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The country that inspired the colors used on the World Cup trophy will indeed host the finals in 2014. Fifa made official what people have known for years when they voted today to award the South American giants the honor of having the games.

Brazil has a little less than seven years to renovate/build stadiums and improve transportation issues, hopefully not at the cost of social programs for their people.

But Brazil was not the only country to earn a World Cup, as 2006 World Cup hosts Germany will again take on the role for the 2011 Women’s World Cup. The decision came down to Canada (host of the 2007 U-20 World Cup) and Germany, but really, it was Germany’s all along. This should give the German women an even greater chance of a three-pete.

Congratulations to Brazil and Germany.

Labels: 2011 Women’s World Cup, 2014, 2014 World Cup, Brazil, Germany

Source: Brazil and Germany to host World Cups

Web design: as an Internet media

Web design is not only for company display but it is functional source that act as a marketing manager via Internet. It has graphics as well as textual content that explain the services as well as goods offered by the business organization. The initial draft of a website is called as web design.

The content includes attractive graphics which are placed strategically to attract the attention of viewers whereas interactive content is written to supplement the graphics to make website interactive. Apart from textual content and graphics, the website also has various aspects. Web design samples are basically available in the form of website templates, which a web hosting company records with itself among which the website holders choose.

One can get cheap website design templates through various website hosting companies. Web hosting and website designing are two services linked together, which are often offered by one single company. It includes not only a single web page but a collection of web pages to be launched on the web server.

How to find cheap website design templates

The first place to find cheapest website design templates is the Internet search engine. On Google itself you will find plenty of business organizations who offer website designing and other web hosting services. However, you can also seek affordable website designing services through the sponsored links of the Google Adwords. This could be a better option for those who do not want to invest large funds on website designing.

Custom graphic designs

While website designing template is one of the options for website holders to get their website prepared, they also have an additional option of custom graphic designing with which they can choose the graphic designs according to their needs and specifications. Custom graphic designing service is the option that has flexibility for the users to get the desired visuals for their website. Cheap website graphics are best in case you are small business firm. One can get this service with web designers and web hosting service providers as well.

The customized graphic designs can be used to give a unique and different look to the website. Often, companies which go for website design templates end up having the same website layout like others, but with custom website graphic designs the designers can innovate new website designs, which will make the website stand out from the other websites.

A website is an identity mark of a particular business organization and it has to be original as well as unique in itself. So, in case you are planning to design a website of your own make sure you choose the right web design for your companys website. A website is the companys representative on the Internet network and also a medium of communication with potential customers.

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It is now official! Gary Russell, Jr. of Capitol Heights is heading for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China!

In a bout that ended moments ago, Russell qualified for the Olympics by defeating fellow 2005 World Championships bronze medalist Ali Hallab of France, 22-14. The victory places Russell among the top eight in his class at this year’s world championships in Chicago and qualifies him for the Olympics.

Russell will face Sergey Vodopyanov of Russia in the quarterfinals tomorrow evening.

Source: BREAKING NEWS: Gary Russell Jr. Bound for Beijing!

Andy Murray

PARIS - Andy Murray slightly hurt his back in a car crash while heading to his hotel during the Paris Masters.

Murray was with coach Brad Gilbert on Monday in heavy traffic when another car crashed into the back of their car. Murray said his back pain was nothing serious.

”It happened last night from the airport to the hotel. There was a driver me and Brad,” Murray said Tuesday after losing a doubles match with his brother Jamie Murray. ”There was a lot of traffic, the driver just broke and somebody driving at about 20 kilometres per hour bumped into the back of the car.”

Murray, who won his third career title in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Sunday, said he felt shaken by the incident.

”I’ve never been in car crash before,” he said. ”There was a pretty loud bang. My back’s a bit stiff, but it’s nothing serious.”

Murray, who plays Jarkko Nieminen on Wednesday in the second round, is still in contention for a place at the season-ending Masters Cup in Shanghai, which begins Nov. 11.

Murray could face third-ranked Novak Djokovic in the third round. The Serb has already qualified for the Masters Cup.

Source: Murray injured in Paris car crash

BEIJING — Tickets to the Beijing Olympics went on sale in China on a first-come, first-served basis Tuesday, but overwhelming demand crashed the computer ticketing system.

More than eight hours after ticket sales began, the online ticketing site had a note saying the system was busy and to check back later. The telephone ticket hotline rang busy, as it had all day.

“The speed of the ticketing system is relatively slow,” the Beijing Olympics organizing committee (BOCOG) said in an announcement on its Web site. “It is temporarily unavailable … those who want to buy tickets through Bank of China branches or the telephone hot line need to try again later.”

