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  • 5 Key Secrets For Getting the Right Supplier For You

  • For a small business, choosing the right global suppliers and expanding into overseas markets can be daunting to say the least. You need to make sure you're making smart and safe choices. To do that you need to trust your supplier and reduce the risk for your business. But how do you do that?

    There are a few important steps you can follow to ensure you get the best from your supplier. By using this guide you can make sure your business moves along the path to success.
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  • Fight Breaks Out in EU Parliament

  • Cars aren't the most efficient of machines, instead they burn fossil fuels and fuck up the planet. European politicians are currently debating whether to make cars more efficient-and fighting CO2 as best they can.

    But sometimes extreme measures are needed to combat the CO2 monster and calm political debate isn't going to do it. Time to upgrade and enter the Street Fighter arena and go 'mano-a-monstreo' and duke it out - just don't hit the face!
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  • This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again

  • You know what's a complete waste of time, money, and effort? Eating. I mean, wouldn't you rather just ingest a tasteless form of sustenance for the rest of your life and never have to go through that tedious rigmarole of opening and eating a premade sandwich or feasting on a pile of fried delicacies ever again?

    Rob Rhinehart-a 24-year-old software engineer from Atlanta and, presumably, an impossibly busy man-thinks so.
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  • Papertab

  • Cambridge, UK and Kingston, Canada - January 7, 2013: Watch out tablet lovers: An amazing new flexible paper computer developed at Queen's University in collaboration with Plastic Logic and Intel Labs will revolutionize the way people work with tablets and computers.

    The PaperTab tablet looks and feels just like a sheet of paper. However, it is fully interactive with a flexible, high-resolution 10.7? plastic display developed by Plastic Logic, a flexible touchscreen, and powered by the second generation Intel® Core i5 processor.
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  • Jamie Cullum - Silent Sessions

  • A stripped back musical jam is laid down in this tranquil track from musician Jamie Cullum. Taking his song "Love Ain't Gonna Let You Down" from "The Pursuit" album back to its bare roots, he needs nothing more than a piano and his voice to create an ambient and sublime rendition.

    Part of Yamaha's Silent Sessions series. With it he manages to bring peace and serenity to the concrete landscape of an inner city.
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  • The Manliest Motivational Movie Scenes

  • In an age dominated by watered-down, teeny-bopped action flicks, and effeminates like Zac Efron...it's comforting to know these awesome films ruled the multiplexes and/or the shelves of video stores.

    Epitomized by Tom Hanks in 'Sleepless in Seattle' (i know, a chick flick, but worth watching for this one scene), it's 'ok' to let the flood gates open when man is in conflict with man.
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  • Happy Christmas From One Alfred Place

  • To all our lovely members who travel along the Euston Road into work during the festive season, there is a 'not so little message' awaiting you above the underpass.

    We have been very fortunate in the acquisition of some amazing advertising space on one of London's most prestigious advertising billboards to wish all of our members festive greetings.
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  • Targeting the Electorate: How Are You Being Targeted?

  • In an increasingly digital world, political campaigns have new challenges and controversial new tools that help them target and persuade voters. Campaigns know more about you than ever before.

    Demonstrating targeting tactics, the site automatically detects if a user is logging on from a swing state. Answering questions affects the site dynamically. A faceless voter representing the user's selections begins to emerge from a crowd.
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  • Michael Lukasiewicz - One Man Show

  • Michael Lukasiewicz's portraits are instantly recognisable, characterised primarily by the striking intensity of his subjects. From the age of ten, Lukasiewicz wanted to emulate his older brother who was attending a secondary school that focused strongly on art. Following in his brother's footsteps, he studied at the same school and has rarely laid down his pencils and brushes since.

    Store Street Gallery, 32 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS - Exhibition Dates: 31st October - 24th November 2012
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  • Maven of Meth: The real-life chemist behind television's preeminent crystal cook.

  • Nelson isn't just a well-informed observer; she's been consulting on the Emmy-winning drama since its second season, helping to ensure that the show's writers make the chemistry of illegal drug-making credible.

    Voluble and cheery, with an understated Southern drawl, Nelson may not have specific expertise in the subject-"I've never synthesized anything illegal," she insists-but she does have appropriate credentials for the job.
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  • The Cigarette Packages of the Future Are Going to Be Really Horrible

  • It's official: after rejecting the tobacco companies' appeal, the High Court of Australia has declared the country's new obligatory cigarette packaging law constitutional. Look at them above-starting on December 1, the packages' iconic brand design will be fully replaced by the horrors of smoking.

    Rest assured, this is coming sooner or later to the rest of the world as well, including the United States.
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  • The Scientific 'Meth'od: The righteous left-brained storytelling of Breaking Bad

  • When it comes to science, writers tend to have more in common with Jesse Pinkman than Walter White. Sure, we all profit from it - just how do they make these words go onto the computer anyway?

