Olympics legacy threatened by coach shortage
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- Olympics legacy threatened by coach shortage
- Hits in Germany: Pop from the German Top 100
- China’s stunted services sector starts to stir
- Source: CCTV.com
- Paging Beantown for a friendly e-mail battle
- Terror detention extension sought
Olympics legacy threatened by coach shortage
ChristianToday - Jan 24, 2008
Posted: Thursday, January 24, 2008, 8:43 (GMT)
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The country’s hopes of finishing fourth in the medals table at the London 2012 Olympics could be undermined by a lack of professional coaching, a report published by a sports think tank revealed on Thursday. The research, carried out by Loughborough University and chaired by former 1,500m world record holder Steve Cram, says the sporting legacy left by the Games could be in jeopardy unless 250,000 full and part-time coaches jobs are created. While high-profile sports such as football are turning to foreign coaches at both national and club level, Cram believes the lack of home-grown coaches in all sports must be addressed. “The report highlights that unless we can break the culture of ‘gentleman amateurism’ in UK sport, we will struggle to become best in the world,” Cram said. “As long as we continue to rely on an army of grass-roots volunteers, with no clear career progression for home-grown coaches, we will tend to look to superannuated foreign coaches to fill the top jobs in UK sport. “If we don’t act now to stem the endemic culture of volunteerism in UK sport, we may have already missed the coach for sporting success at London 2012. Senior figures in 12 leading sports were interviewed for the report by the Sportnation think-tank which found that nearly 70 percent of sports coaches are volunteers.
Hits in Germany: Pop from the German Top 100
Deutsche Welle - Jan 24, 2008
“Hits in Germany” is broadcast on Tuesdays. Germany is home to one of the world’s biggest music markets, and its pop, rock and dance floor music and music production have set standards and started trends worldwide. Hosted by Deborah Friedman and produced by Rick Fulker, “Hits in Germany” puts the emphasis on home-grown acts, focusing either on music by German artists or on tracks produced in Germany. You’ll also hear comments by the artists themselves. Share this article.
China’s stunted services sector starts to stir
International Herald Tribune - Jan 24, 2008
“No one wants to be accountable or take responsibility. ” Simon Cooper, president of Ritz-Carlton, which has just opened a second hotel in Beijing, agreed. “It will be a long time before we have any home-grown competitors in China let alone internationally,” he said. In the short term, drooping global demand for China's manufactured goods could actually give a boost to services by forcing policy makers to focus more on the domestic economy. “It could spur more reformist policies in Beijing such as the opening to the private sector of the services sector — telecoms, health, education, logistics, etc,” said Stephen Green, head of China research at Standard Chartered Bank in Shanghai.
Source: CCTV.com
央视国际 - Jan 24, 2008
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Home-grown car-maker, Brilliance Group, and Shanghai Automobile Gear Works say they plan to work together to manufacture so-called “semi-automatic transmissions”, that combine the best of manual and automatic cars. Brilliance Group and Shanghai Automobile Gear Works had already invested 14 million yuan to set up a transmission production factory. Now, the two sides plan on investing more money to produce semi-automatic transmissions, which allows for automatic or “clutchless” manual transmissions. After the new investment, each of them will hold a 50 percent stake in the venture. The new factory will produce 500,000 transmissions, including 100,000 automatic transmissions a year.
Paging Beantown for a friendly e-mail battle
Sacramento Bee - Jan 24, 2008
If the Patriots lose that game, as they should have since Brady’s fumble should NOT have been overturned because the replays were inconclusive, who’s to say Drew Bledsoe, who gave way to Brady early in that 2001 season due to injury, does not regain his job as the starting QB and Brady goes back to being a cute sixth-round draft choice backup?Alas, that’s an entry for a different blog and since the main topic here is baseball, our other friend, Chris, put a quick and bloody end to Jay’s ramblings with a poignant missive when it comes to our national pastime. “Only someone who grew up watching games at Veterans Stadium (or Shea) would think Red Sox fans are great,” Chris wrote. “All I see are drunken frat guys who think a great derisive chant is, ‘You (stink), Jeter’; old nerds who want to write books about all they’ve suffered through at Fenway; and a sea of clowns who think Ortiz should win MVP every year for never picking up a glove and slicing balls over a 36-inch-tall right-field “wall” that’s, what, 204 feet or so from home plate, maybe 205?”Red Sox Nation is as phony as the ideals of those who think that franchise is any different than the Yankees’ (mantra of), ‘Let’s buy another pennant this year with free agents other teams can’t afford while (some reporters kiss) up about our ‘home grown’ talent that’s obtained by spending more money on scouting than some teams have to pay their big-league players. Couldn’t have said, or written, it any better myself. -Paul GutierrezPosted by Ahmed Ortiz, January 24, 2008 04:12 PM.
Terror detention extension sought
ChristianToday - Jan 24, 2008
is to legislate now but for something you would only use if the circumstances arose,” she added. The bill aims to give police and the security services the necessary tools to deal with a rising threat from home-grown and foreign terrorists. But ministers have some hard bargaining to do to persuade opposition parties to support their plans to avoid a damaging defeat in parliament for Brown. “I think we have won the debate on extending detention, on constantly ratcheting up this figure with no real principle and no new evidence of the need to go beyond 28 days which is already the longest period in the Western democratic world,” said Shami Chakrabarti of human rights group Liberty. A proposal to increase the maximum period for which suspects can be detained without charge to 90 days led to Tony Blair’s first defeat in the House of Commons in November 2005 as many Labour MPs rebelled. MPs settled on the 28-day limit.