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Number of the day: 75
the percentage of playing time in which Barcelona had ball possession
during the first half of Wednesday's game against Olympique Lyon
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ReLive: Barcelona-Almeria 5-0
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Europe could approve FIFA's foreign player's limit
source: The Guardian
date: Thursday 26 February 2009
editing: fcbtransfers.blogspot.com
Fifa's plans to limit the number of foreign players do not breach European Union rules, an independent report declared. The 6+5 rule has been overwhelmingly approved by 155 of the organisation's member nations, but dismissed as illegal by the European Commission and most EU governments because they say it amounts to discrimination at work and a restriction on the free movement of workers.
Now the Institute for European Affairs (Inea), commissioned by Fifa to study the issue, claims the idea of restricting foreign players in league games does not fall foul of EU rules on free movement of workers. The Inea chairman, Professor Jürgen Gramke insisted the report, although commissioned by Fifa, was entirely independent. "We took no instructions from Fifa. Inea accepted this commission on condition that our requirements of complete independence were met."
The report says that, under EU law, the "regulatory autonomy" of sporting associations is recognised and supported. "The key aim of the 6+5 rule in the view of the experts is the creation and assurance of sporting competition. The 6+5 rule does not impinge on the core area of the right to freedom of movement."
Fifa endorsed the rule in May last year, but six months later EU ministers said it clearly broke EU rules. The 6+5 rule established that at the start of each match, a club must field at least six players who would be eligible for the national team of the country of the club. But there would be no limit on substitutes and no limit on the number of non-national players that clubs can sign.
Today's report says that, at worst, the 6+5 rule could constitute "indirect discrimination" because "it is not directly based on the nationality of professional players". Instead it "merely considers entitlement to play for the national team concerned, and any possible indirect discrimination can be defended on the basis of compelling reasons of general interest".
Quota systems and rules limiting foreign players in football were outlawed in the Bosman case in 1995. The Bosman judgment had a dramatic effect on football, said today's report, opening up the use of foreign players to such a degree that up to 56% of national league players are now not eligible to play for the national team of the league in which they play. In addition, up to half of the foreign players are non-European. This development discourages young indigenous footballing talent, because clubs can recruit fully trained players from elsewhere, often cheaper, the report points out.
It says the central aim of the 6+5 rule is to generate and safeguard sporting competition. Gramke said the report's conclusions justifying the compatibility of the 6+5 rule with EU law also applied to other team sports such as handball, basketball and ice hockey.
The findings will bolster Fifa's challenge to the European Commission and governments to recognise the 6+5 rule. A Fifa spokesman said the report would form the basis of fresh talks with commission officials, including the employment commissioner, Vladimir Spidla. The Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, is determined to see the 6+5 rule in place by the start of the 2012-13 season and the commission is currently equally determined to block him.
read the full and original article here
Editor's Notes:
Timetable for Implementation
1. 4+7 for 2010-201
2. 5+6 for 2011-2012
The Bosman Ruling interprets Article 39 of the treaty of the European Community to mean that no institutional impediment be applied such that the free movement of persons belonging to the member states for the purpose of employment within the European Union is restricted or causes direct discrimination on the basis of nationality.
The Inea report sites the wording of the 6+5 rule which mentions eligibility to qualification for the national team of the respective league and terms it as "at most indirect discrimination". Further it points out that Fifa is an autonomous federation formed with the fundamental freedom of association and this in principle justifies its right to restrict market freedoms within its domain.
Read another article on the issue:
Ian Lynam: FIFA's 6+5 Proposal
Barça B: Gai will get Spanish nationality soon
English and Italian clubs monitoring Barça youth
Proposal to limit spending on transfers and salaries
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[Henrique] Hertha Berlin-Bayer Leverkusen
Bayer Leverkusen played this afternoon their 24th game of the German league. Bayer lost 1-0 against Bundesliga leaders Hertha Berlin.
Brazilian central defender and Barcelona loan out Henrique (22) played the whole game.
Barcelona bought Henrique last summer and decided to loan him out to Bayer Leverkusen for one season (read more here). This blog will follow Henrique's performances during this season.
Sunday 10 August - Cup round 1: Rot-Weiß Oberhausen-Bayer Leverkusen 2-3
Starter. Henrique starts the game and plays for 120 minutes.
Saturday 16 August - Bundesliga game 1: Bayer Leverkusen-Borussia Dortmund 2-3
Starter. Henrique starts the game and plays for 90 minutes.
Saturday 23 August - Bundesliga game 2: Vfb Stuttgart-Bayer Leverkusen 0-2
Saturday 30 August - Bundesliga game 3: Bayer Leverkusen-Hoffenheim 5-2
Starter. Henrique starts the game and plays for 90 minutes. Right back.
Saturday 13 September - Bundesliga game 4: Hamburg-Bayer Leverkusen 3-2
Friday 19 September - Bundesliga game 5: Bayer Leverkusen-Hannover 4-0
Tuesday 23 September - Cup round 2: Augsburg(2)-Bayer Leverkusen 0-2
Starter. Henrique starts the game and plays for 90 minutes. Yellow card.
Saturday 27 September - Bundesliga game 6: Bochum-Bayer Leverkusen 2-3
Saturday 4 October - Bundesliga game 7: Bayer Leverkusen-Hertha Berlin 0-1
Saturday 18 October - Bundesliga game 8: Eintracht Frankfurt-Bayer Leverkusen 0-2
Friday 24 October - Bundesliga game 9: Bayer Leverkusen-FC Köln 2-0
Tuesday 29 October - Bundesliga game 10: Werder Bremen-Bayer Leverkusen 0-2
Friday 31 October - Bundesliga game 11: Bayer Leverkusen-Wolfsburg 2-0
Saturday 8 November - Bundesliga game 12: Karlsruhe-Bayer Leverkusen 3-3
Saturday 15 November - Bundesliga game 13: Bayer Leverkusen-Schalke 2-1
Saturday 22 November - Bundesliga game 14: Bielefeld-Bayer Leverkusen 2-1
Saturday 29 November - Bundesliga game 15: Bayer Leverkusen-Bayern Munich 0-2
Saturday 6 December - Bundesliga game 16: Borussia Mönchengladbach-Bayer Leverkusen 1-3
Saturday 13 December - Bundesliga game 17: Bayer Leverkusen-Cottbus 1-1
Wednesday 28 January - Cup 1/8 finals: Bayer Leverkusen-Cottbus 3-1
Saturday 31 January - Bundesliga game 18: Borussia Dortmund-Bayer Leverkusen 1-1
Saturday 7 February - Bundesliga game 19: Bayer Leverkusen-Stuttgart 2-4
Substitute. Henrique replaces Castro in the 66th minute (0-2). Assist.
Friday 13 February - Bundesliga game 20: Hoffenheim-Bayer Leverkusen 1-4
Sunday 22 February - Bundesliga game 21: Bayer Leverkusen-Hamburg 1-2
Saturday 28 February - Bundesliga game 22: Hannover-Bayer Leverkusen 1-0
Suspended. Henrique cannot play because of five yellow cards.
Wednesday 5 March - Cup 1/4 finals: Bayer Leverkusen-Bayern Munich 4-2
Sunday 8 March - Bundesliga game 23: Bayer Leverkusen-Bochum 1-1
Saturday 14 March - Bundesliga game 24: Hartha Berlin-Bayer Leverkusen 1-0
1. Hertha Berlin 49
2. Bayern Munich 45
3. Wolfsburg 45
4. Hoffenheim 43
5. Hamburg (23) 42
6. Stuttgart (23) 39
7. Bayer Leverkusen 37
8. Schalke 37
9. Borussia Dortmund 34
1st and 2nd place: group phase of Champions League
3rd place: third qualifying round of Champions League, winner enters the group phase, losers enter the Uefa Cup
4th place: qualifies for 4th qualifying round of Uefa Cup
5th place: qualifies for 3rd qualifying round of Uefa Cup
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Medical: Abidal returns to the pitch
Barcelona player Eric Abidal (29), who is recovering from a thigh injury (read more here), returned to the pitch earlier today and did some recovering exercises.
The Frenchman ruptured one of the adductor muscles in his right thigh during the league against Espanyol on Saturday 22 February and was then expected to be out for eight weeks.
Medical: Puyol out for three weeks
Medical: Jorquera out for at least one week
Medical: Abidal out for two months
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All available players in Almeria list
Barcelona manager Josep Guardiola announced earlier today a list of 19 players for the 27th league game against Almería tomorrow at 9:00 pm.
The list:
Valdés, Pinto,
Alves, Piqué, Márquez, Cáceres, Sylvinho,
Xavi, Víctor Sánchez, Touré, Busquets, Keita, Gudjohnsen, Iniesta,
Messi, Eto'o, Bojan, Henry, Hleb
Jorquera, Puyol, Abidal and Milito are injured. Pedro will play with Barcelona Atlètic this weekend. One player will have to fall off the list tomorrow.
