Monday, May 31, 2010

Sports and Entertainment




Recreational activities like Golf, Hunting, Boating, Fishing and camping and its impact on sports & entertainment.

Peer pressure in today's world builds the need for recreational activities that can de-stress us. Such activities are slightly different from pure sporting activities though it creates similar impact on sports-driven entertainment. Activities like Golf, Hunting, Boating, Fishing and Campaing falls under this category and provides excellent value for money for both service providers and end-users.

Popularity of such activity can be gauged from the fact that Fishing is 4th most popular sporting activity in US. People tend to participate in such activities during weekends along with their family members. People from all age group can participate and enjoy such activities.

Golf, Hunting, Boating, Fishing and Camping are observed to be the most popular options people are opting world over as recreational activity. Recreational activity is now a multi-billion industry and is going to have tremendous impact on sports and entertainment. Governments across world have started promoting recreational tourism packages to attract inbound tourism traffic to boost up economy. Scotland has taken painstaking effort to promote itself as "The Destination" for Golf lovers. Similarly there are customized packages available for hunting, fishing camping and boating. America's Cup Challenger Oracle Racing by Larry Ellison of Oracle has changed the way people viewed boat racing. Today it is a multimillion sporting event that has perfect combo of sports and entertainment.

A survey in US has generated information that on an average an adult spends $10 to $30 every week for their main recreational activities. When participation and accounting of all recreational activities is combined total expenditure within any given region becomes very high and paves way for commercialization and corporatization of sports and create an entertainment value chain for end users. This in turn brings more investment to the region and ancillary activities would drastically improve living standards of people around.

www.made-from-india.com provides an exclusive trade directory that contains information about Sports & Entertainment Products suppliers, exporters, and importers, sports & entertainment distributors and dealers, Sports Products manufacturers, etc.

Recreational sports like Golf, Hunting, Boating, Fishing and Camping were considered to be within means of rich only till now. However people are now looking it as source of both sports and entertainment. This has bought dramatic shift in way recreational sport is shaping sports and entertainment space.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Archive 1974 - Capello scores for Italy

England manager Fabio Capello scores a consolation goal for Italy in their 2-1 defeat by Poland in the group stages of the 1974 World Cup.

Health tips that lead to success in tourism


13. Speaking at the Eurasian Economic Summit Session Health Tourism Director General of the Swiss-based Thomas Held, Avenir Suisse, the talk began by explaining the health care system in Switzerland.

Switzerland’s health care spending in terms of the world the second time in telling Held his speech continued as follows: “Success story when talking about tourism and health sectors together, while it surely bring success to a formula that should think. Success for All materials are available. Very good doctors have . Mortality rate in terms if you look at the best treatment being given. only in hospitals but the hotel very good service offer. We in this context, individualized services can say. Each patient a special treatment should be implemented think health and our industry is really a great capacity. ”

IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS FOR FOUR in HEALTH TOURISM

Four important issues for the development of health tourism to be important to tell them that Held was listed as follows:

“First, the competition must be open. That private companies flourish allowing an environment should be. Special medical entrepreneurs should be. Health” broker “s what we call a special tool needed. Hospital between the patient relationship that will establish the” broker “s these. One the whole world brands can be marketed here. “

Tourism began in the day. Come to the sea



You should now be here and should go rafting. I recommend to you. antalya rafting in the canyon bridge is very enjoyable. If a day comes, go here and there ir mutalaka do rafting.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Venture Capital Investments in Sports and Entertainment




The venture capital funding world has entered a new sector - this is the always changing sector of Sports and Entertainment. Investments in the entertainment world have been around for a few years already, like the enormous $100 Million investment in the Da Vinci Code film in 2005. And (in a humoristic way) if we remember the book "The Godfather", also there we can find an "investment" in the famous singer Johnny Fontane, a godson of Corleone's, who has come from Hollywood to ask the Godfather's help in getting a movie role that will revitalize his flagging career. Jack Woltz, the head of the studio, will not give Fontane the part, but Don Corleone (The Godfather) explains to Johnny: "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
the calculation for what the return is from an investment in a film includes the factor that a studio naturally gets the proceeds from approximately half the tickets sold at the USA box office, and the overall take from the box office is roughly one-third of the money a studio earns after a film has gone to play overseas and becomes a DVD or movie on pay TV.

The new sector of sports investments is receiving millions of dollars. Recent investments in sports goods producers and distributors include an investment of $68 Million committed by Allied Capital Corporation to support the buyout of Augusta Sportswear Group by private equity firm Quad-C Management. Augusta was founded in 1977, and is among the largest suppliers of blank athletic uniforms in the U.S. The company sells over 52,000 SKUs of team uniforms, athletic apparel, outerwear and school-inspired products to over 40,000 customers, consisting of uniform suppliers, custom decorators and promotional products distributors.

Another recent investment is of $2 Million in Golf Club Maker Nickent in Equity Investment. "We are pleased to announce this investment in Nickent," commented Anthony Moore, Co-Chairman and President of Equus and Chairman of Nickent. "This, combined with our debt financing in June, positions the Fund to receive dual benefits of current income and potential capital gains. We look forward to working with Nickent and its experienced management team."

