El Madrid y El Barcelona , unos de los clubes más importantes de España y del mundo, reconocidos no solo por sus trofeos y copas, si no por sus grandes jugadores  como Cristiano Ronaldo, Ricardo Kaká , Karim Benzema , Gonzalo Higuain , Iker Casillas . Por los Catalanes,  Carles Puyol, Xavi Hernández, Gerard Pique , “Don Andrés” Iniesta , Thierry Henry,  entre otros , una de las posibles bajas para el plantel del fc Barcelona, en el clásico son, Zlatan Ibrahimovic y Lionel Messi. Este Clásico se jugara el domingo 29 de noviembre en el Camp Nou de Barcelona.

El Madrid se ha presentado en toda esta campaña de la Liga, con muchas dificultades, ya que esta elimidado de la Copa del Rey, y el ingeniero Pelegrini no ha definido concretamente la alineacion del plantel del conjunto merengue. Sin embargo el Real se encuentra en el tope de la tabla en la Liga Española, pero el puesto no esta del todo definido ya que el clasico del primero y segundo lugar de la Liga se disputara este Domingo.

Todas las miradas se enfocan en este clásico porque estarán las estrellas más importantes del mundo, como ya han oído, otra de las bajas será Yaya Toure, Rafael Márquez y Eric Abidal, por la enfermedad llamada AH1N1, la cual ha recorrido todo el mundo especialmente a México y demás países de América .

Regresando al tema futbolístico el Barcelona la temporada pasada jugó un partido muy bien disputado ya que los hombres del “PEP” estaban solo buscando el titulo de la liga, ese día el equipo del Barca se impuso por 6 tantos a 2, en el Estadio Santiago Bernabéu de Madrid.

Esperemos que los equipos enfrenten un partido con el llamado “Fair Play”, Ya que todos los hinchas esperan eso de ellos, Ya que son los mejores.

Estarás Listo Para el Clásico???

Encuentran 470 kilos de mariguana dentro de casa en Villa Fontana

* Luis Gerardo Andrade

La Policía Estatal Preventiva decomisó 36 paquetes de mariguana con un pesos total de 470 kilos, en la privada San Ignacio de la avenida Aranjuez, en la delegacion de la Presa; no hubo detenidos.

TIJUANA, Baja California(PH)
Alrededor de media tonelada de mariguana fue descubierta en una privada ubicada en la zona Este de la ciudad; hasta el momento no se ha confirmado si hubo personas detenidas.

De acuerdo al reporte inicial de la Policía Estatal Preventiva, se logró encontrar la droga adentro de una vivienda ubicada en la privada San Ignacio, la cual se encuentra sobre la avenida Aranjuez, del fraccionamiento Villa Fontana.

Los agentes estatales hasta el momento han indicado que los 470 kilos de mariguana fueron encontrados en 36 paquetes en uno de los cuartos de la casa, sin embargo no hubo detenidos.

Asimismo se desconoce si la vivienda se estaba abandonada.

En unos minutos las autoridades permitirán el acceso a la vivienda y darán más información.

Nota Publicada: 24/11/2009 12:12
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Primer vam anar a Bellús a vore el paratge on està la Cova Negra. El riu albaida creua la zona on es pot pràcticar l’escalada, el ciclisme de muntanya i el senderisme. Aquests dies, amb la pròxima vinguda del fred, els arbres es preparen per passar l’hivern i les fulles grogues ocupen les copes dels caducifolis.

Després d’haver fet gana se n’anàrem a Quatretonda. Allí està l’Heretat de Pere. Casa Rural, mini granja i restaurant on ens havíen dit, amics de la Vall d’Albaida, que es menjava bé. Vam anar a comprovar-ho. I, realment, és un encert total. Érem 10 adults i 8 xiquets/es i vam estar en dues taules amb l’arròs al forn per als més menuts i, per als adults,  no sé quants entrants sabrosíssims i dos perols de fang plens de carn de cabridet amb alls. Impressionant. Vam menjar el que podíem i més. I vam compartir taula amb els amics i les amigues en un racó acollidor i ple de gent dels pobles del voltant. Un lloc casolà però que no et deixarà indiferent.

Messi, durante el partido ante el Athletic

Buenas noticias para Pep Guardiola. Las pruebas médicas han confirmado que la lesión de Leo Messi no están grave como se pensaba en un primer momento. Según el parte médico facilitado por el Barça, Messi sufre una lesión de grado 1 en el aductor de la pierna izquierda tras realizarle una resonancia magnética, por lo que no está descartado para jugar el próximo martes ante el Inter y sigue siendo duda ante el Real Madrid.

Según evolucione la lesión, el cuerpo técnico decidirá sobre la participación de Messi en los próximos partidos aunque las posibilidades de jugar el martes son mínimas.

Los servicios médicos del Barcelona apuntaron además que Ibrahimovic, después de someterse a una ecografía, presenta signos de mejora en la lesión en los isquiotibiales del muslo izquierdo y no se descarta para jugar frente al Inter de Milán.

Por su parte, el marfileño Touré Yayá está prácticamente descartado para dicho compromiso debido a su malestar general que tiene por la Gripe A. Además, esta tarde se confirmarán los resultados de las pruebas realizadas al mexicano Rafa Márquez que se cayó a última hora de la convocatoria frente al Athletic de Bilbao por una posible Gripe A.

Entrenamiento de recuperación con seis ausencias
El entrenamiento del equipo de este domingo volvió a ser como en las jornadas de partidos de selecciones, ya que Guardiola no pudo dirigir una sesión con la totalidad de sus jugadores, debido a que seis de ellos causaron baja.

Además de las bajas de Messi, Ibrahimovic, Abidal y Touré, Gerard Piqué se ejercitó en el gimnasio y el mexicano Rafael Márquez sigue ‘de baja’, con proceso gripal, aunque el Barcelona aún no ha informado si el central ha contraído la gripe nueva.

Al margen de estas seis ausencias (Messi, Ibrahimovic, Márquez, Piqué, Abidal y Touré), Guardiola pudo trabajar con el resto de jugadores, aunque los que jugaron ante el Athletic lo hicieron en un tono más suave. Para completar el grupo de trabajo, los jugadores del filial Fontàs, Jonathan dos Santos y el portero Oier Olazábal también han estado en la ciudad deportiva de Sant Joan Despí.

This 19th of December edition of the Amsterdam labelnight ‘Redevice invites…’ @ Studio 80 features the scandalously underrated Sub Static and Karloff Rekordings label-boss Falko Brocksieper. In order to keep up with our reputation of providing a playground for more experimental and absurd techno approaches, we’ve also invited Vera Heindel, San Proper & Kouam Djoko. Talk about letting those dogs out.
Here’s an exclusive interview plus mix avec Falko, to get the juices flowing.

Could you tell us about the founding of Sub Static and Karloff Recordings. What was your role in both labels?

Sub Static was founded in Cologne in 2000 when I met my long-term partner MIA. Our aim was just to create a small platform for our music and ideas. However this soon became a more serious occupation, as we increasingly enjoyed to work for international content and reputation. It led to the desire to release an even wider range of electronic music we loved, so the sublabel Karloff Rekordings was established in 2003.
At times we had approaches to grow the labels to a higher business level, but after all the basis of our motivation and qualification was always just to release and promote our favourite music.
Mia and I never had clearly defined roles in the label management, so anything within A&R, promotion, administration, accounting was my daily business. I also did all of the graphic design.

One of our favorite mixes of the year is the MNML SSG MX36 you did, which features half-forgotten gems from the likes of Mouse On Mars, Robert Hood & Plaid. Could you tell us something about your musical roots and artists that have most inspired you?

