Diego Maradona voiced his displeasure in the officiating of last night’s 2-0 Argentina win over Greece in Polokwane. While his side eased through the group stages unscathed, the Albiceleste manager was enraged with the decisions of referee Irmatov, suggesting the Greeks were reckless with their challenges.
“We’ve said it many times before. For me it’s about Fair Play. Every time [Lionel] Messi had the ball [the Greeks] fouled him to get the ball,” said Maradona in a news conference after the game.
“The Greeks played hard, but were not punished.”
Of course Maradona didn’t mention the illegal challenges put in by his players, particularly considering three Greek players went down to injury after some rough-stuff by the biggest sourpusses in the tournament.
A less pro-Argentina look at the match will show that the Argentines were no saints in their tackling, and frankly the Greeks were the most legal of Argentina’s opponents so far in marking Messi and the rest of the Albicelestes.
In fact, world football might have found the anecdote to ‘La Pulga’ as Sokratis Papastathopoulos did an excellent job marking the Barcelona star, even picking Messi’s pocket on several occasions. Not to mention Sotiris Ninis showed the world a flash of his talent that has priced him at a near 10 million euros should Panathinaikos decide to sell the prodigal midfielder this summer.
So for Maradona to question the officiating that has frankly been pro-Argentina so far this World Cup is outrageous. I’ve said this before; Maradona has a golden horseshoe up his arse. Surviving his drug addiction and weight problems to ultimately become coach of Argentina at a time where the country has their best-ever roster equals hitting the jackpot of the biggest payout.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Sex Offenders My Area! Are You Kidding Me?
f you live in the United States of America, and if you are a parent then surely you will care about this subject - sex offenders in your area. Here is a brief background of how this article came to be written.
We were a small group of normal well adjusted people having a dinner party. There was only eight of us, but it seems the perfect number of people and personalities to create an interesting dynamic. The conversation seemed to always be alive and with someone having an opposing views to challenge. It was a fun night.
Then the subject of sex offenders came up. This did nothing to slow down the debate or discourse - in fact things livened up. We all sat at the table with our drinks in hand, our bellies full from great foods as we charged into this subject with vigor. We all had something to say in no uncertain terms.
And then Mary asked how far away is our nearest sex offender living? Like, what a silly question - we live in a middle class area - all of us do. Why would a sex offender live near us? She called our mute responses out into the fore front of the discussion.
Mary said she will bet us that we have at least one sex offender living within a 10 minute walk from where we were sitting. Of course we all laughed and derided her as uninformed. How ridiculous this was becoming.
But Mary was not upset, she sat stoically and waited for us to calm our chiding of her and simply asked for access to the Internet. After the room did go quiet, we gave her a lap top with WIFI.
She was not busy for long. She simply typed in a website address, and then she typed the home address of our dinner party. The result did not alarm her - she seemed to expect it or be resigned to knowing it would happen. "Johnson Street," she said, "How far to the corner of here and Johnson Street?"
Now the room was very quiet, Johnson Street was our exact corner. No need to walk 10 minutes.
We lived at the corner of Johnson and 23rd. Walk out our door and we were there. On the other corner had lived a sex offender we even said hello to sometimes. And his thing was young boys. We have two young boys.
Sex offenders in your area? There sex offenders in my area!
We were a small group of normal well adjusted people having a dinner party. There was only eight of us, but it seems the perfect number of people and personalities to create an interesting dynamic. The conversation seemed to always be alive and with someone having an opposing views to challenge. It was a fun night.
Then the subject of sex offenders came up. This did nothing to slow down the debate or discourse - in fact things livened up. We all sat at the table with our drinks in hand, our bellies full from great foods as we charged into this subject with vigor. We all had something to say in no uncertain terms.
And then Mary asked how far away is our nearest sex offender living? Like, what a silly question - we live in a middle class area - all of us do. Why would a sex offender live near us? She called our mute responses out into the fore front of the discussion.
Mary said she will bet us that we have at least one sex offender living within a 10 minute walk from where we were sitting. Of course we all laughed and derided her as uninformed. How ridiculous this was becoming.