    But generally speaking, the only chemistry that interests the people running your favorite television shows is the kind that sometimes sparks between actors.
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  • In the Future, Your Drug Dealer Will Be a Printer

  • The current drug economy where wars are waged and billions exchanged illegally will be a thing of the past. With with 3D printed drugs, we could enter a brave new world where taking any drug is as legal as drinking a cup of coffee.

    But even more customised. Which is fine, as long as we don't all end up addicted to something that makes us want to eat each other's faces off because the tandem effects make us feel like the sun.
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  • 'The Forty Story': Pentagram Turns 40

  • Billed as 'The story of a boy born on the day Pentagram opened and how his life has been tracked (and kerned) by forty years of Pentagram design' - This fantastic piece of font work and copywriting celebrates the 40 years of one of the worlds most iconic design agencies.

    You may not have heard of the design agency Pentagram, but if you've seen a Nissan billboard, a Tiffany's bag or an episode of "The Daily Show" since 2005, you know its work.
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  • Cute Cambodian Kids Try to Say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

  • An English teacher and his girlfriend inflict a harsh but cute challenge upon their pupils, to try and say the hardest word in the English language.

    Because once you've mastered that you don't really need to know any other word, so here's how they got on.
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  • Dubai's Futuristic Underwater Hotel

  • Would you stay in an hotel submerged below sea level? The architectural innovators over at Deep Ocean Technology have a conceptual design that is set to change the hotel industry and the vacationing experience in the Middle East.

    The Water Discus Underwater Hotel is designed as a modern and aquatic alternative to the mundane hotels found on land. It's a total fantasy dream.
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  • The Science of Kissing

  • There's nothing like a romantic kiss. It is the climax of every great love story and an experience that has motivated poets and musicians for thousands of years.

    It's also a wonderful example of a behavior that is both nature and nurture. Humans have an instinctive drive to connect through kissing, but the style and expression is shaped by our culture and personal experiences.
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  • Tricking People Into Thinking You're Famous

  • Last weekend Thomas Elliot and his friends went to a Virginia mall with the intent of tricking everyone into thinking Thomas was a famous celebrity. Not only did the plan work, but Thomas Elliot's about to be an actual Internet celebrity because this video's going viral.

    Watch the video and you'll see how quickly Thomas and his friends were able to convince everyone that he was actually famous.
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  • Famous Photographs Meet Their Creators

  • The Tank Man of Tienanmen Square. Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston in victory. The portrait of the Afghan Girl on the cover of National Geographic. Many of us can automatically recall these photos in our heads, but far fewer can name the photographers who took them. Even fewer know what those photographers look like.

    Tim Mantoani hopes to change that by taking portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic or favorite photos in his new book Behind Photographs
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  • 10 Hot Web Startups Changing the Face of Retail

  • In 2010, branded content was one the largest trends among retailers and brands. In 2011, branded content shifted to branded entertainment. Now, in 2012, we'll look toward content cultivation and aggregation.

    By creatively using Pinterest and Tumblr, brands are becoming enthralled with consumer curation, primarily because these types of curated sites create non-linear paths to purchases.
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  • Women vs Men: Not So Parallel (parked)

  • A British study billed as "the most comprehensive ever conducted on gender driving differences" has concluded that women are better at parking cars than men. The study, which relied on surveillence camera footage of over 2,500 drivers across 700 parking garages, was devised by professional driving instructor Neil Beeson, and produced by car park firm NCP.

    Among its findings: Women are better than men at tracking down spaces, lining up with the parking space, and reversing into spots "by the book." Meanwhile, men are better at entering spaces while driving forward, and exhibit more confidence than their female counterparts, leading to quicker parking decisions.
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  • "I'll have what she's having"

  • Longstanding One Alfred P member Mark Earls aka HERDmeister recently published a new book with MIT Press, I'll Have What She's Having - Mapping Social Behaviour (with Professors Alex Bentley & Mike O'Brien).

    It shows how much of the modern world can be understood - in particular, how ideas and behaviour spread - with reference to the simple act of copying (as memorably demonstrated by THAT scene in When Harry Met Sally).
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  • Smoking is good for you (plus a whole bunch of other stuff!)

  • Every week we read that something we believe is bad for us actually has beneficial health effects. This week it's coffee, before that it was pizza - and every other day it's red wine. But can these stories really be true? That depends how you interpret the facts. To demonstrate, Ian Sample 'scientifically proves' the benefits of a few risky pastimes

    Two weeks ago, I was happy in the knowledge that two staples of my diet, namely caffeine and pizzas, were inherently bad for me. Now that's all been overturned.
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  • The Don Draper Guide to Investment Banking

  • With the announcement this week that hit US TV show Madmen will be returning this March, we pay tribute to the king of cool and quintessential man for the 21st century, Don Draper, with his guide to investment banking. Here are all the lessons you could learn from the man himself:

    While you don't want to follow everything Don does (e.g. sending a major announcement about your firm to the NY Times without consulting anyone else first), you can pick up a lot from him.
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  • Top Ten Most Annoying Management Phrases

  • Team Macro Man have noticed that everything seems to need an 'Awareness' campaign so have decided to launch Management Talk Awareness Week to highlight the most annoying terms of the year.