What first got me into techno was trance, mostly european stuff, in the early 90’s. However at the time this wasn’t even a clearly outlined genre, neither was it cheesy or commercial. It simply meant – techno that is monotonic and trippy. When I got my first set of turntables and started to spend more time in recordshops I soon discovered the music of Robert Hood, Jeff Mills, Dan Bell, Woody McBride.. alot of mid-90’s minimal techno, mostly from the states. And soon after there was stuff like Aphex Twin, Mouse on Mars, Two Lone Swordsmen, Mille Plateaux & Rephlex stuff…. also alot of electro. Then even more techno – Cristian Vogel & Brighton crew, Maurizio, Kompakt… It’s been exciting times musically, which intensified for me even more when I moved to Cologne in 1997 to study at the Academy of Media Arts.
It’s this spirit of the 2nd half of the 90’s that I tried to capture in the recent mix you mentioned. Part of the spirit is also the health, complexity and mysticism of musical culture at that time — it seems like a very short time window between the farreaching innovation of electronic music, and the start of desktop producing, discogs, downloads and information overkill.

You originate from Cologne, but you operate from Berlin since 2004. Has this move influenced your productions/DJ-sets in a significant way?

I can’t really say how much influence this or the other city has. I think for the main part, moving to another place always changes your way of thinking, and gives you a new perspective on many things — which was also what I was looking for when I decided to move.
What I can say is – approving the clichee – Berlin has been and still is a very inspiring & vibrant place to live and I have no desire to live anywhere else.

You’ve been pretty productive lately when it comes to releasing. Do you have a lot of unreleased material stored up somewhere?

No, piles of unreleased material is what i never had, unfortunately. However this year has been quite productive indeed. Last year I finally released my 2nd album and was touring with my first live set, both helping me to get a fresh approach on the new productions that came out this year.

Any future plans we should know about?

Right now I’m working on a completely new live set, enabling me to be a bit more flexible and improvisational. It’s also giving me ideas for a couple of new tracks already. You can expect some new releases of me in early 2009, but it’s too soon now to announce any particulars.
Also I’m in the studio again with Benjamin Fehr, recording new material as ‘The Result’. Our first release came out this summer on his label Catenaccio. Another EP will be out soon on Brouqade Rec, as well as remixes on TicTacToe and the remarkable NervMusic from Moscow.

Tracklist:
01. Basic Soul Unit – ‘Hope.unity.vision’
02. Falko Brocksieper – ‘Never Mind’
03. Soul Clap – ‘Beauty Sleep’
04. Rene Breitbarth – ‘Pump’
05. Hakim Murphy – ‘Jupiter Poop’
06. Seuil – ‘Lost In The Soul Shower’
07. Dan Ghenacia & Djebali – ‘Eightball’
08. Motorcitysoul – ‘Vivid [Roman Flügel's RMX]‘
09. Khan & Brigitte Fontaine – ‘Fine Mouche’
10. Wasted Chicago Youth – ‘Shake Them Gears’
11. Hell feat. P. Diddy – ‘The Dj [Jay Haze RMX)’
12. Dollz At Play – ‘Oscura Wand In Paris’
13. Ambivalent – ‘808 Clap’
14. Dinky – ‘Epilepsia’

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OTAM Mix 19 – Falko Brocksieper – ‘Decemberumbrella’

Mimicking and copy catting is inevitable. I’m part of a generation where just about everything’s been done. In this closing year of 2009, the “Obama Generation” is raised with a mentality, no flat out law of nature: Everything new is automatically traditional. A fatalistic prediction has become a fatal reality. The war is not fought on the terrain, nor in the sky, or in the mind. the war is fought against each other. The war is fought in the past. We already know we have lost. Fighting has lost all value. So here I sit, comfortable. Ready to fight. If I’m brave enough.

The choking paralyzing fear felt by every teenager, must go through the pipes first. The chain of freedom, nor the chimes are there anymore. There is no freedom for anybody anywhere. Even those enforcing the punishment are not free. The moment you enter Public School, you enter a cruel spin cycle downwards. All the way down until the end.

So here I was, the precipice of student loans, diversity, more learning. College. After that I don’t really know what. But I’m not quite sure if I’m happy with what the future holds. But, no sense in thinking about the future. Better to slow myself down. I think too hard, and too fast. I needed something to calm me down, something to make my junior year more bearable. It’s been a few months since Summer, and I think I have my plan. A sort of social experiment, a search.  Very recently, a man in his forties told me that I needed to push myself out of my comfort zone. So here I am, taking a risk. But, then again, it’s not like High School can get much worse.

PEP RALLY

It was during, I think fourth period, that I was awoken from my slumber.

“Charlie!” somebody shout-whispers my name at me. I blink away and see the pale skin of my hand. I look over and I see Lucy, or LuLu, as she’s called by some of her friends. Not me though, I have no time for nick names. Lulu is from, I think, Vietnam. My grand father would slap the peach fuzz off my chin, if he knew I hung out with Charlie. Maybe my father named me Charlie to spite him? Some sort of a father issue I’m sure. I don’t really have father issues. Shit, my dad got me the bottle of Vicodin stashed in my backpack right now. I can’t help myself. I have about nine left. Vidodin doesn’t make me sleepy, but I’m just so mellow I can’t help myself. Lulu isn’t looking at me, as she taps me awake. She’s got nice skin, and very nice lips. God I’m mellow.

Today there’s a pep rally after school. Best day to start my experiment. I don’t have to focus, don’t have to worry about work. Not like I do anyways. Apparently Lulu was tapping me because our teacher, Mr. Hoyle is passing tests back. I’m not sure if they’re ones we’ve graded or what. It’s blank when it comes to me so I’m assuming it’s one he expects me to do right now. What’s it about?

THE GREAT GATSBY CHAPTERS 4 – 6

Fair enough. I can’t really say whether or not it’s a good book, I’ve never read it. Oh, well, I guess I’ll just check off a few things here and there. Why not? Mr.Hoyle is a nice enough guy. Looks like he graduated from College, and couldn’t cut it as a dentist or something. Poor fuck. I remember hearing about him whenever I was a freshman. Back in those glorious days there used to be great big fucking trees that lined the back of the school. Right past the portable classrooms and all the electrical horse shit. Trees where it was perfectly safe to hide and do whatever you please. Get high, get blown, get fingering.

So here’s Mr. Hoyle, during lunch, out walking around. He sees these two suspicious looking Hispanic youngsters in the trees. Gay lovers? Possibly. The public School system of south Texas,  I would imagine, don’t take kindly to no queers. That didn’t stop the rumors of gay anal sex in the locker room from spreading around like the swine flu. Anyways, here’s Mr. Hoyle. He walks up to the two boys, and before he can get much closer, they spot him.

“Hey!” he shouts, knowing full well what they just stomped out. It’s too cold to just be standing around outside. Not unless you’ve got a fire. They begin walking out, and steering clear of his direction, running at a pretty fast pace. So here’s Mr. Hoyle stepping after these two dopers,  a man in his late twenties. From what I know, the second he grabs one of their shoulders to get some answers, the boy whips around like a top and belts Mr. Hoyle in the chin. And also, from what I know, this knocked Mr. Hoyle right on his back in the cold Winter grass. The two dopers got away. I don’t really know what happened to them whether or not they got caught. Perhaps. I’ve heard of worse. I’ve heard kids talk about getting stoned directly to their teacher, who just shrugs their head. 

