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The son of an imam, Ahmed Aboutaleb, born in Morocco, has been named in Rotterdam, the first Muslim mayor of the first port in Europe, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. "More than some Dutch Dutch", in his own words, the Labor pasa hesitate castigate those who do not accept the values of the Netherlands. " 

In the boardroom throne City portrait of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. Around on the paneling, Juliana ensure his ancestors, and Wilhelmine Emma.En face, the mayor called Ahmed. 

In Rotterdam, some were "shocked" at annonced the appointment * of this work, born in Morocco. Ahmed Aboutaleb, he remains impassive: he "understands the concerns and advocates' confidence." Geert Wilders, the member right provocateur, author of a film on Islam questioned would have preferred it to be "Mayor of Rabat:" Appointing a Moroccan mayor of the second city in the country is as crazy as to appoint a Dutch mayor of Mecca "Yet, Morocco, which he left at age 15, does not Aboutaleb much. If it keeps its green passport because, under Moroccan law, "we can not make it." After 32 years in the Netherlands, I am certain that Dutch Dutch, exclaims he says. All I do is think and Dutch. " 

The son of an imam, who was born in 1961 in Beni Sidel, a village nestled in the mountains of Rif, Aboutaleb left behind "a small house without electricity or running water." It is not his childhood dream of becoming a poet. An engineer by training, he was a journalist and spokesperson for the Minister. Without being presented to voters, a member of the Labor Party (PvdA) becomes, in January 2004, Mayor (Deputy Mayor) of Amsterdam, in charge of education and youth. A few months before the assassination of controversial filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, stabbed and slain by an Islamist in the street. In a famous speech at the mosque Alkabir, following the tragedy, Ahmed Aboutaleb launches its adherents: "Stop taking for victims. If you do not want to integrate, go! "His positions - he opposes the wearing of the burka, does not hesitate to sanction those who cheat the benefits and is" weird "several of the Danish cartoons of Mohammed - it worth of death threats. "This collaboration represents the interests of whites," are worried immigrants. Since then, he lived under close protection, like Geert Wilders. 

In 2007, the grand coalition (Christian Democrats - Labor) provides a secretariat of State for Social Affairs. Then, last January, he moved to the city hall of Rotterdam. With its 584 000 inhabitants, of which 47% of foreign origin and about 15% Muslims, Rotterdam is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. Bastion of Pim Fortuyn, the populist and xenophobic leader assassinated in 2002, "is also a town riven by tensions," said Ronald Sörensen, head of Leefbar Rotterdam (Rotterdam liveable), who took over the movement of Fortuyn. Lefbaar Rotterdam holds 14 of the 45 city council seats, Labor 18. "Many people here feel invaded by foreigners, is a former history professor. So when we saw a mayor who was born in Morocco ... " 

But the day after the installation of the new mayor, the heirs of Fortuyn change their minds: "I enjoyed it swears by asking the help of God, not Allah says Sörensen . And when he suggested the need to get rid of Tariq Ramadan (Islamic studies professor who advises the municipality of Rotterdam since 2007, Ed), I could not believe my ears! If we spoke like him, it would be treated as racist! "In this" divided city, "says the mayor, my priority is to create a society of trust. Because the confidence is high, the less one has to pay for police and justice "to" young Moroccans in Rotterdam, "he promises to treat them" as I treat all young people. If you do something good, you can count on my soutien.Mais if you want to cause chaos, I will be ruthless. " 

For some, the main harm to Aboutaleb would not have been born in Morocco but coming from Amsterdam and, above all, be a supporter of football club Ajax, Feyenoord worst enemy of Rotterdam! Hit a "Jewish label" since claiming supporters of the Jewish community in Amsterdam so ostentatious display of the symbols of Judaism, Ajax is still hosted in Rotterdam not pro-Hamas songs and recalling chuintements rooms gas. To protest against a ban on travel to the Ajax stadium, tens of Feyenoord supporters marched in the streets of Rotterdam in late February. 'Jews, beware, the army of Mohammed will come to kill you, "they shouted, calling this same" dirty Jew "Ahmed Aboutaleb to" finish in a gas chamber. " Wishing to "avoid escalation," the mayor had abandoned any pursuit. For Ronald Sörensen is "evidence that the rhetoric is not enough: I await the facts." 

He is not alone. Crime is increasing, alarmed the opposition. Unemployment as well. And, far from the glittering glass facades of skyscrapers downtown, the neighborhoods are changing. "Churches mosques appear ETDES disappear, said the mayor. This makes people uncomfortable. " Arthur Rath had to sell his bar Zuid Boulevard four years ago, "when all the shops closed one by one, replaced by Afro hairdressers or halal butchers, subsidized by the municipality at the time." Today, the bar is Turkish mosque and a huge gray, flanked by two minarets, is being built a bit lower. "I hope that immigrants will have respect for Mr. Aboutaleb, sighs Arthur Rath. Because for us they do not. "Even uncertainty on the side of immigrants. Cihan, security, doubt: "He dare not take our party, otherwise it will hurt to see the whites." Inevitably compared to Obama, Aboutaleb is parallels with the American president. But this "Obama-sur-Meuse" wants to be judged on its results, not on color. " "If I succeed, I will be a key for immigrants persuaderles they can gain power," he concludes. If I fail, it will have enormous consequences for those who come after me. " 

* In the Netherlands, mayors are appointed by the government and the Queen.

The Valais is honored Wednesday. FC Sion commits this evening in his 11th Cup Final in Switzerland with a mission to prove that he is still the best team in the country. Pascal Couchepin, he may have started Tuesday in his last fight - the rescue of the AI - with the aim, says the press to leave the arena head high. 

Couchepin his last fight could have been thinking that in the new in particular, the event would be the days of the Cup final in Switzerland. But no. This last fight, the newspaper attributed to the Valais Pascal Couchepin, whose photo chosen to illustrate the front page focuses on a look that might seem worried behind his glasses with thin frames. The Nouvelliste evokes, like other dailies, the rumors of resignation, when the minister embarked on the rescue of the AI. Pascal Couchepin needs a win to finish in beauty and balance his personal balance sheet, says the commentary. And he found a measure to battle with rising Provisional VAT to remediate disability insurance. 

Another legend valaisanne ... The 11th Cup final played by Sion Switzerland, Wednesday night against Young Boys at the Stade de Suisse, feed Does the legend or does it mark the end of a legendary series? Sums Time. FC Sion ten victories in a row behind him. Thus, for the former State Councilor valaisan Thomas Burgener, FC Sion, along with the battles of the festival queens and cantonale bands, one of the few rallying centers of the Old Country. There is still a question posed 24 hours. How to maintain the myth of the invincibility of FC Sion? Meanwhile, the club president Christian Constantin has the myth of the tension. It is in fact more closely at a pressure, are the Tribune de Genève and 24 hours. And return to the suspicions of the President to the referee of the match which is put into question the integrity. Output which is not more to the liking of the author of the article, which speaks of power struggle with an enormous pressure placed on the shoulders of the referee. And our colleague recalled that sober cup final, the Zion of the time did not need that. 

Return to football with no money But yes. There was a time when there were no ads on the jerseys and around the lawn. At most, along the fence of the stadium. In the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, return to the Switzerland-England clash. It was in Basel on 20 May 1909. The English had won 9 to 0. Tonight, 20 May 2009, exactly a century later, will be as many goals? All-German newspapers have their eyes turned towards the climax of Switzerland. If Young Boys win, promises the Berner Zeitung, there will be a special edition of 12 pages which will be distributed across the capital two hours after the final whistle. The Mittelland Zeitung, she went to the boss in the Valais of this team which has won 10 finals out of 10! The reporter spent a day with Christian Constantin panting, the man who changed more often than coach Ferrari. FC Sion, a budget of 16 million appears to be a journalist Aargau toy next to the business of the architect, who weigh ten times more. And if Sion wins tonight? Premiums 15,000 francs were promised to each player, said the Mittelland Zeitung. 

Those pensioners who live on less than 700 francs "We live with 652 francs per month. On two pages, The Morning looks at the plight of some Swiss pensioners in the light of a survey conducted by Pro-Senectute. The combination sounds the alarm and goes to war against the clichés. No, retirees are not rich. A third of pensioners are surviving thanks to the AVS. The cycle of debt is never far away. It is within the elderly population that we see the differences the most important economic, explains sociologist Amélie Pilgram, co-authored the study. It adds just that much pasta as fresh produce is expensive. "This is not funny to finish his life with everything," summarizes a woman. 

And the bosses who trinquent ... Slim consolation for retirees to small incomes. The owners also shake belt, teaches us the same morning. The salaries of executives of Swiss companies listed on a stock exchange fell by 14% in 2008 because of the economic crisis. And UBS is registering the highest decline in wages of management and board with a drop of 74%. 

The trials of UBS concern to the Florida déboires UBS financial worry U.S. based in Florida, says Le Temps. Florida, center of tax evasion, is fear. Miami hosts the fund-rich South Americans seeking refuge. UBS and quite naturally one of its divisions have taken a position on the local market. It prospered. But since her troubles with the tax American business is complicated. His wealthy clients accuse the Swiss bank to have invested their savings in funds carried by the crisis. And other banks in Florida are concerned that the setbacks of UBS n'éveillent suspicions of foreign governments that require the light on their practices. The reader can also discover the lifestyle of recruiters responsible for UBS flush of rich clients. For international managers of UBS, the party continues. And we believe or not: a business card UBS Opens seem even doors in the United States. The Agefi offer him an interview with the french Budget Minister Eric Woerth, who warns: "If the Swiss bank secrecy include in their constitutions, it will cost them dearly." This sounds like a declaration of war, commented Jeremy Nieckowski. 

