Friday, 29 March 2013

European pedigree can take Arsenal to top four – Wenger

Arsene Wenger believes the experience gained from Arsenal’s long run of successful attempts to qualify for the Champions League will serve his team well in the battle to finish in the top four.Wenger has overseen 15 consecutive years in Europe’s elite club competition, but Arsenal’s place in the Premier League’s top four has appeared more under threat than ever this season.Despite Arsenal’s spluttering form, the Gunners boss has been encouraged...

Bolt signs on for London Diamond League – report

  LONDON  (AFP) – Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt has signed a contract to race at the London Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium, according to a report on Friday.Bolt has agreed to compete on both days of the Diamond League meeting in the English capital on July 26 and 27, the Daily Telegraph reported.The meeting is expected to attract a host of star names as it marks the one-year anniversary of the London 2012 opening ceremony.It...

10 Simple Things Girls Want in Life

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Manchester United still in race for Dortmund defender

Mats Hummels FIFA WC-qualification 2014 - Austria vs. Germany 2012-09-11 Hummels with Germany in 2012 Personal information Full name:              Mats Julian Hummels Date of birth:         16 December 1988 (age 24) Place of birth:         Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany Height:                 ...

Thursday, 28 March 2013

How to Live Successfully on a Retirement Income

In order to write about living successfully on a retirement income, I need to define what I mean by success. My favorite definition, and the one I am using for this post, is one I am borrowing from author and career coach Dan Miller: “[Success is] a progressive realization of worthwhile goals.”A Bible StoryWhen Jesus encountered the Samaritan woman at the well (see John 4:4-34), he incrementally revealed to the woman who he was (from a Jew in...

How to Handle Financial Stress

Financial stress affects your entire life. To compartmentalize financial stress to a tiny corner of your world is nearly impossible. It affects everything: your marriage, your health, your mindset, you name it! So how do you effectively handle financial stress? Here are some steps and tips to reduce – and eventually eliminate – this life-hindering condition. 3 Steps to Reduce Financial Stress 1. Write down all of your financial responsibilities.A...

Bill Gates the unknown explores Ghana’s health progress

AHENTIA –  (AFP) – The freckled man with the rectangular glasses instantly recognisable to much of the world stood in the West African heat, staring at data that had nothing to do with selling software.But it was exactly where Bill Gates said he wanted to be, at a tin-roof clinic in a village in Ghana, listening to local health-care workers explain the progress they had made in vaccinating babies.“These are the countries where I’m the least...

Inyanya to perform at AYAC Warri 2013 opening ceremony

The opening ceremony of Africa Youth Athletics Championships will, as usual,  be the first spectacle fans will behold when the continental show  kicks off at the Warri Township Stadium today. This will be at 2 pm.Popular artist, Inyanya of All I WANT IS YOUR WAIST fame will perform at the opening ceremony that will be brief. There would be cultural displays and a historic relay that will depict a transition from the past generation to...

Sunday Mba: NFF orders Wolves, Rangers to agree on transfer fee today

The Nigeria Football Federation has ordered Nigeria Premier League clubs, Warri Wolves and Enugu Rangers to agree on a transfer fee for Super Eagles’ attacking midfielder Sunday Mba before the close of worktoday.“Failure of the two clubs to reach a reasonable conclusion on the fee will compel the NFF to fix such a transfer fee by Friday, 29th March, which must be paid on the agreed terms before the player is cleared to play for his preferred club...

Van Persie say's he is Happy At United

Robin van PersieBorn: August 6, 1983 (age 29), RotterdamHeight: 1.86 mSpouse: Bouchra van Persie (m. 2004)Salary: 12 million GBP (2012)Children: Shaqueel van Persie, Dina Layla van PersieTeams: Netherlands national football team (Forward), Manchester United F.C. Manchester United striker Robin van Persie has hinted he may end his career at Old Trafford. The 29-year-old says Sir Alex Ferguson's proven track record in getting the best out of older...

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Robin van Persie bagged a brace as the Netherlands

Manchester United star Robin van Persie bagged a brace as the Netherlands continued their march to Brazil in thrashing Romania 4-0 at the Amsterdam ArenA.In so doing van Persie reached 34 international goals, bettering the haul of 33 goals in 48 caps by the legendary Johan Cruyff. Van Persie is now just six goals shy of Patrick Kluivert’s all-time goal record for the Oranje.“Van Persie was very unlucky in the first half but in the second half he was actually very happy, because he made an incredible world-class goal,” boss Van Gaal was quoted...

Herniated Disks

Spinal discs are small gel-filled cushions that separate the vertebrae (bones) of your spine. The disks have a fibrous outer capsule and an soft inner, the nucleus pulposus.Disks can deteriorate gradually over time (see causes below) and herniate with the smallest of movements. Or they can herniate suddenly from extreme pressure, such as from a traumatic accident.A disc herniates either when the outer shell weakens or the pressure inside builds beyond its strength. The capsule or shell either ruptures, tears or bulges. The soft inner part protrudes...

My Girlfriend Want to Dump Me Because I Don’t Believe in GOD

I am a Yoruba boy and I’m dating an Igbo girl. I and my girlfriend have been together for almost three months but she wants to break up with me because I’m neither a Christian nor a Muslim, I don’t believe in God. I'm a freethinker.I love her so much and I don’t want to loose her because of this issue. I have vowed never to be a Christian in my life. I’m an atheist. she is a God fearing Christian with good morals and she's very beautiful and intelligent,...

Labors Untold Story

From "Labor's Untold Story" by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. MoraisPublished by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979.One night, probably in 1880, John Swinton, then the preeminent New York journalist, was the guest of honor at a banquet given him by the leaders of his craft. Someone who knew neither the press nor Swinton offered a toast to the independent press. Swinton outraged his colleagues by replying:"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You...

EAGLES TO TRAIN IN GERMANY FOR KENYA

The Super Eagles will train in Germany ahead of a return leg World Cup clash against Kenya with warm-up games against Mexico and Jamaica confirmed.  The Eagles are away to Kenya on June 5 in a crunch World Cup qualifier after the Harambee Stars snatched a draw in Calabar at the weekend. They also face hosts Namibia a week later in continuation of the qualifying series.  The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have now concluded plans for...