Sir Alex Ferguson: 'It will take City a century to get to our history'

• United manager vows 'we'll kick on from here'

• Scot congratulates City: 'who wins it deserves it'

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The Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, said that 'normally 89 points would be enough to win the league'. Photograph: Lindsey Parnaby/EPA

At least the ceiling did not fall in on Manchester United this time. Last season, a burst sewage pipe above the Stadium of Light's away dressing room prompted the immediate incineration of thousands of pounds worth of playing kit, sharp suits and assorted personal possessions belonging to Sir Alex Ferguson's squad.
This time it was a case of their title hopes turning, eventually, to dust. In-between came early resignation, then mild optimism followed by a surge of hope so tantalising that everyone felt Ferguson really had one hand back on the Premier League trophy.
Finally, 13 seconds after the final whistle blew, the cruellest of synchronicities saw the prize snatched away. Manchester City had recovered from being 2-1 down to register a stoppage‑time 3-2 victory against Queens Park Rangers.
Martin O'Neill, Sunderland's manager, described it as "a harrowing moment" for his United counterpart but, initially, at least, the Scot remained magnanimous. "Our players didn't actually know the other result at the whistle and they're really disappointed," he said. "Normally 89 points would be enough to win the league – but it wasn't our turn."
Typically, he could not resist a little dig at his "noisy neighbours", delivered with a hint of characteristic defiance. "It's a cruel way to lose out but I have experienced many ups and downs in 26 years. I think we have a rich history, better than anyone and it will take them [City] a century to get to our level of history. For us it's still a challenge; we're good at challenges and we'll kick on from here."
Perhaps, but the suspicion is that this was a foretaste of worse to come. All afternoon it was as if he and his team were toys being controlled remotely by the most sadistic of puppet masters stationed at the Etihad Stadium.
In an instant, an entire squad were crushed, their faces falling simultaneously. With shoulders slumping and eyes fixed firmly on the turf, no visiting player seemed quite sure what to do. For a minute or so of near-suspended animation they just milled aimlessly around. As O'Neill put it, people "hovered". Then Paul Scholes, swiftly followed by Ferguson, pulled himself upright, turned sharply on his heel, raised his hands above his head and headed off to applaud the away end.
Soon the two old war horses were walking side by side. Watching one of the game's greatest managers and one of the finest English midfielders together saluting their travelling support after the final game of a tumultuous season, it was hard to believe you were not witnessing the end of an era.
It was an impression only reinforced by the earlier sight of Rio Ferdinand massaging what was clearly a painful lower back, but at least Ferdinand, like Scholes and Ryan Giggs, did their level best to rage against the dying of a collective light.
No matter that United arrived with the odds against them. Or that psychologically, the unseasonably cold, windy and relentlessly grey May weather seemed an unlikely backdrop for a small miracle, Ferguson's players did their level best to conjure one.
Unfortunately the portents were not promising. Even before kick-off, little indignities afflicted the fallen champions-in-waiting. The official team sheet referred to Sir Alex as plain old Mr Ferguson. Had the act of throwing away a winning position really caused him to be stripped of his knighthood?
After Wayne Rooney's goal, the celebrations were muted, with such pessimism swiftly justified when City scored their opener.
Then, incredibly, QPR equalised and went on to take the unlikeliest of leads. A door eased from slightly ajar to half open. Suddenly on‑field tempo picked up appreciably, party streamers floated on to the pitch and, for the first time, Ferguson, immediately re-energised, strode into the technical area.
The only problem was that Mark Hughes was the Premier League kingmaker. If United fans trusted their former centre‑forward's managerial skills – and were not overly worried about the prospect of the newly introduced Wayne Bridge, Sunderland's City loanee, helping his parent club out by scoring an unlikely equaliser – they feared, correctly, that by getting himself sent off, QPR's Joey Barton would ultimately undermine Hughes's clever tactical choreography.
"Everybody expected City to win, but they did it against 10 men for half an hour and with five extra minutes to help them," Ferguson said, somewhat pointedly. "But I congratulate City on winning the league. Anybody who wins it deserves it."
Rarely has the phrase "spoken through gritted teeth" seemed more pertinent.

