Monday 30th September 2019

Rybalchenko Mikhail Andreevich

Silver Badge Union of Artists of the Soviet Union

Born on November 7, 1909 in Lugansk. Graduated from Kharkov Art Institute (1931).

He worked in the industry of easel painting. Major works: “Descent to the Mine” (co-authored with O. Lyubimsky), “Whites in the City” (1937); “The Ways of War” (1947); “At Dawn” (1957); “T. G. Shevchenko with Russian writers and revolutionary democrats in St. Petersburg ”(1961); “Soldiers”, “In Thoughts on the Future” (1967); “You must not forget” (in collaboration with O. Lyubimsky); “Harsh youth” (1968) and others.

Participated in exhibitions: republican since 1931, all-union since 1967. Honored Artist of the USSR (1968). Associate Professor (1949). Awarded with medals. He died on October 19, 1998.

Badge – silver, soviet 875 metal test (old type with Head)

Sunday 29th September 2019

Burning Bridges

The Mike Curb Congregation

Friends all tried to warn me
But I held my head up high
All the time they warned me
But I only passed them by
They all tried to tell me
But I guess I didn’t care
I turned my back and
Left them standing there

All the burning bridges that have fallen after me
All the lonely feelings and the burning memories
Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door
Burning bridges lost forevermore

Joey tried to help me find a job
A while ago
When I finally got it I didn’t want to go
The party Mary gave for me
When I just walked away
Now there’s nothing left for me to say

All the burning bridges that have fallen after me
All the lonely feelings and the burning memories
Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door
Burning bridges lost forevermore

Years have passed and I keep thinking
What a fool I’ve been
I look back into the past and
Think of way back then
I know that I lost everything I thought I that could win
I guess I should have listened to my friends

All the burning bridges that have fallen after me
All the lonely feelings and the burning memories
Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door
Burning bridges lost forevermore

Burning bridges lost forevermore

Everyone’s Gone to the Moon

Jonathan King

Streets full of people, all alone
Roads full of houses, never home
Church full of singing, out of tune
Everyone’s gone to the moon

Eyes full of sorrow, never wet
Hands full of money, all in debt
Sun coming out in the middle of June
Everyone’s gone to the moon

Long time ago
Life had begun
Everyone went to the sun

Cars full of motors, painted green
Mouths full of chocolate-covered cream
Arms that can only lift a spoon
Everyone’s gone to the moon
Everyone’s gone to the moon
Everyone’s gone to the moon

Arizona 10 Seahawks 27

Everything the Seahawks weren’t last Sunday in a surprising home loss to the New Orleans Saints they were this Sunday in beating the Arizona Cardinals, 27-10.

A week after falling behind 7-0 before most people had even turned on the TV, the Seahawks for once started fast — leading at the end of the first quarter and halftime for the first time this season in building a 20-3 lead at the break.

A week after basically giving the Saints two touchdowns, the Seahawks were efficient no turnovers for the game and no penalties during a first half in which they took control.

And a week after gaining 515 yards but having little to show for it, they were opportunistic, with a pick-six by defensive end Jadeveon Clowney in the first quarter giving the Seahawks an early cushion they would never relinquish, and then scoring offensively on all four drives that got inside the Arizona 20.

When it was over, coach Pete Carroll said the Seahawks had laid the template for the kind of team they can be this season — and will need to be in order to have the kind of season they want. “I felt this was really a complete game for us,’’ Carroll said after Seattle improved to 3-1 with its first victory this season by more than two points and that didn’t come down to the final series.

What Carroll liked as much as anything was a 15-play, 75-yard drive that lasted 8:08 in the fourth quarter — Seattle’s longest drive this year in both plays and time — that gave the Seahawks a final touchdown with 2:13 left after Arizona had scored its only touchdown of the day. A key play on the drive came when quarterback Russell Wilson evaded pressure on a third-and-two play to toss it to Luke Willson, the popular tight end from 2013-17 who returned last week to replace the traded Nick Vannett.

Willson fought through an illegal contact penalty from Arizona’s Jordan Hicks (which would have given Seattle a first down regardless) to make a diving grab for a 17-yard gain and move the ball to the Arizona 37.

The Seahawks made such quick work of the Cardinals they were able to watch the end of the Rams-Tampa Bay game on televisions in the locker room as they did interviews.

