Each worker at his... bench

Holidays are over!

Now the heads in... After a month break from the Formula One championship 1, teams and drivers prepare to return to the grids for the second and decisive part of the season that will also decide the champion.

Motorsport's crown jewels will return to action with the Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit Spa (31 August – 2 September) and in the nine remaining matches (Belgium, Italy, Singapore, Japan, Korea, India, Abu Dhabi, USA, Brazil) they will challenge for the World title.

In the drivers' championship, Fernando Alonso is in first place, having 40 points clear of runner-up Mark Webber. The Spanish pilot despite the fact that - as he himself states- he doesn't have a competitive enough car at his disposal, he is the only pilot to have seen the checkered flag three times (Malaysia, Valencia and Germany).

A tie battle is expected later in the championship, since Webber and Vettel are just two points apart (Weber 124- Vettel 122) with the two-time world champion having climbed to the top step of the podium just once and three overall (21st in Australia and 3rd in Britain).

However, the battles continue in the lower positions with Hamilton in fourth place, being only one point clear of fifth very good, Kimi Raikkonen.

Jenson Button wants to put the misfortunes of the first part of the season behind him, finishing four times outside the top ten.

Pilot rating: 

1. Alonso, 164
2. Weber, 124
3. Vettel, 122
4. Hamilton, 117
5. Raikkonen, 116
6. Rosberg, 77
7. Grosjean, 76
8. Baton, 76
9. Days,47
10. Kobayashi, 33
11. Maldonado, 29
12. Schumacher, 29
13. Di Resta, 27
14. Scoff, 25
15. You, 24
16. Hulkenberg, 19
17. Vernier, 4
18. Ricardo, 2

Manufacturer rating: 

1. Red Bull, 246
2. McLaren, 196
3. Lotus- Renault, 192
4. Ferrari, 189
5. Mercedes, 106
6. Sauber, 80
7. Williams, 53
8. Force India, 46
9. Red Bull, 6

Source : sport-fm.gr

Notis Mavroudis at the Badminton Music Court, for a concert

The Badminton Music Court will host, in the framework of the titled events "Personal Routes" Noti Mavroudi, ο οποίος πλαισιωμένο από τη Γιώτα Νέγκα και το Χρήστο Κωνσταντόπουλο θα παρουσιάσει μια μουσική παράσταση με τίτλο «Ποτάμι ο καιρός», at 4 and 5 September 2012.

Ο Νότης Μαυρουδής μπήκε στη δισκογραφία το 1964 με τα τραγούδια «Άκρη δεν έχει ο ουρανός» και «Τα γιορτινά σου φόρεσε», σε στίχους του Γιάννη Κακουλίδη με ερμηνευτή τον Γιώργο Ζωγράφο.

Γιορτάζοντας πέντε δεκαετίες στο χώρο της μουσικής, he comes to the Music Courtyard to anthologize for us his rich recording career that makes him an important chapter of modern Greek musical creation. Με έργα για κιθάρα και κοσμοαγάπητα τραγούδια. Έρχεται και πάλι κοντά μας με οδηγό τις κιθάρες και τις φυσαρμόνικες, with colors, whispers and squeals. Looking for communication through songs that have marked the common sensibility throughout time, within time, in the light of night...

Source : culturenow.gr

ANGELA MERKEL: In a Greek tavern he eats 15 recent years


A sensation was caused a few days ago by the news published by Bild that the German Chancellor has a weakness for Greek food as she was seen eating in a Greek restaurant in Berlin.

The truth is that Angela Merkel recently 15 has been visiting the specific restaurant of Kostas Kasambalis for years, who spoke to APE about the Chancellor, her culinary preferences and her behavior as a customer.

Although the restaurant is famous for its skewers and gyros, the Chancellor, according to the restaurant owner, he prefers grilled meatballs which he usually accompanies with Greek salad and Santorini wine.

The last time he visited the “Cassambalis” Ms. Merkel, together with Mr. Foreign Guido Westerwelle, with whom she often goes, it was shortly before the visit of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to Berlin.

“The newspaper may now have referred to this visit, Ms. Merkel, Nevertheless, he is one of the first customers of my restaurant, that I opened it approx 15 years” Mr. explains to APE. Kassambalis and assures that the German chancellor “she is a very nice woman”.

“We, we Greeks are very emotional and confuse our jobs with our personal ones, something the Germans never do” emphasizes and complements.

“Politics is one thing and Greek cuisine is another.

Ms. Merkel, together with Mr. Westerwelle, they come often, like other politicians, but also chancellors in the past, to eat quietly and relax, enjoying our Greek cuisine” he said characteristically.

Source : radar.gr