Un omaggio alla squadra del cuore.... Granata.
Ai miei tempi di pulcino, anche se brevi, quando eri convocato qui si giocava il sabato pomeriggio. 1972. Che sensazione !
Friday, September 29, 2006
QUEL MITICO STADIO
Un omaggio alla squadra del cuore.... Granata.
Ai miei tempi di pulcino, anche se brevi, quando eri convocato qui si giocava il sabato pomeriggio. 1972. Che sensazione !
What about alcohol
Ever observed this ? I did, unfotunately in more than one person.
Alcohol depresses your central nervous system, lowers inhibitions and impairs judgment. Drinking large amounts can lead to a coma and even death. Mixing alcohol with medications or illicit drugs is extremely dangerous and can be fatal. Alcohol influences your brain and leads to a loss of coordination, slowed reflexes, distorted vision, memory lapses and blackouts. Teenage bodies are still growing and alcohol has a greater impact on young people’s physical and mental well-being than on older people.
Short-term Effects:
Feeling of warmth, flushed skin, impaired judgment, lack of coordination, slurred speech, memory and comprehension loss. Bursts of heavy drinking usually result in a “hangover,” nausea, shakiness and sometimes vomiting.
Long-term Effects:
Tolerance to many of the unpleasant effects of alcohol and a resulting ability to drink more. This leads to a deteriorating physical condition that can include liver damage and increases the risk of heart disease. ...A person can become dependent on alcohol. If someone suddenly stops drinking, withdrawal symptoms may set in. They range from jumpiness, sleeplessness, sweating and poor appetite to convulsions and sometimes death. Alcohol abuse also fosters violence and conflicts in one’s personal relationships.
This is NOT meant to depress, but are important informations.
Alcohol depresses your central nervous system, lowers inhibitions and impairs judgment. Drinking large amounts can lead to a coma and even death. Mixing alcohol with medications or illicit drugs is extremely dangerous and can be fatal. Alcohol influences your brain and leads to a loss of coordination, slowed reflexes, distorted vision, memory lapses and blackouts. Teenage bodies are still growing and alcohol has a greater impact on young people’s physical and mental well-being than on older people.
Short-term Effects:
Feeling of warmth, flushed skin, impaired judgment, lack of coordination, slurred speech, memory and comprehension loss. Bursts of heavy drinking usually result in a “hangover,” nausea, shakiness and sometimes vomiting.
Long-term Effects:
Tolerance to many of the unpleasant effects of alcohol and a resulting ability to drink more. This leads to a deteriorating physical condition that can include liver damage and increases the risk of heart disease. ...A person can become dependent on alcohol. If someone suddenly stops drinking, withdrawal symptoms may set in. They range from jumpiness, sleeplessness, sweating and poor appetite to convulsions and sometimes death. Alcohol abuse also fosters violence and conflicts in one’s personal relationships.
This is NOT meant to depress, but are important informations.
Monday, September 25, 2006
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Focus, Focus - so they call it
Focus! How many times we hear this word. Mostly when people try to convey to somebody else that they should get something done in some sort of way.
I looked at it and observed what "focus" really is.
"Focus" is actually nothing. What we really should say instead is, "Do what you are supposed to be doing! Do not space out with your mind or lose attention from your task. Just DO it!"
What is the difference between people that have a high rate of success and people that do not? Well, the ability to DO things. Especially things that they should be doing or that they like to be doing. Just follow through. Get it done. Complete the action. Rather simple, isn't it?
This is very applicable in anything anybody does. Sport in general amplifies this need. But really, no kidding, even the simplest job of stamping a piece of paper would need this simple ability.
And this is what I have to say about that !
Saluti. Manuel
I looked at it and observed what "focus" really is.
"Focus" is actually nothing. What we really should say instead is, "Do what you are supposed to be doing! Do not space out with your mind or lose attention from your task. Just DO it!"
What is the difference between people that have a high rate of success and people that do not? Well, the ability to DO things. Especially things that they should be doing or that they like to be doing. Just follow through. Get it done. Complete the action. Rather simple, isn't it?