I guess the adults, at least the ones here, have just flat out given up. For some reason they aren’t bothering to tell us that drugs are bad. Drugs can fuck you up good and proper, they don’t tell us that anymore. They just say they’ll kick us out if they find it. That’s about it. Not that I’m against drugs. I can’t really be against them, I’ve gotta take them for the next few months. 

When you’re like me, halfway intelligent surrounded by mouth breathers, you often have deep thoughts. Either that or do drugs. I could never have quite the patience to regularly get my hands on narcotics, so I just stuck primarily with my deep thoughts. But now here I was, combining the two. I try to be positive in this place, and I succeed some days. I’ve had a lot more good days than my Freshman and Sophomore year. But at a certain point, I can’t take this garbage sober. Who can? It’s not like I’ll be the first to get fucked up before they come to school. High school of all places. And it’s a pep rally. I’d rather overdose on amphetamines than school spirit. Once you get too much of that shit you don’t just die and it’s over. You die inside and your corpse is left to parade around the halls in a trite two color schemed outfit. Paint on your face and a slogan on your shirt. A little bill board for your school. Fuck that. 

Why not just ignore it? The homework, the teachers, the rules, the hours. All that can go fuck itself. So why don’t I just drop out? That’s like asking myself why don’t I just blow my brains out? Why bother with all the problems of living life as a human? I know deep down it won’t make a difference if I live or die, if I stay or drop out. Honestly the only reason I’m staying is because I’m having too much of a good time with the people around me. Watching them, judging them and occasionally liking them. Hey, what can I say? I’m a people person. That’s what this is all about, anyways. Why do thousands of these kids get up at ungodly hours and trudge over to this place? I could understand if it was for friends, but I mean shit. Go to the mall for that. Why do they really care about grades? I need to know what motivates them to come here day. I have a few things, maybe about three, for real. 

But, in the meantime, I have Jay Gatsby to take care of. Lulu is a real doll, she lets me cheat off her. Great girl. I don’t know why I’ve never tried starting some kind of a companionship with her. Maybe we’re both too smart? I dunno, lemme see. Okay that wasn’t so difficult. Lulu is really a gem. I have an interesting, chain-linky like relationship with her that I’ll need to explain later. For now I have to turn in our tests. I say our, because I feel it’s the least I can do: turning in her test for her. I pass by these two three foot wrestling kids who sit together and one of them gives me a funny look.

I’m gonna go ahead and say now: Wrestling is very, very homoerotic. Everybody knows this. But you’d be a damned fool not to know that any one of these animals could tear your face off without a second thought. As gay as they may be, you have to respect wrestlers. It’s not like they’re football players. I look back at them once I sit in my seat. One of them looks back at me. He turns to his friend and laughs. Ugh, I figure I’ll get some sleep. I don’t want to become that “stupid weird kid”. These two short brick shit houses. One of them at least knows how short he is, in a self-deprecating kind of way that makes him very tolerable for a sporting kid. Now I look like a fool to him. Great. I’d just like to go four years without looking like an idiot to anybody. Perhaps an extremely tall order to fill in a place like high school. 

I wonder how many vicodin I could take in one day and still be safe? I still only wanna take one every morning, I can’t afford to lose this shit. So now I’m sitting here in the middle of class, and I’ve got a red sore on my ass from sitting in these seats for so fucking long. The only respite is the smooth curves of Lulu’s lips. God how I wish I was not seventeen. Not cursed with naughty, naughty thoughts of good friends. I once read some nerd ask a question that went: “What should I do if I have a wet dream about my best girl friend?” the reply was a very short, Christian: “Never talk to that person again.” If I followed that advice I wouldn’t have any friends. Well, some men of course, but not girls. Because the Vicodin is beginning to slip into the space between my mask and my face. I slowly feel all the little pieces of mental garbage lifted from my brain and it puffs up all amazing and pink like cotton candy in my skull. Magnificent. My limbs get tingly warm, and my eyes just don’t give a shit anymore. My lips, instead of a natural frown, attain a natural dazed smirk. My chapped lips, unlike the smooth puffy lips of Lulu.

This whole thing is going pretty swimmingly from the start. One morning in, and I’m actually contemplating asking a casual friend for a casual blowjob sometime. I wonder. I think I’ll get ripped and walk around the cafeteria during lunch, asking every girl for head. There’s about a thousand or so broads sitting in the commons at lunch. One is bound to find me as attractive as I find myself, and slutty enough to wanna come slobber on me for a little bit. It’s statistics, it kind of has to work. That’s what I learned in math. 

Later on in the day and luckily, my vicodin has stayed to the end of the day. Probably because I haven’t felt it’s sickly soft helmet on my scalp in quite a while. My backpack feels like it’s floating on my body and my shoes feel like they’re made of marshmallows. And every girl passing by me, Lulu, Clarice, and her boyfriend are all made out of absolute gorgeous. I wonder what I would feel like if I took ecstasy. Shit, I wanna fuck most of the girls I see even when I’m sober. The closer we walk though the throng of radiating teenage bodies, jumping and screaming, to the gym the more I begin to realize what would normally be a dark thought. But since I’m kind of floating a mellow, it’s actually not that bad. Maybe every time I take this, I’ll only think about women. Hmm…. I don’t think so. No, during History I had a pretty amazing daydream about being a viking, there was only a little sex in that.

I had fiery red hair and a great red beard, and a great big red dog by my side. I ran, adrenaline pumped, through rain darkened villages hammering the heads of anything in my way. Smash. Smash. God the adrenaline of it, so satisfying. Then I found a nice Swedish girl and fucked her. But that’s pretty much how every story ends. 

The student body is so crowded, fucked up, and somehow selfish that walking through a thin hallway is like wading through a big swimming pool filled with warm marshmallow fluff. Aahh…  Once I’m out of the marshmallow pits, I’m into the Small Gym, or the lesser gym. If you don’t wanna watch the shit that goes on in the big gym during a pep rally (Dancing, cheerleading, blind folded football players eating their mom’s snatch, the usual), you head your un-washed way into the small gym. Lots of kids came to the small gym, a lot of the kids I was friends with. Once kid come up to me, his name is Homer. I know I’ve seen him in an altered state, so it’s high time I returned the favor.

“Hey what’s up, man?” he asks putting his hand out. I hug him, in the middle of all the teenagers, crazy happy to see their dumb friends. 

“I fucking love narcotics, sir…” I sort of shout, I think. Kids always shout crazy shit during a pep rally like “Gay!” and “Rape!”. ” I fucking love narcotics is god too.” 

“Shit, man, I know what you mean. You lit right now?!” he asks, grinning an acne free grin on his skater punk face.

“Yeah, pretty much, sir… You should try it.” by this point I realize how rude I’m being because I’m not looking at him. I’m looking over at Lulu, with one her friends. Now the lights in the gym are like spotlights. Now the people all around me are asshole. Lulu is walking to her friend, her name is Daisy. Daisy is the reason I’m fucked up.

Im Zusammenhang mit dem Konflikt zwischen israelischen Juden und Palästinensern ist viel zu oft von Religion die Rede, obwohl es doch um den Besitz von Land geht. Und wenn zur Abwechslung mal kein fundamentalistischer Christ im Jerusalemer Gartengrab davon faselt, dass Israel niemals Land zurückgeben dürfe, weil sich ansonsten die Wiederkehr Christi noch weiter verzögere (hab’ ich selbst erlebt so einen Typen und dessen Frau…) oder von islamistisch bedröhnten Suizidbombern, die Allah für ihr Mordwerk missbrauchen oder vom Chef-Rabbi der israelischen Armee, der all jenen die ewige Verdammnis verheisst, die “im Felde” Gnade walten lassen im Umgang mit dem Feind – wenn all das mal keine Rolle spielt, sind wir schnell bei Befindlichkeiten, die be- und gehandelt werden, als seien sie Glaubens- oder Religionsersatz.

