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• Park in the farthest parking space from your destination• Whenever possible, skip the elevator and take the stairs• Take the dog on a walk (your dog will love you for this)• Walk during your lunch break• Become more active in your children's sports• Take a walk instead of a coffee break• Have a walking meeting• Pace the house while you are talking on the phone (with a cordless phone)
Exercise Your Way to 10,000 Steps It doesn't include expensive equipment or an abundance of time to reach 10,000 steps. The idea of 10,000 steps began 40 years ago in Japan, as an effort to make exercise easy, with minimal thought and planning. The only equipment necessary is a step pedometer and a step log. 10,000 steps is equivalent to approximately five miles a day. The program works by clipping the step pedometer onto your belt loop each morning and resetting the stepper to zero. At the end of the day record your steps on the step log. It's as simple as that!
Start Off SlowBefore starting the program, we encourage you to track your steps for two weeks without changing anything. At the end of week two, add up the number of steps and divide by 14. This number will be the average number of steps you walk a day. Your goal for week three should be to increase your daily steps by 20%. To obtain this number, multiply the average number of steps per day by 1.2.
Check with Your PhysicianIf you have not been active, or if you have a chronic disease such as heart disease or diabetes, you should consult your physician before starting any exercise program. Let your physician know what type of activity you plan to start, including the frequency and intensity.
Walking for Weight LossIf you are walking for weight loss it is recommended that you get 12,000 to 15,000 steps a day. Please remember that you need to work your way up to this goal. Gradual progress is the best way to achieve a new goal!
About Step PedometersPurchase a step pedometer at an SSM Health Pharmacy, or at any sporting goods store. There are different kinds of pedometers available depending on your needs. Some require you to measure your stride to calculate distance. To calculate 10,000 steps, you need a simple "step pedometer," which keeps track of the number of steps you take (not distance).
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As one of the first groups to be dubbed "the next Smiths," Jamesbecame an institution on the British alternative music scene during the '80s and '90s with their pleasant folk-pop. Early in their career,James were blessed by praise from their idol Morrissey, which turned out to be both a blessing and a curse. The group was pegged as second-rate Smiths, yet continued to tour and record, eventually gaining a sizable following. In the late '80s, James, like many of their British peers, became involved in the acid house-inspired "baggy" scene and recorded the baggy-inspired "Sit Down," which became their breakthrough hit. Shortly after "Sit Down," Jamesbecame more experimental, culminating in a collaboration withBrian Eno that resulted in their biggest American album, Laid, in 1993. James took four years to follow Laid, by which time their audience had returned to a cult following.
James formed in Manchester in 1982, when Paul Gilbertson (guitar),Jim Glennie (bass), and Gavan Whelan (drums) met Tim Booth(vocals) at Manchester University and asked him to join their fledgling band. During the next year, James became regulars on the local club circuit, and by 1983, they had signed to Factory, releasing their debut EP, Jimone, later that year. Two years later, their second EP, James 2, was released, and Morrissey, the lead singer ofthe Smiths, publicly endorsed the group, asking them to open for his band. By the summer of 1985, Larry Gott had replaced Gilbertson, and the group signed to Sire Records. Working with producer Lenny Kaye, the group recorded its debut, Stutter, that year, releasing it in early 1986 to generally positive reviews.
Over the next two years, James toured constantly, building up a solid fan base. They released their second album, the folky Strip-Mine, in 1988. The record failed to capitalize on their live following, and the band departed Sire the following year, signing with the independent Rough Trade. On their new label, James released the moderately successful "Sit Down" and the live album One Man Clapping, which climbed to number one on the indie charts. In 1990,Whelan was replaced by David Baynton-Power, and James expanded to a septet with the addition of keyboardist Mark Hunter, violinistSaul Davies, and trumpeter Andy Diagram. The new lineup signed to Fontana Records and released Gold Mother in the fall. Following a handful of minor hit singles, Gold Mother finally became a breakthrough success in the spring of 1991, when a re-recorded version of "Sit Down" -- now boasting a contemporary baggy beat -- climbed to number two on the U.K. charts and became a staple on U.S. modern rock radio. Although the success of "Sit Down" was a blessing, it also was a curse, as the single became all James were known for. The band began to rebel in concert, playing almost nothing but new material, and its next album, 1992's Seven, was perceived as a misguided stab at big arena rock.
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Beware of false dawns? No need to remind Villa fans of the need for caution and patience as the new Premier League season approaches.
Expectations have been firmly grounded after two bitterly disappointing campaigns – the last of which was just about the most dismal nine months of football many a Villain can remember – and yet there is no denying the welcome feeling of genuine optimism around the club.
I've kept a low profile for the past couple of weeks. I haven't been on holiday, I haven't been totally obsessed and engrossed with Euro 2012 - although I am enjoying it - and I haven't forgotten about the Villa.
But here's the thing: I haven't forgotten about Villa, but I have stopped worrying about them.
So much for Solskjaer, and a swift conclusion to Villa's latest managerial search. Following the Norwegian's decision to withdraw himself from the running for the position as coach, seemingly before he had even been offered the position, concluded a series of rather bizarre days for Villa.
Direct, decisive and damning.
Less than 12 hours after watching the 'highlights' of Villa's final match of the 2011-12 season, scowling at yet more defensive irresponsibility, player indifference and managerial culpability, before skulking off to bed to lie awake and inwardly fume at the sheer incompetence that had rendered the previous nine and a half months the most shambolic and miserable I've ever endured as a fan, news.
Maybe now it's beginning to feel real. Villa could get relegated.
I've been poor wind-up value over the last couple of months. Friends and colleagues - smug grins on their faces - have been falling over themselves to get the Villa jibes in; things aren't looking good, eh? Starting to struggle, aren't you? Reckon you'll get sucked into the battle at the bottom?
So, welcome back, Martin.
