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2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China

Olympics in Beijing 2008

I've just create a site called Olympics in Beijing which uses Drupal and the FeedAPI module to aggregate all kinds of good info about the 2008 Olympic Games hosted in Beijing, China.

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The 2008 Summer Olympics (simplified Chinese: 二零零八年北京夏季奥林匹克运动会; traditional Chinese: 二零零八年北京夏季奧林匹克運動會; pinyin: èr líng líng bā nián běi jīng xià jì ào lín pǐ kè yùn dòng huì), officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be celebrated from August 8, 2008, to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony commencing at 08:08:08 pm CST (12:08:08 UTC) at the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing, People's Republic of China, Shenyang and Tianjin), equestrian (in Hong Kong) and sailing (in Qingdao).

The Olympic games were awarded to Beijing, People's Republic of China after an exhaustive ballot of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on July 13, 2001. The official logo of the games, titled "Dancing Beijing," features a stylized calligraphic character jīng (京, meaning capital), referencing the host city. The mascots of Beijing 2008 are the five Fuwa, each representing one color of the Olympic rings. The Olympic slogan, One World, One Dream, calls upon the world to unite in the Olympic spirit. Athletes will compete in 302 events in 28 sports, just one event more than was on the schedule of the Athens games of 2004. Several new National Olympic Committees (NOCs) have also been recognized by the IOC.

The Chinese government has promoted the games to highlight China's emergence on the world stage, amidst concerns about environmental issues and the alleged human rights violations, particularly in Tibet. There have also been growing concerns of major nations boycotting the Olympics in protest of China's actions in Tibet. Earlier in 2007, former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch has said that he believes that the Beijing games will be "the best in Olympic history."

Opal Myth Music

I just added some music to Opal Myth:

Mechanical Meditation
Centric Sea
Out of the Sphere

All tracks on the site are released to the public domain.

They are very synthy and floaty with influences from house and ambient music.

Have a listen.

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This website exists to faciliate the grand movement towards non-proprietary sounds, samples, loops, songs, recordings and musical compositions in the public domain. This "free and open" movement was - to a great degree - started in the world of free software and has since been growing into many other areas including music and art.

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