In einer Zeit, da man von “Freiheit” spricht, die es zu feiern und zu verteidigen gilt, indem man sie abschafft, und Israel-Palästina sagt, aber “wir Deutschen” meint, wird all das, was getan wird, damit sich der Mensch nicht allzu schäbig vorkommen muss, zum einzig verbliebenen Heiligtum. Und weil es so billig ist und so schnell Schmerzlinderung zu erbringen scheint, verfallen nicht Wenige dem Ticketdenken. Solange das Israelfähnchen munter geschwungen wird, ist es egal, dass man “ansonsten” ein Rassist ist, zumal ein deutscher! Solange der Staat Israel bedenkenlos gleichgesetzt wird mit dem Gottesvolk, ist es nicht weiter schlimm, gegen Araber und sonstige “Orientale” jene Bigoterie zum Vorschein kommen zu lassen, die man sich ansonsten pflichtschuldigst selbst verbietet. “Israel” verkommt immer mehr zum Deckel überm Unrat. Dass es dabei nicht um die Realität vor Ort geht, sondern vielmehr um die Wahrnehmung derselben, ist eine Basisbanalität sondergleichen und hier schon oft thematisiert worden.

Und wir haben uns gut eingerichtet. Bei meinem ersten Jerusalembesuch Mitte der 1990er-Jahre war ich beinahe froh, ein antiisraelisches Graffiti an einer Hauswand in der Altstadt zu entdecken, half es mir doch aus der Verlegenheit heraus, mein eigenes Weltbild vielleicht  doch einmal hinterfragen zu müssen, nachdem ich gesehen hatte, wie eine Gruppe israelischer Soldaten bzw. Grenzpolizisten einen palästinensischen Jungen gemeinschaftlich verprügelten. Ob hierzulande, wo man so verzweifelt ist auf der Suche nach dem von Thomas Mann behaupteten “anderen Deutschland”, dass man Israel entweder als Heilsmittel zu vergöttern oder aber als Gift zu dämonisieren neigt – oder in den USA, wo das links-liberale Bürgertum seit Jahr und Tag das Prinzip PEP, progressive except Palestine, verinnerlicht hat. Phil Weiss, dessen Blog auf mich eine so inspirierende Wirkung hat ausüben können, dass ich selbst begann, besagter Leidenschaft zu frönen, verzweifelt immer wieder und ausführlich ob dieser selbstgewählten Unmündigkeit, die freilich im Gewande der höchstmöglichen Zivilisiertheit daherkommt.

Angesichts des neuerlichen Scheiterns einer US-Regierung, der Botschaft des Friedens in Nahost einen Mehrwort zukommen zu lassen, der jenen eines gerngehörten rhetorischen Stilmittels übertrifft, scheint sich im links-intellektuellen Milieu in Weiss’ Umfeld der diskursive Wind zu drehen. Nicht nur Israel wird allmählich mit anderen Augen gesehen wie bisher, man erschrickt zuweilen über sich selbst. Weiss zitiert die Gastgeberin der zuletzt von ihm besuchten Party:

“I believed it all. When the Life Magazine cover came out after the 1967 war, with the Israelis on the tank, I thought, This is really a miracle. The people who were almost wiped out in the Holocaust have been reborn. They’re so goodlooking, and they have kibbutzes, they’re on the land, and they won’t be defeated. I never thought that it involved displacing other people. I’ve come to think that I was brainwashed.”

Wie sagt der von mir überhaupt nicht geschätzte DFB-Chefideologe Theo Zwanziger? Man darf sich nicht beruhigt zurücklehnen? Tun wir hierzulande genug, um uns selbst und unsere eigene Gehirn-Gewaschenheit wahrzunehmen? Es ist wohlfeil und heuchlerisch, mit dem Finger genüsslich gen Übersee zu zeigen.

Zerschlagen wir unsere eigene Religion. Entlarven wir sie aber vorher noch als das, was sie ist: Eine riesengroße Ego-Show.

Volvemos a tener el derbi a la vuelta de la esquina, el 29 de este mes de noviembre el Real Madrid vuelve a visitar el Camp Nou para intentar sacarse la espina clavada el año pasado en el partido que ganaron los catalanes por 2-0. El Madrid que hasta hoy día 12 de noviembre tiene una imagen bastante dañada, dispone de un partido de liga y otro de Champions para intentar levantar la moral, tanto de afición como de los jugadores. Aunque ya sabemos que los clásicos nunca son cosa de estadísticas…

El Barcelona, el mismo día recibe al Real Madrid en su campo para intentar alejarse un poco más del club madridista e intentar repetir un resultado positivo en casa. El equipo de Pep que está teniendo un racha impresionante siendo aun el único equipo liguero imbatido, no lo está haciendo muy bien en Champions, por lo que el partido que precede al Clásico ya es para el equipo catalán casi como una final anticipada, deben ganar sí o sí. Un realmente buen estado de forma de la mayoría de los jugadores “blau-granes” crea un buen ambiente entre la afición que confía en el equipo.

Para no variar, y después de la encuesta para saber que jugador era mejor, vamos a pediros que votéis en la siguiente encuesta sobre el partido y que os animéis a poner el resultado que esperáis o queréis que haya al final de los noventa minutos.

Tom Flynn – Vienna (Round Table Knights)
Lucio & Pep – Rainforest
The Count & Sinden – Elephant 1234
Claude VonStroke – Big n’ Round
Boys Noize – Drummer
Format:B – Redux
Drums Of Death – Got Yr Thing (Jesse Rose & Oliver & ‘Made To Play’ Dub)
Hudson Mohawke – FUSE
Drop The Lime – Set Me Free (Harvard Bass Remix)
Passion Pit – Little Secrets (L-Vis 1990)

. . . . Finale di CHAMPIONS a Roma, Manchester Utd-Barcellona, come sempre, solo a guardare l’incontro (preferisco così perchè i commenti continui, vedendo le partite con altri, mi danno fastidio specialmente quando ho l’esigenza di guardare la gara come lavoro, a meno che non ci sia mio figlio, che mi conosce benissimo e che parla solo alla fine del primo tempo e nell’analisi finale) che è stato degno delle aspettative ma magari non nel pronostico visto che la favorita non era certamente la squadra di Guardiola. Fatta la premessa vengo a descrivere la conseguenza di quello che è stato il mio pensiero e la mia emozione più forte alla fine dell’incontro: SONO ALLA PRESENZA DI UNO DEI PIU’, SE NON IL PIU’, BRAVO ALLENATORE DEL MONDO. Questa considerazione è stata istintiva per quello che avevo visto e cioè la sua bravura nella preparazione tattica della gara ma,sopratutto,della lettura della gara stessa “DURANTE” che è la dote migliore per un allenatore. Aggiungo che mi ha anche impressionato lo stile di stare in piedi nell’area tecnica senza fare atti inconsulti e senza isterismi con gli arbitri ma solo per dare consigli, o ordini, conforme a quello che serviva. E’ scattato in me il desiderio di conoscerlo e vedere come lavora, così, 15 gg fa con i miei due collaboratori, siamo andati a Barcellona per constatare se il mio istinto non mi aveva tradito. Siamo rimasti 4gg che hanno compreso, la gara vinta con il Saragoza per 6 a 1, e i due giorni successivi in cui ha fatto anche la preparazione tattica della partita del mercoledi di Coppa del Re.Non voglio dilungarmi troppo perche questo è il primo approccio con quello che potrebbe diventare una grande opportunità per me e cioè: INTERAGIRE ATTRAVERSO IL MIO BLOG PER PARLARE DELLA COSA CHE AMO PIU’ AL MONDO(escludendo la famiglia naturalmente)e cioè “IL CALCIO”.
Vedremo se quello che tutti mi dicono è vero e cioè che internet è il futuro.