We knew you'd return one day, although, if we're honest, it was something of a mild surprise that you're back with Sunderland; thought you'd have kept on eye on events at Chelsea and Spurs, maybe even the England national team, played the waiting game, stalling for a bigger prize.
Still, we're hardly in a position to judge, so forgive us if we've come across as a bit sour. We still are, you see: sour, sore and slightly jealous. You might feel some of those emotions coming from us on Saturday.
There's no substitute for winning matches.
That's the lesson Villa need to learn after the threat of relegation was put firmly back on the agenda. It can still happen, if we don't wake up to the danger and actually approach a match with the intention of winning it.
I was exactly 232 words into this week's Villa column when I heard the news. Stiliyan Petrov, Villa's captain, has been diagnosed with acute leukemia.
... and everything feels much better.
It's been almost pleasant being a Villa fan for the past couple of weeks; with this Tuesday's scheduled match against Bolton being postponed, the glow that comes with winning has lasted that little bit longer. There's nothing like a victory to put an extra spring in the step and Villa's 1-0 win over Fulham was perfectly timed; without a home win since the beginning of winter 2011 (November 5, to be precise), this was a first Villa Park three-pointer for four months.
There are some not-so-subtle diversionary tactics being deployed around Villa Park; we've only just entered March, but it seems the club has its focus firmly on the 2012-13 season already.
Whether this is excellent forward planning, or a way of trying to ignore the stagnant nature of our current situation, I haven't yet decided.
There was a certain atmosphere of sadness in the air as Villa took the field against Wigan last Saturday - sadness because, in 90 minutes time, Villa would be saying farewell to a top-class striker for the remainder of the season.
What wasn't known, as the teams lined up at the DW Stadium, was that, come 5pm or thereabouts, Villa would be facing the reality of losing a second forward player of undoubted quality.
I'm not endorsing the sole use of video highlights to judge a footballer's ability, but, as news broke this week of yet another injury setback for Fabian Delph, I couldn't resist a viewing reminder of how good the player can be.
Villa fans have never seen Delph anywhere like his best in a claret and blue shirt and the creeping concern now is that we never will.
I have to hand it to Alex McLeish - the man is fast becoming a tactical visionary. How else to explain the gift he has, the extraordinary ability to see the potential in the team formations he selects, the tactics he chooses to implement, and the players he picks to follow his instructions?
Against Manchester City on Sunday, not the first time this season, McLeish completely bamboozled me with his starting XI; I felt as if I was on the receiving end of the original Cruyff turn, expecting one thing and then falling victim to something totally different, something leftfield. And this was leftfield, alright. McLeish pulled something pretty special from his locker of strange, dark coaching methodology.
It's strange how situations are interpreted. Personally, I've got Villa down as one of the more predictable teams in the Premier League, so it was surprising that certain television highlights coverage of last Sunday's match at Newcastle portrayed us as the complete opposite.
Unpredictable, because of our recent sequence of results? I think not. Inconsistent would be more accurate; occasionally, Villa win a game. More often than not, we don't. Sometimes we draw. All too often, such as at Newcastle, Villa lose. There's a kind of predictability about the team these days: you certainly know what's usually coming.
Alex McLeish wasn't bluffing after all.
'Nothing," the Villa manager had said, a week or so ago, when quizzed on what transfer window activity he expected to be involved in. Few doubted the sincerity of his brusque and honest response, though there was perhaps still a fleeting suspicion that McLeish was putting on an absolutely brilliant poker face.
Did the coy old boy have a sneaky deal or two under his sleeve?
Can a season turn on a single result?
Villa fans have to believe it can, and after the false start of beating Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, only to be shown up at home to Swansea two days later, fresh optimism can be felt since last weekend's pulsating win against Wolves.
Wry smiles among the Villa Park faithful last week with the confirmation of Robbie Keane's loan move from LA Galaxy.
Why the wry? Because 'Keane to Villa' has been arguably one of the longest-running transfer sagas in recent club history. Villa have finally got their man - for a few weeks, at least - some 12 or 13 years since first being linked with the striker.
What a contrast that was.
From the champagne corks literally popping on New Year's Eve, the day Villa won at Stamford Bridge, to two days later.
The Christmas decorations were taken down at my house on the second day of 2012, and Villa fell to defeat to Swansea City - a fourth consecutive home loss at Villa Park (the previous three coming against Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal), and a first away league win of the season for the newly-promoted Welsh club.
I have absolutely no doubt that it was an innocent slip from Marc Albrighton, but even so, the Villa winger was probably more accurate with his first tweet following the drab home defeat to Liverpool.
'Tough game!' he messaged. 'At least we only have 3 days to wait until we can't put right!'
Quite, Marc. Although he quickly realised his spelling error and tweeted, 'I did mean 'can' put it right!', Albrighton's unintentionally echoed what many Villa fans are feeling heading into Christmas.
And so, with immaculate timing, Martin O'Neill is back in football, emerging from the shadows and pitchside Champions League chit-chat with Roy Keane and Gareth Southgate - two men who know plenty about managing north east clubs - to take over at Sunderland.
His decision to succeed Steve Bruce at the Stadium of Light could not have been more poignantly made in the hearts and minds of Villa fans.
We are approaching Christmas, after all, the traditional time of year to reminisce and indulge in nostalgia, and considering that discussion over O'Neill - his time as Villa manager, the manner of his abrupt departure and the legacy he left behind - has barely been far from the agenda since he walked away from Villa Park in August 2010, it has yet again sparked debate and counter-debate.
Of course; great goalkeeper, great signing; in good form, which is probably just as well, as he'll have a busy night.
'Cuellar, Collins, Dunne, Warnock...'
Carlos! Back at right-back, just like the Martin O'Neill days again. Still, Hutton's had an indifferent start and I like Cuellar, even though I prefer him at centre-back. Bit disappointed that James Collins has kept his place again - when is McLeish going to give Ciaran Clark a go?