UK, with Jean-François Moulin and Simon Corthay, RSR

Under contract until 2011 with Arsenal, Arsène Wenger could leave London at the end of the season. Arrived in 1996, the Alsatian was coach for the first time criticized by his supporters after a new season without a trophy. It would now be tempted to respond positively to the new call from the foot of Florentino Perez to finally join Real Madrid. 

And if Arsene rimait do more with Arsenal? For the first time since the arrival of Arsène Wenger at the controls of the Gunners in 1996, this issue, previously almost taboo, is back with more and more insistently, and are not statements of Alsatian technician on the set of issuance Téléfoot Sunday morning that will put a stop to speculation about his future, quite the contrary. 

Asked about an alleged encounter with Florentino Perez, the former and likely future president of Real Madrid, Wenger has not denied having seen the wealthy entrepreneur Iberian "You will allow me to remain quiet on the subject," he evacuated, visibly embarrassed , before delivering his opinion on what would like to place the man who created the team of "Galactic", including Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo, Luis Figo and David Beckham. "With Perez, the project will necessarily be of interest to all coaches," he confessed then. 

And this is not the first time that Florentino Perez wants to enlist the services of the former Monaco. In 2003, he had tried to poach Arsène Wenger to succeed Vicente Del Bosque, but was struck for a purpose not receive from those who had just finished second in Premier League and winning the FA cup. The same Cup, gleaned again two years later, is now the last title won so far by the North Londoners. 

One member of the "Big Four", four years without a trophy is a long time, especially as the partners of Cesc Fabregas will finish far, far behind the top three. The policy to be trusted (excessive?) Young shoots of the club it is now showing its limits? Many observers of English football, the Gunners fans and some members of the board of Arsenal are not far from expected. For the first time since his arrival on the shores of the Channel is soon thirteen years, Wenger has even been openly criticized by his own supporters at an annual meeting. 

Add to that the power struggle at the head of the London club, with two billionaires who control the fight, the American Stan Kroenke, favors Wenger, and Uzbek Alisher Usmanov, who is in turn much less, and you will understand better why the native of Strasbourg was still reluctant about its future, when it should have "only" 15 million pounds for the summer mercato. This means that the next few weeks should be decisive for Arsène Wenger who, although he still has two years of contract and will, in general, "always at the end of its commitments, could yield to sirens and Madrid lead and fourth in a different country after France, Japan and England, therefore, that if he were to leave, do not forget any time soon.

The violent repression by the Moscow police, a gay event on the eve of the World Day against Homophobia, said, according to our editorial, the difficult progress of the homosexual cause. And persistence, he says, suffering identity associated with this sexual orientation. 

Despite the mobilization, on the occasion of World Day against Homophobia, a part of the international community for the universal decriminalization of homosexuality, Russia, one of the "rich and industrialized G8 and hosted the 54th Eurovision competition, has shown throughout its archaic political and psychological-in violently suppressing the slave gay pride "in the center of the capital. It is a pity as such lack of solidarity of the singer and representative of France, Patricia Kaas. 

Even though 80 countries still criminalize the sexual orientation, still punishable by death by a handful of them, a lot of water has fortunately passed since the decision in 1974 by the American Psychiatric Association does most include homosexuality in the nosology of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM III). Decision extended in 1990 by the deletion of homosexuality from its list of mental diseases of WHO. First state in the world to authorize, on 1 October 1989, a "registered partnership" between homosexuals, Denmark has been largely followed by a number of Scandinavian countries but also Mediterranean like France or Spain. Already a pioneer in the field of adoption for homosexual couples, Sweden has voted by a very large majority, a law allowing gay civil marriage and religious. In the United States, Vermont became last April, the fourth U.S. state to legalize marriage between two persons of the same sex. The Democratic Governor of the State of New York, David Peterson, has already announced that it would support in the Assembly of the State a text similar to the one adopted in Vermont. In France, the Minister of Health Roselyne Bachelot just enter the High Authority of Health (HAS) to remove the transsexuality of the classification of mental illness. On 18 December, France and the Netherlands submitted on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, a draft declaration on freedom of sexual orientation and gender identity. 

We will not fail to rejoice in this vast movement of social recognition. In a letter to an American mother in April 1935, Sigmund Freud already said this: "homosexuality is obviously not an advantage but there is nothing we do should be ashamed of, this is neither a vice nor a degradation and can not be described as a disease. " 

It has yet to recognize the persistence of difficulties in daily life which remains for many a suffering identity. The proliferation of venues for the gay community probably does not change anything. These places, whatever the purposes of sexual or non-characteristic, even the proper indicator of ill-being that is. The sociopsychanalyste Gérard Mendel had good points in this illusion, for example, that "the thousands of participants into a trance rave party and the tens of thousands of spectators at a football match ... looking to unload, a moment of individual identity too heavy to wear with its conflicts and contradictions. " The group in which the young gay seeks to integrate aims to eliminate a form of wandering and solitude that characterizes this orientation. This solitude again by including it in the psyche "lack of sufficiently good relationship with the parent of the same sex, he has been absent, or not really weak in any case, this is what the subject has lived . It continues with the rejection of integration into the majority group identity, thus creating a marginalized group identification rules sometimes illusory: the pace of the activists involved homosexual, often very courageous in sociological and political contexts particularly bad, the concept of "gay ghetto" and its behavioral rules underlying-carries with it the risk of destroying the particularity of each and to establish another form of "persecution" : that, according to the philosopher Hannah Arendt, "to bring those who suffer to the point where this space eventually disappear leaving the spot and sharing a common suffering." 

In his article of 1907, Freud admits that "when there is a civilized sexual morality, individuals are hampered in their health and their ability to live and that, ultimately, the harm is brought to those individuals who sacrifice their imposed, to a degree as a direct threat to their cultural purpose. " The clinical and psychoanalytic practice in listening integrate this social and political dimension of symptoms even if the analytic community today return for a law to desire. Phenomenon from which civilization also be built. Rising demand for gays and lesbians to be recognize assumption institutionalized family model Heterosexual dominant-the marriage and the parentage-translate it this awareness?

The next Champions Trophy, pitting the champion of France in Guingamp, winner of the Coupe de France, on July 26 in Montreal, Canada. 

It was in the air the past few weeks and the Professional Football League has confirmed Tuesday. Champions Trophy 2009 will take place outside France. "This is the first time that the Champions Trophy will take place abroad. The objective is to promote professional football french abroad, says the communiqué of the LFP. It is time for football french conquer new markets. While we have doubled in one year the sale of broadcasting rights abroad, the idea of exporting the Champions Trophy was needed. Montreal is an ideal gateway to North America. We are pleased to conduct this first experience with our Canadian friends. With 4 million people, Montreal is the second largest city of the francophone world. Football (soccer) is growing fast, as on the entire North American continent. "The match between the future champions of France Guingamp, winner of the Coupe de France, will be played on Sunday 26 July at 15:00, or 21:00 local time in France.

American Carlos Bocanegra, who was uncertain this week because of a concern to his left thigh, is part of the group selected by rennais Guy Lacombe for the derby in Nantes on Sunday. Nothing, however, said it will begin, Elderson Echiejilé Sylvain Marveaux even being able to play left side of defense. Always private injury Briand, Cheyrou and Thomert and Mangane on suspension, the coach gets Leroy Rennes and Fanni (stand). 

Group: Ch Ndiaye Douchez - Aubey, Dembélé, Hansson, Echiejile, Bocanegra, Fanni - Oniangue, Marveaux, Mbia, Danzé, Lemoine, Leroy - Sow, Pagis, Kembo-Ekoko, Gyan, LASIM.

Drama series Human Target, Past Life, Glee and comedies Brothers, Sons of Tucson and The Cleveland Show integrate the program schedule for the next season of Fox, said the American channel at a press conference held Monday 18 May .

Human Target 

"Human Target" opens on 17 January 2010 on FOX at the same time that the eighth season of "24 Heures Chrono" 

These six new products join Dr House, 24 Heures Chrono, Fringe, Bones, Lie to Me, Death Tii, Dollhouse, The Simpsons, The Griffin and American Dad, all renewed for a further season. 

The latest creation by Ryan Murphy (Nip / Tuck), Glee, and comedy Brothers arrive next September on FOX. The first will be broadcast every Wednesday at 21h, just behind the reality TV So You Think You Can Dance. Brothers who follows the story of a former professional American football returned to his family in Texas, will open the evening of Thursday, followed by Til Death, renewed for a fourth season of 22 episodes, and Dollhouse. 

The Cleveland Show, a spin-off of Griffin, who will undergo its second season, will join the case Sunday night reserved for animated series. The novelty will be distributed between the 21st season of Simpson and the eighth season of Griffin. American Dad will close the evening with his fifth season. Viewers will discover the other news from January 2010. Past Life will launch a media through its dissemination on Tuesday in the wake of American Idol, the show's most watched in the United States. Human Target will be announced on Sunday 17 January before taking the box in the back with glee. Comedy Sons of Tucson incorporate the evening of Sunday evening. 

The series with Tim Roth, Lie to Me, at the beginning of the return for a second season aired in the wake of Dr House who will begin his sixth year on FOX. The drama by JJ Abrams Fringe exchange and dissemination of days is associated with Bones renewed for a fifth year. His second season, aired on Thursday instead of Tuesday this year, will face formidable competitors such as Gray's Anatomy on ABC, CSI on CBS and The Office on NBC, provided that these channels retain the days of release of these series. 24 Heures Chrono begin its eighth season on 17 January 2010 before recovering the case Monday evening behind Dr House. 