A presto.

Gigi Cagni

walang magawa? are you tired of playing online games? updating ur facebook status? sawa knba sa friendster?(eeww friendster?) tired of receiving nonsense tweets? tambay na muna dito. . . .

ano bang meron dito?(ewan ko wla lang akong magawa lol)

ill be posting news lahat ng klaseng news. . . showbizz(local&hollywood)

politics, current events at kung anikanik. . .

ill will do my best to give you interesting articles mgpopost din ako ng mga videos,pics at kung anoano

so pls visit this blog regularly. . . i need your support hehehe

thanks…..

(Note: PrEP – see part 1 -is an experimental HIV prevention strategy that, if proven effective, would reduce the chance of HIV infection in HIV negative people, provided individuals take a single drug, (or combination) daily. Also discussed are i-PrEP, or intermittent PrEP, where someone takes the medication intermittently, and topical PrEP, known as Caprisa, a gel microbicide also undergoing trials, used vaginally to avoid infection from HIV.)

Glion at the Swiss riveria

The weather has been perfection here in Glion. The air is crisp and still and while the sun sweeps across the riveria from high above the mountains, the landscape splits and erupts with a forest that burns brightly with the reds, yellows and limes of autumn.

I’m writing this from the top of the mountains here, thinking about our discussions on PrEP over the last few days. It has been a fascinating discussion, if at times frustrating. I watched and listened as the divide between the sciences and the humanities fought to create to a bridge that would unite their ideas, only to, at times, be speaking in a different language, and exchanging ideas in alternate currencies. People want to see the drugs work, the HIV/AIDS world are immersed in prevention and treatment measures 24/7 and although some of the discourse seemed a world away from life on the street with HIV, a bridge was being built to bring thread the various strands of PrEP together.

The Missing Link

The big questions seemed to be around data – there just isn’t any yet. While the studies on animals have been promising, on humans – the data just isn’t in yet. The desire for everyone to try and find new and emerging solutions to the current HIV epidemic is clear – and it is behind the reason we are all here today. Looking at PrEP, i-PrEP, and Caprisa, -( a topical PrEP)– are the issues, and thoughts of how to manage the implentation of this when the data is out, is what the workshops here are based around.

Yet, from my perspective, I see all the people involved here at quite different stages of how to manage the next steps. There are still too many variables.

I can certainly see the importance of finding a drug that people in high risk

overlooking Montreux

environments can take that will prevent them from becoming infected with HIV. Yet even if the results are good, asking people – even if they are in high risk environments – to take a strong drug, every day for 2, 3, 4 or more years – so they ‘probably’ won’t get HIV, seems a long shot, especcially knowing just how hard it can be just to start taking HIV meds, let alone taking them every day!

The Contraceptive Debate

It is true to say however, that people do take contraception. Women do take the pill, and they did and do understand that they have to take it EVERY day for it to be effective, just as the PrEP regime expects. So there was a discussion about looking into how the pill was introduced, and there will be a deeper look into this when the time comes for implementation. However, I heard of a Dr who had researched the contraceptive pill for decades, and has now given up on the idea of a daily pill – that monthly or more injections are the only way forward as being an acceptable offering for women today. And perhaps she is right. How many of us miss a pill? How many pregnancies have occurred because of it?

We don’t currently know the data on intermittant PrEP, (an HIV pill that you would take intermittantly), and they are looking at injectable options for this as well. This could be the way forward, although it order to get there, we may have to traverse some rather rocky road.

Where could PrEP be useful?

view from the mountain above Glion

For me, and these are my thoughts, there seems to be the strongest case for PrEP in a few areas. It seems that currently, we need to match up a few areas for PrEP to be really useful. Combining factors like; 1) high risk environments 2) ability to adhere to drug regime (due to the need for further testing of PrEP and its ability to work), and 3) low ‘collateral damage’ – which basically means ensuring people won’t be abused or targeted, such as with hate crimes or violence for taking drugs which may be stigmatising.

If so, then perhaps the first is for women in high risk environments, such as parts of Africa and India where the rates of HIV are extremely high and, where the levels of sexual oppression of women is high. Where women may be unable to negotiate safer sex, yet may still have fairly stable routines around raising their families (their husbands may work away for weeks at a time and have sex outside the relationship). If novel ways are thought of to ensure PrEP reaches these women, (through health clinics, outreach etc) it could prevent HIV infection to women and then transmission to their infants if they became pregnant. NOTE: PrEP is not advocated at this stage for pregnant women, or adolesants.

It was unfortunate that I didn’t hear prisons mentioned, as I quietly thought this could be a good way to address the factors I mentioned beforehand. High risk environments (the rates of HCV and HIV in many prisons are truely awful), ability to adhere (you’d take them at the medication hatch as you would with any other medication), and low collateral damage. If, say, all prisoners were offered the opportunity to receive these meds, those exposed to IV drug use and sex could be protecting themselves effectively.

Of course, the 3rd group is serodiscordant couples – where one is HIV positive and the other is not. But perhaps PEP is of better use here? Taking the drug directly AFTER exposure – for the PEP limit of 4-6 weeks only. Now that’s fine as long as you know your partner is HIV positive. Some people don’t.

People Who Inject Drugs

Where does that leave people who inject drugs? Although to expect people who

meeting room in Victoria Hotel

are in very challenging, high risk environments already, to take a pill that needs routine – I know is difficult – but that certainly dosent mean they should be ruled out. In fact, in 2010, the 2nd PrEP trial to bring results will be a study of 2,400 Thai intravenous drug users – despite the fact that the there was some dispute about what the findings would be (so few were expected to sero convert – that studying PrEPs efficacy is expected to be hard.) It could be useful for our community, dispensed alongside methadone or syringes for example, but many of us may well prefer to have enough sterile syringes, or opiate replacement treatments first. Would some governments take monies away from these interventions to trial or introduce PrEP?

So where did that leave the discussions? I’ve just written a few thoughts of my own. To be honest, tracking the complex structures of scientists and researchers was difficult, and each time I felt I had something to say, something kept telling me to wait because there would be something else around the corner that would complicate things again! Often it did, other times someone would just say what I was thinking, so perhaps for the first time in a while, I was unusually quiet!

Drug Resistance?

Drug resistance was not an issue apparently, and it has been overestimated. And, because overall, rates of new HIV infections are estimated to decrease with PrEP, so will drug resistant strains of HIV decrease. Thus it is unlikely new resistant strains will increase, but it is likely, in the smaller group of new infections, there will be slight increase in drug resistant strains. If that makes sense! A 0.2% increase over 10 years using PrEP, versus 0.9% increase without using PrEP (-of drug-resistant strains).

Trying to summerise the complexities here is very hard. But I’ll try…

In Summery…

This is Montreux, on the Swiss Riviera

Poorly run programes are often worse than no programmes at all. People are going to die if they dont get HIV treatments, but they COULD die if they don’t get PrEP. Countries like South Africa are broke – they already have to pick from a ‘shopping list’ that gives them the ‘best bang for their buck’ so recently that has seen them take on male circumcision as a prevention measure (it increases your protection from HIV). Other countries are in the same boat. Can we afford for them to take from the treatment budget the already scarce resources for HIV positive people – to spend on negative ones?