The team will travel tomorrow to Almería. They will take a flight at 11 am in Barcelona and are expected to arrive in Almería at 12:20 pm. They will stay at their hotel until leaving for the stadium.
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Guardiola has special motivation for Almeria game
Guardiola:
Will we be motivated for Sunday's league game after our Champions League match?
I don't know about the players, but I have a very clear motivation.
golsud.com
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Guardiola wants goalkeeper, left winger and striker
Madrid sports tabloid As claims that Barcelona officials have been holding meeting to discuss how to strenghten the squad in the summer.
Barcelona manager Josep Guardiola would want to bring in a goalkeeper, a left winger and a striker, although it's uncertain the club will be able to sign players for these three positions.
Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain is currently working with an extensive target list that mainly includes settled players like Chelsea goalkeeper and Czech international Petr Cech (25) and Bayern Munich wing attacker and French international Franck Ribéry (25).
If Barcelona will be able to sign three players, at least two players of the current squad will leave in the summer. Barcelona attacker and Belarus international Alexander Hleb (27) would be on top of the exit list after having disappointed both on and off the pitch this season. Bayern Munich and some English Premier League clubs could be interested to sign him.
If the club signs a new goalkeeper, Barcelona goalkeeper Albert Jorquera (30) will again consider an exit, like he already did in January. And the arrival of another striker, could make Barcelona forward and Spanish youth international Bojan Krkic (18) ask to join another club on loan, something that some people from his entourage would already have advised him months ago.
Barcelona speaking with Cech and Buffon
Hleb could be part of Ribery deal
Barcelona confirms offers for Bojan
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Pichichi and Zamora (day 26)
With Barcelona players competing for the trophies of best goalscorer and best goalkeeper of the Spanish league, this blog will follow the events during the second round.
Pichichi
23 Eto'o (Barcelona)
19 Villa (Valencia)
18 Messi (Barcelona)
18 Forlán (Atlético Madrid)
16 Negredo (Almería)
0,92 Víctor Valdés (Barcelona)
1,12 Casillas (Real Madrid)
1,31 Diego López (Villarreal)
1,42 Riesgo (Recreativo Huelva)
1,58 Diego Alves (Almería)
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Ex-Barça: Giovani to Ipswich Town on loan
English Premier League club Tottenham has yesterday officially announced the transfer of Tottenham attacker and Mexican international Giovani dos Santos (19) to Ipswich Town on loan for the rest of the season. The English second division club has officially confirmed the deal.
The statement on the official website of Tottenham reads: "Giovani Dos Santos has joined Ipswich Town on loan for the rest of the season. The Mexican international was a summer signing from Barcelona and has gone on to make 12 appearances in our colours. The 19-year-old scored his first goal for the Club against Shakhtar Donetsk in the UEFA Cup last month."
Giovani dos Santos came through the Barcelona youth ranks and joined the first team squad in the summer of 2007. One year later, he left for Tottenham.
Giovani says goodbye
Marquez: "Giovani couldn't deal with the pressure"
OFFICIAL: Giovani to Tottenham
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Barça B: The tactical flexibility of the second team
author: Jaume Marcet
source: fcbarcelona.cat
Luis Enrique tried last weekend against Alcoyano succesfully a different tacical system than the normal one. Barça Atlètic defeated the leader with an unusual 4-4-2 that satisfied the Asturian coach.
The normal system used by the teams of Barcelona's youth academy, as well as by the team of Luis Enrique is the same as the one of the first team: the 4-3-3 that the club has made its own over the last decades. This tactical system was first used by Johan Cruijff in the 1993-1994 season as an alternative for the classic 3-4-3. Since then, coaches like Van Gaal, Rijkaard or Guardiola have used it in the majority of the games.
It's a starting line-up that allows you to have an ideal positioning of the players on the pitch when you want to dominate the game, have ball possession and attack during most part of the match. Luis Enrique, the coach of Barcelona Atlètic, has naturally taken up this ideological and tactical legacy and from his first game he used this 4-3-3. The Asturian coach nevertheless understands that there aren't dogmas and that every football view should be flexible. That's why, starting from the basic system, Luis Enrique has tried two alternatives.
When the team needed to take risks and attack, he used a 3-4-3, a system that became famous because of being the system used by the "Dream Team". You give up one defender but you strengthen the midfield. But there are other types of games, in which the technical staff of the second team prefers to have more people in midfield given the conditions of the pitch and the opponent. That was the case last Saturday in Alcoy, where Barça Atlètic played with an unusual 4-4-2.
Apart from the four defenders and the three natural midfielders, the tactical change consisted of pulling back Jeffren from his position as right winger to the position of attacking midfielder in front of the three other midfielders. This left two players up front, Maric and Benja, who played together for the first time. On a small pitch and with an opponent who played very directly, the tactical plan of the second team proved to be very effective since the players of Luis Enrique didn't have to play with an inferiority in midfield and could take advantage of the weak points of the opponent's defense with two classic centre forwards like Beja and Maric.
At the press conference after the game, Luis Enrique explained the reasons for the tactical change of his team: "Our normal system is 4-3-3, and we even play 3-4-3 sometimes, but we can also play 4-4-2 or other systems. It's necesary to adpat to the circumstances of the pitch, the opponent and your won playing style. I like the idea that the other coach doesn't know how we will play. We can use different systems and be as effective."
Barça B: Jeffren satisfied with U-21 debut
Barça B - Benja: "I'm very happy to return"
Barça B: Season possibly over for Victor Vazquez
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[2008] The search of Txiki: Midfield
Yesterday Catalan sports paper Sport gave a global analysis of the Barcelona transfer activity for next summer. In five episodes we bring this story to you.
In midfield Barcelona is looking for a defensive midfielder and a more dynamic player and has therefore contacted several candidates. Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso (26), who will be sold by his club in the summer, has also an offer from Atlético Madrid, but the player prefers Barcelona. Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard (29) will only come if his former manager José Mourinho becomes the next Barcelona manager.
Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fàbregas (20) is not a real option, although the fact that he could change his current agent in May for the agent of Thierry Henry, who has a good relationship with Barcelona, could be seen as a first move to make a future return possible. Sevilla midfielders Christain Poulsen (28) and Seydou Keita (28) are also on the Barcelona list, with the second having a transfer price disadvantage. If Barcelona midfielder Deco (30) leaves, Werder Bremen attacking midfielder Diego (23) could be the first option. Barcelona has already contacted the father and agent of the Brazilian international, who wants to leave Germany in the summer.
Although there are excellent reports about Dinamo Zagreb midfielder Luka Modric (22), the Croatian international played a bad game when Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain went to see him during Croatia-Holland in the beginning of February. Later this month he'll have a second chance in the game against Scotland. Begiristain already contacted with Dinamo Zagreb vice president Zdravko Mamic and with his brother Dinamo Zagreb sports director Zoran Mamic, the agent of the player. Zagreb would be asking 20 million euro.
(this is the third part of this story, the first part and the second part were published yesterday, the fourth part will be published later today, the last part on Saturday. The five episodes are: 1. Defence, 2. How it works, 3. Midfield, 4. Marital status, 5. Attack)
Read more 14 March 2008 news:
Betis interested in Edmilson
Capel has a madridista background
Iniesta, Left or Center?
Being the hot topic of the week, I think it's a good time to raise the issue of Iniesta Role in the team. where can he help the team more this season, as a midfielder or as a Left wing?
For the start, there are some points to make clear before getting in-depth:
The Henry/ Iniesta rotation on the left offered us lot of possibilities. Henry usually takes the Left wing seat in the selection, while he plays more as a second striker. Iniesta plays on the left wing, but at the same time while working on the offense build up, he still have the midfielder genes that helps him a lot to link with his team mates in the field, and generate assists. None of them has to be the one and only option. It depends on the games played. The same as Henry must not be considered only as the striker who take the left wing position. We also need to see more Henry as a striker in Eto'o place, with Iniesta on the left wing.
One of the reasons of the drop in form we passed through is that we limited and squeezed our options in some positions. That's why, while discussing the Iniesta case, I will pass on the methods we can apply to enrich our options and show more depth in the squad. The following months are the most important and we need to learn lessons from the past.
We all know that Iniesta can play on the left AND the center, based on every game needs. This is not the case. The question is: While we are seeking balance between performance and effort to keep our players as fresh as possible till the end of the season, where can Iniesta serve the team most?