FOX formalizes the ruling of Prison Break, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Do Not Disturb. Not yet officially canceled, the animated series by Mitchell Hurwitz Sit Down, Shut Up, is not included in the new scale for the chain.

To President Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, former American football player spent in politics, died on May 2, at the age of 73 years, from cancer, had provided in the 1980 part of the rhetorical arsenal that would shape the United States until the recent economic crisis. "My favorite quote, he said, still in April 2007, was Abraham Lincoln who said:" I do not believe in a law that would prevent a man from getting rich. " 

Jack Kemp was convinced that legislation was inherently harmful to the increase of wealth, and that individual aspiration was to become the foundation of the collective enrichment. 

George Bush son, he helped develop some of the arguments that a time would popularize a concept ideological today fallen into disuse: the "compassionate conservatism." An example: "I do not believe that people of any color or low income hate the rich. They want to become rich. Unfortunately, not all of them can access it." 

In October 2008, while the United States fell heavily into recession, he explained again, at one month of the presidential election that would see Barack Obama win, that "time (was) came to consider reductions 'taxes in general. " He denounced the draft financial investment of the massive U.S. State to clean up the banking sector and stem the economic crisis as "the worst" options. 

Until his last breath, Jack Kemp remained a proponent determined tax and deregulation. A posterity, it leaves a law called Kemp-Roth (the other sponsor was the Democratic Senator William Roth). Adopted in 1981 at the beginning of the first term of Ronald Reagan, she began a decline of 23% income tax in three years and was the source of a radical change to the "less state". For Norman Ornstein of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, Jack Kemp has had an impact on the conservative economic philosophy in the United States more than anyone, more than (the economist Arthur) Laffer, more than Reagan. " 

But the Republican representative of the State of New York from 1971 until 1989, when he became home secretary in George Bush Sr. was also an emblematic figure of a central social category of the Republican Party: the white worker, but a patriot anti-racist, "anti" of everything but be open to racial minorities and immigrants. Jack Kemp tried throughout his political career to broaden Republican influence in the black minority of large industrial centers. Barack Obama once elected, he had published an open letter in which he called his party to "return to its historical roots, that of emancipation, liberation, civil rights and opportunities for everyone." 

Ronald Reagan entered politics through the Hollywood unions. Jack Kemp, he had set up a union of professional football that he did not hesitate to lead in the strike. The sport he had practiced for thirteen years, with more talent than the former president had not been to the cinema: it was the quarterback of the team of the Buffalo Bills, who is the more strategic the game and winning twice in 1964 and 1965, the final of the American Football League. Voted best player in the country, he liked to recall that without the "black guard" that protected him from his opponents on the ground, it would never become the star he was. 

Many vote on him to seek the Republican nomination for the presidential election of 1996. He eventually give up and was designated by the colistier Party candidate, Bob Dole, with whom, public knowledge, he had very little affinity. Their failure, in front of the ticket Democrat Bill Clinton-Al Gore, signed the end of his political career.

The Hurricanes' s place at home with a score of 32 to 28. 

They clearly dominated, despite a pack concentrated among Gerfaut, as the United States, we could see the rage to overcome the France Albi Albigensian team successfully of a coach more than careful with his foals. This will make the difference 

As the definition of American football is striking, I will share my passion to photograph the new gladiators of the hexagon, Yannick Prevost the coach of Gerfaut tried to back its troops but the hurricane Albigenses to eventually prevail over all its passage. 

American Football 

Collective combat sport that combines physical power with tactical intelligence, the American Football, its aesthetic qualities and festive environment, symbolizes the concept of sports entertainment today.

Q: I plan to attend, along with my son, to match our favorite team in the NFL, the Green Bay Packers, will deliver in Glendale, Arizona, on 3 January. We booked the Renaissance Glendale, situated close to the stage and we expect to remain five to six days in the region. What suggestions of visits we would you turn this trip into an exciting trip exceptional? 

Jean-Pierre Mallette Montreal 

A: Glendale is one of the municipalities that make up the Greater Phoenix is one of the most interesting of the American Southwest. As you stay for a fifteen minute drive from the center of this city, it's easy to visit its main attractions, as well as another very interesting city of its suburbs: Scottsdale. 

Among other points of interest in Phoenix, I will mention Arizona Science Center, a museum with interactive installations designed for both children and adults, the historic center (Historic Heritage Center), the Midtown District (not confused with the city center), with the Heard Museum (Native American art) and the Phoenix Art Museum, and the sector of Papago Park, a huge park to learn about the fauna and flora of Arizona in the heart of a big city. 

The historic center of Scottsdale, with its specialty shops, numerous art galleries and park pedestrian (the Scottsdale Mall, which is not a mall!) Is another must. If you are interested in architecture, you could make a jump at the foot of the McDowell Mountains, home to Taliesin West, owned by the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright who finished his days in Scottsdale, where he resided during the winter. 

You do not mention if you have booked the hotel for the duration of your stay in Arizona. If this is not the case, you might consider a two-day incursion in the Grand Canyon, South Rim, which is the access point of the most visited national park, is located four hours drive from Glendale. 

If you have booked the hotel for the duration of your stay, I recommend two trips a day. The first - and this is a must! - Is the Apache Trail, a tourist loop route that begins in the town of Apache Junction is located about fifty miles east of Phoenix. It is a winding road that winds through canyons, mountains and forests. It provides access to several attractions, including the Goldfield Ghost Town, reconstruction of a mining town in the late nineteenth century and its mine, the town of Tortilla Flat (the smallest of the United States, with six people) and his saloon, and housing complexes built in the cliffs by Salados, an indigenous people who occupied the links between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. 

This road was built in the early twentieth century to allow the construction of Roosevelt Dam, which remains the largest dam in the world bricks. The second trip takes you in the beautiful Sedona area (two hours drive from Glendale) and its two National Parks: Red Rock State Park and Slide Rock State Park.

Dragonfish and 888 Holdings Plc: Dragonfish signed a strategic agreement with Phumelela Gold Enterprises LONDON, May 12 / PRNewswire / - Dragonfish, the division's business-to-business (B2B) independent of 888 Holdings Plc, announced today that it has signed a strategic agreement with the organization of South Africa betting pari-mutuel horse racing and tote Phumelela Gold Enterprises (PGE) aims to ensure a full range of sporting events. This will be followed by the introduction of casino games, poker, bingo and Quick Play (immediate) when South Africa will have a more structured regulatory regime.

Dragonfish guarantee the global distribution of streaming live horse racing of dozens of racetracks around the world for which PGE owns the exclusive rights of distribution through dealers and Dragonfish through 888.com.

Dragonfish will provide PGE its market leading software for electronic payment services and back end that allows for seamless integration in the systems of shared portfolio, collection and customer service 888.

The agreement is another example of the ability to Dragonfish to work with companies that operate with a government license, after the innovative agreement with Sportech Plc in the United Kingdom for New Football Pools. The transaction combines the experience of Dragonfish in the field of electronic payments in emerging markets, gained through many years of success in Latin America, with the rich infrastructure of services for gambling of PGE.

PGE will provide important outlets for distribution and marketing for this strategic partnership. Partners of PGE, Phumelela Gaming and Leisure Ltd and Gold Circle (Pty) Ltd, operate horse racing betting and / or tote in all nine provinces of South Africa, eleven racecourses, nine training centers, more than 400 bets, three centers telephone and two online betting sites.

Gabi Campos, CEO of Dragonfish, commented:
"The turf field is the largest sports betting world and we are extremely pleased to work with a global leader in this field.

Phumelela has a huge user base in South Africa and this will ensure the availability of the best tools to offer its customers an offer for gambling online at. "

Rian du Plessis, CEO of the Group, Phumelela Gaming and Leisure Limited:

"As a world leader in the alleged exploitation of modern technologies for a globalization of British, we are very pleased to forge an agreement with a partner who can provide a technology market leader to expand our services throughout the world. The partnership with Dragonfish us in future to diversify our offer on-line and to further increase our current success. "

About Dragonfish
- Dragonfish is the trading name of B2B 888 Holdings Plc and is a separate division of 888

- Dragonfish is a leading provider of comprehensive services for the gambling (gaming and technology, operational, marketing and electronic payments) with a unique tradition of one of the biggest brands in the world of business-to-consumer (B2C) , 888

- The range of games includes Dragonfish Casino, Poker, Bingo, Sports and Quickplay

- Dragonfish has un'imbattuta responsibility for operations and marketing in the field of gambling


About Phumelela
- Phumelela Gold Enterprises (PGE) is a joint venture between the South African horse racing and betting at the tote Phumelela and Gold Circle.

- PGE is run by Phumelela and holds the rights for national and international information for the South African horse racing. PGE shall specify the dates of all South African racing and owns and manages Tellytrack, the television channel of the South African horse racing national.

- PGE has acquired the broadcasting rights-related bets in the world for 30 of the 60 British racecourses (the rights of British racing), including nine of the 12 "super" hippodromes of Racing UK (Ruk).

- PGE, in partnership with Racing UK and UK Tote (Totesport), the global market offers a daily package of betting on races on the South African television channel Racing International, transmitted via satellite in six continents.

