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Nigeria turns to Lagerback
Saturday, 27th February 2010 10:59pm
Nigeria has now opted for former Swedish coach Lars Lagerback as their coach at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Nigeria dismissed local coach Shaibu Amodu after he finished third at the recent Africa Cup of Nations in favour of a foreign coach.
This is a short term contract as Lagerback will be with Nigeria until the end of the World Cup.
Lagerback was at the last World Cup in Germany as coach of Sweden.
Lagerback has never coached an African team before and this will also be his first time to coach outside Sweden.
He was the coach of Sweden from 1998 to 2009. He took sole responsibility of the team in 2004 and he resigned in 2009 when Sweden failed to reach the World Cup finals.
Round 24 : Sevilla vs Bilbao
In La Liga's round 24, Sevilla will host Athletic Bilbao as the teams fight for places in Europe next season.
Sevilla is currently in fourth place on the table, four points behind Valencia in third place.
Athletic is six points behind Sevilla and a win here will mean the gap will just be three points.
Looking at recent form, Sevilla has lost two matches in the last six league matches it has played whilst their rivals this weekend have lost three.
The two teams have both drawn just thrice so far this season but none in the last six matches.
At home Sevilla has won seven matches out of 12 and losing just two for a total of 24 points.
On the road Athletic has won four but lost six matches and drawn the other two.
Here is a stats summary for the two teams:
Form LWWLWW WLLWLW
Clean sheets 8 7
Biggest win Athletic Bilbao 0 - 4 Sevilla
Almeria 1 - 4 Athletic Bilbao
Athletic Bilbao 4 - 1 Tenerife
Biggest loss Barcelona 4 - 0 Sevilla
Athletic Bilbao 0 - 4 Sevilla
Score 3 or more 4 4
Goal difference 8 4
Goal difference 3 -2
Pompey enters administration
Saturday, 27th February 2010 1:24am
The news just got worse for Portsmouth with the news that the team has entered administration.
Facing a winding up order on the 1st of March, the team has entered administration so that it can continue to run.
Pompey becomes the first Premiership team to enter administration and relegation is now more of a reality.
Pompey has accumulated a paltry 16 points so far this season and with the nine points to be deducted due to administration, they will be left with just seven points.
At the moment Burnley who is second from the bottom has 23 points and already Pompey is seven points adrift.
In order to stay in the league with just 12 matches(36 points available) left, Pompey will need to win most of the matches in order to have a chance.
Relegation fight : Bolton vs Wolves
In round 28 of the English Premiership, one fixture of note is the fixture between Bolton and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Bolton are currently in the relegation zone with 23 points and Wolves are two places up.
The two teams are separated by just one point and so a win here is crucial for both teams.
A win for Bolton will certainly take them out of the relegation zone whatever happens elsewhere whilst a loss could see them slip to second from bottom place.
A win for Wolves will take them further away from the relegation and its crucial given that their next match is a home tie against Manchester United.
Bolton has won just three matches at the Reebok Stadium and lost five and hence its not surprising they are in the relegation zone.
Wolves don't have a great away record either having only won twice away from home and so they can fancy their chances here against a team with a poor home record.
Here are some of the stats for the two teams so far this season:
Rank 18 16
Lost 13 14
Goal difference -20 -23
Failed to score 10 11
Biggest win Bolton 3 - 1 West Ham
Wolves 2 - 0 Burnley
Biggest loss Bolton 0 - 4 Chelsea
Aston Villa 5 - 1 Bolton
Chelsea 4 - 0 Wolves
Goal difference -6 -9
Stalemate at Eastlands as Spurs leap into fourth
Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 12:44am
Manchester City and Liverpool played a goalless draw at Eastlands as both teams lost ground on fourth with both Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspurs winning.
In the first match at Anfield the teams drew 2-all but this time there were no goals and both teams moved one spot down the ladder.
Spurs leaped to fourth place after beating Wigan 3-nil and Villa stayed in seventh after a 5-2 win over Burnley.
The team that comes after the fourth place chasing teams is Everton who beat Manchester United 3-1 at Goodison Park.
In consecutive league matches at home, Everton has beaten both Chelsea and Manchester United and now looks so different from a team that conceded six goals in its first home match of the season against Arsenal.
In relegation matters, Portsmouth lost to Stoke despite taking the leading in the first half. That loss leaves them seven points adrift of Burnley who are second from the bottom.
Bolton also lost 3-nil to Blackburn and their situation doesn't seem to be getting any better even with a new manager in place.
Still on matters relegation, here is how the table looks with the relegation teams on top:
Portsmouth 26 4 4 18 21 44 -23 16
Burnley 26 6 5 15 27 55 -28 23
Bolton 26 5 8 13 29 49 -20 23
Hull 27 5 9 13 25 54 -29 24
Wolves 26 6 6 14 21 44 -23 24
Wigan 26 6 7 13 26 52 -26 25
Sunderland 26 6 8 12 32 44 -12 26
West Ham 26 6 9 11 35 40 -5 27
Blackburn 27 9 7 11 29 43 -14 34
Stoke 26 8 10 8 26 29 -3 34
Bham City 26 10 7 9 25 28 -3 37
Fulham 27 10 7 10 32 29 3 37
Everton 26 10 8 8 38 37 1 38
Aston Villa 26 12 9 5 37 21 16 45
Liverpool 27 13 6 8 43 27 16 45
Man City 26 12 10 4 48 33 15 46
Tottenham 27 13 7 7 48 26 22 46
Arsenal 27 17 4 6 63 30 33 55
Man United 27 18 3 6 63 24 39 57
Chelsea 27 19 4 4 63 22 41 61
Penalties decide A-League finals
Wellington Phoenix and Newcastle Jets needed penalties to advance to the next stage of the A-League finals after their matches were drawn after extra time.
Gold Coast finished ten points ahead of the Jets and had home advantage and they couldn't use that to reach the next stage of the finals were they were going to host the match.
The Gold Coast/Jets match finished goalless but the first five penalties were all converted.
The Gold Coast then missed then missed the next two whilst the Jets missed just one to earn the right to play the Phoenix.
The Phoenix/Glory match finished one-all but the Glory managed to score just two penalties with the Phoenix not missing any and they will therefore host the next match against the Jets.
The Sydney/Melbourne and Phoenix/Jets matches will be played on the same day. The loser in the Sydney/Melbourne match will meet the winner of the Phoenix/Jets match.
Lets take a look at the goal margins for the 2009/10 A-League season up to the weekend matches. The zero goal margin matches were the draws and here is the table:
Valencia faces Getafe test
Saturday, 20th February 2010 9:11pm
The last fixture of La Liga's round 23 will see Valencia face Getafe as Valencia tries to cement its position in the top three.
In the last round Valencia could only manage a one-all draw against Sporting Gijon but this time the match is being played at home.
Getafe also had a draw in its last match against Almeria and a win will be crucial at the Mestalla in order to keep in contention of the Europa League places.
So far Valencia has lost just once at home but the team has also drawn four times at the Mestalla.
Out of eleven matches away, Getafe has won just three and lost the other eight and so its away record is not as impressive.
Looking at the last six matches Valencia has won three, drawn two and lost one whilst Getafa has won just won once, drawn twice and lost three.
Its interesting to note that in their previous encounter this season, Getafe won 3-1 but their season has not been consistent since then.
So here is a quick look at the stats for the two teams so far this season:
Biggest win Almeria 0 - 3 Valencia
Valencia 4 - 1 Villarreal
Getafe 5 - 1 Xerez
Biggest loss Getafe 3 - 1 Valencia
Zaragoza 3 - 0 Getafe
Man City, Liverpool battle for fourth
Friday, 19th February 2010 9:01pm
The match between Manchester City and Liverpool in round 27 of the English Premiership is a direct fight for fourth place.
Man City are currently in fourth place and have a game in hand and a win here could help cement fourth place against their direct rivals.
Man City is one of just two teams not have lost at home so far this season and that form will them confidence going into this match.
Of its 12 games at home, Man City has won nine and drawn three.
Liverpool on the other hand lost its last match and that was away to Arsenal. That match is the only match the team has lost in its last six matches.
In the last six matches, Man City has won three, lost two and drawn one and will need to improve on that going to the end of the season.
The match played at Anfield between the two teams ended in a two-all draw and this time a draw may not be a good enough result for either team with matches starting to run out.
Rank 5 4
Biggest win Liverpool 6 - 1 Hull
Wolves 0 - 3 Man City
Man City 4 - 1 Blackburn
Biggest loss Liverpool 1 - 3 Aston Villa
Chelsea 2 - 0 Liverpool
Fulham 3 - 1 Liverpool
Portsmouth 2 - 0 Liverpool
Tottenham 3 - 0 Man City
4th vs 5th: Phoenix vs Perth Glory
The Wellington Phoenix finished on the final A-League ladder to get the right to host the the finals knockout match against Perth Glory who finished fifth.
The two teams have got contrasting home and away forms.
The Phoenix lost just one match at home and in the process accumulated 26 points.
The Glory have an even better home record also losing just one match and getting 28 points but unfortunately they are not playing at home in this match.
The Glory's away record was the second worst in the league winning just three matches away and they will need a huge improvement on that to beat the Phoenix.
Here is head-to-head comparison for the two teams:
Drawn 6 10
Lost 10 7
Clean sheets 9 10
Biggest win Perth Glory 4 - 0 Newcastle Jets
Wellington Phoenix 6 - 0 Gold Coast
Biggest loss Melbourne Victory 6 - 2 Perth Glory
Melbourne Victory 4 - 0 Wellington Phoenix
Goals conceded 8 7
Goal difference -9 -10
Previous Matches
2007/8 6 Wellington Phoenix 4 Perth Glory 1
2007/8 11 Perth Glory 0 Wellington Phoenix 1
