Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Medical Marijauna For Tendonitus?



Last Saturday, in Katowice, soon after the semifinal against Greece, satisfied and happy with the win and put us in the final, while traveling on one of the interior corridors of the Polish flag was who said something like "this is all very well but we are where we were, if we win tomorrow will be a failure." I was, like everyone, in full explosion of adrenaline, but I did not hesitate in responding:

- No, unless we win not be a failure, "I said something like," because the success of this team not measured only by victories, titles and medals but also and perhaps above all, for all those other things that if we spoke only basketball game, would call intangibles, and thus in general we call values.

may not be easy to understand, since certain optical, that even in a basketball at the highest competitive level of professionalism and the end result is really the only thing important, perhaps even more important. But so, and me in a more than evident when it comes to selection. It's what I tried to explain weeks ago when we went back to verify that this equipment is unique when hooked, taste and identify , and when assured that here success in Eurobasket was guaranteed. I was not referring to the gold medal, that's not guaranteed anything or anybody - ... but you see, here is too, but everything else. All these call it

values, which largely, but only truly exemplary cases, become over marker, are perhaps less quantifiable in the short term but absolutely essential for growth and development of our basketball.

Can we realize how many kids they have entered the bug in our basketball watching around their elders vibrate with the end of Eurobasket in Spain? No, but I'm sure there are, and that in the coming years many of them will be a bit more. Can you give any figures of what we will report in a more or less immediate future-all-about television audiences to match the best soccer games? Difficult now, but will also push, is indisputable. For

success is guaranteed over the outcome requires that: identification and values. Two qualities seemingly simple but quite exceptional favor in basketball today. So this selection is outstanding, so the medals make it extraordinary.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Can Cysts Cause Tiredness

Three short hours by train ... and another great match

The barely 24 hours that we have given many in Katowice for a lot, but best of all, obviously, was yesterday's victory over France with a great game for those who have returned to make the selection as had not really ever be stopped despite his boot tournament: the team further reference of English sport. To get here
many chose to do so by train. The experience of travel from Warsaw to Lodz was really nice, and although we were warned that this other movement would not be equal, no one backed down, not at me, I am a true lover of travel by rail.

were three short hours. The train, of course, had nothing to do with last week's. Old, dilapidated and without the slightest service, although, truth be told, nothing uncomfortable. Personally, I remembered my years of backpacking trips, and especially that produced in 1993 in the Siberian (Moscow to Novosibirsk) and Transkazajstano (from Novosibirsk Tashkent) with two friends and colleagues, Julian Felipo (Mundo Deportivo) and José Carlos Sorrentino (now 'retired' basketball and theater specializing in the pages of The Journal.) But if the trip reminded me that other, the landscape seen through the windows, no. As we went into the region was perceived that this land is mine and coal, Upper Silesia, capital now, I read on Wikipedia, a voivodship. I consulted my friend and colleague for years Vladimir Stankovic, that is my friendly advice on everything related to the Slavic world and told me that Voivodship now apparently this is an administrative division in Poland in the style of our provinces, it is similar to that used in other countries was a ducat. In any case, the city of Katowice is not what it says just a tourist destination. Furthermore, compared with Warsaw and Lodz, we are speaking less English. Changing

third victory and separate display selection, the best of Thursday was seen in the steps of the pavilion rather than nurtured nutridísima a representation of English fans, not to miss, even missed a huge flag of RCD Espanyol, made unleashed unprecedented euphoria Juan Antonio Casanova , veteran journalist La Vanguardia, 'budgerigar' confessed. If we said the flag all ten times, not said no to us. Just missed that flag is crossed out with another 'budgie' ...
flags outside
But that means thousand English fans put their colorful and certainly that pushed his little team. Among those who were on the steps of Katowice also saw Marta Fernandez, Rudy's sister, who lives about 40 miles from here, in Krakow, Wisla headquarters, one of the most beautiful cities in the country.

To wit: that while running these lines, Greece has overtaken Turkey in extra time. So I am playing semi-final against Spanoulis and company. Another great match.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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ridiculous pressure

As you can imagine, in the last few hours here in Lodz in what has been said in the debates, even this morning at breakfast, is the end of yesterday's match between France and Greece. "grotesque" "surreal" ... all that and much more has qualified those minutes in which neither French nor Greek wanted to win the match because he won he would have plenty of opportunities to cross to Spain in the quarterfinals end. In the hotel bar in which are housed all selections were following the match-Serb technicians, journalists, a manager ... - who, when De Colo scored the basket that undid the tie and gave the victory to France a bit of laugh and a problem had to call "stupid" to the new Pamesa player, joking about if it was not aware of the play or not he had said.