To go directly to the point-too late: in some games where possession is a priority, the Xavi + Iniesta partnership is a must. yet, I still believe Iniesta makes the team better when he plays on the left. May be it's a wrong time for me to raise this issue. The team started to perform well, and it happened to be when Xavi and Iniesta are running the show in the midfield. I think if I mentioned this last summer (and I actually did and no one complained), or may be after our first game against Numancia it would have been better. Simply because the partnership didn't click back then. But here is my reasoning for preferring Iniesta the wing, over Iniesta the midfielder. Noting that when I say Keita as a third midfielder, its also applied for the other options there, based on the game played. So here we go:
1) Shallow Non-symmetric structure: Having Henry on the left wing and Iniesta as a midfielder creates a system chaos in a way. If Iniesta stick to his midfield role, we play without a left wing. Henry will be cutting into the box too often as a forward. Thats where and how he helps the team most. Instructing Iniesta to move to the left when Henry cuts inside means you will only have Xavi at the center and with only Yaya behind him. Messi cover up for that offensively when he cut inside helping Xavi with ball distribution and penetration. But when the ball is lost and dropped or cleared behind the offense line we create on the edge of opponents box, then: counter counter!
2) Cannibalization: it's a system analysis, Marketing and project management expression. I tried to explain it using my own words, but then I found on Wiki a great explanation and here it is:
"Cannibalization is when companies, particularly retail companies, open outlets too close to each other. Much of the market for the new outlet could have come from the old outlet. The potential for cannibalization is often discussed when considering companies with many outlets in an area, such as Starbucks or McDonald's.
In project evaluation, the estimated profit generated from the new product must be reduced by the earnings on the lost sales." (Wiki)
In english it means: having players on the field who eat from each others Role. With Iniesta + Xavi in midfield, Henry + Eto'o in the crouded box, we actually have lot of that. For sure Xavi plus Iniesta is better than Xavi alone. But if Xavi Added value to the team is (A), and Iniesta added value is (A), then Xavi + Iniesta added value in the midfield is not (2A), it's (1.5 A). Some may think we upgraded the midfield with half an (A) having iniesta there, while we actually lost half of the (A) added value that Iniesta can inject in the team if he played little further than Xavi and in a different role, like left wing. You get an (A) in midfield (Xavi) and another (A) on the left wing (Iniesta). I believe thats a bigger loss than benching one of the strikers, using a third midfielder who add physical balance in that department, and starting Iniesta to attack the left flank of the opponent.
3) Resources management - 1: In our case here, it's important to see the added value of Iniesta in the midfield, his added value on the left wing, then compare. Iniesta is a player any team will die to get and hire to orchestrate the ball distribution. No doubt. But isn't he too good to be employed as "an outlet" for Xavi? From the left flank he showed almost every time he played there that he can lead the team from the left to the box and take the game on his own. As much as I believed at the beginning of the season that he can play as a left wing, against all odds back then, I also believe he can actually score many goals through being a left wing. He proved it when he reached his peak and before he got injured. At least Iniesta penetration from the left with Keita running to the box can score enough goals to cover the loss of goals that may happen if we benched Henry, or played him in Eto'o position.
If you can have a Messi-type player on the left (Achievable), why will you give up on that to drag him to serve as a Xavi outlet? You need an outlet, start Hleb, believe it or not he can do the passing passing passing thing beside Xavi. Start Keita, Gudjhonsen or the best option for the future of that position, Busquets. And put on the left a player who can dribble two defenders while moving the ball in a 2 cm space near the baseline (remember?). A player who can open the field. And instead of playing beside Xavi who is suffering from a crowded defense in the center, play him on the left to stretch the defense wide. Thats how the midfield will be less crowded for Xavi to operate.
Xavi is the best playmaker in the world, he is not easy to contain. It may sound practical to have Iniesta as a distribution assistant beside him but it sounds more practical to create the playmaking Chain I mentioned once before: Alves on the right, Messi cutting inside the box from the path between Xavi and Alves to get advantage of the space made by Henry or Eto'o, and Iniesta on the left with Keita between Iniesta and Xavi Crushing into the box to catch opponent defense with surprise and dropping back to play beside Yaya when needed.
Possession is a key principle in Barcelona Ideology, that's well known. But there is another principle that is as important, but rarely discussed: Stretching the field wide. You cant focus on one principle and neglect the other, the whole system will collapse.
4) Resource Management - 2: Lets take Barcelona selection in the game against Lyon and imagine it didn't click for a reason or another (this is football u know?), Lyon parked a bus and we failed to score for the first 60 minutes. What are the options we had on the bench as "game changing" cards? Who are the added values for offense? The 19 years old unused Bojan?
Coaches always need to put themselves in the position of keeping control on the game destiny, not to throw all the cards and wish wish wish and pray for luck. When you reach the second half and everyone is tired (Both teams), getting Eto'o into the game from the bench to run over the opponent exhausted defense can change the game. Same for Henry, or Iniesta. But when you have them all on the field, then the ones you install from the bench during the game are not better than the ones you already employed in the start up selection.
Its not easy to explain it, but its a deciding factor in football. its about the strategic approach you plan for the game, not just the tactics and selections you start with. And it includes lot of "what if? What if? What if?..." the more of them you have and know the answer for, the more you will be seen as a coach who master reading the games. Now without being critical, how many times the team was passing through troubles and we ended up only making one substitution at most? Guess why...
5) Resources Management - 3: Based on the points mentioned above this is another way to show more depth in your squad. It's like the cheque' financial role of showing the presence of more liquidity in the market than there is for real.
Employing Iniesta in the midfield means having only one big performer to serve on the left wing (Henry), and it block any possibility for other options in midfield. The depth of the squad Auto-squeeze. Make a slight change in the way the system function to activate the options available, and here you are!
In another hand, Keep some key players out if you can (and with the quality of our players we always can). Start Bojan-Eto'o-Messi against Almeria for example, with Yaya- (Busquets/Gudi/Keita/Hleb/Ramzi...) and Xavi as midfielders. you think this is not a good enough line up to win? Excuse me! They definitely are! They are better than any other team start up selection in the liga.
I know we can use better selections, but this way you have Henry and Iniesta among others on the bench. Not only as winning cards but also to save some batteries for what comes later. We were rotating at the beginning of the season even when the team lacked chemistry. Lot of fans were critical and demanded fixed selection. Hopefully Guardiola can overcome public opinion pressure, and -most importantly - the players ego and return to the policy that he knows its a need for the team. We needed to get back the balance after the shaky performance in recent weeks, now back to the basics!
6) Efficiency: by description, it's the ratio of the useful energy delivered by a dynamic system to the energy supplied to it. If our system does not work unless if the best of the best of the world wide players are installed in, then this system is screwed. Why will you need a system if its solely based on individuals collective effort and not on the synergy created by the entire group? I don't think our system is that dummy. It is definitely flexible enough to blind the potentials diversity of all our players in a well customized package. Injecting the less vital players in the mix for the starting up roles, if with the right doses, earn u results and keep you fresh.
Most importantly, efficiency in football also means to measure the amount of effort burned in the game to get a result. The system with lot of back and forth transitions already killed us before. We all enjoyed the beginning of the season when players were leaving traceable marks on every field they invaded back and forth, pushing themselves to the edge. But we didn't notice the amount of biological fuel that style demands, till the players' bodies screamed the "enough is enough" complain.
Now we are little more fresh than two weeks ago, we need to learn from the mistakes and do better in that mean. Keita/Busquets who drop back when needed to act as a gap filler behind Xavi and beside Yaya will serve this goal. It decrease the space the rest of the offense need to run through while switching between offense and defense. They will be closer to the opponent area, which means a better offense return, and less defense effort. Thats a kind of total quality management. So the player we install in the midfield for doing the dirty job actually enhance our offense. Iniesta can do it as well? Well...do we really need to exhaust our most skillful players to do the job that demand physical effort, while we have players who are physically better?
7) Seeking perfection: Having Iniesta in the midfield and Henry on the left, is a very rigid structure that is hard to customize during the game, based on the match conditions. To give you an idea about what that means let me pick the other option and explain its mobility:
-- Yaya Keita Xavi in midfield plus Iniesta on the left:
a) Iniesta on the left already create an outlet for Xavi, but instead of being an outlet between Xavi feet so they bounce on each other, he is a wide outlet whom the opponent defense get stretched to track.
b) If Xavi needed serious help in the midfield, assuming that Messi -keita-Yaya help was not enough, its easy for Iniesta to hurry for help dropping to the middle but just as often as needed to operate the game, then he bounce back to do his job. based on the previous cannibalization analysis, this way u get Xavi(A) in the center+ Iniesta(A) playing on the left +Iniesta (0.5A) assisting in the middle when needed.
c) While dominating the game, Iniesta on the left and Alves on the right stretch the opponent defense, making it less crowded for Xavi in the center, more lethal for Keita to run into the less compact Box to meet Iniesta and Alves crosses and create more gaps for Messi to penetrate through.
d) During the game we felt a need for more cover because the defense is little bit shaky at a certain period, no problem! Keita move to play as a second Defensive midfielder beside Yaya till things are more settled. More dominance in the midfield needed? just ask for it! Keita +Yaya as defensive midfielders, Iniesta+ Xavi attacking midfielders, Messi on the free role around the striker (Henry or Eto'o). Things going fine, we go the opposite way regarding the midfield-offense structure:2-2-1-1--->1-2-3.
