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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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    "Hendrick Kekana" <Kekanah@venusafrica.co.za> Nov 30 03:46PM +0200 ^
     
    Hello Everyone
     

     
    By popular demand:
     
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    * Zwartkop
     
    * Friday 3rd December 2010
     
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    Confirmed:
     
    1. KG Sebesho 13 [Swallows]
     
    2. George de Lange 18 [Pirates]
     
    3. KK 18 [Chiefs]
     
    4. John Segoati 9 [Pirates]
     

     
    5. Edwin Moremi 18 [Chiefs]
     
    6. __________
     
    7. __________
     
    8. __________
     

     
    We'll throw in a whisky or 2. When you confirm, please let us know which
    team [local] you support and your official handicap.
     

     
    Regards.
     

     
    KK
     

     
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    "Toneka Maja" <Toneka.Maja@eskom.co.za> Nov 30 03:00PM +0200 ^
     
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    Hi Guys
     
     
     
    This has made my stomach cringe and I was dizzy immediately. The sad part is that this is very true!!!!
     
     
     
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 Topic: Socrates
    "Tubatsana Monareng" <Tubatsana.Monareng@sita.co.za> Nov 30 02:45PM +0200 ^
     
    Keep this in mind the next time you are about to repeat a
    rumour or spread gossip.

    In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded
    for his wisdom.

    One day an acquaintance ran up to him excitedly and said,
    "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about Diogenes?"

    "Wait a moment," Socrates replied, "Before you tell me I'd like
    you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."
    'Triple filter?" asked the acquaintance.

    "That's right," Socrates continued, "Before you talk to me
    about Diogenes let's take a moment to filter what you're going to say.
    The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you
    are about to tell me is true?"

    "No," the man said, "Actually I just heard about it."

    "All right," said Socrates, "So you don't really know if it's
    true or not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness.
    Is what you are about to tell me about Diogenes something good?"

    "No, on the contrary..."

    "So," Socrates continued, "You want to tell me something about
    Diogenes that may be bad, even though you're not certain it's true?"

    The man shrugged, a little embarrassed. Socrates continued,
    "You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter,
    the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about Diogenes
    going to be useful to me?"

    "No, not really."

    "Well," concluded Socrates, "If what you want to tell me is
    neither True nor Good nor even useful, why tell it to me or anyone at
    all?"

    The man was bewildered and ashamed. This is an example of why
    Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.
    It also explains why Socrates never found out that Diogenes was
    shagging his wife
     

     

     

     

     

     

     
     
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    "Hendrick Kekana" <Kekanah@venusafrica.co.za> Nov 30 01:26PM +0200 ^
     
    Hello Everyone
     

     
    By popular demand:
     
    * 2 x 4 Balls
     
    * Zwartkop
     
    * Friday 3rd December 2010
     
    * 11H38
     
    * Subsidised Rate
     

     
    Confirmed:
     
    1. KG Sebesho 13 [Swallows]
     
    2. George de Lange 18 [Pirates]
     
    3. KK 18 [Chiefs]
     
    4. __________
     

     
    5. __________
     
    6. __________
     
    7. __________
     
    8. __________
     

     
    We'll throw in a whisky or 2. When you confirm, please let us know which
    team [local] you support and your official handicap.
     

     
    Regards.
     

     
    KK
     

     
    HP KEKANA
     
    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
     
    VENUS AFRICA SECURED LOGISTICS
     
    VENUS AFRICA SECURITY
     
    012 665 3719
     
    082 903 9279
     

     
    www.venusafrica.co.za

     

    "Hendrick Kekana" <Kekanah@venusafrica.co.za> Nov 30 12:25PM +0200 ^
     
    [Friends: I am not a Barca fan but I thoroughly enjoyed this one last
    night. As Soso described it: PlayStation Soccer at its Best]
     
     
    Post El Clasico: It's wasn't all about Barcelona being super
     
     
    By crashbang <http://soccerlens.com/author/crashbang/> on November
    30th, 2010.
    <http://soccerlens.com/post-el-clasico-its-wasnt-all-about-barcelona-bei
    ng-super/62298/#respond>
     

    <http://soccerlens.com/post-el-clasico-its-wasnt-all-about-barcelona-bei
    ng-super/62298/>
     
    "One team played very good, one team very bad. Deserved win, deserved
    loss. Humiliated? No. It's easy to deal with this loss, we just weren't
    good enough."
     
