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M&T Bank will once again be the grand marquee sponsor for the Aquarium of Niagara's annual "Winds, Waves & Wines," which celebrates the area's grape harvest. "WWW XIV" will be held Thursday, Sept. 19, at the Convention & Event Center Niagara Falls from 6 to 9 p.m.
Wineries participating are A Gust of Sun Winery, Black Willow Winery, Chateau Niagara Winery, Dr. Frank's Winery, Long Cliff Winery, Merritt Estate Winery, Midnight Run Wine Cellar, Niagara Landing, Standing Stone Wines, Vetters Vineyard, Victorianbourg Estates and Willow Creek Vineyard.
Caterers/restaurants include Conference & Event Center Niagara Falls, Four Points by Sheraton, Just Say Cheesecake, Niagara Falls Culinary Institute, Niagara Honeymoon Sweets, Quality Hotel & Suites, Starbucks/Niagara and Webster's Bistro & Bar.
The Rod Nickson Project, sponsored by Turner Construction, will provide music. Deejay Pat Proctor of Premier Sound will play music in the courtyard. A silent auction with prizes also is planned.
Free parking will be available at the Aquarium of Niagara lot, between Third and Whirlpool streets. Shuttle service, provided by the Niagara State Park Trolley, will run from 5:45 to 9:30 p.m. Parking also is available on city streets and in nearby lots.
The popular fundraiser will once again feature Aaron Mentkowski of WKBW Channel 7 as celebrity host.
Prizes for the silent auction have been donated by Whitenight's Jewelers, Art Effects Glass, Fichte, Endl & Elmer Eye Care, WELCOME magazine and many more. Media sponsors are Greater Niagara Newspapers and Niagara Frontier Publications (Sentinel, Tribune, Dispatch, PennySaver and www.wnypapers.com).
Tickets for "WWW XIII" are $55 each or $100 a couple. They can be purchased in advance at the Aquarium of Niagara or at the door that night. Members are required to pay for fundraisers.
For more information or to be included as an event sponsor, call 716-285-3575, ext. 204.


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I have seen some badges listed on Show and Tell and this is a recent find that I thought some of you would enjoy. It is about 2 inches from top to bottom and 1 1/2 inches across. I would appreciate any feedback that can be provided to me on the item as well. When is it from? Also possibly if it is a rare piece. I believe it is from the early 1900's.
Thank you as always my friends for looking, as well as any help provided, and have a blessed day! : )

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Gare du Nord necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 126 diseños de 25 diseñadores freelance.
Three-Four-Three Consulting Limited
I offer a range of business consulting services to organisations in New Zealand. These services include strategy & planning, financial, business & market analysis, consumer research & insights, business case development, project management and accounting services
The name of my company comes from a football (soccer) formation that was used by the New Zealand team at the 2010 World Cup. It consists of 3 defenders, 4 midfielders, and 3 attackers. It is a very attacking formation but requires much organisation and focus. I am not looking for an football-themed logo.
I am open to the use of 'Three Four Three' in the logo, as well as '343' but neither is a prerequisite.
The nature of my work requires me and my image to be professional, but I don't want a staid, 'corporate' or too technical look and feel. My personal style is relaxed, friendly, approachable with a strong customer-oriented focus.
I could be dealing with clients and prospective clients in a range of industries. I have worked in the fast food, airline, financial services, casino and local body industries and I am also targeting organisations in entertainment and sport.
I will be using this logo on business cards and email signature initially, and then probably in a website so would want both jpg and eds file formats.
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Roderick explained the importance of storytelling in his life and songs, but added that he's been trying to alter the way he writes songs recently and has gotten "lost in the woods of infinite possibility."
"I use storytelling to fictionalize and scramble the real events of my life, so that other people can hopefully identify with the universality of the feelings. But lately I've wanted to be more specific, to talk about real events. That's hard for me to do, or to do well, so I'm searching," Roderick said.
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We partnered with Farm Fresh Rhode Island, a local non-profit organization that promotes fresh food, to put on a local food forum. It's a networking event for Rhode Island growers that, this year, focused on the distribution of local food from farm to fork to compost. We get information from our direct farmers, but our real goal with the event is to help these people make connections.


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Software component vendor Text Control has released the X8 version of its word processing component family TX Text Control. Text Control says that using its developer tools, documents can be created, edited, converted, and printed.
So now, TX Text Control X8 introduces a new z-order of objects (text frames, images, or charts) where each object — be it a text frame, image, or chart — can be layered above or below any other object. These objects can be either in front of the text or behind the text; the development team behind this technology says that this feature was added to allow support for background images.
NOTE: Word processing components of this kind for Microsoft development technologies (ASP.NET, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, and ActiveX) are designed to help developers add word processing functionality to their applications.
With the release of TX Text Control X8, the PDF import function has been improved so that PDF Reflow is no longer a problem. The PDF import filter that ships with TX Text Control .NET X8 enables developers to import and convert complex page layouts into editable word processing documents.
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The company behind one of gaming's most famous trivia series are suing the people behind insurance's most famous duck, as You Don't Know Jack makers Jellyvision have filed a trademark infringement suit against Aflac.
The suit, filed on January 21 in United States District Court for the Norther District of Illinois, alleges that Aflac's You Don't Know Quack marketing campaign and corresponding webgame infringe on Jellyvision's long-held trademark for You Don't Know Jack.
Jellvision Inc.'s suit claims that the logo for Aflac's web-game and the style of the game itself — a series of questions — are similar enough to You Don't Know Jack's to compel legal action.
The company is seeking monetary damages and a court order to stop Aflac from obtaining a trademark for You Don't Know Quack.
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Aflac's unauthorized use of, and attempt to register, You Don't Know Quack for a game are willful and intentional acts and are intended to trade on the reputation and goodwill of Jellyvision, to confuse and deceive consumers, and to unfairly compete with Jellyvision.
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Filipino Tacos Recipe | Video
Leftover Chicken's Never Looked So Good
It goes without saying that leftovers can get stale and boring. In our show Freshedovers, cooking expert Aida Mollenkamp demonstrates how to give your leftovers a much-needed makeover, starting with shredded roast chicken. Earlier she showed us how to transform chicken into a Jamaican jerk chicken salad, and now she takes shredded rotisserie chicken for a totally different kind of spin: as the filling for Filipino-inspired tacos.
In this episode, Aida creates a garlic, ginger, and pineapple sisig — a Filipino sour marinade — to inject flavor into shredded rotisserie chicken. The result? A make-ahead, spicy-sweet taco filling that's unlike one you've ever had before. Keep watching to find out how to give your chicken a Freshedover, and then get the recipe.
Filipino-Style Chicken Tacos
From Aida Mollenkamp
- For the sisig:
2 tablespoons canola, grapeseed, or peanut oil
1 small yellow onion (about 1 cup), minced
3 red, orange, or yellow bell peppers, minced (about 3 1/2 cups)
3 tablespoons (about 6 cloves) garlic, finely chopped
1 tablespoon ginger, minced
3/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup 100 percent pure pineapple juice
1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 cup red-wine vinegar
1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
4 cups roasted or rotisserie chicken (from about 1 chicken), shredded
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10 (6-inch) flour tortillas, for serving
Crema or sour cream, for serving
Chile-garlic sauce, for serving
Cilantro, for serving
- Make the sisig: Heat oil in a large nonstick pan over high heat. When it shimmers, add onion and peppers, and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden brown, about 10 minutes. Add garlic, ginger, paprika, black pepper, and cook until fragrant, another 2 minutes.
- Add the pineapple juice, lemon juice, vinegar, and soy sauce, and cook until liquid reduced by half, about 8 minutes. Stir in the chicken, and cook until heated through and the sauce is mostly reduced but still coats the bottom of the pan and the chicken, about 3 more minutes.
- Serve the tacos: Serve on warmed tortillas, topped, as desired, with crema, chili-garlic sauce, and cilantro.
Makes: About 3 to 4 servings, or 8 to 10 tacos.
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By Dr James Dalton, Coordinator, Global Initiatives, IUCN Water Programme.
'Nam bilong me James Dalton' – I said as we all did introductions in Pidgin at the beginning of the stakeholder consultation meeting in Gizo, the capital of the Western Province of the Solomon Islands. We continued introductions around the table and I handed over to Samson Rihuoha. Sam is a Pastor, and an excellent facilitator – he has a voice that makes you want to listen, all day – perfect for his job.
Sam was part of the team I was working with to design an adaptation programme for the Solomon Islands Government to be funded by the Global Environment Facility. I used to live in the Pacific before my IUCN days, and it was very good to be back in the region – to bump into old friends and colleagues and discuss the never-ending politics of the region. But we have a challenging task ahead of us. We need to look at how we can use adaptation approaches to help the water sector ready itself for climate change impacts in the future. It's not an easy task for a country of 974 islands, around 80 indigenous languages, active volcanoes, cyclones and tsunamis.
