Weekend Roundup

It´s another hot one today and sunshine and blue skies from the mountains to the Med. Here's the forecast.....

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Clear	Scattered Clouds	Partly Cloudy	Partly Cloudy	Clear

Andy Murray is rapidly becoming another Tim Henman and it appears he needs another visit to the drawing board. Guys he was hammering last year are now beating him and I think he has a few things to adjust. Meanwhile, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button took advantage of F1s equivalent of sibling rivalry to sneak in and pinch the points.

England showed the might of their challenge to this coming World Cup with a slightly less than impressive 2-1 win against Japan. This was the equivalent of Man Utd playing Torquay and we might have expected better. Perhaps the inspiration came from the Eurovision Song Contest were UK PLC amassed ten points as the world gasped in admiration at the songwriting skills of Pete Waterman. My wife actually thinks it was Denis Waterman and there is absolutely no reason to believe she has made a mistake.

However, there is always the cricket as England take on the mighty Bangladesh......Elsewhere, there was a wonderful display of Rugby League by Wigan and Leeds and a great Rugby Union final which saw Leicester earning their stripes once again..........

The media interviews with politicians still has us believing the disgraced cabinet minister is really a man of the utmost integrity who really did no wrong. This continues to impress upon me just how rotten the whole lot seem to be. It would appear they are busy extolling his virtues in case he decides to drop any of them in the manure.

On my show yesterday, Maria from Molly Malone's in La Cala Finestrat won the boat trip on the Med and the breakfast at Cat's Whiskers in Albir. I have to say, after having tasted Darren's Sunday Lunch, the food and service was par excellence and Maria is in for a great day out. I have a sneaky feeling we'll have another one to give away on my show next week. Don't forget yesterday's show is now available at www.vincetracy.com/showtime

I love reading the articles of the rebel doctor......

Low testosterone linked to frailty

I've been warning men of the dangers of low testosterone  for years... and now that the mainstream is catching on, I  wish I'd kept my mouth shut.

Now that they've "discovered" the problem, they're only too  happy to offer you a dangerous Big Pharma solution.

How typical!

You don't need their drugs... but you probably do need a  natural testosterone boost, and a new study shows one more  reason why: Low  testosterone levels will turn you into a  sickly weakling.

Australian researchers looked at data on more than 3,600  men between the ages of 70 and 88, and found that those  with the lowest testosterone levels were most likely to be  frail, or become frail over the following years.

These were sad, tired old people who had difficulty with  basic acts like climbing a flight of stairs or walking a  block, and facing conditions like diabetes, heart disease  or arthritis.

Some of them were just plain wasting away.

Think that can't happen to you? Sorry, pal -- but it IS  happening, right now, as you sit there reading this.

Men need more testosterone as we age, but nature's played a  cruel trick on us: Our bodies make less and less every  year.

Low testosterone won't just increase your odds of frailty --  it can hurt you in every way, from low energy levels to sex  problems to cobwebs in your brain. And it doesn't wait for  your golden years. These problems can start at just about  any time from middle age on.

So here's what you need to do: First, turn off the TV so  you don't have to listen to that goofball in the  commercials prattle on about "low T."

God forbid they actually use the word "testosterone."

Then, you'll need to have your levels checked -- but don't  ask your regular doctor to do it, because he'll just push a  prescription for dangerous synthetic testosterone on you.

He's seen the commercials, too.

Instead, visit a doctor who has expertise in natural  hormones. He can check your levels, top you off naturally --  and keep tabs on you to make sure it's working.

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

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The following arrived in my mailbox....

Interesting Facts

1. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

2.  Pearls melt in vinegar.

3. The three most valuable brand names  on earth: Marlboro,
Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

4.  It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.

5.  Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in
the palms of  their hands.

6. Ten percent of the Russian government's income  comes from
the sale of vodka.

7. The sentence "The quick brown  fox jumps over the lazy
dog" uses every letter in the  alphabet. (Developed by
Western Union to test telex/two  communications.)

8. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled  without
repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."

