Monthly Archives: November 2012

NASA sez:

Given its proximity to the Sun, Mercury would seem to be an unlikely place to find ice. But the tilt of Mercury’s rotational axis is almost zero — less than one degree — so there are pockets at the planet’s poles that never see sunlight. Scientists suggested decades ago that there might be water ice and other frozen volatiles trapped at Mercury’s poles.
Now the newest data from MESSENGER strongly indicate that water ice is the major constituent of Mercury’s north polar deposits, that ice is exposed at the surface in the coldest of those deposits, but that the ice is buried beneath an unusually dark material across most of the deposits, areas where temperatures are a bit too warm for ice to be stable at the surface itself.

Ah, cool refreshing Mercury water. Just the thing after a day toiling on the terrafarm in the 700K heat.

MESSENGER Finds New Evidence for Water Ice at Mercury’s Poles (NASA)

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Cribben’s the name.

Oh yes.

The “lid levy” proposal on unopened alcohol sales would raise €240 million for the State while protecting 50,000 jobs and business, the 6000 member Vintners’ Federation of Ireland and Licensed Vitners Assocation said.

The proposal had been given to the Department of Finance well in advance of the budget and the Government had “not ruled it out”, Padraig Cribben CEO of the VFI said today.

 

Fifteen per cent.

15% Off-Sales Alcohol Tax Proposed (Genevieve Carberry, Irish Times)

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

Hugh O’Regan with John Rocha at the Morrison Hotel on October 13, 1998.

Gary McDarby writes:

He bought No.8 Stephens Green and wanted it to be a philanthropic centre that connected Celtic Tiger wealth to the need of those left behind in its wake. He opened up No. 14 and No. 15 on Stephens green to social entrepreneurs like myself, SUAS and Social Entrepreneurs Ireland. He gave over office space to companies like Traidlinks trying to develop new business models in the developing world. In the basement of these building he incubated a vegetarian restaurant that cold pressed juices (to protect the integrity of nutritionally beneficial enzymes) and sold the most wonderful vegetarian food I have ever eaten. He arranged yoga classes in the building for those working there.
…On numerous occasions he provided free rooms in his Morrison hotel for many international guests travelling to Ireland, to work with the social entrepreneurial organisations in Stephen’s Green.

…He wanted to create a place where new types of thinking could take place so that new directions for human society could be paved. He really believed in that.

…He is going to be missed because Ireland needs more people like Hugh O’Regan.

 

More here: “Ireland Needs More People Like Hugh O’Regan” – A Tribute By Gary McDarby (Vulgo.ie)

Gary McDarby’s blog

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

Thanks ED

Altogether now:

Dutchmen were made for to carry coal and shovel snow, Italians for organs, And Englishmen to mash;
Chinese for washing, the Japs for a juggling show, Nagurs to whitewash, the Jews were made for cash; Cubans for cigarettes, the Portugese to sail the sea, Scotchmen for bak’ries, the French were made for style, Russians for mining, Americans for liberty,

But the men made for bosses were the sons of Erin’s Isle. Then, hip, hip, hurrah! Erin-go-bragh!
Nothing’s too good for the Irish.
…I’ve just been made the father of a twelve-pound lad, He’s whiskers already, now that’s not bad,
He’s sure to be president some day, bedad- Nothing’s too good for the Irish.
He’ll then sail off with his blackthorn stick, And marry the Queen, make the British sick, And free Erin’s Isle like a good old Mick; Nothing’s too good for the Irish.

‘Nothing’s Too Good For The Irish’. written and composed by J. Joseph Goodwin and Monroe H. Rosenfeld, 1894.

Via New York Public Library archive

Lyrics (pdf)

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus