at the end of World War I — in
special compartments in metal crates in a Swiss vault, which the Swiss
authorities had sent them last fall following a request for cooperation.
By RACHEL
DONADIO - nytimes
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
En première période, le Bayer a effectué... 75 passes. Contre quasiment 500 pour le FC Barcelone...
http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/match/249336
http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/match/249336
Sunday, February 12, 2012
No one ever doubted her talent: descended from a line of great singers, she was blessed with a voice that everyone from Smokey Robinson to Simon Cowell agreed was one of the best in the world. But her critics claimed the records she made with it erred on the safe side, tending towards pop rather than soul, the middle of the road rather than the cutting edge.
Alexis Petridis
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 12 February 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
Yes sir, No sir
A man with a gun went into a bank and demanded their money.
Once he was given the money, he turned to a customer and asked, 'Did you see me rob this bank?'
The man replied, 'Yes sir, I did'. The robber then shot him and killed him instantly.
He then turned to a couple standing next to him and asked the woman, 'Did you see me rob this bank?'
The woman replied, 'No sir, but my husband did'.
Saturday, February 04, 2012
try on shoes before
He expressed frustration that not only had looters had the temerity to try on shoes before stealing them, they had also calmly queued up at tills to take off the security tags, before popping them into JD Sports carrier bags.
One war reporter, who has just returned from the frontline in Libya, was mugged by three hooded looters outside Curry's in Brixton on Sunday night with £2,500 worth of video equipment stolen.
Aura
But it’s hard to see how Gingrich’s Master Debater reputation recovers from his poor showings in the debates in Florida. Even if he stays in the race long enough to get another crack at Romney, voters will always remember that he can be bested – that if you prick him, he might just bleed. Once lost, an aura of invincibility is an awfully hard thing to regain.
nytimes.com
Except Leon Panetta
“The president, he went around the table with all the senior people, including the Chiefs of Staff, and he said, ‘I have to make a decision. What is your opinion?’ ” Biden recounted. “He started with the national security adviser, the secretary of state and he ended with me. Every single person in that room hedged their bets except Leon Panetta. Leon said go. Everyone else said, 49, 51. He got to me. He said, ‘Joe, what do you think?’ And I said, ‘You know, I didn’t know we had so many economists around the table.’ I said, ‘We owe the man a direct answer. Mr. President, my suggestion is, don’t go. We have to do two more things to see if he’s there.’ ”
Biden is so eager to show how bold and cool Obama was in that teeth-rattling moment that he relishes admitting he gave cautious advice that was ignored.
The next morning, the president came down to get into Marine One, turned to Tom Donilon and said, “Go.”
“He knew what was at stake,” Biden said. “Not just the lives of those brave warriors, but literally the presidency. And he pulled the trigger.”
The vice president concluded triumphantly: “This guy doesn’t lead from behind. He just leads.”
Friday, February 03, 2012
Don't muck it up
muck
n.
1. A moist sticky mixture, especially of mud and filth.
2. Moist farmyard dung; manure.
3. Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.
4. Something filthy or disgusting.
5. Earth, rocks, or clay excavated in mining.
tr.v. mucked, muck·ing, mucks
Phrasal Verbs:
1. To fertilize with manure or compost.
2. To make dirty with or as if with muck.
3. To remove muck or dirt from (a mine, for example).
muck about Chiefly British
To spend time idly; putter.
Thursday, February 02, 2012
[...] They
have been offered a pre-professorship in Bingo. The position will
match their Lala salary, but no bonuses. So they (Bingo) are paying a
great premium over regular tenured senior lecturers, but it will
still be a pay cut.
The Chronicles of Norflikston People (Vincent Sincus)
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Zuckerberg is featured on the cover of Time magazine's 2010 "Person of the Year" issue. At 26, Zuckerberg was the youngest to earn the honor since the first person chosen, aviator Charles Lindbergh, in 1927. Lindbergh was 25.
Monday, January 30, 2012
From 1950 to 1980, the top 1 percent represented about 10 percent of Americans’ income; by 2000, this had increased to about 20 percent, where it’s remained, estimate economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/buffett-tax-and-truth-in-numbers/2012/01/29/gIQAikL5aQ_story.html?hpid=z2
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/buffett-tax-and-truth-in-numbers/2012/01/29/gIQAikL5aQ_story.html?hpid=z2
Calenelle
Immigrati, nuovo sbarco sul Gargano - tutti in salvo i settanta migranti
Erano su una barca a vela che viaggiava a motore e sono stati abbandonati in acqua davanti a una spiaggia tra Peschici e Rodi Garganico. I mezzi della guardia costiera hanno perlustrato per ore la zona in cerca di eventuali dispersi. Gara di solidarietà in paese.
di
PIERO RUSSO
PESCHICI –
Erano nascosti in una barca a vela che però viaggiava a motore e
sono stati abbandonati nelle acque del Gargano. Circa settanta
immigrati clandestini sono stati individuati su una spiaggia tra
Peschici e Rodi Garganico, nella frazione balneare di Calenelle.