2007/8 16 Wellington Phoenix 3 Perth Glory 0
2008/9 5 Perth Glory 1 Wellington Phoenix 0
2009/10 2 Wellington Phoenix 2 Perth Glory 1
2009/10 14 Wellington Phoenix 1 Perth Glory 1
2009/10 24 Perth Glory 2 Wellington Phoenix 0
3rd vs 6th : Gold Coast vs Newcastle Jets
The second match of the A-League finals series will feature Gold Coast United who finished third against the Newcastle Jets who finished sixth.
The two teams have had very different seasons with the Gold Coast staying at the top for most of the season and the Jets only coming into contention towards the end the season after a series of five consecutive wins.
The wins took the Jets from near the bottom to as high as fourth but another loss of form meant they drifted down to sixth.
There was a ten point difference between the two teams but between a finals match anything is possible:
Here are some of the stats for the two teams for the season:
Goal difference -12 4
Biggest win Newcastle Jets 2 - 0 NQ Fury
Sydney 1 - 3 Newcastle Jets
Adelaide Utd 0 - 2 Newcastle Jets
Brisbane Roar 0 - 2 Newcastle Jets
Gold Coast 5 - 0 NQ Fury
Biggest loss Perth Glory 4 - 0 Newcastle Jets
Goal difference -2 14
2009/10 4 Newcastle Jets 1 Gold Coast United 0
2009/10 18 Newcastle Jets 3 Gold Coast United 2
2009/10 19 Gold Coast United 2 Newcastle Jets 0
Barca suffer first loss
Monday, 15th February 2010 11:57pm
Barcelona suffered their first loss in the league this season when Atletico Madrid won 2-1 in round 22 of the Spanish Primera Division.
Barcelona had gone 21 matches unbeaten in the league but the two first half goals were enough for Atletico to register a shock win.
The loss means that Barca's lead at the top is reduced to just two points after Real Madrid won its away match against bottom side Xerez 3-nil with all goals scored in the second half.
Sporting Gijon held Valencia to a one-all draw which means that Valencia now trail Real by 10 points.
Valencia now has a four point lead over Sevilla in fourth place. Sevilla had a narrow 1-nil win over Osasuna.
In a key match insofar as relegation is concerned, Valladolid managed to hold Real Zaragoza to a one-all draw a result which suited Zaragoza more as they keep out of the relegation zone.
There is still one more match to be played between Tenerife and Mallorca.
Below are the different scorelines so far in La Liga after 219 matches:
Sydney crowned premiers
Monday, 15th February 2010 1:57pm
Sydney FC won the minor premiership after beating Melbourne Victory 2-nil at the Sydney Football Stadium to finish top of the A-League table.
Sydney went into the match needing to win to leap their opponents and the home side was 1 up by half-time.
Sydney has now scored five goals against the defending champions with the defending champions failing to score a single goal.
In third place was Gold Coast who lost 2-1 to the North Queensland Fury. Gold Coast needed to win and Sydney to lose to get second place.
The Fury needed to win in order to avoid the wooden spoon in their first season.
Fourth place went to the Wellington Phoenix who beat the Central Coast Mariners 3-nil in what was Lawrie McKinna's last match as coach of the Mariners.
Perth Glory who have reached their maiden finals this season finished fifth when they beat Brisbane Roar 2-nil. The Roar finished second from the bottom to finish last of the three Queensland sides.
Adelaide's win over Newcastle Jets was not enough to avoid the wooden spoon. Once again like last season the side finishing bottom is going into the Asian Champions League.
So here is the final table:
Melbourne Victory 27 14 5 8 47 32 15 47
Wellington Phoenix 27 10 10 7 37 29 8 40
Perth Glory 27 11 6 10 40 34 6 39
Newcastle Jets 27 10 4 13 33 45 -12 34
Central Coast Mariners 27 7 9 11 32 29 3 30
Brisbane Roar 27 8 6 13 32 42 -10 30
Adelaide Utd 27 7 8 12 24 33 -9 29
Sydney, Melbourne fight for premiership
Friday, 12th February 2010 5:47am
In the last match of the A-League season, Sydney FC will play Melbourne Victory to decide the winners of this season's minor premiership.
This will be the first time in the history of the A-League for teams to actually play for minor premiership in the last round of the season.
Sydney will need to win this match whilst a draw will do for the Victorians.
In their other two matches this season, Sydney won one of them 3-nil and the other one finished in a goalless draw.
Its important to note that the Victory failed to score against their rivals and that both matches were at the Etihad Stadium.
Victory are currently the form team having accumulated 12 points from their last six matches whilst Sydney have amassed 10.
Because of the significance of this match I will this week also give all the A-League results between the two teams from season one up to today below:
Form LWWWLW WDLWLW
Biggest win Melbourne Victory 4 - 0 Gold Coast
Melbourne Victory 6 - 2 Perth Glory
Melbourne Victory 0 - 3 Sydney
Sydney 4 - 1 NQ Fury
Biggest loss Melbourne Victory 0 - 4 Central Coast Mariners
Perth Glory 2 - 0 Sydney
Won 7 10
Wolves push Spurs aside
Relegation threatened Wolverhampton Wanderers pushed Tottenham Hotspurs aside for the second time this season after winning 1-nil at Molyneaux in round 26 of the English Premiership.
Wolves won by a similar scoreline earlier in the season and once again they defeated their more fancied rivals who are fighting for the Champions League places.
Arsenal are now back on track for the title after beating Liverpool 1-nil and seeing Manchester United draw at Villa Park and Chelsea lose at Goodison.
After losing their last two matches, the Gunners win extended the gap with their rivals to 8 points and from here should finish third or better.
In other results, West Ham eased their relegation worries by beating Birmingham City with goals in each half at Upton Park. The result saw the Hammers leave the relegation zone.
Dropping into the relegation zone this time are Hull and Burnley who both lost their fixtures to Blackburn and Fulham respectively.
I think its to once again have a look at the form table and see which team has performed well in the last six matches:
Man United 6 4 2 0 17 3 14 14 DWWWWD
Chelsea 6 4 1 1 16 6 10 13 WWWDWL
Everton 6 4 1 1 9 4 5 13 DWWWLW
Man City 6 4 0 2 12 5 7 12 WWLWLW
Liverpool 6 3 2 1 6 2 4 11 DWDWWL
Arsenal 6 3 1 2 8 7 1 10 WWDLLW
Blackburn 6 3 1 2 6 8 -2 10 LWWDLW
Stoke 6 2 3 1 8 5 3 9 LWDDWD
Bham City 6 2 2 2 5 8 -3 8 WDLDWL
Aston Villa 6 1 4 1 3 2 1 7 LDDWDD
Fulham 6 2 1 3 4 6 -2 7 LLLWDW
West Ham 6 1 3 2 4 5 -1 6 LDDDLW
Tottenham 6 1 3 2 3 4 -1 6 DLWDDL
Hull 6 1 3 2 5 9 -4 6 DLDDWL
Wigan 6 1 2 3 5 10 -5 5 LWLLDD
Wolves 6 1 2 3 4 9 -5 5 LLDDLW
Sunderland 6 0 4 2 6 13 -7 4 DLLDDD
Bolton 6 1 1 4 3 10 -7 4 LLWLDL
Burnley 6 1 0 5 3 12 -9 3 LLLLWL
Portsmouth 6 0 2 4 3 14 -11 2 LDLLLD
3rd vs 4th : Arsenal vs Liverpool
Tuesday, 9th February 2010 10:59pm
Third placed Arsenal will meet fourth placed Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium in the midweek round 26 of the English Premiership.
Liverpool are enjoying a good run of form at the moment having drawn two and four of their last six matches. In those six matches the team has scored seven goals and conceded just once.
On the other hand Arsenal has just lost its last two matches against Manchester United and Chelsea conceding five goals in the process.
In the last six matches the Gunners have drawn two, lost two and won two and scored nine goals. Interesting the team has also conceded nine goals.
A win for the Gunners will keep them in third place but more importantly it will make sure that its rival on the day is further behind.
A win for Liverpool will close the gap between them and the Gunners to just two points making third place a realistic possibility.
In their earlier meeting this season ten rounds ago the Gunners triumphed 2-1 at Anfield and will there attempt to complete a double against their rivals for the Champions League places.
Here is a quick summary for the two teams so far this season:
Form WDWDWW DWWDLL
Everton 1 - 6 Arsenal
Arsenal 0 - 3 Chelsea
Score 3 or more 5 11
Goal difference -3 9
McKinna to step aside for Arnold
Central Coast Mariners coach Lawrie will step aside at the end of the season and pave way for former Socceroos coach Graham Arnold.
McKinna has been coach of the Mariners from the beginning and he will now take the role of football operations manager.
His departure means that only Melbourne Victory's Ernie Merrick will remain the only surviving foundation coach from season 1.
McKinna's Mariners have had an interesting season nearing the top of the ladder at one stage and then plummeting down but after winning against the Newcastle Jets the team will no longer finish bottom of the table.
Here is a quick overview of the Mariners season with just one game to go:
McKinna's Mariners
Biggest win Melbourne Victory 0 - 4 Central Coast Mariners
NQ Fury 1 - 5 Central Coast Mariners
Biggest loss Central Coast Mariners 0 - 3 Melbourne Victory
Zaragoza too good for Sevilla
Tuesday, 9th February 2010 1:13pm
After beating Valencia in round 20 of La Liga, Sevilla lost 2-1 to relegation threatened Real Zaragoza in round 21.
With Real Mallorca winning against Villareal the loss meant that Sevilla slipped back to fifth on the ladder in what was the most surprising result of the weekend.
Valencia had a 2-nil over Valladolid and therefore cemented their third place on the ladder where they trail Real Madrid in second place by 8 points and Barcelona in first by 13 points.
Real Madrid scored its half-century of goals in this round as well in the 3-nil against Espanyol to maintain the the 5 point gap behind Barcelona.
Xerex were leading at half-time against Athletic Bilbao but conceded two goals in the second half to lose 3-2 and so the team still anchors the table.
Zaragoza's win meant they went out of the relegation zone to be replaced by Valladolid.
51 matches out of 210 have finished in draws so far in La Liga and so below I will show the drawing trend:
Draw at half time, draw at full time 36 70.6
Home team leading at half time, draw at full time 9 17.6
Away team leading at half time, draw at full time 6 11.8
Drawn matches 51 24.3
Sydney beats Perth to stay on track
Monday, 8th February 2010 10:01pm
A goal scored towards the end of the match was enough to keep Sydney FC on track in the battle for the minor premiership.
