Yikes.
By damn preppy hipster John Dillon.
Who sez:
I’m a graphic designer from Dublin and I’m based in London. I’ve been here since 2012 after graduating from IADT the previous year. I’m a graphic designer for Topshop at the moment.
This cover was actually an idea I had at the start of the year. There was a lot of talk in the media and elsewhere of “Triskaidekaphobia“, which is a severe phobia of the number 13. I wanted to produce something which would comfort any fearful Le Cool reader.
The horror author’s sage advice to his wayward younger self.
King was one of 75 contributors to the book Dear Me: A Letter To My Sixteen Year Old Self.
MORE: Dear Me: Letters by Luminaries to Their 16-Year-Old Selves (Brain Pickings)
Minister of State for Primary Care Alex White, above left, with Health Minister James Reilly launching the measures to deal with alcohol misuse that will be introduced in the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill.
Via MerrionStreet:
“Irish adults drink too much and drink in a harmful pattern. In 2011, the average per-capita pure alcohol consumption for everyone over the age of 15 was 11.63 litres; this roughly equates to a bottle of vodka per week per person over the age of 15. Given that 19% of the adult population are abstainers, the actual amount of alcohol consumed per adult drinker is considerably more. There was a 161% increase in the numbers of off-licences opening between 1998 & 2010. Over the same period the number of pub licences decreased by 19%.
With that in mind.
The new measures include:
Minimum pricing per unit of alcohol – targeting cheap, strong alcohol in off licences or supermarkets.
Limit advertising of alcohol on TV and radio from 2016 to evening hours and in cinemas to films classified as over 18s. The State will also draw up a statutory code of practice to restrict advertising of alcohol in ‘outdoor media’, from 2018 and regulate advertising of alcohol in print media. It will also ‘set limits’ on how alcohol is portrayed in advertisements.
However…
Regarding sports sponsorship, the existing voluntary code that governs sports sponsorship will be placed on a statutory footing. And a working group chaired by the Department of An Taoiseach will report within a year on the value, evidence, feasibility and implications of alcohol companies sponsoring major sporting events.
Health warnings will be placed on all alcoholic drink containers – detailing the amount of pure alcohol as measured in grams and the calorie count in each container.
Also: blah.
More here
Move-busting gifs by Australian artist and animator Neil Sanders for the bi-monthly Loop De Loop animation challenge.
We had a quiff look.
“Children aged from 5-11 have so much potential for learning about algorithms and computation that it would be a shame to wait until they are teenagers before we teach them the foundations.”
J Paul Gibson, above.
Carter writes:
In reading this month’s US edition of Wired magazine, I happened upon an excellent write-up of one of Ireland’s own in regards to teaching kids to code. J Paul Gibson, formerly of NUI, made some pretty astounding progress in teaching very young kids about coding. With all of the less than favourable news abound these days, we should take the time to celebrate the successes as well.
Forget Foreign Languages and Music. Teach Our Kids to Code (Wired)<
“Motley is currently running a survey to find out the true cost of living for students and how increasing student contribution charge (€2,500 this year) and cuts to University budgets will affect students.
“In the survey we’re examining how students fund themselves throughout the college year, seeing how much debt they’re in because of their studies, if having a part-time job is adversely affecting their studies, and whether they believe if their college, students’ union and government is doing enough to help them.”
The careless accountancy student?
Yes.
Anneraoi writes:
Found a wallet belonging to a Stuart Maher in the park area on Wilton Place (opposite the Mespil Market) [Dublin]? Otherwise I will hand in to Donnybrook Garda station this evening. Details with Broadsheet.
UPDATE: Stuart located “by other means”.
Therese Carty writes:
Tomorrow at 1pm outside Dail Eireann, people will gather to protest against Budget 2014 cuts to maternity benefit. Speakers from the National Women’s Council, Action on X, local community groups and NGOs and others.
Skoda ad, top, in today’s Irish Independent and the planned female version, above.
Two wrongs do make a right!
Or DO they?
Via Christine Bohan and Skoda