Gizo town itself was the scene of a devastating tsunami in 2007 which killed 54 people and caused huge amounts of damage, some of it still apparent both physically and in the minds of people we spoke to. We were in Gizo to conduct a rapid vulnerability assessment of the town which was selected as one of the pilot sites for the project.
How can a town improve its water storage, the quality and availability of that water, and distribute it to people in a way that can withstand the predicted climate impacts, as well as cope with the existing threats such as cyclones, floods, drought, and tsunamis? We don't have a ready answer for that yet, but we were able to build a picture of what activities could be funded to protect the watershed and source supplying the town with water, and build on strong community governance approaches to look at better access, distribution, and storage of water.
Following the tsunami, many people moved away from the coast. In doing so they encroached into watershed protection zones designed as areas to minimise disturbance to maintain good water quality catchment areas. This water is then piped into surrounding villages and Gizo town itself. Entering the watershed protection zones has caused problems with people tapping into the piped water supply, reducing the amount of water available to the town, and affecting the quality of the water at the same time.
But it is understandable. Waves of up to 12 metres high would force me to move away from the coastline – despite the view. Gizo is also struggling to source enough water from the spring it uses without this additional pressure – as the drying climate, more sporadic rainfall patterns, and increasing population put pressure on the islands water resources. In the Solomon Islands extremes are 'normal' – the island of Guadalcanal is famous for having a difference in rainfall from the East coast which gets 0.25m a year, to the West which gets 12.5m a year!
Gizo is only one of the proposed pilot sites. We are working across a number of sites to identify strategic investments for the water sector from an adaptation perspective. Sam and the rest of the team with Milika Sobey from our Regional Office in Fiji will be working their way across the remaining sites over the coming few months.
One thing that is noticeable in the Pacific is that adaptation is a way of life. It is a process which, although specific project activities can help with, you cannot walk away from comfortable that things are 'adapted' to climate change for that long. Adaptation is an ongoing part of life given predictions for the Solomon Islands suggest that approximately half the country will get drier and the other half will get wetter.
So it is not about whether this is community-based, ecosystem-based, 'no-regrets', demonstrating 'additionality' etc – it is about simple, practical solutions to real world problems affecting people and the island ecosystems they rely on. I don't need to make that into an adaptation acronym given this is about sensible water management.
After a few flights and boat rides it was back to Honiara for further consultations with donors and key stakeholders in the Government and civil society groups to review what we had found out, develop our plan for the rest of the pilot site visits, and start to pull together our climate response ideas. We have another four months to get things into shape as a programme design before we present our ideas back in Honiara to get feedback and suggestions. What is clear is the demand for adaptation, but what is often not clear is the best way to go about this. Solomon Islanders live in a climate of shifting extremes even without further climate change – the key is harnessing their local experience and knowledge and using it in a structured way.


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United States GP 2012
Friday Press Conference
TEAM REPRESENTATIVES - Cyril ABITEBOUL (Caterham), Norbert HAUG (Mercedes), Eric BOULLIER (Lotus), Martin WHITMARSH (McLaren), Christian HORNER (Red Bull Racing), Stefano DOMENICALI (Ferrari)
Q: A question, first of all, to all of you: your overall impressions of the circuit and the challenge. What have you found? What do you think of it?
Cyril ABITEBOUL: First of all, it's great to back in the US. It's a great market, a great market for the sport, for motorsport. A great market also for the automotive business. Looking at the track, well, it looks challenging. It looks great in terms of the layout. It looks like, also, it's quite icy, both in the air but also on the track - quite slippery. So it will be interesting. Obviously, it was not easy to do a lot of work today, as we need for the track to stabilise, so that we are able to see the impact of our settings and our change to the set-up and distinguish that from the evolution of the track. Not so tricky but really interesting, truly, from inside and hopefully from outside also.
Q: Norbert, I'll ask you about the market in general, the importance of F1 here later, but just the circuit for the moment and how Mercedes have found it?
Norbert HAUG: Well, I think the circuit is fantastic and congratulations to the organisers, to Bernie. To get this event on the calendar is fantastic. The US is so important for Formula One. A race here belongs to a world championship, a true world championship. We have been here before and after a five-year break we are back again. The circuit is very, very demanding, very challenging. The track is developing currently, getting better and better, more rubber on the asphalt. But I think it has huge, huge potential. I think it will be televised worldwide of course, like usual, and make a big impact. So, this is a race with enormous potential and kind of a milestone in Formula One's history I would say.
Q: Eric?
Eric BOULLIER: Well, I'll just follow my colleagues. Congratulations to the organiser, the promoter, who put this amazing track in place and constructed it. Thanks for Bernie for bringing us here. Obviously, as everybody says, America is important for everybody. I think it's quite an impressive track with a different, you know, layout. I think we could see today, obviously, the track evolution was huge. The drivers found it challenging, so that's promising for the race.
Q: Martin, the challenges of the circuit in particular? And what is it about Turn 19. Has anyone explained to maybe the front row here what it is about Turn 19 that everyone seems to be going off there?
Martikn WHITMARSH: It's an enormously challenging circuit. I think we can all be a little bit repetitive in these responses but again, I think we have to congratulate everyone, Bernie and the organisers, for putting together not only a great circuit with great facilities and also it's great to see how many people were here on a Friday. So we've got to make sure that as Formula One as a whole, we put on a show this weekend; that we reach out over the coming year and we build this into a fantastic event. Clearly, the foundations are here to be able to provide that. I think it's for us now to work as hard as we can to create the interest here. As far as the track is concerned, there are a lot of different corners on this circuit. I think [Hermann] Tilke has brought an assembly of corners from the other circuits he has built and tried everything here. The topography is great and there's something about hills and dips and blind corners that make it very challenging for drivers but also make it look great and spectacular to drive on. But I think today, as has been said, the circuit seemed very shiny. I think it's exacerbated by a reasonably conservative tyre choice here. So, I think we're going to have to work hard, certainly we know we've got to work hard on low fuel; we found it a little bit easier on high fuel, which suggests we weren't working the tyres well enough on low fuel. Some of the corners have got some unusual camber, which just makes it an interesting challenge. I think it's slippery, some interesting cambers on the circuit and some interesting compromises you've got to try and find between the vast variety of corners we have.
Q: Christian, do you think it suits the Red Bulls?
Christian HORNER: Yeah, it's been a good day mainly for us today. Again, it's incredible to see what's been done in the last 18 months. We came here 18 months ago when it really was just a construction site and we ran a car with David Coulthard on just dirt and rubble that existed here. And to see what's happened and how the track's been built and the undulations and the corners, the way it's been incorporated - just hats off to the Circuit of the Americas and to Bernie for convincing them to take up this race and so on. It's a great challenge and a great spectacle and hopefully we can put on a good show for the American fans and public and it will be a race to remember.
Q: Stefano, good for Ferrari?
Stefano DOMENICALI: First of all, just to start in a different way: happy birthday to Christian, he's getting older but with good results. No, I would say that everything has been said. For us, I don't know. We are there. Today, it's difficult to judge the performance because you never know the first day as we said with such a new track. But for me, the most important thing with regard to your question Bob, is that I'm sure it will be a great show for the Americans, because we need that in order to make sure that this is the first day of a long term days when we speak every day about Formula One. For me the most important thing from let's say now, from this weekend onward, is really to make sure that our American friends speak about Formula One every day. In order to build up what is Formula One is all about. I think that being here in this condition, helped by what Martin was saying about the tyres, makes very spectacular situation for everyone to... and I'm sure that will be the case on Sunday.
Q: Thank you very much. Again, to all of you: the importance of a race in America for your sponsors. Perhaps you can talk about that. Different priorities for different people obviously. What does it mean for Caterham and for your sponsors, GE for example?
Abiteboul: For Caterham as an automotive company this is crucial. Obviously our current product range is not particularly adapted for the US but it's still important for the future. The US is important because, for instance, car sales, car registrations in the US has picked up at the same level almost from what they were before the crisis. In comparison to what's still happening in Europe, to the slowdown in some other markets like South America, North America and the US in particular is now back to a level where it was before. It is important for automotive companies, which are supporting mainly our show and Formula One in general. For Caterham more specifically, yeah, obviously we've got those links with GE, with Dell, with Intel. We've got a lot of people here. That's important because those companies are used to other sports properties, like Olympics, like basketball, like a lot of things. There are different approaches to sports between the US and Europe but I don't think it's for here to discuss and debate about the merits of the difference, but I think it will be interesting to see how we make a good impression and also make sure that we are sustainable like Stefano was saying just before.
Q: Norbert?