Round 26 started with three teams with a chance to land the minor premiership but now only two teams, Sydney and Melbourne Victory are left in the running.
Sydney had to win in order to still have a chance of overhauling Melbourne whom they meet in the final round of the season.
Gold Coast United who started the round in contention lost to their bogey team Wellington Phoenix and now the best they can get in their debut A-League season is second place.
Brisbane Roar's chances of reaching the finals ended with a loss to Adelaide United who were already out of the finals.
Brisbane joins the Central Coast Mariners and North Queensland Fury who are also out of the finals.
In the postponed match between the Mariners and the Newcastle Jets, the Mariners won 3-nil which means they can no longer bottom of the ladder.
The Mariners now have 30 points and Adelaide can only get to 29 points if they also beat Newcastle Jets in the last round.
With no draws in the last two rounds lets take a look at the number of draws each team has had after 26 rounds of A-League football:
Goals For
Wellington Phoenix 26 8 10
Central Coast Mariners 26 5 9
Adelaide United FC 26 9 8
North Queensland Fury FC 26 10 8
Brisbane Roar 26 8 6
Perth Glory 26 5 6
Gold Coast United 26 5 5
Melbourne Victory 26 6 5
Newcastle Jets 26 4 4
Sydney FC 26 0 3
Chelsea completes double over Arsenal
Monday, 8th February 2010 1:53pm
Chelsea completed the double over Arsenal after beating their London rivals 2-nil at Stamford Bridge in round 25 of the English Premiership.
The West London club had earlier in the season beaten their rivals from North London 3-nil.
Also completing a double was Liverpool with their 1-nil win against Everton with 10 men.
Everton had gone 12 matches unbeaten but they met a Liverpool which is beginning to find its form and even with ten men, Liverpool managed to secure all three points.
Manchester United had the biggest win of the round winning 5-nil against bottom club Portsmouth. That loss means that Pompey are now six points from the team in second from bottom position, Wolverhampton Wanderers.
There was some movements in the relegation zone with Bolton and Burnley moving and they were replaced by Wolves and West Ham.
In the relegation dog-fight, Burnley beat West Ham to get out of the drop zone and Wolves lost in the West Midlands derby to Birmingham City despite scoring first.
The 5-nil drubbing of Portsmouth by Man Utd was the eighth time a team has won by a goal margin of five goals and here is a table showing the rest of the goal margins for all matches so far this season:
The standout 8 goal margin was Spur's 9-1 win over Wigan.
In-form Everton face Liverpool
Friday, 5th February 2010 1:35pm
In-form Everton will this weekend visit Anfield to play Liverpool in round 25 of the English Premiership.
Everton last lost in the league in a match against against Liverpool at the November, 2009. Since then Everton has played the likes of Chelsea and Arsenal away and avoided defeated.
The nine match unbeaten run has enabled Everton to climb the ladder from near the relegation zone to ninth at the moment.
A win for Liverpool who are currently fifth could see them rise to fourth depending on other results but a loss could see them drop to seventh.
A win for Everton will see them possibly gain one place whilst a loss at worst will see them drop just one place.
Form WWDWDW DWDWWW
Goal difference 16 -1
Everton 3 - 0 Blackburn
Sydney in crunch match against Glory
Thursday, 4th February 2010 10:22pm
Sydney FC will play Perth Glory in round 26 of the A-League knowing that a win will help them in their pursuit of the minor premiership.
A minor premiership means the team will represent Australia in the Asian Champions League and so its pretty important to Sydney as it also to Gold Coast United and Melbourne Victory the other two teams who can win it.
However, if Perth Glory wins their last two matches and Sydney loses both theirs then the Glory side will secure third place on the ladder which will be handy going into the finals.
Glory are currently fourth on the ladder and to be guaranteed of that fourth place the Glory needs at least four points from their last two matches and so a draw may not a very bad result in this encounter for them.
Sydney has the second best home form having collected 27 points at home this season whilst Glory's away form is the second worst and in order for Glory to get a result that will have to be changed.
Both their previous two matches this season were played at ME Bank Stadium and the home team came out with four points. In those two matches Sydney failed to find the net.
So here is some of the stats for the two teams so far this season:
Round 25: Home teams take advantage
Wednesday, 3rd February 2010 1:54pm
Round 25 of the A-League was only the second round this season when all the matches were won by home teams.
Most of the victories in this round were also very significant as they meant reaching the finals for the first time for Perth Glory, for example.
The Glory scored the highest number of goals when three first half goals were enough to dispatch once table toppers Central Coast Mariners.
Mariners are now in real danger of finishing bottom of the ladder after dropping to second from bottom place.
Wellington Phoenix also won against Adelaide to set themselves on course for the finals as well whilst Gold Coast United needed just one goal to claim second place on the ladder on goal difference behind Melbourne Victory.
The Phoenix needs at least two points to be sure of a maiden finals place.
Brisbane Roar kept themselves in finals contention with a crucial win over Sydney FC.
In the last match of the round the North Queensland Fury are also in the finals hunt after a win over Newcastle Jets.
Below are the second half scorelines for the A-League matches this season:
Its interesting to see that in 34 of the matches, no goals were scored in the second half.
Algeria concedes the most
Tuesday, 2nd February 2010 7:58pm
Algeria conceded the most number of goals after conceding ten goals at the just ended 2010 Africa Nations Cup.
In just two matches against Malawi and Egypt, Algeria conceded seven goals but then conceded three goals in the other remaining five matches.
Burkina Faso played the least number of matches of all the teams following the withdrawal of Togo in Group B and hence conceded just one goal.
Here is a chart showing the number of goals conceded by each team:
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Egypt tops goal scoring charts
The African champions Egypt finished the 2010 Africa Nations Cup as the biggest scorers
In total the Pharaohs scored 15 goals and in second place was Mali who didn't even reach the knockout stages with seven.
The total number of goals scored in the tournament was 71.
Here is the chart showing the goal scored by each team:
It should be noted that the teams did not play the same number of matches with Burkina Faso just playing two.
Egypt wraps up third title in a row
Tuesday, 2nd February 2010 5:55am
Egypt once again showed its class in African football winning the Africa Nations Cup for the third time in a row after beating Ghana 1-nil in the final.
Egypt becomes the first time to do and this started with their victory at home in 2006 and was followed by another win in Ghana in 2008.
They scored far many more goals than everybody else- 15 in total and conceded just two.
Interestingly Egypt beat four of the World Cup bound teams and the team they did not play was Ivory Coast.
Apart from Ghana they scored three or more goals against teams destined for South Africa.
Here are the different margins for the matches in the Angola tournament.:
Sevilla overcomes Valencia in crunch tie
Monday, 1st February 2010 8:57pm
Sevilla won the crunch match against Valencia in round 20 of the Spanish Primera division to move to fourth position on the table.
Sevilla won 2-1 to be within three points of their rivals. This has been a big turnaround for a team that had lost three matches in a row in January.
Once again there were no changes at the top as both Barcelona and Real Madrid won. Barca had an uncharacteristic 1-nil win over Sporting Gijon whilst Real Madrid dispatched Real Zaragoza 3-1.
Bottom club Xerez had a surprise win over Malaga despite trailing 1-nil at half time.
This was Xerez's only second win of the season and the club now has 11 points, six adrift of Tenerife which is second from bottom position.
Xerez is only the fifth team to be trailing at half time to win the match at full time as the table below shows:
Percentage(%)
Home team leading at half time, home team winning at full time 53 35.1
Away team leading at half time, away team winning at full time 35 23.2
Home team trailing at half time, home team winning at full time 5 3.3
Away team trailing at half time, away team winning at full time 1 0.7
Draw at half time, home team winning at full time 39 25.8
Draw at half time, away team winning at full time 18 11.9
Matches ending in result 151 75.5
Man Utd outclass Arsenal
In round 24 of the English Premiership, champions Manchester United outclassed Arsenal to win 3-1 at the Emirates.
Before this match Arsenal had lost just once in the league at home, a 3-nil to Chelsea but Man Utd were 2-nil by half time and scored a further goal before the Gunners got their consolation.
The result leaves the Gunners in third place but United are now just one point behind league leaders Chelsea who have a game in hand.
Chelsea won its match against Burnley 2-1 to remain top whilst the loss for Burnley means the team remains in the relegation zone.
In the battle for fourth place there were wins for Manchester City, Aston Villa and Liverpool whilst Tottenham drew.
The draw was costly to Spurs and even though they are still in fourth place, they are only one point ahead of Liverpool and Man City.
The round will finish with a match between Sunderland and Stoke.
Its been a while since I looked at the draws and so this week here is the draws table:
West Ham 23 11 9
Everton 23 12 8
Hull City 23 9 8
Manchester City 22 13 8
Aston Villa 23 5 7
Birmingham City 23 5 7
Blackburn 24 3 7
Stoke City 21 7 7
Bolton 22 10 6
Fulham 23 7 6
Tottenham 24 6 6
Wolverhampton Wanderers 23 7 6
Burnley 23 7 5
Liverpool 24 5 5
Sunderland 22 8 5
Arsenal 24 5 4
Wigan 22 5 4
Chelsea 23 4 3
Portsmouth 22 2 3
Manchester United 24 3 2


