Glasgow Commonwelath Games 2014 - City Council fund aims to create 1,000 jobs

The Commonwealth Jobs Fund seeks to help 18 to 24 year olds who have been out of work for more than six months.

It will be open from January next year until July 2012 and will pay up to £6,500 towards each new job created.

Priority will be given to employers who pay a "living wage" of £7 per hour and private and third sector organisations with fewer than 250 people.

The initiative aims to contribute to the legacy of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
It follows the Commonwealth Apprenticeship Initiative, which the city council said had "provided places for hundreds of Glaswegian school-leavers in 2010".Under spend
The scheme was officially launched by council leader Gordon Matheson at the 13th annual State of the City Economy Conference.

He said: "The £7m that we are investing today is available thanks to the private sector's commitment to the Commonwealth Apprenticeship Initiative.

"Thanks to the way you enthusiastically stepped up to the plate and invested your own money in taking on almost 600 apprentices in 2010 alone, the council's own budget for the scheme was significantly under-spent.

"Having saved us that money, we are now pleased to be redirecting it back to you through the Commonwealth Jobs Fund."

Councillor Matheson said the authority was sending a message that to unemployed young people that they would not be abandoned.

News Source: BBC News Scotland

From Commonwealth games to Asian Games 2010

Today morning I read an article in the newspaper about rehersal of opening ceremony og Asian games in China. The picture of the artist doing rehersal was simple great and this gave me the idea why not keep visitors to this blog updated on 2010 Asian games in China. These games are also known as XVI Asiad and are scheduled to take place in Guangzhou, China from 12 November to 27 November , 2010. Yes the games will begine tomorrow in China.

This time the games will have the largest event inthe history of Asian games with 476 events being held in 42 sports.


Below is the games schedule, keep visitng for more updated on Asian Games
●
Opening ceremony
 
Event competitions
●
Event finals
●
Closing ceremony
November 2010
7thSun
8thMon
9thTue
10thWed
11thThu
12thFri
13thSat
14thSun
15thMon
16thTue
17thWed
18thThu
19thFri
20thSat
21stSun
22ndMon
23rdTue
24thWed
25thThu
26thFri
27thSat
Goldmedals
Aquatics – Diving
2
2
2
2
2
10
Aquatics – Swimming
6
6
7
7
6
6
38
Aquatics – Synchronized swimming
1
1
1
3
Aquatics – Water polo




1





1
2
Archery


1
1
1
1
4
Athletics
6
6
8
4
11
10
2
47
Badminton


2



1
2
2
7
Baseball





1
1
Basketball











1
1
2
Board games – Chess



2








2
4
Board games – Weiqi


1



2
3
Board games – Xiangqi






2
2
Bowling

2

2


2
4

2
12
Boxing








6
7
13
Canoeing – Slalom
2
2
4
Canoeing – Sprint
6
6
12
Cricket






1






1
2
Cue sports

2
2
1
1
2
1
1
10
Cycling – BMX
2
2
Cycling – Mountain bike
2
2
Cycling – Road
2
1
1
4
Cycling – Track
1
3

2
4
10
Dancesport
5
5
10
Dragon boat
2
2
2
6
Equestrian
1
1
2
1
1
6
Fencing
2
2
2
2
2
2
12
Football












1

1
2
Golf



4
4
Gymnastics – Artistic
1
1
2
5
5
14
Gymnastics – Rhythmic
1
1
2
Gymnastics – Trampoline

2
2
Handball













2
2
Hockey











1
1
2
Judo
4
4
4
4
16
Kabaddi




2
2
Karate
5
4
4
13
Modern pentathlon
2
2
4
Roller sports
4
2

3
9
Rowing



7
7
14
Rugby union


2
2
Sailing





6
8
14
Sepaktakraw




2


2


2
6
Shooting
6
4
8
4
6
4
4
4
2
2
44
Softball






1
1
Soft tennis

2
1

2

2
7
Squash



2



2
4
Table tennis



2


3
2
7
Taekwondo
4
4
4
4
16
Tennis



2





3
2
7
Triathlon
1
1
2
Volleyball – Beach








1
1
2
Volleyball – Indoor













1
1
2
Weightlifting
2
2
2
2
2
2
3
15
Wrestling
3
3
3
3
3
3
18
Wushu
2
2
2
2
7
15
Ceremonies
●
●
Total gold medals
28
35
30
37
39
33
36
30
31
26
30
29
39
48
5
476
Cumulative Total
28
63
93
130
169
202
238
268
299
325
355
384
423
471
476
November 2010
7thSun
8thMon
9thTue
10thWed
11thThu
12thFri
13thSat
14thSun
15thMon
16thTue
17thWed
18thThu
19thFri
20thSat
21stSun
22ndMon
23rdTue
24thWed
25thThu
26thFri
27thSat
Goldmedals

20000$ Commonwealth games challenge

Commonwealth gol medal winner Poonia gets $20,000 challenge from world champion Dani Samuels. Dani from Australia didn;t participte in the commonwealth games due to the health and safety issues to which Poonia said that world champion missin the tour was more related to form than the other reasons.

