Soccer vs Cricket

Football (Soccer) and Cricket are among the most popular games in the world. These games have huge money, name and fame. Billions of people are die hard fans of these wonderful sports. Let's see which game wins in the comparison below:

How Many Teams are there in Football and Cricket

Football has more teams and playing nations than cricket. In cricket, there are only 9 Test Playing nations. But Football is played in 203 countries. In cricket world cup, hardly 14 to 16 countries participate. In Football world cup there are 32 countries involved. In Football, 80 countries compete with each other to qualify for the world cup. Many European Football clubs are so famous worldwide and their first division leagues are also exciting. These matches are far more popular than Indian IPL.

What is the Prize Money and Income of Players

In Soccer, players get between 10 to 20 million dollar as man of the match and, in cricket, players get around half million to 1 million dollar.

Premiere Leagues Contract

Soccer players get between 100 to 300 million dollar as per contract but in Cricket, players get between 10 to 30 million dollar.

How many people watch these games around the world

3000-4000 million people watch soccer in the world on the other hand1000-1500 million people like to watch Cricket Matches.

Both cricket and football are team games,but in cricket, matches can be won without the need for every player performing.In football every player has to be involved throughout the 90 minutes of play,but cricket provides the scope for every player in the field to relax a bit every now and then.Moreover I personally like to play football as it takes out lots of calories from my body.

Short History of Internet

The conceptual foundation for creation of the Internet was largely created by three individuals and a research conference, each of which changed the way we thought about technology by accurately predicting its future:

• Vannevar Bush wrote the first visionary description of the potential uses for information technology with his description of the "memex" automated library system.

• Norbert Wiener invented the field of Cybernetics, inspiring future researchers to focus on the use of technology to extend human capabilities.

• The 1956 Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence conferencecrystallized the concept that technology was improving at an exponential rate, and provided the first serious consideration of the consequences.

• Marshall McLuhan made the idea of a global village interconnected by an electronic nervous system part of our popular culture.

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, triggering US President Dwight Eisenhower to create the ARPAagency to regain the technological lead in the arms race. ARPA appointed J.C.R. Licklider to head the new IPTO organization with a mandate to further the research of the SAGE program and help protect the US against a space-based nuclear attack. Licklider evangelized within the IPTO about the potential benefits of a country-wide communications network, influencing his successors to hire Lawrence Roberts to implement his vision.

Roberts led development of the network, based on the new idea of packet switching invented by Paul Baran at RAND, and a few years later by Donald Davies at the UK National Physical Laboratory. A special computer called an Interface Message Processor was developed to realize the design, and the ARPANET went live in early October, 1969. The first communications were between Leonard Kleinrock's research center at the University of California at Los Angeles, and Douglas Engelbart's center at the Stanford Research Institute.

The first networking protocol used on the ARPANET was theNetwork Control Program. In 1983, it was replaced with the TCP/IPprotocol invented Wby Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, and others, which quickly became the most widely used network protocol in the world.

In 1990, the ARPANET was retired and transferred to the NSFNET. The NSFNET was soon connected to the CSNET, which linked Universities around North America, and then to the EUnet, which connected research facilities in Europe. Thanks in part to the NSF's enlightened management, and fueled by the popularity of the web, the use of the Internet exploded after 1990, causing the US Government to transfer management to independent organizationsstarting in 1995.

And here we are.

Guide to MLM Marketing

Having a mlm home business has never been so easy. The ever-increasing popularity of the Internet and electronic tools and gadgets take care of half the battle. There is nothing that beats the business opportunity that mlm home based businesses have to offer.

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By the time your mlm home business is well established, your typical work week may include 5 to 10 hours of enjoyable tasks that keep your marketing network running smoothly. After these few and short hours, work is over.

Making a network work isn’t impossibly difficult. You can’t use a magic bullet, book, device, software or any type of equipment to change how easy or hard it is. Just think back a few decades ago; many people would have been really scared to open a franchise, start a home business or start a mlm affiliate program. Why is that? People have to put in extra hours to make things work.

Some mlm home business programs proclaim to be the best but soon end up bankrupt. This is one of the reasons why people believe mlm is phony and people behind these programs can’t be trusted. Before judging mlm business programs, you should realize that the best program and best company simply don’t exist. “Best” is defined by inherent characteristics that are shown and approved by others.

Instead of judging these programs without facts, you should read, study and learn more about mlm home based businesses. After the marketer has acquired some knowledge on the subject, he or she can figure out how to input this knowledge in his own mlm business.

If you decide to build your own mlm home business, you realize that it is a “business”, not a hobby and nothing worth having in the business world comes for free. Make an upfront commitment to spending some time and money. That’s it. Free gifts are not likely to be super effective and useful. Look into various options and find a product or service that you love. Join a company that sells this product or service. You can then build your own mlm home business using the Internet and a system that works.

As with all other types of businesses, leading a successful venture requires the necessary business skills. That being said, an mlm business marketer doesn’t require special skills to run his or her multi-level network. The mlm home based business marketer can learn all required skills while running their business according to its marketing plan.

If you want to start a home-based trade, starting an mlm home business makes sense. An mlm home based business has many benefits to offer and it costs very little to get started. Use a proven system like franchise opportunities and make profits in a shorter time frame.

An mlm home business can be the perfect vehicle for those who wish for more income while maintaining a 9 to 5 job or those who want to build a nice retirement fund. MLM home based business success is within reach and it can improve your family’s financial situation.