9.  "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with
only the left  hand.

10. No word in the English language rhymes with month,
orange,  silver, or purple.

11. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one  knows why.

12. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is  from
the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The
horses  were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how
to walk up  straight staircases.

13. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie"
(thus  the name of the Don McLean song).

14. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =  12,345,678,987,654,321

15. Clans of long ago that wanted to get  rid of their
unwanted people without killing them used to burn their
houses  down - hence the expression "to get fired."

16. Only two people  signed the Declaration  of Independence
on July 4th, 1776: John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of
the rest signed  on August 2,  but the last signature wasn't
added until five years later.

17.  An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

18. The longest  recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen
seconds.

19. The name  "Jeep" came from the abbreviation used in the
army for the "General  Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

20. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower  than the
lowest point in Colorado.

21. Nutmeg is extremely  poisonous if injected intravenously.

22. If you have three  quarters, four dimes, and four
pennies, you have $1.19. You also have  the largest amount of
money in coins without being able to make  change for a
dollar.

23. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck
on 4:20.

24.  The only two days of the year in which there are no
professional  sports games (MLB,  NBA, NHL, or NFL)  are the
day before and the day after the Major League All-Star  Game.

25. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or
older.

26.  The mask used by Michael  Myers in the original
"Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask  painted white.

27. If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne,  it will
keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

28.  Snails can sleep for three years without eating.

29. Actor Tommy  Lee Jones and Vice  President Al Gore were
freshman roommates at Harvard.

30.  The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually
indistinguishable from  those of humans, so much so that they
could be confused at a crime  scene.

31. Any month that begins on a Sunday will always have a
Friday the 13th.

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Music Stuff May 31st

1961, Chuck Berry  opened 'Berry Park', an amusement complex near St Louis.
1962, The Beatles  played the last night of a 7-week run at the Star-Club, Hamburg, West  Germany.
1969, The Plastic  Ono Band recorded 'Give Peace A Chance' during a 'bed-in' at the Hotel  La Reine in Montreal, Canada.
1969, Jimi Hendrix  was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine
1976, The Who gave  themselves a place in the Guinness book of Records as the loudest  performance of a rock band at 120 decibels, when they played at Charlton  Athletic Football ground.
1977, The Police  appeared at The Railway Hotel, Putney, London.
1980, Lipps Inc US No.1- 'Funkytown', a UK No.2 hit.
1980, Paul  McCartney went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'McCartney II'.
1980, The Theme  From M*A*S*H* (Suicide Is Painless), by Mash was at No.1 on the UK  singles chart, 10 years after it was first recorded
1982, The Rolling  Stones played at the 100 Club, Oxford St, London, to a sold out crowd of  400 people.
1986, Peter  Gabriel scored his second solo UK No.1 album with 'So' featuring the  singles 'Sledgehammer' and a duet with Kate Bush 'Don't Give Up'
1986, The Notting  Hillbillies made their live debut when they appeared at The Grove in  Leeds. The group featured Mark Knopfler, Steve Phillips and Brendan  Crocker who were each paid £22
1997, Eternal  started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'I Wanna  Be The Only One' the girl soul trio's first UK chart-topper.
1998, Geri  Halliwell announced she had quit The Spice Girls
1998, Simply Red UK No.1  album - 'Blue'
1998, The Tamperen  went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Feel It'. The track  was  based on the Jacksons 1981 hit 'Can You Feel  It'
2000, US soul  singer Johnnie Taylor died of a heart attack in a Texas hospital shortly  after his 62nd birthday.
2003, UK police  announced that thousands of people at this years pop festivals would be  subjected to a computerised drug test.
2005, former East  17 singer Brian Harvey was in a critical condition in a London hospital  after he fell under the wheels of his Mercedes convertible

Birthday Boys and Girls May 31st

1938,  Peter Yarrow, Peter Paul and Mary
1947,  Junior Campbell, Marmalade
1948, John Bonham, drummer with Led Zeppelin
1952, Karl Bartos, Kraftwerk

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