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Words from Arsenal

Hij is terug !!!! Fit voor het EK???

Robin van Persie heeft Arsenal bij zijn rentree niet aan een overwinning kunnen helpen. De koploper in de Premier League kwam niet verder dan 0-0 bij Wigan Athletic.
Van Persie kwam in de 65e minuut in het veld voor de Deen Nicklas Bendtner. Door diverse blessures speelde de aanvaller de afgelopen vijf maanden slechts drie wedstrijden. Van Persie kwam op 9 januari voor de laatste keer in actie bij Arsenal. Daarna bleef hij door een dijbeenblessure aan de kant.

Tegen het stugge Wigan, van Mario Melchiot, kon de 24-jarige international nog weinig uitrichten. Twee schoten verdwenen ver over het doel. Arsenal heeft twee punten meer dan Manchester United, dat nog een wedstrijd moet inhalen.

Songfestival

Hind Laroussi is niet blij dat ze het in mei moet opnemen tegen een zingende kalkoen. "Ik vind het jammer dat heel veel mensen het niet meer zo serieus nemen", vertelde ze vrijdag, nadat ze haar Songfestivalnummer 'Your heart belongs to me' aan het publiek had voorgesteld.
"Ik hoop dat daar in de komende jaren enige verandering in wordt gebracht."

Vorige maand wist de handpop Dustin the Turkey in de Ierse voorverkiezing de meeste stemmen binnen te slepen. "Winnen ga ik het sowieso niet van een kalkoen", lachte Hind. "Of wel, natuurlijk, dat hangt af van de smaak van het publiek."

Nou dit wordt weer dezelfde ellende als de laatste paar jaren. Waarschijnlijk zal er wel een voormalig Oostblokland winnen. Dus Hind suc6 dan maar :D

words of smoking

Rokers Gelul ....

Minnesota Bars Beat Smoking Ban

By GREGG AAMOT MAPLEWOOD, Minn.

(AP) - All the world's a stage at some of Minnesota's bars. A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, encouraging customers to come in costume, and pronouncing them "actors." The customers are playing right along, merrily puffing away - and sometimes speaking in funny accents and doing a little improvisation, too. The state Health Department is threatening to bring the curtain down on these sham productions. But for now, it's on with the show. At The Rock, a hard-rock and heavy-metal bar in suburban St. Paul, the "actors" during "theater night" do little more than sit around, drink, smoke and listen to the earsplitting music. (AP) The curtained entry to The Rock Nightclub in Maplewood, Minn. is identified as a "stage entrance"

"They're playing themselves before Oct. 1. You know, before there was a smoking ban," owner Brian Bauman explained. Shaping the words in the air with his hands, like a producer envisioning the marquee, he said: "We call the production, 'Before the Ban!'" The smoking ban, passed by the Legislature last year, allows actors to light up in character during theatrical performances as long as patrons are notified in advance. About 30 bars in Minnesota have been exploiting the loophole by staging the faux theater productions and pronouncing cigarettes props, according to an anti-smoking group. "It's too bad they didn't put as much effort into protecting their employees from smoking," grumbled Jeanne Weigum, executive director of the Association for Nonsmokers. The Health Department this week vowed to begin cracking down on theater nights with fines of as much as $10,000. (AP) An "Act Now" button (purchased for $1) identifies Courtney Conk as an "improvisational actress

The law was enacted to protect Minnesotans from the serious health effects of secondhand smoke," Minnesota Health Commissioner Sanne Magnan said. "It is time for the curtain to fall on these theatrics." At The Rock earlier this week, a black stage curtain covered part of the entrance, and a sign next to it with an arrow read, "Stage Entrance." Along the opposite wall, below a sign saying "Props Dept.," was a stack of the only props needed: black ashtrays. At the door was a printed playbill for that night's program, with a list of names of the people portraying bartenders and security guards. Playing the owner: "Brian." Courtney Conk paid $1 for a button that said "Act Now" and pinned it to her shirt. That made her an actor for the night, entitling her to smoke. She turned in an understated, minimalist performance, sitting with cigarette in hand and talking to a bass player with the band. "I thought it was funny that they found a loophole," Conk said. "I'm more of an activist-actor tonight, you could say. I think it's kind of this way of saying what we think about the ban." While The Rock asks nothing of its actors by way of creativity, a few other bars have been a little more theatrical. At Barnacles Resort and Campground along Lake Mille Lacs, a "traveling tobacco troupe" dressed in medieval costume on the first theater night. Mark Benjamin, a lawyer who pushed bars to exploit the loophole, wore tights, a feathered cap and black boots. "Hey, I'm a child of the '60s. I can do a little improv," he said. His improv amounted to speaking in medieval character to other patrons. In Hill City, Mike's Uptown owner Lisa Anderson has been offering theater night once a week. The bar had a Mardi Gras theme last Saturday, attracting about 30 patrons, most of them in costume. "I was dressed in a Victorian dress with the old fluffy thing that weighs 500 pounds," she said. "We had some fairies and some pirates and a group of girls - I'm not sure what they were, but they had big boas and flashy makeup." Though there were no skits, Anderson said some people "start talking with different accents." She added: "It's turned into the funnest thing I can imagine." One bar on northern Minnesota's Iron Range, the Queen City Sports Place, calls its nightly smokefest "The Tobacco Monologues." Proving anew there's no business like show business, Anderson said her theater-night receipts have averaged $2,000 - up from $500 right after the ban kicked in. Similarly, Bauman said revenue at The Rock dropped off 30 percent after the ban took effect, then shot back up to normal once the bar began allowing smoking again. He and other bar owners said they plan to continue putting on theater nights. "There's no question we were struggling," he said. "And we are extremely nervous that this is going to go away, and we will be back to the way it was."