But Mary was not upset, she sat stoically and waited for us to calm our chiding of her and simply asked for access to the Internet. After the room did go quiet, we gave her a lap top with WIFI.
She was not busy for long. She simply typed in a website address, and then she typed the home address of our dinner party. The result did not alarm her - she seemed to expect it or be resigned to knowing it would happen. "Johnson Street," she said, "How far to the corner of here and Johnson Street?"
Now the room was very quiet, Johnson Street was our exact corner. No need to walk 10 minutes.
We lived at the corner of Johnson and 23rd. Walk out our door and we were there. On the other corner had lived a sex offender we even said hello to sometimes. And his thing was young boys. We have two young boys.
Sex offenders in your area? There sex offenders in my area!
Phil Jarvie is a professional writer with a simple passion to enjoy life. He writes about those subjects and experiences that touch his life from time to time. This time it has been the ability to quickly see online the sex offenders my area website and what we can all learn from it.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Phil_Jarvie
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Low Cholesterol Pizza Recipes? You're Kidding!
That is the reaction for most people. But as soon as you try these simple low cholesterol pizza recipes, you'll know it's true.
Personally I love pizza. I can't live without the smell of freshly baked, cheesy tasting pizza with bunch of veggies or other stuff.
Every time I watch movie at home, I have to bake a pizza. Otherwise I do not enjoy myself watching the movie. Which is about once a week.
I think that having pizza once a week is not a bad thing. If you do not overeat of course. And if you know how to cook low fat low cholesterol pizza, you have nothing to be ashamed for.
Ok, let's stop talking, put on some chefs uniform and presto; you have just become healthy pizza chef.
Healthy Pizza Recipe Preparation:
When trying to prepare healthy pizza, start with a fat-free pizza dough or crust. I love to prepare pizza out of pita bread. For all pizza, use substitution like fat-free cheese, fat free tomato sauce, crushed red pepper or garlic (which has cholesterol lowering properties).
Just be creative. Follow the samples of low cholesterol pizza recipes below and let your imagination create something great.
Here are samples of my favorite pizza recipes
Breakfast Pizza
You can just scramble some egg whites and put it on the top of your pitta bread or fat-free pizza crust. If you can find whole-wheat one, you are better off.
Top it with:
-smoked turkey "bacon"
-grated fat-free cheddar cheese
-diced green onions
Bake or broil your pizza until cheese melts. Cool down for a 5 minutes and enjoy.
Vegetable Pizza
Start with a whole-wheat crust. Top it with these:
-fat free mozzarella cheese, shredded
-sliced mushrooms
-diced red and greed peppers
-diced onions
Again bake it as an example above. Until cheese is melted.
Hummus Pizza
On top of your crust spread fat free hummus and top with:
-diced tomatoes
-chopped parsley
-ground cumin
Bake or broil until heated through. About 10 minutes on 350 degrees F.
Like I said before, experiment with these samples and you can create your own low cholesterol low fat pizza.
Hope you will get a lot of good ideas on how to make great tasting, yet healthier pizza.
And remember, you can use pita bread, all vegetables on your pizza. You can also cut skinless chicken breasts on stripes, grill it using something like George Freeman Grill and add that on top of your pizza.
Use your imagination!
Personally I love pizza. I can't live without the smell of freshly baked, cheesy tasting pizza with bunch of veggies or other stuff.
Every time I watch movie at home, I have to bake a pizza. Otherwise I do not enjoy myself watching the movie. Which is about once a week.
I think that having pizza once a week is not a bad thing. If you do not overeat of course. And if you know how to cook low fat low cholesterol pizza, you have nothing to be ashamed for.
Ok, let's stop talking, put on some chefs uniform and presto; you have just become healthy pizza chef.
Healthy Pizza Recipe Preparation:
When trying to prepare healthy pizza, start with a fat-free pizza dough or crust. I love to prepare pizza out of pita bread. For all pizza, use substitution like fat-free cheese, fat free tomato sauce, crushed red pepper or garlic (which has cholesterol lowering properties).
Just be creative. Follow the samples of low cholesterol pizza recipes below and let your imagination create something great.