Roger Federer was awarded a ‘Men in Black’ suit by Will Smith after winning Madrid

Sure, Roger Federer won his 20th Masters 1000 title with his 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 victory over Tomas Berdych at the Madrid Open. And, yes, it was his 45th win in his last 48 matches, gave him seven titles in his last 10 events, made him the first player to ever win at least 10 championships on each major surface and earned him that bizarre Ion Tiriac trophy. This doesn't even mention that he moved past Rafael Nadal to regain the No. 2 spot in the ATP rankings, made a huge dent in Novak Djokovic's lead for the No. 1 ranking and came out on top in a week that was defined by childish whining and threats from the former top two. But all of that pales in comparison to receiving a framed "Men in Black" suit from Will Smith.

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Smith is in Europe doing press for his new film, "Men in Black 3," and watched Sunday's final with his wife, Jada. After the match, Smith spoke to the crowd in surprisingly-good Spanish, then brought out a framed costume from the movie as a gift to Federer.
Serena Williams dominated the women's final earlier Sunday, defeating world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka, 6-1, 6-3. The American hasn't lost on clay all year, but that will bring little consolation since Will Smith didn't bring her anything from "Bad Boys 2."

40 Ways to Make Money on the Internet

I did a little bookmark scrub this morning and thought I would share the remaining content of my "Online Money" folder. To warn you, there are certain things that I don't like and never bookmark so:

What's NOT included: Taking Paid Surveys, Getting Paid to Surf the Internet, MLM, Contest Sites, "Buy my DVD, CD, Audiobook", etc.

What IS included: Things you can use to legitimately make money online - Everything from Getting Paid to review software to good ole' Adsense.

• Infolinks - Infolinks is probably the highest paying option for your in-text advertising. On DLM, you will see underlined links scattered throughout articles. Those are a function of Infolinks and without disclosing too much, it's been a great source of income. Best is that they accept all sizes of websites and blogs. Just sign up and begin.


• Build a Niche Store - This is a simple store development platform which enables you to create content based sites that generate income through the eBay affiliate programs. Pretty darn simple and increasingly popular.


• Adbrite - Sell space on your site for text ads. This would work like the DLM Marketplace you see on the right of my pages although I chose to manage it myself.


• Amazon Affiliate Program - Easily create a store or shopping section on your site instead of sending your visitors to Amazon. Amazon handles the shopping cart and fulfillment.


• Amazon Seller - Sell your stuff on Amazon


• Associated Content - If you write a story, how-to, rant, how-to cut grass, etc., you can submit it to them and they will pay you $3-$20 per article if they like it.


• Yahoo! Merchant Solutions - This is a pretty simple and cheap way to create an online store.


• Azoogleads - Another ad program. They do have some decent companies lined up as advertisers. You provide space, they'll provide an ad.


• BidVertiser - PPC (pay per click) program with a low $10 payout amount.


• Blog - Start a blog and consistently write excellent content. With good ad placement, you may make some money. I detail my process here: Simply Said, How to Blog.


• Cafepress - You provide a design, they'll toss it on a T-Shirt, Hat, etc. No upfront costs. Get a free online shop and promote your products on your website.


• Chitika - Their eMiniMalls service has shown great results for many Bloggers and site owners. You choose a keyword and they show relevant products on your site using a pretty unique interface.


• Clickbank - Quickly becoming my favorite affiliate program. They have thousands of things for you to advertise on your site.


• ClicknWork - Get paid $5-$150 per hour for basically doing freelance work on a per-assignment basis. You have to pass a pretty tough test to get in.


• Clicksor - These are the guys that generate contextual ads on sites that show up when you hover over a double-underlined word.


• Commission Junction - If you have a site, you can join Commission Junction. Once enrolled for free, you can choose companies whose ads are pertinent to your site. Companies have the ultimate say on working with you. There are easily over 1,000 companies to choose from here.


• CreamAid - For blogs only, advertisers provide you with a topic and you write about it on your site. To do this, you have to install a flash widget into your blog post. The more people you bring into the conversation through the widget, the more you get paid. It's difficult to explain.


• eefoof - Think of it as YouTube + Flickr + Music. You add original content and they pay you based on the visitors you attract.


• Ether - If you are an expert on something, Ether provides a way for people to pay you to talk about it in a one-on-one setting. If you want to charge $250/hr, that's fine. You have to do all the advertising so you should have a blog or site already established.


• eBay- Come on, you know what this is. Gather your junk and sell it!


• eBay Stores - If you have a real store and want to sell your stuff online, this is a decent option to get you started.


• ELance - Name gives it away. Programmers, Codes, Web Designers, Writers, Editors, can look for freelance opportunities.


• Feedvertising - This is an arm of Text Link Ads and is currently only good for Wordpress users. This does me no good currently, but as you can guess, they place ads in your feed(s).