The announcement did not mention the online ticketing site. However, a ticketing department official said in a statement last week that a main computer system processed all transactions.

Organizers were working to fix the problem, the BOCOG Web site said. It asked ticket buyers to be patient and to avoid constantly refreshing the online ticketing site.

It was not clear how many tickets were successfully purchased Tuesday, when 1.85 million tickets became available on a first-come, first-served basis. BOCOG said 9,000 were sold after two hours, almost all of them through the ticketing Web site and in person at Bank of China branches.

BOCOG’s media department director, Shao Shiwei, said the ticketing department was refusing to comment on the situation.

The ticketing Web site was visited 8 million times in the first hour of the sale, receiving more than 200,000 ticket requests per second. More than 2 million people called the telephone hot line in the first hour, BOCOG said.

Tickets that went on sale Tuesday were for the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as all sporting events. About 2.2 million tickets became available on April 15, but only for those whose names were picked in a lottery.

More than 7 million tickets will be sold for the Beijing Olympics, to Chinese as well as visitors from elsewhere.

Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

Source: High demand for Beijing tickets crashes computer

The Blue Square Premier League Match Official appointments for November are now available to download on the link below.

Referee appointments will not be announced until the Monday prior to the fixture.

November appointments
(updated 29 October 2007)

Click here for details on the appointments for Contributory Leagues

Source: Conference officials

THE Kangaroos’ anti-relocation push is gathering momentum, with the AFL club’s major shareholder flagging a compromise deal which would mean more games on the Gold Coast but no permanent move.

The AFL wants a permanent presence on the Gold Coast by 2010, and is expected to offer the Kangaroos a lucrative relocation package to head north.

The club’s board will discuss a possible move to the Gold Coast at a meeting in Melbourne tomorrow, with AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou expected to address the meeting to put the league’s position in favour of relocation.

Peter de Rauch, who owns an estimated 25 per cent of the club’s shares, has been a long-term supporter of keeping the Roos in Melbourne rather than moving permanently to the Gold Coast.

But he said a compromise of playing seven or eight games a year on the Gold Coast while maintaining a Melbourne base, rather than a lock, stock and barrel move north, could be the right deal for all parties if the price was right.

The club is entering year two of a three-year, $400,000 per match deal to play 10 games on the Gold Coast.

The Kangaroos will play four home-and-away matches on the Coast next year after playing three there in 2007.

”There is a compromise where we promote the AFL game on the Gold Coast but still be based in Melbourne,” de Rauch said.

Any fly-in fly-out proposal for the Gold Coast may not be enough for the AFL as it remains keen on the prospect of a second team in south-east Queensland.

It does hold one big stick over the Kangaroos - the cash it pays the club via the AFL’s competitive balance fund - funding which is due to cease in 2009.

Kangaroos officials and the club’s board have done nothing to douse speculation over the Roos’ future, still refusing to make any public comment on whether they favour moving to the Gold Coast or not.

But rank-and-file supporters have reacted strongly to shifting the club to south-east Queensland.

We Are North Melbourne (WANM) - a fans group launched on Monday aimed at ensuring any decision on relocation is made by members rather than shareholders as the club’s constitution currently allows - says it is on the way to establishing a significant strategic shareholding.

Enough shares or like-minded shareholders could give the group the balance of power in important decision-making such as relocating the club.

”At this stage we’re talking tens of thousands of shares in terms of what’s been offered to us today,” WANM chairman David Wheaton said.

More than $11,000 has also been pledged to a fund which could be used for a variety of purposes should the Kangaroos decide to remain based in Melbourne.

Pivotal to any relocation decision will be who is appointed the new Kangaroos chairman to replace outgoing boss Graham Duff, and who will take his place on the nine-person board.

Both decisions are expected to be made at tomorrow’s meeting.

Retired Kangaroos great Glenn Archer, known to be vehemently anti-relocation, has been suggested as a possible new board member.

And De Rauch today flagged the prospect of Nine Network television personality James Brayshaw, who is on the Kangaroos board, becoming temporary chairman until the club’s next annual general meeting.

AAP

Source: Roos flag Gold Coast compromise

By: Scott Siegel

Auto makers and Gas companies really like it when they are able to convince you to buy premium gasoline. They like it so much they continue to perpetuate half truths about premium gasoline. Half truths such as premium gasoline will provide better fuel economy. Half truths like premium gasoline can increase your engine’s performance. Actually these aren’t even half truths they are full blown myths.

