Surviving The Soon coming Great Tribulation: Apostle's Series - episode Six

Although I have not received an additional one requested authorization - from a respected friend - with regard to a book published in 1991 by an - recovered from his deadly electrocution - author who vividly "Remembered' fighting thousands of years in an intergalactic war between good and evil - who also ascribed to the validity of Jesus' Lordship on Planet Earth - I Am told to submit this narrative "As Is" now - along with what is below - and to add such other information by editing this published ezine narrative - when and if said authorization arrives.

If you've just joined us in this series - you'll appreciate a sort of re-directory as to where you might find the reserve information as regards some - not all - of the areas, supports, and scriptures already covered and presented in this "Surviving The Soon arrival Great Tribulation: Apostle's Series".

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Chapter One, we established that - as per the thirteenth lesson of the book of Revelations The Apostle, John details a series of time to come events of which The Lord Himself had spoken during His time before completing His earthly mission of dying on the "Cross" (Jehovah's Witnesses call it "The Torture Stake") to save us sinners.

"Our Lord, Jesus, Himself talked in effect of these 'End times' events when asked by His Apostles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and some other people, as reported in three gospels as to when these horrible things would take place.

'(Cev) Matthew 24:33 So when you see all these things happening, you will know that the time has approximately come.'

I set out to develop - via Scripture reserve - that we are rapidly approaching the very soon, 'End times' when these very events will begin quickly unfold.

Chapter Two - Scripture # 1 (Involves 'The Great Tribulation') :

'(Nkjv) Matthew 24:21 "For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the starting of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.''(Kjv) 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;'

'(Cev) 2 Thessalonians 2:3 But don't be fooled! habitancy will rebel against God. Then before the Lord returns, the wicked one who is doomed to be destroyed will appear.'

Scripture # 3 (Involves commerce and 'The Mark Of The Beast'):

'(Nasb) Revelation 13:17 and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the estimate of his name.'(Kjv) Revelation 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the estimate of his name.'

Chapter Two, we left with the end that habitancy - who wish to survive the 1st half of Tribulation (3 and a half years) to be "Raptured" - have a need to earn "Lots-of-money" wherewith we can remove ourselves to a safe haven and not be field to "The Beast's" monetary theory and take "The Mark. I am suggesting that smart Christians - and others who will be targeted - make lots of money fast!".

Chapter Three dealt with reasons Why the "Rapture" could not occur "Pre-tribulation".

If the church were removed prior to the 1st half of Tribulation, then why the scripture (Kjv) Revelation 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If any man have an ear, let him hear. 10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

If the church was already 'Ruptured' or removed - prior to the starting of the 'Great Tribulation' - then there wouldn't be any 'Saints' here for 'The Beast' to 'Overcome' or 'Make war with'.

We confirmed that God always make a way to deliver His elect chosen ones who will listen to Him and Do what He says.

Again - '(Kjv) Revelation 13: 9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.'

'(Cev) Hebrews 11:7 Because Noah had faith, he was warned about something that had not yet happened. He obeyed and built a boat that saved him and his family. In this way the habitancy of the world were judged, and Noah was given the blessings that come to everyone who pleases God.'

'(Cev) 2 Timothy 4:3 The time is arrival when habitancy won't listen to good teaching. Instead, they will look for teachers who will please them by telling them only what they are itching to hear.'

(Nkjv) Hosea 4:6 My habitancy are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being clergyman for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

"I believe that for many - who have ears to hear - the sound of an invitation to earn the means by which to position themselves and their loved ones securely away from the cities - where most of the chaos and the dissident collections might - occur will have a pleasant ring.

I am suggesting that smart Christians - and others who will be targeted - make lots of money fast! The same costly Savior that "Cured" me of "Incurable" Ms (Multiple Sclerosis) in case,granted me with a "Financial Deliverance Vessel" to maybe sail to some remote destination - the directions intelligent where - God will contribute at the permissible time. We cannot all go the the same place. He has prepared places for each of His elect to weather the arrival storm. Our cleft in the rock, if you will?

The money will come via honest Mlm (Multi-Level-Marketing) programs which are not pyramid scams. What they are is free or easy to get into - and incredibly profitable for those who will spend some time and a very dinky money. Two of these are associated to banners on my websites. Others may be added. I suggest the wise to prayerfully think them - before signing up for one or more - while there is yet time.

I do not suggest that these are the only good Mlm products or programs that are available. These are the ones that I've personally had good, profitable experiences with after having been sorely disappointed and/or ripped off by some others.

'(Nkjv) Matthew 10:22 "And you will be hated by all for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.'

The End Of What? The end of the 1st half of Tribulation. 'Mid-Trib Rapture'!

Chapter Four answered a reader's question, "Rascal, I am intelligent to know how we can buy our way through tribulation if the beast won't let us buy or sell whatever unless we accept his mark."

"To acknowledge my sincere, sensible reader in a word - "Gold" - is how we can buy our way through the 1st half of Tribulation When the 'Beast' won't let us buy of sell whatever unless we accept his mark!
We will not be using the Beast's system. Lol Rather - I suggest - the world and the Beast's theory will be using The Lord's."

The history and reasons why 'Gold' will be the safe medium for surviving The Soon arrival Great Tribulation' were made clear. Why 'The Beast' and 'The New World Order' would have to convert the world's monetary systems back to 'The Gold Standard' were identified.

The Martial Law (soon to go into effect) was explained - and the private 'Civilian attentiveness Camps awaiting Christians and other opposition dissidents were exposed.

More reasons that we can not believe our government were presented.

Chapter Five dealt with , "Jesus Is arrival soon for His church. The church that He will be arrival for will have heeded His warnings to see danger and seek refuge like the "Real Believers" have done and are doing while they still have the time. Most pew sitters will not have done so. They will pay with their earthly lives for not believing their Watchmen, Prophets, and Apostles that have warned them as I am doing.

A timeless Truth is contained in these words of a prophet,
(Cev) Isaiah 38:19 Only the living can thank you, as I am doing today. Each generation tells the next about your faithfulness.

The narrative was offered in the hope that my readers will remain among "The Living".

'False Flag Operations were identified and explained. More evidence of Us government involvement in conspiracy to cause the 9/11 tragedy as an excuse to woefully wage war was presented by a collection of experts and authorities from a wide range of fields."

Some of those involved with alien interests - and extraterrestrial understanding perspectives - view 911 as the guess that we went to war with those countries where old Et and Anunnaki (see Zachariah Stichen) technology might be discovered and brought to bear against us or 'The New World Order'.

I understand The God of All Universes and Dimensions is not too small to have created many other planes, planets, civilizations, species, heavens and only He knows what else.

Now - for the New information prepared for lesson Six:

Certainly - many paramount authors - use the same information to arrive at Very dissimilar conclusions.

For example, after reading lesson Three of this "How To Survive The arrival Great Tribulation" Apostle Series" narrative ~ I received an e-mail from a sincere reader asking me if I had read a book called The False Prophet by Ellis Skolfield. He asked - if I was familiar with it -, "would I annotation back to him, please? If not, would I be willing to read it and then do so, please? It is only a 194 pages, is available as a free Pdf download @ .ellisskolfield.com."

I've come to understand how The Holy Spirit works with me. Rather than finish and submit this lesson narrative - I knew that there must in effect be more information that I must glean from reading this well received - by many - book.

The author is most sincere and makes an intelligent case for 'The Dome Of The Rock' being 'The Abomination That Causush Desolation' as talked about in Revelations. He also is convinced that the Muslim faith is the 'Beast' rather than a literal man - as I understand it.

Many examples of Islamic Terrorist's Actions' are cited to gift his discussion with more 'Traditional' church interpretations of 'End Time Events'.

These comprise the popular 'Official' position that the "Trade Tower's Collapse' was due to the flying of hijacked airplanes into the 'Towers' by 'Muslim Extremist's.

As the author's conclusions line up with the stated and covert agendas of 'The New World Order' - I'm safe bet it was no qoute for the author to collect the many and diverse permissions properly obtained for this publication.

Yes, I feel that the author Has Been Deceived, maybe encouraged by proponents of "The Beast" - and his New World Order. They must have loved the book. Because it fits so well into reserve of 9/11 being caused by Muslim extremists - that lie of theirs is promoted by said publication.

I suggest that much of the time-line and some other conclusions that the author arrives at are valid - yet his 'Final Conclusion' which suggests "Its all about Islam" is in error. I urge this good and gallant warrior author to think reconsidering his end in light of new reveled revelation and truths.

The Islamic believers will be carefully "Too Extreeme - Just Like Those Narrow-Minded Christians" and will also be rounded up and disposed of in the waiting "Civilian attentiveness Camps". (see Rex 84: en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Rex_84) From lesson Four I repeat one paragraph and a scripture:

Locations And administrative Orders
en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Rex_84

"There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by Fema (Federal urgency administration Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a declaration and the attorney generals signature on a guarantee to which a list of names is attached. Ask yourself if you in effect want to be on Ashcroft's list. The Rex 84 program was established on the thinking that if a "mass exodus" of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/Us border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by Fema. Rex 84 allowed many soldiery bases to be done down and to be turned into prisons."

Jesus said, '(Nasb) Matthew 16:3 "And in the morning, `There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Do you know how to behold the appearance of the sky, but cannot behold the signs of the times?'

Even recognized authorities often fall victim to mis-information which - although based upon unsavory facts - leads them to a wrong conclusions. An exquisite example is below. The facts presented and observations offered are most relevant and valid. The end that "Its all about oil" is not.

I will continue from the earlier reported Michael Meacher write up of
Saturday September 6, 2003 in
The Guardian

*[Note major portions of Michael Meacher's fine narrative are not included.]

"We now know that a blueprint for the creation of a global Pax Americana was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice-president), Donald Rumsfeld (defense secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), Jeb Bush (George Bush's younger brother) and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defenses, was written in September 2000 by the neoconservative think tank, scheme for the New American Century (Pnac).

The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to take soldiery operate of the Gulf region either or not Saddam Hussein was in power. It says "while the unresolved friction with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a grand American force nearnessy in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."

The document also calls for the creation of "Us space forces" to dominate space, and the total operate of cyberspace to forestall "enemies" using the Internet against the Us. It also hints that the Us may think developing biological weapons "that can target exact genotypes [and] may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically beneficial tool".

Finally - written a year before 9/11 - it pinpoints North Korea, Syria and Iran as dangerous regimes, and says their existence justifies the creation of a "worldwide command and operate system". This is a blueprint for Us world domination. But before it is dismissed as an program for rightwing fantasists, it is clear it provides a much great explanation of what in effect happened before, during and after 9/11 than the global war on terrorism thesis. This can be seen in several ways.

First, it is clear the Us authorities did dinky or nothing to pre-empt the events of 9/11. It is known that at least 11 countries in case,granted expand warning to the Us of the 9/11 attacks. Two senior Mossad experts were sent to Washington in August 2001 to alert the Cia and Fbi to a cell of 200 terrorists said to be preparing a big carrying out (Daily Telegraph, September 16 2001). The list they in case,granted included the names of four of the 9/11 hijackers, none of whom was arrested.

