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11th March 2008, 03:12 AM | #1 |
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Crossover placement and bi-wiring?
What are the advantages/disadvantages of placing the external crossovers near the amplifier?
I will be running four pairs of cables direct to the elements (tweeter and woofer) of a pair of 2-way speakers. I.e there will probably not be any binding posts on the speakers. If placed near the amp I assume the setup may have the same benefits as bi-wiring from the amp to a bi-wire capable cross-over near/inside the speaker? The alternatives for closer to the element placement are to: 1. Place the crossovers on the floor under the tower speaker cabinets. OR 2. Glued/dampened inside the bottom hollow of the speaker. |
11th March 2008, 02:57 PM | #2 |
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Probably better sound quality due to less vibration caused by the drivers/speakers.
I have an on going speaker project that I plan to locate the X outside the box , Due to lack of space inside the box. |
11th March 2008, 03:12 PM | #3 | |
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11th March 2008, 03:17 PM | #4 |
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One of the draw back to external crossovers is that some idiot will try and hook them up without the crossovers and with disastrous results. I'm not saying your an idiot, certainly not. But I will say the only time in many years of high volume partying that I ever blew a speaker is when I let one of my idiot friend touch the volume control. You can't always be there to protect your equipment from the idiots of the world.
Also, you have an exceptionally long run of wire with the passive crossovers at the amp. Though, external crossovers might be handy for testing and modifying the crossovers until you get them right. In the bad old days, crossovers were simply screwed into the back of the cabinet some place, and not always placed with wisdom. You need to keep the crossovers away from magnets and magnetic fields to prevent interference. Today, people feel it is best to isolate the crossovers from vibration too. So, they will typically build a small cabinet within a cabinet to house the crossovers. The crossovers are sometime places in a false bottom accessible from the outside of the cabinet, or in a small chamber in the bottom of the cabinet. Or in a small enclosed chamber on the back of the cabinet away from heavy magnets. I think it would be better, just from an practical point of view, if you intend to place the crossovers outside the cabinet, that you place them in a box close to the cabinet using standard connections between the amp and the crossover, and non-standard connections between the crossover and the speakers. That way, no one can connect an amp directly to the speakers. That probably wasn't much help but... there it is. Steve/bluewizard |
11th March 2008, 04:15 PM | #5 |
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Steve is right to a point. The inductors should not be any closer than about 3 inches from a ceramic/ferrous type magnet just to avoid the possibility of an interaction between them. Other magnet types don't seem to be affected.
The layout of the XO is more important than the placement. ie: the inductors should be placed at right angles to one another rather than just flat stacked beside each other. But again, this is not at the top of the list and only really applies to coils right next to one another. I've never made any sense of the bi-wiring aspect. I've not ever seen (graphs) or heard a difference. Besides, the speaker itself, the placement in and treatment of the room along with the source are going to have a much greater effect than any bi-wiring ever could. It's all about getting your house of cards in order. Do the important things right and tinker to your hearts content after. |
11th March 2008, 08:39 PM | #6 |
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Well, no point in arguing with Cal, he knows his stuff.
But I thought there might be some confusion with placing what are essentially circles are right angles to each other. What Cal means by that is, if your coils are close to each other, you should lay one down flat like a tire laying on the ground, and place the other one upright like a tire mounted to a car; one on it's side, and the other on it's edge. I have seen speaker systems that use external passive crossovers, so it's not that uncommon, you just have to go about it with a common sense approach. And, I think the first level of the common sense approach is to ask yourself whether the passive crossovers are part of the Speaker System, or whether they are part of the Amp System. Then whatever you decide, place them close to that answer. Steve/bluewizard |
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Sounds like this unique collection of house photos may have makings of a great coffee table book!
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As would I! This is exactly why I didn't submit photos of my house because I knew there would be so many wonderful entries, and I would love to see some of them!
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Me too! I can't wait to see the photos. Real homes of your real fans.
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That would be so wonderful to see all the houses that were entered, you certainly have piqued my interest with your descriptions. Thanks so much and have a great week.
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Super idea for series - - please share if you can!!
