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THERE is an unlikely reason behind Manchester City’s outstanding form in 2013 – Manchester United! |
Roberto Mancini’s team have won all of their five games so far this month without even conceding a goal, the latest success catapulting them into the FA Cup fifth round. |
And it is the fear of letting the Red Devils extend their five-point lead at the top of the Premier League that has been spurring City on. |
Midfielder Gareth Barry explained: “That gap at the top between us and United is there, so we can’t afford to let that grow any more. |
“We want to end up as Premier League champions again, so that has made all the lads really knuckle down. |
In fact, City have now racked up six straight wins on the trot, with the latest giving them hope of going all the way in the FA Cup once again. |
They won this competition in 2011, beating Stoke in the final. |
And victory over the Potters has brought the chance of another visit to Wembley a step nearer. |
That view was echoed by assistant manager David Platt, who said: “Winning the FA Cup gives you a belief you can do it again. |
“It certainly gives you the taste that you want to do it again. The hunger is there and it’s a great feeling. |
“The target of this club is to win trophies, that’s what we are set up to do. It’s what the manager wants to do. He wants to win everything he is in and it’s important because when we set off every season we set off to win things. |
City’s latest win came courtesy of one of their most consistent defenders, Pablo Zabaleta. |
The Argentine’s strike won the game and praise all round. |
Barry said: “Zaba’s had a fantastic season. He always gives 100 per cent and since I’ve been here, he’s never had a bad game. |
Zabaleta and his fellow defenders will have to cope without Vincent Kompany at QPR tomorrow, though. |
The City skipper limped off after just 33 minutes with a calf injury, which will force Mancini to juggle an already depleted defence. |
While City had to reorganise their defence, they were still never troubled by a woeful Stoke. |
And it all left dejected Potters manager Tony Pulis praising the victors, rather than chastising his own team. |
He said: “I don’t want to be too down or too despondent because of who we were playing against. |
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The Cornell men’s and women’s tennis teams will be competing in their respective Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Indoor Tennis Championships this weekend, Feb. 18-20. The women will be traveling to Princeton, N.J., and the men will be competing in Cambridge, Mass. |
One month into the tennis season, the women’s team has earned three wins, giving it a 3-0 record, including shutouts against St. Bonaventure and St. John’s. Most recently, the Red achieved a win, 6-1, over Binghamton last Saturday at the Reis Tennis Center. The men’s team has earned a winning record, 6-3, starting off ... |
The men’s team faces a particularly tough challenge this weekend, as it has been seeded first in the tournament; however, head coach Tony Bresky is not fazed by this burden. |
“Some people view it as extra pressure, but we like that because … our goal and expectation is to win the tournament. [The team] has worked really hard, has had a strong schedule and I know they’re going to be prepared,” Bresky said. |
“Every match is tough … We are not overlooking anyone. We’re playing the winner of the Columbia and Boston College match first. We lost to Columbia in a match last year and Boston College is a tough team with a ton of depth,” Bresky acknowledged when discussing the competition this weekend. |
Senior tri-captain Andy Gauthier also has high hopes for this tournament, and thinks that his team has a good shot at success. |
“We’ve never actually won this tournament in the history of Cornell, so this is our best chance, … but it’s a pretty even conference and we need to be ready for anybody and everybody,” Gauthier said. |
The men’s team will play the winner of the Columbia vs. Boston College match on Saturday, Feb. 19. If it wins that match, it will play the winner of Brown and Harvard on Sunday. |
The women’s team will be entering into this tournament with a different perspective. Its first match will be against third seeded Harvard on Friday, Feb. 18. |
Senior co-captain Ruxandra Dumitrescu asserts that despite the Red’s No. 6 seed, the team is excited for this weekend’s championship and is confident in its abilities. |
“We got seeded sixth, which doesn’t place us in the most favorable draw, but at the same time, we lost to Harvard last year very closely, so the team is expecting to have a great game with the hope and goal of beating them,” Dumitrescu said. |
Dumitrescu also suggested that the Red’s depth as a team will be a great asset to it this weekend, when it has to face some difficult teams. |
“Our strength is that we as a team have a lot of depth. I don’t think we have any one spot where we’re weak. We are all solid players and all have different styles of play, which is advantageous to us because we can learn from each other,” Dumitrescu added. |
Whatever the outcome of this weekend’s championship, Dumitrescu says that her team will learn a lot from this experience. |
“This is a new tournament for us; the first time we played was last year, and we didn’t know what to expect. We just had a great win against Binghamton, and this is our chance to have a great season because we get to see all the other Ivies before we play them [in the regular season]. I think we want to give [it] our a... |
If the Red wins the match against Harvard, it will continue on in the tournament to play the winner of the Columbia vs. Yale match on Saturday, Feb. 19. |
Following this weekend’s contest the men will return to the Reis Tennis Center to take on Chestnut Hill, Kutztown and Roberts Wesleyan on Feb. 26. The women’s next match will be against Fairleigh Dickinson on March 5, also at home in Ithaca. |
The UK's Tories could order the wholesale introduction of open source IT systems if they are returned to office at the next election. |
