Willy DeVille

What's Behind Sportsmen Injuries

*Adam Eaton (baseball pitcher) apparently stabbed himself while attempting to open a DVD.
*Wade Boggs (baseball) missed several games for the Winston-Salem Red Sox after hurting himself putting on his cowboy boots.
*Dave Beasant (former England goalkeeper) ruptured his ankle ligaments avoiding a falling bottle of salad cream he had just taken out of his fridge. He was injured for two months.
*David James (England goalkeeper) pulled a muscle in his back when reaching for a TV remote control.
*Santiago Canizares (Spain's World Cup goalkeeper) missed the matches after he had dropped a bottle of cologne on his foot and injured it.
*Rio Ferdinand (England defender) injured a tendon behind his knee while watching TV with his foot up on a coffee table.
*Derek Pringle (former England cricketer) sat down to write a letter before a Test match and stretched back only to put his back out.
*Sam Torrance (former Ryder Cup golfer) fractured his sternum when he fell over a plant pot whilst sleepwalking.

Cigarete ipak koriste zdravlju (!)

Kinezi su poceli da obradjuju "lazne" cigarete (loseg kvaliteta pretrpane komadicima drveta) za ekstrakciju solanesola, sastojka duvana, koji se koristi za tretman kardio-vaskularnih bolesti. Ranije su se te cigarete palile do unistenja, sto je uzrokovalo zagadjenje zraka... Kilogram solanesola vrijedi oko $200 (30 tona lista duvana proizvede 120 kg).

Pusenje ili zdravlje - odlucite sami! (Kaj ce mi zdravlje bez pusenja...)

XYu - Radojka Sverko

LEGENDE BH & EX-YU SPORTA, Part 16.

Za popularisanje teniskog sporta kod nas sigurno je zasluzan Slobodan Zivojinovic, koji je najveci uspjeh zabiljezio kad je dogurao do polufinala Wimbledona gdje je izgubio protiv Ivana Lendla, a u parovima je sa Andres Gomezom uspio osvojiti i US Open. Bruno Oresar i Monika Seles bili su jedini Yugo teniseri koji su osvojili Orange Bowl iliti nezvanicno prvenstvo svijeta u tenisu. Monika je, naravno, jedno vrijeme bila i prva na ATP listi, jedino nikada ne osvojivsi Wimbledone. Moze tome da se zahvali opsesivnom obozavaocu Steffi Graf koji ju je napao nozem u Hamburgu. Goran Ivanisevic je dogurao do drugog mjesta na ATP listi.

Danas teniseri Hrvatske i Srbije, kao sto su Mario Ancic, Novak Djokovic, Ana Ivanovic i Jelena Jankovic imaju respekt svjetske teniske poljane i cini se da je buducnost svijetla za ovaj sport sa balkanske tacke gledista...

FASCINATING PEOPLE, Part 16.

Ernest Holmes (1887-1960) founded Religious Science, part of the New Thought movement. Holmes had an immense influence on New Age beliefs, particularly his core philosophy that we create our own reality. He quit school at 15 saying: I didn't want to be taken care of, so l went to work. What I have gathered has been from reading, studying and thinking, working, experiencing. It is a long, laborious, tough method, but it pays off. I don't believe there is a real other method.
Excerpts from his work (The Science of Mind, Creative Mind and Creative Mind and Success):
*Strange as it may seem, the human thought can affirm only; it can never deny; for, even at the moment of denial, it really affirms the presence of that which it denies. We speak of denials and affirmations as though they were opposed to each other, but such is not the case. Fear and faith are but different ways of expressing positive beliefs about something. Fear is a positive belief that we will experience something that we do not wish to have happen, while faith is a positive belief that we will experience something that we do wish to have happen.
*What is evil?
Evil is the result of a lack of clear seeing, based upon a belief in two powers, and limitation and what we call sin is the result of man's struggle to find himself.
*The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it. He will know that so long as he desires any good, there is nowhere in the universe anything that opposes him. God does not damn anyone or anything; man damns everyone and everything.
*See only what you wish to experience, and look at nothing else. No matter how many times the old thought returns, destroy it by knowing that it has no power over you; look it squarely in the face and tell it to go; it does not belong to you, and you must know--and stick to it--that you are now free.
More...

The Pentangle

Oops (I did it again)

Kanadski teniski savez uputio je Novaku Đokoviću službeno izvinjenje zbog gafa na proglašenju pobjednika Rogers Cupa u Montrealu. Nakon što je u finalu pobijedio Rogera Federera, Đokovića je na svečanosti proglašenja pobjednika službeni spiker predstavio kao hrvatskog tenisera (!) No, vrlo brzo “Tennis Canade” se izvinio navodeci da je do greške došlo slučajno (hmm!) Đokoviću se licno izvinio i dotični službeni spiker... -Priznajem grešku i biće mi drago ispraviti je sljedeće godine, kada Novak osvoji svoj drugi trofej na Rogers Cupu.

Nekoga potjeraju psi, a druge...