It was the interview Villa fans had been waiting impatiently for; the first public utterances from owner Randy Lerner since the wind of charge swept through Villa Park around 18 months ago.
Perhaps it hasn't been quite that long since Lerner last gave anything approaching an interview, but it certainly feels that way.
It's been a typically uneventful week at Villa.
Barry Bannan was charged with driving offences following a motorway crash last month, wild rumours of a club takeover, with owner Randy Lerner selling up, popped up on internet forums, Gary Gardener scored a couple of absolute beauties for England's under-21s, and Emile Heskey's partner burnt a roast pork dinner, prompting a visit from the local fire brigade.
I've been forced to ditch the theme of this post, and start all over again. An idea conceived in the days leading up to the Norwich game, an article already half-written. Now it's useless, unfit to publish. And I'm delighted at that.
I had planned to write about how Villa are a side shorn of inspiration, following the summer sale of Ashley Young, a player who - though bafflingly criticised as 'lazy' by some fans - could almost always be relied upon to do something positive with the ball.
With his previous employment history, Steve Bruce is never going to earn a warm place in the hearts of Aston Villa fans.
This was the man, remember (actually, who could ever and will ever, forget?) who scored an infamous 97th-minute winner for Manchester United at Sheffield Wednesday, a goal which more or less ended the title hopes of Ron Atkinson's Villa the best part of two decades ago.
And a man who, during his time as boss of Birmingham City, presided over a sequence of six unbeaten derby matches, winning four and drawing two: unbeaten in games against Villa for three seasons running.
We are in those twilight days between autumn and winter, and a murky gloom threatens to descend upon all things Villa.
Saturday's home defeat to West Brom - Villa's first reversal against their nearish neighbours since 1979 - simply reinforced the shortcomings of the current squad and manager, and emphasized Villa's fall in stature and standing.
I can't contain myself a moment longer. I accept I'll almost certainly be opening a huge can of worms with this one, but having read and digested Alex McLeish's recent comments about Emile Heskey, and pondered them for the best part of a week, I've got to let it all it out.
I need to talk about Emile. Perhaps we all do. I think we'd all feel better afterwards.
So, Emile Heskey. Where to start? How about those thoughts from McLeish?
Fear. That's the overriding emotion I have when I contemplate Villa's game on Saturday. Why? It's away at Manchester City.
Perhaps fear is too strong. Certainly anxiety. Yes, I'm definitely anxious. Apprehensive. And with good reason: I picture Villa, caught like a startled, stranded rabbit in the headlights of an ongoing light blue-coloured juggernaut, as it smashes headlong into our unbeaten league record. Smashes it, and smashes it into smithereens.
Fabio Capello took five strikers to Montenegro for England's 2012 European Championship qualifier, and while Gabriel Agbonlahor was not one of them, the fact that his omission from Capello's squad even merits a discussion at all is testament to the resurgence in form that the Villa man has shown during the first seven weeks of the Premier League season.
Wayne Rooney aside, it would be a reasonably straightforward exercise to demonstrate that Agbonlahor is the in-form English striker in the league at present.
Another weekend, another so-called 'winnable' game.
But while hosting Wigan may lazily be deemed one of the more straightforward fixtures of the league season, a word of caution: this is a game Villa haven't actually ever won in the Premier League. A sequence spanning six games since Wigan gatecrashed into the top flight under Paul Jewell in 2005.
That was painful, and then a little less painful, to watch. Villa's Sunday afternoon outing at QPR ended badly when Richard Dunne - minutes after justly being named as man of the match - scored the most unfortunate of own goals to give the home side an injury time equaliser and a point.
The manner of the goal will have hurt Villa as well as the timing; three minutes into the allocated five minutes of time added on. But while the second half ended with a nasty sting in the tail, the preceding 45 minutes at least provided a few clues as to how this Villa can move forward.
It depends how you choose to interpret the information; look at Villa's start to the season from one particular angle, and the state of play seems encouraging. Take a slightly different angle, and the picture gets a little fuzzier.
Villa: unbeaten in five Premier League games. Or, Villa: one win in five Premier League games. Both statements are entirely true. Which side of the fence you sit on may just boil down to whether you're a glass half full or a glass half empty type. That being the case, I need a refill.
Alex McLeish is going to make a change to his team today.
We know this for certain, because Emile Heskey, who has started all four of Villa's league games so far this season, is ruled out of the home clash against Newcastle - and very probably the next couple of matches too - after injuring his hamstring at Everton last week. It will force McLeish to make his first significant change of the campaign; this is the first time the front six of his elected 4-2-3-1 formation has been disrupted. The question is: who is going to benefit from Heskey's absence?
It would be fair to say that September didn't start well for Stiliyan Petrov.
Successive defeats in the Euro 2012 qualifying double header against first England, and then Switzerland, ensured Bulgaria won't be playing in the finals next summer, and may yet suffer the ignominy of finishing bottom of Group G. In the fall-out following these defeats, Petrov, Bulgaria's captain no less and most-capped player in the national team's history, was on the receiving end of some harsh criticism from former player Yordan Lechkov.
There is always someone worse off than you, so it is said, and Villa don't need to look too far for a shining example of that someone this weekend.
Whatever frustrations have been felt by Villa fans during the last 12 months, a time when the realisation of squad reshaping and ambition downsizing has slowly dawned, those frustrations can be multiplied for those who populate the blue half of Merseyside.
It's a tricky spot to be in, this tenth place. Yet somehow, after everything that's transpired this season, after the managerial madness, spa punch-ups and generally woeful play, Aston Villa are in tenth place. In the top half of the table, Villa. Somehow.
The international break provides a good opportunity for Aston Villa to assess the season so far, to take a step back and plant a flag. It's been a whirlwind two months at the club, but things are definitely looking up.
