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The behavior of their customers and prospects will be automatically analyzed and segmented. Relevant sections are formed and are based on historical data is available immediately. Key data about customers, prospects, products, processes and campaigns can be used immediately for controlling communications and optimization of business processes.

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Calculated CRM metrics, segments and campaign results are presented here in a graphical user interface in the browser and can be evaluated by you without any special knowledge database and interpreted. A return of the results into your own systems (eg DWH) is possible at any time.

Integrate: We’ve come full circle. The calculated profiles of CVS profiles and segments can be selected and used in different, centrally planned in CVS Target multichannel campaigns.

Multichannel: The connection of the e-shop, e-mail service provider and letter- shop, online marketing ( retargeting, affiliate ) and customer loyalty program,allow a real multi-channel approach to customers, and prospects. For a receiver at any time the same offer – in all channels.

Life -Cycle: Automated campaigns are the backbone for your CRM. Templates for campaign mechanics along the life cycle allow for easy planning and implementation, including multi-stage campaigns.An automatic segmentation assigns each customer to the most important for him campaign. The contact management and prioritization for campaigns monitored the assignment to campaign level, the multiple approach and goal achievement. Your marketing department controls at constant expense more campaigns with smaller, pinpoint target groups and significantly higher campaign success.The relevant offer at the right time for the customer – in the right Frequnez on all channels (push and pull).

Ad-hoc: Short-term, tactical campaigns, such as a regionally limited indication of a branch opening or sale of remaining stock holdings to suitable customer groups and their immediate implementation are possible at any time. A comparison of speech and unwanted duplicate recipients with life-cycle campaigns can be prevented by the prioritization.

We integrate gradually. Through our years of experience and our proven process model for you without any risk – at a fixed price.

Step 1

In the first step, we coordinate the actions with your IT department ( service providers) and get your historical data – the result you get from your IT an accurate estimate of their expenses. From us you will get a First Shot analysis based on your customers’ purchases, stores, products, and market places. The results we present in the workshop in detail before, including potential for campaigns about possible initial and subsequent purchaser, Reaktivierer and reduction of multi – Retournierer.

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If the procedure and the result is an added value for you, flogt in the second step of the start of regular operation. We receive from you every day your data give you the results in CVS Insight ready.

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In the third step, we bind to your channel service providers such as the web-shop, e-mail, ad servers, letter shop, customer loyalty program and call center and begin gradually with the modulation of the campaign with CVS target.

During the entire duration of our experienced team of consultants is available for optimization and for individual analyzes available for you – In the background CVS continues to evolve and new campaigns tuners and reports provided for you.

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CVS is client-capable and multi-lingual, we operate it for you as a Software as a Service (SaaS). IT has no cost and availability is guaranteed. It is operated in German data centers with TUV certification.

The integration of your enterprise resource planning, e-shop, e-mail service providers, ad servers, customer loyalty program, call centers or letter shop via templates for interfaces. We agree this with your IT to your situation and get the data they need with as little effort as possible on your side.

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Get an Overview – We integrate your different brands, e-shops, the branch network and different warehouse and logistics service provider, National and International.

Campaigns and multi-channel tuners are available for you in CVS target as templates ready and can gradually ( and channel level) will be implemented.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

today in the shop: patterns

the pincushion pattern and patterns for these cute ruffle pillows pictured above (no you don't need a ruffle foot for this pattern!)
now here's some important info:

if you leave this blog (wow,thanks jodi!) a comment about what i'm up to (oh and i think you are suppose to leve me a comment too! that jodi!!) you get to enter a whole different giveaway from yesterdays giveaway (which by the way you can still enter till saturday).

now if you'll excuse me i'm going to take the next few days off.

i'm taking my chocolate and book in one hand and feminine hygiene products in the other hand, i'm making today restful, and hanging with the kids outside because my crankies have hit full blown.

and as we all know sunshine, a book, and chocolate make the crankies all better.

see you monday with something new i'm sure.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

shop stocked with "things"

pictured is my aqua pillows for sale.
go to my etsy store to find this one and more.

okay so now go on over to the blog and get a chance to win a honey bun (you know the one i made my baby girl quilt out of) yeah that one.
go on go tell em what you like about my etsy store for a chance to win!
tomorrow i'll be updating (if all goes well) patterns for the ruffle pillow and for my pincushion.
thanks for playing!
phew now to air out my armpits cause i'm sweating up a storm!

just kidding shop update today and tomorrow!

okay so i totally goofed and well the giveaway will be today at 9 pacific time @ little birdie secrets so i'm updating the shop today at 9:55 my time (mountain standard time) and what ever i don't get in today i'll finish tomorrow morning (like the patterns) sorry for the confusion! obviously i've been sewing my brains out and have none left.
sheesh i think i need a vacation.

shop update

image includes the ruffle pillow.
pattern and pillow will be available to buy.

yeah i know it's early.
but i don't know when the other blog is going to do their spotlight so i have to make sure i get everything in there before hand.
and well, if i don't get spotlighted till like 10 pm then i guess you guys get the head start on things like that cute little ruffle pillow.
don't forget they are doing a giveaway of my choice that day as well. i'll try to stay on top of it and let you know when to run over there.
and no i haven't forgotten that i said i was making a tutorial on that skirt.
i've been busy sorry.
soon my friends soon...
hope to see you wednesday bright and early.

Monday, May 25, 2009

oh peonies

my peonies are coming out and smelling so sweet!
hope you have a fantabulous (that's fantastic and fabulous mushed together) memorial day!
see you tomorrow.

Friday, May 22, 2009

i've been sewing...

my rear off.
it should be indenting inward here sometime soon.
next week on wednesday this blog will be spotlighting me and doing a giveaway (of my choice...oh you know it'll be moda).
so i've been working on some more patterns to put in my etsy shop. just so all those people who don't really know me and come over here for the first time will think i'm like cool or something.
i'll keep you posted on when you can enter to win the giveaway.
(yes it's going to be moda)
(yes you can enter as well)
(yes you should be excited)
so have a fantabulous weekend.
the husband is trying to get livestock again.
hasn't he learned?
me and cows don't mix all that great?
doesn't he remember i killed one too?
and don't get me started on the goats and more goats.
oh and the best blog post about them devil's spawn here.
whatever it makes for some really great posts.
see you on monday.
wish us and whatever animal we end up having good luck.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

famous gentlemen callers line on up

so i had to drag in the husband to show him my face associated with MODA.

i turned to him and told him he better watch out cause some famous gentlemen callers would surely be coming my way soon.

he rolled his eyes, walked away, and has been on his best behavior ever since.

mwaaaahhhaaaaahaaaa i made my bed today.
i know two posts one day...crazy go nuts.

how i tried to make it better

yesterday should i put it?...less than desirable.
it's like i've been having a good streak and yesterday the universe decided that it needed to uh how do i put it?
hand me my rear end on a silver platter.

with the morning off to a super rough start, i ended up needing to go and buy some new sewing needles (i got 10 so that i can break 9 and still feel comfortable) then i went and bought new fabric.
just because i liked the green color.
and those look like polka dots so i thought "why the heck not." yeah i bought the rest of the bolt. why the heck not.

i've also been eyeing this necklace every.single.week.
my other favorite one broke not too long ago, so there's my justification. it was $10 and sooooo worth every penny.
why? well because when i thought my bad day that started before 7 am was starting to look up...
at the check out line at walmart...
after one whole year of avoiding her...the woman that makes me get hives:
jerry happened to me once again.
if you don't want to read the whole dang post dedicated to just jerry let me give you a little cliffs notes if you will of "us":
*the woman and i don't mix. (she doesn't know it and i would much rather have it stay that way) *i move in fast forward motion most of the time.
*she does not.
*i am known to sometimes be an "A" type personality
*she's a "Z" type... as in snoooooo"zzzz"e
*i am no nonsense when i am shopping with my kids. i want in and out as quick as possible.
*she likes to look at and everyone else's for that matter.
*she likes to talk to everyone she knows in line before me after me and passing by me but not to me, probably because i'm having a nervous reaction to her and break out in hives.
*she knows a whole hell of a lot of people.
*she makes my eye twitch every damn time.
this time was no different.
but lets just say this time it also included me mopping up pee off the floor because after the thirtieth time that katie screamed " i go pee" she really did go pee.

at that point i looked up to the sky and said : okay you've made your point...move on already.
and i realized maybe all those times that i joked about going to hell...
really weren't worth it.

so. okay. sorry universe.
if i promise not to joke about going to hell anymore and promise to make my bed every morning will you promise to keep jerry in the other lane?
thank you and amen.
here's to a better day.
or a lot of alcohol.
wait i don't drink.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

that's what i get

by claiming today as my "super productive day in sewing."
and by not making the bed.
i have a philosophy:
if my bed is not made.
i have a bad day.
the longer it stays unmade
the longer my bad luck and mood continues.

so far my 2 kids left at home have spilled two bowls of cereal, have managed to dump out all the crayons and color pencils to create right along with me (i don't really mind that one), and have decided that today is the day that they will not get along.
i've broken 2 sewing needles, have unpicked my project like a bazillion times, and now am tracking sticky sugary cereal all over the rest of my clean floors. as i type this i have a super squirmy two year old who keeps pressing random keys.
didn't know my computer could do so many different things with the touch of just one key.
so you win bed gods.
i'll go make my bed.
and then i'm off to the big town 45 minutes away
so i can continue along my super productive day.