Nickent is a market leader in the rapidly expanding, hybrid club segment of the golf industry and is an emerging leader in game-enhancement technology.

www.made-from-india.com provides an exclusive trade directory that contains information about Sports & Entertainment Products suppliers, exporters, and importers, sports & entertainment distributors and dealers, Sports Products manufacturers, etc.

All these investments are happening now. One last example is Seatwave. Seatwave, Europe's largest fan-to-fan ticket exchange, is an online marketplace for buying and selling tickets for theatre, sports, music and other live events. Seatwave recently announced it has raised $25 million in Series C funding led by Fidelity Ventures. Fidelity Ventures is joined by existing investors Atlas Venture, Mangrove Capital Partners and Adinvest. Seatwave was launched in 2007 and has more than 500,000 tickets on sale at any given time, 25 times more than eBay.


Saturday, May 8, 2010

Three Lectures by Hans Bethe



IN 1999, legendary theoretical physicist Hans Bethe delivered three lectures on quantum theory to his neighbors at the Kendal of Ithaca retirement community (near Cornell University). Given by Professor Bethe at age 93, the lectures are presented here as QuickTime videos synchronized with slides of his talking points and archival material.

Intended for an audience of Professor Bethe's neighbors at Kendal, the lectures hold appeal for experts and non-experts alike. The presentation makes use of limited mathematics while focusing on the personal and historical perspectives of one of the principal architects of quantum theory whose career in physics spans 75 years.

A video introduction and appreciation are provided by Professor Silvan S. Schweber, the physicist and science historian who is Professor Bethe's biographer, and Edwin E. Salpeter, the J. G. White Distinguished Professor of Physical Science Emeritus at Cornell, who was a post-doctoral student of Professor Bethe.

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Handy Latin Phrases

Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.
It's not the heat, it's the humidity.

Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!
God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!

Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?

Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.
The designated hitter rule has got to go.

Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
I think some people in togas are plotting against me.

Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar.

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

(At a barbeque)
Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?
Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?

More Useful Latin

Sona si Latine loqueris.
Honk if you speak Latin.

Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes
If you can read this you're over-educated

Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
I think some people in togas are plotting against me.

Vidi Vici Veni
I saw, I conquered, I came

Vacca foeda
Stupid cow

Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi.
Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog.

Raptus regaliter
Royally screwed

Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!
If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!

Gramen artificiosum odi.
I hate Astroturf.

Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.

Noli me vocare, ego te vocabo.
Don't call me, I'll call you.

Nullo metro compositum est.
It doesn't rhyme.

Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.
I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem.

Fac ut gaudeam.
Make my day.

Braccae illae virides cum subucula rosea et tunica Caledonia-quam elenganter concinnatur!
Those green pants go so well with that pink shirt and the plaid jacket!

Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio.
Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway.

Re vera, potas bene.
Say, you sure are drinking a lot.

Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!
May barbarians invade your personal space!

Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant!
May conspirators assassinate you in the mall!

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!

Radix lecti
Couch potato

Quo signo nata es?
What's your sign?

O! Plus! Perge! Aio! Hui! Hem!
Oh! More! Go on! Yes! Ooh! Ummm!

Mellita, domi adsum.
Honey, I'm home.

Tam exanimis quam tunica nehru fio.
I am as dead as the nehru jacket.

Ventis secundis, tene cursum.
Go with the flow.

Totum dependeat.
Let it all hang out.

Te precor dulcissime supplex!
Pretty please with a cherry on top!

Magister Mundi sum!
I am the Master of the Universe!

Fac me cocleario vomere!
Gag me with a spoon!

Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.

Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?

Prehende uxorem meam, sis!
Take my wife, please!

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Nihil est--in vita priore ego imperator Romanus fui.
That's nothing--in a previous life I was a Roman Emperor.

Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business.

Vescere bracis meis.
Eat my shorts.

Sic faciunt omnes.
Everyone is doing it.

Fac ut vivas.
Get a life.

Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus!
Let's all wear mood rings!

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.

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‘Iron Man 2’ doesn't soar as high as original


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Lots of things get blown up and torn apart in "Iron Man 2," as you would expect from any self-respecting blockbuster kicking off the summer movie season. The magnitude of destruction far exceeds that of its predecessor — from rows of cars to armies of drones to Tony Stark's cliff-top Shangri-La — and includes repeated instances of characters walking away from a massive fireball without looking back. 'Cause looking back is for wimps.

But that's not all that gets obliterated here. The substance of the original "Iron Man," the brain and the soul that set it apart from the typical seasonal fare and made it one of the best films of 2008, also have been blown to bits.

Tony Stark had purpose back then, and despite the outlandish fantasy of his Marvel Comics-inspired story, as a person he had a believable arc. Crafting the high-tech suit and transforming himself into a superhero gave this selfish industrialist and self-destructive playboy a sense of drive, a reason for being beyond just his whims and indulgences.

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