Haug: Well for us this is obviously very, very important. It is the biggest market of Mercedes-Benz passenger cars worldwide. We are very successful here and still growing year-by-year. We have a production plant in Tuscaloosa obviously, building 130,00 cars here: M-Classes, ML, GL, the R-Class, and C-Class will be built here later on in Tuscaloosa and Arizona, so it's a very, very important... you can say the most important market of course. And we will use that in the future, this event, and we will integrate it, our American colleagues will integrate it into their marketing strategies. That's absolutely perfect and again, thanks for the guys here for having invested in these great facilities and thanks to Bernie to bring America back, thanks to the teams, that we all wanted to go in that direction and I think this is really a very, very important step for Formula One.
Q: Eric?
Boullier: First from a team point of view, on my shirt you can see I have American companies like Unilever and Microsoft and Avanade and obviously a lot of technical partners as well are coming from America so it's obviously very important for us to be here. I could see yesterday on my way coming here, I met a lot of fans in the airport and I was quite surprised to see all these American fans; they are very hungry to see Formula One, to be close to Formula One and I think all of the figures here are just talking for themselves because it's sold out since a long time. I think a lot of teams here have hospitality, corporate hospitality, full of people - so there is a great interest in Formula One and in this race particularly. I think it's good for Formula One to be back here, yes definitely. Any team here will justify that we need America in Formula One and Formula One needs to be here.
Q: Martin?
Whitmarsh: I think in summary, the USA is just a huge consumer market and I think you've only got to walk up and down the paddock here, see the names and all the brands that fortunately invest in Formula One and allow us to go Formula One racing. Nearly all of those brands if you look at them, the USA must be in the top three of their markets around the world. So it's fundamentally important to the brands that invest and fund Formula One. This is really the country of the automobile and we've never come here and done a good enough job to create the interest. We've got a very different product from NASCAR. Obviously NASCAR reaches an exciting finale this weekend, which is an unfortunate coincidence, but I think we've got to work very hard to be as commercially smart as NASCAR and compete. I think we've got a different product, an exciting product and again, we've got to work very, very hard to make sure we sell it in America in a way that we haven't done in the past.
Q: Christian?
Horner: It's crucial for Formula One. To be a true world championship you've got to have a race in America. And for the first time ever we've got a circuit that's specifically made to bring out the best and showcase Formula One cars. And I think the circuit that's been built here will do exactly that. Hopefully we can put a great show on for the fans. In some ways it's surprising for us to see how much interest there is in the US, how much knowledge about Formula One, how the town has come alive with Formula One coming into Texas. I think it's a crucial race for Red Bull. America is Red Bull's biggest market and certainly for our partners as well. Infiniti sell more cars here than anywhere else in the world and partners like AT&T... it's an important market for us, it's our biggest-ever race from a hospitality and guest point of view in our short history, so it's a great place to be coming back into the US and hopefully we can have a great race on Sunday.
Domenicali: For us it's the same. It's the biggest market for Ferrari. It's a very important market for our group with the brand of Chrysler and Fiat Cinquecento so it's something that for sure... and as you can see we have a Ferrari Challenge series running during this weekend because we have a lot of clients, a lot of customers and as we all said, it really is imperative to stay here for a long time and to consider it as a starting point for something. We have the duty to, let's say, teach to the American approach on the sport something different, and we need to make sure that with everything, we are able to convince this market, also from the sporting point of view, that Formula One is the future. And that has to added to the American sport that are very important, for sure.
Q: (Tom Richter - TV Nova) I have a question for Stefano and Christian. Obviously this is a great event but we have the championship situation: two races to go, if you can please describe the moods in your respective teams and what prospects you see for the remaining two races.
Horner: You want to go first?
Domenicali: I have no problem, on that I should be quicker! For sure we know it is a difficult situation because we are behind but as I said to my people there is nothing to lose apart from doing the best job that we can and at the end of the day we will see where we will land. But we know we have a Sebastian that is very strong with a fantastic car and we need to make sure that we provide to Fernando the best car that we can and doing the best job that we can on the track. We have seen in the past that everything can happen so we need to believe on this up to the end. As we always said, the numbers will be done at the end.
Horner: Our approach is to treat this race very much like any other. We've come here to try to get the best out of the weekend. To try to get the best out of ourselves as a team and the championships will then hopefully look after themselves. We've worked hard to get ourselves into a strong position in the Constructors' Championship and obviously Sebastian has done a tremendous job to haul himself back into the Drivers' Championship after the summer break - we were close to 40 points behind Fernando. With 50 points still available in the Drivers' Championship, you can take nothing for granted. We've seen how quickly things can change. We know that Fernando is a formidable competitor and Ferrari as a team. We've just got to focus on ourselves and look to get the best out of our package here this weekend.
Q: (Kate Walker) Charlie spoke to us yesterday about the prospect of adding points to super licenses instead of or in addition to the existing reprimand system. Could I please have your thoughts on whether you think offences both driving and non-driving should be treated on a points scale.
Domenicali: I don't know what Charlie said yesterday, to be honest.
Horner: Charlie said there's going to be points on your license now - is that it? Right, 12 points...
Domenicali: Team principle included...
Horner: I've got nine so... Martin, I'm surprised you've still got a license...
Whitmarsh: I haven't always. I think at the moment you're meant to receive three reprimands and then you get something so I think it's just presumably a further elaboration on that point. Like all things, any penalty system, providing it's administered in a correct, consistent manner then why should we have any problem with it? It's the same for all drivers and the same for all teams.
Q: (Julien Febreau - L'Equipe) To all of you: regarding this season, in what way has Sebastian Vettel impressed you the most and do you think that now Sebastian is a better driver than in previous seasons?
Horner: Sebastian is a remarkable young man. He's continued to evolve as a driver and as a person. He's never given up this year. He's driven with great determination. It's been a tough year for him and the team, but he's fought hard to get himself back into this championship and he's driven extremely well. It's a halcyon period for Formula One at the moment; there are some formidable drivers on the grid at the moment. Any driver, either Fernando or Sebastian, if they prevail in this year's championship they will be fully deserving of that title. I think he's continued as an individual to evolve. It's only his hundredth Grand Prix this weekend and to have won 26 of those races, to have had more than 30 pole positions, to be a double World Champion at the age of 25 is something quite remarkable. But he carries that extremely well. I think he's a good ambassador for the sport He applies himself in an extremely focused way to the job in hand. That's my summary.
Whitmarsh: Well again, I think none of us were as qualified as Christian to answer this one really, but I think what you can say is that if you contrast this with last year... then Sebastian had an incredible start to the season and had great momentum and I guess you've got to say that it's impressive how he's come back this year and fought back into the position that he's in. Obviously the team's done a good job as well, but I think it's been a more difficult year for him to get into a championship-winning position than he's experienced before and you've got to give a lot of credit to him and to the team for being able to do that, so he's done a good job. He's learned some more languages as well, hasn't he?
Horner: Yes! From the mechanics!
Abiteboul: Maybe I can just say a word, because I've lived a part of the season at Renault and as Renault obviously Sebastian is one of our customers. Obviously there's been a couple of failures that he's had to live with and I think that he's shown - even at the difficult moments - he's shown a great respect for everyone and all the parties involved, and I think that as such he has demonstrated his stature that he's clearly a grown-up.
Boullier: Just a quick one but that basically as a pure driver he's keeping developing his speed and getting more mature, definitely, more consistent and can bounce back from any difficult situation and take any opportunity so definitely you can see him growing even higher as a World Champion and future World Champion..
Q: (Sarah Holt - CNN.com world sport) I just wondered, Stefano, if you'd like to state the case for Fernando, who's also had a brilliant season, because he's not had the fastest car, so I just thought that in contrast to the Seb stuff it might be nice...?
Domenicali: Well, I think that Fernando this year has, up to now, done an incredible season, maybe the best, up to now, considering above all the starting point that we had at the beginning of the season with the car. Without maybe something not connected to any kind of his fault, maybe the position in the championship would have been different at this stage. But that's the way it is, so we need to start from that, but for sure, Fernando's season, in terms of maturity, in terms of driving, is really - I would say - incredible and I rate this season so far, honestly, as one of the best of his career, considering the situation that he was in together with the team, at the beginning, above all.
Q: (Sarah Holt - CNN.com world sport) Regardless of what happens in the championship this year, it's really difficult to judge whether Seb or Fernando is the better driver of the two unless they're in the same machinery, I suppose.
Domenicali: We can do a Ferrari challenge because we have all the cars here, but that is part of Formula One. For sure drivers can make the difference but alone cannot really win. It's a matter of teamwork, it's a matter of a good performing car, a reliable car, good teamwork during the race in terms of strategy, good pit stops. It's all about this. This is really the best thing about Formula One I would say.
Q: (Ralf Bach - R&B) Martin, why do you think Lewis will regret his move to Mercedes next year?
Whitmarsh: Well again, as in a lot of journalistic quotes, they're not always wholly accurate and not always completely in context but I think the question I was asked was 'would I or would he regret...' and I said 'well both of us might do,' but again, I don't think any of us can look forward and predict with absolute certainty what's going to happen. At the moment, we're focused on racing the last two races and we'll focus on that, try and do a good job. I'm sure Lewis will do a great job next year driving a Mercedes.