Secondo una prima ricostruzione, gli scafisti, partiti da un porto
greco, avrebbero lasciato i clandestini, quasi tutti d’origine
afgana, iraniana e pakistana, su tre tender a pochi metri dalla
sabbia per poi fuggire via. Una delle tre piccole imbarcazioni però
non era stata ritrovata. Le motovedette della guardia costiera
di Vieste hanno battuto la costa da Rodi a San Menaio, fino a
Peschici, per cercare di trovare eventuali dispersi. Alla una
perlustrazione hanno partecipato i carabinieri. In volo anche un
elicottero. Le operazioni di controllo sono durate per tutto il
pomeriggio.
Tutti in salvo alla fine i migranti che una volta arrivati a terra si sono dispersi nel bosco vicino per cercare di sfuggire alle forze dell’ordine. Individuati, sono stati accompagnati dai volontari dell’associazione Divina Carità, dalle "Giacche verdi", coordinati dai carabinieri della compagnia di Vico del Gargano, per essere assisti e ospitati nei locali dell’auditorium cittadino. Gli stranieri, dopo le procedure di identificazione saranno accompagnati nel Cara di Borgo Mezzanone, tra Foggia e Manfredonia.
I migranti sono tutti uomini e quasi tutti giovanissimi, alcuni appena maggiorenni. Dal pronto soccorso di Vico del Gargano fanno sapere che tre persone sono state trasportate d’urgenza all’ospedale "Masselli Mascia" di San Severo, mentre altre cinque erano sull’orlo dell’assideramento. Un ragazzo è grave a causa di una brutta forma di broncopolmonite. Nel paese garganico è partita una vera e propria gara di solidarietà, con i cittadii giunti anche dalla vicina Ischitella con coperte e beni di prima necessità.
Tutti in salvo alla fine i migranti che una volta arrivati a terra si sono dispersi nel bosco vicino per cercare di sfuggire alle forze dell’ordine. Individuati, sono stati accompagnati dai volontari dell’associazione Divina Carità, dalle "Giacche verdi", coordinati dai carabinieri della compagnia di Vico del Gargano, per essere assisti e ospitati nei locali dell’auditorium cittadino. Gli stranieri, dopo le procedure di identificazione saranno accompagnati nel Cara di Borgo Mezzanone, tra Foggia e Manfredonia.
I migranti sono tutti uomini e quasi tutti giovanissimi, alcuni appena maggiorenni. Dal pronto soccorso di Vico del Gargano fanno sapere che tre persone sono state trasportate d’urgenza all’ospedale "Masselli Mascia" di San Severo, mentre altre cinque erano sull’orlo dell’assideramento. Un ragazzo è grave a causa di una brutta forma di broncopolmonite. Nel paese garganico è partita una vera e propria gara di solidarietà, con i cittadii giunti anche dalla vicina Ischitella con coperte e beni di prima necessità.
Sabato notte, sulle coste meridionali del Salento, si era verificato un altro sbarco di migranti: 36 in tutto di origine iraniana e afghana, tra cui 32 uomini, 3 donne e una bambina. Gli immigrati sono stati rintracciati in località 'Ciolo', dai carabinieri della Compagnia di Tricase, che hanno provveduto poi ad accompagnarli al centro Don Tonino Bello di Otranto.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
In a 1995 profile for Vanity Fair, author Gail Sheehy discovered that Gingrich financed his own education largely via the hard work of this then-wife. And when things got tight, finding a job was not high on his to-do list. Sheehy wrote that Gingrich turned first to his adoptive father for help, and then to his biological one:
Newt, who avoided Vietnam with student and marriage deferments, resisted taking a job. During his college years, Newt called up his father and stepmother to ask for financial help. His stepmother, Marcella McPherson, can still hear his exact words: “I do not want to go to work. I want all my time for my studies... Bob Gingrich told me he will not help me one bit. So I wondered, would you people help me?” Big Newt began sending him monthly checks.
Dolores Adamson, Gingrich’s district administrator from 1978 to 1983, remembers, “Jackie put him all the way through school. All the way through the PhD .... He didn’t work.”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/vanityfair1.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/gingrich-no-role-model-for-students/2012/01/28/gIQAqYXvXQ_blog.html?hpid=z8
