ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX

ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX -

QUALIFYINGSATURDAY 31 OCTOBER, 2009

AT&T Williams’ qualifying performance in Abu Dhabi this evening was solid if not to the team’s best

measure this season. Nico Rosberg’s p9 grid slot provides the prospect of a points finish tomorrow

afternoon, but the team will be looking to find sufficient pace on the Yas Marina circuit to defend its

slender championship advantage over its nearest rivals. Kazuki Nakajima finished the day in p14, but

has kept close company with his team-mate all weekend, and despite a poorer starting position, will

be looking to make a contribution to the championship conclusion tomorrow.

Nico Rosberg:

The session went okay, I think 9

struggling on the open sections of this circuit, but points are definitely possible here and very

important for us this weekend. From the 5

ahead of BMW in the constructors and I can hold 7th position ahead of Trulli in the driver’s

championship. It’s a good track, not easy and very hot but this is also the last race for me with

Williams and I want to do the best for this great team.

th was around the best we could get out of today, we are definitelyth row and with a good strategy tomorrow, we can stayKazuki Nakajima:

I’m a bit disappointed because I didn’t manage to put everything together in Q2, but there was still a

reasonable gap to the first ten, so maybe I wouldn’t have made it into the final qualifying session

anyway. The track demands that you are precise all the time and one mistake here is costly, which

makes it pretty difficult. I don’t think it will be easy to overtake tomorrow, but because of the nature of

sectors 1 and 2, we could have a pretty crazy first lap tomorrow, so I still believe anything is possible.

Rod Nelson, Chief Operations Engineer:

It was a reasonably straightforward qualifying session, although we did expect the option tyre to come

into its own in Q2, but this didn’t materialise, so we along with most other teams stayed on the prime

tyre. We hoped that Nico had another couple of tenths in him to get among the BMWs just in front, but

he starts from the clean side of the grid and he should have a competitive race. Kazuki was also

looking competitive on what would have been his fastest lap at the end of the prime run in qualifying

two but he ran a little wide in turn 14, got some dirt on his tyres and that unfortunately, was that.

Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi

5.554kms / 3.451 miles

Weather

Air: 29 – 30° C Track: 31 – 33° C

: ClearPOS DRIVER TEAM Q1 Q2 Q3

1 L Hamilton McLaren – - 1:40.948

2 S Vettel Red Bull Racing – - 1:41.615

3

M Webber Red Bull Racing – - 1:41.7269 N Rosberg

FW31 03 – H479 AT&T Williams 1:40.842 (10

14 K Nakajima

FW31 04 – H475 AT&T Williams 1:41.096 (14

th) 1:40.661 (10th) 1:42.583th) 1:41.148 -

London Classical Music

 

 

Wednesday 4^th November 2009

 

Wihan Quartet

 

Roxanna Panufnik Cavatina and Morovian Dance, Dvorák Quartet in D minor Op. 34, Schubert Quartet in G Op. 161 D887

 

City Music Society

 

Goldsmiths’ Hall, Foster Lane, London, EC2

7pm

Members £18.00, Junior: £8.00 (includes free interval glass of wine/soft drink), Temporary Members  £20.00  (includes temporary membership and free interval drink)

 

Tel:  020 8693 7546

 

http://www.citymusicsociety.org/index.htm

 

 

Sunday 15^th November 2009

 

Wihan Quartet

Panufnik Cavatina and Moravian dances, Dvorak String Quartet in D minor Op 34, Schubert String Quartet 15 in G D887

London Chamber Music Society

 

Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG

6.30pm

 

£18.50 (£16.50 if booked online) Saver tickets £9.50, only available online. 

Tel:  020 7520 1490

 

http://www.londonchambermusic.org.uk/

 

Sunday 22^nd November 2009

 

Yuko Inoue and Stephen Coombes

 

Blackheath Sundays

Blackheath Halls, 23 Lee Road, London, SE3 9RQ

11am

£13.50, £11 concessions

 

Tel:  020 8463 0100

http://www.blackheathhalls.com

 

 

Monday 7^th December 2009

The Dufay Collective

Medieval Christmas

Banqueting House, Whitehall, London

1pm

£19.00 – including a light buffet lunch from 12.15.