Q: (Eddy Javier Tobias Carrillo - Wise Racng) I want to ask any of you about the tyre challenge this weekend. Mr Martin (Whitmarsh) mentioned that the tyre (selection) was probably a conservative choice for this weekend from Pirelli. I wanted to ask how do you compare that with the braking zones, because the braking zones are very hard? I saw many drivers locking up in the braking zones. Is that helpful or not? How are you going to cope with that? And how many stops do you think you will be doing?
Boullier: On paper, we could say maybe a conservative choice but it's normal for Pirelli as well. It's a new track, new tarmac so no racing before so everything has to be built up. We could see a lot of track evolution over these two days, during the two sessions, so that obviously has to be taken into consideration for the rest of the weekend, especially for qualifying and the race. Actually our engineers are still analysing with Pirelli the wear and the degradation and these kind of parameters, so at the end, I think it's just a choice which was done and we have to deal with it and we cannot complain or do anything.
Haug: We have to have an understanding for Pirelli in this case. Of course it's easy to say if you would have brought softer tyres but I think they just didn't have enough data about the circuit so they didn't exactly know how challenging this track would be so they went on the safe side and I think that's understandable.
Whitmarsh: We probably felt happier about the tyres here than we did when we were in Indianapolis a few years ago, so conservative is not such a bad thing.
Q: (Kate Walker) Martin, you said earlier that it's a shame that the race this weekend coincides with the NASCAR Sprint Cup finale. On the provisional calendar for next year, it also conflicts with the NASCAR Sprint Cup finale and I was wondering if any of you had plans to object or get the calendar modified so that we actually could break America properly?
Whitmarsh: Again, I don't know about the others, but we're not involved in setting the calendar. I think it appears to be a bit unfortunate but we're probably (involved in) a different market and I guess it's difficult when you're arranging calendars to always get them... there's always another sporting event in most nations that you try to dodge around. I don't know how significant it is. As I say, this is a new market for us but it's obviously something that occurs. NASCAR draws a huge huge audience, both in attendance and in television so we've given ourselves a bit of a challenge there, I think. I wasn't aware of the clash next year.
Q: (Kate Walker) Speed are giving the NASCAR finale 30 hours of TV coverage this weekend. I think F1 is getting something like two and a half, so it is a bit of a problem for the dedicated motor sport fan.
Horner: I think the major problem is that whatever weekend you stick a Formula One race on there's going to be a NACAR race. Looking at their calendar, they seem to race every single weekend. Some of us think that 20 races is a lot. I think that those guys are doing a fair bit more.
Domenicali: To be honest I have to say that I didn't know about that. I think that, for sure, in terms of quantity, there's not even a fight because it is impossible to fight in that respect. As I said at the beginning, we take this momentum to speak about Formula One because I don't think it's only a matter of having on one hand the main final and on the other hand one race in America but also it's a matter of growing the attention of Formula One and then maybe in the future, the hope is that if you have on the same day the two different events, we have it the other way around, meaning that we have done a great job in terms of promotion. That should really be our target at the moment.
Q: (Maurice Hamilton - Grandprix.com) Formula One has arguably never been more competitive from the front of the grid to the back so driver talent is therefore the most important thing that you're looking for. We know that drivers with financial backing still play a part, certainly in the second half of the grid, the back half of the grid. I wonder if the front three can just give me their view on that and say if that's still an inevitable part of Formula One, despite the need to cut costs and perhaps Cyril could explain how important a driver with financial backing is to one of the smaller teams?
Horner: Well, I think that since Formula One started in 1950, there has always been a mixture of drivers that have paid for seats and drivers that have been paid as professionals. The demands and costs of Grand Prix racing have always required that and it's no different today where there's drivers that have perhaps were associated with sponsors but have still had to demonstrate their talent, demonstrate their ability to warrant a place. In a perfect scenario, you'd have the top 24 drivers on the grid that were the most talented 24 drivers in the world in a Formula One event. The reality is that isn't the case and I think that while Formula One is a commercial business and there are commercial pressures, I think you will always have that balance, but I think that what's good to see is that there have been schemes that have been set up to support young drivers who have found their way onto the grid that perhaps were associated with sponsorship but have also had to earn that position.
Domenicali: I agree what Christian said but one point to add: the less chances that we give to drivers to test on the track, the more it's likely that we have drivers than can present themselves to a team with whatever you call it, with money to bring with them, and this is why we are so keen to have some more testing, also for them to make sure that they are able to show to everyone how good they are on the track, on top of how good they are in bringing money to the team.
Whitmarsh: I think there are some good pay drivers out there at the moment but to my mind, there are probably too many teams that have to rely upon pay drivers and I think that's a little bit sad for the sport and I think it's an indication that we've got too much financial pressure in the sport at the moment. I think you'll always have a few but I think too great a proportion of the grid, in my opinion, has to rely upon that and that just tells us that we've got to work harder to bring costs down in the sport, because it does distort... unfortunately the three teams at the front here certainly have to pay their drivers but I think we need to really improve the financial health of the sport, such that there's a smaller proportion of pay drivers, in my personal opinion.
Abiteboul: The point that Martin was making is very true about the world economics and I think that it's a little bit more complex than that, actually. I don't like the notion of pay driver because I see them more as a commercial element which obviously is crucial when you are at the back of the grid, you don't attract the sort of TV coverage that the other teams attract and that's a reality. We are not complaining. We have to make our way through the grid, up to the (front of) the grid to get more coverage but before that happens, obviously the drivers are as ambassadors, a good commercial vehicle who have a value for any form of sponsors. Just talking in terms of contracts, usually we don't have any drivers who are paying for a seat, actually. It's just that he's introducing some sponsors to us who are helping the team to finance the season and financing their salaries, so actually in reality, there are no paying drivers as such. I don't want to start a polemic but even the best drivers in the world which are in the first row teams, there are some sponsors who are there also because they are there and I don't think you will qualify any of those drivers as pay drivers.
Q: (Carlos Jalife - Fast Mag) I was talking to Mr Ecclestone yesterday asking about the Mexican Grand Prix and he said that it's hard because Texas has set a new standard. He said that no other country can run a Grand Prix if it has a facility that is less than this one that we see here in Texas. According to the world economic climate I would disagree but I would like to have your opinion on that.
Haug: It would be nice if all the Grand Prix race tracks in the future would have a comparable standard to these facilities here, especially the race track is fantastic, the layout is great. It would be nice. I have some doubts whether this standard will be guaranteed for all the race tracks in the future. It does not necessarily need to be the case in my view.
Boullier: It's not easy to comment on Bernie's ideas, Bernie's comments, but as Norbert just said, it's great for all of us, also for you journalists, to have these kind of facilities, to do all our work in nice conditions, for the mechanics, the engineers and everybody so yes, the standard is good and obviously we would be happy to have the same standard and again, I would be happy to race in Mexico. I've been racing in Mexico in the past and it's a different standard but still we can manage.
Whitmarsh: Well, I think you've just got to ask the same question this time next week!
Horner: I'm lost for words after Martin's totally politically incorrect comments about the Brazilian Grand Prix! I think that there's 20 races and there's a lot of competition for those positions on the calendar. There's new circuits that are coming in in the future; there's Sochi in Russia that's coming in. There's an awful lot of interest and where Bernie does an incredible job, he keeps bringing new venues to the calendar, whether it's Singapore, whether it's Abu Dhabi, whether it's here in Texas. Formula One is now out of balance between Europe and the rest of the world, but it just shows how the world and the markets are emerging. It's very healthy for Formula One to have that competition, to host a venue, because what Formula One does bring to that country, to that state is quite significant.
Domenicali: Well, I think that for sure that Bernie is pushing towards a high standard in all the places that we have to go to. I think it's the correct policy that he has to apply. Then it's a matter of negotiation, a matter to see what is at the end of the day the complete package in terms of the globality of the product that you're going to bring with a new venue, with a new Grand Prix. As I said, it's correct that we always try to be at the top and then it's a matter to see what we can really do but it's important to go in a place where there is a passion for Formula One, there's the money for Formula One, there's the interest, because in that respect, I have to say Bernie always has a good vision to anticipate certain things and we need to make sure that hopefully also in Mexico this will happen very soon.
Abiteboul: I think everything has been said. If there is passion, I'm pretty sure there will be passion in Mexico, so why not? I'm not worried about some sort of standard because I think that passion is much more important. Personally, I remember my first race was in Magny Cours. I know it's a race that has been very much criticised by everyone but that's a race where I lived a fantastic moment and people were very enthusiastic there. Same thing with Canada and Montreal. I don't think this is seen as best in class of standard, but again I think this is one of the favourite races of the paddock and I think the public is again playing a big part because of the passion. I think this is what matters and the mix between the standard that Formula One wants to demonstrate, the statement that Formula One wants to make to its sponsors and to the internal feeling and nostalgia and passion that there is must be the right balance.


