Yearly Archives: 2014

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From 1985, a vision of the future from the Press Association.

Flux capacitor just out of sight.

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This afternoon.

Labour TDs Joan Burton and Joe Costello meet staff at the Paris Bakery who are conducting a sit in at bakery’s premises on Moore Street, Dublin.. Staff began their picket on May 20 over unpaid wages.

Previously: Meanwhile, On Moore Street

Via The Knight

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[The Consumer Show reporter Tadhg Enright and his parents and ‘staff’]

It’s cheaper/better than an hotel.

Fergus McCormack writes”

“The rise of the Boomerang Kid – those who have been forced to return to the family home due to economic circumstance – is being compounded by a lack of affordable housing. The ERSI has predicted that young Irish people will be forced to live with their parents until they are 35 unless significantly more houses are built.
The Consumer Show survey by Behaviour & Attitudes revealed that 11% thought adult children living at home should pay NOTHING towards the running of the home and 19% thought they should look after their own food and living expenses, but nothing else.
At the other extreme, only 6% of those who answered our survey thought working children should pay their parents the market rate of rent plus an equal share of bills.
Forty per cent of those surveyed thought that adult children should make a contribution based on a proportion of their wages and an average of 29% of wages was thought to be a fair amount…”

FIGHT!

The Consumer Show, tomorrow RTÉ One at 8.30pm

(RTE)

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Theresa Heaney of Catholic Democrats (above) polled 13,569 1st preference votes in Ireland South.

Defeated but unbowed the war against the gay and women’s movements, contraceptives in the water and the cervical cancer vaccine continues as evidenced by Terese of Other’s Annoyance [below].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QITE8Lnuv0

Live Blog: Local & European Elections (RTÉ News)

Previously: Avert Your Gays

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Street strolling in Dublin in the 1930s.

‘Man On Bridge’ writes:

“1930s Dublin in Motion” as part of the Man on Bridge photo-collection project [gathering the photos of Arthur Fields, a street photographer who captured passersby on Dublin’s O’Connell Bridge from the 1930s to the 1980s.] The images were taken on film stock which resulted in a burst of three images and provide the movement.”

ManOnBridge.ie

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An intriguing shot of an isolated slide in what looks to be a very interesting talk given by UCLA memory expert Professor Robert Bjork at last week’s Association for Psychological Science 2014 Conference. To wit:

Important peculiarities of the human memory system

  • A remarkable capacity for storing information is coupled with a highly fallible retrieval process.
  • What is accessible in memory is highly dependent on the current environmental, interpersonal, emotional and body-state cues.
  • Retrieving information from memory is a dynamic process that alters the subsequent state of the system.
  • Access to competing memory representations regresses towards the earlier representation over time

Waddaya mean you weren’t invited?

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Andrew Lafford at Tinderpoint writes:

We’ve been working with Calor Gas on some new content. With the Bloom Festival kicking off on Thursday we thought it was bang on time and that your readers might enjoy it.

Tinderpoint