Monthly Archives: February 2013

Meagan Hyland is completing her second Movie Alphabet.

Meagan is now seeking a suitable movie title starting with the letter F.

Following our succes in finding the right ‘J’ for the first alphabet, she writes:

I’ll sweeten the deal this time. best suggestion will get their very own print of choice from the first round of Meagan’s Movie Alphabet free of charge. You can have a look to see what’s on offer here.

 

Movie and reason below.

Lines close at midnight. Winner announced in comments section.

YIKES.

Bottler launching the rollout of the National Clinical Guidelines booklet today, which includes the National Early Warning Score card.

A card aimed at alerting patients whose “condition is deteriorating”.

*cough*

Meanwhile:

Stephen Bourke, of DrThom.ie,  writes:

We’ve put together a simple infographic on Irish healthcare to promote our service…it’s lots of random data points that we have poured over and I think tell an interesting story.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

But enough about the cabinet.

Sean Sherlock, Labour’s science ‘n’ internet community-splitting junior minister for Research and Innovation sat down with Maria Delaney of Science Calling blog recently.

Listen here (at 11)

He can’t really be that obnoxious, can he?

Gave us a bad turn just listening to it.

Thanks Dara O’Riordan

Sarah de Búrca writing for TheDetail.tv reveals the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB) will proceed with a £1m tourist signage project with Down District Council as long as the signs are solely in English.

The council wanted the signs to be both English and Irish.

The NITB insisted that it would withhold the funding if the council pressed ahead with bilingual signs. The reason?

Signs as bearla agus Irish may confuse motorists, thereby causing carnage on Down’s roads.

Right.

The ban comes despite most of the nameplaces on the island, including Downpatrick (Dún Pádraig) being Irish in origin.

Not to mention the cross-border language authority called Foras na Gaeilge which is tasked to promote the Irish language and paid for by taxpayers, north and south.

Or The Good Friday Agreement (1998) which committed the Government to ‘recognise the importance of respect, understanding and tolerance in relation to linguistic diversity, including in Northern Ireland, the Irish language, Ulster-Scots and the languages of the various ethnic minority communities, all of which are part of the cultural wealth of the island of Ireland.’

And lest we forget The St Andrew’s Agreement (October 2006), which committed the UK Government to work with the incoming Executive to protect and enhance the development of the Irish and Ulster-Scots languages.

Which was consequently included in amendments to the Northern Ireland Act 1998, placing duties on the Executive to adopt a strategy setting out how it proposes to enhance and protect the development of the Irish language and Ulster-Scots culture, heritage and language.

But hey, what do we know?

Why is Irish Being Banned From Tourism Signs Here? (The Detail)

Review by ‘TST2’, Pichet (Trip Advisor)

Pic: Talentbase.ie

Thanks Bibi

Update:

Alan Friedman likes to point a Hydrogen Alpha filtered telescope directly at the sun from his backyard in Buffalo, New York. Above are the raw, colourless original images he captures and others that Friedman has tweaked, unblurred and colourised in order to tease out the fine detail. Sez he:

My photographs comprise a solar diary, portraits of a moment in the life of our local star. Most are captured from my backyard in Buffalo, NY. Using a small telescope and narrow band filters I can capture details in high resolution and record movements in the solar atmosphere that change over hours and sometimes minutes.

The raw material for my work is black and white and often blurry. As I prepare the pictures, color is applied and tonality is adjusted to better render the features. It is photojournalism of a sort. The portraits are real, not painted. Aesthetic decisions are made with respect for accuracy as well as for the power of the image.

Even higher definition photos are on show at Friedman’s Tumblr.

And here’s a TEDx talk he gave last year.

colossal/geocentrismo

Destroyed.

Or ARE they?

Jamie Hickey writes:

I am a part of an Ice Hockey club in Dublin (Yes Ice Hockey) and We have an issue/opportunity for the right person. The palms of our gloves experience wear from the use of the stick. Our sport is expensive enough as it is, without having to constantly replace gloves. This a procedure called “Repalming” which gives the glove a new palm and lengthens life span. Hard to come by in Ireland as you can imagine. I am looking for an alterations person, or perhaps an America/Canadian who knows what they are doing and can either ‘repalm’ gloves or simply patch up the areas of wear!

We have over 50 registered members in this club alone, all of which will need their gloves done at one point or another, and the connection with this person could create a great revenue stream for an alterations professional looking for some extra cash.

 

Emails to ‘Repalming’ broadsheet@broadsheet.ie. We’ll forward them to Jamie.

Handy little numbers to ‘Nice Nixers’ at broadsheet@broadsheet.ie