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Crooked HouseBook - 1986
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Gave to Karen Hughes.
Boy was I shocked to find out who the culprit was. Agatha Christie is one great author.
I love who it was the whole time
Crooked House is the first Agatha Christie mystery novel I have read. Every chapter throws a new twist, and the mystery isn't solved until the very last chapter. I strongly recommend this book as it is very entertaining and definitely keeps you at the edge of your seat.
Very clever, indeed.
I would compare this story to "Murder on the Orient Express" for the final twist, although in this case the final revelation is definitely more shocking. Agatha Christie is a fine connoisseur of human psychology and here she is at her best. The characters are all believable and we keep on wondering until the end. Christie is one of my favorite writers and I recommend this book to everyone, just be warned: nothing is what it seems!
I think this is one of Agatha Christie's best mysteries. I was completely swept up in the story, and was quite surprised by the ending. I thought that she did a really good job of bringing all the characters to life, adding detail and "fleshing them out" much more than in most of her mysteries. Even the dead man has quite a personality! Although the mystery setup is familiar, the atmosphere seems even more charged with fear and suspicion, perhaps because the narrator is in the house quite a bit and engaged to the granddaughter of the deceased. I thought it was interesting that Agatha Christie writes in her forward to this book that it is one of her personal favorites, a pleasure to write and a book that she felt was one of her best.
*Spoiler alert* I was shocked that the young girl was able to murder without remorse or more contemplation than "He won't let me go to ballet lessons" or "She gets annoyed and scolds me frequently". However, since I have read "The Sociopath Next Door" (great book!) multiple times, it sounds like she is definitely a sociopath/ psychopath. If she is this good at killing people, hiding her tracks and throwing suspicion elsewhere at a young age, it seems inevitable that she would just continue doing that and worse as she got older and smarter. I thought it was interesting that at the end, there was some suggestion that the grandfather may have realized that something was "different" with her and that's why she had a tutor at home instead of going to school. That decision would have increased the safety of her would-be schoolmates, but did not change her in any fundamental way. I am not sure that there is any way that she could have been changed if she really was a sociopath since (according to the other book) sociopaths don't think anything is wrong with them and are unable to empathize and form connections with other people. I don't know if there would have been any way the family could have kept Josephine's murderous ways under control. I don't agree with her great-aunt taking her own life and Josephine's, however that was probably the easiest way to have a relatively tidy ending to the story. (one of the reasons that I enjoy Agatha Christie) : )
This is easily one of the best, and most shocking Agathe Christie books. The identity of the killer is super surprising and pretty disturbing. Crooked House is a must read for any Agathe Christie fan.
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Going back to school isn't as boring as some students may think.
The Wednesday Wars
By Gary D. Schmidt, $16
What could be worse for a seventh-grader than having to spend each Wednesday afternoon with a teacher studying Shakespeare? Nothing, until student Holling Hoodhood begins to realize there is much more to Mrs. Baker — and Shakespeare — than he realized in this Newberry honor book.
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Wayside School is strange, and the events that take place inside it may be even stranger. Adventures in this first book of a series include a student getting stuck to his seat and another who assumes nobody will ever like her, and is proved right.
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As Belle Teal enters fifth grade, more is changing around her than she realizes. For the first time, there are African-American kids on her bus. And as it pulls up to school, there are angry adults standing outside holding signs. This novel shows how Belle and her classmates navigate the start of school and the start of desegregation.
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This tale of a group of schoolchildren who band together to get storks to return to their Dutch village is more than it appears to be on. Its main moral — that everybody, no matter what their age or ability, has something to offer — is relayed through moments of suspense and humor.
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Follow a middle school student's adventures as he recounts them in his diary. Kinney's "novel in cartoons" may be somewhat crudely drawn, but it started a phenomenon that shows no sign of ending, having spawned a successful book series as well as a feature film.
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India Carbon Emissions at 'Disturbing' Levels
As talks heat up at the ongoing United Nations climate summit in Doha, India finds itself in a tricky situation.
Last week, representatives of the billion-plus nation said developed economies lacked "ambition" to combat mounting carbon emissions, and said that major emerging markets like itself were on track to implement policies aimed at reducing their respective carbon footprints.
Fast forward a few days and India seems to be caught on the wrong foot.
A study compiled by the University of East Anglia in the U.K. and released earlier this week, said India's carbon emissions have shot up by an estimated 7.5% over the past year, while those recorded in developed markets like the U.S. and European Union, had declined by 1.8% and 2.8%, respectively.
The report, published Monday, found India was the world's fourth largest carbon dioxide polluter, accounting for 7% of total carbon emissions in 2011. China topped the list, pumping about 23% of the world's total carbon dioxide last year, followed by the U.S. and European Union, which accounted for 16% and 11%, respectively.
True, India's carbon emissions are still significantly lower than those of the U.S. or China, but with an annual growth rate as high as 7.5%, experts warn that may not be the case for long.
"India's carbon levels will be at par with China, if not higher, by 2020," says Corinne Le Quéré, a professor who specializes in climate change and who headed UEA's research study. "The rates at which India's carbon levels are multiplying… It's certainly disturbing," she said in an interview.
Burning fossil fuels, majorly coal to generate electricity, accounts for more than half of India's carbon emissions, the country's top policy-making body, the Planning Commission, noted in a report last year.
So switching from fossil fuels to low-cost carbon technology, argues Ms. Quéré, would drastically reduce India's carbon footprint.
While efforts have been made to encourage alternative sources of energy, including solar, hydro and nuclear power plants, investments in low-cost carbon machinery – an expensive technology – have not been as robust as planned, the commission says in the same report.
Why so? "Low-carbon policies….. need to be differentiated across sectors based on national priorities and transaction costs of implementing the policy," the Planning Commission noted.
In industries like land, water and forests, for instance, the commission feels "livelihood considerations such as income generation and poverty alleviation must dominate [their] policy choice, even if it requires overriding carbon emission concerns."
As a result, relatively cheap and widely available fossil fuels like coal are still used to generate power in these industries, releasing several million tons of carbon dioxide each year.
By 2020, India expects to reduce its carbon emissions by at least 20% of its gross domestic product against 2005 levels, largely based on sustained use of alternative energy, imposing fuel efficiency norms for vehicles, and by strengthening public infrastructure – roadways, footpaths and public transport – to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Carbon emissions are measured as a ratio of GDP to give an overview of pollution produced per unit of output in a country.
"It's not impossible," says Ms. Quéré. "But at this stage, it looks tough," she adds. UEA estimated that in 2005, India released about 1.4 billion tons of carbon, while in 2011, it emitted close to double.
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Choreography by: George Balanchine
Music by: Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky
The first ballet Balanchine choreographed in America is a romantic work of immense sweep, set to a transcendent Tschaikovsky score.
Serenade is a milestone in the history of dance. It is the first original ballet George Balanchine created in America and is one of the signature works of New York City Ballet's repertory. Balanchine began the ballet as a lesson in stage technique and worked unexpected rehearsal events into the choreography. A student's fall or late arrival to rehearsal became part of the ballet. After its initial presentation, Serenade was reworked several times. In its present form there are four movements: "Sonatina", "Waltz", "Russian Dance", and "Elegy." The last two movements reverse the order of Tschaikovsky's score, ending the ballet on a note of sadness. Balanchine had a special affinity for Tschaikovsky. "In everything that I did to Tschaikovsky's music," he told an interviewer, "I sensed his help. It wasn't real conversation. But when I was working and saw that something was coming of it, I felt that it was Tschaikovsky who had helped me."


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I absolutely love these shots Jon took of me a few weeks ago (clearly pre fringe!) We'd gone on a little jaunt in my new car (Have I even mentioned I have a new car on here?) and spotted a nice little spot to have a mini shoot. This was around the Clapham Old Town area which has loads of lovely big houses which I'd absolutely love to live in at some point... a girl can dream! I absolutely adore this check coat, although I seem to have more coats in my winter wardrobe than I have fingers I just cant seem to get enough of them! The justification for this one was there was a 30% off coats thing on at ASOS! Ooops!
The contrast of a bright red plaid coat with already established my winter uniform (leather skirts, oversized fluffy jumpers and boots) is the simplest way of getting a cool girl look with minimal fuss. Keep the rest of the items neutral for a cosy and chic look.
PS. For a cheeky bonus snap check this one out of me. Sometimes I like to make faces inbetween snaps just to see if Jon notices. I think this might be his favourite ever.
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Kate Stanners
creative partner,
Saatchi & Saatchi
It's Christmas. It's retail's moment. This Christmas will determine who makes it to 2012. And, boy, can you smell the fear.
