Wednesday, August 3, 2016

The current state of affairs in modern day European football is pitiful especially when it concerns strikers. The dearth of world-class centre-forwards is a concern for all the top clubs. Hence, whenever a promising young striker bursts onto the scene, it surely sets off the alarm bells in the transfer market.
BEST YOUNG STRIKERS AND FORWARDS
1. Paul Dybala
2. Morata
3. Breel Donald Embolo
4. Romelu Lukaku
5. Ángel Correa
6. Luciano Vietto
7. Paco Alcácer
8. Anthony Martial
9. Nabil Fékir
10. Divock Origi
Ideal for football manager seeries 
Borja baston
Kevin volland
Gabriel Jesus
Lacazette
Griezmann
Santi mina
Antonio Martial
Marco reus
Antonio sanabria
El ghazi
Alvaro morata
Breel embolo
Davie selke
luciano vietto
paulo dybala
domenico berardi
paco alacer
harry kane
lukaku
malcolm silva
angel correa
gabriel barbosa
Talisca Anderson
Simone Zaza
Mauro Icardi
ARKADIUSZ MILIK
Richairo Zivkov​ic
max philipp
juan iturbe
lucas piazon
balde keita
timo werner
federico catabia
lucas ocampos

Sunday, July 31, 2016

LOVE IN MID AIR

by Kim Wright

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Unhappily married woman jumps into a life-changing affair with a man she meets on a plane.

With a successful dentist husband, adorable young daughter and close-knit group of female friends, Elyse, like so many heroines who have it all, could not be more miserable. She’s stifled by her suburban life, and she cannot communicate with her taciturn hubby, Phil. She fortunately happens to have a creative outlet (she’s a talented potter) and it is during a flight for work that she finds herself seated next to Gerry, an attractive Boston-based investment banker who, like her, has a spouse at home. The two strangers have an instant rapport, and back at home in Charlotte, N.C., she calls him. That leads to an erotically charged encounter in New York, followed by brief monthly meetings that help to convince her that marrying Phil was a mistake. But while Gerry certainly seems besotted with Elyse, he offers her no promises. Phil, unaware of her infidelity but sensing her growing unease with their life, agrees to marriage counseling, as long as they use his best friend Jeff, their minister, as mediator. Big mistake. Elyse goes along with it while mentally making plans to leave him. Meanwhile, her affluent inner circle senses something is amiss, with her best friend Kelly, herself in a less-than-ideal marriage, feeling threatened by Elyse’s risky behavior. Knowing full well how her actions will impact her entire community, Elyse bides her time, until a shocking act of violence forces a decision. So will she choose her husband, her lover or neither? Sharply written and emotionally accessible, Wright’s debut offers a clear-eyed taste of hope without letting anyone, especially Elyse, off the hook.

A modern take on adultery that does not shy away from the costs—and benefits—of a post-marriage life.


           Review

        Love in Mid Air

          by Kim Wright



Elyse Bearden is flying back from a pottery show in Phoenix when fate seats her next to Gerry Kincaid.

He’s an investment banker who climbs mountains on weekends. He’s married to a woman he met “in the drop-add line freshman year at UMass.” He has three kids. Oh, and he’s hubba-hubba handsome.

Elyse is also married. Nine years. One child.

How happy is her marriage?

Well, she opens her copy of Redbook to an article called “48 Things to Do to a Man in Bed”, and when Gerry suggests they each write down three things they’d like to try, she’s game.

And then she confesses: “Marriage is the only thing in my whole life I’ve ever failed at.”

Dallas. A two-hour layover. In the Traveler’s Chapel, they kiss --- “one of those kisses that gives you the feeling that you’re falling, that the elevator floor has dropped out from beneath you.” And then…. separate planes.

Chapter two: Charlotte, North Carolina. The morning routine. How grim? Elyse's husband Phil, a dentist, likes to communicate via Post-It notes. Not that he’s much duller than the husbands of her friends. Elyse and her pals have a running joke: “Some Sunday we should all go home from church with the wrong husbands.” How long will it take for the men to notice?

Better question: How long will it take for Elyse and Gerry to start meeting for wild nights in cities other than their own?