Now imagine the team applying that. In one year from now the switching between the mentioned scenarios will become a second nature for the players. So the group systematic work will make us play a water like tactical structure that keep reshaping itself during the game based on the on-time needs. Now who can contain that? No team in the whole world!
For those who like Statistics (something I am not the best with), here is a report summarizing Iniesta status in the liga till now.
A) Iniesta games on the left:
Betis Sevilla-Barcelona 2-2
Santander-Barcelona 1-2
Barcelona-Mallorca 3-1 (Iniesta entered the game Min 66 and scored a goal Min 75)
Malaga-Barcelona 1-4
Athletic-Barcelona 0-1
Barcelona-Atletico 6-1
Espanyol-Barcelona 1-2
Barcelona-Betis 3-2
Sporting-Barcelona 1-6
Barcelona-Santander 1-1 (entered in the 39 th minute)
Briefing: 10 games- GF 30 goals (3 goals per game), GA 11 goals (1.1 goal per game) , gathered 26 points out of 30 points available 87%.
B) Iniesta games in the center:
Barcelona-Athletic 2-0
Barcelona-Sporting 3-1
Barcelona-Numancia 4-1
Barcelona-Almeria 5-0
Numancia-Barcelona 1-0
Briefing: 5 games- GF 14 goals (2.8 goals per game), GA 3 goals (0.6 goals per game) , gathered 12 points out of 15 points available 80%.
C) Without Iniesta(someone else in the midfield with Henry on the left):
Atlético-Barcelona 4-3
Barcelona-Espanyol 1-2
Barcelona-Deportivo 5-0
Osasuna-Barcelona 2-3
Villarreal-Barcelona 1-2
Barcelona-Real Madrid 2-0
Barcelona-Valencia 4-0
Sevilla-Barcelona 0-3
Barcelona-Getafe 1-1 (henry entered the game min 55)
Recreativo-Barcelona 0-2
Barcelona-Valladolid 6-0
Briefing: 11 games- GF 32 goals (~3 goals per game), GA 10 goals (~1 goal per game) , gathered 25 points out of 33 points available 76%.
You can do your conclusions based on the data listed above. There is one important thing I wanted to point, and it is related to section (C), its not true that we need Iniesta in the midfield simply because the other options sucks. It is obvious that with the other options in the midfield beside Xavi, we played the most difficult games this season we scored the same rate of goals and if you neglect the last two games played with this status against Atletico and Espanyol where the whole team had a drop in form so its not fair to hook it on the third midfielder, you will easily find that:
In the previous 9 games, the team: Scored 28 goals (3.1 goals per game), GA 4 goals ( 0.44 goals per game), Gathered 25 points out of 27 points possible 92.6 %
So Allow me to stick to what i wrote long time ago about: Guardiola favorite, not the fans'
When I show dissatisfaction, it's not because we are not good, or very good, or very very good. But because I believe this team can seek perfection, creating a different level of football, that had never been witnessed before.
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The Ultimate Game: Get Inside Guardiola's head
With Frank Rijkaard you couldn't get any honour by predicting Barcelona's starting line-up. Even hockey moms could. But this has dramatically changed last summer. Until this very day, nobody has been able to crack the code of Josep Guardiola's brain. Nor has anyone got inside his sleeves.
So this is your chance to prove not only your knowledge about the game of football but also your psychological insight:
PREDICT BARCELONA'S STARTING LINE-UP
This is not (as in: N-O-T) a place for discussion on team tactics or personal player preferences. You just give the system and the eleven names you think will start the game against Almería on Sunday.
You put them in the right position, so using the 4-3-3 (or whatever you think they will play) and putting the players from the right to the left, so the right back defender is your first name after the goalkeeper. If your line-up isn't clear, my interpretation counts.
Don't forget to add your (nick)name by clicking Name/URL under the comment box and fill it in, otherwise your after-game claim to glory will be dismissed.
You can give your starting line-up until four hours before the start of the game, in this case: until 5:00 pm barcelona time.
If you give your line-up before Guardiola announes his match list (or if at least 20 players are included in the match list or if I decide so), you get one point for the correct line-up. If you do it after that announcement, you get half a point. Who will have the most points at the end of the season, can call himself the winner.
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Number of the day: 4
number of yellow cards given during the Champions League game against Lyon
as a consequence of a fault made on Andrés Iniesta
Benzema will stay at Lyon next season
Asked about the rumours linking him with several European top clubs among which Barcelona (read more here), Olympique Lyon forward and French international Karim Benzema (21) has said at a press conference today that he will stay at least one more year with his club:
"I will stay at Lyon. I still have a lot of work to do, to make some steps forwards. I'm very good here at Lyon, the club takes part in the Champions League each season, I'm well-integrated. I will stay at Lyon next season.
I made my decision before the tie with Barcelona, although the games confirmed what I thought. I had said that I would made it after the 1/8 finals but I said that without thinking. I shouldn't have said that. Honestly, I've always wanted to stay with Lyon even when some bad results have made me doubt a little.
I still have to learn a lot, both on and off the pitch, before I join an absolute top team. I still have a long way to go. It's not that I don't feel ready. It's mainly mentally that I have to make progress. I'm only 21 years old, it's only my second season as starter at Lyon. I have plenty of years left to go to another club.
The results of Lyon this season won't have an influence. It's about me and the progress I still have to make to reach the highest level. The World Cup in 2010 didn't really influence my decision. I think president Aulas is relieved with my decision. But, together with my father, I already talked with him before. I have a career plan and my stay here hasn't ended."
Abidal doesn't want to be part of Benzema deal
Txiki talks about the summer transfer market
Barcelona in pole position for Benzema
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Barcelona's medical staff has announced today that Barcelona goalkeeper Albert Jorquera (30) has sprained the external lateral ligament of his left ankle during yesterday's training session.
The Catalan goalkeeper is expected to be out for seven to ten days. This would mean that he won't be available for the league game against Almería and possibly also for the one against Málaga.
Medical: Milito joins group training
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The Pictures: Lyon (part 2)
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Poll result - Man of the match: Lyon
Barca B - Medical: Green ligt for Gai
[2008] The search of Txiki: Defence
The Points: Lyon
Ex-Barça: Celades to New York Red Bulls
Henry becomes fourth European goalscorer
Song of the day: Viva La Vida
Eto'o is a man of his word
Iniesta: "I feel best in midfield"
[Valiente] Real Sociedad-Sevilla B
Statistics 2008-2009: Goals, assists, cards
Bayern dismisses Ribery and Hleb rumours
The Video: Lyon
Agent Ibrahimovic hints again at Barcelona move
Alves: "Valdes has a very difficult task"
[2008] Mourinho or Laudrup
Poll - Man of the match: Lyon
CL 1/8, 2nd leg: Barcelona-Lyon 5-2
Match discussion: Lyon
Valencia puts Villa and Silva for sale
Puyol: "I don't want to become a coach"
Barcelona players congratulate Crosas with goal
Abidal wants to obtain Algerian nationality
Live Match Chat: FC Barcelona - Olympique Lyon
Laporta supported Spain yesterday
[2008] Zambrotta on Lippi shopping list
Preview: Barcelona vs Lyon
ReLive: Lyon-Barcelona 1-1
Botia and all first team players in Lyon list
Poll result: Who should be left back against Lyon?
Iniesta: "We have returned to the basics"
[2008] Capel buyout clause on the rise
[Henrique] Bayer Leverkusen-Bochum
Sylvinho: "Even the players are surprised"
Happy birthday: Samuel Eto'o
Ibrahimovic agent hints at Spain move
New step in ban on youth transfers
Arsenal interested in Bojan
Eto'o: "Racism is an ongoing struggle"
Poll: Who should play as left back against Lyon?
Quote of the day: Keita
Adebayor confirms last year's Barcelona interest
Barça B - Liga 28: Alcoyano-Barcelona 0-2
[2008] Bigger club but lower salary for Poulsen
Poll result - Man of the match: Athletic
The Pictures: Athletic
New U2 tour kicks off at Camp Nou
Hleb not looking for a summer exit
FCB Miami: Azkargorta confirms talks
The Points: Athletic
Manchester City preparing summer bid for Henry
Caceres is most expensive U-21 centre back
[2008] Capel is on the list
Chat Statistics: FC Barcelona - Athletic Bilbao
Pinto is music producer in his free time
Cesc rejects Madrid because of Barça dream
Guiza disregards new Barcelona rumours
Best cyclist of all time visits Barcelona
Poll - Man of the match: Athletic
The Video: Athletic
Liga 26: Barcelona-Athletic 2-0


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National Tertiary Route 915, or just Route 915 (, or ) is a National Road Route of Costa Rica, located in the Guanacaste province.

