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We've talked about Orange UK's The Feed before, and now they're coming up with a new (and funny) one because of the Royal Wedding next Friday, inviting people to tell about a special un-royal moment they'd like to remember...

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Concern about Warner's financial health has led Bank of America to consider withdrawing its financing from several bids.

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The year 2011 is shaping up to be a decisive, politically realigning time...for our country's neighbor to the north and largest trading partner, Canada. In the country's national election this Monday, their multi-party system is being shaken up dramatically by the sudden rise -- and quite possible parliamentary victory -- of their traditional third party, the left-wing New Democrats (NDP).

Direct comparisons between other countries' political parties and the U.S. can often be overly simplistic. The Conservative Party in its modern right-wing form could be compared to the Republicans -- but even that is not a perfect comparison, as for example they resist any attack that they would ever get rid of the country's single-payer universal health care system. After that, it gets very complex.

The Liberal Party, the country's traditionally dominant party and main progressive party, is in some ways similar to the span of much of the Democrats in the U.S., with the exception of its most left-leaning members. As for the NDP, imagine if the kind of U.S. Democrats who constitute the Congressional Progressive Caucus in Washington were in fact their own party -- one with its own history and culture, its own strongholds and places they hope to win -- and with no particular love for the Democrats, and sometimes splitting votes with them. And when it comes to the Bloc Quebecois, a group that presents some key problems, we will see how they defy direct comparisons entirely.

Recent polls show the NDP, aided by the personal popularity of its leader Jack Layton, catapulting into second place, pushing the comparatively more moderate Liberal Party into third. If NDP support continues to rise, it's conceivable that Layton could ultimately become Prime Minister of the country with Liberal support, and as such put the incumbent Conservatives out of power.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative Party is determined to win the prize that has eluded them -- an actual majority of seats in Parliament. But if the current polls prove accurate, and the NDP broke through into a strong second place, that would place the country in a whole new territory.

But let's take a step back and get a primer in Canadian politics.

Many of Canada's national elections, particularly this one, often turn on the results in the province of Quebec -- home to the country's French-speaking minority, where nationalism and even secessionist movements have presented serious social challenges ever since Britain acquired the area after the French and Indian War in the 1760s.

The current Prime Minister Stephen Harper, has governed for five years despite never actually winning a majority of districts in the country's Parliament, a state of affairs known as a "minority government," similar in many ways to divided government in this country. Harper is a very right-wing leader by Canadian standards, having for years openly admired American conservatism, and infamously saying many years ago during a period when he was out of politics: "Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it."

Harper's Conservatives helped organize the country itself in the 1860s, and governed from the center-right almost continuously for 30 years. However, their political coalition soon collapsed after the death of long-time Prime Minister John A. MacDonald. After that, the 20th century turned into an era of Liberal dominance, with the Conservatives losing their hold on Quebec and rarely winning it back.

The Liberal Party, currently led by former journalist and public intellectual Michael Ignatieff (who has been attacked by the other parties for living outside of Canada for decades) has been until recently Canada's traditional governing party. In the 20th century they held national office for a combined total of 69 years, interrupted only by brief periods of Conservative resurgence that were very often triggered by Liberal blunders and soon undone by the Conservatives' own longstanding divisions.

Under Liberal Prime Ministers such as William Lyon MacKenzie King, Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chretien and others, the Liberals passed such measures as pensions for the elderly and universal health care -- building the basic welfare state. They also saw to the official release of the country's constitution from British law over to Canada itself, a written bill of rights, official bilingualism, and many other measures that Canadians take for granted. But things have gone very wrong for them in recent years.

The NDP are the traditional third party. Self-identifying as social democrats and a labor union-affiliated party since the 1960s, they were originally founded in the 1930s as the very radical socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), a party that pledged itself to nothing less than the eradication of capitalism. Back in those days, the Liberals and Conservatives in the western provinces, where the CCF was founded and had its greatest strength, would actually put aside their national rivalries and form coalitions with each other in order to keep the CCF out. (That tradition continues to this day in the province of British Columbia, governed by a center-right fusion party called the B.C. Liberals.)

The NDP has never governed at the national level, but has in fact held office on and off in several provinces, and has sometimes exercised national leverage over Liberal minority governments. In fact, the NDP claims as its own greatest accomplishment the establishment of the country's single-payer health care system, which was originally created in Saskatchewan by the CCF/NDP Premier Tommy Douglas, the party's iconic leader, before it was taken up several years later by the federal Liberals. (You might be familiar with Douglas's grandson Kiefer Sutherland, who is a strong supporter of the party. Yes, Hollywood is so fake that in real life, Jack Bauer is really a Canadian socialist.)

Finally, there's the Bloc Quebecois, a Quebec-only party that advocates for that province's secession into an independent nation. While the party is also left-wing social democratic, the Bloc was actually founded as a breakaway of the Conservatives in the early 90s, when that party's various provincial-rights factions disintegrated and the party split into three different sections, two of which later reunited into the current Conservative Party.