Monday, May 18, 2009

a before and after (?)

this piece of furniture was given to me by my sis-in-law. she didn't have room for it and as you can see she started to strip it but didn't finish it. it has great lines and works great in my living room.
this last weekend (before we went up north to the big city for an army thing) i got the power sander out and the paint that i had on hand.
i chose to paint it this color. and i like it...i just don't looooove it. hence the question mark on the after part. i may wait and see how i like it as time goes on, but i have some ideas of what color i REALLY want.
oh and it ain't white.
update on garden: WE HAVE SPROUTS! WHOOT!
working on table cloth skirt tutorial as well...come back soon.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

organizing 101: getting your kids to help

i did an organizing 101 of "where do i begin" read it here.
this time i want to talk about how to get the kids to help.
to help with the whole process of chores we use the token system in our house. granted we've modified it as the year has progressed. certain things are bigger rewards and therefore earn more tokens while other's aren't that important anymore. but cleaning and chores still hold their market value. earning tokens is basically earning "privileges" or money to buy toys or to put into a savings account.
they even have been known to pay for "maid" services (meaning i can't handle it anymore and i clean it up) that's a total of 10 tokens each ( i ain't cheap!) this system has SAVED our family.
something that is important to note is that you can not expect your kids to do anything you yourself aren't willing to do.
first you have to teach your kids what you mean when you say "clean your room."
cleaning your room in my house means picking up and putting away everything where it belongs. and it means i do it with them. as the years have passed by, my older boys know what i mean when i say "clean your room" and they actually are getting real good at it.
get rid of junk:
just like i said in the 101 on "where do i get started". you need to get rid of stuff starting from the closets and drawers first. make room for things that belong in that room
then go through all the toys and get rid of all the junk, or broken toys, and yes even toys that you have a hard time getting rid of, but realize that they don't play with them.
don't buy anymore clothes or toys
unless you have a place for them. if you don't have the room, refrain from buying it. my kids do not have many toys, but the toys they do have they love.
set a time every day that you pick up the room.
for us its two times a day. once in the morning (generally just making beds, and picking up and putting away pjs) at the end of the day right before we settle down we do a once over of putting away toys in bins, and making sure all dirty clothes go in dirty piles and in the laundry room.
weed out stuff regularly.
during the school year i do it while they are at school. once a month or so i look and i get rid of "junk" that gets collected. we also (as a family) around fall time do a big "get rid of stuff because birthdays and christmas is coming" the kids know that in order to get toys they need to make room for them. and that usually means we need to get rid of a few less loved toys.
make your kids pay for their own toys.
well except for birthdays and's where the token system comes into play again. 10 tokens equals $1 my kids like to get 100 tokens and then go and spend their $10 on whatever they want to spend it on.
i hope some of these pointers will help with getting your kids started on helping out in keeping their rooms clean.
keep in mind i'm not a professional in any way shape or form, and my house does get lived in and isn't perfect by any thing i do know is moving a lot and living in houses of all different square footage, and any size house will feel small if you have too much stuff in it, and these are some of the things that have worked for us.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

new skirt for me

thank you for the vote of confidence and patience on yesterday's post about my garden. yeah i'll work on the patience thing ;)i made this skirt out of a table cloth that was on clearance.
did you read that amy?
no posiblities of sweaty hairy men on this skirt!
i think it was the martha stewart christmas collection at kmart.
i saw the pattern on it and thought it would make a really cute something or other.

now if i have made a handkerchief and put it on my head i would look like i belong in a tree singing "doe-a-deer, a female deer!"
but because i didn't, i think it turned out a little less sound of music-ish
while in the middle of making it, i thought to myself "should of made a tutorial out of this." well i think i will, but it has to wait till next week sometime when i go back to the "big" town and get me another table cloth. so stay tuned for a tutorial on how to make this skirt.
oh and did you notice the legs?
not so pasty eh?
yeah been working in the garden so freakin' much that they don't have a choice.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

on the third day

you are suppose to see sprouts. guess what i saw...

okay well i did see some weeds.

the husband is a researcher at heart. it's rather annoying. i can never claim "i had no idea." because the man doesn't let me.

as each day passes, he comes home with more and more info about gardening. he gets excited of the new found information...
as for me, my eyes glaze over, and all i hear is "blah blah then this happens. blah blah we should be doing this on the blah blah blah..." and so forth.
doesn't he get it?
my brain is too full.
i'm just lucky i remember my phone # and social security #.
and to know the difference.'
i'm off to do some of the "blah blahs"
i would say "wish me luck"
but lets face it...
wish me a miracle.

Monday, May 11, 2009

a couple of small before and afters

my latest little finds at the second hand store:this was on sale from i think $1 down to .25 cents.
a wire wreath thingy that i think is used for christmas cards. now that would be fine if it were close to christmas, but it's not so....
add some spray paint and some brainstorming and now i have a perfect place to hang my patterns in one place.

this little guy cost me .25 cents.
ugly yes...but with some spray paint...

not so bad and ugly anymore.

hope that all you guys made it over to my new url.
i'd be sad if i lost some of you guys.
edited:okay so i underestimated google reader (that was dumb) and i guess they re-directed everything for everyone of you 997 people but have already gained 7 new people on the other url...YAY! all is well in the google world. (those people must be rich)
seriously, i mean my boys thanks you for keeping me from mauling them as they come home from school to show them the new skirt i made. and the husband thanks you because that means i don't keep asking him questions like "does this look good on me." or "do you like how i did that?" no, no...that's what you guys are for.
well that, and to back me up when he calls me crazy for putting up baskets on the wall.
so thanks.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

a conversation if you will...

so i read to the boys every night. (well most nights) and we've covered a wide range of books from star wars to classics. we just finished not too long ago "how to eat fried worms."

we were working outside fixing a busted pipe in the sprinkler system, when i spotted a big worm...and well here's a little conversation if you will:
boys: NOOOOO!
me: haha! just like in the book!
husband: (watching the exchange decides to chime in ) yeah it's not that bad. it just tastes like dirt.
me and the boys stare at him in disbelief...
husband: what? oh what? you never ate a worm before?
me: uh NO.
husband: (big grin on his face) yeah, i was a brave kid.
me: yeah, well i was a SMART kid.
husband: bends over stares right at me and takes the worm and EATS IT.
me: AHHHHH! GROSS i have to kiss you!
both husband and i look over to the two older boys because it got reeeeal quiet.
both boys with stars in their eyes say: OH MY GOSH DAD YOU ATE A WORM!!! THAT.WAS.SO.TOTALLY.AWESOME!
then the oldest picks one up and EATS IT!
then the second oldest picks one up and EATS IT TOO!
me: what the?!i can not believe you guys just did that.
husband: you double dared them to.
me:WELL YEAH but i didn't think they would REALLY do it!
both boys bouncing around super excited and chattering a mile a minute saying things like: "they aren't going to believe we did it! we're going to tell everyone mom dared us and we did it!!!! "WE ATE A WORM!!" (great all anyone is going to get from that is that I, THE MOTHER DARED THEM TO DO IT)
husband: uh obviously you don't know the first rule about boys...
me: oh yeah what's that?
husband: never double dare a boy into anything...because they have to do it.
me: hmmm i may have to remember that...
husband: hahaha...oh no.
he later confessed that the first thing that went through his head when he put the worm in his mouth was "nope, i was wrong, i think i just read the book. i don't think i've actually ever experienced this before"

Friday, May 8, 2009

to the women in my life

picture taken at my bridal shower in 1998
from left to right:
cousin alba luz, aunt bertha, cousin pam, my mom, cousin tania, me, aunt elba, and my grandma.

i just want to give a shout out to the women in my family who basically raised me as one of their own. either as a daughter or as little sister.

who call me and pray for me and laugh at my stupid jokes. seriously you guys are my rocks and i appreciate your love and kindness.

thank you for you and thank you for being an example of what a strong mother/daughter/sister is.
and mom

and to my mother in law who basically adopted me as a daughter (and personally likes me more than her son sometimes) i give you the shout out of thank you as well for creating a son that respects women and takes my BS pretty well.

