Monthly Archives: September 2012

The organisers of the Volvo Ocean Race grand finale in Galway have sought a Government ‘bail-out’ to help pay off the €400,000 they owe up to 60 suppliers.

And Let’s Do It Global have said they cannot guarantee all creditors will be paid, and conceded the company could be threatened with liquidation.

It’s understood that Fáilte Ireland has already refused a bailout, and a total of up to €300,000 is now being sought from the Department of Transport and Tourism and Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Ocean Race Organisers Seek €300k Govt bail-out (Galway News)

@EndaCunningham

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Thanks Lars Biscuits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqQg6Rlt6W4

What you may need to know.

1. ‘From the director of Horrible Bosses… And a producer of Ted’.

2. We LOVE Jason Bateman, an actor with impeccable comedy chops that Hollywood keeps putting in shit sandwitches like The Switch (2010) and The Change-Up (2011). Thankfully, he’s got that Arrested Development revival on the horizon.

3. Melissa McCarthy was the Oscar-nominated break-out star of Bridesmaids (2011). She also stars in the HILARIOUS sitcom Mike & Molly… Get it? They’re FAT.

4. That staple of American motion picture comedy, the swift knee to the nuts, occurs at 1’40. There’s got to be a thesis in there somewhere.

5. With slight tweaks, this could be a psycho thriller starring Ryan Reynolds and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Release Date: February 2013

Thanks Baz


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoD4_xVTqrI

Photographer Jeroen Wolf at Filmersblog sez:

In October 2011 I started documenting people in the city of Amsterdam, approaching them in the street and asking them to say their age in front of the camera. My aim was to ‘collect’ a group of 100 people, from age 0 to 100. At first my collection grew fast but slowed down when it got down to the very young and very old. The young because of sensivity around filming or photographing children and the very old because they don’t get out of the house much. I found my very old ‘models’ in care homes and it was a privilege to document these -often vulnerable- people for this project. I had particular problems finding a 99 year-old. (Apparently 100 year-olds enjoy notoriety, but a 99 year-old is a rare species…) And when I finally did find one, she refused to state her age. She simply denied being 99 years old! But finally, some 4 months after I recorded my first ‘age’, I was able to capture the ‘missing link’ and conclude this project.

See? Now you can count to 100 in Dutch.

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Speaking in the Dáil last night Dr Reilly said Swords and Balbriggan were identified as high priority areas by the HSE five years ago. But both “lost out” after Minister of State Róisín Shortall increased the weighting attached to deprivation in selecting priority locations in which centres would be built.

“Multiplying the deprivation index by three, they lost out. They were swept from high priority to low priority. Under the original priority system both would have been in the top 35. However, under the new system with an altered weighting system they ended down the list.”

Just a minute there, Bottler.

According to documents obtained by the Irish Times:

…Balbriggan ranked 44th and Swords 127th in a draft list compiled last June – before Ms Shortall ordered officials to increase the weighting attached to deprivation.

Ouch.

Reilly gives different explanation for adding sites to list (Paul Cullen, Harry McGee, Niamh Sweeney, Irish Times)

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)