This is very applicable in anything anybody does. Sport in general amplifies this need. But really, no kidding, even the simplest job of stamping a piece of paper would need this simple ability.
And this is what I have to say about that !
Saluti. Manuel
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Sganasciate
This post need to be in Italian. No question...
Allora, ultimamente mi sto facendi un sacco di risate vedendo ed in alcuni casi rivedendo dei filmati su YOU TUBE.COM
Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo con il Conte Dracula, Il sig. Rezzonico e un sacco di altri sketch mi fanno sganasciare. Non vedendo questo materiale da un sacco di tempo le risate che mi faccio (da solo) sono piuttosto sonore.
Poi mi sono visto alcuni episodi di Mai Dire Goal, Striscia la notizia e altro.
Decisamente la comicita' all'italiana mi mancava. Ed allo stesso tempo mi fa ritornare in mente le tantissime risate di gioventu' basate su personaggi che noi stessi creavamo e che al fine erano poi molto simili a quelli che vedo su questi filmati. Amici come Andrea, Massimo, Danilo, Laura, Giova sanno di cosa parlo.
Saluti - Manuel
Friday, September 08, 2006
Remembering Gilles
Tonight I was looking for videos of Gilles Villenueve and found some treasures.....
A lot of memories from the time I was watching those races and admiring Gilles and his amazing adventures. So I just want to share some of that. See you. Manuel
View Gilles and Rene' in the last two laps of the incredible 1979 France Grand Prix
... I was 19 ...
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Balls
I'd better contain myself since I'm not used to bloggin'.
Facts:
Materazzi grabbed Zidane's shirt during the World Cup Final Italy vs. France 2006 and Zidane scoffed that he would give him his shirt after the game if he really wanted it. Materazzi replied he would rather have Zidane's sister (not even knowing that he actually had one).
NB: In Italy, disparaging someone's sister is a common way to retaliate in conversation.
Zidane turned and gave Materazzi a head-butt to the chest that knocked him down. Zidane was sent off the field with a red card.
Views:
Let me tell you what I think about Zidane and Materazzi. I played soccer (football, as we say in Europe) for quite a long time in my younger days. What Materazzi told Zidane, although definitely not nice, is a very light expression commonly used when you play at any level. It pretty much goes unnoticed and no offense is taken. Retaliation is given in the course of the game. You kick some ankles, you punch a bit when a corner kick comes along, and so it goes - friends as before.
I do like both players and they are not the ones being noisy with complaints over the situation. I believe the media has been pumping it up in order to have something to write, trying to create the classic controversy.
What is all this fuss for? Nothing, no big deal. These are things that happen in soccer every day all over the world. Yet, they nearly made a racial case out of it through their conjecture about what happened.
Morale: News and media need to talk from experience and stick to the facts or don't say anything at all.
Facts:
Materazzi grabbed Zidane's shirt during the World Cup Final Italy vs. France 2006 and Zidane scoffed that he would give him his shirt after the game if he really wanted it. Materazzi replied he would rather have Zidane's sister (not even knowing that he actually had one).
NB: In Italy, disparaging someone's sister is a common way to retaliate in conversation.
Zidane turned and gave Materazzi a head-butt to the chest that knocked him down. Zidane was sent off the field with a red card.
Views:
Let me tell you what I think about Zidane and Materazzi. I played soccer (football, as we say in Europe) for quite a long time in my younger days. What Materazzi told Zidane, although definitely not nice, is a very light expression commonly used when you play at any level. It pretty much goes unnoticed and no offense is taken. Retaliation is given in the course of the game. You kick some ankles, you punch a bit when a corner kick comes along, and so it goes - friends as before.
I do like both players and they are not the ones being noisy with complaints over the situation. I believe the media has been pumping it up in order to have something to write, trying to create the classic controversy.
What is all this fuss for? Nothing, no big deal. These are things that happen in soccer every day all over the world. Yet, they nearly made a racial case out of it through their conjecture about what happened.
Morale: News and media need to talk from experience and stick to the facts or don't say anything at all.
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