Tel:  020 3166 6153

 

http://www.hrp.org.uk/BanquetingHouse

 

 

Saturday 23^rd January 2010

Wihan Quartet

Mozart String Quartet in A K. 464 28, Paganini 6 Caprices for string quartet (arr. William Zinn); Grand Quartet in E, Beethoven String WQuartet in F Minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’

 

Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP

 

7.30pm

Tel:  020 7935 2141

http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/

 

Saturday 5^th June 2010

 

Wihan Quartet

 

Martinu String Quartet No.2, Dvorák String Quarett in D minor Op. 34, Smetana String Quarett No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’

 

Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP

7.30pm

 

Tel:  020 7935 2141

http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/

 

 

Williams F1 establishes Technical Centre at Qatar’s

Williams F1 establishes Technical Centre at Qatar’s

QSTP Facility

Doha, Wednesday October 28, 2009

Science & Technology Park (QSTP) formally signed an agreement

today to inaugurate the Williams Technology Centre (WTC). QSTP is

a world class incubator for the research, development and

commercialisation of new technologies that has attracted significant

R&D investment from companies such as Shell, Microsoft and GE.

QSTP is part of the Qatar Foundation which also incorporates

Education City, which hosts overseas campuses for six US

universities including Carnegie Mellon and Texas A&M.

The Williams Technology Centre at QSTP will be the first Formula

One-related Technical Centre outside the sport’s traditional heartland

of Europe. The WTC will initially be tasked with the progression of two

Formula One inspired R&D projects with clear commercial goals,

namely the development of an industrial application large

Magnetically Loaded Composite (MLC) flywheel and the

advancement of Williams F1’s simulator know-how for competition

and road car application.

The Williams Technology Centre will be housed in the 45,000m2

state-of-the-art QSTP complex that forms part of the Qatar

Foundation’s strategic ambition to invest in, and propagate, a

knowledge-based, post-carbon economy.

QSTP and Williams F1 will fund the R&D programmes and, as

partners, will both benefit from the commercialisation of the

technologies that have their origins in Formula One.

The MLC flywheel project will address the potential of flywheels to

store and release energy very quickly, which makes the technology

suitable for a variety of applications. Initial target markets are mass

transit systems (both for recycling the kinetic energy of trains and

trams and to allow discontinuous electricification to reduce

infrastructure costs) and electric power stabilisation for renewable

energy applications.

Based on the extensive experience of proprietary driver-in-the-loop

(DIL) simulator development for Formula One, the second aspect to

the WTC programme will be the development of new driver simulation

technology for road car training, safety and entertainment, as well as

competition simulators for other motorsport series.

The Williams Technology Centre is anticipated to employ 20 staff with

a double digit million dollar R&D budget and a carefully projected

revenue stream that will reward both Williams F1 and QSTP for their

investment and support future project ambitions.

Dr Tidu Maini, Executive Chairman of QSTP said of the collaboration,

“QSTP has achieved much since 2007, whether judged by the

success of its robotic surgery centre or by the quality of R&D

investment from the international business community or the

association with prestigious research universities. This latest

collaboration with Williams F1 presents technically inspiring

possibilities rooted in a solid commercial context. QSTP is focused on

delivering the capacity building programmes, built for young Qataris

and new Qatari owned companies founded on technology and the

success of technologies such as the MLC flywheel is something we

are very keen to support and promote at QSTP. We are delighted to

be entering into this partnership.”

In response, Frank Williams of Williams F1 said, “It is perhaps outside

of conventional practice for a Formula One team to move such

activities out of Europe, but we have been very impressed with the

fertile environment QSTP presents for research and development and

the vision Her Highness Sheikha Mozah has for Qatar leading in the

development of beneficial technologies. After detailed consideration,

we have decided that this is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss,

and we look forward to supporting the future of Williams F1 in part

from the development and application of Formula One-inspired

technologies to the wider world.”

To celebrate today’s announcement, the Qatar Science & Technology

Park identity will form a prominent element of the team’s on-car race

livery for this weekend’s inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

. Williams F1 and the Qatar

Professor Munakata’s British Museum Adventure

Manga:
Professor Munakata’s British Museum Adventure

5 November 2009 – 3 January 2010
Room 3
Admission free

Japan’s leading manga artist Hoshino Yukinobu creates a new exclusive manga inspired by the British Museum’s world collections.

Manga is a Japanese comic book art form which has become an international phenomenon in recent years. Cheap to produce, Manga is an appealing and flexible medium that engages the viewer-reader in stories in a uniquely affecting manner. Originating in Japan, manga are now being published worldwide. Many different audiences read manga, and there are manga for both children and adults.

Hoshino Yukinobu (b. 1954) is a leading Japanese manga artist. One of his most popular characters is Professor Munakata, who investigates history and folklore in his manga adventures. Hoshino has been inspired by his engagement with the British Museum and its collections to create a new manga in which his popular character Professor Munakata, a professor of folklore at the fictional Tōa Bunka University, embarks on adventures in the Museum galleries.

Hoshino Yukinobu first created Professor Munakata in 1990. Now, every two weeks, millions of readers in Japan eagerly follow the professor’s latest adventures in the manga magazine Big Comic. In October, Hoshino Yukinobu made his first visit to the British Museum. While here he created three ink drawings showing Professor Munakata’s most recent encounters with treasures of the ancient past.