Shocked? I understand. Sorry you’re going to miss out on a highly amusing, provocative, hatchet job of a novel.

Hatchet job?

Kim Wright has spent two decades writing about food, wine and travel, and she has --- for 18 years --- written the annual Fodor's Walt Disney World with Kids, and she has even tapped out some erotica, but the most important preparation she did for LOVE IN MID AIR (there is also aKindle edition) was to get divorced.

And she learned: Once you’re wearing the Scarlet D in a small town, people talk. About their marriages. Their sex lives. Their lost dreams. If you take notes --- and Kim Wright did --- you get a remarkable survey of the state of marriage in your zip code. And, if you’re Kim Wright, you come to a few conclusions. Here’s one:

There were very few books that dealt with the subject of divorce in a realistic manner. Most of the books were about men leaving women, even though it’s more statistically likely for a woman to initiate divorce, especially after the age of 40. And there was often some sort of quick fix --- the deserted woman ended up falling in love with her attorney or some hunky handyman who showed up to help at her new house. I resented this whole idea that divorce is about swapping one man for another --- ideally as fast as possible --- with little exploration of the affect a woman’s divorce has on her friends and the whole social web.

Here’s another, which isn’t stated directly, but which informs most of this novel:

Most men are assholes. Which doesn’t mean they’re cruel, sexist jerks who use their economic power to turn their suburban castles into detention centers with their spouses as inmates --- Ibsen’s “Doll’s House”, updated. It’s mostly that they’re anxious to settle. They take a woman’s silence for happiness. Their idea of bliss is boredom. And --- but if you’re a woman with kids and a suburban life and church and a book group and, once a week, white wine-filled lunches with friends, you don’t need me to go on. (And if you’re a man reading this, congratulations --- you know you’re no oppressor.)

Is LOVE IN MID AIR a latter day feminist screed? Not at all. It’s fun. It’s stupid --- I mean, on the male side, like having your husband agree to marriage therapy as long as it’s with the minister of your church, who happens to be one of hubby’s best friends. And it’s hot sex --- did I mention that Wright has written erotica? --- with a man who will never leave his wife.

This home run of a first novel succeeds because it plays fair. Here’s a world, here are the people, here is the misery they call life. And then here are the Unintended Consequences, which are the real point of the novel. And here is a very wise writer, seeing Elyse’s reach for happiness with deadly clarity.

“The price for enjoying anything is using it up,” she has Elyse say. “Every pleasure eventually slips through our hands, and perhaps that is the greatest pleasure of all, the feeling of something slipping through your hands.”

Now aren’t you glad you didn’t run away before Elyse and Gerry started to commit --- yes, I guess it is --- adultery?

© Copyright 2010, Head Butler, Inc. All rights reserved.

Reviewed by Jesse Kornbluth on July 14, 2011



    About Love in Mid Air

Elyse Bearden's marriage is already in trouble when she meets a handsome stranger on her flight home from Arizona. Her husband, a doting father to their young daughter but an inattentive husband, has been communicating with her via post-it note for far too long and seems content with having sex in the kiss-less "X" position once a week.

So it's not surprising when she starts a torrid affair with the man she met in row 29 to try to recapture the excitement she feels is sorely missing from her marriage and her life in general.

As some of her closest friends begin to realize that their seemingly harmless weekly banter about unhappy marriages has gone to a whole new level for Elyse, it stirs up emotions in each one of them that they'd rather not deal with. Because it's one thing to be unhappy, but it's a whole other thing to actually do something about it.

Love in Mid Air by Kim Wright: Book Review

               Elyse Bearden is normal. She leads a simple life as a housewife, mother, and potter. She has luncheons and her book club with ‘the girls,’ and lives everyday almost exactly the same. She could be any American woman picked at random except for one thing, a chance encounter.

                As she is flying home, Elyse meets Gerry, a married man, who shares her burden of normalcy. They quickly strike up a conversation that soon takes on a flirtatious nature. Elyse’s life changes there on that plane. Her seemingly normal life has suddenly taken on a dangerous and exciting edge. Somewhere above the roofs of all the other American housewives, she breaks free from the mold. Elyse and Gerry share an airplane aisle and a treacherous kiss. She is left standing dumbfounded in the airport with nothing but Gerry’s phone number and a dangerous kiss on her lips. Elyse must decide if she wants to keep her ‘holly housewife’ life or make a phone call that could change everything.