Alison Grimes was referring to an incident last year where Rand Paul's neighbor tackled the senator while he was mowing his lawn at his home.
LOUISVILLE – Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes brought down the house with her Fancy Farm speech this past weekend, but some Republicans didn't find a joke about Sen. Rand Paul too funny.
Grimes, who is rumored to be a potential candidate for Kentucky governor in 2019, took aim at Paul during the Democrats' traditional beans supper on Friday, making a joke about how the Republican senator could lose an election, according to the Associated Press.
Grimes was referring to an incident last year where Rene Boucher, a retired doctor and Paul's neighbor, tackled the senator while he was mowing his lawn at his Bowling Green home because of a dispute over piles of leaves and sticks on the property line.
Doug Stafford, Paul's chief strategist, chimed in on Twitter and referenced her failed 2014 Senate bid against Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell.
"That's almost as sad and pathetic as her last campaign," Stafford said on Twitter. "Mitch beat her so bad he almost got charged with a hate crime."
That's almost as sad and pathetic as her last campaign. Mitch beat her so bad he almost got charged with a hate crime.
Kathy Sargeant, the Chairwoman of the hardin County Republican Party of Kentucky, also tweeted that she wasn't a fan.
"Desperate for attention, Grimes tries to make physically attacking elected officials a punchline," Sargeant said on Twitter. "#FancyFarm has always been a place for lighthearted digs during political speeches and she not only missed the mark by a mile, but was low, even for her."
A spokesman for Grimes did not immediately return a request for comment.
Paul had bruised his lungs and broke five ribs from the assault. Boucher was sentenced to 30 days in jail, one year of supervised release and 100 hours of community service in federal court back in June.
Paul has since appealed the criminal charge arguing for longer jail time and has also filed a civil suit against Boucher to reimburse all costs associated with the attack.
Paul was not at Fancy Farm because he was preparing for a trip Monday to Moscow to be a "proponent of diplomacy," according to Sergio Gor, Paul's deputy chief of staff.
Grimes reportedly joked that Paul was "looking for a campaign manager," according to the Associated Press.
More: Rand Paul's attacker got 30 days in jail. Was that enough?