Room 3 will feature scenes of past adventures which introduce visitors to the world of Professor Munakata whilst new drawings will highlight his most recent encounters with iconic treasures at the British Museum. Visitors will also be able to browse Japanese manga books in a setting which evokes a ‘manga coffee shop’, or manga kissa, in the corner of the room – a perfect way to discover more about the art of manga.

Hoshino plans to return next year to create a series of new episodes based on Professor Munakata’s adventures at the British Museum. They will feature his encounters with more of the Museum’s most iconic objects, as he delves into their mysteries. Mr Hoshino plans to publish the full series of British Museum adventures in both Japanese and English translation.

The British Museum is building representative collections to chart the phenomenon of manga from its origins in the Edo period (1600–1868) until the present. Small selections, including original manga artworks, are always included in the displays about modern Japan in the Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries.

For further information or images please contact Esme Wilson on 020 7323 8394 / ewilson@britishmuseum.org or Victoria Benjamin on 020 7323 8583 / vbenjamin@britishmuseum.org.

Asahi Shimbun Displays
The Asahi Shimbun Displays are a series of regularly changing displays which look at objects in new or different ways. These displays have been made possible by the generous sponsorship of The Asahi Shimbun Company, who are long standing supporters of the British Museum, and have a century long tradition of staging exhibitions in Japan of art, culture and history from around the world.
Accompanying events

• There will be a series of free gallery talks at 13.15 in Room 3, starting with an introduction to the works of Manga master Hoshino Yukinobu by Paul Gravett, author and Director of Comica, on Tuesday 10 November 2009.
• Further speakers include manga artist Inko, author and manga expert Helen McCarthy, manga author and artist Chie Kutsuwada, and ILYA, British cartoonist, author, editor, tutor and illustrator of Manga Shakespeare’s King Lear.
• Manga and animé expert and author Helen McCarthy selects her favourite episodes of the televised adaptation of Astroboy based on the manga series by Osama Tezuka. Astroboy was the first Japanese television series to embody the aesthetic that later became known as anime. Saturday 21 November, 14.30, Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Free, booking advised
• A family event: Manga create a comic workshop is scheduled for Saturday 12 December, 12.30, 14.00 & 15.30, Room 3. Discover the dazzling world of Japanese comic book art (manga) with an exhibition tour and digital workshop. Sessions last about 75 minutes. Free, booking advised
• For further details visit www.britishmuseum.org

Related exhibition, displays and gallery

• Room 91: The power of dogu: ceramic figures from ancient Japan This exhibition highlights the beauty and power of remarkable ceramic figures known as dogū, mysterious masterpieces that were produced in great numbers in prehistoric Japan. This free exhibition is on display from 10 September – 22 November 2009.
• Room 94: Excerpts from a recent work by Hoshino Yukinobu (b. 1954) will be on display in Room 94. The imaginative work brings the world of dogū and the Jōmon period to life.
• The Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries Rooms 92–94: For more Japanese objects in the Museum’s collection, visit Rooms 92–94 where Japanese history and culture is explored from prehistory to the present, or explore the collection online at www.britishmuseum.org

Acknowledgments:
Hoshino Yukinobu
Shōgakukan Inc.
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Acknowledgment

Additional support provided by Japan Airlines

New Party praises ASA for investigating ‘sickening’ carbon advert

Thursday, October 22, 2009
New Party praises ASA for investigating ‘sickening’ carbon advert
The New Party has welcomed confirmation from the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) that it plans to investigate the Party’s official complaint into the Government’s television advertisement on lowering CO2.

Slammed by New Party National Spokesperson Richard Vass, as the worst possible example of state-funded propaganda when it was released, the one-minute advert from the Department of Energy and Climate Change caused the Party to lodge an official complaint on 13 October, and call for the ‘Orwellian’ advertisement’s immediate withdrawal.

Vass said today that it was encouraging to see that the ASA were prepared to hold an investigation despite the vociferous criticism often directed against anyone daring to challenge the Government’s views on climate change. We need science not scaremongering, he said. After all, there is no proven link between CO2 and Global Warming.

“It is a matter of democracy and reason over the politics of fear. With its war-like imagery reminiscent of old World War Two propaganda and cold war broadcast rhetoric, the advertisement relies on scaring children rather than appealing to the reason of adults to be effective.

“I’m encouraged to see that the ASA has stuck by what is right and chosen to investigate. There is an underlying whiff of McCarthyism surrounding the whole carbon campaign that has prevented proper debate. We hope the ASA will agree with us that this sickening advert needs to be withdrawn.”