Poonia's husband-cum-coach Vijendra Poonia said: "At the moment, Krishna and I don't want our training schedule to be disturbed. There is a lot of expectation from Krishna after she won the gold at the Delhi Games. But we are not backing away from the challenge."

Read full story at Yahoo News.

Come again commonwealth games in 2014

Like the opening ceremony the closing ceremony of 2010 Delhi Commonwealth games were excellent. There were some exciting performances by Army men bands, students, singers. Australia topped by winning most number of medals whereas India and Canada were among the number 2 and 3 spot respectively.
Next commonwealth games will be held in 2014 at Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and will host the event for 11 days from 24 July to 3 August 2014. Unlike games village in Delhi, Glasgow will have Athletes Village in Dalmarnock from where all the major venues are not more than 20 mins drive.

Below is the list of games for the 2014 commonwealth games:
* Aquatics
o Swimming pictogram.svg Swimming
o Diving pictogram.svg Diving

* Athletics pictogram.svg Athletics
* Badminton pictogram.svg Badminton
* Boxing pictogram.svg Boxing
* Cycling
o Cycling (road) pictogram.svg Road
o Cycling (track) pictogram.svg Track
o Cycling (mountain biking) pictogram.svg Mountain

* Gymnastics
o Gymnastics (artistic) pictogram.svg Artistic
o Gymnastics (rhythmic) pictogram.svg Rhythmic

* Field hockey pictogram.svg Field hockey
* Judo pictogram.svg Judo
* Bowling pictogram.svg Lawn Bowls
* Netball pictogram.svg Netball
* Rugby union pictogram.svg Rugby sevens
* Shooting pictogram.svg Shooting (Small Bore Rifle, Full Bore Rifle, Pistol and Clay Target)
* Squash pictogram.svg Squash
* Table tennis pictogram.svg Table Tennis
* Triathlon pictogram.svg Triathlon
* Weightlifting pictogram.svg Weightlifting
* Wrestling pictogram.svg Wrestling

India willl also hold one more event next year and that event is ICC Cricket World cup 2011. You can catch live action od 2011 cricket world cup at http://icccricket.blogspot.com/search/label/cricket%20world%20cup%2020011

We will also keep you updated on the progress of next commonwealthgames like qualifying games, progress at Glasgow etc. Keep on visting blog later or you can subscribe to the RSS feeds for direct updates.

Commonwealth game Medal tally

As of today 13-Oct-2010 Australia is in the lead position with 169 medals, England is at number two with 138 medal and host India is a the third position with 96 medals.

India might slip down from third position at the end of the games as i tihnk they will be able to somehow manage 100 medals. If this happens it will be the first time in history of commonwealth games that India won 100 or more medals.

Below is the points table:

Country Men Women Mixed Total G S B T G S B T G S B T G S B T AUS - Australia 34 24 23 81 37 24 24 85 1 2 3 72 50 47 169 ENG - England 22 35 20 77 14 21 21 56 1 4 5 37 56 45 138 IND - India 25 14 23 62 11 11 11 33 1 1 36 26 34 96 CAN - Canada 12 7 11 30 14 10 21 45 26 17 32 75 RSA - South Africa 7 9 9 25 5 2 1 8 12 11 10 33 NGR - Nigeria 4 3 6 13 6 7 7 20 10 10 13 33 KEN - Kenya 5 7 5 17 5 3 3 11 10 10 8 28 SCO - Scotland 5 6 4 15 3 3 3 9 1 1 2 9 10 7 26 SIN - Singapore 4 3 6 13 4 4 2 10 1 1 1 3 9 8 9 26 MAS - Malaysia 3 5 6 14 4 3 5 12 1 1 2 8 8 12 28 NZL - New Zealand 1 12 4 17 3 9 3 15 1 1 2 5 22 7 34 NIR - Northern Ireland 3 2 3 8 1 1 1 1 3 3 4 10 SAM - Samoa 2 2 1 1 2 3 1 4 WAL - Wales 2 1 4 7 5 6 11 2 6 10 18 JAM - Jamaica 1 3 4 1 1 1 3 2 4 1 7 CYP - Cyprus 2 1 2 5 2 2 2 3 2 7 PAK - Pakistan 2 1 2 5 2 1 2 5 UGA - Uganda 2 2 2 2 BAH - Bahamas 1 1 3 5 1 1 3 5 SRI - Sri Lanka 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 NRU - Nauru 1 1 2 1 1 2 BOT - Botswana 3 3 1 1 1 3 4 SVG - St. Vincent & The Grenadines 1 1 1 1 CAY - Cayman Islands 1 1 1 1 TRI - Trinidad and Tobago 2 2 4 2 2 4 2 6 CMR - Cameroon 1 2 3 1 2 3 2 4 6 GHA - Ghana 2 2 1 1 2 1 3 4 NAM - Namibia 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 PNG - Papua New Guinea 1 1 1 1 SEY - Seychelles 1 1 1 1 MRI - Mauritius 2 2 2 2 IOM - Isle of Man 2 2 2 2 TON - Tonga 2 2 2 2 BAN - Bangladesh 1 1 1 1 LCA - Saint Lucia 1 1 1 1 GUY - Guyana 1 1 1 1 Total: 139 141 148 428 111 111 116 338 6 6 7 19 256 258 271 785