• Feedburner / Google - Not only are they the best place to house your feeds, they will also add ads to your feed and website. You get paid per impression and if you implement Google Adsense to your feed, you are paid per click.


• Google Adsense - Come on, you don't need an explanation; these ads are all over the place. Google displays relevant ads based on your site's content


• Google Adwords - Create simple text ads and choose keywords that determine when they are displayed. This is where the Adsense Content comes from. You do not need a site for this.


• H3.com - Get paid to fill jobs. Commissions range from $50-$5,000. It all depends on how tough the job is to fill and how desperate the hiring company is. This is another one that's tough to explain.


• Indeed.com - Add their job board to your site. They then post jobs based on the geographic location of visitors and the position types you pre-select. I tried it and I they continually report that I sent 0 visitors and I know that's not right. Nevertheless, I may have an isolated problem so they make the list.


• InnerSell - If you have a customer that wants to buy something you cannot sell, you can sell the lead here.


• Jigsaw - It's a pretty flaky model but if you have a Rolodex full of good contacts, you can sell them here. I can't make sense of it but it looks like you get $0.10 per profile.


• LinkShare.com - If you have a site, you can join Linkshare. Once enrolled for free, you can choose companies whose ads are pertinent to your site. Companies have the ultimate say on working with you. Like Commission Junction, there are a ton of companies waiting to evaluate your site.


• Microsoft Adcenter - Bid on keywords and Microsoft places your created ads then they are searched for. This is similar to Google Adwords. You do not need a site for this.


• Overstock.com - Sell your stuff on Overstock.com


• Pay Per Post - I don't agree with this model entirely but they have advertisers that will pay you to write about their products on your blog.


• Pheedo - If you have an RSS feed, run it through Pheedo. Like Feedburner, they can include ads into your feed and if you really become large, advertisers will pay a premium for you to show their ads.


• Shareasale.com - I've used them for a couple years for some banner advertising. They are similar to Commission Junction and Linkshare however they seem to have lower tiered companies with advertising offers.


• Shoemoney - This is a blog that can teach you a ton on making money online. I've spent hours reading his old stuff.


• Software Judge - They will pay you up to $50 to review software.


• Text Link Ads - I have never made a dime here but I know people that have. You can earn by sending advertisers to them or by selling spots on your site. You must have a real site or blog to do this - nothing on a shared domain (i.e. /blogspot).


• Vibrant Media - Don't bother unless your site has 500,000 page views of text based content a month. If you have that readership, these are the guys that display bubble box ads to underlined words on your site.


• West Work At Home Agent - Not entirely online but this is worth a mention because it's won awards and is very legitimate. If you are an at-home Mom or free-lancer without work, you should check this out.

Article about - Tribal Tattoos

''Tribal” means a lot more today than it did fifteen years ago. The definition hasn’t expanded any, but people are 

trying to throw more and more design and black work tattoos into the category of tribal, unsuccessfully. A solid black tattoo isn’t necessarily tribal, in fact,  a tribal tattoo doesn’t need to be black at all. And any design isn’t tribal. Any lacework design that is tattooed in black isn’t a tribal tattoo.

A tribal tattoo was a tattoo that actually designated what tribe you were in, or your status in that tribe. Sometimes the design was different for men than women, sometimes only men got it at all. It could be different if you were married than single. The thing is, it meant something that you understood if you were apart of the tribe, of that culture. What we think of as tribal probably comes from a poorly imitated Maori or other tribal community’s symbolic social structure. We take designs from African tribes, Pacific Islander tribes, Hawaiian, etc., and we try to duplicate them on ourselves without any understanding of what it means, or the significance behind it. It would be similar to an Asian country putting random letters of our Alphabet on their body just because it looked good to them.

Tribal tattoos were also combined with scarification in many cultures and tribes. This was because there weren’t needles in many areas of the world in order to place the ink nicely into the skin. The person getting the design would have incisions made into the skin, and ash or soot rubbed into the cuts. This healed leaving a stained black or grey scar, having both texture and color.

For face tattoos, one should research the Maori culture. They have a beautiful and delicate symmetry to their facial designs. The tribal designs of this and other cultures had something that we lost when trying to adapt it to meet our own beauty standards. These cultures choose designs that they thought would look best on the body, that spoke to them, and complimented certain body types, and areas on the body. Today, we find some tribal flash and place it wherever we have room to fit it, disregarding contours of the body.

If we are to give respect to these cultures and honor them in our choices of body art, then it would be wise to spend some time researching their lives and art and relating it to our own. We should also not try to call any black tattoo we see a tribal, and water down it’s meaning any further.