When the Bucs sewed up the game on Ndamukong Suh’s fumble return — which assured that the Rams and Seahawks will each be 3-1 when the two play Thursday at CenturyLink Field — the locker room erupted.

And a week after the Seahawks wondered where things were headed, they could suddenly look happily toward a battle with major NFC West implications — a most-familiar feeling, indeed.

“We did a lot of hard work this week just to make sure that we were precise throughout the whole week and come game day,’’ Wilson said of how the team rebounded from the defeat against the Saints. “We took that challenge on and we were ready to roll.’’

Saturday 28th September 2019

Spurs 2 Southampton 1 

Spurs showed their team spirit is alive and kicking after they overcame a Hugo Lloris gaffe and a sending off to beat Southampton 2-1.

Boss Mauricio Pochettino said it would take time to find unity in his squad after a turbulent summer where several players either wanted to leave or thought they were leaving, but they showed promising signs in a rearguard effort.

Tanguy Ndombele’s goal put them in front early on, but after Serge Aurier was sent off just after the half-hour a calamitous error from Lloris gifted Southampton an equaliser through Danny Ings.

But Harry Kane came to the rescue as he scored a fine team goal, his fifth in the Premier League, to hand Spurs the three points that will go a long way to lifting the gloom at the club. It was their third win of the season and Pochettino will hope that they can move forward ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League clash with Bayern Munich.

Southampton enjoyed a spell of pressure early in the second half, but they did not really threaten an equaliser and slipped to a third defeat of the season.

Just once Spurs would like to do things the easy way and a straightforward afternoon looked a possibility after they enjoyed a promising opening 30 minutes.

After Lloris had thwarted early danger from Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, with a smart stretching save, the home side – and specifically Ndombele – came to life.

The Frenchman has stuttered in his start to football in England, but showed why Spurs broke their transfer record on him.

He carried the ball, beating players, put some dangerous balls into the box and provided a goalscoring threat.

Spurs recycled an attack, the ball fell to Son Heung-min and he teed up Ndombele to lash home an effort that went through Angus Gunn’s grasp.

Any hopes of kicking on from there were abruptly ended in the space of four minutes as Aurier picked up two yellow cards for brainless fouls and was sent off in the 31st minute.

The last thing Spurs needed to do was give Southampton a helping hand, but that is what happened after an unforgivable piece of play from Lloris.

The Frenchman has a reputation for being a liability in possession – not something you want from a goalkeeper whose side play out from the back – and his error gifted the Saints the equaliser in the 39th minute.

Receiving the ball inside his own six-yard box, Lloris inexplicably tried a Cruyff turn with Ings closing in on him, but missed his kick and the Southampton striker’s tackle saw the ball dribble over the line.

It was Lloris’ ninth error leading to a goal in just over three years and surely his worst. Given all the negativity surrounding the club this season it could have been easy for Spurs to sink, but it took them only four minutes to regain their lead.

In a move that started off with Moussa Sissoko, it took just 11 touches for the ball to end up in the back of the net as Kane flicked on a long ball, Son and Christian Eriksen exchanged passes, with the Dane then setting up the England captain to fire into the bottom corner. Lloris was in negative equity after his first-half gaffe but went some way to getting back into credit with a couple of excellent stops after the restart. Southampton seemed to run out of steam and it was Spurs that found a second wind.

Kane was playing a magnificent part in a lone role and it was almost rewarded with a second goal in the final 10 minutes but he drilled an effort wide.

In the end, and perhaps unsurprisingly, Spurs saw it out with relative ease to produce a vital three points.

Thursday 26th September 2019

 

 

Wednesday 25th September 2019

 

 

Tuesday 24th September 2019

Colchester 4 Spurs 3 on Penalties

League Two Colchester United produced a huge upset as they beat Premier League Spurs on penalties to reach the Carabao Cup fourth round.

The Essex side – the lowest-ranked team left in the competition – frustrated last year’s semi-finalists throughout the 90 minutes and won a dramatic shootout after Christian Eriksen and Lucas Moura missed from the spot.

After Eriksen’s first kick of the shootout was saved by Dean Gerken, the hosts looked to have wasted their advantage when Jevani Brown tried an audacious ‘Panenka’ effort, which was so weak that Paulo Gazzaniga was able to abort his dive, stand up and punch the ball to safety.