All this brings us to the current problem: The Bloc's existence has not produced an independent Quebec, but it has destabilized Canada, by making it increasingly difficult for any party to win a majority of seats. The Liberals did so under Chretien in 1993, 1997 and 2000, aided in part by continued vote-splitting on the right and huge victories in the country's largest province, Ontario. But then when the two conservative parties reunited and stopped splitting the vote, and dissatisfaction with the Liberals led left-wing support to grow for the NDP, Harper was able to win minority governments starting in 2006 -- but still hasn't won a majority of seats.

In fact, a crisis briefly occurred in late 2008, shortly after an election, when the three opposition parties nearly put together a Liberal-NDP coalition minority government, supported by the Bloc. In response, Harper successfully campaigned in the court of public opinion against the idea of any administration forming that would expressly rely on the support of secessionists -- while also putting together an economic stimulus plan that would placate the Liberals -- leading a sufficient number of Liberals (including their then-new leader, Ignatieff) to back away from the deal.

At the beginning of the current campaign, it was widely thought that the Conservatives were likely to win a majority, aided by continued vote-splitting among the Liberals and NDP. But instead, the NDP has surged ahead -- particularly in Quebec, a place where the party was traditionally a non-player, and never even won a single seat until its first (and so far, only) breakthrough in a special election in 2007. And now, if current polls are to be believed, the NDP could clean out the Bloc, taking dozens of seats from them in a thorough defeat.

In short, it appears that for the moment, Quebec voters could be on the verge of trying a radical new approach, after previous allegiances to the Liberals, the Conservatives, or their own secessionists: Joining in with the country's national left-wing party. In response, Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe is giving a final, seemingly desperate plea to voters to not give up the ship of independence: "Choosing another strategy would mean accepting to be forever in the minority with the sad results we have had since the beginning of Canada."

From Quebec, the surge has spread to other provinces and picked up in the national polls, with the NDP narrowly trailing the Conservatives and pushing the Liberals lower and lower. It is still probable that Harper's Conservatives will win a plurality of the popular vote and districts in Parliament. But in a parliamentary system, it remains possible that a weakened Harper could fall to an opposition that no longer would have to rely on the Bloc in order to make a move against him.

And what, then, would happen to the NDP itself, and to the once-proud Liberal Party? Could the New Democrats successfully form a government, and move their left-wing base and members of parliament along with the necessary compromises of a minority situation? Could the Liberals, after running a campaign that has attacked Harper as an extreme right-winger who has to go -- while also attacking Layton as too left-wing and full of big, unrealistic promises -- accommodate themselves to becoming the third party for the first time in history?

Or, in the end, could Harper accomplish the same feat that he did after the 2008 election: When his back is against the wall, move hard against the other side, hit the right issues and forge some necessary policy compromises with the Liberals, and divide the opposition yet again?

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Advertising Agency: Y&R, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Published: February 2011

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Advertising Agency: Cossette, Vancouver, Canada
Creative Directors: Rob Sweetman, Bryan Collins
Art Director: Scott Schneider
Copywriter: Jeff Shorkey

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Glamour's September issue will try to make 2-D bar codes friendlier and find fans for brands in the process.

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Facebook has created a Web page where agencies can display their work and has invited an agency to design a space for ads on the Facebook Web page.

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Explore the visual side of AdLab's archives with Blogger's cool newly released Snapshots view.

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A quick guide to getting your website or blog the recognition that it deserves.

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Exxon and Shell reported blockbuster first-quarter results Thursday morning, adding fuel to a simmering political debate about federal tax breaks for big oil and the related issue of "windfall" profits.

Earlier this week, House Speaker John Boehner seemingly opened the door to a renewed discussion of eliminating federal tax breaks for big oil companies, which total $4 billion annually.

Speaker Boehner quickly recanted, but Democrats seized on the hot-button issue.

"As we work together to reduce our deficits, we simply can't afford these wasteful subsidies," said President Obama, whose approval ratings have tumbled as gasoline prices have surged this year. Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he hopes to hold a vote on eliminating the subsidies as soon as possible.

Given unanimous Republican opposition to a similar House proposal in March, the likelihood of any bill passing is low, but opponents of big oil are ramping up the rhetoric.

Tax breaks for oil companies are "completely unnecessary," says Daniel Weiss, a senior fellow and director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress.

The tax breaks make "no fiscal, moral or political sense," Weiss says, noting the $4 billion in annual tax breaks for oil companies exceeds the cuts in Medicare in the budget planned recently passed by the House. "That's crazy."

Instead of tax breaks, Weiss proposes a 1% tax on oil company profits, with the proceeds to be used to fund clean energy alternatives and other measures to wean American off foreign oil.

"Oil companies are making a windfall because of political instability and speculators driving up the prices," he says. "We're saying, let's stop giving them big tax breaks."

