Germany crowned World Cup 2014 champion

Germany has won the World Cup Champion 2014

FIFA World Cup, Brazil 2014, after a hard fought 120 minute battle with Argentina at the Maracana stadium.

Borussia Dortmund player, Mario Gotze, became the hero for the Germans with a superb finish via an assist by Chelsea’s Andre Schürrle in the 113th minute.

The two substitutes combined to devastating effect for Germany. Schurrle made inroads down the left hand side, and lofted in a neat cross towards the near post. Gotze took it excellently on his chest and with time and space to move, stabbed it into the back of the net.

With seven minutes left on the clock, the South American threw in all they had left and Messi had a freekick in the final seconds of the game to save the game but ballooned the ball into the stands to add to the Argentine misery, a moment which summed up Messi’s night.

It had been a long and impressive road for both final competitors and Germany and Argentina provided a match that had all the elements of a World Cup classic.

The Germans were looking to finish something that they have started since 2010 whereas the Argentines were determined to return to the top by avenging an embarrassing 4-0 thrashing by the same opponents, which happened four years ago.

The Germans, with their fourth title, have now made history as the first ever European World Cup champion to emerge on South American soil.

German Goalkeeper, Manuel Neuer, won the Golden Gloves Award for the Best Goalkeeper of the Tournament, while Argentina magician, Lionel Messi, won the Golden Ball for the Best Player of the Tournament.

James Rodriguez of Columbia, though absent at the presentation, won the Golden Boot having scored the highest number of goals. The Monaco attacking midfielder scored six goals in Brazil, one more than Germany’s Thomas Muller, who won the trophy in South Africa in 2010.

The night’s German hero, Mario Gotze, also made history as the first ever substitute to score the winning goal in a World Cup final.

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FIFA World Cup 2014 fixtures: Quarter-finals, semi-finals and final - match timings in IST

The most important stages of the FIFA World Cup 2014 have commenced. There are no second chances from now on. 136 goals were scored in the group stages, how many more will the teams score in the next Semi-Final matches? or maybe in Final?

Here are the fixtures and schedule for the knock out stages in IST:

Round of 16 Results: 

Date	Time	Fixture
28th June	9.30 pm IST	Brazil 1(3)-1(2) Chile
29th June	1.30 am IST	Colombia 2-0 Uruguay
29th June	9.30 pm IST	Netherlands 2-1 Mexico
30th June	1.30 am IST	Costa Rica 1(5)-1(3) Greece
30th June	9.30 pm IST	France 2-0 Nigeria
1st July	1.30 am IST	Germany 2-1 Algeria
1st July	9.30 pm IST	Argentina 1-0 Switzerland
2nd July	1.30 am IST	Belgium 2-1 USA

Round of 8 Teams: 

Match	Date	Time	Fixture
QF1	4th July	9.30 pm IST	France vs Germany
QF2	5th July	1.30 am IST	Brazil vs Colombia
QF3	5th July	9.30 pm IST	Argentina vs Belgium
QF4	6th July	1.30 am IST	Netherlands vs Costa Rica

Round of 4 Teams: 

Match	Date	Time	Fixture
SF1	9th July	1.30 am IST	Brazil or Colombia vs France or Germany
SF2	10th July	1.30 am IST	Netherlands or Costa Rica vs Argentina or Belgium

3rd place: 

Date	Time	Fixture
13th July	1.30 am IST	Loser of SF1 vs Loser of SF2

Final: 

Date	Time	Fixture
14th July	12.30 am IST	Winner of SF1 vs Winner of SF2

So, Which team are you all supporting? I have a strong feeling that Brazil and Germany will meet in the semi-final. On the other side will be Netherlands vs Argentina. 

July 1st Protests : 7月1日 大遊行 ong Kong

Photos for the protest on 1 July 2014

Hong Kong citizens are fighting for their rights and the government should respond to them.

I have to say "WOW" because this is really impressive seeing so many protesters. 

The 5 Top Secrets of Great Bosses

When you think of your best boss ever, what did he or she do that created an inspiring work environment for you? How did he or she act to enable your high performance and high engagement each day?

I’ve asked thousands of people in my leadership programs and keynote audiences these questions. The answers I hear are consistent. Great bosses do five vital things daily to create workplace inspiration and serve their employees well.

Before I share these five secrets, let me pose a different question: Would your employees, today, say you are their best boss ever? The answer may not be a resounding "yes" from every employee.

Today’s entrepreneurs invest a great deal of time and energy in their businesses. If you’re like many small-business owners, you put greater thought into your products and services than you do into your company’s culture. Thing is, culture -- the quality of your work environment and the relationships you have with your employees -- drives everything that happens in your organization, good or bad.

Great bosses ensure that their company’s work environment is founded upon trust and respect. Those bosses model trust and respect daily, and they require that team members demonstrate trust and respect in every interaction, with each other and with customers. 