The plan for a takeover by Opel, Fiat presented Monday to the German government would provide, as anticipated by the German economic daily "Handelsblatt", the closure of two factories in Italy. Fiat denies the rumors are not as you hear the Minister of Economic Development Claudio Scajola that, in a letter to President Luca di Montezemolo and Sergio Marchionne accession, ask the Ligotto note the centrality of the Italian factories ( "is key" ). Alert for the unions: "Such a plan would lead to the opening of a heavy social conflict," said the secretary of FIOM, Gianni Rinaldini


Fiat Mundi, but not without cost. After weeks of media on ubriacatura renewed national pride for the Turin carmaker lanciatasi in the conquest of America and a good slice of Europe, between gossip and toast are also the first note and painful euphoria gives way to concern and fear. Fear of losing their jobs, a concern shared by all countries involved in major automotive restructuring.
Thus, in the early hours of dawn, the German economic daily Handelsblatt writes: the business plan to acquire Fiat Opel provides the closure of a number of establishments, two of which are in Italy, "a factory in the north and the other in south. " The cut would be contained in the so-called "Project Phoenix", a plan dated May and consists of 46 pages.

The only factory in the north of the Fiat Mirafiori is, the heart of Turin. And what the unions are preparing to counter the possible (and probable) restructuring, it is unlikely a full stop closure of the factory. Different the situation in the south. Last April, again from indiscretions of the press, had spoken of the existence of another plan, called "Project Football", which would have provided for the closure of ten plants in Europe, including those of Pomigliano and Termini Imerese. There are 15 thousand workers who "jump". But he denied the Lingotto.

Returning to the so-called "Project Phoenix" between the factories that could "potentially be closed" in Germany is that of Kaiserslautern. Resized plants Ruesselsheim and Bochum. Will also cut the plants Zaragoza in Spain, Trollhaettan in Sweden, Antwerp in Belgium, and perhaps even those of Luton in England and Graz in Austria. They should not be affected by the restructuring plan in France, Poland, Greece and Serbia.

The German edition of the Financial Times refers to the "Project Phoenix", but in the lottery of establishments to be sacrificed, there are some differences: Roland Berger, a member of cda Gm Opel and consultant for Europe, interviewed by Ftd, would have ensured that the Opel plant in Kaiserslautern will not be closed, while the sad fate it is to the sites of Luton (England) and Tychy (Poland). The consultant also confirmed that Fiat wants to list on the Stock Exchange within three years the new car that arise from any union activities of Fiat Auto, Chrysler and GM Europe. According to the Ftd, finally, the entire operation Lingotto would need new loans to about 6.4 billion.

The Bild newspaper wrote that a number of GM Europe, Carl-Peter Forster, the manager asked the group to give up 10% of their salaries, proving that the cuts in salary will be implemented already this month. The initiative, according to the tabloids, will allow the group to save several million euros this year and will cover 300 managers in Europe, of which 150 to Opel in Germany. Forster plans to launch such a signal, comments on the Bild: Opel's management gives a good example by contributing materially to the improvement of society.

Unlike last April, this time Fiat not comment on the rumors and the absence of a denial frightening those that hot, they had thought about a story driven by the detractors of the acquisition dell'Opel by the car manufacturer Italian.

In fact, the Minister of Economic Development, Claudio Scajola, take pen and paper and in a letter to the chairman of Fiat's Luca di Montezemolo and CEO Sergio Marchionne, asks the Lingotto note the centrality of the Italian factories ( "is fundamental, "wrote the minister). In the certainty that the excellence of Italian plants continue to be enforceable, even in a context of globalization of production, I will open to schedule a meeting at short notice, even in the presence of trade unions in order to share the contribution that the Government may continue to offer ".

A few weeks from the elections the government wants the dilemma of facing a social clash with blue suits ready up in arms. Chips have also turned their backs on the left, as shown by numerous polls, but when it comes to defending the bread and work demands something more than assurances and promises that at the close finish, push off into nothingness.

In Belgium, the workers who risk their jobs are occupied by the shop this morning and the car of the car in Turin, in order to obtain a "socially correct". They seized all the machines, everything is locked, the workshop is that the car (The Italian automotive center, the largest of the Fiat car in Belgium, announced a plan to cut 24 workers).

In Italy, unions are on alert. The Secretary General of FIOM, Gianni Rinaldini, says "absolutely unacceptable any assumptions of closure of Fiat in Italy." While the plan makes Fiat, and in the U.S. bankruptcy court dismissed the assault of disgruntled creditors, Cremaschi sends a message to Sergio Marchionne, all'investitura next CEO of the new colossus of self: "We are ready to blow the 'agreement. " The only thing you should do - he says - "is to bring the 'holy' Marchionne on earth in defense of all employment in our country that can not suffer cuts."

To suffer more, the blue suits of the south, "a two" final between Pomigliano and Termini Imerese. A "ballot" no winners, but with two losers, at least in the plans of Turin.
Roberto Mastrosimone, the representative of the workers Cgil Fiat Palermo's black humor: "The plant is seriously in the balance. Fiat no talk, no one communicates anything. The rumors are very bad. Here, if I were to think with their head not I have doubts. I know that top Fiat Terms sacrifice. " The impact on the island would be devastating, especially after blocking the production of the Lancia Ypsilon by the motorist home and the start of a long season for cassintegrazione workers. Not lacking, however, the desire to fight, to defend their jobs: "We will fight hard. But we fear," says Mastrosimone.

Unions Turinese raise a wall: the Mirafiori plant has already paid in the crisis of 2002 and not touched. The new alarm bell will sound after press leaks suggest that, as part of the acquisition of Opel, the closure of two Fiat plants in Italy, one of which goes north. "The real problem - says Claudio Chiarle, Secretary General of the FIM of Turin - is that we do not know the details of Fiat's industrial plan. The piece is missing - is the meeting with the Italian Government and the union. Unfortunately, the government, for exception of some statements in the spot, in this whole affair has shown absent.

Saturday May 16 manifesteranno workers from all over the Fiat Group and the auto components. The protest had been decided almost two months ago by Turin metalworkers unions and then agreed with the national secretariats of FIM, FIOM, UILM and Fismic.
The parade will start at 10am at the door 5 of Mirafiori and reach the Lingotto, where the headquarters of the Fiat group in the world.

The Fiat plants currently produce 600 thousand cars a year and could produce only Mirafiori 1.2 million. The Mayor of Turin, Sergio Chiamparino, calls "the legitimate concerns of trade unions of workers", but hopefully also in a revival of "the agreement with Chrysler and Opel-Saab possibly could to expand markets and allow establishments currently produce less to produce more. "
On the need to possibly reorganize the Italian, Chiamparino said that "everyone has made the part his own, as we have done at Mirafiori and we took a piece of the area and we always re-used for business, but other than automotive "

LONDON - The German government has set 14 conditions to be met to consider positively any bid from Opel, including the location in Germany of the headquarters of the company, the soundness of the financial plan, in which the nation would pay the taxes of the new aggregation and the degree of consent of workers.

That would be, according to a confidential document seen Executives of Berlin by the Financial Times, one of the obstacles faced by the CEO of Fiat Sergio Marchionne to the planned merger between the activities of automotive Fiat, Opel and Chrysler, which aims to create the second World Group of the car.

Unions in alarm. Workers' representatives are concerned about the Opel. According to Klaus Franz, the leader of the union of the German car manufacturer and a member of the supervisory board of the company, Marchionne's plan would cut the 9-10 thousand jobs. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, on the other hand, will publish an article stating that the plan provides for the Fiat closures ten o'clock plant in Europe, with the loss of about 18mila jobs. The Faz cites the contents of a strategy document to Fiat as "strictly secret" and entitled 'Project Football'. Immediate refutation of Fiat: "This is not information that comes from Fiat or form part of any plan prepared by".

Marchionne: "Do not close establishments. In an interview with Bild, the Fiat to reassure the company expects to maintain the four Opel plants in Germany, where the acquisition of the German subsidiary of GM went to port, but can not avoid cuts to staff. "We need these factories to build enough machines in the future," Marchionne said, adding that "we will certainly reduce the level of staff. No one can avoid it. The factories need to become more productive."

Latin America. Fiat's interest for the activities of GM but is not limited to Europe. According to industry sources, Fiat Punto to the operations of General Motors in Latin America. And some analysts, quoted by Bloomberg yesterday, does not preclude negotiations to expand production in the U.S., Russia and China.

Other interested groups. But there would be other suitors for Opel, as well as Fiat, according to The Financial Times, citing two sources close to the parent General Motors. Among the groups involved, Magna International and the Russian Gaz, but also the sovereign funds of Abu Dhabi and Singapore and three private equity groups.

The Lingotto to the USA. Meanwhile Marchionne is back in the United States for talks with the management of Chrysler. E 'party last night for the States from Turin Caselle, at the end of the day in Germany for the possible acquisition of Opel.

The German newspaper Handelsblatt, in its online edition, writes that under the agreement with Opel, might jump to a facility and a North to South

The world economy continues to discuss possible agreement between Fiat (with Chrysler) and
Opel for the creation of a group of super - car. Indeed, according to German newspaper
Handelsblatt, in its edition on-line, you can possible that one could jump to the Fiat plant North and South to a leakage in the plane Fiat presented the German government.

The newspaper, citing sources close to the negotiations, also writes that the plan of "cut" would be contained in the document presented by the CEO of Fiat Sergio Marchionne to the Minister of Economy German Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU), with the title the "Project Phoenix". The idea would be different from the "Project Football", presented last month, which was attributed to Fiat by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Lingotto has denied. The "Project Football", according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, provided for the closure of 10 plants in Europe, including those of Pomigliano and Termini Imerese. Dall'Handelsblatt in the article published on-line, will not be the names of two plants in Italy that would be closed, but stressed that Fiat is interested in Gm Gm South America and South Africa as well as in Europe Gm.