Shadow chancellor George Osbourne is considering a report that recommends putting a £100m spending cap on government IT contracts and opening up procurement to small firms using open source software. |
The opposition are on the offensive over the government's "wasted billions" on "catastrophic IT projects," including the National Programme for IT in the NHS. Their report, by Dr Mark Thompson, of Judge Business School at Cambridge University, claims an alternative approach could save the taxpayer £600m a year. |
"The Conservative Party is looking to the future. We have led the debate on using open source software in government, and I'm delighted that Dr Mark Thompson has come forward with these detailed recommendations," said Osbourne. |
"These proposals aren't just about saving money — they're about modernising government, making the public sector more innovative and improving public services." He went on to call for a wider debate on the issue. |
Thompson's report said savings "would come not just from reduced licensing costs, but importantly by freeing government bodies from long-term, monopoly supply situations." |
It called for "new government data standards" across government to allow large scale IT projects to be split into small modular components. |
It suggested the government should never again need to sign an IT software contract worth over £100 million, noting, "smaller IT projects mean less risk of failure, and will cut costs by opening up the procurement system to more companies, increasing competition for IT contracts." |
These data standards will create a level playing field for open source software. |
The report has been seized on by open source advocates. Graham Taylor — chief executive of OpenForum Europe said, "If Government is to stop being locked-in to the past, and is to support more effective, more innovative, and more cost effective IT solutions it has to practice an open procurement strategy and to wise-up ... |
"The Conservative policy is reinforcing what is happening elsewhere in Europe, but not happening fast enough in the UK." |
"This latest move by the Conservative leadership is most welcome and confirms at the highest level what we have been saying for years. Open procurement, open standards and open source are the keys to redeeming the UK public sector's IT track record and to renewing Britain's IT industry." |
Even comedian and technology commentator Stephen Fry is getting in on the act. "It's a wave that's rolling over Europe and America and it's only right that we in Britain should ride that wave too. I think politicians from all sides should endorse the aim for public systems to be run on free and open source software," h... |
Minimising overthinking of governance issues when deploying SharePoint is vital if CIOs are to achieve long term innovation, a SharePoint specialist has claimed. |
Speaking at the 2011 Australian SharePoint conference in Sydney, Seven Sigma's managing partner, Paul Culmsee, told the predominantly development-focussed audience that if they spend 99 per cent of their time talking about time, cost and scope and 1 per cent looking at the legacy a project will achieve, they will be do... |
"If you spend all your time talking about things from a rational manager's point of view -- it's a failure," he said. |
"When you install SharePoint, you need to ask what legacy you're going to leave, otherwise you're doomed to repeat yourself." |
Using the project management behind the creation of the Opera House as an example, Culmsee said projects that create a positive legacy are remembered more than the bumps in the road during implementation. |
"If you judge the Opera House through the first order project management goals of time, cost and scope, it's clearly a failed project, but the legacy is priceless and that's what people go there for," he said. |
"...Governance is a means to an end -- it's not an end. You don't need to over define it to understand it." |
Renacres Hospital will host its biggest fashion show yet this Spring in aid of Queenscourt Hospice. |
Every year the staff at Renacres Hospital nominate a chosen charity for fundraising for our local community. For 2017 they have chosen they have chosen the Southport hospice. |
Now in its 3rd Year, Fashion for Compassion 2017 is set to be the best Renacres fashion show to date and will be showcasing designer wear from MUSE and Busy Body’s Lingerie Specialists. |
Renacres Charity Fashion show: Fashion for Compassion will take place on Wednesday, March 8 at Hurlston Hall in Ormskirk. Tickets cost £25 and all guests will receive prosecco on arrival, canapés and a goodie bag! There will also be some luxury raffle prizes up for grabs! |
A spokesman for Renacres said: "Please come along and support your local charity by joining us for an evening of live entertainment and a fun-filled fashion show. |
"Don’t miss Ormskirk’s fashionista event, secure your tickets now as they are selling fast!" |
Tickets are available from Busy Body’s or MUSE stores, by calling Wendy at Renacres Hospital on 07841 087687, or online here . |
The Flyers are about to embark on the games that will define their season, but this doesn’t feel like the beginning of anything to me. It feels like the epilogue of a year that began promisingly, and will soon end prematurely. |
I’m not going to write a playoff preview today. I’m going to write an obituary. Remember, it was only a year ago when the magic began for these players and their inspirational coach, Peter Laviolette. The Flyers made it into the playoffs by winning a shootout over the Rangers. Instead of going home, our beloved overach... |
From the dizzying heights of those comebacks against the Bruins, we have now plunged to the depths of the past month. The Flyers became so disinterested in recent weeks that they managed to lose six straight home games, five of their last six overall and a conference lead that they had worked half a year to build. |
Laviolette preside over this emotional meltdown? Above all, how could a franchise that has always valued hard labor spend a month allowing every team on their schedule to outwork them? |