  As the story unfolds Elyse and Gerry begin a torrid affair that slowly begins to set Elyse free from her bonds of normalcy. As she comes into her own as a woman, people in her life attempt to pull her back to the rule of Southern suburbia. In some ways, her husband, longtime friend Kelly, and the other ladies in the book club must keep Elyse’s existence the same, in order to maintain the semblance of normalcy in their own lives. Elyse must make the decision to risk everything for freedom or go back to her regular life in order to stick to the status quo.

Love in Mid Air weaves a fascinating character study of women in suburbia, some willing to stick to their regular lives, if only for appearance sakes, and others willing to risk everything for love and independence. The story is a constant page turner that I couldn’t manage to put down. In a way the book is like watching a train wreck: something bad is inevitably going to happen, but we must watch the fascinating process leading up to it. I usually have a problem with book endings but I think the conclusion of ‘Love in Mid Air’ is spot-on. The last chapter is absolutely brilliant in the way it jumps between past, present and future all in the same sentence. The only advice I would give to Ms. Wright is to develop her minor characters a bit more, to give us more background. I believe this book will appeal to every woman wondering if their lives will ever change. It just goes to show that all it takes is the right seat on an airplane.







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1. Michael Jordan
2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
3. Magic Johnson
4. Larry Bird
5. Kobe Bryant
6. Bill Russell
7. Wilt Chamberlain
8. Tim Duncan
9. Oscar Robertson
10. LeBron James

HUU HAPA UTHIBITISHO.

Mali ni nyingi nyumbani, kipi kimekukimbiza,

Hapa Alikiba, anamwambia Diamond, nyumbani ( SHAROBARO RECORDS) kuna kila kitu, beats kali, management nzuri and all that, kitu gani kilimkimbiza SHAROBARO RECORDS?

Ona babio mamio wote wanakulilia,

HAPA ALIKIBA ANAMAANISHA, SHAROBARO RECORDS, WAKIONGOZWA NA BOB JUNIOR, WOTE WANAMLALAMIKIA DIAMOND KWA KITENDO CHAKE CHA KUKIMBIA KUFANYA KAZI SHAROBARO. (BOB JUNIOR ALIPIGA KELELE SANA DIAMOND ALIPOKIMBIA SHAROBARO RECORDS )

Mtoto pekee ako nyumbani, kipi kimekukimbiza,

HAPA ALIKIBA ANASEMA, DIAMOND ALIKUWA NDO ARTIST PEKEE MKALI ALIYEKUWA CHINI YA SHAROBARO RECORDS. HAKUKUWA NA UPINZANI WOWOTE NDANI YA SHAROBARO, KITU GANI KILIMFANYA AONDOKE ?

Ona babio mamio wote wanakulilia



Ndani ya Dar es salame ulikuja bure


HAPA ALIKIBA ANAMKUMBUSHA DIAMOND, KUWA SIKU ALIPOKWENDA SHAROBARO RECORDS KWA MARA YA KWANZA, HAKUWA NA HATA SENTI TANO NA ALIREKODIWA WIMBO WAKE BURE KABISA.NENO DAR ES SALAME, LIMETUMIKA KUMAANISHA SHAROBARO RECORDS AU MUSIC INDUSTRY.
(KAMA ULIKUKUWA HUJUI, ALIKIBA NI MMOJA KATI YA WANAHISA WA SHAROBARO RECORDS, NA NDIO ALITOA IDHINI KWA BOB JUNIOR, AREKODI BURE WIMBO WA DIAMOND. ILIKUWA HIVI DIAMOND ALIENDA KWA BOB JUNIOR NA KUMWAMBIA ANA WIMBO WAKE ANAOMBA UREKODIWE LAKINI HANA UWEZO WA KIFEDHA, BOB JUNIOR AKAOMBA KUMSIKILIZA, ALIPOMSIKILIZA AKAGUNDUA KIPAJI CHA DOGO, BUT HAKUWA NA MAMLAKA YA KUREKODI WIMBO HUO BURE BILA IDHINI YA BOSS, ALIKIBA, SO IKABIDI AENDE KWANZA KUOMBA IDHINI KWA ALIKIBA, ALIKIBA AKAMWAMBIA BOB JUNIOR KAMA DOGO ANAJUA KUIMBA VIZURI, MREKODIE TU, HAKUNA SHIDA. ALIKIBA ALIYASEMA HAYA AKIWA ANAYAFANYA MAHOJIANO KWENYE KIPINDI CHA MKASI HIVI KARIBUNI.