"Naïve." It seems to be the word of the moment around Aston Villa. Interim manager Kevin MacDonald used it to describe his team selection after Sunday's 6-0 drubbing at St. James' Park, and captain Stiliyan Petrov repeated it when asked to explain the performance. Given the euphoria of Villa fans after the season-opening win against West Ham, "naïve" might apply to them as well.
The James Milner saga reached an anticlimactic conclusion this week as the England midfielder completed a long-awaited move to Manchester City. It was a predictable—albeit disappointing—transaction, and brought Aston Villa fans back down to earth after the excitement of Saturday's 3-0 thrashing of West Ham. So goes the emotional roller coaster at Villa Park this summer.
Did Aston Villa outplay Birmingham City on Sunday? Absolutely not. Did they deserve the points? Absolutely.
Above and beyond a penalty claim and a soggy pitch, Aston Villa's FA Cup semifinal loss to Chelsea revealed one thing: it's time to sell Ashley Young. (Bear with me. I'm not as delusional as you think.)
Martin O'Neill is liked by the vast majority of Aston Villa fans. But loved? That's a strong word.
Love suggests a mutual intimacy, the type of shared feelings that draw both partners to pursue a similar fate. The relationship between O'Neill and the club he manages was put under the microscope last week, and for the first time both he and Villa supporters were forced to examine their sentiments for one another. That it was so long in coming is not the least bit surprising.
It was a winnable match in a stretch of winnable matches. But in failing to get three points at Stoke on Saturday, Aston Villa fell a further two points behind Tottenham Hotspur in the race for fourth spot in the English Premier League. They also squandered a chance to pull ahead of sixth-place Liverpool. That said, it was a decent result.
That Aston Villa have been handed an FA Cup replay just four days before their Carling Cup showdown with Manchester United is "not ideal", according to Martin O'Neill. But the Villa manager has really left the matter at that, and I don't expect we'll hear him whinging about it over the next 10 days, either. If Villa are keen to think of themselves a "big" club, this sort of fixture congestion is par for the course.
A home draw against Manchester United is hardly a poor result, but Aston Villa would be quite right to think of Wednesday's 1-1 stalemate as two points dropped rather than a point gained.
Twelve months ago, Aston Villa were in a dogfight with Arsenal for fourth spot in the Premier League. Or so it seemed. A 1-0 loss at home to Chelsea in late February was the club's first since November, but by then the gas had run out. Villa wouldn't win another match until May, and they took just 11 of the season's remaining 36 available points. And Gabriel Agbonlahor scored just a single goal.
Moustapha Salifou was in the wrong place at the wrong time. So was Group B of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.
Tuesday's 2-0 win over Sunderland at the Stadium of Light was Aston Villa's most important result of the season to date. More important than the August 24 win at Anfield; more important than the October 17 win at home to Chelsea. Even more important than Saturday's victory at Manchester United.
Listeners of the ESPN Soccernet Podcast may remember an episode about 18 months ago when producer Adam Williams compared then-Middlesbrough left-winger Stewart Downing to Bayern Munich maestro Franck Ribery. Adam got quite the ribbing over that remark, and his colleagues still give him stick about it when the opportunity presents itself.
You're only as good as your best players. It's a saying that coaches come back to time and again, no matter the sport. And it's a mantra that will be giving Martin O'Neill much joy as his top men depart for the international break.
The opening third of the Premier League campaign could not have ended on a finer note for the Aston Villa manager. A convincing win over Bolton Wanderers to remain in fifth place; a comprehensive performance with goals spaced 70 minutes apart. And most encouragingly, another fine performance turned in by James Milner, who scored once and set up a pair of goals en route to the 5-1 victory. The display was enough to earn the 23-year-old another call-up to the England squad.
Gareth Barry returned to Villa Park on Monday, but the match between Aston Villa and Manchester City was much more than merely a chance for the locals to spew their vitriol at their former skipper. And not just because he was anonymous for the larger part of 90 minutes.
I met a friend at a local pub on Sunday afternoon to chat about the previous day's football matches. He's a Fulham supporter and thought his side were worth at least a point against Arsenal. I agreed. He also mentioned that Aston Villa were the most difficult side in the Premier League to get a sense of. I agreed with that as well.
Villa didn't turn in a stinker at Blackburn Rovers on Saturday, where they lost 2-1 to a late David Dunn penalty. By and large, the match was watchable, with good attempts being made at either end. And as the visiting team, Villa played a mostly decent away game, and might have deserved a share of the points from their efforts.
It wasn't pretty. You could even make the case that Aston Villa didn't deserve to win the Birmingham derby. Still, they managed to escape a hostile ground with three points, and that counts for something.
Martin O'Neill is on to something. Sort of. It's actually a replication of the template that vaulted Aston Villa to second-place in the Premier League for a brief spell last season. It's the 4-5-1 formation (or 4-3-2-1, depending on how you see it).
Aston Villa's season-opening loss to Wigan at Villa Park undid a lot of the good feeling that had built up around the club in pre-season. It was also agonizingly familiar. The 2-0 defeat would have fit right in with Villa's woeful stretch drive last season.
So what's changed in the last 12 months? Try one win and two points. Improvement? Yes. Measurable improvement? No.
Sure, Aston Villa flirted with Champions' League football for a few months this season. Maybe even a month longer than last year. And while that might count as progress in some minds, don't be fooled. Villa could just as easily be scrapping to finish in the top half of the table next semester.
It's about to get very, very dicey. Currently nursing a one-point lead over Everton for fifth-place in the Premier League table, Aston Villa's winter swoon has become a spring slide that now threatens their place in next season's Europa League. Whatever their fate, it will probably be decided when the Toffees visit Villa Park on Easter Sunday.
This is typically the point where I'd rattle off a list of fixtures and explain exactly what Aston Villa must do in order to achieve the satisfactory results. So here it goes. United-Everton-West Ham-Bolton-Hull City-Fulham-Middlesbrough-Newcastle. There. No more analysis is required.
