25 Tamuz 5772
Did you know that the last time London hosted the Olympics was in 1948?
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The Opening Ceremony will be held 27 July 2012 beginning at 9 pm London time and ending at midnight.
"The eyes of the world will be on London on 27 July for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games, which is expected to have a global TV audience of more than a billion people."
"The games will be officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. A short film starring Daniel Craig as secret agent James Bond will be screened during the television coverage of the ceremony. Sir Paul McCartney has announced he will perform at the close of the ceremony."
"A total cast of 15,000 will take part in the London 2012 Opening and Closing Ceremonies, which will be watched by an estimated audience of four billion." (Source)
SECURITY : "...total number of armed forces staff at the games ... 17,000, dwarfing the 9,500 troops Britain has in Afghanistan.
..will feature 12,000 police, 3,000 volunteers, Typhoon fighter jets, helicopters, two warships and bomb disposal experts."
PASSPORT CONTROL: "A report from John Vine, the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, warned that border staff with only basic training and little immigration experience were being used to cut the length of the queues."
INFRASTRUCTURE: "London's aging transport network continued to befuddle planners.... hundreds of thousands of tourists expected. ...the big question mark remains as to whether the entire London transport infrastructure can handle the strain."
"IPHONE OLYMPICS": "The scariest development for many has been a mobile phone outage.
"British mobile phone company O2 restored its 2G and 3G services after a breakdown that hit some customers for as long as 24 hours Wednesday and Thursday.
"That's not a good omen for the vast amounts of tweets and photos expected to be sent during what has been dubbed the "Twitter Games." Those responsible for London's fiber optic cables, phone masts and Wi-Fi hotspots are bracing for a tsunami of data."
What else can go wrong? Embarrassing security, traffic, phone problems for London Olympics
With the Olympics just two weeks away, embarrassing logistical problems about security, staff, phones and traffic made the mood Thursday in London as gloomy as the weather.
British lawmakers clamoured for an explanation of why the armed forces need to field 3,500 more troops to protect the games, eclipsing the day that U.S. track star Michael Johnson held the Olympic flame aloft at sunrise at the ancient monument at Stonehenge.
London's aging infrastructure kept offering up unpleasant surprises as the main road near Heathrow Airport remained closed following emergency repairs. The British mobile phone company O2, meanwhile, acknowledged that thousands of customers had been affected by outages on its network — a bad omen ahead of the first iPhone games.
And then there was the weather. Rain on and off and on again.
London's Hyde Park — the site of outdoor concerts and other live events — has trucked in piles of wood chips to cover a muddy quagmire after the wettest June on record. Someone apparently decided that recreating Woodstock wasn't very Olympic-friendly.
Here's a look at the tsunami of bad news. (Continued here.)
"That's not a good omen for the vast amounts of tweets and photos expected to be sent during what has been dubbed the "Twitter Games." Those responsible for London's fiber optic cables, phone masts and Wi-Fi hotspots are bracing for a tsunami of data."
What else can go wrong? Embarrassing security, traffic, phone problems for London Olympics
With the Olympics just two weeks away, embarrassing logistical problems about security, staff, phones and traffic made the mood Thursday in London as gloomy as the weather.
British lawmakers clamoured for an explanation of why the armed forces need to field 3,500 more troops to protect the games, eclipsing the day that U.S. track star Michael Johnson held the Olympic flame aloft at sunrise at the ancient monument at Stonehenge.
London's aging infrastructure kept offering up unpleasant surprises as the main road near Heathrow Airport remained closed following emergency repairs. The British mobile phone company O2, meanwhile, acknowledged that thousands of customers had been affected by outages on its network — a bad omen ahead of the first iPhone games.
And then there was the weather. Rain on and off and on again.
London's Hyde Park — the site of outdoor concerts and other live events — has trucked in piles of wood chips to cover a muddy quagmire after the wettest June on record. Someone apparently decided that recreating Woodstock wasn't very Olympic-friendly.
Here's a look at the tsunami of bad news. (Continued here.)
3 comments:
Yikes!
And now the Israel bashing PM Cameron wants to dedicate a song to the London Olympics called Jerusalem? What is that all about? With his hatred of Israel, he might as well rename the song Al Quds. Perhaps Cameron is a secret Byzantine Xtian.
OMG I just listened to the song "Jerusalem" that Cameron wants to make into the British anthem at the Games. Now this seems to explain the Zion logo for the Games too if Cameron had anything to do with it, which he most assuredly did. He wants to transfer Jerusalem to England's pastoral countryside with Yoshke's footsteps and all! The man is a full fledged Israel replacement theologian. Forget about Dispensationalism with him. We have been permanently displaced. According to his theology, whether we convert to his religion is meaningless. OK so this explains a lot about him and the ZION logo. And the words of the William Blake poem on which the song is based talks about "Jerusalem being built among England's Dark Satanic Mills." Now what the heck is that? You got to believe this only by hearing this. And still Iran wants to boycott the Games because of the ZION logo even if Cameron has explained by his song choice that he thinks that Zion is now in England. He has even said that Iran would not be missed if they don't show up...as contestants at the Games. So odd.
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