Gas retailers and oil refiners love high octane fuel because it is so profitable. 20 cents more per gallon is what you pay on average for high octane fuel but the retailer only pays 8 cents more on average. The retailer has 12 cents more profit on every gallon of high octane fuel he sells.

The refineries, when they sell fuel to it’s distributors only make a few extra cents per gallon for high octane fuel. Remember though, this extra profit per gallon is multiplied by the thousands and thousands of gallons of fuel that refineries sell. That equates to thousands and thousands of additional profit dollars.

The oil refineries and fuel retailers aren’t the only companies that profit from premium gas. Car makers use premium gasoline to increase their bottom line too. They do that by using premium gasoline to increase the perceived value of their cars.

They convince you that if a vehicle can only use high octane fuel it must have a premium engine and since it has a premium engine naturally the vehicle must have a higher price. Auto manufacturers can persuade you that their “premium engine” is worth more dollars by stating that it can only run on premium gas.

Another benefit of premium gas that auto makers capitalize on is to take advantage of the anti-knock properties of premium gas. By designing engines to be optimized for that property of premium gas they can create engines that in fact do get more horsepower out of premium then out of regular.

Since there is some horsepower gain it allows the car makers to advertise higher horsepower ratings for their engines. Again, higher horsepower ratings means more expensive car which means more profit for the auto makers.

The optimized for premium engines do perform with a small increase in horsepower running on premium gas. Most engineers and car experts seem to agree that you can use regular in a premium engine and you probably can’t tell the difference.

Regular gasoline can be used in a “premium engine” without any noticeable difference. Premium gasoline does not enhance fuel economy. In the end it all comes down to this: By making you believe you need to use premium gasoline, the oil companies and auto makers are able to put more money in their pockets by taking more out of yours.

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Travis Henry

DENVER - The Denver Broncos deactivated leading rusher Travis Henry for the game Monday night against Green Bay because of sore ribs.

Henry hurt his ribs in the third quarter against Pittsburgh in last week’s 31-28 win. Henry has also been hampered by right ankle and knee ailments this season.

He has 549 yards on 119 carries this season. Undrafted rookie Selvin Young will start in Henry’s place.

Fullback Mike Bell and defensive end Jarvis Moss were also inactive for Denver.

Green Bay’s inactive list included centre Scott Wells, running back Brandon Jackson and tight end Bubba Franks.

Source: Broncos deactivate RB Henry vs. Packers

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EUGENE, ORE. - Now what?

Pete Carroll had his best coach’s answer for that one.

“Next week,” Carroll said after the ninth-ranked Trojans lost a second Pac-10 game to fall to 3-2 in the conference and no better than fourth Saturday after losing at Oregon, 24-17.

“You guys can ask me a thousand times,” Carroll said, “but the answer is always the same. We just have to get back on track and look forward to the game next week.”

That’s all stand-in quarterback Mark Sanchez said he was thinking about, although admitting he needed to see the film on this one to know exactly what happened here.

“We’re coming back home next week,” said Sanchez, noting how his life had gone. “Last week, I was a hero, this week, I’m a zero.”

Just one way to go now, Sanchez said, “We have to bounce back against Oregon State. All we can do is clear up the mistakes we made in this game. I can’t look any farther than that.”

Senior linebacker Keith Rivers wasn’t about to admit the going is awfully difficult from here on out.

“A loss is never cool,” Rivers said. “We just have to start again strong and finish the rest of our ball games.”

Oregon nose tackle Jeremy Gibbs told USC offensive tackle Drew Radovich what to do as the pair embraced at the end of the game.

“Go on out and take care of business the rest of the year,” Gibbs told him.

“We will,” Radovich replied.

“We’ve got to respond,” said Patrick Turner after a sparkling performance that went for naught. “Another hard week of practice. That’s all you can do.”

Sam Baker, wincing as he maneuvered his damaged hamstring to his locker, said it as he always does — in as few words as possible.

“Bounce back,” he said.

Then he had a second thought about what it was that was killing this team. And what has to stop.

“You just gotta execute,” he said. “And you can’t get field goals when you need touchdowns. We just can’t let someone else win.”

John David Booty, who might return at quarterback next week, was on the same page.

“We’ve got to stop beating ourselves,” he said. “It’s very difficult to do this. A lot of guys don’t understand. This game is hard.”

And the team that for so long has aimed to play quicker than anybody it plays, must not have its coach saying something like Carroll said afterward.

“They made it quicker than we wanted to handle there for a while with that tempo,” Carroll said of the no-huddle, high-powered Ducks.

Source: scfootball.blogspot.com