Here are samples of my favorite pizza recipes
Breakfast Pizza
You can just scramble some egg whites and put it on the top of your pitta bread or fat-free pizza crust. If you can find whole-wheat one, you are better off.
Top it with:
-smoked turkey "bacon"
-grated fat-free cheddar cheese
-diced green onions
Bake or broil your pizza until cheese melts. Cool down for a 5 minutes and enjoy.
Vegetable Pizza
Start with a whole-wheat crust. Top it with these:
-fat free mozzarella cheese, shredded
-sliced mushrooms
-diced red and greed peppers
-diced onions
Again bake it as an example above. Until cheese is melted.
Hummus Pizza
On top of your crust spread fat free hummus and top with:
-diced tomatoes
-chopped parsley
-ground cumin
Bake or broil until heated through. About 10 minutes on 350 degrees F.
Like I said before, experiment with these samples and you can create your own low cholesterol low fat pizza.
Hope you will get a lot of good ideas on how to make great tasting, yet healthier pizza.
And remember, you can use pita bread, all vegetables on your pizza. You can also cut skinless chicken breasts on stripes, grill it using something like George Freeman Grill and add that on top of your pizza.
Use your imagination!
You can learn more about best meal plans for diet and learn more about great meal plans and recipes that do not make you fat. Visit http://shrink-belly-fat.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Bretislav_Slansky
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Who do you think you're kidding?
Andrew Mourant joins a group of would-be Green Berets on a gruelling two-day taster course at the Royal Marines' HQ
Royal Marine commandos have long been regarded as an elite fighting force.
Thirty-two weeks of stern training usually weeds out any fantasists and fainthearts foolish enough to apply.
An elite, maybe, but mythical supermen, no. That is a misconception the Marines want to dispel - one scarcely helped by a recent poster campaign adorned with the slogan: "99.99 per cent need not apply." Soon to be scrapped, this macho own goal has exasperated men on the ground whose job is to attract new blood.
They are keen to embrace all sorts. Many of the qualities for which they are looking are commonly found in college students on public-services courses. Such students have an appreciation of discipline and a structured life.
That is not so for some who arrive at the Marines' headquarters in Lympstone, near Exeter, to undergo a Potential Royal Marines Course lasting two-and-a-half days. What seemed a good idea in the careers office can come as a severe shock.
It is in everyone's interests if they know what to expect. Over the past two years, the Marines have encouraged would-be wearers of the green beret to sample the training routine at Lympstone. Their week-long Look at Life programme is a real and vigorous introduction.
Sergeant Steve Wright is a member of the Marines' visibility team. Part of his job is raising awareness of what the commandos are about. The opportunity to sample the life for real has grown increasingly popular.
"We do get repeat visits," he says. "Students want to come again when they've been once. Those on public-services courses can be ideal candidates - many are up to the fitness standards. One difficulty is the cultural change, but if they've been on a course, they're half way there."
Sergeant Wright, 40, became a Marine at 16. Most of his intake were the same age, but he doesn't recommend joining up so young. "Finish your A-levels or other qualifications first," he says.
On a windswept field, where BTec public-services students from Tamworth college tackle team-building exercises, Sergeant Ian Roy tells them to behave like "thinking soldiers".
"The Army is one thing; the Marines is another," he says.
Team-building - putting up a tent, retrieving fuel cans from an "electrified" compound and guiding an unsighted colleague through a minefield - is the second instalment of a gruelling day that begins at 8.30am with the swimming test.
Recruits in battle dress and carrying a rifle jump from an 8ft diving board, swim a length, and, while still in the pool, must hand over their weapons and extricate themselves from their gear.
Concessions are made to weaker swimmers but instructor Corporal Bart Ledger does not give up easily. A drama unfolds as one participant freezes on the diving board. His agony lasts 15 minutes before he slides into the water, and the corporal is satisfied. While the ability to swim is not an entry requirement, a non-swimmer recruit starts learning at once and takes the test within 15 weeks.
After team-building, students are shown the Marines' weaponry: the bayonet ("it has blood channels, it doesn't create a vacuum and is easier to pull out") and an anti-tank gun "that will turn the occupants into soup".