Tena kimwana, kimwana hujui kuchuna

WAKATI DIAMOND, ANAENDA KUOMBA KUREKODI KWA BOB JUNIOR, ALIKUWA TAYARI KUFANYA SHOW ZAKE HATA BURE ILIMRADI TU AWEZE KUJITANGAZA..DIAMOND ALIWAHI KUMUOMBA ALIKIBA, APANDE NAYE KWENYE SHOW YA ALIKIBA, BILA MALIPO YOYOTE ILI WATU WAMUONE AKIWA NA ALI KIBA. SO ALIKIBA AMETUMIA NENO "KIMWANA ASIYE JUA KUCHUNA" AKIMAANISHA 'MSANII UNDERGROUND ALIYE TAYARI KUIMBA HATA BILA MALIPO.



Na zile lawama za wale walokuzoeza,

HAPA ALIKIBA ANAZUNGUMZIA LAWAMA ZA MADEMU WANAO TOSWA NA DIAMOND


Ulikuja jana na leo tofauti sana.

HAPA ALIKIBA ANAZUNGUMZIA NAMNA AMBAVYO DIAMOND AMEBADILIKA KITABIA BAADA YA KUPATA MAFANIKIO KIMUZIKI.


Tena bora Yule wa jana, wa leo tofauti sana,

HAPA ALIKIBA ANAWAZUNGUMZIA WEMA SEPETU NA PENNY, ANASEMA BORA HATA PENNY KULIKO WEMA AMBAYE NDIO YUPO NA DIAMOND KWA SASA

Dakika mbili mbele nyuma, kichwa kinauma

HAPA ALIKIBA ANAZUNGUMZIA TABIA TABIA ZA WEMA SEPETU. MKOROFI(DAKIKA MBILI MBELE NYUMA), NA MWINGI WA HABARI, AMA PASUA KICHWA ( KICHWA KINAUMA) AMA KICHECHE.


Tena bora Yule wa jana, wa jana leo wa jana,

HAPA ALIKIBA ANASISITIZA ANACHO KIMAANISHA, KWAMBA ANAMZUNGUMZIA WEMA, " tena bora yule wa jana, wa jana leo wa jana " YANI YULE AMBAYE UPO NAE LEO, NA AMBAYE ULIWAHI KUWA NAE ZAMANI. NI WA JANA, UPO NAE LEO, LAKINI ULIWAHI KUWA NAYE JANA. HUYO NI WEMA SEPETU, ALIWAHI KUWA NA DIAMOND, WAKAACHANA, WAMERUDIANA TENA. ( 'WAJANA LEO WA JANA = WEMA SEPETU )


Dakika mbili mbele nyuma, kichwa kinauma
HAPA ALIKIBA ANAKUTOLEA UFAFANUZI ZAIDI KWAMBA, HUYU " WA JANA LEO WA JANA" SI MWINGINE ILA NI WEMA SEPETU. ANAFANYA HIVYO KWA KUELEZEA TABIA YA WEMA SEPETU AMBAZO NI "UKOROFI" (DAKIKA MBILI MBELE NYUMA ), NA UKICHECHE A.K.A PASUA KICHWA (KICHWA KINAUMA)..KAMA UMESAHAU WEMA SEPETU ALIWAHI KUMTUKANA BOB JUNIOR MATUSI YA NGUONI, KESI IKAENDA MAHAKAMANI..UNAKUMBUKA HIYO?



Oyayee , mbona unawatesa sana,

HAPA ALIKIBA ANAMWAMBIA DIAMOND MBONA UNAWATESA SANA HAO WASICHANA UNAO WABADILISHA BADILISHA ?