The Daily Ticker extends an open offer to representatives of major oil companies to respond to Weiss and other critics. In the meantime, a blog on ExxonMobil's Website by Ken Cohen, VP of public and government affairs, provides "a few things to consider when you see the inevitable headlines and sound bites about high gasoline prices," including details about Exxon's tax burden.

In 2010, Exxon's total taxes and duties to the U.S. government topped $9.8 billion, making the company one of the largest taxpayers in America, he writes. In the past 5 years, Exxon has paid nearly $59 billion in U.S. taxes.

"Critics often try to ignore these facts by saying the oil and gas industry receives 'subsidies'," Cohen writes. "But what they really mean is that they want to increase our taxes by taking away long-standing deductions for our industry while leaving these same deductions in place for other sectors of the economy."

What do you think: Are oil companies being unfairly targeted or should these tax breaks be eliminated?

Aaron Task is the host of The Daily Ticker. You can follow him on Twitter at @atask or email him at altask@yahoo.com.

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Today's commercials seem dominated by talking animals and animated characters such as the GEICO gekco, the AFLAC duck and the Chick-fil-A cows.

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What's causing the family frenzy at the box office? Quality product and massive marketing.

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Advertising Agency: EuroRSCG Warsaw, Poland
Creative Director: Jacek Szulecki
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Because it's likely your fashion decisions have, at least once, been dictated by the opportunity of having sex. But Tom Ford sees double entendres where there is hardly an entendre

Why is so much fashion advertising so pornographic? I thought they were supposed to be selling clothes, not sex.

Bill, by email

But Bill ? clothes are sex. Even if you don't have orgasms over stilettos, � la Carrie Bradshaw, then it's likely that at some point your clothing choices have been dictated by the possibility of having sex. But not always. And that is the key issue here, one that certain fashion labels have failed to note.

People who love fashion see it as a means to express themselves, to indicate their demographic via a designer (eg Roberto Cavalli = Eurotrash; Yohji Yamamoto = self-consciously cerebral gallery owner), and to show their individuality. And often all three ? despite the contradiction in believing one is being an individual by emphasising the demographic one belongs to.

People who don't like fashion, though, see it as the most extreme expression of vanity. Thus, when they see clothes that are not obviously, or even slightly, flattering, and when they see models whose clavicles protrude further than their breasts, they always say the same thing: "But that's not attractive! I'm not turned on! What's the point? Fashion ? it's so crazy!" etc etc.

Now, without wishing to defend the anorexic aesthetic too many editors and designers still favour among their teenage employees, fashion is not actually about sex appeal, as anyone who has ever been to a Comme des Gar�ons show would know. It's about something more interesting than that.

Sadly, it is not always easy to convince people of this argument, particularly when one is attempting to make it in close proximity to any advert from the likes of Tom Ford.

Ford is an interesting gentleman, one who, despite approaching his 50th birthday, still regards sex with the thigh-rubbing, hyper-excitement of a virginal teenager who has spent too long in his room looking at porn. Here is a man who sees double entendres where there is hardly an entendre, and who once advertised a bottle of men's cologne by photographing it between a woman's bare breasts: "Wear this cologne and soon you'll be nestling in a cleavage, too!" Yes, Tom, we get it. So it was inevitable that when it came time to design adverts for his new shower gel, he would photograph a pair of naked youths, and is now waiting for the cash to roll in ? doubtless while lounging at home in a silk gown next to a conveniently naked Scarlett Johansson, who is licking a stick of Tom Ford deodorant.

There is nothing wrong with appreciating sexuality, but the tendency of certain fashion designers to go for the, shall we say, bottom line in their adverts is a bit immature, to say nothing of tragic. Sex, as someone once said, sells, but to reduce fashion to being about the pursuit of a cartoonish version of sex is self-defeating. Ford and his ilk are saying that fashion is only about inspiring desire in others when it should be about giving pleasure to oneself. This not only makes anyone who likes fashion have an even tougher time defending it, but also means Ford will be stuck knocking out molto sexy LBDs to the day he dies, and he will never know the pleasure of making a Comme des Gar�onsesque sack-like dress that is hideous but has the most fabulous detailing and is weirdly, inexplicably, fun to wear. Lose lose, Ford.

Can you explain at what point does something cross over from being ugly to cool?

Charlotte, by email

It's simple, Charlotte. Look at your thumb. Do you see the rules on it? You know, the one that says: "The calories you expend going to the fridge equate to the number of calories you ingest from it"? And then there's the one that says: "The time it takes for you to get over him is the time it will take for him to get over you." So many rules of thumb! Well, an oft-overlooked one, just under the bottom ridge, says: "At the point you believe it is safe to hate a style is when that style will become fashionable." This explains the current presence of high-waisted tapered jeans in the window of American Apparel, for example. And partly why American Apparel is in dire financial straits.

It takes a while for people's eyes to readjust, you see. Being cool is easy, Charlotte. But convincing other people to buy into it before your business goes bankrupt? Now that's tough.

Hadley Freeman

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