I've been drawing up a list of reasons to be cheerful in this last week before Christmas and that is one of the better ones.
Keswick's Theatre by the Lake is staging Melvyn Bragg's "Maid of Buttermere" at present, and I was delighted to be in the audience last week, for the production is a tour de force.
It was to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the wedding of the Winter King and Queen that I came to be in the Hague last week, walking through heavy snow past the Mauritshuis to the grand opening of a glorious exhibition of 17th Century paintings of the couple and their family.
The FCC let it be known last week in a Memorandum Opinion and Order that a single standard wasn't actually required, as long as the IP interface on the cable box used an industry standard -- the Commission did bless the DLNA Premium Video Profile as a suitable example.
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He could not say who would be representing Eni in talks, but Chief Executive Paulo Scaroni reportedly said last week that he would be traveling to Kazakhstan for talks in September.
Wallace was part of the Ireland squad which took part in a training camp in Dublin last week but he is glad to be back in Belfast.
Staff didn't know if this would be their last week at work in the village.
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The men seem to be in better health and cleaner than in the previous video, shown last week.
It seemed like North Africa and the Middle East were going to be the central theme last week in the briefing.
When I caught up with her at the Prudential Center in Newark, where the circus was performing last week (it will be playing arenas in the New York area through April 1), I wondered what her parents thought of her career trajectory, no pun intended.
"I realized that if I could create a business where the process in itself was actually creating positive change, that would be my activism, " she said in a phone interview last week from a noisy New York coffee shop in between final preparations for her show.
Of the British contingent, Casey in particular will be looking for a strong showing following his final-round collapse in last week's British Masters.
This seems to be borne out by a paper in Science last week, which I cannot now verify because it is behind a paywall and I am at home.
This would be flat growth when compared to last year but adjusting for the extra week in 2011 the growth rate would be 8%.
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He is arguing - as Nick Clegg did in less striking terms last week - for infrastructure spending to be accelerated and to be focussed on things which lever in private investment (eg toll roads) and stimulate growth (eg broadband).
The 23-year-old was the first Brit home at the trials in Sheffield last week for the World Indoor Championships in Doha and expects to be in the squad.
Mr Kelly's TV career was thought to be in jeopardy after the allegations were made public last week.
"There was a lot of very thin data that was purported to be robust, " Robin recalled in an interview last week.
He is so busy with this that last week he could not be in New York to pick up his award in person.
Guidant maintains it will be a presence in the market, regardless of last week's news, and indicated that it is in talks to license additional compounds for other drug-coated stent programs.
In its blog post about the compromise last week, Twitter asked users to be wary of phishing websites and disable Java in their browsers.
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In the U.S., where Criolo has only performed in New York and in last week for the first time in Los Angeles, the barriers seem to be greater.
Garmin (nasdaq: GRMN - news - people ) says the iQue will be available in the second quarter of this year and, judging from the response to it at last week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, there will be a lot of people eager to get their hands on it.
Anne Bayefsky noted in The Weekly Standard last week, their first order of business will be leading the Durban III conference that will take place in New York on the sidelines of September's General Assembly meeting.
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In what will be its first public move to revive its flagging fortunes, Research in Motion announced early last week that it will unveil the new BlackBerry 10 platform at a media event January 30.
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Hamilton, who himself retains a very slim chance of taking the title, was pleased to be much more competitive than was the case in Brazil last week.
Those who follow Major League Baseball and were fortunate enough to be on hand at Yankee Stadium last week were in for a Reagan thrill as well.
Staffordshire Police said last week it would be reviewing information in the report with prosecutors "in order to identify whether there is any potential for criminal charges".
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It is expected to showcase its own comprehensive social marketing solution next week at Oracle OpenWorld, its annual conference for developers and customers, to be held in the same Moscone Center Dreamforce took over last week.
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Since then Colin Montgomerie has been widely tipped to repeat his 2010 role, when Europe won at Celtic Manor, and the eight-time European Tour money list winner confirmed last week that he would be interested in the leading the team in his home country.
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