And while there's time for an official comment from the Lingotto, and unions battle already announced, the Minister for Economic Development, Claudio Scajola, sent a letter to Luca Cordero di Montezemolo and Sergio Marchionne, president and CEO of Fiat, writing that the group should keep in mind the centrality of the factories. "In the certainty that the excellence of Italian plants continue to be insured - writes Scajola - then I will open to schedule a meeting at short notice, even in the presence of trade unions."

Ladies and gentlemen, America is about to take the field the first female football team, whose currency is made up of a bra and a pair of slip, ie, a complement of lingerie. E Lingerie Football Team is the name of this tournament teams profession for women. Where it is expected, of course, that the public is composed predominantly of men.

Why send the athletes in the field in mutande? The official purpose is to bring that fantasy football by spectators and fans dream with the names of the teams from New England team arrives Euforia, from San Diego, here are the girls of Seduction by Denver and the team of dreams, all for draw attention to the women's football, not later than the equivalent male. Given the power of lingerie as a foil for the public and the media, and following the example of the tennis player Anna Kournikova, organizers hope to fill the stadiums.

There seems to be the idea can work to increase the visibility of women's football? Think there is no need to play in bra or that basically there is nothing wrong to show a little 'tit when there are women in the field?

Away the idea to make a reflection spocchiosa, but I do not understand precisely how it is possible that some people applauded the band or incitement to the Glasvegas concert in Milan. Debut on the Italian scene of one of the most interesting groups of beginners in 2008. I do not say the whistles, but at least a distance I would have expected. Probably was one of the worst concerts I have ever seen, even better to say "heard". We try to go to order. The Glasgow group, headed by James Allan, reduce hugs & kisses from the international critics (primarily British), the passages in their individual FM tip Daddy's Gone, are presented on stage before a large audience (come in a piecemeal and rather heterogeneous), with an image that is reminiscent of retro Clash and wave music of the 80s. The cousin of James, Rab Allan on guitar, Paul Donoghue on bass and drums, the acclaimed singer, Ryan Ross, a Scottish corpulent woman, who resembles a lot to touch and look at Maureen Tucker of the VU. From the classic fifties American Graffiti (not a case before the concert, the impatient wait is spent on the notes of some historical pieces of the time), anger and melancholy melody supported by a wall of sound and electric dall'accento Scottish Allan are l 'iconography Glasvegas sound style.

Concerto short ladder for granted: the tracklist of the disc from Flowers & Football Tops, until a few Christmas songs dell'dall'EP A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss). And so far nothing to say. It's from a soundtrack that went to Ramenghi. Probably the location narrow and unsuitable to live does not help, but also the voice of the leader, the mix of instruments, the equalization of volumes, the effects limestone. All too phased between the sense of "ralenty" and "returns" wrong, a few cue. A show discordant and difficult to follow. Sin. The repertoire is. The disc is not bad. Of course: it can not capture, seem artifact. On the other hand, has a tracklist of its compact, inspired. And sorry that Live has not delivered. Moreover, Rab Allan has recently admitted that Glasvegas have been thrown into the fray with reduced stocks of experience and have played poorly in all the major summer festivals last year.

I conclude with a remark in the margin: that the poor ratings, the premises where it is better to not do music, mainstream radio, culture dell'mp3 at all costs and its collapse in the world hi-fi (in fact almost totally unjustified ), are mortify know it sounds a little 'all. But it is not a priority to listen to good music, in short, chissenefrega. This is the concept. Wrong. Because it is like seeing a picture without the right light or a movie at the cinema with the beam. How to read a book all sforbiciato. In our case, lovers rock, is the republic of polpettazze music. Guilty, often, the same producer that for market reasons (but also to bridge the gap "composition" of authors), in the name of a sound pesudo-glamorous, prepare poisoned pieces for our ears

May 15 2009 - Two films from the mind, an embarrassing return to country music and the rapid exit from the gilded world of Hollywood. To aggravate the situation came the attacks on the press gossippara its peak period. Some of the accused have too many pounds too much and those who wondered how ruined what was considered the best of America décolleté. Jessica Simpson now seems the distant relative of the pop success in 2005 was recruited to the sound of millions of dollars to interpret Daisy Duke in the movie of Jay Chandrasekhar Hazzard.

Thanks to Vanity Fair came time to react - Now the actress is trying to recover some shots laying on copyright for the U.S. edition of Vanity Fair in June. A photo showing a Simpson in splendid form and with a newfound peace of family and professional.

Jessica in love, nothing else matters - The actress felt the weight of the criticism of Hollywood: "I have always tried to pull off, but continued to reject." Despite the stringent reviews of the press, the actress said to have found tranquility in the ratio of torque to the American football player Antonio Ramiro "Tony" Romo. "I follow every game and he knows that at the end of the race I am to accompany him home."

Giorgio Armani and Sport, a truly perfect wedding. More and more 'often, in fact, fashion has become involved with style in the world of sport with unique collaborations. An example? The uniforms of the football team Real Madrid were made by Hugo Boss, great fashion designer.


Giorgio Armani is not directed pero 'football, but football, the sport more' in vogue in America, which in Italy has its admirers. The Italian designer, in fact, 'intervened to review from a graphic label for American football team of Doves. But we are not talking about a recent event: the story goes back 24 years ago.

After so 'so long, in fact,' been reported that in 1985 Giorgio Armani decided to redo the look of the brand team of the Bolognese Doves, despite being the owner of the rival team of Seamen. In this way, the Italian designer enhances' the dove historic designed by Fiorenzo Borghi. The following Christmas, the football team of the Bolognese inseri 'the new logo on all the accessories of the team. One bag was sent to Giorgio Armani, who in response mando 'a smoking with a ticket thanks to the president of Doves: the ticket that he still has now.

Surely this is a very special episode. Not only for marriage between a sport as' particular and the designer fashion sector. But also for the fact that the news and 'remained hidden for so' long time. On the other hand, in 1985 American football was very fashionable in Italy, so that the Giorgio Armani shop windows were full of symbols of the sport. Chissa 'if this partnership will continue' ... It would be even more curious to discover how this background!

We thank the press for the news but also for images.

The Concacaf, the Confederation of North and Central America and Caribbean Association Football, announced today that, following the early influence from pigs, has decided to suspend the remaining two matches as for the final stage of the Concacaf championship Under 17, scheduled to Tijuana (Mexico), April 29 and May 2. He informed the Secretary General of Concacaf, Chuck Blazer. Postponed for the same reason the game Concacaf Champions League, scheduled for next Wednesday in Cancun in Yucatan, between Cruz Azul and Atlante. It was postponed to May 12. Matches of the championship finals Concacaf Under-17 were to attend the National Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico and the United States, automatically advancing to the World Under-17 program in Nigeria from October 24 to November 15 next.

When David Beckham headed to LA Galaxy two years ago it was considered the death knell of his career. But Major League Soccer could yet rival Europe as one of the twin centers of the world game following a political row over swine flu.

The emergence of the H1N1 virus in Mexico caused the nation's two leading clubs, San Luis and Chivas, to seek alternative venues for their home games after Copa Libertadores opponents refused to travel to their grounds. The MLS stepped in, offering Houston as one of the grounds to be used, booking hotels for players and clearing it with the North American confederation, Concacaf. Doug Quinn, president of the MLS commercial arm, Soccer United Marketing, told this column at the Soccerex conference yesterday that the U.S. Soccer Federation visas even organized with the State Department.

But Julio Grondona, the chairman of the South American confederation Conmebol, where Mexico play, blocked the move. Conmebol mandarins will go to the U.S. next week to meet MLS executives in an attempt at rapprochement. But despite the charm offensive towards MLS Conmebol the damage in relations between Mexico and South America has been done, leading to the withdrawal of its clubs from the Copa Libertadores and of the national team from the Copa America.

That will push it into the embrace of Concacaf and the MLS, whose long-term strategy, Fifa permitting, is to include Mexican clubs in its competition in a move that would make the U.S. league a genuine global player in terms of supporter interest and revenue .

Russian influence grows
Arsenal directors will discuss at a board meeting today how to respond if Alisher Usmanov offers a multimillion-pound cash gift to the club, but they will reject investment through a rights issue. As revealed here yesterday Usmanov's Red & White Holdings company will formally demand at its next meeting with Arsenal's chief executive, Ivan Gazidis, that investors inject funds into the club to pay off some of its £ 400m debts. Usmanov believes that a rights issue is the only way to provide transfer funds for Arsène Wenger. But there is a strong suspicion that Usmanov at Arsenal's challenge to his fellow shareholders is an attempt to engineer himself a larger stake in the club. If the rights issue is not fully subscribed then it would lead to a dilution of the equity holdings of existing investors, permitting the Russian to grow his share.

United the big spenders
Keith Harris can not find buyers for any of the 16 Premier League clubs Unofficially for sale but if there is one place he would like to effect regime change it is Manchester United. Without naming the club he has supported since childhood, the Dealmaker owners who put in to West Ham United, Manchester City and Chelsea disparaged the business model under the Old Trafford owner, Malcolm Glazer. "You can not seek to suck cash out of a business that absorbs cash," Harris said at yesterday's Soccerex conference. According to their most recent accounts United spent £ 81m on interest payments to service debts run up in the Glazers' leveraged buyout of the club.

Tevez agent outlawed
While Kia Joorabchian faces a legal fight with Manchester United to retain the right to a transfer fee for Carlos Tevez he will also be under scrutiny from the Football Association if he finds a different English club for the Argentinian. Joorabchian, who accompanied Milan to Manchester City in their attempt to buy Kaka, is not an agent licensed under FA rules. His involvement in any domestic transfer will be pored over for any evidence of "agency activity" including, but not limited to "introducing players to clubs."