But when Moura smashed Spurs fifth effort against the bar, Tom Lapslie stepped up to send Colchester into the last 16 for the first time in 44 years and prompt wild celebrations.

Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino has yet to win a major trophy during his managerial career, despite an encouraging season in 2018-19 which featured an appearance in the Champions League final and making the last four of this competition.

But his wait for a trophy will go on after the biggest shock he has experienced as a manager.

The Argentine had taken charge of 18 domestic cup ties against lower-ranked opponents since arriving in England with Southampton in 2013 and had never lost.

Spurs are on a gruelling run of seven games in 21 days but they could hardly blame tiredness for this result, with Pochettino making 10 changes from their defeat at Leicester – only keeper Gazzaniga kept his place.

There was a first outing of the season for out-of-favour Eric Dier, a return from injury for Dele Alli and debuts for 20-year-old centre-back Japhet Tanganga and 17-year-old forward Troy Parrott, but none pressed their claims to break into their manager’s first-choice XI. Four wins in their past 17 matches suggests something is not quite right.

And what is going on with their away form? They are winless in all five games on the road this season, conceding two goals on four occasions and – most worryingly – now suffering an embarrassing exit from the EFL Cup.

Monday 24th September 2019

When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going

Billy Ocean

When the going gets tough
The tough get going, tough, tough, huh, huh, huh
When the going gets tough, the tough get ready

Yeah, ooooh, du da do da

I got something to tell you
I got something to say
I’m gonna put this dream in motion
Never let nothing stand in my way
When the going gets touch
The tough get going

I’m gonna get myself ‘cross the river
That’s the price I’m willing to pay
I’m gonna make you stand and deliver
And give me love in the old-fashion way

Woooh

Darlin’, I’ll climb any mountain
Darlin’, I’ll do anything

Ooh, can I touch you (can I touch you)
And do the things that lovers do
Ooh, wanna hold you (wanna hold you)
I gotta get it through to you, oooh

When the going gets tough
The tough get going
When the going gets rough
The tough get rough
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Ooooh baby

I’m gonna buy me a one-way ticket
Nothin’s gonna hold me back
Your love’s like a slow train coming (slow train coming)
And I feel it coming down the track (woh)

Darlin’, I’ll climb any mountain
Darlin’, I’ll do anything
Ooh (ooh) can I touch you (can I touch you)
And do the things that lovers do
Ooh, (ooh) wanna hold you (wanna hold you)
I gotta get it through to you (ooh)
‘Cause when the going gets tough
The tough get going
When the going gets rough
The tough get rough

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Wooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Darlin’, I’ll climb any mountain
Darlin’, I’ll swim any sea
Darlin’, I’ll reach for the heaven
Darlin’, with you lovin’ me
Oooh (oooh)

Oooh, can I touch you (can I touch you)
And do the things that lovers do (can I touch you)
Oooh, wanna hold you (wanna hold you)
I gotta get it through to you

When the going gets tough
Going gets tough
Going gets rough
Going gets rough…

Sunday 23rd September 2019

Seahawks 27 Saints 33

The mistakes began piling up for the Seahawks on the first play from scrimmage and continued throughout the game, and the Saints were more than capable of capitalizing on those miscues, resulting in a 33-27 victory for New Orleans at CenturyLink Field.

“This was an unusual game,” said Carroll, bandaged nose and all, the result of a football hitting him in the face during pregame warmups. “So many things happened in this game that just hurt us. Even the coach got hurt in this one. We made mistakes and errors, big plays, the returns, the mistake in the kicking game that gives them another chance for another touchdown, it’s like a turnover. We just had a really hard time getting out of our own way. Sometimes a game goes like that and you just can’t get out of your own way and you make the mistakes that cause the problems, and you try to recover, and we just didn’t get it done.”

While there were plenty of mistakes made by players that contributed to Seattle’s first loss of the season, Carroll was quick to point the finger at himself for his team’s performance.

“I had a particularly bad day with stuff,” Carroll said. “There were too many chances I had to make things happen, and I tried to hard at times, and kind of got in the flow of it. I’m just really disappointed, just disappointed across the board.”