So what does it take to be a GREAT boss? It has to do with Growth, Relationships,Excellence, Accountability and Teamwork. 

1. Inspire growth:  

Great leaders help employees build needed skills and toss antiquated ones. They help employees try new approaches that can increase quality and efficiency. Great bosses hold employees to high standards of performance and delivery. They ensure employees see the business from their customers’ point of view so that great service is the norm. 

2. Honor relationships:  

They know that positive relationships based on shared values  create trust and respect. They understand that without mutual trust and respect, workplace cooperation disappears. Great bosses demand civility as a minimum standard for treatment of workplace peers and customers, no matter what. They create clear “rules” to ensure fair and kind treatment of everyone.

3. Inspire excellence:  

They set high standards of performance for themselves and for every employee. They know that their team and organization have made performance promises -- to each other and to customers. Hitting or exceeding these high standards means those promises are kept. Great bosses celebrate goal traction and effort as well as goal accomplishment - every day. 

4. Ensure accountability:  

Top-notch leaders know that consequence management is the path to high performing, values-aligned teams. They craft an environment of both joint accountability (the team delivers on its promises) and individual accountability (every individual delivers on his or her promises). Consequence management means there is consistent and prompt validation of aligned effort as well as consistent and prompt redirection of misaligned effort. 

5. Encourage teamwork:  

They understand that cooperative teamwork among employees maintains trust and respect more than competitive interaction does. Great bosses create incentives for not only individual contribution but for aligned team contributions, too. A mantra of “win as one team” helps create a supportive yet driven environment where team members work together to deliver promised products and services. 

By integrating some of these practices in your own work teams, you can become a great boss to your employees -- while boosting performance, service and profits.Still not sure if you have what it takes? You can take my fast an free Great Bosses Assessment. Your rankings on the 30 specific behaviors of great bosses will be added to the global response tally. In the process, you’ll be exposed to the “how’s” that great bosses use to craft workplace inspiration.

  

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3 Best Sources For Your Audience To Love your Blog

When you blog regularly, you see blog post ideas everywhere. Your morning coffee or a walk may inspire you; you can read some interesting facts or notice your ranking changes so you can suggest that a new Google update happened. Finally you can read an interesting post and share your thoughts on the topic.

However, the times of writing content for the sake of content have gone. Now the content should engage, should attract attention and earn natural links. Web Analytics is here to help you separate the wheat from the chaff.

Google Analytics

The most evident way to know what topics your audience searches for is to check what site’s pages get the most visitors with
Step 1 : Log into your Google Analytics account
Step 2: Go to the ‘Behavior’ group of reports. Expand the ‘Site Content’ reports and click on ‘Landing Pages’. Here you will get the list of the pages your visitors landed on.
Step 3: Check the most visited ones and you will know the list of topics your audience wants to read about.

Web CEO Blog Analytics

You will need to understand your competitors activity. If you read our blog on a regular basis, you will know how useful your competitors can be, if you know how to retrieve information about them.

1. When you read your competitors’ blogs (if you still do not, start immediately!), write down what posts and articles provoke discussions or get the most comments.

1. Check what types of content your competitors share on social media sites. Pay attention to the posts that get the most likes, shares and comments.

Social Media Profiles

I recommend using the new  ’Social Citations‘ report you can find in the Web CEO Social Metrics tool. This report (available within all WebCEO Plans without limitations) will help you to find out what pages of your site are in posts that get the most Facebook shares, likes and comments, Google +1′s and tweets.

The pages with the most social engagement are the pages your audience love the most. Consider creating more content on the most share-able topics to attract new readers and make your current readers more loyal.

The Real life in Hong Kong

Hi guys,
Has anyone not been to Hong Kong before? Hong Kong is a really beautiful place......to visit NOT to work. Before i came over for my employment, Hong Kong that everyone knows was like:
*Hong Kong night view* 

What a STUNNING photo right? I felt so excited before i came over, imagined that you will be seeing all these beautiful views in Hong Kong. What a life!!!

However (Let's come back to the reality)

Forget about how much it will cost you to have that beautiful view but now i got a few free views for you, "Rooms in Hong Kong". It was just absolutely fantastic to rent a room in Hong Kong and i can guarantee that you will never found any small, expensive rooms around the world, just like Hong Kong.
Where the fck is my table?! And this shit cost like around Hkd 6000 per month!!!

Where the fck am i suppose to sit? On the bed for my entire life in Hong Kong? and the rent is totally ridiculous too (Hkd 6000+ per month)!!!

OMG!! Has anyone experienced the same like me? We ain't the CEO of any company and when people asked me about my life in Hong Kong, I would normally said " Good place to have fun but the rent SUCK and don't ever dream of buying a house here "!!!