Liverpool Football Club have had a pretty good 10 days. First they ousted Real Madrid from the Champions' League. Then they walloped Manchester United at Old Trafford. On Wednesday, Rafael Benitez signed a five-year contract extension. On Thursday, Steven Gerrard's assault charges were dropped. The ducks, as they say, are in a row. And just in time for Aston Villa's Sunday visit.
On Friday, Aston Villa were fourth in the Premier League, three points clear of Arsenal in the race for Champions' League qualification. When they woke up this morning, they were a fifth-place side in the midst of a seven-match winless skid. Where do they go from here?
In a word, Anfield. Given their deteriorating quality of play, Villa simply don't have time to take a long, hard look in the mirror. They must only look ahead to the next opponent. No sulking about the fans' treatment of Gabriel Agbonlahor. No ruing the loss of Martin Laursen. Anything other than total, forward-looking focus is an unnecessary sideshow.
And so it comes down to this. Ten matches to break the top four and secure a berth in the Champions' League. No, it didn't go exactly as planned. No, the squad was not supposed to tire as it has; and no, Martin Laursen should not have suffered an injury at the most crucial stretch of the schedule.
But Aston Villa are there—nursing a three-point lead over Arsenal for fourth spot in the Premier League. It hasn't been pretty. Their elimination from the UEFA Cup was pitiful and their recent form has been disappointing. Nevertheless, they remain in control of their destiny. And beginning Sunday against Tottenham Hotspur, they will embark on a three-match series that will define their season, one way or another.
Aston Villa's sojourn in Dubai comes at the perfect time. Having not won a match since early February, getting away from the Premier League pressure cooker will be a relief to manager Martin O'Neill and his charges.
The tired squad will get a good rest and an uplifting bit of sunshine. Here's hoping they didn't bring a ball along. Football is the last thing these players should be thinking about this week.
Aston Villa and Arsenal have struck up something approaching a rivalry this season. Not that their pair of Premier League encounters were particularly testy. (Villa did, however, take four points from their meetings and beat the Gunners 2-0 at Emirates Stadium in November.) No, this enmity has nothing to do with head-to-head contention and everything to do with the race for fourth spot in the standings and qualification for next season's Champions' League.
If recent weeks are any indication, it's a race that neither club seems interested in winning. If Everton had been in a better position when they embarked on their current streak, they might well have claimed a place in the top-four for themselves. As it stands, they are eight points adrift of Villa and can do no better than fifth this term.
And so it comes down to Villa and Arsenal. Youthful, English backbone versus stylish, cosmopolitan flair. Pity they don't face each other down the stretch.
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ON SUPER BOWL Sunday, most football fans will have their eyes directed on the field.
But a whole lot of us Super Bowl watchers also will have our eyes trained on the sidelines watching for a glimpse of Fox Sports' Pam Oliver.
She's easily the baddest female sports reporter on TV. But last month, during the NFC Championship Game between the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers, armchair refs called a technical foul on her.
No, it wasn't because Oliver, an industry veteran, got her facts wrong. Oliver's too up on the game for that. As a female reporter, she did something far more egregious. Oliver had a bad hair day. Gulp!


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U.S. Spring May Be Warmer Than Normal, AccuWeather Says
Temperatures may be higher than normal this spring and the U.S. may be at increased risk for tornadoes, AccuWeather Inc. said a seasonal forecast.
The Northeast, central Great Plains and Texas may all have higher-than-normal temperatures into June, according to AccuWeather's outlook released today. Temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico are already above normal, which may add fuel to storms crossing the U.S.
"It will be a nice and mild March for the I-95 corridor, spanning Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Boston," said the State College, Pennsylvania-based forecaster. "Cities across the interior Northeast, such as Pittsburgh and Buffalo, may even have a milder March than areas farther east."
Winter in the lower 48 U.S. states was the warmest since 2000, with an average temperature of 36.8 degrees Fahrenheit (2.7 Celsius), the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina, said yesterday. The season was the fourth-warmest on record, according to the center.
The trend will probably continue for the next three months, with the exception of the Pacific Northwest and West Coast, according to AccuWeather.
"We do feel like it's going to be a mild spring for most of the nation from the eastern Rockies into the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes area," said Paul Pastelok, AccuWeather's expert long-range meteorologist. "At least two-thirds of the nation could wind up with above-normal temperatures."
Cool Periods Possible
There may be some periods of cooler weather in the eastern U.S. in April and May. By June, "significant warming" will probably be under way, according to AccuWeather.
The climate center said 57 tornadoes were reported during February, nearly twice the average number for the month.
The U.S. has about 1,300 tornadoes in an average year, according to AccuWeather. In 2004, an all-time high 1,817 of the storms struck.
"Areas that seemed to miss out on frequent severe weather last year may see an uptick this year," Dan Kottlowski, expert senior meteorologist for AccuWeather, said in the forecast.
Last week, two outbreaks of the deadly storms cut across the central U.S., killing about 50 people.
There is a 15 percent chance that damaging thunderstorms and winds will spread from eastern Texas, including Dallas, to central Arkansas today, according to the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.


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The Williamsport Area School Board voted 7-1 to rescind the approval of David Cipriani as the high school baseball head coach. Cipriani originally was approved in October to hold the position. Voting in favor of rescinding were board members Lori Baer, David Stone Jr., Jerene Milliken, Karen Harris, Brette Confair, Jane Penman and Jay Shultz. Voting against the motion was board member Dale Vollman. Board member Thomas Zimmerman was absent from the meeting.
The East Lycoming School Board unanimously passed a resolution calling on Congress to prevent funding cuts if U.S. legislators fail to resolve fiscal matters, and also raised the minimum for sending purchases to bid from $10,000 to $18,500.
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California Highway Patrol are on the scene of two separate accidents off Highway 9.