and what would i be without you bloggers? you laugh and cry with me, and you guys keep thinking i'm funny and buy my stuff in my shop.

dude i love you guys
now go buy yourself something nice and put my name on it.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

now to tackle this

all i have to say is wow,
and thank you.
thank you for making yesterday a wonderful etsy success.
as you can see i have an aftermath to deal with.
it ain't pretty.

and if i want a little bit of sewing for me time...i better get crack-a-lacking!
edited: okay more fabric bracelet tuts are now available thanks for the emails telling me that i was "sold out"
what would i do without you? ;)

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

please go do some damage

image includes "the fabric bracelet" and you can buy the instructions here in my shop sold out i will keep them stocked up as they run out follow this link
my shop has some new things in it
okay so some of you expressed wanting the stitchery in Katie's room:
find it here
i also included another stitchery that will be made available at fabric stores in utah by sometime later this month:
buy it here now (it's cheaper cause it's in pdf form)

also you will find:
throw pillows here and here sold out thank you
and table runners here sold and here
and "new" fabric by the yard here

thank you all for taking a gander of my shop.

i got real nervous last night that no one was going to like the things i made...i got sick to my stomach, and then i thought "well if they don't like it then at least i have some new stuff for MY house."
and then i didn't feel like i wanted to throw up anymore.

speaking of my house...
it looks horrible
i think my kids have been wiping their boogers on the couches.
they've been getting away with a lot these past two days.

so i'm off to register a kid for kindergarten.
yes, looking rather scary.
and then i'm coming home
i'm going to sweep up my house of strings, pieces of cut up fabric, and dirt from kids running in and out, in and out, in and out.
and then i'm going to take a shower.
i've been smelling something wierd and i'm starting to think it's me...
and then tomorrow, i think i'll clean, and scrape up some of the boogers off my couch.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

you are invited

to my shop update.
i've made things that you would find in my home.
i didn't get to make EVERYTHING i wanted to...
so this will be the first of two updates.
so please come and support your love of handmade things by your crazy little blogger friend in the middle of nowhere.
hope to see you there.

Monday, May 4, 2009

gardening above 7000 ft

as much as the rain tried to derail our best efforts to start preparing for our garden this year, "we" (meaning my husband while i stood on the sideline and acted as cheerleader and took this picture) used the rototiller and started to prepare the ground. we live above 7000 ft area and so all the regular gardening rules don't apply to us. we're learning...and hopefully this year we will have a good trial run at this.
i've also been working my fingers off, trying to make sure i have more things in my shop. i'm still shooting for wednesday. so far some pillows and some table runners...still working on a few more things but we'll see if it all makes it this time.
i may have to do two big shop updates.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Q and A with ""

go see my little interview with here.
thanks amber love your site and thanks for asking me some great questions!
oh, and some other great news, you can see some of my ideas being used in the minneapolis examiner here and here .
thank you renee from cottage lifestyle for asking me to be a part of her exciting new gig!

Friday, May 1, 2009

shooting for wednesday

i decided to take a few days off of the blogging world.
as in i tried not to check other's people's blogs and tried to live as if blogging weren't a part of life. it was a nice little break.
i think i need those every so often.
in that time i made katie a little stitchery that goes well with her "colorful" room. her room has become the hodgepodge of colors. i think when i put her in a "big girl bed" i'll decide what exactly i'm going to do with colors and such things. but for now you will find almost every color of the rainbow except PURPLE... (okay there's a smidge of purple on the ballerina card in the picture but that's it for the whole room)
yes that's a quirk.
for some reason i do not like purple.
purple has never done anything wrong to me.
but i just don't like it.
i like it in other's people's homes and clothes...
but not on me or my house.
i know i'm weird.
anywho, i'm working on some pillows, table runners, and patterns for my etsy shop. i'm shooting for wednesday.
lets see if i can do it!
oh yeah did you see you can follow me on twitter now. yeah a friend told me to do it so i did. i'm not that exciting but if you want to follow just check out the side bar and go to "follow me on twitter" maybe i'll just start making up crazy things to make it exciting. ;)
have a relaxing weekend.
i need to start lighting a fire under my butt so i can make things happen by wednesday!
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Going Venn

After randomly meeting Doug and Jonathan at an IT job fair (being a recent graduate in translation, it’s fair to say that it was a rather random encounter), they proposed that I come in and “chat” which then lead to an interview. The movie “The Internship” starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson immediately came to mind as I walked into Venn for the very first time with their bright green arm chairs and multi-coloured walls. I immediately thought I could fit in here, that this might just be the place where I’m supposed to work at. And so far, my experience has been exactly that.

As a newbie to Venn, I’ve been welcomed whole-heartedly by the team, been updated on the social media strategy and started my after-hours ping-pong training. I’ve met incredible, talented individuals who are passionate about what they do and about living in New Brunswick. And now I get to be a part of this community that’s creating such positive growth and development in Greater Moncton, the region and the province.

My first day was only just two weeks ago, but I can honestly say that I’m pretty excited that the start of my career is happening here at Venn, and I hope you all enjoy my journey with me.

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Portrait of Messi as a Young Man (excerpt)

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Excerpt from Mexican writer Juan Villoro’s God is Round, translated by Thomas Bunstead (Restless Books, 2016)

Not long before taking part in his first final in youth competitions, Lionel Messi got locked in a bathroom. The child whom no defender was able to stop found himself up against a broken lock. The match was about to get underway and Leo banged and banged on the door, but no one heard him. The trophy for winning this particular championship was the greatest imaginable: a bicycle.

Some would have given in to tears and resignation, and others would have been pleased to get out of the match. Leo smashed the window and jumped out. When he went out onto the pitch it was with the feeling that no one could stop him. He scored a hat trick in that final. The genius had his bicycle.

Messi’s destiny has happened at least twice. He was born to Celia and Jorge in Rosario, in the Argentinian province of Santa Fe, on Saint John’s Day in 1987, but his coming was foreshadowed at the discussions around the “goodman’s table” at the El Cairo café, presided over by the great cartoonist and writer Roberto Fontanarrosa. Argentina is a veritable factory of talented players, each of them already dreamed up by the most talkative storytelling fans on the planet.

After reading Macedonio Fernández’s assertion that to live is a matter of distracting oneself from dying, Fontanarrosa wrote the short story “An Argentinian’s Heaven,” in which a few friends have a barbecue and talk about football. Then they suddenly notice that they’re dead. And this makes them all very happy; if they’ve died and they’re there eating barbecued meat and discussing the match, that means they must be in heaven.

Rosario is the city of César Luis Menotti and Marcelo Bielsa, two of the great pitchside rhetoricians. Nowhere else in the world are there two sets of fans with such unswerving bitterness. Not for nothing do they accept their own disparaging nicknames: Rosario Central being known as the Canallas or “Scum,” and Newell’s Old Boys the Leprosos—“Lepers.” I once mentioned to a taxi driver in Buenos Aires that I’d been to a match between Boca Juniors and River Plate. “That’s nothing,” he said. “We really hate each other.” Clearly he was from Rosario.

If the spirit of Pamplona is expressed in the San Fermín running of the bulls and that of Rio de Janeiro in Carnival, in Rosario it’s the unique ritual of Poy’s Dove. On the December 19, 1971, the Rosario Central striker Aldo Pedro Poy, leaped into the air to head the ball past the Newell’s keeper. They repeat that glorious moment every December 19. “I don’t have any problem ‘doing the deed,’ ” said Poy in his retirement. “The thing now is getting it up to begin with.”

In the city of Che Guevara, Fito Páez, and other nonconformists, Lionel Messi was only five when he began to dazzle with a ball at his feet. He had a unique ability, but one that was also the fulfillment of a collective dream.

Leo first turned out for Grandoli, the team of his local barrio. The first man to train him was Salvador Aparicio. At sixty years of age, any number of colts had passed through Aparicio’s paddock. The tiny child didn’t look much, but when Aparicio saw him on the ball, his only technical advice to the others was “Kick him!” Messi could run the length of the pitch without the ball leaving his feet.

The Flea wasn’t so much a little goal machine as a “hook,” which is to say a gale that blew through the pitch, clearing adversaries out of the way so that one of his teammates could get on with the task—historically considered vulgar in Argentina—of putting the ball in the back of the net.

Videos from the time show a bonsai version of the current-day Messi: the same brilliance at making surging runs, the same sudden change of pace, and the same unbridled joy when he scored. As the Mexican psychoanalyst Santiago Ramírez put it: “One’s fate is contained in childhood.”

When he was eight his classmates lined him up in the middle in the school photo. His charisma was based on his feats with the ball, but also on that mischievous glint in his eye. A shy boy, he wasn’t in fact that much of a prankster, but he had the waggish manner of someone who is always thinking up pranks.