Fifa Football Worldcup Schedule With Venues

Fifa Football World Cup is going to start from 11th of June, 2010. I just wanted to share a few information bits that I have organized about the world cup.

Here I will discuss about:

• World cup teams
• Date wise complete matches information
• First round group matches information
• Quarter finals
• Semi Finals
• The Final

The teams competing in Fifa World Cup 2010

There are 32 teams taking part in the world cup 2010. Here are their names. Click on any of the team for more details about that specific team.

1	Algeria	17	Korea DPR
2	Argentina	18	Korea Republic
3	Australia	19	Mexico
4	Brazil	20	Netherlands
5	Cameroon	21	New Zealand
6	Chile	22	Nigeria
7	Côte d’Ivoire	23	Paraguay
8	Denmark	24	Portugal
9	England	25	Serbia
10	France	26	Slovakia
11	Germany	27	Slovenia
12	Ghana	28	South Africa
13	Greece	29	Spain
14	Honduras	30	Switzerland
15	Italy	31	Uruguay
16	Japan	32	USA

Teams have been divided into 8 groups, 4 teams in each group. Here are the groups:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
South Africa	Argentina	England	Germany
Mexico	Nigeria	USA	Australia
Uruguay	Korea Republic	Algeria	Serbia
France	Greece	Slovenia	Ghana
Group E	Group F	Group G	Group H
Netherlands	Italy	Brazil	Spain
Denmark	Paraguay	Korea DPR	Switzerland
Japan	New Zealand	Cote d'Ivoire	Honduras
Cameroon	Slovakia	Portugal	Chile

Starting from 11th of June 2010 till 25th June, there will be 48 matches in total. Here is the detail for all the matches:

Match #	Date	Time	Team 1	Team 2	Venue	Group
1	11-Jun	16:00	South Africa	Mexico	Johannesburg – JSC	A
2	11-Jun	20:30	Uruguay	France	Cape Town	A
3	12-Jun	16:00	Argentina	Nigeria	Johannesburg – JEP	B
4	12-Jun	13:30	Korea Republic	Greece	Port Elizabeth	B
5	12-Jun	20:30	England	USA	Rustenburg	C
6	13-Jun	13:30	Algeria	Slovenia	Polokwane	C
7	13-Jun	20:30	Germany	Australia	Durban	D
8	13-Jun	16:00	Serbia	Ghana	Pretoria	D
9	14-Jun	13:30	Netherlands	Denmark	Johannesburg – JSC	E
10	14-Jun	16:00	Japan	Cameroon	Bloemfontein	E
11	14-Jun	20:30	Italy	Paraguay	Cape Town	F
12	15-Jun	13:30	New Zealand	Slovakia	Rustenburg	F
13	15-Jun	16:00	Côte d’Ivoire	Portugal	Port Elizabeth	G
14	15-Jun	20:30	Brazil	Korea DPR	Johannesburg – JEP	G
15	16-Jun	13:30	Honduras	Chile	Nelspruit	H
16	16-Jun	16:00	Spain	Switzerland	Durban	H
17	16-Jun	20:30	South Africa	Uruguay	Pretoria	A
18	17-Jun	20:30	France	Mexico	Polokwane	A
19	17-Jun	16:00	Greece	Nigeria	Bloemfontein	B
20	17-Jun	13:30	Argentina	Korea Republic	Johannesburg – JSC	B
21	18-Jun	13:30	Germany	Serbia	Port Elizabeth	D
22	18-Jun	16:00	Slovenia	USA	Johannesburg – JEP	C
23	18-Jun	20:30	England	Algeria	Cape Town	C
24	19-Jun	16:00	Ghana	Australia	Rustenburg	D
25	19-Jun	13:30	Netherlands	Japan	Durban	E
26	19-Jun	20:30	Cameroon	Denmark	Pretoria	E
27	20-Jun	13:30	Slovakia	Paraguay	Bloemfontein	F
28	20-Jun	16:00	Italy	New Zealand	Nelspruit	F
29	20-Jun	20:30	Brazil	Côte d’Ivoire	Johannesburg – JSC	G
30	21-Jun	13:30	Portugal	Korea DPR	Cape Town	G
31	21-Jun	16:00	Chile	Switzerland	Port Elizabeth	H
32	21-Jun	20:30	Spain	Honduras	Johannesburg – JEP	H
33	22-Jun	16:00	Mexico	Uruguay	Rustenburg	A
34	22-Jun	16:00	France	South Africa	Bloemfontein	A
35	22-Jun	20:30	Nigeria	Korea Republic	Durban	B
36	22-Jun	20:30	Greece	Argentina	Polokwane	B
37	23-Jun	16:00	Slovenia	England	Port Elizabeth	C
38	23-Jun	16:00	USA	Algeria	Pretoria	C
39	23-Jun	20:30	Ghana	Germany	Johannesburg – JSC	D
40	23-Jun	20:30	Australia	Serbia	Nelspruit	D
41	24-Jun	16:00	Slovakia	Italy	Johannesburg – JEP	F
42	24-Jun	16:00	Paraguay	New Zealand	Polokwane	F
43	24-Jun	20:30	Denmark	Japan	Rustenburg	E
44	24-Jun	20:30	Cameroon	Netherlands	Cape Town	E
45	25-Jun	16:00	Portugal	Brazil	Durban	G
46	25-Jun	16:00	Korea DPR	Côte d’Ivoire	Nelspruit	G
47	25-Jun	20:30	Chile	Spain	Pretoria	H
48	25-Jun	20:30	Switzerland	Honduras	Bloemfontein	H