CHP says one of them is near the 3.2 mile marker just north of Santa Cruz and there are several victims involved. CAL Fire told Central Coast News one patient was life-flighted with life-threatening injuries and three others were transported to local hospitals with serious injuries.
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Seldom seen since he slipped off Saturday Night Live four years ago, Garrett Morris will reappear as the mean-spirited title character of The Census Taker, an independent feature due in February. "I had to use all my acting lessons from Uta Hagen and get my essential niceness out of the way," says Morris, who, as a government functionary, delights in spreading malicious gossip throughout the neighborhood. He calls the film a "macabre comedy," noting that "the term black comedy doesn't sit well with me." Midway through the movie he gets shot, which brought cheers from the film crew. "I think it was a compliment for my acting ability," says Morris, "but it might have been something they wanted to do anyway."
In the "How's that again?" category, Elizabeth Arden is about to announce the names of its "Ten Best-Dressed Faces" of 1984. The distinguishing characteristic of these women, says Arden executive Glenn Roberts, is not that they were born beautiful but that they "have made the most of what nature has given them." Honorees Joan Rivers, Diane Sawyer, the "new" Elizabeth Taylor, Diahann Carroll, Geraldine Ferraro, Shirley MacLaine, Jacqueline Onassis, Dolly Parton, Suzette Charles and Angela Lansbury will no doubt be delighted.
Secrecy abounds on the subject of Television Parts, the NBC mid-season replacement show produced by former Monkee, Michael Nesmith. But comedian Garry Shandling offers the scoop on his video, the first segment in the show's pilot. It is based on a real-life episode when Shandling had a date with a beauty queen and was dismayed to find she wore her crown the entire evening. When he first saw her, he says, "This voice went through me: 'You're about to walk around with a girl wearing a crown. And you're 33 years old.' " In the video, he remarks, "Oh man, I'm underdressed, I should have worn my hat with the antlers on it." The clip's beauty will hail from Maryland, but, Shandling notes, "The state was changed to protect the innocent."
At a friend's wedding last month, Olivia Newton-John caught the bridal bouquet, and her beau, Matt Lattanzi, snagged the garter. Appropriately, Newton-John, 36, and Lattanzi, 25, soon announced their own engagement. They'll wed before year's end....
What price real estate? Muhammad Ali's five-bedroom L.A. home, with pool and servants' quarters, is available for $2.35 million. Something more exotic? The ultramodern circular house seen in Brian De Palma's Body Double is also up for grabs. Built on a 30-foot pedestal, it has a funicular railway from the front door to a hillside landing. A steal at $1.05 million.
Penny Marshall has done a lot of physical comedy in her time, but, says she, "I always hurt afterward." So training for her new TV-movie Triathlon has been a stretch. Penny plays a divorced mother who renews her self-image by swimming, running and biking in a triathlon. "I took this job because I've never exercised in my life," says Marshall. "I thought, 'They'll pay me to get healthy and stop smoking.' Now I can't eat anything I like and I've been walking, running and going to the gym every day and getting sore." Is she ready to try a real triathlon? "Oh no. Those people are crazy."
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A paper session co-organised by Pat Noxolo (firstname.lastname@example.com) and Marika Preziuso (firstname.lastname@example.com), Loughborough University, UK
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada
March 22-29, 2009
Routed through a range of disciplinary contexts (literary and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, politics and international relations etc.), postcolonial geography has become an increasingly established part of geography as a discipline. Within and alongside this move has come the extension into many sub-disciplines of geography (such as economic, cultural, political and development geography) of a range of textual techniques that raise sharp questions about the politics of representation. At the same time, recent moves beyond textuality, and the wholesale interrogation of representation, have led to questions surrounding constructions of postcoloniality with which geographers are well-placed to engage, but which impact on the humanities and social sciences more widely.
This session aims to explore the postcolonial geographies of textuality at this pivotal moment, not only in terms of the contents of texts, but also in terms of their production, distribution and consumption. What are the spatio-temporalities of postcolonial texts and textualities? What creative landscapes, flows and materialities are figured in postcolonial writing? What are the materialities that condition the production of postcolonial texts, and what institutional, disciplinary and commercial flows condition their distribution? Finally, what cultural, social and political movements and events are enabled, or constrained, through postcolonial textual moves?
Papers for this session might therefore address (but are not restricted to) the following themes:
Spatialities of postcolonial literatures
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Gender, space and postcolonial textuality
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Red Cross volunteers' relief effort for tsunami victims in full swing
31 December 2004
Geneva: With the number of those killed in the devastating Asian earthquake and tsunamis rising to over 120,000, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies has put in place what looks set to be its largest emergency relief operation ever.
The initial response by Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers in the vital first few days of the crisis in evacuating survivors and providing emergency relief materials is being bolstered by an international operation which will assist over two million people in the most vulnerable communities affected by the crisis over the next six months.
Despite difficulties faced by the Red Cross/Red Crescent teams on the ground due to lack of access, transportation and communication, a massive relief effort is under way.
In Indonesia, where some 80,000 lives have been lost, the focus remains on providing shelter and health care. An International Federation field assessment team is in the country to assess the most urgent needs faced by the country, and how best to support the efforts of the Indonesian Red Cross. Five emergency response units (ERUs), specialising in logistics, water and sanitation and basic health care will be in place this weekend. These teams have been provided as part of the Federation's operation by the Danish, French, German, Japanese and Spanish Red Cross Societies
In Sri Lanka, where over 27,000 people have died and almost 900,000 are displaced, the need for basic shelter and food is immense. Seven flights carrying Red Cross health materials and relief goods from all over the world have already arrived on the island, with four more scheduled to land in Colombo by Friday morning.
Five ERUs specialising in telecommunications, health care, water and sanitation, and logistics are now in place and another three teams with expertise in relief and health care are due to arrive in the next few days.
A Federation field assessment team has arrived in the Maldives, where while destruction was less severe, initial reports indicate that the need for safe water and sanitation is high.