commonwealth games opening ceremony

Few hours from now and many of us will be watching opening ceremony of the tournament that has been hot topic for last so many days. Reason for commonwealth games being in new were good and bad both but mostly they were due to time delays, hygeine condition, security issues etc. Now opening ceremony is also under the hammer of secirity issues and few team are threatning to boycott the opening ceremny. Though many team have agreed to turn up for the opening program for the commonwealth games, New Zealand still seems concerned about security issues.

A leading newspaper daily in India called Times of India has published overview of opening ceremony. Heres little about it:

TOI had a sneak preview on Tuesday evening of the show that will kick off the Games on October 3. The ground, similar to the size of Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, was bathed under floodlights, attracting the eye of curious jawans passing by as well as giant monsoon beetles.

The 10-minute sequence being rehearsed was "The Great Indian Journey" for which hundreds of youth ran into the ground holding rudimentary props that will represent a giant human train, and will metamorphose seamlessly into an elaborate bazaar scene.

The stage is 80feet by 40feet, encircled by a 30-feet area, where in the course of a 140-minute presentation, Indian culture, from its hoary past to the modern day, will be showcased. Over this stage will be the aerostat, a lighted canopy that is expected to make the opening ceremony a bewitching spectacle.

But to be honest, it is difficult to discern the entire scheme from a 10-minute preview minus the real props or dress. You can tell how effective it is only when the whole thing will come together with music, colour, laser and giant videos on the wide walls of the oval aerostat. Still, one thing is obvious: this is an elaborate affair, involving the hard work of thousands.

Bansi Kaul, formerly of NSD and the lead choreographer, is confident that all the sweat will pay off. His top assistants, Prapti Malhotra, Indu Anand and Poornima Pendse, fill in the details. "The rehearsals start at the crack of dawn, at 6am," says Poornima Pendse. "The first lot of performers, who fill up the ground in the morning, are students from Delhi. They train and then go off to school."

"There are designated practice hours and many of our girls from all other parts of India are staying here at the NCC barracks," says Prapti. A flash of lightning splits open the sky. She looks up: "We just hope the rains stay away."

The two-hour-twenty-minute extravaganza is expected to start at 7pm and continue till 9.20pm on October 3. It is divided into several segments, each specially crafted and choreographed. Most sequences, say the organizers, are between eight minutes and nine minutes - an attempt to keep the programme vibrant and showcase as much diversity and heritage as possible.

The Great Indian Journey, for instance, seeks to create a human train (a tribute to the main sponsor, Indian Railways?) that will give glimpses of ordinary Indian scenes as seen from a train window. Soon the train breaks up and vignettes of Indian life are created - the bazaar, the cycle shop, kite shop and vegetable market where the vegetable seller who, among other things, is talking on a mobile.

It appears orderly and chaotic, at the same time. "There is order behind every chaos in this country," says Bansi Kaul. "You can say that again in the context of the Games," quips one of his assistants.

Read more: Preview of Commonwealth Games opening ceremony held - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/commonwealth-games-2010/news/Preview-of-Commonwealth-Games-opening-ceremony-held/articleshow/6562806.cms#ixzz11EksfPY0

Commonwealth Games 2010 - Queens Baton reaches Taj Mahal

Queens Baton relay reached the historical monument of love Taj Mahal. Taj Mahal is one of the sevent wonders of the world and have also become an image thats almost include in any website, presentation that relates to tourism in India. Monument is reported to attract 2 to 4 million tourists bot national and foreigners. You can find more information about Taj Mahal history at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal

Given various controversies about the tournament, one good statement came that none of the team will pull out from the tournament anf of course games will end up on a positive note of India