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In Guanacaste province the route covers Nandayure canton (Bejuco district).

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An interdisciplinary aging studies minor is available for students interested in the study of aging/gerontology. The 18-credit minor includes courses, as available, in biology, nursing, psychology, recreation and leisure, social work, sociology and women, and gender studies. The minor consists of four required courses, an elective course, and a field experience related to aging. In addition to a field experience in aging, an elective course that relates to aging may be chosen from a variety of disciplines with the approval of the coordinator.
Additional elective courses may be submitted for approval to the aging studies coordinator.


New Delhi: Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi, an anti-submarine warfare specialist took over as the new Indian Navy chief.
He succeeds Admiral Nirmal Verma, who retired from service after 43 years of service.
Admiral Joshi, who was till Thursday the Mumbai-based Western Naval Commander, is the 21st navy chief of Independent India and the 19th Indian to take command of the world's sixth largest naval force.
In the morning, Admiral Joshi paid tribute to the country's martyrs by laying a wreath at the Amar Jawan Jyoti in India Gate and inspected an impressive Guard of Honour at the lawns of South Block, the seat of the naval headquarters on Raisina Hill.
Later, in the office of the navy chief, Admiral Verma ceremonially handed over the chief's telescope to Admiral Joshi to mark the handing over of office from the incumbent to the successor.
In his maiden message to the navy, Admiral Joshi indicated his priorities as the new chief. "For the navy to fulfil its mandate as a maritime power for national prosperity, 24x7 attention would need to be paid at all levels to ensure that there are no gaps in our security preparedness," Joshi said.
He emphasised: "To achieve security related objectives, the man-machine interface is crucial and the navy would need to professionally re-audit, train and consolidate its preparedness to optimise the existing capabilities as well as harness the full potential of the transformational new capabilities being inducted."


He has also revealed the first single from the album, "Undo." The highly anticipated ID features Jeremih and Tory Lanez. Many fans have been awaiting the single's release and speculating collaborators since RL Grime teased it in many performances, including Ultra Music Festival 2018.
The tracklist for NOVA is below.
NOVA is available for pre-order now. Pre-order now on vinyl, iTunes, or pre-save on Spotify here. RL Grime has revealed merch for the upcoming album as well, including apparel, a poster and more. Find it here.


It's too early to conclude, based on a single month's wage number, that the tight labor market is finally producing its long-anticipated acceleration in worker pay. But the Friday number prompted investors to hedge against anticipated Fed rate hikes to temper what may be incipient inflation, the Financial Times reports, driving the two-year Treasury yield to its highest level in a decade. "Investors, however, aren't betting on a large acceleration in price increases.," reports the Wall Street Journal. More here from the FT, here from the Journal, and here from POLITICO's Kullgren.
GOOD MORNING! It's Monday, Sept. 10, and this is Morning Shift, POLITICO's daily tipsheet on employment and immigration policy. Send tips, exclusives, and suggestions to rrainey@politico.com, thesson@politico.com, ikullgren@politico.com and tnoah@politico.com. Follow us on Twitter at @RebeccaARainey, @tedhesson, @IanKullgren and @TimothyNoah1.
LABOR LOBBIES AGAINST KAVANAUGH: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka travelled Friday to Yale Law School, alma mater to Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, to forecast workers' future after Janus and to urge the Senate not to confirm Kavanaugh.
"The threat to the rights of working people posed by the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh cannot be overstated," Trumka said. "His confirmation would potentially lock in the pro-corporate tilt of the court for a generation…. [Kavanaugh's] opinions drip with contempt for OSHA and other agencies … substituting his own ideology for their expertise." Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) scheduled a committee vote for Sept. 13. More on that from POLITICO's John Bresnahan here. Read Trumka's full remarks here.
MOONVES OUT AFTER HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS: Leslie Moonves has been removed as chief executive of CBS Corp and stripped of any severance package, Quint Forgey reports for POLITICO. Moonves and CBS will donate $20 million to organizations that support the #MeToo movement as part of his settlement. More from Forgey here.
Six women who worked professionally with Moonves told the New Yorker's Ronan Farrow last month that Moonves harassed them sexually. "Four described forcible touching or kissing during business meetings, in what they said appeared to be a practiced routine. Two told me that Moonves physically intimidated them or threatened to derail their careers." Following Farrow's first report, six more women came forward. Read Farrow's first report here, and his followup here.
"Critically, unions covering Harvard's in-house janitors, cooks and guards — which had been losing ground to outside contractors — were empowered to bargain hard for pay and benefits without fear of encouraging more outsourcing," Porter says. More here.
BIG BUCKS SPENT TO BUCK RIGHT TO WORK: "Opponents heavily outspent supporters of a so-called right-to-work law that was overwhelmingly rejected by Missouri voters in the August primary elections," the Associated Press reports. "New financial reports filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission show that the opposition led by unions spent almost $17 million through a campaign committee called We Are Missouri and through independent expenditures." More here.
FARMWORKER DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFT: New York apple farmers who once employed Latin American migrant workers under the H2-A visa program now favor workers from the Caribbean, WHEC-TV reports. "There was a time when many migrant workers on apple farms came from Mexico or Latin America, but now the migrant worker population from Mexico is shrinking. This is partially because of immigration policy changes and also because of population changes there.." More here.
HOME-CARE AGENCIES HIRE OLDER: Houston home-care agencies are seeking out older workers to address a labor shortage compounded by stagnant wages and the aging of the Baby Boomers, Ileana Najarro writes in the Houston Chronicle. "Industry experts anticipate a need for at least 13 million new in-home caregivers by 2030. Houston is one of the top U.S. markets for home-care agencies with an estimated 700,000 individuals over the age of 65 living in the metro area." That cohort is growing by 25,000 a year.
But hiring older workers is really a "Band-Aid solution to a larger problem," Najarro writes. "One of the key issues within the industry that has led to high turnover rates and labor gaps has been pay…. Only 40 percent of home care services are government-funded, yet Medicaid dictates the private sector's wages." More here.
FIRST TARGET UNIONIZATION EFFORT FAILS: Target workers in New York rejected a union bid from the United Food and Commercial Workers on Sept. 8, an effort that would have created Target's first unionized store, Andrew Wallender reports. "The union's defeat makes it less likely the UFCW will continue unionization efforts at Target and similar retailers, according to University of California Los Angeles professor Chris Tilly, who specializes in labor markets and public policy." More from Bloomberg Law here.
"The timing of the labor strife is less than desirable for the state party, which is working to take advantage of what many experts think will be a good election year for Democrats. Republicans currently control all branches and offices of state government," Siegel writes. More here.
— The House Rules committee will meet Wednesday at 5 p.m. to prepare H.R. 3798 (115), "The Save American Workers Act of 2017," for floor consideration.. The House is expected to vote on it later this week. The legislation would change the definition of "full-time employee" for purposes of minimum essential health care coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act from an employee who is employed on average at least 30 hours a week to one who is employed 40 hours a week. More info here. Read the bill here.
— The House Small Business panel will meet to discuss the impacts of the opioid epidemic on small businesses and the labor force participation rate. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 11:00 A.M. on Thursday, Sept. 13 in Rayburn 2360. More here.
— The Economic Policy Institute and the Century Foundation will host a "Building a High Wage America" summit on Thursday, Sept. 13 at 9:30 a.m. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), former Vice President Joe Biden and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers will participate in the event.


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The Little Hawes Water project gets underway
As you are strolling through Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve this month, you may notice a lot of activity near Little Hawes Water and Hawes Water. This is because Natural England have been granted funding to carry out work to restore the rare and internationally important habitats of marl grassland and alkaline fen at the reserve and to improve the visitor experience.
In order to achieve this, the following work is planned:
an area of beech plantation and secondary woodland adjacent to Hawes Water will be removed and the timber extracted in order to reconnect the grassland and fen on the lake edge to the adjacent grazing pastures and to restore open views of Hawes Water from the pastures to the east and north;
the remaining area of beech plantation will be thinned in order to allow more light into the understorey and allow future management;
conservation grazing by native breed cattle will be introduced into these areas in order to ensure appropriate ongoing management of the grassland and fen and create a mosaic of open habitat, trees and scrub;
a small sluice gate will be installed in the man-made ditch that flows from the smaller Little Hawes Water into Hawes Water, in order to allow control of water levels and reinstate more natural hydrology; and
the existing boardwalks will be removed and a new raised wider boardwalk will be installed in order to improve disabled access.