I remember a few years a CBA coach explained his personal experience in a game that his team, after several days of discussions at the highest levels of club-left to lose. "is infinitely more difficult and complicated to play to lose than to win, "he said, also because the public realizes, he knows, and you feel you're doing a ridiculously awesome."

(ACB were in those years that the competition system, which changed almost every twelve months, including the so-called correction factor which changed the final standings in the regular season because they did not face all against all . In short, a mess. In It was also the story, elevated to legend, that the historic President of TDK Manresa, Carles Casas , when asked how he saw his team said "We will continue playing and at the end and tell us how we have been Portela." true or not, you never know, the story has been marked forever in the history of the ACB)

A De Colo he should go something like what coach told me that: there had to withstand pressure to be making a fool, and stuck. Of course, if in the end France meets Spain in the quarter, it is likely that in one way or another regret this move.

(BTW: the team's coach told me his experience of playing to lose, he lost that game. They had a fatal, but at least they got their way, as yesterday Greece)

Monday, September 14, 2009

Red Wine Stomach Problems

Piotrkowska Rickshaws in Warsaw

Yesterday morning I received an SMS:
"The first issue went out today to encourage parents. How do we, we have to win the two remaining? "

All the better we do, that we win, not having to depend on others.

night I landed in Łódź parents Rudy, Ricky , Felipe Alex and also the third in the saga of the Kings. Like everyone, they also hope that a victory this afternoon over the Lithuanians mark the turning point Selection of the Eurobasket and again pointed to point to what just a couple of weeks.

The first issue of dads today I found a little more fresh than we've had in recent days, but sunny. There is a sun on the beach, it is our sun, but the sun after all. And in a country that had been convinced that we were not going to see in two weeks, is certainly a luxury.

not only the sun, however tenuous it is, seems to have encouraged the people of Łódź. Last night all were shouting, singing and celebrations of the victory of his selection in the European final of volleyball. The terraces of bars and restaurants were packed, butt-TV, and the beer flowed like tap water. In the end the popular explosion was spectacular, I do not know for sure if volleyball is a popular sport here. I doubt it. But when he is champion of something, that something usually worth much more.

The atmosphere-yesterday and always, in this city is concentrated in one street: Piotrkowska. It is a shopping street with bars, restaurants and shops of all kinds, especially fashion, which should have a couple of miles long. There is, apparently, everything. Or almost everything. Positions including rickshaws, pedicabs those that we all tend to move to India. They are not the same because here the driver the rear and front seat-by-doubles, like a sofa in the garden.

still do not know anyone of us who actually got one. But everything will come for sure.
In only four hours for the match. The team had breakfast late, take a good snack about one o'clock ... and play. Suerte!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Acrylic Vrs Polyester

De Buch


Today was moving day, from Warsaw to Lodz, about 125 miles. Among the English are well represented by the team, managers, associates, media and some fans, some have done road (a couple of hours) and other train (one hour less). But in any case all we had to learn to pronounce the name of the city in which we settled until next Wednesday: write Łódź, but those that sign accents and spelling that appears from the L are two to rule something like as buch. It's one of those quirks that always learn a foreign language, especially the Slavs.

With just over 600,000, Łódź is the second largest city in Poland, has or had the textile industry in the country, with chemicals and metal items, and reached to be famous its film school, where, among many other filmmakers, he studied the famous Roman Polanski (pictured stand by the star that is dedicated on the sidewalk, in front of the Academy). Apparently, years ago a major festival celebrated here the cinema but has recently lost cartel. Of course, upon arriving in the city is easy to see that not happening precisely because of its best.

Łódź, incidentally, is from 1999, a twin city of Murcia. I do not know why, I tried to find out but have not succeeded, and in light of the landscape that we saw on entering the city, of course not appear to be in the orchards around here ...

Finally, the day has certainly already been relaxed, have resurfaced the jokes, the jokes. The optimism and confidence. They shout to the players, who have come great good humor, represented by Juan Carlos Navarro and Jorge Garbajosa (see photo) when from the balcony inside the first floor of the hotel have been messing with Felipe while he attended to the journalists sitting in an armchair on the ground floor. I do not know exactly what they said, should be in one of their keys, but since then they were going, and never better, in the case Juan Carlos-pump.

good sign, no doubt.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Pediatric Male Genital Examination

The right point of spicy Polish


I get to towar Hall, takes an hour for the initial salo crucial match against Slovenia and have already gone out to do some shots Rudy, Philip, Victor, Alex and Sergio. Their faces have sent to the English that we are here is evidence that the concentration is maximum. We suffered a lot in the previous two days, and no rule today suffer too, but none of us provides another option other than to be tomorrow at this same time in Lodz to address the second phase of the Eurobasket with the same ambition that we Warsaw.

who is not highly concentrated in this is the driver who brought us here to me and my friend and former teammate at Mundo Deportivo Jesus Perez. When we left front of the pavilion has asked us:
- What party is here?
- The basketball European championship, we have responded.
- Ah-ha was all his comment.

