Monthly Archives: August 2011
You see you lot actually “forecasted” a long, hot summer.
Just imagine if you were economists the damage you might have…
Anyway. You get the picture.
Forecasters Brand Summer A ‘Stinker’ (Alistair Grant, Irish Examiner)
Now imagine him doing the weather with two litres of Kenco instant inside him.
Under the 12-month deal, worth in excess of €250,000, Kenco will sponsor the two programmes and presenters Sybil Mulcahy, Martin King, Colette Fitzpatrick and Elaine Crowley, as well as their panel of guests, will be expected to drink the instant coffee – or at least pretend to – from heavily branded Kenco mugs.
TV3 Wakes Up And Smells The Coffee As Product Placement Hits Irish Screens (Conor Pope, Irish Times)
TV3 And Kraft Foods Sign First Product Placement Deal (Business And Leadership)
Designboom continues its tour of the Ferrari plant at Maranello with a feature on the 15,000 square meter, temperature, humidity and decibel controlled ‘nuova meccanica’ or mechanical workshop where engine parts are produced.
Ferrari vehicles are assembled and completed by hand, but in recent years the company has integrated automation and robotics into certain elements of the production process. at the ‘nuova meccanica’, robots work in conjunction with one another and with human technicians to produce parts, temper cylinder heads (with liquid nitrogen), and complete other machining.
GALLERY: Ferrari Factory Tour: Mechanical Workshop (Designboom)
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You may have missed, as we did, this story last Thursday.
Arthur French (above), property developer, auctioneer and a former second row (at a guess) and an advisor to Covanta Energy, the American company wishing to build an inicinerator in Poolbeg.
What does Arthur know about garbage?
Who knows but he is a friend of Environment minister Phil Hogan. Another golfing pal. They once played with Tiger Woods and Mary McAleese’s husband in a four-ball sponsored by Arthur’s company, French Estates.
Anyway, on July 8 (the last day of the Dail term), Phil dropped a levy on incineration [that had been] proposed by John Gormley.
It was among a number of demands being sought by Covanta.
Everyone denies everything.
And that’s that.
Bada bing, as they say in the New Jersey municipal waste industry.
Covanta Advisor Played Golf At FG Fund Raiser (Frank McDonald, Irish Times, Thursday, August )
(Pic: Knock Airport Authority)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD7pgT8dZss
And three sons. Tasmanian Devil keepers at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, show off four diabolical new joeys.
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Cheer Up
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It starts next Monday.
Not long to go now.