It had been known as early as 1996 that there were plans to hit Washington targets with airplanes.
The account of evidence does, however, fall into place when set against the Pnac blueprint. From this it seems that the so-called "war on terrorism" is being used largely as bogus cover for achieving wider Us strategic geopolitical objectives. in effect Tony Blair himself hinted at this when he said to the Commons liaison committee: "To be rigorous about it, there was no way we could have got the social consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan but for what happened on September 11" (Times, July 17 2002). Similarly Rumsfeld was so carefully to collect a rationale for an charge on Iraq that on 10 isolate occasions he asked the Cia to find evidence linking Iraq to 9/11; the Cia repeatedly came back empty-handed (Time Magazine, May 13 2002).

In fact, 9/11 offered an extremely favorable pretext to put the Pnac plan into action.

The overriding motivation for this political smokescreen is that the Us and the Uk are starting to run out of collect hydrocarbon vigor supplies. By 2010 the Muslim world will operate as much as 60% of the world's oil production and, even more importantly, 95% of remaining global oil export capacity. As question is increasing, so contribute is decreasing, continually since the 1960s.

This is prominent to addition dependence on foreign oil supplies for both the Us and the Uk. The Us, which in 1990 produced domestically 57% of its total vigor demand, is improbable to furnish only 39% of its needs by 2010. A Dti clergyman has admitted that the Uk could be facing "severe" gas shortages by 2005. The Uk government has confirmed that 70% of our electricity will come from gas by 2020, and 90% of that will be imported. In that context it should be noted that Iraq has 110 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves in addition to its oil.

A narrative from the commission on America's national interests in July 2000 noted that the most promising new source of world supplies was the Caspian region, and this would comfort Us dependence on Saudi Arabia. To diversify contribute routes from the Caspian, one pipeline would run westward via Azerbaijan and Georgia to the Turkish port of Ceyhan. an additional one would enlarge eastwards through Afghanistan and Pakistan and finish near the Indian border. This would rescue Enron's beleaguered power plant at Dabhol on India's west coast, in which Enron had sunk bn venture and whose economic survival was dependent on entrance to cheap gas.

Nor has the Uk been disinterested in this scramble for the remaining world supplies of hydrocarbons, and this may partly clarify British participation in Us soldiery actions. Lord Browne, chief administrative of Bp, warned Washington not to carve up Iraq for its own oil fellowships in the aftermath of war (Guardian, October 30 2002). And when a British foreign clergyman met Gadaffi in his desert tent in August 2002, it was said that "the Uk does not want to lose out to other European nations already jostling for benefit when it comes to potentially lucrative oil contracts" with Libya (Bbc Online, August 10 2002).

The end of all this prognosis must in effect be that the "global war on terrorism" has the hallmarks of a political myth propagated to pave the way for a thoroughly dissimilar program - the Us goal of world hegemony, built colse to securing by force command over the oil supplies required to drive the whole project. Is collusion in this myth and junior participation in this scheme in effect a permissible aspiration for British foreign policy? If there was ever need to clarify a more objective British stance, driven by our own independent goals, this whole depressing saga in effect provides all the evidence needed for a radical convert of course."
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Michael Meacher Mp was environment clergyman from May 1997 to June 2003 "

Dear Readers - Don'T Buy The 'We'Re Fighting The War For The Needed Oil Dis-Information - Widly Held Delusion' Either. We Have - Within Our Own Boarders - The Vast Majority Of The World'S Oil Reserves!

Want proof? Then an additional one link that you will have to cut & paste to my jesus4You.ws ~ "Activist Issues" section is:

milesbooks.com/wb/pages/activist-issues/us-govts-secret-colorado-oil-discovery.php

What makes me think that 'The New World Order' - to assume absolute operate of the world nation's money systems - will switch to the 'Gold Standard'?

(To be prolonged in "Surviving The Soon arrival Great Tribulation: Apostle's Series - lesson Seven")

~Rub-it "More Delusions Disappear"~

Rascal :))

Surviving The Soon coming Great Tribulation: Apostle's Series - episode Six

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It doesn't take much to feel little more than gloom about the expectation of real estate as an venture tool. You can even begin to wonder how much you may ultimately lose if you have to move. However, recent indicators seem to propose that a turn around is happening even as some housing prices continue to decline.

San Francisco joins six other metropolitan areas in what appears to be qualified returns on asset investments within two years. Agreeing to experts, "One conjecture for the sharp comeback is that much of the area's excess catalogue will have been sold. It's already dropped by nearly in half over the past year."

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In other words San Francisco remains a extremely desirable area in which to live. Homes that have flooded the market are slowly being purchased. Yes, the buy price has come down production it a trade to buy when compared to prices even two years ago, but neighborhoods are filling back up and the good news is spreading.

A cautionary note should be settled here I suppose. Experts predict that some sense of normalcy to the market may still be a couple of years away, but most analysts will take all the good news they can find - and they're looking it in San Francisco.

The good news doesn't stop there either. In places like Seattle, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Memphis, Oakland and Birmingham residents are looking a sense of stability returning to the housing market.

In many of these cities there is a robust local economy that has helped keep families in their homes and allowed vacant homes to become occupied sooner.

Pittsburgh has one of the bottom mean home prices in the nation production it a promising location for families who want to live in a metropolitan area without the price tag often related with location. Experts say, "The area's economy has transitioned from steel to services, finance, bio-med, condition care and other more sustainable industries. This diversification has enabled the area to muddle through the recession with less angst than many other places."

Rochester has learned its own sense of diversification to survive. The advantage of surviving this arrival is that there really was no bubble bursting in Rochester. Housing prices were already low so the overall loss was minimized. The foreclosure rate there was about a third the national average.

Low home prices coupled with high unemployment would seem to be mixed news for Memphis, but their location is still a huge calling card to many would be homeowners. The habitancy has risen nearly 7% in the last ten years. This means quiz, for available homes continues to be strong.

Oakland provides a more consuming story. High unemployment and a home value drop of nearly 50%. However, this creates a value for habitancy willing to move to Oakland. This city is just as sought after as virtually any other California metro area and the current home values may welcome a new set of investors anxious to own California property.

Market volatility does not retell Birmingham very well. Experts narrative that this city has experienced, "Steady increase rather than big peaks and valleys." This provides a welcome environment for what may feel like a temporary set back rather than extreme devastation.

In all seven communities there is a base thread. Each location has strengths that outpace weaknesses. By tapping into the vigor the possible for a return to normalcy seems almost assured.

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Sourcing Superstars - Alok Aggarwal & Marc Vollenweider, Evalueserve

Q: Tell us how Evalueserve got started: how did you meet and how did you start to do firm together?

Alok Aggarwal: I basically came to the Us in 1980, did my PhD in computer science in Hopkins in 1984, joined Ibm's investigate division in 1984 and then was there for 16 years; I started Ibm investigate Lab in Delhi, and became the director in 1997. This was the time that dotcoms were taking off, so one of the strategies was that we should open a lab in India because we were losing researchers to dotcom start-ups in the Us. So I was given the fee to open a lab in India and in 1998 I moved with the family to Delhi; I started the lab in April 1998 and grew it to about 35 PhDs and 35 Masters.

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Marc Vollenweider: I'm 100% Swiss, graduating as an electrical engineer with the Swiss Federal fabricate of Technology in Zurich. Then I joined McKinsey as a greenhorn, as a firm analyst; I spent a year at McKinsey - this was 1990 - then in 1991 went to Insead in Paris for my Mba. Then I rejoined McKinsey and stayed in Switzerland and got elected partner in 1998. Then in 1999 I moved to India with McKinsey as one of the partners in the consulting practice, where I was in fee of the healthcare institution and lots of other stuff. And then I also got the accountability for the so-called McKinsey knowledge centre, which at the time was an initiative led and pioneered by Rajat Gupta, the then global head of McKinsey.

The goal there was essentially to come up with a investigate hub that would preserve the consultants colse to the world with high-quality quick research. So say you had a inquire - how many clubs were there with these and these criteria - you'd send an email to India and some busy bee worked on it and sent back the talk in a Zip file and then in the morning you'd come back to the office and you have the talk ready for you. We started out from an initial team of 12 and ramped this up to 120 Mbas between the years 1999 and 2000. And this was a pure captive, only catering to McKinsey internally. And then it became clear to me that this could be an moving third-party firm model, so that's why in March/April in 2000 I started thinking about setting up my own company.

Aa: We met, interestingly, because of a birthday party for the kids, who were going to the American Embassy School in Delhi. This was, I think, early May 2000. When we started talking we realised that he was thinking about one aspect of investigate and analytics and I was thinking about an additional one aspect; so, why don't we originate a firm that provides all kinds of investigate and analytics services and other high-end services linked to having knowledge expertise? So we both met some times during that period - July/August 2000 - and quit McKinsey and Ibm in November 2000 and started Evalueserve (which stands for "evaluation services") in December 2000.

Q: When you set up by yourselves was there any McKinsey money involved?

Mv: No, there was a clean cut. Alok and I put in the money, our own money, and there is no institutional money from McKinsey. We're confidentially held, and we hold the vast majority, and then we have a Swiss hidden equity investor, you could call him a super angel... So during the initial years 2001, 2002, 2003 we needed some money to grow because we turned profitable in 2002, which is nothing else but pretty good, but still if you then grow at a rate of 100% the single biggest capital consumption item is nothing else but not office space or computers: it is accounts receivables. Because you essentially prefinance your revenue; because the cost of people on your equilibrium sheet, they're there but you don't get the revenue. So you need to equilibrium that and then you grow at 100% and you need some money, even though you're profitable. So we picked up some money in very small slices and we had five mini-rounds - maybe even micro-rounds, you know, 0,000 here, 0,000 there - over the procedure of the next five years. We haven't taken up any money since 2005.

Aa: Seven and a half years later, we are about 2,500 people worldwide. Out of these 2,500, about 60 of us are client engagement managers; so we do firm development, we do sales, and with the right hand we hold our clients and with the left hand we hold our professionals in our back-end investigate centres. Because we are very complicated in client delivery and client management, all 60 work out of home offices; we have about 28 in the Us, two in Toronto in Canada, about 25 in Europe of which 11 or 12 are in the Uk, with the Uk being our second-largest territory from a sales perspective. Then we have one in Shanghai, one in Hong Kong, one in Singapore, one in Australia, and one in India. So that's roughly our team of about 60 people.

Our back-end offices, which are nothing else but bricks-and-mortar offices, are in China, Romania, India, and Chile - so rather than "Bric" we call them "Cric-and-mortar"... India was the first one that we opened in December 2000; we currently have about 2,130 people in India. China was the second one, with 160; we provide services in Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages and linked knowledge services out of there in these three languages. In Chile, we are based in Valparaiso, about 45 minutes from Santiago; we provide services in Spanish and Portuguese from there, and we cover the Latin American shop as well as the Hispanic shop in the Us, which has been growing quite rapidly - it's about 10% of Us Gdp right now and is anticipated to double in the next 20 years. This helps us not just in covering these languages and varied countries and cultures and customs; this also helps us in providing 24/6 midpoint because rather than people working during night-time in India or China, we're able to exchange - in a flat manner - work to Chile.