The towar Hall, incidentally, is actually an ice rink, put up for the occasion. A mere 50 meters is building a new state of football, to a World Cup or European Championship which is to be played here one year of football this ... I know unless the taxi driver sports calendar of his town.

And speaking of taxis are more expensive than in Warsaw, at least in proportion to restaurants. Lunch or dinner plain little unassuming but adequate, no more than 15 or 20 euros on average. Among the local dishes of Polish cuisine I'm personally with their soups: a beet and tomato and another with a kind of meatballs that are very tasty), both with the right point of spicy.

One of these days I give the recipe.

And now, after them! There are now five to six ...

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Stock Value Of Frito-lay

Sol Spanish olive oil and street English

Well on Monday over much grayer than it started, but instead this Tuesday, in contrast to the aftermath of the disappointment over the defeat, but has dawned sunny, almost spring. These are the things of this continental climate so that, in fact, not ours, but occasionally also gives some joy. And see the sun in Warsaw, so we have suggested some English settled here more than a joy is a great joy.

But with or without the sun, one of the most striking features of the streets in the Polish capital is that, despite not having a heavy traffic, most cars travel at a speed a tad more than the recommended. Probably easier that quintessential public transport As in many Central European countries, is the tram, which you know where to go and where not going to go. That makes things clear, and maneuvering.

No problem for the teams, of course, which only twice a day the same way (the hotel to the flag and vice versa), but no less shocking for those who move a little more. As Jose Calderon. The base of Extremadura, which can not step on the court but is at the foot of her as commentator laSexta , has rented a track for each day you exercise alone, under the watchful eye of his personal trainer. It is to be recovering slowly because the rate Jose will start next season with the Raptors after nearly five months without competition.

Incidentally, both Calderón and the teams and everyone else can see passers Warsaw these days on billboards claim a promotional campaign for English olive oil all over Poland. This Tuesday morning, while Scariolo and his men moved into the Hall towar to loosen muscles, the English Embassy was the scene of a presentation of the campaign in style. Hopefully our heating oil, though in truth we must recognize that the dressings with which they used to serve here many salads are downright tasty. With a dash of mustard.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Reverse Polarity Furnace

zlotys


Well, we are in Warsaw, we are within hours of the initial jump of the first game of the EuroBasket in which so many hopes and ambitions have been deposited. And they are certain what they say "intemperate", because the Polish capital has received all temperatures that have nothing to do with heat waves for which has been ridden in recent weeks Eñemanía: chilly, gray skies and even some drop.

It was exactly 16 years since I stepped on Warsaw, but the truth is that little memory of that last visit because he was on his way to Moscow, landing yesterday Saturday I had the impression that I could be in Warsaw or in any other European city, or even English. Before, when pisabas other country could feel at once: to the odor was different. Now, however, many cities look the same. And if before you got a language that was not yours, now the first thing you hear, in a police officer, the organizer of the taxis or the waiter in the bar is almost identical foul-mouthed but broken English through the courses of street.

But at least in Poland recovering that old tradition of coming and having to change money, calculate how much it is going to change and begin to sense what's going to be expensive and cheap. The Poles entered in the European Union five years ago, but have not adopted the euro: they keep the old zlotys , currency these days are changing about 1 euro for 4 zlotys, which etymologically means golden and (as just found on the Wikipedia ...) refers to the ancient gold coins, that this word is known. The tickets, of course, are substantially smaller than the euro, both in width as the top). In one of them found one of Poland's most illustrious astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus , but if you ask a Polish journalist who comes first to the head, more likely to respond to Ryszard Kapuscinski, one of the great reporters of the last decades. I personally recommend reading two of his works and Sha Emperor.

Anyway, between the ambassador's visit, the team's final training session and the time required to move to the city, we spent the day. The hardest thing in the end was down the hall of the hotel at night for dining out something close. At about nine o'clock at night have appeared at least a couple of hundreds of Israeli soldiers, apparently to participate Monday in a ceremony in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, have literally collapsed and elevators. It has blocked many, but not as much as three English tourists with whom we have met in a restaurant near the hotel, hearing us speak of Eurobasket have asked against whom and what time you playing tomorrow Spain. "At nine o'clock," we have responded. "From the morning or night?" ask us again.
We have seen the faces of amazement then, have been to laugh and have excused: "It is understood that we are not in basketball."

is what has this selection: hooked up to the most profanos.Daremos a look at the steps of towar Hall to see if those three fellow-two girls and a boy have been lucky enough to find some input on sale and can begin to stop being so little understood ...