Omamee, omame oya mame, omame oya mamee
Mbona unajitesa sana

HAPA ALIKIBA ANAMWAMBIA DIAMOND "WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND". ANAVYO WATESA HAO WSICHANA, NI SAWA NA KUJITESA MWENYEWE TU. UKICHECHE WA DIAMOND UNAMTESA KIASI CHA KUMFANYA ASHINDWE KUJUA AMPENDE NANI KATIKA MAISHA YAKE, KWA SABABU WANAWAKE KARIBU WOTE ANAO TOKA WANAKUWA NA KASORO ZISIZO VUMILIKA.

Omamee, oya mame, omame oya mamee
Ukaanza kulewa, madawa kuvuta kwa sana.


HAPA ALIKIBA ANATHIBITISHA NAMNA AMBAVYO HALI YA KUWATESA WANAWAKE INAMRUDIA DIAMOND MWENYEWE. BAADA YA KUUMIZWA NA MWANAMKE/WANAWAKE, DIAMOND AKAONA HAKUNA NJIA NYINGINE YA KUPAMBANA NA MAUMIVU YA KUUMIZWA NA MWANAMKE, ZAIDI YA KULEWA. DIAMOND ALITOA WIMBO, " NATAKA KULEWA" AMBAO ULIKUWA BASED ON TRUE STORY.


Ndani ya Dar Es salaam, mambo matamu hayakukwisha hamu

HAPA ALIKIBA ANAELEZEA NAMNA AMBAVYO DIAMOND HAJAISHIWA NA HAMU YA KUTEMBEA NA WANAWAKE AMBAO ANAWAPATA BAADA YA YEYE KUWA MAARUFU KUPITIA MUZIKI.


We bado mtoto wa mama hujayajua mengi


HAPA ALIKIBA ANAUA NDEGE WAWILI KWA JIWE MOJA., KWANZA ANATOA UFAFANUZI WA MTU ANAYE MZUNGUMZIA. ALIKIBA ANATAKA UJUE KUWA ANAMZUNGUMZIA DIAMOND NA SIO MTU MWINGINE YOYOTE YULE, SO ANAELEZEA JAMBO LINALO ASHIRIA MTU ANAYE MZUNGUMZIA HAPA " we bado mtoto wa mama " DIAMOND NI MTOTO WA MAMA, YUPO KARIBU ZAIDI NA MAMA YAKE NA HANA MAWASILIANO MAZURI NA BABA YAKE. ( UKISIKILIZA VIBAYA HAPO UNAWEZA KUDHANI ALIKIBA ANA MAANISHA "MTOTO KWA MAMA", BUT KIUKWELI ANAMAANISHA "MTOTO WA MAMA" )
NA ANAPOSEMA HUJAYAJUA MENGI, ANAELEZEA MTAZAMO WAKE KUHUSU UPEO WA DIAMOND, KUHUSU MAISHA YA MWANADAMU. ALIKIBA ANA AMINI KUWA DIAMOND BADO HAJAJUA MENGI KUHUSU MAISHA, NDIO MAANA ALIWADHARAU SHAROBARO RECORDS WALIO MTOA PAMOJA NA BABA YAKE MZAZI.


Mwenda tezi na omo marejeo ngamani
HAPA ALIKIBA ANAMKUBUSHA DIAMOND ASISAHAU ALIPOTOKA.


Amesema sana mama, dunia tambala bovu

Kuna asali na shubiri ujana giza na nuru

HAPA ALIKIBA ANAMSHAURI DIAMOND, ASICHEZE NA UJANA WAKE NA AKUMBUKE KUWA KUNA WAKATI WA KILA JAMBO, LEO YUPO JUU KIMUZIKI NA KIMAISHA LAKINI KESHO ATAKUWA CHINI. SO AKUMBUKE ALIPOTOKA, ASIJISAHAU.


We mwana wewe mwana, mbona jeuri sana

HAPA ALIKIBA ANA ELEZEA NAMNA AMBAVYO DIAMOND AMEKUWA JEURI BAADA YA KUPATA MAFANIKIO YA KIFEDHA NA KIMUZIKI.