Romania is particularly moving for us because the place where we are, Cluj, is a university town with quite a few people who speak German very well - so we will be able to cover Germany, Austria and Switzerland quite well. Also we can cover Eastern Europe, in single Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and so on, Romania itself, Poland, Hungary; that area is growing quite rapidly with the oil outflow from Russia and some of the other eastern states, and hence anticipated to do very well. So with that we are basically providing knowledge services, most of them are investigate and analytics, some of them are middle-office work, but all are knowledge services for banks, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare, technology, media, telecom, and so on.

Q: What do you think have been the biggest challenges you've come across during the life of the business, and how have you managed to get past them?

Mv: I think it's fairly straightforward. These 2,500 guys need to be busy. Marketing and sales, that's the single biggest challenge, always; initially - we call it the "double chasm" - initially when we went to meet people we went in and said "hi this is Evalueserve", and they said "oh, so you want me to outsource my strategic research?" And this was chasm whole one, because nobody had done this before: it was a wholly new concept; nobody had any idea that this could be done. So that was a huge hurdle.

Aa: Obviously there did not exist this kind of offshore outsourcing kind of work until the 2000, 2001 timeframe. The only firm that was doing it was McKinsey Knowledge Centre, with about 120 people when Marc left; American Express was doing some whole of prestige card analytics, probably an additional one 100 people; and normal electric out of its captive was doing maybe an additional one 200-250 people doing card analytics. So total whole of people at the end of 2000 when we started was only about 500-1,000. This business has grown to about 75,000 in India alone, if you look at the whole knowledge services or knowledge process outsourcing industry, so there has been a fairly strong increase in a fairly short period of time. And that of procedure comes with its own challenges, because humans are not like robots; the skill that knowledge services business requires and the knowledge process outsourcing business requires is a fairly detailed deep knowledge and people need to get some sense of it - you learn partly by feel and by doing the projects.

Mv: And then the second element was they were saying "and you do this from India?" and then we have to say: "Yeah, it works nothing else but well from India". This is nothing else but the double chasm. And to overcome this, to initiate a new concept, that was nothing else but the challenge. And then the next challenge was to build a scaleable sales force. You know, now we have about 50 salespeople and these are obviously highly expensive people. So we have to find a model that was nothing else but scaleable and was economically feasible. And that I think was the second nothing else but nothing else but big challenge.

Q: How do you go about recruiting those definite skill sets?

Mv: By now we know what works. So these would be people with, for example, an ex-Reuters background, or an ex-research background where they had to sell investigate - salespeople in the services-for-research domain, I would call it. So these are the kind of people that work very well. Then there are maybe slightly more remote or people who have worked in their respective industries, say in marketing departments or so, and have an angle into sales - who want to move into sales. So you can say the tasteless elements are that there is a sales angle, there is the comprehension of how pro services work angle, and then there is an business angle, and if these three elements work together well, then ordinarily we have prosperous sales people like that: typically between 30-40 years old, and roughly in that space of capability.

Q: What differentiates Evalueserve from the competition?

Aa: Four or five things. One of them is our geographical reach at this point in time. We are more of a global organisation, so as I mentioned earlier we can provide services roughly seamlessly 24/6 without having to have people working the night shift or the graveyard shift. The second is that with the very fact that we are 2,500 people, we are able to bring in areas that other people may not be covering, so we have a fairly strong vertical for example in oil, gas and utilities right now, that I would say most of our competitors do not have.

The third is that - I would call it serendipity as I explained earlier how Marc and I got together, it's not that we had some great brand vision, it's just happened by opening more than anything else - we are about 2 ½ years ahead of the competition. We were the first ones to start this whole Kpo services business, define it and start it as a third party in a very well-defined manner, and fortunately we still, I believe, have a two-to-three-year advantage over most of our competitors. I mean for patent drafting, in intellectual property, we often see some of the comments made by our competitors and we say, "yeah, we were making the same sort of comments in 2005-2006". So we know at what level of evolution and what state of evolution these people are in.

Mv: Then I think it's a portfolio of services which is very unique in our case; we're purely research- and analytics-based, so we don't do any firm process outsourcing, or It outsourcing, nothing of that - our 2,500 people are only doing bespoke investigate and analytics. This is how we differentiate against, say, an Infosys Bpo, or a Genpact, who are also trying to have some operation in the Kpo space. But we are pure-play. We only do that - obviously with the important focus. There are some niche players, and we are broader than such niche players.

And I think our aid portfolio being investment research, which is sort of the space of investment banks, hedge funds, that kind of area; firm investigate which is more like what markets do, what players do, what clubs do, these kind of questions; shop investigate which is more phone interviews; then data analytics which is more statistical software packages which you use to analyse large data sets; and then ultimately there's technology determination which is colse to patent analytics. That is a unique offering, which is highly synergistic in our case, that very few other people have.

Q: What qualifies as "Kpo"? And are there any limits to what can be outsourced?

Aa: It's a very moving thing. When we came up with this word, I think we had a very definite meaning. We very rarely use the word Kpo in talks with our clients because to me it has come to be a word like "love": every person "loves" every person else, but what does the word "love" mean?

What happened was, when we were starting there were a lot of call centres and Bpo clubs who were doing low-end finance and accounting, low-end Hr outsourcing, credit-card processing work and so on. In 2001, 2002 - even 2003 - some of the news media and journalists would ask us what we did; we would say we're providing investigate analytics, knowledge analytics services out of India, and they would always say "oh so you're an additional one Bpo - is that a fair way of saying it?" And we would say "that's true, but you know knowledge services are fundamentally different from just what a Bpo is".

Marc and Ashish [Gupta; Evalueserve's Cco and India country head] were discussing this in 2003, and they basically said "we are nothing else but a Kpo" because knowledge is part of what we do, and the more we are able to provide knowledge, the more we can fee - whereas in Bpo the charges are fairly well defined because the processes are well defined: the operator or help-desk that is answering calls, they can't nothing else but fee much more. But here if you go up the value-chain - if the someone has ten years' feel in telecom and is able to provide deeper knowledge - even out of India we can fee - per hour. In the Us the corresponding rates are more like 0 per hour.

So in August or September 2003 one of the journalists from the Economic Times asked Ashish the usual question, and Ashish said "actually you know we are a Kpo, not a Bpo", and he told me about it later. The journalist didn't pick it up completely, he wrote an article about it and he said "Evalueserve talks about being a Kpo" and I nothing else but - being a researcher at heart - started doing investigate and we eventually defined what Kpo was and how big the shop size would be - about billion worldwide - outsourcing to low-wage countries like India and the Philippines and China. I gave a talk at Bell Communications in New Jersey in December 2003 and we wrote a paper in April 2004, and fortunately within a year the news media in India took onto the word Kpo and it spread like fire.

So the disagreement between Kpo and Bpo is fundamentally the following: in Bpo the process has already been well-defined, like how you're going to talk a single call, what are the levels of escalation that there would be and so on. In Kpo on the other hand there is no such process. So you go to a patent attorney, for example, and you ask the patent attorney "we want to take a part of your work and do it out of India" and he'll say "are you kidding? There's no way you can do it. The someone who helps me out is sitting next door and we discuss the write-up with each other at least 3 or 4 times a day; this is an art, not a science, and there is no process involved."

So the first thing in a typical Kpo project is to nothing else but convince the someone and take a part of that art out, and make a process of it so it can be moved to India, China, Chile, etc. But because it can never be wholly taken out - because nothing else but there is a part of it which is art which that patent attorney who is the "rock star" or the equity investigate investigator who is the "rock star" has in their heads - that 15%-20 % still remains in their heads and it has to come back, and for the project to be completed that 15%-20% still has to be completed by the someone who is nothing else but knowledgeable and is in that country or that single domain to do it. So that x versus hundred minus x as we call it, where x per cent is being done in the Us or the Uk, and 100 minus x is being done in the Philippines or India or wherever, is what differentiates a Bpo from a Kpo.

So, first, there is no process which can just be thrown over and get it back; secondly, knowledge is an leading aspect of it, the higher you go up the knowledge chain the more in fact you can fee for the project, and thirdly some finishing touches - advice, conception etc - which could be everywhere from 5% all the way to I would say in some cases 40%, would have to be in case,granted by the front-end person.

Q: Where's most of your investigate going? Is the direction changing over time - is there more, for example, technological patent-based investigate now?

Mv: It's growing proportionally. When you look at the breakdown we would do about 40 per cent of our work in investment research, for equity determination for example, for investment banks, or for funds; about 25 per cent in the area of firm research, which is more like "what is this shop doing, here is a customized newsletter, here is a firm profile," that kind of work; then we would do about 12 per cent shop research, and about the same size in intellectual property, and the rest is data analytics and knowledge technology. In terms of client breakdown we have again about 40 per cent in the financial industry; about I would say 20 per cent is pro services - consulting firms, investigate firms, law firms - and the rest is corporate.

Q: And is that changing at the moment?

Mv: Not really, no - it's pretty consistent actually. It's growing more or less in line. It's nothing else but pretty surprising, it's not nothing else but changing. We conception that the investment investigate would suffer a bit because of all this subprime accident and so on but that's not at all the case; in fact it increases the pressure on these clubs to outsource.

Q: So what's going to be the next big sector to hit Kpo?

Aa: I think pharmaceutical is very prone to it. The question that the pharmaceutical area is going through is that the cost of producing the drugs and getting them approved by the Fda of the Us, for example, has been rising at an enormous pace. Last year, for example, only 26 drugs were approved, and billion was spent in research, development and approval. At the same time the people in most of the advanced countries has been aging, so there has been more and more need for the drugs but there has not been that kind of money that can be spent on it. Either or not the Us moves into a socialized curative system is becoming immaterial as days go by: it basically is already socialized to a great extent with Medicare and Medicaid insurance programs.

So these pharmaceutical drug clubs will have to do two things. One, they will have to find other markets to sell to, which will be India, China, other emerging markets, on the one hand - but again there the people don't have that kind of purchasing power, so they will have to price their drugs lower; and the second is that they will have to somehow form out ways of reducing the cost of their drugs. First inventing them and then getting approved - so a very, very ripe area where Kpo would be beneficial for them.

Q: How do you think the drivers behind outsourcing are changing and what are the greatest threats?

Mv: Ok. Sometimes people say costs are increasing: increasing salaries and what have you. But in our case I have a reasonably uncomplicated talk to that. I say in our case we have a very uncomplicated strategy: we're going to be in the five lowest-cost highest-skilled locations in the world. Which means that by definition I can prove mathematically that I am always going to have a cost advantage. Because, right, you're always going to be in the lowest-cost highest-skill locations. So that's going to be fine, I guess.

But the biggest challenges will be to add value to clients. This is not a threat, it's more a challenge, because clients want more value-addition, more thinking, more - especially in our case - insight. They want productivity, they want global reach, they want 24x5... So when you look at how the aid level has evolved in the past few years it's been amazing. Today I can do things here which have been wholly unimaginable even two years ago. So the speed with which things have been developing is increasing, actually. It's not just linear, it's even increasing.