When I asked Laviolette about this puzzling plunge, I got an honest answer, but not a satisfying one. He said he really didn’t know. The Cup-winning coach had tried everything in his arsenal. He worked them relentlessly early in March, then he backed off by giving them a succession of equally fruitless days off. He scr... |
The situation reached its lowest point last week, when GM Paul Holmgren closed the locker-room door, rolled out his best Clint Eastwood impression and tried to scare the team back to life. The next night, they lost to Buffalo. |
That’s why this column is an obituary. There’s no reason to speculate about another postseason run because it’s not going to happen. The Flyers lost the chance to build on the miracle of last season when they forgot what got them there. They died before their time, of the worst affliction — apathy. |
Normally, an obituary ends with everyone telling the deceased to rest in peace. That will not be necessary. These Flyers have been resting for more than a month. |
The Phillies are the best success story this city has had in a generation, and not just because they won a title in 2008. They have mastered the art of respecting fans. They have an atmosphere at Citizens Bank Park that rivals any in our city’s sports history. |
So why can’t they tell the truth about injuries? When does “general soreness” become a potential season-ending injury? On whose calendar does “three to six weeks” equal three months? Can the Phillies no longer keep track of their own fabrications? |
There’s nothing new about that. Brad Lidge has a partial tear in his pitching shoulder. We know this because Lidge told us so. The GM said Lidge would be out three to six weeks, then Charlie Manuel said he didn’t expect Lidge back until around the All-Star break. |
The Phils are better than this. They need to apply the same standards to injury reports that they do in other aspects of their sports operation. |
The worst thing about this NFL lockout is that we’re all getting to see what our heroes are really like. They are stupid, greedy, selfish and ungrateful. And those are their best qualities. |
If there was any doubt that the most ridiculous work stoppage in sports history is about nothing more than the egos of a bunch of billionaires and millionaires, there is none now. Last week we all learned that both factions are willing to resume talks, but only in the venue that favors their side. |
The owners want to go back into mediation, while the players want to keep the talks in federal court, where they can include decertification. |
(Yesterday, a federal judge ordered them to resume talks in Minnesota). |
Hey, I know the fans don’t care about this mess, but there is something worth our attention. It’s the attitude of the owners and players. They don’t give a damn about the fans. |
Forget all the rhetoric about their love for the people who made their sport the most popular. If they had any concern for the fans who went into debt to pay for personal seat licenses and team-licensed apparel, they wouldn’t be bickering over where to talk about a new deal. They would be making a deal. |
Hi, Fit Clubbers! I'm so glad to be a part of this group...you all are so inspiring. |
This has been an interesting week for me, exercise wise. I decidedthat I needed to do something drastic if I'm going to meet my goal oflosing this extra weight before my husband comes home on R&R inOctober. Being the planning geek that I am, I was making a littlechart of my options and their pros and cons. My ideas inc... |
On Wednesday, I had a free introductory workout at a Fitness Togetherabout 1/2 mile from my house. My brother runs a Fitness Togetherstudio (in Alexandria, tell him I sent you :) and while he admits thatit is expensive, he says that it is the best program he's ever workedwith and it will definitely work for me. (Being ... |
I was chatting with a friend yesterday about my dilemma, and how Iprobably needed to go check out the three gyms in my smallish town andthat I needed to not procrastinate. She mentioned that the local NavalStation had a gym (duh!) and she thought that they had personaltrainers there. It is about 15 minutes from my hous... |
I'm going to give the Naval Station gym a shot. You can't beat theprice, and I might actually keep food in the house if I'm driving bythe commissary three times a week. They don't have child care, so I'mnot sure what I'll do once summer comes, but I figure I'll give it ashot for the next 7 weeks until school gets out. ... |
As part of my new plan, I also decided to start a food and exercisejournal. I'm going to track what I eat, whatever cardio and strengthtraining I do each day, plus whether I'm taking my vitamins andmedications. Oh, and my weight too. I hate to see that on paper eachday but it is a valuable tool for me. I found a pretty... |
I wasn't all talk and no action, either. Yesterday, I did my Hulavideo and my perfect pushup workout, and I'm already dressed for theclass I'm taking in 2 hours. And I've scheduled a date to walk with myfriend after the class. Yeah, me! |
As you can see, I've got a lot of enthusiasm going right now. I'mcounting on you all to hold me accountable, and we'll all gladly holdyou accountable if you want us to. |
Ron Paul to speak at Sunday's Republican Liberty Caucus of Central East Florida's 10th-annual Constitution Day Dinner in Melbourne. |
It turns out that Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano won't be able to make Sunday's Republican Liberty Caucus of Central East Florida's 10th-annual Constitution Day Dinner in Melbourne. |
But the Republican Liberty Caucus has a big-name speaker to take Napolitano's place as keynote speaker — former presidential candidate Ron Paul. |
Republican Liberty Caucus of Central East Florida Chairman Bob White said, with the ongoing Senate Judiciary Committee hearings related to the Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Napolitano will be staying in Washington as part of Fox's coverage. |
But White is excited about having Paul as the main speaker at Sunday's event instead. |
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