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so that even if you need two or more same controls in the same page they will have different ids. Hope this Helps! cheers :)

This works with making the javascript method unique like follows:
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But how would I call the method using the onchange event within the asp:dropdownlist tag, e.g.
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I tried putting onchange="JavaScript:DDLSelectionChanged<%=this.ID%>()" but that doesn't work.
Please remember this is .NET 1.1.

A: Please do like this in your server side
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you need to create function named "fname" into javascript with one parameter, that parameter will give you an ID# of particular dropdown control.

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Biochora – przestrzeń, którą zajmuje jedna, konkretna fitocenoza (zbiorowość).

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Photographer Observing The Life Of The Fox From The Past 8 Months And Captured Never-Seen-Before Behavior
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Award-winning Hungarian photographer Milan Radisics observing the life of Roxy the fox from the past 8 months and captured never-seen-before behavior. Milan is a National Geographic contributor with 12 published stories in national editions of the magazine. His stories also appeared in BBC Wildlife Magazine,Terra Mater and Maptia, to name a few.
The story of Roxy:
For 8 months, nearly every night I spent sitting at the window of my cottage house in the middle of the forest, and I observed the life of the foxes. One of them was braver. The vixen would appear after dusk, circle it for an hour and a half, and appear in the yard several times. I took the exposure remotely to capture interesting, covert, never-before-seen behavior. We built a distant, but subtle relationship, something hard to describe, and I named her Roxy. She always surprised me, showing new sides of her personality and quick adaptation to the changes. Adjusting to the presence of a wild animal, I learned plenty about foxes and also about myself and humans in general. Lots of things that will hopefully change people's view that the fox is a pest.
In the evenings I set the lights in advance, like in a studio, and waited in the darkened room for my heroine to enter the scene. Working with such an appealing and unpredictable animal, I had to solve many technical, theoretical, and physical challenges, and it was a wonderful opportunity to develop skills and experiment with gadgets.
Working exclusively at night allowed me to get creative with lighting. In some images, I used dramatic, studio-like lighting. In others, I balanced my flashes with ambient light. Working with such an appealing and unpredictable animal at night was both a great challenge and a wonderful opportunity to document the great story.
Half of the pictures were taken by a radio-released remote trigger, and half by a camera trap. This series won first prize at Sony World Photography Awards and first place in the Hungarian PressPhoto contest and thanks to this, Roxy became the world's most-known vixen.
Fine art prints are available not just for fox freaks!
You can find more info about Milan Radisics:
#1 Roxy In The Heavy Snowstorm
Roxy walking on the trunk in a heavy snowstorm, backlit with flash.
I watched the satellite images and waited for the snow and prayed for Roxy to arrive just in time. I was lucky when she was exactly at the planned location, I pressed the radio trigger to fly Roxy amongst the stars.
#2 Little Sausage
Little Sausage, Roxy's second-generation puppy, peeks through the window.
He's not yet 3 months old, but he's already walking around on his own, getting to know the neighborhood, and exploring everything in the yard.
#3 Roxy Drinking Water From The Small Plunge Pool
Underwater capture of Roxy drinking water from the plunge pool.
The vixen usually showed up four or five times a night, and I noticed that it would drink water on the third occasion. Presumably, Roxy had eaten enough from the neighborhood and got thirsty. I used a cable remote release and a constant light source. This picture was taken with an underwater camera.
#4 Peekaboo
Little Sausage, Roxy's second-generation puppy, peeks through hole in trunk.
#5 Revelation
Roxy walks on the logs in very heavy fog. Volumetric light comes from the flash in the back.
She circles in the village for an hour and a half then appears in my yard several times during the night regardless of the weather.
That's why I captured her in all the extreme weather conditions.
#6 Man And The Nature
Roxy poses in the limelight on the old seat on the porch of the traditional, 180-year-old cottage house, in Hungary.
In the evenings, I would turn on the lights in my yard and wait for my photo model to walk onto the set. Working exclusively at night allowed me to get creative with lighting. In some images, I used dramatic, studio-like lighting. In others, I balanced my flashes with ambient light. Working with such an appealing and unpredictable animal at night was both a great challenge and a wonderful opportunity to develop skills.
#7 Through The Hole
The fox enters my yard through the hole in the fence in the backyard.
#8 The Epilated Fox
Bottom view of a fox's epilated belly five days after giving birth to cubs. At the same time, we can see the raised foot posture, typical of foxes.
As I waited for Roxy at night, I read literature to learn about the life of foxes. Somewhere I read that at birth, a fox rips the hair out of its belly to line the nest and provide access during breastfeeding. I wanted to capture this in a picture, so I built a big glass table. The fox tried to get acquainted with the structure, so it jumped up 5 days after giving birth.
#9 Roxy With An Egg
Roxy comes out of the barn with an egg in her mouth. She takes the eggs to the cubs.
#10 Roxy Searching For Snacks
Roxy is scrabbling inside a rotting trunk. The camera was triggered by a motion sensor.
The curiosity of the scene is that Roxy refused to get into the trunk while I watched her from the window. She just walked around and smelled it. She wanted to keep an eye on me all the time because if she didn't see me for a moment, her instincts whispered she might be in danger. So all that was left was to use the motion sensor and at night, when I slept, the planned image was completed with undisturbed, natural behavior.
#11 Roxy Watches The Mouse
Roxy entered the barn and disturbed the mouse that was snacking on sunflowers.
The abandoned barn, built in 1932, was full of mice, so I left the door open at night, and the foxes completely took over the room in three weeks.
#12 Roxy And The Bird Feeder
Roxy watches the inside of the bird feeder to collect the tallow scattered there.
#13 Observation Point
Roxy observing the yard from the top of the old stone wall, and trying to decide if it was safe or not.
This is one of the safest points for her because from there she also sees the street and the courtyard.
#14 Photographer Watching Subject
Roxy's cub The Little Sausage, explores the yard.
#15 Observing Fox
Roxy hid behind the pine trees, watching the window and trying to decide if it was safe or not.
#16 Breath In The Harsh Winter
She circled in the village for an hour and a half, then appeared in my yard several times during the night regardless of the weather. That's why I captured her in all the extreme weather conditions.
#17 Puppy In Garden
Little Sausage, Roxy's second-generation puppy, appears in a garden.
#18 Mustaches
Roxy came soaking wet with mice in her mouth to show what she had hunted, just like cats do.
In the meantime, she hopes that she will get something to eat, and see if she can stuff it in her mouth.
#19 Jump
Roxy jumping from the trunk in the yard of a cottage house in the middle of the forest.
She always arrived in the yard from different spots. When she came over the wall, she jumped easily over the 120-centimeter obstacle. Upon leaving, she leaped elegantly from the 170-centimeter wall.
#20 On The Way To Hedonism
Roxy living in the neighborhood raided a terrace on a house near the forest to collect the leftovers. Taken automatically by motion sensor trigger.
#21 Roxy Posing In The Barn
Roxy watches the flash while posing on the log in the abandoned barn.
#22 Roxy Is Approaching
Roxy arrives at the yard in front of the traditional, 180 years old cottage house in Hungary. She usually came from 3 directions and always alternated between them.
#23 Roxy In Garden
Roxy walking through the garden observing what's new in the house.
#24 Roxy On A Fallen Trunk
In one of the village's courtyards, a rotten tree trunk fell during the night and fell into pieces.
The next day, Roxy examined the new shape and picked out the insects.
#25 Sneaking Fox
Roxy sneaks in front of the traditional house in countryside of Hungary.
#26 Wild Instincts
Roxy seizes the dead pheasant. I set the camera and motion sensor next to a dead pheasant in the meadow near my backyard. The camera sensor recorded interesting scenes of the lovable Roxy when her wild instincts took over.
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At some point, you may want to consider professional home, palliative or hospice care.
Most family caregivers reach a point when they realize they need some level of professional assistance at home. If your loved one requires constant supervision and/or assistance with everyday activities, such as bathing and dressing, it may be time. There are many types of professional care options available to you. Ask your health care team, social workers, religious organizations, charitable groups, neighbors and friends for recommendations.
If the goal is to reduce your workload, think about hiring help for cleaning the house, running errands or preparing meals. More skilled helpers might be required to help with bathing, dressing or toileting. And finally, registered nurses are available if you need skilled medical care.
Home care and home health care include a range of medical and non-medical caregiving services provided in your home. Services can usually be arranged to meet your needs – a few hours a week up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week and could be done by a single person or a team. Medicare generally doesn't pay for long-term care but will help pay for skilled nursing or home health care if you meet certain conditions. Use the Medicare Eligibility Tool to check your eligibility.
Aides, homemakers and chore workers who help with chores around the house but usually do not provide personal or medical care for your loved one.
Home care aides who provide personal services such as bathing, dressing, toileting, making meals, light cleaning and transporting patients to the doctor.
Therapists who work with patients to restore or maintain their motor, speech and cognitive skills.
Registered nurses (RNs) who provide skilled medical care, including giving medications, monitoring vital signs, dressing wounds, and teaching family caregivers how to use complicated equipment at home.
Home care services can be provided by home care agencies that coordinate home care needs, registries of independent contractors or privately employed independent providers. Several types of home care organizations may merge to provide a wide variety of services through an integrated system.
Finding the best home care provider for you will require research, but is time well spent. Important factors include the quality of care, availability of needed services, personnel training and expertise, and health insurance coverage.
Before starting a search, it is important to determine which types of services you need. You may wish to consult with your physician, nurse or social worker for assistance to help determine your needs. Once you've completed this assessment, you will be able to identify the type of home care provider who is best suited to help. Your physician or hospital discharge planner can help you locate home care providers in your area.
Next Step in Care – Information and advice to help family caregivers and health care providers plan safe and smooth transitions for patients with careful planning, clear communication and ongoing coordination.
The goal of palliative care is to relieve the pain, symptoms and stress of serious illness. Palliative care may be provided at any time during a person's illness, even from the time of diagnosis. You can get palliative care whether you are at home or in an assisted living facility, nursing facility or hospital.
Palliative care is medical care that concentrates on reducing the severity of disease symptoms without prolonging suffering. The goal is to prevent and relieve discomfort and to improve the quality of life for people facing a fatal illness. Palliative care usually employs a team approach and may be provided at any time during a person's illness, even from the time of diagnosis. It may be given simultaneously with other treatments that attempt to treat the underlying disease.
The decision about the best place for your loved one to receive palliative care depends on your individual circumstances and should involve your family. In most cases, hospital units cannot provide the appropriate environment for long term care, so look for palliative care programs that come to your home or provide a residential facility.
As people with FTD are often younger than other dementia patients, you will want to ensure that your loved one is cared for in an environment appropriate to their age. Your medical team should be able to help you identify suitable places.
Given the variable progression of FTD and the generally shorter disease course from diagnosis to death, you will want to discuss end-of-life decisions, including feeding, as early as possible after diagnosis. This allows your family member to participate in decision-making while their abilities will still allow for that. Any planning that you have done should always be shared with other care providers.
Contact us if you need advice about suitable placement for palliative care.
Assisted Living: Quality of Life – a checklist of questions from the National Caregivers Library dealing with socializing, meals, safety, and other issues to consider when you and your loved one visit an assisted living facility.
Assisted Living: Costs and Contracts – a list of financial questions to ask when you and your loved one visit an assisted living facility.
Find a hospital in your area that provides palliative care (The USA only) – an online tool from the Center to Advance Palliative Care that located palliative care centers near you.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization – a charitable organization advocating for the needs of people facing a life-limiting illness.
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine – a professional organization for healthcare providers dedicated to expanding access to high-quality palliative care and advancing the discipline of Hospice and Palliative Medicine through professional education, support, research and public policy.
The UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine (DHM) provides palliative care service for for patients who are seriously ill.
Hospice care provides palliative care to relieve suffering and improve the quality of life for people who are expected to live for about six months or less. Like palliative care, hospice care can be provided whether you are at home or in an assisted living facility, nursing facility or hospital.
Hospice care provides palliative care to relieve suffering and improve the quality of life for people who are suspected to live for less than six months. Like palliative care, hospice care can be provided at home, an assisted living facility, a nursing facility or a hospital.
Finding the right provider does not have to be difficult. As a first step, create a written assessment of your situation (see Planning Care) to help you determine what services you will need. Your medical team and family can help complete this assessment. Once you have an idea of what you will need, ask your medical team for specific recommendations or use the directories in the Resources section below to find providers in your area.
Next, the local hospice workers will meet with the doctor, patient and family to discuss available services and expectations and to develop a plan of care designed specifically for your loved one tailored to the family needs.
You may want to ask questions about insurance plans and payment requirements.
Ask what expectations the hospice will have from the patient and the patient's support system.
Ask what kind of support and training program the hospice has for caregivers.
Ask about bereavement support programs.
Hospice care is a covered benefit under Medicare for patients with a prognosis of six months or less. Medicaid covers hospice services in most states. Many private health insurance policies and HMOs offer hospice coverage and benefits. Hospice services are also covered under TRICARE, the Department of Defense's health care program for members of the uniformed services, their families and survivors. Frequently, hospice expenses are less than conventional care expenses during the last six months of life.
End of Life Issues: Hospice Care – articles from the National Caregivers Library to help you understand hospice care and find the right service for your loved one.
Hospice Foundation of America – an organization that explains options to people facing a life-limiting illness, hospice care, and how to cope with grief.