The second point is, I think, the war for talent. The demands that people are putting on outsourcing players means that they have to have the quality to train higher, and fabricate people, and that means you have to have very very solid training processes - we for example have an initiative called Care for People, which includes different career track models, work/life balance, and lots of things. Getting this done is critically important. The third thing is leadership. Especially in the new economies you find that there is very miniature experienced leadership available, so you have to essentially coach people highly well into leadership positions they would otherwise never be in. We have some people who are about 30 years of age and lead about 120 people. Now when I was that age I led about 15. So I think creating this leadership from within is a major element.

Other than that I don't think there are major challenges because as we ordinarily tend to say, the players in this space should nothing else but collaborate in the sense of growing the shop - because the largest part of the shop hasn't even been addressed yet, which is work that's still being done inside clubs - or even not being done! I mean the people who work with us best nothing else but use us for growth; they don't use us to cut costs. Very interesting, you know? They come up with new ideas and they use us to get their increase done. And these are the people who nothing else but use us very well. Maybe the war for talent thing is probably the biggest threat, because if the clubs don't do that well, they will lose out. That's the thing.

Q: Finally, India dominates the offshore outsourcing shop and has done for some time. Do you think that dominance is unassailable in the short-to-medium term, and if not why not?

Aa: India has been growing so rapidly, both in terms of outsourcing but equally importantly in the area of domestic industry, which has been growing very rapidly. Both the outsourcing exports business and the domestic business have the same demand, taking the same or similar kinds of people, and hence the wages are going higher and attrition is quite large. I think even bigger than wage increases the risk is about attrition: what we call "job-hopping".

I think one of the biggest challenges - and unfortunately again because these folks are young, they don't nothing else but realise it at this point in time - that India will face is this cultural shift that seems to be happening among the youngsters, the young people who are graduating, who just turn jobs at the drop of a hat - and I would go further, maybe even without the drop of a hat. They say "ok this is boring, let's move or" or "I'm getting a 15% raise from the next company, let me get my every year raise from Evalueserve, let me float my resume around, get an additional one 15% raise from an additional one company."

What they don't realise is that every time they move from one job to another, the last three months they're not nothing else but doing any work for Evalueserve. And the first three months they're learning the culture and the ways to do work at the other company. And hence six months of their life is wasted, where they haven't nothing else but learnt much, and since this is all about knowledge, and learning, they're screwed. They do this job-hopping four or five times and by the time they're about seven years in the game, they've wasted about two years in the whole process. They basically have thrown themselves wholly out of the market.

Because if we later look at their resume, even if we were to send their resume to a client saying we wanted to use this person, the likelihood is that the client is going to refuse, saying "you cannot use this someone for my work, he seems to be changing jobs all the time, I don't know what kind of knowledge he has, what kind of someone he is", and that as a whole - and again that is not particularly only to Kpo, this is true about the Indian export business in general, the export services business which is It outsourcing, Bpo and Kpo exports - is probably the biggest challenge to the Indian services exports industry.

Sourcing Superstars - Alok Aggarwal & Marc Vollenweider, Evalueserve

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seeing Cheap single house Homes

As an investor, especially a real estate investor, you want to get property that will supply you with the highest cash flow and best Roi (return on investment) possible. Some investors go for apartment complexes whiles others go for single family dwellings. If you are the type that is new to the arena and want to get your feet wet, the best way is with single family-owned homes. Depending on your venture strategy, you may wish to invest in single family properties to whether flip the property, live in it yourself, or as a source of cash flow by renting it out to person else.

The only thing with finding this type of real estate is the high prices you may find. Because real estate prices have skyrocketed in new years, the price of a single family-owned home may be higher than you want to pay. However, there is a way out. You can easily find single family-owned properties cheap. Yes, you can approximately get one that is a steal. How is this possible?

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There are easily many ways you can get single family-owned homes. If you do some investigate and specific digging, you can come up with a few resources. Here are some resources you can try that have produced leads for other real estate investors:

o Fixer-uppers - One way to find a cheap single family type property is by contacting local construction companies. Investors don't perceive that construction clubs work closely with real estate agencies, sellers, and even the city or town where you live. They have friends in places you wouldn't be able to contact. They can find out about what properties are being sold, or about to be sold, and where the properties are located. Don't be afraid to stop and ask the boss of a construction site if he knows anything. Just tell him you are a real estate investor, and he will be more than willing to share what he knows.

o Foreclosures - another way to find single family properties is by finding for foreclosures. Get a foreclosure list form a realtor or by going online, and look them up. There is even a website dedicated to foreclosures. This is the best and easiest way to find a single family-owned property cheap. You can easily find some properties a penny on the dollar practically. All you do in many cases is just pay off the back due mortgage.

o Tax liens - Here is a way that some investors get complicated with when it comes to real estate. They commonly get a tax lien list from the tax department in the tax office of the local or county government. You also may find these listings published in the Sunday newspaper. Many types of properties are listed. Just make sure the one you want is a single family-owned property. In some circumstances you may find you may pay only 0 or less for the property.

o Hud - Don't forget to look at Hud. They have ways to help finance your first home, but they commonly have lists of single-family-owned homes that are cheaper than you would find by going straight through a realtor.

o Bank auctions - When finding for your next single family property, why not go to bank auctions. Many investors have gone to these and made a killing. But before you go to one, do your homework. Check the homes that are up for auction ahead of time and find out the store value of the houses and the taxes in the area, etc. By knowing these facts, you will save yourself a lot of money and time, by only bidding the price that is just below the store value. This way you won't find yourself spending more than what the property is easily worth.

o Distressed homes - Anther way you can find a single family-owned property is naturally by driving down the street in whether your neighborhood or another. Find a home that is easily junkie. Look to see if there are any jacked-up cars in the driveway, spilled oil or garbage lying around, dead or overgrown lawns, and an sure sign of neglect. Also check the neighborhood. How close is it to shop and maybe a colse to bus lines. These types of neighborhoods are low income type residents. As such, they are willing to sell their property dirt cheap just to get out of those conditions.

Finding a cheap single family-owned property is not easily all that hard if you know where to look. Hopefully the data contained in this article will supply some ideas as to where to look for them.

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How to Find a Real Estate Investor List

If you are no ifs ands or buts looking for investors for a real estate scheme but are unable to find sources of property investors to campaign to, then you might need to advance your hunt and look for property investor lists both online and off-line. These lists provide an perfect compilation of locally ready real estate investors which can be of great help. As based on these lists you can no ifs ands or buts send your brochures and even offer them a multimedia presentation in order to make your scheme more sharp to them to attract investments. Most population are still unaware of the availability of real estate investor lists and also about their sources and reliability.

Real estate investor lists can be obtained from the following sources -

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1. Online sources -

o Investment clubs. There are any venture clubs colse to the web that provide perfect investor lists for all of their members and most of them do not fee a huge estimate of money in order to become a member. The whole membership process can be undertaken online and even then lists can be acquired through email.

o Forums. There are any different online forums with a huge member database that provides some perfect information with regard to investments and other topics. These forums are an perfect source of investor lists which are very reliable and often come well recommended.

o Professional assistance websites, These are some industrial websites that provide perfect local as well as global investor lists for a very nominal fee. Since they are commercially ready they also provide perfect customer keep and after sales keep with regard to following up on their lists. Also most of these sites do have the latest and most updated lists for sale.

2. Off-line sources -

o Yellow Pages. Most often the local Yellow Pages are a very good source for locating local real estate investors and venture firms that have been advertised or even featured in the Yellow Pages.

o Newspaper listings. Local newspapers also carry some very good classifieds listings offered by locally ready investors that are reliable and also ready for negotiation.

o Local clubs. Being a member of the local club can also be very beneficial as most of them will provide lists of possible property investors to whom you can campaign for venture with perfect reliability.

Most of the resources that are ready online or off-line can be no ifs ands or buts used in order to derive a property investor list in any city.

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looking Cheap particular house Homes

As an investor, especially a real estate investor, you want to get asset that will supply you with the highest cash flow and best Roi (return on investment) possible. Some investors go for apartment complexes whiles others go for particular house dwellings. If you are the type that is new to the arena and want to get your feet wet, the best way is with particular family-owned homes. Depending on your investment strategy, you may wish to spend in particular house properties to either flip the property, live in it yourself, or as a source of cash flow by renting it out to person else.

The only thing with looking this type of real estate is the high prices you may find. Because real estate prices have skyrocketed in modern years, the price of a particular family-owned home may be higher than you want to pay. However, there is a way out. You can actually find particular family-owned properties cheap. Yes, you can practically get one that is a steal. How is this possible?

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There are actually many ways you can get particular family-owned homes. If you do some explore and meticulous digging, you can come up with a few resources. Here are some resources you can try that have produced leads for other real estate investors:

o Fixer-uppers - One way to find a cheap particular house type asset is by contacting local building companies. Investors don't perceive that building companies work closely with real estate agencies, sellers, and even the city or town where you live. They have friends in places you wouldn't be able to contact. They can find out about what properties are being sold, or about to be sold, and where the properties are located. Don't be afraid to stop and ask the employer of a building site if he knows anything. Just tell him you are a real estate investor, and he will be more than willing to share what he knows.

o Foreclosures - someone else way to find particular house properties is by looking for foreclosures. Get a foreclosure list form a realtor or by going online, and look them up. There is even a website dedicated to foreclosures. This is the best and easiest way to find a particular family-owned asset cheap. You can actually find some properties a penny on the dollar practically. All you do in many cases is just pay off the back due mortgage.

o Tax liens - Here is a way that some investors get complicated with when it comes to real estate. They ordinarily get a tax lien list from the tax group in the tax office of the local or county government. You also may find these listings published in the Sunday newspaper. Many types of properties are listed. Just make sure the one you want is a particular family-owned property. In some circumstances you may find you may pay only 0 or less for the property.

o Hud - Don't forget to look at Hud. They have ways to help finance your first home, but they ordinarily have lists of single-family-owned homes that are economy than you would find by going straight through a realtor.

o Bank auctions - When looking for your next particular house property, why not go to bank auctions. Many investors have gone to these and made a killing. But before you go to one, do your homework. Check the homes that are up for auction ahead of time and find out the shop value of the houses and the taxes in the area, etc. By knowing these facts, you will save yourself a lot of money and time, by only bidding the price that is just below the shop value. This way you won't find yourself spending more than what the asset is actually worth.

o Distressed homes - Anther way you can find a particular family-owned asset is naturally by driving down the road in either your neighborhood or another. Find a home that is actually junkie. Look to see if there are any jacked-up cars in the driveway, spilled oil or garbage lying around, dead or overgrown lawns, and an definite sign of neglect. Also check the neighborhood. How close is it to market and maybe a colse to bus lines. These types of neighborhoods are low wage type residents. As such, they are willing to sell their asset dirt cheap just to get out of those conditions.

Finding a cheap particular family-owned asset is not actually all that hard if you know where to look. Hopefully the data contained in this article will supply some ideas as to where to look for them.

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Is Your speculation Strategy Personalised?

Knowledge of investments isn't everything

The availability of speculation news and data has been addition over time. This has led to an revising in most people's understanding of general speculation concepts. It has created the opportunity for many to choose to carry on their own financial affairs.

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Knowing "where" to spend your money is an leading part of the financial administration equation. However, by itself, it's far from allembracing in terms of an speculation strategy.

Consider the Storm Financial model of advice.

They used an eminently sensible and highly diversified speculation coming for managing the underlying investments for their clients. Their speculation strategy at this level was not the cause of the problems their clients would ultimately experience. Plainly knowing "where" to spend their clients' funds was not sufficient to save their clients from financial disaster.

They failed to adequately address:

• The size of the speculation exposure relative to their client's lifetime capital accumulation whole (i.e. The examine of "how much" to invest), and
• How to carry on the entry risk for their clients (i.e. The examine of "when" to invest).

This part of their speculation strategy was not only grossly naïve, it failed to adequately address the personal circumstances of each investor.

The strategic decisions they applied seemed to be based on:

1. "how much?" = as much you can borrow, and
2. "when?" = as soon as possible.

Apparently, this strategy was applied regardless of whether the client was a young collector or an elderly retiree.

How personalised is your speculation strategy?

Many investors confuse personalisation of an speculation strategy with choices at the specific speculation level (e.g. I prefer Bhp over Rio Tinto, or Australian Shares over International Shares). While this is a form of personalisation, it commonly doesn't add any long term (risk adjusted) value. In fact, personalisation at this level commonly has a long term cost.

It may help to support a client though, or convince a Diy investor to continue with their coming over other (more generic) alternatives.

True personalisation of an speculation strategy is at the broader level of managing speculation risk exposure over time. Arguably, this will have a much greater impact on your long term wealth than a strategy that focuses purely on your specific investments.

The "default" speculation strategy

The natural speculation strategy for most households is driven by the availability and timing of surplus cash.

Generally, households tend to create more savings in the latter years of their working lives than the earlier years. It is not uncommon for households to spend over ¾ of their lifetime capital accumulation within 10 years of retirement. In the years prior to this, surpluses are used to cut mortgages, fund school fees and buy lifestyle assets such as cars, boats, renovations, etc.

The dilemma for many who unwittingly apply this "default" strategy is that they secure most of their speculation exposure over a relatively short speculation horizon. If these acquisitions happened to be at the end of a cyclical bull market, it could have quite catastrophic implications.

On the other hand, if you were lucky sufficient for your pre-retirement years to coincide with a cyclical bear market, you could end up acquiring a lot more store exposure than you would have under more optimistic conditions. The challenge for these investors is to recognise their good fortune. Many fail to do this and shy away from investing during declining markets.

Your speculation strategy shouldn't rely on luck

An speculation strategy that may not differentiate at the specific speculation level but sets a clear and personalised strategy for managing your speculation exposure over time is much better than one that differentiates at the specific speculation level but ignores the bigger picture.

A smart speculation strategy considers much more than the speculation of your current capital. It takes into inventory your projected savings capacity, the timing of these savings and your risk parameters to build a strategy that reduces the element of luck and focuses on giving you the best opportunity of achieving your objectives.

While this coming requires more endeavor (and knowledge), the payoff of a personalised speculation strategy is to shift the odds in your favour.

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Olympic Nations - Who Is Who?

Who was the first athlete elected president in the world?

Marcus Stephen is the first sportspeople elected head of state in the world. Nauru's president since 2007, Stephen was one of the Third World's most famed weightlifters in the 1990s. From 1990 to 1994, he won four gold medals at the Commonwealth Games. "I am proud of my achievements in weightlifting and what I have done for Nauru", said Stephen. In 1999, he won a silver medal at the World Cup in Greece. He was elected Nauru's sportspeople of the year many times. For this reason, he had many fans in his island, one of the smallest nations on Earth, with an area of 21 square km and a citizen of about 9,500. One of the most influential leaders in the history of Nauru, Stephen was elected congressman in 2003. Unlike George Weah ( the previous footballer who lost the presidential determination in Liberia), Stephen Marcus made his dream come true on December 19, 2007, when he was elected president by Parliament. "Marcus Stephen was sworn in as new president after a vote on Wednesday afternoon. It is official, Marcus Stephen is president. He holds the reins now and has appointed a new cabinet", said Nauru's consul to Australia Martin Hunt.

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Who is the most famed sportsperson in Montenegro?

Alesandar Radovic, who is one of the greatest water polo players in the world. He work very hard every day. His efforts paid back while the 2007 Universiade in Bangkok (Thailand), when Montenegro won the men's water polo gold medals for the first time. It won 11-8 over Italy in the final match. Radovic excelled in that historic game. Certainly, he can already be counted among the world best athletes of his generation. Currently, Radovic is a emblem of Montenegro, the newest country in the world.

Who is the best volleyball player in the world?

Hector Soto. Birthplace: Puerto Rico. Volleyball champion Soto is an iconic figure in Puerto Rican sporting history. He is creative and efficient. Under his fantastic direction, Puerto Rico concluded sixth at the 2007 Fivb World Cup . It defeated teams such as Japan (3-0), Usa (3-1), Egypt (3-0), Tunisia (3-0) and Spain (3-0). Soto was top scorer of the Fivb World Championships for two years consecutivly. At the 2007 Norceca Men's Continental Championship, the Puerto Rican national team won the silver medal. Led by Hector Soto, Puerto Rico defeated Cuba 3-2 (26-24, 11-25, 22-25, 26-24, 15-11). "I think the first set took a lot out of us mentally. We came back too relaxed. ", said Soto. He also gave Puerto Rico its first international title: the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games in Cartagena (Colombia). In the match for the 1st place Puerto Rico won their first ever gold medal after a 3-0 victory over the Cuban team. Cuba had won 9 of 15 Central American and Caribbean Championships.

Who is the best basketball team in Africa?

During the Fiba African Championship for Men in 2007, the Angolan team settled first. Antonio Carvalho, Olimpio Cipriano, Miguel Lutonda and Emanuel Neto are the best-known names on the team.

Who is Guennadi Touretski?

This man is the coach of greatest swimmers in the world. "Swimmers must be strong as weightlifters and have the lightness and the flexibility of Bolshoi dancer at the same time", Guennadi said in an interview with sportswriter Camillo Cametti.

Who is the best athlete in South Korea?

In 2006, a new star emerged to the world: the swimmer Tae Hwan Park, who won three gold medals at the Asiad. After South Korea's Tae Hwan Park won the gold medal in the 400m free at the Fina World Cup in Australia.

Who is the best handball team in the world?

For many reasons, Germany. It is currently world champion. "We were plainly the best team" said Christian Schwarzer, one of the stars of the German team.

Who are the most popular sprinters in Tuvalu?

They are Kasifa Galuega, Puaita Ketepu, Mileneta Lepeni, Manos Lito, Faiva Namoliki, Malietasi Tulaga, Penani Tumau, Fuliga Vaega (100m, 200m, 4x 100m relay).

Who is the best basketball player in Asia?

Yao Ming (China). Why ? For many reasons. Yao Ming is one of the greatest basketball players in the history of the National Basketball association (Nba). A national hero in China after leading them to the Olympics in Sydney (Australia). In 2006, he became top scorer of the World Cup in Tokyo (Japan). As a member of the Chinese men's basketball team, Yao Ming won the silver at the 2002 Asiad. " I love the atmosphere of the Asian Games. It is also a place where China's rivalry in basketball with Korea and Japan is renewed every four years. I went through a lot to play in the Nba, but if I had to select in the middle of playing in the Nba and playing for the Chinese national team, I would select the national team".

Who is the best runner in the United States?

Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat. Born in Kenya (Africa) but moved to the United States at the age of 22 and took up citizenship in 2004. Last year he won two gold medals at the Iaaf World Cup.

Who is Iraki Tsirekidze?

He is a judoka from Georgia (European country). This sportsperson is currently world champion.

Who is the most famed table tennis player in the United States?

Gao Jun. She played many times China, where she was born. In 1994, she became an American citizen. while an interview, she said: "There is a big inequity in table tennis in the middle of China and the United States. In the U. S. , a lot of citizen play for fun, more like a basement sport. After I retired from the Chinese national team I notion my work was done. I am grateful for the occasion to play for the United States and I hope I can win a medal for the U. S. " Gao Jun is champion of the Americas (singles).

Who is Irving Saladino?

Panama's Irving Saladino caused a sensation when he won the gold medal in the long jump at the 2007 World Championships in Japan and was named Panamanian Sportspeople of the Year. This was the best doing by a Panamanian male athlete since 1948. He became the first sportsman from Central American to win a gold medal. Under the leadership of Saladino, Panama has all the time been on the medal table at each international competition since 2006.

Who is the most famed wrestler in Mongolia?

Naranbaatar Bayaraa Mongolia's Bayaraa won silver in the freestyle 55kg class at the World Cup in Baku (Azerbaijan).

Who is Julio Velasco?

He was one of the most successful coaches in Italy. A native of La Plata (Argentina), Julio Velasco was born on February 9, 1952 to Julio Raoul Velasco Fernandez and Edith Blake Schiaffino. He admires Mario Vargas Llosa, the famed writer from Peru. In the early 1980s, he was assistant coach of the Argentinean men's national team. Of Peruvian, British and Italian origin, Velasco went to Italy in 1983, where he coached the Tre Valli Jesi Club. From 1985 to 1989, he won many Italian crowns. Under his direction, Italy won the Fivb World Champions (1990) and other international tournaments. Velasco was coach of the best volleyball country's best volleyball players:Andrea Lucchetta, Andrea Zorzi, Paolo Tofoli and Lorenzo Bernardi. He believes that Italy's volleyball league is a model for the world. "It's not right to give too much space to the national team and too miniature to the clubs. Without the club coach, there would be no volleyball. It is he who brings in young athletes, even holding them from opting for basketball or an engineering degree. We have to give space to all of them and avoid what happened in the United States, where, with no national championship tournament, new blood was lacking and once the superstar cycle was over, the national team plunged from its once top ranking. This doesn't happen in Brazil and Italy, where the resources are inexhaustible undoubtedly because there are big national championships".

Who is Laure Manaudou?

She is the best French swimmer of all times. Olympic gold medalist Laure Manaudou won three gold medals at the 2006 European Cup in Helsinki (Finland).

Who is Thiago Pereira?

He has won more American gold medals than any other swimmer. This sportsman has won an unprecedented six gold medals at the 2007 Pan American Games. He won the gold medal in the 200m medley, the 400m medley, the 200m backstroke, the 200m breaststroke, the 4x100m frestyle and the 4x200m freestyle. Pereira was born on January 26, 1986 in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

Who are the greatest field hockey teams in the world?

Hockey women: Holland, China, South Africa, Japan, Argentina, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia.

Hockey men: Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Belgium, Spain, Holland, Canada, China, South Korea, Argentina, Usa, India, South Africa and Pakistan.

Who is Churandy Martina?