His mother says he was spoiled, and there’s nothing to suggest he hasn’t always had people’s affection. But that didn’t mean destiny wouldn’t have a few tests in store for him.

Messi’s whole life has been a question of scale. He was eight when his parents began worrying about his size. Tests revealed that he lacked a certain growth hormone. There was a treatment, but it cost an utterly unaffordable fifteen hundred dollars a month. Two companies in Rosario lent their support, and Leo began having to inject himself once a day, showing a presence of mind you don’t usually associate with children under the age of ten. From then on, the only thing that has outweighed his skill has been his determination.

After two years the money for the injections dried up. Newell’s Old Boys refused to shoulder the cost, and the Messi family traveled to Buenos Aires to see if River Plate would take him on. He was the smallest amongst the children trying out and the last to be introduced into the match; there were only two minutes to go but Leo still managed to make his mark. “Who’s the father?” asked the youth coach in charge that day. Jorge Messi stepped forward. “He stays,” said the coach.

But he never won a contract. The club with the red stripes didn’t want to enter into negotiations over the transfer with Newell’s, or take on the medical costs, for a player of indisputable talent but no guarantees as to what he might become.

Rosario is where Messi would have liked to stay, there where the slow ships advance up the River Paraná, and it was where his friends were, where they would all celebrate “Leper Day” together. Sentimental bonds are good for a football player. There’s nobody more motivated—or anything more scarce—than a player who is also a fan of the team he plays for.

Juan Román Riquelme was one of the game’s great stay-homers; he felt at home in Boca’s pulsating stadium, and when he put on another team’s colors all his powers deserted him. Messi wanted to stay on, too, but his fate was to become a nomad in extremis, at the opposite end of the spectrum from Riquelme.

He crossed the seas in 2000 to try out with Barcelona. The blaugrana are “more than a club.” Did that mean they would adopt this curious Rosario great, this boy?

On arrival in Catalonia, there were complications. The coach, Carles Rexach, was away in Sydney. Leo and his father sat tight for a fortnight in a hotel overlooking the Plaza de España. They got to know the local area better than they would have liked,and began casting envious glances at the blue airport shuttle bus. They didn’t want to stay on and were on the verge of heading home when they got the message: Rexach would be back the following day.

They say that when Rexach was coaching teams in Japan, he was so laid back he was never sure which of the two sides playing was his. On the day of the appointment with the Messis, he arrived late and with his usual distracted air. He easily spotted the miniature Argentinian out on the pitch. “Sign him up,” he said, without a moment’s hesitation. And he wasn’t a man to doubt. “He spent fifteen days in Barcelona,” said Rexach, “and one would have been enough!”

To put the family’s mind at ease, the coach signed the thinnest “contract’ in football. On December 14, 2000 he took a napkin from the bar and wrote a promise to watch over the boy. As a document it had as much legal force as the multitudinous prayers uttered at Montserrat, Catalonia’s sacred mountain, and is today housed in the office of Josep Maria Minguella, the recruitment manager, on display as an extremely valuable piece of popular art.

On March 1, 2001 a proper contract was signed, and the Messi family moved to Barcelona to support the Flea.

One of the greatest challenges in the life of a professional footballer is dealing with so much solitude; an eternity of tedium in hotel rooms needs dispatching. The situation is exacerbated when the player in question is very young and far from home. Deprived of his usual pastimes and his mother’s cooking, Leo discovered Barcelona to be a place as boring as sucking nails.

His siblings also began to feel depressed, and the mother decided to take them back to Argentina. Leo stayed there with his father, in a city where at the time another foreigner was growing older: the albino gorilla Snowflake.

Messi was a supreme natural talent, but the history of the game is littered with talented players who never made it. Was it worth staying on in Barcelona, far from family, with no guarantees about how things would pan out? Sometimes Leo shut himself in the bathroom so he could cry without his father seeing him.

One evening Jorge Messi decided he’d had enough and suggested they head home. Another door appeared to be shutting on the player’s career. But at the age of thirteen Leo was already a specialist in adversity. The boy who escaped through a window to win his first title said he wanted to stay on; everyone they knew was in Rosario, but Barcelona had La Masía, the football academy that had produced Xavi, Iniesta, and Guardiola.

Incapable of socializing, Leo was always the last to arrive in the cafeteria and would sit over to one side where he didn’t have to talk to anyone. He tried to avoid the fish and salad they served and took all the time in the world over the things he liked (the meat, the chips, any kind of pasta). Leonardo Faccio, who managed to write a very interesting book about this near-unexplorable character, said this: “Without the ball at his feet, Leo Messi resembles a clone of the electrifying player we all know and love—with the batteries taken out. A poor representative of who he really is.” And this was true from his very first day at La Masía, where he would light up the pitch and then, away from it, show signs of distraction and boredom.

Rexach was generous enough to sign a player who would never play for him. He didn’t stay on long enough to see Messi’s debut from the Barca dugout.

That honor would go to Frank Rijkaard, who had brought Messi through at a measured pace and put an arm around his shoulder after his first serious injury. After Rijkaard Messi played for Guardiola, who interpreted the value of youth in football better than any other coach; he had a profound personal knowledge of the Masía experience, of the solitary tribulations compensated by sleeping with a view of the Camp Nou from your window.

Guardiola’s first-ever job at the stadium was as a ball boy, and he worked his way up from there to become the club’s manager. At the start of the 2009–10 season, seeing limitations in his squad, he said, “We’ll use the kids,” in reference to Sergio Busquets and Pedro. With Guardiola in the dugout, Messi was sure of a place.

Twenty-six years of age at the time of writing, he has become the most admired player on the planet. Game in, game out, he demonstrates how resistant to logic this game is, how the physical is anything but the defining factor: being five foot six did nothing to stop him from scoring a winning header—beating the giant Man Utd keeper Edwin Van der Saar—in the Champions League final.

His hallmark is receiving the ball outside the area, stopping dead, starting off on a lateral scamper, leaving a couple of defenders in his wake, and having a shot. Though he also comes up with goals that have gone down as emblems of footballing craft: sealing Barca’s sixth consecutive title with a chested effort and scoring against Arsenal by flipping the ball up to himself—not once but twice—in the area, before beating the bamboozled keeper.

Hernán Casciari came up with a memorable comparison: Messi is like a dog that won’t let go of the sponge. Ever. Though a dog also happy to be involved in the continuous struggle for the ball. Messi pursues the ball as though there were no other thing in life, ignoring the kicks and fouls, carrying on in the direction of his only goal. Like the puppy that was happy just to be expending energy, Barca’s number 10 is a complete stranger to taking a break, let alone giving in.

Sometimes referees are too mesmerized by his skill to award the fouls that come raining in, and because they believe that even if he falls, he’s still able to finish off the move.

There’s a documentary with Picasso painting a bull for the camera. The lines advance with unsettling virtuosity, until the work is perfect. But since the camera keeps on rolling, the artist doesn’t stop there and starts adding in unnecessary details. He becomes excessive, and the director doesn’t dare stop him. Who’s going to interrupt a genius in a state of grace? So it is with Messi. Blowing up for a foul seems like an attack, equivalent to throwing something onstage during a concert. The opposition may be placing illegal objects in Leo’s path, but the ref has been taken out altogether.

Leo Messi has taken football to belief-defying heights. Rapt, the ref becomes like us, the spectators: a mute witness to a passing sort of glory.

Messi’s well-known strong points contrast with the life he leads in private. This most brilliant of players seems oblivious to the thrills and spills of an imaginative inner life. He comes from a country that does melodrama better than anyone, with its tango and its high concentration of psychoanalysts, a nation where having neuroses is a way of demonstrating your eloquence and where an Under Seventeen player is quite capable of using terms like “trauma” and “taboo,” and knowing what they’re talking about. Yet Messi seems resistant to the mysteries of the unconscious. Someone making a TV ad tried to get inside his intimate inner world, asking what he did in the changing room before an important match. “I chew gum,” came his devastating response.

And it isn’t just that he’s reserved, it’s that he appears at peace with being silent. When he isn’t on the pitch or with his girlfriend, he applies himself to a certain pastime with a monk-like dedication: the siesta. He can do a two- or three-hour stretch after lunch, and it doesn’t stop him getting ten hours in at night.

Everything he does away from the pitch, he does slowly. Leonardo Faccio tells an anecdote about a party during Messi’s time at primary school: one of his teachers gave him a snail costume.

A genius who celebrates his life by sleeping. This might seem strange on this exhibitionist planet of ours, where celebrities applaud their own success in the company of Slovenian models, spending time aboard yachts of tremendous length, or getting their premolars encrusted with diamonds.