Jennifer I have to say Im so jealous that you get to look at all those beautiful homes! I mean who wouldn't want a peek into how others lives. Its why we buy those shelter magazine & peruse blogs all day long! It would be fun if you could maybe do a round up of your top 10 favorite entrants and share their photographs.

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11th Governor of California | |
In office December 8, 1871 – February 27, 1875 |
Lieutenant | Romualdo Pacheco |
Preceded by | Henry Huntly Haight |
Succeeded by | Romualdo Pacheco |
United States Senator from California |
In office March 4, 1875 – March 4, 1881 |
Preceded by | John S. Hager |
Succeeded by | John F. Miller |
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Born | Salem, Indiana |
December 30, 1825
Died | July 14, 1892 Sacramento, California |
(aged 66)
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Octavine C. Glover-Booth |
Alma mater | Asbury University |
Profession | Entrepreneur, politician |
Newton Booth (December 30, 1825 – July 14, 1892) was an American politician.
Born in Salem, Indiana, he attended the common schools. In 1841, his parents Beebe and Hannah Booth moved from Salem to Terre Haute, Indiana. Newton graduated from Asbury University, later renamed DePauw University, in nearby Greencastle, Indiana. He studied law in Terre Haute and was admitted to the bar in 1850. In the same year he moved to California, where he temporarily engaged in the wholesale grocery business at Sacramento. He made his fortune as a saloon keeper. He returned to Terre Haute in 1857 and engaged in the practice of law with future U.S. Congressman Harvey D. Scott until 1860, when he returned to Sacramento, and again engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was the uncle of author Booth Tarkington, son of his sister Elizabeth Booth, who was raised in Terre Haute. He married his business partner's widow Octavine C. Glover (1833-1907) on February 9, 1892.
Booth was elected to the California State Senate in 1862, serving in 1863, and was the eleventh governor of California from December 8, 1871 to February 27, 1875, when he resigned, having been elected to the United States Senate.
Elected as an Anti-Monopolist, he served as a Senator from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881; he was not a candidate for reelection in 1880. During his time in the Senate he served as chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Manufacturers and the U.S. Senate Committee on Patents, both during the 45th Congress. In 1876, the Greenback Party nominated him for Vice President of the United States on the ticket with Peter Cooper. However, Booth declined the nomination and Samuel F. Cary replaced him.
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84 | J. of Information Literacy | Loughborough U. Library | Free | OJS | – |
66 | J. of Digital Information | Texas AM U. Libraries | Free | OJS | – |
63 | J of Library and Info. Science | Nat. Taiwan Normal U. | Free | OJS | – |
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58 | College and Research Libraries | ALA | Free | CS | – |
51 | Communications in Info. Literacy | CIL | free | OJS | – |
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50 | Ariadne Magazine | UKOLN | free | N/A | – |
48 | Annals of Library & Info. Studies | NISCAIR | free | DSpace | – |
45 | Evidence Based Library and Info. Practice | U. of Alberta Learning Services | free | OJS | – |
38 | Code4Lib Journal | Code4lib | free | – | |
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36 | Int. J. of Legal Information | Int. Assoc. of Law Libraries | free | – | |
35 | PLoS Biology | PLoS | $2900 | EMS | 12.47 |
32 | BMC Cell Biology | Biomed Central Ltd. | $1845 | CS | 2.46 |
32 | Information | MDPI | $260 | CS | – |
30 | New Knowledge Environments | University of Victoria | Free | OJS | – |
27 | BMC Public Health | Biomed Central Ltd. | $1845 | CS | 2.36 |
26 | Advances in Environmental Sciences | Bioflux Society | $200 | CS | – |
26 | J. of Electronic Publishing, The | MPublishing | Free | – | |
26 | Int. J. of Digital Curation | UKOLN | Free | OJS | – |
24 | BMC Bioinformatics | Biomed Central Ltd. | $1845 | CS | 3.03 |
24 | Info. Technologies & Int. Development | Georgia Inst. of Technology | Free | OJS | – |
22 | Obstetrics and Gynecology Int. | Hindawi Publishing Corp. | $1000 | CS | – |
21 | Computational Linguistics | MIT Press | Free | OJS | 2.97 |
21 | First Monday | U. of Illinois at Chicago U. | Free | OJS | – |
17 | J. of Communications | Academy Publisher | $470 | EDAS | – |
15 | JIPITEC | Digital Peer Publishing | Free | – | |
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The answer could be "yes" if we consider that 30% of these top 30 OA journals are University-based.