If you practice a martial art, Krav Maga is likely a fighting system you've heard of. Thanks to its rising popularity and increasing roster of celebrity practitioners, many people outside of the world of martial arts are starting to take interest in Krav Maga –– and even recognize it by name, if not by its principles. While Krav Maga is often lumped in with other martial arts, make no mistake: Krav Maga is neither a combat sport nor a martial art. It is a self-defense system built for survival.
There is no single definition of the term 'martial art' and this often leads to confusion. A martial art, for our purposes, is a codified system of physical movements meant for a competitive, combat, or combat-like activity. Often, especially in Eastern martial arts, there is a philosophical aspect to the various styles related to codes of honor or connections to the natural universe.
Krav Maga, on the other hand, is more properly defined as a practical self-defense system. We take effective techniques from other arts. Founder/ Creator of Krav Maga Imi Lichtenfeld combined wrestling, boxing, and street fighting, forming a system of powerful combat skills. Beauty, honor, and other philosophical niceties are eschewed for one thing: survival.
Keep It Real Krav Maga techniques and training scenarios are designed for real-life threats. It's not meant to score points with judges, represent a harmonious balance, or teach honor and discipline. Instead, you put your attacker on the ground hard and fast. Training is based around the muggers, gunmen, and angry drunks you could meet in a dark alley alone.
Your Moveset Is Whatever Works Many martial arts competitions take on a choreographed appearance because students tend to practice the same routines, or katas, from the same books. Unlike a traditional martial art, Krav Maga trains you to be versatile and to improvise. While everyone may learn a straight punch, your specific situation determines how you counter it; you're not performing a routine. You use your intuitive body movements to counter attackers, then attack in turn.
Learn To Survive If you encounter a threat, there is only one rule we teach: survive! Whatever it takes––whatever you have to do––you'll have the skills to be the one left standing. In combat sports and martial arts, there are disallowed strikes and holds that are considered dishonorable or unsportsmanlike. When it's your life or your attacker's, there are no rules. The groin is as good of a target as the nose, throat, or solar plexus if that's what it takes to live.
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Emanuel Shinwell, Baron Shinwell,  (18 October 1884 – 8 May 1986) was a British politician who served as a government minister under Ramsay MacDonald and Clement Attlee. A member of the Labour Party, he served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 40 years, for Linlithgowshire, Seaham and Easington respectively.

Born in the East End of London to a large family of Jewish immigrants, Shinwell moved to Glasgow as a boy and left school at the age of eleven. He became a trade union organiser and one of the leading figures of Red Clydeside. He was imprisoned in 1919 for his alleged involvement in the disturbances in Glasgow in January of that year. He served as a Labour MP from 1922 to 1924, and from a by-election in 1928 until 1931, and held junior office in the minority Labour Governments of 1924 and 1929–1931. He returned to the House of Commons in 1935, defeating former UK Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, who by that time had been expelled from the Labour Party. During the Second World War, he was a leading backbencher critic of the Coalition Government.

Shinwell is perhaps best remembered as the Minister of Fuel and Power in the Attlee ministry that nationalised coal mining in 1946. He was in charge of Britain's coal supply during the extremely harsh winter of January to March 1947, during which the supply system collapsed, leaving the United Kingdom to freeze and close down. He became unpopular with the public and was sacked in October 1947. He then served as Secretary of State for War, and then as Minister of Defence from 1950–1951. The high defence spending which he demanded, partly to pay for British involvement in the Korean War, was a major factor causing then-Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell to impose NHS charges, prompting the resignation of Aneurin Bevan from the Cabinet.

After Labour's defeat in 1951, Shinwell continued to serve in the Shadow Cabinet in Opposition until he stepped down in 1955. Thereafter he was a senior backbencher until 1970, by which time he was in his mid-eighties. That year he accepted a life peerage and was an active member of the House of Lords until shortly before his death, aged 101, in 1986.

Early life, career and trade union activities
Shinwell was born in Spitalfields, London, but his family moved to Glasgow, Scotland. His father was a Polish Jew who had a small clothing shop, and his mother, a Dutch Jew, was a cook from London. He was the eldest of thirteen children.

He educated himself in a public library and at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery. He enjoyed sport, particularly boxing, and he was the trainer of a local football team. He left school at age eleven to be apprenticed as a tailor, and began his working life as a machinist in a clothing workshop. In 1903, he became active in the Amalgamated Union of Clothiers' Operatives, and joined the Glasgow Trades Council in 1906 as a delegate of that union.

In May 1911, he was seconded to help organise the seamen of Glasgow at the request of Havelock Wilson of the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union (NSFU). He played a prominent role in the six-week Glasgow seamen's strike which began on 14 June and which was part of a nationwide strike. He subsequently became the secretary of the Glasgow branch of the NSFU. In August 1912, he participated in a revolt against the union, which resulted in the Glasgow branch becoming part of the Southampton-based British Seafarers' Union (BSU). He was the local secretary of the BSU until it became part of the Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union (AMWU) in 1922, after which he served as National Organiser of the new organisation.

In 1918, he stood unsuccessfully for Linlithgowshire (alternative name West Lothian).

In 1919, he gained national notoriety through his involvement in the Glasgow 40 Hours' Movement. This movement culminated in clashes between police and protesters in Glasgow's George Square in January 1919, in which he was alleged to have been involved. He was afterwards tried for incitement to riot and was sentenced to five months' imprisonment in Calton Jail, Edinburgh.

Political career

Interwar and World War Two

An Independent Labour Party (ILP) member, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Linlithgowshire at the 1922 general election.

In 1924 he was Secretary for Mines (not a Cabinet-level post) in the First Labour Government. He lost his seat in 1924, but was re-elected for Linlithgowshire at a by-election in 1928.

In the second Labour Government of 1929–31 Ramsay MacDonald appointed him Financial Secretary to the War Office (1929–30); Cowling says that MacDonald believed he had rescued Shinwell's ministerial career when no minister would take him. He then served again as Secretary for Mines from 1930–1. At the time Shinwell was an admirer of MacDonald and tried to dissuade him from forming a National Government in 1931. He again lost his seat at the general election that year.

He returned to the Commons in 1935 after defeating MacDonald for Seaham Harbour, County of Durham (later renamed Easington after boundary changes in the late 1940s).

He campaigned vigorously, along with left-wingers such as Aneurin Bevan, for Britain to support the Popular Front government in Spain against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. On 4 April 1938, during a heated House of Commons debate in which he had been criticising the government's foreign policy, he struck Conservative MP Commander Robert Tatton Bower in the face- causing internal bleeding and a burst eardrum- after Bower told him to "go back to Poland!". Shinwell said he had taken this to be an anti-semitic remark.

In May 1940 he refused a position in Winston Churchill's Coalition Government in the Ministry of Food. He became chairman of the Labour Party in 1942. During the Second World War he was a vigorous but patriotic backbench critic of Churchill. He and Earl Winterton, another serial critic of the government, were known as "Arsenic and Old Lace".

Attlee Governments: 1945–51

Minister of Fuel and Power
He served in Clement Attlee's Cabinet after the Labour victory in 1945 as Minister of Fuel and Power, and in 1946 he presided over the nationalisation of the mining industry. He also negotiated a miners' charter with the NUM. He declared the middle class "not worth a tinker's cuss". His insistence on the open-cast mining of the park of the Wentworth Woodhouse estate, to the doorsteps of the house, when the quality of the coal was poor, was viewed by its owners and the local mining community, which opposed it, as pure vindictiveness – an act of class warfare. In 1947-8 he was Chairman of the Labour Party.