Villa's dictatorship
Randy Lerner is running Aston Villa just like Doug Ellis, "according to one former senior executive at the club. Long-serving staff, said the former employee, are privately grumbling about Lerner's monocratic style, which they say amounts to a few junior managers and himself through his proxy, Paul Faulkner. The saving grace, says the former executive, is that Lerner "has money but some even doubt that the benefit will be felt in the transfer market this summer.

Early on a Saturday morning, about two dozen athletes in sweat suits gather in an unusual clubhouse. Papal Crests grace the walls of this room in the Pontifical North American College. It's America's seminary in Rome. Read the athletes from their Playbook: the Bible. The league's director - Pope Benedict XVI - looks down on them from a photograph on the wall.

Today, these young men will sweat over more than the Scriptures. They'll play another team made up of mostly Brazilian seminarians and priests from the College and Brazilian Orionino. The American squad is a strong contender for the Cup clericus, but the competition's real goal is to showcase priests in a new light and encourage them to teach values through sports.

Following in the athletic footsteps of John Paul II
The clericus Cup gets divine inspiration from a former goalie and pope John Paul II. His sports foundation, along with Italian sports authorities and the Vatican, organize the annual tournament. Victor Ingalls, a seminarian from Alabama, says the athletic Pontiff encouraged priests to be as physically active as other men.

"John Paul II said, 'You know, the spiritual life is obviously important, but everything just builds upon the human being'. Like we're all human beings, "he points out," just like everyone else. We're just guys and just trying to do the Lord's will. "

He piles into a bus with his teammates, and they head off on their mission. Daniel O'Mullane admits that football - or soccer, as it's known in his Paterson, New Jersey diocese - usually is not on his Saturday morning schedule.

"Actually, I might be in prayer at this point. And that's not a lie," he adds with a laugh.

A few minutes later, the bus stops near the field and the men walk through a gate into another country: the Vatican. A wall surrounds this city-state. Even men of the cloth need permission to enter, which they've received. Playing on God's squad does have its advantages.

The game gets under way on a field not far from St. Peter's Basilica. No one on the American bench seems to have taken a vow of silence. Cries of "Get that ball on the pitch!" "Way to run, way to go!" and "Pass, pass, shoot!" echo from the stands. And in no time, fit the North American squad has scored the first goal.

The team is nicknamed the Martyrs. As one seminarian put it, "Even when we lose, we win." The fans sing the team's fight song, ending with the cheer, "NAC! Martyrs Go!"

In truth, everyone is cheering for a purer game. This tournament is meant to set an example that sports can be played without violence, greed or corruption. One of the Martyr's forwards, Charlie Gallagher, is studying to be a priest in the Washington, DC, diocese.

"We hope to carry when we play on the field the same kinds of virtues and temperament that we have off the field, too. To keep peace of mind and charity, of course," he says.

But, he insists, "We all still play really hard. And we want to win with equal determination."

Asked if he has to go to confession after a game, he laughs and suggests the reporter talk to his spiritual director about that.

Priests, Gallagher admits, are only human. During last year's tournament, for example, an African priest threw his shirt at the referee. He earned a red card and had probably more than to recite 10 Hail Mary prayers as penance. The priests and seminarians who fill the stands for the North American team also get a little hot under the collar when their team is nailed for being offsides. Forward Daniel O'Mullane shows his disgust by stretching theatrically. The referee holds the heavens to a yellow card, which draws more screams and catcalls from the crowd.

But on the sidelines, the Martyrs' spiritual director is not fretting over any football sins. The Rev. Dick Tomasek says soccer has many benefits for these young men, who spend hours studying and in silent prayer.

"I think they get a feeling of their wholeness. Body, mind and soul," he explains. "The mind and soul are exercised all the time in their life, but the body is not. This gives them a sense of their wholeness, of their manhood."


The Church also wants these seminarians to return to their home parishes and start sports teams, a tradition that has died out lately. The Church sees it as a way to connect with kids. It had that effect on Tomasek as a student at his parish's grade school in Iowa in the 1950s.

"We got this young priest who took off his black shirt and in his undershirt, played basketball with us during recess."

He recalls that was when he started to think he could be a priest.

"I saw a priest doing something, enjoying it, being good at it and playing with us."

Clericus Cup tournament officials hope this promotes the priesthood, a calling that they admit needs some marketing. It no longer appeals to many men: They're turned off by the life of celibacy, the sexual abuse scandals, a world that's increasingly secular.

The Rev. Oscar Turrion understands that thinking.

"No one really wants to be a priest because, 'Oh boy, you know, I'm a loser and loner'."

But the manager of the defending champions - the international seminary International College Maria Mater Ecclesiae - says that's not the case.

"I do not feel like being a priest is to be a loner or loser. I do a lot of good things. I really feel myself to be a winner, a born winner."

A heavenly competition
The winners today are the North American Martyrs, 4 to 3. They'll face Turrion's team this Saturday in the semi-finals. During the regular season, the Martyrs beat Mater Ecclesiae during a closely fought game that was decided by a shoot-out. The winner of the upcoming contest will advance to the finals, May 23rd.


As the American and Brazilian players shake hands and congratulate each other, the losing goalie, Jose Felix Espinosa, says it's been great fun spending time with men who share the same mission.

"I am happy to either win or lose," he says with a laugh. "It's the same thing because God has won over all of us."

Both teams form a big circle on the field for what they call "the third period": the closing prayer. The game has strengthened not only their bodies, but their faith. Sweaty and tired, they give thanks.

Liverpool's embattled owners may have to slash up to 20 per cent from the asking price for the club if they want to sell, even though investors are back in the football market.

Keith Harris, the influential executive chairman of Seymour Pierce, the investment bank, predicted yesterday that the new economy after the banking meltdown meant a radical revaluation of clubs up for sale.

George Gillett Jr and Tom Hicks, Liverpool's American - and frequently warring - owners, put the club on the market last year but failed to achieve a sale, with an asking price of about £ 500million. But the relaxation among banks anticipating an end to the credit crisis may mean that they could buy themselves some breathing space by successfully renegotiating their £ 350million debt, which is due for repayment in July to the Royal Bank of Scotland and Wachovia, according to Harris.

He said that the first green shoots of recovery are poking through the mire of the football economy. His phone is ringing with calls from buyers based as far apart as "leafy Buckinghamshire" to the Middle East, as the economy puts it behind what he described as "shocking three months at the end of last year when there was no interest in football or anything else. It was disastrous. "

But the days of the leveraged deals that allowed Malcolm Glazer to buy Manchester United by purchasing debt piling his back on the club, and the high-risk strategy of Hicks and Gillett, are probably over.

"It is not just football that applies to, but just about everything," Harris said. "Banks are either incapable or unwilling to lend money on a highly leveraged basis. Instead, we are now looking at institutions, corporations or individuals who have disposal cash. There is a cocktail of potential owners - a sheikh, an industrialist, a financier, every kind of buyer.

"There is huge interest in both the Premier League and the Championship. The world is feeling better, which means a more encouraging environment for investing. Football is not there yet, but it is much brighter. There is some renewed interest now. "

Harris also welcomed moves this week by Premier League executives to address the issues of massive debt and financial losses, which are an embarrassing to counterbalance the league's huge success.

"This is a business that takes in a couple of billion and still loses money - overall there is something wrong with that," he said. "One thing you can avoid is having such a debt burden that it drives you crazy on a day-to-day basis."

But Harris told the Soccerex London Forum at Wembley Stadium yesterday that he did not believe in government regulation, after criticisms of football's governance by Andy Burnham, the Sports Secretary.

Team Sofia American football team, playing in black, won its first victory on 10 May 2009 in a friendly played in Bucharest against the local Bucharest Warriors, Team Sofia said.

In the heat of Bucharest, the Bulgarian side finally got their sweet victory in front of about 300 spectators. It took the Bulgarian team just a few minutes to score a touchdown and then extend its lead to 12-0 before Halftime

The second half saw the hosts try to get back into the game and two defensive mistakes allowed the Warriors to score two touchdowns and tie the score. A third touchdown and a two-point conversion with three minutes to go left the hosts chasing shadows and Team Sofia claimed its first victory, 20-12, in the four matches it has played so far since it was established in 2007.

The team, whose average age is about 20 years old, has invitations to play in Serbia and Turkey and is expected to be one of the key participants in American football Balkan league, which could be set up as early as next year.

Came to the fifteenth edition of the Premio Freccia d'Oro of the Direct Marketing organized by AssoComunicazione decreed last night the winners for best direct marketing campaigns conducted in 2008. Nearly 100 participants campaigns, those 28 awards: 14 to the Golden Arrow at 14 than Silver.

