Bunch of Three: Reasons to love living in Abu Dhabi (0)
2/06/10 •
1. Litter
There isn’t any – anywhere: And we can’t remember the last time we spotted graffiti, for that matter (apart from some low-grade tagging in the underpasses at the end of Hamdan Street). Of course, there’s no excuse to not putting your rubbish in the bin where it belongs, but it’s a pleasure to see [...]
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Central Agency for Innovation Needed (0)
2/06/10 •
The Abu Dhabi Innovation Forum 2010 wound up last week with a battery of presentations about the value of creativity and innovation in driving economic succes, both for individual companies and for nations.
Presented by Abu Dhabi University and the Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development, the Forum heard detailed justifications and some specific route – maps [...]
Masdar invest in Enviromena (0)
2/06/10 •
Locally based solar energy business Enviromena Power Systems has closed its Series B investment round with some impressive partners on board – Masdar’s cleantech fund and Good Energies have joined Zouk Ventures and New Energies Invest as shareholders.
The investment totals $15 million in equity and equitu warrants. Enviromena says it will use the funds to [...]
Smoking! (0)
1/21/10 •
KEY MESSAGES:
Cigarette smoke causes severe health problems in babies and children.
SUMMARY:
Eerie music plays throughout. We see the silhouettes of a man and woman smoking cigar in front of a child. Their lungs are transposed on their silhouettes. A voiceover explains that cigarette smoke contains poisons that trigger severe health problems. Cut to images of real [...]
Movie Review: The Bad Lieutenant (0)
1/21/10 •
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of call New Orleans – Dir Werner Herzog, starring Nicholas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer.
CAGE is back playing the bad guy – and how well he does it. He enters the story as a hero for his acts of bravery during hurricane Katrina, but things soon turn dark; the injuries he [...]
The Show Must Go On! (0)
1/21/10 •
It’s just ttwo months old and in the middle of a people free zone on the edge of Khalifa Par; the Park Rotana complex is still a bit of a ystery to everyone.
At least there’s no mystery about the interior design for its fusion restaurant ‘ Teatro ‘. Stunning hand-painted Venetian masks welcome you at [...]
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