Izgubljen u divljini Queenslanda 53-godisnji australski stocar, povrijedjen u padu sa konja, u bijegu pred krokodilima popeo se na stablo eukaliptusa. Ondje je međutim morao ostati nedjelju dana dok ga nisu pronašli spasioci, jer su gladni krokodili gotovo neprekidno vrebali na svoju potencijalnu žrtvu. Samo u nekoliko navrata preko dana uspio se nakratko spustiti sa stabla kako bi uzeo vodu iz obližnje lokve. "Noću sam vidio samo parove svijetlih crvenih očiju direkno ispod mene", izjavio je. Spasio ga je pilot helikoptera koji ga je opazio na stablu. U nedjelji dana pojeo je samo dva sendviča koji su mu se našli u džepu.

Mamy Blue

Unfortunately, the best version of this song by Joël Daydé is not available in video format. Check discography of this fantastic French blues master here.

Zulfikar - Zuko Dzumhur

*Kasaba na granici: U svakom stotom ćepenku pod uvjerenjima i esnafskim pismima, uz tuce propisno poništenih taksenih maraka, pečalbari po jedan naš Tetovac, Gostivarac ili Bosanac, ubijajući godinama bijele dane za žute pare. Pečalbarski se štedi previše, živi premalo i razmnožava pretjerano.
*Putovanje po besmislu: Granice između civilizacije i varvarstva leže duboko zakopane u pijesku pustinje...

...Italijani bi na ovom svetom brijegu podigli crkvu, Amerikanci bazu, Francuzi hotel, a Libanci kockarnicu. Bugari bi ovdje sagradili veliki naučni institut za borbu protiv zagraničnog sujevjerja. Turci bi po običaju podigli karaulu, a Beograđani bi otvorili kafanu "Kod prvog greha". Arabljani nisu podigli ništa...

...Stare turske hanove po drumovima zamijenile su automobilske stanice na autostradama. Romantičnih drumskih razbojnika, koji su nekada napadali usamljene putnike i karavane, više nema. Zamijenile su ih velike međunarodne kompanije koje napadaju čitave narode. Hajdučija se polako sa carskih džada preselila u međunarodnu politiku...

...Čovjek nigdje tako intenzivno ne misli na neodjevenu ženu kao u pustinji.
*Zapisi pod gorom: Hotel je pun američkih nevjesta i đuvegija. Nedjelju provedu u maženju ili čitanju besmislenih romana. Njihove nevjeste su lijepe na neki naročiti način. U ljepoti američkih žena ima nečeg konfekcijskog. Svi ovi bogataši svijeta sve više liče jedni na druge. Svi oni pate od obilja istih poroka i od nedostatka istih vrlina. Izgleda da se među sirotinjom mnogo više održalo šarenilo svijeta.
*Trube u Jerohinu: Francuz je propjevao zbog žene, Italijan radi publike. Grk pjeva za bakšiš. Nijemac pjeva na komandu, a Srbin propjeva uz piće. Arapin je zapjevao od straha. Pustinja uplaši i junake i divove. Pustinje se jedino ne boje pjesnici...U pustinjama čovjek je propjevao da ne poludi. Možda se svaka poezija i svuda u svijetu rodila u pustinjama.

Suzanne Vega

Tech Support

*Customer: My disk ran out of space when trying to save my Word document, so I changed it from double spaced to single spaced and it still wouldn't fit!
*Advisor: Press any key to continue.
Customer: I can't find the 'Any' key.
*Tech Support: Ok, in the bottom left of the screen, can you see the 'OK' button displayed?
Customer: Wow. How can you see my screen from there?
*Advisor: Can you click on 'My Computer'?
Customer: I don't have your computer, just mine.
*Advisor: You have Spyware on your machine which is causing the problem.
Customer: Spyware? Can they see me getting dressed through the monitor?
*Customer: My family in Australia use BT Softphone, I can see them but they can't see me.
Advisor: What brand is your webcam?
Customer: What's a webcam?
*Customer: All my files I saved last week to my C: drive are missing!
Tech Support: Do you remember what directory you first saved them in?
Customer: No, I don't . I just know it was on my C: drive.
Tech Support: Ok, I'll walk you through how to find the files.
Customer: I wouldn't think I would be losing files on this computer. Gee, I just had the hard drive replaced in it yesterday.
be an idea.
*Customer: I keep getting inappropriate pop-ups on my computer and don't want my wife to think that it's me.
Advisor: I will remove them for you.
Customer: How do I get them back when she is not in?
*Customer: How do I change channel on my monitor?
Advisor: Your monitor won't have channels like a TV.
Customer: But I was watching the internet channel the other day and now I just get the word processing channel.
*Customer: My mouse mat isn't wired up.
Advisor: I'm not sure I understand, your mouse mat shouldn't have any wires.
Customer: Well how does it know where my mouse is? Is it wireless?
*Customer: My iPod will only play one song.
Advisor: Which other tracks have you downloaded from iTunes?
Customer: Do I need to download tracks?