A Marzia Curone, president of Consulta-profit direct marketing to open the evening opened the evening during which he was also awarded the Special Prize Ida Augusta Giuliano Sky, American Express and Deutsche Bank Group. Following a round table which was also attended by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, alderman for Culture of the Municipality of Milan, the President of AssoComunicazione Diego Masi, the President of the Consulta Audiweb and Digital Enrico Gasperini, the Director General of Upa Giovanna Maggioni, the President of Sogemi Roberto and Luca Predolin Palermo and Manlio Orioli, respectively, at TNT Post and Kodak, sponsors of the evening. Then all the winners. Retail: Freccia d'oro a RMG: connect for the first time with Phil Kraft Foods Italia - Philadelphia Light, Silver Arrow at RMG: connect to Fight for kisses to Energizer Group Italia-Div. Wilkinson Swords, Silver Arrow Group to DM for My Consult Vichy Vichy - L'Oreal. Car: Freccia d'oro a Rapp / TribalDDB for You and Touareg Volkswagen Group Italia, a Silver Arrow Touch Italy Program for Audi Experience Audi; Arrow Silver Compass in Italy for 500 ² Federal Mogul Italy. Fashion & Luxury: Golden Arrow to AdmCom to ThisisMoreThan of Pershing Yachts. Information Technology: Freccia d'oro a OgilvyOne Worldwide for IBM CIO Polis. Financial products and banks: Freccia d'oro a relata Guide to Environment of Deutsche Bank - Prestitempo Div. Public Services: Golden Arrow for Dinamo Club ASME Energy and Environment - A2A Group. Books and media: Freccia d'oro a relata for Bianca. Black. Why? of FMR Art'è; Silver Arrow Erremme Associates for a creative workshop in 2008. Threatening letter to Sky Italia. Products and services BtoB: Golden Arrow to AdmCom to YOC_BOX of AdmCom; Silver Arrow to Roomor CRM for Nestlé Professional Nestlé Italiana; Silver Arrow to sitcap Bussolino for Sali aboard Midas Italy. Non profit: Freccia d'oro a Rapp / TribalDDB to Cesvi of Cesvi; Silver Arrow for Mailing Christmas Telethon Fondazione Onlus. Launch products: Freccia d'oro a Bussolino sitcap for the taste-of Luigi Lavazza café; Silver Arrow at Ogilvy Group to Italy We wired to Condé Nast Italy; Silver Arrow to Roomor for Crodino / Boris 2 - The return of Fox. Traffic building: Silver Arrow Group for a DM campaign on Flexi Power SILF. Loyalty: Freccia d'oro a Cemit Interactive Media for 2008 Membership Juventus Juventus Football Club, a Silver Arrow Rapp / TribalDDB for You and Tuareg Volkswagen Group Italia; Arrow Silver for Dinamo Club ASME Energy and Environment - Group A2A. The Distance: Freccia d'oro a relata for Bianca. Black. Why? of FMR Art'è; Silver Arrow Erremme Associates for a creative workshop in 2008. Threatening letter to Sky Italia. Communication: Golden Arrow Invent a Future Force for 5-Together on the wave of success of McDonald's; Freccia d'oro in Italy Ogilvy Group Christmas Special for 2008 in American Express Service Europe.

Continues unabated climb in the Italian Serie A for the Red Jackets Sarzana, who last Saturday had set in their favor the practice Bobcats Parma with a good 38 to 22 obtained at a lot of aspects at times unpredictable.

That the Bobcats were fearsome Parma now you know, but that in the third quarter of the game had only two points of difference between the two formations that the imagined just a few. On the one hand, the Red Jackets deploy a defense devoid of three owners of the caliber of Andrew Pelosi, Damiano Gabriele and Luca Giannoni, all at rest precaution because of some minor injuries. While attacking the other elements were used with the dropper for the same reason. On the other hand the Bobcats Parma has a new coach of U.S. high standing and an air attack is truly worthy of note. The result was a balanced and enjoyable game which saw several times, without success, the Parmigiani get close to overtaking.

Many of the spectacular play that led to victory earned the Red Jackets Sarzana, but also heavy failures in the future as many as five changes fail to hand for a total of ten points presented to the opposing team.

In front of an audience of big occasions, which saw guests in the gallery including the large and unforgettable Filippo and Jacopo Mammi, respectively, first and first quarterback coach for the Red Jackets Sarzana the distant 1995, ranged in the quarterback touchdown Radu seventeen holes, Alessio Mancuso, Francesco Barotti and Aurèle Verne Jacopo Milani. A demonstration of a versatile attack that does not base his game on a few individuals. While defending the intercept clearly sopratutto decisive safety of the young Martin Favilla great performance and excellent cornerback Andrea Fiaschi. Above the lines the offensive and defensive lines Sarzanese with Matteo Ferrari and Fabio Destri to drag a group of fifteen giants often able to decide the fate of a lot of uncertainty such as last Saturday.

No time to rest. Saturday, April 25, the Red Jackets Sarzana was transferred to Rome to face the first day of the return Gladiatori Rome. Defeat to same team with a mandatory 22 to 0 but that receives the return of a package of post-holders and minor injuries that takes advantage of the benefit of the field to deploy an undoubted twelfth player. I own supporters.

American Football: Under-17 Field: onset unfortunate but important for the young Red Jackets
Transfer important for young Sector Under 17 Red Jackets Sarzana, who last Sunday were moved to Livorno in the face Olympia Grossetto in a mixed tournament that unfortunately he had seen them lose out to measure the time of both matches scheduled. However, the excellent work done by technical staff composed by Jonny Lucette, Mattia Favilla, Radu and Nicola Woods Hole.

Significant among all the performance of quarterback John Alexander, author of ten touchdown pass, the center Giorgio Innocenti and receiver Gianluigi Boschi, absolute protagonists during the reception of the most important tournament.

Lucette coach said he was pleased with the performance of his boys and his girls, he reaffirmed that the work ahead is still a lot, but it is more convinced than ever of being able to take the best of what is possible from a large group like that together and Red Dragons and Bad Sisters Sarzana, team form part of the School Football John Bertorelli.

Registration is open all year, just look at the Circolo Arci Battifollo on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon to make contact directly with the Company and the School sports football. The daily flow of new athletes is the sign of a growing interest in the fascinating discipline of American Football. Where each component can find the right place, where there is a place for every age and where the fun of the boys comes before everything else.

Next to Sarzana in the coming weeks for another interesting tournament and then again on the move to wrangle a few challenges for the next championships category.

Comment on the final and go away from the retreat back story of the man who more than any in recent years, the company has done to the Americans

On the evening of last February, the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 in quarantatreesima Super Bowl edition of the National Football League, one of the most exciting final of the last decades, decided just 35 seconds from the whistle with the final touchdown of the wide receiver Santoni Holmes (later named MVP). That, in light of what happened in the past few days, further significant purchases and assumes a different meaning: the final between the Steelers and Cardinals was the last match with commentary from John Madden, who has announced that it was April 16 .

THE MYTH LIVING - John Earl Madden is much more than just a television commentator, or rather of a "color commentator", a term to determine purely American who acts as a shoulder to telecronista. John Madden is a living legend, at the same time one of the most influential of the NFL and an honorary member of every family in the stars and stripes that during the last thirty years, has sanctified their Sundays (but also some of the Thanksgiving Day) looking at the football on television. With his imposing physical and his smile permanently printed on the face, his is one of the most recognized U.S. sports, inside and outside the borders of the United States, became a real mark in the literal sense, through a known series of sports video games of Electronic Arts that bears his name. For many, short, John Madden is synonymous with American football.

HISTORY - Born April 10 1936 in the Austin, Minnesota, then moved at a young age in Daly City, California, Madden showed immediately its preparation for the sport of the oval ball, showing all the his talent as a player of Jefferson High School, then to the universities he attended, or University of Oregon, College of San Mateo, but especially California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California, where he distinguished himself by playing both defense and in attack, and with which he won every kind of honor in the role of offensive tackle. His performance was obviously noticed by scouts league of professionals, which arrived in 1958, chose the 21st round (number 244 overall) by the Philadelphia Eagles. The dream of playing in the NFL, however, had very short duration, since a bad knee injury, which occurred during training camp prestagionale, put an end to his career as a player, even before he had the chance to take the field with the new uniform team.

INCREASE - Despite the unfortunate incident of the journey, John refused to give up and decided to reinvent their role, always in close contact with the football. Prior to the Buffalo State College, then all'Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California, played the role of assistant coach and, after a short time, the first coach. In 1963 he was hired as assistant to the defense for the prestigious San Diego State University, where he remained until 1966, helping to transform the university into one of the best teams in the United States. An excellent job, which led him to make the big leap in 1967 when he signed a contract to coach the linebacker for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL, teams that, just that year, he managed to reach the Super Bowl. Following the resignation of coach John Rauch, who left Oakland to lead the Buffalo Bills, Madden was named first coach of the Raiders in 1969. At just 32 years, became the youngest head coach in the history of the National Football League. Despite the lack of experience, managed to keep the team in the highest floors of the rankings, but lost five times in seven years, decisive encounters for the title of the American Football Conference, by the Oakland Raiders earn the label of not able to win the matches that count. But that label was cleared away from the field in 1976, when the team outperforms every opponent on its way and reached the final of the Super Bowl, which soundly defeated (32-14) the Minnesota Vikings, giving the company the first title in its history John Madden and the highest honor for a coach for football. After the season of 1978, an accomplice of an ulcer difficult to manage, he retired from. Only 42 springs, was the youngest coach to reach 100 victories in regular season, cut goal in less than ten years. In the history of the league, Madden still has the highest percentage of wins, including playoffs: no one has ever been able to do better than him.

DATE CHANGE - Leaving the bench of the Raiders, Madden is not away by our football, dedicated to the job of television commentator, a role that transformed him into a "household name", or any figure known American. An activity period thirty years, in which - and this is a record - have worked for all four major U.S. television networks. Prior to CBS, then Fox Sports, and ABC, NBC finally. A total of 476 consecutive TV appearances over the weekend, a stretch interrupted only in 2008, when his notorious fear of flying prevent him from reaching Tampa, Florida, for the match between the Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks. Three decades of comments in which sports has become a unique presence for each batch of the cartel, and a guide can tell in a simple and entertaining football to the less experienced ( "For a woman who loves to watch the football, John Madden is was the equivalent of a gift of heaven "wrote the journalist Elisabeth Meinecke, commenting on his retirement). Inventor of smash and recurrent expressions (among them "Boom!", "Whap!", "Bang!" And "Doink!", By some as "Madden"), Madden was able to create a style all single, appropriately branded by his fans as "Maddentary" (fusion of "Madden" and "Commentary"), together with his great expertise in this area and the disarming simplicity of expression, led him to win the enviable number of 16 Emmy Award in the category devoted to personality and "analyst" of sports television.