The material and spiritual ambitions of Lionel Messi stretch no further than a ball at his feet, a family around him, a woman by his side, and a nice blanket to lie down under. Isn’t it too, well, simple? Especially seeing as we’ve all bought into the dramatic pedagogical idea that talent always has its roots in some kind of pain?

The 2011 Oscars honored two films that centered on sensitive, impaired souls: The King’s Speech with its stuttering King of England, and Black Swan, with its schizophrenic ballerina. We have an easier time accepting excellence if we know it originates in some kind of suffering that had to be overcome: the skater gliding along with supreme grace, though she is blind.

Some sort of torment, the wound necessary for talent to emerge, mitigates the excessive brilliance of a genius. We delight in the results and at the same time feel thankful that we didn’t have to go through all the pain necessary to achieve them.

Messi, with the growth-hormone injections and the initial solitude of his arrival in Barcelona, has hardly been exempt from misery. But it still feels almost scandalous for him to be so boring before and after the whistle blows. “He can’t be that normal!” complain the journalists, anxious to uncover the anomaly, the strange proclivity, the white fly, as the saying goes, nestled in the brain of the champion.

Emotional autism is one of the least serious of the charges leveled by these inquisitors. Like Forrest Gump, the Argentinian 10 is seen as a record-smashing simpleton who only needs a nod from the manager to do astonishing things on the pitch. “Run Forrest, run.”

Messi goes to sleep with a book, and has no desire to see the Taj Mahal. When he had to choose a tattoo, it wasn’t a Che face he went for, like Maradona, but an image of his mother. Each time he scores a goal, he points to the sky in memory of his grandmother. The horizon of his myths is formed by his family; this is what makes him normal. Is there some defect that sets him apart? Celebrities tend to dedicate themselves to consumerism—a vice we can forgive. For someone at the top of all the stats tables, what could be more normal than excess. So extreme acquisitiveness “humanizes” the famous person: he amasses an increasing number of works of art, more children, more stunning models, more classic cars and pointless hats—more of everything than his fellow beings who have a mortgage to pay.

To be normal in the recently fashionable way, Leo could employ a PR expert to buy extravagant things in his name. If only he owned sixteen life-size ceramic giraffes, all questions about his “simplicity” would cease.

Like all stars who dedicate a large part of their time to making commercials, he has a double who gets caught in the rain on camera so he can be saved from a cold. Faccio says that Leo became concerned that this alter ego, the one signing autographs and going to clubs, might be moving to center stage; he’s so shy that his double has to be as well.

Save vague suggestions about the occasional orgy in his Puerto Madero apartment—something not all that strange in the primitive world of football—he’s also not well known for his blowouts.

Human beings like asking themselves improbable questions that don’t always have that much of a bearing on their lives: “Is there life on Mars?” “Is there a God?” “Does Messi have an unconscious?”

He’s got up after so many rough tackles without complaint that it makes him seem immune to inner turbulence. But then in the summer of 2011 we began to see some unusually visceral reactions. The young lion does know how to roar.

After losing 5-0 in the “first leg” of the 2010-11 Real Madrid-Barca clásico, Jose Mourinho rung the tactical changes for the “return.” In the run-up to this devastating loss, he’d created a wrecking ball of a team, bashing aside opponents far more quickly than the Catalan side (who always prefer delivering death by a thousand cuts).

The Portuguese is not a defensive coach. He brings out the best in every squad he manages and only parks the bus when he judges it to be the only route to victory—when he judges the opposition superior. This was what he did as manager of Inter in the 2010 Champions League semifinal they played against Barcelona.

Spain’s La Liga has become a metaphor for a country in crisis; only two or three ever stand a realistic chance to coming out on top, and there are always eight or nine struggling to avoid relegation. The most intense—and democratic—passion awoken isn’t about success but about saving yourself from utter disaster.

The “merengue” hurricane was tearing through teams in 2010, but no one knew if they could do the same to Barca. Partly it was a question of tactics; the azulgrana’s game was based on possession of the ball, whereas this Madrid side only needed the ball for a matter of seconds to create danger. Two opposed languages faced off in the November chill. And we know what happened next: Real went out onto the pitch not only the color of ghosts, but with a similarly flimsy attitude.

Barca doled out a lesson. A rumor went around that Wayne Rooney’s wife, watching the match at their home in Manchester, surprised the Man Utd player by standing and applauding the performance. “I’ve made peace with my profession,” said the English striker, enthused by the Catalan concerto.

For the “return leg,” Mourinho needed to come up with a strategy that Rooney would not celebrate. He didn’t care in the slightest about the quality of the spectacle. The Portuguese’s competitive streak brooks no style arguments.

A destructive game plan needs an accomplice: the ref. Many are the difficult decisions that have to be made by this troubled, sweating man. Clear leg breakers are not difficult to decide about, but other fouls, less crass, not so obviously violent, are less easy. A little tug on a shirt, a nudge to knock someone off balance, dives—none of these are direct attempts on the opposition, though they do affect them. Messi was subjected to more than ten such aggressions in each of the two matches.

César Luis Menotti has pointed out, rightly, that the principal thing that holds a game up is repeat fouls. You shouldn’t have to mutilate a player to be shown a card.

The return was at the Bernebéu, and Mourinho put a defender in midfield; Pepe was charged with man-marking Messi. It was a match played in front of a safety-deposit box: not only must the Camp Nou thrashing be avoided, but football as well. In the midst of what became a foul festival, something happened that had never happened before: Leo became exasperated. Like a caged animal, he kicked a publicity hoarding. Pepe went over and, tapping his shaved head provocatively, said “Lost your mind?” The pursuer diagnosing paranoia.

But in fact Messi was very much using his head. He used it to get fed up. Whoever says he doesn’t get affected by things ought to remember that moment, a moment when he was made to feel powerless.

He kicked a hoarding on another occasion, at Wembley, in his second Champions League final—though this time it was an expression of euphoria.

On May 28, 2011 he looked possessed when he wheeled away after scoring; he was impelled by an enraged, exasperated joy. He left the print of his orange boot on some commercial product or other. The treatment of Pepe the Destroyer and the nobility of Manchester United at Wembley each brought him to boiling point. His emotions aren’t a terra incognita awaiting cartographers; he simply doesn’t express them very often.

How to tell if someone who’s usually very quiet is saying nothing because they’re annoyed? Messi’s interests may be limited, but he gets annoyed should any of them be obstructed. The worse thing, in his eyes, is not starting a match when he’s fit. The idea that he’s being “kept back” for another game makes him feel like a grandmother’s dress—like he’s being mothballed.

According to the El País writer Ramon Besa, when Guardiola put Messi on the bench in a match against Sevilla (the previous time they played, Barca had won 4-0), the Flea didn’t show up at the following training session. Messi’s teammates, Besa says, “Thought he must have had a cold, or that something unforeseen had come up. As it turned out, Messi was angry at not having been picked, and it wasn’t until the following morning that the feeling passed—in the same way as it had arrived, without Messi knowing exactly why.”

On another occasion, he took part in a training session with a plastic spoon in his mouth. He hadn’t just left the object at the coffee bar. A strange sign. The rest of the team felt obliged to examine their consciences: Who had failed to pass him the ball? Who had accidentally injured him? Who had not won the ball back when he needed it?

When the best player on earth trains with a small spoon between his lips, alarm bells ring in the same way as when a tenor goes out to sing with a thermometer in the mouth.

After a few minutes the genius spat out the piece of cutlery. Crisis over.

The person who has best studied Lionel Messi’s reactions is Pep Guardiola. I had lunch with him in December 2012, along with his great friend David Trueba and a couple of journalist friends.

Guardiola is a fan of forays out into the strange world of not-training sessions and not-press conferences—where there isn’t a single objective like the match on the weekend. Though not quite as bookish as the likes of Pardeza or Valdano, he likes to know what’s going on in the world and reads a fair amount. Curiously, once away from the tensions of his usual environment and in the company of friends from other professions, he returns to his perpetual theme with renewed vigor. “I was never completely happy as a footballer,” he said at lunch—with everyone else in the restaurant straining to catch his words. “I worried too much, I’d vomit before matches, the whole experience was agonizing.” Ever since then he’s had the temperament more of a strategist than of the player making things happen on the pitch. In the days when he was still wearing number 4 on his back, Valdano characterized him as a “coach with a ball at his feet.”

“You have no idea how envious I am of my players. I was never able to enjoy it like they do. They’re so happy out there, I want to kill them!” Some of his players are like him in their vocation as coaches: Xavi and Busquets are both such talented tacticians they won’t be out of place among the dugout-thinkers. Whereas Messi is impossible to imagine out of the team strip. He is psychologically a creature of the present, of the goals he scores after siesta. He lacks the capacities for evocation that a commentator needs, and he isn’t a forward planner, as coaches need to be. What’s he going to do when he hangs up his boots? Eat steak in a mansion where the most expensive piece of furniture is the sofa?

