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Earn extra pocket money from Olympics Games
Not only the host nation generate revenue from any Olympics Games, entrepreneurial blogger can make money from Olympics Games as well as. How ? By blogging about it and provide latest information and scoop on the games and related events.The next Olympic Games 2008 which will be held in Beijing, China is only months away and blogs and website related to the Beijing Olympic Games have sprouted like mushroom. Early birds have capitalized on the games to earn extra pocket money from advertising sources. [...]
12th August, 2008
Today's weather; It's Queen Sirikit's birthday today and this is officially celebrated all over Thailand, each government and public place, like hotels, will have a big picture of the Queen on display, like this one. Yesterday was Mother Day in Thailand, with an unusual but interesting view on this in The Nation , a nation wide English language paper. Other big news is that former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra didn't return to Thailand after visiting the opening of the Olympic Games in Bejing and [...]
MEDAL HUNT
The Olympics are more than just athletes in action, competing for a limited number of medals. After all, 205 nations will compete during the 2008 Games, and 87 have never won a single medal. National pride is the predominant force behind the desire to compete and succeed, but for most athletes, they will go home proud - and empty-handed. The host nation generally exceeds any rational number of medals, based on that pride of competing for your nation – at home, with that verifiable “home field [...]
China Flexes Its M&A Muscles
The Olympics will give China a chance to celebrate its status as a political and economic heavyweight. The games also come as the Asian nation has been raising its profile in the deal-making business. While the volume of mergers and acquisitions around the world was down 30 percent in the first half of the year compared [...]
IS BEIJING READY TO WELCOME THE WORLD?
I suppose I have to hand it to the powers that be of the vast nation of China to have had the vision to pursue, win and stage a huge global event like the Summer Olympics. There are so many expectations involved, and so many comparisons that will, fairly and unfairly, be made to previous Games (the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics being the best of all time – as far as I’m concerned…, and that were also the first to which China sent a delegation of athletes!) And that’s just the beginning of the [...]
THE WINNERS
What a glorious Games! Well worth the 4-year wait, and crammed full from start to finish with compelling competition and drama. There are all kinds of winners – from actual medal winners, to stories of athletes competing with their whole hearts despite the inevitability of losing, to demonstrations of superb skill, to gratifying exhibitions of pride in accomplishment. Here are some of my most memorable winners: CHINA : Bravo! What a tremendous coming out party for the most populous nation in the world. [...]
THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN CHINA
Talk about pressure! Liu Xiang (pronounced Shee-ahng) has the eyes of his nation upon him. All 1.3 billion Chinese citizens are expecting him to capture another Olympic gold medal when he competes in the 110m hurdles event – at home - on August 21. He won the first-ever track gold medal in that event for China at the 2004 Athens Games. The 25-year old Liu’s best time in the 110m hurdles, a blistering 12.88 seconds, is one one-hundreth of a second (.01) slower than the current world record holder’s ( [...]
DVR Alert: Greatest American Dog premieres July 10th!
Set your DVR's! The new reality show, ' Greatest American Dog ' comes to CBS on July 10th at 8:00 PM ET/PT. Teams of dogs and owners across the nation will compete for the title of 'Greatest American Dog.' Owners and their pets will live together and compete against each other in games that put the owner's ability to train their dogs to the test. The show will be hosted by zoologist Jarod Miller, and canine critics Wendy Diamond, Allan Reznik and Victoria Stilwell will serve as the judges. The winning team [...]
The Best of Public Enemy
As I mentioned when I inducted Fear of a Black Planet (see My Home Is Your Home So Welcome to the Terrordome) into the Scooter Hall of Fame, it is a shame that anyone born after 1985 probably thinks of Flavor Flav as some reality television lifer instead of the greatest hypeman ever for the seminal rap group Public Enemy. That most likely won?t change anytime soon with the announcement that Flav is currently casting even more hood rats for the third season of Flavor of Love as well as being the guest of [...]
Coming our way - 2007 Rugby World Cup
The 2007 Rugby World Cup will be the sixth Rugby World Cup, for the quadrennial world championship. It will be hosted by France from September 7 to October 20 of 2007. France won the right to host the event in 2003, beating a bid from England.Over 90 nations participated in the regional qualifying competitions that started in 2004. The eight quarter-finalists from the 2003 event automatically qualified, twelve further nations have qualified. Portugal is the only debutant nation at the 2007 World Cup and the [...]