GOODBYE, FOOTBALL, HELLO - His withdrawal leaves a huge void and, according to some, unbridgeable in American sports television landscape, but also the universe of football. To give the news in person Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Sports, among the most important individuals as to the stars and stripes, which called it "absolutely the best sports commentator ever lived" and that he tried, in extremis , to convince him to stay. The next season of National Football League, which will begin next September, will be the first, thirty years from now, not to be commented by the now unmistakable voice 73enne John Madden. "I'm not tired of anything," he said in the days following the notification of withdrawal, "but I'm going." Even Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, thought it appropriate to dedicate a tribute: "There is one thing that has agreed fans of football for decades: all those who love John Madden. He was a coach by Hall of Fame even before becoming one of the most celebrated sports personality. He had an incredible talent in explaining the game in a way that makes it simple to understand and fun: his respect and his passion for football the most significant ever. It was a big fan and a coach and a commentator of great talent. "

Saturday even if only for a day, Parma became the capital of the Italian American Football. The Panthers will host it at the same sports events and political-institutional front. The program begins at 10 am with the preliminary stages of the national final of the championship school Flag Football "that will be staged at the sports fields of University of Cus Campus.

Secondary schools of first degree qualified 8 of which are due in representation of Parma ( "Manzoni" of Traversetolo national champion in office and "School for the Europe of Parma current provincial champion) and the other from Northern Italy (" G. Perlasca 'di Padova, "Cardarelli" in Milan, "Betteloni" Verona, "Fontanesi" Reggio Emilia "Mercuriale" Forlì) for a total of over a hundred boys and girls from 13 to 15 years.

The finals are scheduled starting at 15 and follow to approximately 15:40 am there will be awards. On the same playing field then to 16 hours will be disputed a 'friendly Tackle Football category U16 Panthers between Parma and Bologna Warriors. At the same time will also be a mini-tournament Flag Fooball restricted to primary schools in the area.

But the day will be marked by two other major events of a more political and institutional. In the morning it will be held on the Council FIDAF, which will be hosted in Parma at the University Campus.

An appointment which will be attended by. Leoluca Orlando, FIDAF president in office since 2002. The President will probably step to the national finals of the championship school Flag Football "for the usual greetings institutional.

The commitments on Saturday May 9 will be exhausted by the "Meeting of the Manager of the Youth Sectors" to be held always at the University Campus from 9.30 to 17.30. The meeting will bring in Parma about 30 representatives of companies of American Football in Italy for a day of training and updating on the current and future leaders committed to the dissemination, organization and management of American Football in Italy starting from the basics with the project " Flag Football School ".

WASHINGTON - In the Virginia suburbs of Washington's most elegant rich, behind the walls of red brick and meadows far filed indicating to passers-the triumph of "happiness" real estate, is celebrated at 4 am, the ritual macabre and atoning for all Crac: the financier of suicide hung a rope in the basement, while upstairs the family sleeps.

There was yet, from the days of September when under the feet of the Bush opened the abyss of Finance lunatic, the ritual suicide of one of its players, as was David Kellermann, to 41 years, the CFO, the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer of the company Freddie Mac, which more than any other had created the mortgage bubble poisoned with the guarantee of the government. And even that 60 billion of public money pumped into his veins is still able to heal.

Kellermann, face and very trivial "all American", of the son of the Midwest and what was the football player who dreamed of being the University of Michigan, was not a Bernie Madoff, the supermagliaro New York, and even a Kenny Lay, the pirate of the electricity that had built on blackmail and policy of friendship with the Texas band of Bush and Cheney with the castle of Enron who travolse until the sentencing to 60 years in prison and all'infarto fatal. And even on him we are the mysteries that still surround another famous hung, Guido Calvi, or the death of number two in the Enron, Cliff Baxter, who was killed just the day before his deposition before the magistrate.

David Kellermann was an obscure name, little more than a managerial capacity among the many who work in this monstrous society semigovernativa not compressed by the name of the acronym "Freddie Mac" and mandate that public purchases, warrants and then resells the loans real estate portfolios in the banks.

From his graduation in Michigan, famous for the amount of football players churning and post graduate courses in George Washington University in the capital, Kellermann was entered in 25 years in the belly of "Freddie" and had begun climbing from cubicle employee up to upper floors. Any careers, but only until 8 September 2008, when the mountain of debt secured, resold, repackaged, smoothies that his company found, controlling half of the portfolio of dumb Americans, was a mass of whipped cream . And the rating agencies, those who should verify and classify the strength of a "corporation" before, not after the disaster, lowering the voting of the "Freddie Mac" dall'A1, meaning solidity of excellence, to B3, little more than garbage.

It was then that the Bush administration, Boccheggiano in the sinking of Finance would have devoured that the Bear Stearns, the Lehman Brothers, the Merrill Lynch and led the big banks like Citigroup and Bank of America one step from bankruptcy, the two companies decapita more exposed, and more responsible of the "boom and bust" property, the "Fannie Mae" and "Freddie Mac", which from their task of ensuring we were processed, with the complicity of the richly lubricated without distinction of party names and , the maximum speculators gambling on the beam carrier of national life: the house. Kellermann was shot in the second seat, in fact the most important, the office of treasurer and financial officer. He was put in hand a check for 60 billion dollars signed by the government with a mandate to stop, then restart and clean up the company without which the entire blood flow of credit s'infarta.

Eight months later, no one, not in Parliament, not the Federal Reserve, the Treasury does not know yet if this heart of the U.S. credit movement is to beat back. I do not know, or maybe he knew it, David Kellermann, who had to hire a team of bodyguards to encircle her red brick house in Virginia to defend itself by borrowing from the bus landed inferociti offering the "tour" of bancarottieri as a Hollywood tour of the villas of the star. Throwing stones at windows to ask beautiful account of the bonuses, bonuses paid to him by the company, 800 thousand dollars this year, a total of 210 million distributed with taxpayers' money driven residential attached for arrears, and that "Freddie" and " Fannie, which he had to defend.

In her spare time, because even in tragedy lies always a grain of irony, Kellermann was among the promoters of the "Campaign for the homeless."

At headquarters, a kind of castle style "post Versailles" on a central avenue in Washington, in the district famous for the beautiful decorations at Christmas lights, is now used to say the obvious, which was depressed Kellermann, who was under psychiatric care that the fatigue, the pressure and anxiety for a commitment too great - saved only by the national real estate always suffocation - were crushing him, and now, while the black van, the "coroner" of Fairfax County, in Virginia, office on his massive body into the bag of black waxed with flash used for the soldiers, it's easy to make the diagnosis.

David Kellermann is another, so far as known, falls into this war of words abstruse as derivatives, hedge, credit swaps, securitization, which killed as bullets or bombs in the street. In the same hours as the treasurer of safe background passava the noose around the neck in the cellar of the big house where his wife slept, and his daughter, just minutes from him, Christopher Wood, a man all of 34 years, in a house more Small, wrote his suicide note, explaining that they did not do more to pay the installments of that loan of 460 thousand dollars that the bank would never have had to give, but that the company had secured Kellermann. He killed his wife, the children of 5.4 to 2 years and then himself. He, his family, as the treasurer of "Freddie" killed by the same dream becomes a nightmare when the house.

Then you invite your girlfriend to a tennis match at Uniprix Stadium, or a hockey game at the Bell Center, or a football game at Molson ... Inevitably, and often, while the game is most interesting, she will talk to go pee.

One in five women suffer from bladder, according to advertising, and I never misses an opportunity to share my knowledge about this.

I remember leaving my seat to the Uniprix Stadium in search of my missing friend. I found it in a long line, face, mortified ...

In New York, where we built three new stadiums, two of baseball and football, the issue of toilets for women is a matter of time. Be aware that a study has shown that women need twice as much time as men to the toilet.

Note also that there are organizations that have names like the American Restroom Association and the World Toilet Organization - is the New York Times says, not me - and that they will not blaguent not about . They talk about discrimination, humiliation and danger to health. I believe the word. I saw many faces mortified in the files of the many stages that I have visited.

Then the owners of the Mets, Yankees, Giants and Jets promise to increase the number of toilets for women. 30% in one case, 10 or 15% for others.

It's good business, as they say, with all these bladder.

History lesson
One of our former colleagues - salvation, André Turbide! - Reminds us of a certain series between the Bruins and the Canadiens ... The Bruins were largely favorable, but John Ferguson early in the first match, gave a beating to the strong man of the Bruins, "Terrible" Ted Green. It said since then that this fight did win the Canadian.

Maybe ... André and I wondered what would happen if Georges Laraque was the same with Zdeno Chara. I do not know if Laraque is capable, by against ... And then there are more elegant ways to win a series.

As for Ted Green, who was pretty good defender, he retired after Wayne Maki, the Chicago Blackhawks, he had fractured the skull of a coup stick. It was hard at the time ...

Words, words

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Older listeners will remember Mark Fidrych, the Detroit Tigers, who was in the 70s, one of the best baseball major launchers. It was also an eccentric character who spoke to the ball and had all sorts of weird tics. He was nicknamed The Bird because of his resemblance to Big Bird, of Sesame Street, and he was a crowd favorite throughout the AHL.

Well! Mark Fridrych died Monday at age 54, in circumstances so bizarre that his tics. He was found under the wheels of his truck. It is believed that he attempted to repair his vehicle. An investigation is underway.

It will say in his case, he died as he lived, ie not like the others ...