“I’ll still be in the dugout when I’m sixty,” says Guardiola, happy to be involved in the part of football where he feels more at ease and that doesn’t last as long. That’s where he watches Messi—more closely than anyone ever has. Barca’s style of play is, among other things, a mechanism to free the number 10: Samuel Eto’o and Zlatan Ibrahimovic alike had to stand aside so as not to obstruct Messi’s route to goal.

No one gets to be the world’s best in a team sport without the complicity of teammates. Guardiola worked tirelessly to create the moves in which Messi works both as midfield axis and center forward: a number 10 mutating into a number 9.

Your average poachers have the most abrupt job in the world: they only come into play for a few seconds a game. Messi offers up a slow-burn recital on the wings but also pops up as a feinting striker to put away a pass he even laid on for himself.

Eto’o was your classic fox in the box, an overly fixed role for Barca’s total style. And Ibrahimovic, for his part, was a giant used to ruling alone. In Serie A they’d each become used to providing the point of the attack, to resolving matters solo. Neither was able to adjust properly to Barca’s gregarious schematic.

In the 2010–11 season, Guardiola brought in David Villa, with his Pedro-like ability to stretch a game. The center-forward area was freed up, and in Xavi and Iniesta they had two of the greatest providers ever to grace the game.

With these changes made, Messi, already the best in the game, began outdoing himself to an even greater degree. Guardiola knew how to break down the distinct phases of the Barcelona engine.

The azulgrana tactics, then, were arranged to suit Messi’s strong points, something that has never happened when he’s been on national duty. And yet the albiceleste have always been a strong priority for him. Leonardo Faccio reconstructs a little-known episode: the Flea lit up pitches in Spain from the moment he became the youngest player to score in La Liga (at the age of sixteen, against Albacete), but the shock waves of his talent took a long time to register for Argentina.

He was invited to play for the Spanish youth team at sixteen. According to FIFA rules, this would have barred him from ever playing for Argentina, so Messi declined. But then Argentina dragged their feet in calling him up. “It was five months between the call up from Spain and the Argentinian Federation getting in touch,” says Faccio.

The story ought to ring alarm bells for anyone who criticizes Messi for a lack of identity. He hasn’t lost his accent, or his Rosario ways, and plans on retiring back in that city—one he only ever left because he couldn’t get medical treatment there.

But the schism between him and Argentinian fans will always be there until he wins something with the national side. He’s never played for a club in his home country, and his debt to the albiceleste feels pending. Another anecdote, this time from Johan Cruyff, is illuminating on the matter: in his Ajax days, when he went out, he’d be congratulated on the streets of Holland, whereas when he moved to Barcelona, the people would thank him. His achievements were seen by his compatriots as strictly professional, whereas Barcelonans felt like he’d become one of them. Lionel Messi’s Argentinian drama consists in the fact his countrymen don’t yet feel able to thank him.

The worst thing about success is the way it cancels out the pleasures contained in hoping and dreaming you will one day be successful. For a team whose cabinet is glutted with trophies, the hardest thing is retaining the desire. What’s the point in striving for an objective you’ve already achieved?

When, at the beginning of the 2010–11 season, Barca lost to minnows Hércules F.C, Guardiola had to issue a wake-up call for them to continue dreaming.

“Leo needs no special motivation,” he told me at the lunch. “He competes with himself; there are always new challenges.” He gave a simple but very revealing example: in one training session, Busquets went in for the ball recklessly, taking Messi out and leaving him with a gashed leg. The session went on without any further incidents. In the changing room afterwards, Busquets went over to apologize, and Messi, his voice calm, pointed at the cut and gave the enigmatic answer: “This says ‘Sergio Busquets.’ ” What did he mean? His best friends on the team, fellow Argentines Gabi Milito and Javier Mascherano, understood before the others. The Flea never forgets; there was a debt now, one he would leap across. A few days later, when everyone seemed to have forgotten the affair, Messi took Busquets out, trotting away with a mischievous smile. 1-1.

A measure of his tenacity is the targets he sets himself. When Mauricio Pochettino, in his days as manager of Espanyol, said something offhand about Messi, it just so happened that Barcelona’s other team came out on the wrong end of a 5-1 drubbing in the following match. Messi celebrated a job well done by drifting over to the wing closest to the opposition dugout for the last few minutes of the game—to plant himself in Pochettino’s mind for good.

And if he did need incentivizing, in the summer of 2010 along came Jose Mourinho to take the helm at Real Madrid. The effect was twofold: he motivated the merengues with his intricate conspiracy theories but also spurred on their archrivals with his constant affronts.

It was clear from the off that Mourinho hadn’t come to Spain for a popularity contest. In an early press conference, he suggested that if journalists wanted to speak to a nice coach, Pep Guardiola was their man, leaving his opposite number in charge of keeping La Liga civil.

The Portuguese followed through on his promise to be thoroughly unpleasant, to such a degree that the most unfathomable thing about him is his second surname: Dos Santos—or Two Saints—though perhaps heavenly algebra is such that in fact “duplicate” saints add up to Lucifer, the fallen angel…

And Mou turned out to be just the Gatorade that Messi needed. He’d have played astonishingly well if he hadn’t turned up, but the Portuguese helped him rehydrate.

The team’s increasing reliance on him led to an interesting paradox. In the spring of 2011 he was in competition with Cristiano Ronaldo to be top scorer in La Liga, and there was the chance he might have fallen for the temptation of seeing goals as solo victories; Mourinho’s dogged twisting of Barca’s strong points helped Messi become a more mature player. His individualism remained firmly in the locker room.

Menotti has a good line on this, the collectivization of Messi’s own game: “Messi learned. What soloists need to do is control the rhythm because, if not, they only disrupt the orchestra. And that’s what he did: he’d pick up the ball and, every time, pluck his violin three or four times, but on occasion you’d think, ‘What would have happened if he’d stepped aside just then? And that began to become part of his thinking. He began setting other players up. There’s more to him now, he takes up better positions, he’ll return a pass as if to say, ‘You go for it, there was nothing on for me then.’ “Before he was always looking to go and win the match on his own, but not anymore. He evolved. And that’s where you get a sense of the impact of the maestro: What would have happened with these players if not for Pep?”

Messi’s competitiveness is borne out by one strange statistic: he commits more fouls than other technical players. In four neurotic games between Barca and Madrid, he was responsible for fourteen of his team’s sixty-eight infractions, an unheard-of quota for a player of such finesse in his position.

In short, this boy-faced genius doesn’t lack substance. Though it takes a little patience if you want to see them, he does have his outbursts. He might not be one to air them on crappy daytime TV, and you’re not going to catch him throwing his phone out of the window, but the things that annoy him and the things he takes satisfaction in do effect his mood. What Guardiola would look out for in him, in terms of emotions, was that glint in his eye, that spark of malice; if that was there, all was well.

In South Africa 2010 he had an altogether different coach. Maradona’s way in the dugout was to try and transmit his charisma: training sessions with him involved more kisses and hugs than argumentation. Intelligently enough, Maradona made Messi’s roommate Verón, a veteran whose experiences might conceivably rub off. But Messi isn’t out there looking to run the show. His imagination makes him a central player, but it isn’t his natural setting to come up with what other players ought to do, or to make their decisions. Maradona giving him the captain’s armband wasn’t a favor by any means—rather, it was akin to a father taking his son to a brothel to instantly make a man of him. But the extra pressure weighed on Messi, a player who still had something childlike in his game, who appeals for support with his tattoos of mother and grandmother. Maradona offered him the historical opportunity to become his successor, but that’s not Messi. He was comfortable in the Guardiola cocoon, but he withered at Maradona’s shove.

The next date with destiny was Brazil 2014. Triumph there, and the facts would justify everything that had happened to date; we’d all say that Messi needed to go to the home of Argentina’s greatest enemy in order to win his greatest trophy.

Leo was older now, and a more complete player. He was eighteen when, in 2005, he was named best player at the Under Twenty World Cup, and when he scored his first goal for Barcelona. On March 10, 2007, in the Bernebéu, he confirmed his place at the pinnacle, with his hat trick in the clásico.

The numbers worn by Messi attest to his path to becoming an idol. He made his debut for Barcelona with 30 on his back, became 19 as he moved up from the youth ranks, before the definitive upgrade, the number 10 made sacred by Maradona and Pelé, and that he had worn as a boy playing in the red and black of Newell’s.