- Does it matter for this rank who is the publisher?
All but one of these top 30 OA journals are published by established national corporations, professional associations, prestigious non-profit publishers or universities. Only a few of the OA journals published by commercial publishers have so far attracted the interest of JournalTOCs users. So, it seems that it does matter who the publisher is.
- Is OJS really the "submissions system of OA journals"?
Well, 35% of these journals use the Open Source submissions system OJS.
- Are the OA journals with no fee for the authors attracting the largest number of citations?
Probably we cannot get a clear answer to this question from the above ranking. What we can see is that PLoS Biology is the OA journal with the highest fee for authors ($2900.00 USD) but also with the highest known citation factor (JIF=12.47)
- Are publishers of OA journals aware of the significance of JIF?
Some publishers of OA journals were not aware of JIF or didn't consider it to be important for their publications. In fact the publishers of most of the OA journals included in this list weren't concerned about JIFs. An editor told us "JIF is not relevant [for our journal] as it is not a WoS journal. It is an OA journal already indexed in the DOAJ."
- Why is it that 19 out of these top 30 OA journals are from the Library and Information Sciences discipline?
40% of registered users of JournalTOCs are librarians or professionals working in libraries of universities or research centres. This may explain the large number of library and information related journals in this ranking. The ranking doesn't include the journals being followed by non-registered users.
Percentage of scholarly publishers that have adopted the Recommendations on RSS Feeds
It is now two years since the ticTOCs Best Practice Recommendation group, headed by CrossRef and consisting of members from Talis, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press and Heriot-Watt University; published the "Recommendations on RSS Feeds for Scholarly Publishers."
RSS feeds are designed to be aggregated and reused by other services and software applications. In general RSS feeds should always be created with this in mind. The Recommendations are in full agreement with this principle.
Back in 2009, two practices were noticed by the ticTOCs Project:
- there was a wide variation amongst the journal TOC RSS feeds produced by scholarly publishers, and
- in most of the cases the feeds' content had very limited information on the articles, such as uniquely the title and the link to the article's webpage.
Variations in the way publisher implement RSS feeds basically preclude the consistent and automated aggregation of feeds. At the same time, having little content to offer, limit the reusability and value of feeds for other services that want to create interesting applications by combining the feeds. The Recommendations were created to help publishers avoid the inconveniences created by those two practices, and to advocate good practice in the production and provision of TOC RSS feeds for scholarly journals.
There are signs that the Recommendations are gradually being embraced to a certain extent, but how many scholarly publishers have really implemented the Recommendations in their journal TOC RSS feeds? There's no way to get an exact number, but we can get a good idea of the progress being made by taking a look at the number of journals that are using the four RSS 1.0 modules recommended by the group, namely Admin, Content, Dublin Core and PRISM modules.
Today we have examined the RSS feeds of the journals collected by JournalTOCs to get an approximate picture of how many publishers are making the move. Currently 17,112 journals from 917 publishers are being indexed by JournalTOCs.
Interestingly no journal uses the Admin module in their RSS feeds. Only a few hundreds of subscription journals make use of the Content module. However those two modules are not particularly relevant from the re-usability perspective (the Admin module is intended to be used by consumers of a feed to provide feedback on errors encountered in the feed and the Content module is used to include formatted HTML marked up content for browsers.) The modules that really can give us a good indication of the Recommendations' uptake are the Dublin Core and PRISM modules.
8,025 journals are using Dublin Core, PRISM or both modules; but only 3,673 of those journals are using both modules.
If we put the figures from the number of publishers' perspective, 425 publishers are using Dublin Core, PRISM or both modules; and 295 of them use both Dublin Core and PRISM modules.