For more detail, see the Natural England project overview and map of planned work or click on the FAQ link below to find answers to the questions we get asked most about the project.
Please note that during the works, some footpath closures will be in operation for safety reasons. You can find alternative routes on the map provided.

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For five days, I woke not to the alarm on my phone, but to sun pouring into my room at dawn accompanied by the musical conversation of birds in a gingko tree outside. For five days, I drank tea, read essays, practiced yoga, and took leisurely hikes through frozen woods. For five days, I slept when I was tired, ate when I was hungry, and spoke to almost no one. For five days, I worked on a manuscript that has been a major focus for nearly five years. It was my first writing retreat.
It wasn't all bliss, but it was the most beautiful solitary confinement imaginable. Though I regularly desire and require time alone, I am a social creature, prone to distraction and procrastination, and often have days so jam-packed and busy, I forget to take a real breath until I see a stunning sunset pinkening on the horizon on my way from work. Having only myself and my writing to attend to sounded like paradise, and it mostly was.
Find a subject you care about.
Have the guts to cut.
I really clutched Number 7 to my bosom while I performed surgery on my manuscript, chopping away redundancies, embellishing areas I knew needed more meat, organizing and reorganizing, calling myself out when I used too-fancy adjectives, went on too long, or was hiding from the truth. Being able to stay immersed in my tome for the duration, instead of dipping in and out as I had to do for many months, provided for the first time a clear sense of what my book could be as a cohesive whole rather than a lot of related pieces.
When I needed a break, I took one. In order to avoid my phone, I studied the chickadees, nuthatches, and tufted titmice (titmouses?) at the bird feeder or turned to the pages of a fantastic, efficient little book I pulled from the shelves of my borrowed room: Long Life by Mary Oliver, which I learned later I finished on the day she died. When I needed air, I bundled up and meandered through the trails of the property, studying woodpecker holes in tree trunks, peeling curls of birch bark, and swirly patterns in ice.
My protective bubble was burst once: On my second morning, a legitimate, but entirely unwelcome communications crisis at work derailed me for half a day. By the third day, I found myself unpredictably lonely and was thankful for an invitation for a "wee visit and a cuppa" from my delightful, wise host, the poet Patricia Lee Lewis. By day four, I had accomplished more than I had thought realistically possible, and paced back and forth between my two-room world anxiously that evening, wine glass in hand, freaking out about actually doing the one thing I desperately came to do: finishing.
End goal in sight, I felt suddenly terrified. I considered calling my husband, my mentor, and my dad. I thought about just calling it quits and being done with the retreat. I had been so productive already, after all. This deep work was seriously hard, and I was officially exhausted. Instead, I talked myself down, knowing I would have approximately five hours the following day before check-out — surely enough for the small final tasks at hand — and if not, whatever, it was OK.
That last morning, Patricia knocked an hour before I had to leave for a goodbye hug. "Guess what?" I asked her with the glee of a little kid.
There is still work ahead, especially if I am lucky enough to get this baby out into the world, but right now, I feel as satisfied and peaceful as I have in a very long time. The relief of seeing a major project all the way through is quite something.
I am full of gratitude for those who made my retreat and the completion of this manuscript possible, as I realize again that great accomplishments often require great community. Patchwork Farm, Straw Dog Writers Guild, and my friend Sarah who sent me the original email encouraging me to apply, thank you.
Jenny-Lynn, Thanks so much for reading and for the congrats! If I can do it, YOU CAN DO IT!!!


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Aad Neeven
Aad Neeven is also involved in aviation. For over 35 years he worked overseas selling aircraft in many countries. It all started when he served in the Royal Dutch Air Force as a crew chief on the F-84F Thunderstreak.
Six years later he joined Saudi Arabian Airlines and worked in Jeddah as a licend engineer on the famous DC-3, B-707 and B-737.
Having seen enough "sand" he joined Bristow Helicopters and became involved in seismic operations in the Iranian deserts. Fixed wing aircraft had his interest and after the interesting period in Iran he joined Fokker as logistic advisor for the Middle East. He remained with the company till its demise in different capacities, the latest being Sales Manager for Burma and Vietnam.
Due to his involvement in aviation he co-authored a book on wartime flying events over his hometown, Haarlem, The Netherlands, where he was born in 1946. As a freelance writer he writes articles for different aviation magazines. Always a keen collector of aviation memorabilia, he has a vast collection of photographs, documents and books.
In his spare time, he was able to make contact with former soldiers of the Legion Freies Indien and obtain from them first-hand accounts of their life in the German Army. During that time he was fortunate to meet Martin Bamber, who shared his fascination with the story of the Indian soldiers of the Wehrmacht. They decided to team-up and publish a book (For Free India) about the Indian soldiers in Europe.
Aad Neeven is now retired and as well as running his online bookshop and is a full-time researcher into the history of the Second World War in the Netherlands.
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Former WWE Diva Cameron revealed details about the phone call before her WWE departure, what she perceives to be the reason behind said departure; and her issues with the Internet Wrestling Community (IWC).
Cameron performed for WWE from 2011 until last year, most prominently featuring as a Funkadactyl for fellow former WWE performer Brodus Clay.
"To this day, I still don't know if it's partially because when I stirred up all the stuff with (the) IWC. That was one of my tactics, to try and get stuff stirring to potentially have a storyline and I never asked, I never asked.
"For the people who don't know, I wasn't happy with my position in WWE. I was coming to 'TVs' and I just wasn't doing anything. I know that I didn't have the best in-ring skills, because I was brought up early. I'm really honest about that, I can keep it one-thousand percent.
"I get this 'ding' (on my phone) and Mark (Carrano, WWE Senior Director of Talent Relations) says 'Can you call me?' And I just knew, so I called him and he told me. It was shocking, but at the same time, that's just where we were.
Presently, Cameron is pursuing a career in the entertainment industry, with her professional wrestling pursuits taking a backseat for now.
Here's wishing the former WWE Diva the best of luck in her future endeavors.


Ask any student what's the most challenging part throughout the academic life, And he shall let you know a couple of things – exams and coursework. an inquiry that is further will expose which they find composing coursework more demanding than preparing for the exam.
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Emanuel Navarrete, left, and Jeo Santisima exchange punches during their bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Outgunned Pinoy loses by TKO
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MANILA, Philippines — Jeo Santisima was badly outgunned but never took a count as he displayed a warrior's heart in failing to dethrone WBO superbantamweight champion Emanuel Navarrete who retained his title via a technical knockout at 2:20 of the 11th round at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas last Saturday night (yesterday morning, Manila time).
Navarrete, 25, raised his record to 31-1 and of his 27 wins by stoppage, this was only the third that went as far as 11 rounds. Santisima, 23, was toppled twice, in the fifth and 11th, but referee Russell Mora ruled no knockdown as he was clearly pushed to his knees. The Filipino's slate dipped to 19-3, with 16 KOs.
As expected, Navarrete started slow, measuring Santisima from a distance and throwing the left jab to establish control. Santisima had difficulty overcoming Navarrete's 4 1/2 inch reach advantage and the tone was set from the first round where the Mexican titleholder threw 62 punches, landing 18, compared to the Filipino's connection rate of 2-of-19. Santisima walked back to his corner with a bloodied nose. It was more of the same in the second stanza as Navarrete continued to score with his left jab and occasionally, with 1-2 combinations capped by a right uppercut or straight. In the third round, Navarrete stepped up the pace as he repeatedly landed shots to the head and body. Santisima's lack of lateral movement and footwork made him an easy target.
Then, Navarrete got comfortable. Santisima adjusted his defense to lean away from Navarrete's punches and countered with digs to the side of the body in the fourth. A left hook to Navarrete's neck caused the Mexican to stumble into the ropes. It was clearly Santisima's best round. In the fifth, Navarrete came out smoking and abandoned his long-distance strategy to go toe-to-toe, probably because he was embarrassed in the previous round. Navarrete went on a rampage like an attack dog and shook up Santisima who grabbed and held to survive the onslaught. The Mexican landed 47 shots in the round while Santisima connected only 7-of-34.
It appeared that Navarrete punched himself out in the fifth because he coasted in the sixth. Santisima, however, didn't capitalize as he too appeared to catch his breath. He missed two haymakers near the end of the round. In the seventh, Santisima hung tough as Navarrete picked up steam and stayed in control. Sensing that Santisima was tiring out and hardly throwing, Navarrete turned on the heat. But it looked like Navarrete hurt his right hand during the infighting. He later said he jammed his right thumb. In the ninth, Navarrete occasionally turned southpaw to use his left more as an attack weapon than as a set-up jab. Santisima soaked up more punishment and worse, went gun-shy. Navarrete went in for the kill in the 10th but Santisima stayed on his feet. A series of vicious blows to the head had no reply from the Filipino who desperately resorted to clinching to end the round. In the 11th, Santisima came out swinging, looking for one shot to turn the tide around. Navarrete wasn't perturbed and in one instance, rested his elbow on the top rope to show total confidence. A hard left to the body triggered a barrage of punches that left Santisima helpless along the ropes, prompting Mora to wave it off.