In 2007, against Getafe, he came up with his double of Maradona’s 1986 goal against England. That feat confirmed his talent, all he had to do then was repeat it. The deluge of goals and the six titles he won with Barca in the 2008–2009 season brought him the Balon d’Or, and when he went up to collect the trophy he smiled like a child in an ice-cream shop. But he wasn’t content to stop there, and in 2009–2010 equaled Ronaldo’s emphatic forty-seven goals.

Other difficult-to-believe records were still to come. He became a headache for the team of the aspirin makers, Bayer Leverkusen, with his five goals against them in 2012—a Champions League high. And in the same year he broke a record that had stood for forty years: Gerd Muller’s eighty-five goals in a calendar year. Messi visited “Der Bomber” with a signed shirt. Prizes have become just part of the job for Messi. It seemed in many ways quite normal that he should win the Balon d’Or four times, surpassing three-time winners Platini, Cruyff, and Van Basten in doing so.

It hit Messi hard when Guardiola left Barcelona in 2012. The coach who had done everything possible to help him realize his talent, even foregoing a center forward so that Messi could be two players at once—initiating moves as a winger and finishing them off as a striker—took a sabbatical after four grueling seasons. Grueling and successful: with Messi’s assistance, he’d won fourteen of the available nineteen titles during that time.

Messi didn’t attend the farewell conference because he didn’t want to cry in public. But his performance level didn’t dip with the master’s departure, in fact he only got better under Tito Vilanova, an in-house appointment of Guardiola’s right-hand man, one to carry on the project.

As well as his trademark moves, he’ll also go down as having invented goals of great symbolic artifice, as in 2008–2009 when he sealed Barca’s league victory with a chested goal.

On April 10, 2013, Messi revolutionized the game—again. He was injured and couldn’t start in the match against Paris Saint Germain, but with Barca losing 1-0 he had to be thrown into the fray. He came on sixteen minutes into the second half, and it was a watershed; PSG waned and Barca had a resurgence. The emotional state of the stadium changed. Messi’s impact, that is, goes beyond merely footballing: it is spiritual. Though he could hardly move, his presence changed things. He laid on an assist and Barca ended up drawing, good enough to see them through to the next round. It was the first time that Messi had played in soul rather than in body. It was a glimpse, in a way, of what his legacy will be; when he retires, the mere memory of him will help the team to win matches. As the Brazilian commentator Nelson Rodríguez put it: “Even ghosts have a duty to their club.”

As long as he continues playing, there’s no way of knowing where he’ll get to. All we know is that just as no lock exists that will stop him, no defense does either.

When a child wants a bike, there’s a lot he’ll do to get it. When a man plays like a child who wants a bike, that’s the best player in the world.

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Application of Silicon Nitride bonded Silicon Carbide Products in the Ceramic Industry

 The ceramic industry can be divided into household porcelain, ceramics for building, sanitary porcelain, grinding wheels, electrical porcelain, alumina balls, special porcelain, and so on. The kiln furniture sintered includes refractory slabs, foot pad, uprights, sagger and stripper plates. The kiln furniture plays a role of supporting and containing in the furnace in order to increase the loading kiln density of semi-finished products. In addition, in the firing process, it can also prevent the combustion gas, dust and molten slag from contact with the burning products and reduce the consequent product defects. Therefore, the refractories for kiln furniture should meet the following requirements.

Great strength at room temperature and high temperature; in the course of use, the kiln furniture should bear the load of itself and the products. Material with high strength can make thin and light kiln furniture, which can not only enhance the kiln loading density, but also improve product quality.

Good thermal conductivity, low heat storage and good thermal stability; the kiln furniture in line with these conditions can improve the firing speed of furnace, increase production, and reduce energy consumption.

   Good chemical stability; in the high-temperature firing process, the kiln furniture will be in contact with the flame produced from fuel combustion, gas and molten slag, so will be severely eroded. Only with good chemical stability can the kiln furniture have resistance to erosion and meet production needs.

    The thermal conductivity, high temperature strength and oxidation resistance of silicon nitride bonded silicon carbide products are superior to those of the conventional silicon carbide and oxide bonded silicon carbide. And the fumigation phenomenon in ceramic products will be completely resolved. It can be used for more than one year in the ceramic kiln at 1250 -1350℃(the number of uses is more than 2 times that of ordinary silicon carbide). Silicon nitride bonded silicon carbide is at present the ideal replacement for the ceramic kiln furniture.

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Destiny: Master Race
both fascination and crime

The permanent exhibition at Vogelsang IP focuses on the young men who were selected to be moulded into a future leadership elite of the National Socialist regime. The example of Vogelsang demonstrates the large extent to which architecture was used to document power and control of the Party.

The Ordensburgen were always both training centres and stages for the self-projection of the NSDAP leaders. At the same time, they were characterized by an air of incompleteness and haste: many things appeared to be improvised and driven by restlessness. This applies above all for the educational curricula of the courses, which were constantly changed and criticised within the Party.

Nevertheless, the Ordensjunker, (knights of the Order), as they called themselves, were presented to the German people as the new party elite. Many of them actually felt as if they were just that. With their entry into the Ordensburgen they believed that they had found a way to achieve social advancement and a professional career. The male association into which they were accepted promised them safety and protection and the comradeship of like-minded men.

Their minds were ideologically moulded by lectures and seminars but also by physical training with military drills and many kinds of sports. Particularly in the courses on “racial studies”, the image of their alleged superiority was constantly reinforced. A National Socialist substitute religion with rites and solemn ceremonies helped the Ordensjunker believe that they were participating in the creation of a “new race” of the future.

With this ideological background, the men of the Ordensburgen initially went as soldiers into a war which was, particularly in the east, a war of racial extermination. Several hundred of them were deployed to Poland, the Baltic States, Belarus and the Ukraine like modern colonisers. Many of them were involved in the National Socialist crimes in these regions. It took a very long time before post-war society and ultimately the judicial system began to take an interest in individual perpetrators.

At the conclusion of the exhibition, questions remain that deliberately reach beyond the history of National Socialism: What would we have thought ourselves? How would we have acted had we been alive in a similar time and given a similar task? Are there any comparable situations in the today’s world? What do democracy and plurality mean to us in our society today?

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Hidden Heroes Bug Club Mulan

The Secret of Mulan

Yesterday I received copies of TALES OF HIDDEN HEROES, Pearson’s new Bug Club Comprehension title. It contains two stories, one by Malachy Doyle and one by me, beautifully illustrated by Teresa Martinez.

The Secret of Mulan is a retelling of an old Chinese poem about the girl Mulan, who saves her father from certain death by going into battle his place. I enjoyed spending time with the Mulan legend and studying the character of Mulan herself, an ancient oriental forerunner of today’s badass YA heroines. I haven’t got around to watching the Disney treatment of the story but I love the various Chinese versions of the tale (link). Fascinating to see how the story evolved over the centuries: Mulan herself remains surprisingly constant but the arch villain changes to reflect the taste (or rather distaste) of each new day. In my retelling I have returned to the baddie of the original poem – the fearsome bandit Flying Swallow and his weaponized bronze cymbals.

TALES OF HIDDEN HEROES is not yet available for pre-order, but I’ll let you know when it is.

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Spherical blastwave and steel barrier

This application simulates a spherical blast wave expanding adjacent to a barrier or wall. The solid material is modeled as steel, including both the ground surface and the wall in a single solid mesh. The position of the ground surface is fixed, but the wall is allowed to move. The wall is 0.5 m high and 0.1 m thick. The ground and wall are simulated using Dyna3d finite elements with an approximate mesh resolution of 2 cm. The spherical blast wave is modeled using the standard Clawpack interface provided by AMROC for Eulerian-Lagrangian coupled simulation with the ghost-fluid method. The upper surface of the ground and both sides of the wall are treated as fluid-solid interaction boundaries. The fluid AMR mesh uses a base mesh resolution of 1 cm with one or two levels of refinement. The fluid simulation bounding box stretches to 1 m in height and ends just within the open edges of the ground surface in order to avoid any ambiguities with the CPT (closest-point transform) algorithm. Using a very strong initial pressure bubble produces a significant indentation and buckling of the wall.

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Friday, August 31, 2012

A quick one.

Last day in Ho Chi Minh City..

It hasn't been a great start to the day.. so I'm moody.
I'll write again when I find my mood.
Maybe I'm just tired.
I HOPE it's only because I am tired, because honestly if it's something else then I would have a bad attitude for the rest of this trip!

I'll write again soon hopefully.
Just feeling so shitty despite being on "holiday".

hang in there babe... nanti cite tau.... no matter how roller coaster your life is, i love reading about it...

Sweetpea Witch said...

hehehhe.. you might have to wait a while longer..

got back from holiday on Friday.. Monday pegi 5 days trip pulak.. huhuuu..

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State Senator's gay brother slams HB 1523

State Senator's gay brother slams HB 1523

MISSISSIPPI (WDAM) - The gay brother of a Mississippi State Senator slammed The Religious Accommodation Act and his sibling's vote for it in a Facebook post.

