Filmmaker Eddie Codel sent a GoPro Hero3-equipped DJI Phantom drone up over the Hipster Massive camped out in the Black Rock desert of Nevada for Burning Man 2013.
Track: Elixir by Fingers in the Noise.
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(H/T: Heliguy)
Yearly Archives: 2013
Tall Ship Astrid reaches port at Kinsale, Co Cork this morning.
Previously: ‘kin Sail
Thanks Clipper Healy
Celticon writes:
Part of the “Feel London” promotion running at the Karstadt department store in Munich [Germany].
Youtube brainbox (and redditor) C.G.P. Grey explains all you need to know about the front page of the internet.
You probably saw it already on Reddit though.
Previously: Vatican City 101
Hon Mayo
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Nothing to see here.
Except some cracking football.
“[former Anglo executive Matt Moran, above] is from a well-known Castlebar business family and the youngest offspring of the late Michael and Mary Moran. Over many decades the family has run Rocky’s pub, and an undertaking business on Tucker Street. Coincidentally the pub is across the road from Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s constituency office.”
Anglo Executive Given Immunity Deal By DPP (Simon Carswell, Irish Times)
Anglo Tapes have Castlebar connection (Mayo News)
Previously: Collusion, You Say?
Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
NO. 19, BALLYGORAN COURT IS SURROUNDED WITH 32 OTHER DETACHED HOMES THAT ARE BEAUTIFULLY MAINTAINED FAMILY HOMES OWNED BY PROFESSIONALS.
Professionals, you say?
Good multitasker, in fairness.
Thanks Cobweb
PK writes:
With credit due to poster HR Haldeman on Politics.ie here is a transcript of RTE R1’s Drivetime piece with insolvency practitioner Jim Stafford last night.
You may need some tay.
Mary Wilson (reading a listener’s email): “What happens to my home if I
enter into a PIA?”
Jim Stafford: “Well, under the legislation the PIP {Personal Insolvency Practitioner] is to try and keep the family in their family home if at all possible. The PIP will have to assess the existing mortgage on the family home, if it’s a modest house, if it’s a trophy house.
“In practice, the PIP will also have to assess the type of house that might be needed for a professional person such as a solicitor, accountant or a hospital consultant as opposed to a house that’s needed by someone who is in the PAYE sector for example, so that, as a PIP, I would be making a very strong case, for example, that a solicitor should have a bigger house that accords with his professional status in society so that his neighbours and clients can see that, yes, this person is a good solicitor who’s is living in a good house etc. etc.”
Wilson: “Really?”
Stafford: “Absolutely. The same as for hospital consultants, people like
that.”
Wilson: “Despite the fact that he’s insolvent?”
Stafford: “Despite the fact that he’s insolvent, because remember, if we want the solicitor to continue to earn money or the accountant or the hospital consultant it’s important that he has his tools of trade for example.”
Wilson: “Well, he may need an office, but he hardly needs a palatial house
in South County Dublin.”
Stafford: “Believe me, the clients who we have on our books are insisting they continue to stay in their palatial houses, now, it’s possible that some of them might have to down trade, but that all goes into the pot and at the end of the day the banks, the creditors have to agree to that process.”
Listen here
Pic: Friel Stafford
Jim Stafford?
Jim (right with Friel Stafford partner Tom Murray has been a member of the Chartered Accountants Ireland Ethics Committee for the past ten years, being the sole representative of Insolvency Practitioners. He is also a member of the Chartered Accountants Ireland NAMA Forum, which was established to assist Chartered Accountants in dealing with NAMA.
…Jim is frequently asked to speak about specialist Corporate Recovery and Insolvency topics by other institutes and organisations such as the Irish Institute of Credit Management, EBS, Goodbody Stockbrokers, IBRC, Bank of Ireland, Investec, KBC Bank…
(Top, from left Stephen Frears, Judi Dench and Steve Coogan. Below, Martin Sixsmith and Philomena Lee in 2009)
Stephen Frears’s Irish adoption drama Philomena, co-written by, and starring Steve Coogan, has won the best screenplay award at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
One “critic described it as ‘the best reaction to a film since the first screening of The King’s Speech”.
The film adapts the real-life story uncovered by former BBC News journalist Martin Sixsmith, which he recounts in a book, The Lost Child of Philomena Lee.
Dame Judi Dench plays the part of Philomena Lee, who as an unmarried mother in Ireland in the 1950s, was forced to give up her son Anthony to a local convent, who sold him for adoption.
After keeping quiet for nearly 50 years, Mrs Lee asked Sixsmith to uncover the fate of Mrs Lee’s son.
“The real Philomena is an incredibly funny person. She is bright and interesting and has a wonderful sense of humour. That’s why the film has to be so comical in places too, it reflects her and her joy in her life, which she has kept despite everything that has happened to her.”
Mrs Lee is now nearly 80 years old and living in the south of England, but discovered with the help of Sixsmith that Anthony Lee had been adopted by an American couple, and re-named Michael Hess. He grew up to be a rising star in Ronald Regan’s Republican party of the 1980s, but remained desperate to trace his birth mother.
Both he and Philomena made inquiries about each other at the convent where he was born in 1952, Roscrea in County Tipperary, but its nuns withheld information that would have reunited the pair.
Stephen Frears wants “the new Pope Francis to watch this film. I really want him to see it. He seems like a good bloke, and he’s making changes within the church. I think he’d enjoy it.”
The director adds that he doesn’t think the movie “will change anything within the Catholic church, but I do think that people’s response to the film might have an effect.
“You can feel it, you can tell there is a change in the air. Something is touching the church, and you can see it slowly beginning to respond. The Irish government has publicly acknowledged that these places existed, and that Philomena was not the only one who lost her child to the church’s policy on unmarried mothers. The government has apologised, but it’s a slow process. Perhaps this film will move it another fraction of an inch again.”
Frears tells tragic Philomena story for humour (BBC)
The Catholic church sold my child (Martin Sixsmith, Guardian, September 19, 2009)
Previously: Broadsheet Trailer Park: Philomena
(Reuters/Guardian)
Gardai and protestors from No Fracking Ireland outside the Radisson Blu St. Helen’s Hotel, Stillorgan Road, Blackrock Booterstown minutes ago.
The hotel is hosting the Ireland Oil and Gas 2013 Summit this week.
No Fracking Ireland plan a demonstration at the hotel tomorrow at 11am
No Fracking Ireland (Facebook)
Thanks Sarah Barry