Like Marc Burns (Trinidad & Tobago), Dudley Dorival (Haiti), Kim Collins (St. Kitts and Nevis) and Asafa Powell (Jamaica), Churandy is one of the best sprinters of the Caribbean. He came 5th in the 100m and 200m at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka (Japan). He is an athlete from the Netherlands Antilles.

Who is Yukio Peter?

Peter was born and grew up in the Federation States of Micronesia, a nation made up 607 islands and cays in the Western Pacific Ocean. He is one of the best weightlifters in the Third World. Under the direction of Paul Coffa (weightlifting coach), he won a silver medal at the 2005 World Championships in Doha, the capital city of Qatar. Peter's sports work began in 1998 when he was just 13 years old. His dream is to become an Olympic champion. Currently, he works very, very hard. In nearly all of his interviews, he has been described as very kindly and modest. He once said: "For one year or so I used to watch the lifters training under Paul Coffa through the window and every time I was asked to join. I used to run away as I was a very shy boy. One day I was taken into room and I watched the lifting from the inside. From that day I joined the weightlifting group and have never looked back. " For many reasons, he is a model and an ambassador of sport.

Who is Mfon Udoka ?

She is one of the greatest female basketball players of the world. Udoka was elected to the 2004 All-Star Team. She was born in Nigeria.

Who is Rafd Zyad Almasri?

He is possibly the best swimmer in the Middle East. Rafd is from the Arab nation of Syria. He won the gold medal in the 50m freestyle at the Asiad held in Qatar in 2006.

Who is Franciela Chana Masson?

She is one of the greatest female handball players of the world. Chana has been playing since 2002 in Europe (Germany and Denmark). Like Sandra Pires (beach volleyball), Roerio Sampaio (martial arts) and Robert Scheidt (sailing), she was born in Brazil.

Who is the best water polo team in the world?

Croatia. It won the gold medal at the 2007 Fina World Championships in Melbourne (Australia). The Croatian water polo team defeated Hungary 9-8 in the final. The winners were: Zdeslav Vrdoljak, Sanir Barac, Miho Boskovic, Damir Buric, Frano Vican, Andro Buslje, Mile Smodlaka, Teo Dogas, Igor Hinic, Maro Jokovic, Aljosa Kunac, Pavo Markovic and Josip Pavic.

Who are the best female basketball players in Mali?

Certainly, Hamchétou Maiga and Diéné Diawara. They are members of the Malian women's basketball team. Under the leadership of these two women, Mali won the African Championship in 2007. In the final, Mali defeated host nation Senegal . The euphoria in Bamako -the capital city of Mali- was immense. More and more Malians girls now want to become basketball players such as Hamchétou Maiga and Diéné Diawara. Hamchétou was elected "Most indispensable Player" of the African Championship in Dakar (Senegal). This sportsperson is one of the best female basketball players of the Women's National Basketball association (Wnb). She is a member of the Houston Comets.

Who is Zorac Terzic?

He is coach of the Serbian women's volleyball team. Under Terzic's guidance, Serbia won the bronze medal at the 2006 World Championships in Tokyo (Japan). The national women's volleyball squad became "Sports Team of the Year 2006" in the country (former Yugoslavia). It defeated teams such as Cuba (Caribbean champion), Egypt (African Champion), Italy (world champion), Turkey, Peru, Poland and Taiwan (or Chinese-Taipei). The national women's volleyball squad became "Sports Team of the Year 2006" in the country (former Yugoslavia). "When I took over the lead of the national girls' team that my colleague Darko Zakoc had brought to the qualifications for the European Championships, and made a indispensable step in returning to the world volleyball stage, we focused on the generation of 1982/1983. As many of these players were juniors five years ago, they needed time to grow in every sense. We gently introduced them while the events and "threw them into the line of fire", so that they themselves made their way through. Maybe we did not bring the best women players we have at the moment, but that was undoubtedly our best team", said the head coach Terzic, who studied bodily education at the Belgrade Faculty of Sports and bodily Education.

Who are the best sportspeople in the 205 Olympic nations?

1. Afghanistan: Nesar Ahmad Baharee (taekwondo).

2. Albania: Fetie Kasaj (weightlifting/ European silver medalist, 2007).

3. Algeria: Adbdelkader Chadi (boxing), Salem Iles (aquatics), Abdelhalim Ouali (boxing).

4. American Samoa: James Gurr (wrestling).

5. Andorra: Francesc Repiso Romero (shooting), Antoni Bernardo (marathon).

6. Angola: Victor Carvalho (basketball).

7. Antigua & Barbuda: Brenda Christian (track & field /200m/ American gold medalist, 2007), James Grayman (athletics/ Caribbean gold medalist).

8. Argentina: Juan Roman Riquelme (soccer / he's one of the best players of the world), Santiago Fernandez (rowing), Georgina Bardach (sportswoman/ swimming), German Chiaraviglio (athletics), Carlos Espinoza (sailing).

9. Armenia : Armen Nazaryan, Martin Berberyan (wrestling).

10. Aruba: Fiderd Vis (judo), Isnardo Faro (weightlifting).

11. Australia: Grant Hackett (swimming) , Libby Trickett (sportswoman/ aquatics).

12. Austria: Christoph Sleber (sailing/ Olympic gold medalist, 2004).

13. Azerbaijan: Farid Mansurov (wrestling).

14. Bahamas: Tonique Williams Darling, Donald Thomas, Derrick Atkins (track & field).

15. Bahrain : Maryam Yusuf Jamal (sportswoman/ track & field/ 1,500m / world champion, 2007).

16. Bangladesh: Feroz Mahmud Mohamad (weightlifting), Sree Mohendra Kumar Singh , Asif Hossai Khan (shooting), Md Jewel Ahmed (aquatics).

17. Barbados: Barry Forde (cycling), Anderson Fitzgerald Emmanuel (boxing), Bradley Alli (swimming).

18. Belarus : Alim Selinov (wrestling / world champion).

19. Belgium : Erwin Vervecken /cycling).

20. Belize : Jonathan Williams (track & field/400m), Mateo Cruz, Roger Troyer (cycling).

21. Benin : Fabienne Feraez (athletics / 100m, 200m/she is one of the best sprinters of Africa), Roberto Adjaho (boxing).

22. Bermuda : Peter Bromby (sailing), Tyler Barbour Butterfield (triathlon), Nelson Chesterfield Siomons (shooting).

23. Bhutan : Thshering Chhoden (sportswoman/ archery).

24. Bolivia : Benjamin Martinez (cycling), Giovanna Irusta Morejon (sportswoman/ track and field).

25. Bosnia & Herzegovina : Amel Mekic (judo).

26. Botswana: Khumiso Ikgopoleng (boxing), California Molefe (athletics/ African gold medalist, 2007), Kabelo Kgosiemang (high jump/ African gold medalist, 2007), Herbert Nkabili (boxing).

27. Brazil : Guilhermo Pardo,Guilhermo Kumasaka (badminton), Pedro Veniss (equestrian), Joao Derly (judo/ world champion), Dyego Hypolito (gymnastics/ world champion), Jadel Gregorio (athletics), Luciano Correa (judo/ world champion),Thiago Pereira (aquatics/ American champion), Gustavo Endres (indoor volleyball), Thiago Camilo (martial arts), Marcellus Silva (rowing), Cesar Cielo, Kaio de Almeida (swimming).

28. British Virgin Islands: Tahesia Harrigan (sportswoman/track & field/100m / Central American & Caribbean gold medalist, 2006).

29. Brunei Darussalam : Yusuf Mohammad Yazid (athletics).

30. Bulgaria: Tanyu Kiaiakov (shooting), Zhekov Andrey (indoor volleyball).

31. Burkina Faso: Ibrahim Issouf Kinda (boxing), Idrissa Sanaou (athletics).

32. Burundi : Etienne Bizama (athletics).

33. Cambodia : Hew Bunting (track & field/ 5,000m/ Asian East gold medalist, 2007).

34. Cameroon: foster Nkodo (boxing), Francoise Mbango Etone (sportswoman /athletics/ jump triple/ world champion, 2007).

35. Canada : Alexandre Despatie (diving/ American champion), Arturo Miranda, Blythe Hartley (aquatics), Kevin Light (rowing/ world champion).

36. Cape Verde: Wania Monteiro (gymnastics/ she's one of the best gymnasts in the Third World), Nick Barros, Joseph Fernandez, Fred Gomes (taekwondo), Nelson Cruz (marathon), Heriberto Gomes, Valdir Reis (beach volleyball).

37. Cayman Islands: Shaune Fraser (aquatics), Cydonia Mothersill ( athletics/ 100m, 200m/she is one of the best sprinters of the world).

38. Central African Republic: Beranger Bosse (athletics).

39. Chad : Kaltouma Nadjina (sportswoman/ track & field/ 400m).

40. Chile: Enzo Cesario, Marco Arriagada, Luis Sepulveda, Gonzalo Miranda (cycling/ Pan American champions), Enrique Tomas Gonzalez Sepúlveda (gymnastics), Cristian Bustos (modern pentathlon).

41. China (the People's Republic of China): Yao Ming (basketball), Liu Xiang (athletics/ world champion), Wang Liqin (table tennis),Yang Wei (gymnastics/ Asian champion), Xiao Qin (gymnastics), Lin dan (badminton), Feng Yong , Song Baqing (cycling), Wang Lei (fencing), Zhou Suhong (sportswoman/ volleyball), Ge Weiqing (water polo), Chen Yibing (gymnastics/Asian champion), Kai Qin (diving), Yao Xinhao, Ni Wei (sailing), Hu Qing, Zhou Shining (boxing), Qiu Le, Li Zheng, Mao Jiao (weightlifting), Wu Chong Kui (rowing), Gan Lin (shooting), Wang Hao (taekwondo), Yang Wenjun, Huang Shaokun, Mao Xiaojie (kayak).

42. Chinese Taipei (also known as Taiwan): Sung Yu Chi (taekwondo), Kuo Cheng Wei (archery), Chuang Chih Yuan, Wu Chih Chi (table tennis).

43. Colombia: Leidi Jessenia Solis (sportswoman/ weightlifting), Jorge Hugo Girlado (gymnastics).

44. Comoros: Abdallah Mohammed (athletics/110m hurdles).

45. Congo: Gary Kikaya (athletics/ 400m /he is one of the best sprinters of Africa) , Herrig Saliku Biembe (boxing).

46. Congo Republic :Delivert Arsene Kimbembe (athletics).

47. Cook Islands: Tereapii Tapoki (sportswoman/ track & field/ discus/ South Pacific gold medalist, 2007).

48. Costa Rica : Nery Brenes (track & field/ 400m/ he is one of the best sprinters of the Americas).

49. Cote d'Ivoire: Deza Elie (sportswoman/ judo).

50. Croatia: Filip Grgic (taekwondo/ European gold medalist).

51. Cuba: Jose Antonio Guerra, Jorge Betancourt, Eric Fornaris (diving), Angel Matos, Gerardo Ortiz (taekwondo), Dayron Robles (athletics/110m hurdles), Victor Moya (track & field/ high jump).

52. Cyprus: George Achilleos (shooting), Irodotos Georgallas (gymnastics), Kyriakos Ioannou (track & field/ high jump / world bronze medalist, 2007).