LOVE !

The word "love" can have a variety of related but distinct meanings in different contexts. Often, other languages          use multiple words to express some of the different concepts that English relies mainly on "love" to encapsulate;        one example is the plurality of Greek words for "love." Cultural differences in conceptualizing love thus make it doubly difficult to establish any universal definition.[8]

Although the nature or essence of love is a subject of frequent debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn't love. As a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like), love is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more emotionally intimate form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is sometimes contrasted with friendship, although the word love is often applied to close friendships.

 love 

When discussed in the abstract, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing (cf. vulnerability and care theory of love), including oneself (cf. narcissism). In addition to cross-cultural differences in understanding love, ideas about love have also changed greatly over time. Some historians date modern conceptions of romantic love to courtly Europe during or after the Middle Ages, although the prior existence of romantic attachments is attested by ancient love poetry.^[9]

Because of the complex and abstract nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of commonproverbs regarding love, from Virgil's "Love conquers all" to The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love". St. Thomas Aquinas, following Aristotle, defines love as "to will the good of another."^[10] Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of "absolute value," as opposed to relative value. Philosopher Gottfried Leibniz said that love is "to be delighted by the happiness of another."^[11]

Love is sometimes referred to as being the "international language", overriding cultural and linguistic divisions.

Impersonal love

NFL Star DeSean Jackson Pulled Over on the Way to His Own Charity Event

NFL Star DeSean Jackson
Pulled Over on the Way
to His Own Charity Event

Exclusive

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson was pulled over by law enforcement today while driving to his own charity event this morning ... TMZ has learned.

According to our sources, DeSean was on his way to a church in Philadelphia when he was pulled over by a state trooper. We're told the trooper seemed to recognize DeSean and began acting very rudely towards him.

Our sources say the trooper told DeSean he pulled him over for having tinted windows and suspected him of driving drunk. We're told the trooper ordered DeSean to perform a field sobriety test (see below). Keep in mind ... this occurred around 9:00 AM.


A witness on the scene tells TMZ the trooper was very rough towards DeSean and was yelling at him the entire time. The witness says DeSean never gave the trooper an attitude and followed his instructions at all times.

Eventually, we're told the trooper let DeSean go without a ticket and he made his way to the Triumph Baptist Church in Philly, where the event was being held. DeSean founded the DeSean Jackson Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer after his father died from it in 2009.

Calls to the Pennsylvania State Police were not returned.

Siri Says Nokia Lumia 900, Not Apple iPhone, Is The Best Smartphone Ever

You would think Apple’s virtual assistant Siri knows who pays its bills. Apparently not--when asked, Siri says the best smartphone ever is Nokia’s Lumia 900.
What caused this apparent oversight? Siri uses Wolfram Alpha, which answers questions based on sets of data maintained by the company’s researchers. When it comes to smartphones, somebody at the company must be asleep at the wheel. Lumia 900‘s high rating is based on just five reviews of the device, all of which give the phone five stars.
Wolfram’s list of smartphone reviews boggles the mind in what it calls “the best smartphones,” though: HP’s TouchPad tablet comes in third (it’s not even a phone!) behind the absolutely stunning LG 500G on Tracfone. Nokia’s Lumia 710 gets high praise, as well as Samsung’s Illusion and Focus S.
Excuse this moment of PCWorld pride, but take a look at our reviews. We gave the Lumia 710 a so-so review, and didn’t even bother to review the prepaid 500G--just look at it and you will understand why. Wolfram Alpha gets the benefit of the doubt on the Lumia 900 and Focus S: PCWorld’s own Ginny Miles had very good things to say about both devices.

Best Buy Involved

Apple's Siri voice recognitionNotably missing are any Apple iPhone models or any Samsung Galaxy S for that matter. So who’s behind this odd list of the best and brightest in smartphones? I peered into Wolfram Alpha’s data source information and found the answer: Best Buy.
Best Buy’s reviews power Wolfram Alpha’s answers to these types of questions when it comes to electronics. Indeed, Best Buy’s page for the Lumia 900 show those same five glowing reviews. Maybe Wolfram Alpha needs to rethink its data sources?
Apple shares a bit of blame for this oversight too. I tried to trip Siri up repeatedly and failed each time. Take this response for example: Ask it what’s the best tablet ever. Siri’s response? “The Apple iPad is the best. And that’s just not my opinion.”
Now that sounds like the Apple we all know and love (or hate).