One way to address the crisis is creativity - to stand out from the crowd, to get noticed, to be different, to zig to the world's zag. John Lewis has done it.
And now, in its own way, so has Waitrose. Like John Lewis, it could be deemed indulgent, opening the doors to its school of magic in a 90-second X Factor TV spot. Waitrose bring us its very own Hogwarts, starring Delia as the headmistress and Heston as the master of the dark arts. Delia shows us how to do some good old-fashioned home-cooking, albeit in kit form, while Heston experiments with pine-flavoured sugar for mince pies. A winning recipe of new ideas that tastes of a quality Christmas. Brave? Maybe not, but bold and different enough to set it apart from its competition.
Sky Movies has done a nice Christmas special this year, celebrating the business it is in: entertainment. Well-crafted, it seamlessly takes us through clips of its Christmas film line-up. The vehicle is a dad on his way home for Christmas, and his journey takes him through various film extracts from Superman to It's A Wonderful Life ... before he gets back to his Christmas-card-perfect family, in time for The Chronicles Of Narnia on the telly. This has been done really well, great film-score track ... all wrapped up with Believe in Better. Which I have always loved. Sky feels like a proper contender for our Christmas viewing.
Carphone Warehouse has its very own version of Narnia. Step inside its store/wardrobe and you're taken to a magical other place, where phones grow on trees. "You always leave with something wonderful," the voiceover says. This is an effort to make Carphone Warehouse feel like a special Christmas destination. Would you notice it? Does it stand out? The answer would probably be no if it wasn't for the choice of voiceover, which is quirky and something kind of wonderful in itself. It might just get you to look up from your eggnog.
Freesat has none of the filmic craft of Sky. Probably because it's all about giving us what we want. Basic satellite TV, no gloss, no glamour, no style. A salesman knocks on the door of a satellite/space station, trying to flog a load of bells and whistles. He is unceremoniously ejected down its back passage. You see, Freesat is telly made easy. Feels to me a bit like telly without the entertainment. I'm Believing in Better, you see.
The Range is a place where you can get everything you want for Christmas. So vast is the range on offer that the brand finds it easier to show us what it doesn't have ... in this case, a singing reindeer sweater. We are then taken on a flying visit of what it does have. It's so fast that I can only remember the singing reindeer jumper that it doesn't sell ... which I now want. Does anyone know where I can get one?
Anti-Slavery International has launched an idea that involves the profile of a woman on Facebook. She has no friends. Through the pictures and messages she posts, we piece together the horrors of her life as a housekeeper for a family that mistreats her. Modern-day slavery. The idea is to become her friend and, in doing so, share hers and thousands of others' plight. I hope it works. It is a sobering thought, a good message to be able to cut through all the Christmas cheer being promoted by so many advertisers, and yet it lacks punch. It feels lazy.
So are we being brave? Is creativity winning in the retailers war? Judging by this lot,no. But the examples that do shine brightly. It is a very brave brand that plays it safe this year.
Phil Rumbol
founding partner,
Although I'm still relatively new to working on the agency side, I've decided that making advertising for clients is a bit like managing the England team.
And no, it's not because everyone thinks they could do a better job (which, invariably, they do). It's because the concept of "added value" applies equally to both scenarios. As national coach, you can't go out and buy a new squad of players. You have to make the best use of the talent at your disposal and add value through the interventions you make. The same is true of advertising. Some brands have inherently stronger propositions. The trick is to add as much value as possible - to show the underlying brand promise as positively as possible. So how does this week's crop of ads fare on added value?
First up is Waitrose with its Christmas ad. A tough gig. Grocery retail is a highly competitive arena where genuine differentiation is hard. Add to that the annual desire of retailers to show they have more Christmas cheer than most, and you're left with a lot of generic noise. With its foodie credentials and the "dream team" of Heston and Delia, Waitrose is better-placed than most but, for me, this ad fails to excite. It's well-made, but feels like it's caught between the two stools of advertising and programming. The idea of creating "destination products" (such as pine-sugar dusting) is a nice touch, but this rates as only "slightly above average" on added value, lacking the impact to really cut through in the heavy traffic of Christmas retail ads.
Continuing the Christmas theme is Sky Movies, with a showcase of its film schedule for the festive season. As brand startpoints go, what's not to like? A genuinely high-interest "category" with loads of sparkly content at your disposal. Easy. Except I suspect to add value over simply "showing" the brand is actually quite hard. But this ad pulls it off. While I feel like I've seen the construct before, it's well-made, has a nice narrative that pulls the viewer along and positions Sky Movies as a curator rather than simply a broadcaster.
Another heavily contested market is that of mobile phones. It's a sector that's prone to technical jargon and information-heavy advertising. So another tough job to get communications to raise the game of the core brand promise. In this ad, Carphone Warehouse is definitely having a go. As a viewer, I welcome its attempts to make the whole thing more interesting and inviting, but I feel like I've seen it all before.
In contrast, before seeing this ad, I'd never heard of The Range. Therefore, from an "added value" point of view, it's all upside for me. As a retailer that stocks 65,000 products (so the ad informs me), it's the kind of brand that "does what it says on the tin". This no-nonsense style is reflected in its advertising, which succeeds in telling me what it does, but in a quirky rather than shouty way.
The Freesat ad is one of those ads that uses most of the time to show what the brand is not - in this case, those pushy subscription-based TV companies, personified as a pushy door-to-door salesman. It's not bad, but the trouble is I think my abiding memory of this ad will be what the brand is not.
And so, finally, to Anti-Slavery International. Most charities benefit from being inherently emotive. Therefore, the "added value" of advertising comes from evoking a relevant emotion strongly enough to get people to do something. Easy. The juxtaposition of "chatty" Facebook with an issue as serious as slavery is a bold creative move but, for me, it doesn't work. Rather than evoking a strong emotion, the Facebook visuals and bland music made me tune out well before the end.
So, all in all, probably more Steve McClaren than Sir Alf Ramsey.


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While all the focus at the Microsoft press conference was on Halo 4 and the start of a new trilogy coming 2012, behind closed doors Microsoft was showing another Halo title; Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary a remastered version of the original Halo for the original Xbox.
10 years later does Halo still have what it takes to take on the might of modern gaming, will it be worth the effort and should you, Halo fan or not, get excited. We checked out the new game to find out more.
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
What platform is it on?
Xbox 360
When's it due out?
15 November 2011
What other game is it like?
Halo on the Xbox 360
Does it use any new tech like 3D, PlayStation Move, or Kinect for Xbox 360?
The pitch
"Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary" is a spectacularly remastered version of the original "Halo" campaign, created in celebration of the 10th anniversary of one of the most beloved franchises in gaming history. With a bounty of new features including cooperative play over Xbox LIVE, a bundle of some of the most beloved multiplayer maps in "Halo" history reimagined for Xbox LIVE, new challenges and a new story to uncover.
The storyline
It's the same as the first Halo. So that means you're playing the Master Chief on a strange planet trying to work out what on earth is going on while fighting an array of aliens know as the Covenant.
Trailers, demoes, and video
Our first impressions
While Microsoft used it's press event at E3 to showcase a trailer for Halo 4, behind closed doors it was showing off Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary to a select few, and those select few included Pocket-lint. Huzzah.
As with many of our closed door briefings at this year's E3 in Los Angeles we weren't allowed to play the game ourselves or take pictures, but had a 30 minute demo and Q&A with some of the game by those who are making it – 343 industries.
The main thing you are going to notice is the graphics improvement. Amazing as it sounds Halo was originally on the original Xbox not the Xbox 360 and that means while the graphics at the time was stunning, they've aged massively over the last decade.
Here, in this Redux version if you will, the graphics are on par with modern day games and befitting of the Xbox 360 console that it's now running on.
That means more shading, more water, more detail, and well more of everything. It's not just the graphics that have had a makeover either. Skywalker sound has completely recorded the music and sound effects. Thankfully fans of the original will be pleased to hear that the vocals have remained intact.
To prove that the graphics are new there is a "Classic mode" button that when pressed reverts the game back to the original Xbox mode.
You can dash between the two modes at any time, something our demo dude was keen to show. Yep it's something that you are unlikely to use in the thick of battle, but at the same time it's going to be incredibly handy justifying to Mrs Pocket-lint why you've just spent another £35 ($39.99) on a game you've previously owned and previously completed.
Back to the game at hand, and you'll be pleased to know that Microsoft, or developers 343 industries to be precise, haven't messed with the gameplay of the original Halo at all. The physics and handling are from the original. The campaign element of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary really is just a graphical layer that's been added to spruce things up a bit.
Aside from the new graphics and audio, Halo Anniversary will be getting a whole host of features, plus the promise of some features yet to come, and yet to be announced.
For example, gamers will be getting multiplayer options – something that was left out of the original, achievements, and Terminals to learn more about the Halo universe including details about Halo 4 due out in 2012.