In 1947, Britain experienced, in an exceptionally severe winter, a serious coal shortage. The supply system collapsed, leaving Britain to freeze and close down. Shinwell denied there were problems and refused to assume responsibility, blaming the climate, the railway system, or capitalism generally. Shinwell was widely criticised for his failure to avert this crisis. His earlier comment that "There will be no fuel crisis. I am Minister of Fuel and Power and I ought to know", was later included in the official handbook for Conservative Party members to use in speeches and leaflets.

In 1947 Shinwell presided over the nationalisation of electricity. In October 1947 he was sacked. He was bitterly resentful at being replaced by Hugh Gaitskell, his former deputy and a public schoolboy. He was also attacked by James Callaghan (then a junior minister) for his lack of zeal about further nationalisation.

Secretary of State for War
Shinwell was demoted to Secretary of State for War (Minister for the Army, but no longer a full member of the Cabinet) a position which he held until 1950. He was a vigorous War Minister, who got on well with the Army and was seen as jingoistic.

In November 1947 a report from MI5 alleged that Shinwell had passed secret information to a man named "Stanley", who had passed it on to Zionist paramilitary group, the Irgun. Shinwell knew self-styled "contact man" Sidney Stanley, whom he had approached for help in finding employment for his son Ernie, and Stanley had obtained information on the disbandment of the Transjordan Frontier Force from some government source.

Minister of Defence
Shinwell's seat became Easington at the February 1950 election, after which he was promoted to Minister of Defence and became a full member of the Cabinet once more. Edmund Dell described him as "putty in the hands of the defence chiefs" and his promotion as "[a] ludicrous appointment. No failure was ever great enough to persuade Attlee to deny one of his cohorts new opportunities to do damage … Shinwell never forgave Gaitskell, whom he blamed for his disgrace." Gaitskell, promoted to Chancellor of the Exchequer later in the year, recorded in his diary that Shinwell "never loses an opportunity of picking a quarrel with me, sometimes on the most ridiculous grounds".

His term of office saw the Malayan Emergency and the early stages of Korean War, which began in June 1950 and to which British troops were deployed. Shinwell was responsible for the rearmament programme which precipitated the resignation of Aneurin Bevan from the Cabinet in the spring of 1951, although Gaitskell actually gave him less defence spending than he wanted. In the summer of 1951 the Cabinet blocked him from sending British troops to Abadan when the oil refineries were nationalised by the Iranian government.

Shinwell was by now seen as being on the right of the Labour Party. At the Labour Party Conference at Scarborough that autumn, he lost his place as an elected constituency representative on the Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC), the members of which were increasingly elected by Bevanites in the constituency parties. Labour lost the general election a month later.

Later political career
Shinwell stepped down from the Shadow Cabinet (which at that time was elected by Labour MPs when the party was in opposition) in 1955. That year he published a volume of memoirs, Conflict Without Malice. By the early 1960s he had changed his mind about nuclear weapons and opposed the deployment of US nuclear submarines to Holy Loch.

Shinwell did not resume ministerial office when Labour returned to power in October 1964, but instead the new Prime Minister Harold Wilson appointed him Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, and during the 1964-6 Parliament he worked hard to drum up backbench support for the government, which had a very narrow majority. He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in the 1965 Birthday Honours. He was vehemently opposed to Wilson's attempt to enter the EEC in 1966, and resigned as Chairman of the Labour Party in 1967.

He got on well both with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and with the journalist Sir John Junor.

Shinwell was created a life peer as Baron Shinwell, of Easington in the County of Durham, on 29 June 1970. He later became chair of the All-Party Lords Defence Study Group. In 1973 he published another volume of memoirs, I've Lived through It All. He voted against the Labour Government in 1976. He resigned the Labour Party whip in 1982 in protest at left wing militancy.

Death
In October 1984 Shinwell celebrated his hundredth birthday against the backdrop of the miners' strike. He continued to be active in the House of Lords until shortly before his death. He became the longest-lived peer on 26 March 1986, dying a little over a month later on 8 May, aged 101. He held the record for the second longest-lived British MP (after Theodore Cooke Taylor) until overtaken by Bert Hazell in November 2008.

Shinwell's estate was valued for probate at £271,509 (around £700,000 at 2016 prices).

Personal life
Shinwell was married three times: from 1903 to 1954 to Fay (Fanny) Freeman, by whom he had two sons and a daughter, from 1956 to 1971 to Dinah Meyer, who was Danish, and from 1972 to 1977 to Sarah Sturgo. He outlived all three of his wives. Shinwell's great-niece is the former MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Luciana Berger.

Shinwell sat for sculptor Alan Thornhill for a portrait in clay. The correspondence file relating to the Shinwell portrait bust is held as part of the Thornhill Papers (2006:56) in the archive of the Henry Moore Foundation's Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and the terracotta remains in the collection of the artist. A bronze (accession number S.309) was purchased for the Collection of Glasgow City Art Gallery in 1973.

References

Bibliography
Shinwell wrote three volumes of autobiography:
Conflict Without Malice (1955)
I've Lived Through it All (1973)
Lead With the Left (1981)
Shinwell wrote
"When The Men Come Home" (1944)

Biography:
Slowe, Peter, "Manny Shinwell" Pluto Press (1993), foreword by Harold Wilson.

Scholarly studies:
 Robertson Alex J.. The Bleak Midwinter 1947 (Manchester University Press. 1987). pp. x, 207

Book used for citations:

 , essay on Shinwell written by Kenneth O. Morgan

Archives
 Catalogue of the Shinwell papers held at LSE Archives

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South African artist James Webb created a public sound intervention in Melbourne, presented as part of the 2009 Melbourne International Arts Festival. Utilising the Signal speaker system at Northbank on the Yarra River, Webb's project broadcast multi-lingual public service announcements declaring, Ladies and Gentlemen, your attention please. You are reminded that everything is fine.
Webb worked with a group of Melbourne teenagers in workshops presented in partnership with Signal engaging with the daily sonic experiences of Melbourne youths.