XYu - Partibrejkers

Medjunarodni dokumentarci - Toronto

Međunarodni filmski festival u Torontu 6.-15. septembra ce prikazati, izmedju ostalog:

Algerie, Histoires A Ne Pas Dire (o četvorici muslimanskih Alžiraca koji se prisjećaju svoga rata za nezavisnost i odnose sa jevrejskim i hrišćanskim susjedima).

Body of War (rata se prisjeća i 25-godišnji Tomas Young, kojeg je metak u kicmi zauvijek paralizovao, a ostatak života posvetio je borbi protiv rata u Iraku, u kojem je i bio kobno ranjen. Eddie Vedder iz Pearl Jama je komponovao i originalnu muziku za film).

Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient (o čovjeku koji je stajao iza kulisa Cannesa čitavih 40 godina).
Trumbo (portret scenarista Daltona Trumba -Spartak, Papillon, koji je bio na crnoj listi, ali se hrabro borio protiv represije. U filmu nastupaju i Donald Sutherland, Michael Douglas i Liam Neeson).
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (odsječak iz života i karijere Philipa Glassa, filmskog kompozitora koji je radio s raznim velikanima - pojavljuju se i Ravi Shankar i Woody Allen).

The Dictator Hunter (o aktivisti Human Rights Watcha, koji pokušava sprovesti pravdu za žrtve bivšeg čadskog diktatora, Hissenea Habrea).

Terror’s Advocate (advokat Jacques Verges umjesto trofeja skuplja "ozloglasene" klijente – branio je šefa Gestapa u Lyonu Klausa Barbieja, te Saddama Husseina i Slobodana Miloševića).

Encounters at the End of the World (o Antarktiku i njegovim sirovim prirodnim ljepotama).

Festival otvara kanadska drama Fugitive Pieces, sa Radetom Serbedzijom u glavnoj ulozi (glumi grckog arheologa Athosa koji spasava zivot djecaka vodeci ga u novu domovinu...)

Students Say

*There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever.
*Lime is a green-tasting rock.
*Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.
*Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it's brother against brother.
*To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up.
*In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H's as O's.
*Clouds are high flying fogs.
*Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill the strongest man.
*A blizzard is when it snows sideways.
*Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.
*It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.
*Wind is like the air, only pushier.
*Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water.
*Artificial insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull.
*H20 is hot water, and CO2 is cold water."
*Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, vanes, and caterpillars.
*The body consists of three parts - the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowels, of which there are five - a, e,i, o and u.
*Vacuum: A large, empty space where the pope lives.
*For drowning: climb on top of the person and move up and down to make Artificial Perspiration.
*For Fainting: Rub the person's chest or, if a lady, rub her arm above the hand instead. Or put the head between the knees of the nearest medical doctor."
*The tides are a fight between the Earth and Moon. All water tends towards the moon, because there is no water in the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.
*Germinate: To become a naturalized German.
*To prevent contraception: wear a condominium.

Lives In The Balance

Cristopher Polo

Marko Polo je možda otkrio Ameriku prije Kristofora Kolumba, prema karti iz Kongresne biblioteke u Washingtonu. Dokument, koji je u biblioteku 1933. donio američki državljanin italijanskog porijekla, "prikazuje brod pored karte na kojoj su prikazani dijelovi Indije, Kine, Japana i Sjeverne Amerike", prema opisu iz tog doba. Na dokumentu nazvanom "Karta s brodom" nalazi se grb - isprepletena slova imena Marko Polo. Moreuz koji razdvaja Sibir od Aljaske glavna je tema karte. Po svoj prilici Marco Polo, koji se u Veneciju sa svojih putovanja vratio 1295., u Europu donio prve informacije o postojanju Sjeverne Amerike, osim onih do kojih su došli nordijski osvajači. On je u Ameriku stigao dva vijeka prije Kolumba i iscrtao moreuz koji razdvaja Aziju od Amerike četiri vijeka prije njegove pojave na evropskim kartama. Marco Polo u opisima svojih putovanja nikada nije govorio ni o kakvom otkriću kopna na području Aljaske, a na samrti je svojim prijateljima kazao: "Nisam napisao ni polovinu onoga što sam vidio".

Kad "svinjo jedna" dobija drugo znacenje

Japanci su stvorili kloniranu svinju potomka tri generacije klonova. Prvi puta su naucnici uspjeli klonirati životinju te veličine u nekoliko uzastopnih generacija. Mislilo se da je kloniranje životinja kroz nekoliko generacija problematično jer se genetski materijal jezgre celije davatelja pogoršava sa svakom novom generacijom. Amerikanci su već uspjeli klonirati šest generacija miševa, ali japansko otkriće je važnije za ljude, jer je svinja bliža čovjeku od miša po svom genetskom sastavu. Cilj istraživanja je da se jednoga dana dodje do organa za transplantaciju i celija kloniranih svinja koji bi se koristili za liječenje nekih bolesti kod ljudi.

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