Santisima's cutman Dr. Ed de la Vega said under Nevada State Athletic Commission rules, the Filipino was sent to the hospital for "precautionary exams" as a protocol for fighters who lose by knockout. "He's OK," said De la Vega. "Jeo has a suspected eye injury but that needs to be verified. He was tough but Navarrete was tougher. He took Jeo's best shots but never flinched except on two occasions. Jeo had a bloody nose after the first round but it was no issue. I took care of it easily. No cuts. He had a bruised left temple."
MP Promotions head Sean Gibbons, who arranged the title shot for Santisima, confirmed that the challenger was brought to the hospital for observation. After the fight was halted, Gibbons went straight to Santisima's corner to check on his condition. Navarrete had problems making the superbantamweight limit of 122 pounds and is rumored to be moving up to the featherweight division. If the throne is declared vacant, Santisima could work his way back into title contention. His valiant showing against Navarrete should keep him in consideration for another crack at the crown.
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Cats' season opener at Auburn on Sept. 26 set for noon kickoff
The game times for three of Kentucky's first four football games have been set.
The Wildcats will kick off the season at noon on Sept. 26 at Auburn and will be televised on the SEC Network. Kentucky's home opener against Ole Miss on Oct. 3 is set for 4 p.m. and also will be televised on the SEC Network.
Kentucky's players are looking forward to the delayed season opener and don't mind the early start to open the season.
"I'm not sure what the team thinks, but I think we can all agree on one thing — we're just ready to play, it doesn't matter what time it is," Kentucky running back Chris Rodriguez said. "The game could be at 8 a.m. in the morning, were still going to come out and play our best game."
Kentucky's game at Tennessee on Oct. 17 will be at noon, 3:30 or 4 p.m. The team's contest at Missouri on Oct, 31 will be at noon on the SEC Network.
The Wildcats will play a 10-game, league-only schedule this season. The remaining game times will be announced during the normal 12- to six-day selection process.
Kentucky wasn't listed among the teams on the SEC on CBS for the first two weeks, which are placed in the 3:30 p.m. kickoff slot. Mississippi State at LSU will be televised the first week, followed by Texas A&M and Alabama the following week on Oct. 3.
Kentucky offensive coordinator Eddie Gran said last Saturday's scrimmage was typical when it comes to the first one of the fall.
"We were OK and you can only imagine the first scrimmage," Gran said. "I didn't like the way we finished. We moved the ball decent inside the (20-yard line) and we kicked some field goals, we've got to get those converted into touchdowns. … We've got a lot of work to do and we've got to be a little bit more consistent. I get it, it's the first scrimmage and I'm not going to panic yet. The offense is about execution and we've just got to get better at that (this) Saturday."
On Monday night, the Kentucky basketball team released a video seeking support on social injustice issues.
"You cheer us on the court, but we are asking you to support us off the court," the players said in a video posted to the official UK basketball Twitter account Monday night. "Be a part of the change."
The message was to help end racism.
"The time for change is now," the players said in the video. We've watched for too long now as our mothers, our fathers, our brothers and our sisters have been profiled and discriminated and even beaten, shot and killed. The victims of police brutality with no justice.
"We grieve with you, we are angered with you and we as brothers, black and white, are here to help to put an end to it."
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I have a fantasy of junking the entire corrupt tax system and adopting a simple and fair flat tax.
I have an even bigger fantasy of shrinking the size and scope of the federal government to what America's Founders intended, in which case Washington wouldn't need any broad-based tax.
But in the real world, where I know "public choice" determines political behavior, I have much more limited hopes and dreams.
I've been saying for months that tax reform will be a worthwhile success if it leads to a significantly lower corporate tax rate and the elimination of the deduction for state and local income taxes.
And I recently added repeal of the death tax as a third item that would make me very happy.
Now let's add a fourth item to my wish-list. The House version of tax reform actually does a decent job of curtailing some of the egregious distortions that line the pocket of companies that peddle so-called green energy.
I know it must be a decent job since the GOP plan is causing angst for leftist journalists.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives…bill would slash incentives for renewable energy and the electric car industry. Environmental groups are frantic. …The House provision raising the most ire are proposed changes to the renewable electricity production tax credit, which benefits producers of wind, solar, geothermal and other types of renewable energy. …The House GOP plan would also repeal the Investment Tax Credit for big solar projects that start construction after 2027. House Republicans also propose eliminating the $7,500 credit for electric vehicle purchases. …the Senate bill may not include all of the House's cuts to clean energy.
It is true that the Senate bill is very timid. But given that there will be a lot of pressure to find "offsets" in any final deal, I'm vaguely hopeful that some of the good provisions in the House bill will survive.
Let's explore why that would be a very good outcome.
Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center is not a fan of cronyist subsidies to solar energy.
Under President Barack Obama, green energy subsidies were given out like candy. The failure of solar panel company Solyndra is well-known, but the problem extends well beyond the shady loan deal and its half-billion-dollar cost to taxpayers. Between 2010 and 2013, federal subsidies for solar energy alone increased by about 500 percent, from $1.1 billion to $5.3 billion (according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration), and all federal renewable energy subsidies grew from $8.6 billion to $13.2 billion over the same period. …However, that didn't stop the largest U.S. solar panel manufacturer, SolarWorld, from filing for bankruptcy earlier this year despite $115 million in federal and state grants and tax subsidies since 2012, along with $91 million in federal loan guarantees. SolarWorld and fellow bankrupt manufacturer Suniva are now begging for even more government assistance, in the form of a 40-cent-per-watt tariff on solar imports and a minimum price of 78 cents (including the 40-cent tariff) a watt on solar panels made by foreign manufacturers.
Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute explains that wind energy is reliant on taxpayer handouts.
…government data shows that offshore wind power cannot survive in a competitive environment without huge taxpayer subsidies. Today, wind power receives subsidies greater than any other form of energy per unit of actual energy produced. …public subsidies for wind on a per megawatt-hour basis are 26 times those for fossil fuels and 16 times those for nuclear power. …The tax credit gives $23 for ev ery megawatt-hour of electricity a wind turbine generates during the first 10 years of operation. …Yet, even with these incentives, only 4.7 percent of the nation's electricity is currently supplied by wind power and that is entirely wind power from on-land turbines. …Think about it: Four large power plants could produce as much electricity as offshore wind turbines placed side by side along the entire Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Florida. Moreover, power plants last longer than wind turbines. A British study found that turbines need to be replaced within 12 to 15 years, and they must be imported from Europe.
Given the disgusting nature of ethanol subsidies, I wonder whether Mark's headline can possibly be accurate.
In any event, Senator Alexander of Tennessee agrees that wind subsidies are a bad idea.
As we look at all the wasteful and unnecessary tax breaks that are holding us back, I have a nomination: At the top of the list should be ending the quarter-century-old wind production tax credit now — not two years from now. This giveaway to wind developers was meant to end in 1999 but has been extended by Congress ten different times. While the wind production tax credit is scheduled to be phased out by the end of 2019, we should do better and end it at the end of this year, and use the $4 billion in savings to lower tax rates. …Congress needs to stop its habit of picking winners and losers in the marketplace. Twenty-five years of picking wind developers over more-reliable sources of electricity hasn't paid off. Imagine what innovation we might unleash if we used the billions wasted on wind energy to invest in research to help our free-enterprise system provide the abundance of cheap, clean, reliable energy we need to power our 21st-century economy.
A recipient of tax preferences discusses his undeserved benefits in a Wall Street Journal column.
…it's only appropriate that I express appreciation for the generous subsidy you provided for the 28-panel, four-array, 8,540-watt photovoltaic system I installed on my metal roof last year. Thanks to the investment tax credit, I slashed my 2016 federal tax bill by $7,758. …thanks to the incentives for rooftop solar, I've snared three subsidies. …fewer rooftop solar projects are being installed in low-income neighborhoods. …According to a study done for the California Public Utility Commission, residents who have installed solar systems have household incomes 68% higher than the state average. Ashley Brown, executive director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group, calls the proliferation of rooftop solar systems and the returns they provide to lucky people like me, "a wealth transfer from less affluent ratepayers to more affluent ones." It is, Mr. Brown says, "Robin Hood in reverse." Do I feel bad about being a solar freeloader? Yes, a little. …the local barista or school janitor—people who likely can't afford solar panels—are paying incrementally more for the grid's maintenance and operation. And the more that people like me install panels, the more those baristas and janitors have to pay.