Ik ben zelf net gestopt met roken, niet door de aanhoudende negatieve shit op rokers maar gewoon omdat ik het tijd vond. Wat ik wel belachelijk vind is dat rokers als paria's worden behandeld. Bah!!

Dutch Words

Man gaat tijdens bruiloft met andere vrouw wegEen Filippijnse bruid heeft haar ex-verloofde aangeklaagd, nadat hij er tijdens de trouwplechtigheid vandoor ging met een andere vrouw. Het stel zou elkaar net het ja-woord geven, toen een vrouw in de kerk verscheen en riep dat zij bezwaar aantekende tegen het huwelijk. De bruidegom twijfelde een tijdje, liep naar de vrouw, omhelsde haar en verdween vervolgens met haar in een taxi. De zwaar teleurgestelde bruid zei dat ze 'onherstelbare schade' had opgelopen en last had van slaapproblemen. Zij eist een schadevergoeding van ruim €9.000,-

Turkish Words

Turkish troops enter north Iraq

The Turkish military has not said how many troops are involvedTurkish ground forces have crossed the border into northern Iraq to target Kurdish rebels said to be sheltering there, Ankara has said.
It said the raid began late on Thursday after an air and artillery bombardment.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has said the offensive is limited in scale and troops will return as soon as possible.
Iraqi officials say they remain unaware of any major incursion into the north, and Kurdish officials believe it took place in a remote and unpopulated area.
"The target, purpose, size and parameters of this operation are limited," said Mr Erdogan, whose comments were televised.

PKK fighters are known to use northern Iraq as a base"Our armed forces will come back in the shortest time possible as soon as they achieve their objectives," he said, insisting that members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were the sole targets.
Correspondents say the aim is to isolate the organisation and prevent it using northern Iraq as a launch pad for attacks on Turkish soil.
Washington said it had been informed of the incursion in advance and said it had urged the Turks to limit their action to precise targeting of rebel Kurdish targets.
A US military spokesman in Baghdad said he believed only a few hundred Turkish troops were involved in the operation.
Meanwhile, senior Iraqi Kurdish sources told the BBC the Turkish side had exaggerated the operation, which they believe to be "very, very limited", and in a remote border area.
Earlier, Turkish broadcaster NTV reported that 10,000 soldiers had crossed the border on Thursday, a Turkish military source also confirmed for Reuters news agency that two brigades had been deployed.
'Unusual timing'
The US, the EU and Turkey consider the PKK to be a "terrorist" organisation.

Turkey's ground incursion into northern Iraq was launched at nightTurkey's military said a cross-border ground operation backed by the Air Force was launched at 1900 [1700 GMT on Thursday].
Turkey has carried out at least one ground incursion, as well as frequent air and artillery strikes, against suspected PKK targets in Iraq since parliament authorised the army to act in October 2007.
But this operation's timing is unusual as the mountainous border area is still covered with heavy snow, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports from Istanbul.
Nor have there been any major PKK attacks inside Turkey for some time, she adds.
More than 30,000 people have been killed since the PKK began fighting for a Kurdish homeland in south-eastern Turkey in 1984.
Mystery in Baghdad
Top Iraqi Kurdish and government officials are saying there has been no crossing at the Habur bridge, the only major land route into Iraq, the BBC's Jim Muir reports from Baghdad.
Kurdistan Democratic Party militants who control the area in question inside northern Iraq say they have not detected any Turkish forces near any of their own lines.
The office of Turkish President Abdullah Gul says the leader phoned his Iraqi counterpart, Jalal Talabani, about the operation on Thursday evening.
"During the call, our president conveyed information on the objective of the ground operation," Mr Gul's office said.
Mr Talabani's office confirmed a conversation had taken place during which Mr Gul invited him to visit Ankara officially, and also assured him that any Turkish operations were against the PKK, not against the Iraqi Kurds.

Dumb words

Man parked stolen car at Sheriff's Office
ANDERSON, S.C., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Anderson County, S.C., authorities said a man was arrested after he parked a stolen convertible outside the County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Susann Griffin said Charles Noah Chambers came into the building to demand the return of $1,991 that was seized from him in June following his arrest on methamphetamine trafficking charges, the Anderson (S.C.) Independent Mail reported Thursday.
Griffin said she noticed Chambers driving away in a 1996 Saab after his demands were rejected. She said the vehicle was reported stolen from Cartee's Used Cars between 5 p.m. Monday and 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Sheriff's Lt. W. F. Looper said the suspect put "a screwdriver into the ignition switch" when deputies caught up to the car and told him to turn off the engine.
Chambers and a woman who was riding in the car with him were taken into custody. Chambers was charged with possessing/receiving stolen goods, driving with a suspended license and a vehicle tag violation.
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