At lunchtime the students seem eager for more, which is as well because the assault course awaits them. A stiff breeze whips off the River Exe as everyone attacks the course with gusto.
Luke Deeley, 17, mulled over a career in the marines for some time. "This is the point where you can make up your mind, and coming down here has pretty well done that," he says. "For the rest of the year, I can aim for what I want, knowing what they will expect."
Captain Phil Robinson, soon to take charge of officer selection at Lympstone, sees the Look at Life initiative as a way forward. "There's been poor co-ordination and dislocation between the recruitment office and our base, although we are now trying to get better links," he says.
"There's a need for something between the careers office and people turning up for the Potential Royal Marines Course.
"We'll start doing things so they can come down here for a day or two and see what's expected. Hopefully, they'll then be better prepared."
Royal Marine commandos have long been regarded as an elite fighting force.
Thirty-two weeks of stern training usually weeds out any fantasists and fainthearts foolish enough to apply.
An elite, maybe, but mythical supermen, no. That is a misconception the Marines want to dispel - one scarcely helped by a recent poster campaign adorned with the slogan: "99.99 per cent need not apply." Soon to be scrapped, this macho own goal has exasperated men on the ground whose job is to attract new blood.
They are keen to embrace all sorts. Many of the qualities for which they are looking are commonly found in college students on public-services courses. Such students have an appreciation of discipline and a structured life.
That is not so for some who arrive at the Marines' headquarters in Lympstone, near Exeter, to undergo a Potential Royal Marines Course lasting two-and-a-half days. What seemed a good idea in the careers office can come as a severe shock.
It is in everyone's interests if they know what to expect. Over the past two years, the Marines have encouraged would-be wearers of the green beret to sample the training routine at Lympstone. Their week-long Look at Life programme is a real and vigorous introduction.
Sergeant Steve Wright is a member of the Marines' visibility team. Part of his job is raising awareness of what the commandos are about. The opportunity to sample the life for real has grown increasingly popular.
"We do get repeat visits," he says. "Students want to come again when they've been once. Those on public-services courses can be ideal candidates - many are up to the fitness standards. One difficulty is the cultural change, but if they've been on a course, they're half way there."
Sergeant Wright, 40, became a Marine at 16. Most of his intake were the same age, but he doesn't recommend joining up so young. "Finish your A-levels or other qualifications first," he says.
On a windswept field, where BTec public-services students from Tamworth college tackle team-building exercises, Sergeant Ian Roy tells them to behave like "thinking soldiers".
"The Army is one thing; the Marines is another," he says.
Team-building - putting up a tent, retrieving fuel cans from an "electrified" compound and guiding an unsighted colleague through a minefield - is the second instalment of a gruelling day that begins at 8.30am with the swimming test.
Recruits in battle dress and carrying a rifle jump from an 8ft diving board, swim a length, and, while still in the pool, must hand over their weapons and extricate themselves from their gear.
Concessions are made to weaker swimmers but instructor Corporal Bart Ledger does not give up easily. A drama unfolds as one participant freezes on the diving board. His agony lasts 15 minutes before he slides into the water, and the corporal is satisfied. While the ability to swim is not an entry requirement, a non-swimmer recruit starts learning at once and takes the test within 15 weeks.
After team-building, students are shown the Marines' weaponry: the bayonet ("it has blood channels, it doesn't create a vacuum and is easier to pull out") and an anti-tank gun "that will turn the occupants into soup".
At lunchtime the students seem eager for more, which is as well because the assault course awaits them. A stiff breeze whips off the River Exe as everyone attacks the course with gusto.
Luke Deeley, 17, mulled over a career in the marines for some time. "This is the point where you can make up your mind, and coming down here has pretty well done that," he says. "For the rest of the year, I can aim for what I want, knowing what they will expect."
Captain Phil Robinson, soon to take charge of officer selection at Lympstone, sees the Look at Life initiative as a way forward. "There's been poor co-ordination and dislocation between the recruitment office and our base, although we are now trying to get better links," he says.
"There's a need for something between the careers office and people turning up for the Potential Royal Marines Course.
"We'll start doing things so they can come down here for a day or two and see what's expected. Hopefully, they'll then be better prepared."