By the way, the United States is not the only nation with green-energy boondoggles (remember Solyndra?).
I've previously written about the failure of such programs in Germany.
Let's add to that collection with an all-too-typical story from the United Kingdom.
Britain is wasting hundreds of millions of pounds subsidising power stations to burn American wood pellets that do more harm to the climate than the coal they replaced, a study has found. Chopping down trees and transporting wood across the Atlantic Ocean to feed power stations produces more greenhouse gases than much cheaper coal, according to the report. It blames the rush to meet EU renewable energy targets… Green subsidies for wood pellets and other biomass were championed by Chris Huhne when he was Liberal Democrat energy and climate change secretary in the coalition government. Mr Huhne, 62, who was jailed in 2013 for perverting the course of justice, is now European chairman of Zilkha Biomass, a US supplier of wood pellets.
In a perverse way, I admire Mr. Huhne, who didn't follow the usual revolving-door strategy of politician-to-cronyist. He apparently went politician-to-prisoner-to-cronyist.
If you head north in Great Britain, the foolishness mostly revolves around wind power.
…the blackmailing, money-printing sausage factory is a wind farm in Scotland. There are currently about 750 wind farms north of the border, with roughly 3,000 wind turbines. …The wind farms are distributed across Scotland, sometimes in very remote regions, so there is a real problem in getting their energy down to the English border – let alone getting it across. …Why has so much been built? Partly, it is because of income-support subsidies. This top-up of nearly 100 per cent over the wholesale price – funded, of course, from consumer bills – makes wind farms very attractive… Subsidies to onshore wind in the UK now cost a little under £600 million a year, with Scottish wind taking about half, yet the Scottish government continues to ignore the protests and consent to new wind farms as if they cost almost nothing at all. Which as far as Holyrood is concerned, is in fact true. Part of the attraction for Scottish politicians is that the subsidies that pay for Scottish wind farms come from consumers all over Great Britain. Scottish consumption is about 10 per cent of the British total – so when the Scottish government grants planning permission to the wind industry, it is simply writing a cheque drawn overwhelmingly on English and Welsh accounts. …The result is that there is a perverse incentive to locate wind farms in Scotland, even though they aren't welcome and the grid can't take their output.
You won't be surprised to learn, by the way, that taxpayers in the U.K. have been subsidizing green groups.
From an economic perspective, the bottom line is that green energy is more expensive and it requires subsidies that line the pockets of politically connected people and companies. That's true in America, and it's true in other nations.
Which is unfortunate, because it gives a bad name to energy sources that probably will be capable of producing low-cost energy in some point in the future.
Indeed, my long-run optimism about green energy is one of the reasons why I'm such a big believer in capitalism and private property. I just don't want politicians to intervene today and make it harder to achieve future innovation.
Daniel, If you haven't already used Krugman's 1998 assertion that the Internet will have no more impact than the fax machine, you certainly should!
…and don't we also still pay $7,500 to people who buy $80k Teslas, do they can display to us their self righteous zero emissions license plates. How about a "Zero Subsidies" license plate?
Make no mistake, environmentalism, especially in its climate doom religion incarnation, is the main vehicle of totalitarianism in our age. With socialism having so demonstrably failed, our inner human collectivism (useful in our evolutionary past but now seriously out of date with an exponentially advancing humanity) had to find a new outlet.
The church of climate doom is not about science, but rather about political activism. It is not about whether the climate is changing, but rather about the prediction that unless we start doing something immediately, our descendants will suffer a century from now. That prediction requires us to know two things: the state of the climate in a hundred years (the easier part to predict, in a way) and the state of humanity as well as its interaction with climate in a hundred years — an impossible prediction to make from the vantage point of the early twenty first century — especially because humanity has now entered an unprecedented and irreversible ascending exponential trajectory where an avalanche of major technological and life changing disruptors will appear at increasing frequencies. Even at the relatively much slower pace of change of the past century, imagine how many predictions the humans of 1917 would have been correct on about our lives today. With a much higher total exponent of growth, the changes awaiting us in the next century will be truly incomprehensible and mind boggling.
More specifically, climate change may just go away by itself as we naturally find better, more convenient, more powerful, and cheaper, sources of energy. A disruptor is, almost by definition, something nobody saw coming. By confiscating human energy and resources to support their pet solutions, climate activists are most likely taking resources from the unforeseeable disruptors that will prove to be the true solutions to whatever rate of climate change we're experiencing.
Second, climate change may just be reversed, by the technological disruptors that are sure to come over the next decades of unprecedented exponential growth.
With exponential growth now following the equivalent of Moore's Law, humanity may be so advanced in one hundred years that we don't really give a hoot about how hot the climate has become either way.
Finally, if we want something to worry about, let's think that in the next fifty years, North Korea — and especially two dozen more countries that we still don't know who they are — will have fully functional and advanced intercontinental ballistic missiles. Or the fact that machine intelligence is now scheduled to surpass human intelligence around the decade of 2060, opening a series of dramatic and truly incomprehensible to us possibilities; both good and bad. Finally, I believe that by the end of the century we will have taken complete control of our biological destiny, with things like in-vivo active transformation of our basic biology, the potential marriage of human and machine and its AI etc.
You'd have to be a fool to look at the seriously exponential nature that the human trajectory has now entered into and believe that the world of 2117 AD will be about the same as it is today, except hotter. That is the prediction of a truly unimaginative non thinking mind.
So, environmental totalitarianism is something serious, because, although the exponential nature and brilliant future of humanity cannot be stopped (save warfare), many countries will go down the path of relative decline through environmental totalitarianism, miss out on the higher exponents of growth, and go from prosperity leaders to laggards in mere decades. I hope those of you born in this country will take an immigrant's advice and prevent the US from becoming a member of that club, a fate most of Europe has most likely already cemented itself into.
Green energy's problem has been and probably always will be the ability to store energy. Batteries are not the answer- or at least have not been up to this point. They have looked at many other things- such as high speed flywheels , thermal mass heat storage, etc. As an example, some hydro electric plants pump water uphill to their reservoirs all night so that they can send it back down hill during the day when it is needed.
With enough coal to supply our energy for the next two hundred years, I sometimes get the feeling that we have a government that just doesn't want us to be energy independent, and would feel left out if we did not have some sort of complicated scheme that they had to control. Problem is they have made our very lives depend on their allowing us to use the energy we have available.
Yes, Dan- we need to put a stop to it all. Perhaps we can get in a boat and go find a new land where we can set up our own government- one that treats individuals with respect. One that allows the individual to make his own decisions, and live his own life- one not controlled by a king or a government. Oh, wait- that's been tried.


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Written in the aftermath of Victoria's Black Saturday devastation and recorded under extraordinary circumstances, the powerful new single 'Lest We Forget' is set for release on May 8th. With all proceeds of the sale of the single going directly to rebuilding the primary schools destroyed in Strathewen, Middle Kinglake and Marysville, 'Lest We Forget' delivers an important message of hope and strength after the largest natural disaster in Australia's history. Offering a united voice 'Lest We Forget' features the children of the fire ravaged primary schools, along with Melbourne singer/songwriter Cam Tapp and members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (aka Carnival Strings).


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Haley grew up in a loud, messy, and often chaotic house with a loud, messy, often chaotic, and very loving family. As a child of military service member, she moved around often, and these experiences fostered her affinity for travel, exploration, and building relationships. Haley took these passions with her when she moved to Colorado to begin her undergraduate studies at Colorado State University. Haley had many formative experiences at CSU. She discovered a love for nature when she worked in the mountains as a ropes course instructor. She developed interests in language, identity, and trauma when she participated in a research-based study abroad program in Amman, Jordan. Haley also found her calling for working with adolescents and young adults after spending two years as a non-profit program coordinator for an organization called Public Achievement.
Haley graduated from CSU in 2019 with a bachelor's of arts in sociology and a minor in interdisciplinary leadership studies. Shortly after graduation, she was excited to discover wilderness therapy, a world in which all of her passions, values, and callings collided. Haley spent over 200 days on the trail at a wilderness therapy program, first as a field instructor and then as a field supervisor. She left this program to pursue a master's degree in social work, with the goal in mind to one day become a wilderness therapist. She is currently halfway through her program at the University of Denver.
Haley is working at Open Sky because she believes that nature is a valuable tool for recovery. She has seen the powerful outcomes of this work countless times and loves being a part of it. Haley also values mindfulness and meditation and appreciates Open Sky's emphasis on these tools. Finally, she recognizes the importance of healthy family systems and loves working in the Family Services department, where she gets to help families build the skills they need to thrive after Open Sky.
When Haley isn't in the field, she loves to explore, travel, and get outside with her dog. She loves yoga, rock climbing, hiking, baking, live music, and playing loud, messy, and often chaotic board games with her family.