Four statements emerged that best summed up the approach to implementing PrEP, if it proves to be effective in the next few years. We will need to:

Know your target audience – Know your epidemic.

Know your environment. Manage expectations.

Stay tuned to the emerging research over the next few years. I expect that PrEP will be implemented – if the data emerges to prove its efficacy – but on a very small scale in very targeted environments, at least until we find an injectable or intermittant variety. The lack of data, costs and complications of PrEP is currently hindering its future. We will, as they say, have to wait and see.

The papers we were given to read state: Because PrEP is unlikely to be 100% effective, it would not replace other proven prevention strategies and would likely be most cost effective when used in combination with current HIV prevention methods including safer sex practices, use of male and female condoms, treatment of STIs, clean needles, circumcision etc. PrEP would not replace any of these strategies but it could be a powerful tool in the fight against AIDS.

Thank you

Thanks to everyone who puts in their time and passion into treatments and prevention measures for HIV. Special thanks Afrah AlDoori for her coordination in getting us all there, and to Georgina Caswell, who was so utterly lovely and helpful, and Jorge Beloqui both brilliant and such marvelous dinner guests! I’m glad that INPUD was invited to take part in discussions about our futures, it seems we are turning a corner and I look forward to our involvement in the future. If PrEP is implemented, the drugs community will most certainly need to be there on the road ahead.

Au Revoir!

Erin O’Mara

Hi from Switzerland!

The journey to Switzerland to report for INPUD had been a tiring one. After presenting a session in Glasgow at the National Conference on Injecting Drug Use, it was straight back to London and out the door for a flight to Geneva airport. I had been asked by INPUD to attend a consultation staged by the World Health Organisation, to report on a topic I have to admit to being unfamiliar with – ‘PrEP’ – or Pre Exposure Prophylaxis.

My first thoughts were of the HIV vaccine. Many of us may remember hearing of the recent breakthrough in the HIV vaccine trials, news which appeared out of the blue after many years of research of seeming dead ends and disappointments. However, while I was in the right ball park thinking vaccines, this was a very diferent game. PrEP you could say was more like PEP’s (Post Exposure Prophylaxis) newest cousin.

Instead of PEP – and its use as the short sharp shock of HIV treatments (anti retrovirals) for, most commonly, health professionals exposed to the virus via occupational related incidents such as needle stick injuries etc, PrEP is about taking things much further.

It is an experimental HIV prevention strategy that, if proven, would use anti retrovirals (ARVs) to reduce the risk of HIV infection in HIV negative people. Could PrEP, through the ingestion of a single drug (or combination) taken daily, reduce the chance of HIV infection – in HIV negative people? If found to be effective, how would such a prevention approach be rolled out? And to whom? In combination with what other prevention measures? And would HIV negative people even adhere to such a potentially uncomfortable drug regime with no immediately tangible benefit? And what about drug resistance – could we be making a rod for our own backs?

One of the potential advantages of PrEP is that those who are unable to negotiate condom use with their sex partners, would still be able to reduce their risk of infection. People who inject drugs may still be able to protect themselves despite being in higher risk environments such as without access to sterile needles and syringes.

There is however, a worrying lack of data, although current trials are well underway. These are looking at a range of transmission routes in diverse populations such as; Serodiscordant couples (one postive, the other negative); hetrosexual men and women in high prevalence areas; people who inject drugs; gay men and other men who have sex with men.

Yet there is an optimism about PrEP. Despite the fears and concerns of diverting potentially scarce resources away from positive people to negative ones when we still have not achieved the UNAIDS goals of universal access by a long shot, over 20,000 people are currently in PrEP trials, and the data will be emerging over the next few years. If, as hoped the results prove as encouraging as some believe, substantial preparation is needed to effectively scale up and implement such an intervention. In order to avoid unnecessary delays, additional research questions must be asked, and priorities decided upon.

Setting The Stage –

Scientist Kevin O’Reilly (Prevention in the Health Sector) has picked a fairytale setting for the meeting. An hour and a half from Geneva itself, the tiny town of Glion is picture perfect. A rickety little tram ascended up the mountainside from Montreux, taking me to Glion’s only hotel, sitting like a magnificent wedding cake, lodged firmly into the mountainside and overlooking the Swiss Riviera. After being given the key to my room I don’t mind admitting I launched into a mini boogaloo, before throwing myself on the big double bed, my eyes bulging at the view from my very own balcony! So this is how the other half live! After coming from the grey envelope of London, this was nothing short of breathtaking.

But there was no way this was any sort of a holiday; the huge array of complex issues involved in the emerging PrEP discussion was phenomenal, as I realised reading up on the materials I had been sent, en route to Glion this week. And after the first day of discussions, it was proving a very complex task with a massive amount of variables, and very little data to base decisions on.

The Cast.

It was great to meet up with my INPUD colleague Jason Farrell, who had trekked over from Amsterdam and members will be pleased to know he was both reflective and vocal during the ensuing consultation, raising the issues that related to our using community with clarity and emotion. Mixing the personal with the practical is often what is missing at meetings where so much is about data and health systems, and it was one of Jasons personal experiences that brought a touch of reality back into discussions. Which is, after all, why we are here. To ensure the discussions and hopes for PrEP, encompass the reality of peoples lives, in particular, for Jason and myself representing INPUD in relation to people who inject drugs. We want to ensure any guidelines created by WHO on PrEP, take user issues into account, particularly since 2,400 thai people who inject drugs (PUDs) are due to emerge from a trial in 2010, and being a government endorsed programme it is possible any rolling out of PrEP, may continue there. By WHO and UNAIDS collaborating on this issue and bringing together civil society, trialists, academics, investors, researchers, statisticians, and scientists to who PrEP is pertinent, discussion will focus on the research needed to conduct and prepare for implentation of PrEP, and what issues will have the highest priority?

Alas, it is now late and I am about to turn out the light and snuggle up in the wedding cakes puffball of a bed, to blog again tomorrow on the rest of todays discussion as we move past setting the scene and towards hearing more from the cast, to thinking about the strands involved in the story ahead.

Til tomorrow night, Bon soir!

Erin O’Mara

Fragment walki Willie Pepa z Sandy Saddlerem. Pojedynek odbył się 11 lutego 1949 roku i uznany został za “Walkę roku”.

Promocja w sklepie Pretorian – sprawdź teraz!

Palatul Cotroceni ne pregateste Programul “Primul cosciug”