For Seattle’s miscues to bite them, the Saints had to take advantage, and head coach Sean Payton’s squad was more than capable of doing just that, even without quarterback Drew Brees. Yes, Chris Carson fumbled, leading to a Saints touchdown, but Eli Apple made a very nice play to punch the ball loose. And yes, an illegal formation penalty on a missed field goal gave the Saints another set of downs, but New Orleans’ offense still had to take advantage, which it did by scoring a touchdown to open the second half. And with Brees sidelined by a thumb injury, the Saints needed their other stars to step up, and Alvin Kamara came through with 161 total yards and a pair of touchdowns.

“They played really good,” Carroll said. “They played really hard and tough, the running back was fantastic, was a big factor in the game… They took advantage of their opportunities in a really winning way. Sean’s guys played really good to get that done. There were just so many ways for this game to be different, it’s just unfortunate. It’s very frustrating. But this is one game, and I hope maybe this is the one game that we learn from and we grow from, and we can put this one behind this, and we can turn things in the right direction and not let this happen. It’s particularly hard to do this in front of our own fans at home.”

That the Saints were good enough to capitalize on Seattle’s mistakes underscored the point made by several Seahawks players in the locker room after the game—that they can’t be that sloppy and expect to beat playoff-caliber teams. The Seahawks started 2-0 but did so despite a lot of miscues that led to first-half deficits in both games, and on Sunday the Saints proved to be too good for Seattle to again get away with so many errors. “We can’t shoot ourselves in the foot, we can’t continue to do these things thinking that we’re still going to win,” said receiver Tyler Lockett, who established new career highs in receptions (11) and receiving yards (154). “We have to be able to be on our Ps and Qs, because we’re playing great teams, we’re playing teams that are playoff-caliber teams, Super Bowl-caliber teams, and you can’t put yourself in the hole and expect to find a way to be able to always come back every single time. So for us, I think it’s a learning experience and it helps us down the road. It’s a process, the season is a marathon, not a sprint, so for us, we’ve just got to be able to get ready for the next game, and leave this game behind after we watch film tomorrow.”

Despite the final score, there were positives to take from the game for Seattle, from Lockett’s big game, to Bobby Wagner and K.J. Wright combining for 31 tackles, to Russell Wilson’s performance that saw him throw for 406 yards and two touchdowns and rush for 51 and two scores, making him the first quarterback since at least 1950 to throw for 400 yards and two scores and rush for 50 and two scores. But ultimately the Seahawks lost despite outgaining New Orleans 515-265 because there were far too many costly errors.

 

Saturday 21st September 2019

Leicester 2 Spurs 1 

Mauricio Pochettino refused to blame VAR for Spurs 2-1 defeat at Leicester on Saturday but admitted the decision to rule out Serge Aurier’s goal “changed the emotions” of both sides. Aurier thought he had given Spurs a 2-0 lead after 67 minutes but the VAR ruled Heung-min Son a fraction offside in the build-up – a decision that looked harsh on the visitors.

Leicester equalised two minutes later through full-back Ricardo and James Maddison’s 83rd-minute strike completed the turnaround to leave Spurs still without an away win since January.

“You get the benefit or not get the benefit, it’s fair or not fair, offside or not offside – I’m not going to talk about VAR,” Pochettino said afterwards. “I’m only going to say that we all accept the system in the game and now I am not going to complain. I trust in the referees and if the referees say it was or wasn’t I’m not going to complain.

“I think we need to analyse the game in a different way and not include the VAR. We need to accept that it’s completely fair, the rules. I’m not disappointed with that, I’m disappointed because we conceded two goals and the emotion of the game changed. Giving that decision to Leicester made that thing happen in the last 10 minutes.

“I am not blaming VAR, please take me in the way [I mean],” he added. “At 2-0, the game is going to be different, when VAR disallowed the goal: 2-0 is not the same as 1-0 with 80 minutes. That is normal that it changes the emotions. For us it was a massive disappointment and for them it was a massive belief for all the people and fans to keep pushing and they found the way to score a goal. In the end, we all thought it was going to be a draw and the goal appeared from long distance and it killed our feeling.”

Spurs have now picked up eight points from their opening six league games and thrown away leads in three consecutive away matches, following from the 2-2 draws at Arsenal and Olympiacos.

The manager claimed “everything is against” his side but praised their display for 83 minutes, which came after they returned from Athens at 4am on Thursday morning.