Regarding Open Access Journals, there are 2,660 Open Access journals in JournalTOCs, and 708 of them have implemented either the Dublin Core or the PRISM module; but only 288 of Open Access journals use both Dublin Core and PRISM modules.
In conclusion: There is still a long way to go. Only 31% of the publishers are using the two main modules and in some extend have adopted the Recommendations. This is equivalent to 22% of the journals. To make a real progress two things should happen: (1) Elsevier, Springer-Verlag and Taylor and Francis together publish over 6,000 journals. A significant step forward will only be made when those three large publishers adopt the Recommendations. (2) An inexplicable low number of Open Access journals have implemented the recommendations. Without proper orientation and guidance, the publishers of OA journals so far haven't been able to grasp the benefits of adopting best practices and using standard modules for their RSS feeds.
A scenario in which OPML could have avoided "Page Not Found" errors for TOC RSS feeds
One of the most frustrating problems in navigating websites is to be presented with a "Page Not Found" webpage.
This is precisely the scenario that aggregators and discovery systems are facing with the 1,600 journal TOC RSS feeds of Taylor & Francis.
Since Monday 27th June, when Taylor & Francis moved its journals platform from Informaworld to Tandfonline, the previous URLs for all the Taylor & Francis journal TOC RSS feeds are returning the infamous "Page Not Found" webpage. Although we were informed by Taylor & Francis that they have redirects in place for those TOC RSS feeds, the fact is that as today, those TOC RSS URLs are still unable to be redirected to their new web addresses.
This "Page Not Found" problem could have been easily avoided if Taylor & Francis had had an up-to-date OPML file listing the RSS feeds for all their journals. Aggregators, service discovery and individual RSS users would have been able to automatically and immediately update the URLs for the TOC RSS feeds by just consulting the OPML file.
In general OPML allows RSS feed aggregators and indexers to more easily find the TOC RSS feeds exposed from a particular publisher website. OPML is a standard XML file that is used to describe a simple list of RSS feeds that includes the title of the feed, a link to the home page of the feed (e.g. the journal homepage), and a link to the RSS feed itself.
Annual Reviews, Biomed Central Ltd., BMJ Publishing Group, Elsevier, Inderscience Publishers, Institute of Physics (IOP), Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press (OUP) and Érudit are the pioneering publishers that are using OPML files to enable aggregators to dynamically detect any change in the list of journals they publish. When their OPML would get updated, so would the aggregators.
Publishers are therefore recommended to publish OPML documents that list all of the feeds from their websites and in particular for their current issues. Unfortunately publishers that don't have OPML files listing their current journals are not able to prevent information on their journals from growing stale at the aggregators' databases.
Unlike RSS feeds, there is no standard way to link to an OPML file from the publisher website. However publishers are advised to put a link to their OPML files on a suitable and freely available webpage. For example Inderscience provides a link to its OPML file here.
As today, JournalTOCs has been able to update the URLs for the TOC RSS feeds of 80% of the journals published by Taylor & Francis.
UCAL, UCPRESS, JSTOR and JournalTOCs
Last month all the TOC RSS feeds from both University of California Press (UCAL) and University of Chicago Press (UCPRESS) stopped working. As a consequence, the current content of almost 100 journal TOCs went out of date at JournalTOCs.
UCAL and UCPRESS explained us that since they have recently moved all their journals to JSTOR they were no longer producing their own TOC RSS feeds. So the problem was JSTOR
When we visited JSTOR website we noticed that JSTOR was systematically not producing TOC RSS feeds for any of its hosted publishers! There were some exceptions, but even in those cases, the TOC RSS feeds were not easily available to anyone as the registration of an account was required to be able to request RSS alerts.
Fortunately UCAL, UCPRESS and JSTOR staff were very pro-active and happy to help. After exchanging a few emails and tweets, JSTOR quickly grasped the importance for publishers to have a TOC RSS feed for each of their journals they host. Exactly two weeks ago, John Holm, the JSTOR Technical Support Specialist, told us that TOC RSS functionality was going to be included in JSTOR's next platform update, scheduled to take place late this month.