    So here are TMM's top ten annoying phrases of 2011 (even if some are older) that we would like to see the back of.
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  • 'Back a Bit!': Hilarious Holiday Photo Fail

  • We all know the perils of going on holiday: arguing with the other half about where to eat, buying tacky gifts that looked awesome in 90 degree heat, and being sat on by elephants.

    That last one can put a real damper on moving around and sightseeing and stuff, so do try to avoid it if you can. But if you can't, then at least get some insurance that covers getting trampled on by large land mammals.
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  • Chris Wheeler - Hip-Hop Orchestra

  • When someone mentions the word orchestra, visions of grand music and energetic conductors come to mind.

    Add to that some guitars, a drum kit, and the latest tech, plus influences that include electronica, dance music, folk, rock, dubstep, hip-hop, jazz and contemporary classical, and you have Chris Wheeler's Heritage Orchestra, bucking the orchestral stereotype to create a new type of music for a new type of audience.
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  • The New Apple iPhone 4S Released

  • Karl Doody, managing director of web & mobile developer 27stars, looks at the launch of the iPhone 4S and iOS 5, and how the world has reacted.

    Apple launches are big events in every sense - not only was there a mass of speculation for months beforehand, there was also a media scrum as new CEO Tim Cook's took his place as MC for the first time at 'Let's talk iPhone' in California on Wednesday night.
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  • Mick Hocking Answers Questions for b.TWEEN 3D

  • We're all torn when it comes to 3D, is it worthy or is it just another gimmick that'll fade away like so many Betamax videos?

    Well according to our man here Mick Hocking when it combines with augmented reality games are going to hit some next level shiz.
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  • $Billion Outdoor Pastime Struggles With Liquid

  • FORMULA 1 bosses have been urged to make their multi-million pound cars slightly more adaptable than a 10-year-old Nissan Micra.

    As Jenson Button pointed the remains of his car over the finish line before anybody else in the Canadian Grand Prix, many viewers wondered how several billion pounds worth of design had struggled so much to cope with the average road conditions of Manchester in July.
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  • Man Robs Bank To Receive Free Healthcare In Jail

  • James Richard Verone, a Gastonia, NC resident and former Coca-Cola truck driver has been charged with larceny from a person for robbing a local RBC Bank of $1.

    Verone committed the robbery to receive free healthcare while incarcerated because he has no benefits and can not take on the financial cost of his own care.
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  • Warning: Extreme Weather Ahead

  • Drought zones have been declared across much of England and Wales, yet Scotland has just registered its wettest-ever May.

    The warmest British spring in 100 years followed one of the coldest UK winters in 300 years. June in London has been colder than March. February was warm enough to strip on Snowdon, but last Saturday it snowed there.
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  • Terror alerts coming to Facebook & Twitter

  • WASHINGTON - The U.S. government's new system to replace the five color-coded terror alerts will have two levels of warnings - elevated and imminent - that will be relayed to the public only under certain circumstances for limited periods of time, sometimes using Facebook and Twitter, according to a draft Homeland Security Department plan obtained by The Associated Press.

    Some terror warnings could be withheld from the public entirely if announcing a threat would risk exposing an intelligence operation or a current investigation, according to the government's confidential plan.
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  • Holy Entrepreneur! That Jane Asher is Gorgeous

  • The radio airwaves and water-coolers of Britain have been packed to chat-capacity again recently as the country has pored over every aspect of a visit of a pious Pope, the election of a pie-eating Labour leader and the lapsed preparations of a pie-in-the-
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  • Alfred. Icon, Entrepreneur, Raconteur and Reprobate gives you the view from his 'One Place'

  • Daffodils, roadworks and tax returns traditionally signal that spring has sprung in London, so too does butch talk of this years must have executive car. Having seen the new four-door Porsche Panamera this morning the conclusion; an excellent way to show
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    • 16 August 2012

    • Upcoming Changes: Membership Subscriptions & Club Usage

    • With general shifts and trends in mind alongside listening closely to your needs we have decided to review our terms of membership and would like to notify you of a few significant changes that will hopefully meet the priorities of existing and new members.
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    • 08 June 2012

    • uTest.com

    • uTest provides testing in the wild for Web, Mobile and Desktop apps. A global, crowd sourced approach to improve quality and ensure a superior user experience. Special discounts offered to 1AP Members
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  • 16 May 2013

  • Alfred's Blog:

    Aaron Eckhart ERASED Interview

  • Aaron Eckhart stars in director Philipp Stolzl's suspenseful action thriller, "Erased," playing former CIA agent Ben Logan who moves to Belgium with his estranged 15-year-old daughter, Amy (Liana Liberato), to start a new life working as a high-tech security consultant for a multinational corporation in Brussels.

    Suddenly Logan and Amy are propelled into an all-out, frenzied run for their lives after they discover they are targets of a wide-ranging international conspiracy.
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