"The main challenge we are facing is to ensure continuity of relief supplies, and guaranteeing the health of these vulnerable communities. This will be easier to achieve with the deployment of our specialised ERUs," says Mostafa Mohaghegh, operations coordinator for the International Federation. "It is vital we get people under shelter and receiving adequate assistance as quickly as possible to avoid preventable physical and psychological problems."


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T.S. Eliot published two of her books at Faber; Dylan Thomas was best man at her wedding; Robert Graves considered her "one of the few true poets now writing." Lynette Roberts was one of those off-center, cerebral female Modernists like Riding and Loy and H.D. and Moore, sharing with them a taste for recondite surfaces. Her magnum
opus, Gods with Stainless Ears: A Heroic Poem is unlike anything these women produced, or any man for that matter. Written between 1941–43, it is about a marriage destroyed by the war. The apotheosis of the poem is a miscarried pregnancy. For all its bold inventiveness, it is at bottom an autobiography — her husband, poet Keidrych Rhys, was called up for a tour of duty in 1940, and she stayed behind in his Welsh village, Llanybri, near Swansea, which came under heavy bombardment in 1942. You can hear it in the texture of her poem. As she wrote in her introduction: "The use of congested words, images, and certain hard metallic lines are introduced with deliberate emphasis ...
e.g. Factory hands and repetitive lines re-occur with the same movement as with a machine." Machines, yes, but machines merged with archaic Welsh meters (Roberts practiced her englyns). She was a pastoralist dedicated to techne, to the discovery of sound patterns that revealed the quiddity of the thing being described. (Much like Hopkins.) Yet she lived in an era which was leaving pastoral far
behind ("Pastoral ding-dong is out," she wrote). Her closest peer in this regard may have been Ian Hamilton Finlay, whose sculpture garden, Little Sparta, features visual and verbal puns that play on the propinquity between Arcadia and war theatre — such as a stele captioned "Reed-Pipe" above an engraving of a machine gun with
bullets as finger-stops.
A special fondness for the non-canonical poet usually involves something personal, doesn't it? I feel an impulsive warmth toward Roberts. This has at least as much to do with the prose contained in her Diaries, Letters and Recollections as it does with the experimental Gods with Stainless Ears. For the same woman who wrote that visionary poem also wrote carefully observed, down-to-earth reportage of village mores, about her children, about coracle-making, farming, and Welsh language and architecture. She was a housewife who spent time with other housewives. Her diary starts out, "My sister's birthday, and I have celebrated it by scrubbing the floor, cleaning the grate. Keidrych says I have some funny ideas about poets. I have. I think good real living is more important than spreading yourself on paper." She wanted to be "just a normal person who can take my full share of responsibility."
This devotion to hearth and village was acquired after an adventurous youth. She was born in Buenos Aires to a family that had emigrated from Australia, and before that from Wales. Her first language was Spanish. She was educated in London at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, traveled to Germany, Spain, and Hungary, and became engaged to an intelligence officer/amateur racing driver who was said to be the model for James Bond. All this she left behind to marry instead her Welsh poet and raise a family in the country. By doing so she was also returning to her ancestral home and language — mediated by Argentinian Spanish and the harsh new lexicon of the twentieth century:
If you come my way that is ...
Between now and then, I will offer you
A fist full of rock cress fresh from the bank
The valley tips of garlic red with dew
Cooler than shallots, a breath you can swank
In the village when you come. At noon-day
I will offer you a choice bowl of cawl
Served with a "lover's" spoon and a chopped spray
Of leeks or savori fach, not used now,
In the old way you'll understand.
— From Poem from Llanybri
Lynette Roberts gave up poetry in her late forties. She suffered a psychotic break and underwent several hospitalizations (it ran in the family; her beloved brother was in asylums all his short life). She died in rural Wales in 1995, having reverted to Spanish in her final illness. There aren't many poets whom I yearn to go back in time and meet. But reading Lynette Roberts makes me wistful for her company. She would — I imagine — have taken me foraging for "savori fach."
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Surrounding the fertile confluence of the Yangzi and Min rivers 250km from Chengdu, where Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces meet, southeastern Sichuan has some intriguing attractions. The town of Zigong is a treat, with some well-preserved architecture, dinosaurs and salt mines, especially worth checking out during its Spring Festival lantern displays. Some 80km farther south, Yibin offers access to the aptly named Shunan Bamboo Sea; and, further eastwards towards Chongqing, you shouldn't miss the carved gallery of comic-book-like Buddhist rock art at Dazu.
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About 200km east of Chengdu and 100km west of Chongqing, sleepy Dazu town is the base for viewing some fifty thousand Tang- and Song-dynasty Buddhist cliff sculptures, which are carved into caves and overhangs in the surrounding lush green hills – most notably at Baoding Shan. What makes these carvings so special is not their scale – they cover very small areas compared with better-known sites at Luoyang or Dunhuang – but their quality, state of preservation, and variety of subject and style. Some are small, others huge, many are brightly painted and form comic-strip-like narratives, their characters portraying religious, moral and historical tales. While most are set fairly deeply into rockfaces or are protected by galleries, all can be viewed in natural light, and are connected by walkways and paths.
ZIGONG, a thriving industrial centre, has long been an important source of salt, tapped for thousands of years from artesian basins below the city. In the fourth century, the Sichuanese were sinking 300m-deep boreholes here using bamboo-fibre cables attached to massive stone bits; by the 1600s, bamboo buckets were drawing brine from wells bored almost 1km beneath Zigong, centuries before European technology (which borrowed Chinese techniques) could reach this deep. Natural gas, a by-product of drilling, was used from the second century to boil brine in evaporation tanks, and now also powers Zigong's buses and taxis.


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I originally saw this idea on the anderson crew blog, here. I hope emily agrees that being a copy-cat is the highest form of flattery. 😉
When I read "easiest DIY ever", I figured I could handle it. How could I screw this up, right? Only 1 child got burned by the hot glue gun and they turned out super cute. I call that a Valentine success!