53. Czech Republic: Ondrej Synek (shooting), Barbora Spotakova (sportswoman/t rack & field/ javelin throw/ world champion).

54. Denmark: Jakob Schiott Andkjaer (swimming), Torben Grimmel (shooting).

55. Djibouti : Mohamoud Faran (track & field/ 800m).

56. Dominica: Chris Lloyd (track & field /400m/ Pan American bronze medalist).

57. Dominican Republic: Felix Sanchez (track & field /400m hurdles/ Olympic gold medalist, 2004), Jun Lin (table tennis).

58. Ecuador : Marco Camargo (swimming ) Jefferson Perez Quesada (athletics/ world gold medalist, 2007), Xavier Moreno (track & field/50km walk/ Pan American gold medalist), Alexandra Escobar (sportswoman/ weightlifting), Bayron Piedra (athletics/1,500m), Jaime Saquipay (track & field/ 20km walk), Fausto Endars (cycling).

59. Egypt : Mohammed El Zanaty (aquatics), Ramadan Yasser (boxing), Ismail Fathi (wrestling).

60. El Salvador: Cristina Lopez (sportswoman/ athletics/ American gold medalist, 2007), William Serrano (wrestling).

61. Equatorial Guinea: Emilia Mikue Ondo (sporstwoman/athletics/ 1,500m). .

62. Eritrea : Zersenay Tadesse (athletics), Yared Asmeron (track & field).

63. Estonia: Gerd Kanter (track & field/ discus throw/ world champion).

64. Ethiopia: Kenenisa Bekele (athletics/world gold medalist,2007), Meseret Defar (track & field/ 5,000m/she is one of the greatest runners in Africa).

65. Fiji : Makelesi Bulikiobo (sportswoman/ athletics/ 100m, 200m, 400m/ South Pacific gold medalist, 2007).

66. Finland : Tero Pitkamaki (track & field/ javelin throw/ world champion).

67. France: Frédéric Belaubre (triathlon), Julien Absalon (cycling), Julien Pillet (fencing), Khedafi Djelkhir (boxing), Frank Dumoolin (shooting), Mickael Bourgain (cycling), Érik Boisse (fencing), Pi Hongyan (badminton), Thomas Voeckler (cycling).

68. Gabon : Sandrine Ilendou (sportswoman/ judo).

69. Gambia:Momodou Jammeh (boxing), Sulayman Kujabi (cycling), Isaac Jones (athletics).

70. Georgia : Revaz Mindorashvili (wrestling / world champion).

71. Germany: Christian Kubusch (swimming).

72. Ghana : Igisious Gaisah (athletics/ long jump/ Commonwealth gold medalist, 2006), Manyo Plange (boxing).

73. Greece : Giorgious Afroudatis (water polo), Pyrros Dimas (weightlifting / he is one of the most popular athletes in Europe).

74. Grenada: Alleyne Francique (track & field / 400m/ he is one of the best sprinters of the world), Sherry Flecher (sportswoman/ athletics/ 200m).

75. Guam: Nikko Pajarillaga (taekwondo).

76. Guatemala : Amado Garcia (track & field/ marathon/ the best runner in Central America).

77. Guinea: Ibrahima Keita (boxing).

78. Guinea-Bissau: possessor Ocante (track & field), Anibal Soares, Joa Pina (beach volleyball).

79. Guyana: Clive Atwell (boxing), Mahendra Persaud (shooting), Christopher Franklin (table tennis).

80. Haiti : Nadine Faustin-Parker (track & field/ 100m hurdles/ Central American & Caribbean silver medalist, 2006/ she's one of the best hurdlers in the Third World ), Dudley Dorival (athletics), Joel Brutus (judo).

81. Honduras: Kevin Hernandez (soccer/ he is one of the most popular players in Central America).

82. Hong Kong : Kin Yin Chan (sailing), Cheung Yuk, Li Ching, Leung Chu Yan, Lai Chak Ko (table tennis), Daniel Lee Chi Wo (triathlon), Wong Kampo (cycling/ world champion).

83. Hungary: Laszlo Cseh (swimming), Kriztian Berki ( gymnastics), Daniel Varga (water polo).

84. Iceland:Olafur Stefannson (handball).

85. India : Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi (tennis), Mangal Sing Champia (archery), Jaspal Rana, Abhinav Bindra (shooting), Bajranglal Takhar, Bijender Singh, Satish Joshi (rowing), .

86. Indonesia: Agus Salim, Supriadi Supriadi (beach volleyball), Taufik Hidayat (badminton/ Olympic champion), Thomas Hallatu (rowing), I Gusti Made Oka Sulaksana (sailing) .

87. Iran : Hussein Rezadeh (weightlifting/ Hussein is one of the best weightlifters in the Third World), Hossein Askari (cycling), Arash Miresmaili (judo), Jasem Delavari (boxing), Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami (basketball), Ali Mazaheri (boxing).

88. Iraq : Mhammad Aljuaifri (weightlifting/ Asian silver medalist, 2006).

89. Ireland: David Burrows (sailing).

90. Israel: Danielle Roth (sportswoman/shooting).

91. Italy: Loris Facci, Marco Formenttini (aquatics), Christopher Sacchin (diving), Maurizio Felugo (water polo), Taismary Agüero Leiva Botteghi (indoor volleyball / Taismary is one of the greatest female volleyball players in Europe), Filippo Magnini (swimming).

92. Jamaica : Veronica Campbell (sportswoman/ track & field/100m hurdles/ world champion).

93. Japan : Shingen Furuya (sailing), Motoko Sasamoto, Takafumi Kojima (wrestling), Ken Terauchi (diving), Go Soeda (tennis), Hidemasa Sano, Junya Koga, Ryosuke Irie, Kosuke Kitajima (swimming), Yasuyuki Muneta (judo), Tsubasa Kitatsuru (cycling), Yuki Ota (fencing), Yuya Higashiyama (rowing), Hisashi Mizutori, Hiroyuki Tomita (gymnastics).

94. Jordan: Mohammad Al Bakhit (taekwondo).

95. Kazakhstan: Salamat Utarbayek, Aidar Kabimollayov, Almas Atayev (judo), Vladislav Poliakov (swimming), Dimitriy Torlopov (kayak), Yermak Kouketou, Nourbakhit Tengizbayev (wrestling), Ilsa Chernyshov (cycling), Dimitriy Gaug (triatlón), Bakhtiyar Artayek, Bakhyt Sarsekbayek (boxing), Dimitry Katenberger (canoe), Yemar Yerimbetov, Timov Korbanbayek (gymnastics).

96. Kenya: Joshua Ndere Mkonjio (boxing), Brimin Kiprop Kipruto (athletics/ 3,000 metres steeplechase/ world champion), Kennedy Kenyatta (boxing),Catherine Ndereba (sportswoman/ marathon/ world gold medalist), Alfred Kirwa Yego (athletics/ 800m/ world champion), Luke Kibet ( athletics/marathon/ world champion),Suleyman Bilali (boxing).

97. Kiribati : Tekai Temake, Tito Teateau, David Katoatau (weightlifting).

98. Korea, North: Jong Chol, Ri Se Gwang (gymnastics), Kim Jong Su (shooting).

99. Korea, South: Choi Jung Sang (equestrian), Im Dong Hyn (archery), Lee Hyun-il (badminton), Song Hak Sung (boxing), Tae Hwan Park (swimming/ he's one of the best swimmers of the world), Hwang Kyung Seon (taekwondo/ world champion), Wang Ki-Chin (judo/ world champion), Dae Eun-Kim (gymnastics/ world champion), Kim Jung Sub, Han Tae Young, Kim Gwang Seok, Eun-Chol Park (wrestling), Jung Ji Hee (taekwondo), Jang Sun Jae, Park Sung Baek (cycling), Shin Eun Chol (rowing), Joo Se Hyk (table tennis), Kang Yong Hwan , Han Kyu Chol (aquatics), An Jap-sung, Lee Hyng-taik (tennis), Cho Kwan Hoon (diving).

100. Kuwait: Fehaid Al Deehani, Naser Meqlad (shooting).

101. Kyrgyzstan: Uran Khalilov, Nogouzbek Belekov, Ruslan Tumenbaev (wrestling), Evgeny Vakkev (cycling).

102. Laos: Sikham Vongpakoun (boxing).

103. Latvia : Aigars Fadeivs (track & field).

104. Lebanon: Jean-Claude Rabbath (track & field/ high jump/ Asian champion).

105. Lesotho: Tsotang Maine, Tumi Malefetsane (marathon), Poloko Makana (cycling).

106. Liberia: Fatimoh Muhammed (sportswoman/ athletics/ 800m/ she's one of the best runners in the Third World).

107. Libya: Ali Mabrouk (marathon), Mohammed Bensaleh (judo).

108. Liechtenstein: Oliver Geissmann (shooting).

109. Lithuania: Daina Gudzineviciute (sportswoman/ shooting/ Olympic gold medalist, 2000).

110. Luxembourg: Kim Kirchen (cycling).

111. Macedonia: Houqin Yang (weightlifting).

112. Madagascar: Joseph Berlionz Randhiamihaja (athletics/110m hurdles).

113. Malawi: Catherine Chikwakwa (sportswoman/ track & field).

114. Malaysia : Rossharisham Roslan, Yeoh Ken Nee (diving), Kien Keat Koo (badminton), Daniel William Bego (swimming), Josiah Ngo Onn Lam (cycling), Shu Wai Ng (gymnastics), Bom Heong Tan (badminton).

115. Maldives: Zahir Naseer (athletics/100m), Hassan Ahsraf, Mohamed Sharif (aquatics), Ali Rasheed, Mohamed Yasir (table tennis).

116. Mali : Daba Modibo Keita (taekwondo/ world champion, 2007).

117. Malta: Rebecca Madyan (sportswoman/ shooting).

118. Marshall Islands: Waylon Muller, Jeton Junior Anjain (wrestling).

119. Mauritania : Souleymane Ould Chebal (athletics).

120. Mauritius: Stephane Buckland (athletics/400m/ he's is one of the best sprinters of the world), Deenessing Baboolall, Stephan Beeharry, Edourd Clarisse (badminton),Richarno Colin, Giovanni Frontin, Brunu Julie (boxing).

121. Mexico : Paola Espinoza (sportswoman/diving) , Juan Barrios, Jose David Galvan (athletics), Juan Rene Serrano (archery), Simon Nizri (equestrian), Juan Jose Veloz Davila (swimming).

122. Micronesia: Manuel Minginfel (weightlifting).

123. Moldova: Oleg Moldovan (shooting).

124. Monaco: Jann Siccardi (judo).

125. Mongolia : Tsagaanbaatar Hskhbaatar, Nyamkhuu Damdinsuren (martial arts), Erdene Munkh Uranchimeg (boxing), Batzoring Buyanjav (wrestling).