“The performance I think was good,” he said. “After Wednesday, a long flight, not too much time to recover I think the performances was fantastic. I think we were the best team on the pitch for 83 minutes, of course but now that changed completely in the last seven or 10 minutes the feeling.

“The feeling before was that we dominated and with a different result we are talking in a different way, but we need to be fair in the way we are going to assess this. The team behaved very well with a great attitude and played in some moments very good football. I am happy with the performance, disappointed with the result. In this type of period where everything is against us, that is the moment to be tough and work hard and be positive.”

Friday 20th September 2019

I am really fed up of being treated like shit. Even when you are in the right and complain about something the shits manage to turn it around so you feel like its you that are to blame. The noise from the new build has been terrible all week.. Over the past five days and the sunny last few days of summer it has been impossible to sit in the garden or have the windows open. I blew a gasket around 5pm today and went to confront the builders. Unfortunately I lost it and swore. The builder had his son with him in a unsafe are but it was me who was unbelievable because I did say the F word. I was stressed beyond stress. But it was me who was made to feel in the wrong.

The Bastards

The bastards who control of everything
Always make the ordinary person pay
When the ordinary person complains
Or tries to get a little respect
When they try to stand up for themselves
The bastards in control
Make the ordinary people feel small
As if he or she is the ones at fault
Then the bastards close ranks
They shut the solid door in the faces of
The helpless individuals
And now the ordinary people believe it is their fault
They start to apologise for their behaviour
Such is the way of it
It always has been so for the ordinary people
The ordinary people will always be ordinary
And the bastards make sure it is so
For the bastards don’t give a fuck

20th September 2019

Thousands of eco activists have gathered in major cities across the globe in a bid to push governments to take more action on climate change. Also some eco activists took the action to the countryside. The Field Friday September 20th 2019.

The Story In Your Eyes

The Moody Blues

I’ve been thinking about our fortune
And I’ve decided that we’re really not to blame
For the love that’s deep inside us now
Is still the same

And the sounds we make together
Is the music to the story in your eyes
It’s been shining down upon me now
I realize

Listen to the tide slowly turning
Wash all our heartaches away
We’re part of the fire that is burning
And from the ashes we can build another day

But I’m frightened for your children
That the life that we are living is in vain
And the sunshine we’ve been waiting for
Will turn to rain

Listen to the tide slowly turning
Wash all our heartaches away
We’re part of the fire that is burning
And from the ashes we can build another day

But I’m frightened for your children
That the life that we are living is in vain
And the sunshine we’ve been waiting for
Will turn to rain

When the final line is over and
It’s certain that the curtain’s gonna fall
I can hide inside your sweet sweet love
For ever more

One Step Into The Light

The Moody Blues

One step into the light
One step away from night
It’s the hardest step you’re gonna take
The ship to take you there
Is waiting at the head
Of the stairs that lead up through your opening mind

Above the dark despair
Shines a light that we can share
Close your eyes and look up in between your brows
Then slowly breathing in
Feel the LIFE FORCE streaming in
Hold it there, then send it back to him

All the old things are returning
Cosmic circles ever turning
All the truth we’ve been yearning for
Life is our saviour, saviour, saviour, save your soul

The river of living breath
Is flowing through the sun
He was there before the earth began
The world will drag on you
Use his love to pull you through
Find the mission of your life and start to be

All the old things are returning
Cosmic circles ever turning
All the truth we’ve been yearning for
Life is our saviour, saviour, saviour, save your soul

There’s one thing I can do
Play my Mellotron for you
Try to blow away your city blues
Your dreams are not unfound
Get your feet back on the ground
The truth will set us free, we cannot lose
We cannot love, we just have to choose

You’re So Vain

Carly Simon

You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot

You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte
And all the girls dreamed that they’d be your partner
They’d be your partner, and…

You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain, I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you?

You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive
When you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave

But you gave away the things you loved and one of them was me
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and…

You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain, I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you? Don’t you?

I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and…

You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain, I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you?

Well I hear you went up to Saratoga and your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun

Well you’re where you should be all the time
And when you’re not you’re with some underworld spy
Or the wife of a close friend, wife of a close friend, and…

You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain, I’ll bet you think this song is about you
Don’t you? Don’t you? Don’t you?

You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You’re so vain, bet you think this song is about you