Today, John Muenning, UCPRESS Publishing Technology Manager, advised us that JSTOR has reinstated the TOC RSS feeds for University of Chicago Press journals. We easily found the TOC RSS links for all the journals hosted at JSTOR under "Journal Tracking" on the right rail of the journal pages (TOCs and content) for each title.
Well done JSTOR!
Now JSTOR is systematically producing freely available TOC RSS feeds for all the journals and publishers hosted at its platform.
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ISO 21213:2008 determines the air interface options applicable to CALM using third generation (3G) cellular networks. In particular, it specifies protocols and parameters that 3G systems shall include to support prolonged, long-range, high data rate wireless communication links in ITS environments where heterogeneous handovers or media independent handovers (MIH) are either necessary to maintain the link, or desirable, as determined by media selection policies.
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Jury service is an extremely important responsibility. The United States Constitution and the Texas Constitution guarantee all people, regardless of race, religion, gender, national origin or economic status, the right to trial by an impartial jury.
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Any supporting documentation regarding a request to be excused or disqualified from jury service should be submitted immediately to the Jury Coordinator.
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Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Review by superman2453: Younger Couple's Perspective
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I used this website to make some choices in the past, so I thought I would share my opinion and give some help.
First we are 35 years old, this is the second cruise we have been on. The opportunity for half of the trip to be funded by a work spiff/reward scenario left us with a choice between carnival and celebrity. So I choice Celebrity because we went on a shorter cruise with Carnival a year before.
I had heard Celebrity was nicer and it was more expensive so away we went. I booked about 90 days in advance and booked an interior room. Then as we got about two weeks out I called in for upgrades and the ocean view room became less expensive the what was paid, two days later I ended up upgrading to the balcony room for only a 100 per person more then the original interior room. Seems like a good way to save money and I would repeat this process next time I book a cruise. The balcony was nice because if we didn't want to spend time at the pool we could still be outside More
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We have young kids but left them home on this trip. But we did observe what it might have been like for them. There were less then 20 of them on the whole ship. I don't think they would have had fun with that in mind. Carnival seems to be more geared to kids.
The passengers were old! I would guess the average age of everyone was across the whole ship was 61. It had some negatives and positives.
First getting into dinners early was more difficult. Dinner discussions were like having dinner with your grandparents which was fine but not exactly common ground. That crowd left the pool areas and hot tubs vacant at 9 PM it was shocking there was not a soul on the whole pool deck it seemed in the evening which was nice. Also if you didn't mind eating later it fast and easy to get in.
We chose the flexible dining option and found that worked better for us since we are vacation didn't want to be ruled by a schedule. We decided against the extra cost dining options after going to our first meal which was really good. The buffet location was where we had most breakfasts and lunch if we even at lunch and it was busy that time of the day but fairly standard stuff for buffet style food. Good not great but they did have sushi which we had a snack of almost ever evening which again was ok but still a nice treat. The main dining room meals were very good. High quality with fancy options. Beef was great, fish was ok and lobster was pretty well done. Good deserts and much nicer then our typical restaurant at home anyway.
We don't drink alcohol but had a many many diet coke, and coke zeros along the way with the soda package they offered.
Generally service was not as warm as the carnival experience which was suprising except our room attendant was very cheerful, warm and fantastic.
Coming from a cold state being in the Caribbean was nice, warm and beautiful. On our Sea days we stayed active and went to the gym to workout before dinner.
On our port days we walked a ton in San Juan.
We did a snorkling excursion on St Kitts which was fun. We got a taxi to beach in the morning on St Kitts which was fairly easy and very nice as well.
On St Maartin we rented a 4 wheeler and went around the whole island, that was not a very long drive sharing a small machine so I don't think I would do that again. In the afternoon we did a discover scuba class which was very fun, and the highlight of the trip.
We relaxed by the pool or on deck many other times and generally found it be relaxing and a great trip.
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Is Cristiano Ronaldo the best player in the world?