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OECD Home EnvironmentCiting public anger and youth activism, OECD Secretary-General urges governments to heed calls for climate action
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Citing public anger and youth activism, OECD Secretary-General urges governments to heed calls for climate action
03/07/2019 - OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría today said governments must face up to mounting anger, particularly among youth, on climate inaction.
In a major speech in Geneva, he named OECD countries leading the way to decarbonise their economies, and listed worrisome developments in other key countries that are slowing down or reversing progress.
Read the full speech. Following are key excerpts:
"Governments now have a much bigger problem on their hands than me delivering a biennial admonishment on the need for urgent action: if they don't act to curb climate change through radical measures that take well-being and inclusion into account, they will be held accountable at the ballot box. The 'green wave' that dominated the recent European elections demonstrates not only a rising tide of awareness, but also muscle. So be it by political conviction or electoral convenience, leaders need to think big and act bigger."
"Our children and youth are angry. And they have every right to feel enraged. After a three-year plateau from 2014 to 2016, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are rising again, reaching unprecedented levels in 2018. The jump from 2017 emissions was equivalent to the amount of total emissions from international aviation last year! Coal, oil and gas continue to meet the lion's share of global primary energy demand growth."
"We have repeatedly called upon governments to put national agendas and short termism aside and honour their climate commitments ... to put a meaningful price on carbon, to phase out state support for fossil fuels, and to stop burning coal."
"Treating carbon pricing as a 'mainstream' tax policy, with few constraints on revenue use, would help cleave support for carbon pricing from the social impacts of carbon pricing and carbon revenue itself, to depend on performance of the overall system."
"We can't have a common future if we leave behind the vulnerable segments of our population, who often stand to be hardest hit by climate change... Locations where 'brown' jobs are lost may also not coincide with where 'green' ones are created. And post-displacement jobs often tend to be 'worse' along a number of dimensions[.]"
"Our policies have to be made with our children's future in mind… short-term decision-making can lock countries into expensive mistakes in financing and developing infrastructure… that will be neither necessary nor profitable in a low-emissions world, they will be stranded assets."
"This radical transformation demands a profound systemic change, and we are all part of this system."
Watch a recording of the Secretary-General's speech at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
Further information: oe.cd/climate-lectures
For further details, journalists are invited to contact Catherine Bremer in the OECD Media Office (+33 1 45 24 80 97).
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Safety Culture: Methods to Lower Your Experience Mod
When it comes to insurance, your experience modification (mod) is a factor you receive annually based on your historical claims for workers' compensation and your payroll. Those two are compared with the national averages and you receive a number either below or above one.
An experience mod below one means you're doing better than the industry average, while a mod above one means you've had more loss experience. Your experience mod not only impacts your workers' compensation costs but can prevent you from bidding on construction projects as a general contractor can use experience mods to prequalify landscape contractors.
The good news is there are steps landscape companies can take to improve their experience mod.
In an episode of The Big Green Podcast, NALP CEO Britt Wood spoke with Drew Garcia, vice president of Rancho Mesa Insurance Services and Brian Moore, president of BellaVista Landscape Services, Inc., based in San Jose, California, about how landscape company owners can positively impact their experience mod.
BellaVista serves residential and commercial clients and uses several strategies to manage their experience mod, both before an accident and after one occurs. Moore says they don't have a secret ingredient to safety. Keeping their mod low takes hard work and focusing on it every day to make an impact.
"Our safety program is not done by accident," Moore says. "It's not done by passive action. It's done by executing a very deliberate strategy that we have all developed and then met with our team so they understand why we want to do it and how that will impact the health and safety of our employees, and then we execute that."
Pre-Accident Practices
In years past, Moore says they would have a short conversation with new hires, give them a uniform and then show them the crew they'd be riding with for the day.
"We've come a long way since then," Moore says. "We instituted a new hire process many years back that requires a full eight-hour onboarding day for all new hires."
During this onboarding day, BellaVista shares who they are as a company, why they're here and what they're trying to achieve on a day-to-day basis. They also explain who their clients are and what the new hire's role is and how it impacts the business as a whole.
"We find that really important to set the expectations," Moore says. "It's really hard to know what's expected of you if no one ever tells you."
They also cover training harassment and chemical safety so each new hire has the same baseline knowledge. Moore credits Garcia for suggesting implementing a morning stretching routine.
"We've changed it up again to a really short warmup that warms up your core muscles, gets the blood flowing, and it brings everybody to a circle in the morning," Moore says. "We can have a quick safety chat; we can all see each other eye to eye."
Moore says these warmups also provide him an opportunity to participate and show his team members they apply to everyone in the business. As he stretches with the team, he has the chance to learn more about their daily lives. He says it also helps them spot anyone who might be nursing an injury that wasn't reported the day before.
"Unfortunately, in some situations, we find team members who aren't fit to participate in our culture because they don't have the same respect for focusing on safety and warming up the body," Moore says. "Unfortunately, those are challenging decisions, but we want to make sure that everybody participates so that we can go to work safely."
He says they have the mentality that their processes are never finished and are always working to improve their safety program. The company recently added a safety director of safety and training whose sole focus is to be there for BellaVista's employees and develop more efficient safety and training programs.
Since bringing on their safety director, they've added CPR and first aid training as one of their baselines for every employee to know.
"I remember years ago, we did that for all of our supervisors," Moore says. "We quickly realized our supervisors aren't on all properties all the time. Then we rolled it to crew leaders. Well, what are you doing when the crew leader needs assistance? A crew member really needs to know the same level of safety training."
Post-Accident Processes
While accidents are unfortunate, Moore acknowledges that injuries are inevitable based on the nature of their work. What truly matters is how they respond after one takes place.
The first step is to report when an accident occurs. Once they know, the employee is transported to a clinic for first aid or an evaluation.
"Although it may seem a little bit too much, we want to make sure that our employees are seen no matter what the injury is, a small laceration to a bee sting," Moore says. "We have had bee stings years ago that employee went home and ended up at the ER in the middle of the night because of some sort of reaction."
Moore says they can develop a plan with their clinics to treat the injury, know the timeline for recovery and what restrictions that employee needs as they recover. The director of safety and training communicates to the local office what those restrictions are and what modified duty the employee can take on while still working.
He says bringing their employees back to work immediately helps limit their indemnity.
"Even if they have to ride supervisor for the day, or they have to file papers or do whatever they can do," Moore says. "They're here; they're earning their paycheck. We scheduled their follow-up appointments during work hours. I don't expect them to have to treat their work-related injury on personal time, for starters, but then also, if it's during work hours, we can make sure they get there and we can take them to the appointment."
Missed appointments can lead to injuries not getting treated and exacerbate the problem. They check in on the employee regularly to see how they're doing and let them know BellaVista is there to take care of them.
Moore says timely communication with the insurance provider is also important as they can't help you manage a claim until they have all the necessary information.
"I think the piece a lot of business owners miss is creating that relationship with your insurance carrier so that you have a stronger outcome, stronger communication," Garcia says. "He's invested time and energy in creating those relationships with their carrier and he views that as long-term partnerships and I think you can see the benefit of ultimately what he gets in the end for his employees."
Garcia adds that owners should keep their safety process simple so they can repeat them and continue to build off of them.
Listen to the full podcast here.
NALP's safety programs are produced in partnership with Rancho Mesa.
The Urgency for Doing Safety Differently in Landscaping – Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention
Safety Culture: Preparing Your Business for Natural Disasters
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How I Do It: Creating an Engaging Safety Culture


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The Irish surname Cullen, also found in Scotland, has two distinct origins. The name Cullen may be an anglicized form of the Gaelic Ó Coileáin meaning "descendant of Coileán," a byname meaning ' a puppy or a young dog." The name may also be an anglicized form of the Gaelic Ó Cuilinn meaning "descendant of Cuileann," a byname meaning "holly." When found in Scotland the name is of habitational origin from the town of Cullen in Banff, so named from Gaelic cùilen, a diminutive of còil, cùil meaning "nook or recess." In Ireland The sept was a branch of the Corca Laoidhe, which comprised the clans of South West Munster, and their territory lay in the barony of Barryroe in County Cork. The surname was well recorded there in Petty's "Census of Ireland" in 1659. Branches of the family spread to Counties Clare and Waterford, and Donegal. Today there are about 20,000 people with the last name Cullen living in The United States.
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I realize it has been two weeks since my last post. I actually have a few draft posts that I have been working on but one thing or another kept me from finishing them up and hitting post. So then this is an attempt to catch up on what's been going on.
For one thing, it's been extremely cold in the Midwest in general and in Chicago in particular. This means I have been WFH whenever feasible. At first I was reluctant to do so but then I realized 1) it is very sucky out there, 2) I have a very generous WFH policy and 3) it is very sucky out there. One particular morning it was so bad, local radio stations were emphatically saying, if you don't need to be out and about, avoid it at all costs.
So for me that means monitoring email in between shoveling the mass amounts of snow that have landed on our property. During our last big snow, one of my neighbors was kind enough to run his gas snow plow along the sidewalk and even did the walkway to many of the houses. I used the opportunity of being home during the winter daylight to remove a good amount of snow from the balcony above our front porch. While I'm sure it would have been fine to leave it alone, I feel that removing the snow will help prolong the lifespan of the front porch roof. Nightingale made me promise not to attempt to do the back roof above the kitchen.
Because it is very unsafe to run outside, and I'm not training for anything, I have given myself a free pass to not workout if I don't feel like it. I won't be able to do this too much longer if I want to maintain/lose some weight and also get in any type of shape for my March races.
What I lack in exercise and running, I've made up in practicing my Rosetta Stone. While I'm not by any stretch of the imagination becoming fluent in Polish, I have noticed that I am doing better than the first time I attempted this exercise in 2009. I attribute it to 1) more consistency in doing the lessons once a week EVERY week and 2) blocking out an entire hour of uninterrupted time to go through the exercises.
Rosetta Stone's shtick is that you learn by association so you never actually explicitly see anything that says red is Czerwony , Koszula is shirt, or Chłopiec is boy. Instead you see pictures and hear the word and the spellings. This works fine for nouns and perhaps even the verbs but I am still struggling with possessive pronouns and word tense. Obviously I struggle the most with pronunciation.
So if I want to take this to the next level, I'm going to have to increase from once a week to several times a day, most likely a couple times a week and ideally an hour a day until I get through the three lessons several times.


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Q: Access to Facebook? As a little learning project, I'd like to make a little app that reads data from a facebook users status updates. It's been done millions of times before, I'm sure, but is there an API or something? Would I need to signup for some Facebook developers license or anything, or is it as easy as finding the API, and then simply coding to it?
I'd like to simply get friends Status Updates via my login... seems easy enough. :)

A: You can start reading here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/
And look in the forum discussions here: http://forum.developers.facebook.net/index.php

A: This post was helpful to me http://gathadams.com/2007/06/18/how-to-write-a-facebook-application-in-10-minutes/
Also keep in mind this last change made for FB team about Post for canvas http://developers.facebook.com/docs/canvas/post/
Good luck!

A: The Facebook Developer links posted above are good, but it might be useful to look at some examples.
The Facebook C# SDK, found here: http://facebooksdk.codeplex.com/, has samples in ASP.NET MVC. It's a pretty simple project, so it should be relatively easy to see how things work in practice.
You can create an app at http://developers.facebook.com/
Then, download the sample project, replace the AppId and AppSecret with values from your registered app, and see how it works.