126. Montenegro: Alesandar Radovic (water polo/ he's one of the best water polo players of the world).

127. Morocco: Hasna Benhassi (athletics/ 800m/ she is one one best Arab athletes).

128. Mozambique: Leonor Piaza (sportswoman/ track & field/ 800m/ African gold medalist).

129. Myanmar: Min Min, Nay La Kyaw (sailing), Yar Thet Pan (weightlifting/ Asian silver medalist, 2006).

130. Namibia: Friedhelm Ferdinand Sack (shooting), Alexander Ray (aquatics), Ermin van Wik (cycling), John Robert Honiball (gymnastics), Agnes Samaria (/track and field/ 800m/ she's one of the best runners of the world), Paulus Natangwe Ambunda, Jhannes Simon (boxing).

131. Nauru: Itte Detenamo, Yukio Peter (weightlifting).

132. Nepal: Deepak Bista (taekwondo).

133. Netherlands : Theo Boss (cycling/ European gold medalist ), Ruben Houkes (judo).

134. Neterherlands Antilles: Churandy Martina (athletics/100m, 200m).

135. New Zealand: Valerie Vili (track & field/ shot put/ world champion).

136. Nicaragua: Orlando Rizo (boxing).

137. Niger: Happiness Borutu (sportswoman/ wrestling/ African champion).

138. Nigeria: Olusoji Fasuba (athletics/ 100m, 200m), Muyideen Ganiyu (boxing).

139. Norway: Espen Berg-Knutsen (shooting)

140. Oman: Zahir Al Sinaide, Yousul Al Hashi (weightlifting), Khalifa Al Jabri (beach volleyball).

141. Pakistan : Irshad Ali (shooting).

142. Palau: Sean Lund, Franson Gibbons, Elvis Elwaiy (wrestling).

143. Palestine: Ahned Ashhab, Tammer Abusaada (taekwondo), Nader Almassri (athletics/1500m).

144. Panama: Irving Saladino (track & field/ long jump/ Saladino is one of the greatest long jumpers in the world), Edgar Crespo (swimming), Bayamo Kamani (athletics/ 400m hurdles/ he's one of the best hurdlers of the world).

145. Papua New Guinea: Ryan Pini (swimming/ he's one of the greatest swimmers in the Third World).

146. Paraguay: Victor Fatecha (track & field).

147. Peru: Peter Lopez (martial arts), Ines Melchor (sportswoman/track & field).

148. Philippines: Miguel Molina (aquatics), Cecil Mamiit, Frederick Taino (tennis), Harry Tanamor (boxing), John Baylon (judo), Ridgely Balladares, Romel Chavez (sailing).

149. Poland: Konrad Wasielewski (rowing)

150. Portugal : Nelson Evora (track & field/ triple jump/ the best triple jumper in the world).

151. Puerto Rico: Luis Rivera (gymnastics), McWilliams Arroyo (boxing), Hector Soto (indoor volleyball/ he is one of the greatest volleyball players in the world).

152. Qatar: Kwalia James Kurui (track & field/1,500m/ Arab champion), Abdulqader Hikamt Sarhan (taekwondo/Asian champion), Saif Saaeef Shaheen (athletics/ 3,000 metres steeplechase), Mubarak Hassan Shami (marathon/ world silver medalist, 2007), Daham Najm Bashir (athletics/Arab champion), Ali Yousuf Ahmad (equestrian).

153. Romania: Florin Georgian Mironcic (kayak), Diaconu Eusebiu (wrestling), Ionu%u0163 Gheorghe (boxing), Mariam Dragulescu (gymnastics).

154. Russia: Gleb Galperin (diving), Eduard Kokcharov (handball), Makhach Mourtazaliyev (wrestling/ European champion) ,Alan Doudayev (wrestling/ world champion),Vladimir Dyatchin (aquatics), Yekaterina Volkova (sportswoman/ athletics/ 3,000 metres steeplechase/ world champion).

155. Rwanda: Dieudonné Disi (track & field).

156. St. Kitts & Nevis: Kim Collins (track & field/100m, 200m).

157. St. Lucia: Leven Spencer (sportswoman/track & field/ high jump).

158. St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Kineke Alexander (athletics/400m).

159. Samoa : Niko Liulamaga (wrestling), Pualele Atoa Graig (archery), Nevo Ioane (weightlifting).

160. San Marino: Emanuela Felici (sportswoman/ shooting).

161. Sao Tome & Principe: Jose Miranda, Edsael Craid, Jose Amaro, Eloy Boa Morte (taekwondo), Fumilay Fonseca (sportswoman/ track & field), Nilton Tome (beach volleyball).

162. Saudi Arabia: Khaled Al Eid (equestrian), Ahmed Faiz Bin Marzouq (track & field), Ahmed Al Kudmani (swimming), Abdulrahman Mohammed Al Hamzi (judo).

163. Senegal : Ousmade Diatta (boxing), Hortense Diedhiou (sportswoman/ judo/ African champion).

164. Serbia : Jovan Popovic (rowing), Vanja Udovic (water polo), Ivan Miljkovic (indoor volleyball).

165. Seychelles: Cecile Laporte (sportswoman/ track & field/ Commonwealth bronze medalist, 2006).

166. Sierra Leone: Gibrilla Pato Bangura (track & field), Gibrilla Kanu, Allie Kargbo (boxing), Alhassan Bangura (cycling), Anthony Soalla-Bell (weightlifting).

167. Singapore: Tao Li (swimming/ Asian champion), Li Jiawei (table tennis/ Commonwealth gold medalist, 2006), Shaw Ming On (shooting).

168. Slovakia : Peter Korcok (athletics), Michal Martikan (kayak), Michal Riszdorfer (canoe), Matej Jurco , Peter Velits (cycling).

169. Slovenia: Iztok Cop (rowing), Raimond Debevec (shooting).

170. Solomon Islands: Michael Leoung (tennis /South Pacific gold medalist).

171. Somalia: Moumin Geele (athletics).

172. South Africa: Gerhard Zanberg, Jackson Chauke (boxing), Roland Schoeman (swimming), Gerald Mayer (wrestling).

173. Spain:Jose Antonio Ramos (taekwondo), Gemma Mengual, Andrea Fuentes (sportswomen/synchronized swimming).

174. Sri Lanka: Susanthika Jayasinghe (track & field/ 100m, 200m/ she's one of the best sprinters in the Third World), Damika Silva, Jude Perera (beach volleyball).

175. Sudan: Yamile Aldama (sportswoman/athletics/triple jump/ African champion).

176. Suriname : Cornelis Siba (track & field).

177. Swaziland: Shmanga Shiba (boxing).

178. Sweden: Carolina Kluft (sportswoman/athletics/ heptathlon/ European champion), Jonas Edman (shooting).

179. Switzerland: Fabian Cancellara (cycling), Michal Arsermet (shooting).

180. Syria: Ahed Joughili (weightlifting), Naser Al Shami (boxing),Rafd Zyad Almasri (swimming/ Asian champion).

181. Tajikistan : Yusup Abdisalanov (wrestling), Dilshod Nazarov (track & field), Djakhon Kurbunov (boxing), Rasul Boqiev (judo), Shokirjov Rajabov (taekwondo).

182. Tanzania: Samson Ramadhani Nyonyi (athletics/Commonwealth gold medalist, 2006).

183. Thailand: Vasavat Samswang , Nattapong Tewawetchapong (taekwondo), Sitthisak Suphalak (weightlifting), Manus Boonjumnong (boxing), Wiradech Kothny (fencing), Anupong Thainjam, Ruthtanapohol Theppibal (rowing), Jakkrit Panichpatikon (shooting), Sanchat Ratiwatana, Danai Udomchoke,Sanchai Ratiwatana (tennis), Navee Tamsoontorn (sailing).

184. Timor-Leste:Edelijo Mesquita (weightlifting), Fat Batista, Awarl Verdinal (taekwondo), Alin Soares (athletics), Lorenco Brites (marathon), Antonio Xavier, Constancio da Silva (table tennis), Fredinand da Costa (martial arts).

185. Togo: Sandrine Thiebaud-Kangni (sportswoman/track & field).

186. Tonga : Epoki Faka'osi (judo).

187. Trinidad & Tobago: Roger Daniel (shooting), George Bovell (swimming/ Olympic bronze medalist, 2004).

188. Tunisia: Shili Alaa (boxing), Hatem Ghoula (track & Field/ 20 kilometres race wak), Rached Merdassi (boxing), Ziad Ekrem (wrestling).

189. Turkey : Ramazan Shahin (wrestling), Elvan Abeylegesse (sportswoman /athletics/10,000m).

190. Turkmenistan: Igor Pirekeev (shooting).

191. Tuvalu : Lagona Esau (weightlifting), Iliala Fakatokaga (boxing).

192. Uganda: Martin Mubiru (boxing), Moses Ndiema Kipsiro (athletics/5,000m), Alex Malinga (marathon).

193. Ukraine: Oleg Lisogor (swimming), Olena Kostevych (sportswoman/shooting/ Olympic champion).

194. United Arab Emirates: Ahmad Dhali, Saeed Almaktoum (shooting), Faisal Al Kutbi (wrestling).

195. United Kingdom: Christine Ohuruogu (sportswoman/athletics/400m/ world champion), Chris Hoy (cycling), Ian Peel (shooting), Luis Smith (gymnastics), Frankie Gavin (boxing).

196. United States: Chris Colwill (diving), Justin Spring (gymnastics), Eli Bremer (modern pentathlon), Tony Azevedo (water polo/ American champion), Bernard Lagat (track & field/ 1,500m/ world champion), Tim Duncan (basketball), James Pedro (judo), Steven Lopez (taekwondo/world champion), Brad Walker (athletics/pole vault/ world champion), Freddy Adu (soccer), Christopher Liwski , Ryan Miller (indoor volleyball), Paul Foerster (sailing), Matthew Emmons (shooting), Shaw Johnson (sportswoman/gymnastics/world champion), Jeremy Wariner (athletics/400m/ world champion).

197. United States Virgin Islands: Laverne Jones (sportswoman/ athletics).

198. Uruguay: Paul Alexander Kutscher (swimming), Andres Silva (athletics).

199. Uzbekistan: Vladimir Tuychiev (cycling), Bohodirjan Sultanov, Elshod Rasulov, Ruslam Saidov (boxing),Vadim Menkov (canoe), Vladimir Chernenko (rowing),Dilshod Mansourov (wrestling), Ruslan Naurzaliyev (rowing).

200. Vanuatu: Anolyn Lulu, Kerry Ann Mok, Priscila Tommy, Pareina Matariki (sportswomen/ table tennis/ South Pacific gold medalist, 2007).

201. Venezuela: Albert Altes Subirats (swimming), Jonathan Suarez (cycling).

202. Vietnam: Hoang Anh Tuan (weightlifting),Nguyen Tien Minh (badminton), Nguyen Hoai Thu (taekwondo), Doan Kien Quoc (table tennis), Hoang Ha Giang (taekwondo).

203. Yemen: Marwan Saeeed Abdulhameed (weightlifting).

204. Zambia: Hastings Bwalya (boxing/ African champion).

205. Zimbabwe: Mike Fokoroni (marathon), Kirsty Coventry (sportswoman/ swimming/ Fina World Championships-silver medal).

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