"Cristiano Ronaldo is not only the best player in the world…but probably the single most gifted player to play in England since the Belfast Boy….What a *so and so* player. I am in awe…"
So wrote the curiously named Pimpy the Magic Elf on the RedCafe message board after Cristiano Ronaldo scored three of Manchester United's six goals in Saturday's second half demolition of Newcastle.
So just how good is Ronaldo? On current form, he must surely be the world's best.
He's always had the skill, talent, and particularly in the aftermath of that wink, the attitude to excel. Over the past season and a half however, he's maximised these attributes to become more indispensable than any other player.
The statistics are staggering. His 25 goals in all competitions last season led him to an unprecedented clean sweep of England's three major individual honours. This term he's scored 22 in all competitions, with 16 coming in the league. And remember, he's a winger and it's still January.
Comparatively, it gets scarier. He's already scored as many Premier League goals (51) as Steven Gerrard and is fast catching the league's highest scoring midfielders Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes (95). His team mates took a combined 737 games to reach their totals. Ronaldo has almost averaged a goal every other game in his 112.
But the best since Belfast Boy George Best?
There's still a bit to go. Question marks remain over a failure to yet light up the latter stages of the Champions League as Kaka did last season or indeed Best 39 years earlier. Despite performing well in major tournaments for Portugal, he was found wanting in both their Euro 2004 final and World Cup 2006 semi-final exits.
But you just get the feeling all that could change in the coming months. With United on course to crack the Champions League again and Euro 2008 on the horizon, he is on the verge of reaching the kind of heights last scaled by Zinedine Zidane 10 years ago.
First he must celebrate a birthday in February. His 23rd. That is perhaps the most frightening statistic of all.
Click here to read an envy-filled tribute to Ronaldo by Mitch Phillips, but please leave your comments about the Manchester United maestro below.
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Now this is a post I (reluctantly) have to agree with. The most desirable player on the planet right now.
he goes missing in big games and has done nothing on the international stage. beckham was once getting these tributes and hes a posterboy not a footballer. he did nothing in facup final, champions league, games against arsenal and liverpool add to that he is arrogant. just look at his picture. aside from being mediocre he is not a good sportsman. do not ever compare him to ZIDANE, PLATINI, LUIS RONALDO, MARADONA, PELE, BAGGIO, MALDINI, CRUYFF & BECKENBAUER who are true greats.
by the way george best only played 7-8 years at manu and had a terrible lifestyle of the pitch and in between best and ronaldo was henry who was better than both and more gifted.
george best and ronaldo should not be praised as they are bad role models for kids.
PS: ronaldo is a one trick pony and no prizes for guessing the trick (~stepover~). he was boxed by maldini in 4 games against milan, oddo boxed him, abidal of france and on some occasions a cole did to.
CRonaldo is the best right now….in some years from now people are going to look back and say woow, he was the best from that time. right now…people are in denial..they dont whant to believe his the best. people are waiting for rooney to be the best… but i got to say what my eyes see and rooney has a long way to go to get to ronaldo level. and theres no question let Best be the best from his time, like Maradona and Pele in theyr time. this is now 2008 and ronaldo is the best.
Everyone has their own but if you leave rivalry aside and tad jealousy out, Ronaldo is the best in the world for last year and half.
Wonder what he will get for this year's statistics? May be 3in European player awards? and 10th in Fifa? YOu never know. Ridiculous he doesn't get appreciated by the trophy outside England.
Hi Ena. I think it all depends on how he does at Euro 2008. If he carries his current form into the tournament, and sees Portugal through to the final, say, I think there's an excellent chance he'll scoop the two big awards at the end of the year. He doesn't look to have a lot of competition at the moment.
ronaldo is simply dazzling me at the moment – i thought i would never see a player to rival henry in the EPL but this is the one – if he stays at ManU for another 5 years he will become the biggest legend in our leagues history and will definately settle the comparisons with BEst debate. lets face it, it was so much easier to beat players back in 60s and 70s – there was so much space – ronaldo has everything – no weakness whatsoever and great courage (bigger than henry on this score) – PROBLEM IS HE'LL BE IN SPAIN NEXT YEAR – THE CAMP NOU AND BERNABEAU ARE BIGGER THEATRES THAN OLD TRAFFORD – i lived in spain for 10 years and us insular brits tend to get carried away by our own importance – the streets dont get deserted when arsenal play manu and this happens all around spain when barca play madrid – football is simply bigger and more important over there
-ive only got one reservation about ronaldo – english defences are renowned as being the least organised and most naive – how would ronny fair playing italian defences week in week out?