Vrea sa ne ingroape pe toti

In anii ‘90, o melodie celebra a formatiei “Sarmalele Reci” spunea ca ” Tara te vrea prost!”. In 2009, “Executantul” condus de Boc si Cotrocenii lasa de inteles ca ” Tara te vrea mort!”. Anuntand ca varsta de pensionare ar trebui sa creasca pana la 70 de ani, este lansat Programul “Primul Cosciug”.
Aceasta este solutia propusa de Comisia de experti de la Cotroceni.
Intamplarea face ca, in luna iulie, pe adreasa redactiei sa vina un mail-pamflet pe aceasta tema. Din pacate, nu cunoastem autorul. Il publicam totusi, pentru ca reuseste sa ilustreze premonitoriu situatia grava in care se vor gasi peste ani angajatii din Romania, din cauza talentelor de ciocli ai celor care ne conduc in prezent:
“Sa va spun secretul vietii mele: intotdeauna mi-am dorit sa fiu un intretinut. Sa stau cu burtica in sus si toate cele sa-mi vina asa, pe gratis. Din motive care imi scapa, chestia asta nu s-a intamplat niciodata.
Mai nutream, totusi, o speranta: sa prind macar vreo doi-trei ani de pensie si sa nu mai misc un pai. Din pacate, imi dau seama ca nici visul acesta n-o sa se implineasca.
Are grija de asta guvernul Boc. Guvern format, probabil, din nemuritori. Altfel nu pot sa-mi explic de ce noua, barbatilor, ni se pregateste iesirea la pensie la saptezeci de anisori. Adica la o varsta la care nepoteii ne vor duce de mana sa facem pipi, ne vor pregati proteza dentara si ne vor face perfuzii cu Gerovital ca sa iesim din casa si sa ne indreptam catre locul de munca (asta daca o sa mai tinem minte pe unde se afla).
Imi si imaginez o zi din ultimul meu an de slujba. La varsta frageda de doar saizeci si noua de anisori, o sa deschid ochii cu noaptea in cap.
Intai, o sa ma mir ca inca mai misc. Dupa aia, o sa cobor din pat. Crac!, va face genunchiul stang. Zdrang!, va carai cel drept. Vertebrele vor pocni ca un foc de artificii. Plamanii (usor ajutati de cateva decenii de fumat) vor face gnf-gnf! si vor incerca sa traga putin aer. Tensiunea va face vaj-vaj in urechi.. Timp de vreo zece minute, ma voi intreba de ce naiba m-am sculat. Aha, sa merg la serviciu!
Cu maini tremurand de Parkinson (sau Alzheimer, la alegere), voi pune de un ceai de musetel si imi voi face pachetelul cu mancare. Adica iaurt degresat, paine deloc si pastilele de lecitina (ca sa nu-l confund pe sef cu femeia de serviciu). Apoi, trosnind din toate oasele, ma voi indrepta catre parcare si ma voi catara (cu greu) in masina. Dupa ce voi fi confundat de vreo cinci ori acceleratia cu frana, voi demara catre slujba. Cu douazeci de kilometri la ora, nu mai mult, ca miopia o sa ma impiedice sa vad drumul ca lumea.
La birou, o sa dau mana cu cele trei schelete numite colegi de serviciu si o sa incercam sa ne asezam in fata calculatoarelor fara sa ne starnim prea tare hemoroizii. O sa ne povestim ce viteji eram pe vremea Razboiului de Independenta (da-da, cel din 1877, cand eram tineri) si, in final, o sa ne apucam de lucru. Daca o sa ne mai dea cineva ceva de facut.
Haideti, d-le Boc, dati-o naibii…! Chiar aici vreti sa ne aduceti? Sa primim ultimul salariu direct la ‘Eternitatea’? Mai bine puneti-ne de pe acum ceva cianura in chenzina, sa terminati mai repede cu noi!”

O Enade, (Exame Nacional de Desempenho dos Estudantes) será realizado no próximo dia 08 de novembro, ás 13:00 (horário de Brasília).

- Mas, o que é o Enade?

O Exame Nacional de Desempenho de Estudantes (Enade), que integra o Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Superior (Sinaes), tem o objetivo de aferir o rendimento dos alunos dos cursos de graduação em relação aos conteúdos programáticos, suas habilidades e competências.

O Enade é realizado por amostragem e a participação no Exame constará no histórico escolar do estudante ou, quando for o caso, sua dispensa pelo MEC. O Inep/MEC constitui a amostra dos participantes a partir da inscrição, na própria instituição de ensino superior, dos alunos habilitados a fazer a prova.

- Quais as áreas que serão avaliadas no Enade 2009?

Conforme a Portaria Normativa nº. 1, de 29 de janeiro de 2009, as áreas e cursos que serão avaliadas em 2009 são: Administração, Arquivologia, Biblioteconomia, Ciências Contábeis, Ciências Econômicas, Comunicação social, Design, Direito, Estatística, Música, Psicologia, Relações Internacionais, Secretariado Executivo, Teatro e Turismo e os Cursos Superiores de Tecnologia em Design de Moda, Gastronomia, Gestão de Recursos Humanos, Gestão de Turismo, Gestão Financeira, Marketing e Processos Gerenciais.

Mais dúvidas? Acesse o FAQ do Inep.

Para baixar (só clicar):

- Portaria Inep Enade 2009, com as matérias do exame desse ano para Comunicação Social.

- Exame de 2006 para Comunicação Social.

E pra quem já fez o Enade, e quer saber como foi, é só emitir o Boletim de Desempenho.

** Eu, apesar de 543768 tentativas, não consegui abrir o Boletim, não sei pq. Se alguém conseguir, dê um toque!

E hoje tem simulado  para o 1º e 8º PEPs.

Boa sorte!

P E P TO THE SIXTEEN LETTER SPITTING SIXTEENS BETTER

Real hardcore Hip-Hop, we found it! Jersey city native PEP seems to be the epitome of the early hip-hop do your own thing style .Unique in more than way this cat goes nuts on tracks, rapping since the age of 17 ; currently  21 you could say has fruitful odyssey laid out ahead. He raps like hes been here before, drawing inspiration from the greats hes produce a insanely mastered flow. His words is true story; with sixteens you could relate to hes bound to have have an underground fan base but  his charisma gives him that  commercial potential. Hes a cool cat I now him personally I doubt he’ll ever dumb it down. Like most of the artists we feature hes upcoming, a very ambitious character he is! [Yoda] the force is defiantly with this cat so be on the look out for any of his material on the site I usually get 1st dibs so we have a lot to look forward to. He has his own category ” PEP’o'RONI” so if you want to do some research on the brother please do. Till  next time BUILD !

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Guardiola ha aperto un ciclo

Contro il Rubin Kazan (1-2 in Champions League, NdT), Josep Guardiola ha guidato il Barcellona in una partita ufficiale per la 75° volta. Nonostante la sconfitta, l’allenatore originario di Santpedor può vantare un impressionante record di vittorie (52).

I tre grandi titoli della stagione 2008/09 e i due di quella in corso, cioè la Supercoppa di Spagna e quella d’Europa: in quanto a vittorie, questo è il bilancio della gestione di Josep Guardiola da quando si è seduto sulla panchina della prima squadra del Barça. E tutto ciò in sole 75 partite da principale responsabile tecnico: questo, infatti, è il traguardo che il tecnico ha raggiunto questo martedì, al Camp Nou, contro il Rubin Kazan.

Debutto nei preliminari

Dopo un anno trascorso nel Barcellona B, Pep Guardiola ha debuttato ufficialmente come allenatore della prima squadra nei preliminari della scorsa edizione della Champions, per la precisione, il 13 agosto 2008 contro il Wisla Cracovia. Quel giorno, la squadra ha dato il via alla sua marcia trionfale con un 4-0 al Camp Nou.

I numeri

Da allora, sono 75 gl’incontri ufficiali in cui il tecnico barcelonista si è seduto in panchina, suddivisi come segue: 45 di Liga, 18 di Champions, 9 di Copa del Rey, 2 di Supercoppa di Spagna e 1 di Supercoppa d’Europa. In totale, ha collezionato addirittura 52 vittorie (69,3%), 15 pareggi (20%) e solo 8 sconfitte (10,6%). Anche il saldo dei gol parla da solo: 184 quelli fatti e 61 quelli subiti.

Numeri da record nella Liga

In campionato, i numeri del tecnico di Santpedor sono semplicemente sbalorditivi. E’ rimasto imbattuto l’88,8% delle volte, migliorando i record di tutti coloro che l’hanno preceduto alla guida del Barça. Chi ha fatto bene quasi quanto lui è Terry Venables, con l’85,34%, seguito da Helenio Herrera (84,37%), Salvador Artigas (83,07%), Johan Cruyff (82,67%) e Frank Rijkaard (82,63%).