We each have one! The supplies were super cheap and simple. The little mailboxes came from Target. They were $1 each and we already had one. The candlestick holders came from goodwill and were $1 each.
I'm really bad about taking before and during photos, but it was really simple to make. The candlestick holders were brass before. I spray painted them black with spray paint I already had. I glued mailboxes on top and cut out scrap book paper letters. The scrap book paper I already had, too.
Since we were being all crafty, I decided to make a lesson out of it, too. We made pointillism art Valentine Day cards. Can you tell who made which? 🙂
Liz (far right) did a really good job of listening, but got tired of doing pointillism very quickly, as you can see. Taz decided to march to the beat of his own drum, like always, and make his own design. I think it turned out beautiful!
I also love the other card he made. He wanted to place these hearts just so….
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Claire at Tired But Happy was going to gimmick up the Festival with Library of Congress Subject Headings but found that there weren't really any for frugality, luckily for us she's going down there today to straighten them out. Thanks Claire!
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Have you been missing Emeril? Honestly, I haven't. Still, I find him interesting to watch every now and then. I cannot forget that home style beer clambake that he did one time (many years ago). Anyway, those of you who have been wanting to see more of the "bam!" will be thrilled to know that Emeril has partnered up with ION TV for a whole new TV show.
Dubbed "The Emeril Lagasse Show," it will be aired on a weekly basis. The hour-long TV show will premiere on the 28th of March at 8pm and will be aired every Sunday. Here's more information from the Press Release:
"The Emeril Lagasse Show" will feature one of America's most popular chefs as he has never been seen before. Each week, Emeril will welcome celebrity guests, musicians and entertainers to break news and break bread as Emeril shares his world, his friends and his passions with the studio audience and viewers at home. A house band will be on set, playing live music and interacting with Emeril, guests and audience. The show also will include entertaining and surprising field pieces that will be shot in and around New York City where the show will be taped. TV veteran Karen Katzand After Five Productions, which executive produced Lagasse's long-running Food Network series, "Emeril Live," will be executive producer of "The Emeril Lagasse Show".
Reading that, it sounds quite familiar, doesn't it? Maybe it is NOT a groundbreaking show, but at least Emeril fans will get to see their favorite chef on TV regularly again.
Giada De Laurentiis is certainly one of the hottest celebrity chefs around. While I may not agree with the physical perception of many, there is no denying that she is one of the most popular chefs today. Retail giant Target seems to recognize that as well as they have partnered up with her to sell a line of cookware and food products.
Dubbed Giada De Laurentiis for Target, the cookware and food products selection is touted to be exclusive and yet affordable. According to Kathy Tesija, executive vice president of Target's merchandising, their customers "want kitchen gear that makes their daily cooking easier and more enjoyable, and Giada's collection delivers." She also says that they "combined design expertise with Giada's culinary background to create a product collection that pairs utility with great design and affordability."
What exactly are they selling? Pots and pans, ceramic containers for baking, pasta sauces, flavored coffee, and other kitchen tools. Also available are different varieties of pasta and dressings. One set that I find particularly interesting is the Tri Ply Clad cookset. The inclusions in the set:
• 2 saute pans, one is 8 inches and the other is 9.5 inches; both are open
• 3 sauce pans: 1 quart, 2 quarts, and 3 quarts; all have lids
• 1 Dutch oven with lid: 5 quarts
For $199.99, I think that it's a pretty good deal.
The idea behind the line is to impart Giada's cooking expertise and family traditions while at the same time to provide customers with Target quality.
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Something new is coming to American television and it will get the average joe cooking and competing with others of his own caliber! Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is reportedly bringing MasterChef to the US and he is excited about it. MasterChef, unlike other cooking shows, features amateurs. That is, the contestants will have no cooking background and will only bring their innate talent with them to the kitchen.
While the basic idea behind the show will be the same as the original MasterChef in the UK, Ramsay says he will do some things differently, and I am not in the least bit surprised. After all, Chef Ramsay has not risen to popularity because of conformity, has he?
He says that he will not stand for chefs (pros or amateurs) stuffing their faces when tasting their concoctions. Whether it is on or off camera, Ramsay says he will be tasting the food in little bits. He also admitted to having problems with vegetarian dishes and claims that he needs MEAT. That's the way to go, chef!
So when will we be seeing MasterChef on American TV? I haven't gotten the exact details but it should be anytime this year – preferably sooner than later. As we all know, however, Chef Ramsay is quite the busy bee. He has several shows in the US already (Cookalong Live, Hell's Kitchen, and Kitchen Nightmares USA among others), not to mention his UK shows. Then there are his restaurants which are scattered all over.
We just have to wait and see, I guess.
Jamie Oliver has always been known for taking up causes close to his heart. As we start a new year, he is making the headlines yet again. The cause? Childhood obesity.
I don't know if you've noticed, but children these days are leaning towards the big size. It could be because of the amount of food they're consuming. It could also be due to the quality of the food. Then again, there could be other factors such as the level of physical activity that children engage in nowadays. I am quite sure, however, that all these play a role in the tendency to be unhealthy.
Some non-profit groups in the United Kingdom have banded together, and Jamie Oliver is taking part in their activities as well. He actually recently won $100,000 from TED due to his efforts. The money is intended to fund the celebrity chef's campaign to improve school lunches in the United Kingdom in terms of their nutritional value. Dubbed "Feed Me Better," this campaign has been going on for quite some time and has gained a lot of interest.
I wonder if other celebrity chefs will be interested in undertaking similar projects? Take a look around you, in the United States – children are even in more need of help in terms of eating healthily and avoiding all the complications that childhood obesity can bring about. Maybe the change does not need to stem from someone like Jamie Oliver. Maybe you and I can do something about it, even in our own little ways.
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