Yep you'll have played it before, yep you'll probably have completed it before, and yep you'll curse yourself for wanting to play it all again.
If you enjoyed the original or still have it, this should give you the reason you've finally been waiting for to get rid of your massively large Xbox console. For those too young to have enjoyed the original, this is one treat that is still as fresh today as it was 10 years ago.
Roll on 15 November.
Please note
The E3 games convention is a fantastic chance to see the latest games due out over the coming year, as well as, letting us get a glimpse into what is going to be the big titles and the ones to avoid like the plague.
The big problem however is that for most of the titles that glimpse is, well, just that. At the show you'll get to play a level here or a multiplayer map there or even have a product manager walk you through a specific level.
So with that in mind we present you with our Quick Play.
What we've done is broken down the key facts you need to know and then given you our first impressions based on around 15 minutes of gaming. For us that 15 minutes isn't enough to do a First Look review or even a review. How can you rate a game that offers over 30 hours of gaming on just 15 minutes of play? However it should hopefully give you an idea, a feeling, a notion, of what to expect come launch day.


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[Susceptible]'s pervasive melancholy is still lingering with me, a reminder of why we really read: to feel things besides our own emotions.Paris Review
Goglu is a daydreamer with a young working mother, a disengaged stepfather, and a father who lives two thousand miles away. Drawing, punk rock, and the promise of true independence guide Goglu to adulthood while her home's daily chaos inevitably shapes her identity. Susceptible is a devastating graphic novel debut by Geneviève Castrée; it's a testament to the heartbreaking loss of innocence when a child is forced to be the adult amongst grownups.
Praise for Susceptible
With mesmerizing honesty Castrée resurrects the obscenely disorienting turning points of a childhood, the ones that haunt a person for a lifetime. After reading the last page I closed the book and wept a little bit about its simple, perfect ending.Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than You
...an aching clarity [is] evident in [Castrée's] sombre grey tones and her dexterous, serpentine lines.Globe & Mail Best Books of 2013
[Susceptible is] a devastating coming-of-age graphic memoir.CBC Books
Castrée's black-and-white, Scarryesque illustrations accompany tiny, precise cursive lettering that gives the whole work a whispered, confessional quality, as if each word were an embarrassing secret. At times, Goglu's story is overwhelmingly, heartbreakingly sad, but Castrée leaves a glimmer of hope: a redemptive future shaped by art, independence, and unconditional love.Booklist


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Now that schools are back in session and the calendar page has turned to September - or is halfway through September! - a little craving for apple desserts starts to set in. Luckily, this week for Tuesdays With Dorie (an online group of a couple hundred individual bakers around the globe get together virtually and bake one recipe a week from Dorie Greenspan's book Baking From My Home to Yours) Julie of Someone's in the Kitchen picked Flaky Apple Turnovers. You can find the recipe on pages 316 and 317 or on Julie's turnover post.
I've made apple turnovers before, back when I was in another baking group, Sweet Melissa Sundays. That recipe was based on purchased puff pastry (although homemade puff pastry would have been a delicious, if time-consuming alternative). Dorie's recipe, on the other hand, promised a flaky crust (it's in the recipe title, see?) from a fairly simple handmade pastry dough that had lots of butter and sour cream. I was interested to work with this dough, as it seems like a versatile and useful pastry to have in the baking repertoire.
n.o.e.'s notes:
- I made 1/4 recipe, which was easy to scale.
- The dough is fairly quick to put together. Everything is done by hand. Dorie gives a couple of alternative methods for working the flour and butter together. I grew up using a pastry blender and also two knives when making crust, but I'd never tried rubbing butter into the flour using just the fingers.
- I wanted my butter to be as cold as possible (as that is so often the key to flaky pastry) so I put it in the freezer while I was measuring out all of the other ingredients. By the time I went to cut in the butter into the flour, it was too cold for my pastry blender to make much headway. I decided to try the finger-rubbing method and it worked beautifully.
- When I tossed the sour cream into the dough, it pulled together beautifully. I was a little worried that my dough might be too wet, but it rolled well - as long as it stayed cold!
- This was my first time turning and folding pastry dough (although I've done it with bread dough). Dorie's instructions are so clear that it was easily accomplished.
- I was tempted by Dorie's suggested filling variations, but decided to stick with classic apple for the first time I made the recipe. I added a pinch of salt and a grating of nutmeg to the cinnamon, sugar and apple filling. Since there was a ton of butter in the pastry I skipped the dots of butter in the filling.
- When it came time to roll and form the turnovers, instead of cutting rounds, as the recipe specified, I decided to cut squares. That way I could use all of the rectangle that I rolled, with no leftover scrap pieces. I was able to form 6 turnovers - triangular in shape. I used a serving fork to make wide crimps in the edges of the turnovers and to prick holes in the tops. Although the recipe calls for a sprinkling of sugar on top, I used only the egg wash because my husband (the apple dessert lover) prefers no sugar crust.
- 4 turnovers went directly into my freezer; when the apple dessert mood strikes I can pull them out and bake them frozen.
- My turnovers needed nearly 30 minutes to bake to a golden color, rather than the 20 that the recipe prescribes. They puffed a bit and looked like little golden pillows. And the crust? Nice and flaky!
The dreaded "indoor light shot" - not a great picture but it does show the flakiness of the crustthe verdict:
These were nice turnovers. I thought the apple flavor was a little mild; next time I'll amp up the spices. I'd also like to try the turnovers with dried fruit, nuts and/or jam, as Dorie suggests. The pastry was crisp and flaky, and I think it would also be good (without the sugar) as a basis for savory turnovers - mmm, spinach and cheese!
My husband, the apple-dessert lover , thought the turnovers were good, almost-great, but for him they were a bit overshadowed by the homemade vanilla ice cream that I served alongside.
Thanks, Julie, for choosing such a fun seasonal recipe for us to bake this week!


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To continue with the holiday shopping theme of late, here are a couple of suggestions for the cocktailian in your life that has everything.
First off, why not get them a bottle of tequila that they're sure not to open: one of 1800's beautiful artist designed bottles? I wrote about this last year, and it remains at the top of my list for cheap booze art (and you can drink it if times get rough!) as this year it's running for around $25.
While I've mentioned this next spot for cocktail tools many times before, it bears repeating (I still get emails asking where to go for quality equipment), as it is ever evolving and expanding: Cocktail Kingdom. This is the go to site for quality tools and supplies. Almost all of the bar tools that I currently use come from this site, and while some of the tools may be pricy, they should last you a lifetime. Whether you are looking for a lipped mixing glass, gold (workable!) cobbler shakers, beautiful Japanese spoons, hard to get bitters, exquisite reproductions of out of print cocktail books, ice picks, jiggers, strainers or bitter bottles this should always be your first stop. Make sure to check out the site often, as new equipment is always arriving. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: thank God for Greg Boehm!
Stay tuned for more spirit reviews and recipes!
Pictures by:
Jamie Boudreau
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Jessejfoster necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 143 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Ajarn Apartments
My client's company is in desperate need of a marketing makeover! The company owns about 45 condos in Bangkok, Thailand, which are rented out. The owner of the company is honest, sincere, and trustworthy. He treats renters very well, which is sometimes hard to find in Bangkok (where you'll be lucky to get your deposit back or get anything fixed when it's broken).
The business is family owned and operated, and backed by investors. The company was started as an answer to the inflated, dodgy, and sometimes very tricky rental market in Bangkok. The units the owner selects are always the best in the building, well appointed and located in desirable locations near metro stations. The rents are very fairly priced and typically below market.
If you want to learn more about the company, the current website is here: http://www.alanscondos.com (but be warned, it is hideous). Now you know exactly why the company needs a makeover! The website was not important in the past, because most business was word of mouth.
The rebranding is sorely needed. While the overall Thai economy is doing ok, the rental market here is depressed as most of the renters are foreigners and the global economy is still recovering. The rebranding effort is moving away from "Alan" and changing to the impersonal, but specific "Ajarn" which means teacher in Thai.
The ideal customer is a 25 year old teacher who has never been to Thailand, was recruited to teach at an international school in Bangkok and was referred to the company by school administrators or internet ads on craigslist. The customer wants to find a unit to live in that is near their school, safe, secure, clean, comfortable, and inexpensive.
The ideal customer has a 1 year contract with their school, so they aren't going to break their rental contract. They get paid regularly, so they pay their rent on time. The are currently working as teachers, thus are almost always mature, responsible adults. 60% of customers are teachers age: 20s-30s, either first timers to Bangkok or current residents.
There is a percentage of retirees (20% or less) who we don't want to alienate, but are not the core group. About 20% are other working professionals who live in Bangkok.
The market is flooded lately with so many rental agencies, 1000s of ads per day on craigslist, and many new units being built in Bangkok. Ajarn Apartments needs to stand out from the crowd.