Heck no he isn't. What is your problems? He happened to get a few good amounts of red and yellows already. He cheats. He is good at scoring but has a total of two assist as a winger. With fowards like Rooney and Tevez, he would be much better to give up his scoring oppurtunities and make the best out of them with good vision.
He also happens to suck when it comes to going agianst good defenders. More than have of his goals are agains the bottom five teams, like Derby.
Cesc Fabregas has a much worse supporting cast team, Arsenal, and yet they are in first place. Reason? He makes the most of everyone. He isn't the whole team, but he is the pinnacle, the top, the ruling one that puts everyone to their 100%
Ibrahamovic is going insane as well. In Series A, they are going undefeated with 17 wins. It isn't him himself, but he definantly sets the plays and makes the unbelievable happen. He also shoots like a monster.
Cristiano is by far the best player in the world come on who gets booed most games at the beginning of a season and delivers 23 goals in a season in response … and not only scores 23 in one season for his club but keeps his outstanding form and also takes it to a further level.. Not only 32 goals this season and counting saves the team vital points to improve their standings on their run for the title and Champions league.Not to mention levels Best's 40 year record of 32 goals for a winger for united but goes a step further to currently have 33 goals when the season is not even over ….. Sure other players like Torres and Fabregas are playing fantastic football but Ronaldo is at a diffrent level than any lad today…… Not only does he score but produces chances for the team and is a fascinating player to watch he takes football to a diffrent level … So if you say he is not the best I do not know what else you can get from a player……
I think christiano ronaldo is not the best player in the world.I think he is right behind kaka so that makes him second but kaka has lost his confidence so ronaldo might sneak in front of him this year.But i hope kaka will still be the best this year
ronaldo is far more better than messi and kaka.ronaldo has scored many goals in these two season than these two.in world cup kaka and messi were eliminated at an early stage and people still say that they are better than ronaldo.ronaldo is on top of the premiership and still in the champions league than kaka nor messi.
people should believe that ronaldo is better than kaka and messi. kaka is out of the champions league and messi is still in the champions league neither of these two is in the champions league at the same time on top of the table than ronaldo only.
ronaldo is the best when you compare the three kaka ,messi,and ronaldo.playing in champions league at the same time on top of the table.
no one is better than ronaldo..
so far so good that if you compair kaka and messi to ronaldo i think its a mess in otherwards there no other people to be compaired with ronaldo apart from these two.
Cristiano Ronaldo scores 30+ goals; rotating from wing to striker, and now he is in the same league as Maradona and Pele. What utter rubbish!
I can't remember him performing against a major opposition; and please don't tell me Cristiano Ronaldo is a genius, he's a goal poacher at best.
You people should take something into account before you agree with the english media. That is Cristiano Ronaldo's stats this season.
Cristiano Ronaldo 07/08
39 games
37 goals
7 assists
227 shots taken
117 shots on target
Now let's compare his stats to another midfielder, but who is 3 years younger.
Messi 07/08
27 games
15 goals
14 assists
75 shots taken
38 shots on target
Comparing both stats you can see the real truth. Cristiano Ronaldo is definately an upgraded Frank Lampard, and I would take Messi, Kaka, Henry, and the real best player when on form Ronaldinho any day. The only fools who wont accept the truth are the ones who are blind, and those who support Man U.
Pele and Maradona are the greatest along with players like Maldini, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Zico, the real Ronaldo, and Zidane. There are reasons for this. They have done it all.