Oltre alle partite ufficiali, Guardiola ha allenato anche in occasione di 13 amichevoli, con 9 vittorie, 2 pareggi e 2 sconfitte.

servizio di Jordi Clos e Vanessa Forns per il sito ufficiale del Barcellona

http://www.fcbarcelona.cat/web/castellano/noticies/futbol/temporada09-10/10/n091021107809.html

From the wild and wacky world of high school cheerleading comes this head-scratcher.

Officials at Staples High School in Westport, Conn., recently put an end to the school tradition of cake baking at the football team’s weekly pasta dinner.

As the story goes, the Staples High football moms host a pasta dinner for the football team every week. The Staples High cheerleaders also attend the dinner, and they bring dessert for the meal. As part of the tradition, the cheerleaders bake a cake for one of the senior football players every week.

Turns out, this practice is banned.

We’re still trying to figure it out, too. So we’ll let The Hour explain:

Every week, each of the approximately 20 girls made a cake for a senior football player at the weekly Thursday pasta dinner, an optional practice, but it turns out their coach didn’t know baking had been banned by Superintendent Elliott Landon.

“Especially in the last four years we’ve had a succession of cheerleading coaches so I’m presuming the new one this year didn’t know about the prohibition,” said (Staples principal John) Dodig, who said he notified the cheerleading coach through the school athletic director after becoming aware the Staples student newspaper “Inklings” was running a story on the practice. Dodig said he always reviews Inklings articles that concern him for fact-checking purposes.

“If none of that had happened, I’d feel the same way (about the ban),” said Dodig. “I don’t understand after the progress we’ve made in the last 50 years with women’s rights and given that cheerleading is a varsity athletic team (how this can be perceived as a good idea).”

One freshman cheerleader in the Inklings story that ran Friday, Olivia Stanley, said she didn’t know that cheerleaders baked for their football players, but the story said she had no problem with it.

Her mother, however, called it “sexist.”

What’s your take? Is cake baking for football players a sexist practice, or is the school overstepping its bounds?

Related: There aren’t any recipes, but there is plenty of cheerleading equipment at Cheerleading America.

There are a number of ways to rank brand values. One of the most important is the level at which a brand contributes to the market value of a public company.

24/7 Wall St. asked Corebrand, the brand research and consulting firm, to look at the top 100 brands based their contribution to market capitalizaton. Using this method, the hardest working brand was Hershey (NYSE:HSY), followed  by Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) and Harley-Davidson (NYSE:HOG)

Corebrand described the process briefly to 24/7 Wall. St.

24/7 Wall St.: Corebard often refers to the brands on this list as the”hardest working brands”. How did you come to that description?

Corebrand: There are a lot of people measuring and examining the “strongest brands” or the “most valuable brands”.  Our opinion is that examining one without the other is somewhat meaningless.  How “strong” a brand is nice to know but not very relevant unless you understand how that strength benefits business.  Similarly, “value” is little more than a measure of corporate size unless you understand the drivers of that value and how to influence it. By examining the strength of the brand and it’s contribution to total market value, we can help companies and their leadership manage that strength and value over time.

24/7 Wall St.: Is there any advantage or disadvantage to having a brand value be a very large percentage of market cap in the present and as an indication of a company’s future performance?

Corebrand: The brand will need to be in balance with the rest of the company’s assets.  A company should strive to have it’s brand strong enough to fend off competitors or changing market conditions but not so strong that it becomes overly dependent on the brand as a single driver of value.  If a company can achieve and maintain its appropriate maximum strength without becoming over-dependent, it will see greater returns in bull markets and retain greater value in bear markets.

The list:

Each year, on a rolling basis, CoreBrand conducts 8,000 telephone interviews among business leaders to measure their perceptions of some of the world’s best corporate brands. Respondents are business decision-makers from the top 20% of U.S. businesses.

This senior business audience (VP level and above) represents the investment community, potential business partners, and business customers across 49 key industries. 400 respondents rate each company per year; 800 companies are measured each year. Our reports are updated on a quarterly basis to reflect any subtle changes.

CoreBrand collects financial performance data and communications investment information to understand the support behind and impact of these brands. These corporate brand strength ratings, as well as a company’s financial data are used in CoreBrand’s statistical model to determine the percentage of market capitalization that is directly derived from the corporate brand. Once that percentage is calculated, a dollar value is assigned to the corporate brand.

The percentage of market capitalization, attributable to the corporate brand. The percentage is then translated into a dollar value, based on the current market capitalization. The analysis is examined over time, to determine if the corporate brand is a growing or declining asset.

Douglas A. McIntyre

Armado, con droga y con placa

* Luis Gerardo Andrade

TIJUANA, Baja California(PH)
Por tener en su poder varias dosis de drogas, un arma de fuego, cartuchos de diferentes calibres y hasta una placa de la Policía Municipal, un hombre fue detenido en la zona este de la ciudad.

La Policía Estatal Preventiva (PEP) informó que por la mañana del domingo estaban realizando labores de patrullaje por la colonia El Pípila cuando observaron que por la calle Rosarito circulaba un vehículo Isuzu Trooper de manera sospechosa.

Fue entonces que los policías estatales lo siguieron hasta interceptarlo, para entonces realizar una inspección a su conductor así como el interior.

La persona que manejaba la camioneta se identificó como José Martín Pech Morales, de 33 años, a quien se le encontró fajada a la cintura un arma tipo escuadra calibre 9 milímetros y a un lado una placa que parecía ser de la Policía Municipal, la cual no se confirmó si era oficial.

También traía entre sus pertenencias 25.4 gramos de heroína y 6.3 gramos de la droga conocida como “Ice”, la cual confesó en la presentación antes los medios de comunicación que la vendía entre los adictos de la zona; a parte traía varios cartuchos de diferentes calibres.

Nota Publicada: 18/10/2009 18:14
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/18102009/408860.aspx

I was going to leave announcing this a little longer, but the Mindless Ones have announced their new format and I didn’t want to look like I’m copying them – or indeed Alan Moore, who is also doing something similar to this…

For about a month now I’ve been planning a new colour glossy POD magazine, which I will be editing, called PEP! The first issue will, all being well, come out before Xmas, and will be a mixture of political comment, short fiction, entertainment reviews and science journalism – a similar mix of content to what you find on this site, but by a variety of writers. There was also going to be a comics section, and I actually asked the Mindless Ones to contribute to this, but since they’re doing their own thing my comics posts will probably stay on here rather than competing with their ‘zine.

Content is far from finalised, obviously, but provisional contributors to the first issue include Pillock, Alex Wilcock, Millennium Elephant, Holly, Sean Witzke and Debi Linton, as well as myself, and possible subjects include a science column, a piece on Margaret Atwood, a piece on The Waltons (possibly the same as the previous piece) and a discussion of Doctor Who continuity. Issue 1 should be out around Christmas, and will be 40 pages for $8.40 in print (I’ll probably release a free PDF version a month or so later).

In other news, my temporary writer’s block has gone, and so I’m about to start a second interlinked series of posts, a la my Hyperposts. A preliminary schedule for next week’s posting is:
Tomorrow – DARKSEID! (Authority post 1 – at the request of Pillock)
Tuesday – linkblog only as off to see Richard Herring live
Wednesday – A Hard Day’s Night full review (getting back to my Beatles posts)
Thursday – Cerebus (Authority post 2)
Friday – Smile 2004 vs Smile 1967 (Authority post 3)
Saturday – And Another Thing… (which I’m going to write about without having read it – Authority post 4)