Ulichokifata hukupata , umekosa ulivyo achaa

Kwa baba yako mwana, na mama yako mwana


Kwa vicheche ulivyo vitaka , ni vingi ulivyo achaa,



HAPA ALIKIBA ANAMWAMBIA DIAMOND " UMEKIMBIA SHAROBARO RECORDS NA KWENDA KWINGINEKO ILI UPATE UPATE MAFANIKIO ZAIDI YA KIMUZIKI NA HATIMAYE UPATE FURSA YA KUN'GOA MADEMU, LAKINI UMEISHIA KUPATA VICHECHE TU KAMA AKINA WEMA SEPETU NA JOKATE. WAKATI VICHECHE KAMA HAO ULIKUWA NA NAFASI YA KUWAPATA HATA KAMA UNGEBAKI SHAROBARO RECORDS. MATOKEO YAKE SASA, WALE MADEMU AMBAO ULIKUWA UNAWATAKA WAKATI UPO SHAROBARO RECORDS ( AMBAO WALIKUWA NA AFFILIATION NA SHAROBARO RECORDS) UMEWAKOSA NA MADEMU AMBAO ULITARAJIA UNGEWAPATA UKIWA NJE YA SHAROBARO RECORDS HUJAWEZA KUWAPATA.



Oyayee, mbona unajitesa sana

Mbona unawatesa sana

( IMESHAELEZEWA JUU )


UNALETA LAWAMA, UNALETA LAWAMA X 2
Uchungu wa mwana aujuaye mzazi.
Uchungu wa mwana aujuaye mzazi, siku zote leilee
Analiaa oooh oooh oooh oooh
Kutwa nzima analalamika
Obaba baba na mama yako yako, oooh mwana rudi eeeh
Watafurahi wakikuona umerejea salama.


HAPA ALIKIBA AMEFANYA KAMA KUPOTEZA MABOYA VILE ILI ASIONEKANE KAMA ANAMPIGA MADONGO DIAMOND MOJA KWA MOJA.
FC Barcelona: Being a True Culé: The 10 Commandments for Real Blaugrana Fans



This list will try to provide you the true 10 qualities (or commandments, if you will) that differentiate the common football fan that enjoys Barcelona play, from the true Culé. The true Barça fan.
1. You Shall Have No Other Teams Before Barça

2. You Shall Not Make for Yourself an Idol Above the Team


3. Do Not Take the Word of Cruyff in Vain

4. Remember the 1992 Dream Team and Keep It Holy

5. Honor Your Heroes of the Past

6. You Shall Not Part from the 4-3-3, and Possesion/Attacking Football

7. You Shall Not Cheer for Real Madrid

8. You Shall Not Desire to Buy Players

9. You Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Fair Play

10. You Shall Not Covet Anything That Belongs to Real Madrid

Are strikersin short supply across Europe?
Every club wants one but where have all the (good) strikers gone?
Europe isn't producing world-class strikers anymore. Is the lack of talent simply a blip on the radar or a sign of things to come?


Wenger's theory is this: Europe does not really produce strikers any more. It is only in South America that true number nines are to be found, for example Sergio Aguero, Luis Suarez, Gonzalo Higuain and even Diego Costa, adopted by Spain but born and raised and taught to play in Brazil.
South America Produces Better Forwards

Higuain
Bacca
Costa
Vardy
Aguero
Lewandowski
Aritz Aduriz
Gameiro
Robin van Persie
Miroslav Klose
Jonathan Soriano
Imanol Agirretxe
Graziano Pelle
Lucas Perez
Pelle
Artyom Dzyuba ,
Oscar Cardozo
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
 Stefan Kiessling
 Dario Cvitanich
Roque Santa Cruz
 Nelson Valdez
  David Trezeguet
Georgios Samaras

If he is, perhaps the question needs to be, where on earth are all the rest of the planet’s emerging, potentially great strikers?
world’s best strikers aged 21 or under?
Dybala
Griezmann
Vietto
Batshuayi
Correa
Icardi
GABRIEL JESUS
Gabriel barbosa
Harry Kane
Lacazette
Talisca Anderson
Simone Zaza
Domenico Berardi
Romelu Lukaku (Everton)
Paco Alcacer
Milik
Santi mina
Borja baston
Arkadiusz Milik and
Anwar El Ghazi.
Kevin Volland
Borja baston
Anthony Martial
Timo Werner
Marco Reus