Happy Birthday To Me!

I had such a good day yesterday!
My friends made me the two best cakes ever- one of them was a Banksy cake and the other an Obama one. Doesn't get better than that!

In the end though I decided I just wanted to keep it small so I went out for pizza with my closest friends and then they came back to mine for a sleepover. We had such a laugh.

My friends Laura and Izzie (both genius at drawing) drew me a Banksy picture similar to the real thing pictured below. Can't wait to get it framed and hung up on my bedroom wall!
I feel so lucky to have such great friends. So thanks you guys.

Love B xx

Niinikoski bags Newcomer of the Year at Elle Style Awards

Designer duo Rinne Niinikoski received the Newcomer of the Year award at Finland’s first Elle Style Awards for the knitwear they have created for Marimekko’s winter 2009/2010 collection. At the gala, Elle Finland also presented awards to the Fashion Photographer, the Make-up Artist and Hair Stylist, the Stylist, the Best Dresser, the Fashion Collection, and the Ecological Fashion Innovation of the Year. Piia Rinne and Noora Niinikoski began their collaboration in 2000 while studying for their Master’s degree at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. Ever since, the duo has been creating individualistic and interesting clothing inspired by everything from melancholic landscapes to spooky carnivalism. The impressive and distinctive knits and accessories that Rinne Niinikoski have designed for Marimekko show influences from Marimekko’s bold floral prints.

Marimekko Source: Fibre2fashion.

Most Sexiest And Attractive Women In World

American periodicals named the most sexually attractive and beautiful women.

TV Guide columnist organized a poll and according to its results determined the most sexually attractive actress on TV. This is Eva Longoria, who is famous for her Gabrielle Solis role in “Desperate Housewives”.

At the same time, “Details Magazine” held its own poll willing to know who is the most beautiful woman in Hollywood? Megan Fox, Kim Kardashian, Gisele Bundchen and Freida Pinto became the best five women. But the most sexually attractive appeared to be Jennifer Aniston.

“Vanity Fair” Magazine went even further and asked its readers who is the most beautiful lady in the world! It turned out that there was no “Aniston lovers” among the readers, even vice versa! Angelina Jollie won this title with the help of 54% of readers and Jennifer Aniston even was not seen among the best twenty women.

But among them you can find Gisele Bundchen, Halle Berry, Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz, Jennifer Connelly. Among twenty the most beautiful ladies of the world are not only Hollywood actress but also Jordanian Queen Rania, the First French Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and French actress Catherine Deneuve.



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Create Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Better Business

This article provides a perspective on CoE from the relevance of IT Industry and business which is ideally seen in today's competitive world

What is CoE?

In today's world, the Centre of Excellence (CoE) applies to any organization who wants to create and use excellent state of art and showcase its technological, service and business oriented capabilities to the entire world in a competitive environment. CoE is the combined effect of emerging business model and technologies.

Centre of Excellence (CoE) refers to creation of assets for an organization and reaping maximum business benefits from the usage of such assets. The objective of creating CoE for any organization is always customer centric and is meant for providing unique solutions to their customers.

The Centers of Excellence (CoE) trend very recently has gained traction within the IT department of large organizations. In fact, the META Group refers to the model as "the next step in IT evolution" (Source: The Application Center of Excellence, META Group, 2003).

IT organizations of all types and dimensions are embracing the CoE model as a practical way of consistent and continuous ally improvement of their business operations. Industry analysts also support the move to the CoE model.

A CoE is an organization, focused on optimizing application or service characteristics such as quality, performance, or availability. It provides management an automation platform for processes, consulting, and support services, leadership as well as advocacy to optimize these attributes.

In IT world, CoE acts as a central point of contact to facilitate collaboration between the lines of business, enterprise architects, database administrators and application developers. It helps in speed adoption, improve knowledge sharing, lower the Total Cost of Ownership (TOC), and broaden the reach and context of enterprise application deployment, migrations, consolidations and upgrades.

CoE Brings together a dedicated team of appropriate domain expertise and enables the organizations to identify core patterns of integration, share best practices, leverage skills and standard tools across the enterprise.

A CoE provides a central source of standardized products & services with expertise, and best practices. It can also provide the entire organization with visibility into quality and performance parameters of the delivered application and support functions, helping them to keep everyone informed and keeping the applications and services aligned with business objectives.

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