Jonathan Fillingane, the brother of Sen. Joey Filligane of Sumrall, who voted for HB 1523, compared his brother's vote to a stab in the chest.

"I am so sadden by the bill the legislator's passed in Mississippi," said Jonathan in the post. "I have cried several times today due to the fact my brother Joey Fillingane agreed with the ignorant governor."

"I love my brother," Joey said. "I've heard about it (his brother's Facebook post). I've not seen it, but I've heard about it."

Joey compared the legal rights given to business owners in the legislation to those given to a conscientious objector. He said he still "absolutely" stands behind his vote for the bill.

"I'm happy to talk about the merit of that bill all day long because it doesn't do probably 90 percent of what the opponents of it claim that it does," Joey said. "The only thing this bill does in actuality is that if you are a pastor or a church or anyone that is in anyway a part of a wedding business, i.e. a florist, a bakery, a DJ, anybody that would participate in weddings, and if a same-sex couple approaches you as a pastor or as a church about renting your facility, performing your ceremony, baking the cake, etc., you simply can refuse to participate if that is your strongly held religious viewpoint based on that, and not be subject to a lawsuit. That is what the bill does. Beyond that, all these other things that people are conjuring up that they believe that it does, which it doesn't do, is just pure hype. It's not reality."

Fillingane said that the language of the legislation is narrowly tailored to only impact weddings.

"This one is very specific, very narrowly tailored, and it was done so on purpose,' he said. "We didn't want to get into all of these other issues that people are now claiming that it does, which it actually doesn't do."

The Religious Accommodation Bill, which will be law starting July 1, has garnered national attention. Ellen DeGeneres and Ellisville native Lance Bass are among celebrities who have come out against the bill because they say is discriminatory to the LGBT community.

House Rep. Jay Hughes made and effort to repeal the bill Tuesday , but Joey said there wasn't a similar effort in the Senate.

"We had heard rumor that there would be an effort on the Senate side today," he said. "We went into session at 10 o'clock this morning, there were absolutely zero efforts made. in any way associated with that bill. Again, sometimes I think the hype and the reality of the situation maybe are two different things."


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HPSD Board of Trustees picks 10 candidates to interview for superintendent

HPSD Board of Trustees picks 10 candidates to interview for superintendent

HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) - The Hattiesburg Public School District Board of Trustees has narrowed its pool of superintendent candidates from 31 to 10.

Executive Director of the Mississippi School Boards Association (MSBA) Mike Waldrop, who is helping HPSD in its search, said MSBA is not releasing names of the top 10 candidates because they have not all been notified.

Waldrop said all of the candidates HPSD will be interviewing are from Mississippi, and were asked by the school board to have a good financial background.

"The board sets the criteria, and one of their criteria, of course, is a good understanding of district level finances," Waldrop said. "When we interview candidates, we take the criteria that the board establishes, and we also work with the board to establish the criteria. Then, we focus our interview those criteria."

Waldrop said had several other qualities in mind when looking through applications.

"Proven track record of moving a district forward academically, community involvement, you know, a history of strong community involvement, communication skills, a knowledge of curriculum and instruction, things like that," he said.

He said MSBA has helped find new leadership for districts with similar financial and academic circumstances.

"Oh yes, we've done lots of similar situations like this," Waldrop said. "The issues always vary, but yes, we have done some with districts that are struggling financially, some that are struggling academically. We've done the whole spectrum."

Waldrop said he was impressed by the quality of the candidates who applied for the position.

"They had an excellent pool," he said. "We were very, very pleased with their pool. They had one of the strongest pools of candidates of any search we've done recently, so we anticipate they're going to have a really top-line superintendent in place shortly."

Waldrop said he "wasn't at liberty to release" when interviews for the candidates will begin, saying the school board needed to release that information first. WDAM 7 News reached out to board president Marcus Cathey and was told he was out of the office on Friday.

Waldrop said he is confident HPSD can find the right person to move the district forward in this group of candidates.

"I think it is going to be an excellent fit," he said. "I think the community is really going to be pleased with who they select because the candidates, all the candidates, that they're interviewing are very strong."


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Katrina victim laid to rest, 2 years later

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - For nearly a year, he was known simply as "Will," one of two unidentified Hurricane Katrina victims buried in coastal Harrison County. On Wednesday, two years after the roiling waters of the storm stole his life, he was remembered by his real name: James Blair.

A gray granite marker bearing his name was unveiled at the foot of his grave. It also reads, in part: "May he continue to represent the 'will' of south Mississippi."

Two of Blair's sons fought back tears during a ceremony on the anniversary of Katrina. They had searched shelters and followed false leads until DNA evidence identified their father a few months ago.

"Seeing everybody here today certainly does help," son Charles Blair, of Cleveland, Ga., said after the service. "Knowing how the community felt, it makes closure so much easier."

About 60 people attended the spare service, where mourners hummed or sang as the country-gospel hymn "Peace in the Valley," played on a priest's iPod.

It was one of several gatherings along the Gulf Coast to remember the monster storm blamed in the deaths of more than 1,600 in Louisiana and Mississippi. President Bush and wife Laura appeared before the backdrop of a rebuilt bridge in Bay St. Louis, Miss.

In Biloxi, about 100 people prayed and sang on the neatly manicured town green in the shadow of a Katrina monument. Mayor A.J. Holloway said he is grateful for how far his city has come and proud of its people, and prayers were offered for the victims of the storm and for the future.

"God has been good to Biloxi and its people of the Mississippi Gulf Coast," Holloway said, as the Gulf's water, barely a block away, rippled gently. "We have a new outlook on life and a new appreciation for what's really important in life. It's not your car or your clothes or your possessions.

"It's being alive and knowing the importance of family and friends and knowing that we all have a higher power," he said.

Signs of the devastation remain among the scattered signs of hope. Along the coastal highway, most of the twisted metal, concrete and other storm debris has been cleared, leaving vacant, grassy lots in many places where stately century-old homes once overlooked the white sand beaches.

In some places, front porch steps lead to nowhere and high-rise condominiums have sprung up where homes and businesses used to stand. About 13,000 families are still in government-issued trailers.

Casinos are a major driver of Biloxi's economy - music from the Hard Rock hotel and casino could be heard during the morning service - and city leaders hope their presence in the community will attract new investment, particularly among smaller, mom-and-pop-type hotels and restaurants.

"We had a long way to go, but we're coming back," Holloway said, while acknowledging that doesn't mean Katrina will be forgotten.

"I don't think we'll ever get over it," he said.

At the Evergreen Garden Cemetery in Gulfport, as James Blair's family was saying goodbye to the drowning victim, the grave next to his remained marked as "Strength," the 97th known victim of Katrina in Harrison County and the only one still not identified, coroner Gary Hargrove said. Eleven people also are listed as missing.

Blair's sons said they thought he'd evacuated his home at 1 Hurricane Circle in Pass Christian, especially after having lived through destructive Hurricane Camille in 1969, but that they never got a call from him after Katrina. A search of shelters by his son, Robert Wallace, and grandson in the aftermath turned up little more than false hope. It wasn't until a few months ago, when a frustrated Charles Blair showed up at Hargrove's office and gave a description of his dad that fit the details on the headstone for "Will," that closure was within reach.

After DNA testing, "Will" was positively identified as Blair, who was also known as Raymond Wallace. Robert Wallace was given his father's watch, which had stopped just minutes before 5 a.m. It's all they have left, he said.

"We're doing our grieving now," Wallace said.

Hargrove said he has no leads on the identity of "Strength," a black man, believed to have been 25 to 35 years old, with a tattoo on his left forearm that read "Love Jones." He was found in Biloxi, but Hargrove said that given the storm surge, he cannot say that was his hometown.

"I still work today on Strength's case, going through files, looking for information, and every chance I get, I get it to the public," he said.


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Audi Motorshow Stand

Ingenhoven Architekten, Düsseldorf/Germany

Planning time:
1998 – 1999

Construction time:
1999 – 2000

Services rendered by Werner Sobek:
structural engineering of loadbearing structure and special structures

Audi AG, Ingolstadt/Germany

H.G. Esch, Hennef/Germany
Andreas Keller, Altdorf/Germany

The structure of the new motor show stands for AUDI AG, used for the first time at the IAA 1999 in Frankfurt, Germany, consists of a multiple-curve glass loop which is animated by the projection of coloured light and changing film sequences. The wall is 6 m high and varies in length from 100 to 300 metres, depending on the size of the stand. The 4 mm thick glass panes of satinised standard safety glass are held in a narrow-mesh cable net which is mounted under tension in a grid structure consisting of curved stainless steel tubes which cross over each other.