We also consider school administrators, condo office staff and even the security personnel to be our target audience. The school administrators are important because they provide referrals. The office/security staff are important because you want life to be easy for your renters and they often help out with problems.
Needed: a logo for a Condo Company in Bangkok.
The logo will be used for a new website, staff t-shirts, cups/ pens/ umbrellas/ shirts and other free marketing materials we provide to school administrators and renters.
The typeface should be clear, simple and strong. Must be easy to be read if on the left upper chest area of a t-shirt or coffee mug.The logo should portray trust and comfort, but also humanity and care. Easy on the eyes please.
An aesthetic model for the new website is http://www.nakedapartments.com. I have attached some mock ups based on naked. The owner had an idea to have a university graduate cap tilted off to the left of the A in Ajarn or an owl with the same cap on. But please don't any of these guidelines limit your creative genius.
We need:
1. a logo that will look good on a lighter background (maybe reversible?)
2. typeface based
3. sexy, but not overly corporate or stodgy
4. clear, simple, easy
5. pleasing to the eye
6. help rent apartments
7. design at its best
Print format - .ai (CMYK)
Web format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
No stock images or clip art in the logo (can't look cheap)
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I recently read this in a book about data warehousing:
Source System Rollback SegmentsWhen extracting from a relational source, extracts that take a long time can be problematic. If an extract asks for all records updated in the last 24 hours, the system must locate the appropriate set of records. This means that no user can change the updated_date field while your query is being processed. As transactions flow in during your query, they are queued up in a separate place called a rollback segment, to be applied once your request is finished. If your query takes too long, this queue gets too large and runs out of space. The system then kills your job and processes the transactions that have been queued up. In general, the folks responsible for the transaction system don't like this kind of behavior.
Now to be fair, the book was published in 1998 and is not specifically about Oracle. Does anyone know whether there has ever been a commercial DBMS that worked anything like this, or did they just make it up?


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My good friend Tara has allowed me to show off my new stickers on her Homepage! AP
I made them be paired with the playlist that shows up on Taras homepage (It's also set the same on my own homepage.). It's a bit of Electro-Swing. I hope you enjoy.
I created these after reading a post from VisNova.
After having that program for about a day, this was the result.VisNova wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:53 amFor capturing screen gifs I found this gem which is awesome https://screentogif.codeplex.com/
You can find Manda AP and Tara AP stickers by clicking the names here.
♡M Shop...
(Stuff I made over the years.)
My full catalog can be found here! Few quick links ...♡Music...♡Lights... ♡ Random Womens...
Stuff is random and mostly made for myself over the years, (With the exception of custom works.) but often enough I will sell what I make. You can find what I offer by visiting my catalog.
♡M Customs... currently OPEN!
Yes, I do custom orders. My style is random, and taste is my own, but I can also work on many other things. In most cases it's just easier to contact me directly, to see if I have what it takes, to create what it is you are looking for, so feel free to visit my homepage and have a look at my "Customs" tab. That's a great place to start.
♡M Art...
I will only work on artwork through direct contact in IMVU. The only exception will be if I offer something free. That will be posted in the forums some way, or if you want a homepage sticker made. If you are interested in my art style and want a DP, badge, or any other banner or clip-art made, feel free to inbox me directly in IMVU. I will not use the forum for these orders as per the rules governing this topic. (unless it's a free offer of mine, and includes only my own work.)


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Helen Clark: Beyond GDP - Measuring the Future We WantJun 20, 2012
Helen Clark, Administrator of UNDP
"Beyond GDP: Measuring the Future We Want"
Opening Statement at UNDP Event on Measurement of Sustainable Development at Rio+20
20 June 2012, 11am-12:30pm, Rio Centro, Room P3-6
It is my pleasure to welcome you to this UNDP side event Beyond GDP: Measuring the Future We Want.
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz has argued that, "what we measure affects what we do. If we use the wrong measures we will strive for the wrong things." The High Level Panel on Global Sustainability appointed by the UN Secretary General noted that "if it cannot be measured, it cannot be managed."
In an age when the world is still struggling to get traction on sustainable development, appropriate measures of progress are urgently needed. In my comments today, I will make the case for going beyond reliance on GDP as a measure of progress and look at what measures might be more appropriate.
Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, became the dominant measure of countries' progress from the mid-1940s. It should be noted that the chief architect of the measure, economist Simon Kuznets, himself recognized from the outset that the welfare of a nation and the well-being of its citizens could not be inferred from a measurement of national income.
Over decades in public life, I have seen GDP levels used as the basis for the classification of countries, channeling official development assistance (ODA), and extending preferential trade treatment. But clearly it has always had limitations as a proxy for assessing human progress.
Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability – these are all fundamental to our lives, but absent in the GDP measure. Progress needs to be defined and measured in a way which accounts for the broader picture of human development and its context.
No finer rationale for why that is appropriate can be found than that provided by the late Robert Kennedy. He said in 1968 that:
"Our gross national product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising,… the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl… Yet [it] does not allow for the health of our children [or] the quality of their education. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; our wisdom nor our learning; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."
While income is a crucial contributor to well-being, it is far from being everything. The first global Human Development Report (HDR) launched by UNDP in 1990 defined human development as a process of enlarging people's freedoms, choices, and capabilities to lead lives they value. UNDP has long argued accordingly that a measure of progress which is broader than GDP is needed. That measure emerged from the human development paradigm in the form of the Human Development Index, which since its inception in 1990 has incorporated health and education components alongside that of GDP per capita.
But UNDP is not alone in looking for alternative measures. In recent years, the Kingdom of Bhutan has championed gross national happiness as an alternative measure of progress, and Canada has launched its Index of Well-Being. A "Happiness index" to measure National Well-Being in the United Kingdom has also been developed. The Sen-Stiglitz-Fitoussi Commission, established by the President of France, looked at measuring economic performance and social progress to identify the limits of GDP and consider what additional information and tools could be added to create a more holistic picture.
The focus here at Rio+20 is on sustainable development. Measurement of progress across its strands is complex; yet it is also fundamental to providing an evidence base for policy-making.
Concern about the absence of sound data and indicators of sustainable development to guide decision-making was raised at the Earth Summit, twenty years ago. The last chapter of Agenda 21, Information for Decision-making (chapter 40), focused on the need to bridge the data gap and improve information availability at different levels. Article 40.4 reads: "Commonly used indicators such as the gross national product (GNP) and measurements of individual resource or pollution flows do not provide adequate indications of sustainability." Among other things, the chapter called for new indicators to be developed which consider the interactions between different sectoral environmental, demographic, social, and developmental parameters.
Since then, much work has been done.
Measuring sustainable development
Various approaches have already been taken to measure elements of sustainable development, to complement or provide alternatives to GDP.
On environmental sustainability, for example, green national accounting adjustsGDP to take into account the environmental costs of economic activity. GDP is based on the market value of goods and services, and so takes no account of things which are clearly valuable – like unpolluted air – but which are not bought and sold. Green national accounting endeavours to address that.
The Ecological Footprint, of the Global Footprint Network, looks at the natural resources required to maintain current consumption patterns. A key message from the ecological footprint work is that patterns of consumption and production are unsustainable at the global level and imbalanced regionally.
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI), developed by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP) and the Center for Earth Information Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University, ranks countries on 22 performance indicators spanning ten categories, including agriculture, climate change, and energy. It tracks performance and progress on environmental health and ecosystem vitality.
The Happy Planet Index (HPI), developed by the New Economics Foundation, captures the degree to which people are able to live long and happy lives, per unit of environmental impact. It uses life expectancy data from UNDP's Human Development Reports, well-being data from the Gallup World Poll, and the ecological footprint data described above to rank countries according to their ability to promote human well-being while ensuring that their environmental impact is minimized.
UNDP believes that the Human Development Index could also be a starting point for designing a more comprehensive measure of sustainable development. Over the past two decades, it has become a mainstream tool, used by governments, civil society, and researchers. More recent Human Development Reports have added new indices in an endeavour to capture nuances of human development better and reflect income, health, education, and gender-based inequities.
Work has begun within UNDP to explore options for an adjusted HDI which could capture more dimensions of sustainable development.
In this process, and to guide our discussion today, the following questions could be asked:
- What should be measured, and what indicators could be used, which would be relevant to policy makers and internationally comparable?
- What are the overriding principles, for example, equity, human rights, and universality, which could help guide this work?
- What do policy-makers need to know to craft sustainable development pathways, and could a new measure help provide such information to complement traditional measures such as GDP, inflation, and unemployment?
The Secretary General's High Level Panel on Global Sustainability, to which I referred earlier, recommended that: "The international community should measure development beyond gross domestic product (GDP) and develop a new sustainable development index or set of indicators." Today's discussion responds to their call.
I am delighted that we have distinguished leaders to begin today's conversation; the Director of the Human Development Report Office at UNDP to expand on the work of his office on new measures of progress; and an informed audience to stimulate further discussion.


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