    Oddly humble from Jose Mourinho, yet maybe not. It's hard to defend your
    corner with a matchstick, as some saying may or may not go - the match
    wrote Mourinho's statement for him here. Madrid will return home
    humiliated, regardless of what Mourinho says. Their team constructed
    from hundreds of millions made to look not dissimilar to Almeria
    <http://footballfashion.org/wordpress/2010/11/20/video-fc-barcelona-8-%E
    2%80%93-almeria-0-spanish-la-liga-highlights/> by a Catalan side which
    was awesome, unstoppable, all the invincible superlatives you could
    think of.
     
    The score could have been 7-0 and Mourinho would surely not have
    gathered the courage to say that it was an unfair reflection. And once
    again, FC Barcelona have lit up the world with their display - and sent
    a shiver down the spines of every team which may be unfortunate enough
    to finish second in their champions league group. A one in seven chance
    of elimination right there when the draw is taken is not something to
    look forward to.
     
    Albeit, Madrid's players didn't help themselves. Mourinho didn't help
    himself.
     
    Lets look at the stats from last years same fixture and compare shall
    we? Where Pellegrini's Madrid mustered 16 shots (2 on target) to
    Barcelona's 9 (4 on target), Mourinho's team managed just 5 (2 on
    target) to Barca's 15 (6 on target). Where Pellegrini's Madrid still
    lost out in possession (38% to Barca's 62%) Mourinho's Madrid were even
    worse (32% to Barca's 68%) Where Pellegrini's side made the fixture very
    hard for Barcelona, Mourinho's team were harmless. And this latest
    Madrid has even more spent on it.
     
     
    <http://soccerlens.com/post-el-clasico-its-wasnt-all-about-barcelona-bei
    ng-super/62298/barcelona-4/>
    <http://soccerlens.com/post-el-clasico-its-wasnt-all-about-barcelona-bei
    ng-super/62298/barcelona-4/>
    <http://soccerlens.com/post-el-clasico-its-wasnt-all-about-barcelona-bei
    ng-super/62298/barcelona-4/>
     
    Too easy for Messi and Villa on a night where Madrid were tactically
    naive.
     
    So rather then trying to find more superlatives for Barcelona lets focus
    on what Madrid did wrong. Firstly, Mourinho made a similar mistake to
    Pellegrini - for some reason, both of them thought that two midfielders
    against Iniesta, Xavi and Busquets, with Messi dropping back to help
    out, was a good idea. It's safe to say that it's really, really not -
    two midfielders against that monster foursome is going to and did get
    torn apart. Mourinho brought on Diarra at the break, but the damage was
    already done - Madrid pushed up and paid a handsome sum for it.
     
    Secondly you have to wonder whether Mourinho and his players thought
    after their run of form that they would be able to bring the same kind
    of brutality they have been dishing out to every other team in La Liga
    upon Barca's head - an easy idea to be seduced by considering their
    recent form - certainly this idea was in Harry Redknapp's mind when he
    visited the San Siro with Tottenham. This was not a performance
    befitting Mourinho's recent duels with Barcelona with Inter Milan - who
    made Barcelona look harmless both at home and away. This was a
    performance befitting a team who thought they could beat Barcelona at
    their own game, untill about ten minutes in, when Xavi's excellent run
    and finish broke the deadlock that was never going to be broken by
    Madrid.
     
    It didn't just look as if Barcelona were out of this world good, it
    looked as if Madrid arrived bereft of ideas about what to do about it.
    Even the youth players made their mark on a team that hasn't been
    humiliated so badly since the 4-0 defeat against minnows Alcorcon, and
    before that, Liverpool in the champions league, and before that,
    Barcelona again, 6-1 at the Bernebau. Possibly, this is their worst
    humiliation in quite some time.
     
    Perhaps Mourinho didn't want to play this way at all. Perhaps the
    culture of Madrid, and this massive rivalry expects that Madrid play
    Barca on footballing terms, rather then the tactical terms Mourinho
    would prefer. But surely this is bunkum. Better a win for Madrid playing
    containing counterattack football then a result like this.
     
    Either way it is done. There is still a title race to be had and Madrid
    are scant points behind Barca - if Carvalho and Ramos had managed to
    break Messi's legs in that awful set of challenges, they could even have
    been favorites. But none the less the Galacticos are humbled. The
    Special One's aura of invincibility is shattered for a while. And it was
    not, even with the sterling form of Barcelona, a beating entirely
    inflicted by the Catalan's in last night's Nou Camp encounter.

     

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