Ok! you can't compare the football back in those days to todays. However, back in Pele's day, the Brazilian League apparently was the best league in the world, and also back then they did not have the same fitness training as the ones we have now. Also back then alot of footballer drank alcohol before a match, and they also played with a football that was heavy and hard, and with boots that weren't crafted by the nike team for accuracy, precision, and power.
With todays advancements Pele and Maradona would have been better.
Comparing Cristiano Ronaldo to Pele and Maradona is like comparing Allen Iverson to Michael Jordan and Larry Bird.
of course he is…he has approved that…42 goals in the season….the best player and the nicest..i love him…forever
Just writing this 11 or so months later to insist that Cristiano Ronaldo is by far the best the game has ever seen. With a virtually guaranteed Ballon on the horizon, it will be a clean sweep for the boy from Madeira Portugal. Even after his recent surgery, he's already back on track. He is simply phenomenal.
you are the best that know all people ? this is true ronaldo ?you play veryy wellll
We all know that Cristiano Ranaldo is the best soccer player in the world! Im his biggest fan! Anyone that talks bad about him, well they SUCK! I have seen his dribbling his moves his goals, and on news thay said he won the first best player! He and his team manchester United are going play with barcelona, which i know Machester United will win and Cristiano Ranaldo will make the goals for the Finals! C. RANALDO YOU ARE THE BEST SOCCER PLAYER IN THE WORLD AND NOBODY WILL BEAT YOU UP, AND I AM YOU'RE BIGGEST FAN FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!
Since moving to Real Ronaldo has fallen out of the limelight a little, and Messi seems to be grabbing all the headlines.
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6 December 2012 The United Nations humanitarian chief today called on the Government of Myanmar to work with the world body and its partners to increase efforts to address the humanitarian issues that are causing continued instability in the country.
"The last year has seen remarkable changes within Myanmar but humanitarian needs continue and in some areas have intensified. As the country moves ahead on its reform process it needs to address some critical humanitarian issues," the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, said in the Asian nation, while on a seven-day visit to the region that ends on Saturday.
"This will save lives, assist in the restoration of peace and stability in parts of the country where conflict persists and will enable longer term development work to continue," she added in a news release from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which she also heads.
The UN official is in Myanmar to assess the country's humanitarian situation, including the impact of ongoing conflict in the northern states of Kachin and Shan, where some 75,000 people from have been forced from their homes since fighting began in June 2011 between Government troops and rebels.
The Under-Secretary-General is also looking at the effects of the recent inter-communal ethnic violence in the western state of Rakhine, where more than 115,000 people have been displaced and the community remains divided.
During a meeting with President Thein Sein, Ms. Amos commended him on his recent pledge to enact a range of measures, including pursuing a durable ceasefire in Kachin and addressing issues such as citizenship, resettlement, and reconciliation in Rakhine state.
"United Nations organizations and our partners want to support the Government in tackling these issues," Ms. Amos said. "There are a number of areas where our interests for the well-being and welfare of the people of Myanmar connect."
Earlier Thursday, the UN humanitarian chief visited Jan Mai Kawng camp outside Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin state, where some 700 internally displaced persons are housed. The camp is located in a Government-controlled area and it receives regular assistance from aid organizations.
Ms. Amos also expressed grave concern for people displaced in other parts of the state where the world body has no access.
"The UN has not been allowed access to provide badly needed assistance to some 39,000 people in areas outside the Government's control since July 2012," she said. "Local partners are providing food and other assistance but their stocks are depleted and with the winter months approaching, getting more supplies in is critical."
Ms. Amos raised Kachin with the President and her concern about the lack of humanitarian access in some Government-controlled areas and in areas controlled by the political organisation known as the Kachin Independence Organization.
"We have substantial experience working in insecure environments. We are working in other places where the security situation is much worse," Ms. Amos noted. "We hope the Government will give us permission to travel to these areas and provide the aid that is so desperately needed."
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Tha action of a girl biting your junk because she thinks it feels good to have your junk bit.
Man, that freak Tasha totally saber-toothed me last night.
po Derrick
Април 12, 2005
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a great big dino that likes to eat people with that big tooth of his
That big saber - tooth is going to eat Jenny!
po kels
Јануар 16, 2005